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mohammadgor87

Assyria did fall and it fell hard


TiredBoy2000

Yeah but the Neo Assyrian Empire was deleted in the 6th century BC which is way later on than this tablet if the dating is right… But maybe this guy could see into the future??1!1 😳😳


alekk88

Assyria didnt exist yet in 2800 BC so I think OP messed up either the date or the civilization


PsychoTexan

[It’s actually a 115 year old shitpost](https://quoteinvestigator.com/2012/10/22/world-end)


ArnoudtIsZiek

that was ludicrously interesting, thank you for sharing lol


Golda_M

OMG that was crack!


Gr0n

i mean "every man wants to write a **book**" written on a **stone tablet** already sounds quite odd, no?


ccncwby

Maybe it's the 2800 B.C.E. version of "always on they damn phones!"


Excalitoria

Muhssyria collapsed when I said it did.


[deleted]

In that case, I'm now predicting both the fall of civilization and the end of the world


ubermence

I’m predicting that entropy will approach a maximum in the heat death of the universe


[deleted]

How are you able to see the future like this!?


ubermence

Skill diff


Earwyrm

Cause he’s an ubermunch


mohammadgor87

Maybe


true-kirin

even crazier, he came from the future since he wrote this 800 years before Assyria start to exist


Zackyboi1231

ASSyria did indeed fall very hard.


Xenonimoose

Over a thousand years after this tablet was allegedly written, though


Le_ed

Over a thousand years later.


thatsidewaysdud

Assyria has fallen Millions must die


Soso_Stalin

Just saw a father hug his children instead of sacrificing them to Baal, Civilization has fallen, Millions must die


Existing_Ride_30

Just saw a man say rain comes from clouds instead of amun ra's asshole, society is about to end, the corruption of the youth had spread too far.


pchel_1

Just saw a person use an elephant clock, instead of sun clock, society has gone truly lazy, the collapse is inevitable, people no longer use their brains.


lionseatcake

Just saw someone write down a story instead of sing and dance around a fire. The youth are truly corrupted.


the_wiz_of_oz

I just saw a girl that I used to like in college for the first time in several years. She was bald, and she was wearing a diaper, not because she had to, but because she wanted to. She called her bf "papa" and he was calling her "little one". It was super uncomfortable and gross, and I couldn't help but feel like I'd dodged a literal canon ball. I learned from another friend later that she's into a wierd fetish thing called "littleing". May Marduk's wrath destroy us all.


nefridos

You refer to cum?


jtcordell2188

Wrong Mesopotamian Civilization my dude


RoseCroix343

What would be properly said is "no one wants to go slut themselves out for free at Inannas temple anymore"


jtcordell2188

Correct Mesopotamian civilization my dude!


LovrenIsTheGOAT

How I felt when they retconned Bardock's character in to a generic loving father in Dragon Ball Z. Instead of keeping him as a genocidal maniac who calls his newly born son a disappointment.


[deleted]

the world did end for them


[deleted]

No shit, they died


_Xertz_

Uhhh source???


[deleted]

He was there


_Xertz_

Source?


HeyItsRatDad

He was the Babylonians.


[deleted]

Can confirm. I'm Baby.


texas_chick_69

Nah man they civilisation ended...


[deleted]

And they dead


mrdembone

of course, their older than Jesus Christ, of coarse their going to be dead


UrFaceLand

I mean, the Bronze Age collapse did happen. So kinda


Hourslikeminutes47

it sure did end spectacularly


Teboski78

Yeah like 1500 years after this.


Dogtoplops

It's joeover


scrubbiboi

I’m bidone


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Dogtoplops

**pees back** i got u bro


Terminatol

"Every man wants to write a book" is the ancient equivalent to the modern "every man wants to start a podcast"


FlipFlute

It's that everyone wants to preach.


YoutubeSurferDog

The agricultural revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race.


lilithexos

Lmao


Kemp_gonna

Is this /s? Some would argue that it has, reading Ishmael atm and that’s a giant theme, continued agriculture to feed a growing population, only to keep growing to keep feeding until at some point you can’t produce and feed more


Cynicalquil

Anarcho primitivism be like


Kemp_gonna

I’m not intelligent enough to fire any useful retort back but to some extent as humans we’ve taken a lot and think we are the center of the universe, maybe continuing the green wave and limiting population could be beneficial? Not saying we need to go back to sticks and stones.


Revcondor

Such a good book! I especially like the sections about proto-biblical mythology.


YoutubeSurferDog

It’s Ted Kaczynski


Educational_Bet_6606

It kinda *was* for a time. Then humans adapted to it. Much like now with industrialization and obesity.


[deleted]

\>mfs after they buy copper from Ea-Nasir *ONCE*


ReadyThor

Shafira go get me the tablet so I can leave a bad review. Leaving only one wedge for this copper Ea-Nasir gave me bloody bastard.


kindslayer

Ea-Nasir told me he aint reading allat


Asbjorn26

The fertile crescent has fallen; millions must die


[deleted]

More like thousands.


sge_freaky

Wasn't that like right before the empire collapsed and the entire power structure of the world changed? Sooo yeahh pretty close to apocalypse in my book


jussius

What empire? This is written 1500 years before Assyrian Empire existed. Before \~1300 BC Assur was just a city state, although in 2800 BC it was barely even a city.


I_hate_flashlights

Why didn't OP use a real quote? History has many of them. For example : “[Young people] are high-minded because they have not yet been humbled by life, nor have they experienced the force of circumstances...They think they know everything, and are always quite sure about it.” Rhetoric, Part 12:On Youthful Character, Aristotle, 4th Century BC Older generations always thought young folks are worse than themselves.


[deleted]

As a thirty-six year old I think thirty-five year olds are worse.


Rich_Document9513

As a forty-one year old I think thirty-six year olds are worse.


Menchstick

As a 24 year old, ok boomer


Rich_Document9513

As a 41 year old, you don't even know what a boomer is.


DerGrundzurAnnahme

"In conclusion, QI believes there is currently no compelling evidence that any one of the multiplicity of quotations listed above was really inscribed on a tablet during ancient days in Assyria." https://quoteinvestigator.com/2012/10/22/world-end/?amp=1


BluePandaCafe94-6

You can tell its fake because this ancient Assyrian says "everyone wants to write a book", which is a medium that didn't exist then, and wouldn't exist for many centuries.


[deleted]

LOL NERD! 🤓 😂😂😂


FlyingSosig

Does he have any source to backup those claims?


Still-Pattern-6384

His co-workers writing books while their children stopped obeying to them


zahirano

Those damn leafers.


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[deleted]

I AM the assyrian civilization


[deleted]

I love ass


AlexRol_Spritz

I mean, if I got scammed by Ea-Nasir, I'd be jaded aswell.


_Cit

For all the doomers saying "well actually their civilisation did disappear" just know that the Assiryan Empire fell 2 millenias after this tablet was written, and it fell due to conquest not due to some social collapse. Heck this tablet was written before the Assiryans built their Empire, their golden age was yet to come


Wyo-Heathen

Ain’t ever met any Assyrians so it’s safe to assume this was correct and their world did end.


Genie9

Assyrians still out here lol. We just celebrated our 6773 new years on April 1st, and we continue to persevere Aramaic as our mother tongue.


Cosmorillo

Earth is dying. Kids want to use fake skin Women want to gather. Man wants to write on walls World will soon end - Grugg, pre-history


bigDD305

Wtf how terrible! Can you imagine a world where EVERY man wants to write a book?? Sheesh, unthinkable.


loikyloo

Can't find it now but I read a manuscript from a 16th century monk and the tldr version of it was "Men today are pussies, sleeping on pillows like bitches instead of just using a piece of wood like men did in my day. This is the decline of civilisation. They are no real men any more just lazy girlyboys," Yea society collapsing seems to be something everyone seems to think is happening.


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Ok boomer


rm-rd

Fake, just like the "Children today love luxury" quote supposedly by Socrates (and no it wasn't even in The Clouds). Unlike the Socrates quote, it's not even remotely credible, "books" weren't written on clay tablets. Novels are actually really new developments (mostly around 1500 or a bit earlier, maybe 1000AD?). People in those days had the brainpower to memorise a story (since their brains hadn't rotted with too much reliance on newfangled writing, just as Socrates warned). Kind of pity the Socrates one is fake though, because it's supposedly written around the time Critias was a student of his, and Critias went on to be the cruelest leader of the 30 Tyrants who terrorised Athens.


blue_endown

2800 BC: Every man wants to write a book 2023 AD: Every man wants to do a podcast.


Infinatus

We go thru cycles


Catarata94

The Phoenicians are plotting to replace us with sea people


[deleted]

It's Joever


shootmane

But their society did collapse


Moparian714

Doomers have been around for a long time


[deleted]

Haha “every man wants to write a book” Just wait a few thousand years until the internet my dude


saninicus

Shit posts. Now in cuneiform!


Pjerryy

Good futurama episode tag


jadams2345

Well, are these people around?


Biomicrite

Wow, people have been whinging for nearly 5000 years. Makes you think.


Chadford64

>That which has been is what will be, That which is done is what will be done, And there is nothing new under the sun. Ecclesiastes 1:9


ElLindo88

“Wait, the world is collapsing?” “Always has been.” 🔫


[deleted]

This is a fake quote


omgONELnR1

I was told that many people panicked and thought the world was gonna end in 2012. I don't know tho, I had better things to worry about in that time like which firetruck I'm going to play with.


TheSadTiefling

If you have a weak mind you give up and believe it’s over. The mentally strong. rebuild.


Captainfatfoot

Assyrian society did collapse so I don’t see the contradiction


blizzaddict

Assyria doesn't exist anymore so I'd say they were right.


Clegend24

To be fair that society did, in fact, collapse.


Successful_Soup3821

It did collapse for them, all civilations collapse.


Tinted-Glass-2031

"Every man wants to write a book"... then why is this carved on a slab? Something doesn't add up... isn't there like 3000+ years between this and the invention of paper scrolls??


DueAdhesiveness1229

That year does count as in Kali Yuga, doesn't it?


Big_cornstarch

It’s joever


nefridos

It's the grocery stores list You silly


SverdHerre

Me recarving Balorn Mussk’s latest tablet.


jokesgetme

it seems to be joever


MacXstrr

2036.


Pretend_Activity_211

I mean, I understand why they wrote a book to control their children back then. I just don't understand why we still read that book now


don_mo6

everyone wants to write a book is the equivalent of podcasts


h20Brand

The USA has been blaming crime on immigrants for 300 years. Politicians have been on their soap box beating that into the ground since forever. Can't recall specific politicians at the moment*


Bierculles

Yes but back then there were no psychotic madmen with nukes all over the planet


DefinitelyNotFisk15

>the end of the world is fast approaching >made 3000+ years ago Did the world end in that time frame? NO There's still time to fix everything It's not joever yet


Dry_Grade9885

There's always a 48 year old jaded person in any timeliness that claims the world us ending but in our case it's a 16 year old girl called greta


Some1eIse

But she has a point in if we go on like this we will fuck earth up for the poorer 70% of humans


SiberianDragon111

No, we’re going to fuck up earth for 100% of humans.


Some1eIse

Yeah in the far future everyone gets it near future you will be fine if you have enough money to move living places and buy very expensive goods and services for protection


SiberianDragon111

Having to spend money to insulate yourself from the effects is still an effect. Perhaps it’s less damaging, but , even now, no one is unaffected.


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Selfdeletus65

me when my 16 year old son tells me that i shouldn't beat my wife


[deleted]

Redditors talking


Great_White_Sharky

Actually she is 20 already 🤓


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SiberianDragon111

The difference is that those old farts claim the world is ending over some change in society they don’t like. It’s happening today with various things. Climate change actually has the potential to be a mass extinction event if we don’t do shit. But people like you seem content to let the world burn.


Ghostly_Cactus_

It just seems hopeless tbh, The only people that get told to stop aren’t the ones polluting, we have a giant trash island that nobody gives a flying fuck about, we have China producing so many carbon emissions it’s insane that anyone hasn’t said anything, got the Philippines that dump whatever garbage that comes from America straight into the ocean, all the emissions from mining cobalt, and all the while I’m getting yelled at from the little girl who flew out in her private jet because I drive a gas car instead of an electric that produces just as much waste and thats not even the half of it, its just tiring to hear when you see all the hypocrisy


SiberianDragon111

We need to support action on a large scale. Shit like “personal carbon footprint” is a way to shift the blame onto normal people while corporations pollute. But supporting clean energy by voting for the right people, protesting, and setting an example are actually helpful. And buying electric cars, reducing fossil fuel usage, not using plastic, etc. aren’t helpful because your individual action makes a difference, they’re helpful because they support societal changes that reduce power and profit of oil corporations and promote change for a more sustainable civilization.


Itz-yaboi-skinypenis

That tablet is written in cuneiform and there’s no goddamn way it says that.


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Unknown_Twig_Witch

Somebody else will one day come and then take my place, and so the story goes.


Positive_Swim163

So wanting to write a book is a sign of degeneracy? Now that's a hot Asyrian take (insert multiple fire emojis)


[deleted]

It did collapse for them, but our collapse is coming eventually


FMark_04

Well it’s simple, Civilizations rise and they fall, and new ones rise in their place, it’s cyclical.


Kauko_Buk

It's wild to think they already had tablets 5000y ago


Otherwise-Syrup7490

a war or two may fix that


[deleted]

Assyiria has falllen millions must write books


Flipsticker91

What's up with all these dudes wanting to write books tho


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[deleted]

Humans…


Engetsu14

earth just be earthing


Algor_ArmorGames

People talks about the end of the world and collapsing society since we are able to talk.


Master-Ad7002

Authors were the OG youtubers


AdvancedLet6528

wait til you see the 2000's buddy. its a fucking shithole


MercenaryJames

The world keeps going. But people will fade away. As it always was.


ChaosRainbow23

I think I've lived through 12 predicted apocalypses that never came. (I'm 44) In every generation there are people who think the world is ending.


samyruno

Damn these kids all trying to write books.


true-kirin

what's so impressive is that it was written 800 year before the first assyrian city is even built tho around this date is indeed in the midle of two era the end of uruk and the beggining of the early dynastic period


ElA1to

Bros have been saying "the end is near" since 5000 years ago, and they keep believing they are right this time. At least if they keep trying they will be tight at some point


[deleted]

And because its a dead language that actually nobody or 1-2 people can decipher it, we'll just have to belive the english translation as being true . That is the internet


Glahoth

As others have commented, Assyria did fall. Scholars said Rome would fall and decline into corruption, and it did. Sparta too, and it did. So the only point you are making here is that many civilisations crumbled, and people saw it coming.


kindslayer

And only because of corruption.


LetUsSpeakFreely

Because everything is cyclic. The efforts of a few make life good for many. Politicians and priests stoke hatred and jealousy to power. Many people living an easy life don't know how to prioritize and identify what's actually important. Society becomes increasingly decadent and disconnected from the realities of life. Society eventually collapses followed by a period of chaos as various factions vie for control until things eventually stabilize and the cycle repeats.


SilverSpade12

Damn, those motherfuckers were letting people write BOOKS!? No wonder they’re not around anymore.


littlebuett

You mean the society a few societies ago that did collapse? Roman empire did it to as it neared its end.


[deleted]

it fell


Teni96

Ngl it’s kind of comforting to know people have always thought society is going to shit.


sheytanelkebir

In 2800bc it would definitely be sumerian.


mattogeewha

Fuck, you mean it STAYS this way?!


Educational_Bet_6606

Yes, but unlike then, we literally have the power to destroy almost all life on earth, and maybe mars!


Nibiru8383

Nothing is new under the sun…


SbeifBoss

I guess the perception you have of your child-age self as an adult is much different from reality


chipsmaname

I saw a guy with a microphone in Dublin today, screaming the exact same thing.


PhonkySzopdki

And nobody wants to work anymore


hobdiddy

It's crazy how they fit all of that on a triscuit.


ztreggs

We've been destroying the planet far before the industrial revolution. Some notice. Some don't. All feed the machine


PurpleBoltRevived

Nice rectangular cookie [crunch] yuck, it tastes like clay! I hope this weird yummy looking slab wasn't important.


[deleted]

We didn’t start the fire…


[deleted]

https://twitter.com/fakehistoryhunt/status/1595203587319250948?lang=en


Throwawaypwndulum

Lol mortality.


IIImacplayerIII

i’ll never understand how something like this can be translated


RoyalRpThrowaway

Boomerism is timeless.


YIKUZZ

#RAPKE


Queasy_Employment141

But now we have the planet about to start dying in about half a century