Message from @ETBrooD

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2019-11-03 05:34:22 UTC  

I can vaguely remember a few of the stories

2019-11-03 05:34:41 UTC  

They were a collection of folklore of rural Germany, collected by the Grimm brothers

2019-11-03 05:35:28 UTC  

What they found was that these stories reflected many similar elements and often times contained missing links with Germanic Iron Age historical events

2019-11-03 05:35:55 UTC  

Which had been recorded elsewhere

2019-11-03 05:35:57 UTC  

"Many similar elements" does not equate to "values consistent through time"

2019-11-03 05:36:40 UTC  

It does tell us which values remained and which didn't, and couple it with historical events, you have the complete picture

2019-11-03 05:37:01 UTC  

No it doesn't tell us that, because it's only a collection, and it's not a word-for-word representation of any values

2019-11-03 05:37:25 UTC  

The main point is, there has always been a transmission of beliefs from the older generation to the younger, even when they were illiterate

2019-11-03 05:37:36 UTC  

It's also likely that the Grimm brothers put their own spin on the stories

2019-11-03 05:37:47 UTC  

So to sum it up, it proves nothing about consistent values

2019-11-03 05:38:28 UTC  

It proves that people propagated their beliefs regardless of literacy

2019-11-03 05:38:36 UTC  

Which is really a self evident point anyway

2019-11-03 05:38:57 UTC  

Propapagated their beliefs... through time?

2019-11-03 05:39:16 UTC  

So three or four generations later those beliefs would be consistent?

2019-11-03 05:39:30 UTC  

Across all or most people?

2019-11-03 05:40:19 UTC  

Mutations of beliefs occurred mainly through wars and other upheavals like famine

2019-11-03 05:40:25 UTC  

That's a non-answer

2019-11-03 05:40:45 UTC  

And even such events were recorded and passed down as folklore

2019-11-03 05:40:55 UTC  

*getting increasingly bored*

2019-11-03 05:41:46 UTC  

Not to mention, mutations didn't cause rapid changes. So for instance, it would be highly rare for a stable society to go from rejecting homosexuality to accepting it, unlike in today's post modern age

2019-11-03 05:41:56 UTC  

Aight, no answer then

2019-11-03 05:42:00 UTC  

I wanted to go to bed anyway, gn8

2019-11-03 05:42:09 UTC  

That's the answer

2019-11-03 05:42:13 UTC  

Nope it's not

2019-11-03 05:42:13 UTC  

Read again

2019-11-03 05:42:28 UTC  

Ok read it again, it's still a non-answer

2019-11-03 05:42:40 UTC  

> So three or four generations later those beliefs would be consistent?
> Across all or most people?

2019-11-03 05:43:13 UTC  

I provided the answer that it mutated very slowly, and only changed substantially if there were wars or other major events

2019-11-03 05:43:28 UTC  

Still a non-answer

2019-11-03 05:43:49 UTC  

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/633967610706526210/640425881034031105/Screenshot_2019-11-03-01-42-43.png

2019-11-03 05:44:18 UTC  

@EmoGazebo And then one day, for no reason at all...

2019-11-03 05:44:47 UTC  

Don't worry, Hitler made sure no new Nazi uprising could happen in the coming decades

2019-11-03 05:45:00 UTC  

<:sarGOY:462286263622303754>

2019-11-03 05:45:16 UTC  

Just in case you don't understand the meaning of that

2019-11-03 05:45:22 UTC  

Hitler is at fault that Nazis are now powerless

2019-11-03 05:45:29 UTC  

<:sarGOY:462286263622303754>

2019-11-03 05:45:48 UTC  

What, you resort to trolling now? I must say I'm disappointed, you never gave up before

2019-11-03 05:46:21 UTC  

I thought you will understand the obvious reference by the second time

2019-11-03 05:46:33 UTC  

I do understand it, but it's so simplistic and boring that I don't care

2019-11-03 05:47:01 UTC  

It has everything to do with Hitler's faults and nothing to do with (((propaganda))) against Nazi Germany?