[Grovenet] Genesis 4:9

[Walt Wentz]

The Lord loveth a cheerful liver.. I mean giver.

>Funny!
>Poor "taste" indeed!
>Thanks for the laugh, Walt!
>
>Barb
>
>On Sat, Sep 6, 2008 at 3:27 PM, Walt Wentz <waltw at teleport.com> wrote:
>
>>  >  Our ancestors if they came then went through some terrible times.
>>  >Some of them starved. Some of them ended up roasted over the fires
>>  >of indigenous people.
>>
>>  Eh... exactly where did you learn your anthropology? There are some
>>  first-contact traveler's tales of cannibalism among the Caribs of the
>>  islands and perhaps some Florida tribes also, but in the mainland
>>  America of historic times, reports of cannibal Indian tribes were
>>  probably mere slanders by tribal enemies.
>>
>>  If anything, the offense went the other way. I am thinking of a
>>  sure-enough Western hero, a mountain man named Jeremiah Johnson. He
>>  went by the endearing nickname of "Liver-Eating" Johnson, since  he
>>  had the quaint habit of hunting down and killing Crow (Absaroka)
>>  warriors and eating their livers-- raw. In extenuation, this little
>>  dietary peculiarity was not due to some mental aberration or vitamin
>>  deficiency, but was a long-drawn-out revenge for the murder of his
>>  Indian wife by the Crows. Johnson supposedly continued his epicurean
>>  vendetta against the Absaroka for more than 20 years, but eventually
>>  relented-- gaining the distinction of being the only person to sign
>>  an individual peace treaty with an entire Indian tribe.
>>  I will refrain from humorous commentary, which would probably be in poor
>>  taste.
>>  Walt
>>
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