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John Oldman

John Oldman, also known as John T. Partee, John Paley, most recently John Young, and many other last names, was a cro-magnon man who, for unknown reasons, did not experience cell degradation due to aging, and was able to survive for over 14,000 years from the time of his birth until the 21st century, and perhaps later. (Film: "The Man from Earth")

Biography[]

Early Life[]

John, whose original name was, in fact, John, was born in Ice Age Europe during the Upper Paleolithic period amongst a tribe of Cro-Magnons. He grew to maturity, and stopped aging at 35. He would begin to travel west toward the setting Sun before venturing North. His tribe came to think of him as magical and allowed him to lead the tribe, as he didn't age. When they finally began to fear him and chased him away, he moved on and lived with other groups, beginning a tradition of moving on every time people start to notice that he doesn't age, roughly every decade or so, which would last the next 14,000 years of his life.

Ancient Times[]

John moved between hunter-gatherer tribes and migrated throughout Europe.He slowly went east, towards the rising sun, thinking it would be warmer there. Meanwhile, the Ice Age gradually ended, and John witnessed civilization emerge, as the hunter-gatherer lifestyle gave way to agriculture and animal husbandry, villages emerged, and then grew into cities as the state emerged. John found moving on, which had been easy as a hunter-gatherer, to be more difficult than moving on between villages, and even more so when organized urban civilization came about. During the early Bronze Age, he arrived at a large body of water he believed to be the Mediterranean, and continued east, following the trade routes. He settled in ancient Sumer, where he lived for 2,000 years, after which he lived in Babylon under Hammurabi, then was a Phoenician sailor for a time. He finally arrived in India, where he met the Buddha, and studied under him until his death. During his time in the east, he lived in both India and Tibet, where he also learned eastern medicine and tricks on how to slow his body processes to make himself appear dead. He returned to the Mediterranean region and lived in Italy during the period of the Etruscan civilization, then under it's successor, Rome. Disgusted with how brutal the Romans became, he moved to the Middle East and passed on the Buddha's humanitarian teachings, while also doing some healing based on the eastern medicine he had learned. The Roman authorities viewed him as a dissident and crucified him. After slowing his body processes so as to appear dead, as he had been taught to do in the east, his followers took him down from the cross and placed him in a cave, where his body normalized. As he left the cave, some followers standing watch saw him, and they were too ecstatic to listen to his attempt to explain. John then moved to Central Europe to get far away from the whole thing. Meanwhile, the illusion of the Resurrection had been born, and Christianity evolved. His name being translated into several languages ultimately evolved into the now familiar Jesus of Nazareth during the Middle Ages.

The 16th Century to the 20th Century[]

John then spent centuries living in Europe. At certain points in time he gained wealth and power and owned castles. He was given a chance to sail with Columbus, but declined, as he believed the world was flat and that Columbus might fall off the edge, as well as the fact that he did not consider himself an adventurous type. In the 1600s, he met a man who might have been just like him, and and about 200 years later, thought he saw him again in a train station in Brussels but lost him in the crowd. Among other things, he earned a degree in biology from Oxford in 1840, and spent a year in jail in Belgium in 1862 for falsifying documents as he attempted to move on. In the late 1800s, he was a pig farmer in France when he met and befriended Vincent Van Gogh, who gave him one of his paintings as a gift. In 1890, following Van Gogh's death, he moved to the United States with a group of French immigrants. In Boston during the 1930s, John, under the John T. Partee, taught chemistry in a local university. He got married and had a child, before moving on. In the 1950s, he moved to New York, where he worked as a banker for a while.

The 21st Century[]

Telling his story[]

Recently, he told his friends his story as he was moving on from his job as a university professor with the new idea of revealing his true identity as a possible hypothetical. The more they questioned him the more he revealed his life as a central figure in mankind. It was only after the psychiatrist and the religious expressed their emotional doubt that he admitted it being a story he was thinking of writing. While everyone was thought to have left John's girlfriend saw through John's lie of saying it was fictional when she knew John would never say things that would have such an effect unless it was true. As John describes the different names he had the psychiatrist over hears the name of his father from 60 years ago and as John is able to fill in the correct answers it sends his son Dr. William Gruber into a pre-mature cardiac arrest. The story ending with John saying he will return for the funeral and leaves this time with his girlfriend.

Holocene[]

In 2018, John Young was a teacher at Chico University where he made a huge impact on his students. Eventually a student who came over borrowing books researched a signing by Prof. Art who signed to John Oldman. She found the only known picture of Dr. Oldman at a barbecue that had a side profile resembling Dr. Young who never took pictures. Isabel contacted Art who became interested after she revealed that she believed Young to also be Oldman a character in a non-fiction book he wrote outlining a man that lived 14,000 years only to be laughed out of science as a crackpot. When Art sees a recent full face photo of Young sleeping he immediately drives several hours to meet up with Young so that he can get exonerated and prove the truth in his book. Unfortunately Art needs help after braking down on the road and it's when John Young is about to leave again on the run. While John is a Professor at Chico he goes out into nature to get away when he realizes he is changing and getting older looking. By a few months later John has a gray beard and says he doesn't heal as well as before. He and an old biology professor realize the reason for the aging is that they are no longer living in the Era as before. The new world has evolved into something of food chemically altered by pesticides and preservatives in a highly charged radiation of high tech inventions that alter his DNA structure. The movie ends with John leaving the woods and caves to visit the father of the fellow biologist he knew 10-20 years before.

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