http://www.rjkoehler.com/2005/03/07/mongolian-and-korean-punishments-of-the-past/ Korea... in Blog Format Sun, 7 Sep 2008 22:21:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 http://www.rjkoehler.com/2005/03/07/mongolian-and-korean-punishments-of-the-past/#comment-10800 Loco Wed, 09 Mar 2005 00:15:51 +0000 http://rjkoehler.com/?p=1454#comment-10800 Whenever I hear stuff like this, it always reminds me of my Christian upbringing when they scared me so much with stories of Jesus' torture. It was really bad, no doubt - but I'm learning more and more that throughout history, so many people have been put through pain that doesn't even begin to be imaginable to me. That sucks... Whenever I hear stuff like this, it always reminds me of my Christian upbringing when they scared me so much with stories of Jesus’ torture. It was really bad, no doubt - but I’m learning more and more that throughout history, so many people have been put through pain that doesn’t even begin to be imaginable to me. That sucks…

]]> http://www.rjkoehler.com/2005/03/07/mongolian-and-korean-punishments-of-the-past/#comment-10799 Mark Mon, 07 Mar 2005 14:52:47 +0000 http://rjkoehler.com/?p=1454#comment-10799 To think that I thought Europeans had the most torturous past (pun intended). There's a nice torture museum in Ronneburg, I think, that I went to many years ago. The most greusome technique was "the wheel," in which someone's bones are broken in various places by dropping a heavy wagon wheel on him, and then the person's barely living body is woven through the spokes of the wagon wheel and placed upright on a post for crows to peck at. Care is taken not to break the skin during the breaking of bones, so that the person is as flexible as possible while still being alive. To think that I thought Europeans had the most torturous past (pun intended). There’s a nice torture museum in Ronneburg, I think, that I went to many years ago. The most greusome technique was “the wheel,” in which someone’s bones are broken in various places by dropping a heavy wagon wheel on him, and then the person’s barely living body is woven through the spokes of the wagon wheel and placed upright on a post for crows to peck at. Care is taken not to break the skin during the breaking of bones, so that the person is as flexible as possible while still being alive.

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