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And Cain said to the Lord, "My punishment is too great to bear. 14Now that You have driven me this day from the soil I must hide from Your presence, I shall be a restless wanderer on the earth and whoever finds me will kill me." 15And the Lord said to him, "Therefore whoever kills Cain shall suffer sevenfold vengeance." And the Lord set a mark upon Cain so that whoever found him would not slay him."
one of the interesting facts we discovered is that we share the same paternal ancestry and a cluster of families all from what is now the parish of Kilmichael Glassary, which is located in mid Argyll. One of these families is well known in Scottish history, the Mac Ailpín family. Their lore, the primary sources, etc., say they descend from the famous figure of Coinneach Mac Ailpín, King of the Picts. He is also called the first King of Scots.
There is much lore an some scholarly disagreements on the nature and facts surrounding Coinneach Mac Ailpín, but there is also a body of factual data on the man. He was a Gael and king of Dál Riata and inherited the throne of Pictland through his Pictish mother. The Picts, for those not familiar with north British history, were a group of indigenous Celtic tribes that lived in what is now mid and northern Scotland.
the McCains, i.e. clann Mhic Eain, are also descendants of the Indo-European tribes that migrated into western Europe from the Pontic Caspian Steepe. The dating of the time frame of this migration has firmed up due to new techniques in extracting viable Y chromosome data from skeletal remains. Tests on these remains from the Balkans west to Ireland, tell us when and how this migration took place. Our people reached what is now Ireland circa 2000 BC, or around 4,100 years before present.
originally posted by: TomLawless
a reply to: carewemust
Q does it. Trump does it. That's I can say at this point, unfortunately. I feel like I don't know anything anymore.
originally posted by: RelSciHistItSufi
a reply to: carewemust
Why doesn't POTUS or Qsay his name? My gut feeling is that it has some religious connotation similar to "Don't call on Luci*er".
Just spitballing here but another option is that humans have names, so by refusing to call him by his name one is saying that he is not one.
originally posted by: carewemust
a reply to: RelSciHistItSufi
That's a fascinating find regarding the McCain lineage. But why avoid saying the name John McCain?
originally posted by: TomLawless
a reply to: crankyoldman
In real life, I am an annoyingly huge Baseball geek. It doesn't help that my Cincinnati Redlegs have purposely tanked the last three seasons for draft picks, but I've watched maybe three games, and have yet to attend one in person. I just read constantly until I fall asleep. Yesterday I decided I need to get out with boys and watch a ballgame and drink too much. This is ridiculous. Work. Read. Sleep. Walk the dog. It has to change.
It's just so strange that you brought that up. Where We Go One, We Go All indeed.