[blam]

I read a report of an anthropologist who had taken a recent trip to a remote part of New Guinea, he had to pay the tribes before they would allow him entry. Anyway, he said the government and the tribes swear that cannabilism (eating of humans) had ceased. But, he said that isn't the case. Seems the natives have a new tact, they claim now that an evil spirit/being can 'take-over' a human body and that 'it' is no longer human and okay to kill and eat. They're eating the evil/foreign spirit now, not humans.

[expatguy]

I've spent some time with the decedents of cannibals in Borneo. They are nice people as long as they don't eat you... Grok?

"During the course of a few early trips I got to know and befriended a stunningly beautiful Dayak girl named Mary who worked at the Hilton Hotel Kuching. Over the course of a few months we got to know each other quite well and she invited me one June back to her grandparents longhouse to celebrate Gawai Dayak. This was my first trip out to the countryside in Sarawak and I was quite excited and yet a bit nervous to meet her family members for the first time. When we arrived, I noticed in the longhouse along the wall up near the ceiling, human skulls. I remember whispering to her later and asking about it and having her tell me "Oh don't worry about that, you are safe here. That was during my grandfather's time, but we are civilized now!". Her grandfather later explained to me that those were the skulls of a few Japanese soldiers that he had killed towards the end of World War II and some other skulls that had been passed down through the generations."

"I would stay up that first night nervously laughing and drinking copious amounts of tuak with her grandfather, father and three brothers and in my drunkenness shamefully wondering to myself if the potent tuak might accidentally trigger some sort of phyletic circuitry in the brains of my hosts where they could suddenly freak out about something and lop my head off. Eventually though I passed out drunk only to woken a few hours later by a rooster's crowing."

continued...

Moral Relativism in the Rainforest of Diversity

[rabscuttle385]

Oh dear. So this is where the missionaries and cannibals problem in my Discrete Mathematics class came from...

[swarthyguy]

Baptists are furious, what about an apology for them?

Ecumenical Dietary Caution -

Southern Baptists - Fiery but stringy, tough chewing

Episcopalians - bland

Catholics - Too garlicky and enjoy the pain of boiling too much...

Unitarians - way too sweet

Jews - Don’t taste enough like pork.

Muslims - Too sour to eat.

[rfp1234]

Their national motto is “People Serving People”.

[VOA]

Seems the natives have a new tact, they claim now that an evil
spirit/being can 'take-over' a human body and that 'it' is no longer
human and okay to kill and eat. They're eating the evil/foreign
spirit now, not humans.

Sounds like they've learned from Bill Clinton.
"It all depends on what a human 'is'".

[backhoe]

I’ve been reading headlines too long today- I saw “Cannibal Tribe Apologises For Eating Methods...”

[N. Theknow]

Reminds me of the movie The Wrong Box with Peter Sellers and Michael Caine.

"Mother and Father were missionaries."

"They were eaten by their Bible class."

[Cyclops08]

OK. Two cannibals were eating a clown.
One turned to the other and said...
“Does this taste funny to you?”

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Somehow the old Burt Reynolds movie SKULLDUGGERY (1970)comes to mind. After a native kills and eats a "Tropi" pictured here he is asked, "Are you a cannibal?" His answer.."Me no cannabal! Me METHODIST!"

[January24th]

Cannibals had boiled and eaten three missionaries. Later, they came down with horrible cramps. The witch doctor asked them what they had eaten.
"Missionaries," they replied.

"How did you prepare them?" he asked.
"Boiled them with some nice taro root," they said.

The witch doctor then asked to see the clothes of the missionaries. When he spied brown tunics with hoods he exclaimed, "Here's the problem! You boiled them, but these were Friars!"

-JoA
Obey the Slack

[ari-freedom]

Cannibal: mmmm tastes just like soylent green!

[techcor]

What the cannibal told his male offspring.
"One man's meat is another man's poi, son.

[bamahead]

[drb9]

Isn’t Hillary a Methodist? Those thighs could solve world hunger.

[TMSuchman]

How about send the entire Sr. demoCrap delagation from congress for a fact finding mission..........

[Calvin Locke]

...New Guinea

Yes, well, I recall reading about gold mining in NG in the 1980s. The natives thought people were coming in and literally sucking the gold from their villages.

So, cannibalistic rituals may be harder to overcome.

A then-coworker came back from Fiji. He said the museum there has the remnants of the boots of the last person to be eaten on the island. The consumption was apparently a mistake, since I think he said Queen Victoria decreed that Fijians must no longer eat people.

[Bringbackthedraft]

The Methodists were closest thing the tribe could get to “serving” God?

[rfp1234]

[AnotherUnixGeek]

A tribe in Papua New Guinea has apologised for killing and eating four 19th century missionaries under the command of a doughty British clergyman.

Makes about as much sense as demanding apologies and reparations from a modern day American for slavery. If you didn't commit the misdeed, you can't apologize and shouldn't try. If you weren't the victim, you don't deserve an apology and shouldn't accept one.

[agrace]

Peace Child & Lords of the Earth by Don Richardson - two great books about mission work among violent, cannibalistic tribes in PNG.