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    'Fat for cosmetics' murder suspects arrested in Peru

    My local news channel said that one guy confessed that this shit's been happening for 30 years.

    Must you really kill for fat? Come down to Australia or go over to USA. Fat is the byproduct of our life style. Take all you want.

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    Man awakes from 23 year long coma, conscious entire time

    The guy lay there...doing nothing. 23 years.

    That's longer than I have been alive. I cannot wrap my head around that.

    <@Terra> he told me this, "man actually meeting terra is so fucking big", and he started crying. Then he bought me hot dogs

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    Sadly many of us who do not suffer from such conditions continue to spend our lives in a persistent vegetative state. I know I personally spent about 10+ hours this weekend playing CoD:MW2. There should be some kind of help for people like me.


    For God will not permit that we shall know what is to come... those who by some sorcery or by some dream might come to pierce the veil that lies so darkly over all that is before them may serve by just that vision to cause that God should wrench the world from its heading and set it upon another course altogether and then where stands the sorcerer? Where the dreamer and his dream?

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    Best case scenario is that if you play it so much and for so long, and you end up in a 20 year coma, you can have it memorized and "play" it for decades without interruption.

    Honestly though, I can't imagine spending even a week completely trapped in my own head without any sensory stimuli.

    <@Terra> he told me this, "man actually meeting terra is so fucking big", and he started crying. Then he bought me hot dogs

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    Maybe the nurses were all hot, so he had that to think about. Of course, they probably don't visit the coma ward more than a couple times a day. Those nurse-less intervals would be long indeed.


    For God will not permit that we shall know what is to come... those who by some sorcery or by some dream might come to pierce the veil that lies so darkly over all that is before them may serve by just that vision to cause that God should wrench the world from its heading and set it upon another course altogether and then where stands the sorcerer? Where the dreamer and his dream?

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    Quote Originally Posted by XanBcoo
    Man awakes from 23 year long coma, conscious entire time

    The guy lay there...doing nothing. 23 years.

    That's longer than I have been alive. I cannot wrap my head around that.
    Welp! Nevermind. Turns out this story is almost completely bullshit. I feel dumb for buying into it so easily because in hindsight it was pretty sensationalist.

    All the testimony coming from this guy was received using facilitated communication: http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2..._conscious.php

    His parents also treated him as if he were conscious, so they spent those 23 years looking after him at home, talking to him, and taking him out socially. So even if he were conscious and aware, he certainly wasn't doing nothing. Most likely scenario seems to be that he's been taking a 23 year-long nap, and now his helpers are either intentionally or unintentionally making everything up.

    <@Terra> he told me this, "man actually meeting terra is so fucking big", and he started crying. Then he bought me hot dogs

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