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rklamor
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Post What if zees felt pain?
on: November 28, 2011, 21:19

Hello Fellow Brain Smashers,

I was just bored and surfin' the ol' intranet-thingy and the brain pan got ta ruminatin' on something. What if zombies could feel pain? I mean, real grit your teeth and slap me silly kinda pain? They wouldn't die unless you destroyed the brain - we all know that - but what if they felt every bullet and slice of the sword? Being pulled onward by the incessant hunger, knowing only more pain awaits, but needing to keep moving forward to feed; to momentarily stop the pain. Pretty creepy existence.

I was wondering this because we all know zees crave brains above everything else. So what makes the brain so special? It's avascular and fed with sugar. Do zees have a sweet-tooth? No, I don't think so. So what is it?

Here's where my brain starts itchin'. I know the brain is the source of endorphins. These bio-chemical whatchamacallits give us the so-called "runner's high" many of us have experienced - especially when offen zees - and it also stops pain. I believe that by stimulating this "pain-relief center" of the brain is how morphine works. And if anyone here has ever had morphine, well, you can just stick the knife anywhere you please. No. Don't feel a thing. Yep. I'm a bad a$$.

You get the idea. Now I'm closer to a brain-dead zee than a brainiac brain surgeon, but I think I'm beginning to see a connection here. Zees love brains. Brains control pain. Maybe the zees, whose brain's pain-relief center is no longer working, needs a fix. The kinda fix only a pulsating meat sack like you and me can provide.

Just a little food for thought. What do you zee killers think? Am I spending too much time with zees on the brain, or are we onto something here? Imagine, zombies motivated by pain...

Kinda hurts my head just thinking about it.

Rutger Klamor, author of "Z Strain"
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Barberian
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Post Re: What if zees felt pain?
on: November 30, 2011, 21:24

rklamor,
you touch on something elucidated by the old partial corpse that was in Return of the Living Dead. (Classic!) In that film the zombie said that they feed on brains to ease the pain of being dead.

I certainly think that if there is this compulsion to feed, there must be something in the human body and the human body alone, that at least temporarily, satisfies that craving.

If that is a matter of the fluids themselves, the nutrients in the DNA or the simple and easily digestable protein of our flesh. More than one scientist in discussing the nature of starvation have said that eating human tissue is more efficently nourishing than say chicken or beef.

It is true what has been said about "we are what we eat".

As far as your initial query about Zees and pain. I say unequivicably that they would in fact feel pain and suffer in the truest buddhist sense of their limited existence. I would imagine that the shattering of the once human brain into oblivion and the darkness beyond undeath would be the only release that a zombie could truly desire.

Not having that desired fufilled, just as any human who has ever lived is the equivalent of pain. So yes, zombies do feel pain, and exist in perpetual agony.

A more enduring question for my persepctive: if they "feel" then is the human consciousness that once was still in some way "aware" of their actions and the compulsion to seek and eat human flesh? If so would that not be an infinitely more agonizing existence than any torture ever devised by the hands of man
Z-bor
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Posts: 2
Post Re: What if zees felt pain?
on: December 1, 2011, 20:23

Its my theory that they must feel a degree of pain as the nerve conductor in the brain must still be active to give the abilty to move,im no doctor but ....
Steve The-
Zombie
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Posts: 7
Post Re: What if zees felt pain?
on: January 8, 2012, 10:59

I once had a theory that the reason they ate brains is because they wanted the melatonin(sp?) produced by the thalamus in the brain. Its what makes us feel happy, so to them it would be like a drug...
Frankie J
Fresh Kill
Posts: 5
Post Re: What if zees felt pain?
on: January 18, 2012, 06:32

If they were able to feel pain, would they not feel themselves decomposing???

Gotta hurt... Death's a bitch.
atrey65789
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Posts: 3
Post Re: What if zees felt pain?
on: April 12, 2012, 20:49

It would be alot easier to escape from zombies if you were being backed into a corner.
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rklamor
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Post What if zees felt pain?
on: November 28, 2011, 21:19

Hello Fellow Brain Smashers,

I was just bored and surfin' the ol' intranet-thingy and the brain pan got ta ruminatin' on something. What if zombies could feel pain? I mean, real grit your teeth and slap me silly kinda pain? They wouldn't die unless you destroyed the brain - we all know that - but what if they felt every bullet and slice of the sword? Being pulled onward by the incessant hunger, knowing only more pain awaits, but needing to keep moving forward to feed; to momentarily stop the pain. Pretty creepy existence.

I was wondering this because we all know zees crave brains above everything else. So what makes the brain so special? It's avascular and fed with sugar. Do zees have a sweet-tooth? No, I don't think so. So what is it?

Here's where my brain starts itchin'. I know the brain is the source of endorphins. These bio-chemical whatchamacallits give us the so-called "runner's high" many of us have experienced - especially when offen zees - and it also stops pain. I believe that by stimulating this "pain-relief center" of the brain is how morphine works. And if anyone here has ever had morphine, well, you can just stick the knife anywhere you please. No. Don't feel a thing. Yep. I'm a bad a$$.

You get the idea. Now I'm closer to a brain-dead zee than a brainiac brain surgeon, but I think I'm beginning to see a connection here. Zees love brains. Brains control pain. Maybe the zees, whose brain's pain-relief center is no longer working, needs a fix. The kinda fix only a pulsating meat sack like you and me can provide.

Just a little food for thought. What do you zee killers think? Am I spending too much time with zees on the brain, or are we onto something here? Imagine, zombies motivated by pain...

Kinda hurts my head just thinking about it.

Rutger Klamor, author of "Z Strain"
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Barberian
Fresh Kill
Posts: 4
Post Re: What if zees felt pain?
on: November 30, 2011, 21:24

rklamor,
you touch on something elucidated by the old partial corpse that was in Return of the Living Dead. (Classic!) In that film the zombie said that they feed on brains to ease the pain of being dead.

I certainly think that if there is this compulsion to feed, there must be something in the human body and the human body alone, that at least temporarily, satisfies that craving.

If that is a matter of the fluids themselves, the nutrients in the DNA or the simple and easily digestable protein of our flesh. More than one scientist in discussing the nature of starvation have said that eating human tissue is more efficently nourishing than say chicken or beef.

It is true what has been said about "we are what we eat".

As far as your initial query about Zees and pain. I say unequivicably that they would in fact feel pain and suffer in the truest buddhist sense of their limited existence. I would imagine that the shattering of the once human brain into oblivion and the darkness beyond undeath would be the only release that a zombie could truly desire.

Not having that desired fufilled, just as any human who has ever lived is the equivalent of pain. So yes, zombies do feel pain, and exist in perpetual agony.

A more enduring question for my persepctive: if they "feel" then is the human consciousness that once was still in some way "aware" of their actions and the compulsion to seek and eat human flesh? If so would that not be an infinitely more agonizing existence than any torture ever devised by the hands of man
Z-bor
Fresh Kill
Posts: 2
Post Re: What if zees felt pain?
on: December 1, 2011, 20:23

Its my theory that they must feel a degree of pain as the nerve conductor in the brain must still be active to give the abilty to move,im no doctor but ....
Steve The-
Zombie
Moderator
Posts: 7
Post Re: What if zees felt pain?
on: January 8, 2012, 10:59

I once had a theory that the reason they ate brains is because they wanted the melatonin(sp?) produced by the thalamus in the brain. Its what makes us feel happy, so to them it would be like a drug...
Frankie J
Fresh Kill
Posts: 5
Post Re: What if zees felt pain?
on: January 18, 2012, 06:32

If they were able to feel pain, would they not feel themselves decomposing???

Gotta hurt... Death's a bitch.
atrey65789
Fresh Kill
Posts: 3
Post Re: What if zees felt pain?
on: April 12, 2012, 20:49

It would be alot easier to escape from zombies if you were being backed into a corner.
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