To save space I didn't include this in my last post. For intersectional discrimination to be perceived it's necessary for an individual to become fragmented. Otherwise they'd just say, "so-and-so thinks I'm a running dog pig swine imperialist toady – so what? If that's what they think they're wrong!" and get on with life not caring what so-and-so thought. Even if they were right and I am the fascist hyaena of imperialism it really wouldn't bother me. That is because I'm an integrated individual. Jesus said:
Luke 11:35-36 Take heed therefore that the light which is in thee be not darkness. If thy whole body therefore be full of light, having no part dark, the whole shall be full of light, as when the bright shining of a candle doth give thee light.
How is the deconstruction of personal integrity achieved? Intersectional disempowerment requires multiple forms of injustice to be defined so they can all work at the same time. Christians are whole and don't have this problem but for someone who defines themselves as 1) an ethnic minority 2) gender fluid and 3) Elvis, three streams of oppression can be experienced all at the same time. One way to achieve that is through education. Just to show an example, here is something from a book for children which is not The Bible.
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TEACHING Children PHILOSOPHY
The Shaman's Apprentice
For thousands of years, in the jungles of the Amazon, shamans have passed their wisdom of the medicinal values of rain forest plants from one generation to the next. The Shaman's Apprentice tells the story of a Tirio Indian boy who dreams of one day being the tribal shaman, and how he and his people learn the importance of their own knowledge about the healing properties of the rain forest.
Guidelines for Philosophical Discussion
The Shaman's Apprentice.….is a story of a little boy in a native village. Mark J. Plotkin is an ethnobotanist who worked in the village of Kwamala with the Tirio people. The Tirio people live in the northeast region of the Amazon rain forest. The village of the Tirio people is along the Brazil-Suriname border. They are an agrarian culture which utilizes the slash and burn farming method. They are also hunters and fishers. Currently, the Tirio people are being threatened by the gold miners and foreign loggers who have come into the area in recent years. Mark J. Plotki was inspired by the medical practices of the Tirio people which involve the use of medicinal plants by the tribe shaman.
In the the book, the boy's name is Kamanya, and he lives in the village of Kwamala. When Kamanya becomes sick, it is the Shaman who heals him. Soon a person from the next village comes to be cured by the Shaman, but he dies. When white people come to the village of Kwamala they bring pills which cure the diseases that the Shaman can not. This causes doubt among the Tirio people about the strength of their medicine and religious beliefs. Ultimately, they regain faith when an ethnobotinist points out that the medicine contained in the pills came from the rain forest itself.
The Shaman's Apprentice addresses epistemological issues. Epistemology is the branch of philosophy which studies issues about the nature of knowledge. The Epistemological issues raised in The Shaman's Apprentice concern what we know - and how we know what we know. The book also addresses metaphysical issues. Metaphysics is the branch of philosophy which deals with the nature of the world and covers such issues as theories of mind, religion, free will, time, and even scientific issues. The Shaman's Apprentice addresses metaphysical issues such as belief in nature vs. man and differences in the perception of medicinal cures. Ultimately, this is a book about the perseverence of a culture even as a people from outside this culture attempt to change it.
Questions for Philosophical Discussion.
Sickness and Health
When we get sick we go to see a doctor, but Kamanya saw a shaman.
. .1. Would you go to a shaman? Why or why not?
. .2. What makes something a medicine?
. .3. Can medicine come from plants?
. .4. Do you know of any medicinal plants?
Exploration and Religion
. .1. What are missionaries?
. .2. What did the missionaries overlook when they claimed they were bringing religion to the village?
. .3. Is it good that missionaries shared their religion with the Tirio village?
. .4. Can there be more than one God?
. .5. Is a religon based on one god better than one based on multiple or many gods?
. .6. Is the missionaries religon better than the religion of the Tirio people?
Wisdom and Shamanism
. .1. It is said that the shaman is wise. Do you think the shaman is wise?
. .2. Do you know anyone who is wise?
. .3. When attending school you learn lots of things. Does this mean that you are wise?
. .4. Is wisdom the same thing as knowledge?
. .5. What is the difference between knowledge and wisdom?
. .6. Is it important for the book of medicinal plants to be translated into Tirio for future shamans?
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The combination of wanting to be a shaman
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.bearing in mind what shamans actually do
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.with ideas about knowledge, wisdom and missionaries clearly opposed to what The Bible teaches and also opposed to what is presumably taught in schools lays the groundwork for intersectional umbrage to be taken later in life. The best example of that must be in the final question. If the Tirio people have been able to preserve their pharmacopoeia for millions of years carrying it with them as they traipsed across the tundra to reach where they are now, preserving the wisdom of the ages and adding to it occasionally as new "medicinal" plants were discovered and peddled to the stupid Europeans when they arrived with their "knowledge" (but presumably no wisdom) why do they now all of a sudden need a book to be written? I strongly doubt that the appetite for vivid hallucinogenics is going to die out any time soon so all the shamans need to do is keep producing it. They'll be on the gravy train for life.
Intersectional deprivation is not something endorsed in The Bible. Either one is whole or one is ruined. And listening to the wailings of multiple identities being shortchanged (as they see it) suggests to me that they are not whole.
Matthew 6:23 But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness!
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