Your Future Is Already Written, Want To Know It?

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Mar 08, 2009
Captain Australia wrote:I need help with the future.

My Girlfriend is pregnant and due to the combination of our recessive genes the baby has a 45% chance of being born with Cockayne syndrome, a horrible aging disease that will mean our child will live a very short and painful life.

Should we have the baby? Please help Vasilji.


Regardless of the answer Vasilji the clown gives u, good luck man. You've got a hard decision to make. Just wondering though, are you sure that you both have recessive genes? From what I remember Cockayne syndrome is autosomally recessive. So if both of you have recessive genes, the chances of your baby contracting the disease should be about 25 percent give or take. not 45 percent. Is one of you homozygous (does one of you actually have the disease)?

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Mar 08, 2009
OK, maybe I went too far. I was just joking around. No baby. Sorry.

Just wanted to point out the cruel sh*t that this original poster is doing by giving desperate people false hope. Would he/she really be prepared to take money from someone in my hypothetical situation? Probably.
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I dont see 'are you a bandit?' post here?

:lol:
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Captain Australia wrote:OK, maybe I went too far. I was just joking around. No baby. Sorry.

Just wanted to point out the cruel sh*t that this original poster is doing by giving desperate people false hope. Would he/she really be prepared to take money from someone in my hypothetical situation? Probably.


I feel stupid :D
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sharfraz wrote:I dont see 'are you a bandit?' post here?

:lol:


:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
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Captain Australia wrote:I need help with the future.

My Girlfriend is pregnant and due to the combination of our recessive genes the baby has a 45% chance of being born with Cockayne syndrome, a horrible aging disease that will mean our child will live a very short and painful life.

Should we have the baby? Please help Vasilji.


I take this not all to serious, but if it is...please kick the crapper out of me ;)

Anyway, your future son (or daughter) will look somewhere in the trend of "Benjamin Button" for that matter, right?

'Curious Case' :D:D:D
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Dee 70,
You need not feel stupid or apologise. You were only trying to help. It is Captain Australia who has been stupid. He should not joke about such things. If it had been true, I would have told him to go to a medical specialist , not listen to absolute HOGWASH from the likes of Vasilji. Neither he, nor anyone else can see into the future.....UNLESS THERE IS PRESENT DAY EVIDENCE!!

For example, if you smoke, there is a good chance of you dying from cancer or heart diseases by the age of 55. I am 62 and never smoked. Yet , about 20 of my friends and acquaintances tragically died between the ages of 48 and 56. 18 of them were smokers who died from smoking-related diseases. It does not need a crystal ball to know that smoking is dangerous .....HIGHLY DANGEROUS!!
A deadly combination is to drink shorts and smoke, because ethyl alcohol is a SOLVENT which dissolves deadly chemicals from cigarettes onto the soft tissues of the palate and throat, resulting in throat cancers. Three people that I know have had that. They drank whisky and smoked at the same time. LETHAL!!
Little cigars are DEADLY too.

Now, I am not Vas, but it does not take a genius to know these things.....Commonsense!!
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RedKite wrote:Dee 70,
You need not feel stupid or apologise. You were only trying to help. It is Captain Australia who has been stupid. He should not joke about such things. If it had been true, I would have told him to go to a medical specialist , not listen to absolute HOGWASH from the likes of Vasilji. Neither he, nor anyone else can see into the future.....UNLESS THERE IS PRESENT DAY EVIDENCE!!

For example, if you smoke, there is a good chance of you dying from cancer or heart diseases by the age of 55. I am 62 and never smoked. Yet , about 20 of my friends and acquaintances tragically died between the ages of 48 and 56. 18 of them were smokers who died from smoking-related diseases. It does not need a crystal ball to know that smoking is dangerous .....HIGHLY DANGEROUS!!
A deadly combination is to drink shorts and smoke, because ethyl alcohol is a SOLVENT which dissolves deadly chemicals from cigarettes onto the soft tissues of the palate and throat, resulting in throat cancers. Three people that I know have had that. They drank whisky and smoked at the same time. LETHAL!!
Little cigars are DEADLY too.

Now, I am not Vas, but it does not take a genius to know these things.....Commonsense!!


i feel like drinking shorts would be a difficult task to accomplish...no?

oh, and after reading that, i'm a bit glad im not your friend -- bad shit seems to happen a lot to the people you associate with :oops:
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Mar 09, 2009
The future is in your hand. Was that meant literally?
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Snow wrote:The future is in your hand. Was that meant literally?


Fortunetellers portend to read the palm of your hand.
There is supposed to be a ancient written language for those lines in our handpalms...

Everybodies free to believe what they want. I think its rubbish.
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RobbyG wrote:
Snow wrote:The future is in your hand. Was that meant literally?


Fortunetellers portend to read the palm of your hand.
There is supposed to be a ancient written language for those lines in our handpalms...

Everybodies free to believe what they want. I think its rubbish.


How did you find out?
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Mar 09, 2009
Snow,
What DO you know?
Haven't you heard of PALMISTRY? according to that rubbish, one line on your hand is a "life" line; another a "heart" line etc etc . As Robby says, it is a load of rubbish, just like Vasilji's predictions.
Of course, genetics is VERY important. But lifestyle is even more important. Anyone who smokes is just ASKING for trouble.

To Bushra:
The problem is that 30 year old contemporaries will not teach you ANYTHING. They may well smoke like you and all your other mates.

But the sad thing is, that you won't find out until it is too late . By 55 half of your group will be dead. No good finding out at 50 that smoking is dangerous. LEARN THE LESSON FROM PREVIOUS GENERATIONS!!

A mate of mine who had a superb athletic body, naturally muscular, without training at 48 [ He still holds the Welsh junior long jump record, he set in about 1960. He cleared the school sand pit at 14]
Well, he smoked from 14. At 50, he developed lung cancer and gave up smoking immediately , claiming it was more addictive than heroin.
From 14 stone of muscle at 48, we buried him at 52, when he weighed 7 stone. Totally needless, tragic death !! Chuck those deadly fags away!!.
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Mar 09, 2009
Yeah too many fags around. are you tempted?
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Snow wrote:Yeah too many fags around. are you tempted?


I think you should put your nose back in the white powder you normally sniff, cause you are getting annoying...
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Mar 09, 2009
I hope my future reads well as I'm out of work (laid off from credit crunch) and dying to get back to work. I think I'll just keep crossing my fingers and hoping for the best!
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Mar 09, 2009
NinaSimone wrote:I hope my future reads well as I'm out of work (laid off from credit crunch) and dying to get back to work. I think I'll just keep crossing my fingers and hoping for the best!


Good luck girl. I'm with ya :cry:
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Mar 09, 2009
The credit crunch really sux and hope the mess is cleared by Q4 as otherwise the things might just compound. The same applies to UAE. I fail to understand the reason to bail out in parts. This is just resulting in NPA's increasing forever and thus you need more money to bail the banks out.

Everything in UAE is driven by expats and if they continue to leave, the banks will continue to have more defaults. Banks are now refusing to finance car loans ... this will impact the car companies. People are spending less at malls and you can see perpetual sales sign. People might just find it difficult to buy things at normal prices a few months down the line as they would have got so use to the word sales.

I hope the future reads well for you Nina. Good people last the longest. Just stay positive and believe in yourself. Don't lose heart and hopefully things will fall in place.
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Interesting artilce of the web - I know its another copy paste job .... but looked interesting to read!!!

Astrologers are eager to tell you that they can predict the future, unfortunately their track record leaves much to be desired. There are times though, when their efforts bear fruit. The believers are quick to defend them and the skeptics are quick to debunk them. The truth does not lay somewhere in the middle but in understanding the realities involved.

Astrology can for purposes of making a point, be compared to predicting the weather. A weatherman can with reasonable confidence tell you months in advice that in July and August the temperature in south Florida will be in the 90 degree range during the day and the 80 degree range at night. They can also say that the chance for a hurricane occurring will be strongest in the first two weeks or so of September. Hurricane forecasters can now with amazing accuracy predict the path of a formed hurricane with computer simulations based on upper level air masses. They always in their predictions err on the side of caution, never forgetting the unpredictability of hurricanes. As the hurricane approaches they can amend their predictions and narrow down where the storm will hit. By monitoring the wind speed, size and other variables they can predict the potential damage the storm will do.

So too can an astrologer make an educated prediction. Much like the weatherman, who has a difficult if not impossible task trying to predict where any hurricanes will hit months in advance, the astrologer will have tremendous difficulty judging what part of ones life will be affected by a predictable crisis. Just as weathermen would be hard pressed to tell in advice the result of a storm on specific neighborhoods. (remember Andrew) An astrologer would be hard pressed to tell what specifically will happen.

Weather predictions are based in part on cumulative data acquired over years of observation. Astrological predictions are based in part on the same theory.

Hurricanes will affect people in part, according to their preparation for the storm. Predictable events will also be modified by the persons previous preparation in life. For example, a prediction of a storm may be made if the planet Pluto is approaching by transit (its 360 degree cycle around the sun) a persons natal sun. (the degree that the sun was when the person was born)

Obviously many people were born with the sun in the same place. Just how that person will be affected is much like a weather prediction. Why Hurricane Andrew hit some streets harder than others is impossible to predict. Nonetheless the storm was real. A prediction of difficulty by an astrologer would be fundamentally accurate. Predicting how it will hit and the damage it will do is much harder. As with Hurricane predictions, there is always that “something else.” The random unpredictability contained within the situation that can only, like quantum physics give us probabilities. The astrologer can glean insights by studying the natal chart and learning what environment the person has lived in. An astrologer also must have an idea what level the person lives at, As Carl Jung put it: “What happens to a person is characteristic of himself.”
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Mar 09, 2009
RobbyG . taking sides is a bad habit.
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Snow wrote:RobbyG . taking sides is a bad habit.


What side do you think I'm with?
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Well you said you thought something was rubbish so I assume you'd be taking the other side.
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Snow wrote:Well you said you thought something was rubbish so I assume you'd be taking the other side.


You're assuming to much Snowwhitey.
I don't pick sides that easy but I do support things that incorporate simple logic and especially if they contain truth.

Now, I'm not a religious man. You won't hear me say prayers just to support my cause. Hell not. I'm a man of science so until palmreading is proven, which it's not, you have my doubts ;)

People have a tendency to relate to things. They always do and dreaming is nothing new for our brain so the two go hand in hand. You are 'blessed' if you can separate the two. Join a science community. It helps. ;)
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What's palmistry got to do with religion and prayers?
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I guess because he is "not religious" ( i read that to mean atheist ) , he believes that religion is all fantasy and so he has grouped religion and prayer with palm reading. Correct me if I misunderstood u robby.
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dee7o wrote:I guess because he is "not religious" ( i read that to mean atheist ) , he believes that religion is all fantasy and so he has grouped religion and prayer with palm reading. Correct me if I misunderstood u robby.


The common denominator I was reffering to is; belief (contemporary philosofical) :lol:

But hey, just my 2 eurocents. Everybody is free to believe what he or she wants. Just mocking the birds a bit :wink:
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Let me get this logic straight. Religion requires belief. Palm reading requires at least some degree of belief. So both are in the same category for u which is "belief" and that is rationale enough to discard both possibilities as being untrue. Are you trying to tell me then that you do not believe in ANYTHING? Worldly, heavenly or otherwise?

Useless debate but it's 10 pm, I'm not going out and I'm bored! :D
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What was that crap John Locke kept telling Jack Shepherd? Oh, all you require is a "Leap of faith" ;)
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dee7o wrote:Let me get this logic straight. Religion requires belief. Palm reading requires at least some degree of belief. So both are in the same category for u which is "belief" and that is rationale enough to discard both possibilities as being untrue. Are you trying to tell me then that you do not believe in ANYTHING? Worldly, heavenly or otherwise?

Useless debate but it's 10 pm, I'm not going out and I'm bored! :D


Well I believe in myself (how selfish of me) and I believe in science.
So thats two things I believe in. If I had a woman by my side I would believe in her...

No I'm not a believer. I'm more practically positioned. Proof is what I like.

ps; I like dreaming though :lol:
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Mar 09, 2009
I think we have hijacked a spammer's/charlatan's thread. I am riding the wave of a Rasputin wannabee with expired cream cheese for brains. This is a new low for me.
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dee7o wrote:I think we have hijacked a spammer's/charlatan's thread. I am riding the wave of a Rasputin wannabee with expired cream cheese for brains. This is a new low for me.


Did you just talked Cheese to a Dutchman? Ever heard of Alkmaar - City of Cheese :D
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