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 Topic: Fetal Rights & Forced Medical Treatment: Your Opinion? |
LKL
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 Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Posted: Mon Mar 15, 2010 3:14 am Subject: Fetal Rights & Forced Medical Treatment: Your Opinion? |
The presumption that permitting abortions in appropriate circumstances is a threat to all human reproduction can only be characterized as psychotic.
Are you imagining anyone has said that?
No? ... |
| Topic: Fetal Rights & Forced Medical Treatment: Your Opinion? |
LKL
Replies: 82
Views: 1176
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Posted: Fri Mar 12, 2010 12:35 am Subject: Fetal Rights & Forced Medical Treatment: Your Opinion? |
Until
Are you suggesting that means it is worthy of less care, concern, protection or whatever else than the liver we each need in order to remain alive?
The bold makes a case.
So then, should ... |
| Topic: Fetal Rights & Forced Medical Treatment: Your Opinion? |
LKL
Replies: 82
Views: 1176
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Posted: Wed Mar 10, 2010 10:03 pm Subject: Fetal Rights & Forced Medical Treatment: Your Opinion? |
A fetus is human (adj.) in the same way that your liver is human.
A fetus is not a human (noun), and neither is your liver. Until it can think, it's just a collection of tissues that's a bit mor ... |
| Topic: How is it like being a girl with [More girls less boys pls] |
LKL
Replies: 42
Views: 1050
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Forum: Women's Discussion Posted: Wed Mar 10, 2010 4:11 am Subject: How is it like being a girl with [More girls less boys pls] |
| No, b/c guys are not attracted to women who 'understand' them. They're attracted to women who seem stereotypically feminine, even if part of that is being EMO and incomprehensible. |
| Topic: Animosity and Anonymity |
LKL
Replies: 43
Views: 690
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2010 4:03 pm Subject: Animosity and Anonymity |
| I raised a crow once - it was a really great bird. I released it outside once it fledged, but it would always come back to me when I called and I kept on feeding it until it no longer seemed to want ... |
| Topic: How is it like being a girl with [More girls less boys pls] |
LKL
Replies: 42
Views: 1050
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Forum: Women's Discussion Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2010 3:54 pm Subject: How is it like being a girl with [More girls less boys pls] |
| I took Karate as a young teen, and later went on to get a black belt in Aikido. The discipline helped me control myself when I wanted to strike out - it's strongly emphasized in the martial arts that ... |
| Topic: How is it like being a girl with [More girls less boys pls] |
LKL
Replies: 42
Views: 1050
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Forum: Women's Discussion Posted: Sun Mar 07, 2010 10:38 pm Subject: How is it like being a girl with [More girls less boys pls] |
Well ...
1) I always had one very close friend throughout school. In college, I didn't have any close friends, just folks I talked to in class. Now as an adult, I don't have any friends. I eventual ... |
| Topic: Animosity and Anonymity |
LKL
Replies: 43
Views: 690
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Posted: Sun Mar 07, 2010 10:29 pm Subject: Animosity and Anonymity |
| Aspies in general are less likely to be swayed by, or to respect, opinions based on emotion; aspies are also more likely to speak their mind regardless of the social consequences. Many of us would ra ... |
| Topic: Why autism is different for girls |
LKL
Replies: 20
Views: 915
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Forum: News and Current Events Posted: Sun Mar 07, 2010 10:01 pm Subject: Why autism is different for girls |
The girl who sits quietly reading book after book about horses will be perceived as shy...
this was me, except that I was perfectly comfortable lecturing and/or correcting adults if and only if the ... |
| Topic: Loosing weight as an Aspie |
LKL
Replies: 50
Views: 2208
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Forum: In-Depth Adult Life Discussion Posted: Sun Mar 07, 2010 9:05 pm Subject: Loosing weight as an Aspie |
Heathera-
thank you for your clarification. What got to me was the statement, "It's just an hour a day...If it's important to you, you'll find time for it..." Which I read as being somewhat judgment ... |
| Topic: Loosing weight as an Aspie |
LKL
Replies: 50
Views: 2208
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Forum: In-Depth Adult Life Discussion Posted: Fri Mar 05, 2010 2:36 am Subject: Loosing weight as an Aspie |
| Heathera, I had to skip my organic chemistry lecture day before yesterday to take care of an errand regarding my PG&E bill. That lecture was the *most* disposable part of my day to run the necess ... |
| Topic: Who is the vilest Right Wing commentator? |
LKL
Replies: 33
Views: 888
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Posted: Thu Mar 04, 2010 2:56 am Subject: Who is the vilest Right Wing commentator? |
It's an aspect of Godwin's law - maybe Godwin's Third Law of the Internets?
Godwin's 1st law:
As the time of an argument on the internet increases, the probability of at least one side accusing the ... |
| Topic: Loosing weight as an Aspie |
LKL
Replies: 50
Views: 2208
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Forum: In-Depth Adult Life Discussion Posted: Thu Mar 04, 2010 2:50 am Subject: Loosing weight as an Aspie |
| Spending that amount of time in the gym is only realistic if you have that amount of time to spare - with work, school, and family, many (most) people don't. Sure sounds like you're hella fit, though ... |
| Topic: Who is the vilest Right Wing commentator? |
LKL
Replies: 33
Views: 888
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Posted: Tue Mar 02, 2010 4:00 pm Subject: Who is the vilest Right Wing commentator? |
| Senator Franken would have qualified as a left-wing commentator in his prior incarnation, though I don't think he could have been considered 'vile.' There's also Amy Goodman and the good people of 'C ... |
| Topic: Loosing weight as an Aspie |
LKL
Replies: 50
Views: 2208
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Forum: In-Depth Adult Life Discussion Posted: Tue Mar 02, 2010 3:56 pm Subject: Loosing weight as an Aspie |
| Holy sh**, that's a hell of a lot of sugar you're eating. Slim Fast is basically just sugar - read the carton. You're having sugar for breakfast, then a candy bar, then sugar for lunch. You may be ... |
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