RE: Equal marriage for all?
April 22, 2013 at 10:05 am
(This post was last modified: April 22, 2013 at 10:07 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(April 22, 2013 at 9:55 am)thesummerqueen Wrote:Well......sometimes certain whiteys made offerings to ensure a good death in pitched battle...so, peace of mind and safety aren't always the same (though I suppose, given said certain whiteys stance on potential afterlives, death in battle was the safe option, relative to the alternatives).(April 22, 2013 at 9:54 am)Rhythm Wrote: It's also a product that the people involved were willing to buy. The price of peace of mind.
White people like feeling safe.
Here again to invoke our natives, a horrific practice of valuing captives in battle as gift fodder to increase the group spiritual power of a tribe also offered a saftey net to warriors (ensuring that they could be captured, gifted- and re-enter the fray on the other side - as well as captured women and children being provided some measure of safety by the same. It's an amusing practice because at the heart of it gifting is assigned as a spiritual currency, so gifts are exceedingly selfish...and then captives can be gifted, which is horrendous on the one hand but better than death on the other...it gets really fun.)
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