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srealisma
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but you're opposed to what, exactly?
what's that song- "compared to what"?
you're the opposition, pard'ner.
blah. blah. my reaction to blah-blah is not exactly original content. it's reactiveness. yes that's it! reactiveness. power-over and the opposition to that. it goes on and on. forever. as long as there are immature people testing the waters it will exist. liberation theology is one christian ideology to rise above it, among others. liberation theology is something i have been somewhat interested in. it's just a natural thing, we two just have the same interests. the thing that i can't guarantee would be the intelligence of the prospect. the only thing to do is to keep obeying what seems interesting, keep in wonder, i guess.
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Liberation theology is what? I've heard the term because my brother was doing a history essay on Bartolomeo De Las Casas, an early Spanish missionary to South America who opposed the government's awful treatment of native people. Though he still wanted to convert them, of course. He wrote a book and stuff. Later he became a symbol for liberation theology in South America, though some people are critical he didn't do enough to actually help people and was all talk.
(The reason I remember this is because my brother got a 68% percent on his essay; he was blaming me because I'd helped edit it. Silly child. Well, not a child anymore. Silly young adult. Reminds me of myself.)
Anyway, I like your name, srealisma. Like a mixture of realism and surrealism.
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oh, it's also re_alisma, isn't it. Anyway, yes.
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i have to admit that most of what i know about liberation theology comes from Paulo Freire and his theories of education. the part of me that subscribes to that is the part of me that subscribes to the notion that Christianity is mostly a failed religion with a few redeeming characteristics, so, as a young person, i was resistant to learning transmitted material in school and more interested in just learning how to think about things. Freire goes right along with that. bell hooks is another one. i will put the priest you mentioned on the list of people to research when i've done enough concerning the politics and recent history of South America (definitely on the list of things to think all the way out and come to conclusions over).
as for the moniker, the re_ one i had to come up with something that expressed how broken i felt. and then, when that was over, i needed to make it more snaky. not thinking of surrealism! (weird, right?)
so that's my story and i'm sticking to it, madame vowels.
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Paulo Freire sounds like an interesting person, at least from a cursory look-up. Mentioning him and bell hooks together makes me think of Gloria Anzaldua. In her book Borderlands (which I started reading but haven't finished) she writes about resistance to political oppression from the "borderlands" of languages and cultures. This came from experience as well as theory: she lived near the Mexico-US border, identified as mestiza (mixed indigenous/Spanish/English), and wrote in a mix of English and Spanish.
Just thinking about picking up the book again makes me think about access to education. Now that I've graduated from university (and am about to graduate from another one, though I probably won't go all the way out of the province for the ceremony) I realize it's harder to reach many books. I'm lucky, since Concordia allows some free library access for alumni, but it would be better in my opinion if academic databases were open to everyone, no cost, so that people could research things when they wanted to. Google Scholar is something, but not everything.
Of course I'm fortunate, because in many places it's damn hard to get a higher education without being conventionally higher-class.
Anyway. Pleased to semi-conventionally make your acquaintance. Why I counted the "of" I don't know, but I liked the look of e_o_i better than e_i, because with an o it can be like Oi! or Oy! or maybe Oui. Je ne sais pas.
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oh yeah border/lands! i started reading that and didn't finish too. it was a compliment, i think. it was too intense, a bit too much food for thought to really finish it.
i never really realized that Jesus and Yes have to same etymology basically. some book had to point it out to me.
so ahahaha, i just correlated you to Jesus, but in the French. also, i probably only just pointed the way with a radish (somebody Japanese, Issa, said that first), so i'll just go ahead and sober up by shifting my thoughts to The Problem of Religion. it's always a good sober-er. and whether or not the The Problem of Religion is really The Problem of Gender. etc. (not that i'm suggesting that sobering is needed, but i'm always after temperance. almost always, at any rate. your friend, a sincere yet flexible teetotaling wet noodle Prohibition officer. )
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