From: oldwifetale@yahoo.com   
      
   > The time for the 7th generation may really have come, and heaven may   
   > have opened the gate for us already. (I know this sounds irrational   
   > to those who studied little, and never really are in active struggle   
   > against the oceans of corruption ~ because if you are, then you know   
   > how impossible this struggle really is and you can only ask heaven to   
   > help ... no matter how much of a materialist you think you are. The   
   > whole world is a miracle anyway, that water drops down is a miracle,   
   > that the sky is blue is a miracle, it is all one gigantic miracle.)   
      
      
   I was thinking (pondering) that the only way to really *see* the culminating   
   of seven generations is from the 4th generation at an age when one is old   
   enough to have great grandchildren who are grown enough to begin expressing   
   their inclinations (both    
   individually and as part of their generation).    
      
   7) Me   
   6) Ron H.   
   5) Will H.   
   4) Jubal H.   
   3) Gus H. (Civil War era)   
   2) Jacob H.   
   1) Michael H. (post-Revolutionary War era / son of Henry who fought in   
   Revolutionary War)    
      
   It would then be *Jubal* at an elderly age who could remember the ways and   
   teachings of his great grandfather Michael, and see the culminating factors in   
   his great grandchildren (me and my siblings). Likewise, as part of the   
   continuum, my siblings and i    
   would be able to see Jubal's ways in our great grandchildren.   
      
   Since there are many more ancestors than only Jubal (for me including Native   
   American and others beside only European descent)there would be as many   
   aspects culminating as there were ancestors - so a combination of all the   
   great grandparents culminating    
   in my great grandchildren - who have not yet arrived.   
      
   From the personal examination it could then expand into a collective   
   examination, societal, and an examination of the generation, or of an era....   
   which is less personal and yet includes those aspects that are uniquely   
   personal.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)