On 7-6-2011 18:42, nemesis wrote:
> Invisible escreveu:
>> On 07/06/2011 01:23 PM, nemesis wrote:
>>
>>> BTW, some times japanese manga comes up with some interesting
>>> thoughts. I read
>>> in Blade of the Immortal a suggestion that europeans had quite a
>>> better grasp on
>>> medicine as opposed to the traditional chinese medicine because they
>>> had quite
>>> good knowledge of the human body and its inner workings for all the
>>> centuries
>>> worth of painful and barbaric tortures and death penalties. Europeans
>>> were
>>> making surgery while chinese were still drinking bitter tea.
>>>
>>> I'm sure there was plenty of torture in china too, but while
>>> europeans were
>>> cracking open bodies and letting them rot in public places during the
>>> dark ages,
>>> china was in the height of a sophisticated civilization. Death
>>> penalties were
>>> usually carried out quickly rather than in agony.
>>
>> I heard QI
>
> ?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3Ff0D-dWew

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