so, here are my first round playoff predictions (as if any of you care...lol!
colts 23, jets 15 (the jets had their super bowl vs. the packers).
packers 21, falcons 17 (i have a hunch that atlanta may pull the upset but you can't root against the pack at lambeau).
Well, I did slightly better this week than I did last week. I missed on both of my upsets (including the one involving my team, the Jets), but it's not like I'm betting money on it or anything.
This week:
Raiders over Titans
Bucs over Eagles (Andy Reid deserved coach of the year, but not even he will be able to solve the Bucs defense )
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im a huge cowboy fan but i dont think they will make it to the super bowl, damn sure would love to be wrong.
ok here is who i think as of right now pittsburgh stealers and san francisco 49ers and god i hate them both, well thats my pick how about you?
dubla and Crazy151drinker lost any real right for critizing the Jets since both their teams have long since been eliminated .
Chad Pennington had a better first year than either Fiedler or Favre had. Granted he really sucked yesterday, but he's more accurate than either Favre or Fiedler (not to mention he's won more playoff games than either one this year ), infact he's generally more accurate than anyone in the NFL. Unfortuneately, the Jets defense went into the witness protection program in the second half after a solid showing in the first half. The Raiders pass rush would have made any QB have a tough time, even a Pro Bowl caliber one like Pennington. He rushed and missed a couple of key throws, and everyone already knows he can't throw it too deep (one of the few things I miss about Vinny Testaverde, but Pennington can work out and gain some arm strength). The Jets should tweak the defense a little, and try to draft a big wide receiver to play alongside Lavernius Coles, and move Wayne Chrebet to the third wide receiver option.
Well, there's always next year, but for the remainder of this playoffs, I'm choosing Tampa Bay to win the Super Bowl (over the Raiders).
i just read an article about a baby born at prematurely at 26 weeks and the doctor who tried to save him.
the question was asked, should this baby be saved?
the child was born at 26 weeks, (14 weeks early) with one kidney missing, a partial esophagus, no anus, tracheal hole, malformed, exposed spinal cord, multiple abnormalities of the heart.
Do Doctors Play God?
My answer to that would be a resounding "no". Maybe there are one or two odd ball doctors out there who seek to "experiment" on people or what not, but the vast majority of them are simply trying to do what's best for their patients.
If the insertion of the shunt gives the child a better chance of living a normal life than if the doctor did not insert it, then I have to agree with the doctor 100%. It would be like if a parent elected not to give their child a surgery that would restore hearing, or something. If the parents of that child want to give up so quickly, that's fine, but the kid should not have to potentially suffer for it.
I'm sure the medical board will only overturn the parents wishes if their non-compliance with the doctor's medical reccomendation will or could very likely cause harm to the baby (you did not make this point very clear. Is there a link to this story somewhere?), so I don't think the parent's rights will be violated (same as a JW parent with a blood transfusion). However, overall I hate the term "playing God", because I don't think science and religion should have anything to do with each other. When folks oppose science for purely religious reasons, and say the "offending" party is doing the job of God, it's pretty silly, since the god should have been doing the job in the first place .
when we were witnesses, we certainly believed in god.
some of us were born into it, and others have perhaps come from other religions, while still others may never had any religious faith at all.
some here on the board now claim that there is no god at all.
ascot, an excellent site for explaining evolution to the layman is:
Hell, that's the site I first went to.
This is a general overview of evolution, but there is much more in the archives to read besides it, of course:
http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/faq-intro-to-biology.html
My path to non-belief was gradual; from strong JW, to liberal JW, to liberal christain "who does not believe in religion, only the bible", to deist, to agnostic, and now to weak atheist (or as I call it "agnostic atheist". But I am a darn strong atheist when it comes to biblegod). Most of the stuff other posters have said also applies to me; as I educated myself more about other religions, past cultures, about science, and about the bible itself (its pagan connections, unscientific claims, etc.), I began to realize just how human and non supernatural the whole "religion thing" is. When people could not explain something, they posited "god" as the answer, but god disappeared as soon as someone who challenged the dogma showed how natural processes explained a phenomena. If rulers wanted to keep "the people" in check, there was(/is) no better way to do this than to threaten them with the wrath of god.
Of course, having doubts about the JW's is what started the ball rolling. Once I knew that the JW's were wrong, I began to allow the questions that I always had at the back of my mind about god to come to the surface. If I could be analytical about the JW's, why not the bible? I realized the answers I had been taught were unsatisfactory, and that the answers that mainstream Christanity had were equally as bad. I read apologetic books like the popular Josh McDowell book(The Evidence that Demands a Verdict), and the Lee Stroubel (TheCase for Faith) book as well, but I knew I was in trouble when I was able to so easily refute many of the arguments they presented with little difficulty and nary any research. Thus I stopped believing in the bible's god. My journey from deist to where I am now was alot less defined. As I started to parse out my philosophy more, I just sort of realized I didn't really believe anything anymore. Even after I stopped believing the bible, I would still occasionally pray to some non descript entity, but then one night I as I was about to do this, I asked myself "why am I doing this? I don't really think anyone is hearing me." And then the epithany of non belief totally hit me. So, here am today .
what a game.
right down to the wire.
my heart is racing..
Gotta second bigboi's comment, Heaven.
Makes me almost feel bad for teasing you about your Green Bay Sl-ackers.
i was at bethel with my now ex-husband in early 1982. at that time, they did a tb test as part of the physical when you started.
mine came out positive for exposure (though i did not and have never had tb), probably because i had worked as a receptionist in a hospital x-ray department.. the weird bit is that the bethel doctor insisted on giving me a gynacological exam.
as i was only 22 at the time, and butt-stupid, i went ahead and let him.
He's a Bethel doctor; obviously he was moved to do so by the holy spirit.
there's a very good book for atheists to read that have a very hard time with the concept of god.. the book is written by a former atheist who was like many of you a sceptic until he started doing personal research to find evidence of god and the biblical history and claims.
this is an extrememely good read if you want to find out from a former atheist who found evidence that showed proof that god is real and the biblical evidence that is found to back up the bible.. .
click here to view the book.. yizuman.
The bible is full of ridiculous atrocities and absurdities like these:
http://www.infidels.org/library/modern/donald_morgan/atrocity.shtml
Edited by - crownboy on 6 January 2003 18:12:5
so, here are my first round playoff predictions (as if any of you care...lol!
colts 23, jets 15 (the jets had their super bowl vs. the packers).
packers 21, falcons 17 (i have a hunch that atlanta may pull the upset but you can't root against the pack at lambeau).
Man, that was a wild weekend in the NFL. My one out of four could have easily been 3 out of 4 if the Giants and Browns didn't choke at the end. Atlanta was a stunner.
This week's picks:
Jets over Raiders (gotta go with my team . And they do have a legitamate shot at winning).
Titans over Steelers
Bucs over 49'ers (should I really bet against them after Sunday?).
Falcons over Eagles (If Vick could win at Lambeau, he can do it at the Vet).
there's such a broad range of perception on this board, i'm curious to know what you folks think of this issue.
are contemporary decendents of black slaves in the united states justified in asking for monetary reparation for their ancestors' bondage?
if you answer is in the affirmative, some related questions are:.
Shouldn't Christains (and therefore most Republicans), be in favour of reparations?
Afterall, according to their world view we are justifiably paying for the mistake of two people who lived thousands of years ago, even though it really wasn't our fault they made an error. Repayment for a wrong that happened about 200 years ago should be automatic (whether it was your fault or not), then.
WhyNow2000, the Jews and Japanese Americans who got reparations were directly wronged. If there was an African American alive today who was born under slavery, I would be OK with such a person getting reparations, as I am with the Jews and Japanese americans.
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im a huge cowboy fan but i dont think they will make it to the super bowl, damn sure would love to be wrong.
ok here is who i think as of right now pittsburgh stealers and san francisco 49ers and god i hate them both, well thats my pick how about you?
Crazy151drinker, here are the passing stats for the Jets from their first matchup with Oakland this season:
| PASSING | ||||
| CP/AT | YDS | TD | INT | |
| C. Pennington | 22/34 | 265 | 2 | 1 |
(BTW, Romanowski had 3 tackles in that game )
Looks to me like Chadwick was on his game to me . He'll be on it again come Sunday.
dubla, are you trying to say Micheal Vick is better than Jay Fiedler?
