Curt Schilling diagnosed with cancer

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  1. KOUFAX0000

    KOUFAX0000 DSP Legend Damned

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    I watched someone battle it everyday for three years. It sucks but it places everything into perspective. Life is too short to stress or take anything too serious. Live healthy, live in the moment, appreciate the current company, travel, and drink plenty of red wine with beautiful intelligent women.

    And hope your team wins a championship.
     
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  2. blazer5

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    fellow hop head huh..Some of my staples:
    West Coast IPA
    Ballast Point Sculpin
    Racer 5
    Hoptimum ( Sierra Nevada Seasonal) Best IPA Iv'e ever had. 11% abv.., tasty, but 328 calories per bottle..yup, hence the 210 lbs!
    Pallet Wrecker
    Stone Ruination

    To name a few.
    Cheers!
     
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    This got me thinking..We should have a never ending beer thread..It would be cool to see what guys ae drinking and will hopefully introduce new brews to the guys that frequent this forum. I'm always looking for a new tasty beer to sample!
     
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  4. Bluezoo

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    Thank you.
     
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    My condolences to you and your family, BZ, I didn't know.

    Cancer is big in my family. My mother had skin and breast cancer on separate occasions but treated them both successfully. My father had prostate cancer and treated it successfully at Loma Linda with focused radiation, right after they started doing it there. Both of my grandmothers had double mastectomies and lived. My sister in law just had a double as well, she's in her early 40's and seems to be OK so far. My brother died of cancer after a tough 6+ year fight in his 40's. It started in his rectum and they "got it" with surgery and chemo. Four years later they found it in his lungs and again, they "Got it" with chemo. Two years after that it was in his brain, they did radiation and, um, "Got it". He was fine for a while then all of a sudden, BAM, back with a vengeance everywhere. He had a series of strokes and died about 3 weeks later. My brother always loved a good shitburger but he was living in Las Vegas at the time and they had no Tommy's there so right before he died, when I drove out to see him and say goodbye, I stopped at the one in Barstow and had them give me all the components of a double chili cheeseburger and fries, all separated. When I got to the hospice I reheated and assembled the whole thing and covered it all in chili. Even though he hadn't eaten for a few days there at the end, when he smelled it, he perked up and devoured it like there was no tomorrow. Sadly there wasn't. At least I know he was happy for a moment. RIP Stu.

    Some of you know my son is Autistic. He is now starting to take meds for OCD, as well as others to see if it will help with his self-stimulatory behavior. Autism is the fastest growing threat there is now. He has participated in research studies at UCLA, run by the doctors on the cutting edge of research and still, they aren't near having a cure or even identifying the cause for that matter. Personally, I think microwaves might have something to do with it since they exist in such high abundance. Some people are starting to subscribe to the theory that ASD is the next evolution of mankind and that everyone will be Autistic to some degree in a few hundred years. The way it's going, they might be right.
     
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    ...And my condolences to you and your family, Darth.
    Fascinating post, brother.
     
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  7. irish

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    wow
    my condolences on your brother dave
    that's really cool what you did with the tommy's burger reconstruction
    i'm sure he enjoyed and appreciated it in ways he could never tell you
    rest assured he's smiling down at you each and every day
    pain free and healthy

    i have a lot of friends with autistic children
    i think it's probably one of (if not) the most misunderstood conditions out there
    i'm sure you know that as well as anyone
    these kids are smart and loving
    they just communicate differently

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    My favorite true IPA is Founders Centennial...I damn near got addicted.
    Though not actually IPA's , Lagunitas Brown Shugga and Lagunitas Sucks both deliver the hops generously.
     
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    Thanks for sharing the story of your brother.

    I don't know if I've shared this before, but my wife worked for years as a home therapist for children with autism. Last year she worked part time managing autism home therapy programs for the company that contracts with Kaiser. Now she is a school psychologist specialist in Irvine who works on many of the toughest behavioral cases around the district, often times these are children diagnosed with autism. Through her I've been exposed to it and have met several children at both ends of the spectrum, which is extremely broad. Some severely affected, and some who could pass as "normal" if you didn't know. It's crazy to think that in this age of information and technology, not only is the cause of autism unknown, there really isn't a good hypothesis either.
     
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    Most diagnosed aren't autistic.
    The term demonized others who aren't self absorbed in a classic sense.
    Trauma around a child can cause him to accelerate his empathy development.
    Death of parents like with Luke/batman type story.
    Sensitivity/empathy is borne in the womb in a suffering mother by the child.
    An empathic born from one is strong in the force, more if it's pan generational suffering.
    Suffering = passion
    Passion of Christ movie was all about watching the suffering.
    Like a snuff, but that's another story.

    Empathic people know what others don't.
    They play games as kids where they trick their friends with knowing what they are thinking.
    But most are the origin of "special" child.
    Not retarded, not crazy, not sick just not normal. But more normal than normal.
    Too much trauma witnessed by child can cause severe issues without good education and nutrition.
    But the absence of those from a special child can move.them to bipolar or similar problems.
    Food and education and love and family and God is important.
    In.ancient times these kids trained as monks priests and become the spiritual side of society.
    The dark side is what happens when these.things.are absent enough.
    It's called schizophrenia and that opens the gate.to hells other demons.
    Megalomania gets Vader to kill the.emperor.
    Lots of these kids are.teenage suicides.
    Teen angst is a sign. Phases come back like faces of the moon.
    Parents that ignore.signs get children they don't understand.
    But that ignoring is a sign of a kind of sleeper or adult form of the bad effects.
    They can't help it, they are ears that can't hear and eyes that.can't see.
    Aka autistic adults. She'll.shocked or ptsd is related.
    You.witness others suffering then you suffer by/for/more than.that person.
    Or some they get like.that because it triggers a flashback of youth where suffering occurs and child is powerless to help. Now emotionally paralyzed.
    So yeah, spectrum.

    God, love, family, nutrition, education = cure.

    Cure doesn't mean no longer special.
    It's harnessing the best and losing the rest.
    Problem is the demonizing that will come.
    Flower heads better not grow in too much light.



    I use comics not to make light, but it's common currency.
    It's words that helps some better buy what I'm selling.
     
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    Btw more autistic kids = disturbance in the force
    Society missed signs, kids are harbinger stones to be polished.
    Data mines that watch and walk.

    These kids need to have all the help possible.
    This is what our money should go to.
    The help of autistic people so they don't get lost.
    Because of some types of autism is highly empathetic those kids affected by it suffer the sins of society that others can't comprehend. Mostly because of the lack of comprehension and understanding = lack of much suffering over something not known.
    This is the job community is supposed to do, help these kids by not indoctrinating them in the culture of death.

    Sure some people just can't deal, that's a different deal.
     
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