email exchange just a minute ago:.
him: "i just wanted to let you know that i never had any intention of causing any harm.
and i apologize for anything that seemed that way.".
I agree Quentin, but shouldn't the poor guy actually have to do something deviant, sexually perverted and sleazy before being called one? That's all I'm sayin....
I'd hate to have some of you on my jury, if I was ever accused of a crime with no evidence....
dear ones.
rather, it is our adversary who says we will do anything... anything... to avoid it.
a-n-y-t-h-i-n-g. even curse god to his face.
Hmm, I'm going to step into this minefield, armed only with my two years of nursing training and biochemistry.
Water is not so much an antiseptic as it is very efficient at washing majority of germs away from intact skin. The cleaner the water available, the better this works, obviously. They do use sterile water in hospital to clean wounds too. Often this is all they use depending on the wound.
My point was only this: not that water was antiseptic, but whatever cleansing agents they possessed back then, including dirty water, spit and/or camel dung, the risk of infection would have been astronomically higher once God had instructed them to cut the skin. So the argument that all knowing God asked them to do this for any type of hygiene reasons makes no logical sense.
The doing this to make them a separate distinguishable people makes more sense. So God asked them to put themselves at risk to do this.....or they thought it up themselves to give them a tribal identity, knew nothing about the risk of germ infections from open cuts, and claimed divine insight from God. I favor the latter option myself.
email exchange just a minute ago:.
him: "i just wanted to let you know that i never had any intention of causing any harm.
and i apologize for anything that seemed that way.".
I would like a latte NVL. A considerate man knows a girl has to wet her whistle first!
email exchange just a minute ago:.
him: "i just wanted to let you know that i never had any intention of causing any harm.
and i apologize for anything that seemed that way.".
Starbucks is only 2 bucks in the US? It's 4 bucks in Canada! Jesus is right!
So a girl's really got be worth it to get a guy to "spring" for one here!
email exchange just a minute ago:.
him: "i just wanted to let you know that i never had any intention of causing any harm.
and i apologize for anything that seemed that way.".
was that really the issue? or the fact that he didnt wanted to spend the 2 bucks for coffee unless he tasted it first?
A deviant sexual pervert who likes public sex, I might consider, but too cheap to buy me a Starbucks on the first date? That I just cannot abide!
email exchange just a minute ago:.
him: "i just wanted to let you know that i never had any intention of causing any harm.
and i apologize for anything that seemed that way.".
Was the itch from crabgrass or just crabs?
some red meat for the anti-science crowd.
no link found between vaccine mercury and autisma new government study adds to the evidence that thimerosal, a mercury-based preservative until recently found in many vaccines, does not increase children's risk of autism.. it shows kids who had been exposed as babies to high levels of the preservative -- through vaccines they received or their mothers received while pregnant -- were no more likely to develop autism, including two distinct subtypes of the condition.. .
"this study should reassure parents about following the recommended immunization schedule," said dr. frank destefano, director of the immunization safety office at the centers for disease control and prevention (cdc) in atlanta, and the study's senior author.. .
Bohm: The human brain is a strange organism, that's for sure. I read an article, linked from a thread on this site about a psychology study that showed people always tend to believe the first thing they hear over additional conflicting information, even if the later conflicting information is from a much more credible source. Even if the first information is irrefutably proved wrong, and the additional information is repeated enough and becomes common knowledge, then people will still tend to attribute it incorrectly to the first source.
This is why early childhood conditioning is so strong and why most people do not detour much from their own cultural beliefs and attitudes. I guess there is truth in that old scripture, "train up a boy in the way he should walk when he is young and he when he is grown he will not turn aside from it" (paraphrasing somewhat)
dear ones.
rather, it is our adversary who says we will do anything... anything... to avoid it.
a-n-y-t-h-i-n-g. even curse god to his face.
Thanks for finally settling this debate for us Gladiator!
email exchange just a minute ago:.
him: "i just wanted to let you know that i never had any intention of causing any harm.
and i apologize for anything that seemed that way.".
Well, I am a woman and no, I wouldn't meet a stranger in a park for a first date unless it was a fairly busy public park.
Still, I didn't see this "obvious" solicitation for public sex in the park that supposedly all the other women saw. I suppose its possible that he wanted that. I also think it's quite possible that he likes to go to the park every day to feed the ducks (so do lots of people, so what?) and the heat doesn't bother him as he's used to it and is a bit too self absorbed to think that it might bother someone else and being a man he probably doesn't give a heck of a lot of thought to what makes a woman feel unsafe on a first date, which as I said, makes him a bit inconsiderate and clueless, but the rest is pure conjecture. How about giving someone the benefit of the doubt until proven otherwise, before calling him a criminally deviant sexual predator?
Now you're insinuating any who don't see the crime in his behaviour are OK with treating women like prostitutes in public parks? I'm starting to think it was this guy who dodged the bullet here, not you.
dear ones.
rather, it is our adversary who says we will do anything... anything... to avoid it.
a-n-y-t-h-i-n-g. even curse god to his face.
Seriously, though, a more serious danger than regular hygiene would have been how to keep the foreskin cut from becoming unclean and infected if in an area where there was shortage of water for bathing? Everyone knows that once the protective barrier of the skin is broken that is where the real danger of lack of cleanliness comes in. Well, everyone now knows that. One wonders why God was unaware of it being omnipotent and all. He was actually subjecting his people to greater danger not less.
