[gboy69]

it has nothing to do with being closer to god . . . . as such
nor has it has anything to do with people believing that jesus was born in the philippines

it is their way of cleansing themselves of their sins over the previous year/s

they believe that by putting themselves through pain, their sins are back to zero . . . . until the next day, when they sin all over again

[BadAshly]

The nails went into the wrists not the hands. They did a test to see if that was the case and they discovered the hands do not have enough resistance to hold the body and it slides right off.

Stakes went through the wrists people. Look that shit up.
For that reason - stigmatas are bullshit.

[pyromancer555]

Crazy motherfuckers

[danielsan]

What a coincidence.....I've just been reading about modern day Crucifixion. Here are some of the examples I saw......


In Easter 2011, a middle-aged South Korean taxi driver was found dead, nailed to a crucifix. The body of 58-year-old Kim was found a week after Easter on a wooden cross in an abandoned quarry in the central city of Mungyeong.

Kim apparently went to great lengths to ensure his death emulated the death of Jesus Christ. In addition to being nailed to the cross, he was wearing only a pair of underwear and a crown of thorns atop his head. He had also apparently performed self-flagellation and stabbed himself in the side to emulate the wound delivered by Longinus to Christ.

According to police, the man's faith helped him endure the pain. An autopsy revealed that he died from bleeding to death and suffocation, the latter of which likely due to the stabbing.

One thing that remains unclear, however, is whether or not he was given assistance. It is thought that after whipping and stabbing himself, he drilled holes in hands and slipped them through the already driven in nails. According to one source, police re-enacted the scenario and determined that it was entirely possible that a man could do what Kim did without assistance.

[danielsan]

In 2015, a politician allowed himself to be nailed to a cross in public in a bizarre and painful protest at not being allowed to stand as a mayoral candidate.

Former Congressman Edwin Tupa, 43, had tried to become Town Hall boss in the city of Montero, Bolivia. However, he fell afoul of laws banning national politicians standing in local elections. After officials had ignored Tupa's six-day hunger strike, he asked supporters to nail him to a cross in front of the Electoral Tribunal building in the city of La Paz.

But after one 12-inch nail was hammered through Tupa's right hand into a wooden cross, he screamed in agony begging supporters to stop. A series of interviews was canceled when Tupa passed out from the pain.

Paramedics took 10 minutes to extract the nail from his hand before rushing him to the hospital

[danielsan]

In 1974, performance artist Chris Burden was nailed to the back of a Volkswagen Beetle, which was pushed out of a garage with the engine revving for two minutes before being pushed back into the garage. Certainly, the piece is suggestive of Christ's crucifixion and even the title — Trans-Fixed—recalls the concept of transubstantiation, the process whereby the bread and wine of the Eucharist (communion/Lord's Supper) become the body and blood of Christ.

In 1977, Burden's performance was immortalized in a song written by David Bowie for the album Heroes called "Joe the Lion." "Nail me to my car and I'll tell you who you are" was a part of the lyrics.

Burden is also notorious for such works as being bolted to a gallery floor between two buckets of water, each with a live 110-volt electric line submerged in it, so that a viewer could, if they wished, kick over the bucket and kill him (Prelude to 220, or 110, 1971), and having his friend shoot him in the arm with a .22 rifle (Shoot, Santa Ana Gallery, 1971).

[danielsan]

In 2014, three bus drivers in Paraguay had their hands nailed to a cross as part of a hunger strike after they "unjustly" lost their jobs. Elvio Cristaldo and Eligio Martinez decided to crucify themselves in San Lorenzo (a suburb of the capital city Asunción) after they were sacked for refusing to work fewer hours.

Clemente Lovera even had his mouth sewn shut and is starving himself until he is allowed to return to his position. The father-of-two was force-fed liquid food through a straw as he laid alongside two former colleagues during the gruesome demonstration. The individuals were not hung from the crosses, but were allowed to lie on the ground on their backs, with their hands were nailed to the boards. They were given medication to help ease the pain.

A year before, eight bus drivers took part in a similar protest. Each of them was nailed to a cross for 20 days near a bus terminal at Luque, 12km outside the capital Asuncion

[danielsan]

Quebec City resident Jose Breton has vigorously attempted to popularize his fetish for chubby women through a prominent media presence.

Most people with specific sexual peccadilloes are satisfied to pursue them in peace. Breton, not so much. He feels so strongly about his sexual arousal for fleshy babes that in a media interview in 1993, he compared physically fit women to "children" and "extraterrestrials."

It's not enough for Breton to enjoy chunky, pudgy, round, curvaceous, Rubenesque women—he wants you to feel the way he does. He launched a zine in the pre-net days and then moved on to Miss Ronde, a virtual beauty contest which only welcomes overweight women. He ran for a seat as an Independent in the most recent provincial elections under the slogan "The Parti Quebecois dislikes round women." He also ran a campaign to get more fat women on TV.

Perhaps his most dramatic stunt was when he posted a video of himself on a cross in 2013, apparently in a reaction to feeling shut out of the feminist movement a few months earlier.

[FunkPumpkin]

The Romans nailed through JC's wrists, not his palms. These knobs went through all that pain and didn't even do it accurately.

[robbierob]