[extropy-chat] The Dark Ages

[Natasha Vita-More]

At 10:25 PM 3/4/2007, you wrote:
>On 3/4/07, spike <spike66 at comcast.net> wrote:
> >
> > > <600 years of degenerate, godless, inhuman behavior.  THE DARK
> > > AGES, Tonight 9/8c only As only The History Channel can bring
> > > you.>
> > >
> > > "godless"? I always thought "the dark ages" referred to the period of
> > > European history when squabbling blood-thirsty god-botherers rather
> > > conspicuously ruled the roost...
> > >
> > > Damien Broderick
> >
> > Surely the NYT meant degenerate, godful, inhuman behavior.
>
>I'd go with degenerate, god-awful, inhuman behavior.
>
>Should satisfy both points of view, methinks.

I watched "The Dark Ages" this weekend too.  I had to turn my head a few 
times.  Even the flagellates were too much.  Horrible times.

I also watched the "The History of Sex"  this weekend.  Same 
channel.  Very, very amusing.

Natasha

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then that is a closed-system perspective. If you study what is inside the 
circle and everything outside the circle, then that is an open system 
perspective. - Buckminster Fuller


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