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Thomas Edison and Genghis Khan!

Spiderman

Veteran Member
I was just watching earlier on Thomas Edison , that he was fired from two jobs, and in school people called him "stupid, unteachable, idiot".

When he was trying to make the light bulb people laughed at his failed attempts. He failed a thousand times at making the light bulb.

Look at how that fool changed the world, but first he had to fail over a thousand times ;), and be willing to look foolish, and try what seemed impractical, impossible, laughable, he endured such mockery.

The inventors of the airplane received similar mockery, and Albert Einstein was called an eccentric, insane idiot! einstein_sticks_his_tongue_1951.jpg

Genghis Khan was a slave with two parents violently murdered.

He escaped slavery, lived off berries, learned how to hunt and pray to his sky God Tengri.

What he learned and gained from prayer and meditation, helped him unite Mongolian tribes, and with a hundred thousand men, he conquered 40% of the world.
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He spent days and nights praying in his tent to sky God Tengri , before every military campaign.

He told people "I do not win these battles with strength, wisdom, or by bravery!
It is my love for Tengri".

The man was an escaped slave without parents, didn't write anything or read, and he conquered more advanced educated civilizations with uneducated men on horseback with arrows.

He started the first Empire where all religions were forced to respect each other, and he sought out people from every Religion, to help him be more wise , prudent, and Spiritual.

He went from escaped slave , eating berries and wild growing food, hunting, not knowing where his next meal would come from, slain parents, no education, to becoming the greatest conquerer in history, attributing his success to a sky Daddy. :D
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If he can go from that, to the greatest continuous land Empire in history, in a short amount of time, toppling Empires far more advanced than his, I think he proves the impossible can be accomplished with faith, and the right attitude.

Genghis Khan told Christians "I am the scourge of God". He actually respected Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, Taoism, Confucionism, shamanism, Judaism, all Religions, and created an Empire with all of those adherents getting along.

He created the first postal service, with law and order functioning so well, it was said you could carry bricks of gold on your head, throughout the streets of his empire, without getting robbed.

Genghis Khan set up a system of postal/relay stations every 20 to 30 miles. A large central building, corrals and outbuildings comprised the station. A relay rider would find lodging, hot food and rested, well-fed horses. The rider could hand his message to the next rider, or he could grab a fresh horse, food and go.
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If the man was so brilliant, why did he attribute his success from being an escaped, impoverished, uneducated slave, to being the greatest success on the globe, to a sky Daddy?

The only more successful person than him, was born in a barn, and died naked, nailed to a bit of wood, crowned with thorns. He relied on a sky Daddy too. ;)

His failure turned into victory!

Find your sky Daddy today, and anything is possible! Failure, sickness, humiliation, and death, are stepping stones to great success, and dreams come true, beyond our wildest imagination!

Sky mothers are better though , in my opinion. The Tengri sky girls! :D
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We work with the ghost of Genghis Khan, Thomas Edison, and Jesus Christ! They shall achieve their goals, and I bet a thousand years we will all be enjoying their company, and our dreams come true! :)
 
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VoidCat

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Edison often took credit he didn't deserve. He didn't invent the lightbulb rather he made the first modern one if I recall correctly. There was a few light bulbs before him. The ones that worked well as in they lasted for a long time were uneconomic. He made the first one that worked well and was economic. But he mostly took credit for inventions he didn't make
 
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VoidCat

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Imma put this here cuz i found the video cool but I suggest you look up what is talked about here rather then take everything in the song as fact. As I would say always look for more credible sources then youtube
 

Spiderman

Veteran Member
Edison often took credit he didn't deserve. He didn't invent the lightbulb rather he made the first modern one if I recall correctly. There was a few light bulbs before him. The ones that worked well as in they lasted for a long time were uneconomic. He made the first one that worked well and was economic. But he mostly took credit for inventions he didn't make
According to the sources I read, his actually worked for a substantial amount of time, where the ones before them didn't.

I appreciate the info, but Edison still did succeed at what he initially tried in vain to create. And that was my point. Failure was his stepping stones to success, learning what doesn't work, how not to do it.

In 1878, Thomas Edison began serious research into developing a practical incandescent lamp and on October 14, 1878, Edison filed his first patent application for "Improvement In Electric Lights".

Lights similar to what he made may have existed.

I guess I should have specified that he invented a lightbulb which was the type of lightbulb he was trying to invent and patent, and that particular invention he failed 1,000 times to create, and then patent it.

My point still remains that what he was trying to create was a failure, and so was he, over a thousand times, and now who doesn't know who he was, and who is not affected by him?

According to what I read, his lamp (light bulb) was new, original, something that had not been a successful invention, even if there had been inventions similar.

And whether we like it or not, countless sources list him as the inventor of the light bulb, and I have my doubts as to how successful the other versions were before Edison.

I have never heard of these other inventors of the lightbulb, so I couldn't share their testimonies of how they did it, or failed at doing it before succeeding, as other helpful info in the OP.
 

icehorse

......unaffiliated...... anti-dogmatist
Premium Member
If the man was so brilliant, why did he attribute his success from being an escaped, impoverished, uneducated slave, to being the greatest success on the globe, to a sky Daddy?

From the perspective of motivation science, I would say that what drove Mr. Khan was purpose in the guise of faith. Back in the day, humans didn't have much understanding of philosophies or morals or ethics, and religion was often the only answer in those domains.
 
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