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Human Life is Fragile, But EVERY Life is Valuable
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Date: August 31, 2022, 4:45 pm
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AGelbert NOTE: Originally posted October 17, 2013 at the
Renewable Revolution Forum
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/>The post replies are in the same sequence. I will continue
this
thread with new posts after these duplicated posts and the
replies.
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Re: Human Life is Fragile, But EVERY Life is Valuable
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Date: August 31, 2022, 4:50 pm
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[move]October 17, 2013, 07:13:11 pm[/move]
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Re: Human Life is Fragile, But EVERY Life is Valuable
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Date: August 31, 2022, 4:57 pm
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[move]October 17, 2013, 07:44:58 pm[/move]
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Re: Human Life is Fragile, But EVERY Life is Valuable
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DIR By: AGelbert
Date: August 31, 2022, 5:02 pm
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[move]October 18, 2013, 05:00:26 am[/move]
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> Great thread, AG. But emotionally exhausting!
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Re: Human Life is Fragile, But EVERY Life is Valuable
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Date: August 31, 2022, 5:07 pm
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[move]October 19, 2013, 07:05:43 pm[/move]
Surly said,
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> Great thread, AG. But emotionally exhausting!
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Agreed. My goal with this thread is to provide perspective that,
painful as it is, we must never lose sight of what goes on out
there day in and day out that is gut wrenching, tragic and
downright frightening in it's level of chaos and the apparent
mindless anarchy of the human condition.
Throughout all this apparent godless series of horrors, I see
God acting through the biosphere in general and brave people
that struggle in the face of adversity in particular. This is
inspiring to me. I frankly don't know how they do it because I
don't know how I would have the strength to carry on in their
shoes.
But somehow, even though tragic failures abound, those victories
are real and I see God working in them to show us He cares. And
that gives me hope and strengthens my Faith.
As I now pass the 67 year old mark, this passage from the bible
that has always been a head scratcher for me is beginning to
make more sense.
[center]Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the
evidence of things not seen -- Hebrews 11:1[/center]
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Re: Human Life is Fragile, But EVERY Life is Valuable
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DIR By: AGelbert
Date: August 31, 2022, 5:30 pm
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Quote from: Surly1 on October 20, 2013, 08:41:08 pm
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> This last comment is why I like your work so much, and your
overall attitude and approach.
>
> Doing a great job with this page and the cross posting, BTW. I
put a LOT of your stuff up on the Book of Faces.
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Re: Human Life is Fragile, But EVERY Life is Valuable
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DIR By: AGelbert
Date: August 31, 2022, 5:40 pm
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[move]October 21, 2013, 02:30:39 pm[/move]
Surly,
Thank you for sharing my zeal to spread hard truths as well as
hope, no matter how forlorn that hope may look,
You and I KNOW that hope is out there and it is REAL.
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"... the boy was biting his lip so hard to keep from crying
that blood was dripping from the corner of his mouth."
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: August 31, 2022, 6:01 pm
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[center]During World War II (1945), a Japanese boy stood in
front of a funeral pyre and waited his turn to cremate his dead
younger brother.[/center]
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The person who took the photo said in an interview that the boy
was biting his lip so hard to keep from crying that blood was
dripping from the corner of his mouth.
It was then that the guard asked for the body and said, "Give me
the load you are carrying on your back." And the boy replied,
"He's not heavy, he's my brother."
He handed over the body, turned around and left... In Japan,
even today, this image is used as a symbol of strength.
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[move]Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted.
Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth. --
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How Are Newborns Who Are Relinquished at Birth Kept Safe?
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: August 31, 2022, 6:19 pm
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April 27, 2020, 04:08:07 pm
[center]How Are Newborns Who Are Relinquished at Birth Kept
Safe?[/center]
In 1999, Texas became the first U.S. state to tackle the problem
of abandoned babies, some of whom were being left in trash bins
or suffering other ghastly fates after being born outside the
hospital system. The state enacted what was known as a Baby
Moses Law, a safe-haven law designed to save lives by
encouraging parents to surrender infants safely. In 2016,
activist Monica Kelsey took that idea a step further when she
convinced Indiana to install Safe Haven Baby Boxes at fire
stations. A mother who wants to surrender her baby safely and
anonymously can now simply place the infant in a baby hatch,
which typically resembles a bank’s night deposit box.
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/>A safe place for abandoned infants:
🕊 Here’s how the system typically works: When a person
opens the baby box, a call is immediately placed to 911, and
fire and medical personnel are dispatched. When closed, the box
locks automatically.
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🕊 The box is padded and climate controlled to keep the
baby warm while still allowing air circulation. The baby gets
immediate attention, and typically becomes a candidate for
adoption later on.
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► Supporters say safe-haven laws provide an alternative
to abortion, infanticide or unsafe child abandonment
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mothers and sometimes violate a father’s rights.
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Agelbert NOTE: I am certain that medical "ethicist" (SEE:
Orwell) 😈 Ezekiel Emanuel would argue that the Baby
Moses Law is "not justified", and it would be "better" for all
these unwanted babies to have been aborted or, if they made it
to being born, "efficiently" used as food for lions in a zoo, or
some other "profitable" use. To a Social Darwinist like Ezekiel
Emanuel, unwanted babies are a "burden on society" that, if
society acted "rationally and reasonably", could be "profitably
repurposed" by recognizing the fact that, after all, they are
just tender, nutritious protein packages a carnivore could gain
healthy caloric intake from
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/>eating, "nothing more". Medical Doctors of the idiological
persuasion of Ezekiel Emanuel
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/>are quite willing to make the, uh, "hard choices"
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/>that those of us who labor under the "quaint, unrealistic and
inefficient" view that we have a moral imperative to treat
others as we want others to treat us are too "silly and
superstitious" to make.
[move]Message to the Social Darwinists: What goes around, comes
around.[/move]
And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge,
God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which
are not convenient; Being filled with all unrighteousness,
fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of
envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers, Backbiters,
haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil
things, disobedient to parents,
Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural
affection, implacable, unmerciful:
Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such
things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have
pleasure in them that do them. -- Romans 1:28-32
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Chittenden County, HomeShare VT's largest service area, sees
rise in guest interest in 2021
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Date: November 22, 2022, 11:07 am
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Nov 22 2022, 6:17 AM By Juliet Schulman-Hal
[center]As demand for home share program grows, more strangers
move in together[/center]
SNIPPETS:
HomeShare Vermont currently serves Addison, Chittenden,
Franklin, Grand Isle, Lamoille, Orange and Washington counties.
The organization matches “hosts” and “guests” based on the
lifestyle of the applicants, personal preferences and needs. ...
...
In an attempt to incentivize new Burlington homeowners to become
hosts through HomeShare Vermont, the Burlington City Council
last month unanimously approved a yearlong pilot program. The
program allocates $1,000 to 30 hosts over the course of 12
months. ... ...
“We’re trying to really encourage more people to share their
homes especially, you know, with the downturn in the economy
that might be something that people want to think about doing,”
Dunn said.
Dunn said she’s recently noticed an increase in the number of
younger individuals applying to become hosts. ... ...
In Stowe, 63-year-old HomeShare guest Gretchen Mills pays no
rent in exchange for providing companionship and cooking meals
for 89-year-old Hesterly Black.
Black, meanwhile, had been thinking about applying to HomeShare
“for quite a long time,” after one of her children brought her a
brochure for the program several years ago. ... ...
So far, she and Mills have been living together seamlessly, with
Mills making most meals, including her favorite dish of pork
with a chutney sauce.
Although there are some geographical divides, including Black
raising an eyebrow to Mills’ morning avocado toast — which Black
concluded was a California invention
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/>the two have enjoyed cooking and eating meals.
“Often we make it together, and we always eat together. So it's
just lovely to have that kind of cadence to a day,” Mills
said.... ...
Black’s three-bedroom home is filled with animals, including an
African grey parrot, two dogs, a Gloster canary named Donald for
the tuft of hair on his head and a beta fish named Liberace due
to his flowing fins.
“I have animals — I've always had animals — so Gretchen has had
to deal with it,” Black said with a mischievous smile. ... ...
In two-thirds of HomeShare Vermont arrangements, the guest
provides some amount of assistance to the host — which could
include grocery shopping or bringing the host’s pet to the
veterinarian, for example. ... ...
Full heart warming article:
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