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Professor Smarmiarty 12-05-2011 07:46 PM

Christainity stole it pretty much wholesale from plato though.

Aerozord 12-05-2011 07:53 PM

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Originally Posted by Smarty McBarrelpants (Post 1171950)
Christainity stole it pretty much wholesale from plato though.

you cant really steal a philosophy. If its exactly the same it just means they thought it was a good value system and adopted it.

Professor Smarmiarty 12-05-2011 08:01 PM

Warring kingdoms+national trauma-pantheon=Jews
Jews+Plato+Egypt=Christanity.
Christanity+Zoroastrainism+Judaism+Desert+Sweet drugs=Islam
Maths is fun.

Aerozord 12-05-2011 08:27 PM

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Originally Posted by Smarty McBarrelpants (Post 1171959)
Warring kingdoms+national trauma-pantheon=Jews
Jews+Plato+Egypt=Christanity.
Christanity+Zoroastrainism+Judaism+Desert+Sweet drugs=Islam
Maths is fun.

none of that is "theft" thats just natural evolution of an ideology. You might as well say we stole calculus from Newton. Plato developed his philosophies specifically so they could be used by others.

[edit] beside, we don't believe in such values because of Plato, we do because of Christianity. Specifically the Roman Empires conversion to it, and said empires practice of destroying all cultural identity save the its own. Followed by the religion enduring past the point of the empires collapse.

Satan's Onion 12-05-2011 09:02 PM

Remember, impressionable kids: Liquor makes you cool. It's even in the Bible!
 
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Originally Posted by BitVyper (Post 1171943)

Oh hey, is this that one I saw somewhere with a special hollow for a hip flask and a couple of joints? I dunno if it makes you good, but it certainly makes you more awesome.

Seil 12-05-2011 09:40 PM

The bible wasn't really politically correct by today's standards.

Archbio 12-05-2011 10:03 PM

It wasn't really politically correct by the Middle-Age's standards!

Magus 12-06-2011 12:41 AM

Clearly Dungeons & Dragons has all the answers
 
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Originally Posted by rpgdemon (Post 1171817)
A philanthropist comedian who also has a single person locked in his basement who he's raping.

I'm normally a fan of simple answers, but I don't think you have the right simple answer.

Eh, I think that would put you at Chaotic Neutral, probably. Like there are clearly goals involved here, possibly political, obviously sexual, not just feeding the planet to demons from the netherworld.

BitVyper 12-06-2011 06:36 AM

If you keep someone prisoner and regularly rape them, and your DM doesn't make you change to evil, you are playing FATAL.

And you're already dead.

Professor Smarmiarty 12-06-2011 06:42 AM

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Originally Posted by Aerozord (Post 1171968)
none of that is "theft" thats just natural evolution of an ideology. You might as well say we stole calculus from Newton. Plato developed his philosophies specifically so they could be used by others.

[edit] beside, we don't believe in such values because of Plato, we do because of Christianity. Specifically the Roman Empires conversion to it, and said empires practice of destroying all cultural identity save the its own. Followed by the religion enduring past the point of the empires collapse.

Leibniz was calculus. Newtonian calculus is shitty and you can only use it if you are differentiating with respect to time.
Also claiming cultural continuity to the Roman Empire is a ridiculous stretch. Ask the Syriacs how that is going for them.
Also the extend to which our value system is "christain" is pretty heavily debated and not something you can claim outright.


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