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Congratulations brother.

Wes mahan. your profile is the profile of a Business man. very nice. can you please tell me one of the most Beautiful experience that you had at the time you were a Christian misionary?. it will be nice of you if you could answer me. thanks a lot. i am still in mission i will be till i died because i habe seen the power of God working. for the moment id see people being free after just a prayer. my older brother use to be a drunker. he got to church complete drunk a prayer and since then he is free, many other are free from drug alcohol prostitution Depression and madness. i will like to know a Little from that what you in 46 years of mission experienced. . because i became a believer only 12 years a go. and since then i habe seen a lot.

I'm curious as to what led you to become a christian in the first place for you to de-convert after 46+ years?

What is the reason of your life now? I mean, if someone does not believe in God, I personally think they simply "exist to die" and that life has no real purpose for them except for living untill dying. And I don't think that is a fulfilling or comforting thought, to be honest.

@@bluepeacemaker energy never dies, it transforms into different states. We were always the potential energy of the stars and our ancestors. That is why you unconsciously are not stressed by the thought that 100 years ago you weren't in your present form of existence. Equally neither should you be disheartened by your state in 100 years from now.

He persisted.

Thing is, he didn't succeed. A lot of his research is just incorrect, there's a reason why no linguist takes his work seriously. He also provided nothing in return. Didn't let the people view the film he was making, didn't TELL them in the first place, etc. He also knew their needs and never gave back in any way. Not in regards to health, bilingual education, etc. He's not modest.

@@xoreign where did you hear this from?

@@GrammeStudio I'm studying linguistics at university but there's a documentary online you can find of interviews with the natives.

@@xoreign why do these people need bilingualism education, I mean these people have been living in the Amazon for centuries without it, why do they need it know.

Lol so true, tell me why?

Misericordia!

That button is so needed.

Kinda like back when the favorite button existed.

Any indigenous culture is as friendly as the Piraha.

That's why even if I don't see how better their life will be with God, I still believe in him and believe that we in the modern world need God more than ever. They are born in "happiness". We are fighting to be happy from day one of our lives. We have to try to please our parents, then our teachers and later our bosses and the government. We also have to "fit in" in other to be accepted by our society. Then hustle to possess x or y that we want or need and before we know we are already dead. We desperately need Jesus to make sense of all this.

I wish you to find purpose and joy in your life. Sending you love from Cameroon.

It's called subsistence farming. This exists in neoliberal capitalism but hardly anyone thinks to do it anymore.

Not really, everyone has a complicated life while yes these people don't have to worry about money or bills, they also have problems that revolt around their environment. Instead of money and bills, they have to worry about disease.

They seem to do just fine without any deities Kevin.

it's actually Field Linguistics

Howabout maff

I can see you've done your homework before making your last two videos, they're pretty good, all of your videos that are not on diet/nutrition are.

@David Garcia He reportedly had a child with a young woman there, and the Piraha became very angry with them both. They exiled him and banished her.

@@MediciMedic Nice.

@@MediciMedic Nice.

Nice.

@@MediciMedic Where did you get that information? From what I have seen he was forbidden to return there not by the tribe but by FUNAI, the Brazilian Governmental Institution for Indian Affairs. (Although their reasons for denying him are also unclear to me)

I want to be friends with these people. They're no nonsense, but clearly every friendly.

Thank god? It was this deity(god) of Christianity that made the lands and territories of abORIGINALS, primitives and indigenous to land grabbed by its followers and believers. " Go you therefore, COLONIZE all nations and CHRISTIANIZE them in the name of the X, of the Y and of the Z ".

@@yonatancruz2761 , 😊 The 'god' in my usage was due to force of habit. Didn't mean it actually.

@@trsarathi Oh my gods

Did you all walk into a bar?

The tribe is a walking-talking version of the Argument of Divine Hiddenness. Something like If God existed, he would be manifested equally and correctly to all beings without confusion, he is not manifested correctly and equally to all beings without confusion, therefore he does not exist.

​@@chrisray9653 Ironically, the strident nature of some atheists can mirror the fervor of evangelicals. At least agnosticism keeps room for wonder. Yet if I hadn't had two NDEs (near death experiences), I'd probably still be in the former camp. While certainty that consciousness is non-local is a far cry from belief in divinity, I'm sure that realms exist with higher vibratory signatures. Without the nearly dying part, of course, I wish folks had access to their own STEs (spiritually transformative experiences) - ones that transcend the singular and intersect with universal perception. Here's to finding the elevators to the Unified Field.

@Tarl Denmark "we have knowledge not them". 1. You don't have knowledge of grammar. 2. We might know more but we have people believing in invisible friends.

@@gdwnet They probably aren't the best at grammar either. And we already have people believing we live a worthless life evolved from apes.

Mr. Meme and we have people who believe we have an eternal soul with NO evidence

@@sandraarriaga832 It can't be disproved either

Mr. Meme humans having a common ancestry with chimpanzee has more supportive evidence than a woman coming from a mans rib.

Exactly, real scientist should be willing to listen to new evidence. I mean fields that involves humans should be expected that there are going to be differences and that some community won't follow certain rules. I mean we do this with customs and marriages so why not language, different communities don't follow certain rules so why don't these linguists the same thing with language.

@@pedroguerrero3862arrogant know it alls

I use the word 'God' to label the immense vibration of love to which we all have access. I also believe - without proof, of course - that human consciousness has many levels: we're capable of raising our own vibrational signature to attain greater access and comprehension of said realms. Wishing you peace on the path. ✨

That's very true but if you think about it from a basic view, it makes sense that these communities won't follow language rules. They have been isolated for so long, away from all other languages and people so it would make sense that their language won't follow rules that haven't been used to make the language in the first place.

Most definitely. There has been some neat research done with dolphin communication that I recommend checking out!

No one cares what you think.

@@canobiggs i don't care that you don't care

Every DAMNED Ted video

O tempo dirá a verdade.

So are the Pinaha.

Is it good?

Interesting! I'll add to my reading list. I've actually came to know Everett through a book called Mastery, by Robert Greene

lol

Chomsky is so big he refuses to take in new information and accuses anyone who disagrees with him as being charlatans. He also refutes the value of any field work and believes sitting at a desk theorizing is the real work.

@@andrew348 Evidence?

@@andrew348 Has the speaker here ever actually said Chomsky was being dismissive? The antagonism seems manufactured.

Exactly, all these linguists that try to attack him instead of listening to him and learning. These people think that language always follow these rules but language is just like people, it doesn't always follow rules. While yes, most global language might follow certain rules. It doesn't mean that this people do considering that they a very small community compared to other languages like spanish, English, or Chinese.

@Language and Programming Channel Both and add English and Guarani to that xD

So am I!! Great guy, great book

@@ragnarokisnear can u tell me what field/ subject ur into, if any

@@narinebipat2639 I've already read all the book, but I'll Reading again the last, chapter, it's amazing!

Me too!

Me too! Then, I've read his book Don't Sleep There Are Snakes and also listened to it through Audible

Jasen Johnson It's amazing how we can come out of illusion.

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Sorry, but I can guarantee you the Pirahã do have the concept for “me”.

He was banned??

He is still not allowed to return, no.

Vá em frente!

Maybe they're more concerned with getting on with their lives and what impacts them on a daily basis, instead of philosophising about mortality and creation. Afterall, they don't have the scientific tools to verify any creation stories, and from the video it seems they are pure empiricists: they believe things which are verifiable. But they are atheists, in that they lack a belief in any god, that's the definition of the word, but atheist is a very non-specific word. Buddhists are technically atheists.

​@Peanut Bear I am allowed to learn about other events/objects/patterns/systems etc, but if there is no sign of them around me I don't generally let myself think about them. E.g. transgenderism, climate science, foreign politicians, America (excluding Hawaii)

@@WhatMouse that is called ignorance

@@corpo9310 yes

Morals seem to be innate in humans regardless of religion

Yup, And he went straight for the young white males

Its a shortcut for new information. Genetic information, cultural information, ect. ect. Everyone is diffrent sure, but the major diffrences between cultures are there too.

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I'm pretty sure you introduced the skin color part. Dan was talking about Diversity of experience. It just so happens that western cultures are all pretty similar and therefore produce less intellectual variation

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@@gokmenmutlu9810 boşver yaaa yapan da süper yapmadı zaten

Humans are humans.

No true Scotsman fallacy detected.

Patrick Christians have been trying to convert them and bring modern civilization/ tech for 300 years. The Piraha reject things they don’t find necessary, including traveling to cities.

@Language and Programming Channel May I know what your linguistic education background is? Or is it limited to reddit and pop science books. I'd love to hear it

Lol aka “I’m in a linguist department that views Chomsky as a God who can’t be wrong, and I watched the video online of a guy in Portuguese that can’t actually speak the tribal language make up baseless claims about Daniel. Then I went back into my linguistic echo-chamber and decided that’s all I need and he’s a fraud. Idc that many many other academics work and publish with Daniel in a variety of wholly creditable journals and textbooks.” It’s sad that you are the type of person that’s going to be involved in the future of linguistics. Another dogmatic thinking college student. Go figure. And also the man speaking has x10 of the credentials that you have. I mean You literally tried to make an argument to authority to someone even though who you claimed is a fraud has way more education than you. Ironic no?

​@@austinlang6946 Have you ever considered the possibility that a majority opinion prevails because that's just ... what most experts believe to be the case? Piraha Exceptionality: a reassessment, Andrew Nevins, David Pesetsky, Cilene Rodrigues. Evidence and argumentation: A reply to revert (2009) If you can provide me with evidence that doesn't scream "I took an intro to linguistics course" please let me know. Can I ask what your credentials are? I know you're going to interpret that as "are you also brainwashed?" but really I'm asking if you have a foundation in syntax / some kind of framework like x-bar theory. If you do, I am legitimately confused as to how you would buy into his research. If a 12-year-old algebra student claims to have broken math, the entire mathematical world disagreeing with him is not an example of "dogmatic thinking" Authority in academia is not awarded to that which is taught in institutions. It is awarded to those that withstand any and all contrary evidence and is able to remain as the most plausible explanation for something. Everett does not have that. Chomsky does. (in this particular department) My education has nothing to do with it. I am aware of the evidence that exists and am able to analyze it as someone more than a nobody. I am not trying to disprove Everett's work myself. A math student can tell if a proof above them is legitimate or not, even if they'd be unable to do that proof themselves.

The Piraha appear to be just fine.

If your company has people from many different backgrounds, those people will have many different ideas. More different than if it was all people from the same background.

Who said his family disowned him?

@@dennisduncan7561 His family.

@@mitral5333 Do you have a source for this?

@@bryanfongo327 it doesnt occur to you that maybe all that "different ideas" are of no benefit? all the human development until this century happened with no diversity

When i'm in a relationship with someone I usually know explicitly that they exist

Spare us that "you were never a true Christian" bs. It's just a tired throw argument people use to hand wave away why people leave the faith.

The point was that he was learning because he lived with the pirahas

@Tarl Denmark discrimination is pushed by the right-wing, often manipulative fearmongers who strive for power

I listened and thought the same thing. I've just finished his book and absolutely loved it. A fascinating story by a really likeable and interesting man. However, he states that the Piraha are the happiest people in the world, and in his book says that they are an extremely conservative (literally) people who do not want to learn anything from outside cultures. They are quite happy as they are and want no other influences on their way of life. At the same time, he says in order for us to thrive we must embrace diversity and learn from other cultures and ways of life, and not be so insular (not disagreeing with that necessarily). There seems to be a contradiction there which I'd like to hear his answer to. Perhaps he would say we are so different to the Pirahas and have evolved so far down the line in to a global society, that we should have a different outlook to them. Still, a lot of the book is about the fundamentals of human nature, and how he learned through what he thought they had right. Disappointed to hear him going full SJW at the end too. Anyway, highly recommend his brilliant book.

You should watch the video again and see

Following a simple narrative thread too much of a challenge for you?

Uh.. Never had Allah, mythra or any other many many other gods that humanity worships. Youre not the only person or way of life on earth.

YOU Go down there, learn their language & culture - then try to convert them!

Think about it. Coming as an ex christian missionary, he probably had a well thought point when saying the things about physical differences, prevalence of white males and un-openness to new ideas etc.

Why not diversity of looks though?

A little more subtle than that I think. A diversity of thought often has a diversity of look. Buddhists to Muslims to Jews to orthodox Christians to traders in Marrakesh to Eskimos and on and on. He was just making that, more general, point.

He IS arguing for diversity of thought. That's exactly what he is doing.

@witkrieg todd No, no. That is not what he is doing. Listen to his words again. Dan Everett does not believe this sort of thing. I follow him closely and know his views quite well.

Get off your high horse junior. The Piraha aren't some poor, helpless children in need of our guidance. They seem to have a better handle on life than those of us in the industrialized world and without any deities. If they aren't convinced of gospel there's not much else you can do. Maybe instead of making pronouncements you should learn from these people and thier culture.

Don't hand us that no true Scotsman fallacy bunk.

But still wrong information.

I think the Parahas have the right idea here. Have they seen the afterlife? Jesus and the so called Creator enter their lives directly(and not through the word of a missionary?? No? Then until so, they shouldn't be adding another layer of mystery to their already hard life.

@@steventan2754 i myself am an atheist, but that logic is quite bad because with that reason alone the religious can criticise us for coming up with things we havent personally witnessed, even though there is overwhelming evidence.

@@steventan2754 hard life? How do you know it's hard? Only because you compare it to yours. They don't know your life. How do you know your life isn't hard to them?

Lmao you literally can't translate the Gospel into their language, so good luck trying to get them interested in it

Cristian Martinez the gospels aren’t a reliable source especially considering they aren’t first hand encounters. Though scholars agree the was A Jesus, they’ve never affirmed any of his alleged miracles, nor that he rose on the third day, etc. You don’t know his life and your assumptions about him are dead wrong. Have you read his books? Have you studied his life? Did you bother to read his page on Wikipedia before making making a No True Scotsman fallacy?

How do you explain god to a tribe of people that has no word for god

Whichever book you read out it isn't going to make a difference

@@robogamer2023 all this people have word for spirits and Gods.

@@TeslUS_US but the Ted talk said something else