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16085038 No.16085038 [Reply] [Original]

> fly up towards the sun
> it gets hotter and wings melt
Were ancient greeks stupid?

>> No.16085046

>>16085038
The wax holding the wings together melted. I don't see what the issue here is beyond that, unless you think the Greeks should have had an advanced understanding of the interstellar vacuum.

>> No.16085054

>>16085038
All past people (past = before civil rights movement) were stupid and backwards (they believed in god) and evil (no trans rights)

>> No.16085062

>>16085046
> walk up a mountain
> get cold
This one simple trick defeats greekoids

>> No.16085087

>>16085054
That's not the narrative. Alexender brought his boy lover home to have dinner with his mother all the time. Probably allegorical metaphorical mumbo jumbo like any holy book.

>> No.16085091

>>16085062
>me and friend go out hiking
>it'll probably be cold up in the mountain so let's have warm clothes
>up in mountain
>sun shines down
>no shade
>hot as balls
bro i brought a winter coat all the way up a mountain only to find out there was zero reason to use it except in the early morning right before sunrise

>> No.16085107

DO DEY REALLY?

>> No.16085113 [DELETED] 

>>16085054
Mental illness is to be celebrated, not cured.

>> No.16085184

>>16085038
FLY
ON YOUR WAY
LIKE AN EAGLE
FLY AS HIGH
AS
THE SUN
ON YOUR WAY
LIKE AN EAGLE
FLY
TOUCH
THE SUN

>> No.16085185

>>16085038
No, you're the stupid one for thinking this obvious fallacy of composition is a good argument.

>> No.16085340

>>16085038
It's an ALLEGORY, stupid.

>> No.16085358

>>16085038
>Greeks
He was Minoan.

>> No.16086226

>>16085038
>Were ancient greeks stupid?
no. they were ignorant. very different thing.

>> No.16086243

>>16086226
>t. "scientists" who literally spent over a century investigating and still can't figure out how to recreate Greek Fire.