Really good reasoning Octavio!!!
Thatīs what Chrystal meant to say on yesterday mails.
Ricardo.
--- Otavio Silva <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> This is a very interesting thread, thanks
> Chrystal for it! I think I can measure the
> importance of the thread by the number of
> "disagrees" we see.
> (As my message will be a little bigger than
> usual, I shall in advance ask for excuses for my
> english, as it is not my mother language you will
> find lots of mistakes...)
>
> A few days ago, I went to donate blood and, as
> usual, the nurse has measured my blood pressure.
> For everyone surprise it was 180/130 mmHg, which is
> incridible high! When I left the hospital I was
> just in a kind of existencial crisis: I keep telling
> people everyday to wacht and take care of their own
> health but I just left mine behind. Why?
> As master Confusius said, I "saw in the others
> my own mistakes", I realised that the patients are
> not the suicidals we blame then, as I am not a
> suicidal also. What happens is that life keep going
> on while we have "more importants" things to do than
> taking care of our own or our comunity health. We
> need tools to wake up people.
> Are religion and/or tradition (as holidays) a
> valuable tool to "wake up"?
> When I was working in the Caatinga (as I said
> "brazilian savanah") where most of the people (in
> the poorest places) still live in a way similar to
> middle-aged europe, I begun to use a tool to health
> education that was medicinal plants. That was my
> first mistake on religion. I have asked (for
> geografical reasons) for the spiritual leader of an
> african religion (brought with the slaves) before I
> asked the catholic priest. It was a hard work to
> convince then that I was only worried with peopleīs
> body while they fight for peopleīs soul. Never
> asked for help or used any religious simbol again,
> just broke up with god.
> Years ago, working with indians I had to bear
> the "help" of the missionaries, just because
> without a body just wouldnīt be no soul, nor
> culture. And they owned the only "hospital" in the
> region. One thing that I regreted most, when I
> completaly denied God, was a discution with a
> tribal leader about the habit of lighting fires
> inside their homes, what was suggested by our
> scientific bio-medicine as been the cause of the
> idiopathic pulmonary sindrome our incompetence
> couldnīt find a better answer. While he asked for
> evidence-based arguments for not following their
> milenium-old culture I told him that he neednīt
> such arguments when he decided to worship the pale
> blue-eyed guy on the picture, who in history were
> probably as brunet as we are. I hated holidays by
> that time.
> But now I love them. Why?
> Now a days, I have the peace and the money to
> join my own family and change nice gifts, just as
> the big media wants me to do. I also wander trought
> the richest part of my city amazed with the shining
> lights of Christmas almost forgetting that very
> closed to the birthplace of the one who is
> celebrating people are killing and suffering for
> energy. Or just around here, poor people had to
> chose betewen leaving every thing they own or dying
> drowned, for the sake of keeping the lights shining
> and the TV on.
> Where I work, a fourteen year-old boy earns in
> a week or a month as much as I earn in a year, just
> because he thinks the most important thing is to
> have what Santa-Claus takes off his bag in the
> advertisement. The sad thing is that he wouldnīt
> live enought to buy, he will be shoot before, in
> this road full of stones made of coccaine.
> I should hate the holidays.
> Maybe Chistal is right.
> The problem when I walk throught the
> fear-paved roads and the houses made of
> disillusions of the slums, I just had to find a
> tool to make people "wake up". I just have to say
> something, to tell then that there is still a hope,
> there must be still a reasons to joy. There must
> have something in their collective unconscious that
> I could use for my work. Christmas might just be an
> easy-answer...
> Well, I just donīt know.
> Otavio
>
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