There's a lot of holes in the theories, imo.
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Why would whoever reset society decide to leave the buildings up and then dismantle the buildings later after the repopulation of the world had begun? If whomever reset us had technology to destroy an advanced civilization then why leave the buildings?
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If it was a mud flood then where isn't there more evidence of this? Where's the bodies?
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If there was an apocalyptic event where everyone went underground to survive thus why there's so many tunnels and catacombs then wouldn't the Old World Buildings have overgrowth all over them? Most of the pictures of the Old World Buildings (aside from a very limited few) show the buildings with no overgrowth so what would have had to have happened would have been sudden.
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Even if you go with the "Little Season" idea that Satan was freed and he "caused the reset", there would have been evidence wouldn't there?
I have a hard time accepting that our civilization built the structures we see today that we attribute anywhere from 900 AD to 1950 AD for construction. Then in the last 70 years we don't build anything like it and "lost the capability" because everyone just decided to build cheaply but prior to the last 70 years not a single person build cheaply unless it was a peasant's house? Then all of a sudden, guys like Elon Musk are living in meh ok houses... You'd think a trillionaire would be able to build something grand to live in. The architecture of these old buildings doesn't add up to me.
But I don't really understand what happened from "supposedly" the 1800s to now. Even the people seem questionable. We have stories of the difficulties our ancestors lived through and the stories of the intelligence many of these people had who invented so many of the same technologies we use today, yet most people today seem stupid and incapable of what our ancestors were. How could we be degrading so quickly over such a short period of time? Purely because of our technology? I'm not sure I buy that either.
Something about the late 1700s to now compared to all other history and modernity doesn't seem to add up. There does appear to be a missing link. What are your guys' thoughts?
Skilled craftsmen in some fields, like masonry, are fading away. A stonecutter gave my commencement speech and said his particular method wasn't used widely any more. (So devote yourself to your craft and be the best you can, graduate, was the speech topic). We also had a large wooden boat builder in that town who said the only comparable one he knew was on the opposite coast. Another factor is the devaluation of our money supply, which makes all materials more expensive. Our grandfathers could build a framed house by themselves, but what would that lumber cost today, and does our soft fast-growing pine lumber even compare to old growth hardwoods from 100 years ago?
This. People also underestimate the effects of taxation. There always used to be some form of taxation but now it's much more effective and greater in amount.
We also probably now have up to 90% of the population doing nothing useful in the real sense of the word where back then while they didn't have today's technology practically everyone was doing something useful.
Trains were also in the US in the 1800s which did help move a lot of the heavy stuff.
True, even 25 years ago we were all practicing hobbies and crafts of one kind or another. How many people gave up their musical instruments and reading because of the internet? We also 100 years ago had a much better sense of community. I know the man who built our house had friends and neighbors help him, barn-raising style. It's incredible what can be accomplished without having the emergency brakes of modern civilization holding us back.