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hi bill you wrote: >I hate to rain on a lovely lady's parade, and I'm sorry, >but please don't start with the "results don't matter" business. >I definitely disagree. i certainly didn't intend any disparagement toward the efforts being made by the pan handlers if i were american, i would be right there with them, with bells on! however, none of us can predict the future we cannot tell whether the money will be made available we cannot tell whether the money will provide the cure that is not to say we shouldn't work at what we believe in as hard as we can but if the money doesn't result in a cure does that mean that all this effort is a 'waste'? >It frightens me. >I so hate having this stupid disease. we differ here at the risk of repetition i said this to maryhelen and the list recently: >...i didn't begin to figure out what my challenge was >till i was diagnosed with pd ten years ago >that diagnosis was my 'wake up call' > >the past ten years have been a tremendous period >of growth and change for me in many ways > >if i hadn't heard the 'wake up call' >i wouldn't be here sharing all of this with you > >and i would be so much the poorer > >so i can't look at my pd as a scourge to be banished > >but that's my perspective >based on how i see my challenge if the cure came along tomorrow i would cheer as loudly as anyone i simply feel that the work and effort in process has its own value regardless of the 'outcome' maybe something we can't see yet >We don't really want admiration, God help us, >we want $100,000,000. >If being admired helps, fine. >But let's not lose prospective. my perspective is mine and yours is yours neither of us is 'right' or 'wrong'' >I know you didn't mean to get this going i admit to hesitating over the phrase '...the results don't matter...' maybe it's a poor choice of words >--my fault, >but I couldn't let that pass. >One tiny flaw and picky picky picky! no problemmo, bill exchanging opinions is a great benefit of this medium you made me think harder! your cyb-sis janet janet paterson aka calendar control supervisor 51/10 - sinemet/selegiline/prozac - [log in to unmask] quotations: http://newww.com/cgi-bin/do_cal?c:newvoice pwp event calendar: http://newww.com/cgi-bin/do_cal?c:pwpc a new voice: http://www.newcountry.nu/pd/members/janet/index.htm