Talk:Golden age
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Given that a utopia is, by definition, non-existent, is it right to speak of "a time when mankind lived in a utopia and was pure"? Perhaps "lived in a perfect state" would be better. -- Heron
- I think the phrasing is dead-on: the time they're talking about is entirely mythical. -- Jake 18:01, 2003 Sep 12 (UTC)
The golden age, as they say, is always in the past.They even had girls get killed for fun.
Actully utopia is a world of dreams which never fullfil. the concept of ramrajya is also one of that.The world imagined by the religious peoples are also some how that.--Ashok Tiwari(India) —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 59.177.21.106 (talk • contribs) 15 Nov 2005.
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[edit] A mess
This article is currently a mess, due mainly to edits by Pictureuploader that look like they may be the insertion of badly translated material. I've left a note at User talk:Pictureuploader#Golden age, and hope to get a response soon about how we might move forward. Failing such a response, I am very inclined to revert. - Jmabel | Talk 03:46, 8 April 2006 (UTC)
- I am happy that at last someone notices it. The aticle is indeed a machine translation, from the article of German Wikipedia. I have notified some persons that speak German to fix it but they haven't been availiable. I can't do it since I don't speak German (and that's why I used machine translation in the first place). Other than that, do what you will. I wished that some German speaker would notice and fix that article? Pictureuploader 08:42, 8 April 2006 (UTC)
- As I remarked on your user talk page, we are very clear at WP:TIE that machine translations are worse than nothing. If you want a translation and aren't up to doing it yourself, put in a request at Wikipedia:German-English translation requests. I am reverting, and putting in that request myself. - Jmabel | Talk 23:22, 14 April 2006 (UTC)
Um, we are in Kali yuga now. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.197.213.105 (talk) 23:42, 26 February 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Golden Age in Popular Culture
Shouldn't such a concept be found in any works of fiction? I may be wrong, but I think the Golden Age is in the story of Zelda and mentioned in A Link to The Past?
- It's just one of the mythological elements to be found in fiction Pictureuploader 23:06, 23 July 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Title
Surely it should be Golden Age, not age. I would change it, but I don´t know how to change the title. Help anyone? Quicksand2 16:50, 17 May 2006 (UTC)
- I think it is fine where it is, and in any event Golden Age redirects here, so the point is more or less moot. - Jmabel | Talk 15:48, 1 June 2006 (UTC)
- In keeping with other "Ages" like Stone Age and the like, it should probably be swapped the other way around - so I'll go and do that. j-beda 16:26, 5 September 2006 (UTC)
- There, I did it, as well as made an explicit Golden Age (disambiguation) page. j-beda 16:30, 5 September 2006 (UTC)
- In keeping with other "Ages" like Stone Age and the like, it should probably be swapped the other way around - so I'll go and do that. j-beda 16:26, 5 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Far East?
From the intro:
- An analogous idea can be found in the religious and philosophical traditions of the Far East. For example, the Vedic or ancient Hindu culture saw history as cyclical composed of yugas with alternating Dark and Golden ages. The Kali yuga (Iron Age), Dwapara yuga (Bronze Age), Treta yuga (Silver age) and Satya yuga (Golden age) correspond to the four Greek ages. Similar beliefs can be found in the ancient Middle East and throughout the ancient world.
At no time has India ever been classified as the "Far East": that designation usually applies to China/Japan/Southeast Asia. And in any case, while it is interesting that the concept of ages plays such an important role in Hindu culture, it's mentioned after discussing the Greek myths as an example of these beliefs all of the world. This is a pretty poor example, as Indo-Europeanists might well argue that this is the same Proto-Indo-European myth that has survived in these two cultures. --Saforrest 16:10, 2 September 2007 (UTC)
