While on an expedition to Sumatra to camera-hunt the Orang-Pendek, Fortean Society team members talked with a framer who said that the boards of his sugar cane shed had been ripped off by a Orang trying to get to the harvested sugar cane. Illustration of Orang-Pendek below. A picture has yet to be successfully taken.
Nick's Analysis: Instead of going on to slash its way through hot and dangerous jungles hoping to blunder into a deaf and blind Orang, the team would have been better served by paying the farmer to set up a blind at his sugar shack and by buying some of the cane to put outside for the Orang. If the Orang was no longer coming into his farm, the team should have searched for another location where an Orang was coming in. Giving farmers money to put up blinds works in the direction of farmers resisting killing Orang-Pendeks if they can make money from people who want to photograph them. Peter Nickerson 352-359-0850 or peternickerson12@yahoo.com.
Episcolpalian Musings
At church yesterday, I figuratively saw the priest walk over bodies of murdered Christians as she walked in a procession holding the Bible above her head with both hands. This procession is a ritual at every service. Those figurative bodies were people who are killed every week all over the world because they are Christians. Sometimes there are over a hundred of them killed at a time.
It is not that people are ignored at our church. Church events are held to benefit the homeless shelters. There is a filled food basked destined for the Drop-In Center pointedly placed in front of The Table where Holy Eucharist is given. The Drop-In Center provides free food, clothing, food, shoes, sleeping bags, and showers for the homeless and poor. The Church warmly welcomes lesbians, gays, bisexuals, and transgenders. It has even tolerated me so far, and I think I am a guard dog on a lifelong mission to protect humans and other guard dogs from the wolves! The last priest married a fellow male, and the congregation turned out for their wedding reception- at the church. Try that at my former church- a First Baptist in Florida! The diocese has just released a year-end video about their plethora of secular missions and events. So why aren't Christians murdered for simply being Christians not recognized at my church. I hope it's just a matter of time -a very brief time.
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