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That same day, I received this reply.
Recall my frequent complaints about how Christian morality is imposed upon the rest of us, against our wills. This situation is a good example. AwardSpace imposes the typically filthy Christian belief that sex is obscene onto people who use its services. It does so by banning any document that contains any sexual referent that might offend somebody with a typically filthy Christian attitude toward sex. AwardSpace won't even tell me which words are prohibited. If I was willing to remove those words, which I'm not, then I'd have to guess which words to remove. Worse yet, the enforcer drones at AwardSpace have turned the filthy Christian attitude regarding sex into a money-making scheme. That is, I can avoid having my documents banned if I pay a fee and have my account upgraded. It's almost like buying Dispensations from the Church, with AwardSpace setting itself up as the Pope. When did the land of the free and the home of the brave become the land of the politically correct and the home of the cowardly? All of those people who think of themselves as Christians, who're offended by my attitude, and who're yelling "It ain't us! It's them other guys!", need to do something about those "other guys". Those "other guys" are acting in the name of Christianity. I don't care about the Christian pedigree of anybody who bans my work. Anybody who does that, "other guys" or "you guys", is an enemy of liberty.
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In
the table on the previous page, I've shown the theoretically maximum number
of ancestors that I had at different times in the past. I've also
shown the estimated population of the world at different times in the past.
The numbers of my ancestors are based on the simple doubling assumption
that I mentioned in the previous paragraph. The estimates of world
population are from the U.S. Census Bureau. The numbers of my ancestors
are approximate but they're probably every bit as accurate as the numbers
provided by the Census Bureau. Even if the numbers are all off by
several percent, they still support my point.
You can see that if I trace my family tree back to even as recent a time as the 1200's then it's pointless to speculate about who my ancestors were. The theoretically possible number of my ancestors at that time was almost three times the population of the entire world at that time. In theory, I could be descended from every human being who was alive on the planet as few as 800 years ago. So it doesn't matter if I had an ancestor back in the Middle ages who was a king. In that same generation, I also had ancestors who were rapists, farmers, wheelwrights, candle makers, sheriffs, thugs, soldiers, and so forth. At that point in the past, my ancestors, all 350,000,000 of them, were a completely random sample of people scattered over a large part of the world. The only thing that those people had in common (the only thing!) was that they would eventually all be my ancestors. That's about as trivial as it gets. Also consider that those same people are probably also the ancestors of a large fraction of the people who are alive on the planet today. Furthermore, consider this. What do I care about some descendant of mine who's going to be alive in the year 2911? Nothing. I don't see how anything could be less important. The calculation casts genealogy in a whole new light. There's probably some virtue in genealogical studies of such things as susceptibility to diseases, ancient migrations of human populations, and so forth. As proof of some self-doubting person's relationship to some noted figure in the distant past, just for the sake of a bragging point, genealogy is just about the most useless field of study imaginable. We might as well assume that everybody alive today is related to everybody who was alive a thousand years ago. I suppose that the lesson here is that the only ancestors who really matter are the ones that we can actually remember for ourselves. Treasure those and forget the others. Take the time that you would otherwise have spent looking for leafs on a website and, instead, spend that time with your grandparents or with your grandchildren, as appropriate. There's a family history that's worth the effort. Letters to the Editor ...Oh, my friends sister in [town name omitted] did visit your website & 2 days later on a flight she had already booked, (her company flys her a lot) she got "bumped" and TSA'd due to (they said) she accessed an anti-Gov't website!! She finally got it all cleared up & was allowed to take a next day flight. But she wrote to her brother (my friend) & said she's not going to log on to your website anymore!! Maybe you could write something up along those lines & I can give him a copy to send to his sis?? It is real sad that this behavior by "Gov't" is not abhored by those persons!! Ah — one day! Maybe enough will wake up.... —a prisoner
It
would be nice if people like her had enough sense to realize that the problem
isn't my website. Among the various problems are arrogant legislators
who think that security can be imposed by force without destroying liberty,
the strutting fascist pigs at the airports who love their jobs, people
(most of them) who are so stupid or so brainwashed that they can't figure
out the alternatives, and the conspirators in the U.S. government who control
it all.
—editor
Sam, Hey buddy. I'm still here. Except I'm @ a new address now. Anyway, I still get your material — and yes, I'm still enjoying EVERY ISSUE. Thank you Sam for allowing me to receive your articles. I am sorry I have no funds, stamps or financial help. As you can see, these little brown envelopes are for indigent use only. So that tells ya of my poorness. Okay Sam, I'll let you go brother. Keep up the good work. Believe it or not — your publication/article is awakening the people(s). If ya have seen, Americans are starting to stir. Gotta run Sam, big strip search coming up and I absolutely hate being felt up after 100 guys and 1 officer using the same gloves. —a prisoner
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