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Citizen Premier
in spite of public outcry
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Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2005 | 04:32 PM
Stephen, I'd like to help in your campaign. Could we call it the Premier-Stephen Platform? |
The Curator
in San Diego
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Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2005 | 04:35 PM
Here's the top 10 list:
Alex 540
Maegan 483
Paul 317
Stephen 268
Myst 250
Charybdis 211
Rod 189
Rex D. 164
Glamcat 161
JoeSixpack 161
Rod's almost at the 200 mark. Hairy should be on the list, but he chooses to post while not logged in (that's Hairy). Also Big Gary C (the master of urban legend haiku) should be on it, but again he doesn't login as a member, so there's no way to track his comments. |
Katherine
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Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2005 | 06:24 PM
No freedom of speech, guys? Are people not permitted to dither away pointlessly at threads for weeks on end? Is the Forum meant to serve solely as a hoax-debunker? ("This post has been debunked...pro-ana sites are obviously real, so kill this thread!") I mean, I know for a fact that there are loads and loads of posts here that are not solely of the hoax-debunking variety...
Not that Alex and admin friends can't do precisely as they please, but it seems a bit much to close a thread on that basis when I've never heard of any specific guidelines on the subject. (Of course, maybe there are tons that I've simply overlooked...?) |
Rod
in the land of smarties.
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Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2005 | 06:46 PM
I have no problem with free speech. None whatsoever.
All I am looking for is for people to use their heads and read the thread before they post. That way, if they have nothing new to bring to the conversation, they will probably not bother to post.
However, if they have read everything and can provide a point of view that has not been beaten to death and/or proven wrong, sure, go ahead and post. |
X
in McKinney, TX
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Posted: Wed Mar 16, 2005 | 07:20 AM
At Last, this WILL be the final thing said in this thread; It ends here! |
Hairy Houdini
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Posted: Wed Mar 16, 2005 | 07:41 AM
Hey... what the... |
X
in McKinney, TX
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Posted: Mon Jun 13, 2005 | 12:52 PM
It's back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It lives....and it is still Skinney!!!! |
X
in McKinney, TX
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Posted: Mon Jun 13, 2005 | 12:54 PM
This month will make 1 year Pro Ana has been here.
Thats scary.....They were also on the news, again, the other day. |
Boo
in The Land of the Haggii...
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Posted: Mon Jun 13, 2005 | 12:58 PM
Pro ana websites are real.
Whatever your opinion, they do exist.
Let's not kick the opinion war off again. |
X
in McKinney, TX
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Posted: Mon Jun 13, 2005 | 01:02 PM
I know they are real......wait, are you trying to pic a fight with me????
Ummm....they are fake...... |
X
in McKinney, TX
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Posted: Mon Jun 13, 2005 | 01:03 PM
And like it is perfectly fine to be anarexic or whatever.... |
X
in McKinney, TX
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Posted: Mon Jun 13, 2005 | 01:05 PM
They were talking about Pro Ana sites on the web and how they are trying to get more girls to join their side.....Promoting it.. |
X
in McKinney, TX
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Posted: Mon Jun 13, 2005 | 01:06 PM
I mean on the television...The news. I think a couple weeks ago. These people got some serious issues....Happy Festivus!!!!!! |
Mrs.B
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Posted: Mon Jun 13, 2005 | 01:35 PM
Yikes. I think that all of these pro-ana people are looking for attention in all the wrong places. I'd like to do a study on these people--are they well educated? Do they have college degrees? Do they come from one or two parent families? I think the results would be interesting.
Just so you know, I just ate an entire pizza. Taaaaaasty. |
fed the fuck up
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Posted: Tue Jun 14, 2005 | 10:06 AM
forget what those people are saying stay motivated. |
LaMa
in Europe
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Posted: Tue Jun 14, 2005 | 10:25 AM
I am pro- <a href="http://www.kournikova.com/">this pro-Anna...</a> |
Maegan
in Tampa, FL - USA
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Posted: Tue Jun 14, 2005 | 11:10 AM
This is Stephen's fault. |
Winona
in USA
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Posted: Tue Jun 14, 2005 | 11:12 AM
Everything is Stephen's fault, Maegan. |
Maegan
in Tampa, FL - USA
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Posted: Tue Jun 14, 2005 | 11:20 AM
I've noticed. 🙄 |
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Posted: Wed Jun 15, 2005 | 04:16 AM
in one way a feel that these sites are horrible and disturbing..but on the other hand I like them because they give me tips and they help me. Im not anorexic but I do not have a healthy relashionship to food. Seeing pictures of girls who is just skin and bones makes me realise that I don't wan't to look like them but at the same time I can't make myself eat anything unhealthy as it makes me feel 'dirty'. I know starving myself won't make me look like those models 'cause most of them are born that way and I have to accept that I don't have their body type.. |
Maegan
in Tampa, FL - USA
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Posted: Wed Jun 15, 2005 | 05:57 AM
Uhoh...I accidentally swallowed a bug while I was yawning!! PURGE PURGE! |
Logan
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Posted: Wed Jun 15, 2005 | 10:19 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 | 11:56 AM
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
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Posted: Wed Jun 15, 2005 | 12:14 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.
<a href="http://www.freewebs.com/aniiana/">my site</a> |
Boo
in The Land of the Haggii...
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Posted: Wed Jun 15, 2005 | 12:16 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 | 01:15 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 | 01:22 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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