Uncontacted Tribes Found & Photographed

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  • barakabaraka Posts: 1,268
    Here's another tribe that was found around September of last year...


    http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2007/oct/03/environment.rorycarroll
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  • writersuwritersu Posts: 1,867
    It is one of those times I need to get the full impact of the whole thing by reminding myself that I am not watching Apocolypto (spell check??sorry if I screwed that up........) and that these are real people living NOW, you know? It puts my sorry complaints in a bit of a different light.

    That is always a good thing.............

    but yes, this was amazing and I am sure there are things we don't know about as well going on in the world like this. that is so cool; that there are things that we know nothing about that will make it interesting to see.
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  • CommyCommy Posts: 4,984
    Thats the definition for "SAVAGE", not "NOBLE savage".
    You still have yet to get that straight.



    Well, Tybrid was saying they aren't.
    And Tybrid would be in the company of many good philosphers in recent history who have argued against the romanticized notion of a "noble savage".



    Uh. "Agreed"?
    Now you've just reversed 180 and agreed with the guy you called a racist two posts.

    "Why use the phrase"?
    Well, it seemed to change your mind.
    Lol.

    I still don't think you really get it.
    Is there ANY one else out there that can jump in and deflect some of this heat, and help get a rational argument out to help explain this?

    This is just silly.

    All Tybrid did was respond to someone who was idealizing the life of "native" or "indigenous" tribal peoples. His response merely asserted that there is no such thing as a "noble savage".

    In his argument, he reference an (apparently not so) well known literary term.

    Why he got called a racist, and a savage hick for his remarkably literate comment is beyond me.

    ???

    Why this has become more than my simple question , 'why do you think these people are savage?...' is beyond me.

    To use the term noble savage, in reference to these people, holds a certain inference...savage was still the term used.
  • barakabaraka Posts: 1,268
    Is there ANY one else out there that can jump in and deflect some of this heat, and help get a rational argument out to help explain this?

    Apparently there are college courses on this very subject http://faculty.washington.edu/ellingsn/Noble_Savage.html
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  • i bet if i drove up in a car and showed them my Ipod they wouldnt want to stay in the jungle. It would be there choice. who am i to say they should stay hidden if they dont want to.
  • sourdoughsourdough Posts: 579
    Commy wrote:
    Why this has become more than my simple question , 'why do you think these people are savage?...' is beyond me.

    To use the term noble savage, in reference to these people, holds a certain inference...savage was still the term used.
    The term "noble savage" is a historical term for those who used to romanticize the aboriginals. When the term was coined, aboriginals were referred to as "savages" yet a whole mythology was created mainly to glorify them even if it was inaccurate.
  • wwfairfieldwwfairfield Posts: 216
    MrSmith wrote:
    i bet if i drove up in a car and showed them my Ipod they wouldnt want to stay in the jungle. It would be there choice. who am i to say they should stay hidden if they dont want to.


    two words
    porn
  • CommyCommy Posts: 4,984
    sourdough wrote:
    The term "noble savage" is a historical term for those who used to romanticize the aboriginals. When the term was coined, aboriginals were referred to as "savages" yet a whole mythology was created mainly to glorify them even if it was inaccurate.
    sounds like an outdated term used for any number of reasons.
  • i dont know the answer here, but there is something disturbing to me about keeping these people isolated. They aren't animals for cryin out loud. If i were in one of these tribes and saw brief glimpses of some incredibly advanced civilization, i'd want to know about it.

    you hear me, aliens?
  • so these fuckers are going to burn in hell for eternity because they don't lick jesus' balls?
    poor mexicans

    Every time I took communion growing up it felt like I was being sodomized by the pope......but that's probably best left to another thread.
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  • wwfairfieldwwfairfield Posts: 216
    MrSmith wrote:
    i dont know the answer here, but there is something disturbing to me about keeping these people isolated. They aren't animals for cryin out loud. If i were in one of these tribes and saw brief glimpses of some incredibly advanced civilization, i'd want to know about it.

    you hear me, aliens?


    what do you think they are talking about after the helicopter buzzed them?

    http://www.youtube.com/v/E_1GhIjn8fY
  • MrBrianMrBrian Posts: 2,672
    They don't look mexican?
  • wwfairfieldwwfairfield Posts: 216
    MrBrian wrote:
    They don't look mexican?


    well they are primitive so they don't have leaf blowers............yet
  • CommyCommy Posts: 4,984
    well they are primitive so they don't have leaf blowers............yet
    are you always so racist?
  • memememe Posts: 4,695
    Commy wrote:
    1. fierce, ferocious, or cruel; untamed: savage beasts.

    http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/savage.



    Who is to say they are not?


    Which also implies meaning, whatever you call it. The definition is listed above.

    agreed, there is no such thing as a noble savage-so why use the phrase in reference to these people?

    interesting you see me jumping up and down like a raving looney, It's not about that. Simply a matter of principle.


    So I have.

    Words have context and a history. Tybird was expressing an opinion.

    You are making an ass of yourself.

    My opinion.
    ... and the will to show I will always be better than before.
  • CommyCommy Posts: 4,984
    meme wrote:
    Words have context and a history. Tybird was expressing an opinion.

    You are making an ass of yourself.

    My opinion.
    thanks for that. really adds to the debate.
  • wwfairfieldwwfairfield Posts: 216
    Commy wrote:
    are you always so racist?


    no it is just a character i play online


    is your name really commy?
  • CommyCommy Posts: 4,984
    no it is just a character i play online


    is your name really commy?
    great.


    you can read...I assume, may be a bad idea...
  • tybirdtybird Posts: 17,388
    Commy wrote:
    why do you consider these people to be "savage"? just curious...
    It's just the phrase that has been used for hundreds of years to describe people who one group consider uncivilized...no personal input on my part...just using the cultural reference.
    All the world will be your enemy, Prince with a thousand enemies, and whenever they catch you, they will kill you. But first they must catch you, digger, listener, runner, prince with the swift warning. Be cunning and full of tricks and your people shall never be destroyed.
  • CommyCommy Posts: 4,984
    tybird wrote:
    It's just the phrase that has been used for hundreds of years to describe people who one group consider uncivilized...no personal input on my part...just using the cultural reference.
    seems kinda biased imo...
  • tybirdtybird Posts: 17,388
    it wasn't a racist remark, for crying out loud.
    settle down.

    go read what "noble savage" means.

    first, "savage" as implicated in the term "noble savage" is a reference to ANY peoples who do not have contact with "modern" life and contrivances.

    Tybird is just refuting another poster who is insinuating that these people are "at one with the living world".
    That reference directly envokes the notion of "the noble savage", which is a literary term.

    His response about there being no such thing as a noble savage was an etymological reference to the term, not some racist remark.

    settle the fuck down, and understand what you are talking about before you start insulting people and jumping up and down like a raving looney.

    jesus, people.
    like i said.
    Read. RESEARCH. THEN respond.
    :cool:
    Yes...exactly...the "noble savage" is not an original Tybird production or copy right..it is a concept that has been debated for generations...and with the exact wording of "noble savage." If anyone finds it offensive, go dig the bodies of the folks who coined the phrase and call them names.
    All the world will be your enemy, Prince with a thousand enemies, and whenever they catch you, they will kill you. But first they must catch you, digger, listener, runner, prince with the swift warning. Be cunning and full of tricks and your people shall never be destroyed.
  • tybirdtybird Posts: 17,388
    Commy wrote:
    seems kinda biased imo...
    I never said that it was wasn't.
    All the world will be your enemy, Prince with a thousand enemies, and whenever they catch you, they will kill you. But first they must catch you, digger, listener, runner, prince with the swift warning. Be cunning and full of tricks and your people shall never be destroyed.
  • CommyCommy Posts: 4,984
    tybird wrote:
    I never said that it was wasn't.
    A phrase using the term "savage" is surprising to you...that its biased and outdated?
  • tybirdtybird Posts: 17,388
    Commy wrote:
    A phrase using the term "savage" is surprising to you...that its biased and outdated?
    I never used the term surprising either.
    All the world will be your enemy, Prince with a thousand enemies, and whenever they catch you, they will kill you. But first they must catch you, digger, listener, runner, prince with the swift warning. Be cunning and full of tricks and your people shall never be destroyed.
  • Urban HikerUrban Hiker Posts: 1,312
    jeffbr wrote:


    The pictures are amazing, though. Hopefully they'll be left alone to keep doing what they're doing.

    I would bet money that religious missionaries will be asking for directions to these tribes immediately. :rolleyes:
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  • tybirdtybird Posts: 17,388
    Commy wrote:
    Why this has become more than my simple question , 'why do you think these people are savage?...' is beyond me.

    To use the term noble savage, in reference to these people, holds a certain inference...savage was still the term used.
    In your opinion....the Webster's dictionary in my hand also defines savage as primitive. To throw out phrases or knowledge that one disagrees with or finds offensive is exactly what Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge practiced....Stalin and Hitler before them.
    All the world will be your enemy, Prince with a thousand enemies, and whenever they catch you, they will kill you. But first they must catch you, digger, listener, runner, prince with the swift warning. Be cunning and full of tricks and your people shall never be destroyed.
  • CommyCommy Posts: 4,984
    tybird wrote:
    I never used the term surprising either.
    Just wondering about the term "savage"...which you have used to describe the new found people of the amazon.
  • tybirdtybird Posts: 17,388
    Commy wrote:
    Just wondering about the term "savage"...which you have used to describe the new found people of the amazon.
    I never directly referred to them as savages.
    All the world will be your enemy, Prince with a thousand enemies, and whenever they catch you, they will kill you. But first they must catch you, digger, listener, runner, prince with the swift warning. Be cunning and full of tricks and your people shall never be destroyed.
  • CommyCommy Posts: 4,984
    tybird wrote:
    In your opinion....the Webster's dictionary in my hand also defines savage as primitive. To throw out phrases or knowledge that one disagrees with or finds offensive is exactly what Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge practiced....Stalin and Hitler before them.
    whoa. The cia had more to do with the Khmer Rouge than any hundred jounalist, misquoting. And that's all this is, a mis-interpretation.
  • writersuwritersu Posts: 1,867
    so these fuckers are going to burn in hell for eternity because they don't lick jesus' balls?
    poor mexicans


    I'm sorry but that is a bit much, don't you think?

    and, although I am a Christian, I sincerely do not believe that someone who knows nothing of Jesus is held accountable for that. Nor do I believe that He does not say at the end of someone's life, "hey are you coming?". But I am a rare kind I suppose because I have told other Christians this thought and got my head cut off.

    I know you were making a point, but don't you kind of think that was not respectful?
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