How many people wish there were hardly any lofty buildings and just streams and tree's and the way it was thousands of years ago? How many wish the simple life would come back instead of all this night clubs etc and dating and so on.
How do i do a poll, i want to see how many wish for this:
Instead of this:
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My tears testify that i have a heart
yet i feel me and shaytan never part
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As a Native American I obviously tend to prefer natural beauty opposed to artificial rat-races. I remember my first trip to a major city made me extremely uncomfortable. Too closed in, too smelly, too many people, etc. Modern technology has its obvious advantages, but I am never more at peace than when I'm surrounded by a natural landscape.
It is hard to know how much of our preference is only by custom and how much is a more reality inspired want for a living condition that is sustainable.
I guess folk who have never acquired any positive experiences of being out in the bush are not able to like to be away from the creature comforts of the city.
Camping is sure uncomfortable until you find your self in the way of nature.
But get this: I know a person who grew up in the East End of London, and her mum and uncles and father had always lived in and around Bethnal Green. Their family has traced their ancestry living in Bethnal Green back to when it was a village outside of London! The televised Charles Dickens novel "The River" reminded me of her, and when I told her about it and she watched it, she reckoned it gave her a true feel for her home. She is like the dustmen in that story, and even worked at scavenging in the public rubblish dump for ages here in Australia. But she reckons she has a friend in London whom had never been over the river into South London from Bethnal Green. One day she took her friend over the river and her friend had a panic attack and had to head on back to the East End.
So I guess that when we talk about Indigenous Land Rights, there sure is the full range of possiblity in that which we have become accustomed to connecting to as our own "natural" place.
wasalam
Within the Realm of King Solomon
Who could have known I was home grown
An accuser's false allegation
Did warrant only my Nation in apology for inconveniences
its shaytan leeches
who accuse
my unconscious sleep
of accusing you too cheep
I will be selling for five times three
centsiblity
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