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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...
clear home jap
  09/20/18
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clear home jap
  09/20/18
religion is the devil.
razzmatazz address
  09/20/18
Can't tell if sarcasm? It was only the "dark ages&qu...
maniacal bespoke selfie trust fund
  09/20/18
...
Sticky insanely creepy heaven fat ankles
  09/20/18
op is mfe, bro
sienna theater chad
  09/20/18
(gore vi:Dal)
Racy nursing home
  09/20/18
“Dark Ages” is a myth
Cerebral coldplay fan school
  09/20/18
Libs invented the dark ages to discredit white people. If yo...
Domesticated public bath
  09/20/18
...
dull electric halford sanctuary
  12/02/18
Settle down, Gibbon
demanding concupiscible therapy hominid
  12/02/18
...
dull electric halford sanctuary
  12/02/18
...
exhilarant university
  12/03/18
so is it possible we could have had the internet 200 years e...
Ultramarine soul-stirring liquid oxygen
  12/02/18
Pretty sure Rome had that stuff.
Dashing Partner
  12/02/18
ho lee shit
Ultramarine soul-stirring liquid oxygen
  12/02/18
What happened in 1800
dull electric halford sanctuary
  12/02/18
discovery of fossil fuels. living standards actually peaked ...
clear home jap
  12/02/18
flame on the athens thing
dull electric halford sanctuary
  12/03/18
32% urbanization rate!
clear home jap
  12/03/18
The chart on HDI for the Greek East is total fucking flame. ...
Pink crawly volcanic crater
  12/03/18
social science shitheaddery like this is also behind the ide...
dull electric halford sanctuary
  12/03/18
(guy totally impartial about who was in charge in 900 AD)
clear home jap
  12/03/18
Romans were in charge in 900 AD, and the Eastern Empire was ...
demanding concupiscible therapy hominid
  12/03/18
German scholars began questioning the historicity of Jesus
marvelous travel guidebook
  12/02/18
Dark Ages are real but blaming them on Christianity is low I...
Pink crawly volcanic crater
  12/03/18
whys it gotta be the DARK ages hmmmmmmmm?
dull electric halford sanctuary
  12/03/18
Because of the lack of written record. There were meticulou...
violent background story depressive
  12/03/18
But literature is a good proxy for decadence. Someone that h...
clear home jap
  12/03/18
In fact Christianity gave them a unified ideology & a so...
demanding concupiscible therapy hominid
  12/03/18
...so why did it take 2 millenia to recover instead of a cou...
clear home jap
  12/03/18
? Absolute flame Romans didn't even have fucking stirrups...
demanding concupiscible therapy hominid
  12/03/18
Lack of slaves mean subsisTTTence living.
clear home jap
  12/03/18
It didn't; the idea that life was worse in 1700 compared to ...
Pink crawly volcanic crater
  12/03/18
LOL @ claiming a higher population living at subsistence is ...
clear home jap
  12/03/18
Not to mention one could just as easily blame them on Islam....
Very Tactful Supple Corner
  12/03/18
Shit was falling apart well before Islam so while that didn&...
Pink crawly volcanic crater
  12/03/18
It was a primary factor in 1. demonetization of European eco...
Very Tactful Supple Corner
  12/03/18
Like I said, it didn't help, but the old Roman Empire was fa...
Pink crawly volcanic crater
  12/03/18
In 380, under Emperor Theodosius I, Catholicism became the s...
clear home jap
  12/03/18
It was already TTT by the time Xtianity came forward - read ...
demanding concupiscible therapy hominid
  12/03/18
Aurelian master race
claret zippy becky field
  12/03/18
He was 180, but was ulitmately only a fireman b/c of his ear...
demanding concupiscible therapy hominid
  12/03/18
can't argue with thescience https://i.stack.imgur.com/XE9...
histrionic main people circlehead
  12/03/18
Reddit is lols
sepia low-t abode
  12/03/18
...
demanding concupiscible therapy hominid
  12/03/18
But I thought muslims were making yuge scientific advances d...
know-it-all big doctorate degenerate
  12/03/18
lmfao
Floppy Water Buffalo
  12/03/18
...
Gaped athletic conference gas station
  12/03/18
You need to read more books :D, I am diving into this time p...
violent background story depressive
  12/03/18
LOL there was MONARCHY and CLERGY. How TTT!
clear home jap
  12/03/18
952 and 1144 were just as crazy interesting as today.
violent background story depressive
  12/03/18
(Guy really interested in subsistence living)
clear home jap
  12/03/18
What books
dull electric halford sanctuary
  12/03/18
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0691173141/
clear home jap
  12/03/18
This is your brain on xkcd
Gaped athletic conference gas station
  12/03/18
lol @ :D always citing Richard Carrier for all ancient histo...
Obsidian piazza cuckoldry
  12/03/18
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0691173141/ https://en.wi...
clear home jap
  12/03/18
Q predicted this
provocative cocky foreskin house
  12/03/18


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Date: September 20th, 2018 1:52 AM
Author: clear home jap

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: clear home jap



(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: razzmatazz address

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: maniacal bespoke selfie trust fund

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: Sticky insanely creepy heaven fat ankles



(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: sienna theater chad

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 nursing home

(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: Cerebral coldplay fan school

“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: Domesticated public bath

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: dull electric halford sanctuary



(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: demanding concupiscible therapy hominid

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: dull electric halford sanctuary



(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: exhilarant university



(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: Ultramarine soul-stirring liquid oxygen

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: Dashing Partner

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: Ultramarine soul-stirring liquid oxygen

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: dull electric halford sanctuary

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: clear home jap

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: dull electric halford sanctuary

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: clear home jap

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: Pink crawly volcanic crater

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: dull electric halford sanctuary

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: clear home jap

(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: demanding concupiscible therapy hominid

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: marvelous travel guidebook

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: Pink crawly volcanic crater

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: dull electric halford sanctuary

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: violent background story depressive

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: clear home jap

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: demanding concupiscible therapy hominid

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: clear home jap

...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: demanding concupiscible therapy hominid

? 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: clear home jap

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: Pink crawly volcanic crater

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: clear home jap

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: Very Tactful Supple Corner

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: Pink crawly volcanic crater

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: Very Tactful Supple Corner

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: Pink crawly volcanic crater

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: clear home jap

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: demanding concupiscible therapy hominid

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: claret zippy becky field

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: demanding concupiscible therapy hominid

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: histrionic main people circlehead

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: sepia low-t abode

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: demanding concupiscible therapy hominid



(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: know-it-all big doctorate degenerate

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: Floppy Water Buffalo

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: Gaped athletic conference gas station



(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: violent background story depressive

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: clear home jap

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: violent background story depressive

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: clear home jap

(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: dull electric halford sanctuary

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: clear home jap

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: Gaped athletic conference gas station

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: Obsidian piazza cuckoldry

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: clear home jap

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: provocative cocky foreskin house

Q predicted this

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