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  • Apr 25, 2019, 02:07 PM
    jlisenbe
    [QUOTE]I could be wrong being a guy, but 10 days after a missed menstral cycle, would have me wondering if I were a sexualy active female.[/QUOT

    But again, what happens at the fortieth day that makes the difference?
  • Apr 25, 2019, 02:26 PM
    talaniman
    You should have an idea if you're pregnant or not right? Be a good time for a gyno visit in my book if you don't know or want to be. Not everyone has those options granted, but that's part of the problem.
  • Apr 25, 2019, 03:16 PM
    jlisenbe
    What does that have to do with the fortieth day? I'm not following you at all. What happens on the fortieth day that justifies using the term "killed"?
  • Apr 25, 2019, 03:19 PM
    Wondergirl
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by talaniman View Post
    You should have an idea if you're pregnant or not right? Be a good time for a gyno visit in my book if you don't know or want to be. Not everyone has those options granted, but that's part of the problem.

    Yup, most of us figure out early on if we're pregnant. And that's why PP exists: to give out birth control and explain how to use it, to educate women about their bodies and possible pregnancies, and to refer them to gynos who can help them with their female concerns.
  • Apr 25, 2019, 04:39 PM
    talaniman
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by jlisenbe View Post
    What does that have to do with the fortieth day? I'm not following you at all. What happens on the fortieth day that justifies using the term "killed"?

    You asked where I draw MY line and that's where it's at! You don't have to follow my logic.

    Quote:

    Originally Posted by Wondergirl View Post
    Yup, most of us figure out early on if we're pregnant. And that's why PP exists: to give out birth control and explain how to use it, to educate women about their bodies and possible pregnancies, and to refer them to gynos who can help them with their female concerns.

    It's a really valuable option for resourced stress people, not just women.
  • Apr 25, 2019, 06:55 PM
    jlisenbe
    Quote:

    You asked where I draw MY line and that's where it's at! You don't have to follow my logic.
    I would love to follow your logic, or at least try to, but you have not outlined it. You belittled my belief that life begins at conception, but I know why I believe that. I just wonder why you have identified 40 days as a marker.
  • Apr 25, 2019, 07:04 PM
    talaniman
    Like me you must be for the morning after pill.
  • Apr 25, 2019, 07:27 PM
    jlisenbe
    I guess that means you don't understand yourself why you chose 40 days. It's sad when we take such a causal attitude towards human life. As I said before, most people who support abortion have not really thought it through.
  • Apr 25, 2019, 08:58 PM
    talaniman
    I tried to explain in simple terms what the significance of 40 days is, but you don't grasp the easy stuff so see it as a first step in a process to reach a decision. If that's a concept that's beyond you say so.
  • Apr 25, 2019, 09:07 PM
    jlisenbe
    Quote:

    I tried to explain in simple terms what the significance of 40 days is, but you don't grasp the easy stuff so see it as a first step in a process to reach a decision. If that's a concept that's beyond you say so.
    You rambled on about a woman becoming pregnant and seeing her doctor. You did not say what it is about an unborn baby that qualifies the use of the word "kill" at forty days. Sadly, you don't really seem to know what you believe.
  • Apr 26, 2019, 06:08 AM
    talaniman
    Only to a sick mind can you call suggesting a female see a doctor to confirm and consult with when pregnancy is suspected, rambling. For a hardline religious nut you have no clue about Good Orderly Direction. I don't believe I would send her to YOU and that's for sure.
  • Apr 26, 2019, 06:28 AM
    jlisenbe
    Quote:

    Only to a sick mind can you call suggesting a female see a doctor to confirm and consult with when pregnancy is suspected, rambling. For a hardline religious nut you have no clue about Good Orderly Direction. I don't believe I would send her to YOU and that's for sure.
    Rather than becoming angry and resorting to what you claim to not like which is name calling, you might just want to admit that you don't really know why forty days has any real significance to the unborn child. I find this to be true of most liberals. When pressed to explain why they believe in _____, they really don't know, so since they cannot appeal to reason or truth, they just get mad and start referring to "sick minds" and "hardline religious nuts". If you do figure out what 40 days has to do with the life of the fetus, then get back with us.
  • Apr 26, 2019, 08:13 AM
    talaniman
    You forgot to use the dumb statement font that you resort to when you got nothing. It's none of your business to begin with since you only care about what YOU believe. It's all good dude, because I've been doing my thing a long time and have no need for your approval or permission or assumptions. You may get away with frustrating others but you lack any capacity to frustrate me let alone piss me off.

    Yes I'll be back when it dawns on you what 40 days means in relationship to female physiology. Ask your wife and daughter, or almost any woman and I bet they can relate, even if you cannot. Sad for a supposed learned older fellow, but you came to the right place to learn. Or did you come to throw rocks?

    Doesn't matter I can do them both. Back to you.
  • Apr 26, 2019, 09:13 AM
    jlisenbe
    Quote:

    You forgot to use the dumb statement font that you resort to when you got nothing. It's none of your business to begin with since you only care about what YOU believe. It's all good dude, because I've been doing my thing a long time and have no need for your approval or permission or assumptions. You may get away with frustrating others but you lack any capacity to frustrate me let alone piss me off.

    Yes I'll be back when it dawns on you what 40 days means in relationship to female physiology. Ask your wife and daughter, or almost any woman and I bet they can relate, even if you cannot. Sad for a supposed learned older fellow, but you came to the right place to learn. Or did you come to throw rocks?
    This is kind of strange. I am simply trying to get you to explain the significance of 40 days for the FETUS, since that is what we are talking about. You said that after 40 days we can use the term "kill" in relation to an abortion. I am simply asking you how you arrived at that conclusion in relationship to the unborn child. You have said absolutely nothing in relation to that. Not one word. You have only discussed a woman's period (roughly 30 days) and then some 10 day window for her to see her doctor and, I presume, arrange for an abortion, and thus you arrived at 40 days. But that says nothing about why it is alright to destroy the unborn child prior to 40 days. That's what I am trying to get you to explain. So far, no luck. You are plainly frustrated and irritated, but that doesn't provide an explanation. Now you can just drop it if you want to, but I would hope, with a human life at stake, you would have thought this through better than you seem to have done.
  • Apr 26, 2019, 09:30 AM
    Wondergirl
    Quote:

    JL: you might just want to admit that you don't really know why forty days has any real significance to the unborn child.
    Tal explained it very well. Please review ALL his comments. Forty days into a pregnancy is ABOUT six weeks (40 divided by 7). Six weeks means the woman has very likely missed one period and suspects she might be pregnant. From bellybelly.com --
    "At 6 weeks pregnant, your baby starts to look a little like a jellybean and is about 4-5mm long – the size of a grain of rice! Babies at this age are measured from crown to rump (i.e. head to bottom), so the measurement excludes his or her legs."

    Maybe she's unmarried, in high school or college. Maybe she's even younger. Maybe she's married and already has six kids, can't afford another one, and apparently the birth control didn't work. Maybe she was raped by a date who would accept no as an answer or a stranger or an angry ex or her uncle. Now what?
  • Apr 26, 2019, 09:49 AM
    jlisenbe
    Tal has said nothing about the fetus. You at least directed part of your comments to the fetus. You seem to be saying that the size of the child is the determining factor. Saying it is the size of a grain of rice is inaccurate. More like several grains of rice, which is not huge, but plainly visible. As to the married woman with six kids, would you be OK with killing one of the children? If not, then why is it OK to kill the unborn one? That is the great question in this debate you guys run from. If it is OK to kill a human being, then why do you draw the line at birth? Tal said 40 days. WG can't bring herself to say anything about it. If you would answer that one question honestly, the question of why it is OK to kill the unborn child but not OK to kill a child after birth, that would be a wonderful step forward in this discussion.

    BTW, here's your "jellybean" at five weeks. Hands, feet, head, eyes, everything present. Means nothing to you and Tal and that is sad. The second pic below is at ten weeks. Completely legal to be killed at that point for any reason. WG and Tal will, I guess, yawn and go on about their day when it happens, as it does many thousands of times a year.

    http://www.bounty.com/~/media/d6a7c3...=222&la=en



    http://keepvitality.com/img/2016/11/week10.jpg
  • Apr 26, 2019, 10:18 AM
    talaniman
    While I may be against abortions, I must respect the right of a woman to choose her own direction. I or you or anybody else has NO right to dictate what her choice is. Thank you WG for that timely interjection of common sense, and respect for your fellow woman. I respect your position and passion, JL, but I have made my position clear long ago to YOU, on this and other subjects. We're not likely to change each others minds nor it seems we can insult each other enough. I don't take it personally, because frankly who cares since neither of us has that authority over each other to make any meaningful difference.

    Meanwhile that's MY choice how I treat the life of a pregnant female, and her CHOICE, despite the ridicules rant comparing children to unborn fetus's. Like you care for either. They are hardly the only ones dying in this world.
  • Apr 26, 2019, 10:36 AM
    jlisenbe
    Quote:

    Meanwhile that's MY choice how I treat the life of a pregnant female, and her CHOICE, despite the ridicules rant comparing children to unborn fetus's.
    Sadly, the millions of children who never got the chance to live had no choice at all.

    Quote:

    despite the ridicules rant comparing children to unborn fetus's. Like you care for either. They are hardly the only ones dying in this world.
    No, it's the unborn who are dying. I notice you did not answer my question. It's really the big question in this whole discussion. Why is it alright to kill a baby before it is born but not afterwards? Honestly, when you look at the picture of, at the very least, the 10 week fetus, do you really see something unworthy of protection? If you do, then respectfully, you would seem to have a heart of stone.
  • Apr 26, 2019, 11:30 AM
    talaniman
    Yeah it is kind of sad I agree, unfortunately abortions and induced miscarriages are part of the history of man going back to the beginning, and few advertised the event. They still don't. All you can cry over are the ones you know about. It's just not realistic to think you will stop it, even as you seek to shut PP down. What's that going to accomplish? It just drives the deed underground and out of your sight. Still it will happen until we get to the point there is no need.

    Quote:

    Why is it alright to kill a baby before it is born but not afterwards?

    You'll just have to use your common sense on this one, and live with your own conscious like we all do, and obey the law, or maybe step up and commit to taking these babies in your own house, and not pass that responsibility to others who clearly don't want it. I know you won't like my answer, but it is my answer. Chunk your rocks if you want to, but the answer won't change, and I will just chunk the rocks back at you.

    Do what you have to do though because I darned sure will.
  • Apr 26, 2019, 11:34 AM
    waltero
    Quote:

    While I may be against abortions, I must respect the right of a woman to choose her own direction. I or you or anybody else has NO right to dictate what her choice is.

    Who left it up to the child to decide... child as in, pregnant teenager. Either way they should be told the truth. Abortion effects more than the one person.
  • Apr 26, 2019, 11:58 AM
    talaniman
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by waltero View Post
    Who left it up to the child to decide... child as in, pregnant teenager. Either way they should be told the truth. Abortion effects more than the one person.

    A teen by law can make their own choice once they reach 18, so I assume you mean younger, and by law parental/guardian has to give consent for such a matter.
  • Apr 26, 2019, 12:20 PM
    waltero
    Quote:

    A teen by law can make their own choice once they reach 18, so I assume you mean younger, and by law parental/guardian has to give consent for such a matter.

    Don't let them fool you.

    Nearly every state has judicial bypass options that allow a pregnant teenager to obtain a judge’s permission to proceed with an abortion without involving her parents. Furthermore, some states allow a physician to waive parental involvement, and some allow a teen to have a professional counseling instead of parental involvement.
  • Apr 26, 2019, 01:35 PM
    jlisenbe
    Quote:

    You'll just have to use your common sense on this one, and live with your own conscious like we all do, and obey the law, or maybe step up and commit to taking these babies in your own house, and not pass that responsibility to others who clearly don't want it. I know you won't like my answer, but it is my answer.
    In other words, you don't know why you believe what you believe, which is what I find to be true of most liberals.
  • Apr 26, 2019, 02:19 PM
    Wondergirl
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by jlisenbe View Post
    In other words, you don't know why you believe what you believe, which is what I find to be true of most liberals.

    Why must you always shame a responder?
  • Apr 26, 2019, 02:45 PM
    talaniman
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by waltero View Post
    Don't let them fool you.

    Nearly every state has judicial bypass options that allow a pregnant teenager to obtain a judge’s permission to proceed with an abortion without involving her parents. Furthermore, some states allow a physician to waive parental involvement, and some allow a teen to have a professional counseling instead of parental involvement.

    Yes they do and I recognize that beyond that there are still ways for underage teens to get what they want. It's not a perfect world by any means.
  • Apr 26, 2019, 02:48 PM
    jlisenbe
    You have not yet become a responder since you have not answered the question. Anyway, it is not my ambition to shame anyone, but to cause people to think a little about why they believe what they believe. It is not an insignificant question, but rather it is one that every American should think carefully about and be able to answer. Lives are at stake. But if you guys want to drop it, we'll just drop it.
  • Apr 26, 2019, 02:52 PM
    talaniman
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by jlisenbe View Post
    In other words, you don't know why you believe what you believe, which is what I find to be true of most liberals.

    That was uncalled for and completely untrue. Talk about making stuff up! That's like saying ALL conservatives are against abortion, or ALL Christians for that matter. I think it's the right way to go for me, your disagreement notwithstanding.

    Quote:

    Originally Posted by Wondergirl View Post
    Why must you always shame a responder?

    That's beyond JL's capacity! I am firm in what I believe, he knows that but you know how those hardline religious types are WG.
  • Apr 26, 2019, 02:53 PM
    Wondergirl
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by jlisenbe View Post
    You have not yet become a responder since you have not answered the question. Anyway, it is not my ambition to shame anyone, but to cause people to think a little about why they believe what they believe. It is not an insignificant question, but rather it is one that every American should think carefully about and be able to answer. Lives are at stake. But if you guys want to drop it, we'll just drop it.

    The responder was Tal, not me, whom you were shaming (this time). Now I finally understand you. What you post does not get people to think but instead to become defensive or frustrated with your inability (unwillingness?) to engage in an honest and hopefully fruitful discussion.
  • Apr 26, 2019, 02:57 PM
    jlisenbe
    Quote:

    That was uncalled for and completely untrue. Talk about making stuff up! That's like saying ALL conservatives are against abortion, or ALL Christians for that matter. I think it's the right way to go for me, your disagreement notwithstanding.
    Not sure what part you are suggesting is untrue, but in saying that you cannot explain why you believe it is OK to kill an unborn child but not OK to kill a child already born, it sure seems to be true. Don't mean to be shocking, but it would be nice to see some people who might actually think, "Dear Lord. What if abortion really is the taking of an innocent life? Maybe I should be sure that is not the case before I support it."

    It has been my experience in life that liberals generally do not seem to think through what they believe. It is, of course, also true of some conservatives, and has been true of me in the past on more than one occasion. Thankfully, I do have some people around me who will call me out on that when I do it.

    Quote:

    The responder was Tal, not me, whom you were shaming. Now I finally understand you.
    Why not become one now?
  • Apr 26, 2019, 02:59 PM
    talaniman
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by jlisenbe View Post
    You have not yet become a responder since you have not answered the question. Anyway, it is not my ambition to shame anyone, but to cause people to think a little about why they believe what they believe. It is not an insignificant question, but rather it is one that every American should think carefully about and be able to answer. Lives are at stake. But if you guys want to drop it, we'll just drop it.

    I thought about it long ago, and hope it gets better. Your just being a hardnose dude wrapped around your own self righteousness. Thanks for caring and sharing, but I really need no provocation to consider this subject. Or most others one old goat to another.
  • Apr 26, 2019, 03:03 PM
    jlisenbe
    Quote:

    I thought about it long ago, and hope it gets better. Your just being a hardnose dude wrapped around your own self righteousness. Thanks for caring and sharing, but I really need no provocation to consider this subject. Or most others one old goat to another.
    Am I hardnosed? OK. I'll take that one. Self-righteous? No. My righteousness comes from Christ by faith. I absolutely believe I should be able to explain why I believe in whatever. When it comes to abortion, it just amazes me that anyone could look at those two pics posted above and continue to support abortion, and not even stop to consider the question I posted above. If you can't answer that, then your conscience should keep you awake at night.
  • Apr 26, 2019, 03:28 PM
    Wondergirl
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by jlisenbe View Post
    Why not become one now?

    I will if you ask an honest question. I will respond with a well-thought-out answer. Then ask me a related question, and I will continue the discussion with another well-thought-out response. Maybe it would help if we numbered each question along with the answer received. E.g., 1) JL's Q: What is your name? WG's A: My name is WG. 2) WG's Q. What's your name? JL's A: My name is JL.
  • Apr 26, 2019, 03:32 PM
    jlisenbe
    Well, I've already asked an honest question and have received no answer at all. But OK, I like the concept. Fire away, but just be aware that you already know what my first question will be. I'm a little leary of this with you since, in my view, you have a history of extraordinary evasiveness, but go ahead and ask.
  • Apr 26, 2019, 03:37 PM
    Wondergirl
    Quote:

    ->You have not yet become a responder since you have not answered the question.
    ->It has been my experience in life that liberals generally do not seem to think through what they believe.
    ->When it comes to abortion, it just amazes me that anyone could look at those two pics posted above and continue to support abortion.
    ->If you can't answer that, then your conscience should keep you awake at night.
    Shaming comments.... Please stop.

    Quote:

    Originally Posted by jlisenbe View Post
    Well, I've already asked an honest question and have received no answer at all. But OK, I like the concept. Fire away, but just be aware that you already know what my first question will be. I'm a little leary of this with you since, in my view, you have a history of extraordinary evasiveness, but go ahead and ask.

    You didn't need to post all the verbal debris. All you needed to say was, "OK, I like the concept! My first question is...."
  • Apr 26, 2019, 03:54 PM
    jlisenbe
    You want me to go first?

    Quote:

    Shaming comments.... Please stop.
    They were, in my view, not shaming comments but thought-provoking.


    OK, if you want me to go first, I'll start with this. 1. Is there a MORAL difference between killing an unborn child and killing a child already born? If so, what is the difference?
  • Apr 26, 2019, 05:27 PM
    talaniman
    Define whose morals
  • Apr 26, 2019, 05:54 PM
    paraclete
    Typical leftist, avoiding the moral imperative
  • Apr 26, 2019, 06:11 PM
    Wondergirl
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by jlisenbe View Post
    They were, in my view, not shaming comments but thought-provoking.

    Had I said any of these to you,

    ->You have not yet become a responder since you have not answered the question.
    ->It has been my experience in life that conservatives generally do not seem to think through what they believe.
    ->When it comes to abortion, it just amazes me that anyone could look at those two pics posted above and continue to deny abortion to desperate women.
    ->If you can't answer that, then your conscience should keep you awake at night.

    the aspens would still be quaking!
  • Apr 26, 2019, 06:27 PM
    talaniman
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by paraclete View Post
    Typical leftist, avoiding the moral imperative

    Whose moral imperative?
  • Apr 26, 2019, 07:08 PM
    jlisenbe
    Quote:

    Had I said any of these to you,

    ->You have not yet become a responder since you have not answered the question.
    ->It has been my experience in life that conservatives generally do not seem to think through what they believe.
    ->When it comes to abortion, it just amazes me that anyone could look at those two pics posted above and continue to deny abortion to desperate women.
    ->If you can't answer that, then your conscience should keep you awake at night.

    the aspens would still be quaking!

    If I could not explain my position, I would expect to hear those things and more.

    You sure are slow to answer the question.

    See everyone tomorrow.

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