12 really bad religious ideas

[Zinjanthropos]

 Despite all these precautions, contamination of water was unavoidable, especially in densely populated cities.

CC...If you watch these docs re wildlife around local watering hole then you have to wonder how anything drinking water contaminated with everything from hippo shit to dead wildebeest carcasses doesn't die from it. Obviously our common ancestor could do it but at some point we lost the ability.

[C C]

 Despite all these precautions, contamination of water was unavoidable, especially in densely populated cities.

CC...If you watch these docs re wildlife around local watering hole then you have to wonder how anything drinking water contaminated with everything from hippo shit to dead wildebeest carcasses doesn't die from it. Obviously our common ancestor could do it but at some point we lost the ability.

Especially love the various aquatic parasites that work their way into the eyes.

One good reason for having lots of kids, clear up until the 20th-century. So many died and became disabled before adulthood -- parents needed at least one to three fit survivors so they'd have someone to take care of them in old age.

Being pregnant throughout the fertile years -- and with no retail stores for ready-made goods and automated machines to perform the countless domestic chores... That certainly didn't help the status of women before the technological and medical explosion. But if you look at old paintings of everyday life done back in the 16th-century, they're filled with scenes of older women and men working beside each other -- whether in the fields, butchering livestock, other labor.

Only nobles, landowners, legal professionals, and commercial family elite had it physically easy -- there was no social ascension available for the rest, anyway. Enforced class slavery flourished ages before establishment and preoccupation with the race-centered kind developed in the "caste-less" New World. The resonances of it still vaguely linger with the crab-bucket mentality: "Stop talkin' and behavin' pretentiously, fool!"

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