Was The Great Wall of China the biggest waste of time and energy in human history?

16 million dying in World War 1 is in the top 5, the ultimate outcome being World War 2.

It's Facebook.

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The biggest waste of time and energy in human history?? You're on it bud.

Not a waste of time and energy if people are still talking about it long after your dead.

The biggest waste of time and energy has been in things that are not the subject of a thread.

No, the Maginot line was the biggest waste

All the stuff all the religions have ever and will ever do is the correct answer to the riddle. Aint nobody ever gone nowhere after they died but in the ground.

redux wrote:

(1) All the stuff all the religions have ever and will ever do is the correct answer to the riddle.

(2) Aint nobody ever gone nowhere after they died but in the ground.

(2) does not imply (1).

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Not a waste of time and energy if people are still talking about it long after your dead.

The biggest waste of time and energy has been in things that are not the subject of a thread.

After your dead what?

If people are still talking about it after your dead have been buried?

If people are still talking about it after your dead have risen and have begun to consume your brains?

If people are still talking about it after your dead have said, 'Your welcome'?

What?

fenderperry wrote:

It's Facebook.

This ^ is probably the right answer. How many billions of hours? And for what?

Trying to get into Eleanor G's panties has proven to be a big waste of time.

Are they too small for you? Do any of her other clothes fit you?

Like Big Blonde Aussie Gals wrote:

Trying to get into Eleanor G's panties has proven to be a big waste of time.

My vote would be for "organized religion."

No, the Vatican is.

Think of it as a shovel ready job to stimulate their economy at the time.

Something being a waste is subjective. What else would you have rather those people done? Its not like the world would be much different today if all that energy went somewhere else, many of the people building the wall were uneducated peasants that weren't going to make scientific breakthroughs anyways.

And even though I think Facebook is a waste of time, its really just replacing other forms of wasting time like TV watching, playing cards, pleasure reading, etc.

At least the Great Wall had some defensive value. The Egyptians squandered their resources and manpower building gigantic tombs.

Not at all.

1) Life back in the day was very brutal. Murder/invasion was very common. The wall obviously saved a lot of lives on that front. Millions of Americans have home security systems. This was that on steroids.

2) Even if you don't beliee point #1 about saving lives from a barbarous invasion, then at the very list the Wall is a huge tourist attraction in the modern era.

3) The fact that you are talking about it 2000+ years shows it wasn't a waste of time. Most of us die and our accomplishments are totally forgotten. The legacy of the wall lives on.