See? Not sickening at all. The world needs more Jaqueline Saburidos.
(FTR, I’m not watching a single thing mentioned here. Just reading about them is exposure enough.)
I watched the interview Oprah did with the lady that was attacked by the chimp. Her name is Charla Nash. Bless her heart, it literally tore her whole face off! I changed the channel a couple of times because I just couldn’t bear it. I can’t even begin to imagine how she copes daily with what happened to her. I did want to see what was being done for her medically so I watched until the end.
The Oprah show aired back in November. Then just a couple of weeks ago Animal Planet aired a show called Fatal Attractions. The episode was about people owning chimps. They played the 911 call made by the owner of the chimp Travis while he was attacking Charla Nash. I have to admit I cried because I could still see that poor woman’s torn up face or what little was left of it, knowing it was happening during this very phone call! When the police got there, the chimp’s owner was screaming “Shoot him, shoot him!” It was very disturbing.
I do hope that when we see someone like this lady who is still so brave and strong, it makes us count our own blessings. Material possessions aren’t everything. Your life can be turned upside down in an instant just like hers was.
PS: I also am NOT watching anything posted here. I agree with Olive. Reading the descriptions is enough for me, thanks!
Oh, Lord! She was on Oprah once and I’ll never forget it! Hard to watch, but SO compelling!
Mengele’s & the other Nazi camp doctors’ atrocities were for science. Some supposedly yielded valuable data that is still in use.
And the Jacobins were quite the philosophical fellows.
Just sayin.’
And two wrongs don’t make a right.
Just sayin.
This is probably for another thread, (aside from the fact that the Nazi doctors’ guinea pigs did not volunteer) but might you have a cite for that?
I did see the Daniel Pearl execution video not long after I watched the movie A Mighty Heart. And I had seen Jacqueline Saburido as well as the chimp lady.
That’s about it, and that’s plenty.
This thread is horrifyingly educational.
I’d like to see one too. From what I’ve read, I understand many (maybe most) of Mengele’s “experiments” were essentially sadistic, and not scientifically valuable at all.
Being super-sensitive, suffering from depression and OCD, I contrarily started reading this thread out of some fascinated perversity. About a quarter of the way down, that little voice in my head, the one that tells me to not eat a whole bag of pistachios, to stop drinking tequila shots - that voice screamed “Stop reading this stuff right now, you asshole - want to wreck your day starting at 10 a.m.?” I have learned, when reading newspapers or whatever, if there is any horrendous cruelty coming up, especially to animals, I have learned to identify such is coming up, and skim over it until it’s safe to read again. Usually the headline is more than I want to know!
Well, I’ll contribute one of the horrors I saw on cable TV one night - it was either the History, Learning, or Travel channel, and it was a documentary on life in a present day African village. Cut to a shot of a woman at work, digging or planting something. Voiceover explains she has exiled herself from her village. She had given birth to twins and their teeth either started to come in too early, or in the wrong order. According to their grand poobah Witch Doctor, this was a sign of Evil, and her children were put to death. So she left her village to live alone somewhere. Cut to shot of grizzled old Witch Doctor, sucking on a cigarette, lounging in filthy orange polyester pants that probably came over in a church clothing drive.
Don’t tell me any sad stories about the poor/oppressed/backward/ starving/needy Africans, roaming around with child soldiers committing genocide. or killing babies with early teeth. I won’t listen, I won’t read the stories, La la la I can’t hear you!
I’ll concede on Mengele but other Nazi experiments, mainly on the effects of freezing & poison gas, have provoked controversy in that scientists have indeed examined them for data. I thought their use was more extensive, so I’ll admit I did overstate the case.
Anyway, my point was that science & philosophy are not always pure humane disciplines any more than religion is not always the root of atrocities.
Would that be this particular monk?
I’ve seen a few of these videos, plus one involving a horse and a man, and I guess I have the ability to put them out of my mind afterwards because I don’t remember them that clearly. But reading this thread has made me sick to my stomach. Really. I’m going to take my lunch break and go home and lie down now.
This is mine too. I’ve seen worse, but this really affected me.
Link.
Not so much the videos, but some of the descriptions. My imagination took care of the rest, unfortunately. I tried to stop reading, but couldn’t.
The Monica Bellucci movie Irreversible. I will not explain what was so disturbing about it, because if you’ve seen it you know, and if you haven’t seen it you don’t want it in your head.
And that is what is so horrifying about it. Inside that body is a perfectly formed human mind, healthy and desiring of love, happiness, and all of the things we strive for. But she’ll never have it, I don’t think.
Yes, that horrifies me, because she’s ordinary. She is Me.
There was a documentary on TLC that showed a woman who had a terrible accident that destroyed most facial bones. When the doctors did the reconstruction surgery, they cut from the top of her head around her ears and literally pulled her face down. Couldn’t grab the remote fast enough.
I think I’m the second to point out that it is not a Japanese lady, but a Chinese lady.
If you don’t know, it’s a video of a guy being interrogated by the police. When the police leave the room, he pulls out a gun and kills himself.
She was also tracked down by people outraged by the video. In addition to receiving charges for cruelty (as well as the cameraman), she was basically ostracized from society.
that is by far the best thing I have read in this thread! 
Not for anything in the world would I watch that! In fact, I’m with all of those who are not clicking or googling anything!
But it reminds of me of the most disturbing things I’ve ever read which was a graphic description written from the point of view of an inexperienced intern watching a man slowing choke to death due to swelling in his throat. The intern tries and fails to find help and then, in desperation, attempts a thracheotomy which goes horrifically wrong. Can’t remember the name of the book but will know it if I see it and never wish to go anywhere near it ever again.