@hbdchick @riverflows77 @edwest The enlightment+ two world wars I would suggest also. West we have now is counter to most of its history.
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@realstevepond ah! but you need to ask yourself, why did the enlightenment happen in w. europe?: http://hbdchick.wordpress.com/2013/10/30/renaissances/ … (<< just an idea.) -
@hbdchick You seem to think I would not have done that? -
@realstevepond sorry. lotta people don't. you'd be surprised!
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@hbdchick my name is a terrible disadvantage for what I write. It clearly looks like some sort of Freudian thing -
@edwest nominative determinism!: http://mentalfloss.com/article/27992/nominative-determinism-yes-thats-his-real-name … =P
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@christopherburd@edwest no, that's not fully convincing to me either, altho it might've been a contrib factor in some times & some places.
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@hbdchick@riverflows77@edwest I mean, forgetting the technology part I don't think many of us want to live in 16th C Christian Europe. -
@realstevepond@hbdchick@edwest difficulty is in seeing reason/science in conflict with faith/tradition always been a false dichotomy -
@riverflows77@hbdchick@edwest Just suggesting that the river which is the west today has many tributaries. - End of conversation
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