[UA] Trepanation for fun and profit.

[Michael Price]

Stevens Dustin <zoom2baba at yahoo.com> wrote:
Subject: Re: Re:[UA] Something UAish I just came
across

--- Gareth Hanrahan <hanrahag at iol.ie> wrote:
> > > >You know how it happens when you're watching
> the news,
> > > >or surfing the net, or something like that, and
> you
> > > >come across something that would make far more
> sense
> > > >in UA (or some other fictional context) than it
> does
> > > >in real life?

> Gamer goggles - the ability to relate anything into
> a gang of adventurers
> and/or an evil wizard....
> 

I had a surreal RPG moment this morning listening to
the news on the radio. Apparently a man in Utah was
just sentenced to jail-time for repeatedly drilling
holes in a woman's head. Apparently, he believed (and
I assume she did to) that through trephination she
would be cured of depression, since He claims to have
been cured in a similar way.

I actually I thought of the other Tynes baby, Delta
Green, as there is a organization consisting of people
who practice it in that game (the Army of the Third
Eye, which I won't reveal why they do it here).

But I'm sure it would be easy to fit trephination
(sp?) into UA somehow.

My contribution,
-----------------------------
There's a article in Pyramid magazine's Suppressed 
Transmission called "I need a trepanation like I need
a 
hole in the head.".  My father,a doctor, claims that 
trepanation is an easy but nerve-racking, you worry 
that you're going to drill strait into the brain but 
there's a slight weakening that warns you to back off.
A friend of his once perform the operation with a
Black
and Decker Workmate, saving a man's life.
  Trepanation would be a great way to get information
without too much pain to the victim.  It really looks 
like you're a sadistic homicidal manic so people will
fess up, but the pain and risk of death is probably 
low.


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