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| Topic | 10 interesting facts! Day 1! |
| ParanoidObsessive 07/27/21 7:59:46 AM #4: | #1 and #4 immediately struck me as being wrong. After checking, #4 is objectively false and #1 depends entirely on how you define "civilization" (but by standard definitions, it would also be false). You spelled #3 wrong (it's Clovis), and the overall point is in dispute - what you posted used to be the common assumption, but there's been a lot of evidence since that might contradict it. (Combined with your #4, I'm wondering if you got all of these "facts" from an older source.) #5 is arguably wrong, and is mostly related in a bit of old-time racism, because it distinguishes between which religions "count" as "surviving" (not to mention what you count as a "religion" and what you dismiss as "mythology" or "superstition"), and the trouble with dating origins of ideas in pre-literate societies, combined with how you define start-points for ideas that are synthesized from other ideas (as you yourself touch on). Some people have referred to Hinduism that way, but it's nothing resembling an actual consensus or official academic stance. I kind of stopped there and just skimmed the rest. I do know I've read "complaints" that are generally contemporaneous with #9, but I'm not sure of the exact dating on those and it would be a hassle to dig out the work to double-check. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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