Shannon Larratt is Zentastic

Be warned that there are very graphic photos in this entry. If you don't like the stuff in BME/extreme, you should probably look away within a fraction of a second of finishing this sentence or risk being scarred for life.

I'm just wrapping up another image update right now — it's an ear, tongue, and nose extravaganza with just over a thousand images in just those sections. But what I'm about to post are a couple of particulary hardcore pictures from the next BME/extreme update (no date is set for it yet; a few days I suppose).

  

I am becoming increasingly uncomfortable with Japan's hard push toward intelligent humanoid robotics (more). Toyota says they're doing that because there's a human “labor shortage” looming. Tell that to Mexico who are currently publishing a comic book helping citizens sneak into the US to find work illegally. Hey, Toyota, before you start building the überrace, consider hiring some of the many humans on this planet that could use the work. It's the human thing to do.

It's one thing building a specialized robot arm that can put a car together — that doesn't particularly worry me because that's well on the “tool” side of the “tool” or “being” slider. It's a whole different matter to build a general purpose humanoid robot intended to replace human workers, and outperform them in terms of both physical capability and mental processing. To build something that's intelligent enough to do so, we're really playing a dangerous game — we have no idea where sentience comes from or how it evolves. A lot of very smart people believe that emergent behavior will result in full-on consciousness, and soon. It could be in five years, it could be in twenty-five. We have no way of knowing.

And when it happens, it's already too late. Machines already control our power grid, our communication grid, our water systems, our economy, much of our food production systems, our military networks and much of our military equipment, our medical systems, everything. As much as I'm not a fan of bombing and war, I probably would vote to support preemptive strikes on robotic research centres, and totally screwed up as that might sound. You know how much I hate killing — that's how convinced I am this is a terrible idea. It is far more likely than any other factor to cause our extinction.

You hear the nutcases talking about how there's going to be a race war in the immediate future, rambling on about the Zionists and their Negro henchmen. They're wrong. There's no race war coming. There's an interspecies war coming, between man and machine, and it will dwarf anything that's ever happened on this planet. We are not compatible forms of life. Only one will remain when this is all over. Anyway… On to more pleasant matters…

Subject: AS a member of the medical community…..

I am a psychologist and I have seen many of these types of behaviour in both younger people and adults.
Body Modification , as you so gently refer to “cutting and mutiliation” is a sickness.

The act of normal tattooing and piercing is a cultural ritual that has been arpund for several thousands of years and is pretty much accepted by society until one's actions become actual mutilation and present a medical ahzard to the human body.

Self-mutilation is a self destructive act that can bring hazardous results to the practioner. This activity is not socially acceptable in any form or fashion.
To take the risk of injury or even death is not to be taken lightly and out in a “glamorous light” as your website does.

I , in my own opinion , should be guiding the self abuser to find help not to encourage this behaviour.

With this age of bacterial infections that are resistant to all known antibiotics and the “flesh eating” infections, one leaves themselves open to serious health risks.

If you are an adult and I believe you are , maybe a little more responsibilty in your presentation of this serious social problem is in order.

I had a 14 year old daughter that was sucked into self mutilation. She began doing it for social acceptance. She was not abused, she had a wonderful family life, and was well liked in school.

We found out about her “habit” when we were summoned to the emergency room one afternoon , after school , because one of her “friends” had attempted to “sculpt” a Celtic figure on her left leg and in the process severed an artery at the site.

Her lag eventually had to be amputated and 3 months after she died of a staph bacterial infection that was caused by tetanus. Noit from the surgical instruments but by the knfe and razor blade used by her “friend”.

Her “friend was chagred and convicted of involuntary manslaughter. He was 16 at the time of the incident. He was tried as an adult and will be in prison for 22 more years.

At least he will have the chance to have a life. My daughter will not.

Get these people to stop what they are doing if you can at all do something to help them. These photos “glorify” this type of sick behavior.
Your site does a wonderful job of showing the lengths that people will go to except , the way you present it, it appears to be safe behavior.

Good Luck

Good Luck.

Yeah, whatever, “doctor”.

You're well known as a habitual liar with nothing better to do than send whiny letters. You really ought to go back to messaging girls how you'd like to lick them all over. At least that just made you look like an idiot.

What, you didn't think I could find out who you were in 60 seconds? Get a life.

Just who the fuck are you??

I seriousy doubt if you know anything about me

Feel free to think that, it makes no difference to me.

Got a problem with how readily available your records are? That's a matter for you to take up with your bank.

Now go hassle someone else.

Bruce still wasn't entirely convinced that I was telling the truth I guess, and summoned up his last bit of courage with his reply,

First,,why are you such an angry person?
Second,, where do you get the idea that I write to girls and tell them I want to “lick them all over”??

I'm not angry, you're the one sending me deranged lies. As far as where I get my ideas, do you need me to quote you exactly? Here we go: “Just want to tell you that if it were at all possible, I would like to lick you from the ground up!!!!!” or maybe you prefer this quote: “I would love to spend a week climbing all over that beautiful body of yours !!!!!”

Your internet usage is very easy to track.

Now, unless you'd like to offer some proof for your claims, go hassle someone else.

Listen. You have your issues and I have mine.
Let's leave it there and move on. If I bothered your “space” I apologize. I have a right to my opinion and so do you.
My story is true….maybe this didn't happen to me but it happened to someone close to me.

Peace