Good googlin' mooglin'

[CaraD.]

so there i was, googling shit online for a philosophy paper i'm writing when i stumbled upon this:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v700/golfgurl/wartyhands.jpg

the article says: Dede, now 35, baffled medical experts when warty "roots" began growing out of his arms and feet after he cut his knee in a teenage accident.



apparently, he's got HPV but he has a rare genetic fault that impedes his immune system and therefore his body is unable to contain the warts.



craaaaaaaaazy
i want to study these kinds of phenomena, i find it very interesting. it's too bad i'm horribly pathetic when it comes to science.

bye bye cool career!

[CaraD.]

here's a clip of the video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umn9izwtKvo&NR=1

[sway2sway]

check your body for warts, it ain't much different

[CaraD.]

i've never had a wart. and i've even kissed alot of toads.

could you imagine having "roots" for hands? I would say just amputate. put me in a wheel chair. I'd rather look like a stump than a an entire tree.

[sway2sway]

i think I'd understand having roots for hands more than having cara in my brain, no offense intended, but I feel like I could more get where a tree is coming from than you-
a testament to the diversity of species, I suppose.

imagine if we could see brains like that, a brain with no immunity to the onslaught of orchestrated corporate inputs, unchecked growth plugging into the man which feeds it, where's the digust and outrage then, where's the 'suffering humanity and mary mother joseph help us' for the debacle of human papillomas, papillomas not of just skin, but mind, body and spirit-

[angischy]

could you imagine having "roots" for hands? I would say just amputate. put me in a wheel chair. I'd rather look like a stump than a an entire tree.

Well I don't really care about looks that much.
And I've long dreamed of being a tree.
I see trees as a total symbol of life, growth, history, unlimited potential, so many many many possibilities. Directions taken, then changed, something's blocking the way to the sun...etc

And I'd never surrender my hands or limbs or any such thing in exchange for a chair. What a giving up that would be.

[CaraD.]

too be honest, I wouldn't know how I would choose to live if I were in this man's shoes, or roots rather. I was drunk when I wrote that and was being facetious with the "stump versus an entire tree" comment.
At least, he has his children's acceptance and love. It didn't seem like anyone in his village was ashamed of him or made fun of him. I'm sure in other cultures in other small villages they would have probably outcast him or think he is some kind of demon, or could think he was a magistical being with special powers.

sway as a favor to you, I am going to philadelphonic phorum rehab. make sure you tell DD. you belong together.

[jahwork]

i'm not going to get into the argument of how it would be to live as this man does. obviously it is something none of us can relate to. i would like to add that he has a rather handsome face though. i wasn't surprised at all that he had kids.