Before Glasses were invented...

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Finshaggy

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Were people that needed them just considered bad at...Everything? Or stupid?


Did they kill the semi-blind kids? Or just let them die on their own? Or was there some kind of way families used to accommodate it?
What was life like for people with glasses...BEFORE glasses...?


Blind kids would just be (obviously to everyone) blind, and the family would accommodate, or leave them in the woods...
But what about glasses people?
 
SmoochieBoochies

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Natural selection took them out. The trait no longer poses a threat to our survival, therefore it is becoming more prevalent as the gene pool interacts.
 
Unnk

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the weak / sick were considered liability to survival to have a child with a deformity was a big taboo

i mean think about when we were still hunting and gathering

would a nearsighted person be much help on a hunt or be a target and a liability
 
Finshaggy

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Unnk said:
the weak / sick were considered liability to survival to have a child with a deformity was a big taboo

i mean think about when we were still hunting and gathering

would a nearsighted person be much help on a hunt or be a target and a liability
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Again.
DUH.

But did they think these people were stupid? Retarded?
Did they kill them when they found out?
Did people used to test their kids at a young age to make sure?


I'm wondering what it WAS like for them. Not what they didn't get included in, and how they couldn't help.
 
Unnk

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honestly i think most were killed if they werent usefull

to them they were holding them back

hell they might have even felt they were somehow diff and shouldnt live

their wasnt much in the ways of medical understanding back then

so if a handicap was found it was probably discussed wether or not it was significant enough to be a hindrance to the community

humans were just beginning to want to make their mark on the earth

why do you think we make big monuments and such to make sure anyone else that comes along knows we were here survival even in thought
 
Finshaggy

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Unnk said:
honestly i think most were killed if they werent usefull

to them they were holding them back

hell they might have even felt they were somehow diff and shouldnt live

their wasnt much in the ways of medical understanding back then

so if a handicap was found it was probably discussed wether or not it was significant enough to be a hindrance to the community

humans were just beginning to want to make their mark on the earth

why do you think we make big monuments and such to make sure anyone else that comes along knows we were here survival even in thought
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I wonder if any famous leaders were secretly impaired.
 
SmoochieBoochies

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Roman emperor, 50 bc, diamond and ruby are harder than emerald, and was probably used to shape the stone by hand into a lense. Scrape, scrape, scrape...

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The Roman emperor Nero was near-sighted, so he had an enormous emerald which he used as a glass to view gladiatorial fights. The Romans thought that emeralds were good for the sight, and Nero's emerald was hollowed out to act as a lens to help him see. Many of the Christians persecuted by him came to think that the emerald was of diabolical origin. It is less commonly believed that the emerald was actually a sacred object to the early Christians, and that Nero's misuse of it was a deliberate blasphemy, while to the Romans it was seen as just an expensive and inefficient waste. The emerald itself was described as being concave-shaped, and nothing is mentioned of it's fate. Here is a little of this object's story on a history page about emperor Nero:
 
cannabineer

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SmoochieBoochies said:
Roman emperor, 50 bc, diamond and ruby are harder than emerald, and was probably used to shape the stone by hand into a lense. Scrape, scrape, scrape...

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The Roman emperor Nero was near-sighted, so he had an enormous emerald which he used as a glass to view gladiatorial fights. The Romans thought that emeralds were good for the sight, and Nero's emerald was hollowed out to act as a lens to help him see. Many of the Christians persecuted by him came to think that the emerald was of diabolical origin. It is less commonly believed that the emerald was actually a sacred object to the early Christians, and that Nero's misuse of it was a deliberate blasphemy, while to the Romans it was seen as just an expensive and inefficient waste. The emerald itself was described as being concave-shaped, and nothing is mentioned of it's fate. Here is a little of this object's story on a history page about emperor Nero:
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50 AD, maybe? Kind a hard to be persecuting Christians otherwise, I would think ... ;) cn
 
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