Comments by "" (@jboss1073) on "Metatron" channel.

  1.  @martinjackman2943  Let's pick Herodotus, then. He doesn't say Celts are in Ireland. He says Celts are the westernmost people except for the Cynetes. The Cynetes lived in southern Portugal. Next to them were the Lusitanians who actually called themselves Celts. Hence Herodotus was clearly talking about the Lusitanians as being the Celts. Your move.
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  2. 20:58 - It took the Romans 200 years to conquer Celtica (meaning Iberia). Way longer than Gauls and any of those other "enemies".
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  3. The French language has very few words from Celtic. Portuguese is the Romance language with most Celtic words by far, over six times the amount that French has.
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  4. His video is not spot on, it is actually completely wrong and outdated. Would you like to talk to me about it?
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  5.  @brettrichards2972  George Buchanan in 1582 while coining the term "Celtic languages" acknowledge the Celts come from Spain where they are called Celtici. The Iberians are the foremost Celts, the actual Celts, the genetic, ethnic Celts. If there's such a thing as "cultural Celt" and "linguistic Celt" then I guess the Irish and Scottish are it but it's silly to stretch those terms, the Irish and Scottish already have their native tribal names to denote themselves, namely Hibernian and Caledonian.
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  6.  @brettrichards2972  The Irish were never called Celts. Why would they be Celts? Because linguists in the 17th century made a naming mistake? What do you care to mix your ethnic identity with the opinions of academic linguists? You have to search that far for a connection with the name "Celt"? Because the Portuguese just have those names in the tombstones of their own ancestors in their own country, no need to ask for a linguist to name your language the name of a foreign tribe to get that name!
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  7.  @brawndothethirstmutilator9848  "@kekeke8988, If those Somalis stay in Sweden for 1,000+ years, adopt the Nordic culture and language for 1,000+ years, and they and their descendants intermarry with the current population 1,000+ years, then YES 1,000 years from now their descendants will be Norse. That’s the fair and accurate comparison by the way." I disagree. One tribe does not become another. Somalis will forever be Somalis. Norse will forever be Norse. If they mix 50-50 they will be NorseSomali but not just one or the other.
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  8.  @alexanderdvanbalderen9803  You and @alexanderdvanbalderen9803 are confusing language with genetics. The Basques are genetically undifferentiated Iberians and as such they are 100% European just like any other European. Their language, on the other hand, is not related to the so-called Indo-European language family according to the most accepted Kurgan hypothesis. Whatever language the Basques actually speak, it never changes their European DNA. As such, Basques as European with entirely identical origins as that of Iberians and southern French people.
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  9.  @rajasmasala  I can't speak for the guy but maybe he applauds his bravery because it is easy to get canceled by saying something like that.
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  10. You said it better than Metatron. "As another historian YouTuber put it, calling the Gaels and Britons "Celts" is a bit like calling anyone who spoke a Germanic language or had a Germanic culture "Germans";" Yes, this is correct and was completely missed by Metatron. Languages don't name people. People name languages - meaning, languages are named after people, not the other way around.
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  11. By the way the Celts were not the Gauls, but the western Iberians - in particular the Lusitanians who called themselves Celts, they were only known as Lusitanians by outsiders. The Gauls knew themselves as "Gallic" which is why France is known as "Gallia" and not "Celtia".
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  12. "and since as far as we know (assuming I'm recalling correctly), no peoples in the British Isles ever called themselves Celts, and no contemporaries from the time of Pliny the Elder in antiquity through the late Middle Ages/early modern era ever called the Gaels and Britons Celts, despite their language and culture." You nailed it here. Right on!
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  13. You are so wrong. 1. "before the Visigoths and Latins, there was a Celtic influence in Iberia" No, there was no "Celtic influence in Iberia". Rather, the Iberians were the Celts. They called themselves Celts in their own personal items and tombstones, altars and so on. It was not "an influence" - they WERE Celts like no one else in Europe was, since only the western Iberians called themselves Celts and no one else did. 2. " thus calling the people of that time the Celtiberians." Only what today is Spain was called Celtiberia, minus Galicia. What today is Portugal and Galicia was called Celtica. 3. "But I dont think the Celts left too much of a linguistic nor cultural influence as compared to the Visigoths. " Actually the Celtic vocabulary in Portuguese is the largest of any Romance language, having at least six times as many Celtic words as French and with Celtic being the first non-Italic vocabulary in Portuguese in size ahead of the Germanic vocabulary. 4. "Many names and families in Spain and Portugal hail from Visigothic origins" And many more have a Celtic origin.
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  14. You're pioneering "the truth about"? Are you Stefan Molyneux?
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  15. No Gaelics are Celts, because Gaelic people were never called Celt. George Buchanan in 1582 was the first person to call Gaels "Celts" and he did that explicitly because, as he said, the Celts came from Spain, where they were called the Celtici, and brought their Celtic language to Scotland and Ireland.
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  16. We can't make theories around off chances.
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  17. Clearly it's the Irish who are jealous of the Portuguese Celtic roots - after all the only tribes who called themselves "Celts" in their own tribe names and personal names lived in Lusitania as can be verified by anyone online for free by searching for "celt" in any online epigraphic database. None of this is new or a mystery or hidden from the public - it's just that the public is largely uninterested in the truth and only interested in lies that paint them in a good light, such as the Irish as being Celts which was never the case historically.
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  18. South Africans are not African genetically, they are British genetically (those descended from the British, in this example). Anything else is post-modernism. You are being implicitly led to accept post-modernism by accepting the Irish are "Celtic" just because they "do Celtic things" (like speak a Celtic language).
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  19. The Swedish and the Irish are basically the same ethnicity.
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  20. Exactly. You're thinking. He is just repeating outdated arguments about the Celts that the International Congress for Celtic Studies no longer defend.
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  21. He is the one denying a people exist, and he doesn't even notice it.
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  22. Why thank the Greeks? For what they wrote? But you don't read them. You read what academics said about them and then repeat it. That's why you think Celts are Hallstatt and La Tene and related to the Irish somehow. You are posing as thanking the Greeks, but you don't care about what they wrote. They were not talking about the Irish when they talked about Celts.
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  23. That theory has already been debunked.
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  24. "Welsh contains very little Latin" ? You must be joking.
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  25.  @miastupid7911  Who was it by?
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  26. Congratulations for knowing that the connection between the Irish and British Isles and the Celts was a Victorian invention. Few know that and are still deluded about their own ethnicity which they think they care about.
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  27.  @angleofshadow9818  Let's not waste time with rhetoric.
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  28. 39:54 - Who could have cooked up that idea? Who.... who?
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  29.  @schmon8409  No, that is not what I'm saying. It doesn't matter which is left or right. The point is there are two extremes, and you cannot refute that.
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  30.  @VeteranVandal  "as we understand left and right came from the French revolution indeed." Only for people who think in a nominalist way like you. Then I agree. For essentialists, no. For essentialists, left is bigger state, right is smaller state. Only the left wants to blurry these lines.
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  31.  @VeteranVandal  "the state has to have the monopoly of force for either capitalism or socialist states, regardless where you are in that process. Capitalism NEEDS the state." Wrong, capitalism is "voluntaryism" or "anarcho-capitalist libertarianism" and hence it needs the state NOT TO EXIST in order for capitalism/voluntaryism to truly exist.
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  32. Celtic DNA is Iberian DNA because the western Iberians were the first and only people to call themselves Celts in their personal items and cemetery stones.
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  33. You are the ones disrupting the Iberian sense of Celticity by stealing their name.
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  34. " In truth the Celts were a multicultural and ethnically diverse civilization" You joke, but that is exactly the view Metatron is defending in this video - that Celts "were a culture of multiple ethnicities".
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  35. The most Celtic people are currently the Portuguese because they're the only people with ancestors who actually called themselves "Celts" by name and tribe name - Celtici, Celti, etc. No one else in Europe called themselves "Celts". There is in fact nothing "Celtic" about the Scottish and their history does not include the name "Celt".
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  36. And they never once say "Celts". The Irish are not Celts - that name is not a part of Irish history.
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  37.  @IrishColin  " The term Celtic was used by the Greeks to describe a culture that a bunch of tribes in southern Gaul (modern day France)." Herodotus said: "The Celts are the westernmost people of Europe, bordering the Cynetes". The Cynetes lived in southern Portugal. The Lusitanians were the bordering tribe. The Lusitanians have the highest density of tombstones with personal names using the name "Celt" and with tribes using the name "Celt". The Lusitanians have the highest density of personal pottery and votive altars referencing owners and dead people named "Celt". "These tribes spread that culture to Iberia and Ireland amongst others." This did not happen. See "Language trees with sampled ancestors support a hybrid model for the origin of Ind-European languages" by the Max Planck Institute from two weeks ago in order have that assertion of yours refuted. No, the Iberians have been speaking Celtic since the beginning, no southern French needed to go there to give them anything. "It doesn't matter what they called themselves, what matters is that they adopted the culture that was known as Celtic." This is "harmonious thinking" but not "logical thinking". The only definition of identity is self-ascription - what people call themselves. The only people in ancient times who called themselves Celts were the Lusitanians as can be seen by anyone searching "celt" in any online epigraphic database - they're free, try it yourself! And there's no such thing as "a culture known as Celtic", especially if the "known" part is only by people who are ignorant of the fact and being educated by uninformed Nordicist Victorian Romanticist scholars. "I can't self identify as a monkey and have it come true. " And yet your scholars have artificially called your language "Celtic" (when it is in fact Hibernian or Caledonian) to justify calling you Celtic (instead of the Spanish Celtici which even George Buchanan identified as the original Celts in 1582 when he coined the term "Celtic languages"). "Using his logic then the Mexican and Southern American people wouldn't be Spanish if they didn't call themselves Spanish but hat wouldn't be true. They have the language and the culture as well as shared lineage from intermixing of the populations so therefore they would be Spanish no matter what they called themselves." You are correct about my position here. No American is "Spanish" unless they are genetically of Iberian stock. Speaking "Spanish" doesn't make anyone "Spanish" just like speaking Romance is not making modern-day Romans out of anyone today. "A good example is you can be Columbian and Spanish at the same time, one is a cultural identity and one is an ethnic identity. The same goes for the Irish. Gaelic is heavily influenced by the Celtic culture." So long as you know that the Gaels are only CULTURALLY celtic (if there's such a thing) while the original, ethnic Celts are the Lusitanians who were the only people in ancient times who actually called themselves Celts by personal name and tribe - and to be CLEAR I am not saying their tribe names and personal names "were Celtic", I am saying their tribe names and personal names used the four-letters C-E-L-T in their names all the time.
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  38. 23:44 - All civilizations did horrible things? What did the Cucuteni/Trypilia do?
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  39.  @TensionHipHop  "spitting image" means it's not the same, just an image. Also " you goofball the fact that they are celtic speakers makes them celts" actually it doesn't. If I learn Gaelic am I a Gael now? If I learn Welsh am I Welsh now?
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  40.  @RexNicolaus  "How are the Welsh not descendants of the celts?" Because none of their ancestors ever called themselves Celts and none of their ancestors were ever called Celts by the ancient Greco-Romans. Simple as this. "They genetically have more Celtic DNA than the English and Scottish in Britain." No, they genetically have more Britonnic DNA than the English and Scottish in Britain. Their ethnicity is Britonnic as that is the name they natively used for themselves in Greco-Roman times. "Even the word “Wales” meant “foreigner” to the Anglo-Saxons." Wales is from "Volcae". No connection to the name "Celt".
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  41. @ Watch the first episode of The Celtic World by The Great Courses and Professor Jennifer Paxton PhD. She explains how no one in the British Isles nor Ireland was ever historically associated with the name "Celt". Rather, the reason there was a region called "Celtiberia" was because it was between "Iberia" to its east (the Spanish Levant) and "Celtia" to its west (the territory of Portugal and Galicia). She shows that map twice calling Portugal and Galicia "Celts" and she never ever puts the name "Celts" in any British nor Irish map. She is careful to be historically accurate. The reason she does this is because epigraphic tombstones with personal names starting with the prefix "Celt-" and ending in all sorts of productive local suffixes (proving its originality to that territory) are only found strictly in the territory of Lusitania, out of all possible places in Europe. Right north and south of Lusitania where "Celt-" occurred, "Celtic-" occurred more often, down to south Portugal and up to Galicia. In Celtiberia, "Celtiber-" names dominated, and no "Celt-" nor "Celtic-" names are found.
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  42.  @black_hand78  "so yes the gaels and other groups are in fact all Celtic." No, they are Gaelic. The people who called themselves Celts and who were called Celts by Greeks and Romans were in western Iberia and southern Gallia. no one has ever called Gaelic people "Celts" and they never called themselves that either.
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  43.  @RexNicolaus  "Gaelic is part of the larger Celtic group." Only since the 1800s an only because in 1582 George Buchanan suggested calling the Gaelic languages "Celtic" because, and I quote, "they probably came from the Celtici of Spain". Hence the label "Celtic languages" were in no way meant to imply "the Welsh and Irish are ethnically Celts", not at all. The people who called themselves Celts and who are historically associated with that name exist only in western Iberia and in southern France - nowhere else. Gaelic speakers are not Celts.
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  44.  @RexNicolaus  It's on Amazon!
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  45.  @RexNicolaus  "Celtic people are a large conglomerate of people but not a definitive identity, considering what little information we have about them." This is wrong - this is what I'm trying to communicate to you. Celtic people are not "a large conglomerate of people but not a definitive identity", on the contrary, they're a very definitive identity, seeing that they identified themselves from 200 BC to 200 AD in tombstones in western Iberia using the names "Celti", "Celtici", "Celtiati", "Celtius", etc. So they are a very definitive identity, you just so happen to not know about it. "That George Buchanan character and the statement you mentioned is not a definitive way of saying that’s what everyone believes about the Celts today. May have spread a myth? Maybe. But studies have been made well before his time, even dating back centuries prior." Actually there were no studies about Celts before his time, he was the first in modern times, and the point is he started calling these languages Celtic because he thought they came from the Celtici of Spain. Whether true or not, the point is, they were NAMED "Celtic" BECAUSE OF SPAIN, not because anyone ever thought any Britons were "Celts", because no one ever did. Do you understand the point now? "Gauls and Gaels are a Celtic sub group." No, they're not. This is some modernist agreement with no formality or academic support. Gauls in the past never called themselves Celts neither did Gaels. So no, they're not Celts. "Celts started to appear in the British Isles around 1000 BC" No they didn't, nothing in 1000 BC said "Celt" in the name and went to the British Isles. We may call those people "Celtic speakers" today but at the time of 1000 BC they did not call themselves Celts, hence they were not Celts. "With all that being said, I don’t know how you’re basing everything you understand off one film you mentioned and one 16th gentleman who made a statement about the Celts. Many studies you’re going up against. " I'm basing what I'm saying on tombstones. The only tombstones in all of Europe self-identifying as "Celts" are in western Iberia. Hence they're the only Celts because they are actually the only ones who called themselves Celts. What modern academics decide to call "Celts" is immaterial because those names are arbitrarily chosen. But "Celts" in the tombstones in western Iberia was not arbitrary, it was their native names. Watch the movie-documentary on Amazon I told you about and you'll learn it all. Did you watch it? Did you find it?
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  46.  @RexNicolaus  I am being honest. I'll have a phone conversation with you if you want. George Buchanan in 1582 was literally the first anglophone to use the word "Celtic" for languages. Before that it was only used in English-speaking world to talk about "Celtic fields" in poems.
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  47. Metatron is not aware that there was an ethnic Celtic people because he still believes the Romanticist Victorian Nordicist narrative.
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  48. The Irish and the Welsh are not Celtic. They were "made Celtic-speakers" by the Victorian Romanticist Nordicist scholars of the 17th century. Before that, even George Buchanan who coined the term "Celtic languages" in 1582 knew that "the Spanish are the Celts on the grounds of the Celtici tribe being from there" and his belief that tribe migrated to Ireland and Scotland was his only reason to call Irish and Scottish "Celtic".
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  49. Unfortunately the explanation is not correct. Celts were not a "culture" and there were no "name dcultures" in antiquity the way modern academics talk about. Celts were tribes living in western Iberia and southern France and their name became wrongly associated with a language family.
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  50. So the Irish really have nothing to do with the Celts.
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