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Date Posted: 06:22:04 02/16/00 Wed
Author: Anonymous
Subject: Re: SOME ANSWERS ABOUT TRADITIONAL MEDICINES ETC
In reply to: 's message, "SOME ANSWERS ABOUT TRADITIONAL MEDICINES ETC" on 16:54:58 02/15/00 Tue

You Know, you have hit on something I said many years ago to a missonary group who was working with villagers in the highlands. (I am the peace corps guy who was real pissed when I wrote the posting yesterday but now you guys have made me feel better with your explainations) Anyway, these missionaries were teaching people how to live with new religious ways and morals and all that crap and taking away workers that I needed while I was struggling in mud up to my arse and getting a major hernia. It seems that they kept holding their damn meaningful "How to live" meetings whenever I needed strong bodies. When given a choice between hard manual labor and sitting on their arses listening to a sermon you know which one they chose. One day I got into a discussion with one of the missionaries about how it pissed me off that the missionaries would go to a village where people were living a half nude enviroment, (I never had a problem with this) and tell the people this should not be done. The "LORD" likes people to be fully clothed. They would supply everyone with second hand cloths donated by some foreign ministry and so everyone was clothed much to the delight of the missionaries. There were other cultures that these people of the "Lord" would instill in them. And then you know what they did? The left to go screw up another village with no follow up. How in the hell can a people who is not educated or trained make the clothing to replace what you gave him after it wears out? If you are going to modernize people then at least stay with them and give them the tools and knowledge to continue this way of life you have just introduced to them. In other words, too many times in PNG and other developing countries the missionaries do more harm than good by doing half a job and not finishing what they started. This leaves the people very confused as to who they are now and where do they go from here.

I know a lot of you think that all of us white jerks have been your problems. I disagree. The people I worked with, myself included, were all young engineers fresh out of school with a wealth of technical knowledge that could be used to improve living conditions for entire villages and we were willing to spend a life time there to keep the progress going. However, many of these missionary groups (few from America that I saw, Most were European)were there just to make a statement and when it was over they left only to be replaced by still yet another group who had their ways of doing things. I one time told a minister that I thought the religous ceromonies of the villages was far supperior to the western world religions. He asked me why I felt that way. I told him, "Because I have attended many village religous ceremonies and never once went to sleep during a sermon." That was the first time I had ever heard a preacher use a swear word.

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