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kayleesgrandma
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This stuff fascinates me!
[Here I am 36 years of age, with a terminal lung disease. While I sit here and battle these problems, I watch science progress to the point where we are now growing artificial meat for consumption...Biological nano tube threads to eventually grow/print out human organs...I see how we now have a useless war that has created nearly 3500 dead american troops, injured (many severely) over 25,000 american troops, and rang up a tab that the 5 most wealthy people in the world could not pay...We have yet again, shown how death is much more desireable than life...And some of you wonder why I am so jaded.]
Sorry SD--but nowhere in all of that did I see a good reason to want to die, as opposed to living--even if I believed your "glass is half empty" theory. So the bird flu is lurking out there--there has always been a flu epidemic or some plague out there. And wars, have been with us always. And science is always inventing some new way to alter mankind's existence/demise--can we say Atom Bomb? Why is this a reason to value facing death, rather than embracing life?
I grew up in the shadow of the Atomic Bomb, the Cold War, Polio, the Korean War. I don't have a terminal illness that I know of other then fact that this body started to die the minute I was born. The fact that I may outlive my granddaughter is not something I like to dwell on. Yet, none of these have "shown how death is much more desireable than life"--but then I see the glass as "half full".
[Here I am 36 years of age, with a terminal lung disease. While I sit here and battle these problems, I watch science progress to the point where we are now growing artificial meat for consumption...Biological nano tube threads to eventually grow/print out human organs...I see how we now have a useless war that has created nearly 3500 dead american troops, injured (many severely) over 25,000 american troops, and rang up a tab that the 5 most wealthy people in the world could not pay...We have yet again, shown how death is much more desireable than life...And some of you wonder why I am so jaded.]
Sorry SD--but nowhere in all of that did I see a good reason to want to die, as opposed to living--even if I believed your "glass is half empty" theory. So the bird flu is lurking out there--there has always been a flu epidemic or some plague out there. And wars, have been with us always. And science is always inventing some new way to alter mankind's existence/demise--can we say Atom Bomb? Why is this a reason to value facing death, rather than embracing life?
I grew up in the shadow of the Atomic Bomb, the Cold War, Polio, the Korean War. I don't have a terminal illness that I know of other then fact that this body started to die the minute I was born. The fact that I may outlive my granddaughter is not something I like to dwell on. Yet, none of these have "shown how death is much more desireable than life"--but then I see the glass as "half full".
kayleesgrandma
New member
This stuff fascinates me!
[Here I am 36 years of age, with a terminal lung disease. While I sit here and battle these problems, I watch science progress to the point where we are now growing artificial meat for consumption...Biological nano tube threads to eventually grow/print out human organs...I see how we now have a useless war that has created nearly 3500 dead american troops, injured (many severely) over 25,000 american troops, and rang up a tab that the 5 most wealthy people in the world could not pay...We have yet again, shown how death is much more desireable than life...And some of you wonder why I am so jaded.]
Sorry SD--but nowhere in all of that did I see a good reason to want to die, as opposed to living--even if I believed your "glass is half empty" theory. So the bird flu is lurking out there--there has always been a flu epidemic or some plague out there. And wars, have been with us always. And science is always inventing some new way to alter mankind's existence/demise--can we say Atom Bomb? Why is this a reason to value facing death, rather than embracing life?
I grew up in the shadow of the Atomic Bomb, the Cold War, Polio, the Korean War. I don't have a terminal illness that I know of other then fact that this body started to die the minute I was born. The fact that I may outlive my granddaughter is not something I like to dwell on. Yet, none of these have "shown how death is much more desireable than life"--but then I see the glass as "half full".
[Here I am 36 years of age, with a terminal lung disease. While I sit here and battle these problems, I watch science progress to the point where we are now growing artificial meat for consumption...Biological nano tube threads to eventually grow/print out human organs...I see how we now have a useless war that has created nearly 3500 dead american troops, injured (many severely) over 25,000 american troops, and rang up a tab that the 5 most wealthy people in the world could not pay...We have yet again, shown how death is much more desireable than life...And some of you wonder why I am so jaded.]
Sorry SD--but nowhere in all of that did I see a good reason to want to die, as opposed to living--even if I believed your "glass is half empty" theory. So the bird flu is lurking out there--there has always been a flu epidemic or some plague out there. And wars, have been with us always. And science is always inventing some new way to alter mankind's existence/demise--can we say Atom Bomb? Why is this a reason to value facing death, rather than embracing life?
I grew up in the shadow of the Atomic Bomb, the Cold War, Polio, the Korean War. I don't have a terminal illness that I know of other then fact that this body started to die the minute I was born. The fact that I may outlive my granddaughter is not something I like to dwell on. Yet, none of these have "shown how death is much more desireable than life"--but then I see the glass as "half full".
kayleesgrandma
New member
This stuff fascinates me!
[Here I am 36 years of age, with a terminal lung disease. While I sit here and battle these problems, I watch science progress to the point where we are now growing artificial meat for consumption...Biological nano tube threads to eventually grow/print out human organs...I see how we now have a useless war that has created nearly 3500 dead american troops, injured (many severely) over 25,000 american troops, and rang up a tab that the 5 most wealthy people in the world could not pay...We have yet again, shown how death is much more desireable than life...And some of you wonder why I am so jaded.]
Sorry SD--but nowhere in all of that did I see a good reason to want to die, as opposed to living--even if I believed your "glass is half empty" theory. So the bird flu is lurking out there--there has always been a flu epidemic or some plague out there. And wars, have been with us always. And science is always inventing some new way to alter mankind's existence/demise--can we say Atom Bomb? Why is this a reason to value facing death, rather than embracing life?
I grew up in the shadow of the Atomic Bomb, the Cold War, Polio, the Korean War. I don't have a terminal illness that I know of other then fact that this body started to die the minute I was born. The fact that I may outlive my granddaughter is not something I like to dwell on. Yet, none of these have "shown how death is much more desireable than life"--but then I see the glass as "half full".
[Here I am 36 years of age, with a terminal lung disease. While I sit here and battle these problems, I watch science progress to the point where we are now growing artificial meat for consumption...Biological nano tube threads to eventually grow/print out human organs...I see how we now have a useless war that has created nearly 3500 dead american troops, injured (many severely) over 25,000 american troops, and rang up a tab that the 5 most wealthy people in the world could not pay...We have yet again, shown how death is much more desireable than life...And some of you wonder why I am so jaded.]
Sorry SD--but nowhere in all of that did I see a good reason to want to die, as opposed to living--even if I believed your "glass is half empty" theory. So the bird flu is lurking out there--there has always been a flu epidemic or some plague out there. And wars, have been with us always. And science is always inventing some new way to alter mankind's existence/demise--can we say Atom Bomb? Why is this a reason to value facing death, rather than embracing life?
I grew up in the shadow of the Atomic Bomb, the Cold War, Polio, the Korean War. I don't have a terminal illness that I know of other then fact that this body started to die the minute I was born. The fact that I may outlive my granddaughter is not something I like to dwell on. Yet, none of these have "shown how death is much more desireable than life"--but then I see the glass as "half full".
kayleesgrandma
New member
This stuff fascinates me!
[Here I am 36 years of age, with a terminal lung disease. While I sit here and battle these problems, I watch science progress to the point where we are now growing artificial meat for consumption...Biological nano tube threads to eventually grow/print out human organs...I see how we now have a useless war that has created nearly 3500 dead american troops, injured (many severely) over 25,000 american troops, and rang up a tab that the 5 most wealthy people in the world could not pay...We have yet again, shown how death is much more desireable than life...And some of you wonder why I am so jaded.]
Sorry SD--but nowhere in all of that did I see a good reason to want to die, as opposed to living--even if I believed your "glass is half empty" theory. So the bird flu is lurking out there--there has always been a flu epidemic or some plague out there. And wars, have been with us always. And science is always inventing some new way to alter mankind's existence/demise--can we say Atom Bomb? Why is this a reason to value facing death, rather than embracing life?
I grew up in the shadow of the Atomic Bomb, the Cold War, Polio, the Korean War. I don't have a terminal illness that I know of other then fact that this body started to die the minute I was born. The fact that I may outlive my granddaughter is not something I like to dwell on. Yet, none of these have "shown how death is much more desireable than life"--but then I see the glass as "half full".
[Here I am 36 years of age, with a terminal lung disease. While I sit here and battle these problems, I watch science progress to the point where we are now growing artificial meat for consumption...Biological nano tube threads to eventually grow/print out human organs...I see how we now have a useless war that has created nearly 3500 dead american troops, injured (many severely) over 25,000 american troops, and rang up a tab that the 5 most wealthy people in the world could not pay...We have yet again, shown how death is much more desireable than life...And some of you wonder why I am so jaded.]
Sorry SD--but nowhere in all of that did I see a good reason to want to die, as opposed to living--even if I believed your "glass is half empty" theory. So the bird flu is lurking out there--there has always been a flu epidemic or some plague out there. And wars, have been with us always. And science is always inventing some new way to alter mankind's existence/demise--can we say Atom Bomb? Why is this a reason to value facing death, rather than embracing life?
I grew up in the shadow of the Atomic Bomb, the Cold War, Polio, the Korean War. I don't have a terminal illness that I know of other then fact that this body started to die the minute I was born. The fact that I may outlive my granddaughter is not something I like to dwell on. Yet, none of these have "shown how death is much more desireable than life"--but then I see the glass as "half full".
kayleesgrandma
New member
This stuff fascinates me!
[Here I am 36 years of age, with a terminal lung disease. While I sit here and battle these problems, I watch science progress to the point where we are now growing artificial meat for consumption...Biological nano tube threads to eventually grow/print out human organs...I see how we now have a useless war that has created nearly 3500 dead american troops, injured (many severely) over 25,000 american troops, and rang up a tab that the 5 most wealthy people in the world could not pay...We have yet again, shown how death is much more desireable than life...And some of you wonder why I am so jaded.]
Sorry SD--but nowhere in all of that did I see a good reason to want to die, as opposed to living--even if I believed your "glass is half empty" theory. So the bird flu is lurking out there--there has always been a flu epidemic or some plague out there. And wars, have been with us always. And science is always inventing some new way to alter mankind's existence/demise--can we say Atom Bomb? Why is this a reason to value facing death, rather than embracing life?
I grew up in the shadow of the Atomic Bomb, the Cold War, Polio, the Korean War. I don't have a terminal illness that I know of other then fact that this body started to die the minute I was born. The fact that I may outlive my granddaughter is not something I like to dwell on. Yet, none of these have "shown how death is much more desireable than life"--but then I see the glass as "half full".
[Here I am 36 years of age, with a terminal lung disease. While I sit here and battle these problems, I watch science progress to the point where we are now growing artificial meat for consumption...Biological nano tube threads to eventually grow/print out human organs...I see how we now have a useless war that has created nearly 3500 dead american troops, injured (many severely) over 25,000 american troops, and rang up a tab that the 5 most wealthy people in the world could not pay...We have yet again, shown how death is much more desireable than life...And some of you wonder why I am so jaded.]
Sorry SD--but nowhere in all of that did I see a good reason to want to die, as opposed to living--even if I believed your "glass is half empty" theory. So the bird flu is lurking out there--there has always been a flu epidemic or some plague out there. And wars, have been with us always. And science is always inventing some new way to alter mankind's existence/demise--can we say Atom Bomb? Why is this a reason to value facing death, rather than embracing life?
I grew up in the shadow of the Atomic Bomb, the Cold War, Polio, the Korean War. I don't have a terminal illness that I know of other then fact that this body started to die the minute I was born. The fact that I may outlive my granddaughter is not something I like to dwell on. Yet, none of these have "shown how death is much more desireable than life"--but then I see the glass as "half full".
This stuff fascinates me!
My view is this;
Bird flu? Whatever. People have predicted the end of mankind forever. Mass flooding, volcanic eruptions, etc. Anyone remember the huge deal about Y2K? Yet here we are, still around. Not to say that mankind will be around forever, but who's to say that bird flu isn't just another passing threat? I'll believe it when I see it.
I don't have much to say about the latter story, but I will reply to your comment about death being more desireable than life.
Not more desireable...more interesting.
Its the same reason people rubberneck when there's an accident on the highway. People love death and drama and human interest stories. If there's blood to be seen, most people flock to it with morbid fascination. My dad is in the newspaper business, and its obvious. Politics on the front page? Never sells. Mass graves, buildings falling, bridges falling out from under people? Sold out the next day. From what I've seen in my brief 21 years, humans are as a whole a rather morbid, sadistic species.
My view is this;
Bird flu? Whatever. People have predicted the end of mankind forever. Mass flooding, volcanic eruptions, etc. Anyone remember the huge deal about Y2K? Yet here we are, still around. Not to say that mankind will be around forever, but who's to say that bird flu isn't just another passing threat? I'll believe it when I see it.
I don't have much to say about the latter story, but I will reply to your comment about death being more desireable than life.
Not more desireable...more interesting.
Its the same reason people rubberneck when there's an accident on the highway. People love death and drama and human interest stories. If there's blood to be seen, most people flock to it with morbid fascination. My dad is in the newspaper business, and its obvious. Politics on the front page? Never sells. Mass graves, buildings falling, bridges falling out from under people? Sold out the next day. From what I've seen in my brief 21 years, humans are as a whole a rather morbid, sadistic species.
This stuff fascinates me!
My view is this;
Bird flu? Whatever. People have predicted the end of mankind forever. Mass flooding, volcanic eruptions, etc. Anyone remember the huge deal about Y2K? Yet here we are, still around. Not to say that mankind will be around forever, but who's to say that bird flu isn't just another passing threat? I'll believe it when I see it.
I don't have much to say about the latter story, but I will reply to your comment about death being more desireable than life.
Not more desireable...more interesting.
Its the same reason people rubberneck when there's an accident on the highway. People love death and drama and human interest stories. If there's blood to be seen, most people flock to it with morbid fascination. My dad is in the newspaper business, and its obvious. Politics on the front page? Never sells. Mass graves, buildings falling, bridges falling out from under people? Sold out the next day. From what I've seen in my brief 21 years, humans are as a whole a rather morbid, sadistic species.
My view is this;
Bird flu? Whatever. People have predicted the end of mankind forever. Mass flooding, volcanic eruptions, etc. Anyone remember the huge deal about Y2K? Yet here we are, still around. Not to say that mankind will be around forever, but who's to say that bird flu isn't just another passing threat? I'll believe it when I see it.
I don't have much to say about the latter story, but I will reply to your comment about death being more desireable than life.
Not more desireable...more interesting.
Its the same reason people rubberneck when there's an accident on the highway. People love death and drama and human interest stories. If there's blood to be seen, most people flock to it with morbid fascination. My dad is in the newspaper business, and its obvious. Politics on the front page? Never sells. Mass graves, buildings falling, bridges falling out from under people? Sold out the next day. From what I've seen in my brief 21 years, humans are as a whole a rather morbid, sadistic species.
This stuff fascinates me!
My view is this;
Bird flu? Whatever. People have predicted the end of mankind forever. Mass flooding, volcanic eruptions, etc. Anyone remember the huge deal about Y2K? Yet here we are, still around. Not to say that mankind will be around forever, but who's to say that bird flu isn't just another passing threat? I'll believe it when I see it.
I don't have much to say about the latter story, but I will reply to your comment about death being more desireable than life.
Not more desireable...more interesting.
Its the same reason people rubberneck when there's an accident on the highway. People love death and drama and human interest stories. If there's blood to be seen, most people flock to it with morbid fascination. My dad is in the newspaper business, and its obvious. Politics on the front page? Never sells. Mass graves, buildings falling, bridges falling out from under people? Sold out the next day. From what I've seen in my brief 21 years, humans are as a whole a rather morbid, sadistic species.
My view is this;
Bird flu? Whatever. People have predicted the end of mankind forever. Mass flooding, volcanic eruptions, etc. Anyone remember the huge deal about Y2K? Yet here we are, still around. Not to say that mankind will be around forever, but who's to say that bird flu isn't just another passing threat? I'll believe it when I see it.
I don't have much to say about the latter story, but I will reply to your comment about death being more desireable than life.
Not more desireable...more interesting.
Its the same reason people rubberneck when there's an accident on the highway. People love death and drama and human interest stories. If there's blood to be seen, most people flock to it with morbid fascination. My dad is in the newspaper business, and its obvious. Politics on the front page? Never sells. Mass graves, buildings falling, bridges falling out from under people? Sold out the next day. From what I've seen in my brief 21 years, humans are as a whole a rather morbid, sadistic species.
This stuff fascinates me!
My view is this;
Bird flu? Whatever. People have predicted the end of mankind forever. Mass flooding, volcanic eruptions, etc. Anyone remember the huge deal about Y2K? Yet here we are, still around. Not to say that mankind will be around forever, but who's to say that bird flu isn't just another passing threat? I'll believe it when I see it.
I don't have much to say about the latter story, but I will reply to your comment about death being more desireable than life.
Not more desireable...more interesting.
Its the same reason people rubberneck when there's an accident on the highway. People love death and drama and human interest stories. If there's blood to be seen, most people flock to it with morbid fascination. My dad is in the newspaper business, and its obvious. Politics on the front page? Never sells. Mass graves, buildings falling, bridges falling out from under people? Sold out the next day. From what I've seen in my brief 21 years, humans are as a whole a rather morbid, sadistic species.
My view is this;
Bird flu? Whatever. People have predicted the end of mankind forever. Mass flooding, volcanic eruptions, etc. Anyone remember the huge deal about Y2K? Yet here we are, still around. Not to say that mankind will be around forever, but who's to say that bird flu isn't just another passing threat? I'll believe it when I see it.
I don't have much to say about the latter story, but I will reply to your comment about death being more desireable than life.
Not more desireable...more interesting.
Its the same reason people rubberneck when there's an accident on the highway. People love death and drama and human interest stories. If there's blood to be seen, most people flock to it with morbid fascination. My dad is in the newspaper business, and its obvious. Politics on the front page? Never sells. Mass graves, buildings falling, bridges falling out from under people? Sold out the next day. From what I've seen in my brief 21 years, humans are as a whole a rather morbid, sadistic species.
This stuff fascinates me!
My view is this;
Bird flu? Whatever. People have predicted the end of mankind forever. Mass flooding, volcanic eruptions, etc. Anyone remember the huge deal about Y2K? Yet here we are, still around. Not to say that mankind will be around forever, but who's to say that bird flu isn't just another passing threat? I'll believe it when I see it.
I don't have much to say about the latter story, but I will reply to your comment about death being more desireable than life.
Not more desireable...more interesting.
Its the same reason people rubberneck when there's an accident on the highway. People love death and drama and human interest stories. If there's blood to be seen, most people flock to it with morbid fascination. My dad is in the newspaper business, and its obvious. Politics on the front page? Never sells. Mass graves, buildings falling, bridges falling out from under people? Sold out the next day. From what I've seen in my brief 21 years, humans are as a whole a rather morbid, sadistic species.
My view is this;
Bird flu? Whatever. People have predicted the end of mankind forever. Mass flooding, volcanic eruptions, etc. Anyone remember the huge deal about Y2K? Yet here we are, still around. Not to say that mankind will be around forever, but who's to say that bird flu isn't just another passing threat? I'll believe it when I see it.
I don't have much to say about the latter story, but I will reply to your comment about death being more desireable than life.
Not more desireable...more interesting.
Its the same reason people rubberneck when there's an accident on the highway. People love death and drama and human interest stories. If there's blood to be seen, most people flock to it with morbid fascination. My dad is in the newspaper business, and its obvious. Politics on the front page? Never sells. Mass graves, buildings falling, bridges falling out from under people? Sold out the next day. From what I've seen in my brief 21 years, humans are as a whole a rather morbid, sadistic species.