Missionary encounters extremely bizarre skin condition in Eastern Europe

[Shaka_Khan]

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Is this real?

[BDC]

Looks glued on...

However, thinking about it a bit more, and reading some of the comments on it, it's either something genetic or viral. Causing him to sprout nail-horn things. Can be dealt with though, just hasn't been because he's presumably in the middle of no where.

[Shaka_Khan]

I hope that including the website are fake. They're just too awful to be true.

[naut]

No doubt the missionary will say its punishment for sinning.

[Shaka_Khan]

Yea, the title emphasizing him as a missionary is ironic.

[InsaneApache]

It'll stop him picking his nose, that's for sure.

[Crazed Rabbit]

I'm saying it's a fake. Give me a real news source and then we'll talk.

CR

[Louis VI the Fat]

Give me a real news source and then we'll talk.
CR

But..but..Crazed Rabbit, don't you know that rabbits are quite prone to catch this affliction too?

[BDC]

Poor rabbit... :(

[ShadeHonestus]

anyone else feel itchy after looking at those pics?

[drone]

How do you use the bathroom with hands like that?

[Shaka_Khan]

How did he wear his sweater too?

[TB666]

How does he ehhmm spank the monkey ??

[Marshal Murat]

That's a touchy subject.

[RabidGibbon]

Why would a Missionary go to Eastern Europe? Is he hoping to convert the last of the Communists? Find some pagan hold outs in the Baltic States? Convert Catholics to Baptists? Orthodox to Methodists?

All seems a but made-up to me.

[ShadeHonestus]

Why would a Missionary go to Eastern Europe? Is he hoping to convert the last of the Communists? Find some pagan hold outs in the Baltic States? Convert Catholics to Baptists? Orthodox to Methodists?

All seems a but made-up to me.

Exiled priest...or Mormon.

[Byzantine Prince]

That is beyond gross.

[Lord Winter]

Why would a Missionary go to Eastern Europe? Is he hoping to convert the last of the Communists? Find some pagan hold outs in the Baltic States? Convert Catholics to Baptists? Orthodox to Methodists?

All seems a but made-up to me.

My church sends a group of missionaries over their every year, mainly to support a rather poor church.

[Husar]

Why would a Missionary go to Eastern Europe? Is he hoping to convert the last of the Communists? Find some pagan hold outs in the Baltic States? Convert Catholics to Baptists? Orthodox to Methodists?

All seems a but made-up to me.

I know someone who was there and I think they mainly help the poor people, it's not like the iron curtain fell and suddenly all of eastern europe turned into rich, westernized metropoles of christianity or something like that.

[Cronos Impera]

Men, in Eastern Europe Protestant Chruches try to convert Orthodox christians to their particular confession.Even here, in Romania the Salvation Army and Jehova's Witnesses gain adepts following an agressive marketing campaign to discredit the Orthodox Church.

[Vladimir]

So I take it that this guy is trying to grow hooves?

[Watchman]

I don't know about the particular case mentioned here, but there is actually a nasty genetic condition that screws up your skin cell growth. It - of course - has some interesting Latin name which I don't - of course - remember (Icthyosomethingorother, I think), and tends to be quit uncomfortable for the poor folks who suffer from it. Descriptions I've seen speak of "scale-like", very rough and thick, skin that is constantly breaking much like the skin at the soles and heels of your feet can, due to its inflexibility and dryness. Rather painful, I understand.

Now, this one might just be a hoax or a genuine case of skin growth going rather spectacularly haywire. Given that random genetic flukes can result in much stranger stuff - two-headed calves and serpents immediately spring to mind, as do the occasional insect mutations that have a quite perfectly developed set of legs where the antennae should be - such a hyper-growth issue is as such quite credible enough.

[Watchman]

Why would a Missionary go to Eastern Europe? Is he hoping to convert the last of the Communists? Find some pagan hold outs in the Baltic States? Convert Catholics to Baptists? Orthodox to Methodists?

All seems a but made-up to me.

The Mormons persistently make the rounds here in the stronghold of moderate, heavily secularized, Sunday Lutheranism as well. Poor guys come all the way over the ocean just to get rather frustrated by the more-or-less politely disinterested natives. And the JW have been around long enough that their pacifistic ideology has long freed them from the military service obligatory to all male Finnish citizens (with the exception of the inhabitants of the demilitarized Åland isles, natch).

Opportunistic sects trying to -still- cash in on the collapse of Communism in Central and Eastern Europe is hardly newsworthy. Those that weren't busy with paroxysms of exstasy over the fall of the Great Atheist Evil Empire were falling all over each other trying to get a cut of the new "market" back in the day, far as I know.

[RabidGibbon]

Thanks for the responses all - I always assumed that a missionary was someone trying to convert non-christians to Christianity, and never really thought churches might have rival missonary movements going on. Incidentally I am aware that Eastern Europe hasn't become utopia the moment its communist governments collapsed, but just didnt realise missonaries go out to poor christian peeps. For me the word Missonary has always conjured up images of converting the heathen, although supporting poor peeps in other parts of the world is of course a very christian thing to do, and best of luck to them.

However I'm still going to stick to my thesis of elabourate fake, because otherwise I'll be up all night thinking 'oughh, poor guy' and picking up mirrors to inspect moles on my back (and my small but highly motivated bald patch) and stuff.

Cheers.

[Mooks]

Your better off with no hands is my assertion. Though the pics are most likely fake, they still make me want to gag....

[Devastatin Dave]

Man, hairy palms are one thing, but, nevermind!!!

[Mikeus Caesar]

anyone else feel itchy after looking at those pics?

I posted this on another forum and they said the exact same thing, at least 5 of them.

What's with this picture? Why does it make some people itchy?

[Whacker]

See what I don't get is if that's all just non-sensitive growth, just take a friggin' hacksaw to it. OTOH if it's like a wart, that'd be terrible because you can still sense things through them.