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[–]MeganDelacroix🤡🌎 detainee 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (11 children)

Unless a thoroughgoing perestroika is carried out in the West and the psychopaths infesting all spheres of public life and social influence are locked up and the keys are forever thrown away, prisons and asylums will soon be filled with decent people, conscientious whistle-blowers and moral heroes such as the makers of the “Sound of freedom.”

 

"A time is coming when men will go mad, and when they see someone who is not mad, they will attack him, saying, 'You are mad; you are not like us.'"

St Anthony the Great

[–]penelopepnortneyBecome ungovernable[S] 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (10 children)

Reminds me of an old Twilight Zone where a female patient's face was completely wrapped in bandages following reconstructive surgery. When the bandages were removed she was beautiful but she screamed as she looked in the mirror - why became clear when they finally showed the faces of the doctors and nurses.

[–]MeganDelacroix🤡🌎 detainee 6 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 2 fun -  (9 children)

Eye of the Beholder, one of the greats.

[–]ageingrockstar 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

Ever come across the human hybrid theory ? The theory is that at some time a wild (male) boar mated with a (female) chimpanzee, which produced a hybrid and then, with a lot of backcrossing (further mating with chimps), a new species arose (humans).

Dr. Eugene McCarthy is a Ph.D. geneticist who has made a career out of studying hybridization in animals. He now curates a biological information website called Macroevolution.net where he has amassed an impressive body of evidence suggesting that human origins can be best explained by hybridization between pigs and chimpanzees. Extraordinary theories require extraordinary evidence and McCarthy does not disappoint. Rather than relying on genetic sequence comparisons, he instead offers extensive anatomical comparisons, each of which may be individually assailable, but startling when taken together. Why weren't these conclusions arrived at much sooner? McCarthy suggests it is because of an over-dependence on genetic data among biologists. He argues that humans are probably the result of multiple generations of backcrossing to chimpanzees, which in nucleotide sequence data comparisons would effectively mask any contribution from pig.

https://phys.org/news/2013-07-chimp-pig-hybrid-humans.html

https://www.macroevolution.net/hybrid-hypothesis-contents.html

[–]NetweaselContinuing the struggle 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

The theory is that at some time a wild (male) boar mated with a (female) chimpanzee, which produced a hybrid and then.....

Why weren't these conclusions arrived at much sooner?

Extra reference: Family Resemblance by Alan Nourse (1953).

https://archive.org/details/sim_astounding-science-fiction_1953-04_51_2/page/136/mode/2up

[–]ageingrockstar 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Ha, I've just scanned the text file of that short story and see that the doctor in the story is making a similar argument. Nice connection.

I suspect it's why there's a cultural/religious taboo against eating pork. Because others have made the connection before too.

[–]NetweaselContinuing the struggle 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I suspect it's why there's a cultural/religious taboo against eating pork.

On the other hand... pigs love bacon.

[–]3andfro 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Trichinosis also may have something to do with it.

[–]penelopepnortneyBecome ungovernable[S] 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

That's the one, you're a magician.

[–]MeganDelacroix🤡🌎 detainee 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

:) I got all the original seasons on bluray when they started editing movies... I think it was the E.T. edit that panicked me.

[–]BlackhaloPurity Pony: Pусский бот 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Lucas revisions on Star Wars got me.

[–]penelopepnortneyBecome ungovernable[S] 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

That was a really smart move.