cara
- Originally from: combs
- Currently residing in: fayetteville, arkansas
- I've been on arkansasrockers since August 22, 2004
- Last updated on Sep 2, 2010 at 12:02AM
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In General
becoming an arizonan.
Lately
well, there is a big issue in town right now. there is a tall peak called humphrey. it is where the ski area is. local native americans hold the same place sacred. the environmentalists want the water used to manufacture fake snow to put on the hill to keep the skiiers happy to be reclaimed water- cleaned up waste water. this idea violates the native american idea of the sacred place.
it is interesting to see the native americans and the environmentalists on opposite sides. both sides feel VERY strongly about their sides and kept the city council up until after midnight giving them what for. it is coming down to a vote very soon. i don’t envy the council members their seats right now.
i was having a hard time with it. have decided that it is ok if i don’t weigh in on this issue since everyone in town has it covered. i am very curious to see what gets decided. i really see the environmental side of things. i do not feel right violating another culture’s idea of the sacred.
sacred and cool two words trying to express the same thing?
jeremy and i talked about this before this rumble in relation to uluru/ayers rock in australia. it is a big ol’ rock that the aboriginies hold in a special place. of course the white folks like to scale whatever tall thing they come up to. i said if i went there i would not walk on it out of respect. jeremy does not feel the need to tiptoe around folks’ ideas.
good debates. keeps me thinking.
meredith, i voted for helena and would love to read whatever you are up to writing these days. i also want to get that book you mentioned. it may be a while. grad school piles it on. pretty good reading so far- community organizing, saul alinsky, the guy who started the iaf around chicago. interesting to think of going out in the community and attempting to organize/motivate them.
i have had issues with this way back to youth group when i was told that if i loved jesus enough i would be able to do things that made me uncomfortable, like telling people they needed to get right with god and how to. i felt guilty then that i still didn’t want to tell people what to do with one of the most personal aspects of their life, despite my love for jesus. that reluctance became very ingrained and crosses over to non-religious modes.