Guest -> RE: Africa (Jul. 3 2005 12:18:46)
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Just went to the shop in the middle of the village and saw a circle of people (poss 150 – it’s a small village), hand in hand, around the church, in the name of Live 8. I suggested to a villager that no matter how tightly they squeezed hands and prayed they would never get it to lift off the ground. He suggested I should join in but I have no time for religions of any flavour (just stating my view, I’m tolerant so I leave others to their views, but it is relevant here) How was this futile pursuit going to feed Africa, or improve their lot? Then while thinking what if anything practical could be done, remembering the explorer Ridgeway who said he had seen no problem on earth that couldn’t be resolved by halving the population, thinking that soon there will be no lions or leopards in the wild, and the RCs breeding policy, and ….. I thought about Flamenco – back on track – the issues in flamenco seem to relate to life, today, the planet, the soil, the crop, the pain, ….. Things personal. Things of this life and not some magical afterlife. Am I right or is my view of Flamenco too limited? Have I hit why I can relate to Flamenco? Meanwhile the church has not moved anymore than it had done in the last 9 centuries But seriously does flamenco lack spiritualism beyond that of its’ own soul?
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