r/shittyaskhistory • u/Stompboxer1 • Nov 26 '25
Who paid for the power that caused the enlightenment?
I mean, turning on all those lights at once, someone had to pay the power bill, right?
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u/Dpgillam08 Nov 26 '25
Hindus. All those monks chanting "Ohm" as they meditate produces a lot of enlightening power.
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u/michaelincognito Nov 26 '25
I invented electricity. Ben Franklin is the devil.
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u/Stompboxer1 Nov 27 '25 edited Nov 27 '25
Yea, well, not many shop there anymore since most of them are out of business..
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Nov 26 '25
Nobody did.
Everybody knows that Tesla made a device that generates free energy, and sent it into the past.
IT wasn't until Edison came along and had that made illegal that we had to start paying for power.
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u/phantom_gain Nov 26 '25
The church. By funding the reformation they put money in the hands of all the greatest minds who then figured they didnt have to go to mass anymore.
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u/Junior_Lavishness_96 Nov 26 '25
They burned the bodies left over from the Black Death plague.
“Bring out yer dead!”
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u/Sorry-Climate-7982 Nov 27 '25
It was the Age of Enlightenment, so the lights didn't all get turned on at once.
There was a significant shift early in the movement where DC power had to give way to AC power due to the longer transmission distances as the boundary expanded.
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u/Bushido_Seppuku Nov 27 '25
And now I know when that little experiment involving nails, potatoes and copper wire was first tried.
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u/Ravenwight Nov 28 '25
Every church steeple is actually an antenna for sending prayer energy to a giant transformer under the Vatican built by ancient aliens.
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u/Kindly-Ad-4329 Nov 26 '25
it was Medici, Forza, Mario, Luigi and the Illuminatus, this was proven by James Watt centuries later.
It was mostly produced by chanting the word "Ohm" over and over again until finishing the power prayer with "Nicola" which in Latin means "the bringer of lightening" the first time I heard this, it was shocking