In 1600 there were only 500 million people globally, so who built the Palace of Versaille? | |
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(OP) User ID: 77609938 United Kingdom 05/31/2019 03:57 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | When people are serfs ruled by an absolute king and money is no problem, you get buildings like this. Quoting: KipKat How many serfs does it take to build something like this? France had a population of 20 million people. That includes, pensioners, children and women. I assume it wasnt any of those who built this palace. That would leave maybe a few million men free to build the palace. I doubt they could have had so many qualified builders around. [link to en.wikipedia.org (secure)] And for example, there are so many self proclaimed billionaires now who dont have to worry about money. |
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(OP) User ID: 77609938 United Kingdom 05/31/2019 03:59 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | We're about 300 million times more lazy & ignorant than the people were centuries ago. We're no longer critical thinkers & everything is handed to us and if it's not, we simply claim to be "offended" by each other or persecuted by TPTB. We're essentially nothing more than well dressed infants walking around in 20-30-40yr old bodies. Quoting: Click Here You say there are no critical thinkers but what about all the new technology we have. And yet we cannot make anything comparable to the Palace of Versailles. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 77606932 Greece 05/31/2019 04:09 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | More wealth concentrated to fewer people at those times. Apart from that, in modern days only a fool would spend hundreds of millions of dollars only for decorating a palace (who needs more space than it is actually needed or who would decorate so heavily a place and make it a nightmare to preserve and keep it clean). An actual billionaire of today wouldn't have that much power to afford a palace like that, even if he created the biggest companies in the world. After all, the figures of a company's wealth and its creator personal wealth are two different things. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 75769027 United Kingdom 05/31/2019 04:38 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | You make a mistake and you got a good flogging Move on 1,000 of years You learned the trade in 3 days Most if not all is designed by computers and built by robots You make a mistake and you shout out your racist And the boss gets a good flogging Move on 3 months Mankind starts learning the old trades long forgotten And gets a good flogging Unless the Robots take over |
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User ID: 77160280 United States 05/31/2019 04:39 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | We're about 300 million times more lazy & ignorant than the people were centuries ago. We're no longer critical thinkers & everything is handed to us and if it's not, we simply claim to be "offended" by each other or persecuted by TPTB. We're essentially nothing more than well dressed infants walking around in 20-30-40yr old bodies. Quoting: Click Here You say there are no critical thinkers but what about all the new technology we have. And yet we cannot make anything comparable to the Palace of Versailles. There's no "new" technology out there. It's "rediscovered" technology. Nothing new under the sun... But I get your point. You'd think with all of our so-called technological innovations we'd have some grand cathedral on the moon or something like that & yet 3/4's of the earth's population goes to bed hungry every night. Last Edited by Click Here on 05/31/2019 04:40 PM For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you profess your faith and are saved. Romans 10:10 |
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Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 77609938 United Kingdom 05/31/2019 07:04 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | We're about 300 million times more lazy & ignorant than the people were centuries ago. We're no longer critical thinkers & everything is handed to us and if it's not, we simply claim to be "offended" by each other or persecuted by TPTB. We're essentially nothing more than well dressed infants walking around in 20-30-40yr old bodies. Quoting: Click Here You say there are no critical thinkers but what about all the new technology we have. And yet we cannot make anything comparable to the Palace of Versailles. There's no "new" technology out there. It's "rediscovered" technology. Nothing new under the sun... But I get your point. You'd think with all of our so-called technological innovations we'd have some grand cathedral on the moon or something like that & yet 3/4's of the earth's population goes to bed hungry every night. I'm thinking the Great Wall of China is BC. Look at the world' population BC, it's about 100 to 150 million people in the whole world around that time. How many people were involved in building the wall? It's so great you can literally see it from outer space. And then compare the wall to Trump's great wall. It hardly compares. The history of the Great Wall of China began when fortifications built by various states during the Spring and Autumn (771–476 BC) and Warring States periods (475–221 BC) were connected by the first emperor of China, Qin Shi Huang, to protect his newly founded Qin dynasty (221–206 BC) against incursions by nomads from ... History of the Great Wall of China - Wikipedia |
Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 77609938 United Kingdom 05/31/2019 07:14 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Versailles was a hunting lodge in what was then the boondocks. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 74538634 It was expanded slowly. France was really into the royalty thing and built palaces everywhere. The French didnt stop with Versailles. They also made the Statue of Liberty. The Statue of Liberty is a colossal neoclassical sculpture on Liberty Island in New York Harbor in New York, in the United States. Wikipedia Address: New York, NY 10004, USA Height: 93 m Construction started: September 1875 So what made them stop? Not to mention Notre Dame The cathedral's construction was begun in 1160 under Bishop Maurice de Sully and was largely complete by 1260 We're talking medieval period. |
Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 77609938 United Kingdom 05/31/2019 07:17 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Maybe aliens helped in the construction just like they did with the pyramids and the Eiffel Tower. Quoting: Obama Fan 76110795 I forgot about the Eiffel tower: Constructed from 1887 to 1889. Now that's comparatively new. If they could do this in 19th century, why have they suddenly forgotton how to make things like that? |
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(OP) User ID: 77609938 United Kingdom 05/31/2019 07:29 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Vatican In 1447, Pope Nicholas V razed the ancient fortified palace of Eugene III to erect a new building, the current Apostolic Palace. world population was around 350 million people. Italy's a tiny place. We go there to see the ruins which noone seems to know how to repair. Or recreate. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 76280681 United States 05/31/2019 07:31 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | In the era before large scale mechanization and industrialization, people had many more creative skills that could be harnessed in producing such edifices. There was also much more in the way of raw materials and capital that was not tied up in various extortion usury schemes. Still, the French crown basically destroyed itself with such luxurious building projects as it drove most of the country to poverty to pay for them, creating great hostility that would eventually mean downfall. In the centuries that followed the period you reference, mass production and industrialization held great promise in extending the creativity into much wider spheres of influence. Problem became the industrialization of the manufacture of war machines and implements that fueled intense arms races among competing kingdom until the entire western world was eaten up with war, war production, and colonial expansion to prop up the needs of the various war based economies. Creativity became progressively a neglected concern with only a few bubbles of development escaping being consumed in the froth of empire building and regional conflicts. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 74176575 United States 12/25/2019 08:39 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | This thread is worthy of serious inquiry and discussion... Who made the millions of bricks in all the brick structures in the united states?? Architecture is much older than we are taught... many pre-flood buildings still stand, and have been repurposed, imo |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 78248707 United Kingdom 12/25/2019 08:54 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | We're about 300 million times more lazy & ignorant than the people were centuries ago. We're no longer critical thinkers & everything is handed to us and if it's not, we simply claim to be "offended" by each other or persecuted by TPTB. We're essentially nothing more than well dressed infants walking around in 20-30-40yr old bodies. Quoting: Click Here I literally sit at my computer all day for a job. As do many others. We are way lazier. Look at their architecture and then look at ours. Soulless glass bullshit. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 78245227 United States 12/25/2019 09:03 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | We're about 300 million times more lazy & ignorant than the people were centuries ago. We're no longer critical thinkers & everything is handed to us and if it's not, we simply claim to be "offended" by each other or persecuted by TPTB. We're essentially nothing more than well dressed infants walking around in 20-30-40yr old bodies. Quoting: Click Here You say there are no critical thinkers but what about all the new technology we have. And yet we cannot make anything comparable to the Palace of Versailles. There's no "new" technology out there. It's "rediscovered" technology. Nothing new under the sun... But I get your point. You'd think with all of our so-called technological innovations we'd have some grand cathedral on the moon or something like that & yet 3/4's of the earth's population goes to bed hungry every night. That's not true. Only 1 in 4 sub saharan africans go to bed hungry. ...and the rest of the world does better than they do. But they only have hunger because they have an average 6 to 8 children a peice. If they cant see the conection and stop making so mamy babies then they deserve to die. |
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