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There's a long but very interesting article in the most recent New Yorker magazine entitled
The Cost Conundrum: What a Texas town can teach us about health care
In summary, it argues that the cost of health care in America is largely a cultural phenomenon. Doctors get paid per treatment. Their income is based on how many tests, examinations, and treatments they perform, and so there is a financial incentive to order tests, examinations, and treatments even when they are not actually necessary. In some places (the writer examines McAllen, Texas), it has become socially acceptable among doctors to treat patients as profit centers more than people. And so costs skyrocket. In other places that kind of behavior is not socially acceptable among doctors. For example, in Grand Junction, Colorado, the doctors in town formed an association where they review one another's patient portfolios on a regular basis in order to identify ways to lower costs and increase quality of service. And so costs go down.
The writer is a physician himself, and seems to have done substantial research in producing this article. Very interesting. His most interesting point was that in a system which pays physicians per-procedure, it
doesn't matter who pays the bill
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Because the problem is a cultural phenomenon, it's going to be fiendishly difficult to change, too.
I'm curious -- all you forumites who live in countries with universal health care, how are your doctors paid? Do they get set salaries? Paid by the patient? Paid per procedure? By the hour like lawyers? How does it work for the physician?
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Depends hugely on the doctor. In some cases, there is pay by procedure or pay by patient - some GPs are paid like this in part, and a number of vaccinations are done this way too - they're paid by the dose, and the practice buys them. But the way GP practice work is complicated and confusing, as are dentists and opticians, and all of these vary depending on your NHS Trust.
But most medical staff in the UK are salaried annually. The NHS is the biggest single employer in the country by a long way. And I'll be getting a job with them once I graduate...
Medicine is free at point of use, and does not rely on insurance (though you can go private, and the private healthcare system in the UK works basically the same way as the US system I believe). Unfortunately, this system does tend to wind up horribly inefficient and jammed with beauraucracy. But IMO it's better than the alternative for people who are in the most need.
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Similar to something I saw the other day: A guy was being paid to speed read...by the hour. Very counter-productive. Yet too often our culture arbitrarily creates those silly situations...and then runs with em.
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The littlest Bean is here!!!
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- Origin: China
- Available in the following sizes: 2' x 3', 3' x 5', 2' 3" x 8', 5' x 7', 7' 6" x 9' 6", 8' x 11', 9' x 13', 8' Round, 6" Sample and 18" Sample
GREAT, bold color, very soft, plush and thick. Easy to vaccuum once I turned it on the high bar and no pilling, so far. Does so much to liven up my hallway. Thanks for offering such imaginative colors, which most places don't!
RECOMMENDED: Yes, I would recommend this to a friend.
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Description: Whether the environment you want to create is exotic or romantic and peaceful, Milliken has a rug that will pull the colors and the feel of your room together while adding the perfect touch. Milliken protects all its rugs by an exclusive five year warranty againt abrasive wear. Made in the USA with extremely durable Milliken Nylon fiber.
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Publishing behemoth Random House is the largest English language publisher in the world, with books of all kinds including the best in fiction, nonfiction and children's literature. Random House first made international news by successfully defending in court the U.S. publication of James Joyce's masterpiece, Ulysses, setting a major legal precedent for freedom of speech. Beginning in the 1930s, the company moved into publishing for children, and over the years has become a leader in the field. Random House entered reference publishing in 1947 with the highly successful American College Dictionary, which was followed in 1966 by the equally successful unabridged Random House Dictionary of the English Language. It continues to publish numerous reference works, including the Random House Webster's College Dictionary.


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1. The origin of ice hockey is unknown. Many believe ice hockey probably evolved from the game of field hockey that had been played in Northern Europe for centuries.
2. The rules of modern ice hockey were written by a man named J. G. A. Creighton. Mr. Creighton was from Canada. In 1875, the first game of ice hockey with Creighton's rules was played in Montreal, Canada. In 1877, the first known rules for ice hockey were published by the Montreal Gazette.3. Ice hockey is played with two opposing teams wearing ice skates. These skates have a long blade that extends past the end of the boot and there is no toe pick. This is what makes the hockey skate different from the figure skate.4. In ice hockey, each team only has six players on the ice rink at a time, unless there is a penalty.5. The aim of the game is to knock the hockey puck into the opposing team's net. The net is guarded by a special player called the goalie.6. In 1924, ice hockey gained a place in the Winter Olympics.7. In 1888, the first Amateur Hockey Association was formed.8. In 1892, the first ever women's hockey game was played in Ottawa, Canada.9. The NHL was formed in 1917. It consisted of 5 teams: Montreal Canadians, Montreal Wanderers, Ottawa Senators, Quebec Bulldogs and the Toronto Arenas, which was the only team with artificial ice.10. There are six teams known as "The original Six." Those teams are: Boston Bruins, Chicago Blackhawks, Detroit Red Wings, Montreal Canadians, New York Rangers, and the Toronto Maple Leafs. Today, 30 teams make up the NHL.
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Acne (Ambition to Create Novel Expression) is a creative collective founded in Stockholm, Sweden in 1996. The collective became established as a clothing line in 1997, when co-founder Jonny Johansson created 100 pairs of jeans in raw denim with red stitching and distributed them to friends throughout Stockholm. These novel jeans became the foundation of the brand and lead to the launch of Acne Studios' first full collection in 1998. The concept behind the line is a tone of subtle luxury in understated styles feeling as though they were borrowed from another person's wardrobe. Each piece in the collection is simplistic yet stands out on its own while pairing easily with others.
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Leather ankle boots with outer side zip and leather tassel detailing. Plain round toe and stitched paneling with a stacked wooden heel and pull-on tab at back. Grip rubber out-sole. Fully leather lined interior. Comes in matte black with contrast brown outsole.
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18K yellow gold bangle bracelet with multi-shape faceted turquoise, chrysoprase, clear quartz, and mother of pearl details
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Not the federal agencies tasked with preparing for catastrophes. Not the local officials responsible for aging levees and vulnerable populations. Least of all the residents themselves, who had been warned for decades that they lived on vulnerable terrain. But when Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast on Aug. 29, 2005, it seemed as though the whole country was caught unawares. Accusations began to fly even before floodwaters receded. But facts take longer to surface. In the months since the storm, many of the first impressions conveyed by the media have turned out to be mistaken. And many of the most important lessons of Katrina have yet to be absorbed. But one thing is certain: More hurricanes will come. To cope with them we need to understand what really happened during modern America's worst natural disaster. POPULAR MECHANICS editors and reporters spent more than four months interviewing officials, scientists, first responders and victims. Here is our report.
MYTH: "This is a once-in-a-lifetime event."--New Orleans Mayor C. Ray Nagin, press conference, Aug. 28, 2005By contrast, when Hurricane Andrew struck the Florida coast in 1992, its sustained winds were measured at 142 mph. And meteorologists estimate that 1969's Category 5 Hurricane Camille, which followed a path close to Katrina's, packed winds as high as 200 mph. Two factors made Katrina so devastating. Its radius (the distance from the center of the storm to the point of its maximum winds, usually at the inner eye wall) was 30 miles--three times wider than Camille's. In addition, Katrina approached over the Gulf of Mexico's shallow northern shelf, generating a more powerful storm surge--the water pushed ashore by hurricanes--than systems that move across deeper waters. In Plaquemines Parish, south of New Orleans, the surge topped out at 30 ft.; in New Orleans the surge was 25 ft.--enough to overtop some of the city's floodwalls.
NEXT TIME: According to the National Hurricane Center in Miami, the Atlantic is in a cycle of heightened hurricane activity due to higher sea-surface temperatures and other factors. The cycle could last 40 years, during which time the United States can expect to be hit by dozens of Katrina-size storms. Policymakers--and coastal residents--need to start seeing hurricanes as routine weather events, not once-in-a-lifetime anomalies.
MYTH: "Perhaps not just human error was involved [in floodwall failures]. There may have been some malfeasance."--Raymond Seed, civil engineering professor, UC, Berkeley, testifying before a Senate committee, Nov. 2, 2005REALITY: Most of the New Orleans floodwall failures occurred when water up to 25 ft. high overtopped the barriers, washing out their foundations. But three breached floodwalls--one in the 17th Street Canal and two in the London Avenue Canal--showed no signs of overtopping. Accusations of malfeasance were born after the Army Corps of Engineers released seismic data suggesting that the sheet-pile foundations supporting those floodwalls were 7 ft. shorter than called for in the design--a possible cause for collapse. In December 2005, PM watched Corps engineers pull four key sections of the 17th Street Canal foundation out of the New Orleans mud. The sections were more than 23 ft. long--as per design specifications. "I had heard talk about improper building before the sheet-pile pull," the Corps' Wayne Stroupe says. "But not much since."
NEXT TIME: The Corps is restoring levees at a cost of more than $1 billion in time for the 2006 hurricane season (June 1), driving foundations 50 ft. deep--almost three times the depth of the existing foundations.
OvertoppingMost New Orleans flood barriers are simple earthen embankments, or levees, supporting a wall of steel sheet piles, some of which are capped with reinforced concrete I-walls. Breaches occurred when storm surges poured over the walls, washing away, or scouring, interior soil foundations. This weakened their lateral stability. Pressure from the floodwaters then caused collapse. |
Foundation FailureThe cause of breaches on the 17th Street and London Avenue canals remains a mystery. Over-dredging in the 17th Street Canal may have removed lining sediments near the floodwall's sheet-pile wall, allowing water to percolate through deep levee soils. Swimming pools and other structures built too close to the barrier may have compromised its integrity by compressing its foundation. |
MYTH: "They have people ... been in that frickin' Superdome for five days watching dead bodies, watching hooligans killing people, raping people."--New Orleans Mayor C. Ray Nagin, The Oprah Winfrey Show, Sept. 6, 2005REALITY: Both public officials and the press passed along lurid tales of post-Katrina mayhem: shootouts in the Superdome, bodies stacked in a convention center freezer, snipers firing on rescue helicopters. And those accounts appear to have affected rescue efforts as first responders shifted resources from saving lives to protecting rescuers. In reality, although looting and other property crimes were widespread after the flooding on Monday, Aug. 29, almost none of the stories about violent crime turned out to be true. Col. Thomas Beron, the National Guard commander of Task Force Orleans, arrived at the Superdome on Aug. 29 and took command of 400 soldiers. He told PM that when the Dome's main power failed around 5 am, "it became a hot, humid, miserable place. There was some pushing, people were irritable. There was one attempted rape that the New Orleans police stopped."
The only confirmed account of a weapon discharge occurred when Louisiana Guardsman Chris Watt was jumped by an assailant and, during the chaotic arrest, accidently shot himself in the leg with his own M-16.
When the Superdome was finally cleared, six bodies were found--not the 200 speculated. Four people had died of natural causes; one was ruled a suicide, and another a drug overdose. Of the four bodies recovered at the convention center, three had died of natural causes; the fourth had sustained stab wounds.
Anarchy in the streets? "The vast majority of people [looting] were taking food and water to live," says Capt. Marlon Defillo, the New Orleans Police Department's commander of public affairs. "There were no killings, not one murder." As for sniper fire: No bullet holes were found in the fuselage of any rescue helicopter.
NEXT TIME: "Rumors are fueled by a shortage of truth," says Ted Steinberg, author of Acts of God: The Unnatural History of Natural Disasters in America. And truth was the first casualty of the information breakdown that followed the storm. Hardening communications lines (see page 3) will benefit not just first responders, but also the media. Government officials have a vital role in informing the public. Ensuring the flow of accurate information should be part of disaster planning at local, state and federal levels.
MYTH: "The failure to evacuate was the tipping point for all the other things that ... went wrong."--Michael Brown, former FEMA director, Sept. 27, 2005NEXT TIME: All states should adopt a Florida-style registry, which enables people who will need evacuation assistance to notify their city or state officials.
MYTH: "The aftermath of Katrina will go down as one of the worst abandonments of Americans on American soil ever in U.S. history."--Aaron Broussard, president, Jefferson Parish, La., Meet the Press, NBC, Sept. 4, 2005REALITY: Bumbling by top disaster-management officials fueled a perception of general inaction, one that was compounded by impassioned news anchors. In fact, the response to Hurricane Katrina was by far the largest--and fastest-rescue effort in U.S. history, with nearly 100,000 emergency personnel arriving on the scene within three days of the storm's landfall.
Dozens of National Guard and Coast Guard helicopters flew rescue operations that first day--some just 2 hours after Katrina hit the coast. Hoistless Army helicopters improvised rescues, carefully hovering on rooftops to pick up survivors. On the ground, "guardsmen had to chop their way through, moving trees and recreating roadways," says Jack Harrison of the National Guard. By the end of the week, 50,000 National Guard troops in the Gulf Coast region had saved 17,000 people; 4000 Coast Guard personnel saved more than 33,000.
These units had help from local, state and national responders, including five helicopters from the Navy ship Bataan and choppers from the Air Force and police. The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries dispatched 250 agents in boats. The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), state police and sheriffs' departments launched rescue flotillas. By Wednesday morning, volunteers and national teams joined the effort, including eight units from California's Swift Water Rescue. By Sept. 8, the waterborne operation had rescued 20,000.
While the press focused on FEMA's shortcomings, this broad array of local, state and national responders pulled off an extraordinary success--especially given the huge area devastated by the storm. Computer simulations of a Katrina-strength hurricane had estimated a worst-case-scenario death toll of more than 60,000 people in Louisiana. The actual number was 1077 in that state.
NEXT TIME: Any fatalities are too many. Improvements hinge on building more robust communications networks and stepping up predisaster planning to better coordinate local and national resources.
MYTH: "We will rebuild [the Gulf Coast] bigger and better than ever." --Haley Barbour, Miss. Gov., The Associated press, Sept. 3, 2005"It's like a guy getting inebriated and wrecking his Ferrari four or five times," says David Conrad of the National Wildlife Federation (NWF). "Eventually, a private insurer would say no. It doesn't work that way with the federal flood insurance program."
The National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP), administered by FEMA, was started in 1968 for homeowners who live in flood-prone areas considered too great a risk by private insurers. And for more than 30 years, the program was self-supporting. But studies by Conrad's NWF team revealed a disturbing fact: Just 1 to 2 percent of claims were from "repetitive-loss properties"--those suffering damage at least twice in a 10-year period. Yet, those 112,000 properties generated a remarkable 40 percent of the losses--$5.6 billion. One homeowner in Houston filed 16 claims in 18 years, receiving payments totaling $806,000 for a building valued at $114,000.
Just as significantly, the five Gulf Coast states accounted for half the total of repetitive-loss costs nationwide. Taxpayers across the country are paying for a minute number of people to rebuild time and time again in the path of hurricanes.
That is proving to be an expensive habit. Following Katrina, Rita and Wilma in 2005, claims could exceed $22 billion--more than the total amount paid in premiums in the program's 38-year history. In mid-November, the NFIP ran out of money; to pay claims, Congress will have to authorize FEMA to borrow more money.
NEXT TIME: Folks in Tornado Alley and along the San Andreas fault don't get federally backed insurance, so why should taxpayers subsidize coastal homes, many of them vacation properties? Before we start rebuilding "bigger and better," Congress should reform the flood insurance program. A good start: Structure premiums so the program is actuarially sound and clamps down on repetitive claims.
Another option is for the government to buy out homeowners in vulnerable communities, just as it did along the Mississippi River following the floods of 1993. "The only problem is that it is going to cost more to buy out properties along the shore than it is to do it in North Dakota," says Andrew Coburn of Duke University's Program for the Study of Developed Shorelines. "The concept is still solid. It's just going to take more dollars."
MYTH: "You have a major energy network that is down ... We could run out of gasoline or diesel or jet fuel in the next two weeks here."--Roger Diwan, managing director, Oil Markets Group, PFC Energy, Business Week, Sept. 1, 2005Then, a month later, Rita--a Category 5 storm when it tore through the gulf--knocked out 125 more. Although no offshore wells or underground pipelines ruptured, and no lives were lost, Katrina and Rita each shut down nearly all the gulf's offshore output (which represents 29 percent of domestic oil production and 19 percent of domestic natural gas production) for more than a week. A third Cat 5 hurricane, Wilma, also slowed the recovery. It took two months to get 60 percent of those wells back on line.
Refineries were hit harder. Katrina shut down nine of the gulf's 36 facilities; a month later, Rita disabled 15. Combined, the stoppages affected 30 percent of the country's refining capacity. But recovery came more quickly than many experts predicted. By the end of the year, overall production was down just 8 percent, and only three refineries were still off line. "This is by far the worst we've ever seen," says Ed Murphy, who is a refinery expert at the American Petroleum Institute. "That we've recovered so quickly is really quite extraordinary."
Despite fears that the energy infrastructure would break down, the system proved surprisingly robust. Consumers did experience a spike in gas prices. But, it was temporary and only partly attributable to the storms; a surge in worldwide demand had already driven up prices. (Two weeks before Katrina, a Newsday headline read: "Gas, Oil Prices Again Reach New Records.") Although high prices were aggravating, they helped hold down demand, encouraged new supply sources and ensured that gas stations and fuel depots did not run dry.
NEXT TIME: Three major policy changes could help make our energy system more resilient in the face of disasters. 1) Loosen restrictions on refinery construction to encourage new refineries in more diverse locations. 2) Expand port facilities for Liquefied Natural Gas to help supplement domestic supply. 3) Relax the current ban on offshore natural gas drilling along the Atlantic and Pacific coasts. Clearly, all three options require overcoming NIMBY resistance and striking a careful balance between environmental and energy concerns.


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Woman dies in accident on West Chestnut Street
A 56-year-old woman died Monday night when her car struck a building in the 300 block of West Chestnut Street in Washington.
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A 56-year-old woman lost her life in a one-car accident Monday night when her car veered off a Washington street and struck an apartment building.
The woman, whom police declined to identify pending notification of her family, was prounounced dead at Washington Hospital shortly after 9 p.m.
Patrolman Dan Grossman, who is investigating the accident, said the woman may have suffered some type of medical emergency prior to veering off West Chestnut Street. He said tests would be performed at the hospital to help determine what caused her to crash.
The red, four-door compact car struck the building at 391 W. Chestnut across the street from Mm Mm Pizza.
James Retchless, of 397 W. Chestnut, saw the car careering down the hill at a high speed and then suddenly turn to the left and crash into the building next door.
He said it appeared that the woman's head struck the windshield when she crashed. However, when police were inspecting the vehicle after the woman had been extricated, its deployed airbag was visible.
Georgeanne Farkus, whose home is next door to the building that was struck, said this is the second time a vehicle has wrecked in her driveway. Farkus was returning home from a Washington Council meeting but had first made a quick stop at the Goodwill store, otherwise she said she could have been in her driveway at the time.
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Since the passage of the Compassionate Use Act in 1996 and the Medical Marijuana Protection Act in 2003, the number of large scale outdoor marijuana growing operations on private and public properties in the North Coast region has increased significantly.
Activities associated with large scale marijuana cultivation, such as tree and vegetation removal, grading, terracing on steep slopes, road construction, stream crossing construction, stream diversions and filling, construction of in-stream ponds and reservoirs, use and storage of fertilizers, pesticides and other hazardous materials, and water withdrawal from surface waters, are frequently undertaken without engineering design or environmental permitting and review.
Such activities can cause significant environmental damage to waterways, including pesticide and fertilizer contamination, sediment discharges, increases in water temperature, habitat loss and dewatering of streams.
A short presentation on the issues at the May 2 meeting will be followed by a panel discussion.
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I have a strong tendency leaning towards the idea of who and what we are is the result of the effects of Original Sin.
I have a strong tendency leaning towards the idea of who and what we are is the result of the effects of Original Sin.
I stopped at "we must reject sin - including homosexual behaviour".
Dude, if you want to feel bad about who and what you are, go ahead. I am not any worse than any other human being, and if homosexuality were a result of original sin than everyone would be homosexual, just saying.
I can't even begin to describe how this few sentences made my blood boil in a matter of seconds.
Why someone would want to be part of a religion that teaches that one's desires and passions are inherently abominable to the point where it's a dire human flaw affront to the natural and moral order of things, I will never know.
This thread is a rabbit hole.
http://ncronline.org/blogs/ncr-today...erview-martiniThe church is 200 years behind the times. Cardinal Carlo Maria Martini
The church has been wrong on many things. It can be a relic of centuries past or it can catch up today. They used to excommunicate people who thought the Earth went around sun. Being gay is a natural variation of human sexuality, not original sin. As long as the Catholic Church continues to ignore reality it continues to live in superstition and further irrelevance.
I am still Catholic but I refuse to live 200 years behind the times and you shouldn't either.
The idea of inheritable guilt for something someone else did has always struck me as a grotesque fantasy. It is a delusion. Contrary to the linked hate speech, original sin applies to zero percent of the population. What's worse, if people accept the fantasy that their unethical behaviour is inborn, it is likely to prevent them from challenging themselves to do better, just waiting around hoping for forgiveness instead of just learning to behave better.
Americans need to keep their guns so they can protect themselves from gun violence just like Nancy Lanza did. And like Chris Kyle did. And like Gabby Giffords did. And like Tom Clements did. And like Michael Piemonte. And Joseph Wilcox.
Mikey, do you ever get tired of promoting the disgusting self-loathing teachings of your religion? Does it bother you that you feel you must apologize for having committed the atrocious crime of being born? The concept of original sin is nonsensical. Don't get me wrong, it is a wonderful moneymaker - Convince someone they have a non-existent disease and then sell them the cure - but, it doesn't translate to any meaningful purpose in reality. The article you posted is a wonderful example of how far the teachings of the church have come, and how far behind it is with the rest of reality.
Thank you MikeyLove for your thoughts and comments. I do believe in original sin. Although I may have heard that Sodom and Gomorah were destroyed because of immoral sexual acts, it hadn't made an impression on my mind that it was homosexual activity. Even so, I still have uneasy issues with some of the things that article said and the way that they were expressed. I had stronger, favorable feelings toward men even before I had any sexual knowledge or thoughts in that direction. It wasn't a choice at that early time. More and more, I believe that sex is only good when producing and raising children is the end result and that all sex, both homosexual and heterosexual, should be avoided at any other time. I have a great deal of difficulty believing that homosexaulity is any worse than heterosexuality although I do believe that those who desire sex with children need to repress those thoughts and desires.
Thank you cityboy-stl for your article as well. There are fewer and fewer people, and especially young people, attending my church all the time. My impression is that the U.S. is becoming less and less churched and the churches are half empty and the U.S. is following Europe in this regard.
I consider the linked materials in the OP ignorant, pitiable and hateful.
If there is anyone reading knowledgeable about progressive Catholic thoughts on homosexuality, I hope you add them to counter this unloving nonsense.
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Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved. ~ Mark Twain
This article is bunk and yet again shows the evil of the Catholic ideology. First of all homosexuals do not exist because of imaginary inherited guilt or original sin. Homosexuality exists in all species as a universal biological orientation which is meant to prevent overpopulation. Homosexuality was around before the god Yahweh Sabeoth was invented as the Canaanite war god and then co opted by the Jews as their supreme god. To say that your own sexuality is the result of sin and is by nature sinful shows your self hatred that is brought on by your religion. It is just another thing attesting to the sick self hatred of Abrahamic gays.
This is nonsense again. Sex is made for procreation and pleasure. In fact all species have sex homosexual and heterosexual for pleasure and procreation is in fact an after thought. This sex negative world view is yet another reason of the depravity of Abrahamic religions
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It is fear. Fear of hell. Catholic children are raised to fear hell, and today I am willing to admit that my main reason for being religious was that fear that I will end up in a place of eternal suffering.
So I throw it all away, everything I learned, and now I'm trying to find my own way towards religion, because fear is a poison, and thanks, no more poison for me.
I think it to create diversity amongst our species.
The most diverse life-forms are always the most successful.
The fact that it prevents over-population is just a "bonus", but if I want to be real honest I must also add, that there are NO species on the face of Earth, which would consider "not-being-able-to-procreate" as a bonus.
Evolution never results in a "disability" to procreate.
And here I note that most gay men are capable of procreation, they just don't happen to like the act.
Catholic answers to homosexuality have to do with an objective perspective on what the Bible has to say about it (questionable and very little) and a reliance on the supremacy of an informed conscience (see The Catechism). The Church is bigger than the current venal hierarchy and truth will out, as with women priests and married priests.
So I would be careful about citing "Courage" propaganda as if it were some independent assessment instead of the the anti-gay pulp it is. If one believes in Jesus, one only has to try to imagine him preaching these Courage assertions to see them for the hateful and inconsistent nonsense they are.
As for original sin, I see it as a worn out historical concept that, on an up-to-date analysis also makes no sense, like women being morally weaker than men because Eve picked the apple. Of course, it makes no sense that we should be responsible for something some ancestor did or, if it does, then one can argue anything. Sin being washed away by blood..... One needs to update the myth.
Don't disparage the apple in this fantasy. I vote for the pomegranate, native to where believers believe Eden was, and which leaves a pretty much indelible stain. The mark of "original sin?"
There are numerous other candidates. See:
I figured as much....even though the very existence of Hell blasts holes in the concept of an all loving deity among other things if you examine it all in a certain perspective, but those are discussions for another time. I wish you the best in your venture; soul searching is never easy, especially when you're tethered by fear like I was. Just keep looking, and I'm sure you'll find something.
One is tempted to start a competing thread: Catholicism / Homosexual Answers. The Answer: NO. Simply NO. The church hierarchy has no power except over those who choose to surrender it to them. The rest of us have the option of signing this petition on the White House website:
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That is one petition I absolutely will not sign, and that is because I believe that the Church has to correct their own errors in light of the Catechism of the Catholic Church #2358: The number of men and women who have deep-seated homosexual tendencies is not negligible. This inclination, which is objectively disordered, constitutes for most of them a trial. They must be accepted with respect, compassion, and sensitivity. Every sign of unjust discrimination in their regard should be avoided. These persons are called to fulfill God's will in their lives and, if they are Christians, to unite to the sacrifice of the Lord's Cross the difficulties they may encounter from their condition.
The hate speech is the "objectively disordered" part. Homosexuality is objectively neutral, not disordered. We don't have a special burden to suppress our natural ability to understand the attractiveness of other men. The Catholic teaching on that point is wrong, and rooted in blind hate. And we are free to enjoy our "inclinations" with action, which is also to say the physical expression of our affection is ethical and correct when we share that with a likeminded person.
Hopefully one day soon, St. Peter's in Rome will join the Parthenon as another great hall vacant of religion.
Americans need to keep their guns so they can protect themselves from gun violence just like Nancy Lanza did. And like Chris Kyle did. And like Gabby Giffords did. And like Tom Clements did. And like Michael Piemonte. And Joseph Wilcox.
Well, keep in mind that it wasn't me who wrote they, them, their, etc. in the Catechism of the Catholic Church, so, if you want them to make a revision of the text, by all means contact the Prelates who were involved with putting the book together in the first place.
Objectively disordered according to the Church's teachings Moral teachings and in Natural Law. Natural Law is infused in us upon conception, and everyone has this, regardless of belief or non-belief, and it cannot be wiped out. With that said, we have been given FREE-WILL, therefore we are free to follow inclinations even against God. God has more patience than each and everyone of us put together...he will wait for us. Because of Divine Natural Law that is infused in me, is why I am in a terrible internal Battle. The correctly formed conscience wages great war on the soul. It is easy to tell me to just quit the Church...that is what the evil one wants me to do. I lost the 1st battle in 2008, and I am not about to lose the second battle. I'll fight that battle to my dying day. Saint Padre Pio fought a far greater than what I am waging, as he personally fought the Devil himself as he carried the stigmata upon his own body. A great battle is not won by being a wimp, or a wuss!
It's not just the personal Gay issues that I have been fighting, it is other issues that are far more personal, and requires going to the sacrament of confession, and also requires a competent Spiritual director.
No it is reason and logic that is telling you to quit the Church not an imaginary devil. You have been brainwashed by the evil and unnatural Catholic Church to think that your innate and natural desires are some how sinful when in reality science has shown that there is nothing wrong with homosexuality. So you battle your natural self instead of accepting yourself for who you are. In essence it is the peak of self hatred. All founded in the belief of an imaginary celestial dictator who created you "flawed" just so you could fight and hate who you really are. The only natural law is science and reality which exists in stark contrast with the doctrines of Christianity, Judaism and Islam. No matter what you do you can not change the fact that you are gay and no matter what the Church says it will never change the fact that homosexuality is a beneficial thing caused by nature and not imaginary original sin.
You are the epitomy of the disorder of Abrahamic self hatred imposed on homosexuals and why all homosexuals should leave the Abrahamic religions. Psychology shows that it is not healthy to hate your innate sexuality and if you wish to be psychologically healthy then you should leave this primative cult and accept reason.
*subscribes to this very interesting thread... *
Just to be clear, despite the ridiculous distinction drawn between being gay and having gay sex, etc., the Catholic Catechism does acknowledge the supremacy of an informed conscience on these moral matters.
Now one can argue that informed means bowing to the teachings of the current hierarchy, but I don't think that that is what the text actually says (unless it has changed or I misread it).
As with birth control, I think the conscience provisions permit one to say that one has been informed of the Church's teaching, etc., but one honestly finds that that teaching goes against one's conscience. It that is the case, I don't think the Church requires you to act against one's conscience.
In other words, if your informed conscience tells you it's morally OK to be gay than you're committing no sin in being and acting gay.
Obviously, the same analysis applies to, say, murder. But that sort of makes sense, in that the Church may well teach that murder is wrong, but can't condemn the "insane" individual who honestly believes that murder, for example, in war or in capital punishment is morally acceptable.
Or do I have that all wrong?
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Except the Catholic Church is false on countless things and history and science has confirmed this. Nothing can change the fact that homosexuality is universal and natural and not caused by imaginary original sin. Hypothetically if Yahweh or the Islamic Allah existed I would oppose them and fight against them. I would fight to desroy Yahweh like the character Alexiel/Setsuna Mudo in the series Angel Sanctuary or my own character Layla Bint Lahab in my Dante's Inferno fanfiction. If Yahweh actually existed then I would fight for his eradication as I would any tyrant whether terrestrial or celestial.
Except the Church is not right about many things. It is dead wrong on women's rights, abortion rights, gay rights and countless other things. Plus Yahweh is a human invention of certain monolatrist Hebrews who took the war god of the Canaanites and made him their chief god and later only god.
Oh and just so everyone sees here is the origin of the Abrahamic god in human history.
Also MikeyLove has not addressed the fact that psychology says it is not healthy for you to shun and reject your innate sexuality.
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I meant neutral in the sense that it is ridiculous to assign a moral pass or fail to sexual orientation. It's like trying to argue over which is sinful: attached lobes or free lobes. Sinful earlobes? That is just as ridiculous as the message fed to the flock about homosexuality being disordered.
Americans need to keep their guns so they can protect themselves from gun violence just like Nancy Lanza did. And like Chris Kyle did. And like Gabby Giffords did. And like Tom Clements did. And like Michael Piemonte. And Joseph Wilcox.