#'death first to vultures and scavengers' goes so hard

[what-ive-been-reading]

Gideon the Ninth - Tamsyn Muir

One Sentence Summary:

Lesbian space necromancers solve God's dogshit puzzles.

Did I Like It?

Absolutely. This is what got my reading again a few years ago. It whips so much ass it's not even funny. Huge recommendation.

Would Another Me Have Liked It?

I think teenager me would've been brain-blasted by this book. I think it would've become kind of a cornerstone of my taste in media moving forward.

Expanded Thoughts:

Oh my god they're so in love it's crazy.

At first I thought this was a YA book because, well, it's kind of written like a YA book. I honestly still feel that way about it. I don't necessarily think that's a bad thing, but it does kind of get in its own way sometimes. It never fully enters "Marvel Humor" territory but it does get kind of close.

"Death first to vultures and scavengers" goes so hard, which is probably why everyone talks about it.

I don't think a book needs to surprise you to be good. This book ISN'T surprising, but it takes the obvious and grinds it to a grotesquely sharp finish. It is immediately apparent what's going on in Canaan House and what the real deal is with the Third House, but the ride is worth it.

That said there WAS absolutely one twist that no one can predict but it works extremely well. I knew something was off but there's just no way to get it before it happens and that's GOOD. A teen me would have also absolutely fallen for it because I was a teenager.

[s-b-party]

Vultur Volans: Alhaitham and the Flying Vulture

****Possible spoilers ahead!!! (TW: there is one pic of a vulture covered in blood)

Our “feeble scholar”, Alhaitham, is someone who prefers to be away from the eyes of others not because he cares about how others perceive him but because he would prefer to not interact with others (that’s so relatable😭)

Volans means flying/soaring & Vultur is a generic translation for vultures, but not many vultures today have it as part of their scientific name; the reason for this is bc the word vulture is used to refer to a group of raptors that look similar & share a common trait: they feed on carrion

So why is his constellation the vulture, a creature that tends to stand out in the skies or whenever it’s feeding, when he himself is often hard to find?

Normally the first thing we think of when we think of a vulture is “a bird of prey that is an intimidating scavenger,” but there is a lot more to it than just how we perceive it (TW: blood on vulture in 2nd photo)

Vultures are intelligent creatures & can be quite wholesome when we look at the way they look after their own family

Like other birds, they will digest food first to regurgitate back into their chicks’ mouths so that their offspring can get the nutrition they need; interestingly, this includes bones which are an important source of calcium (listen, I think they’re wholesome even with this regurgitating behavior, you can’t change my mind 😂)

They are usually social animals that live in groups although few may choose to be solitary

Now that I’ve gotten the wholesome agenda out, let’s look at the symbolism associated with vultures; although they are usually associated with death, there are a LOT of meanings attached to vultures, both positive & negative, so I’m going to focus on the ones that I think can be strongly connected to Alhaitham & his lore: motherhood & intelligence

Intelligence is the easiest out of the two to see in his lore, but motherhood is probably the last thing you would think of as a concept present in Alhaitham’s lore at first glance, but I think we should take a closer look at his childhood & how he was raised since it would eventually lead to him becoming the person he is today (motherhood is present essentially in the entirety of his Character Story 5)

He had a grandmother who raised him after the death of his parents. His grandmother had essentially become the mother figure in his life who clearly loved him & understood him. She knew that Alhaitham was incredibly smart even for a child, reading difficult works at the age of seven

She opted to have him start school early, but when he came back telling her that everybody was boring & that he preferred reading books over listening to others lecture, she agreed to let him be self-taught rather than forcing him to attend school

This reminds me of those situations where students sometimes become depressed because they’re not getting the intellectual stimulation needed when they are forced to learn at the same pace as those who are struggling to understand or are new to learning the topics (it might not be the same exact situation but it could speak to him not enjoying his time at school)

Some might wonder “Wouldn’t his self-taught education have negatively affected his social skills since he most likely saw others at the Akademiya boring and thus avoided interacting with them?”

The thing is when it comes to his social skills, there are a number of factors to consider: he knows that everybody has different strengths & weaknesses in various aspects (intelligence, work capability, judgement, etc.) & he knows that he is very different from them, so he already understands that his interactions w/ “ordinary” people are not going to be quite fulfilling; we have to keep in mind that he was VERY young (7 years old) when he was reading about topics that probably many children wouldn’t have understood at that point

I think it goes back to the idea of needing proper intellectual stimulation so that could explain why he called those people “boring” & why he didn’t really vibe with the lectures from that day

We know that he avoids interacting with others, it’s not that he’s incapable, it’s because he doesn’t think such interactions are quite necessary; if it is necessary for him to interact w/ somebody (like in the archon quest w/ the traveler), then yes, he will make an appearance & interact, but otherwise, you’re not going to have much luck w/ him

A subtle factor to consider that could further explain his attitude towards socializing with others is the environment of Sumeru itself when the Akasha was still running

Up until the point when the Akasha was shut down by Nahida, many of the citizens took everything that the Akasha ever told them to be factual without ever questioning it, but Alhaitham merely saw it as another source of information that he didn’t completely rely on

For him, it probably felt like being in a nation full of sheep (the mob mentality was probably strong); if he’s interacting with someone who’s just going to regurgitate what a machine tells them, he might as well just be using his own Akasha; chances are he frequently encountered people who simply placed their trust in the Akasha rather than question it

There’s also the fact that knowledge in Sumeru is highly prized & those who show evidence of being geniuses or prodigies are usually shown with much respect (qualifying people based on intelligence is what divides the citizens of Sumeru to the extent of a hierarchy; it’s the reason why there is an obvious divide mainly between scholars & the desert people even though the latter for a long time didn’t have access/had limited access to resources that scholars had within the city so it’s an unfair assessment of the desert people to begin with); Alhaitham is someone who doesn’t like extravagance/over-the-top treatment, which we can see in how his position is something that is glorified/hyped up by others

In other words, he doesn’t like people making a big deal out of matters or stalling around when it comes to conversing

Alhaitham’s grandmother taught him to not take his intelligence & uniqueness for granted; bc his intelligence is so high, she believed that it was his responsibility to always stay clear-minded & objective

As a result, Alhaitham doesn’t care about being exalted as a genius or looked down upon as a loner by others in Sumeru; he just looks at everything as it is without overly praising/criticizing something/someone

You can tell it’s a trait he values, he’s even smiling as he mentions it being one of his strengths

Understandably, there are going to be people who don’t like him after talking to him because their feelings WILL be hurt not only because he’s straightforward with his words but also because not everybody will react well to being exposed/being told they’re wrong/questioned, etc.

Obviously Alhaitham isn’t trying to be mean unless he’s intentionally trying to bait you, then that’s another story, but he will & does acknowledge both a person’s weaknesses & strengths (a lot of people will find his bluntness to be a negative quality, but at least nobody will ever have to worry about him dancing around in a conversation with rhetoric)

In the end, Alhaitham seems to be happy living a life where he doesn’t have to interact with others a lot; his grandmother wanted him to have a peaceful life too so it seems to be a win-win situation for Alhaitham honestly considering that he gets paid well as a scribe & he is living comfortably

What’s interesting is that society even in our world views being a loner as a negative trait because it implies that you don’t know how to interact with people & there seems to be a requirement(?) to be able to interact with others because that’s just how it is (for any occasion regardless of whether it’s personal or business)

As I’ve said before, it’s not that Alhaitham doesn’t know how to socialize, he chooses not to if he can help it whereas others are just not comfortable doing so

Now the reason why I talked so much about his social skills is because part of it is how he was raised not just in Sumeru but also by his only family, his grandmother who essentially became his mother figure, going back to the concept of motherhood being present in his lore

Based on how he is in the present, I would argue that he was raised well in spite of his bluntness; his grandmother loved him & wanted him to be happy; it sounds like she didn’t force him into anything that he didn’t want to do (like going to school), she taught him to never take his intelligence for granted & to always remain objective; by letting Alhaitham be self-taught, she helped him to nurture his critical thinking skills & his ability to question others

We don’t know exactly if she ever brought up the topic of being blunt to Alhaitham, but if she did, it didn’t really seem like she saw a problem with it, at least not enough for him to change his ways from a young age

It’s interesting seeing such a character and knowing that his family loved him; honestly when we first met him in the archon quest, I wasn’t expecting to hear about him having a grandmother who took care of him; it’s wholesome, maybe not as wholesome as some other things in the game but it’s still a bit wholesome 😊

[inneedofgriddlehark]

Thinking about how "Death first to vultures and scavengers" goes so hard but also like. Harrow, girl, the Ninth House scavenges from it's own dead constantly. Like I get you mean those that take from others but that is what you do on the reg. That is why you have nothing new until you get Anastasia's room on the Mithraeum

[mememanufactorum]

Ace Combat Zero quotes

* Feel free to share as you please, no credit needed. Change pronouns or anything else as desired.

“Oh, him? Yeah, I know him.”

“Did you know there are three kinds of aces? Those who seek strength, those who live for pride, and those who can read the tide of battle.”

“It was a cold and snowy day…”

“It’s starting to come down.”

“You’d better have our pay ready and waiting.”

“Be ready to pay up. We’ll be back before you know it.”

“[name], I got a feeling you and I are gonna get along just fine. Buddy.”

“It all started on that snowy day.”

“My first impression was… He had potential.”

“I forgot about my job and read everything I had on hand.”

“We were all on an equal footing, fighting under the same conditions. No affiliations or ranks to hinder us.”

“The only rule of engagement was to survive.”

“We WILL survive, [name].”

“I figured you’d say that. This is gonna cost you extra.”

“Unlike you mercenaries, I fight for a real cause.”

“The ones who survive are those who fight for their convictions.”

“Dead men’s words hold no meaning.”

“Those mercenaries are crazy!”

“He hesitated. A vulnerability that can be exploited.”

“I was certain I would win.”

“We protect the meek and give our lives for honor. But that does not mean that we are generous… Since generosity will cost us our lives.”

“Well, then, let’s have some fun.”

“I figured it was just temporary chaos and it’d be over by the time I got there.”

“Every now and then, guys like that appear on a battlefield. Someone special, y’know?”

“War is something fought on the desk of politicians. As long as they win in the end, that’s all that matters.”

“But for us, it’s a matter of survival. In order to survive, you need to be able to analyze the situation in an instant.”

“Time to hunt some wild dogs.”

“Looks like we were just a couple of decoys.”

“Yo, Buddy, you still alive?”

“Back then, I was bursting with pride.”

“Staying where it was nice and warm wouldn’t accomplish anything.”

“Whatever it may be, the fact remains I was forced to walk a different path in life than the one I had envisioned.”

“They only fight for their own power and fame.”

“[name], let’s do this right. We got the pride it takes to win!”

“They’ve got a reason to fight. This battle’s over.”

“Let’s take care of them.”

“It takes time to admit you lost.”

“[name], you hear those people screaming for freedom? That’s where we come in!”

“It felt like he could see right through me. He was always one step ahead of me.”

“I didn’t feel like I was fighting with a human being.”

“I wanted to end that battle as quickly as possible.”

“It signals peace, but to me, they are the sounds of death.”

“Everyone is a hero and a villain. And no one knows who is the victim and who is the aggressor.”

“And what is ‘peace’?”

“Looks like we live to see another day, [name].”

“Mercenaries like us are disposable to the guys in charge.”

“But in the end, we survived.”

“When are you planning to buy those flowers?”

“Wait around too long and another guy’s gonna steal her away from you, you know.”

“This is no time to talk about my personal life!”

“Yo Buddy, you’ve got everyone fired up and believing in miracles.”

“Right on! Now that’s what I call teamwork!”

“[name], you hear that warm welcome? It’s the sweet sound of victory.”

“Not bad for a group of misfits, huh?”

“Dammit, there’s too many of them! We can’t handle them all!”

“Time to dive into the fireworks!”

“Looks like you’ve still got the touch.”

“It’s happening just as you thought.”

“It’s about time we got out of this dead-end job.”

“Not just yet.”

“They’re attacking without mercy. Do they plan on burning everything?”

“He can’t be human!”

“He’s like a demon…”

“I’ve never seen anything like it.”

“I fight for peace. That’s what I’m up here for.”

“While you’re up here ‘fighting for peace,’ tons of blood is being shed on the ground. Some ‘peace,’ kid.”

“And I’m here to put an end to that.”

“You think you can stop the bloodshed by shedding more blood?”

“Flying with all those ideas floating around in your head is gonna get you killed.”

“Anyway, I’d really gone out with a bang this time.”

“It’s a scary thought, but it also makes you feel alive.”

“But it gets pretty lonely up there all by myself.”

“Guess they’ve come to pick on the dead again.”

“This is the worst kind of support we could hope for.”

“Those mercenaries smell of money and death. They’re nothing but vultures… Scavenging for profit through the blood of others.”

“Sorry about the accommodations. It goes with the business. I’m not active during the day.”

“Something unexpected happened.”

“I figured the least I could do was take them down in return.”

“Of course, that was where my luck ran out.”

“Though I guess it’s hard for bad guys like us to die.”

“The real heroes always manage to die first.”

“We live the rest of our lives in hell.”

“But, then again, being alive is proof that we were good.”

“This will be your final lesson.”

“I’ll show him he’s only digging his own grave.”

“What’s important on the battlefield is to let go of hate, to survive, and to adhere to the rules you’ve set for yourself.”

“There was no more need for an old soldier like me.”

“Hatred cannot be the only motivation for war. It only brings about more pointless deaths.”

“I will never overcome that grief.”

“I’ll just look on from here.”

“He was unstoppable.”

“It didn’t matter where the battlefield was, the man had complete trust in his own powers.”

“He was born for battle, a Demon Lord who struck down all opposition.”

“He was born for combat. It was no wonder they called him a Demon Lord.”

“That said, it was hell trying to keep up with him.”

“He was cool-headed and proud. A combat professional.”

“Maybe the man was blessed by the goddess of war.”

“Before long, everyone had taken notice of him.”

“People wanted to burn his image in their memories.”

“Hell, they weren’t the only ones.”

“Learn to accept it, kid. This is war.”

“There’s no mercy in war. It’s a collision of powers.”

“Even war has a set of rules to follow!”

“Damn them all…”

“Nobody knew why they were fighting anymore.”

“All I felt at that point was sadness for the world.”

“You gonna get remarried to your girl?”

“We’re both getting married for the first time!”

“Don’t worry, I’ll catch up.”

“Nah… I’m just sad.”

“There’s no impossible jobs for us mercenaries!”

“Your fairy godmother’s here, Cinderella.”

“How can you say that after what just happened?”

“Today is your lucky day, [name]. Like your birthday.”

“And you’re here to pull me off in a magical carriage, huh? To hell I suppose…”

“Buddy… I’ve found a reason to fight.”

“This is where we go our separate ways.”

“And I like to play polo. You know, the game with the horses?”

“…Maybe we should get going now.”

“I should be able to do that too.”

“This war should be over already.”

“Why would they do this after all that’s happened?”

“I’m going to put an end to this war.”

“We’ll decide when this war ends… And now is not the time.”

“Today is a day of hope.”

“We have to go into battle.”

“Are they being stupid or is it just part of a plan?”

“The rest is up to you.”

“Our lives might’ve been different.”

“I will never forget his overwhelming power.”

“I returned alive from that battlefield.”

“There’s no meaning there now that he’s gone.”

“He soon passed away, leaving me behind.”

“We were only able to spend a short time together in peace and quiet.”

“But those who hearts are in the sky will always return to the sky.”

“And he died there, never to return to me.”

“It’s an awful place, but the fastest shortcut.”

“Don’t even think about heading back.”

“What are you fighting for?”

“I will eliminate the false hero.”

“You will make a worthy opponent.”

“What are you doing?! The war’s ended long ago!”

“It’s time for a perfect world without restrictions or wars.”

“He’s going to destroy everything!”

“I’ll follow [name] to the end!”

“I thought I was watching magic.”

“I’d never felt fear toward an opponent.”

“The same went for my ideals. I wasn’t afraid to take on even an entire country.”

“But when I was fighting him, something felt different.”

“There’s always a war somewhere and I’m sure he’s on some battlefield somewhere fighting even now.”

“He’ll always have a place to live.”

“Let the victor be justice.”

“I was hoping to meet you under different circumstances.”

“The table is surrounded by politicians who have never placed a foot on the battlefield.”

“It’s a necessary discussion to build a peaceful world.”

“It’s a disgusting squabble on who gets the largest share of the pie and that’s why it needs to end.”

“It is for that duty that we raised the King.”

“Let’s begin.”

“This place is no longer a battlefield.”

“Clashing greed is the cause of all conflict.”

“Style and skill does not matter in battle.”

“We will carry out the new creation of destruction through the power of righteousness.”

“Territories, peoples, authorities… All will be liberated.”

“Neither nations nor nationalities have meaning.”

“We will erase these unnecessary borders.”

“The world will change.”

“He’s not destroying anything unnecessarily.”

“This darkness and that little window are my entire world now.”

“I’m actually rather fond of it.”

“The darkness envelops me in a borderless world, a world with no boundaries.”

“No matter what the desired outcome is, the world can still change as long as people expand their knowledge and desire change.”

“If I’m with you, I know I can do it.”

“I’ll follow your lead.”

“We’re gonna stop it, no matter what.”

“I never want to see that barren land again.”

“We’re gonna be rich!”

“We’re gonna be heroes!”

“I’m gonna propose to her when I get back. I even bought flowers!”

“So, have you found a reason to fight yet?”

“Here comes the snow…”

“Those who survive a long time on the battlefield start to think they’re invincible.”

“I bet you do too, Buddy.”

“Can you see any borders from here? What has borders given us?”

“We’re going to start over from scratch.”

“It’s pretty ironic, Buddy. A couple of dogs like us fighting the last battle.”

“There’s no mercy in war. People live and people die. That’s all there is to it.”

“You fired up? Come shoot me down.”

“It’s time.”

“Too bad, Buddy.”

“This twisted game needs to be reset.”

“You’re the only one who can stop him.”

“I pray for your success.”

“You and I are opposite sides of the same coin.”

“When we face each other, we can finally see our true selves.”

“There may be a resemblance, but we never face the same direction.”

“Fire away, coward!”

“Come on!”

“Come on, let’s go back home.”

“We wouldn’t want to keep anyone waiting for you.”

“Maybe this was one path to achieve peace.”

“I should have died that day. But I didn’t.”

“I felt an unbearable sadness when I witnessed that landscape.”

“It may be true that the world has no need of borders. But would getting rid of them really change anything?”

“The world won’t change for the better unless we trust people.”

“Trust is vital in a peaceful world.”

“But that’ll never happen.”

“I want to see for myself what borders really mean and what their volition really is…”

“I may not find what I’m looking for but I still wanna try.”

“Anyway, that’s what I’ve come to believe and I think that’s enough.”

“Yo Buddy. Still alive?”

“And thanks friend. See you again.”

“I was never able to find out what kind of a person he really was.”

“But whenever they talked about him, they always had a slight smile on their faces.”

“That, perhaps, might be my answer.”

[coeurvrai]

Anyways, Serefin turns up the charm and I actually enjoy when Serefin does this just because it’s refreshing, and far more believable than “war hero general at 16 who also gets drunk on a regular basis and won’t go after the Kalyazi Cleric that threatens to turn the tide of the war”, and we get it in a Nadya chapter! Thank fuck for that.

“Who is this?” he asked the attendant. His lips quirked into a crooked smile.

Her heart was pounding so hard it felt like her entire body was shaking, but she forced herself to move past the attendant anyway.

“Józefina Zelenska, Your Highness,” she said, executing a flourished bow that not even Malachiasz could complain about.

“Zelenska,” the prince mused. “Do I know the name?” he asked the short girl.

She shook her head slowly, appearing puzzled.

“I’m not surprised. Łaszczów is a bit out of the way for royalty,” Nadya said.

I’m still so confused about that bit where everyone like bows, because Serefin stated before that court manners dictate curtsying as the proper formality, but every girl since then has bowed to him. But I do like the detail anyways that at least confirms that Nadya was at least learning a little bit about court niceties because of the fact that she bows. It’s re-affirming in a roundabout sense.

Also, I don’t know why Nadya would say that. Isn’t Łaszczów near the border between Kalyazi and Tranavia, which was chosen to explain away her Kalyazi accent? This is actually something I was wondering earlier when they were proposing this and I don’t know if I actually said it. But since Serefin goes out to the front a lot, wouldn’t he have probably been there?

Also is Zelenska a real noble house or a made-up one? Cause what if people who are from Łaszczów or are familiar with the area know of the house and know she’s a fake, if it’s real? I assume it isn’t just because how do they know if a member of House Zelenska hasn’t been sent already, which brings me to the other side. What if people recognise that’s not a real noble house from the area? Then they’re fucked.

Something flickered over his expression and he took a step closer. His eyes narrowed on her face and she felt her pulse speed.

“Remove the mask,” he said, then, as an afterthought, “please.”

He’s going to see straight through Malachiasz’s spell, she thought, horrified, as she undid the catch and slowly pulled the mask away from her face.

With each beat of her heart she felt closer to death. He reached out and took her chin in his hand, lifting her face up to his.

“I’ve been to Łaszczów,” he said softly. “I feel like I would remember such a face.”

So he has! Also why is Serefin flirting far less insufferable. I mean, I still don’t forgive him or ED for that whole gross infantilisation bullshit with Felicíja. Maybe it’s, again, that the whole demeanor suits him and is far more preferable than the other stuff the book has tried to feed me about him.

Although considering Serefin is like nineteen and Nadya is explicitly seventeen, I’m still side eyeing this quite a bit.

Nadya tells him that she travels to Akola frequently and they’ve probably missed each other because of it. Serefin seems to take that excuse well, because he doesn’t question it further.

“Perhaps. A shame our paths did not cross. Good luck to you, Józefina.”

She hastily put the mask back on. “Thank you, Your Highness.”

It wasn’t until Nadya had been led to her chambers that she felt like she could breathe again.

Come back, Serefin! I want your mediocrity to balance out how annoying and stupid Nadya is!

She tore the mask off her face and tossed it onto a chair. Taking in the room, she was met with the same level of splendor and intimidation she witnessed while walking through the palace halls. There was a lush chaise and a set of chairs in the sitting room, along with an end table and mahogany desk to one side. There were bookshelves that looked like they had never been touched except when cleaned. Oil paintings hung on the walls—portraits of Tranavian slavhki, probably.

Nadya looked up at the ceiling, and the sight chilled her bones. A massive mural of birds stretched over the entire surface—Vultures shown most prominently—surrounded by dripping, acidic flowers.

A bit more description than Queen Klarysa’s room but still sparse, nothing sounds “lush” and of “splendor”, despite the chaise being described as such. Also since it’s confirmed that the Vultures are definitely linked and associated with the birds, why are they idolised so much? They’re scavenger birds, picking apart corpses, usually waiting for other animals to eat first.

I mean, the figurative definition is more fitting than the literal bird symbolism - “a contemptible person who preys on or exploits others; a person who profits from the suffering of others.”

Also, I’m going to make an educated guess, and assume that “acidic flowers” means they’re unpleasantly bright and/or colourful, and give that description a pass, even though when I initially read that, I was like “what in the actual fuck”.

Parijahan writes on a note and points out that the rooms are probably magically bugged, so it’s not exactly safe to say things willy-nilly, and Nadya agrees.

Nadya nodded, reaching up for her prayer beads before remembering they were in her pocket. She had spent the better part of the journey carving the gods’ symbols into thin circles of wood, which she attached to the cover of Malachiasz’s spell book. It would work, in a roundabout way, and appear as though she was casting like a blood mage.

... what???? How does THAT even fucking work? Also you had? You hadn’t even mentioned it before, not once. Also how does that work??? You could argue she means the cover page, which is inside of a book, but it says the cover! How does she look like a blood mage if she’s not even opening the book? Also are you telling me that no Tranavian can recognise the symbols of Kalyazi gods?! Or that no one will find it weird that this girl has symbols on the front of her book???

Can you clear the spells from these rooms, please? She sent the prayer to Veceslav, but it was Marzenya who answered.

“Can you feel it?”

Nadya paused. She leaned back against a chair and closed her eyes, letting herself feel the invisible wall separating gods from men. She felt it the moment they had stepped into Tranavia, the weight of the veil pressing down against her, choking off her only access to the divine.

She was strong enough to fight through it, but this was manmade magic created to fight against the gods. This was greater than anything Nadya expected and would make her task all the more impossible.

I feel it.

And yet Nadya doesn’t need to make any extra effort in order to reach her gods, she just prays and they are there, as the plot requires them to be. God forbid she’s forced to have go through a more arduous process in order to contact them due to the fact that she’s in Tranavia. Also how did you not expect that it’d be harder to reach them? You’re in the enemy kingdom whose very basis of society is predicated on rejecting the gods and reveling in blood magic!

Also of course Marzenya says something now and not when they were at the border and therefore closer to Kalyazin. I can’t say I’m surprised at this point.

[meredithjpierre]

Best Eating Practices For Humans by Dr Lodi

There are two kinds of land mammals. There’s the cats and dogs, which means lions, tiger, panther, and then the dogs, which are wolves, hyena, jackal, like that. Their jaw only goes up and down. Their teeth are long and sharp, there’s nothing flat, no flat. Even the back teeth, if you open the dog’s mouth, are sharp. They don’t have lips and they don’t have cheeks. That’s why when a dog is eating, the food falls out, they have to pick it up.

Their saliva is acidic. Their intestines are smooth and short, and they’re only three times the length of the trunk. Anyway, their liver has certain enzymes and they don’t sweat. They don’t sweat. When they’re hot, they pant. And their feet and claws are designed to kill, so …

Now, the other non-dog, non-cat, everything, elephants, rhino, giraffe, raccoon, not raccoon, deer, all the animals without snouts, the jaws move horizontal and vertical, for grinding. So, they have to grind, you have flat teeth.

People say because we have this tooth that we are carnivores. It’s the same, it doesn’t go down below the line. It functions as an incisor, it does not function as a piercing. If you’re confused, you go to the zoo and make the lion angry so he goes … and you’ll see. You’ll see canine, those are canine. They’re long, they’re pointed, and they’re meant to pierce, to kill.

So, we don’t have those. Dracula does. You remember Dracula, right? He has them, so for Dracula he’s okay, he can drink blood … You guys like blood?

When you eat meat, do you like it cooked?

Very well, right? You wanna boil away the blood, right? Just eat the muscle and what else, the nerve tissue, you like-

Anyway, so the saliva is alkaline, the cheeks and the lips … So, when we’re chewing, it doesn’t fall out.

Dog and cats don’t have lips, you know that, right? Did you ever try to kiss your dog?

Anyway, the intestines are eight to 12 times the length, eight to 12 times the length of the trunk. For example, my torso may be one meter. The digestive tract is 10 meters. We don’t make uric acid. And we sweat, we don’t pant.

And we have hands and fingers. We can’t kill, you can’t kill, it’s hard to kill. You can kill small animals. You could probably pick up a rabbit and choke it and then eat it. Do you like to eat the rabbit?

Just rip it open and eat important? Well, see, that’s a carnivore. These hands were made for pulling, plucking, peeling, planting, not killing. In fact, if we want to kill, we have to get a weapon, a tool. We have to make something to kill. We’re not designed to kill.

When they talk about omnivores, an omnivore is an animal that eats anything, right? Well, all omnivores must be able to kill, because if there’s not enough plants around they need to be able to kill. And therefore, all omnivores have a snout.

So, a dog is really an omnivore, a cat is a carnivore because a cat must kill and eat the animal alive. The dog, they would rather somebody else kill it and they like to eat the corpse. They prefer corpse. Everybody here prefer corpse? You like corpse, right?

Better than animal alive, right? You like to eat dead lambs, right, dead sheep?

So, anyway, the carnivore, the cats, they kill the animal, they break the act, and when the animal’s dead, then they eat it. They eat the inside first. They eat the liver and the heart and they eat the uterus, the ovaries, the testicles. Sounds good? The lungs, kidneys. They drink the blood. They chew on the eyeballs, the eyeballs are really good. You can suck out the eye, if you have a long tongue you suck, you pull the eyeball out and you can eat it.

Now, if they’re full and they walk away, what they save for the vulture, you know the vulture, is what we call steak. The scavenger, this is the one, this is the one, the dogs …

A bear is an omnivore. A bear is big and strong, but they have a snout. 90% of their diet is plant. They love berries, they love honey. But if they have to kill, they can.

Now, the problem is they have, you know, if there’s a dead animal on the ground the dog will smell it, and the dog will smell it and by the smell will know if he can eat it. If the animal is dead for more than 48 hours, 72 hours, they won’t eat it, ’cause know they know it’s food for bacteria and insects.

But we don’t know that ’cause we’re stupid, we’re really stupid. So, we kill the animal and it gets stiff. It’s called rigor mortis. If you try to eat it, you break your teeth. So, we hang it up and we let it decay. We let it decay for 96 hours and now it’s soft enough to chew. So, we cut out the puss, we cut out the maggots, and then we can eat it. We still don’t wanna eat it, so then we cook it.

So, we not only, we don’t eat the food of the carnivore, we don’t even eat the food of the scavenger. We eat the food of the maggot.

By the way, we don’t say that we decay it. When you’re in a restaurant the guy doesn’t come up to you and say, “This was decayed for two months, we’ve been decaying … ” No. He says aged, aged, it’s aged beef.

Well, when I was learning English, I learned that things that are alive can age, like a baby ages and becomes a child, the child ages and becomes an adult. But if it’s dead, it can’t age. It decays.

Why do we say aged? Because we instinctively would never eat a decayed corpse. And we don’t even call it that. Do you say to your family, “Would you like some dead pig and chicken embryos for breakfast?” No, we say, “Would you like some bacon and eggs? Would you like some … ” Right? We say it like that.

So, we change the name, we call it beef. What’s a beef? Did you ever see a beef walking around? What do they look like, beefs? How about nuggets? I’ve never seen nuggets walking around. Have you seen a nugget? Sausages? Veal? Veal is a cute little name for a tortured baby animal. So, we don’t wanna say the truth.

It’s just like, does anybody have health insurance? No. You have disease insurance. If you’re healthy, they don’t give you anything. How about life insurance? It’s death insurance, it’s not life insurance. If you’re alive, you don’t get it until you die? Why do we do this? Because humans have to justify everything they do. So, we lie to ourselves, we lie to each other.

Now, if you took a rabbit and an apple and you put it next to a baby, a two-year-old, a one-year-old, he’ll eat the apple and play with the rabbit. If you put the rabbit and an apple in the cage with a baby tiger, they’ll eat the rabbit and play with the apple.

So, instinctual, before, everybody’s young, you have to force your child to eat dead animals. They would not naturally eat dead … If you have a turtle, a rabbit, chicken, a cow, and you have a banana, fruit, what would a human normally eat? Are they gonna eat the animal? No. You have to teach it.

Have you ever gone driving in the country and you see all the grass, beautiful, and you see a cow walking and eating, right?

Right? Or you’re walking home and there’s a dead animal, what do you do? Do you go, “Great, I don’t have to go shopping now”?

We wanna give you the skills here, so you can learn how to prepare. One of them would be to go shopping? How do you pick a ripe piece of fruit? How do you pick a ripe tomato? Do you buy tomatoes that are still not ripe so that they can sit at home and get ripe at home? No? Cause a lot of people do that.

When you eat food, the important things are organic, fresh, and ripe. The problem is when they picked the banana, they picked it green. They picked it green because they had to get it to you. So, really, it wasn’t picked at the right time. The best banana is the banana that you pick right off the tree and eat. We can’t eat that way, so we have to …

The reason I tell you this is just so you can try to do it as, you can try to get as close as possible to eating the right way.

So, anyway, the good news is you will have a brand-new body in a year from now. So, take control of what that’s going to be. And the other thing that we’ll talk about, that’s very important, is your mind, your state of mind, your stress and all that sort of thing, because that impacts.

You can be eating the best food in the world and cleaning your colon out, and you can be in a relationship with somebody that is toxic, and it’ll all get wiped out. And you can come to a center like this and you can get well, and you go back home and you’ll be right back where you started.

So, again, the ability to deal with stress and to have good relationships, healthy relationships and things like that, very, very important.

And so, if you have those three things, we change your database, we give you skills, how to shop, how to prepare healthy foods, and we give you the experience, and then you’re here long enough to get some habits about going to sleep, then you go back, then you have a chance.

Also, you need to come with a spouse or a family member, because if you go back and you’re the only one that changed and you go back to a family who looks at you like you’re crazy, it won’t last. I always say bring your spouse and your mother and everybody, the more people the better.

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[shirleyjgolding]

Best Eating Practices For Humans by Dr Lodi

There are two kinds of land mammals. There’s the cats and dogs, which means lions, tiger, panther, and then the dogs, which are wolves, hyena, jackal, like that. Their jaw only goes up and down. Their teeth are long and sharp, there’s nothing flat, no flat. Even the back teeth, if you open the dog’s mouth, are sharp. They don’t have lips and they don’t have cheeks. That’s why when a dog is eating, the food falls out, they have to pick it up.

Their saliva is acidic. Their intestines are smooth and short, and they’re only three times the length of the trunk. Anyway, their liver has certain enzymes and they don’t sweat. They don’t sweat. When they’re hot, they pant. And their feet and claws are designed to kill, so …

Now, the other non-dog, non-cat, everything, elephants, rhino, giraffe, raccoon, not raccoon, deer, all the animals without snouts, the jaws move horizontal and vertical, for grinding. So, they have to grind, you have flat teeth.

People say because we have this tooth that we are carnivores. It’s the same, it doesn’t go down below the line. It functions as an incisor, it does not function as a piercing. If you’re confused, you go to the zoo and make the lion angry so he goes … and you’ll see. You’ll see canine, those are canine. They’re long, they’re pointed, and they’re meant to pierce, to kill.

So, we don’t have those. Dracula does. You remember Dracula, right? He has them, so for Dracula he’s okay, he can drink blood … You guys like blood?

When you eat meat, do you like it cooked?

Very well, right? You wanna boil away the blood, right? Just eat the muscle and what else, the nerve tissue, you like-

Anyway, so the saliva is alkaline, the cheeks and the lips … So, when we’re chewing, it doesn’t fall out.

Dog and cats don’t have lips, you know that, right? Did you ever try to kiss your dog?

Anyway, the intestines are eight to 12 times the length, eight to 12 times the length of the trunk. For example, my torso may be one meter. The digestive tract is 10 meters. We don’t make uric acid. And we sweat, we don’t pant.

And we have hands and fingers. We can’t kill, you can’t kill, it’s hard to kill. You can kill small animals. You could probably pick up a rabbit and choke it and then eat it. Do you like to eat the rabbit?

Just rip it open and eat important? Well, see, that’s a carnivore. These hands were made for pulling, plucking, peeling, planting, not killing. In fact, if we want to kill, we have to get a weapon, a tool. We have to make something to kill. We’re not designed to kill.

When they talk about omnivores, an omnivore is an animal that eats anything, right? Well, all omnivores must be able to kill, because if there’s not enough plants around they need to be able to kill. And therefore, all omnivores have a snout.

So, a dog is really an omnivore, a cat is a carnivore because a cat must kill and eat the animal alive. The dog, they would rather somebody else kill it and they like to eat the corpse. They prefer corpse. Everybody here prefer corpse? You like corpse, right?

Better than animal alive, right? You like to eat dead lambs, right, dead sheep?

So, anyway, the carnivore, the cats, they kill the animal, they break the act, and when the animal’s dead, then they eat it. They eat the inside first. They eat the liver and the heart and they eat the uterus, the ovaries, the testicles. Sounds good? The lungs, kidneys. They drink the blood. They chew on the eyeballs, the eyeballs are really good. You can suck out the eye, if you have a long tongue you suck, you pull the eyeball out and you can eat it.

Now, if they’re full and they walk away, what they save for the vulture, you know the vulture, is what we call steak. The scavenger, this is the one, this is the one, the dogs …

A bear is an omnivore. A bear is big and strong, but they have a snout. 90% of their diet is plant. They love berries, they love honey. But if they have to kill, they can.

Now, the problem is they have, you know, if there’s a dead animal on the ground the dog will smell it, and the dog will smell it and by the smell will know if he can eat it. If the animal is dead for more than 48 hours, 72 hours, they won’t eat it, ’cause know they know it’s food for bacteria and insects.

But we don’t know that ’cause we’re stupid, we’re really stupid. So, we kill the animal and it gets stiff. It’s called rigor mortis. If you try to eat it, you break your teeth. So, we hang it up and we let it decay. We let it decay for 96 hours and now it’s soft enough to chew. So, we cut out the puss, we cut out the maggots, and then we can eat it. We still don’t wanna eat it, so then we cook it.

So, we not only, we don’t eat the food of the carnivore, we don’t even eat the food of the scavenger. We eat the food of the maggot.

By the way, we don’t say that we decay it. When you’re in a restaurant the guy doesn’t come up to you and say, “This was decayed for two months, we’ve been decaying … ” No. He says aged, aged, it’s aged beef.

Well, when I was learning English, I learned that things that are alive can age, like a baby ages and becomes a child, the child ages and becomes an adult. But if it’s dead, it can’t age. It decays.

Why do we say aged? Because we instinctively would never eat a decayed corpse. And we don’t even call it that. Do you say to your family, “Would you like some dead pig and chicken embryos for breakfast?” No, we say, “Would you like some bacon and eggs? Would you like some … ” Right? We say it like that.

So, we change the name, we call it beef. What’s a beef? Did you ever see a beef walking around? What do they look like, beefs? How about nuggets? I’ve never seen nuggets walking around. Have you seen a nugget? Sausages? Veal? Veal is a cute little name for a tortured baby animal. So, we don’t wanna say the truth.

It’s just like, does anybody have health insurance? No. You have disease insurance. If you’re healthy, they don’t give you anything. How about life insurance? It’s death insurance, it’s not life insurance. If you’re alive, you don’t get it until you die? Why do we do this? Because humans have to justify everything they do. So, we lie to ourselves, we lie to each other.

Now, if you took a rabbit and an apple and you put it next to a baby, a two-year-old, a one-year-old, he’ll eat the apple and play with the rabbit. If you put the rabbit and an apple in the cage with a baby tiger, they’ll eat the rabbit and play with the apple.

So, instinctual, before, everybody’s young, you have to force your child to eat dead animals. They would not naturally eat dead … If you have a turtle, a rabbit, chicken, a cow, and you have a banana, fruit, what would a human normally eat? Are they gonna eat the animal? No. You have to teach it.

Have you ever gone driving in the country and you see all the grass, beautiful, and you see a cow walking and eating, right?

Right? Or you’re walking home and there’s a dead animal, what do you do? Do you go, “Great, I don’t have to go shopping now”?

We wanna give you the skills here, so you can learn how to prepare. One of them would be to go shopping? How do you pick a ripe piece of fruit? How do you pick a ripe tomato? Do you buy tomatoes that are still not ripe so that they can sit at home and get ripe at home? No? Cause a lot of people do that.

When you eat food, the important things are organic, fresh, and ripe. The problem is when they picked the banana, they picked it green. They picked it green because they had to get it to you. So, really, it wasn’t picked at the right time. The best banana is the banana that you pick right off the tree and eat. We can’t eat that way, so we have to …

The reason I tell you this is just so you can try to do it as, you can try to get as close as possible to eating the right way.

So, anyway, the good news is you will have a brand-new body in a year from now. So, take control of what that’s going to be. And the other thing that we’ll talk about, that’s very important, is your mind, your state of mind, your stress and all that sort of thing, because that impacts.

You can be eating the best food in the world and cleaning your colon out, and you can be in a relationship with somebody that is toxic, and it’ll all get wiped out. And you can come to a center like this and you can get well, and you go back home and you’ll be right back where you started.

So, again, the ability to deal with stress and to have good relationships, healthy relationships and things like that, very, very important.

And so, if you have those three things, we change your database, we give you skills, how to shop, how to prepare healthy foods, and we give you the experience, and then you’re here long enough to get some habits about going to sleep, then you go back, then you have a chance.

Also, you need to come with a spouse or a family member, because if you go back and you’re the only one that changed and you go back to a family who looks at you like you’re crazy, it won’t last. I always say bring your spouse and your mother and everybody, the more people the better.

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[kellyjrpeterson]

Best Eating Practices For Humans by Dr Lodi

There are two kinds of land mammals. There’s the cats and dogs, which means lions, tiger, panther, and then the dogs, which are wolves, hyena, jackal, like that. Their jaw only goes up and down. Their teeth are long and sharp, there’s nothing flat, no flat. Even the back teeth, if you open the dog’s mouth, are sharp. They don’t have lips and they don’t have cheeks. That’s why when a dog is eating, the food falls out, they have to pick it up.

Their saliva is acidic. Their intestines are smooth and short, and they’re only three times the length of the trunk. Anyway, their liver has certain enzymes and they don’t sweat. They don’t sweat. When they’re hot, they pant. And their feet and claws are designed to kill, so …

Now, the other non-dog, non-cat, everything, elephants, rhino, giraffe, raccoon, not raccoon, deer, all the animals without snouts, the jaws move horizontal and vertical, for grinding. So, they have to grind, you have flat teeth.

People say because we have this tooth that we are carnivores. It’s the same, it doesn’t go down below the line. It functions as an incisor, it does not function as a piercing. If you’re confused, you go to the zoo and make the lion angry so he goes … and you’ll see. You’ll see canine, those are canine. They’re long, they’re pointed, and they’re meant to pierce, to kill.

So, we don’t have those. Dracula does. You remember Dracula, right? He has them, so for Dracula he’s okay, he can drink blood … You guys like blood?

When you eat meat, do you like it cooked?

Very well, right? You wanna boil away the blood, right? Just eat the muscle and what else, the nerve tissue, you like-

Anyway, so the saliva is alkaline, the cheeks and the lips … So, when we’re chewing, it doesn’t fall out.

Dog and cats don’t have lips, you know that, right? Did you ever try to kiss your dog?

Anyway, the intestines are eight to 12 times the length, eight to 12 times the length of the trunk. For example, my torso may be one meter. The digestive tract is 10 meters. We don’t make uric acid. And we sweat, we don’t pant.

And we have hands and fingers. We can’t kill, you can’t kill, it’s hard to kill. You can kill small animals. You could probably pick up a rabbit and choke it and then eat it. Do you like to eat the rabbit?

Just rip it open and eat important? Well, see, that’s a carnivore. These hands were made for pulling, plucking, peeling, planting, not killing. In fact, if we want to kill, we have to get a weapon, a tool. We have to make something to kill. We’re not designed to kill.

When they talk about omnivores, an omnivore is an animal that eats anything, right? Well, all omnivores must be able to kill, because if there’s not enough plants around they need to be able to kill. And therefore, all omnivores have a snout.

So, a dog is really an omnivore, a cat is a carnivore because a cat must kill and eat the animal alive. The dog, they would rather somebody else kill it and they like to eat the corpse. They prefer corpse. Everybody here prefer corpse? You like corpse, right?

Better than animal alive, right? You like to eat dead lambs, right, dead sheep?

So, anyway, the carnivore, the cats, they kill the animal, they break the act, and when the animal’s dead, then they eat it. They eat the inside first. They eat the liver and the heart and they eat the uterus, the ovaries, the testicles. Sounds good? The lungs, kidneys. They drink the blood. They chew on the eyeballs, the eyeballs are really good. You can suck out the eye, if you have a long tongue you suck, you pull the eyeball out and you can eat it.

Now, if they’re full and they walk away, what they save for the vulture, you know the vulture, is what we call steak. The scavenger, this is the one, this is the one, the dogs …

A bear is an omnivore. A bear is big and strong, but they have a snout. 90% of their diet is plant. They love berries, they love honey. But if they have to kill, they can.

Now, the problem is they have, you know, if there’s a dead animal on the ground the dog will smell it, and the dog will smell it and by the smell will know if he can eat it. If the animal is dead for more than 48 hours, 72 hours, they won’t eat it, ’cause know they know it’s food for bacteria and insects.

But we don’t know that ’cause we’re stupid, we’re really stupid. So, we kill the animal and it gets stiff. It’s called rigor mortis. If you try to eat it, you break your teeth. So, we hang it up and we let it decay. We let it decay for 96 hours and now it’s soft enough to chew. So, we cut out the puss, we cut out the maggots, and then we can eat it. We still don’t wanna eat it, so then we cook it.

So, we not only, we don’t eat the food of the carnivore, we don’t even eat the food of the scavenger. We eat the food of the maggot.

By the way, we don’t say that we decay it. When you’re in a restaurant the guy doesn’t come up to you and say, “This was decayed for two months, we’ve been decaying … ” No. He says aged, aged, it’s aged beef.

Well, when I was learning English, I learned that things that are alive can age, like a baby ages and becomes a child, the child ages and becomes an adult. But if it’s dead, it can’t age. It decays.

Why do we say aged? Because we instinctively would never eat a decayed corpse. And we don’t even call it that. Do you say to your family, “Would you like some dead pig and chicken embryos for breakfast?” No, we say, “Would you like some bacon and eggs? Would you like some … ” Right? We say it like that.

So, we change the name, we call it beef. What’s a beef? Did you ever see a beef walking around? What do they look like, beefs? How about nuggets? I’ve never seen nuggets walking around. Have you seen a nugget? Sausages? Veal? Veal is a cute little name for a tortured baby animal. So, we don’t wanna say the truth.

It’s just like, does anybody have health insurance? No. You have disease insurance. If you’re healthy, they don’t give you anything. How about life insurance? It’s death insurance, it’s not life insurance. If you’re alive, you don’t get it until you die? Why do we do this? Because humans have to justify everything they do. So, we lie to ourselves, we lie to each other.

Now, if you took a rabbit and an apple and you put it next to a baby, a two-year-old, a one-year-old, he’ll eat the apple and play with the rabbit. If you put the rabbit and an apple in the cage with a baby tiger, they’ll eat the rabbit and play with the apple.

So, instinctual, before, everybody’s young, you have to force your child to eat dead animals. They would not naturally eat dead … If you have a turtle, a rabbit, chicken, a cow, and you have a banana, fruit, what would a human normally eat? Are they gonna eat the animal? No. You have to teach it.

Have you ever gone driving in the country and you see all the grass, beautiful, and you see a cow walking and eating, right?

Right? Or you’re walking home and there’s a dead animal, what do you do? Do you go, “Great, I don’t have to go shopping now”?

We wanna give you the skills here, so you can learn how to prepare. One of them would be to go shopping? How do you pick a ripe piece of fruit? How do you pick a ripe tomato? Do you buy tomatoes that are still not ripe so that they can sit at home and get ripe at home? No? Cause a lot of people do that.

When you eat food, the important things are organic, fresh, and ripe. The problem is when they picked the banana, they picked it green. They picked it green because they had to get it to you. So, really, it wasn’t picked at the right time. The best banana is the banana that you pick right off the tree and eat. We can’t eat that way, so we have to …

The reason I tell you this is just so you can try to do it as, you can try to get as close as possible to eating the right way.

So, anyway, the good news is you will have a brand-new body in a year from now. So, take control of what that’s going to be. And the other thing that we’ll talk about, that’s very important, is your mind, your state of mind, your stress and all that sort of thing, because that impacts.

You can be eating the best food in the world and cleaning your colon out, and you can be in a relationship with somebody that is toxic, and it’ll all get wiped out. And you can come to a center like this and you can get well, and you go back home and you’ll be right back where you started.

So, again, the ability to deal with stress and to have good relationships, healthy relationships and things like that, very, very important.

And so, if you have those three things, we change your database, we give you skills, how to shop, how to prepare healthy foods, and we give you the experience, and then you’re here long enough to get some habits about going to sleep, then you go back, then you have a chance.

Also, you need to come with a spouse or a family member, because if you go back and you’re the only one that changed and you go back to a family who looks at you like you’re crazy, it won’t last. I always say bring your spouse and your mother and everybody, the more people the better.

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[akesislife]

Best Eating Practices For Humans by Dr Lodi

There are two kinds of land mammals. There’s the cats and dogs, which means lions, tiger, panther, and then the dogs, which are wolves, hyena, jackal, like that. Their jaw only goes up and down. Their teeth are long and sharp, there’s nothing flat, no flat. Even the back teeth, if you open the dog’s mouth, are sharp. They don’t have lips and they don’t have cheeks. That’s why when a dog is eating, the food falls out, they have to pick it up.

Their saliva is acidic. Their intestines are smooth and short, and they’re only three times the length of the trunk. Anyway, their liver has certain enzymes and they don’t sweat. They don’t sweat. When they’re hot, they pant. And their feet and claws are designed to kill, so …

Now, the other non-dog, non-cat, everything, elephants, rhino, giraffe, raccoon, not raccoon, deer, all the animals without snouts, the jaws move horizontal and vertical, for grinding. So, they have to grind, you have flat teeth.

People say because we have this tooth that we are carnivores. It’s the same, it doesn’t go down below the line. It functions as an incisor, it does not function as a piercing. If you’re confused, you go to the zoo and make the lion angry so he goes … and you’ll see. You’ll see canine, those are canine. They’re long, they’re pointed, and they’re meant to pierce, to kill.

So, we don’t have those. Dracula does. You remember Dracula, right? He has them, so for Dracula he’s okay, he can drink blood … You guys like blood?

When you eat meat, do you like it cooked?

Very well, right? You wanna boil away the blood, right? Just eat the muscle and what else, the nerve tissue, you like-

Anyway, so the saliva is alkaline, the cheeks and the lips … So, when we’re chewing, it doesn’t fall out.

Dog and cats don’t have lips, you know that, right? Did you ever try to kiss your dog?

Anyway, the intestines are eight to 12 times the length, eight to 12 times the length of the trunk. For example, my torso may be one meter. The digestive tract is 10 meters. We don’t make uric acid. And we sweat, we don’t pant.

And we have hands and fingers. We can’t kill, you can’t kill, it’s hard to kill. You can kill small animals. You could probably pick up a rabbit and choke it and then eat it. Do you like to eat the rabbit?

Just rip it open and eat important? Well, see, that’s a carnivore. These hands were made for pulling, plucking, peeling, planting, not killing. In fact, if we want to kill, we have to get a weapon, a tool. We have to make something to kill. We’re not designed to kill.

When they talk about omnivores, an omnivore is an animal that eats anything, right? Well, all omnivores must be able to kill, because if there’s not enough plants around they need to be able to kill. And therefore, all omnivores have a snout.

So, a dog is really an omnivore, a cat is a carnivore because a cat must kill and eat the animal alive. The dog, they would rather somebody else kill it and they like to eat the corpse. They prefer corpse. Everybody here prefer corpse? You like corpse, right?

Better than animal alive, right? You like to eat dead lambs, right, dead sheep?

So, anyway, the carnivore, the cats, they kill the animal, they break the act, and when the animal’s dead, then they eat it. They eat the inside first. They eat the liver and the heart and they eat the uterus, the ovaries, the testicles. Sounds good? The lungs, kidneys. They drink the blood. They chew on the eyeballs, the eyeballs are really good. You can suck out the eye, if you have a long tongue you suck, you pull the eyeball out and you can eat it.

Now, if they’re full and they walk away, what they save for the vulture, you know the vulture, is what we call steak. The scavenger, this is the one, this is the one, the dogs …

A bear is an omnivore. A bear is big and strong, but they have a snout. 90% of their diet is plant. They love berries, they love honey. But if they have to kill, they can.

Now, the problem is they have, you know, if there’s a dead animal on the ground the dog will smell it, and the dog will smell it and by the smell will know if he can eat it. If the animal is dead for more than 48 hours, 72 hours, they won’t eat it, ’cause know they know it’s food for bacteria and insects.

But we don’t know that ’cause we’re stupid, we’re really stupid. So, we kill the animal and it gets stiff. It’s called rigor mortis. If you try to eat it, you break your teeth. So, we hang it up and we let it decay. We let it decay for 96 hours and now it’s soft enough to chew. So, we cut out the puss, we cut out the maggots, and then we can eat it. We still don’t wanna eat it, so then we cook it.

So, we not only, we don’t eat the food of the carnivore, we don’t even eat the food of the scavenger. We eat the food of the maggot.

By the way, we don’t say that we decay it. When you’re in a restaurant the guy doesn’t come up to you and say, “This was decayed for two months, we’ve been decaying … ” No. He says aged, aged, it’s aged beef.

Well, when I was learning English, I learned that things that are alive can age, like a baby ages and becomes a child, the child ages and becomes an adult. But if it’s dead, it can’t age. It decays.

Why do we say aged? Because we instinctively would never eat a decayed corpse. And we don’t even call it that. Do you say to your family, “Would you like some dead pig and chicken embryos for breakfast?” No, we say, “Would you like some bacon and eggs? Would you like some … ” Right? We say it like that.

So, we change the name, we call it beef. What’s a beef? Did you ever see a beef walking around? What do they look like, beefs? How about nuggets? I’ve never seen nuggets walking around. Have you seen a nugget? Sausages? Veal? Veal is a cute little name for a tortured baby animal. So, we don’t wanna say the truth.

It’s just like, does anybody have health insurance? No. You have disease insurance. If you’re healthy, they don’t give you anything. How about life insurance? It’s death insurance, it’s not life insurance. If you’re alive, you don’t get it until you die? Why do we do this? Because humans have to justify everything they do. So, we lie to ourselves, we lie to each other.

Now, if you took a rabbit and an apple and you put it next to a baby, a two-year-old, a one-year-old, he’ll eat the apple and play with the rabbit. If you put the rabbit and an apple in the cage with a baby tiger, they’ll eat the rabbit and play with the apple.

So, instinctual, before, everybody’s young, you have to force your child to eat dead animals. They would not naturally eat dead … If you have a turtle, a rabbit, chicken, a cow, and you have a banana, fruit, what would a human normally eat? Are they gonna eat the animal? No. You have to teach it.

Have you ever gone driving in the country and you see all the grass, beautiful, and you see a cow walking and eating, right?

Right? Or you’re walking home and there’s a dead animal, what do you do? Do you go, “Great, I don’t have to go shopping now”?

We wanna give you the skills here, so you can learn how to prepare. One of them would be to go shopping? How do you pick a ripe piece of fruit? How do you pick a ripe tomato? Do you buy tomatoes that are still not ripe so that they can sit at home and get ripe at home? No? Cause a lot of people do that.

When you eat food, the important things are organic, fresh, and ripe. The problem is when they picked the banana, they picked it green. They picked it green because they had to get it to you. So, really, it wasn’t picked at the right time. The best banana is the banana that you pick right off the tree and eat. We can’t eat that way, so we have to …

The reason I tell you this is just so you can try to do it as, you can try to get as close as possible to eating the right way.

So, anyway, the good news is you will have a brand-new body in a year from now. So, take control of what that’s going to be. And the other thing that we’ll talk about, that’s very important, is your mind, your state of mind, your stress and all that sort of thing, because that impacts.

You can be eating the best food in the world and cleaning your colon out, and you can be in a relationship with somebody that is toxic, and it’ll all get wiped out. And you can come to a center like this and you can get well, and you go back home and you’ll be right back where you started.

So, again, the ability to deal with stress and to have good relationships, healthy relationships and things like that, very, very important.

And so, if you have those three things, we change your database, we give you skills, how to shop, how to prepare healthy foods, and we give you the experience, and then you’re here long enough to get some habits about going to sleep, then you go back, then you have a chance.

Also, you need to come with a spouse or a family member, because if you go back and you’re the only one that changed and you go back to a family who looks at you like you’re crazy, it won’t last. I always say bring your spouse and your mother and everybody, the more people the better.

[sleepymarmot]

Twilight Mirage liveblog 3/5 (episodes 28-54)

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I'm very excited for a series of solo episodes!

Don't know how I feel about the new Grand Magnificent tbh… This concept feels more conventional than the original one, and I'm worried the aspects of his character I found interesting won't be in focus anymore.

I had my problems with the previous system and how it flattened down emotions into inaccurate categories, but so far I'm not excited about the switch… Blades in the Dark's mechanics were kinda hard for me to follow by ear, and being unable to keep track of the gameplay by myself is unpleasant; and the new classes sound really dull compared to the ones in The Veil. 

Iota's speech is strange… It sounds more like a simple copy-paste of real-life colonialism than the invasion described previously in the story. “They will ask you to give them a name like ours, they will ask to touch your bone” etc sounds nothing like Independence and its followers' modus operandi was, and, judging by the future tense, hasn't actually happened with the present time settlers yet – so where did that come from, in-universe? In fact, shouldn't her people have a relatively positive outlook on non-hostile outsiders, since they brought on the planet's golden age? Hopefully the following episodes will elaborate on this, because I've made peace with needing lore or plot points explained to me several times, but I need more clarity on big ideological question like this. 

Gig is such a Chaotic Good!!

Buying sex is legal, normal & common in the utopia and Signet is a regular customer?! Fucking seriously?! I couldn't even focus on the episode for the next half hour and eventually turned it off because my thoughts kept returning to this and I kept seething with anger. Way to ruin the episode after I was so moved and intrigued by the intro…

They've been pretty careful with past spoilers this season, here's I think the first example: talking at length about the Hitchcocks, plural. Sure, it was only an episode three spoiler, but it was such a good reveal! 

So, who actually printed out the ancient Quire people? Was it a political move from one of the sides? 

No Austin you definitely have not mentioned Earth building a giant Dyson spehere around themselves!!! What the fuck :D

Everyone got a nice inconsequential vignette and Fourteen's scene had actual high stakes…

I really, really don't get what Seneschal looks like

After half a season of two separate parties and seven solo episodes it's so nice to hear everyone together!

Signet's look is absolutely not the kind of thing I imagined her wearing…

Please tell me someone has made an animatic about Even's hair tendril high-fiving Gig's eye

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It's always cute when the first words after the intro are in that specific tone of voice that makes it obvious that at least 5-10 minutes before were spent in a lively conversation about some nonsense that finally was put to an end no more than two seconds ago (and then they talk about nonsense for ten more minutes lol) 

I love this show's dedication to describing everyone's outfits in extreme detail at every opportunity 

50k+ years later it's Art and Jack's turn to be the half of the party who walks right through the door and charm their way in lol. I hope they don't get shot or buy a bunch of torch units or something

I really like “finding a way to help a teenage community fit in the world” and “reconnecting a family and acquiring infrastructure for travel between planets” as the first projects; it really does convince you that these people have set out to make the world a better place (even if a lot of the time is actually spent pulling heists or fighting mechanical tigers).

Okay, the scavenger faction leader is literally a vulture, I get it.

What I don't get is why we are supposed to dislike that faction. There was some general “eh, they suck” said OOC during setup but we haven't actually seen them do anything bad! Show, don't tell! They need to, like, raid Big Garage and try to steal Gumption's arm if you want me to see them as an enemy.

Remember that nonsense I wrote about T. Rex in my C/w notes post? I can't believe they're doing basically the same joke on the actual show!

But how about… not capture or kill… but befriend the Axiom and/or release it into the wild… I know, I know, they can't travel far enough to move it to a safe distance from humans. But it just offends me on principle that after all that talk of diversity etc, when the characters actually meet a truly alien, unique species, they only consider the options of killing or capturing and exploiting them, and nobody even tries to ask “hey, shouldn't these creatures have rights, even if we are forced to disregard them in self-defence for the moment?” You know who I need to appear on screen ASAP? Bounty. Ask it everything! Does it remember being an Axiom? What did it feel like? What does it think about its transformation and new role? 

I thought Grand's special gun was just Even's gun?

Did Janine just call Belgard Signet's “robot wife”? Hell yeah

Me for an hour straight, not having read the description: Blease Do Not Kill My Alien Child I guess that's at least postponed now though… The situation did immediately get mildly creepy again, which makes me concerned. Is this just a different reason to kill a different Axiom – to Free Innocents from a Lotus Eater Machine? I'm getting serious September flashbacks. Honestly, between this, the other team's arc which felt like a crossover about the Chime in Marielda, and everyone getting a personal mech, this half of the season is starting to feel like Counter/weight 2, which is sad because at the beginning the atmosphere was much more original. Also I miss Primary and Satellite's correspondence, it was such a good framing device and a touching relationship at the same time!

Polyphony's powers and way of thinking are more similar to Quire than anything else

I feel very relieved and vindicated by the direction this story took!

Hell yeah finally more about the Waking Cadent!! I've been waiting for that for how many episodes now? Now that we've seen her in person I hate her actually Amend that, I hate both Cadents. A plague on both their houses!

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Good on you Even, what's even the point of a military background if you don't pull rank on some jerks

Am I glad to hear from the Rapid Evening again! Bold of Austin to assume we could forget who Primary and Satellite were Okay, I first had this question a ton of episodes ago, but now it is relevant again: does Grey know the contents of the previous Satellite's final message? She knows about its existence because the numbers match up (yeah I went back and checked), but does she know that Crystal Palace either made a colossal miscalculation about Independence's route or lied on purpose for some reason?

Wait, characters still have beliefs? I don't remember this coming up since the game change

I completely forgot about Tender's cyborg legs and also misheard “I have a fake leg” as “thick leg” and was like “Uh good for you but how's that gonna help?!”

Once again, Team Exploration goes ahead and leaves Team Heist without resources lol. What do you mean they're using our ship for an orbital drop? What do you mean they've taken all axiom scanners? :D Seriously though, it's a shame that the sessions were played in this order because in-universe I see no reason why they wouldn't say “Hey before you go after Acre Seven, let's fly over Terncage and do a scan real quick” (the range on the scanners is far enough for that, right?)

I don't get how Ache works. For Quire, it made what it wishes it could be, but for everyone else it just made evil clones vaguely themed after their regrets?

TENDER IS A GAY DISASTER I haven't heard such a spectacular meltdown since Calhoun probably, holy shit

TENDER IS A DISASTER SQUARED she starts talking to a woman and just doesn't stop! This is a great episode

I like how Gig immediately says no to the devil's bargain

Oh Signet disregarding the digital Blooming, you clearly haven't seen/read (the future version of) Solaris :D

Oh no, it's the Smiling God! Came to visit another podcast that used to have a personification of capitalism as a big boss evil god

A crit at the last possible moment, after a long string of 1s… Ali's dice see through the fourth wall!

I… didn't fully understand the reveal of how it was all connected

Okay, so the Dark Day could have been prevented by keeping the gun dealer priest alive and allowing him to arm the NEH so that it could take over Twilight Mirage and wouldn't need to activate plan B i.e. come here and block signal from the Crystal Palace? Correct? It makes sense now, but Our Profit seems to be from such a far future that I just can't imagine how this plan was created and put in place

O….k… I actually expected Grand to leave the team and go off on his own (or become an NPC) as a consequence of the holiday special if he was the sacrificed character instead of the Chthonic. But now that's kind of strange to hear after all that talk of redemption and second chances?

You get a status! And you get a status! Everyone gets a status!

Wow having a near death experience out of the blue is so relaxing for Fourteen! :D NEVER MIND HOLY CRAP I'm glad that at least Fourteen kept their signature move from The Veil. I was wondering what it would be like, and honestly expected it to be just thrown out

Excuse me, “Omega in Mass Effect 2” and “cool place run by trustworthy people” are literally opposite concepts, have we even played the same game

Grand: Who likes Fourteen Fifteen? Tender, not even letting him finish: ME!!! 

Welp, my first guess about the Waking Cadent's identity was correct

Holy crap! I never realized Independence was in that one flashback episode of Counter/weight