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Old Feb 19, 2004, 02:23 pm   #11 (permalink) (top)
libertyminded
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Location: Seattle, Washington USA
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Pooeypants,

Looks to me like you're British. Or do you just use that little flag by your name for shits and giggles? You're no more Chinese than I am Danish after living in America for 3 generations. Yes it was a slight overgeneralization, but only slight. Official Chinese maps claim all of Micronesia, Macronesia, Japan, Siberia, Mongolia, Korea and Australia as their own. All forigners are looked down upon as being inferior in the general society and even more so in upper echlons. The Chinese in China commonly reffer to themselves as "the master race" despite how we all saw that turn out with the Germans and the Jappanese. I can only guess that you've been pretty westernized at this point so good for you. Western culture has it's faults but world domination isn't one of them.

Also I think the wheel comes in a close second but while it's use was vital for many things, it was also a very simple geometric shape and it's properties weren't all that mysterious. The printing press was a complex machine that provided the common man with access education and enlightenment. In the end I believe that knowledge is the most precious thing, even more so than simple locamotion.

Impenitent,

God is a concept not an invention.


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