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RE: Cancer Scare
July 12, 2019 at 8:59 am
(July 12, 2019 at 8:48 am)Fireball Wrote: (July 10, 2019 at 10:45 pm)chimp3 Wrote: Those that have lived in the Southwest US (Me) might get ill from coccidiomycosis, a fungal disease that leaves scarring on the lungs.
Good to see you don't have cancer! I grew up in southern California but I don't think I ever got this.
It is called Valley Fever after the Imperial Valley. I have heard that most people in the SW get it at least once. Bronchitis symptoms. Some get scarring. I knew someone who died from it.
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RE: Cancer Scare
July 12, 2019 at 9:05 am
(July 12, 2019 at 8:43 am)chimp3 Wrote: Interesting! With my family and friends offering uplifting words, I never felt isolated.
I didn't mean isolated but faced with your own mortality.
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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RE: Cancer Scare
September 16, 2019 at 7:18 pm
Glad you made it. Cancer can amount to be a death sentence if not caught early.
