i don't know how to do links, sorry.. this is the cutest home video!.
changeling.
changeling: you will love this one. Found it a couple of days ago.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5P6UU6m3cqk&mode=related&search=
I watched it in its entirity and found it a bit sadistic that he made the baby laugh for so long. Can't be that good for a baby.
This one is funny:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePkYZh3VXEw&mode=related&search=
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-zrpbc5jki.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuknbhy-ln4.
Madame Quixote: I went to the link you provided.
for women, according to a study of Mexican men.Unilateral monogamy is not an effective prevention strategy for HIV infection
"We might find men's persistent and widespread participation in extramarital sex to be troubling -- but it's a deeply rooted aspect of social organization, and one that is unlikely to be easily changed," study leader Jennifer S. Hirsch of the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health said in a statement. "Public health programs alone can't stop extramarital sex, so we need to think about how to reduce the risk. Saying that 'be faithful' will protect married women is not true." The study, published in the American Journal of Public Health, found women are infected by their husbands, the very people with whom they are supposed to be having sex and, according to social conventions of Mexico, the only people with whom they are ever supposed to have sex.
In the Mexican study, as well as a similar study in New Guinea, the researchers say labor migration was a major contributor to infidelity. However, many men did not view sexual fidelity as necessary for achieving a happy marriage; they viewed drinking and "looking for women" as important for male friendships.
When I said monogamous relationship or "within the confines of marriage" I meant and wrote that both partners were to be faithful. In this article it clearly shows that the men were not faithful and threatened the safety of both partners.
You wrote:
No, it would not, because it is still an erroneous and ignorant assumption, unproven by any science or fact. It is nonsense. AIDS is a fact, regardless of marriage. The only certain way to avoid AIDS is to avoid sharing ANY bodily fluids, and that would certainly entail not getting married OR having sex, EVER.
This article is contrary to what you stated:
the HIV virus is not spread by saliva, tears, urine, or feces. Still, if the feces, urine or bodily fluids contain any traces of blood, it is possible to transmit the virus.
HIV is not spread by hugging, shaking hands, using telephones or from insect bites, but through blood, semen, vaginal and preseminal fluids, or breast milk. HIV and AIDS are transmitted during unprotected anal, oral or vaginal sex with someone who is HIV-positive; through blood-to-blood contact such as transfusions or sharing a needle with an HIV-positive person; or from a mother to her child during pregnancy, at childbirth or from breastfeeding.
I think your view that we should refrain from marriage and sex altogether to protect ourselves is a bit extreme, paranoid and erroneous. The chance of getting getting infected is pretty remote for someone in a (plural) monogamous relationship. What are the chances: the dentist, being jabbed by an infected needle in the hospital, someone with the virus touching someone’s open cut or sore. So I would say that your assumption that we could protect ourselves if we never got married and never had sex is totally erroneous.
Yes, AIDS is a fact, a reality but it is so because mankind does what he wants to regardless of the consequences and if you think that my view is cruel then look at an AIDS patient’s face: that is cruel. It is not God but man doing it to himself. The sentiment that these are not bad people, just humans trying to live their lives in the face of great challenges and loneliness does not change the fact that AIDS has become so widespread. My heart goes out to anyone with this disease. Yes, it would be wonderful if there was a cure but at this time there isn’t.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-zrpbc5jki.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuknbhy-ln4.
Madame Quixote:
I just read your edited version and had to comment.
I never condemned anyone for having sex outside of marriage, saying they were bad people, but as a Christian I believe that God has instituted some rules to follow for our own protection. I realize that we all make bad choices but there are consequences to those choices.
As far as not having a guarantee that your spouse won't cheat, I know many marriages where they take their vows seriously, mine included. That is the choice we have made. Could my husband, or I cheat down the road? Yes, but then we would have to deal with the ramifications of that decision. Would that make us horrible people? No. But we would be doing something immoral. I believe that God forgives us for our weaknesses if we are truly sorry.
Cheating on a spouse is a moral issue for me. Aids is not a punishment from God, it is a consequence of a decision made. Do I feel compassion for people with AIDS? Yes
These are my views as a Christian but I realize that as an Atheist you may a different opinion.
This time I really am going to bed. Good night.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-zrpbc5jki.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuknbhy-ln4.
Madame Quixote:
My definition of "within the confines of a marriage" is that neither partner cheats, they only have sex with each other, and have never had sex with anyone else. I realize that there is a possibility that one could get AIDS from using infected needles etc. but I was talking about a faithful marriage. Correct me if I'm wrong, but that is how it has been transmitted the most; through indiscriminate unprotected sexual intercourse. I probably should have stated that "within the confines of marriage we have a high success rate of not getting these diseases". Would that sit better with you?
It would be pretty ignorant for anyone to think that marriage in itself would protect you. I never said such. I know that marriage doesn't protect you from sexually transmitted disease, but within a faithful marriage there is a great chance that you will never get it. Unprotected sex with anyone other than your spouse leaves you vulnerable to getting these diseases.
Many married people in Africa have suffered horribly as the result of this silly belief.
The problem would obviously be that they weren't faithful in their marriage. In the traditional African society many men feel it's their right to bed as many women as they want.
I hope that's clear enough for you. I'm tired, going to bed.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-zrpbc5jki.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuknbhy-ln4.
WTWizard: I don’t believe that God is worrying about people putting up christmas decorations, wondering if you put in enough pioneer time, or wanting more Kingdom Halls to be built. Contrary to what witnesses believe, God is not the God of witnesses only. The things you mentioned are solely what witnesses believe.
As for rap music - I realize that not all rap is violent, and demeaning towards woman but I would think that God would not be pleased with rap that condones this message.
As for oral sex I don’t believe it states anywhere in the Bible that we need to refrain from it. If you believe in God than you realize that God created sex. He gave us the gift of sex, to have children, to give and receive pleasure, for bonding, with our spouse. Laws are given to protect us, not to make our lives miserable. When we have sex outside of marriage there are consequences; the possibility of an unwanted pregnancy, sexually transmitted disease, AIDS. Within the confines of marriage we are protected from these tragedies. I do have to clarify that a child is never a tragedy but having to raise a child as a single parent can be very difficult, plus the added burden of financially raising them. I realize that this isn't going to sit well with a lot of people but it's what I believe.
People are suffering starvation because of mankind to a great extent. There are many reasons: civil war, AIDS, drought, poverty, greed, indifference.
Some info I found on the net:
There is more than enough food to go round yet hundreds of millions of people are still underfed. Theproblem is not lack of food. It's lack of money.While some believe higher powers are behind the deadly droughts, agricultural experts and environmentalists say man himself is largely to blame because of years of neglect and mismanagement of land and other resources.
Destruction of forests, the AIDS pandemic, pervasive poverty, lack of rural investment and bad roads are all factors that make Africa especially vulnerable to such calamities.
During the Ethiopian famine, British citizens were shocked to learn that they were eating fruits from Ethiopia. Apparently, then, drought alone is not the only reason Africa cannot feed itself.
Some Africans refuse to limit the size if their families. To them, having many children is viewed as a sign of wealth. Not surprisingly Africa has one of the biggest population rates in the world. Undeniably this aggravates the problem of hunger.
These people are not pitiful, helpless and dependent on the outside world. "Be it Kenyans, Somalis or Ethiopians, these are not passive victims," he said. "They are incredibly resilient people, and they do everything they can to maintain their livelihoods, and they don't want to be dependent on relief aid."
If God doesn’t exist, we still have the problem of people dying of starvation. Who’s fault is it then?
If God exists, what would we want Him to do?
so what is it?
i say mine is english with an admixture of german (before the nazis ever existed, no need to go on about that) northern french and italian from venice.
i look northern european and feel close to that part of the world with family tradition being roman catholic.
I was born in North Holland, Netherlands. My father's ancestors came from Friesland, Netherlands and my mother's ancestors came from what is now Belgium (which was once part of the Netherlands).
My father always claimed that his grandmother's (Dorothea) ancestors came from Scotland and that way back came from China, I don't know why. He thought our surname sounded oriental but in fact it is Frisian.
I'm blue eyed blonde yet my blood type is B. For anyone else that may have B blood type this may interest you: Eastern Europeans, East Indians, northern Chinese, Koreans and a smaller portion of Japanese tend toward type B, as do Ashkenazic and Sephardic Jews. Blood group B is thought to have entered Europe with the invasion of the Tatars from Asia. Thus, if someone has blood group B (or AB), this most likely means the individual has some Tatar ancestry). Maybe my father was right about the Chinese (chuckling) but I tend to think that there is a very small chance that it could be Ashkenazic and Sephardic Jews. It makes more sense. I read somewhere once that Hasidic Jews had a high % of B blood type also. The fact that I'm RH neg probably eliminates China. My understanding is that 16% of Europeans are RH-
It doesn't change who I am, knowing who my ancestors are, but I find it extremely interesting.
R.F. and snowbird: You may find this link interesting. A while back they had a programme on TV and they did DNA testing on Oprah, Quency Jones etc.
http://www.mg.co.za/articledirect.aspx?articleid=264490&area=
This particular quote caught my eye: "It helps create an understanding that race is an illusion and that there isn't any real difference between races. They show that we're all mixes."
i used to post there a lot, and would like to check out some of those old posts.
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anyone know where h2o is or where the archives can be found?
I just got this info from the New H20. I was a member for a short time on this forum.
A unique aspect of this new discussion forum is it may soon contain archives from our original Hourglass2 Outpost's past postings. Our original H2O forums contained over a million HTML files, each file consisting of a posting using Matt's "wwwboard" Linux CGI forum scripts. Over a million H2O HTML postings clogged the search engines in the mid to late 1990's. A few brothers and sisters, including the creator of this new H2O forum, archived these posts on CD-ROM. The sheer weight of H2O's massive content forced our ISP to move H2O to its own separate network server in 1999, and after overloading that server our account was terminated. (We were informed the bandwidth was so great the ISP was unable to provide service at any price.) Aimoo.com came to the rescue and its forum software was more efficient in serving bandwidth and more sophisticated than Matt's plain vanilla CGI board scripts.
i've long known, and most of you probably have as well, that there was something not all there with me.
mostly i put it down to me being bad.
questions i've never been asked before.
Hi Crumpet,
I don’t have much to add, but you, and also Tyrone, are in my thoughts. I haven’t read all the responses so if anyone else is suffering with this I empathize with you also. You are so brave to acknowledge this to others and I see that so many have responded showing that we all care. I think that this affects so many families. I worry that my son also may have it. Even when he was a small child just starting school I felt that the teachers were trying to push him, a square peg, into a round hole. I sometimes wonder if, in addition to a chemical imbalance, creative people are misunderstood which creates confusion and frustration, a feeling of being different from the majority of people. I don't know. Anyway, all the best on your road to recovery discovery. PS I assume your avatar Crumpet is an English muffin.
did you ever think about the fact that when you were a dub, it was pointless to buy a box of all occasion greeting cards?
it annoyed the heck out of me, because you couldn't use the ones for birthdays or most of the sympathy cards (because they often said "lord" or "god" in them).
so what would a box of jw greeting cards contain?.
OutnFree: Used your suggestion to create card. It's fun to poke fun but at the same time so many people are hurt because of the witness mindset.
just announced on cnn.
saw her on larry king live last week and she looked awful.
I'm so thankful to hear that Tammy is finally out of her misery. I saw her interview on Larry King last night? Even in the last few weeks she deteriorated so much. It's such a horrible disease.
My brother-in-law died of cancer. During the last few days we stayed with him around the clock. It was one of the most difficult things I ever went through, to watch him suffer so much. I honestly don't know how my sister-in-law managed during those years he was suffering through it, except for her faith. The kids suffered so much afterwards.
My thoughts are with Tammy's kids. I believe she had a son and daughter.
