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little sister has kidney infection
    #10025826 - 03/23/09 12:13 PM (14 years, 11 months ago)

My little sister is terminally ill with leukemia and she is getting very close to the end.  Today she was admitted to the hospital with a kidney infection.  I just ask that you all could pray for her so that she is not in much pain and that she could pull through for me to see her again.  I live in Florida and She is at home in Pa.  This has been a very hard time for my family and I just hope that things can get better for her before she is gone. 
I do not believe in religions but I do believe in a connection to a higher power and that is the being I ask things of
What ever your beliefs are pray for her and our family.


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Re: little sister has kidney infection [Re: chef Jay]
    #10025841 - 03/23/09 12:15 PM (14 years, 11 months ago)

My will power is just as powerful as any power in this universe.
And right now, it goes out to your sister, best of luck man.


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Re: little sister has kidney infection [Re: chef Jay]
    #10025851 - 03/23/09 12:17 PM (14 years, 11 months ago)

IMO prayer is meaningless as a means to help her.

Why are you posting this here?


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Re: little sister has kidney infection [Re: Icelander]
    #10025956 - 03/23/09 12:34 PM (14 years, 11 months ago)

My heart goes out to you, your sister, and your family.

Thank you for letting us in on what is really going on in your life.

I understand why you posted this.

One.


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Re: little sister has kidney infection [Re: Swyfty Swyf]
    #10025985 - 03/23/09 12:38 PM (14 years, 11 months ago)

I'd try the physical and mental forum.


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Re: little sister has kidney infection [Re: k4ge]
    #10025987 - 03/23/09 12:39 PM (14 years, 11 months ago)

you know.... im sure this will come off as assholish. (i should just make that statement a macro to head all my P&S posts) But why do people take up these causes at these moments in time.

k, you believe in the power of prayer or positive thought... awesome. im not knocking that, but wouldnt it make more sense to just have all the people that do that kind of shit just do it for everyone all the time?

its like people like Christopher Reeves, I hated that douchebag. everyone was saying "omg, he is so brave" and you know, whatever, he fell off a horse, its the risk you take when riding a horse, it would have been a completely different public opinion had he had some accident off the coast of dubai on his 110 foot yacht. But that isnt what got me, what got me was that he suddenly wanted to raise all this money and awareness about spinal chord injuries and research...
and still people want to say "oh he is so brave and charitable".... no he isnt, he is doing what everyone does in those situations where all avenues have been extinguished: the hope for a miracle.
it is a self serving agenda, maybe one of the most basic, inherent traits of almost all living things is the struggle to stay alive even in the face of imminent demise, but to disguise it as some selfless heroic act is just bullshit.

it is ultimately self-absorbed behaviour. save me!

but back to the point... so yeah, little girls getting lukemia are a far cry from the irony of superman being paralyzed by a horse, but why waste that energy?
seems like those bracelets people wear to show how they care 5$ more than you (plus it matched their outfit). it is such a hollow gesture... a formality of despair.
these people spend so much of their few remaining moments of their life after suddenly realizing how much they have taken life for granted, trying to extend their time, that they eventually die waiting for the governor to call.
im not saying one should abandon all hope, but when you get to the point of asking complete strangers to perform some mock gesture that they probably only tell you they performed to make you and themselves feel better... couldnt that time be better spent enjoying life, or coming to terms with death?

its like skydiving, and your parachute doesnt open.... do you flap your arms and try to fly for your last few minutes alive, or try to enjoy those last moments or atleast come to terms with death and your existence?

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Re: little sister has kidney infection [Re: SneezingPenis]
    #10026011 - 03/23/09 12:42 PM (14 years, 11 months ago)

But that isnt what got me, what got me was that he suddenly wanted to raise all this money and awareness about spinal chord injuries and research...
and still people want to say "oh he is so brave and charitable".... no he isnt, he is doing what everyone does in those situations where all avenues have been extinguished: the hope for a miracle.
it is a self serving agenda, maybe one of the most basic, inherent traits of almost all living things is the struggle to stay alive even in the face of imminent demise, but to disguise it as some selfless heroic act is just bullshit.


Good for you for having the guts to state the illusive obvious.:thumbup:


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Re: little sister has kidney infection [Re: SneezingPenis]
    #10026063 - 03/23/09 12:50 PM (14 years, 11 months ago)

Yawning Anus and Icelander,
Is this really the best time and place to sell your enlightened outlooks on life or suggest that the OP post in another forum?

Unbelievable!

Our fellow Shroomerite just asked for some support in a dark hour.

Have some taste.


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Re: little sister has kidney infection [Re: Swyfty Swyf]
    #10026096 - 03/23/09 12:55 PM (14 years, 11 months ago)

I think your posts here are the ones in poor taste.:thumbdown: Sorry dude. :shrug:

If you don't like this forum you are welcome to leave any time or ignore posts you don't like.


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Re: little sister has kidney infection [Re: Swyfty Swyf]
    #10026107 - 03/23/09 12:57 PM (14 years, 11 months ago)

what exactly about our posts is it that is so different than the other "helpful" posts?
I like to think that my assholish insight actually is helpful. maybe it isnt as compassionate and delicate as most would like, but I also think the bluntness provides a dynamic.

what good is outside perspective or philanthropy if you only want to hear your own reasoning reinforced or the same mistakes made over again?

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Re: little sister has kidney infection [Re: SneezingPenis]
    #10026165 - 03/23/09 01:05 PM (14 years, 11 months ago)

Quote:

what good is outside perspective or philanthropy if you only want to hear your own reasoning reinforced




Isn't that the entire point of M&P?


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Re: little sister has kidney infection [Re: SneezingPenis]
    #10026201 - 03/23/09 01:12 PM (14 years, 11 months ago)

Reply to Anus's Chris Reeves post:

But the original poster's appeal is ultimately based on a connection between him and his sister, rather than just his own. His appeal is ultimately built on an connection, or an awareness of "being in the world" rather than say, Chris Reeves biased appeal that is of "being in itself".

So if you are open to the prayer; or lets just call it compassion for simplicities sake (and this is streamlining the usual Ayn Rand rhetoric), I don't understand what else you could want from the guy. Should he be compassionate or thankful of existence relative to some problem he is not yet aware of? It seems to me the only way for something like this to play out, is to become aware of the world, and somehow deal with it. Call it reactionary, but what is the alternative?

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Re: little sister has kidney infection [Re: daytripper23]
    #10026307 - 03/23/09 01:25 PM (14 years, 11 months ago)

preventive.

regarding the OP, like i said earlier, he is either wasting time shouting into the void trying to extend a life rather than enjoying that life (meaning, being with his sister), or he is trying to make himself feel better by buying "awareness" bracelets. some semi-tangible proof that youa re "compassionate" and you were active in the futile cause.

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Re: little sister has kidney infection [Re: SneezingPenis]
    #10026350 - 03/23/09 01:31 PM (14 years, 11 months ago)

Ya'll have the right to say what you want.

Death is painful for everyone, regardless of what they might believe or don't believe.

IMO, when someone goes out on a limb, to ask for support and *gasp, gasp* prayers when they are in a dark hour, it would be in bad taste to analyze the validity of his request.


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Re: little sister has kidney infection [Re: Swyfty Swyf]
    #10026363 - 03/23/09 01:33 PM (14 years, 11 months ago)

it would be in bad taste to analyze the validity of his request.

Sources?


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Re: little sister has kidney infection [Re: Icelander]
    #10026372 - 03/23/09 01:34 PM (14 years, 11 months ago)

so when someone dies those close to that person have some sort of "do as i say" license for a while?

"pray for my relative or you are wrong!"

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Re: little sister has kidney infection [Re: SneezingPenis]
    #10026436 - 03/23/09 01:43 PM (14 years, 11 months ago)

Quote:

YawningAnus said:
so when someone dies those close to that person have some sort of "do as i say" license for a while?

"pray for my relative or you are wrong!"




I just try to practice the same manners online as I would if I were face to face with someone.

The fact that you could be offended by a grieving person's humble request of a prayer for his dying sister is mindboggling.

Does this really need to be an argument?

No one asked you to buy a colored bracelet.


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Re: little sister has kidney infection [Re: Swyfty Swyf]
    #10026454 - 03/23/09 01:46 PM (14 years, 11 months ago)

I just try to practice the same manners online as I would if I were face to face with someone.

Me too. And only if my physical safety would be compromised do I not.

The fact that you could be offended by a grieving person's humble request of a prayer for his dying sister is mindboggling.


Guess it doesn't take much to boggle your mind.:satansmoking:


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Re: little sister has kidney infection [Re: Icelander]
    #10026470 - 03/23/09 01:48 PM (14 years, 11 months ago)

*coughs* Pussy! *cough*


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Re: little sister has kidney infection [Re: OrgoneConclusion]
    #10026476 - 03/23/09 01:49 PM (14 years, 11 months ago)

Where?  I want some.:D


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