Nungali

Looking at it now .... WOW ! Hey Silent Thunder .... you can ride a train along the lake ;

In the Altai ? Siberia , Like Australia, has varied landscapes that many do not expect , It aint all snow and tundra folks ;

But the quote you are criticising didnt mention poverty . You have just used that quote, to make a misquote and to yet again push your agenda in a topic about peoples unfortunate enough to have a terrible natural disaster happening to them . And LOLed at them too ..... WTF ? Good one Gendao !

" "cognitive dissonance" in people ", Eh ? I agree with the words , but why then did you choose a map that shows ingress of Chinese into that area ??? In any case, the reason that there are huge and diverse Caucasian ethnic groups in western China is that area was never China in the first place . 'Interesting' selections you made to represent those people Not sure of your point , since Caucasians live and lived much further east , much closer to China https://www.quora.com/Is-there-an-ethnic-group-in-Western-China-that-is-mostly-Caucasian

My first question is , when these people lived in Tarim Basin , was that China then ? Ingress into that area seems more obvious from the west . Chinese records know of these people 'from the western region ' , but was that ' China' back then - where 'barbarians' living in the western region or was there a region to the west that was 'barbarian ' country ? I am wondering if the northern people ( 'Tocharian' A) came into the area, as vid shows , with an Andronovo origin - 'IE Steppe People' and the southern settlement came in via 'Bactria' / Pamirs - 'Iranian speakers' . Stories (myths, scripture, etc ) tell of a very old culture in Pamirs . [My contention is it has passed into human memory as Airyana Vaeja (meaning and old remembered 'Homelend', before their descendants moved west into Margiana / south Central Asia, which eventually became their Urheimat homeland - 'Yaz' , now accepted as the area of the Pishdadian Era / Iranian mythology . https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yaz_culture http://www.heritageinstitute.com/zoroastrianism/legendary/index.htm ] If we follow up into the NE of the Oxus tributaries, they penetrate into Pamirs and further provide alternative eastern route from Pamirs into south Tarim Basin - the main route in from the west . https://www.google.com/maps/@38.9529874,71.9121029,572857m/data=!3m1!1e3 What could have happened is longer ago than presently realised , people moved from 'Iran' into south Central Asia, Oasis hopped, via Margiana over to the Oxus, then went up the tributaries into Pamirs (and north) where they established their settlements, then onto the SW Tarim Basin where the same 'Oasis hopping' along the south edge of a desert was possible ... and perhaps even better . * Climate may have been way better warmer and less dry as well ( the Avesta describes an ancient climate change - cold and that means more snow and ice and less rain ) . Climate change drove movement back westwards out the high mountains back into Oxus Valley / Margiana and eventually to Yaz (by now the 'Iranians' had strong influence from northern IE, (who have said to have 'run' BMAC at its final stages, before movement into India) . This 'record' (from myth and scripture) ends at the end of the Yaz period - it breaks off and doesnt start again. But they seemed to know of far away lands to the west ( their ancient and unremembered home ) , and north of the Zargos and up to near Turkey. They emerged in history around the times of Assyrians as 'Pasa' (origins of Persians) from the Zargos down into eastern Mesopotamia. ( And then went back east and claimed their old areas as eastern satrapies of Achaemenid Empire ) The movement of Andronovo people into North Tarim is probably represented by the upper right arrow [ Aside ; are not 'Caucasians' still living in that area of Western China ? https://www.quora.com/Is-there-an-ethnic-group-in-Western-China-that-is-mostly-Caucasian ] Interesting to note the ephedra included in burials , the vid relates it to Soma ; some people think ephedra is soma , apparently a draught is easily purchased today in Tajikistan markets and that is made from ephedra

I m taking this as ' maybe you start a new thread ' I will , and I will comment later after I finish watching that vid . ..... ( and return from my snorkel )

I think its amazingly complex since we became we and started moving about .

With AI DC , you won't be having fun like this ^ any more .

Just for fun ... from 06:00

No one has opened this Pandora's box yet ... allow me .... Who dies when the car is forced into a no-win situation? https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/cars/2017/11/23/self-driving-cars-programmed-decide-who-dies-crash/891493001/ People were presented with several scenarios. Should a self-driving car sacrifice its passengers or swerve to hit: a successful business person? a known criminal? a group of elderly people? a herd of cows? pedestrians who were crossing the road when they were told to wait? https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-45991093 I was watching a panel discussion on this and the future scenario was presented where the DC (driverless car) had to decide who was going to die , it scans the persons involved, identifies them, brings up their 'social history', criminal record, etc ( 'social credit ' standing ' ? * ' consumer preferences ' ? ) . and decides if they should live or die . Another panel member asked if that was a bit far fetched and the first answered that the technology is already able to do that .... quicker than you can get your foot onto the brake * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Credit_System .

Of course . And here 'sexual harassment ' is the better term than 'hitting on' , which was the term you used before and which was the specific term I was asking about . . And just becasue YOU changed the terms regarding what I was querying, doesn't mean I think others do not have the right of choice and that its " ... their job to just f*** everyone indiscriminately . " .

Recently I had a visit from 2 old work mates from the film industry. According to them, the events bought forward by various issues in the film industry relating to sexuality, coercion and 'work pressure' have now made the industry ridiculous to work in ; eg. 'lawyers' roam the set making sure everyone is alright and comfortable, political correctness has (d)evolved to a ridiculous level . One friend was approached by one of these guys and picked up for laughing at work . Seriously ! He was told that small group of men talking together and laughing , might seem to others that they where laughing about them - so no laughing at work ! The other one was lamenting that he cant sack anyone now . They have to go through a process , and he does too, of hearing, defence, counsellings, examining issues, and re location of the worker into a more comfortable position. Or, you can make them 'redundant' and pay them out . Everyone is expected to work as hard as before ( that is the supervisors, bosses , etc ) and at the same highly productive rate , and take all this on as well . So, as friend said, its just easier and time saving to pay out the money ( some % of the amount they had earned so far ) to be rid of them . Another friend was explaining how he now has extra work as he has to check everything for safety reasons himself as he cant eliminate the incompetent . He had an accident on the last job as a rig fell off a crane , fortunately only 2 m. on the way up , if it had gone higher and then fallen off it would have landed on people below . He checked it afterwards and found 3 of the 4 back up safety systems had not been connected . Last year he would have sacked the person responsible for not following very basic and simple safety procedure that he had been trained to do . He cant have them on the job as he considers them dangerous , so now he has to spend time (and time is BIG $$$s in the film industry ) arranging 'counselling' , meetings and a hearing , in front of a little 'board' of inspectors , to make sure everything is 'above board' and proper. Then the incompetent and dangerous worker will be placed somewhere else . Friend is angry about that , but he says " Be blowed if I have to pay out $2G to get rid of an incompetent and dangerous worker ! No way ! " Good Lord ! They would have been onto me in a flash ! Glad I got out when I did . It used to be a fun job ! Can you imagine something like making the Benny Hill show nowadays - I can see it now , the silly theme music is playing and Benny is being chased down the road by a mob of angry lawyers and feminists

Ahhh , good ! Then I won't have to say what I was about to say to you .

? NOW I am doing it ? That doesnt make sense . Unless you are a Time Lord . - and here I was , not even realising I had been criticised retrochronastically for what I was about to do (Unless you meant " You are still doing the thing I originally criticized you for ." )

No ... it WAS a bidet A bull's eye is 250 points .

I think I would rather hide in the back seat and not watch . at least one is safe from RBT / RDT .

I wasnt saying he did Oh dear ... do I have to explain this out for you ? your quote is doing the same thing . - an argument closer that relies on the person winning as they assume and believe they KNOW what is going to happen for themselves and others at and after death and , often in smugness and surety , due to their own belief systems . I had a visit from 'Bible bashers' here yesterday ( except now they dont hold carry and point at passages in a Bible , they do it on an iphone now ) they tried the same tactic too .... when I made statements they could not reconcile with their belief systems . Then they ran away .. . . Like dwaai did

Can you split this into another thread for a fuller discussion ? ..... please .

I'm not . I am well aware of that AND in other areas of the workplace . I supported a waitresses claim (actually I initiated it ) about harassment at a place I worked .... and I added some 'Nunjali justice' to the mix for the purp as well . Depends what 'hitting on' means ; in some cultures , people tell me , eg. sections of Israel ( I mean sections, like army or Kibbutz - where men and women are closely integrated ) and in some Eastern European places , it is not 'untoward; for a woman to up front ask a man if he wants sex or visa versa . Is that 'hitting on' someone ? Also, the amount of nurses I saw fawning over and flirting with doctors ... is that 'hitting' ? At work (back in the film industry now ) we had a woman on crew who was . (frankly nuts and ) always having men hit on her and being followed by men or started at by ' pervs ' . One time at a party, she was right , so I pointed the 'perv' out to here and she goes "Ooooo ... Barry ? Has he been looking at me ! " undoes her top button and goes for a walk slinking past him . Perversion or flattery seems to be in the eye of the beholder . I also think there is a difference between people acting obsessively and annoyingly and those that can 'test the waters' and then adjust and adapt to the 'social setting' .

Lets have some politically incorrect fun Prince Philip to the President of Nigeria ; "You look like you're ready for bed!"

Good to see some places still work like 'the good ol days ' . Geeze ! I even remember the girls pantzing me on a landing in full sight of a studio street full of people . I had a long shirt on fortunately .... as they said . I responded ; " Fortunate for YOU ! " " Why is that ? " "Because I dont wear underwear . " " Ewwww ! " < retreat ! >

' Free-form Fundamentalism ' ?

Sounds like the Christian ' argument closer ' - you will find out I am right , when you die .... and go to Hell ! Seriously dwai , I would say that to any philosophy or religion that came up with a rather pathetic 'riposte' like that !

Please Ms Taowmeow Ma'am , can you show us evidence that, regarding Neanderthals, the stone axe they were using didn't change its design for a million years. Thank you .

Hmmm ... another non answer with a declaration that I think something that I do not . Non dual (and non-local) 'awareness' ( I prefer 'consciousness' ) are but PART of the types of consciousness .