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6 Random Coincidences That Created The Modern World
April 27, 2013 at 7:33 pm
This was Intresting and I can atleast say that the sandwich thing is true as I did GCSE History.
6 Random Coincidences That Created The Modern World
"Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful" - Edward Gibbon (Offen misattributed to Lucius Annaeus Seneca or Seneca the Younger) (Thanks to apophenia for the correction)
'I am driven by two main philosophies:
Know more about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you' - Neil deGrasse Tyson
"Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it." - Mark Twain
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RE: 6 Random Coincidences That Created The Modern World
April 27, 2013 at 8:07 pm
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I do love this part:
"Depending on how religious the person is you are talking to, the sign he saw in the sky was either a miracle or some ridiculous thing he imagined/made up later for the awesomeness. Turns out, it was apparently just a massive, flaming meteorite that just happened to be flying by at that moment. That's right, the entire religious makeup of the modern world turned on a random hunk of space rock."
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RE: 6 Random Coincidences That Created The Modern World
April 28, 2013 at 2:03 am
Regarding Gavrilo Princip shooting the Archduke, while it might have been the spark that started WW1 it wasn't the cause.
The European nations had been engaging in an arms race for several years prior to 1914 and were pretty much looking forward to having a jolly old war.
So even if the archduke hadn't been shot some other pretext would've been found.
And with Adolf.
Germany had already started planning for the next war even before the Versailles treaty had been signed. The political right in Germany was formenting rebellion against the Weimer government(which most old school judges etc were only too happy to support) and the army under Von Seekt was making plans as early as 1922. And the general public were only to happy to believe the lie of the "stab in the back" that the army and the right were foisting on the socialist left.
So even if Adolf hadn't created the Nazi party some one else would've founded something similar.
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