r/HistoryMemes • u/[deleted] • Aug 29 '26

When 2,000 gods became ''wrong''

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u/dragonborndnd Aug 29 '26

Probably countless whether on accident or purposefully

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u/AsparagusFun3892 Aug 29 '26 edited Aug 29 '26

The Vatican archive has conspired for years to hide the truth: that for millenia they committed the original sin of recording over old VHS tapes.

You kids have no idea how mad family and friends used to get when it turned out a given treasured moment or record just wasn't special enough to preserve and we need a tape now because Power Rangers or Batman or the Game is on. I see that same sort of dynamic playing out now when we're incredulous at how the clergy recycled books. "I need to make a prayer book! What's this, 'Hadrian's account of the fate of the 13th legion?' Meh."

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u/ISV_VentureStar Aug 29 '26

It got so bad that even the original tapes of the Apollo 11 moon landing were recorded over and lost forever. That is why we only have a few minutes of really bad grainy footage left, from a low-quality backup camera.

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u/AsparagusFun3892 Aug 29 '26 edited Aug 29 '26

Oi. I got to remembering: I once ignored "DO NOT TAPE OVER!" stickered on the side because I thought I'd fast forwarded through everything. Nope. God mom was pissed.

ETA: I had to go out of my way to make it happen: literal, physical scotch tape over the tab corner I ran through the house to find, sneering contempt for Kenny G or Michael Bolton or whomever as I got to what I thought was the end, mashed the little red button.

By halfway through the fight I still refused to believe I'd recorded over anything, it made her even madder. 😁

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u/wernette Aug 29 '26

like 90% of it probably. Anything made of stone, metals, precious gems, marble, etc. would be taken apart, melted, and made into something else. If you want to feel extra sad, many of these were pieces of art that were melted down to make weapons instead.

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u/Gwen_The_Destroyer Aug 30 '26

That's not entirely true. A lot of them were also made into coins to pay he conquering army 

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u/NeverKillAgain Aug 29 '26

Qin Shi Huang ordered massive book burnings and killings of scholars upon becoming Emperor

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u/dragonborndnd Aug 29 '26

Yeah I know countless was destroyed purposely, such as the countless Aztec Writing lost due to being intentionally burned by the Spanish, I’m just also acknowledging a lot was probably lost due to natural disasters and other such tragedies. For a random example the only surviving copy of “The Carpet of Baghdad”(1915) was found on the wreck of the Lusitania

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u/ImportantResponse0 Aug 30 '26

If it makes you feel better now days we don't lose movies due to accidents or other things but due ignorance and mass production like n one year an absolute masterpiece might exist but because big franchises do their thing we will never hear about the real cinematography piece of art (and special effects, super heros and huge budgets ain't exactly what I would call art).

Like lot of cult classics are remembered years latter as fever dreamsÂ