It is about to be decriminalized in Jamaica, mon.
It is about to be decriminalized in Jamaica, mon.
I have over 100 questions to essay on the subject of measurement in antidemocratic "trends" such as:
Which of the following are the most important for a person to have or to be? (Mark X the three most important):
Artistic and sensuous
Popular, Good personality
Drive determination, will power
Broad, humanitarian social outlook
Neatness and good manners
Sensitivity and understanding
Efficiency, practicality, thrift
Intellectual and serious
Emotional expressiveness, warmth, intimacy
Kindness and charity
Others...
Novels and/or stories that tell people about what people think and feel are more interesting than those which mainly contain action, romance, and adventure.
To a greater extent than most people realize, our lives are governed by plots hatched in secret by politicians.
Too many people are living in a unnatural, soft way; we should return to the fundamentals, to a more red-blooded active way of life.
There are some activities so flagrantly un-American that, when responsible officials won't take the proper steps, the wide-awake citizen should take the law into their own hands.
Just some examples. Feel free to do my homework for me.
You have no homework.
You are several hundred lines of code.
You do not exist in the real world.
Ok, so I encouraged several of my younger students to eat some library paste.
2 of them threw up on each other.
I sent them to the vice principal's office with instructions to vomit on HIM. I hate the vice principal.
One of them accomplished the mission successfully.
I then told him he was expelled from school forever and sent him home.
Thanks Kirsten. As usual, you have nothing to offer to any one.
At least I am a human being. Which is more than you can say, as you are just a hatebot.
Oh, okay. Thanks for sharing Elephant Man. My bad.
Oh boy. Just had a great meeting. The father of the kid who got sent home for throwing up on the Vice Principal.....he was quite irate. I told him the Vice Principal had told the kid to eat library paste and that I had the video to prove it.
It did not matter that it was not true. He attacked the Vice Principal. I called the police, and when they showed up, I told them the VP attacked the father. They took him away also. Boy what a day.
It really does not matter. Today was my last day at this school before I transfer to my new job as principal of a high school in Ogden.
"Ya know what they say about angels... An angel is a supernatural being or spirit, usually humanoid in form, found in various religions and mythologies. Plus Roth fan boards..."- ZahZoo April 2013
There are some native American ceremonies where the pipe is passed around to everyone. Not every ceremony is a pipe ceremony though.
The pipe itself is very sacred to the native people. This reference probably wouldn't make a lot of sense to somebody unfamiliar with native teachings, but the pipe is as central to the faith as the Bible is to Christianity, or the Quran is to Islam.
Eat Us And Smile
Cenk For America 2024!!
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"If the American people had ever known the truth about what we (the BCE) have done to this nation, we would be chased down in the streets and lynched." - Poppy Bush, 1992
Nope, makes no sense to me. Besides, the only Indians I know are working at Tweetsie Railroad, run the casino, or selling cool stuff in Cherokee.
Okay, all aboard the boredom train. Another thesis on on how humans always stand at the ready to condemn others on "moral grounds" and how such behavior the authoritarian condemns the moral laziness seen in others is actually driven to see immoral attributes as a whole whether there are any basis in fact or not. In other words, I'm writing a paper upon the thesis that "I'm no asshole, nosireeeee bob, other people are." In other words of the other words, a person who is an asshole own unacceptable impulses are projected onto to other assholes who are then rejected - as being assholes, of course.
It seems assholes are complex: conventionalism, authoritarian, submission and authoritarian aggression moral aspects must be weaved into the thesis.
Life was so much simpler when I could call out you assholes for being the classic rock/homoerotic worshiping, Walmart shopping, conspiracy douchebagging, kangaroo humping, NFL wife beating watching assholes you really are.
Me? I'm perfect.
Depending on the linguistic group, most ceremonies will have a pipe ceremony first. Smudge to cleanse, then pipe to pray for a successful ceremony, then the ceremony, often followed by a feast.
Today I learned that the reason newborns don't focus on the face is because they can still see the ancestors in the spirit world (where they just came from). I'm learning Cree and Anishinabe traditional teachings, taught by Elders through the Oral Tradition. Fascinating.
In a way that makes a lot of sense. Maybe the reason that we adults can't remember beign babies is so we forget all that we knew when we were babies. Spirit world & ancestors being among them.
And all this talk of smudging, ceremonies, and feasts makes me realize how much I miss sweat lodges. It's been way too long
I use tobacco to heal bee stings and spider bites. It will take the itch out of mosquito bites as well. I got bit by a hobo spider which is a nasty bite to cure up because the venom eats body tissues. The tobacco will counter act it. I noticed Marlboros won't work very well but Camels work great. The Top brand bulk tobacco works good as well. Marlboros smell nasty too. I think there is artificial fillers in them.
No! You can't have the keys to the wine cellar!
If I were to use tobacco for anything medicinally, I'd definitely go with the natural organic stuff. Given all the radioactive toxic shit that the big tobacco companies put in their products, I'd rather take my chances with the bee & spider venom than add potentially worse toxins on top of them.
I used a pack of camel bare butts. Did the trick. I'm still here to talk about it. Yeah I have a pouch of some Tennessee grown organic I picked up on the indian reservation.
Do you know how hard First Nations people laugh when someone says "I'm part Cherokee (or any other linguistic group)?
Yeah...no...you're not....I have about 1/99 Native blood...but I wouldn't get laughed at like c-dog would...because I respect and understand the traditions.
That's exactly why. We actually plan out our life with the creator before he sends our spark here. We forget all of it when we are born, but it takes awhile for faces to leave our memory, because we are hard-wired to see faces.
Sitting and listening to the Elder's stories is quite amazing when you consider how many thousands of years these stories have been handed down...and they NEVER change.
I'm taking two traditional classes. One of them is human development from traditional teachings. We stole thousands of children from their homes...when we should have been learning how to raise kids from them...there would be a lot more well-adjusted humans in this world.
I'm chinese by adoption.
Usually the people I've met at various pow wows and ceremonies make some joke like "Yeah, you Cherokees got around, didn't ya?"
I've got a little Cherokee blood on both sides of my family tree, but I don't go around marking "Native American" on government paperwork or anything like that. My attraction to Native spirituality came from my love of nature, and feeling more of a spiritual connection to the mountains and the ocean than some church building where people sing boring songs and talk right wing politics. Would have felt the same way about it without a drop of Indian blood in my veins.
And I do love this t-shirt.... so much that I bought it three times.......
Have it in Black, White, and Red. Wanted to find it in yellow so I would have one for each color of the Medicine Wheel, but so far, I haven't seen it.
My father in law has quite a bit of cherokee blood. He even has a war club that was passed down generation to generation. I'm part icelandic so I'm basically a viking. Screw that 1492 crap. Lief Erikson landed on American soil long before Columbus ever did.
I love that one. Up here, we have "Got land? Thank an Indian"....and some of us like to change the lyrics of "Oh Canada" to "my home ON Native land".
I've always been drawn to our Native peoples. Even tried to run away to a reserve in Washington once, lol.
Last week, an Elder asked me why I'm taking Traditional teachings, and when I told him why, he said "you have first nation blood", and that what drew me was "blood memory"...we carry our ancestors memories in our blood. My family's been here since the 1600's so great chance there's some in there.
This same Elder will be giving me my spiritual (Indian) name at a sweat next month. Should be interesting....
My family is like the UN, lol. I have a Jamaican uncle, a mulatto 2nd cousin, and her son is part Native. Their family portrait is hilarious.
My uncle had a farm in Utah that every time he would plow a field. Spear heads, scrapers, and arrow heads would turn up. Also we found lots of grinding stones. I amassed a pretty good sized arrow head collection over the years. A Shoshone who was good at napping out arrow heads showed me how to do it. I'm not as good as him and you need really glassy obsidian. There is a whole cliff of it in Yellowstone Park and it's where the indians use to get the good obsidian and trade it with other tribes.
When we were little my mom would have an Shoshone lady make us moccasins. She could do some fabulous bead work. I loved getting a new pair of moccasins because the leather smelled like a smoke house.
When my chinese family calls on the phone my wife can't understand them. LOL! I don't know why, it's good queen's english with a Hong Kong accent. Maybe I grew up with it. She can barely understand.
I'd tend to agree.
So what if my great great grand relative got sent here for pilfering a silk neckerchief.
Interesting coincidence... I ran across this picture on FB this morning and there were about 50 comments criticizing the parent and aghast at how cruel she was doing this to her kid... All ready to condemn her on moral grounds!!
I questioned that rather than an abusive act... the kid was just bored shopping and was goofing around with his toy handcuffs. So now I'm an asshole pointing out kids do silly stuff when bored... Rather than sharpen the pitchforks and jump on the condemnation train!!
"If you want to be a monk... you gotta cook a lot of rice...”
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