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You just put a device that displays facebook into the pot, and the girls wait in line to jump in.
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It's not too hard to believe in ritual cannibalism, as the idea seems pervasive in our culture as well. Erstwhile poster Paul once told me that if I killed and ate the people around me I would gain their powers. (He has a sick sense of humor, as some may remember.) I think the idea may have turned up in various superhero type stories, as well as folk tales of different places. There's a sense in that we Christians partake of Christ's nature when we symbolically eat his flesh and drink his blood. It's not too hard to imagine people doing the same for their beloved departed ones.
Of course cannibalism of people who are already dead in order to ward off starvation doesn't even count as cannibalism in my book. That's just plain good sense. Taboos like that aren't meant for life and death situations. But any time you eat human flesh it should be only from people who didn't die of disease, of course, preferably those who starved to death themselves or else froze, or died of impact (in the case of an Andes plane crash). And human flesh should be cooked very very well, if at all possible.
If many cultures eschewed pork because there are several diseases we share with pigs, and it's not safe to eat unless extremely well-cooked, then what of humans, who share ALL our diseases? Definitely it makes sense to choose carefully the youngest and healthiest, and cook thoroughly, in the extreme event that anthropophagism becomes necessary. And you heard that on hatrack, the source of much wisdom of an arcane nature, don't forget!
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Too bad Sylar already said that he doesn't eat brains, otherwise he could gain Christ's power by taking part in Communion.
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quote:Originally posted by Mucus: Too bad Sylar already said that he doesn't eat brains, otherwise he could gain Christ's power by taking part in Communion.
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