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Depending on your veiws this blog may or may not be as morbid as you believe.

Anyways, to clear things up at the very beginning, I am not religious. More of a preservationist, and a darwinist. I don't think the idea of a higher power is out of the question, just that it seems to be improbable. I'm not here to discuss that.

Moving on, I recently went to see a movie, where one of the major plot devices was based on scientific experiments performed by Russian scientist Vladmir Demikhov. If you've seen the movie you should know which i'm talking about, please, if you comment don't mention the movie, as I don't want anyone who hasn't seen and plans to to have it ruined for them.

Anyways, on to the experiments. I watched the videos on Youtube. which you can see here and here (beware these links are graphic, and not recommended for youth. You may need a youtube account to watch one or either). Personally I think what he did was amazing. The prospects of living severed heads, and graffting heads onto another body is amazing. I don't have anything against dogs, or anything (I have two myself), and neither do I condone these experiments by untrained professionals.

Anyways. Scientifically these experiements paved the way for so many medical applications now-a-days; including heart transplants, brain transplants, and even that recent face transplant. Those kinds of operations would not have been possible without these previous experiments.

Now, if you look at some of the comments on the attached Youtube videos there are dozens saying things like "This is cruel and unneccesary", "They should burn in hell because they tried to play the part of God", and "They didn't need to do these kinda things, people should live out their natural lives".

Sure you say those kinds of things now, but think if you were one of the 910,000 Americans that die from heart disease every year. You could just y'know. die. Or you could get a heart transplant. Oh whoooooops. There are none available, because the research was too immoral to perform on a dog, so especially not a human! And really who is to say that they are playing the part of God, when there isn't even proof of God to begin with.

Another common comment was "How can this even be useful when dogs and humans are so different?", this can easily be answered, as Demikhov's research inspired and lead Dr. Robert White (an American, so you can't say these kinds of experiments arn't performed around here), to perform head transplants on monkeys, which we all know are close analogs to the human body. As a supplement, there is now a ban on the testing of Great Apes (Ironically Britain, and the United States do not follow this policy).

On a side note, another horrible experiment that brought justice to the eniter world, and has saved many lives was founded during. Buh buh buh. World War II, by none other than the Nazi Party. During the holocaust, hundreds of concentration camp inmates were dunked into freezing ice water, too see how the body reacts, many test subjects died, but in the process we now know how the body reacts to, and how to stop hypothermia. Which we probably wouldn't be able to learn in any other way.

Opinions?

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This is an update I am making that pertain to no certain subject. Basically on my life. I think i'll try and start doing blogs more often

So. Right now, i'm just hanging out on my couch watching "The Venture Brothers" on Teletoon (Canadian Broadcasting Channel). I must say, its got to be one of my favourite tv shows at the moment. It's pretty funny.

Over the past few days I have been being pretty nerdy I played my first DnD game (3.5 version) and I decided that I don't like the playable races very much So I worked out with my friend and/or DM that my character would be a Sahuagin because I jsut have an affinity for fish/lizard/monster/men. Haha, my next game was using the new 4th edition rules, where my other friend/DM allowed me to be a Kuo-toa (another similar fish/lizard/monster) but only ebcause they were less hateful than Sahuagin, they sometimes become merchants, and on the grounds that I would never insist to be a non-race charater in his games again. I still plan on being a lizardfolk soon though , anyways, I really like the game, and it seems like it could get alot funner when you get to higher levels.

In other news, it was my birthday recently. I think there is a birthday thing that tells when someone gets older around here somewhere, and if you did wish me a happy birthday, sorry I didn't answer or get back, as I don't visit the site very much anymore. Also, thanks!

Anyways, birthday, me, yeah. So today after a pre-determined wait, my mother brought me back my gift from herself. Which turned out to be an xbox 360! OoooOOOoooOOOhhhHHHhhhHH!

So yeah, i'm gonna pick up some games tomorrow for my hueg ecksbawcks, so if you have any game recommendations, i'll check this tomorrow before I leave to see.

And p.s. my Gamertag is: TheAluminumMan, if you want to add me to play, then go ahead, leaving me a voice message that says your username on Unexplained-Mysteries, or leaving your username here would be good as well

BYE!

I don't know what all the fuss is about really. Sometime around the middle of last year Dragons slowly rose their heads above the sea that is known as the Cryptozoology, Myths, and Legends board. Along with Dragons, everything from Werewolves, Vampires, Gnomes, and Demons have popped their heads up. It seems to me as the majority of these posts are made by pre-teens who have a fetish or something about Vampires or Werewolves (similar to my girlfriend though, she actually knows that they don't exist). Sure, it would be nice to believe they exist, but these are more-or-less just myths and legends. I'm not denying that these 'ideas' exist in one form or another, though the realms they exist in are fictitious, such as film, print, or folklore.

Sure there is lots of "evidence" of these beasts of olde, such as the fact that every culture around the world has a dragon of some sort (My source being Draconic Chronicler, as this is his logic/information), but you have to take into account that every culture in the world has its own religion as well. Does that mean that all religions or right, or that even any are right? Not really.

The main point of this is to point out my stance on the 'health' of the Crypto board. I believe the Myths and Legends part should be turned into a seperate board, and Cryptozoology should be allowed to be awesome again.


-Joel.