Mommy, how do you explain that one case where the girl had phantom pain from two sets of limbs, one which never existsed previously but should have? Or where they place their phantom limb around a real object, and 'feel' the object being yanked away? Just curious, cus i think its pretty freaky.
bboyneko
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Guy to cut off feet on the net!
by ISP inwell why not!?
they're his feet and all........ >> http://www.cutoffmyfeet.com/.
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AIN'T LIFE GREAT!
by Sarah injust thought i would share with you that i just went to the local "beer gardens" and had a great time!
and i don't feel a bit guilty.
talked to some friends i went to school with, that i hadn't seen in almost 7 years!!!
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bboyneko
What is a beer garden??
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Organization's Calender Pic for July/August
by dedalus inyesterday i noticed, at the home of my leaving-but-not-quite-left parents-in-law, the photo montage for july/august on the organization's calender.
on the top of the page is a photograph of a bunch of jw children at a convention in 1941, holding up a copies of the book children, which had been distributed just to them.. here are two quotes from that book, some of which was written in a hokey first person dub-voice:.
should men and women, both of whom are jonadabs or 'other sheep' of the lord, now marry before armageddon and bring forth children?
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bboyneko
Millions now living will never die!! Ooops..they dead. Our Bad..I mean..YOUR bad..cuz we certainly never said anything
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Pets and the Watchtower
by TMS inmy cars cheap cd player is on repeat playing track 9, bob dylan singing tomorrow night during my hour long commute to a job not suitable for a 58 yr old man.
returning home the same tune plays just short of distortion, a funeral dirge for wessie.. tomorrow night.
will it just be another memory, .
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bboyneko
My Hamster is 2 years old and only has a year left and Im already dreading his loss...I got two kittens born in March 8th (same as my birthday) and I will be so sad when they pass..pets are a big part of a petowners lives and losing them is very very hard. I'm sorry for your loss. Thank you for sharing your moment with us though.
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Which Disney Character are you most like?
by closer2fine injust for fun!!!
my friend sent this to me.
http://disney.go.com/vacations/websites/100yom/secret/flash.html.
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bboyneko
Kat, in the original, un-disnified story Pinochio kills jimminy cricket
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any basis for appointing a GB member
by cyberguy inis there a biblical basis for appointing gb members?
acts 1:15-26 shows how they were selected:.
(1) someone who was among jesus early disciples, "starting with the baptism by john" (acts 1:21-22),.
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bboyneko
Sorry...I get carried away sometimes. I will reserve the juvenile humor for fredhall.
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WATCHING THE WORLD GO DOWN
by You Know in"all things are continuing exactly the same as from creation's beginning" is the thinking attributed to those ridiculers of christ's presence.
because the sign of christ's invisible presence must be accepted on faith and faith is not a possession of all people, faithless ones are willfully blinded to the evidence that the system is nearing its hour of judgment.
in this the 2nd week of august 2001, the evidence steadily mounts that apostate ridiculers of jehovah's word are very badly mistaken and about to be spanked with a very large paddle.
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bboyneko
Thank's, Cygnus, for your research.
But cyngus, eat your words! it turns out Armagedon DID happen in 1998!!!!!
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The Great Crowd - It Doesnt Add Up...
by individual inrevelation 7:9 - after these things i saw, and look!
a great crowd, which no man was able to number, out of all nations and tribes and peoples and tongues standing before the throne and before the lamb.. watchtower 1st jan 1997. the harvest, indeed is great, but the workers are few.
therefore beg the master to send out workers into his harvest.
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bboyneko
The WTBTS cites 2 scriptures in the New testament as evidence that modern christians should not accept blood transfusions, as you can see from the following scriptures they cite, that conclusion is going a little past 'what is written'
Acts 15:19-21
New International Version (NIV)
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"It is my judgment, therefore, that we should not make it difficult for the Gentiles who are turning to God.
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Instead we should write to them, telling them to abstain from food polluted by idols, from sexual immorality, from the meat of strangled animals and from blood.
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For Moses has been preached in every city from the earliest times and is read in the synagogues on every Sabbath."Darby Translation (DARBY)
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Wherefore *I* judge, not to trouble those who from the nations turn to God;
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but to write to them to abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from what is strangled, and from blood.
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For Moses, from generations of old, has in every city those who preach him, being read in the synagogues every sabbath.Young's Literal Translation (YLT)
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wherefore I judge: not to trouble those who from the nations do turn back to God,
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but to write to them to abstain from the pollutions of the idols, and the whoredom, and the strangled thing; and the blood;
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for Moses from former generations in every city hath those preaching him -- in the synagogues every sabbath being read.'King James Version (KJV)
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Wherefore my sentence is, that we trouble not them, which from among the Gentiles are turned to God:
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But that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood.
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For Moses of old time hath in every city them that preach him, being read in the synagogues every sabbath day.New Living Translation (NLT)
19And so my judgment is that we should stop troubling the Gentiles who turn to God, 20except that we should write to them and tell them to abstain from eating meat sacrificed to idols, from sexual immorality, and from consuming blood or eating the meat of strangled animals. 21For these laws of Moses have been preached in Jewish synagogues in every city on every Sabbath for many generations."
As you can see, ABSTAIN is used universally. And as you can see from the context (JW's usually only quote acts 15:20) They are saying basically, 'To keep from stumbling the Jews who have been practising all the antiquated laws of moses, the gentiles need to stop doing stuff that they have been raised to view as abhorrant, like eating meat that hasn't been bled properly.' The ancient jews were also not allowed to eat pork, or certain fat, they had many dietary requirements. When jesus came he cancelled all that out. You'd think that if god intended us to die over blood, he would have stressed it just a tad bit more. Also the context of the entire chapter deals with jews being pissed because the gentiles are not circumcised, and they have been taught since birth to think of them as evil and unclean, and here they are, joining their ranks, and they refuse to become circumcised! So the judgement was, ok, they dont have to mutilate themselves, but they should stop doing that other stuff to ease tensions between the two camps.
The other scripture used is also in acts and is a refference to the acts 15:20 decree.
ab·stain (b-stn, b-)
intr.v. ab·stained, ab·stain·ing, ab·stains
To refrain from something by one's own choice: abstain from traditional political rhetoric. See Synonyms at refrain1.
To refrain from voting: Forty senators voted in favor of the bill, 45 voted against it, and 15 abstained.[Middle English absteinen, to avoid, from Old French abstenir, from Latin abstinre, to hold back : abs-, ab-, away; see ab-1 + tenre, to hold; see ten- in Indo-European Roots.]
from "abstain", to "sustaining life", go figure.
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Guy to cut off feet on the net!
by ISP inwell why not!?
they're his feet and all........ >> http://www.cutoffmyfeet.com/.
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bboyneko
Yeah, thats what alot of scientists seem to be finding, that remarkebly, the brain adopts news nerve pathways to make up for the severed limb. But that dosent explain a case like this:
A Remarkable Case of Phantom Limbs
This is a very interesting case of phantom sensation. It comes from an article by Lacroix et al., 1992.. http://www.macalstr.edu/~psych/whathap/UBNRP/Phantom/reference.html#Lacroix
It describes a situation where a girl was born with her right leg 10cm shorter than her left. At age 6 she had the leg amputated below the knee, subsequently she perceived two phantom feet and three sets of phantom toes. These phantoms have not faded in ten years, and still continue to be as vivid as when she first perceived them. What is interesting is the way the phantom limbs are arranged.
She has one whole phantom foot, including the toes, replacing the amputated foot, which was 10 cm higher than the other normal foot.
There is another set of toes that extends from the end of the stump. These seem to represent a set of toes that she never possessed because of the limb deficiency.
She experiences a third phantom, which is of the part of the leg that she was born without. It extends to the ground and consists of an outer shell of the missing limb, calf, foot, and a set of phantom toes.
It is interesting that the phantom sensation incorporated the abnormal posistion of the physical foot prior to the amputation, while the phantom of the amputated foot at the end of the stump did not. Thus, phantoms cannot be simple reflections of the somatosensory homunculus. -
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Guy to cut off feet on the net!
by ISP inwell why not!?
they're his feet and all........ >> http://www.cutoffmyfeet.com/.
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bboyneko
Any of you ever felt phantom limbs? This is a weird condition where despite a limb being removed, the amputee continues to feel pain in that ghost limb, and to feel as if it is there.
I have experienced it once before, my arm fell asleep while I slept on my comfy couch watching Poekmon. When i got up my dead arm went WHUMP on my side and i couldnt feel it all..but where the arm had been, wrapped around my head..thats where I still felt it. It was so creepy. I even started to squeeze my real arm, and i could feel the prickling, needle sensation not where my arm was physically, but where it had been.
See if you can reach out and grab this cup in your right hand. What are you feeling now?"
I feel my fingers clasping the cup.""Okay try it again." (As the patient tries to reach for the cup, the doctor pulls it farther away)
"Ouch! Why did you do that?"
"Do what?"
"It felt like you ripped the cup right out of my fingers." (James Shreeve, June 1993)
In a normal situation, the patient would have had the cup pulled out of his hand. However, the patient, Fred Aryee, did not have his right arm; he lost it in a storm at sea. How is this possible? When Mr. Aryee lost his arm in 1983, he should not have any feelings after its loss. Yet in amputees, this condition, known as phantom limbs, is all too common. Oftentimes, the feelings that occur are simply ones of normal perception, but often, they are very painful, resulting in another condition called phantom pain.
Its very very odd. From what I've read scientists dont know this happens. They even tried deadening the nerves that would transmit ghost sensations but the amputeee continueed to feel the ghost limb.
Ive heard paranormal explanations and some odd scientific ones.