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2k-year-old wine and the uncanny immediacy of the past

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244 points benbreen | 1 comments | 15 Jan 25 21:35 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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sedatk ◴[16 Jan 25 21:21 UTC] No.42731069[source]▶
"All this has happened before, and all this will happen again" --Battlestar Galactica (originally from Peter Pan though)
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taneliv ◴[17 Jan 25 07:07 UTC] No.42734879[source]▶
"What has been is what will be, and what has been done is what will be done, and there is nothing new under the sun."[1] from Ecclesiastes 1:9. Apparently the quote not only describes the phenomenon, but has become witness to itself.

[1] https://www.chabad.org/library/bible_cdo/aid/16462/jewish/Ch...

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1. dyauspitr ◴[17 Jan 25 17:26 UTC] No.42740751[source]▶
Just as it was before, so it will be again. -Vashista

The same events will repeat in every Yuga -Vishnu Purana (1.3.1-2)