Re: Trying to keep a secret - a hypothesis
I can all but guarantee nobody here would hold up for more than an hour or two with a dentist with a drill but no novocaine. Think Marathon Man. Yes, at some point the dentist is going to run out of healthy roots to drill into, but that's the fun part, then he can start pouring irritants down into all those nice holes....
They wave a dental drill at me and I'd give up my own mother. No kidding, how do you deal with pain of that intensity?
"A man who doesn't spend time with his family can never be a real man."
Don Vito Corleone: The Godfather, Part 1.
"Then wait for them and swear to God in heaven that if they spew that bull to you or your family again you will cave there heads in with a sledgehammer"
Strike for the South
Re: Trying to keep a secret - a hypothesis
I hesitate to say what I would do under incredible pain. I don't know, I've never been tortured. I've had a broken bone, nearly a 3rd degree burn, and really that's about it. I would try to hold out, but frankly, the basic human instincts in the unconcious of our brains are related to human survival in response to incredible pain and fear. My guess is that it would take decades of practiced meditation to hold out.
People have thought all sorts of things for millenia and been terribly wrong.
Last edited by Kanamori; 11-07-2006 at 15:59.
Re: Trying to keep a secret - a hypothesis
I don't know. I've never been tortured. Should I have been?
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