(August 16, 2014 at 10:42 pm)SteelCurtain Wrote: I was challenged by my best friend Anne on FB.
I now challenge all of you. It's for a great cause.
I donated to the American Heart Association instead.

Nothing against ALS or donating to it's research (my college roommate's dad died of it, and she now works with ALS patients), and I'm glad that it's getting this exposure and the research money brought in by the IBC, I just think my money should go to a cause that kills 85 times the number of people a year than ALS does...
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Nice video though.

(August 27, 2014 at 4:19 pm)Losty Wrote: You're supposed to donate even if you do the challenge. The point is to bring awareness.
Depends on "who's rules" you're following: Some people think you do the ice bucket in lieu of donating, some people say if you don't you donate $100, if you do the bucket you only donate $10 (some lesser amount than the $100).
Quote:I never even heard of this disease until people started doing the challenge.
It's also called Lou Gehrig's disease and it's the disease Stephen Hawking suffers from. You probably have heard of it, but like other diseases, conditions or afflictions with a multiple names you just didn't realize you'd heard of it.

Teenaged X-Files obsession + Bermuda Triangle episode + Self-led school research project = Atheist.