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- From: smithmc@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Lost Boy)
- Subject: Re: To Lost Boy...Re The thoughts of a fetus
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- Organization: Purdue University Computing Center
- References: <92324.145808U19807@uicvm.uic.edu> <1992Nov20.013130.5060@noao.edu>
- Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 07:46:47 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov20.013130.5060@noao.edu> forgach@noao.edu (Suzanne Forgach) writes:
- >From article <92324.145808U19807@uicvm.uic.edu>, by <U19807@uicvm.uic.edu>:
- >> In article <Nov.19.12.27.06.1992.15494@andromeda.rutgers.edu>,
- >> hauk@andromeda.rutgers.edu (Keira E. Hauk) says:
- >>>
- >>>
- >>>Did you know that the human fetus can dream? Recent studies have found that
- >>>the human fetus can actually dream!
- >>
- >> I didn't realize that this "recent study" found the telepaths necessary to
- >> ascertain whether a fetus dreams or not.
- >
- >Don't be stupid. She's referring to the detection of fetal brainwave
- >patterns consistant with the state of REM (dreaming) sleep. And btw -
- >this is not "recent" news. It's been common medical knowledge for decades.
- >
-
- And of course the point of these brainwaves is that they are an indication
- that a fetus ahs a soul.
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- So, if these brainwaves are not present, the fetus has no soul, and is there
- fore not human by my definition.
-
- This is not new theology. I got it from the Jesuits.
- >
- >Suzanne Forgach
-
- Lost Boy
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- * Sometimes I think my cat has more soul than some Biblebangers. *
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