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One of our daughters called this morning asking if I could maybe help with a problem.
I wasn't expecting a call but had already seen the news where the potential(?) problem/trouble was reported the night before.
At the Tulsa City Zoo there's a couple of statues of Ganesha, the elephant God, a 10,000 pound round granite sphere floating on a thin layer of water at 9 psi with a map of the world engraved on it and the words, "The Sky is Our Father and The Earth is Our Mother."
At the wonderful Masai Exhibit there is cultural reference to the same thing, Sky is Our Father, Earth is Our Mother, sort of thing. Children and cattle are the Gods gifts to us and etc.
Nothing at all religious to it that I can see. And nothing "IN YOUR FACE" about it either, and presented as a cultural view, nothing religious or religion minded about it.
Now we have a single mean small minded Christian that wants to sue the City of Tulsa for not giving creationism an equal amount of time. He says that the City of Tulsa and the City Zoo is promoting different religions but not Christianity.
He will probably force the city into erecting some kind of something to promote creationism but there's a lot of other folks besides me that hope he doesn't.
I guess maybe if fair is fair we should get the Buddhists, Hindus, American ndn traditionalists, Athiests, and all the other religions and non religions together so our views of how the earth came about would also get equal time.
People like him just piss me off. Kinda remind me of Steve Largeant when I wrote him about prayer in school and would it be all right for an older ndn boy to take his sacred Pipe to school and pray with it while the Christians were saying their prayers... No answer of course.
I've been watching eBay, all signed up and ready to bid. I asked Nasty to bid on one for me since I am leery of PayPal and Mrs Nasty bid on the knife with my maximum bid and we got it!!!!
Since then I have made two bids on my own and lost 'em both to more experienced eBayers.
You can talk all you want about the HI Sharks but those experienced eBayers are like tuned up monster sharks with a brain and intelligence quadruple the mind of mere men!!!!
But I'm learning from my experiences so one of these days I'll be just as dangerous. It just dawned on me that perhaps some of the super sharks here are experinced eBayers!!!!
That would explain a few things.
But on another note and a good one this time I picked this little item up from a dealer on ePrey after Howard posted that he had gotten a couple. These are "Real" Gaucho Knives!!!!
They are made from old carriage springs and local wood in Argentina. Mine has a beautifully wrapped handle in what appears to be a braided or woven material. Supposed to be rawhide but feels awfully waxy so I don't know, perhaops they waxed the rawhide but it feels more like the artificial sinew us ndns use for so many crafts.
Like the khukuri you have to be careful when drawing one, after you sharpen it that is.
Mine came with about a 1/32" flat on it much like the old trade knives traded to the old mountain men and ndns.
They prefered to put their own personal edges on them.
Also the knives are soft enough that you can use a file on them to sharpen them. I imagine the gauchos use a local rock to sharpen theirs with. Remember on the Pampas there isn't a lot of technology.
I wasn't expecting a call but had already seen the news where the potential(?) problem/trouble was reported the night before.
At the Tulsa City Zoo there's a couple of statues of Ganesha, the elephant God, a 10,000 pound round granite sphere floating on a thin layer of water at 9 psi with a map of the world engraved on it and the words, "The Sky is Our Father and The Earth is Our Mother."
At the wonderful Masai Exhibit there is cultural reference to the same thing, Sky is Our Father, Earth is Our Mother, sort of thing. Children and cattle are the Gods gifts to us and etc.
Nothing at all religious to it that I can see. And nothing "IN YOUR FACE" about it either, and presented as a cultural view, nothing religious or religion minded about it.
Now we have a single mean small minded Christian that wants to sue the City of Tulsa for not giving creationism an equal amount of time. He says that the City of Tulsa and the City Zoo is promoting different religions but not Christianity.
He will probably force the city into erecting some kind of something to promote creationism but there's a lot of other folks besides me that hope he doesn't.I guess maybe if fair is fair we should get the Buddhists, Hindus, American ndn traditionalists, Athiests, and all the other religions and non religions together so our views of how the earth came about would also get equal time.
People like him just piss me off. Kinda remind me of Steve Largeant when I wrote him about prayer in school and would it be all right for an older ndn boy to take his sacred Pipe to school and pray with it while the Christians were saying their prayers... No answer of course.
I've been watching eBay, all signed up and ready to bid. I asked Nasty to bid on one for me since I am leery of PayPal and Mrs Nasty bid on the knife with my maximum bid and we got it!!!!
Since then I have made two bids on my own and lost 'em both to more experienced eBayers.
You can talk all you want about the HI Sharks but those experienced eBayers are like tuned up monster sharks with a brain and intelligence quadruple the mind of mere men!!!!
But I'm learning from my experiences so one of these days I'll be just as dangerous. It just dawned on me that perhaps some of the super sharks here are experinced eBayers!!!!
That would explain a few things.
But on another note and a good one this time I picked this little item up from a dealer on ePrey after Howard posted that he had gotten a couple. These are "Real" Gaucho Knives!!!!
They are made from old carriage springs and local wood in Argentina. Mine has a beautifully wrapped handle in what appears to be a braided or woven material. Supposed to be rawhide but feels awfully waxy so I don't know, perhaops they waxed the rawhide but it feels more like the artificial sinew us ndns use for so many crafts.
Like the khukuri you have to be careful when drawing one, after you sharpen it that is.
Mine came with about a 1/32" flat on it much like the old trade knives traded to the old mountain men and ndns.
They prefered to put their own personal edges on them.
Also the knives are soft enough that you can use a file on them to sharpen them. I imagine the gauchos use a local rock to sharpen theirs with. Remember on the Pampas there isn't a lot of technology.
