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Daily Discussion Thread:๐Ÿฐ Sun 31 Mar 2024 (aussie.zone)
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[โ€“] Force_majeure123@aussie.zone 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (5 children)

Has anyone in history had a bigger impact on humanity than old mate JC?

[โ€“] useless_modern_god@aussie.zone 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

You mean Johnny Cash?

[โ€“] CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 1 points 7 months ago

Clint Eastwood?

[โ€“] Seagoon_@aussie.zone 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

I have been thinking William of Occam is possibly the most influential human in history

his influence in bringing freedom of thought created modern scientific industrial western civilisation and industrialised the whole planet ( edited to remove westernised the whole planet. )

[โ€“] imoldgreeeg@aussie.zone 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Ohh that's an interesting thought. I don't know an awful lot about William of Occam but he definitely was the precursor to a lot of that reductionist thinking...

I went straight to old mate Genghis...

[โ€“] Seagoon_@aussie.zone 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Logic and reality testing rules. Religion was relegated to spiritual and moral matters. Divine right fell down. The whole structure of society fell down. No longer did we have to say black was white just because the boss said so because the boss no longer had rights given to him by religion

[โ€“] melbourne_wanderer@aussie.zone 3 points 7 months ago

I mean....Mohammed? any of the religious figures? the people who "decoded" the Rosetta stone? whoever came up with the wheel? writing? Alexander Fleming? Babbage? many a4guments to be made

[โ€“] Taleya@aussie.zone 3 points 7 months ago

Muhammad springs to mind. Basically the head figure from any religion that got tied up with empire.