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Psychonaut
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Jan 12, 2005, 06:51 PM
 
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/4167565.stm

"Withdraw your hand and the gom jabbar takes you. Understand?"
"What's in the box?"
"Pain."


Volunteers anyone?
DBGFHRGL!
     
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Jan 12, 2005, 07:08 PM
 
"Religious practices such as prayer and meditation release endorphins and would in theory increase the pain threshold.
how the heck does praying release endorphins?
     
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Jan 12, 2005, 07:51 PM
 
Perhaps burning them at the stake would be a more realistic religious context and thus make the effects easier to measure?
     
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Jan 12, 2005, 08:02 PM
 
Originally posted by Psychonaut:

Volunteers anyone?
No thank you. I'll have cake.
     
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Jan 12, 2005, 08:03 PM
 
Originally posted by history1me:
No thank you. I'll have cake.
I'm afraid we're out of cake. Death it is then?
     
rozwado1
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Jan 12, 2005, 08:05 PM
 
I thought this thread was about loose women.
     
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Jan 12, 2005, 08:22 PM
 
Dune!

anyways ... if bush says so ... why not?!?

j/k ... burned at the stake .. who the hell would volunteer for that?!?

No trees were killed in the sending of this message. However, a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced.
     
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Jan 12, 2005, 10:02 PM
 
Originally posted by willed:
I'm afraid we're out of cake. Death it is then?
You're lucky I'm Church of England!
     
The Mick
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Jan 12, 2005, 10:08 PM
 
Originally posted by Psychonaut:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/4167565.stm

"Withdraw your hand and the gom jabbar takes you. Understand?"
"What's in the box?"
"Pain."


Volunteers anyone?
I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.

I'm not going to call an ambulance this time because then you won't learn anything.
     
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Jan 12, 2005, 11:28 PM
 
Originally posted by The Mick:
I must not fear. ...Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.
     
TheBadgerHunter
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Jan 13, 2005, 12:34 AM
 
I'd say this could work with anything. Just happens that devout belief does as well.
     
Diggory Laycock
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Jan 13, 2005, 07:50 AM
 
Originally posted by The Mick:
I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.
I've heard the 'fear is the mind-killer' sampled in an AdamF (?) track (which also appeared in the end level of Rez.)

Where is that quote from?
[edit] - googled it - Dune.
     
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Jan 13, 2005, 07:59 AM
 
Originally posted by GoGoReggieXPowars:
You're lucky I'm Church of England!
Oh alright, have the chicken, then.
     
wdlove
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Jan 13, 2005, 12:07 PM
 
I would have to give some real thought on this particular study.

"Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never - in nothing, great or small, large or petty - never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense." Winston Churchill
     
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Jan 13, 2005, 12:24 PM
 
Originally posted by Psychonaut:
Volunteers anyone?
They can have Peter. He's already in the UK...
Maybe they could come up with a device that gives him pain for posting the timeline !

-t
     
Shaddim
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Jan 13, 2005, 12:35 PM
 
I'd try it, sounds like fun. Hell, it's only chili powder and/or a heating pad.

But, I'd like to supply my own images and try those along with the ones they select.
"Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it."
- Thomas Paine
     
   
 
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