Since the rapture is so close...
Should I not worry about getting my wisdom teeth surgically extracted, they cause pain, but it is on and off pain. I do not trust general anesthesia in an office setting, but thats the only way the doctor would be able to block the pain,anyway if we are going to probably going to be raptured before the end of the year why bother with it haha. Also, I have always wondered why God gave us wisdom teeth when we don't need them.
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"Also, I have always wondered why God gave us wisdom teeth when we don't need them."
I think you should wonder about this some more. To the tune of doing some research about why our ancestors (or, if it makes it easier for you, Adam and Eve) might have had extra teeth.
"Raptured before the end of the year"
I'd like to take wagers on that action, please. You name the amount, RocketGirl, and I will raise it. See ya New Year's Day to collect.
Well if she has impacted wisdom teeth, and the potential to cause decay and poisons which she will swallow and possibly die from, this could actually become a fulfilled prophesy.
She could be dead soon as she predicts, but she won't be raptured.
This should be a Darwin Award nomination.
Norm
"if we are going to probably going to be raptured before the end of the year why bother with it haha "
I think this segment of her comment shows that she still might not be totally convinced that the Rapture is actually imminent (though she probably really hopes so!) she's just using this as an additional rationalization to avoid facing something that scares her (namely, general anaesthesia).
When the pain becomes strong enough and constant enough (i.e., when she is "Rupture Ready"), it will help her overcome that fear, and NO faith-based rationalization will stop her from going to a dentist and demanding that he knock her out and remove those teeth.
"Also, I have always wondered why God gave us wisdom teeth when we don't need them."
Obviously, to give you the beginning of wisdom when you wonder things like this.
~David D.G.
Also, I have always wondered why God gave us wisdom teeth when we don't need them.
Keep thinking about it. While you're at it, ponder why he gave us an organ that does nothing except occasionally get infected, requiring surgical removal (the appendix). And why he gave us a blind spot when he managed to get the eye right in a "lesser" animal (the squid).
Well, obviously, since the rapture is so close, why worry about it?
What? I've long said that stupidity should be painful. Who says dreams can't come true?
"Since the rapture is so close..."
Absolutely, it's likely to happen at any moment.
"Should I not worry about getting my wisdom teeth surgically extracted, they cause pain, but it is on and off pain."
God is giving you this pain as a test and a growing experience. To have those teeth removed is to thwart God's plan. You were created in God's image. To tamper with your body to the extent of actually removing parts of it is an insult to God.
"I do not trust general anesthesia in an office setting, but thats the only way the doctor would be able to block the pain, anyway if we are going to probably going to be raptured before the end of the year why bother with it haha."
You need the pain to grow into the spiritual being God needs you to be before the rapture. Do not attempt to avoid God's plan for you.
"Also, I have always wondered why God gave us wisdom teeth when we don't need them."
God's given you wisdom teeth to increase your spiritual wisdom. Would the perfect God give you something you didn't need. Would he give you pain for no reason?
Yes, wonder about the wisdom teeth. Which is the simpler explanation of useless organs or genetic material that seem to have useful purposes in other animals? That they are vestigial remnants of our evolutionary past, or that a God who fashioned us directly from clay designed a being in His image, only to give Man useless spare parts that cause us pain and disease?
Maybe before the Rapture comes, it might occur to you that you've been lied to by people without the mental flexibility to adapt an ancient book to modern knowledge.
Alex W, every human being has a blind spot at the point where the optic nerve enters each eyeball. The reason you don't notice it (usually) is that the brain fills in the detail, and normally when both eyes are open the spots cancel out, because they don't overlap. There are tricks you can do to show it's there - if you have a black dot and a cross horizontally alligned on white paper, and close one eye and focus on one of them, the other apparently disappears if you get the separation right, because it's obscured by the blind spot.
Well if she has impacted wisdom teeth, and the potential to cause decay and poisons which she will swallow and possibly die from
Don't say that!! I have four impacted wisdom teeth (one of which is nicely intertwined with the major nerve in my lower jaw...:-( ). I get the decay part, but what "poisons" could develop?
I didn't have wisdom teeth either, am I from another batch or something?
Not everyone has wisdom teeth. And even if a person does have them, there's no guarantee they'll get all four.
Also, Sierra - I'd recommend that you get yours taken out at the earliest possible convienience. Two of my teeth became so impacted that at times it was difficult just to even eat.
I do not trust general anesthesia in an office setting
I don't get this part. Is she suggesting she'd have dental surgery in an effing office or what?
As for wisdom teeth, about 10% of people, incl. me, lack them entirely. The percentage is trending upwards, but very very slowly.
@Sierra
Well if she has impacted wisdom teeth, and the potential to cause decay and poisons which she will swallow and possibly die from
Don't say that!! I have four impacted wisdom teeth (one of which is nicely intertwined with the major nerve in my lower jaw...:-( ). I get the decay part, but what "poisons" could develop?
Sierra! Wow. I thought you were indestructible on this stuff. Mouths are incredibly unhygienic - dog's mouths are much cleaner and human bites are extremely hazardous in terms of subsequent infections and septesemia. Over 500 different species of bacteria inhabit the human mouth and some of them do release extremely harmful toxins as a waste product. If you get a significant population of these in an area you cannot clean, you can be in trouble. Especially when you're pregnant - poor dental hygiene can release these toxins into your blood stream and these can pass through the placenta and are a significant factor in late term miscarriages.
Investigation of the effect of treatment of maternal chronic periodontitis on delivery and low birth weight
There was no association between maternal periodontal health and either preterm or low birth weight birth. In contrast, there was some evidence of a relationship between poorer periodontal health and the outcomes of late miscarriage and stillbirth.
(Or you can blame it on God's will, up to you) ;-)
"Alex W, every human being has a blind spot at the point where the optic nerve enters each eyeball."
Every vertebrate (with eyes) has the blind spot. If you google "optic disc", you can find out more about them, I bet.
See? This whole waste away and do nothing worthwhile with your life business, delving to the depths of depression, hopelessness, and general pointlessness of life stuff (sloth) is the end result of one of the most damaging beliefs out there. This, THIS is the reason I had to give up that particular belief system of rapture poison.
Useless factoid: A recent study postulated that the appendix does indeed have a function. It appears to store intestinal flora separate from the intestine, so if the normal intestinal flora is disturbed by disease, injury, etc., it can be reestablished from the colonies living in the appendix.
Explains why it occasionally gets infected and has to be removed.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21153898/
Consider the fact that people were saying the same thing last year, RocketGirl. And the year before. And the year before. And the decade before that...et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. Get your fucking teeth pulled.
This is actually really funny. Here's this little airhead, ignoring a dental problem that -will- impact and cause massive pain and potentially serious infections (because, natch, the rapture ain't happening) and wondering why god created the problem.
You just have to wonder if, two years from now, when the rapture hasn't happened and she's in crippling pain, she'll crack the anthropology textbook that tells her how our ability to cook food reduced the need for large muscle insertions on our jaws, shrinking them over the past several millennia , and rendering our terminal set of molars both extraneous and problematically placed.
But I won't hold my breath.
I wonder if this person is still saying this. "Well, I know we'll be raptured by 2009...Well, I know we'll be rapured by 2010...etc." I'd love to know, I'd laugh my ass off.
More than four years later. No Rapture, big toothache (if she didn't finally crack and see a dentist).
Wow. Who could ever have imagined it would turn out this way?
get them fixed, you dont want an infected jaw. You dont need a general anesthesia , a local will be sufficient unless you are really nervous and then a little gas will fix that. Its just a little cut of the gum to expose the tooth.
"I have always wondered why God gave us wisdom teeth when we don't need them."
*headdesk*
"we are going to probably going to be raptured before the end of the year"
Better check your calendar Nostradamus.
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