• SoonaPaana@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    I agree! But also both Hinduism and Islam had cleanliness rituals baked into their religion. Maybe they were able to notice historically that periodic bathing multiple times a day, helped them to avoid diseases!

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      10 months ago

      Sino-Asian countries only drink hot drinks for similar reasons…

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      10 months ago

      Honestly humans are stupid and it is so interesting what we learned to do for sometimes awful reasons that turned out to be pretty good for us. I mean a lot of medicine was “getting the devil out of you” for a long time and it sometimes happened to work because people would just do random shit.