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What would you put in a time capsule?

If everyone from Conundrum and Mahalo had to contribute something for a time capsule what would you put in it?

I put in a wonderful bottle of Conundrum wine. :)
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Marked as Best! February 10, 2010 03:38 AM
I'd put in samples of all the stuff we're digitizing, like examples of photographic film negatives, newspapers, magazines, and books... stuff like that could be a real novelty to people in the future.

Also, if the electricity grid ever fails, it would be possible for vast amounts of history, culture, and civilization that we're digitizing to be wiped out and forgotten the way the books of the Nag Hammadi library had been thought lost, but then got rediscovered in the middle of the 20th century (not to be confused with the Dead Sea Scrolls).

We knew that such a thing as the Nag Hammadi texts existed from references made to it by other writings that did survive, but we didn't know what the Nag Hammadi texts were nor what those texts actually said, so it was a mystery until they were found in the 4rth centuries version of a time capsule, and their rediscovery totally changed everything we know about the evolution of early Christianity.

The Nag Hammadi texts were mostly Gnostic versions of Christianity, and in the 4rth Century after the Council of Nicaea the followers of the Paulian-Trinitarian interpretation of the life of Christ went on a book-burning binge, intent on wiping out all memory of the Gnostic interpretation of the message of Christ, and which was the dominant form of Christianity in the north-eastern parts of the Roman Empire.

Some Gnostic-Christian monks saw the book-burners coming, and so they hid the Nag Hammadi texts in a "time capsule", to protect them from the book-burnings, with the hope that someday they would be re-discovered by a more enlightened people who wouldn't burn them, and that's what happened...

... And now we have a fantastic understanding of what was really going on back then that had been totally lost to history, with everyone believing that the Paulian-Trinitarian version of Christianity was the only one to have ever existed (It was Simon, Philip, and to some extent Thomas who taught sayings of Jesus with an interpretation that to Gnostic-Christianity, and the Paulian-Trinitarian collection of books we call the Old Testament don't mention anything about what Simon, Philip and Thomas were teaching, even though they were so active that Christianity got to India and China from them).

... Which means... Time Capsules *are* a good idea!

We could loose a *lot* of civilization by digitizing everything followed with a power-grid failure, so we should be microfiching all our books and sticking that in a time capsule too.

I'd also have the physical photographs be lots of pictures of what things looked like in the region before the climate changed.
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February 09, 2010 10:12 PM
I would put in a list of ideas that are now problems in the world and ask people to look back and see how these solutions worked. Also a letter of my life for future generations of my family whonever even heard of me.
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February 10, 2010 01:08 AM
oh another good question.. I'd take photographs of me and my family and write what we do etc. I'd include some good books, and a newspaper so they could see what life was like in 2010.
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February 10, 2010 02:05 AM
Can I only pick one thing? If so, I would submit a short story of mine- something symbolizing my life right now, what is happening around me, my thoughts and feelings. It would be colorful, involved, and rife with meaning.
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February 10, 2010 12:44 PM
I shall put my favorite songs!
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February 10, 2010 05:08 PM
I would put an Encyclopaedia, a Globe, all possible records and data regarding my family and all the records of National Geographic Channel and Discovery Channel in it.

If possible, I would put the stem cells of myself and my family members in it in Cryogenic Containers so that they may be cloned any time in future.

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