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Is There a Need for Initiation Rituals?

The author talks about how men historically and in most cultures had some big initiation ceremony when they became men, right? When they went from boys to man. The example I always like to use is the Messiah because they still do this since actually like a big controversy in Africa. If you're a Messiah boy, you have to go kill a lion with a spear alone. Until you do that, you were not a man. And so all these conservationists are like, Oh, we have to stop them from doing that. But it's really important part of their culture. They've been living there for thousands of years. So peacefully commingling will not so peacefully. Yeah, but functionally

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