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:	post by arilliusbm at 2011-03-25 16:01:23

the_reverend said

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Indeed, not everything is as pretty as one would imagine. But from a historical perspective, there is no question that WESTERN civilization experienced a breakthrough of thought during the Renaissance.

so... let me get this straight...
7,000 years ago (when God created man) til 10,000BC = nothing
10,000BC = some pyramids were built but we learned nothing
10,001BC to 30AD = nothing
31AD = built a city, killed a jew
32AD-1200 = nothing
1201-1349 = everything good was created even tanks
1350-2011 = steady diet of nothing

LOL, that doesn't even garner a response....

....fuck it.

I will start off with a metaphor. I'm sure kids in Kindergarten these days know what similes, metaphors, and alliterations are, right? Knowledge is nothing but a snowball. A snowball going down hill. As the snowball continues to roll down the hill and as time passes, the snowball (knowledge) gets bigger and bigger.
Aside from your dates of the Renaissance being dead wrong, you're misconstruing and misunderstanding what I was saying. With all due respect good sir, knowledge and technology has been constantly expanding. There are certain points in WESTERN history that knowledge (snowball) sped up in leaps and bounds.

RENAISSANCE - "the period of European history at the close of the Middle Ages and the rise of the modern world; a cultural rebirth from the 14th through the middle of the 17th centuries. rebirth: the revival of learning and culture"

WRENAISSANCE - "the end of the world. Period."

I'm speaking in cultural terms and relating it to Western Civ. The Middle/Medieval Ages were no doubt a period of time when science and technology reached a low point. After the fall of the Roman Empire and the introduction of Christianity, Europe was left in shambles for a bit. Outside of the Romans destroying the cultural identity of countless cultures

, they failed in the sense of not finishing the job. The Dark Ages - as we know it today - was a transition period for Western Civ. It was a molding point in the history of Europe, and ultimately led to the Middle Ages: a age dominated by religion, rather than science. An age dominated by land squabbles, power struggles, and the like. Hell, we didn't even have gun powder yet and had to take it from the Turks, who took it from the Chinese.
The Renaissance represents a change of thought and the rebirth of Western Civ. The advances in science in the Renaissance far out weigh that of the Middle Ages. Ask any person who enjoys reading a history book about the cultural impact the renaissance had on western civ. and to think, they were heavily inspired by the ancient Greeks, arguably the founding fathers of the Western thought.

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