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To: 49thMIMOMander who wrote (18372)	6/12/2003 5:33:11 PM
From: E. T.	Respond to of 21614

"Several decades ago, some scholars discovered striking similarities between the traditions of the Torah and of some North American Indian tribes (for example, some Native Americans used to observe a fall harvest holiday during which members built and lived in huts, a practice reminiscent of the biblical holiday of Sukkot), leading them to conjecture that these people descended from the Ten Tribes." Telushkin, Biblical Literacy. Without the dispersion, jews would likely number about 45 million today, instead of 14 million. It's that original missing group from 2,700 years ago that's spread its genes around, hence whatever the degree of separation is, it's not much.

To: 49thMIMOMander who wrote (18372)	6/14/2003 2:47:41 AM
From: Andy Thomas	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 21614

let's see if i had 2 grandparents i had 4 great grandparents; then after 35 generations, roughly 32 billion ancestors in roughly 35 generations at a generous 25 years per generation that's 875 years so regarding ancestry things do get a bit confusing or muddled as it were... i mean if you go back just a bit... so perhaps racism truly is a fool's game.... or maybe the teenaged joke, 'incest is best' has some truth to it after all i think it would be trippy if there really were a group of "god's chosen" at constant odds with the "unchosen"... of course how would one ever really know the difference? for it seems that all human life - chosen by god or not - can be summed up with just a single word... and that word is... OUCH