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The minute that crude oil loses its relevance to the Western world, the Arabs will just go back to what they were before - a bunch of desert nomads with no real power.

You forgot the thousand years when they were inventing mathematics while your ancestors were living in mud huts covered in their own shit. Europe wasn't even capable of syllogism until they stole the knowledge back from the arabs.



Why respect them for something they did a thousand years ago and then ceased to?


Because it never ceased. If you ever used an algorithm or algebra you owe it to "those nomadic" Arabs.


How long do you think Gagarin will last?


I hope longer than this fad with Christ lasts.


Yuri?


Yes.




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