How an African tribe deals with crimes.
December 6, 2012
I was recently told of an African tribe that does the most beautiful thing.
When someone does something hurtful and wrong, they take the person to the center of town, and the entire tribe comes and surrounds him. For two days they’ll tell the man every good thing he has ever done.
The tribe believes that every human being comes into the world as GOOD, each of us desiring safety, love, peace, happiness.
When someone does something hurtful and wrong, they take the person to the center of town, and the entire tribe comes and surrounds him. For two days they’ll tell the man every good thing he has ever done.
The tribe believes that every human being comes into the world as GOOD, each of us desiring safety, love, peace, happiness.
But sometimes in the pursuit of those things people make mistakes. The community sees misdeeds as a cry for help.
They band together for the sake of their fellow man to hold him up, to reconnect him with his true Nature, to remind him who he really is, until he fully remembers the truth from which he’d temporarily been disconnected: “I AM GOOD”.
They band together for the sake of their fellow man to hold him up, to reconnect him with his true Nature, to remind him who he really is, until he fully remembers the truth from which he’d temporarily been disconnected: “I AM GOOD”.
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I have worked with down syndrome people, people you would accuse of being psychotics, mental health issues people, autistic all the way to vegetable, and have to tell you that psychopaths are made. Not born.
You need to forgive yourself for your horrendous thoughts and love yourself before you begin to believe your own bull too much and do something really hurtful to someone else in this spirit and justify it with these abberant manufactured thoughts.
I have worked with down syndrome people, people you would accuse of being psychotics, mental health issues people, autistic all the way to vegetable, and have to tell you that psychopaths are made. Not born.
You need to forgive yourself for your horrendous thoughts and love yourself before you begin to believe your own bull too much and do something really hurtful to someone else in this spirit and justify it with these abberant manufactured thoughts.”
I am so sick of passive aggressive behavior from supposed bleeding hearts. “I’m really sorry you’re such an asshole. You were obviously raped as a child.”
Sorry, but William’s right and he can see this because he doesn’t wear rose colored glasses.
There have been numerous studies which show that some people, even though it’s very low, are born without the capacity for compassion. So because these people cannot learn empathy because of their fucked up brains, they have no problem hurting others.
I mean, geez. Have you been living under a rock or did you just get the internet or something?
Also, recent studies are coming out showing that a child’s brain develops differently with extreme stress and abuse. It can affect the growth of white and grey matter and the way the neurons fire. This means that there is a possibility that a child that was not born with this brain damage could actually develop it in a bad environment. This is where empathy comes in. We have to stop looking at all people as the same. I mean, for human rights purposes, yes, and I would never suggest this be used as justification for crimes; but it should be used to change the way we perceive humanity. The mind is a fragile thing and as it develops in utero and during infancy and childhood, things can go very wrong. We have a responsibility to do our best to just not screw kids up.
How arrogant have we been to think that the West is civilized?
Of course, this is probably a small group, how would this work for states?
Communities, even neighborhoods are under constant attack by the hoarders of wealth. There can be no local solutions to any problem, only global, legislated answers that bring pain as an answer to pain. It is this way because there is a constant advertisement into every hole in every man’s head that being rich is indeed happiness. Look at the sad lives of these happy people. Totally isolated, always suspicious, constantly scheming new ways to extort and control others. It’s absurd.
I don’t care if this tribe is real or not. The message is real. And those that deny it surely deserve what is coming. No matter if any prophecy is true, the planet earth is on a collision course with an ecological disaster already set in play. Men of low character and intellect constantly look for ways to demonize that which might threaten their pathetic plastic existence. Men of low character believe that money is real and material is god and the governments they pay to sell them a load of manure are actually going to do anything but shoot them dead as soon as the need arises. All this article is, is a different definition of how people should be dealt with when they lack self-discipline. But the deniers will quickly come to the defense of their system of pain and enslavement, always working to make sure the herd mentality is sustained and empowered. They do this for only one reason: they profit from it.
2. Ways of Thinking
Old Way of Thinking New Way of Thinking (Dualism)
——————– —————————————-
What can we learn Civilized Europeans | Savages
from our neighbors |
and what do we have Peaceful Europeans | Enemies
to share with them? |
(“Love your neighbor Generous Europeans | Useless
as yourself.”) | Eaters
|
Rich Europeans | Trespassers
| and Thieves
| on the land
| over all of
| which our God
| gave us
| dominion
|
Educated and | Clowns
Intelligent Europeans | and
| Idiots
Not in the geographic sense, not in the modern conception of Europe and at his time they definetely didn’t even have a concept of Europe, so, well, Jesus wasn’t European…
I KNOW people who live in AFrica, my ex is from there. They sell dead babies and baby body arts on the street. Just around the corner from her house. You can actually buy potions made from dead babies. That is their religion. In her office, the women who are virgins dance NAKED in the office once a year, while the males surround them and stare like dogs. This is an ancient tradition, practiced in LAWYERS OFFICES in modern Africa.
She also told me how nobody stops at red lights or leaves windows open in their cars, because you are guaranteed to be shot or chopped to death for a mere slice of pizza or a dollar – or because you are white.
Put your BS where the sun don’t shine cuz I don’t buy it.
When I read the posts on this topic all I see are comments about tribes and “Africa” – as if this was one homogeneous, single entity.
Wake up, you fools.
There are 57 individual countries in Africa with a total population that exceeds on billion people. Nigeria alone has nearly two thirds the population of amerika. Here in South Africa we have a population of over fifty million people – and they are from all walks of life. We do not live in tribal communities and hunt lions with spears and clubs. Cultures vary from the most sophisticated Western model to the most primitive neo-paleothic customs.
How everyone can simply refer to Africans and their habits is beyond me. It is like saying that ALL amerikans are obese, watch TV for at least 9 hours a day, think that the world begins and ends at the shores of their country and speak appalling English.
Mind you . . .
Calm your socks, that is an over exaggeration.
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I am going to try this with my kids tomorrow…..whether it is a true story or BS, it is worth a shot! ;)
Its the Babemba tribe, the ritual is real.
I live in South Africa, White English speaking male of 67 years and I have never ever heard of the Babemba tribe. It is all nonsense.
The only tribes in South Africa are the Zulu, Xhosa, Swazi, Ndebele, Tswana, Pedi, Basotho, Venda, Lemba, and Shangaan-Tsonga tribes.
Have you heard of Bapulana, Batokwa, Balobedu, the Mfengu etc? Learn about your country brother…
I know my country, sister.
When we look at something it does not change based upon our opinions. It is pure phenomena. We reveal ourselves though with out ways of interpreting and responding to the phenomena.
By reading the comments its very easy to see which people are bitter and cynical and judgemental and anrgy and which are sweet and good hearted and sincere and loving.
I know I would much rather be in a community with the people who are willing to pursue loving someone and working with them out of a desire to support them and nurture them towards health than a community of people bent on dominating, classifying, judging and damning.
We create our own heaven or our own hell…. and its all in your head and heart.
You get to live with it everyday, every moment. Make it worth living for.