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[Simon]

A well known fact because people that existed 2,000 years apart behave differently? What a laughable argument. Ridiculous by even your standards. Do you have any idea how ancient Greeks actually behaved? Foreigners were seen as lesser people, "barbarians". Foreigners were not allowed to compete in the Olympic Games for instance. Women in Athens had very few rights, and corruption existed back then as it always has. Spartans were nothing if not barbaric. I could go on but I won't bother...

If anything, it’s the Greeks that were looked down upon by the E.Roman Byzantium who were the ones who coined the term “hellene” for Greeks which actually meant “pagan”!

I think you'll find people of most nations past and present tend to look down on foreigners. Unfortunate but normally true.

[Oracle]

It is a well known fact that modern Greeks have nothing to do with ancient Greeks.

What is well known is that you are always wrong. Plus you cant deny that Greeks of today speak the same language and inhabit the same lands as ancient Greeks did. So, GET OVER IT.

On this occasion Bananiot is spot on!

A "spot on" factless statement!

Are you going to ask him for "Credible Evidence" or are you going to be a hypocrite and let him off because he is your puppet, tonight?

[Klik]

Get Real!, I'll ask you again to do what your nickname suggests....

Every time you say that, I just come back and decimate you!

And this time will be no different because the article (which you obviously haven't read) concludes with...

"The modern Greeks would love to know they're descended from the ancient Greeks. But since 1500BC Greece has been invaded and occupied so many times I'm not sure we're going to get the answer they want."

I have read it you dufus. Have you noticed what the comment says? And have you noticed that the paragraph just before that says that THEY WILL NOT TEST THE BONES RIGHT AWAY?

Does that mean they have figured out everything and that "i'm not sure they get the answer they want" = I know for a fact after conducting a research... ?

How dumb are you really? I might just write a book about Greeks not having any relation to the ancient years and sell it you for $5000 you might just buy it and I won't care if I spend 20 hours for $5000 since I know you would buy it... Win-win situation. I rip you off, you sleep good at nights in your dreamworld

[Cap]

Check out this DNA test.. Who's blacker!! lol

[Get Real!]

Get Real!, I'll ask you again to do what your nickname suggests....

Every time you say that, I just come back and decimate you!

And this time will be no different because the article (which you obviously haven't read) concludes with...

"The modern Greeks would love to know they're descended from the ancient Greeks. But since 1500BC Greece has been invaded and occupied so many times I'm not sure we're going to get the answer they want."

I have read it you dufus. Have you noticed what the comment says? And have you noticed that the paragraph just before that says that THEY WILL NOT TEST THE BONES RIGHT AWAY?

Does that mean they have figured out everything and that "i'm not sure they get the answer they want" = I know for a fact after conducting a research... ?

How dumb are you really? I might just write a book about Greeks not having any relation to the ancient years and sell it you for $5000 you might just buy it and I won't care if I spend 20 hours for $5000 since I know you would buy it... Win-win situation. I rip you off, you sleep good at nights in your dreamworld

Err, I honestly think you're just too inexperienced for this section of the CF and it's in your interests to let others tackle the matter because you’re just digging your grave deeper!

[Bananiot]

Well done Simon, but shall we look at the bigger picture? Suppose I take you back to the Hellenistic period, and you had a chance to chat with Plato and all the "brains" of the era. I think you would be very surprised by the strength of rational thought that was exhibited and looked upon as a noble virtue by the contemporaries. The Greeks of that time looked to rationality as the single vehicle that could help them escape from the dark venues of deliberate people or oppressors, call them anything you like. It took courage to move away and leave behind stereotypes, but people at the time could summon enough of it to rise above. Can you say the same about the Greeks of today?

Generally, because of globalisation of travel, different people from different countries, cultures, religions etc, come together and this stirs the feelings of the misanthropists who can never understand that accepting something different is what it matters rather than keep asking why it is different. I do not want to lose you Simon, but I think, some 2500 years ago, there were people in ancient Greece, great people, who understood certain values much more than we do today, so many years later but definitely not more wise. Yes, ancient Greece had her shortcomings, but it had rational people that stood out and made themselves count. Where are these people in contemporary Greece? Can you tell me?

[Oracle]

I wonder what Bananiot considers is the date, the exact time, that the "Ancient Greeks" stopped existing (the second dinosaurs) and the "Modern Greeks" spontaneously generated? Were the Ancient Greeks so stagnant? Such failures that they peaked and became extinct leaving no trace?

Maybe they had a mass suicide sipping hemlock ...

What an absurd hypothesis he peddles!

[Get Real!]

It is a well known fact that modern Greeks have nothing to do with ancient Greeks.

What is well known is that you are always wrong. Plus you cant deny that Greeks of today speak the same language and inhabit the same lands as ancient Greeks did. So, GET OVER IT.

On this occasion Bananiot is spot on!

A "spot on" factless statement!

Are you going to ask him for "Credible Evidence" or are you going to be a hypocrite and let him off because he is your puppet, tonight?

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[Bananiot]

Look in the mirror oracle and also (perhaps more important) read the classics and make a note as to how much you agree with them. There, you will find all your answers.

[Oracle]

There are no answers, only questions ...