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Developing Light Skin in Europe
- Thread starter Dr. Cheese
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Every home has this large ceramic font of sorts.
It's part of my morning ritual.
It's part of my morning ritual.
They will think we worshipped garden gnome and pink flamingo gods.
And from that, it should be an easy leap to assuming we were visited by garden gnome and pink flamingo aliens and we therefore worshiped them as gods and placed small statues of them in front of our dwellings.
And from that, it should be an easy leap to assuming we were visited by garden gnome and pink flamingo aliens and we therefore worshiped them as gods and placed small statues of them in front of our dwellings.
Gaolee
Official leathers tester and crash dummy
Imagine what some of our musical instruments will look like to the archaeologists of the future.
We are, of course, referring to the hyper evolved cockroaches that have survived whatever is is that we eventually do to ourselves and the planet, and gotten smart enough to start to wonder what the heck our problem was 
I was thinking a repeat of what happened at the end of the last ice age. A sudden event sends us back to the stone age, our history is lost, save a few folk tales and myths told by mouth the vaguely capture what happened, until we advance yet again and start to uncover archeological remnants of what we were 20k yrs ago and argue about who's theory is more righter, so we can have our papers published and secure funding for more research,.......We are, of course, referring to the hyper evolved cockroaches that have survived whatever is is that we eventually do to ourselves and the planet, and gotten smart enough to start to wonder what the heck our problem was
But now that you mention it,....I don't think our current iteration of a human being would survive. We can barely survive toilet paper shortages or having a package delivered late.
So, the next big one will likely wipe us out and the only things to survive will be roaches and probably those old people we all have in our families,.... The ones that are absolutely miserable, treat everyone like crap, smoke, drink, eat like crap and yet they outlive everyone else in the family.
Someone earlier in the thread made a comment about humans eventually all having a similar skin tone.
I'm picturing that eventually we will all have a grayish skin tone, have large heads, skinny bodies and possibly develop time travel so we won't have to dig in the dirt to discover our past. We can simply travel back in time and.....
Wait a minute......
I'm picturing that eventually we will all have a grayish skin tone, have large heads, skinny bodies and possibly develop time travel so we won't have to dig in the dirt to discover our past. We can simply travel back in time and.....
Wait a minute......
Hopefully this otherwise educational and peaceful conversation isn't used to inject and incite political nonsense.
I had to look that person up and after 3.5 sec, the first thing I asked myself is, why would anyone know who this is, or be looking them up, or reading their work, or reading articles about them?
People like that use race to trigger conflict and draw attention to themselves. People like that create situations for people to fight about the wrong problems, or even problems that don't exist. The end game is they gain recognition and traction as a social figure.
So, why pay attention? Why watch someone like that on YouTube, when there's videos like in the first post to watch?
(That's actually a rhetorical question).
I had to look that person up and after 3.5 sec, the first thing I asked myself is, why would anyone know who this is, or be looking them up, or reading their work, or reading articles about them?
People like that use race to trigger conflict and draw attention to themselves. People like that create situations for people to fight about the wrong problems, or even problems that don't exist. The end game is they gain recognition and traction as a social figure.
So, why pay attention? Why watch someone like that on YouTube, when there's videos like in the first post to watch?
(That's actually a rhetorical question).
Yeah, sorry wrong cataclysm.
I was thinking of this :
Which took place during the last ice age, but about 40,000 years before the glacial maximum (there's disagreement as to whether it caused the subsequent decline in temperature).
That’s was why I said I’m sure has access to YouTube. I am not interested in trying to change grow folks’ opinions, plus that sort of thing is against TB rules. This is a nice scientific topic that certainly has implications that are political, but this is not the place to discuss them.
There are a lot of things that we are used to and don't think much about. Things that haven't really been around all that long. Just as an example, the idea that women wanted diamonds and needed to cost a month's salary didn't exist before the 1920s. Debeers invented the whole thing. I'll bet a lot of people don't know that or think about it. People probably assume it's been like that forever. I don't think wedding bands were really a thing before then either.
Anyway, point is, I often find myself wondering about when things started. One of those things is when did we start categorizing people by their skin color? As in white people, black people, etc?
I wonder if that's more recent than one would assume. I find it odd that people identify as a color. As if the pigment of your skin defines the "type" of person you are. I mean, I get how we got here and why people do it, I guess. It's more just one of those weird things you think to yourself but don't say out loud because people are nuts or just not capable of a conversation like that. Kinda like when you say a word and just sounds funny, so you say it a few times and realize, that's w really odd sounding word.
I do that with behaviors too. There's a lot of things that are just normal, every day occurrences, but inside I think, it's really odd that we do that.
Anyway, point is, I often find myself wondering about when things started. One of those things is when did we start categorizing people by their skin color? As in white people, black people, etc?
I wonder if that's more recent than one would assume. I find it odd that people identify as a color. As if the pigment of your skin defines the "type" of person you are. I mean, I get how we got here and why people do it, I guess. It's more just one of those weird things you think to yourself but don't say out loud because people are nuts or just not capable of a conversation like that. Kinda like when you say a word and just sounds funny, so you say it a few times and realize, that's w really odd sounding word.
I do that with behaviors too. There's a lot of things that are just normal, every day occurrences, but inside I think, it's really odd that we do that.
"They worshipped an all-knowing God, that brought wisdom and joy, lies and dispair.
An ever present sentinel, watching over every aspect of their lives. That they would converse with, and pray to, via a handheld portal."
