Posts by Brummie

she is just trapped in her own body. I'm pretty sure you've seen the footage and heard sound bites of her trying to communicate with her family. It really looks like she's trying her best

See this is the issue, we havent discovered a way to communicate with her, this in no way calls for the death sentence, how horrid! We can try harder to learn how to communicate, surely. She would have learned her own way of obsering life and enjoying it to the best of her ability, the fact that she is responding to her environment shows she is alive and functioning in a different way that we.

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The brainwashing around the "Schiavo" case...

by Brummie in

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up until this evening i had thought teresa schiavo was in an unconcious state, lying on a bed with just a machine keeping her alive.

how wrong was i?

i saw her smiling and showing awareness of her surroundings.

Brummie

Dan, I can see how people would favour the husbands side and I am not judging them either way.

There are 2 sides to this story though, here is the testimony of her friends:

http://fight4terri.blogspot.com/2004/10/facts-versus-lies-by-cheryl-ford-rn.html

imo they should be spending the next 2 days getting her hooked back up.

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The brainwashing around the "Schiavo" case...

by Brummie in

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up until this evening i had thought teresa schiavo was in an unconcious state, lying on a bed with just a machine keeping her alive.

how wrong was i?

i saw her smiling and showing awareness of her surroundings.

Brummie

And nurses at the hospice have come forth and said she has spoken... ingested soft foods... and a Nobelprize winning physician who is expert on such matters had examined her for 10 hours and says she is ever capable of rehabilitation.

Oh my god, where is the justice in all of this, sick sick people!

I hear ya shiela, how can anyone not watch the videos and here what mac has just said and not get angry! geesh.,

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The brainwashing around the "Schiavo" case...

by Brummie in

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up until this evening i had thought teresa schiavo was in an unconcious state, lying on a bed with just a machine keeping her alive.

how wrong was i?

i saw her smiling and showing awareness of her surroundings.

Brummie

Up until this evening I had thought Teresa Schiavo was in an unconcious state, lying on a bed with just a machine keeping her alive. How wrong was I? I saw her smiling and showing awareness of her surroundings. The video caused outrage in me. How can they kill a person by starving her to death and think its ok?

Well first of all, to justify her death they have to say she is unconscious and feels no pain, even though she smiles and shows emotion, she is unconsious and has no feelings? What machine did they use to measure her conciousness? Where is conciousness seated? What exactly are they measuring when they "measure" consience? Where is the technology that weighs our consciousness? How do they measure her feelings? Yet it is on the very grounds of "Unconsciousness" that they are pulling the plug!

2nd, she is "Vegetative", this terminology is used to seperate her from us humans, only by accepting this will people think its ok to kill her. She is a vegetable, she is not a person! Is this not brainwashing?

3, how do you define someone who is a person? Am I only a person if I act like you do and have as much life in me as you do? "I am someones son, father, brother, uncle" all these things make me a person too dont they? My relationships define who I am as a person, not just my ability to jump around. As a person, (not a vegetable) Schiavo should be given all the treatment she needs or at least be given to the people she has relationships with (her mother etc) shouldnt she?

4, Schavio is not "brain dead" peoples definitions of braindead are abstract anyway, even proffesionals are in disagreement. They are even in disagreement on which part of the brain is associated with being cognitive, some suggest all of the brain is.

5, For arguments sake lets say some suffering from PVS may not experience pain, does this mean that all dont? Signs of "grouping/stereotyping" are ok in this instance?

Sorry if all this has been discussed....

This case is outragous, murdering this woman is morally wrong, unethical and a sign of worse things to come.

Admittingly we dont know how to communicate with people in the PVS but that doesnt mean they should die.

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Finding JWD

by talesin in

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i wrote this poem in the wee hours this morning after reading prophecor`s thread (you`re my reason why i am).

anyway, it`s for all of you, and for those who work really hard to keep this place up and running.

you belong.

Brummie

Yep thats very good Purp!

I wrote a wierd one way back http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/7/47677/1.ashx

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OMFG I forgot about this...

by Mastodon in

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i forgot this cooky thing that i wanted to share with y'all.

my mum has a pet dwarf rabbitt...she puts a tie on the rabbitt and takes him door to door and to the bible studies....maybe she's compensating because i left the dubs...it all sounds like she is not playing with a full deck, it's funny and kinda sad at the same time.

Brummie

So Well anyway, I think the rabbit *should* be made to wear a tie, is this a problem?

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Out of context Watchtower quotes -- join in, have fun!

by AlmostAtheist in

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the watchtower is constantly pulling quotes out of context and distorting the original author's meaning.

why not give them a taste of their own poison?

here's a few to get you started: .

Brummie

Witches and sorcerers are the most hated people in their community... when they are beaten to death by the rest of the people..they are..cuter, definitely cuter..cuter and more huggable,

http://watchtower.org/library/w/2000/4/1/article_01.htm

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