[1]luster_side2We're all guests in each others homes. This forum
is not my home, I am a guest here. I am also a guest in your
home, through your phone/computer. You bring me in. I can't
speak for everybody else here. I'm not everybody else. I'm not
the homeowner. I'm just a wanderer. == "there is nought so vile
as a fickle tongue; no friend is he who but flatters." Notice.
I'm discussing with you as a friend. I am not merely flattering
you, agreeing with you, Liking everything you say. I'm treating
you as an equal to myself and not as enemy. I can't help your
reception of me into your home. But you can take me as you will
or reject me if you must. "no friend is he who but flatters". ==
A year ago, I took one side of my family, downloaded 800 yrs of
trees and made a "most common origins" word thing, to find most
common areas of origin. [I'm a data nut - the more raw data I
get the better] But while it doesn't show, there's a key branch
that is Norse and goes back even further. This family side is
Luster, aka Lyster, Lister, or in Old Norse, Ljostra - no doubt
went from spear fishing in Norway to textile dying upon
immigration to England. == Now, this isn't the whole Luster
tree - these are just the trees pertaining to myself only. I was
annoyed to find a little French in there... not much for the
French, so probably some self-hatred there. == My mother was
invited several times to join the DAR (daughters of the american
revolution) but she repeatedly turned them down as she found
them to be a snobby bunch, regarding anybody who didn't have an
ancestor touch a toe on Plymouth rock to be a n00b. But on
Plymouth rock my ancestors did yet this the era I live in. ==
But, if you do not wish to share your heritage with your
potential brethren I can't stop you. But I'm 44. Since I was a
young teenager I have been inspired by
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- the monomyth and, on and off, studied where Joseph Campbell
was correct and incorrect, and understand more than I can
express the intense connection one has towards one's own
mythological roots. It goes beyond timespans longer than a
single lifetime back to ages that turn from mere facts in a
history book into a living breathing tradition that travels
through time and connects one today to their deepest roots. Why
anyone would wish exclusive domain to theirs and not share it is
unknown to me, but again, if you take my lack of instant
agreement to your ideology - my probing and questioning and
curiousity - as the "signs of an enemy", then, the loss is mine.
==
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