Mitch
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Mitch reacted in Ace's PC Build
Also Id recommend evga cards all the time over anything else. Warranty and quality wise you can never go wrong, plus its the only thing evga has never fucked up (im looking at you evga x79 boards)
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Mitch reacted to Jewinator 5000 in what a difference 8 years makes
The massive decrease in any scientific development during the middle/dark ages was a result of the massive decentralization of power that came following the demise of the Roman Empire. The stability brought with the Roman Empire provided as close to perfect as conditions at the time could be for scientific advancement. It kept barbarians at bay, it maintained roads that allowed ideas to travel, and it had a common language which allowed ideas from Asia Minor to go all the way to England. After its collapse all of that just disappeared. There was no centralization of power, there was no government which could control everything and keep the peace. It was decentralized mess and as a result "science" and "progress" kind of flatlined. It was this decentralization which destroyed the conditions which had in the past allowed "science" and "progress" to occur. Without it, things didn't move as quickly.
The great irony of you stipulating that for hundreds of years Christianity threw a blanket of ignorance over Western Civilization is that it did quite the opposite. Throughout the Dark/Middle ages (they're kind of the same thing) the Roman Catholic Church was the single largest proponent of progress throughout the whole of Christendom (aka Europe). The Catholic Church became the closest thing to a new centralizing authority which would exist in Europe during those times, since everybody was answerable to the pope no matter what. It established numerous parish schools all over Europe, educating the masses, or at least those who wanted education. Monasteries copied manuscripts and preserved them, many of them dating from antiquity. Monks kept literacy alive in Europe. In addition, the Church created Latin as the lingua franca for Europe. This allowed much more dialogue between different peoples and led to undoubtedly more prosperity. The first universities in Europe came out of cathedral schools where bishops would teach all those who wanted education about whatever.
Another thing which I would like to point out is that you admit that in the Islamic world, advancement was quite alive during "the dark ages". Yet, you claim that religion as a whole has only held man back form achieving its potential glory. Do you mean that specifically Christianity is bad, and that Islam is totally okay?
I have no idea what you're talking about with this "Christianity called for the destruction of all previously discovered scientific ideals" thing. Can you give me a source on this?
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Mitch got a reaction from IntoxicatedDog in what a difference 8 years makes
People with money should be able to do what they want and believe whatever they want to believe in.
It's not fucking stupid if it's something that helps you get by in everyday life imho. You can argue that believing in religion is like believing in something that doesn't exist, but hey if believing in in something that doesn't exist helps you get by everyday in life and you'd be worse without it - then more power to you.
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Mitch reacted to Jewinator 5000 in OFFICIAL CANADIAN-AMERICAN FRIENDSHIP THREAD
So I've just recently realized that like half of this clan is Canadian, and the other half is American. As such, it is only fitting that we have an international friendship thread.
Everybody pick someone from the other country and say something nice about them.
I'll start: i luh u deceaveest :3
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Mitch got a reaction from Taboo in what a difference 8 years makes
wtf i only wanted to say how cool dis picture was ;_;
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Mitch got a reaction from Lvl. 100 Latias in what a difference 8 years makes
wtf i only wanted to say how cool dis picture was ;_;
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Mitch got a reaction from Smooth-eh in what a difference 8 years makes
saw this on facebook, its st. peters square during the pope selection process with (?black smoke/white smoke)
kinda cool
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Mitch reacted to drunkula in Season 3 Ranked team, anyone?
my account name is "sG Mimic" last season i was -200 elo until i climbed all the way back to 450
i play all roles with jax
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Mitch reacted to fontaine in what a difference 8 years makes
COOL PICTURE MITCH! ITS AMAZING HOW TECHNOLOGY HAS CHANGED.
Wait we aren't talking about the picture ITT? Oh ok...
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Mitch got a reaction from aerokopf in what a difference 8 years makes
wtf i only wanted to say how cool dis picture was ;_;
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Mitch got a reaction from Wintergreen in what a difference 8 years makes
wtf i only wanted to say how cool dis picture was ;_;
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Mitch got a reaction from Noodle in a question of all questions
wat
at first glance, the answer is no
at second glance, the answer is no
maybe rephrase is needed
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