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(September 24, 2015 at 6:14 pm)TheRocketSurgeon Wrote:
(September 24, 2015 at 5:31 pm)houseofcantor Wrote: Lolz. So we're a bunch of nobodies, huh.
Congratulations, Rocket.
You're somebodies who don't know her parents or mine, so you can't accidentally spoil the secret. She wants to see the doctor and know the sex and a few other medical things before we do the big reveal.
Take a little more time on the big reveal. Early spontanious abortions are sad (and frequent) enough without getting potential grandparents excited.
But CONGRATULATIONS!
They are a lot of work, but they are work well worth it.
If there is a god, I want to believe that there is a god. If there is not a god, I want to believe that there is no god.
Congrats! Although having a kid for me right now would be next to the worst news imaginable, ( ) I can understand that it isn't that way for everyone!
Woooohhhh!
"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great
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(September 25, 2015 at 12:00 am)SteelCurtain Wrote: Woot!
Congrats! Although having a kid for me right now would be next to the worst news imaginable, ( ) I can understand that it isn't that way for everyone!
Woooohhhh!
Considering we weren't even sure it was possible for us to have any more children, and we were forcibly prevented from even trying for almost a decade, it's very exciting to us.
Probably more so for me, since I don't have to have my body altered and then go through trying to squeeze a cantaloupe out of my nostril, so to speak.
It's going to be hard for me not to tell the folks, which is why I told you guys, just so I could get some of it out! Of my two siblings and I, only my brother and I have had kids, and only one each. His wife is insane and mean, and I think he probably doesn't want any more, and my sister actually divorced her first husband because she didn't want kids and he did. And of course, my folks were as dubious of another grandson out of me as I was, given the surgery. So the moment I say "grandkid", they're going to Flip. Out.
A Christian told me: if you were saved you cant lose your salvation. you're sealed with the Holy Ghost I replied: Can I refuse? Because I find the entire concept of vicarious blood sacrifice atonement to be morally abhorrent, the concept of holding flawed creatures permanently accountable for social misbehaviors and thought crimes to be morally abhorrent, and the concept of calling something "free" when it comes with the strings of subjugation and obedience perhaps the most morally abhorrent of all... and that's without even going into the history of justifying genocide, slavery, rape, misogyny, religious intolerance, and suppression of free speech which has been attributed by your own scriptures to your deity. I want a refund. I would burn happily rather than serve the monster you profess to love.
(September 24, 2015 at 7:10 pm)TheRocketSurgeon Wrote:
(September 24, 2015 at 5:54 pm)Mermaid Wrote: Congratulations! You sound really excited. And congrats on not shooting blanks!
Testicular cancer, incarceration, what else have you survived? Sheesh!
Was that rhetorical? If not, click on.
Let's see if I can hit a few of the highlights:
I grew up on a coastal island, and I almost drowned when I was 7 (1983), when I got pulled out by the undertow, but my dad rescued me. I have been through four hurricanes that either hit or came very close.
In highschool, I fell about 45 feet off a cliff while free climbing, and luckily landed at an angle on the slope that tumbled me so that I only broke a foot. (1993)
I learned my military career was kaput when I passed out in the middle of a survival/warfare exercise, only to learn I had an autoimmune problem, in 1995. I also got knocked unconscious when I flipped my catamaran on Lake Claiborne, but was saved by my life vest and buddies. Another hospital stay. Got sick, and due to my aforementioned condition ran a fever of 104.7 degrees F, requiring a giant needle full of penicillin in my left butt cheek. Ow! Soooooo I almost died anyway.
I crashed a motorcycle at 142mph at Oak Hill Raceway in Henderson, Texas. I also crashed at a lot of other speeds, but that one was really spectacular. Luckily it was a low-side, not a high-side crash, so I slid instead of flying... and slid right into an embankment, but at a shallow enough angle that I didn't explode. Just hurt! ('96)
I helped emergency land a Cessna 172 in a field near Lake D'Arbonne, Louisiana, after it "munched a valve" and spewed oil all over my instructor pilot's side of the windscreen. ('97)
My roommate/best friend was run over by a car after a semi tire knocked him off his motorcycle at night. ('98)
I spent the night in jail in Palestine (pal-uh-steen), Texas, after beting trapped by 13 sheriffs, 2 state troopers, and 2 local cops because we went down a deliberately-set "motorcycle trap" road, and were going 155 in a 55. I almost died when I crested a hill and they had blocked the road with their cars; I clipped one and damaged my bike, but managed to "shoot the gap" at over 100mph. They let us off by writing it down to 89 in a 55, so they didn't have to charge us criminally, assuming we'd sign an agreement to pay at the full rate for 155. We agreed immediately. ('99)
I got involved in a 3-bikers-vs-3-rednecks potentially lethal fight at an east Texas bar we didn't know was for racists, literally; when our 4th member (black guy) went out to check on the bikes and have a cigarette, they jumped him and beat him pretty badly with axe handles/clubs, and were plainly trying to kill him and haul him away. When we showed up, they tried to use the same cudgels on us, but we were all ex-military and martial arts trained, so we just put on our helmets (and were already wearing armored racing leathers... the jacket in my profile pic) and beat them bloody until the cops arrived. The cops in that small town took a report, took our names, and we never heard anything again. Jerome even got a bill for the ambulance ride and hospital visit! (2000)
I was arrested because of my long hair and a misidentification, and held for 2 hours in the police holding tank because I refused to talk to them except to demonstrate my alibi, while they checked out that alibi - I was helping a professor present a paper at a speech given in another speech at the time of the crime, and he was kind enough to come down and spring me. On the way out, one cop remarked that I should maybe think about cutting my hair "so this doesn't happen again". ('01) I graduated soon after, and moved away as soon as I got a job... unfortunately, it was in Oklahoma, where my girlfriend was to attend graduate school (briefly, as it turned out).
Almost immediate on arriving there, I met an old friend of hers who was pregnant and wanted to go have an abortion, but was afraid of the picket lines and her boyfriend had bailed on her for the most part, so I took her and got to meet the Crazies. The clinic was nice on the inside, though, execpt for the women in the waiting room staring at me like I was a deadbeat dad!
I got into a fistfight with a Creationist in Oklahoma City traffic (!!) at a stoplight, when he saw me laugh out loud at his "I believe in the Big Bang: God spoke and BANG! it happened." bumper sticker. ('02) I was also in a Tornado that struck my workplace in May of '03, just before I moved away from there to Kansas City in '03.
After that, my life was pretty calm until I was framed in late '05 by the girl who forced me to move to Oklahoma in the first place, and then to Kansas (to go to KU for a better program), and sent to prison for 9 years minus two days on fabricated, inadmissible evidence and her testimony, which was later shown to be fraudulent on both counts. Much later. I've detailed much of what sucks about prison, so I won't detail the highlights of each year for y'all. Trust me, most of it you don't want to know anyway. At least I didn't have to deal with rape or much violence; the only time I was sexually assaulted, he barely laid a hand on me before I ran his head into the underside I-beam of a metal staircase and cracked his skull, resulting in new charges which were dropped (with apologies, I admit) by the DA after only one night in the local county's isolation cell. Since he outweighed me by 100 pounds, and everyone saw him grab me but me throw him (never grab a grapplier!), no one else messed with me. Reputation is everything, the one part the films about prison actually get right.
Luckily, before I went down, I had met my Beloved, and she knew all that my ex did, so she--being amazing--not only offered to have my child, she stuck with me faithfully through nine years of hell for me, and loneliness for both of us, vowing we would try again when I was free. And now, SUCCESS!
Wow... I'm more the "and then I got home" kind of guy.
(September 25, 2015 at 3:59 am)robvalue Wrote: I'm happy for you I'm sure you'll make a great father based on the time I've known you on here.
Thanks, mate! I'm already a dad, though, but it's nice to know I won't be limited to one kid.
A Christian told me: if you were saved you cant lose your salvation. you're sealed with the Holy Ghost I replied: Can I refuse? Because I find the entire concept of vicarious blood sacrifice atonement to be morally abhorrent, the concept of holding flawed creatures permanently accountable for social misbehaviors and thought crimes to be morally abhorrent, and the concept of calling something "free" when it comes with the strings of subjugation and obedience perhaps the most morally abhorrent of all... and that's without even going into the history of justifying genocide, slavery, rape, misogyny, religious intolerance, and suppression of free speech which has been attributed by your own scriptures to your deity. I want a refund. I would burn happily rather than serve the monster you profess to love.
) I can understand that it isn't that way for everyone!
