I guess what gets me is that people believe such things when it's not
true at all. Unfortunately modern medicine can't cure everything and
I believe it's cruel to instill false hopes. I think dealing with
reality makes life easier in the long run.
I still remember vividly when it really hit me that my dad was going
to die of cancer. It was hard but I think it made it easier for my
dad to talk to me about important things instead of trying to skirt
around issues before he got too ill to talk at all.
Kat
On 18 Apr 2006, at 15:01, Kendall David Corbett wrote:
Ken,
Our priest gave one of the women that said that if my Mom's faith were
strong enough... a similar theology lesson. (Un)fortunately, soon after
that, her husband had a stroke, which left him permanently disabled.
Kendall
"Of all the tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims
may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons
than under omnipotent moral busy-bodies. The robber baron's cruelty may
sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those
who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do
so with the approval of their own conscience."
C.S. Lewis
-----Original Message-----
From: ken barber [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Monday, April 17, 2006 7:49 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [C-PALSY] software will not swear!
i had a lady come up and ask me if i knew god wanted
to heal me one time. i took time to give her a
theology lesson that i'll bet she never forgot. the
look on her face,...on boy.
--- Kendall David Corbett <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Ohh, I like it! A corollary to that one is:
>
> "If your faith were strong enough, he'd be healed."
>
>
> My mom had "friends" from church that actually said
> that to her!
>
> Kendall
>
> An unreasonable man (but my wife says that's
> redundant!)
>
> The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the
> unreasonable one
> persists in trying to adapt the world to himself.
> Therefore, all
> progress depends on the unreasonable man.
>
> -George Bernard Shaw 1856-1950
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [log in to unmask]
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Monday, April 17, 2006 11:11 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: [C-PALSY] software will not swear!
>
> Number one on *my* list is "God made you this way
> for a reason!"
>
> Kat
>
>
> Original Message:
> -----------------
> From: Kendall David Corbett [log in to unmask]
> Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2006 11:44:09 -0600
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: software will not swear!
>
>
> Janet and I came up with a Top Ten (or so) List
> (like Letterman's) of
> things that "Make Us Cringe Every Time We Hear 'Em".
> I'll include it
> for your amusement (or bemusement).
>
> From the Home Office in Laramie, Wyoming:
>
> Today's Top Ten List
>
>
> "Things That Make Us Cringe Every Time We Hear Them"
>
>
> 10a. "They're married?! "
>
> 10. "Don't bother the nice man/woman"
>
> 9. "Let me help you with that!"
>
> 8. "Wheelchair Bound"
>
> 7. "You Drive!?!"
>
> 6. "...And they even have jobs!"
>
> 5. "Those people"
>
> 4. "How are we today?"
>
> 3. "What would (s)he like?"
>
> 2. "Honey"
>
> 1. "You're so Brave."
>
> Kendall
>
> An unreasonable man (but my wife says that's
> redundant!)
>
> The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the
> unreasonable one
> persists in trying to adapt the world to himself.
> Therefore, all
> progress depends on the unreasonable man.
>
> -George Bernard Shaw 1856-1950
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kathleen Salkin [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Sunday, April 16, 2006 8:44 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: [C-PALSY] software will not swear!
>
> Right - they think we should just smile all the
> time! Makes me
> grumpy just thinking about it. LOL
>
> Kat
>
> On 16 Apr 2006, at 11:41, ken barber wrote:
>
> I FIND THIS AMUSING. YOU KNOW LOTS OF ooops. people
> do not want to consider us sexual beings and do not
> want to think of us that way and now someone does
> not
> want to think we would want to swear occassionly to
> put emphasis into our communication.
>
> --- Kathleen Salkin <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> Can you not add words to these dictionaries?
> Also,
>> you might want to
>> check and make sure any parental controls for any
> of
>> your software
>> packages are turned off.
>>
>> I don't run Windows at home, and I don't have
> admin
>> rights on my work
>> laptop, but I wonder if there are any settings in
>> Windows that would
>> control this sort of thing. Any insights on this
>> from our techie
>> members?
>>
>> Kat
>>
>> On 16 Apr 2006, at 10:02, Anthony Arnold wrote:
>>
>> Mag,
>>
>> I don't know what to say, I haven't worked with
>> Naturally Speaking,
>> but I do
>> know that our communication devices that are
> shipped
>> with DECTalk (and
>> beginning to be shipped with RealSpeak too), all
>> have speech
>> dictionaries,
>> where you can altar words if necessary. For a
>> example, one of my
>> friends at
>> work altered his name to be pronounced Mr.
> Wonderful
>> in one of the beta
>> versions I worked on just as a joke. My guess is
>> you have something
>> like a
>> speech dictionary, and you probably can change
> back
>> those
>> pronunciations.
>>
>> As my friend would say "swear freely".
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Anthony
>> Visit my website at www.anthonyarnold.net
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Cerebral Palsy List
>> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
>> Behalf Of
>> Magenta Raine
>> Sent: Sunday, April 16, 2006 2:57 AM
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: software will not swear!
>>
>> Golly, my dad gave me a laptop for my birthday,
> with
>> naturally speaking
>> software female voice, Kate. There is just one
>> problem; Kate refuses
>> to say
>> most swear words! Why do they censor it? It should
>> be up to the
>> people to
>> decide. And it's inconsistent. It will say fucked,
>> but not fucker, it
>> says
>> shitty, but not ass..... a helper said somebody
>> else's talking device
>> also
>> won't say cuss words. i just can't believe it.
>> Anthony, Beth, do you
>> know
>> why they do it? sure I could defeat it by
> spelling
>> the words slightly
>> differently. But why on earth can't folks let us
>> swear if we want to?
>> microsoft's Sam can do it, why can't Kate?!
>>
>> Mag
>>
>
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