SR V: To boldly go where no room has gone before

rushfan4 wrote: Alitare wrote: Why not just kill everyone? No people alive? no more people to get cancer. I've said this before, but it is a flawless plan. When's the last time you saw a corpse complaining of cancer? How many dead children ever came up to you begging for food?  You need to watch the History Channel program "Life After People".

History Channel.

Program about the future.

MovingPictures07 wrote: Epignosis wrote: I don't go to doctors often because I don't need to pay money to be told "You're overweight and you drink too much beer and eat too much pizza, lard ass."   I don't either, but that's because I'm a skeptic.

Well I don't go often because I rarely get sick. Unlike you skeptics and fatsos.

MovingPictures07 wrote: Epignosis wrote: MovingPictures07 wrote: Epignosis wrote: MovingPictures07 wrote: Epignosis wrote: Denying a child life-saving medical care is evil. What if religious parents said, "Well, food is evil.  We don't need any of that.  The Spirit of Cthulu will sustain us." Again, not an apt comparison. Chemotherapy BREAKS DOWN a person; ineffective medical care is NOT the same as basic survival needs, I'm sorry, that's just common sense. It is innate in our survival skills that food is necessary for people to live, and that would qualify as starving a child. I would agree then that the parents are being stupid and something needs to be done---when something as essential as that is purposefully being taken away. Cancer is unfortunate, but because it seems to be caused by just about ANYTHING and because our treatment methods are not effective, I believe that is not denying someone a survival right. In fact, I would much rather live on not knowing I had cancer than find out I have cancer and get tons of half-assed treatments for it. Part of the reason people die from cancer is because of the treatments, another part is because of a mental loss (loss of a will to fight, depression, etc.), and another part is the actual disease. f**k that. I want to live. I love how you addressed my points. I'm extremely skeptical when it comes to cancer treatment at this stage in the game, and I'm skeptical in the idea of going to someone else to figure out what's wrong with your own body. Manipulation and misdiagnoses happen all the time, unfortunately. Not all doctors are like that, and I'm glad some actually know what they're doing, but I think the reliance on medical treatment that people are being raised on in this society is bordering on ridiculous. "Let's go to the doctor every time something appears to be wrong with me and have everyone else pay for it!" I don't go to the doctor often at all.  But I'm smart enough to know that years of experience and medical school makes most physicians more qualified to tell me about what's going on with me. You act like you know more about the inner-workings of your body than someone else because it's yours.  That's simply not true. I never said I know more. Now with the internet and tons of books, there are endless possibilities to find out medical information. What's wrong with self-diagnosis? Then you have the advantage of knowing exactly what you are feeling, and you can have the opinions of many different people rather than just one.

It's bloody difficult to diagnose something medical accurately if you don't have A) experience and training over a long period, B) context for that information you've got off the already unpredictable internet. So, for instance, you could assume symptoms are an illness which basically doesn't exist in your area, or maybe assume something's more serious than it is. Basically, there's a reason doctors go through all that damn training.

According to a medically informed friend of mine, medical students are the worst in terms of self-diagnosis and hypochondria, because they have the knowledge, but not the experience to relate that knowledge to its context and create a reasonable diagnosis. Simply put, doctors are medical professionals, not randomers. If you don't trust a doctor, head for a second opinion.

If chemotherapy was better, I'd feel much more confident in that... but it still doesn't seem right to me to force parents to have a child evaluated for taking chemo purely based on the subjective opinion of someone else. They say whether it'll be necessary or not, and then the parents HAVE to oblige, and that doesn't seem right. It's much more common sense that a child could die in a car accident, and it's a different scenario.

Well, no. It's a medically informed professional's view, and it's just as reasonable to say someone can die from cancer as from a car accident.

stonebeard wrote: rushfan4 wrote: Alitare wrote: Why not just kill everyone? No people alive? no more people to get cancer. I've said this before, but it is a flawless plan. When's the last time you saw a corpse complaining of cancer? How many dead children ever came up to you begging for food?  You need to watch the History Channel program "Life After People". History Channel. Program about the future.

There is a certain irony to that, isn't there.

 

Ricochet wrote: Worst day ever.

MovingPictures07 wrote: Rico!  Damn. That sucks. Why?

The gig I had to do, of which I told you the previous days, turned out to be a fiasco. A sort of etno concert by some Aromanians, in which I and few other musicians from the Conservatoire were forced asked to complement, with some classical music playin'.

But that just didn't fit. It was embarassing to watch the whole rubbish spectacle, and then try to please the fans of that with a different kind of music.

And the organizers didn't tell us from the start what was the event. I thought it was something literary, that needed some relaxing music in between reading essays and debating, from what I've been vaguely told initially. Instead, it was commercial touring headaches-giving folk!

What was my business there? Why was I humiliated in such a way?

Raff wrote: Ricochet wrote: Worst day ever.

Aw,thanks Raff!

Ricochet wrote: MovingPictures07 wrote: Rico!  Damn. That sucks. Why? The gig I had to do, of which I told you the previous days, turned out to be a fiasco. A sort of etno concert by some Aromanians, in which I and few other musicians from the Conservatoire were forced asked to complement, with some classical music playin'. But that just didn't fit. It was embarassing to watch the whole rubbish spectacle, and then try to please the fans of that with a different kind of music. And the organizers didn't tell us from the start what was the event. I thought it was something literary, that needed some relaxing music in between reading essays and debating, from what I've been vaguely told initially. Instead, it was commercial touring headaches-giving folk! What was my business there? Why was I humiliated in such a way?

That sucks.

Sorry to hear that, man. Was it as bad as the Season 5 Lost finale though, or should I not bring that Anti-Locke bullsh*t up?

Ricochet wrote: I see a TD quiz was made. I have to ask, is it more band-trivia-related, or music/albums-related, cause if the first, I wanna take a bit more time and polish my knowledge in the member's bio and stuff. After all, who knows what question about Froese's dental hygiene might arise...

More based on music/albums, I would say. Though I don't want to steer you wrong.

I can tell you for sure, however, that there was not a question on Froese's dental hygiene.

birdwithteeth11 wrote: Ricochet wrote: MovingPictures07 wrote: Rico!  Damn. That sucks. Why? The gig I had to do, of which I told you the previous days, turned out to be a fiasco. A sort of etno concert by some Aromanians, in which I and few other musicians from the Conservatoire were forced asked to complement, with some classical music playin'. But that just didn't fit. It was embarassing to watch the whole rubbish spectacle, and then try to please the fans of that with a different kind of music. And the organizers didn't tell us from the start what was the event. I thought it was something literary, that needed some relaxing music in between reading essays and debating, from what I've been vaguely told initially. Instead, it was commercial touring headaches-giving folk! What was my business there? Why was I humiliated in such a way? That sucks, dude. Sorry to hear that it didn't go well. Why did they not tell you what was really going on?

Because they didn't get the full picture. They just replied to the invitation, talked to my teacher, who then summoned me along.

How can you be so irresponsable that you combine a folk-sh*tty presentation with a classical music short recital? How?!

After the guests finished their playback-demonstration, they wanted to go have dinner. Even they had no idea we were there to perform something, let alone the audience.