I’m guessing you practice a belief system that includes Dim Mak, even though you can’t scientificly prove it has any validity, you have faith that it does.
No matter the touch point, it is merely coincidence that someone died 7 years after a touch. Of course, if that “touch” was a hard blow to the head causing a massive head injury, leading to a persistant vegative state, ending in death 7 years later, one might say the “touch” was the cause. However, the time frame would be arbitrary.
This can be proved by unasailable fact.
We can respect belief systems, but not when those beliefs are dressed up as facts.
We seek truth here, please don’t ask us to subjugate our search to help keep your belief system intact.
We do welcome new ideas, but the onus to back up your statements is yours alone. When a statement is controversial, a link to a valid website, that shows reproducible research should accompany the original statement.
One other consideration, when referring to one of Cecil’s columns, we link to it rather than quoting the entire column.
Otherwise, welcome.
No, as I said before, I have SEEN the affects of Dim Mak. If you take your index and middle finger and jab them into the area just below the jaw, you will cause a small bump. Over the years the bump grows larger, and eventually kills the victom. Dim Mak is a real thing. I’ve been kicked in the leg by a master before, by just poking at a spot on my back, I stopped the pain signal from reaching my brain moer than 4 times.
By the way, I was only responding to the column I found. Choose not to believe Dim Mak is real, that is after all, your choice. I cannot force you to believe it truely exists. However in my oppinion, you are all idiots. You accept nothing and reject the obvious. I appreciate the discussion held here. I may be back in the future, who knows.
I take it you’ve never gone hiking. I know this because, if you go hiking, you will end up accidentally poking yourself on tree branches every now and again. There may be a few square centimeters of my body I’ve never accidentally poked, but I would be very surprised if there were more than a few. Surely, one of those spots would have to be a Dim Mak point? And surely, walking into a tree branch would provide more force than a finger or two? And yet, I’m not dead, nor have I been hospitalized for the past seven years. So, either I’m a freak alien golem without pressure points, or I (and everyone else I know) have just been incredibly lucky to miss all of the Dim Mak points. Or, of course, the whole thing is a load of hooey.
As Chronos pointed out, random “pokes” in various parts of the body would inevitably kill a percentabe of Humans.
So, natural selection would weed out the most vulnerable, leaving less vulnerable individuals alive to breed, reproduce, & prepetuate the species. Then, their decendents would go through the same process.
After a few generations, nobody would have these vulnerable points.
Google Scholar is excellent for extracting truth from myth [if you trust the “study”]
Nisbett et al. (2001) (link) suggest that, based on your definition, there are possibly other “mechanoelectric” phenomenon that have been lost to modern science due to the research having been done in german and 19/20th century works being largely unindexed.
I’m pretty skeptical about this death touch idea, but I have to say the hiking argument doesn’t really tell against it. Presumably a death touch would be a complicated blow which would be difficult to replicate accidentally.
Let’s not call each other idiots in this forum. Civil disagreement is permitted here, but if you feel the need to hurl insults, you may do so only in the BBQ Pit forum.
What “obvious” “facts” are being rejected? You have made a claim, but offered no proof, no evidence to support the claim.
Do you have a link to medical reports of the individuals killed using these methods? Or did they not seek medical attention for a lump growing under their jaw? Why not?
Does the death occur 7 years to the second after the death touch?
You say that you have seen the effects of this 7-year death touch. By that, do you mean you were actually present for the death touch itself, during all medical treatment in which doctors were unable to find any explanation for the lump growing under the victim’s jaw, and the subsequent death of the victim? Or do you mean you merely saw a Dim Mak practitioner cause a bump by jabbing someone with two fingers, and were told what the results would be? What are the name(s) of the victim(s)? What doctors/hospitals did they go to? When and where did they die?
O.K. Now I’ve actually heard this claim before- nearly seven years ago in fact.
Being the good skeptic that I am, I did jab my index and middle finger into the area just below my jaw- and NOTHING happened!!! I was fine! I’m still fine! Nothing ever happened!!! Here it is, six years three hundred sixty-four days eleven hours fifty-nine minutes and fifty-three seconds later and NOTHING EVER JOIp’ fw epjisdghr biktrj,fgmn b/’<MHGH irhuy;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
I predict you will, in seven years. We’ve touched you now, and you’ll never escape.
[Just picturing Naifu playing Quake IX in the winter of 2012 suddenly tensing up and with shaking fingers not fully under conscious control typing “boards.straightdope.com”, getting a “not found” error and relaxing as the spell is broken]
Naifu, you’ve presented an interesting story. You have apparently witnessed “Ninja Death Touch” many times. Very well, if you want this to be accepted as fact, please present a list of some people who have done this and, more importantly, the names of their victims, and the time and place these killings took place. We can at least use that as a starting point to investigate news stories to corroborate your data.
I like my Dim Mak between the hours of 8 P.M. and 10 P.M., thanks. 10 A.M. - 12P.M. only if you use your teeth. /imagines receiving personal instruction from a master of the art
