Who started both World Wars?

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aggle-rithm said:
This especially creates problems when looking at the historical period under discussion about Africa...at around 1100 AD, when Great Zimbabwe and London had about the same population and Rome was in serious decline, China was culturally and technologically way more advanced than either Europe or Africa.
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Well, there's nothing like looking at the present and ignoring the rest of history.
 
aggle-rithm said:
Have you heard of the hunter-farmer theory by Thom Harmann? It states that people who are considered "normal" carry the attention genes that are adapted for farming, while people with ADHD carry the "hunter" gene. Farming requires focus, low distractability, and patience. Hunting requires high distractability (to be able to shift attention quickly to potential dangers and/or prey) and impatience (they must keep moving to cover a lot of ground). The only reason that "normal" people are more common today is that farming supports a larger population than hunting.
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I have not, and I don't think I buy it.

For one thing, an impatient hunter is a failed hunter; ask any bowhunter when deer season rolls around. The best way to hunt is not to cover a lot of ground, but to find a spot where the game is going to be and wait for them.

In one of his books, Hartmann explained the high academic achievement of Asian cultures by pointing to their mainly agricultural heritage, so a higher percentage of the population carries the "farmer" gene.
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And, again, this is ridiculous. "Cultures" don't have genes; individuals do. A white or Native American with the "farmer" gene would have just the same gene as an Asian -- but still be part of a different cultural population. The simple fact is that any culture that has achieved a level of stability that permits "high academic achievement" will be agricultural -- which means that there will be a high enough percentage of the population "fit" to do agriculture to support the population, and so you'd still get nerds and bookworm in any such culture if those are controlled by the same genes.
 
Mirrorglass said:
I don't really get the idea of nordic whites being so great anyway. We were, like, the last people in Europe to leave stone age. There are no great cathedrals in Scandinavia. None of us have been on the winning side in any major war in centuries. We're generally not known for great accomplishments in either science or the arts (although there were at least some). And our deep, blue eyes and our flowing blonde locks of hair framing the raw, nordic handsomeness make everyone think we can't possibly be smart.
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A gross calumny! Why, in the field of Norwegian arts I can offer -
FILM: "Orions Belt" - espionage, boats and Kipper Island
"Max Manus" - guns, explosions and lots of dead Nazis. Leading to -
"Dead Snow" - snow, gore and undead Nazi zombies.
MUSIC: Royksopp. "Royksopp Forever" and "Alpha Male" are pretty ass-kicking tunes.
PICKCHERS: That Edvard Munch feller and his daub "The Scream".

As for the stereotypical blonde Nordic look, if Ryokan's avatar is at all real life, then he disproves it. In a good way!

Finally, I don't know why 9/11 The Flaming Nazi Gasbag* hates the Brits so. After all, it was the Dutch who sailed up the Thames and burnt the Royal Navy at anchor.

*Mods, he dubbed himself this very same name, so I can use it too, okay?
 
I'm just wondering when the OP topic is ever going to come up again. Perhaps we should rephrase it: Who lost both World Wars?
 
stilicho said:
I'm just wondering when the OP topic is ever going to come up again. Perhaps we should rephrase it: Who lost both World Wars?
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I will answer the question of the OP right here and now:

No one started both World Wars. They were started by two totally different people.
 
dudalb said:
ANd don't forget, The Lying Dutchman thought it was by Chris HItchens, not Peter. Missing the Author's By Line takes some real selective reading....
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And the biggest pair of blinkers in the world.Ones with swastikas painted on them.
 
Mirrorglass said:
I don't really get the idea of nordic whites being so great anyway. We were, like, the last people in Europe to leave stone age. There are no great cathedrals in Scandinavia. None of us have been on the winning side in any major war in centuries.
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Gustavus Adolphus, Charles X (oops), and then there's that former French marshal that helped clinch Leipzig 1813.
Mirrorglass said:
We're generally not known for great accomplishments in either science
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How's that prestigious science prize called? ;)
Mirrorglass said:
or the arts (although there were at least some).
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Grieg, Sibelius, Ibsen, HC Andersen, Selma Lagerlöf (Nobel prize winner), Astrid Lindgren, Abba :boxedin: You can make quite a list.
Mirrorglass said:
And our deep, blue eyes and our flowing blonde locks of hair framing the raw, nordic handsomeness make everyone think we can't possibly be smart.
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Aren't you overall exaggerating to the other side?
 
Horatius said:
Depends; are you Jewish?
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If that's what it would take to win your heart.

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