Today in my Linguistics Class we were discussing a South American tribe, buried deep in the tropical forests of Brazil who Linguists found very interesting due to their limited use of words and sounds.
These people have numbers up to three, three also suggests more than... they don't speak of any history, origin stories, nor do they keep art.
It was so interesting because their language has no words or ideas alluding to the past or future.
They don't concern themselves with past events, or future events.
They don't concern themselves with art, because the only time it has any value is while it is in the process of being made... and when first finished, after that it is disregarded, destroyed or trashed because no one can explain the context in which it was created or what it meant... because it had all happened previously.
As for future, they never worry about storing foods, they just hunt and eat when they get hungry. No concern whatsoever... and... it works, they've survived there for who knows how long...
It's so interesting... how alien and foreign these concepts are to us... and these people have just as much mental ability as we do... there is nothing wrong with them.
However, I've yet to get to my point...
So... these people are met and studied and found interesting.
Then the Christians found out about these characters... and they were like
"Wow those people sound fascinating... you know what would make them even MORE interesting... Our God."
So they show up, and their trying to teach these people the Bible and Jesus... Etc.
And these people, who have no interest in past events or anything that isn't right in front of them are like
"Oh... Wow this Jesus sounds interesting, but... we don't believe you... can we meet him?"
Hurray for the failures of Christianity and Missionaries!
It's not that I'm opposed to organized religion or anything... I just hate people who attempt to force it upon you.
Like those people who come to my campus and shout about our need to repent, or people who give me pamphlets that suggest how I be saved... and ESPECIALLY those people who pay to put up billboards and such that just have verses from the bible or say something along the lines of "There is only one true God."
I hate these assholes!
Because of the arrogance that goes along with these "One true God statements," in which they basically declare everyone else's faith is false... and this idea they have that they've discovered something everyone apparently needs.
Listen people!
If people feel they need to be saved, or that they need some hope... or whatever.
They'll come to a Church or fucking go searching for what they need.
People aren't going to be converted by Pamphlets and Billboards or People... showing up and trying to just shove all then information down their throat and tell them.. that it's a better way to live and that they need it!
And honestly... if you do convert them that easily... they weren't really any kind of real individual or useful member or society anyhow... or you guys are just assholes for manipulating those in need.
Or in the case of this South American Tribe... those you see as less civilized and in need of saving.
Assholes.
Wednesday, June 4, 2008
This South American Tribe was... will.... just IS.
Labels:
Assholes,
Christians,
Jesus,
Linguistics,
Pamphlets,
Saving,
Tribes
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What was the tribe's name? I forgot. Anyways, the guy who "discovered" them has stated that their language challenges Noam Chomsky's generative grammar, because apparently, these folk don't or can't make up entirely new sentences by replacing nouns with different nouns and so on. Sounds like a crock of shit.
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