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I consider MySpace primarily a self-updating address book with pictures and an occasional message. That occasional message of course being "89% PuRiTy TeSt!!!!!!" and "LOOK HOW I MAKE $$$$$ TYPING FROM HOME" and "THIS REALLY WORKS!"
Recently, somebody I sorta knew in high school though was never terribly crazy about posted a message with the subject "I don't care how many friends I lose over this" and like an idiot, I thought it might actually have to do with her personally, and something bad may have happened to her. I clicked the link.
: Month One
MOMMY
I am only 4 inches long
but I have all my organs.
I love the sound of your voice.
The sound of your heart beat
is my favorite lullaby.
Month Two
Mommy
today I learned how to suck my thumb.
If you could see me
you could definitely tell that I am a baby.
I'm not big enough to survive outside my home though.
It is so nice and warm in here.
Month Three
You know what Mommy
I'm a boy!!
I hope that makes you happy.
I always want you to be happy.
I don't like it when you cry.
You sound so sad.
It makes me sad too
and I cry with you even though
you can't hear me.
Month Four
Mommy
my hair is starting to grow.
It is very short and fine
but I will have a lot of it.
I spend a lot of my time exercising.
I can turn my head and curl my fingers and toes
and stretch my arms and legs.
I am becoming quite good at it too.
Month Five
You went to the doctor today.
Mommy, he lied to you.
He said that I'm not a baby.
I am a baby Mommy, your baby.
I think and feel.
Mommy, what's abortion?
Month Six
I can hear that doctor again.
I don't like him.
He seems cold and heartless.
Something is intruding my home.
The doctor called it a needle.
Mommy what is it? It burns!
Please make him stop!
I can't get away from it!
Mommy! HELP me!
Month Seven
Mommy
I am okay.
I am in Jesus's arms.
He is holding me.
He told me about abortion.
Why didn't you want me Mommy?
Every Abortion Is Just . . .
One more heart that was stopped.
Two more eyes that will never see.
Two more hands that will never touch.
Two more legs that will never run.
One more mouth that will never speak.
If you're against abortion, post this as...
I dont care how many friends i lose over this
Maybe it's because of the recent SCROTUS crap, or because I'm stressed with moving and arguing with simple people gives me sweet relief, maybe it's the knowledge that at one point in my life I would've passed around the same thing, but I decided that maybe I could talk sense to her. (I also like passing around the snopes.com links to stupid meme bulletins about don't pump gas on May 15 or be on the lookout for child x and so on. I'm an asshole like that.) She didn't lie when she said she didn't care about losing friends, because earlier today I was defriended. I think it was when I compared her husband to a Nazi, maybe.
Any abortions done at about six months are to save the life of the mother, or because something is horribly wrong with the baby and it'll die upon birth. Especially in today's climate, you may be hard-pressed to find a doctor who would abort a healthy six-month pregnancy.
If I got pregnant right now, someone would probably tell me I should "take responsibility" and have it. But as I'm deeply in debt, am fairly impatient and selfish, and in no way want to be a mother, the responsible thing is to abort. Sadly, there is no MySpace meme about the starving child because mommy was pressured into having him and can't afford to feed him, or the abused child because she wasn't wanted and her parents don't know how to deal with the stress of a kid.
If you're really against abortion, lobby for comprehensive sex education, so we can teach the next generation about contraception. Write your senators so that the workplace is a better place for mothers to hold a job AND have time for family. Demand healthcare for every man, woman, and child, so that once the fetus so loved by the world turns into an actual real-life baby, it's taken care of and not forgotten.
first off let me put in a way thank you for your opinions and thoughts, but there are other ways than having an abortion. What about putting the baby up for adoption?That way the mother can still live her own life and be stress free and be selfish at the same tme and move on and the child is still able to have its own life.
At some point after this, she posted two more bulletins, reminding us that she totally didn't care what we thought and if we knew her opinion would offend her, why did we click on it (again, her subject said nothing along the lines of "Contained therein are my controversial opinions about abortion"). Also, she brought out the ol' strawslut - "if you chose to have sex without protection, you should take responsibility". Not to mention the "WHAT IF YOU WERE ABORTED??!" bit, which I always love for the Back to the Future-like adventures one would have to have in that situation.
When you're pregnant, your body undergoes huge changes. It essentially becomes an incubator for a parasite (regardless of how one feels about their pregnancy, a living creature inside you that draws nutrients and energy with no care for the host is a parasite). If a woman is strong enough to go through nine months of life-altering changes to her body to give the child away, I applaud that. I understand you have a couple kids, right? Good for you! I can't stand cramps and the flu, so I applaud you for going through pregnancy. It's a really damn tough job.
It's a really damn tough job that I could not do.
Hemophilia runs in my family, and I might be a carrier. If I was carrying a boy, he might be a hemophiliac. While there are always amazing, loving people out there who take care of needy children, he'd be a bit harder to adopt out than a perfectly healthy boy. And really, I can't blame anyone who didn't feel that they could take on a bleeder. Because that's their personal choice based on what they know about themselves. He might just get shuttled through social services, being in and out of expensive medical care. My hemophiliac uncle died young during oral surgery. My other hemophiliac uncle died because of diabetic+hemophilia complications. It's not a pretty life.
There are 6 billion people on the planet. Let's assume 3 billion of them are women. Those 3 billion people do not have the exact same circumstances. Those 3 billion people do not live the exact same lives. For every "slut who forgot a condom" (and with abstinence-only education, perhaps no one TAUGHT HER to use a condom!), there's an older woman who didn't know she could still get pregnant, and is in no mood to be in diapers along with her child. There's a woman who was raped, and healing does not include the life-altering change of pregnancy. There's the married couple who has 3 healthy children, was using protection, but had an accident and can't afford number 4. There's a woman who wants children, but not right now. There's a woman in an abusive marriage who can't tell her husband there's a kid, lest he force her to stay. There's a woman already on welfare who can't have another child, lest the state take away her benefits and call her lazy. There's the woman who would gladly welcome a child into her life, but pre-natal care costs money and she has no insurance, and the same people who condemn her for having an abortion just voted down universal health care.
Adoption is the best possible option, but sometimes it's not that cut and paste easy. It is estimated that there are 46 million abortions worldwide every year. Those CAN'T all be "some irresponsible woman". And I can't imagine that there are 46 million people willing to adopt. People have to make choices based on what's best for their lives. You love your children and I'm sure you're very glad you had them. Your parents love you and I'm sure they're very glad you were brought into the world (your friends are). But think about all the kids currently being shuffled in our foster system and all the abusive parents who never wanted kids and how much happier the world is for having choice. God gave us free will and the power to exercise it, for good or bad.
And as for, "Aren't I glad I wasn't aborted?" As time machines are not in popular use, I suppose I'm glad I exist. If I was aborted, I wouldn't be here to answer that question and you, never having known me as I was aborted, wouldn't miss me. My mother didn't abort me because she had the Pill and condoms and put off having me until she was good and ready. If I found out she did have an abortion before me, I'm sure she had a good reason. I wouldn't love her any less for it.
There are 6 billion people in the world. That's 6 billion minds and 6 billion lives and 6 billion personal situations, and until you walk a mile in their shoes, you can't truly understand 5,999,999,999 of those lives.
well good i am glad your okay w/ killing a life just b/c a womans body changes i am very sorry that i am not ok w/ killing a life and the bit w/ over 5 billion or whatever the number then why not let yourself be sucked uo by a needle and tell me how you feel ok. look i've bee adopted due to factors of certain circumstance cause my mother couldnt take care of me and she was kicked out of her village cause of me but hey you what she choose to have me anyway so dont see anything out of that but still i didnt ost it for people to sit there and put e down nor try to correct me nor teach me on how i should have a damn opinion on abortion i am glad you side for pro choice and i am glad you choose to live in an alternative way but dont pin me for mine i am not here to be judged for my opinions judgement day is for when u stand there and wait to ee if you burn in hell or live well byt the right hand side of god
Isn't Jesus already at the right hand side of God? I can't remember my Bible enough on that fact, but I feel like EVERY person who goes to Heaven can't stand there. Unless God isn't shaped like a humanoid form, and has many right hands. Or tentacles. Like Cthulu or something. But if the Christian God = Cthulu is for the theologians to figure out, I suppose. As a prelude to the next note, her husband is currently in Iraq.
How many abortions has your husband caused because pregnant women were "collateral damage" of a town the military bombed? Are you okay with that killing of a life?
Just a thought.
I'm not judging you. You're the one telling me I'm going to Hell and getting terribly upset over my opinion. If you don't like abortions, don't have one. That's fine. If you don't think other people should have them, then there are better things to do about it than posting a MySpace bulletin and trying to offend people, and those were the points I mentioned in my first message to you.
And the subject line of "I don't care how many friends I lose over this" pretty much sums up the stance of the "pro-life" movement, such as it is: "If you're a fetus, you are the most important thing in the universe, but once you're born, I couldn't give two shits."
Also, I don't want to sit at the right hand side of God, because I have terrible table manners and he'd see that I was using the wrong heavenly fork or something and I'd be terribly embarrassed and how exactly do you make dinner conversation with an omniscient being?
The answer to the last question:
"So today at work, I--"
"I KNOW."
"Oh."
"I ALSO KNOW WHAT YOU THOUGHT WHEN THAT CUTE NEW GUY FROM ONLINE WALKED PAST YOUR DESK. AND WHERE YOU WIPED THAT BOOGER."
"Jesus, how does anyone stand sitting here?"
"Well, wiping your booger under your desk is pretty disgusting."
"Mary, a little help?"
"Sigh, you're your father, alright."
no he hasnt illed anyone cause he sts in a mechanics office doing paperwork for how much fuel goes and come and how manyoil changes there are and good for you that your gonna burn hell now let me have my own opinion and have yours and fuck off stop trying to puch me over mine i was just stating my own damn opinion and if you dont like oh fucking well i am glad your ok w/ killing babies but am not so to bad
Nonetheless, he's still willingly part of a military-industrial complex that says it's okay to kill as many people as possible for the rich old men. To break Godwin's Law, just because the train operators who took Jews to concentration camps didn't DIRECTLY kill Jews, does that mean they are blameless in the well-oiled machine of the Holocaust?
Also, what would Jesus prefer you to do, Marta? Try to HELP people have less abortions in the real world, or have you write poorly-worded and punctuationless screeds of hate on the internet? My opinion is backed up by facts and compassion for those who go through with the procedure. Your opinion consists of "the bibl saids it isrong your going 2 burn in hell stop juging me".
Well in that case I am so glad your perfect and that your so above everyone else. If you were so perfect then why aren't you rich and siting on a pedastool. I am sorry if I have my own opinions. Like I should be able to as they say with freedom of speech, ince your so ito freedom. Iam into my freedom and statting how I feel about abortion. I feel that it is wrong and for my husband what he does is his own personal choice not mine. This arguement is between you and I not you and I and my husband. Now on that end of aspect go to hell and burn and leave me alone. Go live in your own little world and I'll stay in mine thanks for bashing my world as I was only stating my opinions. I guess in your eyes everyone has to obey your thoughts and not to live in their own thoughts. So now on that thought go away and be happy in your own little way.
God bless!
I consider MySpace primarily a self-updating address book with pictures and an occasional message. That occasional message of course being "89% PuRiTy TeSt!!!!!!" and "LOOK HOW I MAKE $$$$$ TYPING FROM HOME" and "THIS REALLY WORKS!"
Recently, somebody I sorta knew in high school though was never terribly crazy about posted a message with the subject "I don't care how many friends I lose over this" and like an idiot, I thought it might actually have to do with her personally, and something bad may have happened to her. I clicked the link.
: Month One
MOMMY
I am only 4 inches long
but I have all my organs.
I love the sound of your voice.
The sound of your heart beat
is my favorite lullaby.
Month Two
Mommy
today I learned how to suck my thumb.
If you could see me
you could definitely tell that I am a baby.
I'm not big enough to survive outside my home though.
It is so nice and warm in here.
Month Three
You know what Mommy
I'm a boy!!
I hope that makes you happy.
I always want you to be happy.
I don't like it when you cry.
You sound so sad.
It makes me sad too
and I cry with you even though
you can't hear me.
Month Four
Mommy
my hair is starting to grow.
It is very short and fine
but I will have a lot of it.
I spend a lot of my time exercising.
I can turn my head and curl my fingers and toes
and stretch my arms and legs.
I am becoming quite good at it too.
Month Five
You went to the doctor today.
Mommy, he lied to you.
He said that I'm not a baby.
I am a baby Mommy, your baby.
I think and feel.
Mommy, what's abortion?
Month Six
I can hear that doctor again.
I don't like him.
He seems cold and heartless.
Something is intruding my home.
The doctor called it a needle.
Mommy what is it? It burns!
Please make him stop!
I can't get away from it!
Mommy! HELP me!
Month Seven
Mommy
I am okay.
I am in Jesus's arms.
He is holding me.
He told me about abortion.
Why didn't you want me Mommy?
Every Abortion Is Just . . .
One more heart that was stopped.
Two more eyes that will never see.
Two more hands that will never touch.
Two more legs that will never run.
One more mouth that will never speak.
If you're against abortion, post this as...
I dont care how many friends i lose over this
Maybe it's because of the recent SCROTUS crap, or because I'm stressed with moving and arguing with simple people gives me sweet relief, maybe it's the knowledge that at one point in my life I would've passed around the same thing, but I decided that maybe I could talk sense to her. (I also like passing around the snopes.com links to stupid meme bulletins about don't pump gas on May 15 or be on the lookout for child x and so on. I'm an asshole like that.) She didn't lie when she said she didn't care about losing friends, because earlier today I was defriended. I think it was when I compared her husband to a Nazi, maybe.
Any abortions done at about six months are to save the life of the mother, or because something is horribly wrong with the baby and it'll die upon birth. Especially in today's climate, you may be hard-pressed to find a doctor who would abort a healthy six-month pregnancy.
If I got pregnant right now, someone would probably tell me I should "take responsibility" and have it. But as I'm deeply in debt, am fairly impatient and selfish, and in no way want to be a mother, the responsible thing is to abort. Sadly, there is no MySpace meme about the starving child because mommy was pressured into having him and can't afford to feed him, or the abused child because she wasn't wanted and her parents don't know how to deal with the stress of a kid.
If you're really against abortion, lobby for comprehensive sex education, so we can teach the next generation about contraception. Write your senators so that the workplace is a better place for mothers to hold a job AND have time for family. Demand healthcare for every man, woman, and child, so that once the fetus so loved by the world turns into an actual real-life baby, it's taken care of and not forgotten.
first off let me put in a way thank you for your opinions and thoughts, but there are other ways than having an abortion. What about putting the baby up for adoption?That way the mother can still live her own life and be stress free and be selfish at the same tme and move on and the child is still able to have its own life.
At some point after this, she posted two more bulletins, reminding us that she totally didn't care what we thought and if we knew her opinion would offend her, why did we click on it (again, her subject said nothing along the lines of "Contained therein are my controversial opinions about abortion"). Also, she brought out the ol' strawslut - "if you chose to have sex without protection, you should take responsibility". Not to mention the "WHAT IF YOU WERE ABORTED??!" bit, which I always love for the Back to the Future-like adventures one would have to have in that situation.
When you're pregnant, your body undergoes huge changes. It essentially becomes an incubator for a parasite (regardless of how one feels about their pregnancy, a living creature inside you that draws nutrients and energy with no care for the host is a parasite). If a woman is strong enough to go through nine months of life-altering changes to her body to give the child away, I applaud that. I understand you have a couple kids, right? Good for you! I can't stand cramps and the flu, so I applaud you for going through pregnancy. It's a really damn tough job.
It's a really damn tough job that I could not do.
Hemophilia runs in my family, and I might be a carrier. If I was carrying a boy, he might be a hemophiliac. While there are always amazing, loving people out there who take care of needy children, he'd be a bit harder to adopt out than a perfectly healthy boy. And really, I can't blame anyone who didn't feel that they could take on a bleeder. Because that's their personal choice based on what they know about themselves. He might just get shuttled through social services, being in and out of expensive medical care. My hemophiliac uncle died young during oral surgery. My other hemophiliac uncle died because of diabetic+hemophilia complications. It's not a pretty life.
There are 6 billion people on the planet. Let's assume 3 billion of them are women. Those 3 billion people do not have the exact same circumstances. Those 3 billion people do not live the exact same lives. For every "slut who forgot a condom" (and with abstinence-only education, perhaps no one TAUGHT HER to use a condom!), there's an older woman who didn't know she could still get pregnant, and is in no mood to be in diapers along with her child. There's a woman who was raped, and healing does not include the life-altering change of pregnancy. There's the married couple who has 3 healthy children, was using protection, but had an accident and can't afford number 4. There's a woman who wants children, but not right now. There's a woman in an abusive marriage who can't tell her husband there's a kid, lest he force her to stay. There's a woman already on welfare who can't have another child, lest the state take away her benefits and call her lazy. There's the woman who would gladly welcome a child into her life, but pre-natal care costs money and she has no insurance, and the same people who condemn her for having an abortion just voted down universal health care.
Adoption is the best possible option, but sometimes it's not that cut and paste easy. It is estimated that there are 46 million abortions worldwide every year. Those CAN'T all be "some irresponsible woman". And I can't imagine that there are 46 million people willing to adopt. People have to make choices based on what's best for their lives. You love your children and I'm sure you're very glad you had them. Your parents love you and I'm sure they're very glad you were brought into the world (your friends are). But think about all the kids currently being shuffled in our foster system and all the abusive parents who never wanted kids and how much happier the world is for having choice. God gave us free will and the power to exercise it, for good or bad.
And as for, "Aren't I glad I wasn't aborted?" As time machines are not in popular use, I suppose I'm glad I exist. If I was aborted, I wouldn't be here to answer that question and you, never having known me as I was aborted, wouldn't miss me. My mother didn't abort me because she had the Pill and condoms and put off having me until she was good and ready. If I found out she did have an abortion before me, I'm sure she had a good reason. I wouldn't love her any less for it.
There are 6 billion people in the world. That's 6 billion minds and 6 billion lives and 6 billion personal situations, and until you walk a mile in their shoes, you can't truly understand 5,999,999,999 of those lives.
well good i am glad your okay w/ killing a life just b/c a womans body changes i am very sorry that i am not ok w/ killing a life and the bit w/ over 5 billion or whatever the number then why not let yourself be sucked uo by a needle and tell me how you feel ok. look i've bee adopted due to factors of certain circumstance cause my mother couldnt take care of me and she was kicked out of her village cause of me but hey you what she choose to have me anyway so dont see anything out of that but still i didnt ost it for people to sit there and put e down nor try to correct me nor teach me on how i should have a damn opinion on abortion i am glad you side for pro choice and i am glad you choose to live in an alternative way but dont pin me for mine i am not here to be judged for my opinions judgement day is for when u stand there and wait to ee if you burn in hell or live well byt the right hand side of god
Isn't Jesus already at the right hand side of God? I can't remember my Bible enough on that fact, but I feel like EVERY person who goes to Heaven can't stand there. Unless God isn't shaped like a humanoid form, and has many right hands. Or tentacles. Like Cthulu or something. But if the Christian God = Cthulu is for the theologians to figure out, I suppose. As a prelude to the next note, her husband is currently in Iraq.
How many abortions has your husband caused because pregnant women were "collateral damage" of a town the military bombed? Are you okay with that killing of a life?
Just a thought.
I'm not judging you. You're the one telling me I'm going to Hell and getting terribly upset over my opinion. If you don't like abortions, don't have one. That's fine. If you don't think other people should have them, then there are better things to do about it than posting a MySpace bulletin and trying to offend people, and those were the points I mentioned in my first message to you.
And the subject line of "I don't care how many friends I lose over this" pretty much sums up the stance of the "pro-life" movement, such as it is: "If you're a fetus, you are the most important thing in the universe, but once you're born, I couldn't give two shits."
Also, I don't want to sit at the right hand side of God, because I have terrible table manners and he'd see that I was using the wrong heavenly fork or something and I'd be terribly embarrassed and how exactly do you make dinner conversation with an omniscient being?
The answer to the last question:
"So today at work, I--"
"I KNOW."
"Oh."
"I ALSO KNOW WHAT YOU THOUGHT WHEN THAT CUTE NEW GUY FROM ONLINE WALKED PAST YOUR DESK. AND WHERE YOU WIPED THAT BOOGER."
"Jesus, how does anyone stand sitting here?"
"Well, wiping your booger under your desk is pretty disgusting."
"Mary, a little help?"
"Sigh, you're your father, alright."
no he hasnt illed anyone cause he sts in a mechanics office doing paperwork for how much fuel goes and come and how manyoil changes there are and good for you that your gonna burn hell now let me have my own opinion and have yours and fuck off stop trying to puch me over mine i was just stating my own damn opinion and if you dont like oh fucking well i am glad your ok w/ killing babies but am not so to bad
Nonetheless, he's still willingly part of a military-industrial complex that says it's okay to kill as many people as possible for the rich old men. To break Godwin's Law, just because the train operators who took Jews to concentration camps didn't DIRECTLY kill Jews, does that mean they are blameless in the well-oiled machine of the Holocaust?
Also, what would Jesus prefer you to do, Marta? Try to HELP people have less abortions in the real world, or have you write poorly-worded and punctuationless screeds of hate on the internet? My opinion is backed up by facts and compassion for those who go through with the procedure. Your opinion consists of "the bibl saids it isrong your going 2 burn in hell stop juging me".
Well in that case I am so glad your perfect and that your so above everyone else. If you were so perfect then why aren't you rich and siting on a pedastool. I am sorry if I have my own opinions. Like I should be able to as they say with freedom of speech, ince your so ito freedom. Iam into my freedom and statting how I feel about abortion. I feel that it is wrong and for my husband what he does is his own personal choice not mine. This arguement is between you and I not you and I and my husband. Now on that end of aspect go to hell and burn and leave me alone. Go live in your own little world and I'll stay in mine thanks for bashing my world as I was only stating my opinions. I guess in your eyes everyone has to obey your thoughts and not to live in their own thoughts. So now on that thought go away and be happy in your own little way.
God bless!
