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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Timo: [QB] Camouflaging as a complete non sequitur and a partial reply to an earlier point at the same time, I hereby bring forth my utter distaste of the concept of "racial memory" independent of direct meme transfer, and label it repulsive new age hogwash. The "Huh? How's this a partial reply to anything?" part concerns the Noah's Flood thing. Sure, there must have been a pretty impressive show when the Mediterranean refilled. But AFAIK, that happened about a million years ago or so, and the rerun during the most recent ice age was more disappointing than "Nemesis". The idea that mankind would really "remember" something dating a million years back (or even a hundred thousand) without each and every mother explicitly telling it as a bedside story to the kids... It's more science fiction than the concept of time travel. Now, something like the flooding of the Black Sea is more credible, as it apparently happened well within plausible oral-tradition memory. Or at least so recently that the said memory could have carried on until the first "historical records" of the event. And big floods or droughts anywhere would certainly make for good and long-living saga material, as the subject will be brought up again and again. ("It was like this flood we now have here, but a hundred times bigger!" "Hah! I remember one a *thousand* times bigger!") But I'd rather believe in us subconsciously remembering the water in mommy's womb than in us subconsciously remembering what happened to the Med back when our forefathers had hair in places we don't even want to think about. Timo Saloniemi [/QB][/QUOTE]
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