gordondaviesmoustache
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stonerblue said:gordondaviesmoustache said:bluetoo said:Theres a difference between greed and desire or the wish for self improvement or whatever you want to call it. Humans are hard wired to be progressive. Greed is conditioned. Greed didnt create central heating...the desire to improve living conditions did.
Yeah I'm sure the guy who invented central heating was thinking about his fellow man and not his house in the country every time he dragged himself out of his (cold) bed when he was developing his idea.
The difference is I don't see anything wrong with that.
Greed is conditioned? That must be why the Vikings and Romans were such gentle folk.
In the 13th century, the Cistercian monks revived central heating in Christian Europe using river diversions combined with indoor wood-fired furnaces. The well-preserved Royal Monastery of Our Lady of the Wheel (founded 1202) on the Ebro River in the Aragon region of Spain provides an excellent example of such an application.
wiki.
Those fucking greedy monks. Henry VIII had them sussed.
As a footnote, you should get out more.