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Charles: Jesus dies in 30 -> Rome peaks 117 -> Dark ages until 1800s

how do you not see everything became horrible because of Cat...
misanthropic community account
  09/20/18
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misanthropic community account
  09/20/18
religion is the devil.
Maroon hell sandwich
  09/20/18
Can't tell if sarcasm? It was only the "dark ages&qu...
Avocado plaza preventive strike
  09/20/18
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Pink Big-titted Dilemma
  09/20/18
op is mfe, bro
Vivacious range selfie
  09/20/18
(gore vi:Dal)
bat-shit-crazy rehab
  09/20/18
“Dark Ages” is a myth
slate bossy generalized bond
  09/20/18
Libs invented the dark ages to discredit white people. If yo...
self-centered erotic hall
  09/20/18
...
Self-absorbed up-to-no-good school coldplay fan
  12/02/18
Settle down, Gibbon
Godawful shitlib
  12/02/18
...
Self-absorbed up-to-no-good school coldplay fan
  12/02/18
...
electric purple point
  12/03/18
so is it possible we could have had the internet 200 years e...
arrogant bipolar jew
  12/02/18
Pretty sure Rome had that stuff.
Balding comical brunch pervert
  12/02/18
ho lee shit
arrogant bipolar jew
  12/02/18
What happened in 1800
Self-absorbed up-to-no-good school coldplay fan
  12/02/18
discovery of fossil fuels. living standards actually peaked ...
misanthropic community account
  12/02/18
flame on the athens thing
Self-absorbed up-to-no-good school coldplay fan
  12/03/18
32% urbanization rate!
misanthropic community account
  12/03/18
The chart on HDI for the Greek East is total fucking flame. ...
maize doobsian abode factory reset button
  12/03/18
social science shitheaddery like this is also behind the ide...
Self-absorbed up-to-no-good school coldplay fan
  12/03/18
(guy totally impartial about who was in charge in 900 AD)
misanthropic community account
  12/03/18
Romans were in charge in 900 AD, and the Eastern Empire was ...
Godawful shitlib
  12/03/18
German scholars began questioning the historicity of Jesus
zombie-like embarrassed to the bone volcanic crater
  12/02/18
Dark Ages are real but blaming them on Christianity is low I...
maize doobsian abode factory reset button
  12/03/18
whys it gotta be the DARK ages hmmmmmmmm?
Self-absorbed up-to-no-good school coldplay fan
  12/03/18
Because of the lack of written record. There were meticulou...
Black double fault property
  12/03/18
But literature is a good proxy for decadence. Someone that h...
misanthropic community account
  12/03/18
In fact Christianity gave them a unified ideology & a so...
Godawful shitlib
  12/03/18
...so why did it take 2 millenia to recover instead of a cou...
misanthropic community account
  12/03/18
? Absolute flame Romans didn't even have fucking stirrups...
Godawful shitlib
  12/03/18
Lack of slaves mean subsisTTTence living.
misanthropic community account
  12/03/18
It didn't; the idea that life was worse in 1700 compared to ...
maize doobsian abode factory reset button
  12/03/18
LOL @ claiming a higher population living at subsistence is ...
misanthropic community account
  12/03/18
Not to mention one could just as easily blame them on Islam....
dashing rose library black woman
  12/03/18
Shit was falling apart well before Islam so while that didn&...
maize doobsian abode factory reset button
  12/03/18
It was a primary factor in 1. demonetization of European eco...
dashing rose library black woman
  12/03/18
Like I said, it didn't help, but the old Roman Empire was fa...
maize doobsian abode factory reset button
  12/03/18
In 380, under Emperor Theodosius I, Catholicism became the s...
misanthropic community account
  12/03/18
It was already TTT by the time Xtianity came forward - read ...
Godawful shitlib
  12/03/18
Aurelian master race
cerise theatre
  12/03/18
He was 180, but was ulitmately only a fireman b/c of his ear...
Godawful shitlib
  12/03/18
can't argue with thescience https://i.stack.imgur.com/XE9...
coral dopamine useless brakes
  12/03/18
Reddit is lols
wine church building
  12/03/18
...
Godawful shitlib
  12/03/18
But I thought muslims were making yuge scientific advances d...
Duck-like Very Tactful Affirmative Action Location
  12/03/18
lmfao
slap-happy hospital hissy fit
  12/03/18
...
opaque at-the-ready weed whacker
  12/03/18
You need to read more books :D, I am diving into this time p...
Black double fault property
  12/03/18
LOL there was MONARCHY and CLERGY. How TTT!
misanthropic community account
  12/03/18
952 and 1144 were just as crazy interesting as today.
Black double fault property
  12/03/18
(Guy really interested in subsistence living)
misanthropic community account
  12/03/18
What books
Self-absorbed up-to-no-good school coldplay fan
  12/03/18
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0691173141/
misanthropic community account
  12/03/18
This is your brain on xkcd
opaque at-the-ready weed whacker
  12/03/18
lol @ :D always citing Richard Carrier for all ancient histo...
boyish roommate
  12/03/18
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0691173141/ https://en.wi...
misanthropic community account
  12/03/18
Q predicted this
bespoke step-uncle's house
  12/03/18


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Date: September 20th, 2018 1:52 AM
Author: misanthropic community account

how do you not see everything became horrible because of Catholicism

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4082027&forum_id=2#36846683)



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Date: September 20th, 2018 3:28 AM
Author: misanthropic community account



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4082027&forum_id=2#36846879)



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Date: September 20th, 2018 3:32 AM
Author: Maroon hell sandwich

religion is the devil.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4082027&forum_id=2#36846880)



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Date: September 20th, 2018 4:49 AM
Author: Avocado plaza preventive strike

Can't tell if sarcasm?

It was only the "dark ages" in a relatively small part of the world - western europe. The Eastern Roman empire did very well although it had its ups and downs - was still vibrant and making progress, as did other parts of the world with very religious people.

You could just as well say - Diocletian divide ~276 --> Constantine reorganizes empire and moves East to the more economically productive / wealthy parts + legalizes Christianity 325 --> Christianity becomes Official State religion under Theodosius around 390-ish I think -->

After Christianity is legalized then becomes official state religion, several generations later Eastern Roman Empire (which they just considered the roman empire) reaches its peak under XO Justinian in 560s

Your thesis makes no sense considering the roman empire - particularly in the west - was *already* in deep trouble by mid 3rd century

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4082027&forum_id=2#36846926)



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Date: September 20th, 2018 5:45 AM
Author: Pink Big-titted Dilemma



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4082027&forum_id=2#36846951)



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Date: September 20th, 2018 6:06 AM
Author: Vivacious range selfie

op is mfe, bro

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4082027&forum_id=2#36846964)



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Date: September 20th, 2018 5:58 AM
Author: bat-shit-crazy rehab

(gore vi:Dal)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4082027&forum_id=2#36846960)



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Date: September 20th, 2018 6:04 AM
Author: slate bossy generalized bond

“Dark Ages” is a myth

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4082027&forum_id=2#36846962)



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Date: September 20th, 2018 6:07 AM
Author: self-centered erotic hall

Libs invented the dark ages to discredit white people. If you want to see real dark ages look at the entire history of subsaharan africa

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4082027&forum_id=2#36846968)



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Date: December 2nd, 2018 10:09 PM
Author: Self-absorbed up-to-no-good school coldplay fan



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4082027&forum_id=2#37339996)



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Date: December 2nd, 2018 10:03 PM
Author: Godawful shitlib

Settle down, Gibbon

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4082027&forum_id=2#37339925)



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Date: December 2nd, 2018 10:09 PM
Author: Self-absorbed up-to-no-good school coldplay fan



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4082027&forum_id=2#37339991)



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Date: December 3rd, 2018 1:58 PM
Author: electric purple point



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4082027&forum_id=2#37343030)



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Date: December 2nd, 2018 10:35 PM
Author: arrogant bipolar jew

so is it possible we could have had the internet 200 years earlier and could have now had flying cars and sex bots that are indistinguishable from humans?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4082027&forum_id=2#37340148)



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Date: December 2nd, 2018 10:35 PM
Author: Balding comical brunch pervert

Pretty sure Rome had that stuff.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4082027&forum_id=2#37340150)



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Date: December 2nd, 2018 10:38 PM
Author: arrogant bipolar jew

ho lee shit

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4082027&forum_id=2#37340164)



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Date: December 2nd, 2018 10:37 PM
Author: Self-absorbed up-to-no-good school coldplay fan

What happened in 1800

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4082027&forum_id=2#37340158)



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Date: December 2nd, 2018 10:38 PM
Author: misanthropic community account

discovery of fossil fuels. living standards actually peaked in 4th century BC athens.

https://www.richardcarrier.info/archives/14660

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4082027&forum_id=2#37340163)



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Date: December 3rd, 2018 9:54 AM
Author: Self-absorbed up-to-no-good school coldplay fan

flame on the athens thing

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4082027&forum_id=2#37341698)



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Date: December 3rd, 2018 12:56 PM
Author: misanthropic community account

32% urbanization rate!

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4082027&forum_id=2#37342665)



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Date: December 3rd, 2018 9:57 AM
Author: maize doobsian abode factory reset button

The chart on HDI for the Greek East is total fucking flame. LJL at 900 AD being worse than the Bronze Age Collapse. That was an actual Dark Age where Greeks had to RE-INVENT writing because they forgot how to do it.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4082027&forum_id=2#37341707)



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Date: December 3rd, 2018 10:00 AM
Author: Self-absorbed up-to-no-good school coldplay fan

social science shitheaddery like this is also behind the idea that pre-british colonization india had some AMAZING standard of living. just lol

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4082027&forum_id=2#37341718)



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Date: December 3rd, 2018 12:01 PM
Author: misanthropic community account

(guy totally impartial about who was in charge in 900 AD)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4082027&forum_id=2#37342257)



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Date: December 3rd, 2018 12:56 PM
Author: Godawful shitlib

Romans were in charge in 900 AD, and the Eastern Empire was coming on a fucking REVENGE TOUR in the 9th and 10th century hth faggot

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4082027&forum_id=2#37342670)



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Date: December 2nd, 2018 11:11 PM
Author: zombie-like embarrassed to the bone volcanic crater

German scholars began questioning the historicity of Jesus

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4082027&forum_id=2#37340449)



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Date: December 3rd, 2018 9:53 AM
Author: maize doobsian abode factory reset button

Dark Ages are real but blaming them on Christianity is low IQ. Demographic collapse, long-term economic stagnation, de-urbanization, and political fragmentation that took centuries to reverse were all critical and not particularly linked to Christianity.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4082027&forum_id=2#37341694)



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Date: December 3rd, 2018 9:54 AM
Author: Self-absorbed up-to-no-good school coldplay fan

whys it gotta be the DARK ages hmmmmmmmm?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4082027&forum_id=2#37341699)



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Date: December 3rd, 2018 1:59 PM
Author: Black double fault property

Because of the lack of written record. There were meticulously prepared histories of Greece and Rome that survived but they didn’t do that across Europe and had a tendency to burn the others “Chronicles” when new power came along.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4082027&forum_id=2#37343039)



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Date: December 3rd, 2018 2:05 PM
Author: misanthropic community account

But literature is a good proxy for decadence. Someone that has time to write histories isn't living at subsistence at risk of starvation.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4082027&forum_id=2#37343078)



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Date: December 3rd, 2018 10:07 AM
Author: Godawful shitlib

In fact Christianity gave them a unified ideology & a society to recover from said devastation - only remaining functioning govt and SCHOLARSHIP were the Church apparatus for a while in the West and in the East Xtian fanticism saved them vs the Sassanids (Heraclius is the FIRST Crusader)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4082027&forum_id=2#37341734)



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Date: December 3rd, 2018 12:02 PM
Author: misanthropic community account

...so why did it take 2 millenia to recover instead of a couple centuries?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4082027&forum_id=2#37342265)



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Date: December 3rd, 2018 12:03 PM
Author: Godawful shitlib

? Absolute flame

Romans didn't even have fucking stirrups for that CAVALRY, Germans developed better democratic governance & Europe didnt' employ slaves,

France had much much better agricultural output than the Roman times



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4082027&forum_id=2#37342277)



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Date: December 3rd, 2018 12:22 PM
Author: misanthropic community account

Lack of slaves mean subsisTTTence living.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4082027&forum_id=2#37342436)



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Date: December 3rd, 2018 2:03 PM
Author: maize doobsian abode factory reset button

It didn't; the idea that life was worse in 1700 compared to 0 AD is fucking flame, or if it is true, fails to account for a dramatic explosion in population.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4082027&forum_id=2#37343065)



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Date: December 3rd, 2018 2:10 PM
Author: misanthropic community account

LOL @ claiming a higher population living at subsistence is a brag

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4082027&forum_id=2#37343098)



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Date: December 3rd, 2018 12:29 PM
Author: dashing rose library black woman

Not to mention one could just as easily blame them on Islam. After muslims conquered the middle east europe lost its main supplies of gold and papyrus.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4082027&forum_id=2#37342468)



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Date: December 3rd, 2018 12:31 PM
Author: maize doobsian abode factory reset button

Shit was falling apart well before Islam so while that didn’t help it’s not really the cause.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4082027&forum_id=2#37342476)



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Date: December 3rd, 2018 1:38 PM
Author: dashing rose library black woman

It was a primary factor in 1. demonetization of European economies, and 2. lack of writing/scholarship for about 700 years. The only thing they could make books out of was parchment, which was extremely expensive and time consuming to produce.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4082027&forum_id=2#37342897)



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Date: December 3rd, 2018 1:41 PM
Author: maize doobsian abode factory reset button

Like I said, it didn't help, but the old Roman Empire was far worse off in 630 than it was in in 330, which in turn was much worse off than it was in 30.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4082027&forum_id=2#37342908)



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Date: December 3rd, 2018 1:49 PM
Author: misanthropic community account

In 380, under Emperor Theodosius I, Catholicism became the state religion of the Roman Empire

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4082027&forum_id=2#37342963)



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Date: December 3rd, 2018 1:51 PM
Author: Godawful shitlib

It was already TTT by the time Xtianity came forward - read up on the Crisis of the 3rd Century.

Constantine saved teh Empire hth

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4082027&forum_id=2#37342981)



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Date: December 3rd, 2018 1:55 PM
Author: cerise theatre

Aurelian master race

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4082027&forum_id=2#37343010)



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Date: December 3rd, 2018 2:00 PM
Author: Godawful shitlib

He was 180, but was ulitmately only a fireman b/c of his early death

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4082027&forum_id=2#37343045)



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Date: December 3rd, 2018 10:20 AM
Author: coral dopamine useless brakes

can't argue with thescience

https://i.stack.imgur.com/XE9el.jpg

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4082027&forum_id=2#37341777)



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Date: December 3rd, 2018 12:53 PM
Author: wine church building

Reddit is lols

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4082027&forum_id=2#37342638)



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Date: December 3rd, 2018 12:53 PM
Author: Godawful shitlib



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4082027&forum_id=2#37342643)



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Date: December 3rd, 2018 1:51 PM
Author: Duck-like Very Tactful Affirmative Action Location

But I thought muslims were making yuge scientific advances during that time.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4082027&forum_id=2#37342982)



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Date: December 3rd, 2018 2:07 PM
Author: slap-happy hospital hissy fit

lmfao

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4082027&forum_id=2#37343091)



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Date: December 3rd, 2018 9:21 PM
Author: opaque at-the-ready weed whacker



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4082027&forum_id=2#37345636)



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Date: December 3rd, 2018 1:53 PM
Author: Black double fault property

You need to read more books :D, I am diving into this time period and it’s incredible how alive the world was. Religion overall probably made it worse, but some amazing things happened over those 1600 years.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4082027&forum_id=2#37342993)



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Date: December 3rd, 2018 1:57 PM
Author: misanthropic community account

LOL there was MONARCHY and CLERGY. How TTT!

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4082027&forum_id=2#37343022)



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Date: December 3rd, 2018 1:58 PM
Author: Black double fault property

952 and 1144 were just as crazy interesting as today.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4082027&forum_id=2#37343029)



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Date: December 3rd, 2018 2:28 PM
Author: misanthropic community account

(Guy really interested in subsistence living)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4082027&forum_id=2#37343197)



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Date: December 3rd, 2018 9:32 PM
Author: Self-absorbed up-to-no-good school coldplay fan

What books

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4082027&forum_id=2#37345681)



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Date: December 3rd, 2018 9:34 PM
Author: misanthropic community account

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0691173141/

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4082027&forum_id=2#37345690)



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Date: December 3rd, 2018 2:28 PM
Author: opaque at-the-ready weed whacker

This is your brain on xkcd

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4082027&forum_id=2#37343200)



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Date: December 3rd, 2018 9:12 PM
Author: boyish roommate

lol @ :D always citing Richard Carrier for all ancient history facts.

Seems like :D discovers a website devoted to a weird slant of a popular topic and then just gives himself entirely to it.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4082027&forum_id=2#37345588)



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Date: December 3rd, 2018 9:14 PM
Author: misanthropic community account

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0691173141/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josiah_Ober

This guy is a SCHOLAR.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4082027&forum_id=2#37345608)



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Date: December 3rd, 2018 9:13 PM
Author: bespoke step-uncle's house

Q predicted this

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4082027&forum_id=2#37345600)