My point is that, I can understand if you are saying it in anger. I've been treated less than dirt by both white people and my own nation, as a Métis woman. I just hope you aren't actually praying that people will die. I learned some time ago that if you want to change things, you need to educate and be calm in your approach, even if sometimes the responses piss you off, because the anger will eat you alive. You can't walk in a good way with hate in your heart, even though many times it is justified.
Mahekun: Like I said, I rephrased the post to be more sensitive to you being offended by it. I wanted to express how stupid these people are by doing dangerous things that get them killed, not start a war. I see these incidents as really not much different than the incidents where newagers died in fake sweatlodges.
Prayer is a figure of speech in my usual usage. It means, I hope these people get what they deserve. They wanna run off into the woods naked unprepared, or go off into the wilderness and take drugs, then reap what they sow for being stupid, high, or whatever. White folks is none too bright as a rule, ya know. As far if you mean putting hands together and meditatively praying to a deity or to the spirits, no I'm not doing that, lol. If I did such, perhaps i would then in seriousness pray that this girl gets found, learns a good lesson from it, and quits being stupid newager. But I want to express, this should just go out as an example to other misguided newagers, you play deadly tricks on yourselves or others in the name of trying to steal a tradition you don't understand, and you fall in the pit you dig at.
Your thoughts on hatred are not shared by all people. Anger, and hatred exist in this Universe for a reason, and are extremely useful tools when attempting to conquer an enemy or maintain a conscious spirit independent from the devilish cultural way of thinking. It may destroy a person only if hatred is all they have to fuel them. But if you think that hatred has no use in a good person's heart, that's your opinion. It's a matter of cultural and spiritual 'warfare' even.
I personally find the whole 'everything is love and light, let's all get along and be peaceful man', approach to be very ineffective, and it gets people conquered. Sometimes people need spit some fire, and sometimes devilish people need to be burned by it. They been going around spitting their devil fire for long enough, making people believe in a brainwash whiteman god up in the sky, forcing people to worship a book full of teachings that they don't even practice, and telling everybody that their ancient indigenous traditions were worthless, superstitious, not valid, etc… and yet now they are turning around and wanting to steal, misunderstand, and mockingly romanticize all those very traditions that they been teaching were heathen and evil for so long. This is how lost the colonialist thinking is. They dont know what they want, they spend centuries going around being a bunch of grecoroman jerks, pushing their missionary thinking on traditional peoples, denigrating their traditions, raping their cultures and children, and now they wanna turn around and steal those very traditions. Forget that, I can feel the ancestors rolling in their graves when I hear about this offensive type of stuff. So I have no apology by saying, if these new agers die because of their own dumb mistakes, I share no sympathy for such colonialist foolishness, and I just hope it makes a popular example to scare other newagers from making the same mistakes, or from encouraging others to make such mistakes.
