How an African tribe deals with crimes.
December 6, 2012
I was recently told of an African tribe that does the most beautiful thing.
When someone does something hurtful and wrong, they take the person to the center of town, and the entire tribe comes and surrounds him. For two days they’ll tell the man every good thing he has ever done.
The tribe believes that every human being comes into the world as GOOD, each of us desiring safety, love, peace, happiness.
But sometimes in the pursuit of those things people make mistakes. The community sees misdeeds as a cry for help.
They band together for the sake of their fellow man to hold him up, to reconnect him with his true Nature, to remind him who he really is, until he fully remembers the truth from which he’d temporarily been disconnected: “I AM GOOD”.
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Yea, we are all born perfect, each a piece of the puzzle that makes up the whole. Wonderful when community recognizes you as a piece of the puzzle and helps you fit in, just as you are, perfect. Problem with many modern societies is they take that puzzle piece and cram it where it’s not supposed to be, leaving us feeling imperfect as we try and fit in the wrong part of the puzzle.
My guess is you were told a lie.
Of course; what a bunch of bull. African tribes? Good God, what a nightmare. Gerry Frederics
Hooray! This is Golden Age thinking. By a tribe of ‘primitives’ no less. This is LOVE in action. Every person valued.
How arrogant have we been to think that the West is civilized?
Of course, this is probably a small group, how would this work for states?
Wow man! That is some beautiful stuff there. And by stuff I mean utter BS. Here’s how some africans deal with sorcerers. That’s right, I said sorcerers: http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=173_1311437458 I strongly suggest that instead of listening to fairytale BS and bizarrely believing it, you go spend some time in Africa, and really get to know the people there. Make sure you bring any small children you have so they can learn too.
Who said anything about sorcerers?
Rubbish.
In old Afghanistan, where a traveling judge would hear cases, it was possible that a trial of a thief would end up with the village being fined, if they had not given the accused help when it was needed.
And then they eat him.
Interesting!
this is a wonderful blog, reposted from World Mathaba and it led me to your site … do you know which tribe this is please?
BEAUTIFUL
That’s a nice bullshit story about the African tribe and village that obviously must reamin nameless because they don’t exist. The truth is they hack him to death with machettes.
How long would the average politician take? Probably not 2 days, unless promisses counted as good deeds.
obviously they are not likely to convert to talmnudic judaism
What are some positive things, which you have done.
That would work.
Continuing… This tribal custom of rehabilitation wold work anywhere.
You can tell from the comments, who has lived in Africa and who hasn’t.
The Second Sage: Mencius, developed the wisdom that we are all basically good. His teaching can bring the African tradition into the 21st Century. Kumbaiyah, multi-culturalism rules.
I concur, it’s a great story, but no facts. What tribe is this & what country?
In Camaroon they used to not have locks on the doors, and used to share a food storage building, until the sailors came and taught them about mistrust and greed..thats when they stopped trusting each other and locked thier doors.
Gee, why didn’t we think to give Jeffrey Dahmer and Ted Bundy the same?
Total BS story – more likely, he would be immediately killed. Black Africans are savages – they don’t practice this type of airy-fairy, new-age peace and love crap. Thousands of White South African farmers have been savagely murdered by blacks since the end of apartheid there – something the Jew media doesn’t want you to know about. Most of the White victims, including children, were tortured, raped, then hacked to death with machetes. Anyone who believes this BS story is a fool.
Regardless of the yay or nay postings here (the nays being the typical troll city mongers that only know pain as a solution to anything), the primary reasons for the failure of civilization on the horizon is the pyramid system of governance. When strangers in unreachable places make rules for the rest to follow in a profit driven system, you get this world. It may not suck yet (for some), but believe me this world is going to suck big time for those that worship it and hold fast that it will continue to provide the teat for them to suckle forever.
Communities, even neighborhoods are under constant attack by the hoarders of wealth. There can be no local solutions to any problem, only global, legislated answers that bring pain as an answer to pain. It is this way because there is a constant advertisement into every hole in every man’s head that being rich is indeed happiness. Look at the sad lives of these happy people. Totally isolated, always suspicious, constantly scheming new ways to extort and control others. It’s absurd.
I don’t care if this tribe is real or not. The message is real. And those that deny it surely deserve what is coming. No matter if any prophecy is true, the planet earth is on a collision course with an ecological disaster already set in play. Men of low character and intellect constantly look for ways to demonize that which might threaten their pathetic plastic existence. Men of low character believe that money is real and material is god and the governments they pay to sell them a load of manure are actually going to do anything but shoot them dead as soon as the need arises. All this article is, is a different definition of how people should be dealt with when they lack self-discipline. But the deniers will quickly come to the defense of their system of pain and enslavement, always working to make sure the herd mentality is sustained and empowered. They do this for only one reason: they profit from it.
The horizontal pyramid system of government is NOT the reason. Unfortunately, through no fault of the Europeans, they developed a Dualistic way of thinking. So, don’t blame Europeans, it’s all a coincidence of history. BUT, THEY ARE THE ONES RESPONSIBLE. Hug a European. Jesus figured out what went wrong, he was a European. Yet, even God couldn’t fix the Europeans. So, let’s all hold hands with the Eurotrash and sing a rousing chorus of “Cumbaiya.”
2. Ways of Thinking
Old Way of Thinking New Way of Thinking (Dualism)
——————– —————————————-
What can we learn Civilized Europeans | Savages
from our neighbors |
and what do we have Peaceful Europeans | Enemies
to share with them? |
(“Love your neighbor Generous Europeans | Useless
as yourself.”) | Eaters
|
Rich Europeans | Trespassers
| and Thieves
| on the land
| over all of
| which our God
| gave us
| dominion
|
Educated and | Clowns
Intelligent Europeans | and
| Idiots
Stopped reading when you said Jesus was European.
Not in the geographic sense, not in the modern conception of Europe and at his time they definetely didn’t even have a concept of Europe, so, well, Jesus wasn’t European…
they probably just ate him
You know, there are many, many different tribes, each with different cultural practices. Just because one tribes burns sorcerers alive, doesn’t mean the practices in the above article are BS. Norway has a kindness based penal system as well, with lower repeat offenders than the US.
I live in Africa. Here they “necklace” criminals – they place an old motor car tyre around his neck, fill it with petrol (gasoline) and set it alight.
who the hell are you trying to fool with this BS article?
I KNOW people who live in AFrica, my ex is from there. They sell dead babies and baby body arts on the street. Just around the corner from her house. You can actually buy potions made from dead babies. That is their religion. In her office, the women who are virgins dance NAKED in the office once a year, while the males surround them and stare like dogs. This is an ancient tradition, practiced in LAWYERS OFFICES in modern Africa.
She also told me how nobody stops at red lights or leaves windows open in their cars, because you are guaranteed to be shot or chopped to death for a mere slice of pizza or a dollar – or because you are white.
Put your BS where the sun don’t shine cuz I don’t buy it.
I realize that you are hurt because of the painful things that your African friends have shared with you, but that may (I assume) be the city. Isn’t it a possibility that there is a small tribe, somewhere deep in the jungle, that practices this? And if so, isn’t it a wonderful concept? If it became more widespread, wouldn’t the world be a better place? If you have time, please read my thoughts written recently in this thread. Hugs!
I am simply unable to comprehend the abysmal ignorance and arrogance of the average amerikan.
When I read the posts on this topic all I see are comments about tribes and “Africa” – as if this was one homogeneous, single entity.
Wake up, you fools.
There are 57 individual countries in Africa with a total population that exceeds on billion people. Nigeria alone has nearly two thirds the population of amerika. Here in South Africa we have a population of over fifty million people – and they are from all walks of life. We do not live in tribal communities and hunt lions with spears and clubs. Cultures vary from the most sophisticated Western model to the most primitive neo-paleothic customs.
How everyone can simply refer to Africans and their habits is beyond me. It is like saying that ALL amerikans are obese, watch TV for at least 9 hours a day, think that the world begins and ends at the shores of their country and speak appalling English.
Mind you . . .
Maybe these types of practices no longer exist, but they could have at some point. Here is another source, which may lead further to where the story originated:
http://www.inspirationpeak.com/shortstories/singingyoursong.html
I am going to try this with my kids tomorrow…..whether it is a true story or BS, it is worth a shot!
This is beautiful. It’s not about an African Tribe (whether this tribe exists or not) this is a story about life and how we should live it. Great example, absolutely wonderful.
They really, truly GET it!!! I wish they’d have the realization to implement that in our prisons. I bet we’d see a HUGE reduction in repeat offenders. In fact, we should do this in daily life, when someone hurts us, we should realize that they are acting out of pain and remind them that they are good. Reacting nastily and arguing/fighting is how WE respond to OUR pain from the other person hurting us!! It’s a cycle. When we learn how to healthily process our pain, we will be a happier people, thus, we will hurt eachother less and thus, we will elicit less negative reactions back to us. Do you see the cycle? It’s an epiphany!!