Posted on 10/25/2006 10:21:35 AM PDT by freepatriot32
I hope your comment was directed at MJ Fox and not me. I agree with your sentiment. I guess I was attempting sarcasm and fell short.
I always thought was a strange ad
I wonder if the lot of you would feel the same way if YOUR stepfather has Parkinson's, which is what my boyfriend is going through.
I wonder if you pukes would think all the shaking, the hesitation, and some of the spills he's taken was mere acting.
BUT - it had 'staying power', lol.
Gridlock -- It is a certain stage in human development, kind of like a four-and-a-half year-old.
A blastocyst is a preimplantation embryo of about 150 cells produced by cell division following fertilization. The blastocyst is a sphere made up of an outer layer of cells (the trophoblast), a fluid-filled cavity (the blastocoel), and a cluster of cells on the interior (the inner cell mass). The uterus accepts a blastocyst for implantation for a limited period of time (the receptive phase) and then becomes refractory. And unlike most four-and-a-half-year-old's, a large percentage of blastocysts fail to implant and are naturally discarded by the body.
blast = referring to immature (developmentally speaking) or primative cells.
You're not too far off the mark. A neoplasm is a new growth, and can refer to both a newly fertilized egg, or a tumor. So, your logic is very good :-)
Of course, I bow down to your definition. Had to steal my thunder, huh? :-)
Good rhyming!
Ooops. I was responding to another post, and I didn't see your definition. It was nicely succinct, and didn't need my two cents.
It's all good :) My post was after yours, after all.
Well, it stands to reason that the vast majority of four-and-a-half year olds were expelled from the body at some point...
But, of course, my point was that a blastocyst is a certain stage in human development, just as a four-and-a-half year old is a certain stage in human development.
Surely, you would agree...
And the last time you saw an "expelled" blastocyst riding a bicycle?
But, of course, my point was that a blastocyst is a certain stage in human development, just as a four-and-a-half year old is a certain stage in human development. Surely, you would agree...
Ahhh. No equivalency intended. Just a rather mundane observation that there is a lot of biological "stuff" that happens in human reproduction and maturation. Thus, an immature spermatogonia is a "certain stage in human development" just as a 25-year old is a "certain stage in human development." Profound.
I am going to assume that your characterization of that statement as profound is sarcastic. Which means you fundamentally misunderstand the point.
No problem. Go about your merry way. Don't let me bother you.
No, thanks.
What say gridlock on mutilating infants? Disfiguring children?
Enjoying this game? Go on, answer...
Do you believe that God has a hand in deciding which of these blastocysts gets expelled without being allowed to develop? When does God put their soul in? Is God a terrible wastrel?
Well, I'm against those things, of course. But I wasn't the one who was bringing up destroying children, or pre-children, or whatever you want to call them. Since you are going to make a statement that the ownership of the whatever-they-are is important, I was just trying to see if that distiction extended to one's own born children, farther down the line.
I am heartened to see that apparently you see that at least some children deserve to be protected. Apparently there is some line that has to be crossed, in your view.
Well, gee, Gondring, I don't know...
Do you?
Are you sure?
I'm assuming you live in the same convoluted world in which I live...21st Century America. I don't make the laws; I don't make the court rulings. I was simply explaining that the logic (about bird eggs) is valid--but you merely disagree with the basic assumptions.
Actually, it has. Tumors.
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