Survived my first mfp crucifixion
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I ended up searching this earlier (Gawd, my internet search history...) and apparently this bloke Josephus records that he successfully persuaded a Roman Emperor of the time to order three of his friends to be taken down.Motorsheen wrote: »MrStabbems wrote: »it's funny people use these terms but aren't quite sure what they mean. Crucifixion was used as capital punishment aka until you're dead and crows eat your face off.
There is no surviving. Jebus didn't manage it so I suspect, and it's only a suspicion, do correct me if I'm wrong but I suspect you didn't either.
I can be a no-fun word fascist too.
"Crucifixion" is derived from the Latin for attachment (-fixion) to a cross (-cruc). Nothing in the word itself implies death.
This is probably true.
However, it's like saying Electric Chair doesn't imply death either.
I'm not sure how many folks have endured Crucifixion or the Electric Chair and walked away from the event.
The same could also be said for: Head Shot
and... Marriage
One lived.
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HeliumIsNoble wrote: »
I ended up searching this earlier (Gawd, my internet search history...) and apparently this bloke Josephus records that he successfully persuaded a Roman Emperor of the time to order three of his friends to be taken down.Motorsheen wrote: »MrStabbems wrote: »it's funny people use these terms but aren't quite sure what they mean. Crucifixion was used as capital punishment aka until you're dead and crows eat your face off.
There is no surviving. Jebus didn't manage it so I suspect, and it's only a suspicion, do correct me if I'm wrong but I suspect you didn't either.
I can be a no-fun word fascist too.
"Crucifixion" is derived from the Latin for attachment (-fixion) to a cross (-cruc). Nothing in the word itself implies death.
This is probably true.
However, it's like saying Electric Chair doesn't imply death either.
I'm not sure how many folks have endured Crucifixion or the Electric Chair and walked away from the event.
The same could also be said for: Head Shot
and... Marriage
One lived.
Wow, cool; verrry lucky guy.
'Crucifixion Survivor' would appear rather impressive on a resume, right?
any news on the Electric Chair or Head Shots?
also....
... don't bother looking into Marriage; by comparison to Crucifixion or the Electric Chair, it's far too depressing a subject.1 -
Motorsheen wrote: »Wow, cool; verrry lucky guy.
'Crucifixion Survivor' would appear rather impressive on a resume, right?
any news on the Electric Chair or Head Shots?
also....
... don't bother looking into Marriage; by comparison to Crucifixion or the Electric Chair, it's far too depressing a subject.
I got the Electric Chair. This guy Kemmler survived, at least for a while. Edison helped develop the electric chair in an effort to smear Westinghouse/Tesla's creation--AC power--by branding it as more deadly than Edison's DC.
Of course, he's still credited with the light bulb, but most people don't know Edison's darker side.
"The warden strapped Kemmler in, attaching electrodes to his head. “Goodbye, William,” he said. Then he motioned for someone to flip the switch. “His shoulders slowly drew up as they sometimes do in the case of a man who is hanging,” a coroner later wrote.
Seventeen seconds later, two physicians determined that Kemmler was dead. The current was turned off. The room was silent. And then someone yelled, “Great God, he is alive!” Kemmler was breathing. His heart was beating. “Turn on the current!” someone else shouted. Four minutes later, Kemmler was really dead. His body took several hours to cool off. Newspapers called him the “poor wretch.”
Westinghouse was horrified. “They could have done a better job with an ax,” he told reporters, according to several books on the death penalty."
ADDED NOTE: I'm an electrical engineer by profession, so I knew this story to begin with. But I quoted the story above from this WashPo article:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/retropolis/wp/2017/04/26/thomas-edison-the-electric-chair-and-a-botched-execution-a-death-penalty-primer/?utm_term=.eeaaeb63a6c71 -
browneyedgirl749 wrote: »So this is a braless group hug? I'm cool with that. I hate these damn things anyway.
I dont think there has ever been a braless picture thread here. Just sayin...0 -
tmanfromtexas wrote: »browneyedgirl749 wrote: »So this is a braless group hug? I'm cool with that. I hate these damn things anyway.
I dont think there has ever been a braless picture thread here. Just sayin...
It'll get closed in seconds.0 -
browneyedgirl749 wrote: »tmanfromtexas wrote: »browneyedgirl749 wrote: »So this is a braless group hug? I'm cool with that. I hate these damn things anyway.
I dont think there has ever been a braless picture thread here. Just sayin...
It'll get closed in seconds.
I am sure you are right. We have to have adults supervise the adults dont ya know.0 -
tmanfromtexas wrote: »browneyedgirl749 wrote: »tmanfromtexas wrote: »browneyedgirl749 wrote: »So this is a braless group hug? I'm cool with that. I hate these damn things anyway.
I dont think there has ever been a braless picture thread here. Just sayin...
It'll get closed in seconds.
I am sure you are right. We have to have adults supervise the adults dont ya know.
It's unfortunate...0 -
Way to get to literall. Congratulations. hip hip hooray1
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Motorsheen wrote: »MrStabbems wrote: »it's funny people use these terms but aren't quite sure what they mean. Crucifixion was used as capital punishment aka until you're dead and crows eat your face off.
There is no surviving. Jebus didn't manage it so I suspect, and it's only a suspicion, do correct me if I'm wrong but I suspect you didn't either.
I can be a no-fun word fascist too.
"Crucifixion" is derived from the Latin for attachment (-fixion) to a cross (-cruc). Nothing in the word itself implies death.
This is probably true.
However, it's like saying Electric Chair doesn't imply death either.
I'm not sure how many folks have endured Crucifixion or the Electric Chair and walked away from the event.
The same could also be said for: Head Shot
and... Marriage
Actually, I can't believe I'm saying this but this is kind of a good point.
It's possible to be hung up on a cross structure, either with the use of something like nails (rarely) or just tied there and, as per the general custom, left for days in that position nearly nude in the hot sun without food or water (again, as customarily done) and NOT die but...well...
There's such a thing as TOO literal, I mean sometimes, there's Drax-literal.
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Motorsheen wrote: »HeliumIsNoble wrote: »
I ended up searching this earlier (Gawd, my internet search history...) and apparently this bloke Josephus records that he successfully persuaded a Roman Emperor of the time to order three of his friends to be taken down.Motorsheen wrote: »MrStabbems wrote: »it's funny people use these terms but aren't quite sure what they mean. Crucifixion was used as capital punishment aka until you're dead and crows eat your face off.
There is no surviving. Jebus didn't manage it so I suspect, and it's only a suspicion, do correct me if I'm wrong but I suspect you didn't either.
I can be a no-fun word fascist too.
"Crucifixion" is derived from the Latin for attachment (-fixion) to a cross (-cruc). Nothing in the word itself implies death.
This is probably true.
However, it's like saying Electric Chair doesn't imply death either.
I'm not sure how many folks have endured Crucifixion or the Electric Chair and walked away from the event.
The same could also be said for: Head Shot
and... Marriage
One lived.
Wow, cool; verrry lucky guy.
'Crucifixion Survivor' would appear rather impressive on a resume, right?
any news on the Electric Chair or Head Shots?
also....
... don't bother looking into Marriage; by comparison to Crucifixion or the Electric Chair, it's far too depressing a subject.
'Crucifixion Survivor' was a top 40 hit for metal church. i could be wrong.0 -
25 posts, 25 threads started. Impressive.0
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Motorsheen wrote: »MrStabbems wrote: »it's funny people use these terms but aren't quite sure what they mean. Crucifixion was used as capital punishment aka until you're dead and crows eat your face off.
There is no surviving. Jebus didn't manage it so I suspect, and it's only a suspicion, do correct me if I'm wrong but I suspect you didn't either.
I can be a no-fun word fascist too.
"Crucifixion" is derived from the Latin for attachment (-fixion) to a cross (-cruc). Nothing in the word itself implies death.
This is probably true.
However, it's like saying Electric Chair doesn't imply death either.
I'm not sure how many folks have endured Crucifixion or the Electric Chair and walked away from the event.
The same could also be said for: Head Shot
and... Marriage
Actually, I can't believe I'm saying this but this is kind of a good point.
Of course it a good point.
I don't type bad ones.0 -
TeacupsAndToning wrote: »HeliumIsNoble wrote: »
What if you're issued with a reprieve and taken down early? You can't call crucifixion anything other than what it is, so it would still be crucifixion, but you might live.MrStabbems wrote: »it's funny people use these terms but aren't quite sure what they mean. Crucifixion was used as capital punishment aka until you're dead and crows eat your face off.
There is no surviving. Jebus didn't manage it so I suspect, and it's only a suspicion, do correct me if I'm wrong but I suspect you didn't either.
There is precedent here: another form of capital punishment, hanging, was still referred to as hanging, even if the sentence was to hang the victim nearly to death, and then to take them down, still living, and kill them a different, more painful way. See: the wikipedia entry on hanging, drawing and quartering, but only if you're not eating. Graphic content.
I assume this is why they used to say, "...to be hanged by the neck until you are dead."
Yes. Also because hanging may not break the neck (when the bottom is dropped out from the punished's feet) and you can actually hang there kicking and strangling for a good couple of minutes...the rope could break and down you'd go...a lot of possibilities there besides death. Certainly without that "...until you are dead" or similar, some smart-A relatives or compadres would have gotten their bud down from his dangling but not neck-broken state if lucky within seconds, while stating, accurately, that the man had indeed hung. This is a small part of why the law, no matter where you go, seems at times so specific as to be redundant (a secondary reason being that in various locales and time periods, clerks were paid by the word, ergo the more words, the more money into the profession, but that's a digression, sorry).
Electric chair?** Or slung to a cross naked in the desert sun for half a week without water? Survival possibilities are less likely.
**...horrific Hollywood representations aside (and/or horrific novels aside). I'm thinking of the novel-made-into-movie The Green Mile, where the man in the electric chair suffers for a looooooooooong sequence of screaming and burning. Unless he had a superhuman heart he'd have had a heart attack way before that three-minute mark or however long that unbelievable (literally) scene went on.
Anyway. Yeah. TL:DR - let's not be nutty and say nobody can use crucifixion as a euphemism...especially since it's been used in such a context for, like...1980+ years or so. (Probably much longer as the punishment itself far predates Christ's demise.)
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Motorsheen wrote: »Motorsheen wrote: »MrStabbems wrote: »it's funny people use these terms but aren't quite sure what they mean. Crucifixion was used as capital punishment aka until you're dead and crows eat your face off.
There is no surviving. Jebus didn't manage it so I suspect, and it's only a suspicion, do correct me if I'm wrong but I suspect you didn't either.
I can be a no-fun word fascist too.
"Crucifixion" is derived from the Latin for attachment (-fixion) to a cross (-cruc). Nothing in the word itself implies death.
This is probably true.
However, it's like saying Electric Chair doesn't imply death either.
I'm not sure how many folks have endured Crucifixion or the Electric Chair and walked away from the event.
The same could also be said for: Head Shot
and... Marriage
Actually, I can't believe I'm saying this but this is kind of a good point.
Of course it a good point.
I don't type bad ones.
But I'll bet you think them...
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zachbonner_ wrote: »Better than an mfp circumcision
No one at MFP is going to admit to being uncircumcised. I'm pretty sure.
I've seen evidence to the contrary.1
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