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Post by kingedmund on Sept 29, 2018 19:30:02 GMT
Oh good lord. Do you have something that brings you joy? Anything at all? Something that you do? Hobby? Work with me here will ya.
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Post by whollygoats on Sept 30, 2018 0:10:33 GMT
Oh good lord. Do you have something that brings you joy? Anything at all? Something that you do? Hobby? Work with me here will ya. Yes. I love talking sense to the insensible. What really gives me joy is having my interlocutor agree that they have been mistaken and that they now know better. It's a rare, rare occasion. Other than that, I like to garden and travel. I have extensive collections of books, hats, models, and teeshirts. I once did local politics; that could be fun.
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Post by Moose on Sept 30, 2018 0:45:43 GMT
I can't remember how far back you have to go to find a common ancestor of everyone, but it's not very far. Brett, this is Kelly, Kelly, this is Brett. Do play nice (no, that is not a moderator thing, just a recommendation since I think that you might like one another if you really tried)
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Post by kingedmund on Sept 30, 2018 6:54:20 GMT
Kelly? I'm sure I like jelly just fine. I'm assuming Kelly is goat. I have nothing against Kelly. .... Ever! .... It takes a lot for me to be insulted, upset, agrevated, or whatever and there is always a reason why someone feels the way they do.
I love garden and travel too.
I am not looking up the word Interlocutor. But I have no need to be right about anything as I'm comfy right were I am. Plus the road I've traveled in life has taught me that it's not important.
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Post by kingedmund on Sept 30, 2018 6:57:45 GMT
I can't remember how far back you have to go to find a common ancestor of everyone, but it's not very far. Brett, this is Kelly, Kelly, this is Brett. Do play nice (no, that is not a moderator thing, just a recommendation since I think that you might like one another if you really tried) Your quite alright. I just love family history and find if fascinating. I find the monarchy interesting but since I don't live we're you do I have no concept of what it is like to have a queen or king. I'm really do think it is drama about nothing really. Just another face on tv that doesn't affect me.
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Post by whollygoats on Sept 30, 2018 13:12:26 GMT
It takes a lot for me to be insulted, upset, agrevated, or whatever and there is always a reason why someone feels the way they do. IIRC, that was pretty much the case until I start referring to you as 'Eddie'. That seemed to upset you.
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Post by kingedmund on Sept 30, 2018 15:48:49 GMT
Lol Eddie. Don't remember that. But it's kind of funny.
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Post by whollygoats on Sept 30, 2018 16:32:52 GMT
I thought so, too...but I complied.
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Post by Miisa on Sept 30, 2018 17:43:06 GMT
I used to scoff at the idea that all of us are descended from the same notable people just centuries ago, the stories you hear of everyone in Europe having Charlemagne etc in their family tree. My evidence was that all my ancestors were either landless tenant farmers or servants, and that is generally not a group of people that have much social mobility. But my sister proved me wrong when she found an ancestor from a rather wealthy family who in the 19th century seems to have married well below her parents' social class*. Through her one eventually gets to some historically heavy hitters and genealogy gets a lot easier once they have Wikipedia pages, I have got as far as historical records can be though reliable. So yeah, if you follow the lines long enough they will all converge, and a lot more recently than we often imagine.
*I have sometimes wondered what happened there, and though my mind often runs to the very romantic at times, my reason tells me she was quite likely a foolish girl who got into trouble when she didn't listen to her parents' warnings.
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Post by whollygoats on Sept 30, 2018 18:33:35 GMT
That was my point entirely, Miisa. I hadn't really paid much attention until I got in to a controversy over Jesus' Davidic heritage. Then, when I started doing the numbers, particularly if you assume multiple surviving descendants from each pair and the number of child-bearing partners the early ancestors had. As you can see, at 500 years, then number of possible direct ancestors is far beyond the entire population of the First Century period. It was probable, if David had been an actual historical person from some 42 generations prior (remember, we went only 27 generations in my example and reached more than 33 million possibilities), that the entirety of the population of not just Judea, but all of the Fertile Crescent, was a descendant of such a David. So, big whoop.
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Post by tangent on Sept 30, 2018 21:18:12 GMT
*I have sometimes wondered what happened there, and though my mind often runs to the very romantic at times, my reason tells me she was quite likely a foolish girl who got into trouble when she didn't listen to her parents' warnings.
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Post by whollygoats on Sept 30, 2018 21:52:03 GMT
*I have sometimes wondered what happened there, and though my mind often runs to the very romantic at times, my reason tells me she was quite likely a foolish girl who got into trouble when she didn't listen to her parents' warnings. You laugh. I'll bet she got in on some of that really hunky peasant meat. Y'know...When the local aristocrats are populated with distasteful wimpy poxed scions, you sample elsewhere and, sometimes, get carried away.
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Post by kingedmund on Oct 1, 2018 4:26:58 GMT
This is rather funny to think about. We are all cousins more than likely.
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Post by spaceflower on Nov 6, 2018 2:09:30 GMT
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Post by tangent on Nov 6, 2018 16:32:57 GMT
Interesting, worthy of a soap opera.
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Post by JoeP on Nov 6, 2018 17:59:17 GMT
It doesn't count unless she finds an ancient sword in a lake.
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Post by Alvamiga on Nov 6, 2018 19:51:50 GMT
Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government!
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Post by tangent on Nov 6, 2018 23:50:55 GMT
Personally, I think she - the woman in the lake - would be more successful at forming a government than the current prime minister.
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