OT heartbreak

On Wed, 14 Oct 2009 12:52:24 -0500, "David Staup"
wrote:

The following was forwarded to me by my son-in-law and as a dad and
grandfather I cannot help myself I am forwarding this every way I
can...please take a little time to help make this brave young girls wish
come true beyond even her dream....David

Rather than simply make a stupid reply, I did trouble to check out
this story. There really is a Riley Philpot, and she really does have
cancer. However, the get well card part appears to be false. The
family started an email campaign to encourage blood and bone marrow
donation and apparently it got conflated with the Craig Shergold story
of some years ago.

There is a web site at http://www.rileysarmy.com/. There is a
television news report at

http://www2.wnct.com/nct/news/local/article/rileys_army_blood_and_bone_marrow_registration_dri ve/46138/

If you really want to help, donate to the Red Cross and/or donate
blood and/or sign up for bone marrow donation.

Bud

"William Hamblen" wrote in message
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On Wed, 14 Oct 2009 12:52:24 -0500, "David Staup"
wrote:

The following was forwarded to me by my son-in-law and as a dad and
grandfather I cannot help myself I am forwarding this every way I
can...please take a little time to help make this brave young girls wish
come true beyond even her dream....David

Rather than simply make a stupid reply, I did trouble to check out
this story. There really is a Riley Philpot, and she really does have
cancer. However, the get well card part appears to be false. The
family started an email campaign to encourage blood and bone marrow
donation and apparently it got conflated with the Craig Shergold story
of some years ago.

There is a web site at http://www.rileysarmy.com/. There is a
television news report at

http://www2.wnct.com/nct/news/local/article/rileys_army_blood_and_bone_marrow_registration_dri ve/46138/

If you really want to help, donate to the Red Cross and/or donate
blood and/or sign up for bone marrow donation.

Bud

the original email was sent to my son-in-law by a fraternity brother who
happens to be one of kileys doctors...kileys wish is real ....think what you
will
the rest of you are so filled with hate ...I just don't know what I was
thinking

I hope none of you who might have kids ever have to face something like
this.... for one needs a heart that does more than just pump blood!

David Staup:
the original email was sent to my son-in-law by a fraternity brother who
happens to be one of kileys doctors...kileys wish is real ....think what you
will the rest of you are so filled with hate ...I just don't know what I was
thinking

If you are referring to me then you have misread me. Immediately upon
reading your OP I checked and found that little Riley's tragedy is all
too real. I took issue only with your suggestion that people pray for
Riley, because prayer is not an effective treatment for cancer or
anything else.

I hope none of you who might have kids ever have to face something like
this.... for one needs a heart that does more than just pump blood!

With over half a million cancer deaths in the U.S. alone this year, I'm
afraid that your hope is in vain. Practically every person in America,
if not everyone in the world, will lose a family member or other loved
one to cancer this year. Me? My sister-in-law in February. Left behind
a four-year-old and a 15-year-old and a fine husband. And soon another
friend whom I've known and admired for all of my life. And the wife of
a close is suffering from Leukemia, but has perhaps a 50-50 chance. And
the long-time colleague and friend in 2008, and on and on. You may be
certain that many people prayed, or are praying, for the people I named
and for the millions whose names I do not know. I believe that puts the
prayer question to rest, Mullah feeders' hate-filled diatribes
notwithstanding.

Davoud

--
I agree with everything that you have said and everything that
you will say in your entire life.

usenet *at* davidillig dawt cawm

"Davoud" wrote in message
...
David Staup:
the original email was sent to my son-in-law by a fraternity brother who
happens to be one of kileys doctors...kileys wish is real ....think what
you
will the rest of you are so filled with hate ...I just don't know what I
was
thinking

If you are referring to me then you have misread me. Immediately upon
reading your OP I checked and found that little Riley's tragedy is all
too real. I took issue only with your suggestion that people pray for
Riley, because prayer is not an effective treatment for cancer or
anything else.

Bullcrap. This guy's a known atheist so ignore his post. DO pray for the
little girl. Prayer does help. Get as many people praying as you can.
They might want to consider an annointing for her also. I have personally
witnessed in my own father what prayer through annointing does versus
nothing else the medical community could do. Don't let this aholes negative
commentary sway you or anyone else as he hasn't a clue about God or anything
else Godly for that matter.

I hope none of you who might have kids ever have to face something like
this.... for one needs a heart that does more than just pump blood!

With over half a million cancer deaths in the U.S. alone this year, I'm
afraid that your hope is in vain. Practically every person in America,
if not everyone in the world, will lose a family member or other loved
one to cancer this year. Me? My sister-in-law in February. Left behind
a four-year-old and a 15-year-old and a fine husband. And soon another
friend whom I've known and admired for all of my life. And the wife of
a close is suffering from Leukemia, but has perhaps a 50-50 chance. And
the long-time colleague and friend in 2008, and on and on. You may be
certain that many people prayed, or are praying, for the people I named
and for the millions whose names I do not know. I believe that puts the
prayer question to rest, Mullah feeders' hate-filled diatribes
notwithstanding.

You seem convinced that prayer did not help any of your personal woes and of
course that's what your supposed to think by keeping your mind totally
closed to God. Amazing how people like you turn skyward to the unknown and
are amazed by its wonders, yet you won't even once acknowledge who was
responsible for those wonders and say a huge explosion made it all. Boggles
the mind, but then again not expected.

lou

Davoud

--
I agree with everything that you have said and everything that
you will say in your entire life.

usenet *at* davidillig dawt cawm

Thankyou, Davoud, for saving me the effort of writing much the same.
Isn't this why the knuckle draggers hate evolution? Because it reminds
them all too readily that religion is superstitious nonsense and
Darwin's rules thin out the weakest members of the human flock with as
much indifference as all the fake, evil gods invented over the
millennia to ensure a free lunch for the lazy book thumpers. The Jews
were an over-religious tribe of humans as you're likely to find on
Darwin's green Earth. See how much their prayers have helped them
throughout history culminating in WW2. Had they saved their breath
they could have run faster and further to escape their inevitable
fate. Hitler thought he was special too because he survived the
trenches. How much of a hand did your amazing god have in his
survival? Was Hitler so much more important than Riley that he
deserved to live? Or Stalin, Lenin, Mao, Mugabe and Pol Pot? Your all
powerful, all seeing, loving god seems to have been out playing golf
while all this was going on! Save me the references to mysterious
ways. The only truly mysterious thing about religion is how its
followers manage to face themselves in the bathroom mirror.