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| Topic Started: Aug 28 2009, 07:48 PM (1,581 Views) | |
| Ànraich | Sep 7 2009, 03:08 PM Post #46 |
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Reminds me of when the Japanese accidentally shot a bunch of British soldiers in WWI because they couldn't tell one white person from another. I don't particularly have traits I look for in women. So long as they aren't chubby or a skeleton or have some kind of deformity I don't care (I don't have a problem with deformed people, I would just feel uncomfortable dating someone who is deformed). What I really care about though is personality; someone smart, not incompetent, and not condescending. And they have to share my interests, obviously. |
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We should all aspire to die surrounded by our dearest friends. Just like Julius Caesar. "The Lord Universe said: 'The same fate I have given to all things from stones to stars, that one day they shall become naught but memories aloft upon the winds of time. From dust all was born, and to dust all shall return.' He then looked upon His greatest creation, life, and pitied them, for unlike stars and stones they would soon learn of this fate and despair in the futility of their own existence. And so the Lord Universe decided to give life two gifts to save them from this despair. The first of these gifts was the soul, that life might more readily accept their fate, and the second was fear, that they might in time learn to avoid it altogether." - Excerpt from a Chanagwan creation myth, Legends and Folklore of the Planet Ghar, collected and published by Yieju Bai'an, explorer from the Celestial Commonwealth of Qonming Tree That Owns Itself
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| Temporary | Sep 7 2009, 03:34 PM Post #47 |
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Back on topic, there was something on TV last night that seemed relevant to this discussion: We may never have met Neanderthals at all. The last known group of Neanderthals died, according to our best dating, 4 hundred years before humans settled in the same area. According to this theory it was climate getting colder that wiped out the Neanderthals. If it had got warmer instead, we would have went extinct. |
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| lamna | Sep 7 2009, 03:58 PM Post #48 |
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Are you quite sure about that? During WW1 the only time the British Army and Imperial Army fought together was at the Siege of Tsingtao. As the name suggests it was a Siege with the Germans and Austo-Hungarians in the port city now romanized as Qingdao, and the British and Japanese trying to get in. The Japanese were with the British for weeks, I think they would have recognised their uniforms. The only other time the Japanese and British fought side by side on land was during the Boxer rebellion, but they were fighting Chinese soldiers and Boxers there. Perhaps you mean when the Japanese put down a British Mutiny in Singapore. But that was the Indian army not white people, and there was not a German for miles. On topic that sounds off to me. Accuracy of 400 years on stuff that old? I don't buy it. |
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| Temporary | Sep 7 2009, 04:05 PM Post #49 |
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True. I'm sticking with the intermingling theory myself. I like it better then thinking we never met (which there are evidence of trade in some caves) or went to war with the only other species of human. I'm a bit more optimistic then that. |
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| Ànraich | Sep 7 2009, 04:20 PM Post #50 |
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So let me understand this; the human species adapted to live in a cold environment went extinct because it got colder? And the one adapted to tropical heat conditions would have gone extinct if it had gotten warmer instead? From a logic standpoint that theory doesn't work at all. |
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We should all aspire to die surrounded by our dearest friends. Just like Julius Caesar. "The Lord Universe said: 'The same fate I have given to all things from stones to stars, that one day they shall become naught but memories aloft upon the winds of time. From dust all was born, and to dust all shall return.' He then looked upon His greatest creation, life, and pitied them, for unlike stars and stones they would soon learn of this fate and despair in the futility of their own existence. And so the Lord Universe decided to give life two gifts to save them from this despair. The first of these gifts was the soul, that life might more readily accept their fate, and the second was fear, that they might in time learn to avoid it altogether." - Excerpt from a Chanagwan creation myth, Legends and Folklore of the Planet Ghar, collected and published by Yieju Bai'an, explorer from the Celestial Commonwealth of Qonming Tree That Owns Itself
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| lamna | Sep 7 2009, 04:33 PM Post #51 |
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Well the Irish Elk died out in Ireland because temperatures dropped in Ireland as the Ice sheets melted and all that cold water cooled Ireland. I don't know about Neanderthals though. Megaloceros managed to hang on a lot longer in other places. |
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| Temporary | Sep 7 2009, 04:58 PM Post #52 |
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Well, Homo-sapiens spread because of the climate got colder, causing a century long drought in Africa wiping out most of the savannha they had gotten used too, forcing them to find new lands. Neanderthal's preffered environment remained the same, so they weren't forced to adapt for a long while. When it did hit them, it hit much faster. They couldn't adapt to fit it. |
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| Ànraich | Sep 7 2009, 05:37 PM Post #53 |
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Perhaps. I suppose most of the animals would go south as well, and Neanderthals did require a lot more calories than we do in order to survive. |
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We should all aspire to die surrounded by our dearest friends. Just like Julius Caesar. "The Lord Universe said: 'The same fate I have given to all things from stones to stars, that one day they shall become naught but memories aloft upon the winds of time. From dust all was born, and to dust all shall return.' He then looked upon His greatest creation, life, and pitied them, for unlike stars and stones they would soon learn of this fate and despair in the futility of their own existence. And so the Lord Universe decided to give life two gifts to save them from this despair. The first of these gifts was the soul, that life might more readily accept their fate, and the second was fear, that they might in time learn to avoid it altogether." - Excerpt from a Chanagwan creation myth, Legends and Folklore of the Planet Ghar, collected and published by Yieju Bai'an, explorer from the Celestial Commonwealth of Qonming Tree That Owns Itself
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| lamna | Sep 8 2009, 02:11 AM Post #54 |
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I've heard that's why they went extinct. Homo sapains were the economy model human. |
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| Xenophile | Sep 8 2009, 07:28 PM Post #55 |
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Formerly known as alienboy.
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This quick question has not turned out to be quick at all. |
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