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To: koan who wrote (982781)	11/19/2016 11:41:36 PM
From: Joe Btfsplk	3 Recommendations Recommended By i-node locogringo POKERSAM Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576392

You intensely represent a sick and cancerous phenomenon. You've had no exposure to critical thinking about how humanity made such astonishing material progress, particularly over the past hundred, hundred and fifty years. That leaves you vulnerable to a lot of irrelevant nonsense. Screw the Greeks and your litany of moldered philosophers. Why did not the average schmuck of their time enjoy the lifespan, health, and comforts the poorest among us enjoy today? If you could somehow focus on that question you might begin the slither out of your primordial swamp.

To: koan who wrote (982781)	11/20/2016 12:21:31 AM
From: James Seagrove	2 Recommendations Recommended By FJB Sdgla Respond to of 1576392

"PS you are right about the Koreans, however they kept the printing press only for the royal family and then destroyed it." How are you so ignorant? en.m.wikipedia.org Koreans have been universally literate for a very long time by decree of their royalty. Why do I read your posts? I don't profit from reading them. Your posts are just empty cackling with no inherent reason, just emotional fear-based knee-jerk reactions. I pledge from this moment forward to read no more of your nonsense. Say goodnight to the troops Gracie.

To: koan who wrote (982781)	11/20/2016 10:48:49 AM
From: one_less	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576392

>>>History is very clear,...>>> Who's history? Recorded history is fairly recent. To assume people could not communicate well or that they only had a numerical awareness which went up to two, only because nothing has been recorded is rather naïve if you ask me. I'm going to counter your assertion that people were dumb with a speculation that wisdom and democratic awareness has been with us since the beginning. We are only now discovering that India had wide spread democratic groups and I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest merchants managing caravans understood quantity and possessed a richness of language. ================================== In India republican politics were most common and vigorous in 600 B.C.-A.D. 200. At this time, India was in the throes of urbanization. The Pali Canon gives a picturesque description of the city of Vesali in the fifth century B.C. as possessing 7707 storied buildings, 7707 pinnacled buildings, 7707 parks and lotus ponds, and a multitude of people. The cities of Kapilavatthu and Kusavati were likewise full of traffic and noise. Moving between these cities were great trading caravans of 500 or 1000 carts. There was a complex vocabulary to describe the different types of groups that ran their own affairs. Some of these were obviously warrior bands; others more peaceful groups with economic goals; some religious brotherhoods. Such an organization, of whatever type, could be designated, almost indifferently, as a gana or a sangha; and similar though less important bodies were labeled with the terms sreni, puga, or vrata. Gana and sangha, the most important of these terms, originally meant "multitude." By the sixth century B.C., these words meant both a self-governing multitude, in which decisions were made by the members working in common, and the style of government characteristic of such groups. In the case of the strongest of such groups, which acted as sovereign governments, the words are best translated as "republic." ...histories of India during and just after Alexander the Great's invasion of India in 327-324 B.C. These works spoke of numerous cities and even larger areas being governed as oligarchies and democracies faculty.nipissingu.ca