In the card game of Mao, there is no talking unless there is a timeout. However, there are certain things people are to say and do for a particular card. The people who play and don’t know the rules have to find out the hard way, and they are often penalized. One is penalized when they say something outside of the game or incorrectly. When I say penalized, that means you are given another card from the deck.
If you win a round of Mao, then you get to make up a rule for another particular card. Typically, people who have the most experience of the game win the beginning rounds. No one knows what the rule is until the specific card appears, and people are then penalized for not saying something they didn’t even know in the 1st place.
Why am I explaining this? Well, I see a slight correlation between this simple fame and Maoism. Why Maoism? Well, there’s a decent amount of Maoists in the country of Nepal. They were our neighbors in the village we were in….all the neighbors actually. Maoism is basically like Communism and the card game of Mao. How? The higher up people make up the rules, and if people speak up and against them within the group of people…then they might be penalized.
The Maoists here in Nepal want certain equalities to be put in the new constitution the Nepal Congress is trying to make and finalize. However, the Congress people aren’t really allowing what the Maoists demand into legislature. There have been several strikes this month while we’ve been here. A strike, usually, is returned by an inflation to prices and shortages on certain supplies throughout the country, which is initiated by the government. Schools, transportation, and some businesses are usually down during these strikes.
To re-assure you folks at home, we are completely safe and ok. We are still able to go out and do ministry, but traveling can be a pain at times if there’s a strike going on. Please continue to pray for us as we soon leave this Beautiful country, and I encourage you to pray for the people of this country. There’s maybe 3% Christian, about 15% Buddhist, and the rest Hindu. These are approximate figures, but yet again it’s a country that’s still in the dark so much. Just thought I’d let yall in the outside world know a little of what it’s like here.
Here’s a fun video we made this month. We made it, because we found out there was some Maoist extremist group somewhere in our area. 🙂
