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Helpful PSA- If you have kids or are around young children, take photos of them WITHOUT red eye filters. Best bet is to use a non-cell phone camera with a flash. Retinablastoma is often first diagnosed (unless it is familial) when a parent notices a white sheen in photographs. Cell phone cameras eliminate redeye which renders this useless.

If you see white instead of red, go to a pediatric ophthalmologist (not optometrist) immediately.

When treated early, retinoblastoma is very treatable (usually).

Keep your eyes on the road behind the truck after it hits the car.

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We tried this once before as a test. It was a failure. Not only was I not happy about removing gore content that still shocked people in the first place, but the sub we moved animal gore too never took off (I know right!).

People tended to think animal gore subs encouraged "animal abuse", which wasn't the case at all (does human gore encourage human murder?). Gore != Abuse

Example:

Animal Gore

Animal Abuse

Gore is gore. There's /r/animalabuse, as you already know, but I feel like that name encourages violence towards animals; we don't want to see animals abused, but we do want to see gore.

The difference:

Animal gore

Animal abuse

I also don't believe gore to should be limited to just humans, but I'm also working on something that's probably going to change that.

I grew up on The Operation back in the day (used to be on TLC?, then moved to Discovery Health). Saw a number of surgeries on that show, with both pre- and post-op interviews with the doctor(s) and the patient. Fascinating show, but two of the procedures—facelift surgery and cross eye surgery—were creepy as fuck.

In facelift surgery, they separate the skin from the underlying tissues in order to pull it taught; the creepy bit was when the doctor stuck his hand behind the skin and you could see his fingers pushing up from behind the skin. Like this, but on someone's face.

Cross eye surgery was much worse. When they cut the lateral rectus muscle, the eyeball does some crazy ass shit it just ain't supposed to ever do... like rotate (picture turning a doorknob). Rotate? Is that all?! Yeah, that doesn't sound anywhere near as "oh, god!" as it looks. Trust me.

i've read Man's Search for Meaning and a profound work it is too. but the psychology of prolonged systematic dehumanization, and the prolonged systematic struggle against it, is surly different from the immediacy of being bound and beheaded. maybe they are comparable philosophically, but the neuropsychology behind OP's question is more straight forward. KiebigesKind gives a good account of the acute stress reaction above.

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So Jealous, most nursing schools don't get to see dead bodies. I can't wait until med school to be able to dig in. Speaking of cadavers, check out this video, it made me cry and I know you'll appreciate it. I plan to donate what's left of my body after organ donation for med school students. So much respect for those who gave their bodies so that we may save others.

I'm not sure about an index of restricted videos, but if you use Greasemonkey you can use this userscript to bypass age verification.

After reading this none of the videos ever really seemed to capture the barbarity of the holocaust. The thing is, the worst parts of the holocaust were not recorded. The videos only show the aftermath. The other thing about the holocaust is that concentration camps and death camps were two completely different things. We know so much about Auschwitz because it wasn't an extermination camp, many people survived Auschwitz. Operation Reinhard, though, you can probably count on two hands the number of people who survived those camps.

Have you seen the Smart Splitter Manual Weight Log Splitter?

Youtube

They're sold in North America and Europe.

These things rock.

I am interested in the study of traumatic images and how their circulation functions to communicate in society. The internet and global communication technologies have made it possible for us to openly discuss previously taboo subjects. The cultural meaning behind the production and distribution of photographs of gore is fascinating. I studied photography so I am really into it from that angle.

If anyone is interested in this aspect of gore images and wants to talk gore photo history or cultural meaning with me, that would be awesome.

Also see if you can track down the book 'without sanctuary' http://withoutsanctuary.org/ it's all about lynching in america during the civil war era. It's full of beautiful photographs and talks about the history of gore as a method of behavior control.

Also oh my god I love this book published by the MIT press http://www.amazon.com/Lacan-at-Scene-Short-Circuits/dp/0262518082 again beautiful photos and great text about how gore and imagery go together.

So why R/Gore? Because I am a photo/gore nerd. Thats why.