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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...
vibrant fishy haunted graveyard
  09/20/18
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vibrant fishy haunted graveyard
  09/20/18
religion is the devil.
twisted business firm
  09/20/18
Can't tell if sarcasm? It was only the "dark ages&qu...
Twinkling wonderful heaven
  09/20/18
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Burgundy Aphrodisiac Codepig
  09/20/18
op is mfe, bro
bespoke toaster
  09/20/18
(gore vi:Dal)
vermilion persian sandwich
  09/20/18
“Dark Ages” is a myth
Comical Cruise Ship Pisswyrm
  09/20/18
Libs invented the dark ages to discredit white people. If yo...
Free-loading Stead Internal Respiration
  09/20/18
...
topaz circlehead puppy
  12/02/18
Settle down, Gibbon
Chrome nubile corner
  12/02/18
...
topaz circlehead puppy
  12/02/18
...
excitant magical cuck
  12/03/18
so is it possible we could have had the internet 200 years e...
turquoise coffee pot
  12/02/18
Pretty sure Rome had that stuff.
Provocative Police Squad Den
  12/02/18
ho lee shit
turquoise coffee pot
  12/02/18
What happened in 1800
topaz circlehead puppy
  12/02/18
discovery of fossil fuels. living standards actually peaked ...
vibrant fishy haunted graveyard
  12/02/18
flame on the athens thing
topaz circlehead puppy
  12/03/18
32% urbanization rate!
vibrant fishy haunted graveyard
  12/03/18
The chart on HDI for the Greek East is total fucking flame. ...
mildly autistic mental disorder
  12/03/18
social science shitheaddery like this is also behind the ide...
topaz circlehead puppy
  12/03/18
(guy totally impartial about who was in charge in 900 AD)
vibrant fishy haunted graveyard
  12/03/18
Romans were in charge in 900 AD, and the Eastern Empire was ...
Chrome nubile corner
  12/03/18
German scholars began questioning the historicity of Jesus
adventurous property cuckoldry
  12/02/18
Dark Ages are real but blaming them on Christianity is low I...
mildly autistic mental disorder
  12/03/18
whys it gotta be the DARK ages hmmmmmmmm?
topaz circlehead puppy
  12/03/18
Because of the lack of written record. There were meticulou...
gay odious affirmative action gas station
  12/03/18
But literature is a good proxy for decadence. Someone that h...
vibrant fishy haunted graveyard
  12/03/18
In fact Christianity gave them a unified ideology & a so...
Chrome nubile corner
  12/03/18
...so why did it take 2 millenia to recover instead of a cou...
vibrant fishy haunted graveyard
  12/03/18
? Absolute flame Romans didn't even have fucking stirrups...
Chrome nubile corner
  12/03/18
Lack of slaves mean subsisTTTence living.
vibrant fishy haunted graveyard
  12/03/18
It didn't; the idea that life was worse in 1700 compared to ...
mildly autistic mental disorder
  12/03/18
LOL @ claiming a higher population living at subsistence is ...
vibrant fishy haunted graveyard
  12/03/18
Not to mention one could just as easily blame them on Islam....
mahogany ladyboy
  12/03/18
Shit was falling apart well before Islam so while that didn&...
mildly autistic mental disorder
  12/03/18
It was a primary factor in 1. demonetization of European eco...
mahogany ladyboy
  12/03/18
Like I said, it didn't help, but the old Roman Empire was fa...
mildly autistic mental disorder
  12/03/18
In 380, under Emperor Theodosius I, Catholicism became the s...
vibrant fishy haunted graveyard
  12/03/18
It was already TTT by the time Xtianity came forward - read ...
Chrome nubile corner
  12/03/18
Aurelian master race
Concupiscible azn jewess
  12/03/18
He was 180, but was ulitmately only a fireman b/c of his ear...
Chrome nubile corner
  12/03/18
can't argue with thescience https://i.stack.imgur.com/XE9...
Overrated piazza
  12/03/18
Reddit is lols
Hairraiser Transparent Pozpig Crotch
  12/03/18
...
Chrome nubile corner
  12/03/18
But I thought muslims were making yuge scientific advances d...
cracking opaque locale generalized bond
  12/03/18
lmfao
light marvelous gunner newt
  12/03/18
...
violent double fault electric furnace
  12/03/18
You need to read more books :D, I am diving into this time p...
gay odious affirmative action gas station
  12/03/18
LOL there was MONARCHY and CLERGY. How TTT!
vibrant fishy haunted graveyard
  12/03/18
952 and 1144 were just as crazy interesting as today.
gay odious affirmative action gas station
  12/03/18
(Guy really interested in subsistence living)
vibrant fishy haunted graveyard
  12/03/18
What books
topaz circlehead puppy
  12/03/18
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0691173141/
vibrant fishy haunted graveyard
  12/03/18
This is your brain on xkcd
violent double fault electric furnace
  12/03/18
lol @ :D always citing Richard Carrier for all ancient histo...
startling olive idiot
  12/03/18
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0691173141/ https://en.wi...
vibrant fishy haunted graveyard
  12/03/18
Q predicted this
appetizing demanding liquid oxygen
  12/03/18


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Date: September 20th, 2018 1:52 AM
Author: vibrant fishy haunted graveyard

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: vibrant fishy haunted graveyard



(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: twisted business firm

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: Twinkling wonderful heaven

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: Burgundy Aphrodisiac Codepig



(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: bespoke toaster

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: vermilion persian sandwich

(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: Comical Cruise Ship Pisswyrm

“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: Free-loading Stead Internal Respiration

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: topaz circlehead puppy



(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: Chrome nubile corner

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: topaz circlehead puppy



(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: excitant magical cuck



(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: turquoise coffee pot

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: Provocative Police Squad Den

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: turquoise coffee pot

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: topaz circlehead puppy

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: vibrant fishy haunted graveyard

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: topaz circlehead puppy

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: vibrant fishy haunted graveyard

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: mildly autistic mental disorder

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: topaz circlehead puppy

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: vibrant fishy haunted graveyard

(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: Chrome nubile corner

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: adventurous property cuckoldry

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: mildly autistic mental disorder

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: topaz circlehead puppy

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: gay odious affirmative action gas station

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: vibrant fishy haunted graveyard

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: Chrome nubile corner

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: vibrant fishy haunted graveyard

...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: Chrome nubile corner

? 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: vibrant fishy haunted graveyard

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: mildly autistic mental disorder

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: vibrant fishy haunted graveyard

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: mahogany ladyboy

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: mildly autistic mental disorder

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: mahogany ladyboy

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: mildly autistic mental disorder

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: vibrant fishy haunted graveyard

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: Chrome nubile corner

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: Concupiscible azn jewess

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: Chrome nubile corner

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: Overrated piazza

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: Hairraiser Transparent Pozpig Crotch

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: Chrome nubile corner



(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: cracking opaque locale generalized bond

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: light marvelous gunner newt

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: violent double fault electric furnace



(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: gay odious affirmative action gas station

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: vibrant fishy haunted graveyard

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: gay odious affirmative action gas station

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: vibrant fishy haunted graveyard

(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: topaz circlehead puppy

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: vibrant fishy haunted graveyard

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: violent double fault electric furnace

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: startling olive idiot

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: vibrant fishy haunted graveyard

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: appetizing demanding liquid oxygen

Q predicted this

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