[모임공지] 4월30일 토픽. Christopher deCharms looks inside the brain

[Fredy]

저번주에 이번 TED 올릴분 안정한 것 같아서 제가 그냥 올립니다. 저말고 다른분이 올릴려고 하셨으면 다음에 올려주세요.

참석자는 댓글 부탁드립니다.

http://www.ted.com/talks/christopher_decharms_scans_the_brain_in_real_time.html

Questions.

1. Where do you think your mind lives? in your body or in your brain or in your heart?

2. Have you heard about the story that people had a transplant operation and got memories from donor too? what do you think?

3. if the technology evolve, do you want to control your brain with a computer?

4. what do you do for your brain being good? eating good or working out regularly?

5. better brain or better look, which do you want more?

6. losing all your memories of others or others who close to you, losing all the memories of yours. which is more painful to you?

God Damn that HURT!!!....but it's WORTH IT!
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So when I was 15, I saw a guy at with his nipples pierced. I thought it was the coolest thing and I knew then that when I turned 18 I was gonna do it.

When I finally turned 18, I knew that soon I'd get pierced. I went to Zebra on Telegraph Avenue and walked inside. I chose Zebra because I had my cartilage pierced there a year earlier and the people there seemed to be very clean and very professional. When I walked inside, I told the guy behind the counter that I wanted to get both my nipples pierced. The total for both nipples was $90, $45 for each. The guy behind the counter explained that barbells would heal faster than rings, but being the cheap ass I am, I thought to myself that I didn't feel like buying more jewelry later on down the road, and I liked the rings, so I chose the them. It turns out that I ended up buying barbells 7 months later, so it didn't really matter what I chose. After selecting the jewelry, he offered me some numbing cream, but I turned it down because my nipples were going to hurt after the cream wore off, not to mention that I'd have to wait 45 minutes for the cream to take effect.

So after I paid I was handed a number and then waited for what seemed like forever. I was by myself and more nervous than I'd ever been about anything before in my life, but I knew I'd wanted this for so long and I told myself that I couldn't back out. I guess it was kind of like a right of passage for myself, and if I didn't go through with it I'd let myself down or something. While waiting I snacked on some complimentary cookies and soda so that I'd have some sugar in my system before I had a needle go through my nipples.

My number was finally called and I walked back into the piercing room. I sat up on a stool and the piercer told me to take my shirt off so he could mark my nipples with white tattoo ink to see where the needle would go. After marking my nipples, I checked to see if the markings were even (which they were) and I sat down and got ready to be pierced. The piercer clamped my nipples, which hurt quite a bit more than I thought it would, but I didn't think the piercing itself would hurt any more. I'd read that the piercing part doesn't hurt that much, so I wasn't too worried. After the nipples were clamped I watched the piercer take the piercing needle out of it's package. When I saw that the needle was a 10 gauge, I thought to myself, "Oh dear God, that's fucking huge!" That second before he pierced me was terrifying. I knew there was no turning back. As I breathed out, the 10 gauge needle tore through my flesh of my nipple. It was the most pain I'd ever felt in my life. It was so painful I didn't know what to think. The adrenaline was pumping so hard I couldn't even scream. I just remember my eyes rolling back into my head a little bit and trying to process what had happened. I looked down and the needle was sitting in my nipple. He told me that I'd feel a little discomfort when he put the jewelry in, which I did, but when he finished with the first nipple it was quite satisfying to look down and see my newly pierced nipple. The only bad part was knowing that I'd have to endure the same thing with my other nipple. The same thing happened, felt the same amount of pain, but then it was over, and I had my newly pierced nipples. It was awesome. The guy told me that I could sit down if I needed to, but I said I was alright. I wasn't alright like I thought I was, and after 2 steps I got really dizzy and laid down on the chair that was in the middle of the room.

The initial pain was over, and now it just felt like there were clamps on my nipples. Later that night, my left nipple started bleeding a lot. I freaked out about it because it didn't stop bleeding until the next morning. I got pierced at 5:00 in the evening, so bleeding for 16 hours was rather disconcerning. The first day was the worst, but after that it got better. The healing process took a while, and at one point one nipple seemed to get infected. I cleaned it with bactine, which I got at Safeway in the first aide section, and it cleared up within a week.

Now it's been almost a year since I've had the piercings and I'm totally healed now. It's fun to play with my nipples when I'm bored, and just tug on them, and even more fun when somebody tugs on them for me. They're really sensitive now so any touching of them makes them pretty hard really fast, and my nipples now seem to be connected to my dick. If my nipples get hard, so does my dick. The piercings are wonderful in bed and just way too much fun during foreplay. All in all, it was totally worth it. For anybody thinking about getting their nipples pierced, DO IT!!! Be ready for some pain in the beginning, but after they're healed they're the best things in the world.

Question
1. do you like to get pierced or tatoos somewhere in your body?
2. latest thing you do others think is useless doing it but you think is worth doing it
3. have you ever done Anything making poeple gross but making you satisfied?
4. if everybody related to you don't like it, you still want to do it?

5. say about what people do that you don't understand 

6. most useless and not worth doing you ever seen and you ever done 

[alice0608]

이번주에가고싶은데 이 길고긴 글들을 보니까 뭔가 까마득하네요 ㅋㅋㅋ;;제가칭구한명한테소개햇어요~ㅋㅋ

[Chris11]

ㅋㅋㅋ 이쁜친구 데려오는거임?? ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ 우리 열심히 준비해보아요 ㅋㅋ

[Jess]

헉.. 제가 올릴려 했는데.;;
김미나/ jESS /참석요 이주만이네요 이번주에 봅세당^^

[Chris11]

삼주만이죠! ㅋㅋㅋ 오랜만에 보겠네요 ㅋ

[Amelie♥]

ㅎㅎㅎ 여기 스터디 분위기 훈훈하네요? ㅋㅋ

[Chris11]

2nd/Chris/손영락/ 다들 건강한 모습으로 봐요 ㅋㅋㅋ

[Joe!]

3th / Joe / 장찬우 / 참석한다고 예-전에 댓글달았엇는데 계속 사정이 생겨 참석못하다가 이번주에야 입성하게 됩니다. 잘부탁드립다. ^^

[Chris11]

반가워요ㅋㅋ토욜에뵐게요ㅋ

[Fredy]

4th / 이재술(Fredy) 참석합니다

[Chris11]

이번주에도부탁드릴게요ㅋㅋ

[Julie_t]

5th/Julie/탁은지 참석이요!! 토요일에 뵈용!

[Chris11]

안녕 타르크은지??ㅋㅋ내일봐ㅋ

[★andy★]

- 토픽 준비 완료 ^^ -