Psychedelicious

Oh meek shush!! You're hot!!

mimi1988

OMG! Why did you post that pic!? You didn't have to post that, ya know. I think we all got the point...

Remus

not the first time I've pulled you up about posting sick images, make that the last time mate

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Ashiene

That is Harlequin Ichthyosis, caused by overproduction of keratin, which causes skin to harden, resembling the diamond-like scales of a traditional Harlequin dress. Because of the hardening of the skin, cracks appear between them, dividing the skin into armor-like plates.

Within these cracks, infections occur as a result of exposure to the external environment. The eyes are swollen, resembling red jelly, due to infection and swelling of the cornea. The mouth is kept perpetually open, like a goldfish's, due to the hard skin, preventing it from closing. In infants, the skin peels off in thick, long strips, but for those few who survive to adulthood, the condition can be managed by constant moisturizing of the skin.

I was waiting for so long, for a miracle to come, everyone told me to be strong, hold on and don't shed a tear. Let the rain come down and wash away my tears; let it fill my soul and drown my fears. Let it shatter the walls for a new, new sun. A new day has come...

Ashiene

I definitely agree with you. Many of us live under a false sense of security. They get frightened by the slighest of dangers, kill themselves over the smallest of problems, that we as a species have changed a lot mentally.

Whatever happened to our survival instincts? Our ancestors hunted the great mammoths, survived as long as they could during the Ice Age, built massive cities, never for a moment were they not under threat from infection, disease, death, predators, war, climate changes, weather. Yet they still perservered and what we have become today we owe it to the determination and will of our forefathers.

But today, we live in an urbanised society, and I do not doubt that most of us have lost much of our survival instincts. Throw a city person into the jungle and he would not know how to survive. Remove him from his technology and gadgets, and he will be crippled, unable to function as a normal human being.

What have we, as a species, become? Have we, from a race of mighty kings and fearsome warriors, transformed, into complaining, whining, cowardly children who shy away from anything we consider pollutant to our minds, anything we consider even remotely dangerous?

Have we become so immersed into this protective bubble that the Government has created for us, that we do not know how to survive on our own?

Will we evolve into the Eloi, from HG Well's Time Machine, a future human species in a 'Utopian' society where disease has been cured, and perfection achieved, and yet, the people resemble little children, unable to fend for themselves, unable to care for themselves?

I was waiting for so long, for a miracle to come, everyone told me to be strong, hold on and don't shed a tear. Let the rain come down and wash away my tears; let it fill my soul and drown my fears. Let it shatter the walls for a new, new sun. A new day has come...

Ashiene

These are the facts of life. Many parents overprotect their children, and when these children grow up, they find themselves alone in a world too harsh for them, because all their life the media and their parents have told them that the world is a peaceful place, but when they see the real world with their own eyes, they simply cannot accept the truth. Many of these children commit suicide, unable to believe that the world could be such a cruel, unforgiving place.

What people should do is to look at these deformities and realise that much of what they have, they take for granted, and do not see the true horror that much less fortunate victims of terrible diseases face on a daily basis.

You might delete the pictures I post, you might protect your sensitive eyes from the horrors of the real world, but these same horrors will exist, no matter if you look at them or not.

There are people, ignorant and corrupted by the media, who thought these victims of certain deformities to be alien beings captured by the Government.

Why? Because as children, they have never been exposed to such images, and so ignorance builds upon ignorance, and they cannot accept that such terrible things are able to exist in this world. Their minds, weak, use the idea that deformed human beings are alien creatures as a mental crutch.

I was waiting for so long, for a miracle to come, everyone told me to be strong, hold on and don't shed a tear. Let the rain come down and wash away my tears; let it fill my soul and drown my fears. Let it shatter the walls for a new, new sun. A new day has come...

mmmm

^ chunky is adorable, dammit. a girl needs a bit of this and that to add rythm to her walk. I'm a gilrl with a bottom and it's one thing I actually like about me.

Thanks for everything, God. You rock!

Remus

Like I told you before on other posts where you posted pics, this forum is for users of all ages and adult content will get us closed down.

questioning moderator decisions on the open forum will get you banned, I contacted you via PM about this, keep the conversation there, anyone else is also welcome to argue the case via PM too

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Satine

Well, it seems to me that Ashiene was making a completely different point to that made at the start of the thread, and your curbing of it, Remus was pretty much justified. The opening post is about traditional notions of beauty and how it feels to not be traditionally beautiful. We may, as the 'non-beautiful brigade' feel ugly, but that's just paranoia. Some might even say it's an adaptive paranoia, just one that we dwell on too much, that it becomes maladaptive.

Ashienne was talking about unusual and extremely disfiguring illnesses and the general public's lack of knowledge of them and the resulting shock to the images he showed. That's a different issue entirely. Presumably the answer to that is to widely show images of deformed people to the public. But as such illnesses are rare and/or localised, what would be the point?

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Lea

Just wanted to give rep point to Ashiene but then I see he is banned. I can´t understand this Ah I see this is a looser forum, he doesn´t belong here...