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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...
Harsh Ticket Booth
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Harsh Ticket Booth
  09/20/18
religion is the devil.
appetizing rusted ceo property
  09/20/18
Can't tell if sarcasm? It was only the "dark ages&qu...
flatulent spectacular sandwich
  09/20/18
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Histrionic codepig
  09/20/18
op is mfe, bro
lemon tantric associate home
  09/20/18
(gore vi:Dal)
Brass seedy national security agency
  09/20/18
“Dark Ages” is a myth
Vigorous Dilemma
  09/20/18
Libs invented the dark ages to discredit white people. If yo...
french multi-colored cumskin feces
  09/20/18
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Drab public bath organic girlfriend
  12/02/18
Settle down, Gibbon
Arousing irate yarmulke
  12/02/18
...
Drab public bath organic girlfriend
  12/02/18
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Glittery Idiotic Chapel Affirmative Action
  12/03/18
so is it possible we could have had the internet 200 years e...
Very Tactful 180 Range
  12/02/18
Pretty sure Rome had that stuff.
Sepia high-end mental disorder whorehouse
  12/02/18
ho lee shit
Very Tactful 180 Range
  12/02/18
What happened in 1800
Drab public bath organic girlfriend
  12/02/18
discovery of fossil fuels. living standards actually peaked ...
Harsh Ticket Booth
  12/02/18
flame on the athens thing
Drab public bath organic girlfriend
  12/03/18
32% urbanization rate!
Harsh Ticket Booth
  12/03/18
The chart on HDI for the Greek East is total fucking flame. ...
comical internal respiration stead
  12/03/18
social science shitheaddery like this is also behind the ide...
Drab public bath organic girlfriend
  12/03/18
(guy totally impartial about who was in charge in 900 AD)
Harsh Ticket Booth
  12/03/18
Romans were in charge in 900 AD, and the Eastern Empire was ...
Arousing irate yarmulke
  12/03/18
German scholars began questioning the historicity of Jesus
bipolar abnormal roast beef filthpig
  12/02/18
Dark Ages are real but blaming them on Christianity is low I...
comical internal respiration stead
  12/03/18
whys it gotta be the DARK ages hmmmmmmmm?
Drab public bath organic girlfriend
  12/03/18
Because of the lack of written record. There were meticulou...
Pea-brained excitant crotch
  12/03/18
But literature is a good proxy for decadence. Someone that h...
Harsh Ticket Booth
  12/03/18
In fact Christianity gave them a unified ideology & a so...
Arousing irate yarmulke
  12/03/18
...so why did it take 2 millenia to recover instead of a cou...
Harsh Ticket Booth
  12/03/18
? Absolute flame Romans didn't even have fucking stirrups...
Arousing irate yarmulke
  12/03/18
Lack of slaves mean subsisTTTence living.
Harsh Ticket Booth
  12/03/18
It didn't; the idea that life was worse in 1700 compared to ...
comical internal respiration stead
  12/03/18
LOL @ claiming a higher population living at subsistence is ...
Harsh Ticket Booth
  12/03/18
Not to mention one could just as easily blame them on Islam....
Adulterous Rough-skinned Personal Credit Line Quadroon
  12/03/18
Shit was falling apart well before Islam so while that didn&...
comical internal respiration stead
  12/03/18
It was a primary factor in 1. demonetization of European eco...
Adulterous Rough-skinned Personal Credit Line Quadroon
  12/03/18
Like I said, it didn't help, but the old Roman Empire was fa...
comical internal respiration stead
  12/03/18
In 380, under Emperor Theodosius I, Catholicism became the s...
Harsh Ticket Booth
  12/03/18
It was already TTT by the time Xtianity came forward - read ...
Arousing irate yarmulke
  12/03/18
Aurelian master race
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  12/03/18
He was 180, but was ulitmately only a fireman b/c of his ear...
Arousing irate yarmulke
  12/03/18
can't argue with thescience https://i.stack.imgur.com/XE9...
obsidian floppy travel guidebook spot
  12/03/18
Reddit is lols
Disrespectful electric furnace
  12/03/18
...
Arousing irate yarmulke
  12/03/18
But I thought muslims were making yuge scientific advances d...
citrine geriatric area french chef
  12/03/18
lmfao
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  12/03/18
...
Bonkers den
  12/03/18
You need to read more books :D, I am diving into this time p...
Pea-brained excitant crotch
  12/03/18
LOL there was MONARCHY and CLERGY. How TTT!
Harsh Ticket Booth
  12/03/18
952 and 1144 were just as crazy interesting as today.
Pea-brained excitant crotch
  12/03/18
(Guy really interested in subsistence living)
Harsh Ticket Booth
  12/03/18
What books
Drab public bath organic girlfriend
  12/03/18
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0691173141/
Harsh Ticket Booth
  12/03/18
This is your brain on xkcd
Bonkers den
  12/03/18
lol @ :D always citing Richard Carrier for all ancient histo...
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  12/03/18
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0691173141/ https://en.wi...
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  12/03/18
Q predicted this
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Date: September 20th, 2018 1:52 AM
Author: Harsh Ticket Booth

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: Harsh Ticket Booth



(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: appetizing rusted ceo property

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: flatulent spectacular sandwich

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: Histrionic 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: lemon tantric associate home

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: Brass seedy national security agency

(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: Vigorous Dilemma

“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: french multi-colored cumskin feces

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: Drab public bath organic girlfriend



(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: Arousing irate yarmulke

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: Drab public bath organic girlfriend



(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: Glittery Idiotic Chapel Affirmative Action



(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: Very Tactful 180 Range

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: Sepia high-end mental disorder whorehouse

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: Very Tactful 180 Range

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: Drab public bath organic girlfriend

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: Harsh Ticket Booth

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: Drab public bath organic girlfriend

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: Harsh Ticket Booth

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: comical internal respiration stead

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: Drab public bath organic girlfriend

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: Harsh Ticket Booth

(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: Arousing irate yarmulke

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: bipolar abnormal roast beef filthpig

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: comical internal respiration stead

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: Drab public bath organic girlfriend

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: Pea-brained excitant crotch

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: Harsh Ticket Booth

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: Arousing irate yarmulke

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: Harsh Ticket Booth

...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: Arousing irate yarmulke

? 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: Harsh Ticket Booth

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: comical internal respiration stead

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: Harsh Ticket Booth

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: Adulterous Rough-skinned Personal Credit Line Quadroon

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: comical internal respiration stead

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: Adulterous Rough-skinned Personal Credit Line Quadroon

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: comical internal respiration stead

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: Harsh Ticket Booth

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: Arousing irate yarmulke

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: cerebral unholy national

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: Arousing irate yarmulke

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: obsidian floppy travel guidebook spot

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: Disrespectful electric furnace

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: Arousing irate yarmulke



(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: citrine geriatric area french chef

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: Razzmatazz blood rage parlour

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: Bonkers den



(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: Pea-brained excitant crotch

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: Harsh Ticket Booth

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: Pea-brained excitant crotch

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: Harsh Ticket Booth

(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: Drab public bath organic girlfriend

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: Harsh Ticket Booth

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: Bonkers den

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: Exhilarant windowlicker scourge upon the earth

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: Harsh Ticket Booth

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: Slippery hissy fit

Q predicted this

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