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Fusiform Gyrus Makes Us See Faces in Objects Other Than Faces

LSD is also rumored to help.

Why do people see faces in stone formations, trees, tacos, the moon, knotty pine, and so forth? It's brain activity in the fusiform gyrus.

I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that the fusiform gyrus may also play a role in the hearing of imaginary raaaaacist dog whistles.

Stop looking at me that way.

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10 comments

  • jefferson101 on October 26, 2012 at 6:46 pm said:

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    An addition of Ergot mold makes you see Witches, too.  If you are a modern Democrat, "Witches" can be translated into any particular bugaboo that they are currently pushing.  "Rich People"?  Yeah, it'll do those.  "Racists"?  Every time.  "Intolerant Christianists"?  Yeah, we got those, too.
     
    We got to make the Leftists stop eating cheap and/or moldy bread, I think.
     
    ;-)

    • jefferson101 on October 27, 2012 at 5:01 pm said:

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      "Artisian Bread", please.  Do you really think they would lower themselves to eating something that we proles might buy?
       
      :-)

        • jefferson101 on October 27, 2012 at 7:36 pm said:

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          My taste for  "Rye" anything is pretty much confined to the occasional Canadian Whiskey and Gardetto's rye chips.
           
          That all goes back to about 1958, when my Mother brought home a loaf of "Russian Rye" bread, and I spent ten minutes having a fit at her because if it was "Russian", those flipping Commies would be trying to poision us with in, and nobody in their right mind would eat anything they sent us.
           
          :-)
           
          That was at Toul, though.  I had a couple of fits at my old Daddy during the same year because when they went on an Alert, he would come home with a 1911 and an M-2, and he wouldn't give me anything to shoot back with if the Russians did show up.
           
          All things considered, it's probably something of a miracle that I'm as well balanced as I am, although opinions vary on just how well that balance may be leveled.  Worst case, I don't have to wonder how I'm going to be able to shoot back any more, though, so there's that.
           
           

    • jefferson101 on October 27, 2012 at 7:47 pm said:

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      Back in the day, if you told me I had one of those, I'd have wanted to know if they could cure it with Penicillin, and if they needed to know who I'd possibly gotten it from.
       
      I was not notably well behaved in my yute, be it noted.  I did survive, and I did get over most of it.  I'm still not sure about the Fusiform Gyrus thing, though.  I have fears that it may be aggrevated by boiled Okra and/or Purple Hull peas, though, so I try to avoid them, along with most all incarnations of Rye.
       
      Better to be safe than sorry, right?
       
       

      • I guess that means you're foresworn the eating of Mushrooms, too. Sometimes they can make you see your Medulla Oblongata in a whole new light.

        • jefferson101 on October 27, 2012 at 9:55 pm said:

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          Morels and Wal-Mart Stems and Pieces don't make me see nothing except me going "Om, Nom, Nom.  Beyond that, though?  I'll pass on the 'shrooms.  You can have those dried Chinese ones.  I am just not sure what they may be putting into them, and I am a bit suspicious of Commies, as previously noted.
           
          Disgustingly, if there are any Morels in Arkansas, I can't find them.  It hasn't been for lack of looking, either.  I'm about ready to try to start farming my own. 
           
           

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