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666 - alright, that has nothing (or very little) to do with the link, I just thought “Oh, I’ve never used the (trade)Mark of the Beast on my blog, now seems like a good time”.

The universe.  Condensed down to one flash animation.

I saw this pic on rotten.com a while back, and it was one of those perspective shifts that really stick with you…a guy apparently dining on a very small infant…

It made me think that life is a series of walls or perspectives, you build around yourself to create a reality in which to live. In the same way which one person can view anal sex (for shits and giggles, put anal sex into google image search with the filter off) as an abomination to God and another person a pleasant tool of interpersonal relationships, this man was dining on a baby where 99.999% (or more) of the rest of the human population would see that as so taboo and forbidden as to never have the thought enter their minds…a wall they never even knew existed.

Things like this make me curious about my own point of view, what walls do I have that I haven’t discovered yet? What portholes am I peering out upon a portion of reality?

I always try to keep the idea of personal perspective in my mind, especially in my interaction with other people (as difficult as that is): how you come across to someone is just as dependent upon them as it is upon your own actions, specifically because of the little window they’re looking at you through.

There is a hell of a lot more bottled up (that I either can’t or am not patient enough to squeeze out), thoughts about Christians who view all Muslims as radical terrorists, Muslims who view all Christians as radical terrorists, moderates who view extremists all around them as radical terrorists, pastafarians who view theists as amusing playings…each one a specific wall built to hold back and form a pile ideas into a convenient little filter.

“If you are Christian, Muslim or Jew, You are Wrong.”

“Darwin and Hitler, Satan’s dream team.”

So, how much does it cost to purchase a small tot, and where would you go to make your purchase? I was considering it briefly earlier, and decided Laos or Cambodia felt like appropriate destinations for those intending to dine on human veal. Wild speculation placed the tab at about $10,000. Perhaps less…

Oh, wait…it isn’t about the Bush administration…and I’m not talking about the Pope…and I’m not talking about Hitler (you like how I worked Hitler in with the Pope and the Bush administration?).

First, some links:

Did ’so and so’ die with 40 pounds of impacted shit in their bowels? (no)

The modern fear of “autointoxication” and  “irregularity”

A mucoid plaque by any other name…

‘Real results’ from ‘real people’, with really disturbing pictures of cooked intestines held over toilets

“Death begins in the colon”

From the ‘real results’ website:

“When I had my first “weird” bowel movement, I found myself uncharacteristically poking around in the toilet with a chopstick. When I lifted my movement, it felt like it was made of rubber. It was clingy, and I couldn’t break it apart.”

Uh-huh…

Alright…so what is the truth?  Let’s start with some real pictures.  Have you ever seen a colonoscopy?  Well, neither had I till I looked on Google Images…outside of a TV show at least…but I had an idea that even a diseased and distressed colon sure as shit didn’t look anything at all like those ‘real results’ from ‘real people’…and it doesn’t, it looks clean and pink (well, as long as you aren’t very close to a bowel movement).  The ‘death begins in the colon’ pics?  Look more than a little like stewed intestine (ok, those are pics of flame broiled, skewered small intestine…couldn’t find any good pics of stewed/steamed intestine).

So, it may be that someone is playing a bit with the truth to sell some fiber and herbal supplements…

From the ‘fear of “autointoxication” website:

“The theory of “autointoxication” states that stagnation of the large intestine (colon) causes toxins to form that are absorbed and poison the body. Some proponents depict the large intestine as a “sewage system” that becomes a “cesspool” if neglected. Other proponents state that constipation causes hardened feces to accumulate for months (or even years) on the walls of the large intestine and block it from absorbing or eliminating properly. This, they say, causes food to remain undigested and wastes from the blood to be reabsorbed by the body [2].

Around the turn of the twentieth century many physicians accepted the concept of autointoxication, but it was abandoned after scientific observations proved it wrong. In 1919 and 1922, it was clearly demonstrated that symptoms of headache, fatigue, and loss of appetite that accompanied fecal impaction were caused by mechanical distension of the colon rather than by production or absorption of toxins [3,4]. Moreover, direct observation of the colon during surgical procedures or autopsies found no evidence that hardened feces accumulate on the intestinal walls.”

So…someone is outright lying to sell some fiber and herbal supplements…
From the mucoid plaque website:

“”Mucoid plaque” is a bogus “diagnosis” made up by the creator and producer of Arise & Shine, Richard Anderson, ND. ”

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““I coined the term mucoid plaque, meaning a film of mucus, to describe the unhealthy accumulation of abnormal mucous matter on the walls of the intestines. Conventional medicine knows this as a layering of mucin or glycoproteins (made up of 20 amino acids and 50% carbohydrates) which are naturally and appropriately secreted by intestines as protection from acids and toxins.”
– from “What is Mucoid Plaque?”, by Richard Anderson”

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“He has created a cleansing product that produces what the product is claimed to cleanse. I’m tempted to call it a brilliant scam, but I’ll leave that decision up to the courts, in case (hopefully) he ever gets sued by those who decide to do so. He’s earned millions by marketing this false idea, and the spreading of false ideas should be punished.

Here’s how this possible scam works:

Sell people a product that creates a condition, then claim that the product is curing the condition, without any proof that the condition was there before taking the product. (Mucus only becomes “plaque” *after* using his product.)”

Interesting…an industry founded on primeval and misguided fears and beliefs, long ago refuted by science, logic and reason.  Some folks selling a product that produces results which prove their position (is that a straw man argument), some folks selling a product and snapping gross pictures to goad folks on the fence into action…

I guess the logical follow-up is to buy some intestine, throw in a jar of fake gravy, stew for an hour or two, and take a picture of it over the old toilet bowl…

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Completely unrelated, hats off to Gwen Stefani’s plastic surgeon.

http://www.washingtonpost.com…

“There is no getting around the fact that authorizing monetary damages remedies against military officials engaged in an active war would invite enemies to use our own federal courts to obstruct the Armed Forces’ ability to act decisively and without hesitation,” Hogan wrote Tuesday.

Hmm…might makes right. Good lesson, Osama fucking bin Laden sure has learned it well, taken it to heart. Mission Accomplishedâ„¢.

Oh, and Specter voted to:

“…strike language that would tie the hands of the Commander-in-Chief by imposing an arbitrary timetable for the withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq, thereby undermining the position of American Armed Forces and jeopardizing the successful conclusion of Operation Iraqi Freedom.”

Oh I’m proud to be an American right now, baby…

Tie the hands…arbitrary timetable…undermining the position of the armed forces…jeopardizing the successful conclusion…

Oh my gag reflex, this happens every time someone tries to feed me horse shit…jesus, it will take a week to clean my vomit out of the keyboard…