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Category: lost congo memoir
One day, about six thousand years ago (or more like 15 thousand … the timing of this is disputed) a volcano in the vicinity of Mwea, Uganda blasted a huge volume of stuff into the air, covering the surrounding landscape and choking off most of...
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Category: lost congo memoir
We knew what you meant, even if the Big Man never did....
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Category: Falsehoods
I'd like to offer a way of thinking about the difference between what we call "civilization" and what some people call "primitive cultures" that will be more useful and less falsehood-prone
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Category: Falsehoods
Today's falsehood is the assertion that the poor have more babies than the rich, or that the poor just have more babies to begin with. In comparison to ... whatever.
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Category: Anthropology
The traveler was a college-educated westerner with a late-Victorian attitude about Africans. The idea that all Africans are at least a little subhuman would have been a starting point for him.
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Category: Anthropology
I've noticed that Scienceblogs.com has been running ads for hot Russian mail order brides. These ads are rather funny ...
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Category: Missionaries
"So, since Radiocarbon dating has been proved to not work, how do we really know that the earth is billions of years old?"
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Category: lost congo memoir
And so Grinker read the text, and a few sentences in it became clear that this was one of those bible passages that had a lot to say about the Jews. The Jews were bad, the Jews could not be trusted, the Jews needed to convert, and so on and so forth.
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Category: Missionaries
... you can look at the smiling face of an African Child bursting with happiness, and think, "well ... he's happy" and not understand this is kid will die of malaria next month because you needed a new cell phone. Or because he lives near a Christian mission with a medical facility but is not a Christian ...
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Category: Missionaries
One day a rabid dog appeared out of nowhere, bit three or four goats, killed my cat, and bit six people.
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