I disagree. I'm only in my 20s and came from a middle class (poor) Southern family. Who's to say I won't be a billionaire by the time I die? In fact that's what I'm working toward every day. If I don't become King of Cannabis (Marc Emory who??) before it's over with, it won't be from a lack of trying.
BTW, is this an advertisement for ancestry.com or something... sounds like one of those weight-watchers testimonials.... I got fat, then I went to this website and ate this and I got skinny again! YIPPEE!
NOT my mother,lolWe all descended from the same (African) woman.
Astrophysicists say that parallel universes are so vast, we're all kings and queens in our respective, parallel existence.
Unfortunately, this means we're also a bunch of jerk-offs and everything in between.
Look for Cecily Nevill, she was mother to kings, cousin to kings and queens, and ruled as queen in her own right for a period of time. Incredible woman, really. I hardly know a thing about her, but what I have learned is fascinating.So far I'm up to 8 or 9....kings that is....countless dukes, earls, counts, princes and princesses, lords, knights, stewards, etc. I wonder if "most people in the world" really are direct descendents of 8 or 9+ British, French, Norman, Spanish, and Scottish kings? That's just on ONE side of the family! I haven't even started on the other....which I think may contain some Cherokee (untraceable I'm sure), and possibly its own surprises through the English/Welsh "Henry" line.
I absolutely agree! It's short-sighted to dismiss our family histories, IMO. I also think that a life well led means that you will be remembered, remembered well, by descendants.Some people say the study of this type of stuff is worthless, but they are dead wrong. Our ancestors knew that recording these stories, names, and deeds was important, so that's why they took such great care of record keeping that we can trace back this information 1000+ years. By tracing back these characteristics and traits through generations we can discover more about who we are.
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Bottom line is stories are important to the human race. Now that I know a little more about the story of where I came from, and where others around me came from, it makes it easier to put the world around me in context and understand why people are the places they are today, and where they are headed.
We all descended from the same (African) woman.
I'm descended from Zulu blood my line was fucked up when my ancestors were brought on a slave ship to America since then I've had unwanted white blood added to my once pure line.
i have 2 grandpas
4 great grandpas
8 great great grandpas
16 great great grandpas
The nieces of all 16 of my great grandfathers would only be my 5th cousin.
Think of how many people that is... Lots of us are related
We all descended from the same (African) woman.
Like it or not....WE ARE ALL MADE FROM STARDUST
I'm descended from Zulu blood my line was fucked up when my ancestors were brought on a slave ship to America since then I've had unwanted white blood added to my once pure line.
Like it or not....WE ARE ALL MADE FROM STARDUST
Like it or not....WE ARE ALL MADE FROM STARDUST
We are stardust, we are golden, we are billion year old carbon,
And we got to get ourselves back to the garden.
We all descended from the same (African) woman.
And isac's foreskin?
Ba dum bump