11-03-2008, 12:00 AM
Hawkeye Crow wrote:
"I am fixing supper and cleaning up a few dishes. I think about why I have the attitude I have . I will be 59 years in a few months , and during those
years I have had Christians shaking their fingers at me , telling me things that aren't true "
So you write off Christianity because of so called Christians?,
".. making threats if I don't ' bend my knee' to them. And worse , I was an abused child. I prayed to your god for relief that never came. I
am alive due only to the choices I made for myself , choices which sometimes seemed to be wrong , but those were the choices I had to choose from."
Sorry to hear you had bad childhood experiences. So did I and so do many others. You are 58? time to grow up. You prayed to YOUR God. Not mine.
That was Your idea of God. You do not know mine. Even I do not because my idea of God changes over the years. And so does my idea of prayer and what it is. I
certainly didn't think the same way about God when I was a boy.
"I accept my fate , I accept my responsibility for myself and no longer feel self-hatred."
No,? So now you direct it outward to God, Whites and Christians.
"Obviously , I am sick and tired of bullshit preachers"
Who isn't?
"..and have had to adjust my understanding of a creator. I'll call him Grandfather and I'll call her Grandmother."
I see nothing wrong with that. That does not mean everyone has to adjust their understanding to match yours.
"It should be easy to see why I would identify with the Dakota , Tuscarora and other Nations. And , dammit , many of these people , just like don Juan ,
knew how to LIVE - anywhere - and what life was for."
And many didn't. They are just people like any others. If you appreciate the way they lived then live like them.
"How little the people of today know. I include myself. Hell , there's food growing on my land and I don't even know what it is."
Then find out. There are plenty of internet sites where you can go to identify plants by their leaves.
"Got plenty of rabbit , though. Will I be able to afford the ammo?"
Learn to build a snare. It would be fun and cheap.
You could probably use a white man's mouse trap for the trigger that is the most difficult part. The rest is just string or piano wire or guitar string
and a flexible sapling or an old fishing rod. And don't forget to thank the rabbit.
"And all these rich Pharisees praying in public can go shove it , too. As I learn about the "Indians" , I see the whites considered them as
useless lumps of flesh ; They won't work!"
Maybe SOME whites would be a more accurate statement.
"Well if the Christian god is true , then the lowly things will be raised up , won't they."
That is already available. You, like so many "End Times" interpreters are looking to the future for something that is already happening. And has
been for 2000 years.
Joh 12:32
And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will DRAW all men unto me.
"A new cornerstone indeed"
Same cornerstone different perspective of what/who that cornerstone is.
Like I said Bob, you need to lighten up.
There is plenty of evil in this world. You and I have lived long enough to realize this.
But if you let it pull you down, it wins.
"I am fixing supper and cleaning up a few dishes. I think about why I have the attitude I have . I will be 59 years in a few months , and during those
years I have had Christians shaking their fingers at me , telling me things that aren't true "
So you write off Christianity because of so called Christians?,
".. making threats if I don't ' bend my knee' to them. And worse , I was an abused child. I prayed to your god for relief that never came. I
am alive due only to the choices I made for myself , choices which sometimes seemed to be wrong , but those were the choices I had to choose from."
Sorry to hear you had bad childhood experiences. So did I and so do many others. You are 58? time to grow up. You prayed to YOUR God. Not mine.
That was Your idea of God. You do not know mine. Even I do not because my idea of God changes over the years. And so does my idea of prayer and what it is. I
certainly didn't think the same way about God when I was a boy.
"I accept my fate , I accept my responsibility for myself and no longer feel self-hatred."
No,? So now you direct it outward to God, Whites and Christians.
"Obviously , I am sick and tired of bullshit preachers"
Who isn't?
"..and have had to adjust my understanding of a creator. I'll call him Grandfather and I'll call her Grandmother."
I see nothing wrong with that. That does not mean everyone has to adjust their understanding to match yours.
"It should be easy to see why I would identify with the Dakota , Tuscarora and other Nations. And , dammit , many of these people , just like don Juan ,
knew how to LIVE - anywhere - and what life was for."
And many didn't. They are just people like any others. If you appreciate the way they lived then live like them.
"How little the people of today know. I include myself. Hell , there's food growing on my land and I don't even know what it is."
Then find out. There are plenty of internet sites where you can go to identify plants by their leaves.
"Got plenty of rabbit , though. Will I be able to afford the ammo?"
Learn to build a snare. It would be fun and cheap.
You could probably use a white man's mouse trap for the trigger that is the most difficult part. The rest is just string or piano wire or guitar string
and a flexible sapling or an old fishing rod. And don't forget to thank the rabbit.
"And all these rich Pharisees praying in public can go shove it , too. As I learn about the "Indians" , I see the whites considered them as
useless lumps of flesh ; They won't work!"
Maybe SOME whites would be a more accurate statement.
"Well if the Christian god is true , then the lowly things will be raised up , won't they."
That is already available. You, like so many "End Times" interpreters are looking to the future for something that is already happening. And has
been for 2000 years.
Joh 12:32
And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will DRAW all men unto me.
"A new cornerstone indeed"
Same cornerstone different perspective of what/who that cornerstone is.
Like I said Bob, you need to lighten up.
There is plenty of evil in this world. You and I have lived long enough to realize this.
But if you let it pull you down, it wins.