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Greentext Stories - be a monk

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ile: 13906 (35 KB, 254x300, scribe2.jpg) Anonymous 01/24/14(Fri)19:10 UTC-5 No.29757715 Replies: 2975831529758618>29758664 2975919329760485 29760622 2976081829760899 297 29761055 29761087 29762176 >Be Irish monk >Spend childhood learning to read and write >Love books and knowledge, particularly the Ancient Greek authors (why is Plutarch so based?) Spend most of my life copying F------ Vikings attack >Run away carrying all the books I can Find new monastery, start all >Have to trek all the way to Rome to get copies of burned books >Beaten and robbed by bandits on the way, left for dead >Fall sick >Spend months in a farmers cottage healing >Get on ship >Ship attacked by more Vikings (why do people today idolize these assholes?) >Spend year as a slave books by hand over again 50 >Escape, continue on to Rome >Spend months petitioning the Pope to give me copies of the lost books >Start back home >Almost drowned in a storm on the way back >Attacked by bandits again >Almost killed >This time am saved by a local king, still I almost s--- myself >Get back to monastery >Spend the rest of life copying books so future generations will have the knowledge 1500 year later >Be in heaven >Look down to see what happening >See fedora-f--- writing "Oh if only the Church had never existed society would be so much more advanced because of how hard they worked to burn books and destroy knowledge." Yes if there were no Christianity we'd be in space age society by now, f--- those guys." >mfw

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CornBread

CornBread

Jun 30, 2014 at 10:55AM EDT

That monks name?
Albert Einstein.

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romantiCaveman

romantiCaveman

Jun 30, 2014 at 06:22PM EDT in reply to CornBread

Why the downvotes, KYMers? Do you even get the reference? Do you even… know your meme?

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