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Date Posted: 19:00:20 10/16/04 Sat
Author: testing testing
Author Host/IP: 68.91.91.43
Subject: I am evil
If you are ignorant about things of earth, how
can you know about things of heaven?
Babylonian Talmud
The Koran allots at least a third of Paradise to
well-behaved women.
Lord Byron (1813)
The Way of Heaven is to benefit others and not to injure.
Lao-tzu
Personalities come and go, I suppose that
is the evil in me, my bundle of vanities, fears, lies, cowardice, all the things
that make me evil, which I hope I leave behind in death, meanwhile life is
beautiful.
My Chindi, can you imagine the horror,
there I was dead and I could still remember my social security number.
"Gordon Ways shock at being
shoot dead was nothing compared to what happened next"
"they were aware of the contagion
spread by the newly dead and the dying. The elders called this danger chindi,
the name of a ghost, and taught their people to avoid it for four days—longer
if the death came inside a closed house, where the chindi would linger."
Traditional Navajo Taboos
The
Power of Language
Navajos have language taboos that
reflect their respect for the power of words.
- Do not say "chindi" (evil
spirit or one will come to you and do you harm.
- Do not use the name of a dead person
because the ghost will come visit you and do you harm.
- Do not talk about someone you do not
actually know because they might be dead and you will call them.
- Do not talk about killing yourself,
because someone else in your family will die in your place.
- Do not thank people who help with a
funeral because they will be the next to die.
- Do not pretend to pray or cry for no
reason because someone in your family will die. If you pray for no
reason, then you are wishing for that to happen.
- Do not laugh or make joke at old people
because some day you will be worse than them.
- Do not lie about yourself because bad
things will come true.
- Do not say your own name too much or
your ears will dry up.
- Do not use your own name because you
will wear it our, or have bad luck, or your ears will fall off.
- Do not make up names for yourself or you
will get a bad name.
- Do not tell your age because your will
grow old faster.
- Do not brag about your valuable things
or you will lose them.
- Do not criticize a poor family or you
will get poorer than that family.
- Do not tell a person to go to hell
because it might happen.
- Do not keep secrets from your
grandmother or you will get old before your time.
- Do not talk about your illness or you
will have a worse one.
- Do not make plans at night for the next
day because they will not come true.
Yeah I am evil too, but I expect to be a
lot better person when I die.
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