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I'm not sure, but we're you bidding on any items? That might have something to do with it. Otherwise, you got me beat there sir. eek

A think a nice balence between the two is what we should strive for.

Bleh. I want 1K... crying

ok, yes I liked her. it will be a shame to see her quit. As far as mods go I can't really say. This is my first guild. I have never been a mod, so I am still quite not sure on how to contribute but I am working on that. I think that having quite a few mods isn't bad as long as we all communicate to one another and are all on the same page as Mod duties are concerned.

I don't see much Teen pregnancy posts and information going on here. I know we have that one sticky. so I don't quite get that.

As far as maturity goes, when I am with my friends in our thread yes, I am going to be silly and not act my age at times. However, as long as I show it in IPG what does it matter.

I think the thread is fine. We are still new *cough* but old. we are born again!! xd no we can take what was learned in the old IPG thread and use it here to make it thrive with new suggetions and ideas while keeping away from the stuff that got IPG banned.

Anyway those are my suggestions.

Reminds me of a little tale. It's about this guy who wanted to take a semester vacation, but his parents didn't let him. The funny thing is, that some time before they had told him that any choice he made, they would stand by, no matter what. This little ditty happened to me about a year ago. Funny how parents "let" you make choices by making them for you. I say, you shouldn't go if you don't want to. forcing you to go early will not help. If you feel forced to do something, you find no joy in it.

I feel much better now. Going to college a year early won't be so bad. I'm just worried that I won't be able to prepare a lot of the standard audition pieces in time, so I'll have to go to a school without a music performance major and major in science or something. sad Not that I don't like science, it's just that I don't want to be doing it for the rest of my life. It's more the application and auditioning process I don't want to go through early than anything else.

Plus, I don't want to grow up. I wish I could go back to being a six year old.

But, anyways, thankses, people.

In the end, it was her choice. Even though I don't think that she was smart in any way, nor would I follow her actions if I were to be pregnant, she is still allowed that choice. Personally, I believe that once the fetus is viable (ie: it can live outside of the woman's body), it is a separate entity, and therefore deserves the rights that born children do (not to be harmed, not to be abused, not to be hooked on drugs, etc).



Luckily for you, elective abortions are illegal for anything past the second trimester, or at the time of viability of the fetus. At this time, it is assumed that you have decided to commit to carrying the fetus to term, and any abortions carried out at this time are NON-ELECTIVE, and done for serious medical emergency reasons only.



It is people like you who give me hope for the group of people called "parents." You love and want your son so very much that you would do all of those things for him, and support him, and care for him.

You are the example of the kind of parent that I want ALL babies to be born to. By forcing women to carry fetuses to term, we will not only devalue the beauty of parenthood and the love that you and your son have for one another, but cause thousands and thousands of unwanted deaths.

Also, (just a note) fetuses, from the moment of conception, are alive. Eggs and sperm are living (they are cells).

But a fetus is not really discernable from the woman's body (ie: is basically a part of it) before it grows to viability. This is why I believe that a woman should have the choice while the fetus is simply a part of her body, or as it has been said, a "parasite"..I believe one of the pregnant pro-choicers in the pro-choice guild lost almost 10 pounds of water weight and had to go to the hospital for severe dehydration because of her fetus. But because she wants that fetus to grow into a human being, she is ok with keeping that fetus and nurturing it.



I find that the biggest problems with people who see themselves as "prolife" and "pro forced pregnancy" is that they are often intellegent people who refuse to even LOOK at the facts or the figures brought in by the pro-choice side (not to mention understanding about sex/pregnancy/etc which is the foundation of the debate).

For me, the thing that enrages me more than being ignorant is being WILLFULLY ignorant. People who believe that the "rhythm" method is great, or that women should just "blow" their boyfriends all the time to escape pregnancy are not only being misogynistic, but forcing their own "women are pure and their pleasure doesn't matter" morals on others.

Anyone who looks at me and says that I'm not a sexual being makes me turn red with anger. It's like saying I don't have a soul based on my genitalia. I love, I lust, and I THINK! The size of my boobs and my "attractiveness" has nothing to do with how much I deserve to be sexually satisfied.

Some people need to stop deluding themselves that all women are either innocent or total skank-nasty-hoes; and that the second is for ******** all the time, while the first one is for making babies with and giving AIDS to.

As for me, I'm going to sit over here in the "intellectual perverts" corner, and try to rope in as many as I can to our cause and our intellectual might.

I know that even if I don't agree with something, I can still look at it, move it around, and play with the ideas in it. I can agree to disagree, and I can dislike something with a passion, even if it follows good logic.

I admit to being wrong when I feel that I am, and to some people that's a weakness.

But to me, well, I would have to say that is one helluva strength.