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Nothing ticks me off more than the commercialization and denigration of a dreamcatcher, as if it was a ubiquitous First Nations symbol.
Really? So if a burned down your house and stole your car and then commercialized a dream catcher, you would be more angry with me over the dream catcher than your house and car? Wow!
Really? So if a burned down your house and stole your car and then commercialized a dream catcher, you would be more angry with me over the dream catcher than your house and car? Wow!
Better talk to some First Nations elders rather than link to a site pedaling those wares. The article is incomplete, misleading, and full of bovine scat.
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Really? So if a burned down your house and stole your car and then commercialized a dream catcher, you would be more angry with me over the dream catcher than your house and car? Wow!
I think you know where I was going with my comment ... The denigration and counterfeiting of s cultural object from a peoples who we, as immigrants, did our best to erase.
I think you know where I was going with my comment ... The denigration and counterfeiting of s cultural object from a peoples who we, as immigrants, did our best to erase.
I was being facetious because you said nothing ticks you off more than the commercialization and denigration of dream catchers.
If one has located in an area too close for my comfort, I apologize and then trap it in a glass held closed with a piece of paper or cardboard. If it's winter, I'll release it in my garage or furnace room in the basement and wish it luck.
If it's balmy enough for outdoor survival, I'll release it there.
They do very little harm and very much good. (And they're way smarter than you think.)
My problem with spiders is that to trap it in a glass means I must get close enough with a glass to get it. And that is way too close. So I either direct my cat's gaze to it, whereupon she will eat it. Or, I will pull out the vacuum cleaner hose and suck the bugger up.
If the spiders wish to live, then they should not enter my house. That's pretty simple, I think.
I would eradicate ticks...they serve no purpose. Gnats are a close second. Viruses are pretty bad.
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I was being facetious because you said nothing ticks you off more than the commercialization and denigration of dream catchers.
Some of my humor is just too subtle I guess.
Naaaa.. I was engrossed in a political debate that was broadcast. There is an election in Alberta, and fit the first time in 44 years, the government might change. My mind was there.
If one has located in an area too close for my comfort, I apologize and then trap it in a glass held closed with a piece of paper or cardboard. If it's winter, I'll release it in my garage or furnace room in the basement and wish it luck.
If it's balmy enough for outdoor survival, I'll release it there.
They do very little harm and very much good. (And they're way smarter than you think.)
I leave the spiders. No way we can get rid of all bugs, so choose the one's you like and enjoy. My wife gets mad at my 'dern boarder patrol ...". I say but they eat the "bad" bugs so they don't bother us. I feel the same about religion.
North American First Nations did not have one religion or one view of any creator. Dene 'Tha, Beaver, Crow, Woodland Cree, Apache, Sioux, Tingler, Haida, Kootnai, Cherokee, Hopi or Navaho all had different perspectives.
Nothing ticks me off more than the commercialization and denigration of a dreamcatcher, as if it was a ubiquitous First Nations symbol.
you're right, we did not have any one religion, we had no religion at all and we had many views and names for the Creator depending on which tribe you belong to but none of them were ever commanded by the Creator to take the life of another, our beliefs don't work that way, all life is sacred and all life is respected, that's our belief.
oh and the so-called dream catcher... Is a white man's invention..
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