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Magic powder allowed man to grow back severed finger; limbs and organs possible

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Thaedolus said:
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"Well what the fuck am I wearing this suit for?"
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You rebellious son replaced his entire hand . . . you are a big ruler, can't you get plastic surgery?
 
The absolutely mindblowing thing is that, according to these researchers/scientists, the ability to regrow organs and limbs is coded into our cells already! It's almost like a latent ability that has to be "awakened."
 
Battersea Power Station said:
The absolutely mindblowing thing is that, according to these researchers/scientists, the ability to regrow organs and limbs is coded into our cells already! It's almost like a latent ability that has to be "awakened."
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"Extra limb UNLOCKED!"
 
This certainly isn't fake or April Fool's or whatever, the reason it's probably not to be found everywhere is that it's basically pretty old news, long discussed in science magazines and so on.
 
GenericPseudonym said:
When's the last time you heard legitimate scientific news on mainstream television?
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All the time, those are the type of programs i enjoy most :)

*Tunes TV back into "America's Dumbest Origami Animal Murders"*
 
speculawyer said:
Interesting question . . . pig insulin has been used for years . . . what have they done about that? Anytime health/death are involved, these religions magically seem to come up with exceptions. I'm guessing there is some exception.
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The way I see it is those animals were deemed unclean for consumption, mainly because they weren't cooked properly in ancient times and a lot of people died. So I would assume this could probably be given an exception, since it's not being consumed.
 
worldrunover said:
The way I see it is those animals were deemed unclean for consumption, mainly because they weren't cooked properly in ancient times and a lot of people died. So I would assume this could probably be given an exception, since it's not being consumed.
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But that's not what the magic books say.
 
Crushed said:
It's still hilarious that they have General Grevious (in the cartoon anyway) with a sleek, light-weight, and super-strong cyborg body with extra limbs, going all ninja and quad-wielding lightsabers at super speed...

...but Darth Vader gets some slow clunky piece of crap with a shitty mic and speaker in the helmet, so cumbersome that he can barely run, so unwieldy that his forearms seem constantly glued to his chest during lightsaber duels.
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Yeah, but Grievous had a terrible cough, while Vader just wheezed. Now tell me who's the winner.
 
It would be great if they could implement this in dentistry so that when we lose our natural teeth we could grow new ones. Fuch YEAH!
 
Battersea Power Station said:
The absolutely mindblowing thing is that, according to these researchers/scientists, the ability to regrow organs and limbs is coded into our cells already! It's almost like a latent ability that has to be "awakened."
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Well, yeah, pretty much. We share an ancestor (and therefore genes) with animals that are capable of regeneration, such as salamanders.
 
PhlegmMaster said:
Well, yeah, pretty much. We share an ancestor (and therefore genes) with animals that are capable of regeneration, such as salamanders.
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Another prediction made by evolution coming to fruition. And all without the help of magic books.
 
Count Dookkake said:
Weird that god has never been able to do this.
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Count Dookkake said:
Well, it certainly isn't supernatural. Science FTW!
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Count Dookkake said:
http://whywontgodhealamputees.com/
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Thanks, I had an old url that was no longer up. Was afraid they'd been shut down. Great stuff!
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Count Dookkake said:
You skipped the part where they persecute people for working on the things that god seems unable to. :D
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Count Dookkake said:
So I guess good Jews and Muslims will not be using this?
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Count Dookkake said:
But that's not what the magic books say.
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Count Dookkake said:
Another prediction made by evolution coming to fruition. And all without the help of magic books.
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Man, it's almost as if he's trying to say something completely unrelated to the thread.
 
Crushed said:
Man, it's almost as if he's trying to say something completely unrelated to the thread.
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Except it really isn't unrelated.

Recovering limbs at any age of our history would have been an amazing feat, either by science or magic. This was another one of the things that god could have done to further his case or to heal his wounded. Yet again, science has beaten him to the punch.

Once regenerating limbs becomes commonplace, the claims of the supernatural will adjust and people will not remember that science got their hand back. For millenia, god was unable to heal amputees. This is in danger of being forgotten. It's not like most people remember a time before cell-phones anymore. So the time is now to remind people that science did it, not magic.

BTW your mastery of cherry-picking perfectly ignores the statements to which I responded. Good job.
 
Count Dookkake said:
Except it really isn't unrelated.

Recovering limbs at any age of our history would have been an amazing feat, either by science or magic. This was another one of the things that god could have done to further his case or to heal his wounded. Yet again, science has beaten him to the punch.

Once regenerating limbs becomes commonplace, the claims of the supernatural will adjust and people will not remember that science got their hand back. For millenia, god was unable to heal amputees. This is in danger of being forgotten. It's not like most people remember a time before cell-phones anymore. So the time is now to remind people that science did it, not magic.
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That's, uh, nice. Still a bizarre tangent to go off on for no reason.

Count Dookkake said:
BTW your mastery of cherry-picking perfectly ignores the statements to which I responded. Good job.
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Demonstrating an inordinately high amount of posts about one subject != quoting all of your posts and then presenting a graph of percentages.

Nice use of "cherry-picking," though. But maybe next time you browse Wikipedia looking for fancy-sounding fallacies to call people out on (zomg strawman, true scotsman, tautology, ad hominem), you should actually read that part which explains when those fallacies actually apply.
 
Battersea Power Station said:
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Setting secularists back 2 millenia.
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It's about as accurate as my current one, but not as funny, so I don't think it will ever change. FWIW my first one was "Holier than thou."


Crushed said:
That's, uh, nice. Still a bizarre tangent to go off on for no reason.
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No reason? I just gave you the reason, although you are free to disagree.

Crushed said:
Demonstrating an inordinately high amount of posts about one subject != quoting all of your posts and then presenting a graph of percentages.

Nice use of "cherry-picking," though. But maybe next time you browse Wikipedia looking for fancy-sounding fallacies to call people out on (zomg strawman, true scotsman, tautology, ad hominem), you should actually read that part which explains when those fallacies actually apply.
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Although, I am no fan of wikipedia I do admit to using cherry-picking in a colloquial manner. Mea culpa.
 
Battersea Power Station said:
The US military is investing in such research.
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off topic - but they also research into walking through solid objects like walls, and if staring at animals can stop their hearts from beating.

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It must be cool to work in those kooky research labs.
 
ok ok ok all this is cool

but i need to know.


enlargement, is it possible?

not that i need it or anything, black genes yall! i'm just curious....


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kojacker said:
off topic - but they also research into walking through solid objects like walls, and if staring at animals can stop their hearts from beating.

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It must be cool to work in those kooky research labs.
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Is that a good read?
 
speculawyer said:
Interesting question . . . pig insulin has been used for years . . . what have they done about that? Anytime health/death are involved, these religions magically seem to come up with exceptions. I'm guessing there is some exception.
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I remember when I was with Special Forces. Seems a thousand centuries ago. We went into a camp to inoculate the children. We left the camp after we had inoculated the children for Polio, and this old man came running after us and he was crying. He couldn't see. We went back there and they had come and hacked off every inoculated arm. There they were in a pile. A pile of little arms. And I remember... I... I... I cried. I wept like some grandmother. I wanted to tear my teeth out. I didn't know what I wanted to do. And I want to remember it. I never want to forget it. I never want to forget. And then I realized... like I was shot... like I was shot with a diamond... a diamond bullet right through my forehead. And I thought: My God... the genius of that. The genius. The will to do that. Perfect, genuine, complete, crystalline, pure. And then I realized they were stronger than we.
 
Nash said:
God's a bit of a cunt for not passing on the clue about the miraculous power of a pig's bladder for hundreds of years.

"Please God, I pray for you to help Timmy walk again after accidently getting his legs blown off"
"LA LA LA, I'M NOT LISTENING! The answer's in the pig! ROFL"
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But the money is in the banana stand.
 
Finally the welsh dude who cut his balls off when wales won the grand slam a few years back, can finally grow them back again.
 
IMO, the sight of Crushed dominating an argument is bigger news than this stuff.

But this is cool too. How long before we can basically heal bullet wounds on the fly? That's what I want to know.
 
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