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  1. Blessings to you. 🕊️ I cared for my mother for years before she passed, and it still felt sudden and crushing when the time finally came. My father got sick and died very quickly. BTW, I encourage those with cancer to consider the new monoclonal therapies coming out.
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  2. Alien, who crash-landed on Earth: "We were high, and we ran out of gas."
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  3. Movie announcer voice: "Gladiator 2. This time, it's personal!"
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  4. People could travel widely within Rome. But travel from outside the empire to places within it was more rare. When Rome took a place, many Europeans moved there. So an "African" in Rome could be a white person, just as an "Egyptian" of the time could have been a blonde white person.
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  5. This was so ... uninformative. But delivered with great emotion. As though someone wanted to show their virtue by punching Nazis for 20 minutes. Yay. Wouldn't it have been more informative to say that the Mediterranean culture was dark haired, and unlike in Spain, Britain, and France, it doesn't look like there was an ancient Celtic invasion of southern Italy? In those other countries, around 2500 BC there was an invasion of Baltic type people who spoke Indo European, and they replaced the Mediterranean males by like 90%.
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  6.  @metatronyt  Well, as Mediterraneans, how did Italians end up speaking Latin, an Indo European language? I would like to know that. BTW, thanks for the reply. I was just firing off a complaint ... I wasn't expecting a response. ✌
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  7.  @jeffs6081  Yes, but there was conquest by the French group. So are we back to the claim of Indo European conquest of southern Italy ... or do the Mediterraneans remain dominant? I'm genuinely confused. My assumption is that an Indo-European speaking people arrived in Latium somewhere around 2000-1400 BC ... maybe? IDK.
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  8.  @jeffs6081  Again, thanks for the response, but I don't buy that. And I don't believe a mass migration is required. Look at England. Each minority ruling class in turn apparently used their language as the language of govt, which in some way trickled down to the masses, affecting the common language going forward. So English has very few Celtic words (though more as you head into the hinterlands), more Germanic words, especially for common language, and alternate French words that represent the upper class accent. Thus, residence instead of house. IMO, it's almost completely certain that some IE group entered southern Italy and became dominant. That doesn't mean they replaced the Mediterranean genes. They were probably a minority, as in every English invasion. But they were dominant to the point their language replaced the local pre-IE languages like Etruscan. Anyway, I don't mean to bother you about this. I'm just curious about what we know, what we don't know, and how it all might have happened. I find this particular thing to be an unanswered question. Have a good one! 👍
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  9.  @jeffs6081  History is a science where new discoveries take a while to be evaluated and then either rejected or added to the overall story. So there's always a bit of a lag between discoveries and the official story (of the moment). My impression is that we now know there was a massive migration - I call it a "Celtic expansion," which would probably make some scholars vomit a bit - out of the Baltic in 2500 BC in all directions. This carried the first versions of what we consider true IE language. Before that, there was a long period of what's called "proto" IE. There were many migrations out of this area over the centuries because every time a volcano somewhere in the world goes off, it affects the most northern latitudes the most, simply as a quirk of geography, due to the northern hemisphere having so much inhabited land near the Arctic Circle, especially at the Baltic due to the Gulf Stream. Any significant eruption would bring potentially a deep cold wave lasting a long while, starving people and animals, driving populations to head out - Viking raider style - seeking warmer lands that were lightly populated. Or, alternatively, a warm period could force them out due to population increase, as this is what happened with the Vikings. As a pattern, I think they would first establish a trading colony in a distant land, and then in time of need, they knew where to go for a settlement colony. (This same pattern was followed by the Vikings, the Greeks, and probably the Phoenicians.) I propose that it is also the pattern of the Sea Peoples. Thus, I think the Sea Peoples invasion is linked to another volcanic eruption - this time in Iceland - that affected the climate in the Baltic for a long time, forcing people out. (Feel free to do your own research on the subject to evaluate this.) Many have noticed that the names of the Sea Peoples resemble those of known historic groups. IMO, they migrated from the Baltic via the river routes to the Black Sea, a path that appears to have been exploited since about 6000 BC. They settled along the open shores as they traveled, each new group in the exodus probably having to travel a little farther than the previous, avoiding already populated areas, or aggressively hitting some of them and moving in. There is a dividing line - centum / satem - in the IE language family with the line drawn approximately at Lithuania. Latin belongs to the centum or western group, while Sanskrit is part of the satem or eastern group. If you talk to professional scholars about all of this, you will likely get very conservative responses, placing the IE language in the steppe or Caucasus, because everyone has to protect their reputation and not stick out too much. Then there's wing nuts like me who have no reputation to protect and just want to know the truth, not yesterday's agreed upon politically correct orthodox view. IMO, the Baltic makes far and away the most sense for the birthplace of proto-IE and IE. And in terms of spread, the 2500 BC wave of IE speakers almost certainly came out of the Baltic over water, as it hit Ireland, which is hard to do by land. And it traveled to Spain, hitting the western coast. And in both cases they were reavers and killers, with DNA indicating they killed about 90% of the males after landing. So no, I don't believe it was a steppe or Caucasus people that originated and spread IE, but that it began in the Baltic with some spreading west by sea, and some spreading east by the steppe into Persia, India, and China. So IE migrations in 2500 BC, and Sea Peoples about 1000 years later. Your mileage may vary, of course. Everybody should use their own brains.
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  10. Evil Tube is evil.
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  11. There's always been delusional, eccentric people. Some are cute, some are trouble.
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  12. Race used to mean lineage, linked to words like trace, ray, and royal. It referred to people related to one another. However, at the time of the French Revolution and the "Age of Enlightenment," which was really the age of pseudo-science, they developed the false idea of races based on color: Caucasian, Mongoloid, and Negroid. But the truth is we're all one race, the human race. As for the term Caucasian, it was based on an archaeological discovery, and in science ancient artifacts / cultures (and viruses) are named after the places they are discovered.
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  13. Google is an immoral, cheating, lying, uncaring corporation.
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  14.  @jeffs6081  All due respect to you, but I don't see how that could work. In terms of written language, it looks like the Greek alphabet was adopted by the Etruscans, and the Latins got it from them. Possibly the Latins didn't have a written language before that, or possibly they adopted the local alphabet so they could more easily communicate with their more numerous neighbors. The legends of the Latins say they got the alphabet from the Greeks, and it was adopted for Latin by a sybil living near Lake Avernus. Officially, the Latins are thought to have migrated to Italy in the 1200-900 BC period, which is also the time of the Sea Peoples invasion in the Mediterranean. Apparently the oldest sample of written Latin we have is from 700 BC. The spoken language surely existed well before that. 700 BC is around the time of the founding of Rome. (Other Latin cities existed before that, with the first thought to be Latium.) Anyway, around 600 BC Rome and the Latin lands were conquered by Etruscan princes. The Etruscans made many improvements, and Rome is said to have become the most prominent city. However, the Latins resented Etruscan rule, and around 500 BC they expelled the Etruscans and started the Roman republic. Battles between the Romans and Etruscans ensued. The story of Horatio at the bridge occurs at this time. With a population of about 150,000, Rome and their allies (the Latin League) in the centuries thereafter went on to conquer neighbor after neighbor. It seems like in time, everybody fought everybody. The last to fall were the Greek colonies in the far south of Italy, and that was around 275 BC. And that's basically the history of the Latins, in short form. So they really were an outsider people - IE speakers - who set up a colony during the Sea Peoples era, and after an early subjugation by the Etruscans, they rose up, made allies, and dominated the whole region. That's the history. So I guess I have my explanation. I needed a refresher, but I don't know why this wasn't cited, as surely Metatron knows Roman history 101. Oh well. Have a good one, everybody!
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  15. It's just dumb science. People come up with the weirdest stuff and make a lot of money off it. Like the pet rock of the 1970s. Margarine is not better than butter, and egg yolks are the most nutritious part of the egg. If you think some scientific findings are too weird to be true ... you are probably right.
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  16. You know their "thinking" is incredibly shallow, as is their education. They think, "It's Africa. The people of Africa are black. Therefore ..."
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  17. I lost both my parents to cancer, with Dad gone just this year. You certainly have my sympathies.
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  18. The wealth divide these days is huge, and some might say the same about the intelligence divide. Are we living in an idiocracy? It often seems so.
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  19. FWIW, the Africans most commonly encountered by Romans would likely have been the lighter skinned northern Africans, "dark" Mediterraneans, plus even lighter skinned Europeans. Race, based on skin color, is a modern construct, coming from Progressives and eugenics. Previously, the term race was used in the sense of tribe or lineage. "Mela" is honey colored. So brown. I'm sure there were some darker skinned Africans encountered, but they generally lived too distant from the empire to be other than rare.
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  20.  @wisedragon173  Right, I agree.
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  21.  @Mistah_Boombastic_BiggieCheese  So they can avoid space objects that are moving super fast, but can't avoid really slow objects moving in our atmosphere? Seems odd. Also, observations say they can travel in water as easily as in air. Water at high speeds is no joke.
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  22. When possible, have multiple devices to act as a physical firewall and backup.
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  23. "Race" was a lineage, not a color. Ray, rey, royal, trace, track, trail ... all reference the idea of a line. The idea about race as a color is a new idea.
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