MDMD 9 some notes
Terrance
lycidas2 at earthlink.net
Mon Oct 22 23:08:59 CDT 2001
In GR Pensiero cuts hair, he takes hours, often days to cut each
one a different length.
"God is who knows their number." GR.643
This is how slick P can be with his biblical allusions.
"Go not into the way of the Gentiles and in any city of the
Samaritans enter ye not: But go rathert to the lost sheep of
the house of Israel...And into whatsoever city of town ye
shall enter, enquire who in it is worth...and whosoever
shall not receive you, nor hear your words, when you depart
out of that city, shake off the dust of your feet. Verily I
say unto you, It shall be more tolerable for the land of
Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judgment than for that
city. Behold I send you forth as sheep in the midst of
wolves....it is not ye that speak but the spirit...But the
very hairs of your head are numbered...." Matthew 10:1-42
Religion in Sub-Saharan Africa has changed and evolved over the last two
to three thousand years in many different ways.
http://philtar.ucsm.ac.uk/encyclopedia/sub/index.html
The massive expansion of European economic interests in the seventeenth
and
eighteenth centuries influenced the most remote indigenous communities
in Asia and
Africa in a so far unknown way resulting in a new single dominant world
economy.
The effects of this development included the collapse of indigenous
economies and
extreme social disruption, particularly among communities without
centralised
political order. In southern Africa this process, outgoing from the
newly established
Dutch outpost of Cape Town in 1652, resulted in the demise of nomadic
pastoralism within 200 years.
Kommando:
As a consequence of these developments some Cape Nama communities had
begun
to retreat northwards from Cape Town, firstly into the Cape interior and
later into
what is present-day Namibia. This movement had the effect of extending
the power
of the European influenced Cape market economy more rapidly than would
otherwise been possible. The immigrant Cape Nama communities are
commonly
described under the collective name of Orlams. The Orlams played a key
role in the
17th and 18th century history of southern Namibia. Ownership of guns,
horses and
ox wagons gave the Orlams a distinct above other pastoral societies in
Namibia.
However, the extent to which this "Kommando" economy derived from
colonial as
opposed to indigenous pastoral structures have to be evaluated can still
be open to
debate.
Sodom & Lot
http://www.bartleby.com/108/01/19.html
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