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American tourist killed by bow and arrow after he landed on a remote island in the Indian Ocean

He felt he was called by God to bring the gospel to the uncontacted people.

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by Anonymousreply 297December 13, 2018 7:10 PM

Geez OP, there's already 2-3 threads about this on the first page of DL.

by Anonymousreply 1November 21, 2018 7:21 PM

Wow, I read about this island years ago. They’re extremely hostile to outsiders. The Indian government can barely get close enough to toss them care packages to the shore without getting fired on with spears and slingshots. They just leave them alone, rightfully so.

by Anonymousreply 2November 21, 2018 7:21 PM

r1 But you can never laugh too much at heterosexual Christian misfortune.

by Anonymousreply 3November 21, 2018 7:27 PM

Can we start an island with only gays, firing off bows and arrows at all people who try to enter?

by Anonymousreply 4November 21, 2018 7:30 PM

R4 might come to that anyway

by Anonymousreply 5November 21, 2018 7:32 PM

I would love that.

by Anonymousreply 6November 21, 2018 7:33 PM

What was on his playlist?

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by Anonymousreply 7November 21, 2018 7:38 PM

I love this story.

by Anonymousreply 8November 21, 2018 7:43 PM

Shot through the heart!

by Anonymousreply 9November 21, 2018 7:45 PM

Leave the uncontacted people alone. Maybe they're better off without us.

by Anonymousreply 10November 21, 2018 7:47 PM

Poison Arrow by ABC

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by Anonymousreply 11November 21, 2018 8:02 PM

He was fug so I don’t care do you?

by Anonymousreply 12November 21, 2018 8:08 PM

Primitive is primitive

by Anonymousreply 13November 21, 2018 8:10 PM

American, millennial, Christian. If you can't get a laugh from at least one of those, then I don't know what to say.

by Anonymousreply 14November 21, 2018 8:16 PM

Where was his god ?

by Anonymousreply 15November 21, 2018 8:18 PM

Loving, naive and misguided, perhaps...but a terribly sad story, nonetheless...

by Anonymousreply 16November 21, 2018 8:23 PM

It's interesting. These people have seen helicopters, probably planes. Modern clothing. And they’re not even curious.

by Anonymousreply 17November 21, 2018 8:27 PM

They are my kind of people

by Anonymousreply 18November 21, 2018 8:30 PM

Don’t fuck with us!

by Anonymousreply 19November 21, 2018 8:30 PM

The Gaylese.

I like that. Let’s start The Gaylese Islands.

by Anonymousreply 20November 21, 2018 8:33 PM

These are the people we are dealing with.

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by Anonymousreply 21November 21, 2018 8:34 PM

^ Don't click on r21's photo. It's a download!

Fucker.

by Anonymousreply 22November 21, 2018 8:46 PM

Why would you click on it?

by Anonymousreply 23November 21, 2018 8:51 PM

Okay. These people are black. They look just like many native Africans. How the hell did they end up on a tiny island in the middle of the Indian ocean between India and Thailand/Malaysia??? Any explanations, anyone? They're certainly indigenous Africans.

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by Anonymousreply 24November 21, 2018 8:56 PM

^Was there ever a slave trade in that region? Slave trade route?

by Anonymousreply 25November 21, 2018 8:58 PM

R22 What download ? It’s just an image

by Anonymousreply 26November 21, 2018 9:02 PM

Trump voter, I hope?

by Anonymousreply 27November 21, 2018 9:02 PM

Because when outsiders have entered their territory in the past, they've died from epidemic diseases. They see the arrival of outsiders as an existential threat to their existence, and they are right. And before you ask, yes I can read their minds.

by Anonymousreply 28November 21, 2018 9:05 PM

I love r9.

by Anonymousreply 29November 21, 2018 9:06 PM

"Where was his god ?"

I was sittin back with the popcorn. I mean, sometimes you just have to laugh at dipshits.

by Anonymousreply 30November 21, 2018 9:07 PM

[Quote]What was on his playlist?

Hit Me With Your Best Shot

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by Anonymousreply 31November 21, 2018 9:08 PM

R24 By boat...

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by Anonymousreply 32November 21, 2018 9:09 PM

Missionary Man

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by Anonymousreply 33November 21, 2018 9:09 PM

Was he going to bring an empty coke bottle and some prep?

by Anonymousreply 34November 21, 2018 9:12 PM

R24, The Andamanese, including the Sentinelese, are a subset of the Negrito people who migrated out of Africa and settled in Thailand, and Indochina, the Malay Peninsula, Indonesia, and the Philippines thousands of years before the arrival of the Austronesians.

by Anonymousreply 35November 21, 2018 9:14 PM

Here's a few things about them:

The Sentinelese are assumed to be direct descendants of the earliest humans who emerged from Africa. Their language is incomprehensible to even other tribes in the region.

It is said they have made little to no advancement in the over 60,000 years and still live very primitive lives, surviving mainly on fish and coconuts.

They are very vulnerable to germs since they have not had contact with the outside world. Even a common flu virus carried by a visitor could wipe out the entire tribe.

In 2006, the tribe killed two fishermen who strayed on to the island. They even rejected outside help after the Indian Ocean tsunami in 2004, throwing spears and arrows at a rescue helicopter that flew above

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by Anonymousreply 36November 21, 2018 9:17 PM

If only he had watched Pirates of the Caribbean he would have known better.

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by Anonymousreply 37November 21, 2018 9:22 PM

Thank you R35 and R36.

- R24

by Anonymousreply 38November 21, 2018 9:26 PM

Christian terrorist. His arrogance cost him his life.

by Anonymousreply 39November 21, 2018 9:40 PM

I told him three times to get off my lawn!

by Anonymousreply 40November 21, 2018 9:44 PM

They wan't to collect their DNA but can't get close to them.

by Anonymousreply 41November 21, 2018 9:45 PM

Can we send in the Mormons ?

by Anonymousreply 42November 21, 2018 9:46 PM

Is the island near Mauritius which has a population which is 1/3 African, 1/3 Indian and 1/3 French?

by Anonymousreply 43November 21, 2018 9:49 PM

I worry about them with Islam. Muslims invade abd destroy—everything.

by Anonymousreply 44November 21, 2018 9:49 PM

^^ NO

by Anonymousreply 45November 21, 2018 9:49 PM

When civilisation collapses we're all going to end up living like them.

by Anonymousreply 46November 21, 2018 9:52 PM

With only 150 people, how to they survive without inbreeding?

by Anonymousreply 47November 21, 2018 9:53 PM

This is definitely the place Trump should be sent.

by Anonymousreply 48November 21, 2018 10:00 PM

No one really knows. That's why scientists would love to get their hands on their DNA.

They probably don't have any dangerous recessive alleles. They have never come into contact with a dangerous genetic mutation such as Tay Sachs

by Anonymousreply 49November 21, 2018 10:01 PM

I need a primitive man.

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by Anonymousreply 50November 21, 2018 10:02 PM

Why don't they go there in an army tank wearing arrow proof hazmat suits. Grab some DNA and leave.

by Anonymousreply 51November 21, 2018 10:07 PM

R12, he wasn’t that bad. He had a nice furry chest. I’m sure he had a nice bush. I would have sat on his cock.

by Anonymousreply 52November 21, 2018 10:08 PM

Priorities ^

by Anonymousreply 53November 21, 2018 10:18 PM

Sometimes....your god doesn't work on other people honey. Stay in your lane.

by Anonymousreply 54November 21, 2018 10:23 PM

Savages!

by Anonymousreply 55November 21, 2018 10:55 PM

r24/r25 They are not Black, as in African, nor are they the result of any slave trade.

Melanesians, Australian Aboriginals, and Southeast Asian negritos look Black, but genetic studies of these peoples have been performed, and so we know that, except for their looks, they have no more in common with Africans than the blondest Swede would have. The same applies to the Andaman people.

Despite their appearance, they're genetically East Eurasian, ie, they're more closely related to the Japanese, for example, than to West Eurasians (like Europeans) or any Africans.

My personal theory, as said above, is that they're among the oldest branches of the East Eurasian family, as they're one of the closest modern relatives of the Ust'-Ishim man and the Tianyuan man - ancient individuals from the Paleolithic whose remains were found in East Asia and Siberia. Studies of their DNA have been published recently.

If they're indeed such an old group of people, it'd not be a surprise if they had Black skin, which is likely the original skin color of humanity.

Western European hunter-gatherers from the Paleolithic and Mesolithic had light eyes, but they are also supposed to have had very dark skin according to DNA analysis, even though genetically they're closer to today's Northern Europeans (and the Basques of Spain) than to any other group of people.

by Anonymousreply 56November 21, 2018 11:18 PM

I didn't bother to read a thing you wrote, R56

by Anonymousreply 57November 21, 2018 11:21 PM

r57 'Kay, keep embarrassing yourself on subjects you know nothing about, then.

by Anonymousreply 58November 21, 2018 11:23 PM

R58. Why THANK YOU for that privilege. Thank yo SO much for allowing me to keep embarrassing myself. THANK YOU! I can spot your posts just by sight, and they irk me no end. I bet that you were the type in elementary/high school to wave your arm and hand FURIOUSLY, calling the teachers name over and over again whenever the teacher asked the class a question. Haha. Besides, you didn't do anything but google the information before posting, so stop fronting. Haha. Happy Thanksgiving

by Anonymousreply 59November 21, 2018 11:27 PM

W/w for r56: scholar and a gentleman

by Anonymousreply 60November 21, 2018 11:28 PM

r59 Okay, which dumb frau forum you came from?

by Anonymousreply 61November 21, 2018 11:29 PM

Wow, do the DL Powers that Be assign a specific Loon for each thread on this site?

by Anonymousreply 62November 21, 2018 11:32 PM

R57 - Is that because it didn’t have a dick pic attached. You fucking moron.

by Anonymousreply 63November 21, 2018 11:36 PM

What is R57/R59's problem? Sheesh. If you don't want to read a post, don't read it and skip over it. Why announce it?

by Anonymousreply 64November 21, 2018 11:38 PM

Because r57 / r59 a sad cunt

by Anonymousreply 65November 21, 2018 11:46 PM

Fascinating R56.

by Anonymousreply 66November 21, 2018 11:49 PM

[quote] He felt he was called by God

These people who think God is talking to them, well first they are crazy, but you ever notice that God is telling them to do something they already want to do? If there was a God telling us to do stuff, it would to do things we don't want to do, not the stuff we already want to do anyway.

by Anonymousreply 67November 21, 2018 11:51 PM

[quote] They wan't to collect their DNA but can't get close to them.

I guess we need to study how the aliens do it to us.

by Anonymousreply 68November 21, 2018 11:54 PM

They're right to attack outsiders. Every primitive civilization that's accepted contact with the outside world has been altered, almost always for the worst. Epidemic diseases, health ruined by processed foods, the temptations of consumer goods and the ruin of natural resources to get them, loss of culture, etc. A primitive people who admits the outside world usually changes from the masters of their own little world, to life on the lowest and poorest rung of the capitalist food chain.

These people have chosen to remain masters of their own little world, and that stupid missionary was trying to ruin that. Good riddance.

by Anonymousreply 69November 21, 2018 11:57 PM

I would love to see how any of the loons saying this tribe has no right to self-defense would react to people breaking into their home uninvited and telling them, "Okay, I'm here to tell you how to think and live."

by Anonymousreply 70November 22, 2018 12:01 AM

Thanks for that info, R56. You mention that their DNA was tested...but I wonder how scientists got the sample.

by Anonymousreply 71November 22, 2018 12:08 AM

The scientist took the DNA sample from the bite in his arm.

by Anonymousreply 72November 22, 2018 12:09 AM

[quote]What is [R57]/[R59]'s problem? Sheesh. If you don't want to read a post, don't read it and skip over it. Why announce it?

Just your typical millennial so full of hubris that he can't be bothered to learn anything new.

by Anonymousreply 73November 22, 2018 12:11 AM

He reminds me of Steve Irwin the Crocodile Hunter and the Grizzly Man. So high on their love of nature that they became delusional, causing them to constantly putting their lives at risk.

by Anonymousreply 74November 22, 2018 12:30 AM

What did the missionary really think was going to happen? That they'd welcome him with lei's and cocktails in coconut shells, then take selfies so he could post them with inane tags and ultimately make a name for himself doing the rounds on morning television? Probably didn't deserve a brutal death but a knock to the head might've helped him gain some common sense.

by Anonymousreply 75November 22, 2018 12:31 AM

R75 I'm sure she had a romanticized view of converting natives. What probably attracted him to the Sentinelese was their unique reputation as uncontacted tribes. Many millennials (and now zoomers) have this tendency to want to be first at anything even if it's mundane. For example, many take pride in being the first to post on a YouTube video. And they won't even comment on the content, just merely post "First!"

by Anonymousreply 76November 22, 2018 12:38 AM

Too many trips to DisneyWorld so he was expecting to find a Spirit of Aloha dinner show.

by Anonymousreply 77November 22, 2018 12:41 AM

[quote] What did the missionary really think was going to happen? That they'd welcome him with lei's and cocktails in coconut shells, then take selfies so he could post them with inane tags and ultimately make a name for himself doing the rounds on morning television?

Yes, that's exactly what he thought. The Indian officer who spoke to the DM got right when he said this guy wasn't really a missionary. "He was an adventurer."

by Anonymousreply 78November 22, 2018 12:42 AM

He was like the Grizzly Man who thought that grizzly bears were his friends until a bear took his life and the life of his girlfriend away.

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by Anonymousreply 79November 22, 2018 12:46 AM

I understand that a member of the tribe has been short listed for the Nobel Literature Prize.

by Anonymousreply 80November 22, 2018 12:48 AM

r71 I just googled your question and I couldn't find any answer. But it is indeed a fact that the DNA of certain Andamanese populations, like the Onge, has been studied and is on public domain now. Anyone - professional geneticists, amateur bloggers, etc. - can, and have downloaded it to run their own analyses.

I found this nice TreeMix graph, illustrating the point I made about the Andamanese being East Eurasians. The graph shows three African nations (Mbuti, Biaka, Yoruba), four ancient Caucasian groups (a Neolithic Iranian group and a few pre-historic hunter-gatherers from Europe like the Bichon), as well as the Onge and the Han, the biggest ethnic group in China. Despite their 'African' appearance, the Onge are indeed closer to the Han Chinese than to any of above populations.

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by Anonymousreply 81November 22, 2018 12:49 AM

[quote]Can we start an island with only gays, firing off bows and arrows at all people who try to enter?

Can we do that to DL’s frau interlopers?

Except we would hurl uncooked lasagne noodles to defend what is rightfully ours, our island sanctuary, our DL.

by Anonymousreply 82November 22, 2018 1:50 AM

Agree with R69.

The islanders had a right to protect their territory and their culture.

by Anonymousreply 83November 22, 2018 3:56 AM

Still they could be friendlier

by Anonymousreply 84November 22, 2018 3:59 AM

Is it true that he tried on two other occasions to land on the island, and barely escaped with his life at those times? And he STILL went back again?

Since photographs of the natives exist, that means at least one person made contact and lived to tell about it. Maybe they just don't like missionaries who won't take a hint.

by Anonymousreply 85November 22, 2018 4:07 AM

“Most of what is known about the Sentinelese has been gathered by viewing them from boats moored more than an arrows distance from the shore and a few brief periods where the Sentinelese allowed the authorities to get close enough to hand over some coconuts.

by Anonymousreply 86November 22, 2018 4:14 AM

At least it wasn't the Saudi embassy.

by Anonymousreply 87November 22, 2018 4:16 AM

Was the body recovered ?

by Anonymousreply 88November 22, 2018 4:21 AM

Someone upthread is correct. The idiot just wanted that perfect selfie with that arrogant hashtag #THEPOWEROFTHELORD

by Anonymousreply 89November 22, 2018 4:22 AM

r88 According to Wikipedia, it's thought that they are NOT cannibals, based on dead bodies previously found on the island.

by Anonymousreply 90November 22, 2018 4:25 AM

It was murder nevertheless. Can they extradite the killer ?

by Anonymousreply 91November 22, 2018 4:25 AM

R90 I wouldn’t trust Wikipedia

by Anonymousreply 92November 22, 2018 4:26 AM

No R91, no one is allowed to go on the island, No one.

They shot arrows at the idiot the day before and he was hit by at least one but he went back the next day anyway. The people that dropped him off the next day saw him get shot by arrows again and have rope put around his head and dragged away.

by Anonymousreply 93November 22, 2018 4:43 AM

They buried him R93?

by Anonymousreply 94November 22, 2018 4:47 AM

Yes , so the body may never be recovered.

by Anonymousreply 95November 22, 2018 4:49 AM

I got this from Wikipedia. I certainly don't blame them for protecting their chosen isolation by all means necessary, including death. Their fellow tribal groups nearly died off (some actually did) after contact with Western civilization.

[Quote]The Andamanese's protective isolation changed with the first British colonial presence and subsequent settlements, which proved disastrous for them. Lacking immunity against common diseases of the Eurasian mainland, the large Jarawa habitats on the southeastern regions of South Andaman Island likely were depopulated by disease within four years (1789–1793) of the initial British colonial settlement in 1789. Epidemics of pneumonia, measles and influenza spread rapidly and exacted heavy tolls, as did alcoholism. By 1875, the Andamanese were already "perilously close to extinction," yet attempts to contact, subdue and co-opt them continued unrelentingly. In 1888, the British government set in place a policy of "organized gift giving" that continued in varying forms until well into the 20th century.

[Quote]There is evidence that some sections of the British Indian administration were working deliberately to annihilate the tribes. After the mid-19th century, British established penal colonies on the islands and an increasing numbers of mainland Indian and Karen settlers arrived, encroaching on former territories of the Andamanese. This accelerated the decline of the tribes.

[Quote]Many Andamanese succumbed to British expeditions to avenge the killing of shipwrecked sailors. In the 1867 Andaman Islands Expedition, dozens of Onge were killed by British naval personnel following the death of shipwrecked sailors, which resulted in four Victoria Crosses for the British soldiers. In the 1940s, the Jarawa were bombed by Japanese forces for their hostility.

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by Anonymousreply 96November 22, 2018 4:57 AM

R65, Have you read about the theory on YouTube that the world was populated by a succession of humans? Each almost entirely died off due to cataclysmic natural events such as ice ages.

by Anonymousreply 97November 22, 2018 6:28 AM

Here's another documentary on the island people.

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by Anonymousreply 98November 22, 2018 9:37 AM

They can be tamed

by Anonymousreply 99November 22, 2018 9:51 AM

On November 15, the day before his murder, Mr Chau offered a group of local fishermen money to ferry him to the island.

Once ashore, he tried to engage islanders but they became angry and fired an arrow at him, according to AP.

In an incredible stroke of luck, it struck a book Mr Chau was carrying, which an acquaintance said was a Bible.

Perhaps interpreting it as a divine intervention — one that may have saved his life in that moment — the American retreated and swam back to the boatful of fishermen anchored a safe distance from shore.

That night, he wrote about his adventures in his journal and left the notes with the fishermen for safekeeping.

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by Anonymousreply 100November 22, 2018 10:06 AM

Mr Chau made multiple unsolicited trips to the community over the past three years as he formulated a deluded plan to “establish the kingdom of Jesus” on the island.

Sources from within his missionary circle told AP that Mr Chau interacted with some of the tribesmen, who survive by hunting, fishing and gathering plants, on a handful of occasions.

He appears to have been tolerated until his penultimate journey, when locals started losing patience.

by Anonymousreply 101November 22, 2018 10:10 AM

I visited North Sentinel Island and all I got was this lousy arrow wound!

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by Anonymousreply 102November 22, 2018 10:11 AM

Christians are so proactive and full of drive and initiative.

by Anonymousreply 103November 22, 2018 10:15 AM

I don't understand why they got so close to him to put a rope around his neck. If they know outsiders make them sick.

by Anonymousreply 104November 22, 2018 10:21 AM

Perhaps the greatest Darwin Award of all time.

by Anonymousreply 105November 22, 2018 11:46 AM

Oh that poor man. Just a dab or two of perfume behind his ears would have saved that guy. A little splash of Elizabeth Taylor's White Diamonds always does the trick. I visited that island a few years ago and they welcomed me with HOT BLACK COCK ACTION! Praise the Load!

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by Anonymousreply 106November 22, 2018 12:05 PM

Jesus delusions + shirtless instagram attention whore + Andaman islanders = DEATH.

by Anonymousreply 107November 22, 2018 12:24 PM

He embodied God's wishes.

How does one extradite and prosecute God exactly?

You offend every Christian R91.

by Anonymousreply 108November 22, 2018 1:11 PM

So will Mat Staver send forth the big gun next to tame and have these people hear the word:. Kim Davis?

If there's any thought of gay marriage on the island, she'll put a stop to it.

by Anonymousreply 109November 22, 2018 4:50 PM

[quote]Someone upthread is correct. The idiot just wanted that perfect selfie with that arrogant hashtag #THEPOWEROFTHELORD

Exactly. They've been there for 60,000 years. The arrogance of this person thinking that HE would be the ONE to make contact was beyond idiotic. They have their own God and they're doing just fine.

[quote]With only 150 people, how to they survive without inbreeding?

There may be upwards of 500. No one really knows. They do know that they used to live on the coasts but once people started visiting they moved inward towards the center of the island. Even if you take a look at the place on Google Maps, (linked below) you can see that it's densely covered in trees.

[quote]I certainly don't blame them for protecting their chosen isolation by all means necessary, including death.

Agreed. They have their own culture and their own language. They're not influenced by outside sources. I'm sure they know that the last few times outsiders visited they got sick or they were kidnapped (in 1880)! When some people, on an expedition, brought "gifts" like pots & pans, and a pig, they came to the shores and buried them. That's a clear indicator they know not to touch anything that came from outside the island.

They let a few people come close in the 90s but they also warned them to leave after a few moments.

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by Anonymousreply 110November 22, 2018 5:32 PM

Even though this man is Asian, this thread is very revealing as to the mentality of the minority of disingenuous White Supremacists on here. ( Typing too White for it to be any other type of person). So sad are they that there was ONE set of people who picked up the fact that you are disingenuous. So angry that there are a set of people of colour who want no parts of what you got. You can't buy them out with their own seashells and gin. They want no parts of your God. They care not for your supremacy masked as fragility ("they could have been kinder").

by Anonymousreply 111November 22, 2018 6:13 PM

"Mr Chau made multiple unsolicited trips to the community over the past three years"

That dipshit! He could have infected them with something that could have killed off the whole fucking population!

But of course he wouldn't think of that, because the asshole conservative Christians who raised and educated him intentionally kept him from learning about the biological sciences. I loathe conservative Christians.

by Anonymousreply 112November 22, 2018 6:23 PM

[quote]When some people, on an expedition, brought "gifts" like pots & pans, and a pig, they came to the shores and buried them. That's a clear indicator they know not to touch anything that came from outside the island.

Interesting you mention that, because on another DL thread on this topic (I think there's now at least three), there was one dumbshit poster who was constantly harping on and on about how we should stop dropping off "care packages" by helicopter for the Sentinelese because they don't deserve them. Why would a completely isolated, obviously self-sufficient group of people need, or want, supplies from the outside world? Just call that idiot "the care package troll."

by Anonymousreply 113November 22, 2018 7:05 PM

They're extremely territorial. True, they may be primitive, but they're still smart enough to know an invader when they see one. One who might want their land along with others. Native Americans, this should have been you.

by Anonymousreply 114November 22, 2018 7:35 PM

They need to be brought into the 21st century. They deserve all the comfort we take for granted. Like the internet, color TV, cellphone, toothbrushes etc

by Anonymousreply 115November 22, 2018 7:36 PM

^ I disagree. They have no use for money, and quite possibly no concept of it other than the most mundane aspect of currency (meat for firewood, or a blow job for a new thatched roof). We're slaves to money and materialism. They are not.

by Anonymousreply 116November 22, 2018 7:39 PM

R116 and others, If it’s so good there, why don’t you join them my dear ?

by Anonymousreply 117November 22, 2018 7:43 PM

^THIS! mutha fucka here! lol

by Anonymousreply 118November 22, 2018 7:47 PM

"They're extremely territorial. "

We're the ones with "Stand Your Ground" laws, strict immigration laws, and plans for a huge wall on the Mexican border, we've got no room to talk!

by Anonymousreply 119November 22, 2018 7:57 PM

transparent

by Anonymousreply 120November 22, 2018 7:58 PM

Indian authorities are struggling to figure out how to recover the body of John Chau

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by Anonymousreply 121November 22, 2018 9:53 PM

They should just leave it there, like those Everest victims. I'm sure he would have wanted that. God knows he tried several times to get there.

by Anonymousreply 122November 22, 2018 10:12 PM

I think his parents would want his body back for proper Christian burial.

by Anonymousreply 123November 22, 2018 10:15 PM

He wanted to bring Jesus to them, they sent him to Jesus instead.

by Anonymousreply 124November 22, 2018 11:26 PM

R124 He was called by God. He had to go.

by Anonymousreply 125November 22, 2018 11:51 PM

[quote] I think his parents would want his body back for proper Christian burial.

Jesus will want a Sentinel burial. God knows that's the proper Christian burial.

by Anonymousreply 126November 22, 2018 11:55 PM

God used him to emphasize "Stay away!"

by Anonymousreply 127November 22, 2018 11:58 PM

Surely nobody would be stupid enough to try and collect the body.

Although there was someone stupid enough to go there and get killed.

by Anonymousreply 128November 23, 2018 12:40 AM

Oh C'mon. How hard can it be to send some Seals over there in combat gear? Those guys can swat away those primitive toy arrows like they are gnats.

by Anonymousreply 129November 23, 2018 12:54 AM

R129 Don't be an idiot. They're obviously trying to protect and respect the Sentinelese's way of life as much as possible. They're protected peoples.

by Anonymousreply 130November 23, 2018 1:09 AM

Meant to say "trying to preserve and respect"

by Anonymousreply 131November 23, 2018 1:16 AM

If he made other trips, did he report back any contact with the people? Or were they hiding the whole time?

I Googled to see what’s what, I think the few grainy images are actually scary, with the hostile natives brandishing their weapons. They do NOT want company. I wonder if King Kong lives there!

by Anonymousreply 132November 23, 2018 1:18 AM

I now identify as Sentilese.

by Anonymousreply 133November 23, 2018 1:19 AM

So much for cultural imperialism. I guess they didn't want to put up with that shit that the Aboriginals and native Hawaiians unfortunately did.

by Anonymousreply 134November 23, 2018 1:23 AM

I want him to wake up in the afterlife only to discover it's run by a Sentinelese god rather than the christian one.

by Anonymousreply 135November 23, 2018 1:23 AM

R132 Yes he did make contact and interacted with the tribe. Apparently he did something to make them lose their patience with him.

by Anonymousreply 136November 23, 2018 1:48 AM

We need a movie adaptation.

Time for casting call !!!

by Anonymousreply 137November 23, 2018 1:48 AM

Kel Gleason from SURVIVOR THE AUSTRALIAN OUTBACK would've been perfect. Of course, he's better looking, but that's par for the course in films based on real people.

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by Anonymousreply 138November 23, 2018 1:56 AM

More details and the family of Chau "forgave" the Sentalese at the link and at another website he apparently had been there 5 times and even interacted with them.

From the linked one:

[quote]He'd been in the islands before, to this particular island... there were three or four visits on that day, and what happened was on the first visit he was turned back by arrows; the second visit, he came with two big fish as a gift. My understanding was the men accepted the gift; they sat together for an hour; he said they were menacing and they actually shot him. He went back to the boat, and then gradually went back a third time. That's when the fishermen who were looking through binoculars saw that they'd killed him and were taking him apart.

This is similar to what happened back in the 1991. The men that came to the island brought them coconuts, they accepted the gifts (didn't even bring their weapons) but then told them or rather signaled to them that they should leave. In this scenario, they accepted Chau's fish, tried to tell him to leave but instead he tried to go back to them and they killed him. It appears they were nice to him at least once but he couldn't take the hint and kept on trying.

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by Anonymousreply 139November 23, 2018 1:56 AM

I hate that this island is going to get publicity now and idiots like Pat Robertson will probably call this guy a martyr and demand the Island be invaded. India, meanwhile, probably couldn’t give a shit, and rightly so.

by Anonymousreply 140November 23, 2018 2:09 AM

I wonder if they Sentinelese think of us like we do space aliens? No doubt Chau looked very different from what they're accustomed, as was that white guy who visited in the '90s. They probably marvel at our planes/helicopters and ships just as we do UFOs.

by Anonymousreply 141November 23, 2018 2:14 AM

Kind of like the Mayas and Aztecs thought of the Europeans as gods when they first landed.

by Anonymousreply 142November 23, 2018 2:15 AM

The a sign of the Four

by Anonymousreply 143November 23, 2018 2:22 AM

The guy quite stupid. Get shot by an arrow, and then go back the third time the same day.

No mean no by their actions.

by Anonymousreply 144November 23, 2018 2:24 AM

Ok Boris at R144

by Anonymousreply 145November 23, 2018 2:27 AM

He invaded their safe space without consent. It was literally a Man on the Land! situation and they defended themselves.

by Anonymousreply 146November 23, 2018 2:30 AM

I swear Monty Python couldn't have come up with a better sketch.

by Anonymousreply 147November 23, 2018 2:57 AM

Interested in R32 vid-remarks that mid early 19th C visitor from shipwreck escaped (prior to this very limited outside contact with Sentilese islanders?) and made a note particularly that their arrows were iron tipped.

The exclusion zone is important to protect fishing as a key food source.

It's sad to think periodic stories like this might inevitably further heighten moronic interest to get closer and thereby further threaten the Sentilese in their right to self determination.

Still - the untouched DNA must be like some innately grail-like project in Human Genomic study. - How within a limited population group like this, there is not recessive physical disability or deformity based in 'pure' (??) DNA is fascinating.

by Anonymousreply 148November 23, 2018 2:59 AM

Were this guy and the American student in North Korea separated at birth?

by Anonymousreply 149November 23, 2018 3:05 AM

R148, Many extremely insular tribes survived for generations before Western contacts. How did they survive with obviously constant inbreeding? Or were those born deformed just left to die? Perhaps the population all died relatively young especially since girls would be birthing babies from puberty, at about 12 or 13.

by Anonymousreply 150November 23, 2018 3:11 AM

To answer an above poster, they could obtain DNA from collecting poop samples I suppose.

by Anonymousreply 151November 23, 2018 4:02 AM

If he’d kept his big JEBUS MOUTH shut, he’d be alive today.

by Anonymousreply 152November 23, 2018 4:05 AM

[quote]R16 Loving, naive and misguided...

Is it “loving” to disturb strangers with your obsession that your ways are better than theirs?

by Anonymousreply 153November 23, 2018 4:08 AM

Jada Pinkett Smith as North Sentinel Island's first lady.

by Anonymousreply 154November 23, 2018 4:09 AM

All dangerous recessive alelles have either been bred out of them or never made it into their gene pool in the first place.

Tay Sachs, Ricketts, Huntingtons Chorea etc. these are mutations and these islanders made it to their island before they entered into general gene pool. Whatever weakness that may have existed in them when they became isolated got bred out.

The Onge and the Jarawa the tribes that exist on nearby islands have a high rate of sterility. Upwards of 25%.

by Anonymousreply 155November 23, 2018 4:12 AM

I read about this tribe a long time ago. If I recall, genetically they are very closely related to the other Andaman tribal peoples. The real unknown is not their dna but their language and culture.

I could be wrong.

by Anonymousreply 156November 23, 2018 4:16 AM

I suppose they don’t have written language, only spoken.

by Anonymousreply 157November 23, 2018 4:18 AM

Was this guy ‘all there’? That’s some suicidal stupidity.

And how could he afford to spend so much time harassing these people, anyway? Was he sponsored by some weird-ass church group?

by Anonymousreply 158November 23, 2018 4:28 AM

I can imagine that if I were one of those short dark-skinned tribe members and saw a tall white person for the first time in my life, I would be scared shitless.

by Anonymousreply 159November 23, 2018 4:29 AM

[quote]If I recall, genetically they are very closely related to the other Andaman tribal peoples.

That is what I've read. The first people to ever go deep enough into the island to see their (empty) dwellings were accompanied by Andaman (Onge) guides. Of course they also kidnapped a 6 members of their tribe. However, they also learned that whatever language the Sentinelese speak is vastly different from their former "relatives."

[quote]I suppose they don’t have written language, only spoken.

This part is very tricky. The only person that was allowed to spend time with them (although briefly before they made him go) was Trilokinath Pandit who led an expedition in 1991 so everything we know about them is based upon his observations.

From him we know they do have fire. They can't make fire but they do have it. He guessed they wait for lighting strikes, find something burning and keep it going as long as possible. According to him, apparently every hut has a fire going.

However, early explorers to the Andaman islands, when passing by their island, remarked that they only knew the island had people on it because there were areas where they could see lights. This was back when they lived along the coast, before they slowly began to move inward so who knows what they're doing.

The same applies to the idea of a written language. They think they don't have one because Trilokinath Pandit didn't see evidence of it in 1991 but for all we know they could be drawing pictures in caves with mud. It's not like he got to live with them and explore.

You could ask a teen today what that little pocket in their jeans is for. Some might guess that it's for change. The truth is, it was for pocket watches. The same applies here, what we know, is mostly based on the guess work of one person.

So we don't think they have a written language, based upon the observations he made,

by Anonymousreply 160November 23, 2018 5:16 AM

He was yet another self-righteous religious person who judged others (while proclaiming love for everyone) and thought that people weren't "right" unless they believe the same things he did. Sounds like most evangelicals.

by Anonymousreply 161November 23, 2018 6:18 AM

The linked story is similar. Please read between the lines, as I know the source material is Evangelist Christian. Exactly what is meant by "fetish sex?"

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by Anonymousreply 162November 23, 2018 6:36 AM

They ought to kill the assholes who posted on this thread.

by Anonymousreply 163November 23, 2018 7:50 AM

Lesson: Next time bring along a GUN

by Anonymousreply 164November 23, 2018 8:15 AM

"Lord, is this island Satan’s last stronghold where none have heard or even had the chance to hear your name?" he wrote in a diary of his last days provided to The Washington Post by his mother.

by Anonymousreply 165November 23, 2018 9:26 AM
by Anonymousreply 166November 23, 2018 9:36 AM

Now the Christians who sent him will say this is what God intended...that is why he was called.

by Anonymousreply 167November 23, 2018 9:43 AM

[QUOTE] Tay Sachs

Oy! Tell me about it, I coulda plotzed waiting for the results!

by Anonymousreply 168November 23, 2018 12:12 PM

Fascinated, the officer, Maurice Vidal Portman, essentially kidnapped several islanders, according to the New York Times.

He took them to a British-run prison on a larger island where he watched the adults grow sick and die.

After that, he returned the children to their home and ended his experiment, calling it a failure.

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by Anonymousreply 169November 23, 2018 8:13 PM

Because contact with the tribe is forbidden, Mr Chau’s killers will not be prosecuted for his death, according to local authorities. However, seven local fishermen were arrested for taking the American to the restricted island.

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by Anonymousreply 170November 23, 2018 8:23 PM

Maurice Vidal Portman

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by Anonymousreply 171November 24, 2018 12:15 AM

I wish people would stop saying this was murder. Murder is intentional unlawful killing. This ancient tribe is acting within its own ancient law in protecting its home.

That said, they are horrible savages. They have apparently Bern living like that since the wave of migration got them there 55 thousand years ago. So they are a LOT like the basic root human we all have derived from — heartless xenophobes who treat anything new with unrelenting hostility and violence.

by Anonymousreply 172November 24, 2018 12:34 AM

Bern = been

by Anonymousreply 173November 24, 2018 12:35 AM

I lived in Bern for two years.

by Anonymousreply 174November 24, 2018 12:35 AM

I lived with Paul Bern for less than a year.

And then he died.

by Anonymousreply 175November 24, 2018 12:37 AM

What fucking fundie sect did he belong to?

by Anonymousreply 176November 24, 2018 1:18 AM

[quote]So they are a LOT like the basic root human we all have derived from — heartless xenophobes who treat anything new with unrelenting hostility and violence.

R172, no they're not. Did you read anything about them?

They have been nice to people from the outside before. They just [bold] always seem to get taken advantage of [/bold] from Maurice Vidal Portman (who was probably also some kind of perv based upon his writings) who kidnapped them to Chau who they allowed on the island, communicated with briefly and then asked to LEAVE. He didn't listen.

Hell, even reading this threads, I don't blame them at all for wanting people to leave them alone.

by Anonymousreply 177November 24, 2018 3:42 AM

[quote][R172], no they're not. Did you read anything about them?

Yes, I did, and apparently I have better reading comprehension than you do. The “nicest” they’re ever been is, on very rare occasion, NOT to immediately attack people leaving them gifts. You read a little more carefully, and find one example of a truly friendly social interaction with another culture.

You’ll find none — that’s the state of the humans who spread across the world in the earliest migrations. Unremitting hostility.

by Anonymousreply 178November 24, 2018 3:55 AM

[quote]Yes, I did, and apparently I have better reading comprehension than you do.

No, I read just fine. I think you're trying to hedge the information to favor your argument and it's not working. They also interacted with the National Geographic Crew in 1975. Again, they were fine with them and then asked them to leave.

[quote] You read a little more carefully, and find one example of a truly friendly social interaction with another culture.

No, again. I did just fine. Besides, what you again failed to account for is the fact that it's not medically safe for them to interact with anyone from outside of their culture.

[quote]You’ll find none — that’s the state of the humans who spread across the world in the earliest migrations. Unremitting hostility.

Just as you have the right to kick anyone out of your house that overstays their welcome they continually keep doing the same thing but saying that they're hostile to everyone just isn't true. Not being hostile, based upon your definition, is allowing people to explore their island and go and do whatever they want. There are civilizations who have grown, advanced and formed countries, cities and states today across the world who have the same rules but because these ones carry spears, instead of nuclear weapons, they're "savages!" I bloody well think not!

by Anonymousreply 179November 24, 2018 4:09 AM

R172 "You think the only people who are people, are the people who look and think like you."

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by Anonymousreply 180November 24, 2018 4:17 AM

R141, one of the fascinating things about the islanders is that they do not seem stunned by the wonders of the modern world, or think that outsiders are impressive or godlike. (There is a photograph of an islander firing an arrow at a helicopter flying overhead: his stance suggests anger, not fear). They are not frightened by intruders, as this story itself shows. Somehow they know we are trouble.

by Anonymousreply 181November 24, 2018 4:34 AM

Trouble with a capital T

by Anonymousreply 182November 24, 2018 5:06 AM

[quote]No, I read just fine. I think you're trying to hedge the information to favor your argument and it's not working. They also interacted with the National Geographic Crew in 1975. Again, they were fine with them and then asked them to leave.

Surrly I’m just warping the story of peace behind the Nat Geo expedition to suit my argument “and it’s not working.” Ah yes, I remember that peaceful expedition as if it were only yesterday ... (screen gets wavy)...

[quote]In early 1974, a National Geographic film crew went to the island with a team of anthropologists to film a documentary, Man in Search of Man. They were accompanied by armed police. When the motorboat broke through the barrier reefs, the locals emerged from the jungle and discharged arrows at the boat. They landed at a safe point on the coast and left gifts in the sand, including a miniature plastic car, some coconuts, a live pig, a doll, and aluminum cookware.

[quote]The Sentinelese followed up by launching another round of arrows, one of which struck the documentary director in his thigh. The man who wounded the director withdrew to the shade of a tree and laughed proudly while others speared and then buried the pig and the doll. They left afterward, taking the coconuts and cookware.

by Anonymousreply 183November 24, 2018 5:24 AM

Look at his eyes in OP header! Straight off of Oprah's couch, right?

by Anonymousreply 184November 24, 2018 9:07 AM

R24, there used to be a landbridge from africa to indonesia right off of australia.

by Anonymousreply 185November 24, 2018 9:11 AM

Free trips to Israel for Christian students!

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by Anonymousreply 186November 24, 2018 9:34 AM

This why you wait on long lines for airports. To hell with these fuckin faux christians! Supporting Israel ain't helping the average American. Civil war if we must!

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by Anonymousreply 187November 24, 2018 9:41 AM

R186 Israel gives free trips to Zionist Jews. I saw this organization at the University I attended and I look very central and southern european so they asked me if I wanted to go to Israel, but then said how it was mainly for religious/Zionist Jews only, and not for everyone else. My friends that are Eastern European atheist Jews who grew up in the USSR and who are not cut would have been either told how they had to be extremely religious in order to get a free trip to Israel, or told to go but to basically convert to Orthodox Judaism while there, which is not something they ever will do.

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by Anonymousreply 188November 24, 2018 9:48 AM

R123, we don't care what his parents would want. Truth is they don't count in the scheme of things. This kid does not trump the well being of the islanders

by Anonymousreply 189November 24, 2018 9:48 AM

R49 most Europeans, Africans, Asians, Latinos/Hispanics have not come into contact with Tay Sachs. It is extremely high and more prevalent in Ashkenazi Jews because of centuries of incest and inbreeding, they would marry their first cousins.

by Anonymousreply 190November 24, 2018 9:54 AM

R189 I thought love trumps hate?

by Anonymousreply 191November 24, 2018 9:56 AM

Look, I admire this (young, cute) guy very much, but he had no business being there, and after his first contact, needed to take the hint, and not return. The people on this island have remained isolated for a long time (their choice), and the Indian government respects their independence pretty completely.

I can't make fun of his death, or make jokes about it. He seemed like the sweetest guy, someone who would be a joy to know. But nice guys do stupid things, unfortunately.

by Anonymousreply 192November 24, 2018 10:47 AM

R181 I'm sure they are scared. It's partly why they attack outsiders/intruders. When you sense a threat, your mind generates fear and anger. The fear you generate is part of a flight response from your physiology. Anger is the emotional energy you generate for the fight against that perceived threat.

by Anonymousreply 193November 24, 2018 1:52 PM

Why thank you Clerk Kim @ r145

by Anonymousreply 194November 24, 2018 2:29 PM

Whenever I read the two words American and tourist together I know it's going to be dreadful news.

by Anonymousreply 195November 24, 2018 3:29 PM

A few years back, a drunk English guy showed up late at night at the door of some people in Houston. He had confused their house with the house where he was staying. The asshole homeowner shot the drunk dead. Nothing happened to him.

So the natives were just standing their ground. How American.

by Anonymousreply 196November 24, 2018 4:08 PM

It’s interesting how some people need to shoehorn this event into the frightened natives exploited by cruel Europeans narrative. Does that happen? ABSOLUTELY. Did that happen here? ABSOLUTELY NOT.

These are not timid recluses defending their privacy. There are essentially territorial early humans wanting to destroy anyone Not Them. They don’t have the first fucking clue about their vulnerability to infectious disease so that clearly has nothing to do with their actions.

These people give us a pure, undiluted look at human nature, and the American guy gives us just as pure and undiluted a look at how far civilized man has stepped away from his true nature. He’s got himself believing that some sky wizard is going to knock the arrows out of his way and if he doesn’t, well, Thy Will Be Done, On Earth As It Is In Heaven! Oh and think of the selfie opportunities, and if they kill me I’ll be famous on social media. I should spend a fortune so I can get murdered.

Contrast that dumbphuckery with “that tribe is not our tribe. They are rivals. Let’s kill them and take their stuff.”

by Anonymousreply 197November 24, 2018 5:34 PM

Another example of human nature.

In 1588 the Spanish built a huge armada to invade England. This armada suffered a reverse in an early battle with the English, but was still largely intact when it was beset by a huge storm, scattered and largely destroyed.

Some of the ships ended up shipwrecked on the Irish coast. Now, the Irish has every reason to welcome and help the Spanish sailors and soldiers who washed up on the coast — like the Spanish, they were Catholics, and were determined foes of the English crown. So did the Irish welcome them and settle them in the villages, as Irish tales tell, the origin of the “Black Irish?” Most historians think not. They killed the shipwrecked wretches and stole their stuff.

by Anonymousreply 198November 24, 2018 5:42 PM

Anup Kapoor, an anthropology professor at the University of Delhi, said that anyone wanting to open a dialogue with the Sentinelese had to show they were “on the same level.”

“Don’t wear anything,” he recommended. “Only then you can hope to have some sort of interaction.”

Mr Kapoor once had contacts with the Onge, another Andamans tribe, adding: “It was only after I took off my clothes, except my underwear.”

by Anonymousreply 199November 24, 2018 6:53 PM

I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do to their fellows, because it always coincides with their own desires.——Susan B. Anthony

by Anonymousreply 200November 24, 2018 6:57 PM

He graduated from Oral Roberts University so he’s no brain trust.

by Anonymousreply 201November 24, 2018 7:00 PM

R59 calls out R56 and rightly so. The correct response is R185. The amswer cannot just be "googled" in one shot.

You can't talk out of your ass here without being slapped down and owned. Australian aborigines originate in Africa. DNA proved this about 12 years ago. Maybe longer than that. These people are African. They share genotype, phenotype with Africans. Hey, maybe that's why they look African. They're not SE asian. They're black. Some Africans kept on the adventure into SE asia following that land bridge before it sunk under the water. Not these people.

I'm going to have to post this again. The clue is in dental structure. It's been established. Some Africans made it to SE Asia, mixed with Asians and then they continued on to Hokkaido, Japan and mixed with the Ainu. So the island of Japan is not a genetically homogenous asian region like mainland China. Japan has a history of many races mixed as one early on. That's their secret weapon to greatness. Ditto the US.

May I remind you that advanced hair straightening techniques come out of Brazil and Japan. Brazil is obvious with their african population but Japan, why would asians perfect hair straightening of all things? Same reason. African DNA is in there so the hair texture reflects an unruly, frizzy bent. It didn't come out of thin air. A reason for everything.

Here's the migration effecting dental formations and occasionally hair textures. The N stands for Negrito.

Glad I could help

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by Anonymousreply 202November 24, 2018 7:07 PM

R59 a big WW for this post:

[R58]. Why THANK YOU for that privilege. Thank yo SO much for allowing me to keep embarrassing myself. THANK YOU! I can spot your posts just by sight, and they irk me no end. I bet that you were the type in elementary/high school to wave your arm and hand FURIOUSLY, calling the teachers name over and over again whenever the teacher asked the class a question. Haha. Besides, you didn't do anything but google the information before posting, so stop fronting. Haha. Happy Thanksgiving-

R202 is my gift to you 🍶🎁. Can't stand that Contrary ConTROLLer googling rube as well. Never learns, that one

by Anonymousreply 203November 24, 2018 7:33 PM

I'm gonna guess how this went down now I'm reading he did bring entrees and appetizers and these people gave him an hour of their time sitting on the beach. There's that. Then after they shot off some warnings.

The better of us know instinctively that any religious zealot is a nutter. Someone on this forum I WWd & posted a shout out for writing a common sense explanation in one of these recent threads (maybe this thread or related) explaining better than i ever could, a normal, healthy person is NOT going to dedicate their whole lives to religion. Add in this guy's aspie condition & un-wrangled case of covert narcissism. Asperger, Narcissist and Psycho/Sociopaths share a common trait which are not inclusive to other mental/character disorders.

This dark triad checks box ◽Lack of EMPATHY

Any animal, including the human animal and this TYPE of dunderhead meeting. ..The hair goes up on the back of your neck. You think these people didn't realize this guy displayed a predator personality? Because even if innocently he deemed himself in a leader position. The whole sit down hour meeting and his relentless pestering alerted them of the true predator he was. Probably made the interactions about nothing but himself and lord jesus. Focus on self only. You think these people didn't pick up on that? They're human. They did themselves and their fellow humans a big favor. We abhor this type of individual because deep down we know they're attempting to hide something about themselves. Major perceived character flaw. Ruining our formerly good American name these evangical demented zealots. Benevolent Isis types. Distance yourself from any hardcore religious person. Religion was built to keep societal sociopaths in line. A healthy, normal soul need only self guidance innately.

We should chip in and buy them a gift. Something metal based. Let's go fund them!

by Anonymousreply 204November 24, 2018 8:40 PM

Something about these "stone age" people does not add up. They have razor sharp, metal tipped arrows? Are they smelting ore on their island, or are they repurposing pots and pans gifted to them? And why would they have even evolved the technology of bows and arrows, since they supposedly subsist on coconuts and seafood?

by Anonymousreply 205November 25, 2018 2:59 AM

No, they get the iron from crap that washes ashore of equipment abandoned from previous expeditions.

by Anonymousreply 206November 25, 2018 3:19 AM

“OR equipment”

by Anonymousreply 207November 25, 2018 3:19 AM

In his defense, the BBC on that island may have been worth risking his life for.

by Anonymousreply 208November 25, 2018 3:25 AM

Bow and arrow ain’t exactly a modern man concept, is it ? R205

by Anonymousreply 209November 25, 2018 3:31 AM

The first people who walked out of Africa had bows and arrows.

by Anonymousreply 210November 25, 2018 3:35 AM

I still think the tribe need to be taught a lesson for the murder committed. Aren’t those islands under Indian jurisdiction ? Law should apply equally, no exceptions.

by Anonymousreply 211November 25, 2018 3:38 AM

R210 metal tips ?

by Anonymousreply 212November 25, 2018 3:39 AM

Don't pay attention to the semi-literate Afrocentric retard at r202. The guy is such a dishonest moron that he actually talks to himself at r203 pretending to be someone else.

Australian Aboriginals are part of the Eurasian branch of humanity. And like all Eurasian groups, they're more related to other Eurasians than to Africans.

by Anonymousreply 213November 25, 2018 3:41 AM

How much for a hunting expedition? Money is no object.

by Anonymousreply 214November 25, 2018 3:41 AM

I can’t blame the murdered guy. I would be most curious to investigate an unknown tribe, untouched by civilisation.

by Anonymousreply 215November 25, 2018 3:45 AM

r215 He kept going to the islands again and again. At first the tribe tolerated him but he overstayed his welcome. If this was about satisfying his curiosity, he would still be alive.

by Anonymousreply 216November 25, 2018 3:47 AM

Curiosity kills the cat

by Anonymousreply 217November 25, 2018 3:50 AM

R216 It takes more than one or two trips to do a full study

by Anonymousreply 218November 25, 2018 4:07 AM

He wasn't there to study them; he wanted to convert them. He wrote about that being his mission so many times.

by Anonymousreply 219November 25, 2018 4:29 AM

[quote]You can't talk out of your ass here without being slapped down and owned. Australian aborigines originate in Africa. DNA proved this about 12 years ago. Maybe longer than that. These people are African. They share genotype

It's funny how the one reference you use in your post - a map about sinodonty - has nothing to do with the (truly laughable) argument you make.

I will ignore the fact that 12 years is basically an era ago when it comes to the study of population genetics.

The fact is that there's NEVER been a study using genetic markers from 12 years ago or any other date that shows that Australians are closely related to Black Africans.

Even studies from the 1990s shows that Australian Aboriginals, and Melanesians in general, are more related to South and East Asians than to any other group of people. And this is even more true of Negrito populations in Southeast Asia.

Take Cavalli-Sforza's book, "The History and Geography of Human genes". Even though it was published in 1994, it, too, found what all modern studies on the subjects have - that Aboriginal Australians are Eurasians and, more specifically, EAST Eurasians.

In page 75, there's a table showing the genetic distances between 42 different populations from all over the globe. Here are some of the genetic distances of Aboriginal Australians with other world populations (the bigger the number, the more genetically distant, ie, the less related they are):

BLACK AFRICANS:

- Bantu: 3272

- East African: 2131

- West African: 2694

EUROPEANS:

- Danish: 1400

- English: 1534

- Greek: 1498

SOUTH/SOUTHEAST ASIANS:

- Filipino: 1300

- Indian: 1176

- Malaysian: 1665

NATIVE AMERICANS:

- Eskimo: 1360

- North Amerindian: 1264

- South Amerindian: 1563

EAST ASIANS:

- Japanese: 821

- Korean: 850

- Mongol Tungus: 781

In other words, out of all world regions, the closest genetically to Aboriginal Australians in this study is East Asia. The most distant is precisely Africa, as would be expected of any Eurasian population. Even blond populations like the Danish and the English are closer cousins to this "Black" population than are Sub-Saharan Africans. Now, this book is rather old and better markers for this kind of analysis exist today. But the pattern found is the same as in modern studies.

The genetic distances table below comes from a 2014 study, "Genome-wide genotype and sequence-based reconstruction of the 140,000 year history of modern human ancestry". As you can see, the closest relatives to the Melanesian component - which represents the ancestry of Papuans and Aboriginal Australians - are East Asian components, and the most distant, all with distances above .200, are all in Africa (Click-Speaker, Niger-Congo, etc.). Exactly as Cavalli-Sforza had shown 20 years before.

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by Anonymousreply 220November 25, 2018 4:46 AM

Aborigines are still part black African. The documentary and study also located a man related to all of us. Believe he was in Afghanistan. An australoid is a mix but have negrito DNA from Africa and I never said otherwise. The aborigines didn't want hear it but it proved to be true.

You're gonna lose here.

DNA and dental type both used to determine migrations.

by Anonymousreply 221November 25, 2018 4:56 AM

Oh and R220, Inuits do not fall under Native American or First Nation Indians in North or related to those in South America.

Inuits are of the Mongolian race. Not First Nations.

Told ya you were gonna lose 'googler'. 😂

by Anonymousreply 222November 25, 2018 5:06 AM

r221 No, they aren't, you silly idiot.

I've been following human population genetics studies since my early teens and I've discussed with many people who share that interest. And let me tell you this, you'd become a meme, a laughing stock, in those milieux with these arguments.

Neither the Japanese nor Aboriginals are part African. The only link those peoples have with Africa is the fact that, like all human groups, their ancestors came from Africa hundreds of thousands of years ago. This is true of everyone, from blue-eyed Danes to the remotest tribe in the Amazon.

There's no other link with Africa. No, other.

As you can see in the image at r220 (on which you're yet to comment), even Northern Europeans, for all of their paleness and blondness, are genetically closer to Africans than dark-skinned Melanesians or the Japanese. This is because, as any amateur reader of population genetics knows, phenotype is an unreliable indicator of genetic relationships. Melanesians are genetically THE MOST distant population from Africa, which fits well with the theory that they were one of the earliest human populations to become genetically distinct from the humans who first LEFT Africa.

And if you have a shred of evidence on your side, bring me a study supporting the claim you're making now - that the Japanese and the Australians have African admixture. You won't find any, because this is a blatantly laughable theory.

by Anonymousreply 223November 25, 2018 5:13 AM

These findings suggest that modern Aboriginal peoples are the direct descendants of migrants who left Africa up to 75,000 years ago. This finding is compatible with earlier archaeological finds of human remains near Lake Mungo that date to approximately 40,000 years ago.-

That's all we're saying. Reading comprehension faulty, you. You're arguing some other point. Try 'googling' more deeply.

You're never gonna win here.

by Anonymousreply 224November 25, 2018 5:29 AM

Sorry but the Aussie aboriginals look nothing like East Asians. They look more ‘Africans’ no matter how you try to put it.

by Anonymousreply 225November 25, 2018 5:35 AM

You're the ignorant, uneducated person who dabbles from time to time.

-Returning to the discussion about Aboriginal ancestry, DNA of a hair sample from an Aboriginal man living in the 1920’s are being compared with genes of other ancient races, and there are at least four theories still being contended. Though all agree that the Aborigines migrated from Africa, split from the main group of migrants and travelled onwards through Eurasia and then downwards until they came to Australia."

Duh

by Anonymousreply 226November 25, 2018 5:37 AM

Most like Southern Indian I've always thought - eye and nose shape, hair texture, skin tone and physique.

Dravidian Indian

by Anonymousreply 227November 25, 2018 5:40 AM

If the Sentinelese have been able to fashion metal tipped arrows among other uses from found object flotsam over the years, just think what will be possible when that plastic bottle beach from Indian detritus washes onto their shores.

by Anonymousreply 228November 25, 2018 5:43 AM

R220, you also had no idea that Mexicans hail from Inuit MONGOLIAN stock. They're built for the cold.

You also are unaware female Mongolian warrior tombs were discovered in Hungary

You're also unaware that the once considered extinct people known as the Beothuk DNA was revealed in Iceland recently probably brought over as a slave.

I'll wipe the floor with you, ya big dummy

by Anonymousreply 229November 25, 2018 5:56 AM

[quote] It’s interesting how some people need to shoehorn this event into the frightened natives exploited by cruel Europeans narrative.

The guy was Asian.

by Anonymousreply 230November 25, 2018 6:05 AM

R230 His mother is Caucasian I believe

by Anonymousreply 231November 25, 2018 6:10 AM

John and mother, Lynda

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by Anonymousreply 232November 25, 2018 6:12 AM

@R232, mom looks a bit 'touched'.

by Anonymousreply 233November 25, 2018 6:16 AM

^touched ?

by Anonymousreply 234November 25, 2018 6:24 AM

R234 She looks full of Gods cum.

R232 Photos of dead wanker are good, they make me feel good

by Anonymousreply 235November 25, 2018 6:31 AM

R220 is busy furiously 'googling' because R220 ain't gonna win here.

Then there's this. Did you forget migration patterns? The latest version is disputing just recent earlier beliefs. Multiple new findings. You don't keep up R220.

by Anonymousreply 236November 25, 2018 6:34 AM

I hope he didn't give them any germs. There is a legal prohibition against interaction to protect them from disease as they have no immunity against anything not on their little Island.

by Anonymousreply 237November 25, 2018 6:36 AM

R220, is this working for ya?

-The Paternal Line: Y-DNA

The Ainu of Japan appear to have a point of origin in Africa before 70,000 years ago. The Asia-Africa connection is found in Y-DNA Haplogroup DE. DE is unique because it is distributed in several geographically distinct clusters. Immediate subclade, Haplogroup D, is normally found only in eastern Asia, and the other immediate subclade, Haplogroup E, is common in Africa, Europe, and the Middle East.-

Told ya i was hardcore😅

by Anonymousreply 238November 25, 2018 7:21 AM

R223, shamed by being exposed yet again. A googling fronting fool stay on your end of the pool.

Glug glug glug. Drowned yourself yet again

My victory vid always dedicated to you

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by Anonymousreply 239November 25, 2018 7:42 AM

They got the metal for their arrow heads from a pretty large ship that wrecked there (after the occupants were rescued before the tribe could reach them).

According to one of the evacuees, the cargo was just chicken feed. I read about it on the 'Respectable Lawyer' twitter feed.

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by Anonymousreply 240November 25, 2018 7:50 AM

Almost nothing about population genetics in this thread is correct. It's kind of breathtaking how some of you read Wikipedia articles and understand virtually nothing that you've read.

by Anonymousreply 241November 25, 2018 8:10 AM

Is the other DL thread on this any more fun informative OR less infighty than this one does anyone know?

I hesitate to wade into that one - much like our American friend might have been wiser to operate similarly?

by Anonymousreply 242November 25, 2018 8:25 AM

R240 Very interesting read. Thanks for that.

by Anonymousreply 243November 25, 2018 8:27 AM

^^^ no problem. I found it on the other thread.

by Anonymousreply 244November 25, 2018 8:59 AM

A hal R240 can be the bearer Beaver from the alternate thread?

Anything of salient merit over there R240? Pointless Bitchery of a higher caliber?

by Anonymousreply 245November 25, 2018 9:23 AM

Not particularly. The twitter feed was the only thing I was inspired to transfer.

by Anonymousreply 246November 25, 2018 9:28 AM

Schizophrenics think God is talking to them...are most Christians schizophrenics?

by Anonymousreply 247November 25, 2018 9:50 AM

No, just idiots.

by Anonymousreply 248November 25, 2018 9:57 AM

R197 seems unaware, despite the numerous posts on the topic, of the history the Sentinelese have with colonizers and people from the mainland and the real danger, which they understand all too well, of getting sicknesses they have no immunity to. R197 also thinks that his/her narrative about "early humans" and "human nature" is more than a fictional reconstruction.

by Anonymousreply 249November 25, 2018 10:33 AM

Would u prefer this version? Cats LOVE this version if u sing along. R220/ R226/meanie R213, outing yourself like a fool by defending yourself. Google defense

Which version you prefer for next time? Hmm Clementine?

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by Anonymousreply 250November 25, 2018 10:34 AM

Who financed this kid’s mission? Had to be an expensive trip?

by Anonymousreply 251November 25, 2018 12:23 PM

R233 how do you mean?

by Anonymousreply 252November 25, 2018 12:57 PM

R203, thanks for the shout out. R58 simply does not present well. No one likes a know-it-all. And no, R203 and I are NOT the same individual. That's YOUR scheme! Have a great day, R203!

- R59

by Anonymousreply 253November 25, 2018 1:00 PM

They may not be immune to some diseases. But nothing modern medicine can’t cure.

by Anonymousreply 254November 25, 2018 2:43 PM

What R197 wrote. These people behave like primitive man, and just want to be left alone.

by Anonymousreply 255November 25, 2018 3:35 PM

R254 Wow... Don't give medical advice.

This whole thing has given me some great ideas for dealing with the Jehovah's Witnesses who've been bothering me.

by Anonymousreply 256November 25, 2018 4:31 PM

I keep reading that he's an IG whore but I've yet to see anyone link to his IG account.

by Anonymousreply 257November 25, 2018 6:17 PM

R253, I always Bobby Darin that fool😂. If I don't know something, I ask people here. If I knowledge to share I won't hesitate to help and that conTROLLing freak always feels the need to challenge me. Ends up at the bottom of the deep end.

Everybody in the pool!

by Anonymousreply 258November 25, 2018 7:48 PM

^Big ups, pal. Keep doin' your thing

by Anonymousreply 259November 25, 2018 9:27 PM

R220 R226 high tailed it out of here😅

Skeddadled. Just manipulated it to exposing itself on this cross referenced threat.

Like candy from a baby

See my R152 post here😎

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by Anonymousreply 260November 26, 2018 3:10 AM

R258 what are you going on about?

by Anonymousreply 261November 28, 2018 2:21 AM

While the total population in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands has soared from 30,971 in 1951 to about 400,000, the number of indigenous people (excluding the Sentinelese) in the Andamans has sharply dwindled from a conservatively estimated 4,800 in 1858 to about 674. Now they are on the verge of extinction and fall under the category of the Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups (PVTGs).

The history of outsiders’ relations with the indigenous people of the Andamans has a clear pattern – colonisation, exploitation and eventual extermination. If we are to learn anything from our past, it is that the Sentinelese should be left alone on North Sentinel Island.

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by Anonymousreply 262November 28, 2018 2:28 AM

If it has not been addressed already...he had not even bothered to learn their language.

How exactly did he think he was going to communicate with them? Was he going to give them Bibles they cannot even read??

by Anonymousreply 263November 28, 2018 7:28 AM

Pictionary, r263.

I’m sure he’s stuck at the Pearly Gate because god has had his fill of dumbshits.

by Anonymousreply 264November 28, 2018 7:34 AM

He broke the law in India. His helpers need to be punished as they broke the law for him for some money.

by Anonymousreply 265November 28, 2018 8:21 AM

His family is saying he may still be alive as they haven’t found his body.

by Anonymousreply 266November 28, 2018 7:29 PM

R266 his body was crab food

by Anonymousreply 267November 28, 2018 7:54 PM

Family and friends of an American adventurer killed in a bizarre mission to introduce Christianity to the most isolated Stone Age tribe on Earth say there is a chance he may still be alive.

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by Anonymousreply 268November 28, 2018 9:52 PM

Greeting Indian anthropologists

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by Anonymousreply 269November 28, 2018 9:53 PM

Didn't the fishermen say they saw through their binoculars him being hacked to death and that's why they alerted authorities? I don't think they would've outed themselves as lawbreakers if that wasn't the case.

by Anonymousreply 270November 28, 2018 9:57 PM

Are they cannibals?

by Anonymousreply 271November 28, 2018 10:03 PM

Not so far as is known.

by Anonymousreply 272November 28, 2018 10:05 PM

R271 I don't think so, but they have been known to be brutal toward interlopers.

by Anonymousreply 273November 28, 2018 10:05 PM

Exactly R270. That theory works.

by Anonymousreply 274November 28, 2018 10:11 PM

Perhaps the young man had visions the inhabitants would make him King or Chief, or at least Witch Doctor.

by Anonymousreply 275November 28, 2018 10:24 PM

R270, the fishermen saw his body being dragged on the beach and then buried. They seemed sure he was dead, so they contacted the authorities. But he wasn't "hacked;" I don't think the tribe has axes or knives.

by Anonymousreply 276November 29, 2018 12:18 AM

They have everything. They have axes and hatchets. They're humans not animals!

by Anonymousreply 277November 29, 2018 12:24 AM

If they have arrowheads, they've axes. What's wrong with you?

by Anonymousreply 278November 29, 2018 12:25 AM

They don't have fire. Sixty thousand years of "evolution" and they haven't figured out how to control fire. What have they been doing with their ample time?

by Anonymousreply 279November 29, 2018 12:41 AM

Well, sue me, R278. I know that they have arrows and spears, but their arrows are tipped with bits of metal they have canvased from stuff that washes up on the islands. Maybe they've made axes that way, or have made axes of bone, but I don't know if that has been observed. They seem pretty rigid in their thinking. In any event, this sap was not seen being chopped up with axes.

by Anonymousreply 280November 29, 2018 12:44 AM

I wonder if they've ever learned to ferment alcohol. Do they smoke a "peace pipe?"

by Anonymousreply 281November 29, 2018 11:48 AM

Send the family to look for him. That would make a great sequel.

by Anonymousreply 282November 29, 2018 11:52 AM

[quote]Send the family to look for him. That would make a great sequel.

It would be a short episode.

by Anonymousreply 283November 29, 2018 12:00 PM

Ugh. I've read comments from Christians on YouTube likening him to a martyr and demanding justice. One fool even wrote "the spirit of Jesus was attacked by savages.'

by Anonymousreply 284November 29, 2018 12:27 PM

^ Has to be a clueless Rightie who haven't the faintest idea of who Jesus is.

by Anonymousreply 285November 29, 2018 12:33 PM

He wanted to be Dances with Wolves, but became Sleeps with Fishes.

by Anonymousreply 286November 29, 2018 12:50 PM

I agree R74... good examples. People don't leave well enough alone, and tempt fate. Christians are too much... only MY way, their "god" way cultists, trying to impose their beliefs in politics and others' way of life/thinking.

by Anonymousreply 287November 29, 2018 1:19 PM

R280, wouldn't they have axes of rock and stone? Bone? The only bone here is your head😂

by Anonymousreply 288December 1, 2018 3:09 PM

W P problems.

by Anonymousreply 289December 1, 2018 3:23 PM

Perhaps R190 has to be the dumbest, ignorant troll with a know-it-all attitude. Claiming Chris Watts can't be percentage NA because most Europeans in NC and OK aren't unless they're affiliated with a tribe😅 Did your ancestors get flushed out of a Sicilian cesspool in the last century?

You're such an ass R190. Aren't you tired of losing?

Guess you don't have the heterozygous advantage for learning

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by Anonymousreply 290December 1, 2018 3:51 PM

Interesting.

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by Anonymousreply 291December 2, 2018 1:54 AM

R61 fuck you faggot. Seriously so fucking quick to blame a woman....oh wait if you see or spell woman you might turn straight. Sorry I meant FRAU. Jesus how many women lesbian and straight have stood by gay men? I have and being on DL makes me regret it. We get it, your mom was a bitch so all women...ooops FRAUS are. No I'm not anyone on here youre addressing. And yes you are faggot. A shitty wo!an hating faggot.

by Anonymousreply 292December 2, 2018 2:36 AM

R292 fuck my bad spelling you won't read what I said? Then you too are a faggot. A stuck up faggot. Fuck I never knew how much so many gay men just shit all over women FRAUS and throws us all under a bus. Go worship hetero dick.

by Anonymousreply 293December 2, 2018 2:39 AM

R293 The funny thing is that most straight men are disgusted by gay men. In the old days, straight men didn't hide their disgust and could get away with beating up gay men.

by Anonymousreply 294December 2, 2018 2:51 AM

R293 Hollywood's gay propaganda hides the maliciousness of gay men towards women.

by Anonymousreply 295December 2, 2018 3:18 AM

Gay men hate women, women hate str8 men, str8 men hate gay men. It’s a vicious cycle.

by Anonymousreply 296December 2, 2018 4:07 AM

John Chau’s Death on North Sentinel Island Roils the Missionary World

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by Anonymousreply 297December 13, 2018 7:10 PM
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