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2022-07-13 -Great Cultural Revolution

Texas death row inmate asks governor to delay his execution by 30 days to donate a kidney before his execution 'to atone for his crimes'

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Posted by Skidmark 2022-07-13 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 Sorry pal,TX has already scheduled your atonement. Say "hi!" to Lynn Stewart foe me.

Posted by Rex Mundi 2022-07-13 11:39|| 2022-07-13 11:39|| Front Page Top

#2 Harvesting transplant organs from those condemned to death. I think that's being done somewhere already...

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-07-13 11:48|| 2022-07-13 11:48|| Front Page Top

#3 Just trying to leverage some kind of sympathy. Strip him of everything of value, bury the offal.

Posted by Dron66046 2022-07-13 12:58|| 2022-07-13 12:58|| Front Page Top

#4 I think Micky Rourke ought to get dibs on his face. Anything would be an improvement - just don’t let the same surgeon do this one.

Posted by Super Hose 2022-07-13 13:22|| 2022-07-13 13:22|| Front Page Top

#5 Choose to go by guillotine and donate the whole kabob then.

Posted by swksvolFF 2022-07-13 13:29|| 2022-07-13 13:29|| Front Page Top

#6 Because the new discoveries regarding “cellular memory” this sort of organ donation should no be allowed, criminal organs should not be used .

Posted by Aca Joe 2022-07-13 14:05|| 2022-07-13 14:05|| Front Page Top

#7 Criminal Organs is an album with 2-Pac covers on a Kawai.

Posted by swksvolFF 2022-07-13 14:20|| 2022-07-13 14:20|| Front Page Top

#8 You mean body memory, Aca Joe. Cellular memory is the conditioning of certain cells to respond better to stimuli they encounter repeatedly.

And there's no 'discovery' regarding the body as capable of storing semantic memory. It's a half baked hypothesis.

Posted by Dron66046 2022-07-13 14:29|| 2022-07-13 14:29|| Front Page Top

#9 "I am Pablo Escobar's spleen."

Posted by swksvolFF 2022-07-13 14:32|| 2022-07-13 14:32|| Front Page Top

#10 Goes a ways in explaining all the trouble Stalin's Organ has caused in the middle east...

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-07-13 14:39|| 2022-07-13 14:39|| Front Page Top

#11 Holy moly! Woke up again, skimmed this thread backwards, and all I want to know is... who put what in my coffee?

Posted by Glonter Peacock9977 2022-07-13 14:49|| 2022-07-13 14:49|| Front Page Top

#12 It's a half baked hypothesis.

More like a B horror movie plot

Posted by DarthVader 2022-07-13 14:51|| 2022-07-13 14:51|| Front Page Top

#13 You mean body memory

Do you mean muscle memory, Dron? Training a series of motions until it no longer requires conscious thought to execute, just starting the first step in the sequence? Examples are martial arts forms, choreographed dances, playing a piece of music.

Or possibly Aca Joe was referring to epigenetic learning. This is from a few years ago:

Inherited Learning? It Happens, but How Is Uncertain

Studies suggest that epigenetics allows some learned adaptive responses to be passed down to new generations. The question is how.

According to the article, McConnell’s multi-generation flatworm maze-learning studies from the 1960s were discredited, more’s the pity. The things I would already know if only cannibalism weren’t evil as well as unhealthy! ;-) (That’s for you, Glonter Peacock9977.)

Posted by trailing wife 2022-07-13 15:46|| 2022-07-13 15:46|| Front Page Top

#14 Like the movie Ravenous?

Posted by swksvolFF 2022-07-13 15:54|| 2022-07-13 15:54|| Front Page Top

#15 I meet I guy in a local Greek restaurant, nice guy, and told me that reason that was not drinking was because was recovering from an organ transplant . One of the fascinating think was that even if was vegetarian his entire life, was now a carnivore and love to drive motorcycles witch never did before. Exactly like the dead motorcycle donor was. Basically the theory of cellular memory suggests that it isn't only the brain that is capable of storing and recalling experiences. Rather, the body itself can hold memories.
Now rebranded as body memory.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_memory

Posted by Aca Joe 2022-07-13 16:15|| 2022-07-13 16:15|| Front Page Top

#16 Gil the ARM, white courtesy phone. Gil the ARM to the white courtesy phone, please!

Posted by Rob Crawford 2022-07-13 16:31|| 2022-07-13 16:31|| Front Page Top

#17 No, TW. Body memory is a hypothetical concept by weed-cake eating new age scientists. They like to believe that the entire body is storing long term implicit memories including emotional responses to stimuli and the conditioning to pre-empt such thereof.

Muscle memory is natural conditioning of motor nerves and development of kinesics on repeated movements.

While some geniuses say our emotional states and semantic or long term memories, basically our persona is being distributed all over the body via somatic markers that link emotions to biological changes. Something like that, I still can't pin it down to any coherent theory, just like any new age hypothesis. But one crazed dogma that could arise from that is, that a psychopathic paedophile's heart or liver may bring with it not just a lease of life for a recipient but also a little implicit assholery, or viscerally remembered happy happy expectations of dopamine at seeing little girls cry.

Posted by Dron66046 2022-07-13 16:32|| 2022-07-13 16:32|| Front Page Top

#18 ^ Vibes. Echoes of former lives. Karma, man...

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-07-13 16:33|| 2022-07-13 16:33|| Front Page Top

#19

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-07-13 16:36|| 2022-07-13 16:36|| Front Page Top

#20 There was this experiment. A little rigged in my opinion, one of those things where you try and fit the facts to the theory.

Scientists taught some rats to negotiate a maze. Then they ground up and minced the rats, made nice slim jims outta them and fed 'em to new, clueless rats. Well, what do you know, the rats went through the maze in one try!

And they all but concluded that the dead rats' meat still held the memory of the maze. Brrrr...

Some tribe in North India, descended from Mongols, believes if you eat your enemy, or some part of him, you will own all his experience and wisdom collected over the years. Also all his wives, who will love you just as they did him. 🙃

Posted by Dron66046 2022-07-13 16:40|| 2022-07-13 16:40|| Front Page Top

#21 The Aztec thing of eating a conquered enemy's heart.

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-07-13 16:41|| 2022-07-13 16:41|| Front Page Top

#22 "Hannibal Lecter, eat yer heart out."

Posted by Dron66046 2022-07-13 16:43|| 2022-07-13 16:43|| Front Page Top

#23 The world is divided into people who can do that "thppp thppp thppp thppp thppp" thing and the rest of us.

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-07-13 16:48|| 2022-07-13 16:48|| Front Page Top

#24 The epigenetic carriage of essential survival characteristics vital to all organisms is not concerned with semantic or cultural memories, as most people like to refer to in conversation. We just say that... genetic memory... for basically what is classical conditioning that starts at at infancy. In reality the cellular memory passed down in the DNA is mostly carrying only vital information about dietary habits, geographic situation, basically what the body should expect to encounter. As I understand it.

Posted by Dron66046 2022-07-13 16:53|| 2022-07-13 16:53|| Front Page Top

#25 Pray tell, Murcek, what is the thpp thhp thing? 😀

Posted by Dron66046 2022-07-13 16:56|| 2022-07-13 16:56|| Front Page Top

#26

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-07-13 16:58|| 2022-07-13 16:58|| Front Page Top

#27 😁

But fava beans. Man, whatta waste. I personally thought Hannibal was a shit chef.

Posted by Dron66046 2022-07-13 17:01|| 2022-07-13 17:01|| Front Page Top

#28 Some great stories of Polynesion warriors taking prisoners and then tossing them in a pit. They would be subjected to constant ridicule while being tossed into the cooking pot as needed. The following morning, the warriors would then continue to insult and laugh at the pile of feces that had the day before been their enemy.

Posted by Rex Mundi 2022-07-13 17:17|| 2022-07-13 17:17|| Front Page Top

#29 What ever happened to just "cutting off their heads and sh*tting down their necks?"

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-07-13 17:18|| 2022-07-13 17:18|| Front Page Top

#30 Anyone remember this gem?

Posted by Dron66046 2022-07-13 17:22|| 2022-07-13 17:22|| Front Page Top

#31 https://youtu.be/wJjvg-Gq1LE

Dunno why link didn't show.
The Twilight Zone story - To Serve Man

Posted by Dron66046 2022-07-13 17:24|| 2022-07-13 17:24|| Front Page Top

#32 To Serve Man

That one gave me nightmares. Also the one where they were domesticated around a messiah-like figure as they headed into a long space journey.

Posted by trailing wife 2022-07-13 17:26|| 2022-07-13 17:26|| Front Page Top

#33 Yupp. I remember them nights. Cheez crackers and my dog by my side. Watching Twilight Zone and then going to sleep wondering just what if...

Posted by Dron66046 2022-07-13 17:40|| 2022-07-13 17:40|| Front Page Top

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