Do you know what folding is?

[palmboy5]

ok, about folding... helping find cure to diseases... while we could just let the ill die away and let other more fortunate people replace them. isnt that easier? (maybe not psychologically for the victim's closest though, but you get over that.) it avoids some poeple not having a job because there arent enough. ok sure less people mean less job opportunities as well, but they were sick anyway, and to the extent that ive been focusing on (fatal) that they will not be able to work anyway. just leave them.

[mike047]

I personally don't care a fig about my life or longevity, I have lived all that I want to.

BUT, if folding will give SOMEONE else a better opportunity at a longer more pleasant life, then it is ,to me worth the time and trouble.

As I stated, I fold 10 boxes and will add more.:

[Brandito]

ok, about folding... helping find cure to diseases... while we could just let the ill die away and let other more fortunate people replace them. isnt that easier? (maybe not psychologically for the victim's closest though, but you get over that.) it avoids some poeple not having a job because there arent enough. ok sure less people mean less job opportunities as well, but they were sick anyway, and to the extent that ive been focusing on (fatal) that they will not be able to work anyway. just leave them.

where do jobs come into any of this? that's just ludacris. let em die so someone else can have their job? that's such a rediculous idea of how things work it's funny.

[Sick Willie]

ok, about folding... helping find cure to diseases... while we could just let the ill die away and let other more fortunate people replace them. isnt that easier? (maybe not psychologically for the victim's closest though, but you get over that.) it avoids some poeple not having a job because there arent enough. ok sure less people mean less job opportunities as well, but they were sick anyway, and to the extent that ive been focusing on (fatal) that they will not be able to work anyway. just leave them.

Not every disease results in death. And, I can only speak for myself, of course, but every person I have ever cared about has helped make me the person I am. So, it would be natural for me to want them to live the fullest life they possibly could.

Caring for someone other than oneself is what will bring out the humanity in a person. Try it sometime. I can't imagine, as StanRoman stated, that I would not do anything in my power to help one of my children if he or she became ill.

[StanRoman]

Stan, I admire your "edge", I was like that when I was a young man. Fortunately or un fortunately according to how one looks at it, I have mellowed a lot in my old age:
Easy on the these guys,OK

Check my sig, the men listed would be some fine BUDS, eh.

mike

I'm 36 now I doubt I'll ever change..once a soldier always a soldier. I don't see how I haven't taken it easy with anyone here? ?? ?? now I'm confused. I'm not the one wishing ebola on anyone even my worst enemy..or even a cold. I don't wish anything bad on my fellow man if they catch something though that's not my problem or business. I worry about the people I know or the people I love if and when a stranger asks for a helping hand I lend it but I'm not stepping any place I shouldn't be stepping. Like helping combat desease (ok, I spelled it right this time.) or ending a terminal desease.

It sounds harsh but I'm with the other fellow (only the strong survive. like it or not the weak perish the strong live on and keep creating stronger offspring) and I don't apologize for being how I am.

Anyone that doesn't like it or end up with feelings hurt should quietly walk down to the nearest "••••• (or sensitivity support group) clinic" and on the way there stop by the pharmacy to pickup something for that upset stomach they picked up.

Too many sensitive people and what gets me is why do they even read or come to places like this on the web if they can't handle it.

Then there's the arguing type, man let me tell you something..the day you catch me arguing over the net being a "keyboard hero" is the day I'll personally come over your house and put my face up so you can spit on it.

If I think someone is a piece of crap or said something ridiculous or ignorant I just won't reply..is that simple. Things are not as difficult as people make them out to be.

So that's why I don't understand how I haven't taken it easy on anyone.. being that I never argue.

I couldn't see your sig there. It didn't come up.

[StanRoman]

Stan, I admire your "edge", I was like that when I was a young man. Fortunately or un fortunately according to how one looks at it, I have mellowed a lot in my old age:
Easy on the these guys,OK

Check my sig, the men listed would be some fine BUDS, eh.

mike

HOOOO-AAAAH "cherries jump first"

I saw it brother. I went in with the 10th that night. I don't like talking about any of that..it's done and over with. We took a pounding but I'm glad I was there when I was and did what I had to do. That's something else I don't apologize about doing. The day I meet my maker if there's one..he'll have to forgive me!

And by the way..FINE MEN indeed! We NEED more like that!

[Sick Willie]

I'm 36 now I doubt I'll ever change..once a soldier always a soldier....Like helping combat desease (ok, I spelled it right this time.)...I'm not the one wishing ebola on anyone even my worst enemy..or even a cold. I don't wish anything bad on my fellow man if they catch something though that's not my problem or business....

Not yet, it's disease.

I'm not wishing Ebola on you...I'm trying to say that it's possible you could find yourself with something really bad - and it doesn't get much worse than Ebola - and that in such a case, you might actually want someone to help you. I thought you could appreciate that since you think AIDS is such a Godsend.

And you never know, I'm 47 now and I'm much mellower than I was at 36....

[_dangtx_]

by the time they come up with widespred shots aainst this and that our grandchildren will be bichin in a forum or de such,much like were now

[StanRoman]

by the time they come up with widespred shots aainst this and that our grandchildren will be bichin in a forum or de such,much like were now

Man, it's great having you around..it takes the bad spelling focus away from me.

[_dangtx_]

....sure...

[kiddetoolman]

It sounds harsh but I'm with the other fellow (only the strong survive. like it or not the weak perish the strong live on and keep creating stronger offspring) and I don't apologize for being how I am.

no need to apologize but continue to learn and grow and know that physical strength pales in comparison to what spiritual strength can accomplish.

Understand and develope the three strengths of life Physical, intellectual and spritual.

Natural selection: is God's way of a lesser intelligent species to survive.

We have progressed or evolved beyond that with knowledge and compassion.

Today a man can still be a warrior and a philosopher and a care-giver
and still be the same man.

Read about Team Hoyt one of my favorite heros Team HOYT ( LINK )

Click on who we are are ... great reading here..

At Rick’s birth in 1962 the umbilical cord coiled around his neck and cut off oxygen to his brain. D i c k and his wife, Judy, were told that there would be no hope for their child’s development.

"It’s been a story of exclusion ever since he was born," D i c k told me. "When he was eight months old the doctors told us we should just put him away — he’d be a vegetable all his life, that sort of thing.

The couple brought their son home determined to raise him as "normally" as possible.

A group of Tufts University engineers came to the rescue, once they had seen some clear, empirical evidence of Rick’s comprehension skills. "They told him a joke," said D i c k. "Rick just cracked up. They knew then that he could communicate!" The engineers went on to build — using $5,000 the family managed to raise in 1972 - an interactive computer that would allow Rick to write out his thoughts using the slight head-movements that he could manage. Rick came to call it "my communicator." A cursor would move across a screen filled with rows of letters, and when the cursor highlighted a letter that Rick wanted, he would click a switch with the side of his head.

When the computer was originally brought home, Rick surprised his family with his first "spoken" words. They had expected perhaps "Hi, Mom" or "Hi, Dad." But on the screen Rick wrote "Go Bruins." The Boston Bruins were in the Stanley Cup finals that season, and his family realized he had been following the hockey games along with everyone else. "So we learned then that Rick loved sports," said D i c k.

[themortarman]

Read about Team Hoyt one of my favorite heros Team HOYT ( LINK )

Click on who we are are ... great reading here..

I saw them on the T.V. for the first time last week or so. Quite a story, I found it amazing if for some reason the son would not want to do this or could not do this anymore the father would not be interested in running by himself.

[ripple]

ahem..its been said b4,freedom of speech thing unless the yoverdo it that is..

I always felt that the freedom of speech thing is abused. Some interpret it to mean they can say anything at anytime. I don't remember asking for anyone's opinion of folding. I merely tried to point out that it might help in some small way for people who care to help others in the future.

If you don't care to participate in folding, then your time would be better spent making a positive contribution to some other endeavor. You are only wasting your time and ours with useless posts.( STAN)

Not to mention the fact that you are posting a negative personal opinion regarding something that you dont understand. (STAN)



There was no prompt for personal opinion. But some will take any opportunity to spew venom. I guess they figure it's their way of helping.

[StanRoman]

no need to apologize but continue to learn and grow and know that physical strength pales in comparison to what spiritual strength can accomplish.

Understand and develope the three strengths of life Physical, intellectual and spritual.

I agree but I'm not quite sure about the spiritual part. Don't get me wrong I believe in something, because no one is as lucky as I've been or lived thru 2 things I have..not twice. It's just that I don't know what it's called..God, Karma..etc? I believe more in karma than anything else.

Like I said before, I'm like a roach I'll survive anything, at least, that's how I go about. My spirituality is not giving a f@#$ about the obstacle and having incredible amount of confidence that I can beat anything. That's just surviving, nothing else. Some lay down and feel sorry, make excuses or give up and some refuse to get beat. You have to be strong mentally above all else because it takes a strong mind to have physical strengh.

When I say "only the strong survive" I mean ALL facets of a being. Mentally being the most important..by FAR. Physical strengh has nothing to do with this and I agree it pales to the other strenghs a person should have.

[StanRoman]

Bullchit alert!!!!

Strength is the key to survival, not necessarily intelligence.
Strength of the mind and/or body. The spirit is part of the mind.
The scorpion is a survivor, but hardly an evolutionary thinker.

Strengh of mind is all one needs. I agree, spirit is defenitely part of the mind.