I remember reading somewhere one time, something about how its possible to live for up to a minute after you've been beheaded.

Back when women were still being beheaded for being witches and all that shit, a "doctor" asked a woman to keep blinking her eyes for as long as she was alive after they diced her head off.
She blinked for 30 seconds and then stopped. The doctor said her name, she opened her eyes, and looked right at him, and then died.

it takes one to know one...

Yeah but does your heart have anything to do with "living" then? If you're beheaded then I take it your heart goes 1st.

If you watch those videos, watch them with the SOUND OFF.

You may forget the images, but you will never forget the blood-curdling screaming.

I've heard the same anecdote years ago except that it was a scientifically minded man being beheaded.

They can fire up random memories by stimulating synapses in the brain.. memories are stored in the brain. Thats pretty much all there is to it.
Consciousness is tied directly to the brain... as is memory, personality, knowledge, creativity which are all altered by damage to the brain. If it wasn't, someone with a gradually increasing brain disorder like Alzheimer's Disease wouldn't slowly lose their personality memories etc.

Don't underestimate that blob, don't judge a brain by it's cover, we will no doubt not fully understand it for centuries.

:thumbsup

Consciousness is FILTERED through the brain. There is some evidence that it is independent.

I agree, to do otherwise is very ignorant. These are real people, and if you are sending them over there to do your bidding you should be aware of their plight. I didn't watch this video, but I have seen the other morbid ones before it, but at the same time I don't support the war in any event.

If KRL's theory is true, there would have to be some sort of a gateway between our bodies and this other place. The brain could very well be that basic gateway.

If it becomes damaged in certain areas, then certain signals couldn't be sent to whatever realm this other place exists.

Not saying I believe that. Just one of many theories nobody will ever be able to prove or disprove.

:(

I don't know anything about life after beheading, but I'm curious as to how the Iraq resistance are able to keep getting so many hostages. Aren't these workers supposed to be protected/guarded by soldiers? I imagine there is so much going on over there, people turning a blind eye, payoffs, traitors, and so on. It's like every week they have a new hostage being beheaded.

The lesson I take from the videos is that if you're an American citizen, or any foreigner for that matter, DO NOT set foot on Iraq soil. Stay away. If you go there you might be beheaded. But according to the news, apparently there are endless supplyl of people wanting to go for these super high paying jobs in Iraq regardless of the risk of death. It's just not worth it.

May those men rest in peace.

Occam's razor. Why bother with some elaborate unknown construction AND the brain when the brain is a very clear and obvious candidate in it's own right?

why wouldn't we all just exist in the other realm in the first place? why the need for a skin bag waddling around getting injured?
extraneous fluff.

Dude, I was about to post the exact same thing. :helpme

Pluralitas non est ponenda sine neccesitate :thumbsup

Not only that, adding a completely unknown factor to fill up a partial but working theory makes no sense. It may have been excusable for Descartes in his time, but right now it's just silly to believe the brain is some kind of modern pineal gland.

Besides, the whole concept of the soul is unscientific and, to be blunt, cowardly. Believing in things which can never be studied or understood is like giving up in the race for knowledge.

Well, if people would be able to understand the message as well as you did, there would be no more beheadings to see.

These people want to be left alone.

Sadamm is out, no WMD, now get the fuck out.

But nooooooooo of course, because that was not the reason of the Bush war in the first place.

Only that this war is not over yet, no matter what the Bush speaches say, it is far, far, from over.