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@sim
More than anything biology probably determines who one decides to imitate.

@sim
I'm pretty sure that males have masculine forms, and women have feminine forms. How they behave might be a different matter, tho.

"Studies of prenatal androgen exposure have provided some evidence that femininity and masculinity are partly biologically determined."

@Sphinx
Oh, okay. Yeah thou is a word found in classic English literature, that's why it's generally popular among English-speakers.
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@realcaseyrollins

The first English sentence I learn is how do you do. I was born and raised in China

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@cantinto @feld @freemo @realcaseyrollins i mean holocaust wasn't the only reason. Soviet union eventually started systematically killing jewish people or otherwise oppressing them and overall zeitgeist in europe wasn't... good.

What makes it a complicated subject is that on one side you have an entire nation suddenly moving to a piece of land and claiming it's the land of their ancestors and its their right to live there even if said ancestors abandoned the land, on the other hand you have people already living there for generations, not liking the intruders.

simpler analogy would be - there's an abandoned castle somewhere and nobody is sure whom it belongs to, but there are people already living there, suddenly some other person shows up and says his dad lived in there and shows a piece of paper saying that said dad willed it to them, not really verified by anyone but seems legit™, they have a lot of fights with eachother and now you're tasked on resolving their conflict. You literally cannot win in this situation: ignore them and you'll be called incompetent and dysfunctional and lose trust in you, do literally anything and some people will hate you for it.

@design_RG
[Thou]
archaic or dialect form of you, as the singular subject of a verb.

new word for me today!
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@realcaseyrollins

Depends on the time period. the bible was written quite a bit before the crusades... But basically the Jews have never had a secured homeland in israel, it was pretty much always under dispute whether it is due to romans or Palestinians or whatever. What I described was crusades around 1000AD, you are describing almost 1000 years earlier.

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@stux

My allergy injections hurt more than the few tattoos I have. :blobcatgiggle: I almost dozed off when I was getting the one on my shoulder blade.

@realcaseyrollins @DitzyFlama ouch... hopefully they don't bring over the people they're trying to avoid.

@cantinto @feld @freemo @hj Oof.

I'd generally surmised based on the and what happened in WWII, and guessing what had occurred in between that the got conquered or whatever by the Romans but once the Roman empire died, the Jews kinda scattered. When the Nazis scooped up all the German Jews but ended up losing the war, there was nowhere for the Jews to go so they were like "let's go back to the homeland bois" and the Palestinians were like "heck no gamers we were here first" and the Jews were like "yes, but actually no" and the UN helped them get back what was once their homeland.

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