Asking Hunter-Gatherers Life's Toughest Questions 

You gotta keep doing videos with this tribe dude. More after the baboon one

who gets to eat the baboons brains? cause everyone knows thats the best part ......

If you could ask again about the stars, ask them in a way they might understand, ask what do they think the stars are, why they are there. Ask about the planets, ask them if they see the stars that move and why they thing they move, a better person to ask might be an elder. Of course I could be wrong about them and they might of understud the question but it's worth a shot to ask again

imagine being vegan and thinking these people are immoral but all our modern tech that cause mass amounts of unnecessary suffering to animals is fine (vehicles, roads, cities, factories, fossil fuels, plastics, pollution, concrete, mines, buildings, clearing mass areas of land) how do people delude themselves into thinking they are superior

@@jedex4645 people are people... try to remember we are all just squishy mostly water bags of computer processing power, The world has all kinds of Agenda's and most of them do not relate to the message they spew , so can't blame the computer , gotta blame the system that feeds false data.

In western society, if your greatest fear is lions, you're insane and out of touch with reality. In their culture, it's the most accurate answer.

@@pnichols7661 not really, we were all hunter-gatherers at one point and our stories are filled with dangerous monsters and entities that hurt us because of that primal fear of being prey. Also... lions are scary.

When your two neighbors are lions and baboons, good answer.

A lion is a relatively quick death compared to a bear.

@@pnichols7661 i dont think anyone is insane for being afraid of a lion even in our society. thats a legitimate fear. We're talking about a 400 to almost 600 pound beast.

yup, pretty much sums it up xd

Much better answer than most people can give

@@EnriqueCuevasCwb On personal level perhaps. But religion allows you to one up the other tribe. Think about how much easier it is to rile people up with illusions than with reality. I don't know is not an inspiring answer, even if honest. Promising perks after death works much better. I am surprised with their answers though. I always thought that the leader of a tribe will always have an answer, just because everyone expects that of him. I always assumed that's how religion started, by tribe leaders inventing things up to appear more knowledgeable to the others if anything. Seems they have so little time, that they don't even think much.

Much less mental gymnastics than most religions.

@@carissaexplainsitall8481 gullible*

I love hearing stories like this. Life becomes complicated bc humans make it complicated. Thanks for sharing 😀

That is an example of Primitive Communism

@@Shorty281989please stop

​@@Shorty281989no, it is not.

@@udontneedtoknowmyname yes, it is.

The hardship and lack of resources in that tribe probably means there hasn't been a bullshit "spiritual" leader brainwashing everyone.

Loved it!!

Damn right. That's the level of honesty I wish more Americans would embrace.

Tbh at first I hoped they would give some deep spiritual insights in their beliefe and on the world. You know like from tales that you hear from natives all over the world or old mystic tribes. After watching the video back then I was kind of disappointed and how simple their answers were like "What happens after death?" and they say "We burry the dead and go on". Now, some years later, I finally understood that they in fact gave a very deep insight on their world view and while they've put it very simple and basic, at it's core it's truely very calm and taoistic. They are the happiest when they have meat. But why? It feeds them, their family and their tribe. It makes them feel good. It gives them strength to continue and it gives them hope that in the future they will get meat again. They are the happiest when they have meat because of the value it has and the happiness it brings them and their friends. Because they share it, because they got it together. Because they achieved a goal. It is a reward for hard work. It is a reward for continuing. They don't question too much, why even should they? They are already happy when they have meat.

Not heroic levels. Just honesty. Weird how it's become something special now haha.

Hahahaha underrated comment

Wife: I bet he's thinking about baboons Husband: Shoots the wife

thats sorta how aids transferred to humans at first we let some groups of ppl stay in the 1400s n some of them ate or fucked monkeys or whatever iont judge but they somehow got aids from that n now theres fucking aids

I R baboon

Totally laughing out loud at this.

@@Hazeleyonidas getting those damn baboons

To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentations of their women.

@@nutbastard what? the meaning of life is to progress

@@nutbastard haha I love Conan the barbarian

People distract themselves from death by creating Art but hunting baboons is a better solution

Buns and cheese, vegetables, salt, water, coffee. Internet. Happy.

The more stones you add, the harder it is to balance the structure. But perhaps there is beauty there too

@@jazerasor1455 Possibly quoting God coming to some realizations during (and after) creation ;)

Lagom is just a word for not too much, not too little

​@@CrazyGaming-ig6qqagreed 😊

I was thinking the same thing while listening. It also made me a little sad for our city lives. We have complicated everything, making problems because we don't have to face the most basic one (generally speaking) - at least not how this tribe does.

Of course, you're asking a philosophical question to the jong hunters of the tribe. In many cultures, life and raising children come first. Reflection later. Many so-called primitive tribes use a system of initiation to spread knowledge. The fact that this group of hunters can't answer these questions doesn't mean the village elders don't have a very different answer. The same is true for western culture. There are tons of western people who don't really consider questions like this. Doesn't mean that no one does.

Well said my friend, I appreciate your reflection @@rudilambert1065

Agreed. I've seen enough Alone to know I wouldn't last a week outside civilization. Ive always thought it would be so interesting to meet a version of yourself that had grown up in a tribe, like a long lost twin or something. Just to see how much culture shaped you into completely different entities.

Tbh at first I hoped they would give some deep spiritual insights in their beliefe and on the world. You know like from tales that you hear from natives all over the world or old mystic tribes. After watching the video back then I was kind of disappointed and how simple their answers were like "What happens after death?" and they say "We burry the dead and go on". Now, some years later, I finally understood that they in fact gave a very deep insight on their world view and while they've put it very simple and basic, at it's core it's truely very calm and taoistic. They are the happiest when they have meat. But why? It feeds them, their family and their tribe. It makes them feel good. It gives them strength to continue and it gives them hope that in the future they will get meat again. They are the happiest when they have meat because of the value it has and the happiness it brings them and their friends. Because they share it, because they got it together. Because they achieved a goal. It is a reward for hard work. It is a reward for continuing. They don't question too much, why even should they? They are already happy when they have meat. @@rudilambert1065

Or that they'd be religious ^^ But when asked about the moon they were like "fuck that, makes hunting harder"

Generally speaking, hunter gatherers actually have a ton more free time and social time than we here in modern civilization to. Pretty sure they have plenty of spirtual discussions among themselves, but a) a lot was lost in translation, and b) those are pretty personal questions to ask someone and expect them to just answer in a deep way.

@@greyngreyer5 what part the moon plays in religion? You meant spiritual perhaps?

@@thatgurunia Cults rose up around it in Europe

They are deeply spiritual. They have a system for handling their dead and they move from where they place them

what is this from btw? i remember reading it somewhere

@@oopalonga i read it at school but a little bit different

I got super strong Deja Vu.

@@oopalonga en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anekdote_zur_Senkung_der_Arbeitsmoral

@@oopalonga its called the story of the Mexican Fisherman

Does it bother you most anthropological studies are faked 💀

Is this truly the last one? Whete did the other ones go? No other hunter gatherer ones in Africa or maybe south america or asia. Aren't Innuit or eskimo also hunter gatherers? They can't grow crops there

They are not the last one just one of the last remaining ones@@user-dn6ht6bo7r

HELLOOO FELLOW ANTHROPOLOGY NERD!!

@@user-dn6ht6bo7r ik in africa atleast its pretty much unsustainable to be a hunter gatherer due to urbanisation and the sharp decrease of wildlife

😎😂😂

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facts lmaoooo

Tasty fuckin supper

Yeah, almost seemed like a personal vendetta

Even simple answers provoke thought 🍖🍯

@@esther8262 very true good man

It has more wisdom than you think. A Zen master was once asked what enlightenment was. He responded "When hungry, eat. When tired, sleep." Another Story. A monk said to the master, “Please teach me.” The master said, “Have you eaten your rice?” The monk said, “Yes, I have?” The master said, “Wash your bowl.” The monk was enlightened.

How complex is our life today it seems unnatural to me that we are separating ourselves from nature and natural way of living..

To me it was way more thought provoking than any religious sermon I ever attended, they always got the most ridiculous answers with no logic to back up their beliefs but this guy was so much more logical when he said Moon means nothing to him but can get quite annoying at times, that he truly don't know where the dead go cause u can never know unless you are dead

Beauty in simplicity

That isn't the actual meaning of life. They said only about food 🧐 Study the religion of Islam and learn the meaning of life And go ask islamic scholars 😊

​@@abdihakim391 Now, you're being sentimental.

I honestly love the simplicity of it

great point! really shows how overly complex we have become

@@jusdre313 hmm smart bad, indeed...

Lol he legit said they go to the sun and he doesn’t know if they go heaven or hell

@@burgernthemomrailer they just have different needs. They go through life not having alot of time worrying about were you go when you die, what is meaning, etc. Seems simple but I doubt it's easy.

He would have gotten something deep, it's all lost in translation. The translator doesn't really speak the language

the industrial (and agricultural) revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race.

Yeah we are slave to wheat, rice, corn and money

@@anonymousstout4759 do you know whom i am quoting from

if they visited the us they would die lol

@@Ceskyify I believe it was from Yuval Harari's book; Sapiens

It's zen

I once made a political joke in an email group that triggered a Brandon supporter. That guy wanted the admin to remove me from the group. The admin then wrote several essays to me to finally arrive at the last sentence that said " I'll remove you if you request to be removed". That's how "civilized" people behave, I supposed. My response was .... nothing.

What they need is a good religion to give them meaningless answers to meaningless questions.

Lol the time can be any time

That's because ALL they do is eat, sleep and fuck. Just like animals. Some humans today might prefer that life, others not so much

@@VinyZikss lmao

@@VinyZikss if you ever get the chance to actually fuck, then you’ll know why it’s all you need lmao

Simpler, but also much much harder.

You mean… the baboons are his inner demons making havoc.

excellent

@@dragonmartijn I think this man's life is so simple (not easy, just far less complex) compared to ours, that the baboons are 100% his inner demons. And maybe the time he ran out of corn porridge.

Exactly

His grunts and animal sounds sold the whole thing for me. 🤣

That is exactly right. These people don't have the physical capacity to understand the question. The truth is that people of all races and mental capacities will have a tough time knowing what is the correct answer. The Bible teaches that family is more important than a tool. However, at the end of the day, we can't prioritise every family need/want over tools.

Agreed

Why do you assume this? everyone always think they're smarter.

@@cephasmee6456He isn't assuming this in the negative sense. He is just trying to be thoughtful and give them the benefit of the doubt. If anybody is smarter, then great. If not, then too bad. Just offer more info. It's simple. Questioning people, like you did, is wasteful. Quit being judgemental.

@@eugenetswong Absolute rubbish. I'm African here in the States. Stop thinking we're you. Our identity lies beyond or assets. Our wealth is not inherently tied to materialistic things. Besides even beng African, why should he give a specific answer? He is not educated and he is answering the question as he can, not as you want.

Well if you think about it lions would be very scary if you live near them, it’s a big threat. Just like to urbanised people a spider might be their greatest fear as it poses a physical threat to them.

Next time a job interviewer asks me that question i'm gonna give that exact same answer lmao.

Seems to be mine too at least in my dreams. Often dream about lions just strolling around 😅

@@BlackholeGoblin I don’t really need to think about it. Fairly obvious

There is a tribe in the same country called the Maasai who are not afraid of the lions, infact the lions are afraid of them. To become a man in the tribe you have to kill a lion using only traditional weapons which is mind-boggling before the age of 18

Ok it really made me laugh

And full moon is bad for them as it's too bright to Hunt

"Fk the moon, it makes hunting harder" lol

hey go to proof in the facts cannibal that's the same thing they did to my ancestors hung from trees and then cut off body parts and barbecue them and ate them I have to prove facts in the evidence right there my RU-vid page thank you

Jeje

What did you learn?

"You'd think this stranger has never experienced real hunger."

You can see the two's faces feeling uncomfortable with the guy for using them as a tourist attraction

@@mushmush4980 tourist attraction? Seems very, very speculative

Yeah it's obvious, like when you're buying number of presents to a woman and she is like questioning herself why

@@emeralddragongaming2930 did you mean: blackened snake

The amount of western bullshit mysticism one assumes as an answer, and then he just says: "well it's annoying if the moon is too bright for hunting." :D

@@hansmuller4338 right

Apparently some American astronauts went there in the 1960s and they too agreed that it’s useless. They haven’t bothered going back since.

​@@hansmuller4338 Some cultures certainly did ascribe some form of power or meaning to the moon, but of course if it keeps you from doing the most important thing you need to survive it's not gonna become your best friend. Hunter-gatherer cultures were (and still are) incredibly diverse, but of course the pop culture image can't capture all of that. And a lot of it we simply don't know. Fully understanding a living human's thoughts, ideas and motivations is hard enough, let alone those of humans who live millennia ago.

@@danielgstohl9993 It seemed to be more important to agricultural tribes or tribes closer to water. To those tribes it was useful. So was tracking the stars for navigation-based tribes or those tracking the passage of times. For these hunter-first tribes, it's just a pain in the ass 😂

what do you mean by "pure humans"?

Repent of sin and Trust in Jesus! John 14:6 6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me. Matthew 7:13-23 13 Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: 14 Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it. 15 Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. 16 Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles? 17 Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit. 18 A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. 19 Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire. 20 Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them. 21 Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. 22 Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works? 23 And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity. John 3:16-21 16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. 17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. 18 He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. 19 And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. 20 For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. 21 But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God. -

yeah it's so "clutter-free" that they're every day at risk of being eaten by a lion lmao so calming and simple

So you think everyone else is impure? The pianist and the saxophone player? The ballerina and the painter? The chef and the baker? The zoologist and the marine biologist? The architect and the landscaper? The list goes on and on. I find beauty in the diversity and complexity of modern civilization. When I was young, I was taught to hate western civilization. At this point, I will not complain whatsoever. I love all the blessings we have been given. If you don't have gratitude, if you don't enjoy what you have, you risk losing it.

​@@coniglianafr I feel bad more than anything

It's more like interviewing THEIR ancestors from 12,000 years ago. Ours made progress.

​@@customsongmakerwe all have the same ancestors bud. There are no human races. We're all the same

​@@tomdotcom7844 False .

@@tomdotcom7844 We're all hybrids of Cro Magnon, Neanderthal, Homo Erectus, Denisovan, and others. The percentages of each in our ancestry determine which group we're in. This is all in the past 40,000 years, so we'd all still be in grass huts if we had the same ancestors. There hasn't been enough time for significant evolution. Or are you saying Neanderthals were exactly the same as Homo Habilus? If they weren't the same, how can their descendants be the same?

​@@customsongmakerThat's not true 😅😅 Every person with European descent in them is genetically related to Charlemagne, and he lived less than 2000 years ago. The levels of genetics from early homonind species is pretty evenly spread throughout the human genome. There's only a few anyway. Cro Magnon and Denisovian haven't been mapped in modern human genomes.

The way the man's eyes started going left and right when he was asked "what does the moon mean to you?"

@@subhashishdey4010 well religion helps to prevent existential crisis, isn’t it?

@@TheHy6xD you're right, but it does it by creating false illusions, we can't know everything and we should get over it without making up false knowledge, enjoying what we know and helping discover new stuff

@I'm Okay, lmfao.... so true!!! Good laugh and spot on!

Best comment so far.

That's why art as a full-time occupation began when we stopped worrying about food

Maslow's hierarchy of needs

Sounds nice, if anything the existential dread we so commonly are faced with is proof that our way of life has surpassed, (or rather diverged from) what we can understand as purposeful.

@Bartosz Wojciechowski Inaccurate. It is true there is a difference in cultural conceptions of fulfillment between collectivist and individualist cultures, but research has definitely demonstrated that when severe scarcity affects a society and people lack basic needs like shelter and food, they will inevitably spend most of their time focusing on acquiring these things as opposed to striving for more complex existential conceptions of fulfillment.

We live in a perfect society where there is plenty of food, no dangerous animals that could kill you and we're surrounded by our own kind (humans). However, we consider each other as dangerous as these hunters consider lions. Why? Because of capitalism which forces us to compete with each other instead of helping. "Existential crises" and other mental problems we bear are a direct result of the inhumane nature of such system where 1% hoards more resources than the rest of us have.

That's what I thought! We often forget how poetically and broadly we use words like "life", when the equivalent ideas our use of it contains might be held in 3 or more different words in their language. We also have many ideas to specifically answer questions like: "How's life?" It's both easy and humble in a sense, to take this very literally and speak about how fed you are.

It's a good point, seems like their languages are quite different from watching this video.

@@reneekatz Yeah I would think it would be, not being Latin-based and having a totally disparate cultural context.

@@alephmale3171 This is why etymology and the history of philosophy are both super interesting if you ever start to look into them--which I don't do that much, but I'm always happy if I am researching it hahaha. I feel like there's so much understanding to be gained looking at who first taught a culture to think a certain way, and what transformations the words have undergone overtime.

That's a more enlightened answer than many 'civilized' people would give

Nor really give a shit is implied. We're too busy hunting and surviving to care about death.

I thought it was sad they didn't know Jesus Christ as their savior. Where will you spend eternity? Will it be eternal life with our Creator, or eternal suffering apart from our Creator? Because you are going one of those places and it's very simple what determines where you will go when you die or leave this earth in some other way as God chooses. I felt I needed to share this, and do so as clearly as I can even though I don't know everything about eternity. Everything I say below is based on the Bible. You will have eternal life if you place your belief and faith in Jesus Christ who is the sacrifice for sin (for all people have sinned against God except Jesus Christ), Jesus Christ is God in human flesh (according to John 1, and other places which point to this reality). In placing our faith/trust in Jesus Christ our sin is made right before God and the righteousness of God is given to that person. An evidence this is genuine will be that you can "tell a tree by it's fruit" as the Bible says, meaning that when you observe a persons life, does what they say and do show they have their faith in Christ and are seeking to obey him - not to say they don't still sin, but what happens when someone is saved is that they turn away from sin to Christ. Paul in the Bible would be an excellent example of this if you read the story of his life as to the change that happens in someone's life when they place their faith in Christ and turn from sin. In fact Paul called himself the foremost of sinners. So God provided salvation from the punishment of sin which is eternal separation from God. And it is this salvation that the Bible says is by "grace" which is defined as an undeserved gift from God (see Ephesians 2). OR - You will spend eternity apart from God in a place described as an eternal suffering and be thrown into a lake of fire if you do not place your faith and belief in Christ to take the penalty for your sin (based on verses referenced and quoted below). These people will be punished with everlasting destruction and shut out from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his might on the day Jesus comes to be glorified in his holy people and to be marveled at among all those who have believed (based on 2 Thessalonians 1). If you bear no "fruit" then it is observed by others that you are not in fact a believer of Christ, and if you say you are there is legitimate cause for concern. (And don't be deceived that Christ has come back before he has, it won't be hidden somewhere where you have to go to see it, it is rather compared to a lightning bolt that illuminates the whole sky based on Matthew chapter 24) Here are some other biblical sections that tie directly into this topic. Matthew 25:31-45 (Also read the whole chapter of Matthew 25, it's powerful)- “When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, then he will sit on his glorious throne. Before him will be gathered all the nations, and he will separate people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. And he will place the sheep on his right, but the goats on the left. Then the King will say to those on his right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me, I was naked and you clothed me, I was sick and you visited me, I was in prison and you came to me.’ Then the righteous will answer him, saying, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you drink? And when did we see you a stranger and welcome you, or naked and clothe you? And when did we see you sick or in prison and visit you?’ And the King will answer them, ‘Truly, I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.’ “Then he will say to those on his left, ‘Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels. For I was hungry and you gave me nothing to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink, I was a stranger and you did not invite me in, I needed clothes and you did not clothe me, I was sick and in prison and you did not look after me.’ “They also will answer, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or needing clothes or sick or in prison, and did not help you?’ “He will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me.’ “Then they will go away to eternal punishment, but the righteous to eternal life.” Luke 13:"He went on his way through towns and villages, teaching and journeying toward Jerusalem. And someone said to him, “Lord, will those who are saved be few?” And he said to them, “Strive to enter through the narrow door. For many, I tell you, will seek to enter and will not be able. When once the master of the house has risen and shut the door, and you begin to stand outside and to knock at the door, saying, ‘Lord, open to us,’ then he will answer you, ‘I do not know where you come from.’ Then you will begin to say, ‘We ate and drank in your presence, and you taught in our streets.’ But he will say, ‘I tell you, I do not know where you come from. Depart from me, all you workers of evil!’ In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when you see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets in the kingdom of God but you yourselves cast out. And people will come from east and west, and from north and south, and recline at table in the kingdom of God. And behold, some are last who will be first, and some are first who will be last.”" Revelation 20 - The Thousand Years "Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven, holding in his hand the key to the bottomless pita and a great chain. And he seized the dragon, that ancient serpent, who is the devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years, and threw him into the pit, and shut it and sealed it over him, so that he might not deceive the nations any longer, until the thousand years were ended. After that he must be released for a little while. Then I saw thrones, and seated on them were those to whom the authority to judge was committed. Also I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for the testimony of Jesus and for the word of God, and those who had not worshiped the beast or its image and had not received its mark on their foreheads or their hands. They came to life and reigned with Christ for a thousand years. The rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were ended. This is the first resurrection. Blessed and holy is the one who shares in the first resurrection! Over such the second death has no power, but they will be priests of God and of Christ, and they will reign with him for a thousand years." The Defeat of Satan "And when the thousand years are ended, Satan will be released from his prison 8and will come out to deceive the nations that are at the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them for battle; their number is like the sand of the sea. And they marched up over the broad plain of the earth and surrounded the camp of the saints and the beloved city, but fire came down from heaven and consumed them, and the devil who had deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire and sulfur where the beast and the false prophet were, and they will be tormented day and night forever and ever." Judgment Before the Great White Throne "Then I saw a great white throne and him who was seated on it. From his presence earth and sky fled away, and no place was found for them. And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne, and books were opened. Then another book was opened, which is the book of life. And the dead were judged by what was written in the books, according to what they had done. And the sea gave up the dead who were in it, Death and Hades gave up the dead who were in them, and they were judged, each one of them, according to what they had done. Then Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire. And if anyone’s name was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire." (THIS IS PART 1, PART 2 IN REPLY BELOW)

(Part 2) Matthew 25:1-13 - “Then the kingdom of heaven will be like ten virgins who took their lamps and went to meet the bridegroom. Five of them were foolish, and five were wise. For when the foolish took their lamps, they took no oil with them, but the wise took flasks of oil with their lamps. As the bridegroom was delayed, they all became drowsy and slept. But at midnight there was a cry, ‘Here is the bridegroom! Come out to meet him.’ Then all those virgins rose and trimmed their lamps. And the foolish said to the wise, ‘Give us some of your oil, for our lamps are going out.’ But the wise answered, saying, ‘Since there will not be enough for us and for you, go rather to the dealers and buy for yourselves.’ And while they were going to buy, the bridegroom came, and those who were ready went in with him to the marriage feast, and the door was shut. Afterward the other virgins came also, saying, ‘Lord, lord, open to us.’ But he answered, ‘Truly, I say to you, I do not know you.’ Watch therefore, for you know neither the day nor the hour. Luke 16:19-31 - “There was a rich man who was clothed in purple and fine linen and who feasted sumptuously every day. And at his gate was laid a poor man named Lazarus, covered with sores, who desired to be fed with what fell from the rich man’s table. Moreover, even the dogs came and licked his sores. The poor man died and was carried by the angels to Abraham’s side. The rich man also died and was buried, and in Hades, being in torment, he lifted up his eyes and saw Abraham far off and Lazarus at his side. And he called out, ‘Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus to dip the end of his finger in water and cool my tongue, for I am in anguish in this flame.’ But Abraham said, ‘Child, remember that you in your lifetime received your good things, and Lazarus in like manner bad things; but now he is comforted here, and you are in anguish. And besides all this, between us and you a great chasm has been fixed, in order that those who would pass from here to you may not be able, and none may cross from there to us.’ And he said, ‘Then I beg you, father, to send him to my father’s house- for I have five brothers-so that he may warn them, lest they also come into this place of torment.’ But Abraham said, ‘They have Moses and the Prophets; let them hear them.’ And he said, ‘No, father Abraham, but if someone goes to them from the dead, they will repent.’ He said to him, ‘If they do not hear Moses and the Prophets, neither will they be convinced if someone should rise from the dead.’” It makes a lot of sense that God would be present in his creation. This existence is incredible, think deeply about it and about the one true God of the Bible who made it. You and I exist.... and so does a God we are accountable to. I used to think "I'll follow God when I'm older", by God's grace that changed, our relationship with God is the most important thing.

@@DrSmackAttack JESUS CHRIST MAN!!!! How long were you typing?!?!?

Avrei detto la stessa cosa 😂

Hahaha

Steak, BBQ ribs, etc.

Meat is just another word for money or material needs. An extremely important aspect in modern humans' lives as well.

@@kanisch5825 i think they meant it literally

Right? At first it seems silly- like too literal. But then you realize, if you lived their life, that's exactly what you'd say.

It makes perfect sense: these animals we think are cute, exotic or w/e are their competition for survival. Elephants vacuum up loads of what could be food for these ppl

I had a good laugh at that. It came off as a deadpan humour. I wonder what he would have thought if someone explained the worries of a “civilized” person.

Yet. They still eat them. !💪🏽😆

@@justcallmerichard7596 Taking a picture of your food and worrying that not enough people will like it. 😕

What exactly is so brilliant about that?

Honesty rather than arrogance. We don’t really know - fact

Gotta ask the shaman to get the real shit

@@papercut7141 hahahaha

Technically, he's right. We will die and our bodies will gradually become part of the dust, then will reduce into single atoms until the sun engulfs the earth during its red giant phase around 7 billion years from now. But everything on Earth will already be dead.

The deep meaning of life is simple. It's to live it.

@@dao8611 Boom.

@@dao8611 Some people are more complex than others

@@cyberblock7619 yea, a superiority complex

@@cyberblock7619 No such thing as Race IQ because there are no living human races except Homo Sapiens, therefore, it's impossible to prove.

The idea of suicide is probably incomprehensible to them.

get ya meat up

🤣🤣🤣🤣 thats deep man that deep

@@edvard0 amen lmaooo

No joke I struggle with depression... switched to a high protein (mostly meat) diet and I've never felt more grounded. I'm kinda fatter too after being underweight my whole life. So I dont think they're wrong....

Yo I was like wtf may b shoot her in the leg so she don’t get away I guess 😂

@@johnnygutierrez9855 I guess what they meant is the money shoot

Translator got it wrong concerning that question

I knew it. He's American pupil.

@@movementmathebula828 No the guy was still talking about snakes

A doctor was asked by his patient, doctor what happens after I die ,the doctor replied we clean the bed and admit the next patient

@@rahulshyam4752 In some country he could have said: “We detain your body until someone sells his house to pay the enormous bill.”

nah...they aint bad people but they got problems we can't think of

A Zen Master was once asked *‘what happens after Death?’* He replied *'How should I know?'* *‘But you are a Zen Master!’* The master replied *‘Yes, but not a dead one’*

I've always been suspicious of the spiritual overlays that some experts like to reach for to explain ancient European burials and sites. That African lad's answer to the question makes me doubly so.

Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs. A life of trying to survive leaves no room for vain pursuits.

@@vivianbreedlove8493, Once the survival basics are secured, such as in "civilized society"...the vain pursuits become necessities - humans do this harm to humans...

A life of trying to survive is inherently meaningful, it erases ambiguity and imagined boundaries, grounds you in the present. You don’t necessarily *need* to be in constant struggle to live like that, it just helps.

@Joe, I don't see the relevance, but you're absolutely correct about the democracy versus people starving - ideology versus life's reality.

Same

Nobody knows what really happens when someone dies, there are people who believe that they are going to heaven or hell, there are people who believe that the dead person reincarnates

@@R4in46 If you press further, on Heaven, the "place" some people dedicate their entire lives to gain entry to. They are clueless on the specifics of Heaven.

I think he meant it evaporates, cause it if that's the case we literally do go to the sun

​@@nedson6503 It is a place like no eye have seen and it has a scent that no nose has smelled and in it all your requests are satisfied before you even think about them, that's the universal description of heaven, It can be whatever you want it to be so what do you mean by "specifics" the biome in the heaven? How it feels? no one has been there how do you expect us to answer that? Its just like saying nothing happens after death, have you died and come back to life or how exactly do you have this knowledge? It's all a mystery until its your turn to try it and at that point, whether god is real or it was all a fallacy we shall find out. I just prefer to be on the safe side. If god isn't real, I lose nothing. If god is real I go to heaven, win win situation.

@@ThouguohT I highly doubt that tribe would even have the scientific knowledge required to understand evaporation.

I'm sure hunting has its stresses😅 But I get what you mean.

@@theeternalgus9119 Eh, you win some, you lose some. But the wins greatly outweigh the losses, especially since there's pretty much a whole army for them that can clap any animal (except other apex predators).

theyre living how we're meant to lol we are evolutionarily mismatched

Simple communication, to the point.

Looooool

they arent very good impressions

@@vadimsokolov9206 Yeah, sokol means falcon, so you're essentially Captain Falcon

❤️ me too

this made me laugh, thanks dude

And honey

And water

And getting baboons out of that cliff!

@@moobloom1238 omg 😭😂😂😂😂 this funny y’all are hilarious

Exactly 😂😂😂 "What did he want? Dont know, dont care, lets get those baboons!"😂❤

@@SuiPena Yeah, they've got their priorities straight: "Eat, don't be eaten!"

@@SuiPena and honey 🐝

@@syler100 never forget the honey!

coz he's high

Same

Lmao, life is supposed to be simple. These guys do it right.

that is a wise answer no food no life

Wheres the vegan cultists

Meat and honey? literally my two favorite things.

And that's how life was meant to be

I don't think that as positive as you made it sound. It's not good to only think about whether you will eat or not, let alone being scared by lions.

And that would be what a poor mind means.

They are close to enlightenment.

@@tapele5987 For them its different because they are out of society

It’s not just that, but he knows the sounds that will get you killed or save your life. That’s fascinating! Most of the sounds we know are not heard this way, mostly just for pleasure (music.)

Thats typical African language even when Africans speak English particularly the older generation they tend to use onomotapeias to intimate meanings when telling a story rather...

@John Doe You are wrong on so many levels... for starters the hidden assumption of what we use language for and so many other things

@@agnidas5816 can you please explain further? is language not adapted to our needs?

lolikr, his lion and baboon sound mimicry was SO good

No shit, I busted up when he said that🤣

Even the moon light mess up their hunt😂

5:14 for time stamp for anyone wondering

That is how it is when your entire life is dedicated to one small set of things. It's kind of how like some people who are really brilliant in one narrow field can sometimes seem so uneducated in other areas haha. They just don't care about that shit

Being as limited as animals isn't being rational. It's being superficial and failing to even touch philosophy. Even though the hunters use almost every hour of daylight on hunts, they can still think about deep things while waiting for sleep to come.

Cannibals did nothing wrong.

and honey

Cannibals are sort of Normal thing?

Luffy approves

I’m pretty sure they said burn it with fire

I agree, some comments really try to simplify entire lives of a tribe based on 4 ridiculous and twice translated questions. If some American with a camera and a translator sat me down before I went to the store to ask me what the meaning of my life is, I sure wouldn't jump to deep philosophy, I'd probably say "right now? Buy food," and yet RU-vid commenters would overanalyze the shit out of my non-answer and apply it to every citizen of my entire country to create some kind of pseudobelief to satisfy themself with.

@@IlIlIlIlIlIlIllIlIIII mean look at the detailed histories of the Iroquois recorded on wampum belts. Tribal peoples absolutely had/have spirituality and complex philosophies. Now granted, the Native Americans tended to be more sedentary and agrarian than the tribes of Sub-Saharan Africa, but I think the point still stands.

The follow up questions should be about their oral histories to establish how complex those are. If the oral histories are complex, the responses given are deceptively simple. The culture is old and has had time to develop. Notice, however, that the leader of the tribe doesn't look like he is even 40. Also, if the tribe is so untouched by modern civilization, why did he list "Corn porridge" as food at 1:00? Reading through the history of Tanzania, the country went through a period of communism in the 1960's and 1970's. Hard core communist regimes like the one Tanzania experienced tend to repress religions and ethnic identities. Communist regimes discourage anything that competes with the absolute authority of the state, including this man's grandparent's original oral histories. Very likely, the cultural practices pre-1960's have been lost and the oral stories weren't passed down by state mandate. This may be a hunter-gatherer culture trying to rebuild itself after a period of suppression.

@@Sarah-yd9gtJulius Nyere, the "communist" (African Socialist) leader you described, is literally one of the most respected statesmen in Africa & his policies were one of the reasons Tanzinia's extreme ethnic diversity was able to coalesce into a stable state with minimal tension. He considered African tribalism an equivalent mode of being & governance to Athenian Democracy & there is genuinely zero record of any sort of repression *or elevation* of indigenous people (he even wrote against it, saying that, in Tanzinia, all people of any color should be equal). Like, that's one of the things people talk about when they mention his name. There was no mass violence under his rule & a peaceful transition of power. He's viewed with the same reverence an American would give Washington. IN FACT what's currently threatening the Hadzabe is in the explicit _opposite_ of Nyere's Marxist ideals. Their land is being privatized by goat herders, as well as, i shit you not, a Safari & _personal playground_ for the ultra wealthy Al Nahyan Royal Family of the United Arab Emirates. If anything, the African Socialist ideals were assisting, or at least not interfering with, the Hadzabe's way of life. Now, the unceasing encroachment of Capitalism is driving them to extinction. Wow who could have seen that coming. For the record: Marxist traditions are about as varied as any other on Earth, & things that applied to say Kazakhstan under the USSR are hardly universal.

⁠@@Sarah-yd9gt- Also also, according to Robert Layton's _Who Needs the Past_ (1994), the Hadzabe have an extremely rich oral history, including a prehistory divided into four epics & like...a quasi-mythical pseudo-evolutionary lineage. (!!!) In the most recent historical epoch of their history they can apparently measure events by generations, & can count back to determine an event easily. As an aside, the Cradle of Humankind in South Africa, where its assumed the _Hominid_ lineage first evolved, is like 50 km from where these guys live lmao. They've almost definitely been there as long as _Homo Sapiens_ have existed & may have the furthest unbroken historical recording of other, now extinct Human species. Like. That is batshit fucking cool. And remember, some rich asshole from the UAE tried to turn their home into his _personal fucking theme park._

Or maybe the questions were asked in the context of the hunt, therefore they were answered in that context? I mean, if someone came to your workplace to interview you, you would also talk about that probably.

@@politereminder6284 having worked in 17 different countries and interacted with the workers on site + although I found more pleasure in working as a Millwright hands on I have quite a bit of college including sociology, psychology, history and economics (BS in Biochemistry). What I've seen is that when life is hard the focus narrows down to the important survival things and that dominates EVERYTHING, including at any task.

Maslow agrees with you

Even if you're not hungry, you probably still have to then worry about shelter, safety and resources, and social relationships before existential questions even cross your mind.

It's been said that idle hands are the devil's play things. We think too much because we're bored

Any other priorities and they’d be dead from starvation.

@@aMulliganStew yes, thank you

@@aMulliganStew it's interesting how the 'need theory' seems to be prominent here. First come basic needs (food, water, sleep etc), then psychological needs (love, safety, happiness etc) and then self-fulfillment needs (accomplishments, self-actualization etc). Most of their time goes to fulfilling basic needs.

@@hanac5586 exactly. when asked about the most important thing, the first answer was "meat" (followed by "honey"). they don't have time for an existential crisis, they just focus on fulfilling their basic needs to survive

@@hanac5586 need theory isn't prominent here, it's the here that's prominent in need theory.

😀 I also thought the same

and clean teeth too

@Yosaron true

Stop lying white shamed boi

@@amineidir5021 what?

I think it is the best answer! It is sad but yeah...

To Survive

death is a part of life. You don't live if your only focus is to avoid death.

@@muntaha681 If the meaning of life is not to die, even thou we gonna die, so, why are we born anyway then?

@@juancmf9634 because the universe decided to evolve into living things :/. Pointless, but, at least we can have some fun.

😂😂😂😂coz religious b.s people haven't brainwashed them so

They do mention afterwards, that they hunt a big animal and kill it and celebrate the person's death, and pray that the problems of that person go away. They also mention they believe they will see their ancestors, and that people who die go into the sun.

@@larav9710 are you dumb? All humans in America are buried or something honourable happens to their body. What does "religious bs" have to do with anything? What's wrong with honouring the death of our loved ones in Church? Disrespectful kid

@@larav9710 *tips fedora* M'lady

nah fr they skipped the grieving process wefowejo

Welcome to africa

now insert "money" instead of meat

He's Luffy's cousin!

Imagine if someone told him about vegans

That would've been an interesting conversation!

idk about beige. if they're ripping the heads off mice and running from lions....that ain't beige

@@victoriathomas731 I was remarking more on the things they take the most value from. It was mostly expressed as food and water and shelter. But maybe inshould jave worded it as, "living itself is simple." Running from a lion is exciting and adrenaline inducing, but it's still simple. You either get away or you don't and become dinner. The lion doesn't press charges for trespassing, the man can't file a lawsuit for reckless endangerment, and the mouse's family can't start a go-fund-me to hire a lawyer.

It's pretty awesome they stand so big regarding the moon. Pure zen

It could have been lost in translation. Because in a way they gave the most correct and logical answer: the most important thing in life is that which allows you to have life. Perhaps better translation or a series of follow up questions could have led to something more philosophical.

They are too busy hunting. Imagine If you had to hunt or gather every meal- breakfast, lunch, and dinner! This ain't no Olive Garden lunch after church on Sunday! This is a 24/7 gig !!!

The questions were probably poorly worded. I don't know if you noticed, but they do believe in some god. This means they have some sort of spirituality and attribute life some meaning.

Is possible that their language limits them to think about and make plans for a long term future

​@@wackyruss We don't really know if they eat 3 meals a day. If they are living on meat, their body probably runs on ketosis and they might only eat once a day.

He would probably use no jargon and achieve his team goals in half the time too.. :)

That's right! He goes out hunting for dollars and comes back with a truckload - and the occassional raccoon.

People with PhD 's aren't qualified to work at McDonald's my dude

He lives in survival mode

he is goal oriented because if he fails, the whole tribe dies of hunger

Their way of life is simply live to live not work for someone else to gain

They just surviving They have no time for thinking about a way of life It’s just basic survival

That’s exactly what I felt too.

@@AntonioAugusto1010 actually they have only around a 5 hour work day

The entire conversation??

😂😂😂😂

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Legend says the chief's gay, cause he gets more meat that way.

@@l.pietrobon3925 This is gold

@@l.pietrobon3925 dude you're gonna kill me XDDDD

Same with animals they only live in The present. Abstact thought like the future is very limited.

It's absolutely fascinating to witness. I would love to see some of the ugly parts of tribal life as well. Like, how do they deal with sickly babies, or how are family disputes settled. I imagine they have a dark side that people usually don't want to show.

@@andrewlove3686 it's not that they don't think about the future, they do. Their difference from us, is that we have distractions. When survival is no longer our priority and focus, we distract ourselves with other topics. He doesn't do that because he doesn't need to. He has a level of focus in his life that most people today lack. He's definitely above average for human beings if he stays that focused in a more developed society, and from his social status he's probably above average in his tribe too.

@@julius43461That's a good point. It's easy for us to romanticize the hunter-gatherer lifestyle because we're so far removed from it. He may have a much simpler life than we do, but his life definitely isn't easier. We have a lot of safety nets that we take for granted, that protect us from having to make a lot of painful decisions that he probably has to make. Of course, an easier life is not necessarily a more fulfilling life. Since survival is so easy for us, we wind up wondering what the point of our existence is. He doesn't seem to worry about that. He survives because survival is his entire existence.

@@dvf1736 i don't know man about that last half. A little to noble savage for me. Don't get me wrong theyre probably nice guys. The difference is 100k plus years of separation in completely different climates/environments then admixing with multiply other now extinct human races from all over the planet who themselves were diverged probably 700k years from each other One distraction is self imposed or optional the other is because they can't really create what you're envisioning as distractions. "Distractions" = winters/ice age/ farming and self domestication. "Distractions" = survival in hostile climate These "distractions" are evolutionary relics from the past that continue today in different forms. yes in the tropics you don't need to really think ahead or make complicated plans for the future. There's no evolutionary pressure for that. " Oh no winter is coming and they'll be 4 ft of snow on the ground for 6 months and it'll be -10 outside and I don't have enough food saved up and my advanced clothing is in need of repair" "oh no this crop we planted that took unbelievable efforts and planning failed" said no african mbuti pygmy ever. If your not farming you don't need to think ahead. No winters or ice ages don't need to think ahead. Survive year round butt naked yeah don't need to think ahead. You can't think ahead to overcome virulent tropical diseases. too big of a step and no trail of small steps to get there.. Thinking about the future/time critical advanced planning Abstract thought East Asians and jews would be on the other end of spectrum they almost entirely live mentally in the future. Yet they're probably the least happy. 2 sides to every coin.

Honestly you could learn more from them than from our modern society "specialists", we over complicated our lives and completely forgot our basic needs

modest pelican would be very happy to hear that his message has reached isolated african tribes

For them it takes more work to stay hydrated than to crank up the water tap. It is more like a daily survival challenge.

Blood moon Yes, he answered so simple and true. We worry too much over a lot of BS.

​@@youneskasdi Well, I think the specialists have knowledge they don't have, just as they have knowledge those specialists don't have

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This is just an euphemism for simplicity.

Wrong! Meaning of life was meat!

lol

Thats a life without tv for you

I’m sure it was due to interpreting it literally. It’s like asking a child, “what are you most afraid of?” and the child replies with, “ghosts” (or “monsters”). There are less cultural nuances.

@@dadduorp for sure. I was thinking more in the lines of “feeling inadequate in my career”, or “not being a good father and husband”. But “lions” takes the cake lol.

The only reason this isn't your answer is because you don't have to face off with lions.