Saturday, 28 February 2009
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What is your favorite memory from school?
Graduating. Nothing more. Oh, wait! In 8th grade English class, we had spelling competitions in class. One day we went up against the smart class, and I scored more points in my turns then their entire class. It was incredible! Then, as a follow-up, on the advice of everyone around me, I entered the school spelling bee. The first and only word I got, as everyone paid attention, knowing I would easily spell it, was 'definition'.
My mind went blank, and I couldn't spell it right. Very embarrassing. I spelled it using the dictionary pronunciation of 'tion', which is 'shun'.
Like I said...graduating.
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Comments (5)
Not a good start in life for a writer, eh?
@littlepoppet - Yes, I agree! A work in progress, taking only...a very long time. lol
Hey Greg!
Waves ~~ that's a great story, I totally relate to the mind going blank.
I agree with you about the moral dangers of opening stem-cell research. on the other hand, I think fetal stem cells are ten year old news. There are other better, more promising lines of research now, and I can't see the science going backward. Science has moved on, politicians haven't.
And, btw, I think Obama knows this. He has a paragraph in his book "Audacity of Hope" in which he tells the account of his meeting with a scientist who tells him that the stem cell issue is dead, that the real thing holding back scientific advance is the lack of funding for grants to support research.
So how's your writing these days?
Terri
@quiltnmomi - Terri, I respectfully disagree. President Obama wants the issue dead, but it isn't. It is a very hot topic, as you might have seen in some of the more conservative press.
It is not about funding, but about ideology. Anti-abortion folks, like myself, understood that President Bush was looking out more for the unborn than he was trying to shut down research.
It is about where the funding goes. Partial-birth abortions were becoming more and more commonplace before he enacted legislations to stop this horrible practice. You should read up on what a partial-birth abortion is, if you haven't already. Stem-cell research, although laudable in it's controlled, unmurderous form, has ever been extended into the realm of aborted babies (not fetuses). Conservatives will never back down from this issue, and crossing this line, as President Obama did, marks an unprecedented move, morally-speaking.
As for science ever going backwards, that is not the point. If progress demands the secession of human rights, extending to the unborn, then it is our thinking, our humanity, that is going backwards. A wrong never makes a right. If you can conduct stem-cell research entirely away from using aborted babies, then have at it.
Making any kind of allowances only opens the door for immoral practices to continue.
You may not know this, but a new topic has arisen on the horizon: sex-determinant abortions, which are abortions conducted because a couple didn't want a girl, or they didn't want a boy. Murder by selection, is what it really is, Terri. Where will this all end?
I don't know that you and I will ever agree on this issue, but I intend to stand firm. It is not a dead issue. At all. I am sure that President Obama, as liberal as he is, has many such liberal scientists who assure him of a great many things, most or all of which are subject to interpretation.
Everyone has a bias, Terri. Everyone. Even scientists, who would like to claim otherwise. We are all human, are we not? The real question is, "what is the best bias with which to be biased by?"
As for my writing, it is going great! I have someone who is helping me edit my work, who is pushing me, and asking the right questions about my work. Very helpful, very needed.
I'm with you on this one, Greg. Stem-cell research can provide great hope for many sufferers of numerous conditions, but if this is at the cost of even one baby's life, then it is unacceptable.