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The Donner Party (sometimes called the Donner–Reed Party) was a group of American pioneers who set out for California in a wagon train. Delayed by a series of mishaps, they spent the winter of 1846–47 snowbound in the Sierra Nevada. Some of the emigrants resorted to cannibalism to survive, eating those who had succumbed to starvation and sickness.
Cannibalism has recently been both practiced and fiercely condemned in several wars, especially in Liberia[11] and Congo.[12] Today, the Korowai are one of very few tribes still believed to eat human flesh as a cultural practice.[13][14] It is also still known to be practiced as a ritual and in war in various Melanesian tribes.[15] Historically, allegations of cannibalism were used by the colonial powers to justify the enslavement of what were seen as primitive peoples; cannibalism has been said to test the bounds of cultural relativism as it challenges anthropologists "to define what is or is not beyond the pale of acceptable human behavior".[16] Anthropophagy is an uncommon act that is not illegal in most US states nor in most countries.[17] People who eat human flesh are usually charged with crimes not relating to anthropophagy, such as murder or desecration of a body.[17] Cannibalism has been occasionally practiced as a last resort by people suffering from famine. Occasionally it has occurred in modern times. A famous example is the crash of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571, after which some survivors ate the bodies of dead passengers. Also, some mentally ill individuals obsess about eating others and actually do so, such as Jeffrey Dahmer and Albert Fish. There is a resistance to formally labelling cannibalism as a mental disorder.[18]
Halloween reminds us of Zombies, how are you preparing to deal with a REAL zombie apocalypse?
Originally posted by redoubt
reply to post by downtown436
Halloween reminds us of Zombies, how are you preparing to deal with a REAL zombie apocalypse?
As easily as I find the possibility of life... even intelligent life existing elsewhere in the universe, it becomes increasingly difficult to accept that much of it exists here, on this little blue rock.
Zombie apocalypse. That was hilarious for a while. I mean, just how juvenile has our culture become? Have we ceased growing intellectually and slipped into some form of retrograde that attains new levels of stupid with the regularity of the hour?
And no, I don't like tossing out insults to complete strangers. But holy mother of cerebral menopause! Zombie apocalypse being taken seriously by anyone with more than two parts human DNA?
Yeah, it's Halloween and been a long day too, so... maybe I am a zombie.
Boo.
edit on 31-10-2011 by redoubt because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by InfaRedMan
We already are in a Zombie Apocalypse! ... of undead, brainless people!
It's horrifying!
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