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wow - masturbation lowers risk of prostate cancer
by openminded inhttp://www.reuters.com/newsarticle.jhtml?type=healthnews&storyid=3102498
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wow - masturbation lowers risk of prostate cancer
by openminded inhttp://www.reuters.com/newsarticle.jhtml?type=healthnews&storyid=3102498
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Masturbating Lowers Prostate Cancer Risk - Study
Wed July 16, 2003 03:25 PM ET
LONDON (Reuters) - Frequent masturbation, particularly in the 20s, helps prevent prostate cancer later in life, according to new research.Australian scientists have shown that the more men masturbate between the ages of 20 and 50, the less likely they are to develop the disease that kills more than half a million men each year.
They suspect that frequent ejaculation has a protective effect against the cancer because it prevents dangerous carcinogens from building up in the gland.
"The more you flush the ducts out, the less there is to hang around and damage the cells that line them," Graham Giles, of the Cancer Council Victoria in Melbourne, told New Scientist magazine on Wednesday.
In a survey of 1,079 prostate cancer patients and 1,259 healthy men, Giles and his team discovered that men who ejaculated more than five times a week in their 20s were a third less likely to develop an aggressive form of the disease.
The findings contradict previous studies which suggested that having a variety of partners or frequent sexual activity could increase the risk of prostate cancer by 40 percent.
But Giles said the earlier research concentrated on intercourse, whereas his study focused on masturbation. Infections caused by sexual activity could account for the different findings.
"Men have many ways of using their prostate which don't involve women or other men," he added.
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wow - masturbation lowers risk of prostate cancer
by openminded inhttp://www.reuters.com/newsarticle.jhtml?type=healthnews&storyid=3102498
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openminded
CONGRATS!
I guess I should check this board more often. Nice pics...glad to see your happy.
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Did You Stifle a "Gift" That You Could Have Grown Because You Were A JW?
by minimus ini see a lot of talent here.
those that love music, poetry, literature,etc.......do you feel that if you weren't a witness, that you could have grown in your talent or "gift"?
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I was gifted when it came to athletic talent and ability. Peers (and coaches) from school would often remark about how good I was despite the fact that my parents would not let me participate in organized sports. I was allowed to play baseball my 6th and 7th grade year and was made a starter immediatly. By the second season, I was the lead-off batter on a team that ended up winning our regional tourney (I didnt get to play in the tourney though, after I started every game, because my parents were moving that weekend and were clueless as to how important those games were to me). One of my peers at the time ended up making it to the Major Leagues and pitched briefly for the Arizona Diamondbacks - several others made it to division 1 and 2 colleges on full scholarships. My real passion though was for football. I do not have the words necessary to express the regret I have for not getting a chance to play football, basketball, and baseball in high school. The football team used to walk past my house everyday to practice and I used to sit in our bathroom and watch out the window with tears streaming down my face as I watched kids with much less talent than myself get opportunities to play.
I will never forgive the people/organization who stood between me and my passion. They will NEVER understand what they took from me.
REPERATIONS NOW!
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Sayings of wisdom
by Simon in1- i can only please one person per day.
today is not your day.
tomorrow is not looking good either.
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Kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman who has known man by lying with him. But all the young girls who have not known man ... , keep alive for yourselves.
[Moses, relaying God's orders to his people, Numbers 31:17-18]As long as people believe in absurdities they will continue to commit atrocities.
[Voltaire]Tonight, instead of discussing the existence or non-existence of God, they have decided to fight for it.
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The Blame Game
by openminded innotice in the story of the garden of eden that jehovah shifts the blame for the frightful condition of the cosmos he created onto adam.
this blame-shifting god tells us that it is on account of adam eating the fruit that the earth is cursed and pain-filled.
(see genesis 3:17-19)
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Kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman who has known man by lying with him. But all the young girls who have not known man ... , keep alive for yourselves.
[Moses, relaying God's orders to his people, Numbers 31:17-18]As long as people believe in absurdities they will continue to commit atrocities.
[Voltaire]Tonight, instead of discussing the existence or non-existence of God, they have decided to fight for it.
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The Blame Game
by openminded innotice in the story of the garden of eden that jehovah shifts the blame for the frightful condition of the cosmos he created onto adam.
this blame-shifting god tells us that it is on account of adam eating the fruit that the earth is cursed and pain-filled.
(see genesis 3:17-19)
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Notice in the story of the Garden of Eden that Jehovah shifts the blame for the frightful condition of the cosmos he created onto Adam. This blame-shifting god tells us that it is on account of Adam eating the fruit that the earth is cursed and pain-filled. (See Genesis 3:17-19)
The universe is a place of suffering and pain, where life can only come forth from death! In order to feed themselves, all living things kill and eat each other, bringing terror, pain, and death to one another. Even herbivores live by killing plants. Disease-causing microbes and viruses abound by the countless trillions, killing untold millions in horrible deaths. Hurricanes, tornadoes, earthquakes, flood, famine, fire, pestilence, drought, tidal waves, gigantic meteor strikes that cause planet-wide extinction, all prove that death and violence are designed into this material universe! It didn’t become this way, it was created this way!
For those who insist on seeing the universe through rose-colored glasses, I will use the rose as a perfect example of the nature of this material universe created by the blind god, Samael/Jehovah. A rose is extremely beautiful, with an exquisite fragrance. Yet it possesses thorns that will stab you and make you bleed!
The universe is not a friendly place, and never has been, regardless of the lies to the contrary of the god Samael/Jehovah. The universe itself was born in a gigantic incomprehensibly violent explosion we call The Big Bang. Entire galaxies collide. Stars grow old and explode, destroying all the planets circling them. Our star, the sun, will one day explode and destroy all it's planets. The universe itself, and everything in it, was created to die! This is called entropy. Are we to suppose that because Adam ate a piece of fruit that the entire unfathomable universe went from being a nice friendly place where there was no pain, suffering, violence, or death, to it's current condition?
Am I to suppose that the saber-tooth tiger and T-Rex were once gentle herbivores who suddenly sprouted fangs and became ferocious carnivores when Adam ate the fruit? Am I to be so gullible as to believe that a supposedly Omnipotent God is not responsible for it's own creation, but can shift the blame for it's mistakes onto it's finite creatures? Not only are the beliefs of fundamentalists childish and silly, they are insulting to anyone with even average intelligence and education. Yet, millions of fundamentalist Christians believe those very things! There is a world of difference between childlike faith and childish beliefs.
Evangelicals and fundamentalists pride themselves on being true to the "letter" (the literal interpretation) of the Bible, yet they would be hard-pressed to find any early Christian writers who did not interpret the Genesis story of Adam and Eve as an allegory. Even the staunch biblicist Saint Augustine interpreted the Genesis tale as an allegory. Fundamentalists and evangelicals think of themselves as representing primitive, original Christianity. Yet their crude literalism would be foreign indeed to the highly diverse, often highly sophisticated early church they so revere, yet are utterly ignorant of. They do not comprehend that "the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life." 2 Corinthians 3:6. -
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Adolf Hitler and Jehovah
by openminded inlet me explain.
jehovah is angry at the human race because of something our ancient ancestors supposedly did in a fabled garden of eden.
as the apostle paul argues, each human being is born with the stain of "original sin" inherited from our first parents.
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One of the most outstanding examples in history of someone trying to be just like Jehovah is Adolph Hitler. Let me explain. Jehovah is angry at the human race because of something our ancient ancestors supposedly did in a fabled Garden of Eden. As the Apostle Paul argues, each human being is born with the stain of "original sin" inherited from our first parents. So, according to this reasoning, each human being is under the curse of Jehovah/Satan unless they kneel before him abjectly. Eventually (according to which church you belong to) either Jehovah will annihilate all unbelievers or he will throw them into hellfire where they will be "tormented day and night forever and ever."
In other words, the human race will supposedly be tortured or destroyed by Jehovah/Satan because of something we inherited from an ancient ancestor, something utterly outside of our control. Because of something we were born with, an accident of birth, a genetic defect. How is this like Adolph Hitler? Adolph Hitler despised the Jews because of an accident of birth. They were born Jews! So, he hated them and hunted them down and tortured them horribly, and finally killed around six million of them. Because they were born Jews. He also murdered the mentally and physically handicapped.No sane or civilized person approves of Adolph Hitler. When we read of his dark deeds, and see the horror of the Holocaust portrayed in films such as Schindler's List, we are repulsed and aghast. Yet, Bible-believers will read of worse behavior on the part of their god Jehovah and think nothing of it! Somehow, in these people's minds, behavior that is Satanic when performed by humans such as Adolph Hitler, Joseph Stalin or Charles Manson, is magically transformed into the Epitome of Holiness when attributed to God!
I am constantly amazed at the blinders that Christians and even Jews wear when reading about the raging exploits of their god Satan. If we were to read in the newspaper of some "prophet" claiming that he heard God speaking to him, and commanding him to raise an army to kill all Jews, we would write him off (and rightly so) as a lunatic. Yet, when most Christians read of some self-proclaimed prophet of Jehovah in the Bible "hearing the voice of God,” and commanding the Jews to kill men, women, infants, the elderly (and even rip unborn children out of their mother's wombs as in Hosea 13:16), it all seems quite natural and normal and acceptable to them! Such people are not sane.
Who among us would torture and kill someone because they were born with a dread disease inherited from their parents? No one with even a shred of sanity! Even if that unfortunate individual displayed terrible anti-social behavior because of the inherited disease, we would seek to help that person, not torture and kill that person. Yet, Jehovah the Bible-fiend does precisely that! So you see, Adolph Hitler was indeed trying to be just like the god Jehovah. The Jehovah-fiend is the prototype for every fiend. Now and forever, world without end, amen.
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Donald Duck and Jehovah
by openminded inall of us grew up watching and enjoying the antics of donald duck.
laughing as he slowly but surely lost control of a situation, and then finally, in an impotent rage, threw a temper tantrum.
sometimes, it was his nephews huey, dooey, and looey who drove poor donald to the brink and beyond.
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All of us grew up watching and enjoying the antics of Donald Duck. Laughing as he slowly but surely lost control of a situation, and then finally, in an impotent rage, threw a temper tantrum. Sometimes, it was his nephews Huey, Dooey, and Looey who drove poor Donald to the brink and beyond. We can all relate to Donald because often we too are faced with a situation that is beyond our control no matter what we do. After all, we are finite beings. However, when Donald Duck finally comes to the end of his rope and throws a destructive temper tantrum, he is displaying three important traits:
1) His impotence in the face of great difficulty.
2) His utter lack of self-control.
3) That he can be manipulated by others and by circumstance.
When Huey, Dooey, and Looey continue to disobey Donald despite all his warnings, all he can really do in the end is throw a fit and destroy things in his impotent rage. In this, Huey, Dooey, and Looey demonstrate their control over their Uncle Donald. They can push his buttons until he can no longer respond to the situation in a rational or constructive manner, and his mindless rage takes over. Donald has been successfully manipulated and shown to be impotent. For one is truly impotent when one can no longer respond to a situation in a constructive manner or maintain composure and self-control, and can only rage and destroy. As humans, we can relate to this. It reminds us of our own finiteness, and our own foibles.
However, when we read about this same behavior being displayed by the supposedly omnipotent and omniscient god Jehovah in the pages of the Bible, it should give us instant pause for thoughtful analysis of Jehovah. Jehovah is pushed by humans, over and over again, beyond his ability to respond to a situation in a constructive, rational, or self-controlled manner.
Just as Donald Duck throws impotent destructive rages because he can no longer respond constructively or rationally, so does Jehovah. In the pages of the Bible, humans disobey this supposedly omniscient and omni-competent god over and over, until he finally throws a destructive temper tantrum. He kills everyone on earth with a flood, sparing only a handful. He sends plagues upon Egypt because the Pharaoh of Egypt won't obey him. Jehovah kills all the firstborn sons of the Egyptians. In his impotent wrath, Jehovah again and again destroys vast multitudes of the Israelites because he can no longer find a way (Despite his supposedly omniscient, omnipotent, and omni-competent nature) to respond in a meaningful, constructive, self-controlled manner to their disobedience. Impotent, destructive rage is always the Final Solution that Jehovah is pushed into.
We can laugh at Donald Duck's behavior because we see our human finiteness and foibles portrayed onscreen. Yet, when we find such behavior attributed to a supposedly omniscient, omnipotent, and omni-competent Jehovah we should be horrified and repulsed. Why? The real God is infinitely beyond us in intelligence, power, and wisdom. That God is not subject to our human finiteness and foibles, being superior to us, not inferior as Jehovah is. The True God is always able to find a meaningful, constructive way to respond to any situation. The True God could never be manipulated and controlled by finite creatures as Jehovah is. "Huey, Dooey, and Looey" (the human race) would never be able to exhaust the True God's mental and emotional resources and push it over the brink into impotent destructive rage.