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Post by legacyofthesword on Oct 3, 2020 21:14:43 GMT
Content warning: shows a man being stabbed (non-fatally) through the body with a sword.
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Post by MOK on Oct 3, 2020 21:53:48 GMT
Heh. "The key to his secret is still locked in Eastern mysticism," concludes the narrator, literally a few seconds after they're done reading out a surgeon's explanation for it.
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Post by legacyofthesword on Oct 4, 2020 17:04:01 GMT
Heh. "The key to his secret is still locked in Eastern mysticism," concludes the narrator, literally a few seconds after they're done reading out a surgeon's explanation for it. Yeah, I thought that was a little funny. I wonder how much trial and error it took for them to find the right place to run someone through non-fatally. Also, the stab through the belly area under the ribs is interesting; it had to have perforated his intestines. Even if he'd built up scar tissue tunnels like what they talked about in the videos, it still can't have been good for his gastrointestinal system.
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Post by treeslicer on Oct 4, 2020 21:06:55 GMT
Heh. "The key to his secret is still locked in Eastern mysticism," concludes the narrator, literally a few seconds after they're done reading out a surgeon's explanation for it. Yeah, I thought that was a little funny. I wonder how much trial and error it took for them to find the right place to run someone through non-fatally. Also, the stab through the belly area under the ribs is interesting; it had to have perforated his intestines. Even if he'd built up scar tissue tunnels like what they talked about in the videos, it still can't have been good for his gastrointestinal system. The medical "explanation" hardly explains the lack of bleeding from the surface punctures. This stunt reminds me of the less drastic piercings that one sees during the Thaipusam festival in Shaivite Tamil communities scattered around southern India and Southeast Asia. These exhibitions are usually bloodless, which is attributed to "trance', or yogic control of some kind. Like fire walking, "Kids, don't try this at home!!".
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Post by MOK on Oct 4, 2020 22:33:12 GMT
Well, for one thing, they seem to be using a completely edgeless blade. That'll keep bleeding to a minimum.
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Post by treeslicer on Oct 5, 2020 0:16:31 GMT
Well, for one thing, they seem to be using a completely edgeless blade. That'll keep bleeding to a minimum.
Weird business. Leaves you scratching your head over whether it's unexplained phenomena, or simply an undiagnosed psychotic in search of a Darwin Award.
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Post by legacyofthesword on Oct 5, 2020 1:24:33 GMT
The medical "explanation" hardly explains the lack of bleeding from the surface punctures. This stunt reminds me of the less drastic piercings that one sees during the Thaipusam festival in Shaivite Tamil communities scattered around southern India and Southeast Asia. These exhibitions are usually bloodless, which is attributed to "trance', or yogic control of some kind. Like fire walking, "Kids, don't try this at home!!". Well, for one thing, they seem to be using a completely edgeless blade. That'll keep bleeding to a minimum. My only experience with traumatic wounds that pierce the torso is the couple of times I've been hunting. .30-06 bullets through the torso of different deer left maybe one or two tiny spots of blood on the outside of the deer - all the bleeding happened internally. The two I remember best were a shot through the lung that went up and ricocheted off the spine, and the other was a gut shot. In both cases it was fairly difficult to find the bullet holes in the skin (well, the entry holes anyway, the gut shot blew some intestines out the exit wound, no blood though). Massive amounts of blood inside the torso though. I don't know if humans work the same way, but I assume it'd be similar. Maybe bullet vs sword blade can't be compared in terms of bleeding though.
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Post by pgandy on Oct 5, 2020 13:10:05 GMT
I saw several things that I had not seen before but find not surprising. This thread brings back memories of sword swallowing. Until I was about 10 that was popular. I don’t think that I went to a carnival without seen such an act. Now I don’t even hear a mention of such.
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