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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...
heady pearl mad-dog skullcap locus
  09/20/18
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heady pearl mad-dog skullcap locus
  09/20/18
religion is the devil.
Multi-colored know-it-all ratface legal warrant
  09/20/18
Can't tell if sarcasm? It was only the "dark ages&qu...
boyish blue coffee pot office
  09/20/18
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violent crystalline boistinker nowag
  09/20/18
op is mfe, bro
Big Hall
  09/20/18
(gore vi:Dal)
Abusive Yellow Mad Cow Disease Whorehouse
  09/20/18
“Dark Ages” is a myth
mind-boggling effete mexican
  09/20/18
Libs invented the dark ages to discredit white people. If yo...
well-lubricated tantric azn goal in life
  09/20/18
...
Infuriating rigpig
  12/02/18
Settle down, Gibbon
Flickering Sex Offender
  12/02/18
...
Infuriating rigpig
  12/02/18
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bateful field
  12/03/18
so is it possible we could have had the internet 200 years e...
Startling piazza
  12/02/18
Pretty sure Rome had that stuff.
ultramarine volcanic crater cuckoldry
  12/02/18
ho lee shit
Startling piazza
  12/02/18
What happened in 1800
Infuriating rigpig
  12/02/18
discovery of fossil fuels. living standards actually peaked ...
heady pearl mad-dog skullcap locus
  12/02/18
flame on the athens thing
Infuriating rigpig
  12/03/18
32% urbanization rate!
heady pearl mad-dog skullcap locus
  12/03/18
The chart on HDI for the Greek East is total fucking flame. ...
flatulent principal's office
  12/03/18
social science shitheaddery like this is also behind the ide...
Infuriating rigpig
  12/03/18
(guy totally impartial about who was in charge in 900 AD)
heady pearl mad-dog skullcap locus
  12/03/18
Romans were in charge in 900 AD, and the Eastern Empire was ...
Flickering Sex Offender
  12/03/18
German scholars began questioning the historicity of Jesus
Histrionic shrine
  12/02/18
Dark Ages are real but blaming them on Christianity is low I...
flatulent principal's office
  12/03/18
whys it gotta be the DARK ages hmmmmmmmm?
Infuriating rigpig
  12/03/18
Because of the lack of written record. There were meticulou...
Internet-worthy pocket flask
  12/03/18
But literature is a good proxy for decadence. Someone that h...
heady pearl mad-dog skullcap locus
  12/03/18
In fact Christianity gave them a unified ideology & a so...
Flickering Sex Offender
  12/03/18
...so why did it take 2 millenia to recover instead of a cou...
heady pearl mad-dog skullcap locus
  12/03/18
? Absolute flame Romans didn't even have fucking stirrups...
Flickering Sex Offender
  12/03/18
Lack of slaves mean subsisTTTence living.
heady pearl mad-dog skullcap locus
  12/03/18
It didn't; the idea that life was worse in 1700 compared to ...
flatulent principal's office
  12/03/18
LOL @ claiming a higher population living at subsistence is ...
heady pearl mad-dog skullcap locus
  12/03/18
Not to mention one could just as easily blame them on Islam....
shaky green area fat ankles
  12/03/18
Shit was falling apart well before Islam so while that didn&...
flatulent principal's office
  12/03/18
It was a primary factor in 1. demonetization of European eco...
shaky green area fat ankles
  12/03/18
Like I said, it didn't help, but the old Roman Empire was fa...
flatulent principal's office
  12/03/18
In 380, under Emperor Theodosius I, Catholicism became the s...
heady pearl mad-dog skullcap locus
  12/03/18
It was already TTT by the time Xtianity came forward - read ...
Flickering Sex Offender
  12/03/18
Aurelian master race
passionate patrolman haunted graveyard
  12/03/18
He was 180, but was ulitmately only a fireman b/c of his ear...
Flickering Sex Offender
  12/03/18
can't argue with thescience https://i.stack.imgur.com/XE9...
Appetizing plum toilet seat round eye
  12/03/18
Reddit is lols
vibrant dragon public bath
  12/03/18
...
Flickering Sex Offender
  12/03/18
But I thought muslims were making yuge scientific advances d...
Cerebral Startled International Law Enforcement Agency Coldplay Fan
  12/03/18
lmfao
Narrow-minded Hairraiser Cumskin Lettuce
  12/03/18
...
Swashbuckling at-the-ready native karate
  12/03/18
You need to read more books :D, I am diving into this time p...
Internet-worthy pocket flask
  12/03/18
LOL there was MONARCHY and CLERGY. How TTT!
heady pearl mad-dog skullcap locus
  12/03/18
952 and 1144 were just as crazy interesting as today.
Internet-worthy pocket flask
  12/03/18
(Guy really interested in subsistence living)
heady pearl mad-dog skullcap locus
  12/03/18
What books
Infuriating rigpig
  12/03/18
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0691173141/
heady pearl mad-dog skullcap locus
  12/03/18
This is your brain on xkcd
Swashbuckling at-the-ready native karate
  12/03/18
lol @ :D always citing Richard Carrier for all ancient histo...
Copper Site
  12/03/18
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0691173141/ https://en.wi...
heady pearl mad-dog skullcap locus
  12/03/18
Q predicted this
Mahogany irradiated persian business firm
  12/03/18


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Date: September 20th, 2018 1:52 AM
Author: heady pearl mad-dog skullcap locus

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: heady pearl mad-dog skullcap locus



(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 know-it-all ratface legal warrant

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: boyish blue coffee pot office

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: violent crystalline boistinker nowag



(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: Big Hall

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: Abusive Yellow Mad Cow Disease Whorehouse

(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: mind-boggling effete mexican

“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: well-lubricated tantric azn goal in life

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: Infuriating rigpig



(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: Flickering Sex Offender

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: Infuriating rigpig



(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: bateful field



(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: Startling piazza

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: ultramarine volcanic crater cuckoldry

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: Startling piazza

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: Infuriating rigpig

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: heady pearl mad-dog skullcap locus

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: Infuriating rigpig

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: heady pearl mad-dog skullcap locus

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: flatulent principal's office

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: Infuriating rigpig

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: heady pearl mad-dog skullcap locus

(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: Flickering Sex Offender

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 shrine

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: flatulent principal's office

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: Infuriating rigpig

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: Internet-worthy pocket flask

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: heady pearl mad-dog skullcap locus

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: Flickering Sex Offender

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: heady pearl mad-dog skullcap locus

...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: Flickering Sex Offender

? 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: heady pearl mad-dog skullcap locus

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: flatulent principal's office

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: heady pearl mad-dog skullcap locus

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: shaky green area fat ankles

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: flatulent principal's office

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: shaky green area fat ankles

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: flatulent principal's office

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: heady pearl mad-dog skullcap locus

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: Flickering Sex Offender

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: passionate patrolman haunted graveyard

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: Flickering Sex Offender

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: Appetizing plum toilet seat round eye

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: vibrant dragon public bath

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: Flickering Sex Offender



(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: Cerebral Startled International Law Enforcement Agency Coldplay Fan

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: Narrow-minded Hairraiser Cumskin Lettuce

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: Swashbuckling at-the-ready native karate



(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: Internet-worthy pocket flask

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: heady pearl mad-dog skullcap locus

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: Internet-worthy pocket flask

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: heady pearl mad-dog skullcap locus

(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: Infuriating rigpig

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: heady pearl mad-dog skullcap locus

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: Swashbuckling at-the-ready native karate

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: Copper Site

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: heady pearl mad-dog skullcap locus

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: Mahogany irradiated persian business firm

Q predicted this

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