They needed an accurate map for places on which they were planning to unleash their imperialistic ambitions and genocidal capitalism.

 

Ya know, so the slave ships can know where to go. (Even though slavery started much later, this is direct evidence that they were planning it all along!)

Funny timing, you post your response a mere minute or two after I get back home from a spontaneous 16km bike trip through town.

I wish I had arrived in time to make a chronologically relevant post relating to a baked ham.

Funny timing, you post your response a mere minute or two after I get back home from a spontaneous 16km bike trip through town.

I wish I had arrived in time to make a chronologically relevant post relating to a baked ham.

Just enough time to oil up the rams before the Ham was cooked?

 

They needed an accurate map for places on which they were planning to unleash their imperialistic ambitions and genocidal capitalism.

Slavery was going before the map was made, the document which accompanies the map (The Papal Award of 1493) deals with the Portugese/Spain division of the New World, which Spain had been plastering with Slaves for several decades, while the Portuguese just set up trading posts with no real settlement, with the exception of Goa, which they made their Capital for a brief interlude.

 

 

Although a Liberal WASP will argue that the Pope secretly had an army of slaves which carried around a solid gold throne which he used to crush liberty while shooting heresy and mind control out of his eyes, until he was blinded by the combined power of the DoI, BoR and Emancipation Declaration, while the Liberal Catholic (is an oxymoron) will argue that Slavery didn't exist, and if it did then the Pope went around on his solid gold throne using an American Automobile and there was definately no slaves.

 

In reality slavery has always existed, and always will...Especially in America, where 1% of the population is held in slavery. More generally slavery exists because the world wouldn't work in the way it does without it.

 

Tis rather amusing that America's answer to poor Race Relations is to bring back slavery. Then again I live in Britain, with the whole 'Abolished Slavery first' and 'Don't exploit the natives because it will come back and bite you in the backside'.

Also I never liked MLK and was an advocate of the Atlanta Compromise, rather than magic wands.

Silly Archi, the inhabitant of the Golden Throne has to devote all his energies into maintaining a beacon for interstellar travel. He can't spend his time smiting heresy.

I like how, in the future, America will have a British sense of humour :-P

British humor is obviously the next step in evolution, closely followed by the ability to tear the fragile veil of this dimension WITH YOUR MIND.

 

Also, do any of you know bands that sound like Cage the Elephant? I've been listening to their music all day, especially this (try to guess why):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnSp9rgfel8&feature=related

Welp apparently I am now part of a Server and am building an underground city. How nice.

 

Less related but I like it:

 

http://www.last.fm/music/Cage+The+Elephant/+similar

 

 

 

Cool Earth, any more information?

Wow, this place is dead.

Yo, Sere.

Egh, it's a new server so they asked for a jumpstart of people on Skype. as I was lucky enough to be one of the first 5 in, I got to help by making a faction. Now I'm just dicking around with the Minecraft MMO bejiggery and exploring the abnadoned mine shaft I found within 5 seconds of exploring my new cave home.

Civ V Gods and Kings isn't doing so badly at the moment...There are a few annoyances, true, but at the moment it is managable.

 

Also LA Noire is a suprisingly fun game.

Any chance you could provide the IP to said server? I've got unusually little to do these days.

Thanks for the music, Archi.

 

No one here has Borderlands for the PS3, right?

Nope, and no problem. I actually rather liked that tune you posted.

I'll send it Via PM, also with some other stuff, Mather.

Okay actually now the comouter wont work so i have to type it out.. 46.105.246.201 i believe is the IP. Also you cant make a faction without paying 5 bucks and also; if you go in the Wild Spawn area and find a house in a mine; thats mine. You touch it to steal shit and you die.

Dammit! Why do I keep waking up at 9 PM?

Vampirysm, probably. Would explain the strange blood you mentioned a while ago.

Seeing as there's still daylight at 9 PM, that would be stupid.

Also I keep waking up at that time even when I don't go to sleep. Like today, when I just randomly passed out while on the computer.

Seeing as there's still daylight at 9 PM, that would be stupid.

 

Its probably GOM Syndrome.

Actually, there was a recent Norwegian horror film involving infectious black blood. Also trepanning, Mather, I don't suppose you've had any such medical adventures as of late?

 

I know about the movie because it's titled 'Dark Souls'.

Yes, I'm fairly certain I haven't had any holes drilled into my skull recently.

Though, if they did you might have AMNESIA

This trip has pissed me off to no end. My mother, two dogs, and i nearly got heatstroke from an unexpected heatwave.. I won't rant but if i'm unusally pissy lately, now you know why.