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Atheism is the cult of death, the death of hope. The universe is doomed, you are doomed, the only thing that remains is to await your execution...
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Originally posted by seer View Post
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...phant-trophies“He felt that his whole life was a kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.” - Douglas Adams.
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Originally posted by mossrose View PostMicah 6:8 He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the LORD require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?
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Originally posted by mossrose View Post“He felt that his whole life was a kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.” - Douglas Adams.
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Originally posted by Tassman View Post
Kruger said elephant hunting was a sensitive issue but a “legal and sustainable” practice in Namibia.
He told News24:”There is a small quota of elephants in the area and we only hunt two elephants a year.”
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Just substitute an elephant for the lion this time
Originally posted by Tassman View PostNope, it is not, despite the sensationalist pictures the Pro Life folk delight in disseminating in their self-righteous way. Re ABORTION: The brain pattern IS the person. When it goes you go and before it comes on, you are not here. Roe v Wade got the balance right between the rights of the woman vis-a-vis the rights of the fetus. The Supreme Court case that held that the Constitution protected a woman’s right to an abortion prior to the viability of the fetus, i.e. the first 24 weeks. No one, including you, has the right to impose their private morality on anyone else.Last edited by rogue06; 10-19-2018, 04:38 AM.
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"You're by far the worst poster on TWeb" and "TWeb's biggest liar" --starlight (the guy who says Stalin was a right-winger)
"Overall I would rate the withdrawal from Afghanistan as by far the best thing Biden's done" --Starlight
"Of course, human life begins at fertilization that’s not the argument." --Tassman
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The folk who cull animals are doing it wrong.
They should anesthetize the pregnant cow elephants or lionesses or whatever it is and rip the unborn "fetus" out since they aren't really the actual animal until they're born.
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Originally posted by mossrose View PostThe folk who cull animals are doing it wrong.
They should anesthetize the pregnant cow elephants or lionesses or whatever it is and rip the unborn "fetus" out since they aren't really the actual animal until they're born.“He felt that his whole life was a kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.” - Douglas Adams.
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Originally posted by rogue06 View Post
But electroencephalograms have been detecting brainwaves as early as 6 to 6˝ weeks since back in the mid-1950s and this has been confirmed multiple times since then. As Parents Magazine succinctly puts it in their series about the development of the baby at week 6 "brain waves can now be recorded." So I guess since it has brainwaves it is a person in that it's a lack of brain activity that defines death in a person.
Meaningful life does not begin until 25 weeks. This rationale is based on the definition of death, which is not disputed, and is considered the time when EEG activity ceases. EEG measures brain activity and must demonstrate regular wave patterns to be considered valid.
Therefore, by this rule the onset of viable life would be the time when fetal brain activity begins to exhibit regular wave patterns, which occurs fairly consistently around week 25. Previous to then, the EEG only shows small bursts of activity without sustained firing of neurons.
And, for this reason the vast majority of abortions (over 90%) are done in the first trimester, long before viability. And Roe v Wade allows for women have the right to abort pre-viability without undue interference from the state.“He felt that his whole life was a kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.” - Douglas Adams.
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Originally posted by Tassman View PostCertainly the Jews, and possibly Jesus himself, believed that a fetus isn't a person until birth based upon Genesis 2:7, God “breathed into his nostrils the breath of life and it was then that the man became a living being”. Although the man was fully formed by God in all respects, he was not a living being until after taking his first breath.
And all humans were "living beings" thereafter without having to take a breath first or you wouldn't have verses such as Psalm 22:10
On you was I cast from my birth, and from my mother’s womb you have been my God.
Kind of hard for a lifeless clump of tissue to have a God like that, wouldn't you agree?
There is also Job 31:15; Psalm 139:13-16; Isaiah 44:24; Jeremiah 1:5...
And obviously, as the New Testament clearly demonstrates, a baby in the womb was considered as being alive as we can seen in Luke 1:41, 44:
And when Elizabeth heard the greeting of Mary, the baby leaped in her womb. And Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit ... For behold, when the sound of your greeting came to my ears, the baby in my womb leaped for joy.
Likewise in the Old Testament we see in Exodus 21:22-25:
“When men strive together and hit a pregnant woman, so that her children come out, but there is no harm, the one who hit her shall surely be fined, as the woman’s husband shall impose on him, and he shall pay as the judges determine. But if there is harm then you shall pay life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, burn for burn, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.
So if you injure (not by accident but while fighting) a pregnant woman and kill the unborn baby, your life is therefore forfeit "you shall pay life for life."
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"You're by far the worst poster on TWeb" and "TWeb's biggest liar" --starlight (the guy who says Stalin was a right-winger)
"Overall I would rate the withdrawal from Afghanistan as by far the best thing Biden's done" --Starlight
"Of course, human life begins at fertilization that’s not the argument." --Tassman
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Originally posted by Tassman View PostThese “brainwaves” are merely the rudimentary nervous system, which is not functional at this time. The fetus cannot process information or move in response to a stimulus. Even by week 14, although the fetus can move, the movements are just involuntary, jerky reflexes. They are not driven by higher cortical functioning.
Meaningful life does not begin until 25 weeks. This rationale is based on the definition of death, which is not disputed, and is considered the time when EEG activity ceases. EEG measures brain activity and must demonstrate regular wave patterns to be considered valid.
Therefore, by this rule the onset of viable life would be the time when fetal brain activity begins to exhibit regular wave patterns, which occurs fairly consistently around week 25. Previous to then, the EEG only shows small bursts of activity without sustained firing of neurons.
And, for this reason the vast majority of abortions (over 90%) are done in the first trimester, long before viability. And Roe v Wade allows for women have the right to abort pre-viability without undue interference from the state.
I'm always still in trouble again
"You're by far the worst poster on TWeb" and "TWeb's biggest liar" --starlight (the guy who says Stalin was a right-winger)
"Overall I would rate the withdrawal from Afghanistan as by far the best thing Biden's done" --Starlight
"Of course, human life begins at fertilization that’s not the argument." --Tassman
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Originally posted by rogue06 View PostSince the most commonly accepted view is that Adam was specially created, without a mother and never in a womb your use of Genesis 2:7 here reveals profound ignorance and desperate grasping at straws.
One judges Jewish attitudes towards the OT and abortions by their actions. “Jewish law does not share the belief common among abortion opponents that life begins at conception, nor does it legally consider the fetus to be a full person deserving of protections equal those accorded to human beings. In Jewish law, a fetus attains the status of a full person only at birth”.
https://www.myjewishlearning.com/art...ewish-thought/
Historically, this has been the position of Judaism throughout and remains the position today as reflected in the abortion laws of the Jewish state of Israel.
“All Israeli women seeking to terminate a pregnancy (and have it paid for through state health insurance) must appear before a three-person committee, but in practice nearly all requests are granted. There are no laws limiting when an abortion can be performed, and a woman whose request is denied by the committee can still seek an abortion at a private clinic”. Ibid.“He felt that his whole life was a kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.” - Douglas Adams.
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Originally posted by rogue06 View Post"Meaningful life" is just claptrap that abortion supporter trot out to excuse their actions. Since brainwaves can pretty much flat line when someone enters the deepest type of coma (they "cannot process information or move in response to a stimulus") this means that you wouldn't consider them alive and euthanizing (killing) them is completely acceptable.“He felt that his whole life was a kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.” - Douglas Adams.
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Originally posted by Tassman View Post[ATTACH=CONFIG]32405[/ATTACH]Attached Files
I'm always still in trouble again
"You're by far the worst poster on TWeb" and "TWeb's biggest liar" --starlight (the guy who says Stalin was a right-winger)
"Overall I would rate the withdrawal from Afghanistan as by far the best thing Biden's done" --Starlight
"Of course, human life begins at fertilization that’s not the argument." --Tassman
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Originally posted by Tassman View PostTypically excess verbiage snipped.
One judges Jewish attitudes towards the OT and abortions by their actions. “Jewish law does not share the belief common among abortion opponents that life begins at conception, nor does it legally consider the fetus to be a full person deserving of protections equal those accorded to human beings. In Jewish law, a fetus attains the status of a full person only at birth”.
https://www.myjewishlearning.com/art...ewish-thought/
Historically, this has been the position of Judaism throughout and remains the position today as reflected in the abortion laws of the Jewish state of Israel.
“All Israeli women seeking to terminate a pregnancy (and have it paid for through state health insurance) must appear before a three-person committee, but in practice nearly all requests are granted. There are no laws limiting when an abortion can be performed, and a woman whose request is denied by the committee can still seek an abortion at a private clinic”. Ibid.
Secular Israel is no better than secular any other country. And just because something is the law of the land doesn't make it right or good. Why are you so dim that you can't see that?
As rogue said, the word of God is my final authority and I don't care what you or any other man says.
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