I would like to propose the idea that those out there who may have found themselves as a lone boat in a vast ocean wandering aimlessly with no sense of being or purpose for the world to consider finding and defining oneself through a bloodline.
It is an exciting adventure to undertake for one to search through their own family tree with the questions: Who am I related to? Who have I descended from? What impact on the world has my bloodline made in history? How does this revelation help me endure the times of my own and redefine my goals and aims for myself, those around me, and the world?
I have suggested this, because I have gone through with this quest myself with the intent of simply learning more about where I come from, who I am today, and where I want to go tomorrow.
With great astonishment and wonder I found that I am part of a bloodline that has without a doubt made a generous boost to my own ego. I have found myself to be a descendant of Alfred the Great, Charlemagne (which from him you can trace multiple Roman Emperors and even Alexander the Great), the Merovingians, the Goths (of all sorts), and my favorite… the Vikings! In general, my bloodline stretches throughout Northern, Western, and Central Europe… but of course, if you go back far enough, we’re all realated to each other!
So how does this help me? Knowing to be a descendant of nobility, royalty, and even high royalty? Well, in the real world, it means very little… but to my personal well-being, I feel larger than life… a living piece of history even…and in my own private world… I am an emperor!
I would imagine that the majority of everyone’s distant ancestors, say from the last 1000 years, were poor peasants scratching out a meager existence from the soil. The nameless masses outnumber the few icons quite handily. But of course you are free to pick and choose as you like.
I am one of the heinz 57 mongrel humans, I have ancestors from many different backgrounds and at least 3 continents. My ancestors bred and loved anyone they could find on two human feet. LOL For that I am grateful it makes my bloodline rare indeed.
i suppose it really matters how much weight you put into genetics. and not just the genetics of brown and blue eyes, or hair color, but the genetics of personality and similar traits that identify the non-physical aspects of a person.
as for me, i give very little significance to such genetic traits being passed down through more than just a handful of generations … at the most. violent trends can continue in bloodlines but can be changed and even reversed in just a single generation.
so same would be said for one ancestor’s “greatness.” past my grandparents, i don’t really believe it had any real impact on my genetics or the way that i act or feel.
letting feelings like ancestory is almost limiting in a way. granted, on the positive side you can have great kings, saints and the sort to make you feel important and give you additional meaning to your own life. but what about the negative side of finding out, like A Spoonful Supreme did, that you have an infamous bloodline? do you let it effect you in the way that you feel? guilt, maybe? do people allow their bloodline to give them excuses for their own failures? or maybe use it as a crutch of some sort even?
I was serious about my ancestory. it does not effect me except that they produced me as an almost full mongrel. None of mys sibs and cousins resemble each other except if the cousins have an almost pure bred parent opposing my blood relative. My dad’s side is almost pure German and English very minor Nobility but, it counts for nothing to me. I prefer the mongrel side It is that side that seems to produce interesting physical attributes. 4 kids in my family and it looks like we all had different ethnic dads.Nope not a chance, at that point in my parents marriage.
Attribute 1 None to very little cavities in our teeth and my sibs and I are all middle age.
Illnesses hit us hard but our immune system rids us of them quickly.
3 most live to 100 or late 90s with intelligence and self knowledge.
4 No genetic disease except for diabetes.
5 intelligence levels are above average to genius.
6 most are universal blood and organ donor capable
The conquistadors at least helped produce you, so they had some redeeming value. The Toltecs: a proud people, warrior race that held an empire. Pretty good there too. Uh you don’t feel the urge to do human sacrifice do you, that might could cause problems.
[size=59]If you do have the urge, I got this list of people …[/size]
Hey, I’m in a dilemma -
I was born and bred in the English midlands city of Leicester (pronounced Lester), King Lears old home town, (Lear-cester, gettit?) and our family go back generations in the area, my surname goes back unchanged to before 1066…
Over its 2000+ years history, Leicester has been occupied in turn by the Iron Age Coritanian Tribe, the Romans, Vikings, Anglo-Saxons and Normans, and there may be some of all of them in my DNA somewhere.
So i don’t know if i’m duty-bound to worship primitive tribal gods, or Odin, Apollo or whoever…
Nah, i’ll stick with the young carpenter from Nazareth
By the way, I sometimes wonder if I’ve got Lear’s jesters blood in me…
“The all-licensed fool…” (Shakesp’s K. Lear)
“Become a fool by the worlds standards in order to become wise” (1 Cor 3:18 )
