It's a general thing in mythology, there was a golden age long ago and we're all just poor descendants of those great far away times. When Oisin comes back form Tir Na Nog he's able to lift huge boulders that the people of 'modern' times can't even roll or how Hercules and the Demi-Gods are all in the past or even how God used to come down and personally fuck people's shit up and Noah lived to 400 years old. People used to be bad ass and awesome, now we all suck.
Yea. It's a lot easier to make shit up for the hyperbole of it when there's no eye witnesses. Nor cameras
Simarillion was like that though. The world started because Illuvator sung it in song. And all was in harmony except for the bad guy who eventually Sauron reported to. Each generation got successfully weaker/diluted and Middle Earth was really nothing more than a purgatory for people awaiting their turn at the Promised Land.
That is one depressing book though. Just a long series of events where the good times were footnotes to the conspiracies and bad guys starting wars.
No Nerf, but I put a link to this very thread and I said that you all can guarantee for my purity. I even mentioned your case, and see if they can take a look at your lawn from a Michigan perspective.
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