http://www.geoffreport.com/wp/2007/05/04/everything-changes-everything-stays-the-same/ politics ~ theology ~ life ~ fart jokes Mon, 21 Nov 2011 04:47:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.geoffreport.com/wp/2007/05/04/everything-changes-everything-stays-the-same/comment-page-1/#comment-6023 Gerry Sat, 05 May 2007 20:28:44 +0000 http://www.geoffreport.com/wp/2007/05/04/everything-changes-everything-stays-the-same/#comment-6023 Hi from Honiara... "a little bit more sacred" you are right you know. In Pijin one of the ways that engagement is referred to is something like "Olketa mektambu long tufala fo marit." = "They make sacred those two to be married." Of course in the Melanesian culture here such things are more involved, including the agreement of the two young persons' families (in other words Ron and Anne would have asked if you could marry Rebecca), and the payment of bride price (and the attendant risk that women [or their domestic work] are viewed as commodities). In a similar way, think how for Joseph so long ago, he would have been shocked to find Mary pregnant with her embryonic Jesus when their relationship had been made sacred... Hi from Honiara…
“a little bit more sacred” you are right you know. In Pijin one of the ways that engagement is referred to is something like “Olketa mektambu long tufala fo marit.” = “They make sacred those two to be married.” Of course in the Melanesian culture here such things are more involved, including the agreement of the two young persons’ families (in other words Ron and Anne would have asked if you could marry Rebecca), and the payment of bride price (and the attendant risk that women [or their domestic work] are viewed as commodities). In a similar way, think how for Joseph so long ago, he would have been shocked to find Mary pregnant with her embryonic Jesus when their relationship had been made sacred…

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