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why not? What's the harm in knowing.
by onetimemanytime 6y ago
why not? What's the harm in knowing.
- hef19898 6y agoNo harm, I'm just not that interested in that kind of stuff it seems.
- TedDoesntTalk 6y agoI understand your sentiment, but I gain humility and inspiration knowing how my ancestors lived and the sacrifices they made to have a better life. To each his own.
- saalweachter 6y agoThere's also the reciprocal promise: we try to remember our ancestors and hope our descendants will remember us.
- Udik 6y agoNo harm, it's more that after a certain amount of generations the information becomes pretty irrelevant. You arbitrarily choose to follow certain lines (for prestige or historical significance) and necessarily disregard others. Going back to the 1600s, you descend in equal part from one lineage you mention and many thousand others which remain entirely unknown.