I once experienced something almost exactly like a phantom limb. After an episode of sleep paralysis laying on the couch on the third floor of my university library, I suddenly regained control of my arms. I was unable to open even my eyes...but I had complete control of my hands and arms. Eventually I reached up and touched my face, only to discover that there was no opposite sensation from the skin on my face. I was able to feel my hair and the features of my face, but my face felt as if it had been completely numbed.
Eventually I was able to force my eyelids open, and to my complete amazement...my arms were laying crossed across my chest in the same position they were in when I fell asleep. I was able to "move" them across my field of vision, but they remained motionless on my chest. The whole experience lasted a minute or two and was strangle not unpleasant, unlike all of the sleep paralysis episodes I have.
Has anyone hear heard of such a thing? Sleep paralysis is well documented, but I have never been able to find anything similar to what I have described here.
I'm not saying abortion is wrong, I'm just saying your logic is flawed and your self-deception is transparent. Abortion is stopping a process that would otherwise (in a typical scenario) end in a fully aware human being. That is a fact. If you want to delude yourself into thinking otherwise fine, just be 'self-aware' enough to know that it's just an excuse.
Abortion stops a process that sometimes ends with a fully aware human being. The same thing can be said about sexual intercourse. You promote contraception later in your post; I fail to see how this is not "stopping a process that would otherwise (in a typical scenario) end in a fully aware human being."
Assuming you aren't sterile, the fact that you are commenting on slashdot stories instead of actively trying to procreate means you are stopping that very same process.
Where do you draw the line? How far back in the process of procreation do you have to go before it is completely an issue of the rights of a person and not "just an excuse"?
"it can only mean, one fortuitous day, billions of years ago, one cell swallowed another and instead of being digested, the swallowed cell made "food" (atp, other energetic molecules) for the master cell"
An interesting speculation, and I am sure it was possible, but it would not have played a role in evolution. The ingested cell would not have affected the genome of the host cell and when the host cell split, the newly formed cells would not contain the "parasite" cell.
"Google (GOOG) founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin have promised shareholders they will make a social impact that will eventually 'eclipse Google itself' by tackling the world's problems"
I, for one, welcome our earth-saving, superhero, corporate overlords!
Is it just me or do they look as far from a nerdy rock group band you can get? I wouldn't be surprised to see them singing gospel for a southern baptist church.
I am a 16 year old in an AP history class in a southern highschool.
We are constantly bombarded with the teachers opinions, which she states as complete fact.
Some of instances I can think of off the top of my head include:
Constant bashing of Kerry (Before the elections), while supporting Bush (She outright told us the war in Iraq was good, without giving a reason why)
She told us government censorship of the media and propaganda are good tools and should be used during war times.
While studying American imperialism during the early 1900s, she explained why it wasn't really bad and the only instance where she said we "Were the bad guys" was the war in the phillipines.
She points out how good some candidates have been because they were religious fundamentalists.
She comes up with utterly ludicrous ideas, today she told us that if you smoke marijuana you are helping destroy America, because terrorists are the ones giving us the drugs to create a similar effect as was seen in the opium wars.
She constantly rants about things that completely contradict what the book says.
But the part that disturbs me the most is the way she states it as fact, and it almost angers me to see the other teenagers taking it in and nodding their heads as if she was reading it out of our text book...
And this is in the most advanced history class available to my grade, I would hate to see a lesser class.
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I once experienced something almost exactly like a phantom limb. After an episode of sleep paralysis laying on the couch on the third floor of my university library, I suddenly regained control of my arms. I was unable to open even my eyes...but I had complete control of my hands and arms. Eventually I reached up and touched my face, only to discover that there was no opposite sensation from the skin on my face. I was able to feel my hair and the features of my face, but my face felt as if it had been completely numbed.
Eventually I was able to force my eyelids open, and to my complete amazement...my arms were laying crossed across my chest in the same position they were in when I fell asleep. I was able to "move" them across my field of vision, but they remained motionless on my chest. The whole experience lasted a minute or two and was strangle not unpleasant, unlike all of the sleep paralysis episodes I have.
Has anyone hear heard of such a thing? Sleep paralysis is well documented, but I have never been able to find anything similar to what I have described here.
I'm not saying abortion is wrong, I'm just saying your logic is flawed and your self-deception is transparent. Abortion is stopping a process that would otherwise (in a typical scenario) end in a fully aware human being. That is a fact. If you want to delude yourself into thinking otherwise fine, just be 'self-aware' enough to know that it's just an excuse.
Abortion stops a process that sometimes ends with a fully aware human being. The same thing can be said about sexual intercourse. You promote contraception later in your post; I fail to see how this is not "stopping a process that would otherwise (in a typical scenario) end in a fully aware human being."
Assuming you aren't sterile, the fact that you are commenting on slashdot stories instead of actively trying to procreate means you are stopping that very same process.
Where do you draw the line? How far back in the process of procreation do you have to go before it is completely an issue of the rights of a person and not "just an excuse"?
Stem Cells in the heart? Could this open some eyes and increase interest in alternative (Linux, Mac) offerings?
"it can only mean, one fortuitous day, billions of years ago, one cell swallowed another and instead of being digested, the swallowed cell made "food" (atp, other energetic molecules) for the master cell"
An interesting speculation, and I am sure it was possible, but it would not have played a role in evolution. The ingested cell would not have affected the genome of the host cell and when the host cell split, the newly formed cells would not contain the "parasite" cell.
"Google (GOOG) founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin have promised shareholders they will make a social impact that will eventually 'eclipse Google itself' by tackling the world's problems" I, for one, welcome our earth-saving, superhero, corporate overlords!
In 18 months I predict the number of Moore's Law jokes on Slashdot will have doubled
Is it just me or do they look as far from a nerdy rock group band you can get? I wouldn't be surprised to see them singing gospel for a southern baptist church.
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I am a 16 year old in an AP history class in a southern highschool.
We are constantly bombarded with the teachers opinions, which she states as complete fact.
Some of instances I can think of off the top of my head include:
Constant bashing of Kerry (Before the elections), while supporting Bush (She outright told us the war in Iraq was good, without giving a reason why)
She told us government censorship of the media and propaganda are good tools and should be used during war times.
While studying American imperialism during the early 1900s, she explained why it wasn't really bad and the only instance where she said we "Were the bad guys" was the war in the phillipines.
She points out how good some candidates have been because they were religious fundamentalists.
She comes up with utterly ludicrous ideas, today she told us that if you smoke marijuana you are helping destroy America, because terrorists are the ones giving us the drugs to create a similar effect as was seen in the opium wars.
She constantly rants about things that completely contradict what the book says.
But the part that disturbs me the most is the way she states it as fact, and it almost angers me to see the other teenagers taking it in and nodding their heads as if she was reading it out of our text book...
And this is in the most advanced history class available to my grade, I would hate to see a lesser class.