I was surprised to read that Muslims invented cameras, coffee, soap, shampoo, cheques, universities and many other things like chemistry, hospitals, parachutes......
A real eye-opener.
A real eye-opener.
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I thought that EVERYTHING was invented by Scottish people ?
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No need to whisper, Mr GongGong ... nobody up there is likely to argue with you!Originally posted by MrGongGong View Post
According to some knowledgeable American the Scots invented the modern world though I very much doubt that Scotland has ever been 'the poorest nation in Western Europe' certainly since the Act of Union with England three centuries ago.
One of the tiniest, incontrovertibly ...
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It seems those know-all, enlightened Scots' Presbyterians even managed to invent black spiritual music as well ...Originally posted by Serial_Apologist View Post
Don't dare mention the slave trade ... <winkeye>Comment
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Actually there are some really interesting things in thisOriginally posted by P. G. Tipps View PostIt seems those know-all, enlightened Scots' Presbyterians even managed to invent black spiritual music as well ...
Don't dare mention the slave trade ... <winkeye>
William McVicker (of RFH Organ fame) knows heaps about itComment
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NOT guilty as charged; I certainly ain't one of them!Originally posted by P. G. Tipps View PostComment
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You most certainly aren't, ahinton ... I can willingly vouch for you there.Originally posted by ahinton View Post
Few Scots, never mind our Prim & Proper Presbyterians, are ever heard using alien terms like 'meself' and 'ain't'. That's the stuff of more southerly Methodists and Baptists or even, Heaven Forbid, reprobate, Hellfire-bound Papists and Atheists.
Not for a single moment did we ever even suspect that you might be a possible survivor from the Great Scottish Enlightenment ...Comment
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Oddly enough I don't ever think about the religious or cultural background of inventors. It seems to be so ... pointless.
Novelists, yes.Comment
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Indeed one might tend to think so, amateur51 ...
However:
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I'm thrilled that you and Murray N Rothbard have found each other and wish you every happiness.Originally posted by P. G. Tipps View Post
However I don't see how it relates to what I wrote, scotty.Comment
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You may not 'see' or even 'think', as you, yourself, have previously and rather modestly conceded, but that does not mean the rest of us do not, scotty.Originally posted by amateur51 View Post
The article clearly identifies the strong link between Presbyterianism (a religion) and the Scottish Enlightenment which ultimately paved the way for so many inventions and medical discoveries by its learned sons.Comment
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And so it may indeed try to do that, but that doesn't make it corrrect; the facility to invent and make medical discoveries knows no such cultural boundaries because it's down to the imagination of each individual capable of achieveing such inventions and medical discoveries. In any case, Presbyterianism is not in principle a "religion" per se but just one particular and particularised branch of Protestant Christian practice (insofar as it is even that).Originally posted by P. G. Tipps View PostLast edited by ahinton; 27-09-14, 19:45.Comment
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