Ok, so first off, let me say that I don't easily get squeemish or nausious. A lifetime of surfing the internet will do that to you. But the topic of this blog made me gag more than once, which is saying something. The lovely topic I'd like to discuss is of course, placenta eating!
Those of you who are fortunate enough to not have experianced childbirth probably don't know what a placenta is. Don't feel bad if you don't know, its not really something that they bring up in sex ed (or if they did bring it up, it must have been the day I was having unprotected anal sex in the bathroom with a random female partner).
In any case, thanks to the magic of wikipedia I bring you this quaint definition.
The placenta is a highly vascularized organ that connects the developing fetal tissues to the uterine wall, supplying the fetus with maternal nutrients, and allowing fetal waste to be disposed of via the maternal kidneys.
The placenta is often reffered to as the "afterbirth" because it generally is "birthed" aka pushed out 'jo vagina, after the baby. Thats all well and good, its deffinatly not pretty but neither are newborn babies. Mostly they tend to look like tadpoles, something else they failed to mention in sex-ed.
Ok so there isn't any nice way to say this other than, there are people who eat human placenta.
Here is a blog of a woman who decided that the first thing that she wanted to do after giving birth was to eat a piece of her own RAW PLACENTA!
Oh and there are even people who get together for placenta eating parties!
So I can't confirm its authenticity but if you just type "placenta eating" into google your going to get a lot more hits than you may care for.
Here's my take on the subject, if a baby was still-born, would you think its ok to eat it? No, obviously not. For one, that would make you a fuckin sadistic pyschopath, two its gross. But logically whats the difference between a dead baby, essentially a piece of meat, and a placenta?
Biologically the only difference (yes I know its a big difference but bare with me) is the configuration and variaty of cells. One is not more alive than the other. Im not proposing that we eat dead babies, i'm just trying to point out that eating placenta is cannabilism.
Somehow these people have come to the conclusion that cannabilism doesnt count if the meat in question squirted out of your vagina. It didn't come from thin air, the woman's body made it. That makes you a cannibal, am I the only one that gets this?
I wonder if these people would eat tumors removed from their bodies too?
To be perfectly clear, I'm not saying that these sick fucks should stop their little human excrament soirees but don't try to pass it off as natural or healthy. Maybe if you had no other source of meat and you were starving to death it would be reasonable to eat placenta, just like it would be reasonable to resort to cannabalism. But otherwise its a disgusting and unnessecary practice and expect people to say so.
It's a mad world...
God is an incompetant prick.
I've always loved George Carlin and as I move more towards an anti-theist philosophy in my life, I love him more and more each day.
There really is credibility to the notion that if there is a God, that he must be either extremely incompetent or, more than likely, just doesn't care about us.
If you may believe that he does care, take this into consideration. If we believe what scientific evidence tells us, that the human species has been around for at least 100,000 years, and we also believe what the bible tells us (sorry to pick on Christianity at the moment but its just because i'm lazy and I don't want to get into the other major religions right now, but don't worry, their time will come) if we believe what the bible tells us, then the Lord our savior was sent to a rather secluded region of the middle east around 2000 years ago to make the world a better place. For some reason God didn't choose to send him to China or another region of the world were they has already developed a written language and word of his deeds could be carried in a precise and efficient manner to the rest of the world(the bible was written several hundred years after the death of the supposed Christ so the story was carried by the most efficient venue, word of mouth).
So we would have to come to the conclusion given this understanding that God and all of heaven stood by for 98,000 years before presenting itself to humanity or 96,000 if you count Moses. Was God just so tired from making the Universe that he slept through the emergence of the species he supposedly made in his own image? If he wasn't hung over, then why allow for the rampant genocide, murder, rape, torture, infanticide, etc. of a developing species for so long before sending the savior? Also, on a side note, what about all the other God's that people had before the Judeo-Christian one? Remember how pissed he got about the golden calf? He devoted a whole commandment to it for God sake. Why didn't he get upset when the Greek's worshiped Apollo or Aieres instead of him? Are we to believe it's because he was still being a little old testament and had chosen a specific tribe of Isreal to be his special favorite children? That's not so easy to believe if we are also to believe that he can do anything and that he loves us all.
Anyways, i don't want to make this too long, but it just strikes me as strange to imply that a supreme being, that loves us so dearly, would treat us so poorly. While we cannot prove or disprove the existence of God, I think that I can say with certainty that if he does exist, he is either vastly incompetent or supremely malicious, or potentially both.
There is no humpty dumpty and there is no God.
-George Carlin
Dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blog
My favorite song from a great online musical short.
Watch the whole thing here.
Peace, not literally though...