Message from @fallot
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other races rub elbows with other races more and see themselves as more distinct
not sure this is accurate at all
seems too big
in fact subsets of people only slightly different will insist they are just about different species
5 million seems about right I guess
well I just wanted to get my scale right
like are we talking millions or hundreds of thou
aite
right on
I'm interested in our origins, the myth I think is not credible (or it may be true? dunno)
arab migration?
one arab patriarch
a semi-legendary figure called Qutb Shah
supposedly a descendant of Ali, the cousin of Muhammad and the 4th Caliph
from his second wife, Umm-ul-Banin ("Mother of the sons")
my grandfather outmarried though
paternal grandfather
his wife has origins in greater persia
also, my family lives right at the edge of Punjabi ethnic geography
and has for generations
but who knows, endogamy is pretty strong in the indian subcontinent
also, the Qutb Shah story doesn't answer where the rest of the blood is from
my current theory is Indo-Scythian clan
so not original "Aryan invasion" but later invasions of steppe people
interesting
I don't know anything about the Scythians, but i always thought they had a neat name
this last link is interesting but probably very inaccurate
Sam Harris is someone who often manages to amuse me with the ways he manages to draw the wrong conclusions about things
he's smart but
a clever silly
refuses to examine his priors often
the problem with being a public intellectual is that you can't help but be biased by the publicity of your old positions
that's probably how he ends up so wrong
He like all atheists also has an unhealthy and reductionist view of religion that is pointlessly obsessed with metaphysical truth and ignores everything else
perhaps such a person could benefit from your pragmatist envisioning earlier
a cold appraisal of religion, what it means, what it offered
whether or not its true being a suspended consideration
"religion lead to a lot of wars" sounds to me like "money lead to a lot of wars"
well there's more middle ground too. For example, a religious version of a neutral monist perspective would say that the symbolism coded within religion has truth value