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April 2, 2025 at 9:13 pm
(April 2, 2025 at 8:32 pm)AFTT47 Wrote: To me, he'll always be Chris Knight, a genius from Real Genius. He definitely wasn't a genius in real life though. He ignored a huge tumor for many months because of religious conviction before finally accepting reality and having surgery. He's lucky it didn't metastasize to the rest of his body. Looks like it came back to bite him in the ass anyway.
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Kilmer was a lifelong Christian Scientist, and upon his throat cancer diagnosis referred to it in the press as "the suggestion of throat cancer,” opting not to explicitly associate himself with such a diagnosis. He underwent suggested chemotherapy despite it being conventionally against his religion.[72]
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April 3, 2025 at 12:41 pm
(April 2, 2025 at 9:13 pm)arewethereyet Wrote: (April 2, 2025 at 8:32 pm)AFTT47 Wrote: To me, he'll always be Chris Knight, a genius from Real Genius. He definitely wasn't a genius in real life though. He ignored a huge tumor for many months because of religious conviction before finally accepting reality and having surgery. He's lucky it didn't metastasize to the rest of his body. Looks like it came back to bite him in the ass anyway.
From Wikipedia:
Kilmer was a lifelong Christian Scientist, and upon his throat cancer diagnosis referred to it in the press as "the suggestion of throat cancer,” opting not to explicitly associate himself with such a diagnosis. He underwent suggested chemotherapy despite it being conventionally against his religion.[72]
After a long time. I was following it as it happened. He finally had the surgery only after it had progressed to the point where it was impossible to ignore.
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April 3, 2025 at 1:03 pm
(April 3, 2025 at 12:41 pm)AFTT47 Wrote: (April 2, 2025 at 9:13 pm)arewethereyet Wrote: From Wikipedia:
Kilmer was a lifelong Christian Scientist, and upon his throat cancer diagnosis referred to it in the press as "the suggestion of throat cancer,” opting not to explicitly associate himself with such a diagnosis. He underwent suggested chemotherapy despite it being conventionally against his religion.[72]
After a long time. I was following it as it happened. He finally had the surgery only after it had progressed to the point where it was impossible to ignore.
As someone who has had cancer, I can tell you that it's full of decisions that people who have never faced it can't understand.
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April 8, 2025 at 3:03 am
Clem Burke, drummer for Blondie, dead at 70.
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April 9, 2025 at 7:33 am
Baseballer Octavio "Don't Ask" Dotel, victim of the Santo Domingo nightclub collapse. Among the best baseball nicknames.
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April 11, 2025 at 8:58 pm
Ted Kotcheff. Director of the good Rambo movie (1st one) and "Weekend at Bernie's".
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
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April 11, 2025 at 11:09 pm
Wait, there was a good Rambo movie?
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April 12, 2025 at 12:25 am
I have two cousins who were Green Berets. They never acted like that.
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April 12, 2025 at 4:45 am
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(April 3, 2025 at 1:03 pm)arewethereyet Wrote: (April 3, 2025 at 12:41 pm)AFTT47 Wrote: After a long time. I was following it as it happened. He finally had the surgery only after it had progressed to the point where it was impossible to ignore.
As someone who has had cancer, I can tell you that it's full of decisions that people who have never faced it can't understand.
There is definitely, at least in the U.S., this crazy expectation that the patient and/or the family members need to make the medical choices offered them. When my mom, lung cancer now deceased, was going through it I remember wishing we had a medical lawyer type person to interpret the information and suggestions we were getting. In the end we made some poor decisions that led to less life and less quality of life for my mother. All because we didn't have the medical knowledge and understanding needed to make better choices.
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April 12, 2025 at 6:11 am
Mike Berry, English actor and singer, dead at 82. He was the last surviving cast member of the long-running Are You Being Served.
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