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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...
violet violent base
  09/20/18
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violet violent base
  09/20/18
religion is the devil.
multi-colored menage place of business
  09/20/18
Can't tell if sarcasm? It was only the "dark ages&qu...
geriatric haunted graveyard friendly grandma
  09/20/18
...
misanthropic depressive
  09/20/18
op is mfe, bro
effete pontificating stag film voyeur
  09/20/18
(gore vi:Dal)
Racy Hateful Kitchen Codepig
  09/20/18
“Dark Ages” is a myth
Brindle know-it-all orchestra pit
  09/20/18
Libs invented the dark ages to discredit white people. If yo...
supple submissive multi-billionaire
  09/20/18
...
Beta nofapping institution
  12/02/18
Settle down, Gibbon
underhanded ruby incel
  12/02/18
...
Beta nofapping institution
  12/02/18
...
transparent church roast beef
  12/03/18
so is it possible we could have had the internet 200 years e...
Bisexual Magenta National Private Investor
  12/02/18
Pretty sure Rome had that stuff.
marvelous flatulent macaca
  12/02/18
ho lee shit
Bisexual Magenta National Private Investor
  12/02/18
What happened in 1800
Beta nofapping institution
  12/02/18
discovery of fossil fuels. living standards actually peaked ...
violet violent base
  12/02/18
flame on the athens thing
Beta nofapping institution
  12/03/18
32% urbanization rate!
violet violent base
  12/03/18
The chart on HDI for the Greek East is total fucking flame. ...
burgundy state party of the first part
  12/03/18
social science shitheaddery like this is also behind the ide...
Beta nofapping institution
  12/03/18
(guy totally impartial about who was in charge in 900 AD)
violet violent base
  12/03/18
Romans were in charge in 900 AD, and the Eastern Empire was ...
underhanded ruby incel
  12/03/18
German scholars began questioning the historicity of Jesus
French legal warrant
  12/02/18
Dark Ages are real but blaming them on Christianity is low I...
burgundy state party of the first part
  12/03/18
whys it gotta be the DARK ages hmmmmmmmm?
Beta nofapping institution
  12/03/18
Because of the lack of written record. There were meticulou...
adventurous milky principal's office dysfunction
  12/03/18
But literature is a good proxy for decadence. Someone that h...
violet violent base
  12/03/18
In fact Christianity gave them a unified ideology & a so...
underhanded ruby incel
  12/03/18
...so why did it take 2 millenia to recover instead of a cou...
violet violent base
  12/03/18
? Absolute flame Romans didn't even have fucking stirrups...
underhanded ruby incel
  12/03/18
Lack of slaves mean subsisTTTence living.
violet violent base
  12/03/18
It didn't; the idea that life was worse in 1700 compared to ...
burgundy state party of the first part
  12/03/18
LOL @ claiming a higher population living at subsistence is ...
violet violent base
  12/03/18
Not to mention one could just as easily blame them on Islam....
Stubborn misunderstood karate
  12/03/18
Shit was falling apart well before Islam so while that didn&...
burgundy state party of the first part
  12/03/18
It was a primary factor in 1. demonetization of European eco...
Stubborn misunderstood karate
  12/03/18
Like I said, it didn't help, but the old Roman Empire was fa...
burgundy state party of the first part
  12/03/18
In 380, under Emperor Theodosius I, Catholicism became the s...
violet violent base
  12/03/18
It was already TTT by the time Xtianity came forward - read ...
underhanded ruby incel
  12/03/18
Aurelian master race
big-titted titillating step-uncle's house regret
  12/03/18
He was 180, but was ulitmately only a fireman b/c of his ear...
underhanded ruby incel
  12/03/18
can't argue with thescience https://i.stack.imgur.com/XE9...
Drunken Lay Psychic
  12/03/18
Reddit is lols
obsidian rehab headpube
  12/03/18
...
underhanded ruby incel
  12/03/18
But I thought muslims were making yuge scientific advances d...
bat-shit-crazy trailer park
  12/03/18
lmfao
Trip Locale Idiot
  12/03/18
...
Coral elite tattoo
  12/03/18
You need to read more books :D, I am diving into this time p...
adventurous milky principal's office dysfunction
  12/03/18
LOL there was MONARCHY and CLERGY. How TTT!
violet violent base
  12/03/18
952 and 1144 were just as crazy interesting as today.
adventurous milky principal's office dysfunction
  12/03/18
(Guy really interested in subsistence living)
violet violent base
  12/03/18
What books
Beta nofapping institution
  12/03/18
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0691173141/
violet violent base
  12/03/18
This is your brain on xkcd
Coral elite tattoo
  12/03/18
lol @ :D always citing Richard Carrier for all ancient histo...
brass provocative generalized bond
  12/03/18
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0691173141/ https://en.wi...
violet violent base
  12/03/18
Q predicted this
Hilarious fear-inspiring affirmative action
  12/03/18


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Date: September 20th, 2018 1:52 AM
Author: violet violent base

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: violet violent base



(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: multi-colored menage place of business

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: geriatric haunted graveyard friendly grandma

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: misanthropic depressive



(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: effete pontificating stag film voyeur

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: Racy Hateful Kitchen Codepig

(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: Brindle know-it-all orchestra pit

“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: supple submissive multi-billionaire

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: Beta nofapping institution



(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: underhanded ruby incel

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: Beta nofapping institution



(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: transparent church roast beef



(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: Bisexual Magenta National Private Investor

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: marvelous flatulent macaca

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: Bisexual Magenta National Private Investor

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: Beta nofapping institution

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: violet violent base

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: Beta nofapping institution

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: violet violent base

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: burgundy state party of the first part

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: Beta nofapping institution

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: violet violent base

(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: underhanded ruby incel

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: French legal warrant

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: burgundy state party of the first part

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: Beta nofapping institution

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: adventurous milky principal's office dysfunction

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: violet violent base

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: underhanded ruby incel

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: violet violent base

...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: underhanded ruby incel

? 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: violet violent base

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: burgundy state party of the first part

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: violet violent base

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: Stubborn misunderstood karate

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: burgundy state party of the first part

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: Stubborn misunderstood karate

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: burgundy state party of the first part

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: violet violent base

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: underhanded ruby incel

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: big-titted titillating step-uncle's house regret

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: underhanded ruby incel

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: Drunken Lay Psychic

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: obsidian rehab headpube

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: underhanded ruby incel



(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: bat-shit-crazy trailer park

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: Trip Locale Idiot

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: Coral elite tattoo



(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: adventurous milky principal's office dysfunction

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: violet violent base

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: adventurous milky principal's office dysfunction

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: violet violent base

(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: Beta nofapping institution

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: violet violent base

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: Coral elite tattoo

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: brass provocative generalized bond

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: violet violent base

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: Hilarious fear-inspiring affirmative action

Q predicted this

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