All the known world
19-06-2007, 08:14
We wander freely and go where we will go to survive. Sometimes we move in groups and sometimes alone. Our meetings are spontaneous and occur in Kivas and Sweatlodges that dot the lands we pass through.
We do not carry the flag assigned to us nor do we recognize it as representing our peoples. We ignore imaginary borders but respect our neighbors and their customs whenever we can reasonably do so, but if we must follow the game to survive then should a neighbors strange custom of imaginary borders lines prevent our very survival?
And they call our way of life a 'corrupt dictatorship'; I ask you where is the corruption and who is dictatorial? My people rule themselves, each sunrise when they awake, they decide what they will do that day. We do not vote in ways officially recognized by democracies but those interested meet when they will and decide things among themselves. They tell others what they have decided and that information passes through traditional channels to reach a representative such as myself who serves as a matter of duty. I do not make the rules. I am not even responsible for implementing the rules. I do not lead the people. I only represent them, their beliefs and usually but not always, my own, as my beliefs are usually in accord with the people. That's it. The rest of the time I wake up, eat, sleep, drink, read and dream. I look at the world around me and watch it slowly changing. I say a thank you for this world and the spirit of grace that allows us to exist in it.
I await the day when when the meek shall eternally inherit this earth and it will be ruled by that same spirit of grace which is so much greater than us.
Elmar - Representative, The Nomadic Peoples of all the Known World
http://www.nationstates.net/all_the_known_world
We do not carry the flag assigned to us nor do we recognize it as representing our peoples. We ignore imaginary borders but respect our neighbors and their customs whenever we can reasonably do so, but if we must follow the game to survive then should a neighbors strange custom of imaginary borders lines prevent our very survival?
And they call our way of life a 'corrupt dictatorship'; I ask you where is the corruption and who is dictatorial? My people rule themselves, each sunrise when they awake, they decide what they will do that day. We do not vote in ways officially recognized by democracies but those interested meet when they will and decide things among themselves. They tell others what they have decided and that information passes through traditional channels to reach a representative such as myself who serves as a matter of duty. I do not make the rules. I am not even responsible for implementing the rules. I do not lead the people. I only represent them, their beliefs and usually but not always, my own, as my beliefs are usually in accord with the people. That's it. The rest of the time I wake up, eat, sleep, drink, read and dream. I look at the world around me and watch it slowly changing. I say a thank you for this world and the spirit of grace that allows us to exist in it.
I await the day when when the meek shall eternally inherit this earth and it will be ruled by that same spirit of grace which is so much greater than us.
Elmar - Representative, The Nomadic Peoples of all the Known World
http://www.nationstates.net/all_the_known_world