Dixie - In Memoriam
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if you are allowed to make up your own axioms and postulates you can prove any theory
this is what dixie does
the problem is that reality intrudes...
Yeah, reality is a problem for you Don!
if you are allowed to make up your own axioms and postulates you can prove any theory
this is what dixie does
the problem is that reality intrudes...
I am having difficulty with the word "or" in the definition you posted. It seems you think "or" means something different than I do. I am also having trouble understanding how something can "not carry on the process of life" if it isn't alive to begin with. Perhaps you can explain? Didn't the 50% have to be living first, in order to die?
Again, I am having trouble understanding how something is growing, yet not alive. How "construction stops" if there isn't anything being constructed to start with. Can you resolve this illogical puzzle? It seems that what you are saying is, all 100% were growing and living, and 50% died. But if they were all growing, regardless of how many died, weren't they living?
Uhm... Again, having trouble understanding what the "cell" is aborting from. How can it stop carrying on a process it hasn't yet obtained? You maintain it is not a living human organism, but then you indicate it was living and died. How can this be? The "cell" was either living or not living. If it was living, it has to be classified as some form of living organism,....
.....and if it is a "fertilized egg" from a female human, it can only be called a human. I honestly don't know what else you could call it, nothing else is added to make it "human" later on, we know all humans start from here, so what other possible kind of living organism do you think it could be? Please explain this to me, it is perplexing!
WOW! Now "they" are alive! We HAVE made progress with you! But unlike other cells in your body that die, a human embryo is not a single cell. Once conception takes place, the "fertilized egg" becomes a unique living multi-cell organism called a human.
No idiot, what is absurd is that I am still having a conversation with your stupid ass. Go pick up any 7th grade science textbook, and I am sure you will find a chapter on how human life begins.
Listen to this stupidity! Just fucking unbelievable! If it was living, that is EXACTLY what it means! It was a LIVING ORGANISM! What the fuck are you even talking about now? Do you even know???
Man has determined through science, that human life begins with conception of a sperm cell and egg cell. It needs nothing else to become human life or a human being. Just like all other reproductive organisms, some human beings do not survive the life process very long.
No, it doesn't. I posted the definition of "organism". Over 50% of fertilized cells do not fulfill the definition of organism which includes "carrying on the processes of life." They do not carry on the processes.
It may be possible some are organisms and something stops them from carrying on the processes, however, science has absolutely no idea what that "something " is or even if there is a "something" other than the cell(s) not being an organism.
Many women go through a number of miscarriages and then have a baby. They have no idea what they did differently and in many cases they didn't do anything differently.
Until proven otherwise the logical conclusion is the cell(s) were defective. In other words there was no human being. The "organism" was missing the parts necessary to carry on the processes of life.
Finally an explanation for your warped point of view. Apparently, you do not even know what "or" means. God help us!
....Is your finger "alive". Is your finger a human being? ....No, it does not have to be classified as some form of living organism. Is your finger alive? Is it an organism? ....It can be called human tissue. Again, refer to your finger....As far as "nothing else has to be added to make it human" that is not the problem. The problem is lacking something in the beginning. It may not have the necessary parts in the beginning to be a considered an organism....Not necessarily. We do not know if every fertilized cell has the necessary components. Considering over 50% do not conduct themselves as organisms it's logical to conclude some, if not all of the 50%+, are not organisms....You are a stubborn one, aren't you? Do yourself a favor and consult a teacher. A grade school teacher will do. No professor needed. They will explain to you what I wrote about the "A"s and "B"s and the grocery store analogy. There is a glaring gap in your education....Check previous replies. Do I have to give you the finger, again?...Very long??? We're talking hours or days. You believe human beings come into existence and depart after a few hours? Or a day? ....Yes, let's call those 24 hour clumps of human tissue human beings. Let's validate their "human being-ness" and interfere in the lives of human beings who have been here 20 or 30 years.
You're mad, Dixie. Truly insane.
Let's validate their "human being-ness" and interfere in the lives of human beings who have been here 20 or 30 years.
Finally an explanation for your warped point of view. Apparently, you do not even know what "or" means. God help us!
Is your finger "alive". Is your finger a human being?
No, it does not have to be classified as some form of living organism. Is your finger alive? Is it an organism?
It can be called human tissue. Again, refer to your finger.
As far as "nothing else has to be added to make it human" that is not the problem. The problem is lacking something in the beginning. It may not have the necessary parts in the beginning to be a considered an organism.
Not necessarily. We do not know if every fertilized cell has the necessary components. Considering over 50% do not conduct themselves as organisms it's logical to conclude some, if not all of the 50%+, are not organisms.
You are a stubborn one, aren't you? Do yourself a favor and consult a teacher. A grade school teacher will do. No professor needed. They will explain to you what I wrote about the "A"s and "B"s and the grocery store analogy. There is a glaring gap in your education.
Check previous replies. Do I have to give you the finger, again?
Very long??? We're talking hours or days. You believe human beings come into existence and depart after a few hours? Or a day?
Yes, let's call those 24 hour clumps of human tissue human beings. Let's validate their "human being-ness" and interfere in the lives of human beings who have been here 20 or 30 years.
You're mad, Dixie. Truly insane.
Yeah, his problem understanding the word "or"...20 bucks says Dix was one of the people who ridiculed Clinton for the whole "definition of the word 'is'" controversy.
Yeah, his problem understanding the word "or"...20 bucks says Dix was one of the people who ridiculed Clinton for the whole "definition of the word 'is'" controversy.
Very long??? We're talking hours or days. You believe human beings come into existence and depart after a few hours? Or a day?
To be a human being, you have to be capable of having thinking, having desires, and having feelings. End of story.
in other words, they die....We don't know if all the necessary stuff is there. Again, over 50% do not pass that stage. "Construction" stops.
Baby killers!
What a broken record. Science probably will catch up, because it will find a way to extract embyros and implant them into all of those volunteers who I'm sure will be clamoring for them on the pro-life side.
Grow up...
I'll try one more time. The fertilization may have been successful but sufficient "qualities" were missing resulting in the fertilized egg not continuing to grow.
This is not all that difficult to understand. Unless you believe nature never makes a mistake there is always the possibility a fertilized cell is not a human being. We know children have been born with no arms or no brain so is it not possible there are fertilized cells that, if continued to grow, would produce children with no head or no chest or no abdomen?
The point is we do no know but logic dictates it is very possible because we have witnessed babies born who were missing parts.
Again, we do not know. All we know is that every human being had to start life by a cell being fertilized. That does not mean every fertilized cell is a human being.
Every human being who is decapitated dies. That does not mean everyone who died was decapitated. Try to understand the difference. Educate yourself. A 10 year old can comprehend the difference.
We don't know what it is. We will know when it is born.
Whether one wants to look at the Bible and the "breath of life" or refer to the old expression "don't count your chickens before they're hatched" or simply stroll through a graveyard or look at any official document the birth of an individual is considered the start of their life.
It cheapens what it means to be a human being because we can not test the newly fertilized cell to determine if it has the necessary "ingredients" to consider it a human being. And we know many fertilized cells are missing "ingredients".
Some missing ingredients don't make a big difference. Some do make a big difference. Therefore, it's reasonable to conclude there are others that make such a huge difference as to disqualify them as human beings.
Is that really so difficult to understand?
"no, an acorn is not a tree. Neither is a child an adult"
You use "child" because it's emotionally charged. You know - or at least I hope you do - that it is disingenuous at best for the stage of development we are discussing.
Like I said, you're a zealot; you fail to see any reason on this topic.
I never said I didn't understand the word "or", I said we apparently have a different understanding. I know what "or" means, always have. Apparently, apple thinks it is not significant in the phrase he posted. I think it is very significant, because it makes my case and proves him wrong.
But again, we have an anti-science pinhead who wants to divert the topic of the thread, and focus on minutia of what Dixie said. Nice old school tactic, too bad it doesn't work anymore.
I believe a human being can "come into existence" and expire in a few seconds. Biology doesn't change because of what I want to think in my mind. At the point of conception, human life begins... it may last 1 second, it may last 1 hour, it may last 9 months, it may last 100 years, but it never changes what it starts as, human life! You have not offered ANYTHING to refute that.
This might be a good time to point out, we haven't begun to discuss the issue of abortion. We are still stuck on defining human life. Until we can get past that, we can't have a debate on abortion, because you do not understand or comprehend the magnitude of what is being discussed. Therefore, it is pointless to try and have a debate with you on the subject. From your uneducated and ignorant unscientific perspective, abortion is like allowing women to have a wart removed from their tuti, it's her right and none of your biz. But this is because you have convinced yourself of a falsehood, that "life" begins some point after conception, after someone has "determined" the life started, or some arbitrary date and time it has to develop, before you will even admit it is a living human organism!
Here is the sentence. Organism: "An individual form of life, such as a plant, an animal, a bacterium, a protist, or a fungus; a body made up of organs, organelles, or other parts that work together to carry on the various processes of life."
The point is an organism has to have the ability to carry on the processes of life. It's that simple and over 50% of fertilized cells do not. Case closed.
Then answer this, what is the accepted standard length (time) of a human pregnancy??
OMG, Dude! Listen to yourself!! There is NO argument that DEAD fertilized cells are human beings! NONE! I agree 100%, once the "cell" DIES it is NO LONGER ALIVE, NO LONGER A LIVING HUMAN! But let's clarify, we are not talking about organisms which have died, we are talking about living ones. It is silly and ridiculous to point to dead fertilized cells as proof the living ones weren't alive! Can you grasp that in your retarded little mind?
You don't even understand what I am saying. I never said life, meaning a human being, begins at some point after conception. Life may very well begin at conception. My point is not all conceptions are human life, life being defined as a human being.
Anti-abortionists have jumped on this unique DNA idea like flies on poo. The truth is scientists do not know why over 50 % of fertilized cells spontaneously abort. They do not know if every fertilized cell has the proper genetic makeup/instructions to be classified as a human being.
Nature makes mistakes. We frequently witnessed that in the past before ultra sound and other tests could determine the condition of the fetus. Babies were born grossly malformed even though most usually self-aborted.
Until we can determine the condition of fertilized cells moments after fertilization it is reasonable to conclude the over 50% that self-abort or are absorbed by the woman do not contain sufficient material or the material is so damaged they can not be considered organisms, let alone human beings.
It's no wonder you can't understand or comprehend the magnitude of what is being discussed. You don't even understand what I'm saying and I've tried using analogies to help you.
.Science/scientists do not know. In the scheme of things DNA is a relatively new discovery. Yes, every human being has unique DNA. However, DNA, alone, does not a human being make. That's why our fingers are not considered human beings