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Was your ancestor a cannibal? And were their victims HAPPY to be eaten?
Daily Mail ^ | 12/12/09 | William Napier

Posted on 12/13/2009 2:22:39 PM PST by LibWhacker

It's a spine-chilling discovery - hundreds of expertly-butchered human bones that suggest cannibalism was rife among early man.What's even more shocking is that the victims may have been HAPPY to be eaten ...

The birds are singing and the forest floor is dappled with sunlight. You can hear the sound of a babbling stream, running into the great river not far off to the east. Sharp ears might hear the drumming of a woodpecker or, high above, the cry of a sparrowhawk.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Science
KEYWORDS: ancestor; cannibal; godsgravesglyphs; happy; napl; victims
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1 posted on 12/13/2009 2:22:40 PM PST by LibWhacker
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To: LibWhacker
What's even more shocking is that the victims may have been HAPPY to be eaten ...

Here is where stories always lose me.

2 posted on 12/13/2009 2:24:34 PM PST by stevem
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To: SunkenCiv; blam; muawiyah

*ping*


3 posted on 12/13/2009 2:26:58 PM PST by hennie pennie
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To: LibWhacker

They uncovered hundreds of boney little happy faces. Yeh, that’s how we know...


4 posted on 12/13/2009 2:28:41 PM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: stevem
"Their hair has been bound up as well, leaving their pale necks bare - as if in readiness."

Plagerized from a Victorian romance novel.

5 posted on 12/13/2009 2:31:23 PM PST by WestwardHo (Whom the god would destroy, they first drive mad.)
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To: LibWhacker

My ancestors only ate Vegetables. Anyone out there want to buy some used wheel chairs?


6 posted on 12/13/2009 2:33:18 PM PST by fish hawk (It's sad that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom. Isaac Asimov)
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To: LibWhacker

“the victims may have been HAPPY to be eaten ...”

http://www.johnspeedie.com/healy/saywhat.wav


7 posted on 12/13/2009 2:37:12 PM PST by BenLurkin
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To: fish hawk

Your ancestors ate what ever would sustain them.

fish hawk, there is no place on earth I’d rather be right now than the Jedadiah Smith Park.
Bless ya sir.


8 posted on 12/13/2009 2:37:13 PM PST by Joe Boucher (This marxist punk has got to go.)
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To: LibWhacker
what really happened there 7,000 years ago was a ritual of tender reverence.

Sure, just like the cattle cars in Germany in the '40s. Just more "noble savages" crap.

9 posted on 12/13/2009 2:37:16 PM PST by LibFreeOrDie (Obama promised a gold mine, but will give us the shaft.)
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To: LibWhacker

Frazer’s “The Golden Bough”, mentioned in the article:

http://www.bartleby.com/196/


10 posted on 12/13/2009 2:39:26 PM PST by LibFreeOrDie (Obama promised a gold mine, but will give us the shaft.)
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To: LibWhacker

“Science” at its best!


11 posted on 12/13/2009 2:40:22 PM PST by DBCJR (What would you expect?)
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To: LibWhacker

I read the article twice. There is no evidence in there the victims were HAPPY to be eaten.


13 posted on 12/13/2009 2:41:20 PM PST by Beowulf9
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To: stevem
This must have been in ancient Germany. Not much has changed.

Victim of cannibal agreed to be eaten

14 posted on 12/13/2009 2:47:22 PM PST by MediaMole
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To: Dick Bachert

For ridicule to be effective it has to be funny or insightful. Otherwise it just blows back all over you.


15 posted on 12/13/2009 2:52:02 PM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: MediaMole

BUMP!


16 posted on 12/13/2009 2:53:21 PM PST by Publius6961 (Â…he's not America, he's an employee who hasn't risen to minimal expectations.)
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To: Dick Bachert

I’m offended. You forgot to update Michelle.


17 posted on 12/13/2009 2:56:32 PM PST by WestwardHo (Whom the god would destroy, they first drive mad.)
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To: LibWhacker

Considering I’m partially descended from the Native American tribe that cannibalism is named after, the safe answer is “yes”.


18 posted on 12/13/2009 3:07:56 PM PST by TypeZoNegative (Pro life & Vegan because I respect all life, Republican because our enemies don't respect ours.)
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To: LibWhacker

Are the descendants going to want reparations?


19 posted on 12/13/2009 3:11:10 PM PST by kalee (01/20/13 The end of an error.... Obama even worse than Carter.)
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To: LibWhacker

I’m pretty happy to get eaten, but it doesn’t happen often enough :(


20 posted on 12/13/2009 3:11:16 PM PST by reagan_fanatic (Socialism is hip until somebody loses a paycheck)
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