What do you consider to be the crowning achievement of humanity

nazism

>>2336059
The Reformation

>>2336059
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>>2336059
Pic related.

The most monumental fail is that if we had to get back there in ten years, we probably could not do it.

>The last man to walk on the moon is dead now, and nobody has been back.

>>2336059
Liberty, the foundation of all our other achievements.

>>2336059

Cheese

The production of cheese

>>2336059

Anal Sex.

>>2336059

memes

>>2336059
Religion

Think about it before you call me a faggot

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>>2336212
>Crowning achievement of humanity is story books

>>2336223
uh yes
how many other animals are capable of making complex works of fiction, exactly?

>>2336248
You are aware of a field called science?

>>2336290
Science as we know it today simply would not exist if not for the Catholic Church.
>resigned myself to the incoming autistic atheists flailing about at the sight of this obvious truth.

>>2336223
These stories have helped many people in doubt and pain. Greatest kind of achievement in my "book" hehe
But that is my serious opinion tho

>>2336327
in spite of not because of.

Because for over 1000 years anybody and everybody in western Europe was a Roman Catholic by default. Including the scientists. There never was an active policy of the church to encourage scientific discovery.

>>2336059

Nuclear power and satellites.

It's not enough.

>>2336385
>There never was an active policy of the church to encourage scientific discovery.
>what is the mediaeval university
>what are monasteries

>>2336385

>There never was an active policy of the church to encourage scientific discovery.

lmao

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Catholic_scientists

>>2336327
>Science as we know it today simply would not exist if not for alchemists

>Science as we know it today simply would not exist if not for Hindu math

>Science as we know it today simply would not exist if not for Jewish physicists

>Science as we know it today simply would not exist if not for Dutch clock makers

>Science as we know it today simply would not exist if not for Greek gaylords

>Science as we know it today simply would not exist if not for people fucking

>>2336407
And there goes the flailing.

>>2336405
>Galileo was on the Catholic science program
The fact that a thousand scientists were Catholic does not mean that even one was a scientist at the behest of the church.

>>2336290
Science is nothing but observing the natural world around us and describing it, very complexly and exactly

I won't agree that Religions is the most important thing we've done, but stories and fictional writing is nonetheless, imo, probably the most impressive

>>2336413
Just a list of statements as meaningless as >>2336327

>>2336434
More flailing.

>>2336428
>the most impressive
More so than say, measuring the cosmological constant to the 28th decimal?

>>2336458
Animals are capable of observing their environment and learning what things do too. Not impressive at all.

>>2336413
>>2336441
No arguments

>>2336426

>that even one was a scientist at the behest of the church.

nigga the jesuits were basically set up to be the papal science club

Moon landings

Science is a shitty answer because you're essentially using it as a catch-all for every discovery we've ever made. Pick a more singular achievement or fuck off with your Reddit answer,

>>2336472
I will respond with arguments when you can come up with something that isn't based on a willfully obtuse misunderstanding of my thesis. Modern atheists are the most pathetic class of fundamentalists.

>>2336458
Much more so, science in the sense in which you mean it cannot tell people how to live.

>>2336426
Lemaitre? Mendel? Copernicus?

>>2336480
THIS

Antibiotics.

>>2336059
Not destroying us selfs yet

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>>2336603
goode

How about having such comfortable lives to allow these to exist

>>2336059
Canada being the first Post-Nation state.

The Dharma

>>2336290
Civilization can exist without science, there is no record of civilization without religion.

>>2336426
Galileo wrote his treatise on the Copernican system SECIFICALLY at the behest of the Pope.

He got in trouble when eh decided it would be cute to make the mouthpiece for the Ptolemaic system in his book (then believed to be true by the Pope, and the vast majority of scientific thinkers) and name him "Simpleton."

>>2336615
I would see a comfortable live more like a live where everything is balanced well. So those won't exist

>>2336248
Chimps can write books. Albeit very simple books like "Bono want banana"