i just watched the documentary, and personally, i think this is the most touching documentary ive seen in my life.
John Doe and his family are the most courageous people that I've heard in my life.
It changed my vision of the world, but precisely, the people who left Sudan to move to ethiopia.
I couldnt even think that someone could be like that until i saw this, and I will now try, in my life, to change and become less individual and take care more of my family and friends over money and my belongs.

thank you for reading this

Edit : if you have not seen the documentary, you can get all the info at these links :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_Grew_Tired_of_Us

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Dau

no1?

ppl in africa fights lions like everyday so i think that they have much more courage than some john doe guy

he walked 1600km into the desert and fought against men-eating lions and army's bombs
and u say he doesnt have courage?

No i didn't say that but the ppl in africa fight against lions all the time. Did he fight lions all the time? And just how did he fight against the bombs? I wouldn't like punsh a bomb

the military were shooting bombs at em while they was walking across the desert, at the beginning of the trip they were 25,000young kids, and when they fianly arived to ethiopia they were only 12,000 left

You speak like a 10 year old...

you have never heard me speak dude

You dumbass thats a way of LIFE for them- they are USED to it.

Courage is doing something new AND doing something that takes a risk outof the ordinary, as well as other aspects.

You think he had ever fought a Lion before? It takes him a lot more courage than it would take someone thats fought lions there whole life.

Think of a kid being trained to kill a Lion. To him, he has fear, and it will take him courage, but he knows it can be done and he expects it to be ordinary (EXPECTED FEAR), and is being trained to do it. The man doesn't expect it to be everyday, thus was confronted by a fear that is completely different (UNEXPECTED fear ("oh shit lion?!")) than the kids. AND, on top of that, he is UNTRAINED.

Now, im not saying necissarily unexpected fears vs. expected fears are worse, just in this particular case, it indeed IS, and at the same time, im not saying it doesn't take courage to do something you've already done numerous time (because it DOES), but just LESS.

lol dude, are you going to cry? Who cares what you think is courage anyway? And just because the ppl that fight lions all the time are trained to do it, doesn't mean that they fear the lions less than the other dude.