Results 1 to 30 of 107

Thread: French Paper Offices Bombed Over A Joke

Hybrid View

Previous Post Previous Post   Next Post Next Post
  1. #1
    Ming the Merciless is my idol Senior Member Watchman's Avatar
    Join Date
    Aug 2004
    Location
    Helsinki, Finland
    Posts
    7,967

    Default Re: French Paper Offices Bombed Over A Joke

    Catholics and Protestants waged bloody war replete with hair-raising atrocities on each other over the issue of whose reading of the Scriptures was more righteous, on and off, for something like a round century. All it led to was mutual exhaustion and nobody halfway sane bothering anymore. (Instead they settled for persecuting minorities inside their own territories and producing mean, petty satire about each other.)
    "Let us remember that there are multiple theories of Intelligent Design. I and many others around the world are of the strong belief that the universe was created by a Flying Spaghetti Monster. --- Proof of the existence of the FSM, if needed, can be found in the recent uptick of global warming, earthquakes, hurricanes, and other natural disasters. Apparently His Pastaness is to be worshipped in full pirate regalia. The decline in worldwide pirate population over the past 200 years directly corresponds with the increase in global temperature. Here is a graph to illustrate the point."

    -Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster

  2. #2
    Member Member Nowake's Avatar
    Join Date
    Mar 2003
    Location
    Bucharest
    Posts
    2,126

    Default Re: French Paper Offices Bombed Over A Joke

    I am well aware every one of us here is or was a history buff in some way, but precisely because of that, it is pretty useless to waste time and side-tracking the main theme by pointing obvious or extremely well known facts every time someone doesn’t write NxN explanatory notes to an idea. Historical facts are known and taken into consideration Watchman, I have not majored in History but I probably read just as much as many qualified professors did when I was younger, nevermind that I participated in quite a few national olimpiads on International history – modelled here after http://www.imo-official.org (there isn’t an International phase for history).


    I also get that here most people’s passion for History leads them to believe knowledge of History makes one an intellectual, when that doesn’t even begin to describe the concept unless it is part of a personal culture with a solid grasp on all subjects, from math to philosophy. Perhaps overreacting a bit and I pre-emptively apologise for that, but this insistence to nitpick phrases which are not at all untrue, just not all-encompassing, simply to display knowledge of some historical minutiae (which is not even the case now) is pointless.


    And the point stands, Catholics moved in to suppress the spread of a Lutheranism which was ridiculing the state of the Church by pointing out the fallacies of their thesis and their degenerate morals. The Catholics did everything in their power to stop militarily a war of ideas. It is what established religion always does to protect itself against ridicule. It cannot fight, as Mark Twain asserted when he wrote the quip I quoted on the previous page, truth-revealing ridicule with reason.


Bookmarks

Posting Permissions

  • You may not post new threads
  • You may not post replies
  • You may not post attachments
  • You may not edit your posts
  •  
Single Sign On provided by vBSSO