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Given that Europe is a similar natural landscape: forest, river, mountain, and has the same wildlife: bears, pigs, wolves, and that it was sparsely populated by
by kagamine 11y ago
Given that Europe is a similar natural landscape: forest, river, mountain, and has the same wildlife: bears, pigs, wolves, and that it was sparsely populated by modern standards with travel going fastest by horse if you even had a horse, I can see why there are common threads throughout. The dangers were the same, the outcome the same, the weapons of defense the same. The common origin I would assume, is no more than common experiences.
- sveme 11y agoSeriously, there are guys researching this topic for years, applying sophisticated linguistic analyses and then finally propose a novel hypothesis to the world - then comes a guy on the internet and after a quick snap of their thoughts destroys their work and claims they're wrong, it is no more than common experiences. Reminds me of all those internet scientists that ask "but what about the sun?" when the topic of AGW comes up. No shit, Sherlock, never thought about that blinding thing in the sky before! Sorry for the rant and attacking you, but sometimes a bit of humility is warranted when it comes to science.
- kagamine 11y agoYeah, there are a lot a lot of people in universities wasting time and money while trying a make a name and career for themselves. I once studied literature, have you delved into the amount of BS people will write about Shakespeare just to come up with something original? Academia is an industry too. But you know, a common ancestor who imparted the wisdom of ye olde wurld on to generations to come, like a LotR type sceanrio, that's not making the square evidence fit in a round hole. /sceptic