6ixStringJack: I'm sure everyone had bad blood in their family at some point. I'm just kind of grateful that we've lived in such a relatively chill world compared to where or when we could have been born. Civilization is kind of nice, despite all the drawbacks and daily annoyances. 
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11.30 10:04
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6ixStringJack: Yeah, about the boss, right? I never had one that tried pushing God onto me myself, but then again I never had a job that seems as personal as yours does with them either. I've just been working the last 15 or so years on and off way below my abilities and that sets me up to have to eat a shit sandwich every night by a boss that is years younger than me. It usually works out... but the process can't be rushed and is such a chore every time I have to do it.
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11.30 10:01
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6ixStringJack: Oh... No. Not at all, Brenda. I didn't think you came off as annoyed at all. Just kinda my thought processes at work is all. I don't mean to be dismissive of what other people believe by forcing my own dismissiveness of everything on anybody is all. You didn't do anything.
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11.30 09:59
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Brenda: I think a lot of people have some bad in their family tree. And freaking out about it isn't going to do anything about it either.
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11.30 09:34
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Brenda: Not asking you to find God or take what I think and believe as gospel. My boss certainly loves to do that to me enough.
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11.30 09:33
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Brenda: Sorry if I came across as annoyed. I didn't mean to. But I do get your point though. We all have our world view. And that is fine by me.
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11.30 09:31
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6ixStringJack: And I'm infinitely less likely to believe anything that is going to make me feel bad about myself in any way. I'll leave that for people like Ben Affleck to freak out about when he found out his Great Grandpappy was some general for the South or something and tries to sue the TV show from airing the episode. You ain't got enough to worry about, Ben? What a charmed life you must have lived, buddy.
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11.30 07:47
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6ixStringJack: That's not my intention, but I can't change the way I view things now. I can't even remember the last time that I actually believed any "factual" claim I've ever heard about any historical figure. It's all interesting to hear about and keep in mind, but I'm as likely to ever believe any of it as absolute truth as I am to suddenly find God and make my life all about religion.
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11.30 07:29
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6ixStringJack: I thought a bit more about it, Brenda, and even considered the fact that you might actually be a little annoyed at my 50/50 thing when it comes to the "heroes" and "villains" I was taught about in history vs. how different everything is today. Because if I don't accept them as 100% factually existing at all in the first place, whether they were actually good, or whether they were actually bad, I'm not even recognizing then by extension the people that you believe existed and did what you believe they did too.
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11.30 07:29
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Brenda: I will try it later SIX. Thanks,
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11.29 23:49
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Brenda: Yeah, I understand. One of the stories of Custer was brought up from the US by my aunts and was probably the cause for the Little Big Horn. Another I read in a book purposefully written on my people. Another I just heard somewhere and I don't know if there is any truth in it.
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11.29 23:49
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Brenda: No worries. Like I said I know something happened but without telling me what it was I just don't remember. Like you said too long ago.
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11.29 23:45
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THG: Let's be honest here. As long as he is nice to you, that's all you care about.
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11.29 17:18
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THG: I've also said this; you are who you hang out with.
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11.29 16:21
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THG: Jack preaches hate. Just go to his, Holy shit... If any of this happens, things are about to change big time" thread. Don't say you're done with me. I've been said exactly that to you months ago. And I was very clear as to why. I post posts like this to call you on it as you pretend, he isn't a hate monger.
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11.29 16:19
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6ixStringJack: I hope that works for you. Without seeing what you're seeing, I can't exactly visualize what you're explaining. If that doesn't work or the Night Light is already turned off, try a restart and see if that helps. If that doesn't do it, shut your computer down when you're finished tonight, unplug it from the wall and then take the battery out. Let it sit overnight and boot it again and see what happens. Sometimes doing stuff like this surprises you and just seems to work for no reason at all. Finger's crossed it's nothing. 
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11.29 10:41
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6ixStringJack: But no, you don't have to go offline to change that setting. It won't interfere with that. You can just type "Night Light" without the quotes in your search bar down by the start button, and you should see the Night Light settings pop up. You can click on that and then you'll get the Settings window to pop up on the correct Night Light page and where it says "Show warmer colors on your display to help you sleep" you can click the button to the right of that and turn it off. If that fixes it but you still want the Night Light on at certan times, there looks to be a "Schedule" switch below that which should allow you to create a schedule to automatically turn the setting on or off whenever you wanted it to.
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11.29 10:36
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6ixStringJack: The Computer Issue... I had to look into what Night Light was. I've never actually used it before. Crazy if it was in Windows 10 the whole time and I never knew. So that's a setting that you use and you know you've turned on, or you think it might be on and you're just looking to turn it off? I don't think it's on by default... it wasn't on my system. That's why I ask.
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11.29 10:34
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6ixStringJack: I have no idea what is true and what isn't, and ever since about middle school I've never been one to just go with whatever is popular at the time. I think I get mad when I see statues topple in the US because it feels like loosing my childhood. How I was taught to see everything. There didn't seem to be any evil intent behind anything.
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11.29 10:30
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6ixStringJack: I understand. I've got a few huge totes of old black and white photos from my Grandma's Basement and never got her to tell me any stories. I don't think that by the time I'd have been interested she even remembered most of them anyhow. I know that all of those people existed, but I don't know who any of them are. Some "expert" could come and see them and tell me that one or two of them might have been important and I could choose to believe it or not, yanno. As for school, for the longest time we were the winners and somebody just wrote the books. I'm sure there was a lot of truth to the history I was taught, but even 5 years after I was out of high school they were being taught a completely different version of history than I was.
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11.29 10:30
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6ixStringJack: Hehe... I don't know why I keep bringing it up if you've forgotten it. It wasn't anything real important. Somebody was talking about something and you said something and I thought you were taking some extreme woke position about the issue and totally misunderstood what you had said. I must have been having a bad day because I know I was shitty about it too. Probably YEARS ago by now. I won't bother apologizing about it again. Buried whatever it was a long time ago.
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11.29 10:24
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Brenda: Can you answer me a question. Computer wise. I've got some shadows happening like a little on the left side of my screen and following some of the letter. Google AI says turn off the night light and it will get rid of it. Just want to know if I can do it while I am on line? It's annoying and worrying me.
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11.29 09:55
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Brenda: Can't change the past, the future isn't written yet and the now is all we have.
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11.29 09:53
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Brenda: I honestly do believe that the events of the past for mine were as bad as I've heard. Myself I like looking at old photographs from the 1800s. Pictures of Geronimo. I even came across a photograph of Chief Washakie, a leader of my nation before the Little Big Horn.
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11.29 09:52
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Brenda: That is very true. All we can do is our best and not take the crap. Yes, let's hope that all who we give our respect to do keep earning it.
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11.29 09:45
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Brenda: Hmm. I remember all of that about the tag line. Didn't know it came from a tv show. But not sure what the thing is you're actually talking about.
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11.29 09:43
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Brenda: No worries SIX. It is cold with rain.
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11.29 09:40
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6ixStringJack: Seems to me like everybody today either has all their focus on the past, or all their focus on the present, and there ain't nobody out there looking for any icebergs hurling towards us out the windshield.
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11.29 09:18
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6ixStringJack: In your case, I really hope that the actual things that happened weren't as horrific as some of the worst things you've heard. They probably were though. In my case, like I said, I'm 50/50 that every person we've been told about that lived hundreds of years before I was born is a pure fabrication and a cartoon character.
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11.29 09:16
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6ixStringJack: Thank you, Brenda. As I've said before, you've absolutely earned my respect here. All we can do in our relatively small spheres of influence are try to be decent to other people we bump into, and not take any crap from those who dish it out either. And just go a little bit further out of our way to do right by and protect those few who do earn our respect along the way. May they keep earning it, right?
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11.29 09:14
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6ixStringJack: I remember the tagline you didn't like. Paraphrased it was along the lines of "What have you done to earn your place in this crowed world today?". It was a quote from the TV show Utopia. When you said it bothered you, I changed it right away. That wasn't the time I'm talking about though. I unfairly jumped on one of your takes, thinking you meant something entirely different anyhow, making my embarrassment of my actions even worse than they already were.
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11.29 09:10
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6ixStringJack: Forgot to come back to this conversation... Sorry Brenda. Thanks for the TG well wishes. Hope it's not too cold by you. We're in for about 6 or more inches I'm hearing starting tomorrow morning. Hopefully we get lucky.
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11.29 09:07
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THG: Happy Thanksgiving Haken
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11.27 23:14
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THG:
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11.27 18:29
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THG:
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11.27 18:29
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THG: And you both had it wrong
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11.27 18:28
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Brenda: The last people to enter North America where the Inuk. They were the last to actually cross the ice bridge over the Bering Strait. Mine came in earlier with a group that split. Aztec, Apache, Shoshone- mine and Haida. Is the split.
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11.27 12:08
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Brenda: THG, SIX and I were talking white explorers. Men like Jacque Cartier and Columbus, Cook and Vancouver. Lewis and Clark.
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11.27 12:06
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Brenda: Enjoy your Thanksgiving tomorrow SIX.
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11.27 09:48
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Brenda: Thanks for the kind words SIX. As I said I'm not much on anyone singing my praises or even praising myself for that matter.
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11.27 09:47
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Brenda: That's like when the stories first began being told in the open about the residential schools here. The churches were being destroyed and the chiefs and elders told the young not to do it. Destroying those buildings doesn't bring anyone back or heal the scars done by those places. Every story or myth has a grain of truth in them. You have to look for it but it is there. I hope that the people 30years from now are smarter than we are at least.
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11.27 09:45
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Brenda: I've dealt with Columbus thing years ago as I learned about science and how the world formed. And how people around the world migrated to where they are now. Well, I have to admit my dad told me that I owed his brother and sisters respect because they were my elders and that was expected of me. Didn't have to like them, just give them the respect due them because they were his siblings. I give very few people my respect. Has to be earned and I think you have earned mine.
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11.27 09:40
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Brenda: I think I remember that time. It was something to do with one of your tag lines SIX and it rubbed me the wrong way and I blasted you. I'm still sensitive about stuff like that.
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11.27 09:35
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Brenda: THG, a lot of elders from many Nations say that we've always been here. Our histories are oral and they have changed over the centuries. The earliest settlement that I know of and was taught in college. Clocked in with radio carbon dating at 30,000 in South America. Science has proven that most Nations walked down the coast line of North America. There was no ocean because of the ice. There was no ice free corridor as was originally thought. Once down the coast line where there was no ice they came onto land.
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11.27 09:30
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THG:
Excuse me. I thought you were talking about who discovered America. I just showed how Indians did. Must of went over your head. No matter...
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11.27 07:41
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6ixStringJack: And don't you go feeling obligated to say anything nice back to me, Brenda. I don't really feel comfortable when anybody sings my praises. I ain't blowing smoke up your ass. Not looking for any reciprocation. Just letting you know I appreciate ya.
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11.27 07:33
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6ixStringJack: But nobody should be giving you shit about anything because I really believe that you don't do anything to deserve that bad karma coming your way, and I may be wrong but as far as I'm concerned you're one of the few people I believe probably hasn't ever done anything to be deserving any negative karma coming their way in your life. Don't have much faith there are many actual good guys out there or that there ever were. But nice to have a few people around that make me believe that maybe there are some. I'd say my respect don't come easy, but it usually just don't come period. At least from one internet persona to another, and the stories we tell and believe or don't about each other, you're among a very rare few that have my respect.
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11.27 07:24
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THG: [go to link] me. I thought you were talking about who discovered America. I just showed how Indians did. Must of went over your head. No matter...
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11.27 07:23
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6ixStringJack: The only thing that ever really gets under my skin about anything surrounding that stuff is the not even disguised hatred of white men in general when another statue is toppled over. It just feels like a big middle finger directed right at me while also finding out that probably everything I'd ever been taught when I was growing up and everything we're told up until this very day is more likely a lie than it is the truth. And all I can think today is "why does anybody believe the new stories any more than they do the old stories?". 30 years from now, whatever they're telling the kids then is going sound like pure fan-fiction to us today.
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11.27 07:22
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6ixStringJack: It wasn't even a memory of mine after watching it, but because it was said very early on that set the tone for the rest of your watch, because of course it did. Like... duh! Right? But, I really appreciate that you don't expect me personally to apologize recommending that video to you because of it. Nothing was meant by me about it. My days of crying over another lost childhood hero came to a middle a long time ago now. Christopher Columbus and pretty much any historical figure I remember being taught about in school might as well be Santa Claus or Mickey Mouse to me.
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11.27 07:21
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