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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...
Soul-stirring Faggotry Coffee Pot
  09/20/18
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Soul-stirring Faggotry Coffee Pot
  09/20/18
religion is the devil.
Abusive Big Step-uncle's House
  09/20/18
Can't tell if sarcasm? It was only the "dark ages&qu...
Exhilarant Center
  09/20/18
...
razzle-dazzle market circlehead
  09/20/18
op is mfe, bro
Mint passionate locale brethren
  09/20/18
(gore vi:Dal)
Iridescent preventive strike
  09/20/18
“Dark Ages” is a myth
Anal big-titted love of her life toaster
  09/20/18
Libs invented the dark ages to discredit white people. If yo...
Galvanic sneaky criminal location
  09/20/18
...
Blue stimulating roommate main people
  12/02/18
Settle down, Gibbon
Charcoal Mediation
  12/02/18
...
Blue stimulating roommate main people
  12/02/18
...
sadistic heaven
  12/03/18
so is it possible we could have had the internet 200 years e...
cracking lilac ticket booth
  12/02/18
Pretty sure Rome had that stuff.
Bull Headed Purple Garrison
  12/02/18
ho lee shit
cracking lilac ticket booth
  12/02/18
What happened in 1800
Blue stimulating roommate main people
  12/02/18
discovery of fossil fuels. living standards actually peaked ...
Soul-stirring Faggotry Coffee Pot
  12/02/18
flame on the athens thing
Blue stimulating roommate main people
  12/03/18
32% urbanization rate!
Soul-stirring Faggotry Coffee Pot
  12/03/18
The chart on HDI for the Greek East is total fucking flame. ...
claret corner
  12/03/18
social science shitheaddery like this is also behind the ide...
Blue stimulating roommate main people
  12/03/18
(guy totally impartial about who was in charge in 900 AD)
Soul-stirring Faggotry Coffee Pot
  12/03/18
Romans were in charge in 900 AD, and the Eastern Empire was ...
Charcoal Mediation
  12/03/18
German scholars began questioning the historicity of Jesus
histrionic ivory piazza trump supporter
  12/02/18
Dark Ages are real but blaming them on Christianity is low I...
claret corner
  12/03/18
whys it gotta be the DARK ages hmmmmmmmm?
Blue stimulating roommate main people
  12/03/18
Because of the lack of written record. There were meticulou...
hairless shrine
  12/03/18
But literature is a good proxy for decadence. Someone that h...
Soul-stirring Faggotry Coffee Pot
  12/03/18
In fact Christianity gave them a unified ideology & a so...
Charcoal Mediation
  12/03/18
...so why did it take 2 millenia to recover instead of a cou...
Soul-stirring Faggotry Coffee Pot
  12/03/18
? Absolute flame Romans didn't even have fucking stirrups...
Charcoal Mediation
  12/03/18
Lack of slaves mean subsisTTTence living.
Soul-stirring Faggotry Coffee Pot
  12/03/18
It didn't; the idea that life was worse in 1700 compared to ...
claret corner
  12/03/18
LOL @ claiming a higher population living at subsistence is ...
Soul-stirring Faggotry Coffee Pot
  12/03/18
Not to mention one could just as easily blame them on Islam....
Olive shitlib
  12/03/18
Shit was falling apart well before Islam so while that didn&...
claret corner
  12/03/18
It was a primary factor in 1. demonetization of European eco...
Olive shitlib
  12/03/18
Like I said, it didn't help, but the old Roman Empire was fa...
claret corner
  12/03/18
In 380, under Emperor Theodosius I, Catholicism became the s...
Soul-stirring Faggotry Coffee Pot
  12/03/18
It was already TTT by the time Xtianity came forward - read ...
Charcoal Mediation
  12/03/18
Aurelian master race
puce macaca
  12/03/18
He was 180, but was ulitmately only a fireman b/c of his ear...
Charcoal Mediation
  12/03/18
can't argue with thescience https://i.stack.imgur.com/XE9...
Honey-headed Halford
  12/03/18
Reddit is lols
Wild razzmatazz crotch
  12/03/18
...
Charcoal Mediation
  12/03/18
But I thought muslims were making yuge scientific advances d...
dashing filthy clown
  12/03/18
lmfao
crawly tan parlour sweet tailpipe
  12/03/18
...
jet-lagged vermilion abode
  12/03/18
You need to read more books :D, I am diving into this time p...
hairless shrine
  12/03/18
LOL there was MONARCHY and CLERGY. How TTT!
Soul-stirring Faggotry Coffee Pot
  12/03/18
952 and 1144 were just as crazy interesting as today.
hairless shrine
  12/03/18
(Guy really interested in subsistence living)
Soul-stirring Faggotry Coffee Pot
  12/03/18
What books
Blue stimulating roommate main people
  12/03/18
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0691173141/
Soul-stirring Faggotry Coffee Pot
  12/03/18
This is your brain on xkcd
jet-lagged vermilion abode
  12/03/18
lol @ :D always citing Richard Carrier for all ancient histo...
out-of-control bearded church building
  12/03/18
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0691173141/ https://en.wi...
Soul-stirring Faggotry Coffee Pot
  12/03/18
Q predicted this
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  12/03/18


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Date: September 20th, 2018 1:52 AM
Author: Soul-stirring Faggotry Coffee Pot

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: Soul-stirring Faggotry Coffee Pot



(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: Abusive Big Step-uncle's House

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: Exhilarant Center

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: razzle-dazzle market circlehead



(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: Mint passionate locale brethren

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: Iridescent preventive strike

(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: Anal big-titted love of her life toaster

“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: Galvanic sneaky criminal location

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: Blue stimulating roommate main people



(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: Charcoal Mediation

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: Blue stimulating roommate main people



(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: sadistic heaven



(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: cracking lilac ticket booth

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: Bull Headed Purple Garrison

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: cracking lilac ticket booth

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: Blue stimulating roommate main people

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: Soul-stirring Faggotry Coffee Pot

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: Blue stimulating roommate main people

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: Soul-stirring Faggotry Coffee Pot

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: claret corner

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: Blue stimulating roommate main people

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: Soul-stirring Faggotry Coffee Pot

(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: Charcoal Mediation

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: histrionic ivory piazza trump supporter

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: claret corner

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: Blue stimulating roommate main people

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: hairless shrine

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: Soul-stirring Faggotry Coffee Pot

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: Charcoal Mediation

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: Soul-stirring Faggotry Coffee Pot

...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: Charcoal Mediation

? 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: Soul-stirring Faggotry Coffee Pot

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: claret corner

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: Soul-stirring Faggotry Coffee Pot

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: Olive shitlib

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: claret corner

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: Olive shitlib

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: claret corner

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: Soul-stirring Faggotry Coffee Pot

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: Charcoal Mediation

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: puce macaca

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: Charcoal Mediation

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: Honey-headed Halford

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: Wild razzmatazz 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: Charcoal Mediation



(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: dashing filthy clown

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: crawly tan parlour sweet tailpipe

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: jet-lagged vermilion abode



(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: hairless shrine

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: Soul-stirring Faggotry Coffee Pot

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: hairless shrine

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: Soul-stirring Faggotry Coffee Pot

(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: Blue stimulating roommate main people

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: Soul-stirring Faggotry Coffee Pot

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: jet-lagged vermilion abode

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: out-of-control bearded church building

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: Soul-stirring Faggotry Coffee Pot

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: Aphrodisiac Sound Barrier Milk

Q predicted this

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