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<blockquote data-quote="Calvin45" data-source="post: 2797049" data-attributes="member: 109862"><p>This reminds me of a man that babysat me</p><p>When I was a little kid…taught me lots of his "cultural wisdom" as an Indigenous man. It was indeed wisdom of his own concocting, a fantastic storyteller and even better BSer haha. </p><p></p><p>Anyways this guy went to my church growing up as well, and was a counsellor at a local summer Bible camp. One particular week of camp there were a bunch of kids from a local reservation there, and he had a way with them…during "outdoor skills" he was teaching the kids how to build a fire with another instructor. He asked these 8-11 year olds if they wanted to build "white man fire" or "Indian fire". Of course they were all very eager to see him, a legitimate "Indian" (remember the era haha) build a fire in the "traditional" manner. So he says </p><p></p><p>"Kindling, getting birch bark, feathersticking, building the tepee or the log cabin or whatever they called it…forget about all of that. That's white-man nonsense and a complete waste of time. This is how A REAL INDIAN MAKES A FIRE!"</p><p></p><p>And he pulls out an old Pepsi bottle full of gasoline, douses a pile of random wood, some green, some wet, doesn't matter, and sets it ablaze! <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="🤣" title="Rolling on the floor laughing :rofl:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f923.png" data-shortname=":rofl:" /><img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="🤣" title="Rolling on the floor laughing :rofl:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f923.png" data-shortname=":rofl:" /><img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="🤣" title="Rolling on the floor laughing :rofl:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f923.png" data-shortname=":rofl:" /><img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="🤣" title="Rolling on the floor laughing :rofl:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f923.png" data-shortname=":rofl:" /></p><p></p><p>"See how good that works?!? Look at how it burns. Every time, no matter what, that's gonna work" <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="🤣" title="Rolling on the floor laughing :rofl:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f923.png" data-shortname=":rofl:" />. Wisdom. Right….</p><p></p><p>Today the whole thing would be condemned..,both for political incorrectness and, well you know, the safety implications of starting gasoline fires at a children's camp and leaving unlabelled pop bottles of gas laying around. Actually I think that last part was condemned back then too, the camp director was not especially impressed upon hearing of these "cultural demonstrations" of his <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="🤣" title="Rolling on the floor laughing :rofl:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f923.png" data-shortname=":rofl:" /><img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="🤣" title="Rolling on the floor laughing :rofl:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f923.png" data-shortname=":rofl:" /><img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="🤣" title="Rolling on the floor laughing :rofl:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f923.png" data-shortname=":rofl:" /><img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="🤣" title="Rolling on the floor laughing :rofl:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f923.png" data-shortname=":rofl:" /><img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="🤣" title="Rolling on the floor laughing :rofl:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f923.png" data-shortname=":rofl:" /><img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="🤣" title="Rolling on the floor laughing :rofl:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f923.png" data-shortname=":rofl:" /><img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="🤣" title="Rolling on the floor laughing :rofl:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f923.png" data-shortname=":rofl:" /><img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="🤣" title="Rolling on the floor laughing :rofl:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f923.png" data-shortname=":rofl:" /><img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="🤣" title="Rolling on the floor laughing :rofl:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f923.png" data-shortname=":rofl:" /><img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="🤣" title="Rolling on the floor laughing :rofl:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f923.png" data-shortname=":rofl:" /></p><p></p><p>He was a huge hit with the kids tho!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Calvin45, post: 2797049, member: 109862"] This reminds me of a man that babysat me When I was a little kid…taught me lots of his “cultural wisdom” as an Indigenous man. It was indeed wisdom of his own concocting, a fantastic storyteller and even better BSer haha. Anyways this guy went to my church growing up as well, and was a counsellor at a local summer Bible camp. One particular week of camp there were a bunch of kids from a local reservation there, and he had a way with them…during “outdoor skills” he was teaching the kids how to build a fire with another instructor. He asked these 8-11 year olds if they wanted to build “white man fire” or “Indian fire”. Of course they were all very eager to see him, a legitimate “Indian” (remember the era haha) build a fire in the “traditional” manner. So he says “Kindling, getting birch bark, feathersticking, building the tepee or the log cabin or whatever they called it…forget about all of that. That’s white-man nonsense and a complete waste of time. This is how A REAL INDIAN MAKES A FIRE!” And he pulls out an old Pepsi bottle full of gasoline, douses a pile of random wood, some green, some wet, doesn’t matter, and sets it ablaze! 🤣🤣🤣🤣 “See how good that works?!? Look at how it burns. Every time, no matter what, that’s gonna work” 🤣. Wisdom. Right…. Today the whole thing would be condemned..,both for political incorrectness and, well you know, the safety implications of starting gasoline fires at a children’s camp and leaving unlabelled pop bottles of gas laying around. Actually I think that last part was condemned back then too, the camp director was not especially impressed upon hearing of these “cultural demonstrations” of his 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 He was a huge hit with the kids tho! [/QUOTE]
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