Aids HIV FAQ

African Suffering (Was: Are High IQ Kids More Sensitive?)

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>> Ah so all of Africa is the same culture??? >You want to know something? >I don’t give a sh*t about Africa. >If they ALL die of AIDS I would not lose 5 minutes sleep.

John, human life began in Africa, in the Rift Valley of east Africa. Your forebears migrated out of Africa and slowly discovered the rest of the world. Genetic variation among humans in Africa is bigger than in all other continents combined. You and your ancestors are essentially African emigrants, later European emigrants. But the African savannah is the landscape that’s still burned deep into your genes. I have talked to many people who visited the place of human origin once, then told me that they feel an inexplicable attraction to that place. Many, if they can afford it, go back whenever they can. Africans today have drawn the short straw in the world. Their continent, from today’s point of view, combines all the disadvantages a continent can have, tropical diseases like malaria just being one of them. (Jared Diamond’s book "Guns, Germs, and Steel" explains it in fine detail.) To give you the benefit of the doubt, I believe that your remark above was written in a bad mood and does not reflect what you normally think, because I cannot believe that any human being can genuinely see other people suffer without feeling at least a trace of empathy. True, there are some Africans who make matters worse, but there is the silent majority of good and friendly people who do not deserve what they get. Hans-Georg — No mail, please.

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> To give you the benefit of the doubt, I believe that your remark > above was written in a bad mood and does not reflect what you > normally think, because I cannot believe that any human being > can genuinely see other people suffer without feeling at least a > trace of empathy.

Oh, I feel a "trace of empathy" but I don’t lose sleep! > True, there are some Africans who make matters worse, but there > is the silent majority of good and friendly people who do not > deserve what they get.

There are "some" who make matters worse? Wake up and smell the coffee! AIDS is a STD.    The "friendly people" who get AIDS were just a little too friendly.   Anyone who doesn’t make this point first and foremost isn’t interested in slowing down the spread of HIV; he is only interested in making political capital. BTW:   It really doesn’t matter WHERE man got his start.   Why do you throw in such stuff?

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Hans! Don’t bother – He is simply put STUPID! By the way – I know this feeling first hand, I thought it was only me… AndreB

– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text ->> Ah so all of Africa is the same culture??? >You want to know something? >I don’t give a sh*t about Africa. >If they ALL die of AIDS I would not lose 5 minutes sleep. > John, > human life began in Africa, in the Rift Valley of east Africa. > Your forebears migrated out of Africa and slowly discovered the > rest of the world. > Genetic variation among humans in Africa is bigger than in all > other continents combined. > You and your ancestors are essentially African emigrants, later > European emigrants. > But the African savannah is the landscape that’s still burned > deep into your genes. I have talked to many people who visited > the place of human origin once, then told me that they feel an > inexplicable attraction to that place. Many, if they can afford > it, go back whenever they can. > Africans today have drawn the short straw in the world. Their > continent, from today’s point of view, combines all the > disadvantages a continent can have, tropical diseases like > malaria just being one of them. (Jared Diamond’s book "Guns, > Germs, and Steel" explains it in fine detail.) > To give you the benefit of the doubt, I believe that your remark > above was written in a bad mood and does not reflect what you > normally think, because I cannot believe that any human being > can genuinely see other people suffer without feeling at least a > trace of empathy. > True, there are some Africans who make matters worse, but there > is the silent majority of good and friendly people who do not > deserve what they get. > Hans-Georg > — > No mail, please.

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> Hans! > Don’t bother – He is simply put STUPID! > By the way – I know this feeling first hand, I thought it was only me… > AndreB

So you KNOW you’re stupid ????? Excellent for you <sarcasm> Mvh Brian -14 ord- – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -> >> Ah so all of Africa is the same culture??? > >You want to know something? > >I don’t give a sh*t about Africa. > >If they ALL die of AIDS I would not lose 5 minutes sleep. > John, > human life began in Africa, in the Rift Valley of east Africa. > Your forebears migrated out of Africa and slowly discovered the > rest of the world. > Genetic variation among humans in Africa is bigger than in all > other continents combined. > You and your ancestors are essentially African emigrants, later > European emigrants. > But the African savannah is the landscape that’s still burned > deep into your genes. I have talked to many people who visited > the place of human origin once, then told me that they feel an > inexplicable attraction to that place. Many, if they can afford > it, go back whenever they can. > Africans today have drawn the short straw in the world. Their > continent, from today’s point of view, combines all the > disadvantages a continent can have, tropical diseases like > malaria just being one of them. (Jared Diamond’s book "Guns, > Germs, and Steel" explains it in fine detail.) > To give you the benefit of the doubt, I believe that your remark > above was written in a bad mood and does not reflect what you > normally think, because I cannot believe that any human being > can genuinely see other people suffer without feeling at least a > trace of empathy. > True, there are some Africans who make matters worse, but there > is the silent majority of good and friendly people who do not > deserve what they get. > Hans-Georg > — > No mail, please.

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I agree with what Hans-Georg so eloquently put. Africa is a great continent, full of great people who really are alive "here and now". George (UK)

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Well put Hans.  Thanks. Tim

– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text ->> Ah so all of Africa is the same culture??? >You want to know something? >I don’t give a sh*t about Africa. >If they ALL die of AIDS I would not lose 5 minutes sleep. > John, > human life began in Africa, in the Rift Valley of east Africa. > Your forebears migrated out of Africa and slowly discovered the > rest of the world. > Genetic variation among humans in Africa is bigger than in all > other continents combined. > You and your ancestors are essentially African emigrants, later > European emigrants. > But the African savannah is the landscape that’s still burned > deep into your genes. I have talked to many people who visited > the place of human origin once, then told me that they feel an > inexplicable attraction to that place. Many, if they can afford > it, go back whenever they can. > Africans today have drawn the short straw in the world. Their > continent, from today’s point of view, combines all the > disadvantages a continent can have, tropical diseases like > malaria just being one of them. (Jared Diamond’s book "Guns, > Germs, and Steel" explains it in fine detail.) > To give you the benefit of the doubt, I believe that your remark > above was written in a bad mood and does not reflect what you > normally think, because I cannot believe that any human being > can genuinely see other people suffer without feeling at least a > trace of empathy. > True, there are some Africans who make matters worse, but there > is the silent majority of good and friendly people who do not > deserve what they get. > Hans-Georg > — > No mail, please.

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> Well put Hans.  Thanks. > Tim

Yeah!   Way to go!   Wake up a long dead thread! So, then, is it true that the less sleep one has the more indifferent one is to the health of those now living at the source of humankind? Enquiring Minds Want To Know  (EMWTK) – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -> >> Ah so all of Africa is the same culture??? > >You want to know something? > >I don’t give a sh*t about Africa. > >If they ALL die of AIDS I would not lose 5 minutes sleep. > John, > human life began in Africa, in the Rift Valley of east Africa. > Your forebears migrated out of Africa and slowly discovered the > rest of the world. > Genetic variation among humans in Africa is bigger than in all > other continents combined. > You and your ancestors are essentially African emigrants, later > European emigrants. > But the African savannah is the landscape that’s still burned > deep into your genes. I have talked to many people who visited > the place of human origin once, then told me that they feel an > inexplicable attraction to that place. Many, if they can afford > it, go back whenever they can. > Africans today have drawn the short straw in the world. Their > continent, from today’s point of view, combines all the > disadvantages a continent can have, tropical diseases like > malaria just being one of them. (Jared Diamond’s book "Guns, > Germs, and Steel" explains it in fine detail.) > To give you the benefit of the doubt, I believe that your remark > above was written in a bad mood and does not reflect what you > normally think, because I cannot believe that any human being > can genuinely see other people suffer without feeling at least a > trace of empathy. > True, there are some Africans who make matters worse, but there > is the silent majority of good and friendly people who do not > deserve what they get. > Hans-Georg > — > No mail, please.

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> BTW:   It really doesn’t matter WHERE man got his start.   Why do you throw > in such stuff?

Uh, because he posted it in a newsgroup called rec.travel.africa, something Hans-Georg knows a LOT about!  Dan

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– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text ->> Ah so all of Africa is the same culture??? >You want to know something? >I don’t give a sh*t about Africa. >If they ALL die of AIDS I would not lose 5 minutes sleep. > John, > human life began in Africa, in the Rift Valley of east Africa. > Your forebears migrated out of Africa and slowly discovered the > rest of the world. > Genetic variation among humans in Africa is bigger than in all > other continents combined. > You and your ancestors are essentially African emigrants, later > European emigrants. > But the African savannah is the landscape that’s still burned > deep into your genes. I have talked to many people who visited > the place of human origin once, then told me that they feel an > inexplicable attraction to that place. Many, if they can afford > it, go back whenever they can. > Africans today have drawn the short straw in the world. Their > continent, from today’s point of view, combines all the > disadvantages a continent can have, tropical diseases like > malaria just being one of them. (Jared Diamond’s book "Guns, > Germs, and Steel" explains it in fine detail.) > To give you the benefit of the doubt, I believe that your remark > above was written in a bad mood and does not reflect what you > normally think, because I cannot believe that any human being > can genuinely see other people suffer without feeling at least a > trace of empathy. > True, there are some Africans who make matters worse, but there > is the silent majority of good and friendly people who do not > deserve what they get. > Hans-Georg > — > No mail, please.

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