• St. Patrick's Day

    From The Millionaire@21:1/183 to All on Wed Mar 16 09:49:38 2022
    If you're Irish, then Happy St. Patrick's Day.

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  • From McDoob@21:4/135 to The Millionaire on Wed Mar 16 13:26:46 2022
    If you're Irish, then Happy St. Patrick's Day.

    I'm not Irish. Does that mean I can't get drunk on green beer too? (Q_Q)

    McDoob
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  • From Warpslide@21:3/110 to McDoob on Wed Mar 16 14:01:46 2022
    On 16 Mar 2022, McDoob said the following...

    If you're Irish, then Happy St. Patrick's Day.

    I'm not Irish. Does that mean I can't get drunk on green beer too? (Q_Q)

    You could always swing by McDonald's for a Shamrock Shake!


    Jay

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  • From McDoob@21:4/135 to Warpslide on Wed Mar 16 14:27:02 2022
    If you're Irish, then Happy St. Patrick's Day.

    I'm not Irish. Does that mean I can't get drunk on green beer too? (Q

    You could always swing by McDonald's for a Shamrock Shake!

    I just threw up in my mouth a little...(o_O)

    McDoob
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  • From Mike Dippel@21:4/176 to The Millionaire on Wed Mar 16 16:24:48 2022
    On 3/16/2022 9:56 AM, The Millionaire wrote to All:

    If you're Irish, then Happy St. Patrick's Day.

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    I get weekly updates about my genealogy from wikitree.com

    This week is my relationships to various Saints. It turns out that I am 49 degrees from
    Patrick ap Calpurnius - (Saint Patrick) - Happy Saint Patty's Day

    We are all related in some way through our ancestry. You and I are related, we just
    haven't discovered how yet.

    Mike Dippel

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  • From The Millionaire@21:1/183 to Mike Dippel on Wed Mar 16 15:44:02 2022

    On 3/16/2022 9:56 AM, The Millionaire wrote to All:

    I get weekly updates about my genealogy from wikitree.com

    This week is my relationships to various Saints. It turns out that I am 49 degrees from
    Patrick ap Calpurnius - (Saint Patrick) - Happy Saint Patty's Day

    We are all related in some way through our ancestry. You and I are related, we just
    haven't discovered how yet.

    Mike Dippel

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    Cool. How are we related then?

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  • From Nightfox@21:1/137 to The Millionaire on Wed Mar 16 16:38:06 2022
    Re: St. Patrick's Day
    By: The Millionaire to All on Wed Mar 16 2022 09:49 am

    If you're Irish, then Happy St. Patrick's Day.

    That's tomorrow (March 17th).

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  • From Spectre@21:3/101 to McDoob on Thu Mar 17 11:30:00 2022
    I'm not Irish. Does that mean I can't get drunk on green beer too? (Q_Q)

    One must ditch the beer and proceed to the Stout/Guinness, or at the outside
    a black and tan....

    Spec


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  • From McDoob@21:4/135 to The Millionaire on Wed Mar 16 23:33:02 2022
    We are all related in some way through our ancestry. You and I are rela we just
    haven't discovered how yet.

    Mike Dippel

    Cool. How are we related then?

    Well, if we're to take the story of Adam and Eve at face value, we're all related by incest...

    Things that make you go 'hmm...' #0
    If the only humans on the planet were the children of Adam and Eve, how was the next generation of humans created? Exactly who was sleeping with whom?

    My Sunday School teacher didn't have an answer for that, oddly enough...

    McDoob
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  • From Mike Dippel@21:4/176 to The Millionaire on Wed Mar 16 23:58:52 2022
    On 3/16/2022 3:51 PM, The Millionaire wrote to Mike Dippel:

    I get weekly updates about my genealogy from wikitree.com

    This week is my relationships to various Saints. It turns out that I am 49
    degrees from
    Patrick ap Calpurnius - (Saint Patrick) - Happy Saint Patty's Day

    We are all related in some way through our ancestry. You and I are related,
    we just
    haven't discovered how yet.

    Mike Dippel

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    Cool. How are we related then?

    $ The Millionaire $

    The only way to find out is to go to their website and enter your info, your parents info
    and their parents if you know it. Same with your spouse as well. Then, you should start
    receiving the weekly emails form wikitree.com to give you your relationships.

    I can assist you if you are really interested.

    Mike

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  • From boraxman@21:1/101 to McDoob on Thu Mar 17 22:39:30 2022
    Well, if we're to take the story of Adam and Eve at face value, we're all related by incest...

    Things that make you go 'hmm...' #0
    If the only humans on the planet were the children of Adam and Eve, how was the next generation of humans created? Exactly who was sleeping with whom?

    My Sunday School teacher didn't have an answer for that, oddly enough...

    McDoob

    If you take evolution at face value, we all have a single common ancestor somewhere, so we're still related, just the shared relative is much further back.

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  • From McDoob@21:4/135 to boraxman on Thu Mar 17 09:19:00 2022
    Well, if we're to take the story of Adam and Eve at face value, we're related by incest...

    Things that make you go 'hmm...' #0
    If the only humans on the planet were the children of Adam and Eve, h was the next generation of humans created? Exactly who was sleeping w whom?

    My Sunday School teacher didn't have an answer for that, oddly enough

    McDoob

    If you take evolution at face value, we all have a single common ancestor somewhere, so we're still related, just the shared relative is much further back.

    Fair enough! But...I mean...if you go back far enough in the evolution
    concept, we all came from the same amino acid soup, along with every lizard, bug, fish, and bird.

    Which still makes more sense than only two humans creating a race of billions...And I say this as a Christian! (^_^)

    McDoob
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  • From boraxman@21:1/101 to McDoob on Fri Mar 18 22:36:10 2022
    If you take evolution at face value, we all have a single common ance somewhere, so we're still related, just the shared relative is much further back.

    Fair enough! But...I mean...if you go back far enough in the evolution concept, we all came from the same amino acid soup, along with every lizard, bug, fish, and bird.

    Which still makes more sense than only two humans creating a race of billions...And I say this as a Christian! (^_^)

    McDoob

    If you go back further, we all came out of the common singularity at the start of the universe, so we are related to everything!

    The biblical story of us all coming from two wouldn't be as preposterous if Christians didn't insist the world was only 6,000 years old.

    Coming from two people is possible, if you give a lot more time.

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  • From McDoob@21:4/135 to boraxman on Fri Mar 18 09:30:48 2022
    The biblical story of us all coming from two wouldn't be as preposterous if Christians didn't insist the world was only 6,000 years old.

    Coming from two people is possible, if you give a lot more time.

    That's a perspective I hadn't considered before. Well said.

    I begin to wonder how much religion talk we can get away with before Avon starts worrying about us calling each other names? (o_-)

    Anyone who actually takes the time to read the Good Book front to back will very quickly figure out that it isn't 'non-fiction'. Not everything in it is fact, despite some people insisting the opposite.

    David most likely did *not* kill a giant, three times the size of a normal
    man, with a single pebble from a sling. There's no evidence of gigantism to that degree, and I highly suspect the accuracy of a boy who must have been scared poop-less. I find it very unrealistic that a man, even one as epic as Christ, can just snap his fingers, and have wine where he had water, or
    endless baskets of bread and fish. These are just a couple examples of either hyperbole or flat-out inaccuracy.

    But, this is to be expected, when the Word of God is mis-translated by a
    flawed human, and then re-mis-translated multiple times by multiple additional flawed humans. Just like that game of 'telephone' from back in grade school, the original message is easily lost when passed from person to person.

    There certainly are more devout Christians than I, and certainly some that would insist that the Bible is pure fact. There's also a significant number
    of people who go to church every week who have never been in contact with
    God, and has never recieved His Gift.

    I am not this Christian. I am intelligent enough to question anything that doesn't make sense. Yet, after being in His presense, I cannot deny the existence of a 'higher power'. It's very difficult to question direct experience. That still hasn't convinced me that all seven billion of us came from a single pairing.

    Enjoy your day, and if you haven't met Him, yet, I hope He blesses you soon!

    McDoob
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