Originally posted by lemon lime Originality is an illusion... because even if it's new to you someone else has surely seen or done it before. I don't know this for a fact, but I suspect variations on a theme is probably the closest anyone can actually come to being 'original'.
Salomon put it thus: "Nothing new under the sun" about 3000 years back. In fact he might be astonished if he came to todays world...
Originally posted by Ponderable Salomon put it thus: "Nothing new under the sun" about 3000 years back. In fact he might be astonished if he came to todays world...
It's a sure bet he would be astonished, but he wasn't wrong. We have fancier toys and better conveniences (and conveyances) but other than that nothing has changed. Wisdom was his specialty... so he was essentially saying there's nothing new under the sun in regard to people.