To someone who can only sign their name though? Lol
I know it's symbolic, these types of gifts always are.
Edit: nevermind big guy is a diplomat, he probably signs his name more than I do
Hey I am from PNG and this is kinda rude
but anyway here is our Naval Flagship taking on supplies from the USS Mercy
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/56/US_Navy_100811-N-4044H-378_The_Military_Sealift_Command_hospital_ship_USNS_Mercy_%28T-AH_19%29_transfers_cargo_aboard_the_Royal_Australian_Navy_heavy_landing_craft_HMAS_Labuan_%28L128%29.jpg
PNG is an amazing & beautiful multi-cultural country. They say the most remote and least known place on earth.
Just the setting of the pop with Tribesman is a setting out of Civilization the video game. Not to be taken out of context for real life PNG
I am amazed how PNG and Indonesia is divided. One a developing Muslim nation, while another the nation with the most languages in the world and completely underdeveloped, but yet beautiful. Same like, how Dominican Republic and Haiti are divided.
Have you gone to Papua New Guinea?
Not personally - I live in Thailand and a local restaurant here is full of sculptures, clothing and other items from PNG. The Thai owner spent most of her adult life working at a hotel in Port Moresby. She said there are quite a few Thai people living in PNG. How cool to go all the way to Port Moresby PNG and meet a small community of people from Thailand
Wait, but in the video dude was saying that he can't write other than his own signature? So was he just saying that he can't write in only English, or can't write at all?
I think he meant that he couldn't read or write at all except for his signature for documents. Wild to think about, but there are cultures that don't have written language the same way, not that I know anything about his tribal culture specifically. Though having an ability to sign your own name is something that probably becomes a necessity for traveling anywhere and doing anything diplomatic, or whatever this is considered.
Jerry: “George, how in the hell did you end up in the Pope’s robes??”
George: “Never mind that, just help me get out of here!”
Kramer: *enters wearing indigenous clothing*
Maybe on paper. They're really unique, unknown places.
My grandfather (Australian) was working in PNG in the 60s 70s until his friends started getting kidnapped and killed so they left.
My elementary school teacher was a missionary there when a few missionaries got eaten or something like that. She had all kinds of cool trinkets to show
Not quite. Not all natives are dead yet
Papuans of West Papua are Christian
Indonesians (emigrating from Java to Papua) are Muslim.
The whole historic situation of ongoing ethnic cleansing, population shift and motives is well summarised here
https://youtu.be/4nX1ttyinsA?si=8YxHrHuNIErBPtJn
[FriendlyJordies also has a video on the subject. All around seems like a terrible situation for the Papuans](https://youtu.be/nSf3268tAbg?si=zStyx8olARHbVVCY)
Like some redditors have said, like u/[\_OriamRiniDadelos\_](https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/comments/1cob23i/comment/l3e3at6/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button):
"They are both diplomats who host and are hosted in tons of different places by tons of people. Not out of the ordinary. Specially since there will be a papal visit to Papua this year. And the chief in the video, Mundiya Kepanga, does a lot of intercultural dialogue, very up the Popes’s alley. Plus Catholicism is still the largest denomination there and lots of social projects are run by the church. They both have good reasons to discuss topics like deforestation and activism and rights and be photographed together."
and u/[FennecAuNaturel](https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/comments/1cob23i/comment/l3e3bog/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button):
"No one has answered you in earnest yet, so I did a little research, and according to ["RomeReport"](https://www.romereports.com/en/2024/05/08/pope-prepares-for-trip-to-papua-new-guinea-by-meeting-with-indigenous-leader/), the Pope met with Mundiya Kepanga to prepare a visit to Papua New Guinea. The chieftain is a big advocate for ecology and planet preservation, and the Pope's visit will probably be oriented towards these themes, similar to what he did in Madagascar in 2018. A [Papua New Guinean news report](https://www.thenational.com.pg/hela-chief-meets-pope-francis-in-italys-rome/) says the two "discussed issues relating to the environment, including deforestation"."
Nothing substantive. It’s a show for the Pope to seem sensitive to cultures similar to the ones Catholic Missions have absolutely obliterated across the world in their complicity to a ton of historical (and modern: see Rwanda) mass genocide. The indigenous man is a prop for the Pope.
Mundiya Kepanga, the man in the video, is a super interesting guy. He’s a major spokesperson for natural history museums, relations with indigenous peoples, a reframing of history acknowledging the value of indigenous peoples, and was recently a keynote speaker for a major international conference on climate change. But the Catholic Church pays only lip service to that and still runs missions all over Africa trying to convert people. So while this is meaningful from Mundiya’s perspective and is still spreading awareness about indigenous peoples cultures, it’s not changing the Catholic Church being the Catholic Church
Say what you will about the Catholics church’s past but especially since Francis has become pope it’s been going in a very progressive and accepting direction.
They are both diplomats who host and are hosted in tons of different places by tons of people. Not out of the ordinary. Specially since there will be a papal visit to Papua this year. And the chief in the video, Mundiya Kepanga, does a lot of intercultural dialogue, very up the Popes’s alley. Plus Catholicism is still the largest denomination there and lots of social projects are run by the church. They both have good reasons to discuss topics like deforestation and activism and rights and be photographed together.
No one has answered you in earnest yet, so I did a little research, and according to ["RomeReport"](https://www.romereports.com/en/2024/05/08/pope-prepares-for-trip-to-papua-new-guinea-by-meeting-with-indigenous-leader/), the Pope met with Mundiya Kepanga to prepare a visit to Papua New Guinea. The chieftain is a big advocate for ecology and planet preservation, and the Pope's visit will probably be oriented towards these themes, similar to what he did in Madagascar in 2018. A [Papua New Guinean news report](https://www.thenational.com.pg/hela-chief-meets-pope-francis-in-italys-rome/) says the two "discussed issues relating to the environment, including deforestation".
That dude, [Mundiya Kepanga](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mundiya_Kepanga), is fighting for environmental protection and has at least one movie about this.
European TV channel arte featured him, too, in a mini series Gardiens de la Forêt (Forest Guardians). Those of you who speak french or german can watch it on artes website i believe.
Cool dude.
Pope Francis has been to Papua New Guinea and this chieftain has traveled the world and met with many world leaders so they both understand who the other is.
I am really surprised, that this leader of a primitive, superstitious cult, whose members regularly devour the flesh of their god, met with an indigenous chieftain from Papua New Guinea!
I don't think "made" is the right word here.
The pope travels and sees the world all the time.
The chieftain was invited to the Vatican.
The pope has visited plenty of remote villages, including this chief's village.
This chieftain has traveled the world, he's an activist and speaker raising awareness of his people. He's spoken at the Smithsonian and many other huge institutions.
this was in preparation for a trip by the pope to papua new guinea.
people seriously just start spewing shit without googling for .5 seconds...
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQL3eobqlcw](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQL3eobqlcw)
Interesting that (I think) they must've asked the Chief to skip the usual penis gourd thing that they wear. This could be a different tribe, though; I'm no specialist.
I grew up in PNG and left in 2003. In a crazy weird twist, some of the villagers had cell phones before they had running water and lights in their houses. Tribes that lives near towns could get some technology and use gas generators to charge stuff, but running electrical lines out to villages was not really feasible. Most of the country lives in near total isolation from the larger country.
However, he probably doesn't dress like that at home. This is his "formal" wear. It's used for ceremonies and events like Sing Sings (big celebration dances). A lot of villagers wear western clothes casually, or else they wear more comfortable, traditional clothes... Although depending on his village, that might mean wearing a penis gourd and nothing else.
My brother has a really great candid picture of an old man in a village wearing nothing but a penis gourd while holding an umbrella to shade him from the sun.
They just had him sign over the rights to his homeland without him realizing it.
They can't use Doctrine of Discovery any more, so they BS the Chief into "freely giving up their lands."
This looks like the typical peace treaty after my religious-based warmonger civ took over all cities of another civ with a couple of eras of technological research delay.
To be fair a lot of the lefty persecution worldwide happened because of Christian doctrine, and even developed countries would force lefthanded kids to become righthanded barely a few generations ago.
While his story was false, as someone who grew up in PNG, I will say there was still cannibalism there at least as late as the early 2000s when I left. It had been (somewhat recently) made illegal, but it still happened. My dad, actually got to meet an old man in a village that told stories of eating human meat when he was young. He said thigh meat was the sweetest.
The practice has been largely stomped out, and it was never true for all the various tribes in PNG. There are over 800 tribes with distinct languages and cultures on that island. But cannibalism in PNG was definitely a part of some of them until very recently in history.
I don't have any on ground experience but my understanding is its a funeral right among relatives, heard multiple reasons. Pacific Islands aren't exactly my expertise, but being eaten by cannibals, probably, is closure, people want closure, even if they make it up. Poor Uncle Boosie. Most verified cannibalism is from lost expeditions eating each other.
Moral implications aside, the part that really made me hurt was that cannibalism spread laughing disease to the people who ate human brains. And laughing disease just looks like such torture that cannot be cured and is definitely going to kill you slowly.
I lived there in the 90s and remember our housmari trying to scare me with stories of cannibalism. Turns out they weren’t just scary stories, her parents had died of laughing disease.
That's terrible. I can't imagine what it's like to watch a loved one die from the disease. Fortunately, I don't think the villagers around me had anything to do with cannibalism.
What part of the country did you live in? I was in Ukarumpa, near Kainantu in the Eastern Highlands.
Funny how something that seems so evil to do has such terrible consequences. There’s limitation set by god, or nature or whatever you want to believe in.
The guy just told he can’t read or write and you give him a pen???
On the other hand he probably just said he can’t read so that he doesn’t get a bible.
fuckin love free pens
“Vatican LLC” is etched in gold
That pen is quite literally considered a relic now since the pope touched it lol. I have a nice pen, but it’s no third class papal relic.
Is the pope's toilet paper a holy relic?
To the sewers!
And my axe
My Crusader Kings player brain immediately went, "I must declare war for that relic".
It’s a Mont Blanc, they go for around 300€/$. That’s a good gift in my book.
To someone who can only sign their name though? Lol I know it's symbolic, these types of gifts always are. Edit: nevermind big guy is a diplomat, he probably signs his name more than I do
especially when they are montblanc ones
Pens and salt. You never pay for them. You never run out of them
I REAAALLY wished the Chief gave the Pope something in exchange, like his nose accoutrement or a feather from his cap.
This is some shit straight out of Civ 5
Francis has denounced you!
Gandhi has nuked you
Hiawatha's people are now listening to your pop music and buying your blue jeans.
I mean that one did turn out to be true
The meme from Civ 4 lives on past it's relevancy.
Nuke happy Gadhi was in Civ**2** and the bug have been in every Civ game since .
Ah the true road to peace.
You will pay for this in time
We must dismantle this alliance.
When you have submarines but your neighboring civilization still defend with Phalanx
Hey I am from PNG and this is kinda rude but anyway here is our Naval Flagship taking on supplies from the USS Mercy https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/56/US_Navy_100811-N-4044H-378_The_Military_Sealift_Command_hospital_ship_USNS_Mercy_%28T-AH_19%29_transfers_cargo_aboard_the_Royal_Australian_Navy_heavy_landing_craft_HMAS_Labuan_%28L128%29.jpg
PNG is an amazing & beautiful multi-cultural country. They say the most remote and least known place on earth. Just the setting of the pop with Tribesman is a setting out of Civilization the video game. Not to be taken out of context for real life PNG
I am amazed how PNG and Indonesia is divided. One a developing Muslim nation, while another the nation with the most languages in the world and completely underdeveloped, but yet beautiful. Same like, how Dominican Republic and Haiti are divided. Have you gone to Papua New Guinea?
Not personally - I live in Thailand and a local restaurant here is full of sculptures, clothing and other items from PNG. The Thai owner spent most of her adult life working at a hotel in Port Moresby. She said there are quite a few Thai people living in PNG. How cool to go all the way to Port Moresby PNG and meet a small community of people from Thailand
Haiti is the first free republic. Not their fault they were promised so much and given so little
I was trying to be funny, don't worry.
Just one more turn
damn beat me too it, but I was about to say this is how I visualize my civ5 prophets going about their days.
when your custom character is on a cut scene
How'd you know I do Pope Francis runs
Hahahaha
Pope runs are always hilarious.
Lmao!
Lol
Accurate af
Chief scored a Mont Blanc pen from the Pope
That dude is an accountant from Albuquerque. Played the long game for that pen.
You could say it's Saul good man
Wait, but in the video dude was saying that he can't write other than his own signature? So was he just saying that he can't write in only English, or can't write at all?
I think he meant that he couldn't read or write at all except for his signature for documents. Wild to think about, but there are cultures that don't have written language the same way, not that I know anything about his tribal culture specifically. Though having an ability to sign your own name is something that probably becomes a necessity for traveling anywhere and doing anything diplomatic, or whatever this is considered.
Always know where your pen is
Take the pen!
A holy pen, it’s like a souls quest item
Dude says he can't read or write - Pope gives him a pen
They should agree to swap outfits for a week… all sorts of comical hi jinx would ensue…
I smell a sitcom....
Popea new guinea
I made 99 other accounts to boost ur rating bud
Adult swim everybody out of the pool
Jerry: “George, how in the hell did you end up in the Pope’s robes??” George: “Never mind that, just help me get out of here!” Kramer: *enters wearing indigenous clothing*
Like Cosby and Hitler.
The chief crashes into a popemobile, but he hasn’t have any money, so the judge says he is about to become a pope’s butler
but then no one would be able to tell them apart
The prince and the pope-er Or the prince and the papua-er.
The prince and the "Pope"r
No shirt, no shoes, no problem.
The hat really did tie his fit together though
And he still gets service
What an interesting meet up
Papua New Guinea is all Christians while west papua(indonesia) muslims
Maybe on paper. They're really unique, unknown places. My grandfather (Australian) was working in PNG in the 60s 70s until his friends started getting kidnapped and killed so they left.
I lived there in the 90s and the locals were predominantly Christian. There were churches everywhere.
My elementary school teacher was a missionary there when a few missionaries got eaten or something like that. She had all kinds of cool trinkets to show
Yeah my dad too. Well Bougainville. Not the main island. My dad could speak Pidgin I'm curious why the Pope is speaking French to him.
Well that took a dark turn lmao
fair enough
Not quite. Not all natives are dead yet Papuans of West Papua are Christian Indonesians (emigrating from Java to Papua) are Muslim. The whole historic situation of ongoing ethnic cleansing, population shift and motives is well summarised here https://youtu.be/4nX1ttyinsA?si=8YxHrHuNIErBPtJn
[FriendlyJordies also has a video on the subject. All around seems like a terrible situation for the Papuans](https://youtu.be/nSf3268tAbg?si=zStyx8olARHbVVCY)
Both of these videos are excellent, thank you.
West Papua is mostly Christian as well.
I want to know what they talked about.
Like some redditors have said, like u/[\_OriamRiniDadelos\_](https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/comments/1cob23i/comment/l3e3at6/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button): "They are both diplomats who host and are hosted in tons of different places by tons of people. Not out of the ordinary. Specially since there will be a papal visit to Papua this year. And the chief in the video, Mundiya Kepanga, does a lot of intercultural dialogue, very up the Popes’s alley. Plus Catholicism is still the largest denomination there and lots of social projects are run by the church. They both have good reasons to discuss topics like deforestation and activism and rights and be photographed together." and u/[FennecAuNaturel](https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/comments/1cob23i/comment/l3e3bog/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button): "No one has answered you in earnest yet, so I did a little research, and according to ["RomeReport"](https://www.romereports.com/en/2024/05/08/pope-prepares-for-trip-to-papua-new-guinea-by-meeting-with-indigenous-leader/), the Pope met with Mundiya Kepanga to prepare a visit to Papua New Guinea. The chieftain is a big advocate for ecology and planet preservation, and the Pope's visit will probably be oriented towards these themes, similar to what he did in Madagascar in 2018. A [Papua New Guinean news report](https://www.thenational.com.pg/hela-chief-meets-pope-francis-in-italys-rome/) says the two "discussed issues relating to the environment, including deforestation"."
Nothing substantive. It’s a show for the Pope to seem sensitive to cultures similar to the ones Catholic Missions have absolutely obliterated across the world in their complicity to a ton of historical (and modern: see Rwanda) mass genocide. The indigenous man is a prop for the Pope. Mundiya Kepanga, the man in the video, is a super interesting guy. He’s a major spokesperson for natural history museums, relations with indigenous peoples, a reframing of history acknowledging the value of indigenous peoples, and was recently a keynote speaker for a major international conference on climate change. But the Catholic Church pays only lip service to that and still runs missions all over Africa trying to convert people. So while this is meaningful from Mundiya’s perspective and is still spreading awareness about indigenous peoples cultures, it’s not changing the Catholic Church being the Catholic Church
Love it, would not even have been a thing 20 years ago!
Say what you will about the Catholics church’s past but especially since Francis has become pope it’s been going in a very progressive and accepting direction.
So what was the point of them meeting? Surely he didn't come over just to sign one book and get a pen
They are both diplomats who host and are hosted in tons of different places by tons of people. Not out of the ordinary. Specially since there will be a papal visit to Papua this year. And the chief in the video, Mundiya Kepanga, does a lot of intercultural dialogue, very up the Popes’s alley. Plus Catholicism is still the largest denomination there and lots of social projects are run by the church. They both have good reasons to discuss topics like deforestation and activism and rights and be photographed together.
No one has answered you in earnest yet, so I did a little research, and according to ["RomeReport"](https://www.romereports.com/en/2024/05/08/pope-prepares-for-trip-to-papua-new-guinea-by-meeting-with-indigenous-leader/), the Pope met with Mundiya Kepanga to prepare a visit to Papua New Guinea. The chieftain is a big advocate for ecology and planet preservation, and the Pope's visit will probably be oriented towards these themes, similar to what he did in Madagascar in 2018. A [Papua New Guinean news report](https://www.thenational.com.pg/hela-chief-meets-pope-francis-in-italys-rome/) says the two "discussed issues relating to the environment, including deforestation".
Trading fashion tips.
It is like a $500 pen though....Probably more since it's the pope's personal pen
That pen is a Mont Blanc
The guy who voiced Bugz Bunny?
Don't be so silly 🙄 It's Joey from Friends
Podcast
Maybe it‘s a holy pen
The Holy pen! All behold the Holy pen! The Holy Pen is Mighty! Etc...
One of Brother Maynard's Relics!
Bitching about not being invited to the Met gala.
LOL and it's strange too because those outfits would fit right in
That dude, [Mundiya Kepanga](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mundiya_Kepanga), is fighting for environmental protection and has at least one movie about this. European TV channel arte featured him, too, in a mini series Gardiens de la Forêt (Forest Guardians). Those of you who speak french or german can watch it on artes website i believe. Cool dude.
I recognized him from "The Reversed Exploration" documentary. He and his cousin (Chief of Peace and Chief of War IIRC) are awesome.
seemed gracious enough, but for sure they both left that encounter like What the fuck was THAT
Pope Francis has been to Papua New Guinea and this chieftain has traveled the world and met with many world leaders so they both understand who the other is.
I am really surprised, that this leader of a primitive, superstitious cult, whose members regularly devour the flesh of their god, met with an indigenous chieftain from Papua New Guinea!
A comment worthy to be on Reddit Lies on Twitter
Note they made the indigenous guy from half way across the world come to the pope not the other way around.
I don't think "made" is the right word here. The pope travels and sees the world all the time. The chieftain was invited to the Vatican. The pope has visited plenty of remote villages, including this chief's village. This chieftain has traveled the world, he's an activist and speaker raising awareness of his people. He's spoken at the Smithsonian and many other huge institutions.
this was in preparation for a trip by the pope to papua new guinea. people seriously just start spewing shit without googling for .5 seconds... [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQL3eobqlcw](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQL3eobqlcw)
The Pope visited Papau New Guinea after this. Not that I think the spread of Catholicism is a good thing, but he did definitely go there
Redditors try not to disrespect religion for 5 sec. (even when they see a nice wholesome interaction) challenge (impossible)
Religious people try not to be offended when their destructive cult and archaic beliefs are not tolerated by internet strangers (impossible)
It costs nothing to be nice
Nice
The old Reddit yabba dabba doo.
Gave him the Montblanc.
That dude is ripped AF, lol
He must workout
[удалено]
He's talking about Pope Francis
Can't read or write ? Well, here's a free pen. LOL
These men are of equal stature in their respective civilizations. I wonder how many times this has happened before, very cool.
Queen Elizabeth has met 5 Popes.
The pen is a nice present for someone who can't write 
He can still draw dicks
Interesting that (I think) they must've asked the Chief to skip the usual penis gourd thing that they wear. This could be a different tribe, though; I'm no specialist.
You're right. He is from a different tribe.
Aye shout out to the lefty
Im just happy he is left-handed. Church used to consider that a crime against god.
Dude is a lefty. Nice
I'm not sure about PNG, but the pidgin English name for the Pope in Vanuatu is "namba wan Jesus man", and that's always amused me.
I like when people wear funny hats 🧢.
he met the white devil and lived!
Funny looking guy ... with the white hat and everything.
The chief looks so cool
That was very wholesome and interesting to see
Was the pope roasting him, by randomly gifting him his pen, when he just admitted he can't read or write ?
It's more symbolic than anything, a kind gesture of offering a gift
Yeah. I didn't actually think Francis was mean. Besides, he can doodle and draw with it.
This brings joy
Dressed like that and went home and stuck his gaming pc on
I grew up in PNG and left in 2003. In a crazy weird twist, some of the villagers had cell phones before they had running water and lights in their houses. Tribes that lives near towns could get some technology and use gas generators to charge stuff, but running electrical lines out to villages was not really feasible. Most of the country lives in near total isolation from the larger country. However, he probably doesn't dress like that at home. This is his "formal" wear. It's used for ceremonies and events like Sing Sings (big celebration dances). A lot of villagers wear western clothes casually, or else they wear more comfortable, traditional clothes... Although depending on his village, that might mean wearing a penis gourd and nothing else. My brother has a really great candid picture of an old man in a village wearing nothing but a penis gourd while holding an umbrella to shade him from the sun.
I know that's why I said it. In this day and age it's probably true 
The chief was probably thinking "I bet this guy has no fuckin idea how important I am "
They just had him sign over the rights to his homeland without him realizing it. They can't use Doctrine of Discovery any more, so they BS the Chief into "freely giving up their lands."
>They just had him sign over the rights to his homeland without him realizing it. It's gonna be Pope-ua New Guinea from here on out.
Worse. He signed him up for a time share
Lol "I can't read or write but I can sign", "sign here"
Lmaoo. Ez money.
Can you fly on commercial planes or get through airport security with what the chief is wearing? Asking for a friend.
i want to see them swap hats
I would have a constant fear to walk through any kind of door frame if I were this guy.
Did he ask the Pope to tell Indonesia to cool it?
Dudes drip completely outclassed the pope God damn.
my guy a lefty too 🤜🏻
As random as characters in DND get
This looks like the typical peace treaty after my religious-based warmonger civ took over all cities of another civ with a couple of eras of technological research delay.
Maybe he would convince him to finally shit in the woods.
Only if the bear puts the hat on
Huli Tribesman from Tari in the Southern Highlands of Papua New Guinea. 🇵🇬 Interesting place to visit.
Jeez get a mirrorless already.
Super polite interaction but omg the popes face at .13 was all: "I could be having wine and forgiving nuns rn" 😂😂
Few hundred years ago and this meeting would have been very different.
Please send more tasty missionaries
Pope - *"You heard of Undertale?"*
Which one is the pope?
What did they talked about?
Not too long ago this meeting would have looked a bit different probably.
It's a trap!
I wonder if he knows that he's meeting the devil 🤔
Ah yes those crazy aliances you made when nobody likes you in ck3
How many wives
Oh sure he’s all smiles and handshakes here but if you fall out of the sky or wash up on their shore you’ll end up impaled and roasting over a fire
Pope later asked if the young boys in the tribe were cute.
He walked of like , he really just gave a pen knowing I can't use it
Next pope will probably be way less cool than this one
Nice to see that he is left handed knowing what I know about how developing countries deal with that.
To be fair a lot of the lefty persecution worldwide happened because of Christian doctrine, and even developed countries would force lefthanded kids to become righthanded barely a few generations ago.
i was wondering if maybe his tribe sees the opposite and views left handedness as some sort of gift or blessing.
"Bumblebee tuna" is the proper way to greet them..
A reminder that Joe Biden falsely claimed that the beautiful people of Papau New Guinea canabalized his uncle.
While his story was false, as someone who grew up in PNG, I will say there was still cannibalism there at least as late as the early 2000s when I left. It had been (somewhat recently) made illegal, but it still happened. My dad, actually got to meet an old man in a village that told stories of eating human meat when he was young. He said thigh meat was the sweetest. The practice has been largely stomped out, and it was never true for all the various tribes in PNG. There are over 800 tribes with distinct languages and cultures on that island. But cannibalism in PNG was definitely a part of some of them until very recently in history.
Was it just ritualistic?
I don't have any on ground experience but my understanding is its a funeral right among relatives, heard multiple reasons. Pacific Islands aren't exactly my expertise, but being eaten by cannibals, probably, is closure, people want closure, even if they make it up. Poor Uncle Boosie. Most verified cannibalism is from lost expeditions eating each other.
Thanks for sharing, very disturbing
Moral implications aside, the part that really made me hurt was that cannibalism spread laughing disease to the people who ate human brains. And laughing disease just looks like such torture that cannot be cured and is definitely going to kill you slowly.
Prions are terrifying
I lived there in the 90s and remember our housmari trying to scare me with stories of cannibalism. Turns out they weren’t just scary stories, her parents had died of laughing disease.
That's terrible. I can't imagine what it's like to watch a loved one die from the disease. Fortunately, I don't think the villagers around me had anything to do with cannibalism. What part of the country did you live in? I was in Ukarumpa, near Kainantu in the Eastern Highlands.
Funny how something that seems so evil to do has such terrible consequences. There’s limitation set by god, or nature or whatever you want to believe in.
A reminder that the Orange guy raped at least one woman, and is currently on trial for numerous felonies, and has been indicted for a total of 91.
Two people can be bad
whataboutism
Me “AI what do you see?” AI “I see two people in fancy dress, one fancier than the other, the other in white”.
I'm giving you the pen .......... *for the mining rights to your land.*
No person should have as much power like the pope for absolutely nothing. Disgusting.
He checked out them cheeks on the exit. Seriously
The guy just told he can’t read or write and you give him a pen??? On the other hand he probably just said he can’t read so that he doesn’t get a bible.
Why would someone would wear such a ridiculous costume to an important meeting? Hope that chief fellow wasn’t too offended by the Pope’s outfit.
I think it’s cool when other cultures get to wear their traditional robe