Way too much about nothing

Can any man say he tried his best to sooth?
mull over that for a bit. it's actually a good question. i haven't, quite honestly. i'm a mean fucker, evidently. i take joy out of grain silos falling on dumbasses who decide to take out the side nearest them with a sledgehammer. it's just so funny! you can just tell in their minds they're saying, "damn it! my wife was right!" yes, men have a problem admitting that a lot of the time. it's the ego thing, perhaps. i hate being wrong beyond almost everything. end of story. i'd rather have that silo mentioned earlier fall on my head than admit i was wrong. so yeah, now we'll get into the synthesis blog...Yay! you're all thinking, another synthesis blog to read!! well curb that enthusiasm, bucko, we're not there yet. i have to actually read a few blogs first and choose the very choicest tidbits, the finest of the dark meat, mmmm...meat. alright, here we go. you want a mystery tour you'll get it.

people have been talking about inventions brought on by the middle ages. it's good stuff. technology is why we still dominate other species and always have. other than our fun toys we're just like a big, tasty smelling treat for predators. so good thing be made clubs and spears because otherwise we'd be up in a tree screaming obsenities down at a big ol' bear that thinks we'd make a tasty morsel, again. At this point i'm going to diverge from my original plan of action. I think carolyn perhaps actually had the spirit of language in the middle ages. she decided she liked the sound of the word fiercefully. she then wrote it into one of her poems. so not only is she following in the tradition of a long line of bards and troubadours but also in the line writers in general. I'm going to go ahead and formally soften my view of her word. it could catch on. not with me, but maybe with others. and, of course, that's really how they happened to be in our language in the first place. the normans brought french to the english isles and english absorbed their words and synthesized new ones based on the model of the french words. as a result our vocabulary expanded. Leanne hit on a few things, as well. War was a huge event in every time period. It was immortalized in poems like the song of roland, beowulf and the illiad. The lords were also knights and fought in war after war in the middle ages. it was a good system for survival at the time. Superstition was huge, too. Witches? Science? Gods? Yeah, that's right. Witches used the demon art of science to summon gods from machines! Everyone freak out and run to the bishop!! now he will soothe us and assure us that we must burn those witches, yeah burning is way better than finding out if she's really a witch. But how to test it...how to test it...ah! wood burns but wood also floats. let's test the witch with the brilliant "tie-a-boulder-to-her-and-toss-her-in-the-lake" test. if she floats she's wooden and thus a witch, we burn her. if she drowns she was clearly not a witch. darn, how to fix this PR problem... well hey, at least now we know for sure now...and stuff...oh wait! What's this? another witch to test!?!(please note that most people didn't even notice how completely asinine this system was) In the end, "the churches [ran] EVERYTHING". For more on the relevance and perhaps existence of witches and the debate about them you can read up on the so-called Great Witch Debate, in which Johann Brenz, Johann Weyer and the honorable Jean Bodin argued different viewpoints about the nature and existence of witches. I also have an essay on the topic if anyone would like it. Makes you realize how bad the times were. Just one bright spot about our modern life is that we don't burn people anymore...