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  • #16
    Originally posted by Al B. Sure! View Post
    How the **** was that hard. Everyone ****ing knows Plato, Socrates, Aristotle, and Thomas Aquinas were all about reason and rational thought! All the other options made NO SENSE for those philosophers!

    I mock you and HC for having no grasp on that obvious duh question which was one of the easiest there
    I got 100%. I just had to stop and think for that one, unlike the other questions.

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    • #17
      Who are these "college educators" if they're more stupid than Al?
      Last I checked Poly wasn't exactly evenly distributed. Poly is way up the curve...

      Most college educators are about that bright. Really.
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      • #18
        Are these people at community colleges or something? Maybe Al should teach at one instead of getting his head blown off in Afghanistan.

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        • #19
          96.97%, i got the "wall of separation" question wrong.
          "The Christian way has not been tried and found wanting, it has been found to be hard and left untried" - GK Chesterton.

          "The most obvious predicition about the future is that it will be mostly like the past" - Alain de Botton

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          • #20
            Wow, a British person knows American civics better than Albert

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            • #21
              Originally posted by gribbler View Post
              Yeah, right. Who are these "college educators" if they're more stupid than Al?

              That really is a useless statistic. For all we know community college fat studies profs were lumped in with history PhD's.
              Unbelievable!

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              • #22
                History PhDs
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                • #23
                  Originally posted by Al B. Sure! View Post
                  How the **** was that hard. Everyone ****ing knows Plato, Socrates, Aristotle, and Thomas Aquinas were all about reason and rational thought! All the other options made NO SENSE for those philosophers!

                  I mock you and HC for having no grasp on that obvious duh question which was one of the easiest there
                  I don't give a **** about classics.

                  Well, I took Latin, but only because it was the easiest foreign language course. I don't give a **** about foreign languages either.
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                  • #24
                    It's more useful to know the underlying philosophies of modern civilization than if "Government of the people, by the people, and for the people" came from the Gettysburg Address or something else. The latter is trivia.
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                    • #25
                      I got the question about Roosevelt wrong. Cause I hate roosevelt.
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                      • #26
                        Originally posted by Al B. Sure! View Post
                        It's more useful to know the underlying philosophies of modern civilization than if "Government of the people, by the people, and for the people" came from the Gettysburg Address or something else. The latter is trivia.
                        Nope, the question about philosophers was trivia while Abraham Lincoln was a very important figure in US history.

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                        • #27
                          Originally posted by gribbler View Post
                          Nope, the question about philosophers was trivia while Abraham Lincoln was a very important figure in US history.
                          Which historical document is the origin of a very specific quote is practically the definition of mere trivia. Knowing the general description of the philosophies that have had a massive effect on the development of civilization for the past several centuries in the case of Aquinas and two millennia for the rest is far far far more important.
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                          • #28
                            How do you know they had a massive effect?

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                            • #29
                              Hey Al, maybe you should explain the importance of filosofers to this guy:

                              Originally posted by Al B. Sure! View Post
                              Our species is fundamentally the same. Our cultures are not static and are shaped in predictable ways by our physical environments and conditions.
                              Originally posted by Al B. Sure! View Post
                              And why the hell do you think this 'nation state' developed?

                              A de-emphasis on agriculture, the growing urban bourgeoisie, the depopulation effects of the Black Plague which raised wages, the 'commonalization' of the means to fight wars with gunpowder which weakened the military power of knights, etc. etc.

                              The common undercurrent in all of that is the ECONOMY. Learn some historical processes. Learn about the economic origins of political systems, ****head

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                              • #30
                                The ideas are what is important, *******.
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