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Hey I'm Courtney I'm 18 and Ive been in JROTC for 3 years, let me tell you those have been the best years of my life thanks to JROTC. We were a family down there. I encourage anyone to do it, it helps a lot with building character and Leadership skills that you can apply in the real world. I Loved my JROTC instructors they helped us out a lot and gave us great opportunity's
I'm glad you had a good JROTC experience.
Are you planning on enlisting in the Army or going to college first? If you're college bound you have some choices. You can find a college that has an ROTC program or you can go for your bachelors degree & go to OCS for a commission. If you don't plan on going to college because you can't afford it you can enlist in the Army (your JROTC will get you a higher initial rank) & go to school after you get out on the government's expense.
Yeah i am thinking about joining before i go to school but im not totally sure. ive found a college that has Jrotc program. can you tell me some of the requirements to be considered for joining?
You mean to say that you've found a college with ROTC not JROTC which is for high schools only & does not lead toward a commission.
Here are all the enlistment requirements -
Essentially if you're 17 with parent's permission or 18 without, a US citizen or legal alien, a high school graduate, no legal or medical problems, can pass the ASVAB with a minimum score of 31 & meet the height/weight standards you're eligible.


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This page is scheduled to be revived in the near future (May 2011). After years here I still fail to find much of positive value in Russia. This place, however, consistently and reliably generates disappointment, annoyance etc. all the way to downright misery. Thus my return to the Russian Misery Travel (c) concept. Coming up: the outcast experience; a night in the militsia cell, low-life drinking establishments, a review of Russian history; a compilation of random phrases to give you a glimpse of what occupies your average person here, a selection of random newspaper headlines, etc. etc. Be back soon. Scroll down for the old stuff.. I've allowed some paid advertising. Poverty made me do that. Please understand and if something just does not fit probably it is an advertising line..
A drawing by Vovchik of Ryazan Click on the barfing dog to return to the main index. |
Who cares about wimpy "Reality
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The Bomzh (Outcast) Experience. An exercise in transcending social roles. See how the world looks from the bottom in the guise of a Moscow homeless.. [more]\ Client feedback on the misery perceptive synopsis of what I do, submitted by one of my clients Established a Testimonials page specifically for Misery Tourism feedback. |
Misery is the essence of Russia Misery tourism options: immersion or detached observation Western governments: send us your malcontents for rehabilitation Cumbersome invitation and visa process Lousy overpriced accommodation options Misanthropic opportunities Heart-piercing photos of Russian misery PEOPLE! WILL SOMEONE DO A LINE DRAWING OF A VOMITING DOG FOR ME, TO SERVE AS "BACK" BUTTON FOR THE MISERY CORNER? |
INTRODUCING THE CONCEPT Misery Tourism© |
Scrap book: ideas and assorted materials. Misery programs and services designed to make you regret coming here Our prejudices and sensitive spots |
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An American on his first day of an eye-opening Russian Misery Tour in its Rural Misery modification. If cold, woodstove, an army jeep with no suspension and vicious dogs weren't enough, he spent three whole days of his life in the company of the author of this site, whom he described as "your typical Russian, opinionated, categorical to the point of arrogance, and often incoherent". |
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Dear Uncle Pasha,
I want to tell you how much I genuinely enjoyed reading your Misery Travel page. It's a riot! Please do not water it down with disclaimers. It is wonderfully dangerous. You are an extremely creative man who has pierced the heart of pretentious, Western voyeurism and its fear and loathing of Russia.
The 'States if full to the gills of spoiled, rotten, politically correct brats making far too much money who deserve everything you offer. Please set up a gulag for them! They will thank you. But you will have to put up with accolades such as "You changed my life!
On another note...
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Imagine my surprise when I stopped by my office yesterday only to find my missing power cord AND this darling May basket on my desk. Beside it was a handwritten note that said, "Happy May Day and thank you for writing a wonderful story on our family." Well! That just made my May Day. Now, if I could only figure out which family it is!
In the meantime, thank you phantom May Day basket-leaver!


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The Codependent's Guide to the Twelve Steps suggests that you don't figure out recovery, you just become willing to let it happen and step out of the way. I wonder if weight loss is sort of like that. I think I've been thinking about it too much.
I recommend the book for just about anyone. It's written in a very down-to-earth tone. I am not a big fan of the term "codependency," but the discussion of traits that felt so familiar -- a need for control, a belief that I have to be perfect, the feeling that I should solve my own problems without help and help others with their problems, difficulty in identifying and handling my own problems -- was useful to me. And the book led me to a similar conclusion as an Elastic Waist post a while ago:
And the answer, of course, is that we think if we were ever just good enough, all those people would go away. But they won't, ever. Your basic celebrity news rag should prove it to us all: We will never be so gorgeous that some horrible person can't find something to mock. But as someone wrote in the comments: "It's none of your business what other people think of you."


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The Police Federation will be stripped of its public funding, Theresa May has announced, as she warned the embattled group that it must accept dramatic reforms in the wake of the Plebgate affair.
Speaking at the group's annual conference, the Home Secretary warned that the Government would "impose change" on the 95-year-old organisation after listing scandals such as the Stephen Lawrence inquiry and alleged cover-up of failings with the Hillsborough disaster.
The Federation came under fire earlier this year after it emerged that the 127,000-member organisation had some £70m in reserves. The Government has previously reduced funding from £320,000 to £190,000 a year. But Mrs May, who was listened to in silence by some 2,000 delegates in Bournemouth, said: "I can announce today that this funding will be stopped altogether from August."
She also announced that the officers would no longer automatically become members of the Federation, and instead would have to opt in. She also said that details of the Federation's accounts would have to be published and the organisation would be subject to the Freedom of Information Act.
Steve Williams, the current chairman of the Federation, which represents officers up to the rank of chief inspector, leaves his post after the conference after becoming the focus of vicious in-fighting after his calls for reform.
Today, members decided to adopt the 36 recommendations of an independent review ordered by Mr Williams.
After the speech, Mr Williams said: "We have already indicated we are an organisation that is willing to change and it is for us to make the key decisions around reform over the next few days."
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Eagle Scout Project: Jon Schmidt Concert to Benefit U of U Burn Center – May 2, 2012
All proceeds will fund my project, which is to purchase needed items for the University of Utah Burn Center.
Hi my name is Jace Jensen
When I was 18 months old, I burned my hand, which required a skin graft and many hours at University of Utah Burn Center. I do not remember it, but growing up, I heard stories about the amazing doctors and nurses and our families experience there. So when I was looking for my eagle project, I spent about a year looking and trying to decide. I wanted to do more than just build some bookcases, paint some curbs, or plant trees. One thing lead to another, and I knew what I needed to do. I wanted to give back to those who had given so much to me and my family. So I am holding a benefit concert at my high school where I am currently a sophomore. All proceeds will go to the help me purchase items they need for the new expansion of the U of U Burn Center. This expansion will allow for the burn unit to treat twice as many patients. As overwhelming as this project is, I hope to get the support we need to make it a success. My burns were not near as severe as so many others and I hope to make a small difference in more burn victims lives. Thank you so much for your support
Benefit Concert - American Fork High School
May 2, 2012 7:00 pm
American Fork High School
510 North 600 East
American Fork Utah 84003
Tickets will be $12.00 in advance $15.00 at the door
American Fork High School
510 North 600 East
American Fork Utah 84003
Tickets will be $12.00 in advance $15.00 at the door
Thank You
Just wanted to update the blog. Thank you all that came to the concert on Wednesday night. We had a great concert that night, thanks to Jon Schmidt. We raised several thousand dollars.
The concert is almost here. Just a reminder that doors will open at 6:15, and it is general seating. We are not sold out, so spread the word and hopefully we can fill every seat. Thanks again for all of the support - it has been amazing. If you pay at the door, cash is the easiest, but checks and credit cards will be accepted. It will be a great concert. See you there!
I just wanted to say thank you to KUTV and their Pay It Forward program for the interview and the generous donation. Enjoy!
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Opening Act
I am pleased to say that Eric Thayne will be opening for Jon Schmidt that night. Check out his Facebook page, he is also an amazing pianist. See you all at the show!
More Kindness
Thank you all that have donated or that have bought tickets. A big thank you to A-Plus Benefits for donating the event insurance. It was a very generous donation and now that money will go straight to the those in need at the Burn Center.
Another person who has helped with the cost is Skip Livingston from American Fork, for being willing to tune the piano at no cost.
It is all the people who have been donating costs, that are helping make this possible. Thanks again.
Another person who has helped with the cost is Skip Livingston from American Fork, for being willing to tune the piano at no cost.
It is all the people who have been donating costs, that are helping make this possible. Thanks again.
5 months after my burn. Still wearing my compression glove (look closely at the hand holding Mickey Mouse). I was still doing physical therapy, with consistent visits to the Burn Center. The more I have been working on this project, I have realized that I was very lucky for being so close to the Burn Center and for having such a small burn to my hand. Thank you for all those who have donated or bought tickets for the concert.
Thank You!!!
I owe a few people a big thanks, first of all, Stephanie Nielson, We have had a lot of hits, ticket sales and donations because she posted about my project. If you have not heard her story, click here. She is amazing.
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Gatsbys American Dream (also known as GAD, Gatsby's, or Gatsby) is a Seattle-based indie rock band. Since their founding in 2002, they have released four full-length albums and one EP. They have also appeared on several compilations with original songs and covers. Gatsbys American Dream drew their name from F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby.
Although the band is difficult to classify into one subgenre, it can be said that they draw influence from alternative, progressive rock, pop/rock, hardcore punk, indie pop, indie rock, post-hardcore, and heavy metal.
The prototypes for the songs on the band's first record, Why We Fight, were (according to Bobby) written by his earlier band, One Point Two. This band was made up of Bobby, Casey Bates, Josh Berg, and Dustin McGhie. The group later met up with the former guitarist and singer of Good for Nothing, Nic Newsham and Ryan Van Wieringen, and formed Gatsbys American Dream. Although Casey Bates never joined the band, he has remained their producer throughout the band's career.
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Whoa! A topsy-turvy, good alliance, bad alliance, smokin', shoot 'em to the moon (or off the show), break-up to make-up, karate choppin' Panamanian hoe- down of a show tonight. As always, I named the episode myself. It's of no consequence that the producers name each episode when I can do it myself, right? Tonight's episode is named "Alliance or Not, Double Whammy and One Down From the Boys' Club." Yep, that's it.
Eleven are left. Who will be voted out tonight?
The show opened looking in on the Casaya camp. Shane is fussing and fretting. (I know, that's nothing new.) Now he wants out of his alliance with Courtney, Danielle, and Aras. Well, out of the relationship with the two girls. Since he swore on his son, he wants them to take his name off of it and rescind the swear with their permission. Or, something odd to that effect. Oy! Of course, the girls want him gone, so they're fine with it. Aras is just befuddled. He thinks Shane is crazy. Well, they all think that, I guess. I think it and I bet you might think it, too! Not one person in the alliance trusts him. After allowing him to back out of the alliance, the plan goes into effect to see to it that he'll be voted off next. Uh-oh, he realizes it after all is said and done. Poor crazy Shane. Meanwhile, Cirie is so loving it all. If Shane goes next, then it might be Bruce before it gets around to her.
Over at the La Mina camp, the Boys' Club and Sally are struggling with leftover beans and itsy bitsy minnows they're catching at the edge of the water. Dan decided he liked everyone so much that he first told Nick about his space travels on shuttle missions. Then he told everyone. The tribe, especially the men, have bonded very well. Both Nick and Austin are in awe of Dan and can't praise him enough. (C'mon, guys … this is Survivor! Backstab! Stop being all truthfully friendly! What's wrong with you?) Sally, but of course, is the fifth wheel.
The tree mail was a creepy spooky smiling skull doohickey. Well, well — the Rewards Challenge will be combined with the Immunity Challenge. This is the one in which the tribes must give their best effort — Immunity is at stake. But one tribe won't make the grade.
Both tribes met up with Jeff in a field where an obstacle course was all set up, skulls playing a big part in the challenge. Courtney sat out for Casaya as they were one person ahead. Three members of each tribe had to go through the course, untying knots and getting puzzle pieces. Once four puzzle pieces were brought back, the remaining two tribe members had to solve the puzzle. The Reward being played for was a Panamanian barbeque, a party, and delivering toys to native children. Also, the winning tribe would choose one member of the losing tribe to be sent off to Exile Island. This exile would be a bit of a reward for the person chosen as that person would be safe from Tribal Council. So, a strategic decision must be made.
Shane slowed things down a bit for Casaya, but in the end it was Dan who just couldn't get the puzzle started right for La Mina. Casaya won immunity and they wisely chose Sally to go to Exile Island. Sally would have been the boot. She knew it; we knew it. They would make a dent in the Boys' Club — the one true alliance on the show.
Casaya headed off to the barbeque where fun and frolicking was had by all — the show folks and the Panamanians. The kids loved it. Shane bartered for a cigarette. And everything was all lovey-dovey betwixt the previously battling alliance, much to Cirie's chagrin. Good times can cure all kinds of ills. I doubt Cirie has too much to worry about. Those good times aren't going to be eternal. One bad challenge and all should rightfully turn on Shane despite his apologies.
Back at La Mina, everyone is in the doldrums. The Boys' Club guys really, really like each other. Who should go? Dan is obviously the weakest member of the tribe, plus he loused up the puzzle at the challenge. Terry and Dan had agreed to never vote for each other, but Terry decides to look at things from a managerial perspective for the good of the tribe. Dan hopes it will be a tie, but knows things won't go that way. Sure enough, at Tribal Council the whole thing was discussed and Dan was ousted. He took it well and said he had a great time although he would never have voted for Terry.
And, that was that.
Will Casaya stay all lovey-dovey? How will the Boys' Club react to Sally when she returns? Isn't the merge within the next few weeks? Will Cirie be able to keep flying under the radar? I guess we'll just have to keep watching
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History is beckoning but Rafael Nadal is not paying attention. The prospect of the 24-year-old Spaniard becoming only the third man ever to hold all four Grand Slam titles is the talk of this year's Australian Open, which begins tomorrow, but Nadal himself insists that he feels under no more pressure than normal.
"This may be the only opportunity in my career to do this, but that's not the reason I will feel any pressure here," he said yesterday. "The pressure is just the same at every Grand Slam event. You want to play well in the important tournaments. Whether I win a fourth Grand Slam in a row is not something that's on my mind. What's on my mind is trying to play well, trying to start the season playing well. Then we will see what's going on."
Nadal said he considered the task of winning four Grand Slams in a row to be "almost impossible". Asked how special it would be, he replied: "I think it's better if we continue with another question. Seriously, I can't answer this because I haven't thought about it. If it does happen, I'm sure that I will be more happy at winning here because it's the Australian Open rather than because it's the fourth Grand Slam title in a row."
While most commentators regard Nadal as the favourite to win here, he has not had the best of starts to the year. He barely had a break during the off-season and was suffering from a virus during his first tournament at the Qatar Open. He said he had been feeling better since arriving in Australia but could not be sure how he would feel once he started playing matches.
"After what I had in Doha, I've felt a little bit more tired than usual when I've been practising and I've been sweating more than ever," he said. "I'm feeling better, but I don't think I'm perfect."
The world No 1 has already won the Australian Open once, having beaten Roger Federer in the final two years ago, and finds the hard courts here easier than those in New York, where he won the US Open for the first time last September. "You can put a little bit more topspin on the ball here and the courts are a little bit slower," he said. "But I am seriously starting to wonder whether it's better for me to play on faster or slower courts."
What areas of his game would Nadal hope to work on this year? "Everything," he said. "My serve can still improve a lot. I think I am serving better, but it's never going to be enough. You can play more aggressively. You can play more inside the court. You can go more times to the net. You can return a little bit more aggressively. You can play longer. You can play closer to the lines.
"In tennis you can improve all your career. That is something I've always tried to do when I wake up every morning and go to practise. My goal is to improve – not to just go to practise. That's why I am here. If some day I lost that feeling, maybe I wouldn't come back to this tournament."
Nadal is already one of only seven men to have won all four of the major titles in tennis, but Don Budge and Rod Laver are the only players who have held all four at the same time. While most traditionalists insist that only winning all four in the same year can be regarded as a Grand Slam, the constitution of the International Tennis Federation, the sport's governing body, says that simply holding the four titles at the same time is good enough.
When Federer was asked for his opinion on the debate, the Swiss said that it would be "amazing" if Nadal held all four titles, although he added: "It's very close, but it's not the calendar Grand Slam."
Andy Murray, however, rejected any idea that if Nadal won four in a row it should be regarded as a lesser feat because the tournaments spanned two seasons. "I think holding four Grand Slams is one of the best achievements in sport," he said, before adding with a smile: "And I really hope he doesn't do it."
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text: Broad City's Ilana Glazer Asks Strangers How They Lost Their VirginityRebecca "Burt" Rose4/30/14 1:00pmFiled to: ilana glazerbroad cityvirginssex293EditPromoteShare to KinjaToggle Conversation toolsGo to permalinkIlana Glazer of Broad City got a bunch of total strangers to sit with her on a nice, sunny day in the park and share how they lost their virginity.AdvertisementOn her Chronic Gamer Girl show, Glazer spoke to a variety of people who all talked about how and when they first had sex. We've already had some epic fun here getting you all to share your stories of how you lost your virginity but at least we didn't have to venture outside to do it. So bravo to Glazer for that!Reply29 repliesLeave a reply


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November 9th, 2009
Panorama by Patterson
John Patterson is a clever, multi-faceted chap. He had sent us a few photographs of his Nazca Paseo and the Rohloff he has recently installed on it when our conversation took another turn. He said :
"On a different topic – I was up at a shop in Scotland a few weeks ago having a Rohloff fitted to my Paseo. The shop is called Wheelcraft and it was recommended to me by a friend. It is an amazing place. The staff are really friendly and are prepared to go to great lengths to be helpful and, the prices are very reasonable too. Free cups of tea or coffee are the order of the day as well. The back workshop where they build and true wheels is one of the most unusual but brilliant places I have ever seen. They have almost every imaginable bike component in stock all crammed into a tiny space. The place simply oozes with character.
Now, as a hobby I have taught myself how to make QuickTime Virtual Reality (QTVR) scenes. Wheelcraft was an opportunity I simply couldn't miss so, with the owner's permission, I made a QTVR in the Wheelcraft workshop. You can see my QTVR here at ViewAt.org. It is best viewed full screen. The map will show you exactly where Wheelcraft is. Hope you like it."
So… I clicked on the ViewAt.org reference [posted below] and got the surprise of the year! First you click on the "play" arrow head to load a panoramic photo. If you "click and drag" your cursor on the photo on the photo, you can pan left and/or right and also up and/or down! Try clicking the "expansion box" in the lower right hand corner of the screen to see the image in full screen (and then hit your [Esc]ape Key to get back to a normal screen).
John is right; Wheelcraft does ooze character. I especially like the ladder up to the trap door in the ceiling… the mind boggles at how much more stuff might be stored up there.
ViewAt.org and panoramic photos are pretty fascinating too. Like John, I'll just have to teach myself how to do them and I suspect when I master them you'll be seeing more…
Meanwhile, here is John's look about Wheelcraft!
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Very god stuff. No frills and all natural tobacco taste.Perique is quite strong but in a good way. I genuinely enjoyed this. Very similar to RICH'S FIRST SMOKE.
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A straight, old fashioned blend of cubed cut burley, with some virginia, latakia, and toasted cavwendish. Slow, cool, with burley playing off the TC and little latakia. I detect no added flavors.
I use to smoke this a lot.
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That awkward moment when the primitive tribe you have come to convert to Christianity, instead converts you to atheism.
The Pirahãs, he said, "believed that the world was as it had always been, and that there was no supreme deity". Furthermore they had no creation myths in their culture. In short, here was a people who were more than happy to live their lives "without God, religion or any political authority".
Despite Everett translating the Book of Luke into Pirahã and reading it to tribe members, the Pirahãs sensibly resisted all his attempts to convert them.
According to a report in the New Yorker:
His zeal soon dissipated … Convinced that the Pirahã assigned no spiritual meaning to the Bible, Everett finally admitted that he did not, either. He declared himself an atheist.
As an Atheist of course I find this story very gratifying. But as an American I am almost saddened to realize that even such a primitive people were able to discover a truth which still eludes so many of my fellow countrymen.
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- Anonymous4:16 AM
In my social circles I've come across a number of people recently who have waxed rhapsodic about missionaries, and I can't help thinking how incredibly arrogant it is to barge into someone else's culture and insist they're doing it all wrong.
ReplyDeleteRepliesI know a family who went to Israel as "Christian missionaries". When they told me this, all I could think was, "seriously, you think they need to be saved from Judaism?"
Last time I checked Jesus was a Jew.
Would they like the Jews to try and convert them? It was just such an arrogant thought process, on their part, to think this needed to be done.
I haven't had any contact with them since, so I don't know what their experience was like......maybe they are Jewish now.- Anonymous6:38 AM
But what if they believed in some god that said one day in the distant past to have human sacrifices? Wouldn't you want to help them with first the human sacrifices, and also the god part, as long as they were willing to listen?
If I am allowed to help people learn about atheism, I see no reason why it should be a problem for others to teach what they believe to be true. I think that if a person is intelligent enough, the truth will be realized. I understand but I think the idea is that we all have done wrong and are all in the same boat. So Christians would say I think that we all need to be saved from our sins by Jesus, who loves us and therefore we aren't telling people they are wrong, just saying what we think. But yes Christians do believe other people are wrong - because they have to if they believe Christianity is right? I think the idea is that God loves us so much and we have to let other people know about it. But I agree that it could be seen as arrogant to assume "our" way is correct. But if you found something amazing out you would probably want other people to know too..
DeleteI understand this but I think the idea is that God loves us so much that He died for us. And we are all guilty of sin - all in the same boat - but Christians siad yes and accepted God's help. So Christians tell other people about this "truth" and that they can accept His help too.
I can see how it can be seen as arrogant because by saying that the Christian belief is correct, we are saying other people's are wrong. A lot of beliefs technically say this because whatever you believe to be true, normally states something else is wrong... though you could be very aware that your view might not be "correct" - assuming there is a "correct" view.What values does it have to die for has when he is immortal. Why are we guilty are we not built from him? Meaning that he has sin too? Well he killed all that people who he disliked on the bible... Why is not a chapter on rape on the bible, or about slavery being wrong, is slavery being OK now? I think you are delusional by believing a fairy tail.
DeleteThe it would be equally arrogant to remain in one's own culture and do the same. In fact, telling a missionary what they are doing wrong (being arrogant) is a violation of the proposition itself.
Now, if missionaries are simply the carriers of Good News, then this statement might need some adjustment.- Anonymous3:23 PM
I'm a committed atheist, but I can't help thinking that if I were a believer in some kind of (albeit unreasonable) God who insisted that people follow him or face an eternity of damnation I'd feel strongly compelled to try and save as many of my fellow humans as I possibly could. To just wander by, letting people carry on with the lifestyle that I felt I knew would bring about their never-ending misery would be inconsiderate to say the least.
And that's why I always try to be polite when extricating myself from a conversation with a 'true believer' - they're really only trying to do the best thing as they see it. They're only trying to do you a favour. - Anonymous10:20 PM
"I've never seen a true God loving man act and speak in the way savage condescending atheists do about others."
Yeah, that's because a few hundred years have gone by since those who are God fearing have stopped pillaging and subduing. Modern day God-obsessed individuals know to be more subtle and prefer to use their vote to put idiots in power. Come back to me after you die and it is just as it was before you were born - nothingness. Except this time you'll turn to dust and be scattered or be consumed underground by your fellow earth-dwellers. - Anonymous10:48 AM
We have Mormon kids here on their required mission-I'm assuming they are trying to recruit liberal Catholics so that they too can hate gays, subjugate their women, and believe people who are barren, unable to procreate, and that don't have a partner will get a lesser level of salvation in the afterlife.
This tribe uses logic and reality to form their truths. They don't need a theological crutch to live their lives happily.
ReplyDeleteReplies- Anonymous8:43 AM
They are a primitive tribe in the Amazon jungle that doesn't even have electricity. It a pretty big stretch to say that the use "logic and reality to form their truths." It's much more likely that they just eat fish and don't have minds evolved enough to contemplate their own existence or higher beings.
Delete The very concept of "the primitive" is defined by judeo-christian constructs.... modern conveniences are just the symbolic representation of that construct: in a sense, the icons of a successful religion. (and thou shalt not have those, if memory serves)
In the broadest sense the Christian missonary's message is designed to save people from their primitive notions, whether they wear Armani or Tapir. The reasoning maybe rooted in faith, but it's presentation is a form of logic that excludes any understanding of rainforest reality. It strips faith naked, leaving only luck as a survival mechanism, and makes a laughing stock of an all knowing thing that will welcome your conversion in some magic future after you die.
If you're happy to live IN the rainforest without converting IT, then your intelligence is measured by your ability to survive, and your wisdom by your ability to find a balance between work and enjoyment. (It's pretty much the same everywhere) The fact that a christian missionary only sees in that the concept of the primitive is the height of arrogance, imo.- Anonymous7:49 PM
holy fuck 8:43, sounds like you are the one without logical capability. Socrates, Plato Aristote and Jesus Christ (who hung out with fishermen) also lived without electricity- seems to me they had no problem being evolved enough to be rational.
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That was powerful. To be fair, though, they live in an idyllic setting. They can pick fruit, and fish, and not plan for tomorrow. Those people wouldn't survive in northern Alaska, Canada, or Scandinavia, where planning is vital. How that dovetails with creation myths, I'm not sure, but it's certainly related.
ReplyDeleteReplies- A. J. Billings5:31 AM
You do raise an interesting point, perhaps similar to the peoples that Captain Cook "discovered" in Tahiti and the Hawaiin Islands in the 1700's
Respectfully though, life in tropical jungles without grocery stores and malls is not easy.
People actually can starve for weeks in between fruiting cycles and if game is hard to find, which is increasingly true in many areas where poachers and others are hunting. - Leland5:51 AM
Actually, almost all of North America was populated by successful hunter/gatherers - until European man came along and thoroughly screwed up their environment! And, of course, their complete society.
Through millennia of experience, they had developed a system that fit each area they moved into. Had the Piraha developed their society in another area of the world, they probably would have successfully survived quite nicely.
Having said that, however, I have to agree that the effect (affect?) on their "religious" beliefs are unpredictable, especially when one considers that a huge number of the ancient indian tribes of South America had full blown religions AND myths of creation and destruction.
So what caused THESE people to develop a religion-free society? Who the heck knows? - Anonymous7:11 AM
If you picked them up and dropped them off in one of those places, of course they wouldn't survive unless they adapted.
I don't understand about what that (having to plan for the future) has to do with creation myths, specifically.
Hawaii and other tropical islands are also bountiful in the same way, but the indigenous people have creation myths and histories of their own gods. They also fell prey to missionaries. "These people" as you term them, or many like them, are doing ok in a lot of very different, and more harsh [to you] environments on the planet. You could not survive, but they can; they are still living in their ancestral places.
The point of the story is that their own resourcefulness, not some imaginary god, keeps them alive. That's true everywhere.It actually has a lot to do with it. When your environment is plentiful, you don't turn to religious constructs anywhere near the degree when hardships to living exist. Studies of cultures have demonstrated that people who encounter greater challenges also tend to develop ways to explain them in spiritual and religious ways.
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"they still had to explain death..." the basis isnt about death, its about how we came to be and what happens after we die. And im sure the way they explain it to their children is simple and easy to understand. It's probably something like "I don t know what happened to make us be or what happens when we die. All i know is that we are here now and we better make the best of it no matter what." Which, imo, is a damn fine philosophy.
Delete - Anonymous7:56 PM
@ 7:11ing a.m. that's an interesting question. Seasons seem to do two things - one, give people a sense of urgency and future-looking because a longtime w/o easily available food source (winter)looms. Two - that death/rebirth thing of trees/plants seems to call for an explanation - think the Persephone story of Greek mythology and pagan evergreen symbolism.
- Anonymous5:38 AM
Ms. Underwood: I fail to see how one's situation in the world, vis a vis climate, affects one's longing for a religion.
Surely there are atheists in sometimes -cold Alaska, Canada, and Scandinavia. Those who aren't atheists were given their religion from their parents or ancestors. They may still believe, but it's not because they're chilly.
Needing to plan ahead because of the change of seasons does not create believers.
Jerusalem is pretty ideal weather, too. As was Rome.
If you think your religion makes your civilization preferable, then you've bypassed the message of the New Testament. - hedgewytch8:01 AM
I've never heard of an atheistic society. I've always been dumbfounded by the presumption and arrogance of missionaries to come to another people's community, take advantage of their good graces, and then tell them that everything they believe is wrong and they will be punished for it horribly forever unless they change everything about their culture and spirituality.
It was because of such actions that I am not a Christian anymore. I was raised in the Lutheran Church - I have cousins who are missionaries. I seem to remember hearing that "God will reveal himself to all people" - which I believe is true, and therefore, "God" can be revealed to all people in the way that they can best understand him/her/it. It just these fundamentalists religions can't stand any kind of competition and/or challenges to their tidy little narrowly closed minds, so a "god" that walks and talks differently than white-bread Jesus, must be squashed. I just dropped my sister at the airport for her "mission" trip to Central America. A part of what she packed includes visual aids for teaching "Noah's Ark" to some 8-10 year old kids who live in cardboard boxes. Nope - I simply cannot understand. Nor can she understand why I believe their mission to be complete arrogance. (sigh...)
ReplyDeleteReplies- Anonymous9:46 AM
Those poor kids. I guess they need to be taught how their reward will only be in the afterlife so it's A-ok that they're starving now.
I would have told my sister to get someone else to take her to the airport. Then again, my sister and I are pushing 50 and have no trouble saying that kind of thing to each other. One day she'll hopefully wake up and take your words to heart.
I find it hard to believe that we must always try to convince other people to see and believe what we believe. Seems like a "My momma is better than your momma" kind of mentality that some of us haven't grown out of.
Christianity at it's best preaches love, humility, understanding, and to be a better person. Christianity at it's worst, preaches doom and gloom, hate, suffering, and arrogance. All the other religions are the same -- the best of the best on one end with the worst of the worst at the other. Same with atheism -- it can be the best of the best or the worst of the worst as well. Maybe it comes down to basic human nature at it's best or at it's worst.
To be a truly great world, we need both tolerance and respect for each other, respect for each other's beliefs, respect for the world we live in. We also need to want a better world for ALL people to do this.Ok, it's late afternoon now down here in the REAL heartland [Little Rock], and I've been floating around on the intertubes about Dan Everett. Just ordered two of his books.
It is interesting that he chucked the pointless/irrelevant Christian belief system after hanging around with very smart people who are totally invested in the way they live, and have been strong enough to resist attempts to ruin their lives. Naturally!
But the more important thing he's done is raise a really big question about the origin of language.- Anita Winecooler5:57 PM
What an amazing story! I'll have to watch the rest e of the links in the description section on youtube, and I will be reading this book!
The Pirahas have everything they need to survive, the part that got to me was this missionary wanting to fix the roofs, when the Pirahas own curiosity about the night skies was higher on their priority list than a little rain.
Makes me wonder who's the "primitive" in this tale.
I wonder how many civilizations throughout history have been obliterated by "well meaning" missionaries without the courage of the author to re evaluate his own belief system? - Anonymous7:00 AM
Faith in God is not a requirement to live on earth, but, rather to live everlasting...
I cannot believe that when I die, I will cease to exist.RepliesWhat kind of narcissistic maniac wants to live FOREVER. That's a fucking long time! And what, eternity is going to be filled with churchy stuff like singing praises to the LAWD? People can barely stand to do that for an hour a week in Real Life… who in their right mind wants to do it FOREVER??
Read Mark Twain's "Letter to Earth".
- Anonymous7:07 AM
How about a little research?
Here you go. At 2:00 minutes in. A conversation with Jose Augusto and Yapohen Pirahã, who represent the leadership of the Pirahã tribe CLEARLY state(multiple times) that THEY ARE BELIEVERS in God.
So a Christian tried converting them, wasn't happening. Which is great, nobody should try to impose views, but the FACT that they were believers in God, is clearly stated there. Poly-Theism. - BAReFOOt8:06 AM
How is deliberately trying to infect people with a horrible and crippling mental illness with the purpose of making them servants of an organization that is known for its cruel inquisitions, child rape and the like… HOW IS THAT NOT A CRIME??
Such people must be thrown out of *any* country or locked away and given a intense therapy. They present an extreme danger to humanity as a whole. - Anonymous8:13 AM
Most religions just won't let you walk your own path and have your own beliefs. You just have to see it their way. While I am not an atheist and do not condone it. I stand firm on the belief that it is your business to "believe" or not "believe". Your choices do not effect my choices. And apparently their's at least one Amazonian tribe that feels the same way. Good for them!
ReplyDelete - Anonymous8:13 AM
Author, "primitive" is a difficult word to apply to tribes like this. Seems to me they are pretty advanced and very well suited to the niche they occupy.
ReplyDeleteReplies- Anonymous9:38 AM
Very true. The word "primitive" is a pejorative. Historically, it's use as a description of cultures viewed as "less-evolved" than Western civilization has led to very damaging and biased views against valid and fascinating lifestyles. For example, the use of this word "primitive" to describe African tribes "justified" the slave trade; its use to describe American Indians "justified" the stealing of the land they occupied and relied on for sustenance. To use this word is to measure others as less-than.
- Anonymous10:41 AM
Whilst I very much agree with your blog regarding questions around religiosity. Your use of the word 'primitives' has many negative connotations. As it is imposed by the Western peoples onto peoples you assume are less intelligent. To assume the 'primitive' peoples were homogenic consumers unable to process and decide what to believe for themselves, shows your Western assertions.
With regards to the Piraha they do not live in the past nor for the future, their moral code is to live for the day and not to disrupt their environment (Piraha culture is much more than these two qualities). There is much more Western peoplescan learn from Piraha and other indigenous cultures other than religion. - Anonymous12:30 PM
Conversion to or from something is not proof or disproof of that something. A common mistake is to think that conversion to one's own dogma (of any sort) is proof of it's truth. Those encouraged by such conversions seem to desire affirmation of their own dogma more than pursuit of truth. For dogma is only concerned with the conclusions.
To avoid dogmatic thinking, only the arguments for a given conclusion matter, not where, when, what, how or who is presenting the arguments. This means accurate knowledge of the supporting and opposing arguments is necessary. Something that is very difficult to achieve, in part because it can be very frightening. To thoroughly study an opposing argument may reveal it to be true. It takes humility (intellectual courage) to accept the truth no matter where, when, what, how, or who it comes from. - Anonymous12:36 PM
two things about this, that most of the people commenting seem to not know
1. I think a lot of you guys (and gals) are confusing their seeming atheism with irreligion. They don't believe in a supreme diety, but they believe in spirits that transform into animals, and a guy who lives in the clouds, that screams "I'm going to kill you!" at them. Which, when you think about it, is pretty much God from the Old Testament.
2. They don't only believe in stuff that they themselves have seen, and they'll just kind of take your word for it, if you insist you saw it. Which is not really how most atheists are, at least the ones I know. If you said to one of them that earlier today, you saw a three headed man doing interpretive dance to ABBA Gold and vomiting kittens, they might believe you, instead of being like, "sounds like a crock of shit".


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Wednesday, July 16, 2008
Coming Home this Morning
I want to get curtains down and wash them, but I really must wait for the insurance guy and the guy from the clean up company to do a walk through.
The whole house feels like we are camping, which is fun if one is camping partly because you know that eventually you get to go home and clean up. But around here, everthying smells and everything feels dirty.
And since the upstairs is so bad, the carpet will have to be replaced, wall restored...I don't know what all, I just wonder what will happen.
So I will wash dishes, do laundry and wait and see what happens.
6 comments:
- james said...
Yes, I peak at your blog sometimes. Yes, I'm terribly sorry this happened. I'm glad no one was hurt.
- Caldonia Sun said...
Just saw the info about your fire. Thanks be to God that all of you are safe. Hopefully, insurance will cover much of the replacement and cleanup work.
Sally - 7:56 AM
- gemma said...
Take it from someone with experience.....DO NOT DO ANYTHING until the adjuster arrives and inspects every blessed detail and do not do that "Oh we can live with this" people pleasing thing that we do so well......Be a complainer and a won't stand for it'er....The adjuster wants to get as little as possible on the pay out. You need to "be made whole" as they say......The insurance company we dealt with when our pipes burst one winter would only replace the wallpaper on the half wall where the rusty water erupted....How does that work? Don't be nice!!!
- Joyful Days said...
Oh, Alana! I just read your story about all of this today. Prayers of thanksgiving everyone is fine. Prayers that resolution and repairs are made quickly.
Julie - 1:50 PM
- Liz in Seattle said...
What Gemma said. And take pictures, lots of pictures. Video if you can, because that can capture more detail.
This is why you pay insurance premiums. This is for your children's health. And this is (maybe) so you can sell a "whole" home and move to Louisville.
Be that stick-in-the-mud that fights for your kids :-) - 4:13 PM
- Emmelia said...
Alana, I am so glad everyone at your house is safe!
I was telling Kristie about your fire. She sends their concern and prayer too. They too had smoke damage to their old house before they were able to sell it and insurance paid for everything. The 'good' out of this is that now you can list your house with new carpet and paint (not to mention walls! ;-) in the upstairs and you don't have to pay for it! Remember in the hard days of smoke and work ahead that God really does work in mysterious ways! This too is one of His 'blessings', just in a very smelly disguise!
I am just so glad you are all safe! - 4:54 AM