A Century of Medical Oddities

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  • Posted By: MamaSan80 @ 01/06/2008 3:13:13 PM

    kestral88 is right. I know that I posted my comments to those who decided to make this a religious debate, I did that because like everyone else, I thought that my opinion should be heard. I may sound a bit ignorant, but I wasn't aware that the mite that lives on horses was the scabies mite. And horses are my favorite animal!! Fancy that one huh? It's very interesting to see how the human body copes with changes. The whole religious debate thing thats going on here reminds me of my philosophy class that I'm taking in college. We had a week of discussion about religion and God. My opinions are very much different than those who believe, but I repect their beliefs, so long as they don't push it on me. I've been there believing, but turned away because my life didn't change for the better or worse, it stayed the same. I can't put my faith into something that has been passed down by word of mouth over thousands of years. Not to mention that religion, such as Christianity, started out as a small cult that just grew in popularity. Philosophy is good for something.

  • Posted By: gurupappio @ 01/03/2008 3:44:22 PM

    When I was a little boy I found a paperback book titled "My Famous Freeks". I remember pictures of a man whose twin brother ,though dead, was inside the mans stomach. His arms, legs were protruding from the mans stomach. There was also a picture of a chinese man with fingernails some over 6 foot long, rolled up and kept in bags at the end of each finger. A sign of liesure in chinese culture, Now that I think about it ,it may have been a Ripley's book. There was more, of course, but that was 50 years ago.

    • Posted By: MamaSan80 @ 01/06/2008 2:53:23 PM

      Wow, I would love to see a book like that. I find it interesting to learn about all of the abnormalties in our world, be it human, animal, plant or geological. Though, I wonder if some of the publications are put out for sheer entertainment or to make other people knowledgable that there are these abnormalities out there, and we just don't see it all the time. And when we do, we ridicule that person and make fun of them because they are different. Aren't we a hypocritical society?

  • Posted By: dizzydoubles @ 01/03/2008 1:56:07 PM

    I don't see what the point is, Mona1855...yea! u can look around and see all of the beauty, but at the same token, look around and see all of the monstrosities and negative things that happen....is there a GOD? I don't know...but u can't get around science. There will always be positive and negative. We are all energy.

    • Posted By: MamaSan80 @ 01/06/2008 2:46:09 PM

      That's the most logical explination I have heard throughout all of these posts so far. We are all energy. Energy cannot be created or destroyed, only changed. And we keep changing.

  • Posted By: Mona1855 @ 01/03/2008 1:33:27 PM

    Anyone who would openly say that there is no God is a complete idiot. Evolution is for ignorant people who refuse to look at the world around them. Something this amazing could not possibly have happend by chance, but by the divine Creation of the Almighty God.

    • Posted By: Rocky Fordian @ 01/03/2008 1:55:11 PM

      I do appreciate your comment. But, the Almighty God, The Great I Am, has a book out that advises calling people fools or idiots puts you in danger of hell fire. Be carefull. The Author of the Book you believe in is a two edged sword, it cuts both ways.

      • Posted By: MamaSan80 @ 01/06/2008 2:39:07 PM

        "The Book" as it is refered as, was written by man several years after Jesus walked the earth. And has been translated and re-translated throughout the past 2000 years. Things are bound to become distorted. The Bible, in my eyes, is a fictitious story now. Sure, there may be some truth to it, but overall, it's just words from a human's mouth passed from a millenia of mouths. I too am Agnostic. I find it hard to believe in something that humans created just so they could pass the blame when something bad happens by the hands of man, and so that humans wouldn't feel so small and insignificant in this world. But, that's just my opinion. Don't judge me, I was in the religious shoes. My life wasn't happier when I was going to church and putting my faith into something that can't be seen or proved. My life hasn't changed for the better or the worse since then either. All of these pictures are part of the human process. This is what happens when someone's body has a different idea as to how to form and function. It's almost saddening that there are people in this world that go through this, but with medical technology advancing as quickly as it is, there's a treatment/cure for most things in this world now. And if there isn't one, it's being worked on.

    • Posted By: HeroKitsune @ 01/06/2008 6:48:47 AM

      Well anyone who would openly say someone is an idiot for speaking there beliefes must look in the mirror first, and find how thay are better than them, how they have the right to judge another human for there beliefs, expecially since, a main belief in the christian religions i have come to study is that the only one who can judge is "God." And seeing as how i am Agnostic and a sinner, I will openly give my opinion, cause i know my hypocritical ways, you sound to me like someone who suffers from self-induced retardation from an ignorant spoonfed world that has sheltered you to be so closed minded.

    • Posted By: sweetsue5291 @ 01/03/2008 9:53:11 PM

      Mona, if you ever want the chance to convert someone, anyone, into believing that God truly exists you can not call them idiots. God says to love the sinner, not the sin. Normally you dont call someone you love an idiot. All that we can do is pray that each of these non-believers has the chance to say " God I love you and I want you to come live in my heart for eternity", before they are sent to hell to burn for eternity.

    • Posted By: devilkat @ 01/03/2008 3:16:33 PM

      "Judge not, lest thee be judged"...isn't that from the bible... but how would I no...I just one of those "complete idiots". :-P

  • Posted By: MHanna @ 01/06/2008 1:09:39 PM

    the first picture looks like she had some sort of sugery and there are stitches. it doesnt just look like its a droopy eye cause where are the stitches in the second picture?

  • Posted By: kslope @ 01/06/2008 12:43:31 PM

    jeez people. religion is a personal choice for everyone and no person is an idiot for having different beliefs.

  • Posted By: dmtm00 @ 01/06/2008 12:00:33 PM

    I totally agree with Mona . Our Lord the Creator of HEAVENS AND EARTH IS NOT PETTY AS US HUMANS . HE IS NOT TO BE ISOLATED IN FINATE . HE IS NOT BY ANY MEANS THE THE LORD OF LESSER CHILDREN . WE WERE ALL BORN EQUALS . AND ONLY HE KNOWS WHAT HE IS DOING . WE ARE JUST HIS HUMBLE CREATION AND WE ARE NOT GOD . WE ALWAYS TEND TO FORGET THAT SOME HOW . DR . MOHAMMAD TAYYAB MIRZA ...

  • Posted By: zienzman @ 01/03/2008 1:50:01 PM

    Mona, I am one of those "complete idiots" you speak of, and it is for reasons of logical inconsistancies and lack of evidence for your god. Intelligent Design, or creationism, is merely an unverifiable excuse to promote religion in public places. I hope you someday come to understand that your belief is no more correct than anyone elses and learn some tolerance towards others of different ideas, beliefs and religions.

    • Posted By: whispole @ 01/06/2008 11:06:07 AM

      Yeah obviously I am an idiot too, but really your the one who needs to learn a little more. I mean everyone is different your not any better than anyone. And you shouldn't be forcing your religion on anyone because it is their dicision. So why critisize it don't judge people for what they think or believe or their religion, it's not right and if your such a believer and theres rules or whatev you shouldn't be calling people IDIOTS! By the way this was for Mona

  • Posted By: checker36 @ 01/06/2008 10:57:04 AM

    Al,
    God actuallly encourages you to lament. Lamenting is telling your true feelings to the Lord through prayer. Even if they are negative thoughts towards Jesus himself. Praying to God and asking why has he cursed you or saying that you sometimes do wrong and do it anyway is lamenting. The Lord already knows what you are feeling so why hold in all that guilt and anguish. Jesus died so we would not have to feel shamed and gain our salvation. I will end with this Al:
    2 Corinthians 5:17 says, "Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation, the old has gone, the new has come!"
    No atter what you have done in the past, through your faith in Jesus you have been forgiven. Look at Saul in the bible, he killed many Christian belivers and suddenly repented for his sins and became a great mercenary through Jesus. Have a blessed day my friend.

  • Posted By: downeastcajun @ 01/06/2008 9:41:52 AM

    twisted war is demented.

  • Posted By: popsstar @ 01/06/2008 9:37:41 AM

    life as been good and nice, but in trouble life will seem as a curse but still we should believe in life and god cause he is for real i am not a saint and i am not perfect. I have done so much wrong and ask for forgiveness so many times and now to ask for forgiveness it seem s so hard i am just scared at times to ask god for forgivness, i so understand that he will forgive me for all that i have done and i am truely sorry for all the wrong and stupid things i have done.life is real and it is fair at times things just happen to the way you let it, but still he stands by,we should just accept life as a great gift and more and give your ears and thoght to the almighty even if not in congregation just do it by yourself and understand the almighty and his doings cause in all is worth he means good towards eah and every being that he had created.

  • Posted By: popsstar @ 01/06/2008 9:29:08 AM

    life is so real and god is so real i fail to fallow him at times as the creater talks to me so much and i know he is talkingbut i just keep away.I know i am not perfectand i have done so much bad and stupid stuff some real bad stuff and i beg for forgiveness, sometimes i think he won't even listen to for the amount of times i have begged forgiveness but i know he will sometimes i fell so scared to even pray to him but i know he will still answer my prayers.Life is just a bundle of things we can't do every thing or be everything but there will come that time in every one's life that they will find there true meaning. I am Al and i just wanted to speak out that which was in my thought somewhere where it seems free for me.

  • Posted By: TwistedWar @ 01/06/2008 8:54:01 AM

    oops somehow it posted another one which was before i changed it alittle,only read the one that starts with long so decide if you want to read,the other one is almost exactly the same

  • Posted By: TwistedWar @ 01/06/2008 8:52:20 AM

    long so decide if you want to read now-----god is real and does exist but like both sides no one can disprove either,its just a matter of faith and for giving you 10million dollars well god will not give it to those who do not believe and maybe not even to those who do and just like if you say i'm going to jump off a cliff and if your real god you will save me and in the bible says do not test him like that or you will hit the ground,but as it is we all have freewill,i have no clue whose going to heaven,simple fact is everything on earth is nothing but a test of faith to get the real reward and thats heaven,so anyone being hurt by someone else is just them using their freewill to hurt and they'll pay in the end,same with money god did not give movies stars the breaks they wanted or musicians theirs, nothing but their choice,but like me and everyone else its hard to know what god has done and hasn't,and if in fact god doesn't exist then we should just kill our selves now,i mean thats what all that is about ,its all about hope and getting to the next day praying and wishing something would just go right,god gave us the right to choose and if you look around you what is hurting you,what is making life suck,i'll tell you what people everyone else,every person who decided to make another person break,between wars and goverment and crime,its all tied to us,as for stuff like not being able to work or your sick and so you cannot get money,thats just bad luck,i know for a fact,i have cerebral palsy and alot of other crap,but i tell you this,i am 20 years old and i had no one,i asked for over 10 years for someone to care someone to love me a beautiful girl to think despite everything i was good as is,and i found that girl and were engaged so i may be in pain and everything else but i am not a whimp so i deal and treasure her as she does me,so its a matter of knowing what you need,do not ask god for money or some stupid objects,for people who need money ask for a way out of that mess,it may not come from money but from something else and before i end this long post i must say i am a sinner and i probably done worse things than most anyone on these post but god forgives and if your sorry and say that as if your talking to him and mean it with your heart he will forgive you,lastly i do not care what you believe, i personally believe that all religion is true to some extent,i mean 1000 years and translations later who knows,but i am certain of one thing god is real,rather or not the bible is all correct or only 1% correct he or she is real,and thats good enough for me,as i trust that the choices i feel right about are the ones i need to take,even if its against some rule in the bible,which being gay is evil and is one i do not really believe,and for those who actually read all this congrats i wish there was a prize for you.

  • Posted By: TwistedWar @ 01/06/2008 8:40:37 AM

    god is real and does exist but like both sides no one can disprove either,its just a matter of faith and for giving you 10million dollars well god will not give it to those who do not believe and maybe not even to those who do and just like if you say i'm going to jump off a cliff and if your real god you will save me and in the bible says do not test him like that or you will hit the ground,but as it is we all have freewill,i have no clue whose going to heaven,simple fact is everything on earth is nothing but a test of faith to get the real reward and thats heaven,so anyone being hurt by someone else is just them using their freewill to hurt and they'll pay in the end,same with money god did not give movies the breaks they wanted or musicians theirs, nothing but their choice,but like me and everyone else its hard to know what god has done and hasn't,and if in fact god doesn't then we should just kill our selves now,i mean thats what all that is about ,its all about hope and getting to the next day praying and wishing something would just go right,god gave us the right to choose and if you look around you what is hurting you,what is making life suck,i'll tell you what people everyone else,every person who decided to make another person break,between wars and goverment and crime,its all tied to us,as for stuff like not being able to work or your sick and so you cannot get money,thats just bad luck,i know for a fact,i have cerebral palsy and alot of other crap,but i tell you this,i am 20 years old and i had no one,i asked for over 10 years for someone to care someone to love me a beautiful girl to think despite everything i was good as is,and i found that girl and were engaged so i may be in pain and everything else but i am not a whimp so i deal and treasure her as she does me,so its a matter of knowing what you need,do not ask god for money or some stupid objects,for people who need money ask for a way out of that mess,it may not come from money but from something else and before i end this long post i must say i am a sinner and i probably done worse things than most anyone on these post but god forgives and if your sorry and say that as if your talking to him and mean it with your heart he will forgive you

  • Posted By: nicklebacknow @ 01/06/2008 4:50:52 AM

    if someone does you wrong with a mean spirit, you give them a taste of their own medicine. God doesnt exist sweetsue btw. If it does, then tell him (or her) to givce me 10million dollars and I ll shut up. But that wont be possible would it? Ok then I rest my case. THERE IS NO GOD. I wdnt date or marry anyone who thought there was one, because I would be having fun with the idea all day long to the point of exasperation.

  • Posted By: bigboost @ 01/03/2008 5:22:28 PM

    Geese two penises= 1 enormous one... can I have his number. ; )

  • Posted By: anonymX2 @ 01/03/2008 8:48:03 AM

    I live a few blocks from the Mutter Museum. On first seeing the horn, and the caption at the museum that described it as just a "skin condition", I imagined a woman dating Satan and having him explain his horns to her as," Oh these, they're just a skin condition."

    • Posted By: heyjustmeagain @ 01/03/2008 4:32:04 PM

      [laughs]
      Definitely sounds like something you'd find on a Far Side single panel.

  • Posted By: heyjustmeagain @ 01/03/2008 4:28:01 PM

    People can be such asses, can't they? Especially on the internet.

    Anyhow, this is an amazing slideshow. I especially like the conjoined twins.

  • Posted By: edward001 @ 01/03/2008 4:26:58 PM

    can't get flash 9e.ocx to down load and work proper without sending error reporting and crashing

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