Are there any peaceful tribes or civilizations that ever lived in harmony with nature and never fought wars?

When I was in school my teacher told me that Native Americans and Native Australians were peaceful and lived in harmony with the Earth until the Europeans arrived there, is this true or false? I've heard that Christian Europeans view nature as disposable and should be subdued yet indigenous tribes view the whole Universe as sacred, the earth is considered their mother and the sky their father.

Is this true or not?

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fakable · T

as long ago as the last century, there were tribes whose languages did not contain the concepts of violence, death, time, and other key linguistic concepts without which the modern mentality of the inhabitants of the earth cannot exist. now these tribes no longer exist.

revenant · F

@fakable which tribes ? no concept of violence, time and death ? I do not find that credible.

fakable · T

@revenant
i don't remember. it's from some text on psycholinguistics.

the concepts i mentioned do not refer to one of the tribes, but to three different tribes. i believe they are African.

fakable · T

@revenant

i think this was also mentioned by James George Frazer in one of his books

revenant · F

@fakable well I have a hard time anybody, any tribe does not at least do something for someone's death and have no beliefs.

fakable · T

@revenant

if you remove the concept of an abstract object from the picture of the world in your mind, that object will cease to exist for you.

death, time, violence are abstract objects.

the mechanism is a little more complicated, but it takes a long time to describe.

revenant · F

@fakable I disagree. Death time and violence are everywhere and not only " abstract theories". It is not New Age Woohoo. Those anonymous tribes you speak of saw the passage of time, violence and death even among the animals around them.

Now will you accuse animals of having "abstract theories" not suited with the world ?

fakable · T

@revenant
i honestly don't care

revenant · F

@fakable you should if you want to impose your morality on others

fakable · T

@revenant

hah dear
that's not what I meant

I'm just not interested in you

revenant · F

@fakable I wonder how old you are. Of course you are not interested since you do not want to be wrong.

fakable · T

@revenant

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revenant · F

@fakable childish

fakable · T

@revenant
i understand that you fell in love with me, but sometimes circumstances are stronger than feelings.

revenant · F

@fakable awwwwww but you told me you loved me too

fakable · T

@revenant
i was too drunk at the time... let's not talk about those old times. try to come to terms with the loss and don't eat the whole pack at once like you did then. take one at a time. like the doctor told you to.