this is the internet which lacks personal interaction...

how can you (a teacher) see if your lessons have been understood when that understanding can only come when the lessons are lived? this is one MAIN opint in afrikan thought, TALK IS CHEAP! TALK WITHOUT ACTION IS EVEN CHEAPER! some lessons are taught and best learned through action and have little successful transmission in "talkng about them". when you can ONLY talk with a person you put yourself within the realm of that western context of ONLY talking, and this is detrimental to getting certain lessons learned. i can talk (and did talk) about doing a 40 day fast for a long time, but the action of self-dicipline and actually DOING it actually made it happen. wehn talking to osoclai who deals from a christian-centric perspective...

here is the qoute i was talking about:

On understanding Afrakan thought:
"it's like explaining astrophysics to a whino, the explanation can't be done like that. when people try to simplify it, they ask the other person to tailor the answers their cultural context. and trying to cater afrikan ideals to european understanding is a REAL sin."-utamaroho