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Hopefully this will stop all you Off-Topic-ers (*Cough*Clueless*Cough*) from spreading your disease in other threads. Basically the rules are as follows:

1. You cannot post a reply that has (pretty much) anything to do with any posts before it.

2. It will be funny to see who keeps on topic to go off topic. (This isn't a rule I know, and the irony of recent threads just keeps increasing).

3. I hate you.

Anyway there's the rules so go ahead and make another thread into a pile of random crap if you please...

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Like this one time, I was just sitting here, and all of a sudden, the power went out. So I had to get off the computer and go watch TV. Was some horror with no sound, it was just really dark and stuff. Suspense all the way, but when the power came back the movie stopped and some soap started playing.

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what did i do?

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This one time I broke my arm because I was missinformed that my keys were at the bottom of a throtteling woodchipper.. alas.. they were not. I will never wear a cast again.. the itching... and screw that I said from now on all my locks will be keyless

Beauty is in the eye of the beerholder.. he he... thats what I've heard.

WORKING IS FOR PEOPLE WHO DON'T KNOW HOW TO FISH!


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did you know that in france they've got really strict traffic laws, and in places where they have problems with people running red lights they have big metal posts that come up out of the ground when the light turns red. that would freak me out

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I LAGGED OUT!

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Lagged? People who have lagged are the ones behind everyone else, aren't they?

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off topic!

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Monkey bannana Raffle!

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alligator alligator eat em up eat em up

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Let's talk about funny things.

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Yay off topic and spamming! Let's just do stuff to annoy Anarchy. He seems to get pretty irate about it.

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I will violate this thread by staying on topic!

I just violated this thread.

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oh yeah? well he started this thread cuz i violated it first

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You both suck. I win all the prizes because I won $4 million.

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zut!

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there once was a guy from nantucket

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I thought that there were 3 of them.

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OMG world save, here comes the lag spike.

*everything freezes for 46.35 seconds, then life continues*

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pete and re-pete were in a boat, pete fell out who was left?

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inch me and pinch me were on a boat. inch me fell out. who was left?

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Alabaster goose makes monitary means managable for mangled manager of maceys. more monday.

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Many causes led to the success of the Renaissance movement. Ideas that were not based on reason could not continue indefinitely. The clergy in the church, in actual practice, acted contrary to the principles of true Christianity that they are preached. This undermined faith in the ideas of the universal church and the universal empire.

Original thinkers such as Roger Bacon and Peter Abelard managed to weaken the intellectual authority of the church by blazing new trails. Peter Abelard (1079 1142) felt that it was essential to apply reason to the principles given in the scriptures. In his opinion, the mysteries of Christianity were not to be taken for granted. They had to be tested in the light of reason and investigation.

Another revolutionary thinker was Roger Bacon (1214-1294). He criticized Aristotle and the church severely. He accepted from the past whatever was reasonable and worked patiently for the cause of the new spirit. Owing to his broad outlook and spirit of scientific investigation, he studied subjects like mathematics, physics, natural science and philosophy. He had the foresight to anticipate several modern invasions and wrote about the possibility of having ships without rowers, vehicles without draught animals and flying machines. However, owing to Bacon’s bold approach and original thinking, he earned the enmity of the church, which punished him as well as Peter Abelard.

The fall of Constantinople led to a widespread and systematic study of Greek heritage. After Constantinople, the great center of civilization and culture, fell into hands of the Ottoman Turks, Greek scholars fled to various parts of Europe, where they diffused the great ideas of ancient Greece. Thus an enthusiasm in the study of the classics was injected into the minds of the Europeans.

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A rapid spread of ideas was possible by the introduction of the printing press. In the middle of the 15th century, John Gutenberg was successful in operating the first printing press with movable types at Mainz in Germany, where the Indulgences of Nicholas V running into 31 lines was perhaps printed in 1454. In 1473, the first book was printed in Hungary. Printing presses were also set up in 1477 in England by Caxton, as well as in Italy by 1465.

New ideas were brought to Europe owing to the Crusades which brought about contacts with the Arabs and other people in the East.

Voyages were conducted to new countries by adventurers. The geographical explorers and travelers felt that it was essential to absorb the ideas of the East and also to create new ideas. Their voyages of exploration and discovery led to wealth and prosperity, as well as to a broader vision.

A great role was played by progressive kings and Popes in fostering the Renaissance. Thus Pope Nicholas V was not only a great scholar, but also a generous patron of the scholars of classical learning. So also, Renaissance scholarship reached its height under Pope Leo X. Some of the nobles and rich merchants also patronized art and scholarship. For example, artists like Michael Angelo and Leonardo da Vinci were patronized by the brilliant Medici family of Florence.

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it was a ladybug frying on the sidewalk. listen to it sizzle as it burns in the sun. a ladybug frying on the sidewalk. and if the bugger was a burger then it'd be well done

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