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China thinks it invented everything.

Name: Anonymous 2008-04-24 12:14

There is no evidence to suggest that China had any scientific evaluation of chemistry other than trial and error until such practices were introduced to them. Gunpowder was not invented but discovered by chance and improved through trial and error and most of these improvements and the development of the first firearms were made in the middle east.

They didn't invent woodblocks and thus weren't the first to print using woodblocks. Printing with woodblocks is not the same as printing with a printing press.
http://touregypt.net/featurestories/fabrics.htm

The chinese did invent a way of using wood pulp to make paper, but this is just 1 material in a long line of materials which were discovered could be used to make paper. The first material was papyrus, thus only the ancient Egyptians can claim the title "invented paper".
http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=papyrus&meta=

The compass was invented by the Olmecs before 1000 BC and it may have been invented seperately later by europeans. For 100s of years the compass never entered the middle east, yet just a few decades after it's first appearance in europe in 1180 the muslims began to use it. The Chinese can neither claim they invented it first or that they gave it to the rest of the world, only that they invented it seperately.
http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=olmec+compass&btnG=Google+Search&meta=
http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=%22european+compass%22+%22independent+invention%22&meta=

China is a rich ancient culture and has nothing to be ashamed of so I can see the allure to people who have no achievements of their own to claim the achievements of "their" culture. As depressing as it might be to see people stoop to this level of delusion to appease their anxieties, there is nothing more ridiculous than having to lie about your culture to aggrandize yourself more. There are no further depths of self pity.

Name: Anonymous 2008-04-26 21:19

>>17
You cannot claim to be the pariah of cognitive thought and logic otherwise you would have requested and explanation when you posted >>15 instead of a mentally feeble sarcastic remark.

The fact that you are aware of cognitive thought and logic further reinforces my point. Everyone at one point realises they must replace comforting subjective emotional beliefs with anxiety inducing objective beliefs, some face up to these feelings cold turkey, others find healthy defense mechanisms to dealing with them which do not result in a logical fallacy and some develop unhealthy defense mechanisms that defy logic. Each unhealthy defense mechanism manifests itself in a unique way which can be spotted.

By claiming "that's how you think", which is a text book and innocent phrase that can be applied to any situation, you reacted violently in your mind, you could not even think of disproving this since it would entail thinking about the amount of proof that this is how you think. Instead you reached for the logic flag in the hope you can fool yourself into believing that you are incapable of being wrong.

If I am wrong you will do some personal research into all of these and your next post will not show the bizarre behaviour you have expressed in this thread so far.

http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=Reaction+formation&meta=
http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2005/7/29/20293/9910
http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=ashkenazi+jews&btnG=Search&meta=

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