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Celebrities / Re: The Digital Tatoo What The Mark Of Beast Looks Like by Thepsyhiccensor: 8:55pm On Jul 31, 2020
The Coronavirus is pedophilia Baal worship a detractor public scare scripted by the Simpson cartoon as well as other forms of medium
Celebrities / Re: The Hidden Hand Behind George Floyd's Freemasonic Sacrifice & Funeral by Thepsyhiccensor: 8:34pm On Jul 31, 2020
The Coronavirus is pedophilia Baal worship a detractor public scare scripted by the Simpson cartoon as well as other forms of medium
Celebrities / Re: The Hidden Hand Behind George Floyd's Freemasonic Sacrifice & Funeral by Thepsyhiccensor: 7:53pm On Jul 31, 2020
Rome is church of Satan and church of Satan is Rome

Celebrities / Re: The Hidden Hand Behind George Floyd's Freemasonic Sacrifice & Funeral by Thepsyhiccensor: 7:22pm On Jul 31, 2020
VI-XI. The Fall of the Angels: the Demoralisation of Mankind: the Intercession of the Angels on behalf of Mankind.

The Dooms pronounced by God on the Angels: the Messianic Kingdom (a Noah fragment).

CHAPTER VI. 1. And it came to pass when the children of men had multiplied that in those days were born unto them beautiful and comely daughters.

2. And the angels, the children of the heaven, saw and lusted after them, and said to one another: 'Come, let us choose us wives from among the children of men and beget us children.'

3. And Semjâzâ, who was their leader, said unto them: 'I fear ye will not indeed agree to do this deed, and I alone shall have to pay the penalty of a great sin.'


4. And they all answered him and said: 'Let us all swear an oath, and all bind ourselves by mutual imprecations not to abandon this plan but to do this thing.'


5. Then sware they all together and bound themselves by mutual imprecations upon it.

6. And they were in all two hundred; who descended in the days of Jared on the summit of Mount Hermon, and they called it Mount Hermon, because they had sworn and bound themselves by mutual imprecations upon it.

7. And these are the names of their leaders: Sêmîazâz, their leader, Arâkîba, Râmêêl, Kôkabîêl, Tâmîêl, Râmîêl, Dânêl, Êzêqêêl, Barâqîjâl, Asâêl, Armârôs, Batârêl, Anânêl, Zaqîêl, Samsâpêêl, Satarêl, Tûrêl, Jômjâêl, Sariêl.


8. These are their chiefs of tens.



Now the Book of Enoch is written by a Hebrew holy scribe or prophet. The Hebrews were the only race among the Black races that stem from Noah's 3 sons Shem, Ham, and Japeth which Abraham redeemed his bloodline from this satanic practice. There is no curse of Ham yet Ham produced Canaan which became curse and devour itself. They all are plaqued with affliction after affliction says the Holy Quran for their polytheistic pagan worship. The book of Enoch says this as well stating they created gods with their own hands. Men deceived by the Jinn Fallen Angels mentioned above do create egregore spirits which become very powerful over time through mass prayer and worship. Nearly 2 billion people worship the Greek God Zeus whom they call Jesus. It's nothing more than an egregore spirit whose power behind it is the Jinn Fallen Angels.

Romans who are ruling the world now have many gods they worship which they mask under the glory of the righteous Hebrew Messiah son of Mary. Although it was never important for Hebrew women to be virgins because they received dowry based upon how rich their fathers were. Virgin worship is Black Roman culture who had the cult of Velsta. They have made these Romans White yet the original Romans are Blacks who practiced polytheistic pagan worship and human sacrifice, pedophilia and slavery just like the Black Greeks.

Roman Gods

Apollo
Bacchus
Venus
Diana
Poseidon
Minerva
Ceres
Juno
Mars
Mercury
Neptune
Vulcan
Vesta
Jupiter
Pluto
Asclepius
Saturn
Janus
Luna
Cybele
Fortuna
Proserpina
Flora
Terra

Celebrities / Re: The Hidden Hand Behind George Floyd's Freemasonic Sacrifice & Funeral by Thepsyhiccensor: 7:15pm On Jul 31, 2020
Wherever you find homosexuals you will find devil workers. The god of homosexuality who blesses it as a sacrifice demands blood for their payment. Anywhere you have witchcraft you have the Watchers bloodline practicing that which God Almighty forbids.

Name them devils or suffer the wrath of change
Celebrities / Re: The Digital Tatoo What The Mark Of Beast Looks Like by Thepsyhiccensor: 6:16pm On Jul 31, 2020
The Coronavirus is pedophilia Baal worship
Pets / Re: 14-Year-Old Indonesian Girl Has Six Pythons As Pets (Photos) by Thepsyhiccensor: 4:37pm On Jul 31, 2020
mansakhalifa:



Plain as day
Celebrities / Re: The Hidden Hand Behind George Floyd's Freemasonic Sacrifice & Funeral by Thepsyhiccensor: 4:36pm On Jul 31, 2020
Rome is church of Satan and church of Satan is Rome

Them pedophiles are coming out of the church and nowhere else
Celebrities / Re: The Hidden Hand Behind George Floyd's Freemasonic Sacrifice & Funeral by Thepsyhiccensor: 4:29pm On Jul 31, 2020
Pink prostitution

I didnt put them in pink the Illuminati put them in pink.

Nations of the Earth drunk off the wine of Rome's fornication which is gay prostitution.

Celebrities / Re: Black Rome: The Orange Green Pedophile Network Children For Sale! by Thepsyhiccensor: 4:20pm On Jul 31, 2020
Orange and green pedophile network
Celebrities / Re: The Hidden Hand Behind George Floyd's Freemasonic Sacrifice & Funeral by Thepsyhiccensor: 4:09pm On Jul 31, 2020
Rome is church of Satan and church of Satan is Rome
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On Being Gay In Medicine: A Leading Harvard Pediatrician's Story

March 30, 2012

Carey Goldberg

This article is more than 8 years old.Dr. Mark Schuster, Harvard Medical School professor and Chief of General Pediatrics at Children’s Hospital Boston

Dr. Mark Schuster is the William Berenberg Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School and Chief of General Pediatrics at Children’s Hospital Boston. This essay is based on remarks he made as the featured speaker at the Children's Hospital Boston GLBT & Friends Celebration in June, 2010, and has just been published in the journal "Academic Pediatrics." We post it here with his permission.

The first time I stood before a large audience to speak was when I was 13 years old. It was at my Bar Mitzvah. I walked up to the podium, looked out over the sea of faces, and thought to myself, I am a homosexual standing in front of all of these people. And I wondered what would happen if I told them.

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That was in 1972, and even mentioning the word homosexual, unless paired with an expletive or derogatory adjective, would have been unacceptable at my synagogue. It would have been unacceptable in my home, my school, or any place I knew. I could not have conceived of telling my doctor. I assumed that I would never say out loud that I am a homosexual. The idea that I would someday be able to stand in an auditorium, stand anywhere, just a few miles from where I live with my husband, our two sons, and our dog, with everything but the white picket fence, was not something I could imagine.

He made it clear that he wasn’t going to operate on a lesbian. Then I heard a voice shout, “So, she’s a lesbian, what does it matter!” And then I realized that the voice was mine.

Today I stand on a different stage. The Children’s Hospital Boston GLBT and Friends group asked me to share my story as part of its celebration day. How I got here, what I learned along the way, especially at Children’s, and how the world changed — these are what I will talk about.

A decade after I considered turning my Bar Mitzvah into a public confessional, I entered medical school at Harvard. Some students had started a gay group the year before. They had scoped out the territory, searched for role models, and come up nearly empty. In a creaky old closet, tucked way in the back, they found a world-renowned senior physician at Children’s. He advised against starting the group, offering that it was much better to be secretive about being gay so that no one would bother you. I’ve heard that same advice many times from men and women from earlier generations who had fewer options in their day.

Around the same time, a Harvard physician I later met was just coming out. He was spotted at a social event with someone his hospital’s Chairman of the Board suspected was gay. The Chairman reported to the hospital that he thought the physician was gay too and said that people like that should not be allowed to work there.

Fortunately, the CEO ignored the Chairman.

There was a junior faculty member at Beth Israel Hospital who was out and actually willing to talk with gay students. When I made my pilgrimage to meet her, even she advised me to remain closeted until after I got my first semester grades. She explained that the school would want to kick me out if they learned I was gay, and they could use poor grades as an excuse.

That’s not to say that there was silence about gay people. We did learn about them in an elective course on “special” populations. One week we learned about prostitution; another, about drug addicts. In between, we learned about homosexuals. A real live one showed up to tell us what it was like. He was articulate and our own age and seemed just like all of us. Indeed, I knew him. We had gone to college together and he was a student at Harvard Law School. I sat in awe of his bravery and prayed no one had seen him say hi to me.

I came out to classmates I felt close to. They were mostly supportive. One time I was talking with a classmate about a guy who had asked me out on a date. She confessed that she had thought that being gay meant simply that men had sex with men; it had never occurred to her that they might actually go to a movie or fall in love. Her honesty gave me a window into what many peers believed, as I would learn repeatedly over the years when people let down their guard.

During medical school, I was on the admissions committee. Two people interviewed each applicant and then presented to the rest of the committee. There was an applicant who was outstanding in every category; I gave him a 10 out of 10. The other committee member who interviewed him, a doctor at Children’s, gave him the worst score we’d seen. His record at one of the top schools in the country meant that he would have had to have confessed to murder, or worse, preferring Yale to Harvard, to get such a low score. We waited to hear the explanation. He said that he just didn’t feel “comfortable” with the applicant.

The committee was baffled. I wasn’t, because I had met the applicant. He was a man who was effeminate. I didn’t know if he was gay, but I did know that he was someone who was likely to have been called names or to have been roughed up because people thought he was. The doctor who had interviewed him already had a reputation at Harvard College, where he helped premeds put together their applications for medical school. Gay students knew to avoid being assigned to him.

I thought back to myself as a young man who wondered why he was applying to medical school when he kept hearing that he would have to choose between being a doctor and being openly gay.

As it turned out, with no articulated explanation for the low score, the committee was unconvinced and went with my score. The applicant was admitted, got an MD/PhD, eventually came out as gay, and has gone on to do important work in transgender studies. I wasn’t sorry that the doctor who had interviewed him left Children’s before I began residency here.

A year later I was doing my rotations. On my adult neurology rotation, a young woman came to the emergency ward with urinary incontinence and other symptoms and signs of a herniated disc. The myelogram confirmed the diagnosis. The neurosurgeon was eager to operate. The neurology team was delighted that she was a great teaching case. But she proved a richer teaching case than we anticipated. The neurosurgeon abruptly canceled the operation. It turned out that the radiologist had reversed his reading.

When pressed as to why he no longer saw what even a third-year medical student could see (that would be me), he confessed that the neurosurgeon had pressured him to change his read. When our team met with the neurosurgeon, he was direct. He had seen what he assumed to be a lesbian novel at the patient’s bedside, and he wasn’t going to operate. His rationalization was that she might have inserted something into her urethra that caused her incontinence. He had no research or case studies to support his theory. He had no explanation for why a lesbian would do this. He had no explanation for why it wasn’t showing up on x-ray. He made it clear, though, that he wasn’t going to operate on a lesbian.

Then I heard a voice shout, “So, she’s a lesbian, what does it matter!” And then I realized that the voice was mine. There was a moment of silence as everyone turned to look at me, jaws agape. The neurosurgeon burst forth with questions. How do you know? Did she tell you? What did she say? Indeed, she hadn’t said anything. It was just that she and the woman by her side during all of this were the most obviously devoted couple I’d met in any of my rotations yet. The neurosurgeon held firm. To their credit, the neurology team got orthopedics to perform the surgery.

On another rotation, I was on a consult service that helped diagnose a man with AIDS. His case hit home. He had just moved across the country with his boyfriend, who was a first-year Harvard medical student. The pulmonary fellow on our team, a generally kind man, grumbled to me that he hated having to go into this patient’s room. And so we didn’t go in much. The patient’s intern also avoided him, even managing to find herself too busy to perform a timed blood draw one night for a key lab test. I was still there writing my consult note, so after several attempts to gently remind her to take a break from having a light evening and chatting with staff, I just did it myself. This patient was not unlike any number of patients at hospitals around the country, wondering why the clinicians who were supposed to provide care and comfort appeared to be avoiding and even judging them.

He eventually died. His surviving boyfriend, the medical student, joined some other medical students and me at the 1987 National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights. While there, our visit to the AIDS quilt, a collection of panels that each represented someone who had been lost, was particularly poignant as we remembered my former patient and so many other patients and friends.

Later, during residency, we had a child in the neonatal intensive care unit with two moms. The primary nurse assigned to him was incoherent on rounds. She couldn’t contain her distaste for the boy’s parents. She didn’t want either mom around, including the one who had given birth. The charge nurse pulled her off the case. This was the same neonatal intensive care unit in which staff also found it hilarious that a female utilization review administrator used to be a man; they snickered and whispered within earshot when she was there. I encountered the same infant again a few months later on the wards when he was admitted with bronchiolitis. There the nurses and physicians treated the moms with all the respect that every parent should receive.

After my third year, I entered a joint masters program at the Kennedy School of Government. Having benefitted from the peer support of the medical school gay group, I teamed up with some other students to start one at the Kennedy School. We organized a public screening of a documentary about the life of Harvey Milk, an early gay rights leader who was assassinated. I agreed to do the introductory speech for the evening. When I mentioned this to my boyfriend, a junior faculty member at the law school who was concerned about getting tenure, he told me that word would certainly get back to the medical school and I would not get a residency. That gave me pause. He also told me he would have to break up with me because he wouldn’t be able to be seen with me once I came out publicly.

That was eye-opening in so many ways, and basically guaranteed that I would go ahead and introduce the evening. We had tried to meet with the dean to invite him to make some remarks at the event, but he wouldn’t even talk with us. Through his assistant, he declined to attend the event, but he did send a letter for us to read. It talked about the joys of running for public office. It mentioned nothing about being gay or our new student group. His letter became an object lesson for the school, with the audience laughing vigorously at the words so carefully chosen to avoid giving any hint of support for our group.

A few months later it was time for me to pick medical school rotations for the summer, so I met with my attending from my pediatrics rotation at Children’s, who was also a member of the admissions committee for the pediatrics residency. He had decided that he should be my advisor. He told me that I was definitely going to get into Children’s for residency so I should take the opportunity to do adult rotations because I’d get plenty of pediatrics for the rest of my career. He told me who should write my recommendations, with him being at the top of his list. At the end of our conversation, I told him I had one more thing I wanted to talk about. I told him I was gay.




Green is for pedophile and there is no gay gene. These perverts stem from upper class perverts when they are really doing the occult rituals.


Wake up out your slumber

Celebrities / Re: The Hidden Hand Behind George Floyd's Freemasonic Sacrifice & Funeral by Thepsyhiccensor: 2:33pm On Jul 31, 2020
Name them devils or suffer the wrath of change
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Name them devils or suffer the wrath of change
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