That’s one of the most insensitive, unfeeling things’ I’ve seen on these boards. Say, can I send a cannibal over for your children? I mean, it’s just a cultural thing he’s been brought up with.
…Did you miss the part where I said that they kept that within their own culture and ate folks that were already deceased?
Cannibal =/= psychotic murderer. THAT is insensitive. There are much worse cultural practices out there than cannibalism.
This site is…I don’t even know. Seriously, what the hell is this?
Based on whose criteria? Why is it “inferior”? What makes another culture “superior” to another?
And I would argue that some missionaries go too far, stripping entire cultures of their identity simply for not being Christian. Not ALL missionaries are like this, mind, but for some it’s like they’re issuing an ultimatum: convert or die. And what kind of choice is that?
Some would say no, we shouldn’t help them. But that is a different argument for a different thread.
According to Wikipedia, it’s a website “devoted to publicising theories of ‘procedural analysis’, racist theories and caricatures, holocaust denial and the inferiority of women.” I’m not sure why Curtis LeMay would consider that a legitimate citation.
Might wanna check and make sure that you’re not getting your “facts” from a Holocaust denial website. :rolleyes:
Note: It IS a fact that up until recently, cannibalism was practiced as a FUNERAL RITUAL in Papua New Guinea. BUT, note the words funeral ritual. In other words, the bodies being eaten were those of people who had died of natural causes, at their funerals. No one was being killed.
If anything is “savagery”, it is the fact that we still HAVE people like the ones who run that site, Curtis. THOSE kinds of people are the REAL savages.
Umm…I kinda feel bad for derailing the thread, so I’ll post some other on-topic stuff. Not necessarily serious, just some things I think would be pretty frickin’ sweet.
…don’t have screens that are all holographic and stuff.
…can’t have actual conversations with computers. I wanna be able to say “umm…what do you mean by this error message?” And the computer would say “well, see this thingy right here? Yeah, it’s broken.”
All these cases were commited by tribes who did this intentionally, while not starving, and murdered and consumed living people.
Based on how much they’re respectful of human rights and decency. For instance all real civilizations (Western, Islamic, Chinese, etc.) agree that murdering someone for no reason or consuming human flesh is immoral.
I don’t advocate destroying entire cultures only those parts that are immoral.
Examples of ritual cannibalism. Ritual has nothing to do with being starving unless it is an act to influence the gods to provide rain/sunlight/food in some way. The origins back in prehistory may have come about when someone ate someone and it rained, so it was assumed the gods were influenced - just like if someone danced around a fire and shook a rattle and it rained, it was assumed it influenced the gods to make it rain. Primitive concept of cause and effect.
MauMaus[african leopard cult] were actually performing acts of terrorism, masked as ritual.
The witchcraft/albinism link is mainly ritual involving someone who is different for ritual use [the gods are influenced by the sacrifice, different = affected by the gods/demons. Us europeans used to kill people who were different, and seen as effected by the gods like albinos, dwarfs and epileptics.]
Ritual cannibalism of dead relatives is seen as honoring the dead, and integrating them in ones self … bluntly, think of it as a religious version of organ donor just ingested instead of implanted.
The 6 year old kid - Wawa … did you investigate the link? Some aussie woman imitation celebrity was making a news splash for publicity. I saw nothing indicating it was anything BUT an imitation news story. Just because someone reports that the kids is in danger of being eaten because he was accused of being a witch … and nothing happened to him and he is still in his own village.