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Icelander
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Re: Desperately Clinging To The Irrational: Terri Schiavo [Re: gettinjiggywithit]
#4304612 - 06/16/05 04:43 PM (18 years, 8 months ago) |
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Way to rant jiggy!
-------------------- "Don't believe everything you think". -Anom. " All that lives was born to die"-Anom. With much wisdom comes much sorrow, The more knowledge, the more grief. Ecclesiastes circa 350 BC
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Diploid
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Re: Desperately Clinging To The Irrational: Terri Schiavo [Re: gettinjiggywithit]
#4304646 - 06/16/05 04:50 PM (18 years, 8 months ago) |
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Science invented the feeding tube and liquid food that kept her alive.
Demonizing science like this isn't fair. Science also invented knives. That people are murdered by knives is no indictment of science.
The feeding tube technology is a tool. It can be used to keep people alive who will recover and to keep lumps of flesh alive who have no hope.
You are not going to stop people from engaging wishful or hopeful thinking
I know Jigz, but trying to get people in my little corner of the universe to see that irrationality is always a bad thing is a good start.
Jeb Bush
Grrrr! 
1,700 U.S. soldiers dead in the Iraq war. Pro life he is my ass.
Remember GWB rushing home to sign the Terri bill even as soldiers were killing and dying daily in Iraq. WTF? Talk about irrational!
-------------------- Republican Values: 1) You can't get married to your spouse who is the same sex as you. 2) You can't have an abortion no matter how much you don't want a child. 3) You can't have a certain plant in your possession or you'll get locked up with a rapist and a murderer. 4) We need a smaller, less-intrusive government.
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bwalker
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Re: Desperately Clinging To The Irrational: Terri Schiavo [Re: starseed1066]
#4304678 - 06/16/05 04:59 PM (18 years, 8 months ago) |
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Quote:
starseed1066 said: i'm hoping that was sarcasm?
Entirely. Hence the emphasis on walk in.
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TrippinNinjaBuddha
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Re: Desperately Clinging To The Irrational: Terri Schiavo [Re: bwalker]
#4306920 - 06/17/05 08:46 AM (18 years, 8 months ago) |
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We see death as such a horrible, awful thing in western society. THE horrible, awful thing. So fucked up.
I can't believe Bush sided with the parents (I CAN believe it, it just is so fucked)
People's religious beliefs all too often make them closed-minded, absolutely certain that they are correct, and awful leaders.
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Re: Desperately Clinging To The Irrational: Terri Schiavo [Re: TrippinNinjaBuddha]
#4309897 - 06/18/05 12:43 AM (18 years, 7 months ago) |
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Quote:
TrippinNinjaBuddha said:
People's religious beliefs all too often make them closed-minded, absolutely certain that they are correct, and awful leaders.
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