{"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’s Got To Hurt"},"content":{"rendered":"

So this came up in the comments<\/a>, but these photos are so gross 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 pentitents, martyrs<\/a>, and mass mutilation cults<\/a>.
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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...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t