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Hello.

One makes a conscious decision to accept the inevitable, that's my point. You say "bravery can be accepting the inevitable". But "accepting the inevitable" is separate from simply "having cancer". The two are not part in parcel; and that's where the difference lies. I never said that people who have cancer cannot be brave. I'm saying the physical act of having a tumor grow on your body, with nothing else considered, cannot be brave. And yes, psychologically there is a battle to stay positive. But you're not fighting the disease in the sense of a physical fight. All you're doing is proving my point - that it takes a conscious decision to define bravery. Our definitions appear to be the same. Of course, when you talk about practical applications of bravery the definition can change. Like you said, some may think it's braver to chose the long, painful fight with cancer over euthanasia, for instance. Others may see it the other way - that deciding to face death immediately to end your suffering is the brave thing. That's where a difference of opinion comes in. But can you not see how strange it is that one would never, ever apply the label of bravery to an uncontrollable action alone? Yet, as soon as cancer comes up, it's suddenly made an exception. List me something, anything, that if it "happens" to someone, immediately makes them brave. I'm not talking about their mentality, or their decisions. Just any uncontrollable occurrence or accident. I think the main problem here is that you're missing my point.

Set a reasonable time to get up at in the morning (9:00 for me), and get up when your alarm goes off. Without fail, no excuses, period. I've never met anyone who's tried this and it hasn't worked for them unless they have some actual disease.

@monk: yeah, my point was that the benefits are basically nonexistent (from my perspective at least).

I'm pretty sure it doesn't work that way... Oh yeah, OP might want to remove that line about "Rant" before this gets towed to a subforum. i seen it happen before, putting a hacking virus in one item can be done and has done before i had friends who been attacked and it show to have a certain item that had a virus on it that the person was able to get in their account As a computer programmer by profession I can tell you this is completely impossible. Whoever told you this misled you - please do not continue to post information like this as it is misleading. Pm me if you have any questions. Everyone else, stop trolling him; or I'll start removing posts.

Exactly why I'm waiting. But I just want to get it off my chest so to speak, so if they're still together by winter break, I'll just tell her. While it's good that you're waiting, you have to look at the benefits of telling her. In all likelyhood she'll reject you and your friendship with both her and the boyfriend will be ruined, causing unnecessary drama. If by any chance she happens to dump her boyfriend for you, you've still created unnecessary drama, and, personally, I wouldn't have any interest with being with a woman who would leave her boyfriend at the drop of a hat like that. But maybe that's just me. So that's why I think you not only have no place to bring it up, but it's not a good idea regardless of the outcome. But hey, your life - whatever floats your boat.

A good mentality. Only fair that she be allowed to feel the same way though ;)

Lol. If only...

How on earth does it make it less awkward? There's something called being realistic and respecting boundaries....

Sorry, I may have missed a lot - but you have no business telling a girl with a boyfriend that you like her. My two cents.

To elaborate on this some more: Consider, for a second, that I slipped and fell off a cliff. Would you call me brave for falling of a cliff? I rather doubt it. You might call me brave for not screaming on the way down, because that's a conscious decision I made. This article sums it up pretty well: http://www.thestar.com/news/article/1043090--joe-fiorito-last-battle-for-a-happy-warrior Specifically:

I question how someone can be considered inherently brave when faced with something they have no control over, and in no way chose. Bravery involves control and a conscious decision. Having cancer cannot be brave in and of itself because it isn't something we can control. Certainly someone can deal with cancer very bravely, and many people do; but many people don't. It's that whitewashing I resent. This thought of "fighting for your life" when faced with something like cancer is also a figment of our overactive imagination. How exactly does one "fight" cancer? If you want to stay alive, you take the treatment and hope for the best. That's it. It's not something you can physically control short of deliberately neglecting medical care so that you die faster.

Whoa. 70 yard td from a kick return. NO is trying now eh? :P

Ehh aside from the fumble their offense has been fine, both team's defence has been bad tbh.

Hey, I've done a few.

EDIT: That's right. Pure vet.

Correct you are.

Actually, I resent the label of brave being applied to something not brave at all - doing so does a disservice to true bravery.

You base this off a dissimilarity in personal ethics? The callous apathy to suffering is a trait either of a psychopath or a young person with very little actual exposure to life. I'm assuming the latter. I think we can all empathise to those with cancer, irrespective of our ethical perspectives. He never demonstrated apathy, he demonstrated a distaste of the illogical and ridiculous labels that are immediately applied to certain people in certain situations, which I certainly sympathize with.

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I don't need to prove my veteran skill!

I'm in class! But thanks for thinking of me <3:

It was on porpoise.