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Pro-Ana
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Posted By:
Bill
Jun 29, 2004
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Just found this on the web today. I can't tell if this is serious or a gag, but either way it's seriously mental.
http://www.plagueangel.org/grotto/
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Maegan
in Tampa, FL - USA
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Posted: Wed Jun 15, 2005 | 06:57 AM
Uhoh...I accidentally swallowed a bug while I was yawning!! PURGE PURGE! |
Logan
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Posted: Wed Jun 15, 2005 | 11:19 AM
We are living in a brave new world of acceptance and tolerance. As such we have thrown off the shackles of such archaic mediveal notions of 'right' and 'wrong', 'good' and 'evil', 'healthy' and 'unhealthy'.
Those who deviate from the norm should be commended for their bravery. Their lifestyle choices lauded. These brave souls are not purveyors of perversion. They are trailblazers!
These anoretics (the proper term for someone who suffers from anoerxia) with their sapling limbs, winged backs courtesy of exposed scapulas, spinal colums curving into half moons, with delicately translucent membranous skin clinging tight to the bone, are not twisted and unhealthy.
They are rather modifying their bodies to suit their idea of perfection. For nature (some may say even God), needs to be improved upon. Why the elimination of body fat, allows for the better viewing of that marvel of marvels the skeletal system, and to some extent the circulatory system as well.
Is it not everyone's right to do what one pleases to ones' own body?
Why fasting and deprivation have been the path to Salvation for mystics and Saints through out the days of old. Modern anoretics may just be an extension of honorbale tradition. Cutting just another form of self flagellation. Yes these girls may indeed be truth seekers, searching for greater purpose and meaning. They are making a bold statement about a world that is "starving".
Sadly many of you (especially those deprived of nutrients and the fats necessry for a healthy nuerological system) will agree with the above.
Words and language are tricky things. They can be used to disguise, or enlight. Despite what we have all been led to believe there is a right and wrong, good and evil healthy and unhealthy.
Our need to accept and approve ANY and all aberrations of human behaviours as a "life style" choice has in itself become pathological.
Accept is one thing, approve is another. Approving and accepting dangerous and unhealthy behaviour is wrong. Simple as that.
Denying your body of what it needs is wrong and unhealthy. We all do it to some degree in that we all don't have the greatest diets (for a few excpetions I'm sure)But people suffering from eating disorders do so knowingly, purposefully, and to brink of death. They are in fact mentally ill.
Mental illness can be maddening (excuse the pun) to deal with by those with little understanding of them. Even those well educated in psychiatry are often confounded and frustrated by a patients disease. Denial is a vicious Mobius Strip twisting in the head feeding in upon itself to no end. For which often there seems no cure.
If middle class girls and women want to starve themselves there is little anyone can do. An quite frankly why should anyone care? In a world where countless go hungry, disease is rampant, millions go without health care, where third world children scavange through garabage dumps for food or are sold into the sex trade, and that is just the tip of the proverbial iceberg, frankly why does anorexia even get on the social radar?
There are more important thinsg to worry about and far more wonderous things in our world to ponder. |
Boo
in The Land of the Haggii...
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Posted: Wed Jun 15, 2005 | 12:56 PM
Oh god.
All I care about now is not hearing ONE MORE POST on how good or bad it is to be anorexic.
The original post has been answered. Can't somebody with THE POWER stop the insanity? |
anii
in meow
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Posted: Wed Jun 15, 2005 | 01:14 PM
I am the owner of a pro-ana website. I just have to say, if you don't like it, don't look at it. We choose not to be fat- you can choose not to be skinny, but don't yell at us for it.
my site |
Boo
in The Land of the Haggii...
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Posted: Wed Jun 15, 2005 | 01:16 PM
Well, this is a hoax site. Perhaps if people want to debate the pros and cons of pro-ana, they should do it on one of the pro-ana sites. Someone asked if they were a hoax. They're not. Fine. But this isn't the place to discuss the morals of it. |
Logan
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Posted: Wed Jun 15, 2005 | 02:15 PM
...sorry I went on a tangent there, I have a awful habit of getting up on soapboxes. After sifting through 14 PAGES(!) of back forth nonsense being spewed I was compelled to try and shut both sides up, but alas that is not my job,
again I apologize. |
Charybdis
in Hell
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Posted: Wed Jun 15, 2005 | 02:22 PM
Okay, for 14 pages people have been begging to close this thread. The feeling seems to be unanimous amongst those who just can't stop themselves from reading and posting here. Since the issue of these sites being a hoax has been resolved, and since this thread has simply degenerated into mindless squabbling, I am closing it to new comments for now. If I'm in the wrong I'm sure you will all let me know about it. |
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