Reg
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Well, I think you are 100% right about the "freak show" aspect. Let's face it the reason people pay 25 bucks a head to see this show is to ogle real dead bodies. I mean if they were replicas of dead bodies, and with today's technology we could make some damn fine replicas, people would not be as interested in paying 25 bucks to see them. Hey, I don't blame people for wanting to go see them, we are curious by nature. It's part of being human and this kind of thing always fascinates us but knowing what we know now, I just can't see anybody paying to go and see this going forward. I mean it would be directly paying to support some very sick stuff. I also think most people would begin by assuming that if they are doing a display of this nature it must have been thoroughly vetted...but it appears it was not. Here's something that adds to the creepy - I seem to recall that when people were asking the obvious questions about this display somebody involved with it kept saying that part of the deal to display the bodies was that they remain anonymous. How convenient! So they kept saying that they could not say who the bodies once were but made assurances that everything was completely above board. This made it sound as if the bodies were from donors...which after some thought seemed pretty odd. If they have in fact harvested these bodies (and continue to so) in some ugly ways then the money they have made doing it does not belong to them and this show should be stopped until a full and complete accounting of the who, where and how can be made. I mean there should be no chance at all that any of these bodies/people were murdered and put on display for entertainment and profit. If that is the case...I just don't know what to think...
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'The only way to avoid getting crushed by absurdity, is to humbly include the absurd in our calculations.'
'The only way to avoid getting crushed by absurdity, is to humbly include the absurd in our calculations.'
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Well, I think you are 100% right about the "freak show" aspect. Let's face it the reason people pay 25 bucks a head to see this show is to ogle real dead bodies. I mean if they were replicas of dead bodies, and with today's technology we could make some damn fine replicas, people would not be as interested in paying 25 bucks to see them. Hey, I don't blame people for wanting to go see them, we are curious by nature. It's part of being human and this kind of thing always fascinates us but knowing what we know now, I just can't see anybody paying to go and see this going forward. I mean it would be directly paying to support some very sick stuff. I also think most people would begin by assuming that if they are doing a display of this nature it must have been thoroughly vetted...but it appears it was not. Here's something that adds to the creepy - I seem to recall that when people were asking the obvious questions about this display somebody involved with it kept saying that part of the deal to display the bodies was that they remain anonymous. How convenient! So they kept saying that they could not say who the bodies once were but made assurances that everything was completely above board. This made it sound as if the bodies were from donors...which after some thought seemed pretty odd. If they have in fact harvested these bodies (and continue to so) in some ugly ways then the money they have made doing it does not belong to them and this show should be stopped until a full and complete accounting of the who, where and how can be made. I mean there should be no chance at all that any of these bodies/people were murdered and put on display for entertainment and profit. If that is the case...I just don't know what to think...
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'The only way to avoid getting crushed by absurdity, is to humbly include the absurd in our calculations.'
'The only way to avoid getting crushed by absurdity, is to humbly include the absurd in our calculations.'
