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criminalwisdom: Let me ‘run through [your] dumb mistakes:’ teen burglar’s ‘apology’ letter to victims A teenage burglar in Britain wrote to his victims telling them he was not sorry and they were to blame because they had left their curtains open and a window unlocked, it was revealed Thursday. (Source: National Post)

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Let me ‘run through [your] dumb mistakes:’ teen burglar’s ‘apology’ letter to victims

A teenage burglar in Britain wrote to his victims telling them he was not sorry and they were to blame because they had left their curtains open and a window unlocked, it was revealed Thursday.

(Source: National Post)


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criminalwisdom: OSCAR WILDE’S TOMB PROTECTED FROM KISSES Oscar Wilde died of cerebral meningitis in Paris on November 30, 1900. On the occasion of the 110th anniversary of his death, his tomb in Paris’ famous Père Lachaise Cemetery has been restored and a new glass barrier erected around the monument to stop visitors from making out with it. The practice began in the late 1990s when a woman kissed Wilde’s tomb leaving a red lipstick print. Because people are easily influenced and deeply unhygienic, that one lip print started an unstoppable trend. The tomb was soon covered in red lips. The threat of a €9,000 ($12,000) fine for damaging a historical monument had no effect, because it’s hard to catch people in the act and because most of the kissers were tourists and thus were long gone before the judicial system could snag them. Appeals from Wilde’s grandson Merlin Holland to stop the practice fell on deaf ears. A plaque asking fans to respect the tomb instead of defacing it had no effect. Meanwhile, those greasy red lipstick stains seeped into the stone making it harder and harder to clean. Every cleaning stripped another surface layer which made the stone even more porous, so the next cleaning had to go even deeper and wear away the stone even more. (Source: Nerdcore)

criminalwisdom:

OSCAR WILDE’S TOMB PROTECTED FROM KISSES

Oscar Wilde died of cerebral meningitis in Paris on November 30, 1900. On the occasion of the 110th anniversary of his death, his tomb in Paris’ famous Père Lachaise Cemetery has been restored and a new glass barrier erected around the monument to stop visitors from making out with it.

The practice began in the late 1990s when a woman kissed Wilde’s tomb leaving a red lipstick print. Because people are easily influenced and deeply unhygienic, that one lip print started an unstoppable trend. The tomb was soon covered in red lips. The threat of a €9,000 ($12,000) fine for damaging a historical monument had no effect, because it’s hard to catch people in the act and because most of the kissers were tourists and thus were long gone before the judicial system could snag them. Appeals from Wilde’s grandson Merlin Holland to stop the practice fell on deaf ears. A plaque asking fans to respect the tomb instead of defacing it had no effect.

Meanwhile, those greasy red lipstick stains seeped into the stone making it harder and harder to clean. Every cleaning stripped another surface layer which made the stone even more porous, so the next cleaning had to go even deeper and wear away the stone even more.

(Source: Nerdcore)


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~ Friday, July 29 ~
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techno monkey lusts after metal ass

Personality exists in the brain.

So if one was to remove the brain from the body there would still be a mind. So lets say science fictionally speaking. We were able to remove the brain and lets say the spinal cord and all the nerves and hook this up to a machine which could receive  input. It could be said that a human consciousness resides in this bio-mechanical entity. It would have past memories, experiences of a human.

My question is would that person have the same emotions he had with a human body? I wonder with out glands that produce hormones in separate organs would consciousness change? Could it be that because the brain no longer has to manage a complex organic machine, it could devote all its recourse to the cerebral cortex and thus become super intellectual? Like the best CPU in the world? or would it be like how Joe Rogan describes being in an isolation tank? That we would have a psychedelic trip?

Would that person experience emotions differently? Or could this person still feel love? hate lust? How would this brain entity define itself man or woman? having no gender, no body would biological impulses change? Is a human a human without its human body?

I have a notion that we associate emotions to with a physiological change in our bodies as well. Could someone feel love with out that pang in their stomach? The fluttering of their hearts? Or anger without the constriction of facial muscles? Stress without shoulder muscle tension? Arousal without an erection? Sex has no more meaning. It it like being a eunuch?

I guess this all ties into futurists who say that sooner or later there will be a bio-technological integration and humans might gain immortality by downloading their consciousness into a computer.

At what cost I wonder.

Inspiration: Watching Prof. Shelly Kagan talk about death and the concept of the soul on youtube/edu http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLEA18FAF1AD9047B0

Here you go Vicki, my first post dedicated to you.


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