From: someone@anywheret.net   
      
   "JimD"  wrote in message news:2017070423372327809-email@nowherecom...   
      
   > I had an uncle, educated man / teacher, who wrote a book on our ancestry   
   > in his retirement years. Lots of research, looking up old documents and   
   > such.  And absolutely yes, no one cares.  It's actually in bad taste to   
   > talk of this sort of thing, at least I think so. I only brought it up as   
   > it seemed to apply to the whole " immigrant thing ".  Everyone alove has   
   > ancestors that go all the way back to the beginning. Where they lived is   
   > sorta unimportant. How they lived, a bit moreso.   
      
   Naturally, my biggest problem with it is that in caring so much about some   
   distant past, so very many forget what really matters msot, NOW, and not   
   someone long since dead, but oneself right NOW!   
   I've always said that we are Not our ancestors, we're Different Individuals   
   and That's what Truly Matters!   
      
   > Yep.   
      
   And if after leaving the old place for the new place, hoping it to be   
   better, if if they find that it really is better, they stay, and if it   
   isn't, THEY GO BACK!   
      
   > Mentioned that as it's one of many crazy theories as to why 1 - the secret   
   > governments of the world push this, and 2- why the aliens hide from us.   
      
   What 'aliens'? Only ones I know are the ones sneaking across the  borders,   
   or flying in, and bringing their intercultural Incompatibility with them.   
      
   > If there are aliens in the near vicinity, and there probably are, they   
   > don't seem to be our buddies.   
      
   If you're referring to so-called 'extraterrestrial' aliens, they don't   
   exist...it's all from right here - Evil comes from this planet!   
      
   > People are free to make all the music they want.   
      
   Precisely!   
      
   > It's when you feel your efforts are worth something that things change.   
      
   Feelings have nothing to do with it. It's if your efforts ARE worth   
   something, that things change!   
      
   > I don't work for free.   
      
   Depends on what you mean by "for free", because there are always motives   
   involved.   
      
   > Today is a good example. Got a call mid day. A relative. Seems some of the   
   > family are having a pool party, and gee wouldn't it be nice if I grabbed   
   > my geetar and dropped by to sing some Buffett  . . .. ....   
      
   > I told him I was gonna be doing some singing, at a paying gig ... and   
   > well, have fun at the pool party.   
      
   Does that mean you actually had a gig at another pool party?   
      
   > Did they call to just invite me and the wife ?   Do they ever just invite   
   > us to come as guests ?    No and no.   
      
   Is this  about one pool party, or two different ones?   
      
   Ouisie   
      
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