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Postponing the inevitable (Yes, we are all going to die)
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| 2/11/08
| Tim Footman
Posted on 02/11/2008 11:00:05 AM PST by qam1
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To: RobRoy
my personal translation of Paul’s words...
“To live is Jesus
and to die, well that’s just a whole lot more Jesus!”
=0)
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posted on
02/12/2008 6:32:43 AM PST
by
woollyone
(entropy extirpates evolution and conservation confirms the Creator blessed forever.)
To: MaryFromMichigan
The government knows what’s best. Look at the fine examples of healthy living in our own establishment. Fine, fine specimens...
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posted on
02/12/2008 6:41:01 AM PST
by
Rush4U
(unnamed source)
To: Bitsy
the article indicates it's cheaper to treat a 50 year old with 18 months of lung cancer treatments, then die, than to care for a 90 year old.
I was trying to be funny.
The film setting was 2022. Overpopulation caused a world shortage of food. The Soylent Corporation made nutrition squares. Soylent Red & Soylent Yellow...but the most valuable and most nutritious was Soylent Green
In "Soylent Green" old people were to be euthanized when they reached a certain age.
"What is the Secret of Soylent Green?"; in the revealing trailer, two conveyor belts were shown, one with body bags, the other with green food; the title referred to a type of artificial food substance (reportedly made from plankton) rationed out to the populace.
In the film's conclusion, New York City Detective Thorn (Charlton Heston) made the horrifying, predictable discovery of the true composition of the Soylent Corporation's new artificial food product Soylent Green - it was composed of the recycled bodies of the deceased inhabitants of the society's euthanasia centers; he made a desperate plea to police chief Hatcher (Brock Peters) as he was dragged away after being shot in the leg: "It's people! Soylent Green is made out of people! They're making our food out of people. Next thing they'll be breeding us like cattle for food... Soylent Green is people! We've gotta stop them somehow!"
To: stylin19a
In “Soylent Green” old people were to be euthanized when they reached a certain age.
I have to laugh :). Your discription of the movie sounded like my son’s when he went to a movie when he was young. He could repeat the movie almost word for word - who needed to go to the movies after that. I couldn’t believe he could do that now, it seems, so can you. :)
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02/12/2008 10:43:59 AM PST
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Bitsy
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