Re: Ossetians and Pashto similarities

From: benlizross (benlizro_at_ihug.co.nz)
Date: 09/05/04 

Date: Mon, 06 Sep 2004 08:27:14 +1200

Daniel wrote:
>
> "alexV" <alexV7623@comcast.net> wrote in message news:<5tidnTDlssNA9qfcRVn-vg@comcast.com>...
> > I should only add that I wish I had a better understanding of the matter
> > myself. So far I have advanced so far as to see obvious inconsistencies (in
> > others) when the material (genetic) evidence is not taken into account but I
> > wish I could tell the *truth.* No, it is not the case. I cannot.
>
> theres a tribe in amazonia goes by the name of nua-nua - i think
> but my spelling needs apologies - im diagnosed dyslexic.
> in other primitive tribes theres a man::woman division. the men are the
> hunter gatherers and the woman folk nurse the young and carry out
> othre homely duties. this tribe is diferent to the rest. the food that
> they most value is the hearts and livers of 2 monkeys - pithecia monachus
> and lagothrix lagothrica. arm-eye co ordination is vital to hunt
> this prey because it lives way up in the rainforest canopy so they choose
> the best hunters and they can be man OR woman.
> how do they do it? when a child is born they they wait
> for the first few words. if pepaqua is spoekn first the child gets
> put in among the hundters and if metama in among the remainder.
> dont look too smart does it? theres more. when tests were conducted on
> the tribe turns out the hunters have a whole bunch of physiological
> characteristiscs that makes them better hunters than the others.
> and these characteristics are congenital - in plain talk it means they
> were there at birth. so it looks a lot like theres a link between
> first words said and huntin g ability - its a link between language
> and genetic predisposition. ive been scratching my head o n that
> for awhile but i cant figure it and this kind of work is not universally
> accetped -

You might have a better chance of having your story accepted by people
here if you could give a reference to a credible scientific account of
this. Or at least make a supreme effort and give us a correct spelling
of the tribe's name. Otherwise this is just another folk tale.

Ross Clark

the reaction here will have told you somehting about that.
> imho this goes way back to the sixties and the polliticization of the
> campus by librals. aw theyre full of talk about freedom and
> individualizational ideals but deep down inside their dark core every
> one of them wants every one of us to be just the same inside as them.
> liberals - theyre not going to tell youu this - are communists at heart.
> they need us to be the same else their five year plans wont work. a centrally
> controlled state relies on the uniformity of the human psyche it cant
> deal with real variation in temperament or aptitude. like so many identical
> molecules in a cylinder we must react predictably to the regular push
> of the piston that compresses us. when they hear that langauge
> has a gentic component their utopian masterplan falls apart.
> buut i hope the day will come one day - just like with galileo - when
> the evidence is so strong it can not be denied. if we arent all
> pliant workers in a soul-destroying collective by then.
>
> |best regards|
>
> .dan.
>
> millenium II punctuation

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