(August 8, 2019 at 5:41 pm)Gae Bolga Wrote: Boy, making every word mean something else when applied to god sure clears things up.
I mean, just look at how well it works when applied to you!
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The west lifted itself up with the judicious use of organized violence, Atlas. We tell stories about our loftier pursuits to contextualize our ascendancy and dominance in more self serving terms.
Without the efforts of many western scientists that resulted from the competition with the Ottoman empire, that ascendancy would've never got achieved. I agree with you but it is not violence and ruthlessness alone that ensured the victory of the west over the east: the Mongols were more ruthless but they didn't achieve anything notable aside from eating civilizations.
