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Washoe, KoKo, Keller, Hawking, Schiavo - Vanity
3/21/2005
| olde north church
Posted on 03/21/2005 6:15:49 AM PST by olde north church
Draw your own conclusions.
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KEYWORDS: aloneinmyroom; bunniesandpancakes; bunnyandpancake; dowahdittyditty; moosesisteretcetc; ohigetitnot; schiavo; terri; terrischiavo; void4vagueness
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To: olde north church
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posted on
03/21/2005 6:17:41 AM PST
by
Betteboop
To: olde north church
I think there may also be a connection between Piltdown Man and Judge Greer's conscience....
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posted on
03/21/2005 6:18:20 AM PST
by
The Spirit Of Allegiance
(ATTN. MARXIST RED MSM: I RESENT your "RED STATE" switcheroo using our ELECTORAL MAP as PROPAGANDA!)
To: olde north church; EggsAckley; Constitution Day; Tijeras_Slim; Petronski
Conclusion: This is your brain on drugs.
To: olde north church
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posted on
03/21/2005 6:20:06 AM PST
by
OSHA
(If your liberal social program saves money "in the long run" why does it come with higher taxes???)
To: olde north church
Uh...King King, Godzilla, Mothra, Frankenstein...What the f is your point?
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posted on
03/21/2005 6:20:24 AM PST
by
Dark Skies
("The sleeper must awaken!")
I would like to buy a vowel.
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posted on
03/21/2005 6:21:37 AM PST
by
LanPB01
To: olde north church
My conclusion is that this post is useless.
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posted on
03/21/2005 6:23:02 AM PST
by
frogjerk
To: frogjerk
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posted on
03/21/2005 6:24:00 AM PST
by
Bear_Slayer
(If you're gonna be a Knight act like a Knight.)
To: olde north church
do wah ditty ditty dum ditty do
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posted on
03/21/2005 6:25:43 AM PST
by
Drango
(All my ideas, good or bad, are stolen from other FReepers)
To: olde north church
Casanova Frankenstein.
To: All
Okay, can I use words or should I spell it out?
All the time and money spent trying to teach chimps and other apes in an effort to communicate, how much was spent trying to help Mrs Shiavo to communicate.
Helen Keller had extreme difficulty communicating with others and went on to become a member of society.
I can't remember the last time I saw Stephen J. Hawking feed himself.
You can't plead ignorance any more. Well, you can but that will just confirm my first impression.
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posted on
03/21/2005 6:29:36 AM PST
by
olde north church
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To: olde north church
Okay, can I use words...? So are you asking for a vote on this? My vote is no.
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posted on
03/21/2005 6:31:45 AM PST
by
Drango
(All my ideas, good or bad, are stolen from other FReepers)
To: olde north church
Okay, can I use words or should I spell it out?Words are great when trying to communicate your ideas to others.
You can't plead ignorance any more. Well, you can but that will just confirm my first impression.
Except in some cases.
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posted on
03/21/2005 6:34:20 AM PST
by
OSHA
(If your liberal social program saves money "in the long run" why does it come with higher taxes???)
To: olde north church
Okay, can I use words or should I spell it out? I vote for interpretive dance.
To: martin_fierro
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posted on
03/21/2005 6:38:44 AM PST
by
Drango
(All my ideas, good or bad, are stolen from other FReepers)
To: olde north church
Washoe was a chimp in an experiment using ASL, which showed some language ability. Koko is virtually a star in her own right, a gorilla using ASL to have a lot of conversations and having a lot of news stories written about her.
Hawkings talks by looking at a computer screen and spelling out words because his dystrophy (which has be diagnosed as ALS, but very, very, very slow in his case) has left him basically unable to move. I don't know if he's on a ventillator or not.
What all three have is a way to communicate. Thus, Washoe and Koko have gotten some of the status of personhood...but if Hawkings wasn't the internationally known physicist he is, and didn't have a way to communicate that works so well and family and friends who care about him, he might have ended up in a hospice a long time ago.
But someone cared enough to make it happen.
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posted on
03/21/2005 6:46:54 AM PST
by
Knitting A Conundrum
(Act Justly, Love Mercy, and Walk Humbly With God Micah 6:8)
To: olde north church
The Official response...
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posted on
03/21/2005 6:47:57 AM PST
by
Dark Skies
("The sleeper must awaken!")
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