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Re: Saras Fun History Fact of the Day. [Re: akira_akuma]
#19050599 - 10/29/13 06:18 AM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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I'd love to take that combo and be a zombie for a bit
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Re: Saras Fun History Fact of the Day. [Re: memes]
#19050614 - 10/29/13 06:24 AM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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hahahaha

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Re: Saras Fun History Fact of the Day. [Re: akira_akuma] 1
#19050758 - 10/29/13 07:09 AM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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SARAtonin said: Day 28:
Zombies:
The word "zombie" means drastically different things to different peoples. To most, images of reanimated brain munch corpuses come up, but to others images of Vodou witchcraft.

Believe it or not, the word zombie was hardly used by Europeans until it is adopted into their folklore in the 19th century. Instead, the idea of zombies is only seen in African and Haitian culture. But this type of zombie is very different then what we may imagine, it involves Vodou. It is believed in the tenets of Vodou that a bokor (Vodou sorcerer) my revive a dead person. These "zombi"s have no will of their own and remain under the control of the bokor. These zombis are most commonly used by the bokor for physical labor. This is done by the bokor capturing the intended zombis "zombi astral", which is a part of the human soul. Bokors commonly keep their zombi astral's in bottle which enhance their own power. But it is believed that after some time God will take back the soul and allow the zombi to pass on. It is believed that a bokor may feed their zombie salt if they wish for it to return to the grave.

In 1982, respected Harvard ethnobotanist Wade Davis, author of "The Serpent and the Rainbow," claimed zombies to be real after visiting Haiti. He said that a person may be turned into a zombie by introducing two compounds into the persons blood stream. The first of which is, tetrodotoxin (TTX), a powerful neurotoxin found in pufferfish. The second, a dissociative drug, most commonly datura. The two in componation would induce a deathlike state in which the zombie would be 100% at the will of the bokor. Below are some real life zombies.

The 1929 book, The Magic Island by William Seabrook is given credit by Time Magazine for "introduced 'zombi' into U.S. speech." This book, like every early example of the zombie, involves voodoo. In 1932, Victor Halperin directed "White Zombie," the worlds first zombie movie starring the famed Bela Lugosi. In 1944, DC Comics came out with the character Solomon Grundy, a zombie, in the Green Lantern. Both White Zombie and the character Solomon Grundy involve voodoo to bring about the zombie.
In was not until 1968 when horror icon George A. Romero came out with "Night of the Living Dead" that the modern idea of a zombie came into being. The monsters of this movie did not originate from voodoo, rather radioactive contamination from Venus. From here on out popular culture will view the flesh hungry monsters of the film as zombies opposed to their African counterparts. These "new" zombies more often then not come from pandemic virus of some sort. With Romero's sequels Dawn of the Dead and Day of the Dead, zombies become credible sub-genre of horror.
[image]http://findmeazombie.com/Pages/Cemetary zombie/Images/night-of-the-living-dead-cover-kyra-schon.jpeg[/image]
Fast-forward to today and we see that this sub-genera has grown to become one of the most popular generas of Horror. We see massive box office movies start to use zombies as the plot as Romero did. We see many of the most popular games today involving zombies such as Left 4 Dead and Minecraft. The state of Wyoming has even got money budgeted away for an upcoming zombie apocalypse.
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I just recently watched a documentary about this! In the 60's a hatian man named Clairvius Narcisse was supposedly turned into a zombie. He was pronounced dead and returned to his village 18 years later. It's believed that he was dosed with multiple chems to mimic his death
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Re: Saras Fun History Fact of the Day. [Re: volcomstoner]
#19050980 - 10/29/13 08:39 AM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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I think Remero originally called them ghouls
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Re: Saras Fun History Fact of the Day. [Re: zappaisgod]
#19054916 - 10/29/13 11:09 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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zappaisgod said: There is nothing honorable about arming 15 year old children and sending them to slaughter. Did you know that as the end neared they ramped up gas chamber production?
Scum. How can anybody who admires them be considered anything other than scum?
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Re: Saras Fun History Fact of the Day. [Re: fapjack]
#19056685 - 10/30/13 09:24 AM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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On this day in 1943 the Foreign Ministers conference of Great Britain, Russia and the United States ends in Moscow with the resolution that only unconditional surrender of the Axis forces will be acceptable to the Allies. It was decided that a special commission would be set up in London to deal with the problems the European continent will face once the war is over.
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Re: Saras Fun History Fact of the Day. [Re: mpd] 1
#19058356 - 10/30/13 03:35 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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I honestly dont think these facts are very "fun" they are interesting and all but not FUN....title reconstruction is needed I think
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hidenseek1
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naw cause sara's facts are fun for the most part
i think mpd is just a war buff
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Re: Saras Fun History Fact of the Day. [Re: CosmicFool]
#19058785 - 10/30/13 05:05 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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CosmicFool said: I think Remero originally called them ghouls
i've seen 'Night of the Living Dead' at least 20 times since i was a kid, i don't think the word 'Zombie' is in it.
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Re: Saras Fun History Fact of the Day. [Re: dontknow]
#19058809 - 10/30/13 05:11 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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dontknow said: You really want him to get banned for calling you scum? Seems excessive
because zappa never does anything in excess. he also never trolls, flames, or is disrespectful, and always learns his lesson.
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Re: Saras Fun History Fact of the Day. [Re: broken]
#19058906 - 10/30/13 05:35 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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closed veil said:
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dontknow said: You really want him to get banned for calling you scum? Seems excessive
because zappa never does anything in excess. he also never trolls, flames, or is disrespectful, and always learns his lesson.

I never troll
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Re: Saras Fun History Fact of the Day. [Re: zappaisgod] 2
#19059078 - 10/30/13 06:14 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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You only troll, whether or not you admit it. 99% of your posts are arguing with other people or telling people who stupid they are.
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zappaisgod
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Re: Saras Fun History Fact of the Day. [Re: fapjack] 1
#19059092 - 10/30/13 06:18 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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fapjack said: You only troll, whether or not you admit it. 99% of your posts are arguing with other people or telling people who stupid they are.
That isn't trolling. I mean what I say. 99% is much inflated, by the way, and the people who I say are stupid deserve it and I prove it.
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Re: Saras Fun History Fact of the Day. [Re: zappaisgod] 1
#19059105 - 10/30/13 06:23 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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Well consider you almost never post about anything drug related, I'm going to disagree with you.
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zappaisgod
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Re: Saras Fun History Fact of the Day. [Re: fapjack]
#19059131 - 10/30/13 06:28 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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fapjack said: Well consider you almost never post about anything drug related, I'm going to disagree with you.
I have my reasons, which I have explained several times but I will do it again just for you. I have children who know my user name here and I can never be sure they aren't reading. If you have questions about my drug bona fides you can ask OMR or Madtowntripper.
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Re: Saras Fun History Fact of the Day. [Re: zappaisgod] 1
#19059194 - 10/30/13 06:44 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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You can get a name change for $5 or you could make an entirely new account.
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Re: Saras Fun History Fact of the Day. [Re: fapjack] 3
#19059267 - 10/30/13 07:01 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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I don't have $5
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Re: Saras Fun History Fact of the Day. [Re: zappaisgod]
#19059281 - 10/30/13 07:03 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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Should have gone on SSD early on and milked it before it got so hard.
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Re: Saras Fun History Fact of the Day. [Re: fapjack] 3
#19059290 - 10/30/13 07:05 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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Zappa has admitted to me in PMs that he used to snort lines of coke off of his dealer's 12 inch Johnson because he couldn't afford to pay in cash. Have a heart, man...The guy doesn't want his daughter to find out that he was a tranny whore in Newark for 5 years.
That's why he doesn't mention it in public fora. I know I wouldn't.
The only reason he told me is that he knows that I can keep it in complete confidence. That's just how I roll.
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Re: Saras Fun History Fact of the Day. [Re: zappaisgod]
#19059357 - 10/30/13 07:14 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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zappaisgod said: I don't have $5
no wonder you vote GOP and believe everything FOX news tells you. you no longer have any credibility. you are just another poor, brainwashed, yellow-dog republican. i used to dislike you, now i have massive amounts of sympathy for how pathetic you are.
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