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This post is for people who have actually done this. People who have actually seen things, done things and who do more then just sit in front of their computer all day long, thinking that wiki will teach them the ways of the world.




Cut The Head Off Of A Snake & The Body Dies

I have heard this my entire life, not to mention it is quoted by MMO warriors along with Sun Tzu into mind numbing tedium. I also remembered the first day that I tried this. It was a big snake that had been living in my yard for sometime. I finally got sick of it standing up like a cobra and taking pop shots at me, and so I gave it it's due. After some want-to-be wild man tricks with a metal pole to subdue it, I removed its head with a shovel.



Outcome:

I was pretty young at the time, so I looked down in horror as both the head and body remained alive. Now before you say that it was nerves, you can find stuff like this on Youtube Not only did the head continue to snap at me, but the body continued to curl around objects for quite sometime as if the head was still attached.


I said WTF.
And then it really started to get me thinking.



The Notion

If such a basic concept of "cut the head off the snake and...." was made up, it made me wonder what else in life was, well... equally as imaginary. I would like to dedicate this thread to myths that everyone has always told you that were true, and you believed them, until you saw it for yourself.




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Isn't cutting the head off a snake not a myth but a figure of speech? Wasn't meant to be literal.

Number 2 I agree with... It's gross.... There's poop involved.

3. Not sure where you heard number 3... I've only ever heard eat your veggies.

4. Are you saying it is a myth...thus global warming is fictions.... or it isn't? Either way I dont see why people are so surprised by climates changing. Study a bit of geology and you'll come to find the planet has gone through dozens of "major" (glaciation) planet altering climate changes. And lord only knows how many minor ones.

Hell the deserts we have that are around 30N and 30S of the equator are partly from the last ice age.

lol That wouldn't be a figure of speech...Rather a statement.

In the spirit of nitpicking, the saying seems quite accurate to me even considering your personal experience. The point, as far as I can tell, was always to simply say the snake cannot continue to survive without it's head or maybe more to the point, it's more effective to simply attack the decision making/leadership part of an organisation than keep slashing at it's "tail". So unless you want to claim that after having it's head removed the snake shrugged and went on to have a long and happy life, I'm not seeing the issue with the saying.

I cut the head off a saltwater eel once and it took 6 hours for the head to die.

The body tasted great though.


And it's a myth that childbirth is some kind of wonderful experience. There's a reason why the ancients thought the mechanics of birth was some kind of punishment from God.

Add to that, that in America, every "new mother", so afraid of everything, takes every little pill the doctor prescribes, and by the time she's ready to give birth, she's gained 80 lbs to birth and 8 lb baby and she'll never get rid of that other 72 lbs. We call that "hot shotting" with vaccines and once that autoimmune response hits and triggers that lifelong obesity, it's over. You married her mother at that point. Most of the damage of the autoimmune response is called "complications of the pregnancy" .

My mother likes watching those "we're going to have a baby " documentaries on TV and every time I walked through the room when it was on, there was a baby spurting out of some big bloody mess between a big fat pair of legs. This may have been a contributing factor to me not becoming a stay-at-home son.

EAT IT!?!?

OMG!, WHAT SICK **** WOULD DO SUCH A THING?

Did the snake's body die earlier than it would had the head remained attached? Yes? Then myth confirmed, baby. No one promised it would be an instant death.

Beauty is subjective, so saying it's a myth that something is beautiful is just silly.

I've never once been told "eat your grains".

I don't think there's been any significant debate on the reality of global warming in decades. There are two questions about it now: Is it at least partly due to human activities, and can it be stopped?

In Latin America the placenta is special. If you trip on one or on the amniotic liquid when a woman is about to give birth it brings you much luck, you have to save it for eating or for special curing to create a Mystic shield of sorts that will protect the newborn or whoever wants "special protection". Some people do that and believe in it, as much as they can believe in any kind of major religious beliefs. In a pragmatic sense of the world it's as real as any other sacrament of many other more mainstream religions, so it boils down to matters of faith. So let's not go there

It's also used by the truckload by certain "pharma" corps for extraction and use in several skin treatments and hair therapies, also used by the select few that know how to do the same process but in a homemade way. Here is common for women to buy Ampules filled with goat placenta for example, human ones are "better", or so they say.

Oh yes, the placenta has a lot of uses my friend. Fact is any part of the body can be associated with a specific set of attributes you want to enhance or decay. Since this is the Caribbean Mayombe and Candomble is strong here, and they use all bodily fluids (ALL) for very specific rituals, I confess that as a very curious person I have been present in very interesting rituals here involving all manners of acts. Things I will never place in my resume but actually can earn me a "degree" in Witchcraft for that matter haha, I just happen to find all the anthropological aspects of them entertaining and inspiring. Belief is so strong.

Anyone here in LatAm can dub himself a practitioner of the dark arts for example and at most you will get a raised eyebrow and serious expression and slow backing up, sometimes people flood you with questions about their future, also bear in mind several key leaders here openly use witchcraft to strengthen their rules. Chavez is one for example, my "dear" president is known to have opened the tomb of Simon Bolivar to bathe in its glory and it is an open secret that he has a lot of Cuban Santeros backing him up.

Here in Panama, with Noriega returning, lots of tales during the Just Cause invasion are surfacing (today is the anniversary) regarding Noriega's use of Santeria and the bloody altars he had in his house discovered by American troops. Here anyone can carve a niche for himself if you truly believe in what you doing.

I would never leave this beautiful part of the world, and totally understand the foreigners that never want to leave either.

But back on topic yes, people EAT the placenta and use it for a lot for witchcraft rituals. When I worked in the hospital you would be amazed at the amount of weird stuff I saw going on, which led to my interest in such things as Mental Health worker, if you go plain out saying all they believe is crap or imaginary stuff you lose empathy with your patients. I find that whole world fascinating and since its so common it works in a sense and its real since a lot of people believe it is, it's part of the culture, my culture, and am very proud of it.

People eating placentas is new? Disgusting yes, but I find organ meats disgusting and the consumption of insects disgusting. Plenty of people eat chocolate covered insects and consume tongue, hearts, and brains.


As for Global Warming, the only people who think its a myth are the politicians who are bathing in oil and coal money, and their easily confused constituents. When the goddamn Saudi Royal Family is investing billions into alternative energy sources, it might just be because they see the writing on the wall. First they sold us oil, soon they'll sell us the sun.

Never heard of "eat your grains." Also, carbs/fats/proteins have little to do with weight loss or gain except for the fact that they all contain calories. Protein is also used in the building of muscle but whatever, whether you're eating carbs or fats if you eat too many of them for a long period of time you will become heavier (until your metabolism increases to counteract the increased consumption of food).

Aside form childbirth, has anyone considered how disgusting the sex act is?