{"id":1364,"date":"2003-03-13T16:59:00","date_gmt":"2003-03-13T20:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles-wp\/?p=1364"},"modified":"2003-03-13T16:59:00","modified_gmt":"2003-03-13T20:59:00","slug":"thats-got-to-hurt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/2003\/03\/13\/16\/59\/thats-got-to-hurt\/","title":{"rendered":"That&#8217;s Got To Hurt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So this came up in the <a href=\"..\/Blogfiles\/comments.php?90600663\">comments<\/a>, but these photos are so gross I <i>knew<\/i> I had to run them here. I note that most religions feature fringe elements that delight in using bodily mortification or ritual mutilation to induce mental states of euphoria and grief that their adherents feel brings them closer to their gods. And soccer fans get tats. Human culture is so amazingly adaptive and yet normative that it astonishes me. Similar conditions of deprivation, political despair and oppression have throughout history provoked epidemics of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?num=100&#038;hl=en&#038;lr=lang_en&#038;ie=UTF-8&#038;oe=UTF-8&#038;safe=off&#038;q=christian+penitents+martyrs\">pentitents, martyrs<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?num=100&#038;hl=en&#038;lr=lang_en&#038;ie=UTF-8&#038;oe=UTF-8&#038;safe=off&#038;q=mortification+catherine+sienna\">mass mutilation cults<\/a>.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/story.news.yahoo.com\/news?tmpl=story2&#038;u=\/030313\/168\/3i6de.html&#038;e=4\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/Asset\/ShiiteSwords1.jpg\" alt=\"Shiite Muslim men cut their heads with swords during the annual ritual to mark Ashoura Day in the southern Lebanese town of Nabatiyeh, on Thursday March 13, 2003. Hundreds of Shiites in south Lebanon marked the 7th century killing of their most revered saint Imam Hussein, by slashing their heads with blades on the occasion known as Ashoura. Al Hussein was a grandson of Islam's Prophet Mohammed and is a symbol of martydrom for Shiite Muslims.\"\/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/story.news.yahoo.com\/news?tmpl=story2&#038;u=\/030313\/170\/3i5ek.html&#038;e=4\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/Asset\/ShiiteSwords2.jpg\" alt=\"A Lebanese Shi'ite Muslim mother helps her son beat himself with a sword during a ceremony of Ashoura held in Nabatiyeh, March 13, 2003. Shiites in Lebanon commemorate the killing of Imam Hussein, grandson of the Prophet Mohammed, by his rival over 1,400 years ago. More than 150,000 Lebanese packed the streets of Beirut's southern suburbs on Thursday, chanting 'Death to America,death to Israel,' in a mass rally called by Lebanon's Hizbollah guerrilla group.\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So this came up in the comments, but these photos are so gross I knew I had to run them here. I note that most religions feature fringe elements that delight in using bodily&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1364\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}