[crazygringo]

You were writing as if people were staring at the sky all night long out of boredom. You said "There was really nothing else to do."

That's completely untrue. It's a total misunderstanding of what life was like.

I'm not helping your narrative, I'm saying it's a false narrative. We have so many misunderstandings about how people used to live, it's important not to perpetuate them.

[dylan604]

Everything you listed as options to do are also available now, yet people still choose to stay home and look at their devices. Pedantry for pedantry sake is just boring

[crazygringo]

> Everything you listed as options to do are also available now

That has no bearing on anything you or I said.

> Pedantry for pedantry sake is just boring

Perhaps you don't understand what pedantry is? Your entire point was a false description of what humanity was like. Just take this as a learning experience! :)

[dylan604]

Perhaps you don't know what story telling is. Just because details were left out does not mean I'm implying they didn't happen. It's not a lie of omission. You're hell bent on making something out of nothing, for what point I have no idea. But you're free to continue to attempt to denigrate my intentions if that really makes you feel superior.

You've yet to dispute the actual point that the average person did not have a simple device that allowed them to see the future without any thought about what it took for that to happen. In order to know how much of a season was left was to look at the night sky to see what stars where visible. Not the day time sky. The only reason they knew what they knew because people very intently looked at the night sky and started to recognize the patterns. Their was no Hey Google! What is today's date? or Hey Siri, how many more moons until it's time to plant seeds?

But sure, let's focus on the irrelevant parts of whatever story you want me to tell. In fact, how about you go find a star party and volunteer your time to talk to kids and tell the story however you want. Then come back and we can all critique it to ensure you didn't leave out any irrelevant details. Maybe we should update the saying "those that can't do, teach" to add "those that can't teach, critique"