01/28/01

I'm heading over to Percy's to watch the game soon. The fucker is rooting for the Ravens. He said he had to go with the team with the literary name. I didn't know what the fuck he was talking about. He said Baltimore named their team the Ravens because Edgar Allan Poe was from there and he had that Raven poem and all that. Percy said Poe also has some local significance to us because Poe was kicked out of West Point in disgrace and is probably the most important derelict soldiers we ever had. Percy forwarded this email from one of his Mensa buddies, Balthazar Rust, regarding all that Crypto-Judaic genealogy shit he likes to harp on:

----Original Message----
From: Balthazar Rust
To: Percy Tobiassen
Sent: Wednesday, December 6, 2000 6:15PM
Subject: RE: Celtic genes among Jews

Hello Percy,
I’ve researched this subject extensively. R1B, the classic “Celtic” haplotype, is one of the most common haplotypes among European Jews of Sephardic ancestry. Here is an overview:
Long before Christianity ever existed, Jews were settled in Europe and conversions of European pagans to Judaism were occurring all the time. This was like foreshadowing of things to come when the Christians converted the rest of the European pagans to their way of thinking. A lot of these pagan folks in the early game were impressed with the Jewish academies of learning that were being established around Europe at the time and they were eager to adopt the Jews monotheistic beliefs in order to take part in these education centers. These early converts apparently lost track of the fact that they weren’t really Jewish by blood and eventually the convert’s descendants were thinking they were truly sons of Abraham from a biological standpoint when they really weren’t. This accounts for the majority of Jewish people from Europe today carrying European genetic markers, known as haplotypes, rather than Middle Eastern ones. In fairness though, Middle Eastern genes have always been present in Jewish groups in Europe, and these are part of the genealogies of European Jews at large, but strictly from a haplotype standpoint you cannot tell the majority of European Jews from a person of Celtic or Aryan background because their maternal and/or paternal lines are standard European. European Jews were not so easily persuaded to convert to Christianity when Christians arrived as they were already settled on monotheistic beliefs and of course that created conflict since that time, but from a genetic standpoint the groups are not that significantly different.

Best Regards,
Balthazar Rust