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The face of a goddess
http://i.l.cnn.net/cnn/2008/WORLD/as...t.LALI.TWO.jpg
Baby With Two Faces Worshipped As A Goddess click to show |
How the hell does the brain sort out input from all four eyes?
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Does the throat meet up like a Y or something, with everything going down the same esophagus? Which face is forward?
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The same reaction was in India when a girl was born with a parasitic twin attached at the pelvis making her out to have 8 limbs. They also deemed her as a reincarnated god.
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No one knows at present since the parents refuse medical examination. I hope their refusal doesn't mean that the poor girl dies early from something treatable.
On a similar topic - have you seen the documentary on conjoined twins Abi and Brittany Hensel? Now THAT is fascinating, remarkable girls. |
Refusing medical examination = epic fail. Damned irresponsible. I hope the children don't suffer because of the parents' ignorance.
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have you ever heard of these guys...amazing life story....
http://phreeque.tripod.com/chang_eng.html xoxoxoo |
On another related note, this is what I was talking about in my previous post.
http://www.weirdasianews.com/2007/11...gs-and-4-arms/ |
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Are we allowed to have pictures of children on TFP?
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allaboutmusic mentioned the Hensel twins and I decided to look them up. I found a wikipedia article, which said: Quote:
I am a bad, bad man. |
Our evolution, will request an openess of face,
not to shy away, not to laugh away, but to embrace. |
From their perspective, she's a reincarnated goddess. Lucky and Blessed.
From others in their "civilized" world, she's deformed and will likely have complications or die. Who is right? Does belief dictate reality? Does belief in the former insure her health and vitality? Does believing the latter doom this child? If a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound? Enjoy the expansion of your conciousness while you ponder this and try to suspend your judgment. Blessings! |
This forum bothers me - are we supposed to laugh at the parents? They're probably not literate.
How are they to judge whether their doctor is right or wrong? Could they do a quick internet search of blog sites, work history and academic records? I doubt it. |
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What bothers me is your assumption that a family in northern India must automatically consist of illiterate yokels. |
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Martian: The marriage/reproduction happened in the case of the "Bunker Brothers," the conjoined Siamese Twins (from Thailand, formerly known as Siam)... check it out. |
abaya, in the case of the Bunker brothers, they were men with separate sexual organs. As long as their wives only had intercourse with the appropriate husband, there would be no question of who the father was.
In the case of the Hensel twins, the twins share one reproductive system. If they engaged in intercourse, would the sexual partner involved be having sex with just the one twin, or both of them? If conception was successful, who would the mother be? Are they both listed as "mother" on the birth certificate? If they each had sexual partners / husbands, would they be comfortable putting their fluids where another man puts his fluids? If they decide to try for children, would the one husband have to wear a condom while the other doesn't, or do they just see which one conceives? I could go on... |
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Looked at another way, it's perfectly okay to pray when diagnosed with cancer, but it's also important to understand that prayer is not a substitute for chemotherapy. |
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We do not know what challenges this child faces. An earlier death may be preferable in certain cultures with strong afterlife beliefs. I am not saying I agree with it, I only make the point that we should be accepting of the parents decision if that is their belief. |
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I don't want to get down on people for their beliefs, and I'm not really interested in discussing the merits of various religions. If you as an adult make a choice to place your faith before your own personal well-being, I say more power to you. When there's a child involved, however, it's a different story. This little girl doesn't get to make a choice, and there's a strong possibility that she's going to suffer because of the decision her parents have made. There is no reason not to make sure she gets adequate medical care here. They can be believe she's a goddess all they want, but why does that exclude the possibility of giving her a CT scan and making sure she is otherwise healthy? My respect for religion does not extend to neglecting a child. If that makes me judgemental, so be it. |
That is freaky. I wonder what will happen to it/them?
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I apologize for the minor threadjack, but the pharmaceutical industry has done an excellent job of brainwashing the masses into believing that modern invasive medical procedures is the best and only way.
I say again, belief does dictate reality. (shamanism if you will, quantum physics if you won't) THIS IS NOT IN ANY WAY SHAPE OR FORM "CHILD ABUSE" These people LOVE this baby!!!!!! |
allaboutmusic: I was referring more to the "awkwardness" of having sex with someone while you were permanently attached to someone else's body... not necessarily about the genetics/mother/fathership of the resulting baby, etc. But yeah, I see your point.
As for all of you who say it's child abuse/stupid/etc... are you going to send money to this family to help pay for the amount of medical intervention it/they would need in order to have a long life? I mean, I'm all for people trying to help their children medically as much as possible, in any situation... however, that's easy to say from a Western society where we can actually somewhat afford these things. If they can hardly afford to eat from day to day, and if they are uneducated and truly believe that she is a goddess, well... then that's their reality. People make decisions based on their circumstances, not based on what people typing on the internet from wealthy Western countries would like them to do. Yes, she will probably die young. She might have died young anyway, even with medical intervention. But at least this way, the parents/community will find some "meaning" in the whole thing, and not have their belief system ripped out from under them when it's all they have. See the book "The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down," about a similar real-life situation involving a traditional Hmong family that was imported to the US, with an epileptic child. This is what happens when they don't bring in an anthropologist (or some other cultural broker/interpreter) to negotiate between extremely different systems of belief and medicine. |
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Seriously though, they've known nothing different their entire lives. I doubt it would be all that awkward for them. Their partners might find it awkward though. |
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