' Wrote:Ps:The brain is the only organ that cannot heal itslef..it cap patch up by istself but no tissue regeneration so if its dammaged it will lose that part of it forever.More...if the brain is starved from oxigem for 10 minutes several nuclei and nerveous centers will cease to exist thus rendering that person incapable of doing basic motor fuction or even think
Edit: To clarify a bit...neurons are cells in the entire body withought the ability to replicate but there are some other cells called glial cells(hope itranslated corectly) or neuroglia that can patchup the neuron...it can replace part of the neuron but not its function...think about replacing the fuel conduit from you car...but that condiut cannot replace the engine so if the neuron dies...it is dead along with the reflex that neuron was performing or memory that was storing(it is belived that neurons store information not as energy...but as a phisical mark on them)
Let's think a moment about being buried alive for a zombie ritual. You are drugged to the point of "apparent" death and buried (and according to numerous victim accounts over the decades, fully aware, yet paralyzed) Ask yourself: how do you think it would affect you after the drug wore off & you spent your time panicking and screaming for help in a coffin underground, wasting your oxygen scratching with your fingers at the wood above your head to the point of bloody nubs?
Is it the toxin or lack of oxygen that causes the brain damage, keeping in mind that actual medical facts dispute your claim that it's the puffer poison?
I know it's more fun to see it with the zombie spin, because the reality of it is simply much more boring.
i dont think after some neuro toxins the victim can be awake...i posted above some usefull information that will "probably" explain this.The human body can survive withought the brain but the brain cannot do so and the body dosent need the brain to function..the sol purpose of the brain is to comand the body so if it dies you are turned into a patato (tho spinal reflexes function withought the brains oversight and those can remain intact)
EDIT: As to my knowledge the deffinition of a zombie is nothing more that a mindless monster (human in our case) and the fact that it "eats brains" strongly sustain this...it simply dosent have the capability to think
"The puffer fish is a delicacy in Japan. Only small amounts of the fish are edible and preparation is extremely difficult. Only highly trained chefs can remove the organs which produce TTX. Trace amounts of the toxin cause a tingling sensation on the tongue and lips when puffer fish is eaten.
Every year a small number of people eat puffer fish which has not been properly prepared and die by cardiac arrest as a result. There are also cases of people who are buried alive after going into a state of deep suspended coma, hence the Japanese practice of leaving those thought to have been killed by eating puffer fish next to their grave for three days before burial."
I'm absolutely sure that you understand that zombies are simply mythological cultural creations & don't actually exist.
Belief in zombies exist though.
Being a big fan of all things twisted and disturbing, I read the Serpent & the Rainbow when I was a kid shortly after the movie came out. (as usual, the movie sucked in comparison to the book)
Anyway, the book came about because the author was sent to Haiti by a pharmaceutical company to research the possible medical uses of some of the ingredients. (the concoction that voodoo witchdoctors use is a combo of much more than just puffer poison but also frogs, lizards, spiders...all sorts of stuff. (dust from crushed baby skulls is my personal favorite)
Being the geek I am & always fascinated by it, about 5 years later when I met a married couple in my apartment complex who practiced vodoun, I learned during my time with them that everything I knew about voodoo was wrong.
I digress though...my point is, something in the mix supposedly allows for complete awareness coupled with complete temporary paralysis coupled with a low heart rate that appears like death to most.
People are aware they are being buried alive.
It ain't the zombinol that zombifies the victim, it's the victims belief in the powers of the witchdoctor that does it. When removed from the priest's influence, the "zombie" recovers.
' Wrote:"The puffer fish is a delicacy in Japan. Only small amounts of the fish are edible and preparation is extremely difficult. Only highly trained chefs can remove the organs which produce TTX. Trace amounts of the toxin cause a tingling sensation on the tongue and lips when puffer fish is eaten.
Every year a small number of people eat puffer fish which has not been properly prepared and die by cardiac arrest as a result. There are also cases of people who are buried alive after going into a state of deep suspended coma, hence the Japanese practice of leaving those thought to have been killed by eating puffer fish next to their grave for three days before burial."
You miss the point...zombie arnt mitological they do exist but there are simply different thatn Hollywood and books witch then to exagerate on any particular matter.They are here but are simply human with minimal phsicologial functions and istitutions thay lack logic and other moral skills...they dont eat brains and other body parts PERIOD.
And heart arest is very different from heart failure and heart atack.And missing limbs are strictly related to syfy and other Holywood and nonholywood productions.Please lets not mix books and movies with real life
There was first a zombie world with a human apocalypse.
Hows this for thought food: Which came first...the egg or the undead chicken that ate it?
Anyhoo, to be clear Sajj, no intelligent person believes in the Hollywood zombie. That's a non-issue. We're throwing jokes around because lets face it, rotting corpses are funny & even funnier still when that face happens to become lunch.
No matter the word used, every culture of every age has their version of zombie mythology because every culture of every age has always had to deal with death.
Rest assured though, there is no such thing as zombies. What there is instead, is simply a broad physical medical condition that the word 'zombie' best describes.
If I were to say vampires really exist because of Renfield's Syndrome (the clinical term for obsessive blood drinking) or some blood or skin disease, that does not mean that vampires actually exist. 'Vampire' is simply the term that best describes the condition to the masses.
What I'm finding funny is that you don't seem to recognize that you and I mostly only disagree on the base point of the definition of 'zombie'. I understand your outlook, but I just think you're trying to hard to justify the term itself.