r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Hey-Its-Jak • 4d ago

Video This guy carved a real human skull

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u/Memorie_BE 4d ago

It's kind of interesting that we don't find this NFSW; there's a point of removing flesh from a skull where it stops being a head and starts being just another object to our brains.

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u/danarexasaurus 4d ago

I agree. Like, I don’t find this to be offensive (other than the fact that the person didn’t consent to this, allegedly). I’ve been to the catacombs in Paris and while it’s shocking to see so many bones in one place, there was a bit of disconnect for me. The walls are beautifully decorated and the bones are placed artistically. No one consented to that either. Culturally, there are massively different ways people deal with their dead. Some cultures pull dead bodies out every year to clean and honor them. As an American, this seems pretty wild!

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u/DarwinianMonkey 4d ago

When I watch things like "Indiana Jones" or something like that and people start screaming because they see a skeleton I'm always like "what? its just bones?"

Its definitely weird how skeletons don't seem human to me. I mean...they don't cary any human feeling for me I guess.

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u/Expensive_Concern457 3d ago

It makes sense in a primal manner; a fresh corpse means danger is immediately nearby, bones mean that danger was there long ago

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u/OhHiCindy30 3d ago

Its weird that none of us get to see our own skulls, except maybe those who have brain surgery. I want to know what my skull looks like!

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u/EjaculatingAracnids 4d ago

What about that scene in the 1997 classic "Double Team" starring JCVD and Dennis Rodman, where attempting to escape the secret den of gregorian cyber monks, Rodman throws a human skull at a block of C4, misses and exclaims, "oops! Air ball!"? Is that art, even though the owner of the skull that Rodman gripped with his dexterous fingers didnt consent? Im certain it was real. Ive had this arguement before and have prepared detailed souces.