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dixiegrrrrl

(60,010 posts) Wed Dec 9, 2015, 03:49 PM Dec 2015

So obviously obvious...........

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So obviously obvious........... (Original Post) dixiegrrrrl Dec 2015 OP

Seneca realized it 2000 years ago ErikJ Dec 2015 #1

The Romans and Greeks had a lot of the basics figured out hifiguy Dec 2015 #2

Not sure if the xians deserve the credit dixiegrrrrl Dec 2015 #3

ErikJ

(6,335 posts)

1. Seneca realized it 2000 years ago

Reply to dixiegrrrrl (Original post)

Wed Dec 9, 2015, 06:50 PM

Dec 2015

"Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful" - Seneca, Roman philosopher

hifiguy

(33,688 posts)

2. The Romans and Greeks had a lot of the basics figured out

Reply to ErikJ (Reply #1)

Wed Dec 9, 2015, 06:56 PM

Dec 2015

a couple of millennia ago. They even wrote it down.

Then the xtians burned the Library at Alexandria and it was nearly all lost. Knowledge/philosophy/science = evil/debbil.

One Plato, Aeschylus or Cicero is worth more than all the xtian theologians who have ever lived.

dixiegrrrrl

(60,010 posts)

3. Not sure if the xians deserve the credit

Reply to hifiguy (Reply #2)

Thu Dec 10, 2015, 01:01 AM

Dec 2015

Wiki says..............

Ancient and modern sources identify four possible occasions for the partial or complete destruction of the Library of Alexandria:
Julius Caesar's fire during his civil war in 48 BC;
the attack of Aurelian in AD 270 – 275;
the decree of Coptic Patriarch Theophilus in 391 AD;
and the Muslim conquest of Egypt in (or after) AD 642

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