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Edit: I recounted my memory of what David Reich hypothesized about India and the spread of Indo-European languages there, but it was from memory and I might have got some details wrong so I’m including the lecture I’m referencing here, which I am also going to listen to again to refresh my memory and because his work is very interesting https://youtu.be/pra7YZWVc-s

David Reich is a genetic researcher who I find very interesting, his thing is to recover samples of ancient DNA and use it to map migration patterns and he compares this with other data, eg linguistic and cultural connections.

I remember watching one lecture he gave, on YouTube, about Sanskrit and he found that the ancient people who lived where Sanskrit developed were basically not genetic descendants of the Indo-Europeans, leading him to hypothesize the language spread through the region as a trade language and he argued against the hypothesis that it was a ruling caste or a conquest.

Now if the language spread it’s plausible that other cultural practices spread alongside the language but it’s also very plausible, especially if it was a trade language rather than a high status language of rulers like Reich hypothesizes, that the spread of the language didn’t necessarily carry much other cultural baggage with it.

And even if it religious and cultural practices did spread alongside the language, the evidence of ancient DNA samples shows it spread among a number of ethnically diverse groups groups who presumably also had diverse cultural and religious practices so there’s no reason to think ancient Indian religion of 5000 years ago more resembles the original indo-European religion of 10,000 years ago when compared to Greek, Latin, Norse, etc, religion of 1,2,3000 years ago.

Like we can see that written Sanskrit remained remarkably unchanged for 5000 years which is very interesting but my point is you just can’t extrapolate back from that. Being very unchanged for 5000 years doesn’t actually imply being very unchanged for 8-10,000 years.

But they’re so close to China which is where all these US drones will be manufactured that’s got to be good for logistics

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Whenever I see “DEI” I think it’s some new crypto coin I haven’t heard of yet

I guess the issue is you’re viewing them as groups that differ in how “primitive” and “pure” they are when all groups would have undergone a degree of cultural exchange and evolution since the common ancestor, and you’re also assuming that less linguistic change necessarily implies less cultural change.

I mean it makes sense if you think of Christianity as a freak fusion of Roman religion and pre-Rabbinical Judaism.

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Reddit warrior with a camo water bottle beside their gaming machine asking why the universities are still open

Young boys and old men who feel an obligation to help and protect the young boys

Police will brutalize the “black Israelite” whackos and then spend 40 minutes politely asking the sovcits to please wind down the window before calling a supervisor who writes them a summons because it’s not their problem.

Deification can work both ways.

The fact the Dems are to the right of Reagan and well to the right of Nixon is obscured by the fact that Reagan and Nixon were republicans.