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Kil
Evil Skeptic

USA
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Posted - 11/10/2004 :  07:10:42   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Visit Kil's Homepage  Send Kil an AOL message  Send Kil a Yahoo! Message Send Kil a Private Message
quote:
Wendy:
Okay, say the man let the woman drive his car. Then they both pay.

Ahhhh, yes, the old Beatles argument. “Beep beep em beep beep yeah…”

Uncertainty may make you uncomfortable. Certainty makes you ridiculous.

Why not question something for a change?

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Siberia
SFN Addict

Brazil
2322 Posts

Posted - 11/10/2004 :  07:16:09   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Visit Siberia's Homepage  Send Siberia an AOL message  Send Siberia a Yahoo! Message Send Siberia a Private Message
quote:
Originally posted by @tomic

quote:
You talk like it's the same as popping a zit.

I have known women that have told me flat out that they deliberately became pregnant by tricking a man.

Indeed, there are women that do it. Thousands of them. The question is, who gets to decide if he was tricked or not? Put the blame on somebody else won't do. How to prove that? Certainly she won't confess.

I know of the inverse, as well. The man popped the condom so his wife would get pregnant and give birth about the same time as his affair, so she would not leave him when she discovered he had a son out of the marriage. What should she do? She decided to have the baby, since she's catholic and has the abortion dilemma heavy on her.

Like Wendy said, it's not about the parents' rights. It's about the child's rights.

"Why are you afraid of something you're not even sure exists?"
- The Kovenant, Via Negativa

"People who don't like their beliefs being laughed at shouldn't have such funny beliefs."
-- unknown
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Rubicon95
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USA
220 Posts

Posted - 11/16/2004 :  11:02:39   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send Rubicon95 a Private Message
Should he have a say in whether or not a child will be born or aborted? No. That is the risk you take. You are the father. That is your child. You share the consequences and responsibilities.

The only way to prevent that situation is abstinence. No other contraception is 100% fool proof.

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beskeptigal
SFN Die Hard

USA
3834 Posts

Posted - 11/18/2004 :  13:59:54   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send beskeptigal a Private Message
quote:
Originally posted by Rubicon95

Should he have a say in whether or not a child will be born or aborted? No. That is the risk you take. You are the father. That is your child. You share the consequences and responsibilities.

The only way to prevent that situation is abstinence. No other contraception is 100% fool proof.



Make that 99.99999999......% according to the New Testament.

Actually, hysterectomies, oopherectomies, and vasectomies & tubal ligations when properly done are pretty fool proof.
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Rubicon95
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USA
220 Posts

Posted - 11/18/2004 :  15:22:16   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send Rubicon95 a Private Message
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Originally posted by beskeptigal


Make that 99.99999999......% according to the New Testament.

[/quote]

After a real crappy day at work, This made me laugh so hard!!!!!!!!!
Thanks!

Personally, I really wouldn't want for a woman to do a tubal ligation, hysterectomy (mom had one)frightens the living @#$% out of me.

Vasectomy yep if done right...just don't play any sports the next day. ow..

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H. Humbert
SFN Die Hard

USA
4574 Posts

Posted - 11/18/2004 :  17:00:12   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send H. Humbert a Private Message
quote:
Originally posted by Rubicon95
The only way to prevent that situation is abstinence. No other contraception is 100% fool proof.
A vasectomy is close, although I suppose there have been rare cases where the operation was somehow botched and a few squiggling wigglies managed to squirm their way through the bent piping.


"A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true." --Demosthenes

"The first principle is that you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest person to fool." --Richard P. Feynman

"Face facts with dignity." --found inside a fortune cookie
Edited by - H. Humbert on 11/18/2004 17:00:58
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Dude
SFN Die Hard

USA
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Posted - 11/18/2004 :  23:27:09   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send Dude a Private Message
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A vasectomy is close, although I suppose there have been rare cases where the operation was somehow botched and a few squiggling wigglies managed to squirm their way through the bent piping.


Well, there are three 100% effective ways to not get/get somebody pregnant.

1. Don't have sex, ever.
2. Have the boys totally removed (vasectomy is almost foolproof, but having the organ responsible for gamete production removed entirely is the only 100% way)
3. Have the ovaries and/or uterus totally removed. (same explanation as #2, ligation of falopian tubes is not always 100%)

So.... none of the 100% methods are really an option for most people....

Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing, than he who believes what is wrong.
-- Thomas Jefferson

"god :: the last refuge of a man with no answers and no argument." - G. Carlin

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The handmaiden of desperation; the opiate of despair; the illegible signpost on the road to perdition. ~~ da filth
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Siberia
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Brazil
2322 Posts

Posted - 11/19/2004 :  06:35:37   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Visit Siberia's Homepage  Send Siberia an AOL message  Send Siberia a Yahoo! Message Send Siberia a Private Message
Mom had tubal ligation when I was born (caesarian). That added to abstinence made her pretty much fool-proof But there's always the possibility of parthogenesis -coughvirginbirthcough-

"Why are you afraid of something you're not even sure exists?"
- The Kovenant, Via Negativa

"People who don't like their beliefs being laughed at shouldn't have such funny beliefs."
-- unknown
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Valiant Dancer
Forum Goalie

USA
4826 Posts

Posted - 11/19/2004 :  07:16:35   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Visit Valiant Dancer's Homepage Send Valiant Dancer a Private Message
quote:
Originally posted by Siberia

Mom had tubal ligation when I was born (caesarian). That added to abstinence made her pretty much fool-proof But there's always the possibility of parthogenesis -coughvirginbirthcough-



I always why Joseph bought that line. Yeah.... Virgin birth.... Child of God.... Uh huh...... Who'd ya really sleep with, Mary?

Cthulhu/Asmodeus when you're tired of voting for the lesser of two evils

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Dr. Mabuse
Septic Fiend

Sweden
9688 Posts

Posted - 11/19/2004 :  18:12:22   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Send Dr. Mabuse an ICQ Message Send Dr. Mabuse a Private Message
quote:
Originally posted by Valiant Dancer

quote:
Originally posted by Siberia

Mom had tubal ligation when I was born (caesarian). That added to abstinence made her pretty much fool-proof But there's always the possibility of parthogenesis -coughvirginbirthcough-



I always why Joseph bought that line. Yeah.... Virgin birth.... Child of God.... Uh huh...... Who'd ya really sleep with, Mary?

I can imagine Joseph's inner dialogue. "Shit, I can't let anyone know that someone else jumped her. I'd better go along with this one, and agree to the virgin conception. Hell, I can even say I got a visit from angels too..."

Dr. Mabuse - "When the going gets tough, the tough get Duct-tape..."
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"Equivocation is not just a job, for a creationist it's a way of life..." Dr. Mabuse

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Rubicon95
Skeptic Friend

USA
220 Posts

Posted - 11/22/2004 :  08:55:14   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send Rubicon95 a Private Message
According to the NT, Joseph was considered a righteous man by the Jewish Faith. Joseph could have exposed Mary which was his right. His promised bride (It was an arranged marriaged) was pregnant. The agreement was void. He wouldn't have been disgraced at all. Mary and her family would have been. Instead, he was going to divorce Mary in private to save her from being stoned. Then was convinced to stand by her and accept the baby as his own. Which to me says alot about the man.

Even though the child wasn't his reponsibility, he chose to accept the child as his own. Counter that with today's attitudes. You have "men" who are the "fathers" of kids but don't want the responsibility.




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Siberia
SFN Addict

Brazil
2322 Posts

Posted - 11/22/2004 :  12:17:40   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Visit Siberia's Homepage  Send Siberia an AOL message  Send Siberia a Yahoo! Message Send Siberia a Private Message
Well, that's true. He acted pretty much unlike my father, who dumped the kid he knew was his baby... but that's another matter entirely.

"Why are you afraid of something you're not even sure exists?"
- The Kovenant, Via Negativa

"People who don't like their beliefs being laughed at shouldn't have such funny beliefs."
-- unknown
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