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To: Redcloak

Don't hold back, tell us how you really feel. ;')


52 posted on 08/30/2006 10:49:50 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (updated my FR profile on Thursday, August 10, 2006. https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: SunkenCiv

I just love these "We invented X-Y-Z before you eeevil Whites did" stories. They're usually about cultures that did absolutely nothing with the knowledge. The Chinese may have landed in North America before the Europeans did; but so what? They never exploited that knowledge. The Africans may indeed have had knowledge of advanced mathematics. But what came of it? Nothing; they are barely Iron Age societies. What technology they have came from the outside. The Arabs go one and on about inventing the zero; but their level of technology (a tangible expression of their alleged math skills) is a zero. They invent nothing.

Having a bit of knowledge isn't quite so important as using that knowledge.


61 posted on 08/30/2006 11:45:41 PM PDT by Redcloak (Speak softly and wear a loud shirt.)
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