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30/06/2007

Life, Death, Spirit

I proclaim the authoritative statement of things related to life and death. This is more oriented toward Christianity, as many of such articles are. I claim these words to supercede the milqtoast utterances of the pope. The truth is, humanity has no reason to fight over life and death under any circumstance.
 
As anyone with a spiritual background can answer to, the mechanism of life is not simple. It is orchestrated by some deity such as God or whoever you believe is involved. This means that when you undergo heart transplant surgery and are dead for a few minutes, God isn't stupid enough to try to take your spirit to heaven forever unless the surgeons are stupid and you die.
In the same sense, God isn't stupid enough to put an eternal spirit into the body of a child who is never going to see daylight. Many spiritualists believe that the child's spirit may not enter the body until the initial spark of intelligence, or for you scientific people, until the brain has developed the ability for advanced reasoning. Maybe you respect the whole biological chain of organic life, then there is life lost no matter what, even ask a baby doctor.
 
What does this mean to the common person? Well, it means that sexual activity without intent to produce a child is not murder. In fact, the male body absorbs the male reproductive cells into nutrients, and the female body can either absorb or eject unused biological matter. The end is the same, no child is born, nobody dies, and a religiously questionable way to ease tension and stress has been accomplished. In fact, the sexual needs, desires, and mutual respect, and not the life of the child, is addressed by the bible in 1Corinthians7.
 
What does this mean about pro life activists? I myself am pro life, yet I am not a fanatic. I do not believe in making a woman bear a burden without her consent. A child is a gift from God, but you are meant to take that gift, not have it forced on you by rape. The bible is clear about sexuality not being burdensome, so if having a child would be a burden on the woman, it should be avoided. Many women are hormonally attracted to the idea of having a baby, those are the women who should have them. My opinion is that women should exercise more and become as strong as any rapist. Of course, since the burden of new life is the woman's, if a man is raped, he has very little concern.
 
If your are on a spiritual quest, remember that the new testament supercedes the old testament. The guidelines of the new testament conflict with the commands of the old, so don't get them confused. We are talking about two different eras.
11/06/2007

Genes and Regrowth

It is a fact that some people can regrow their lost teeth. Some people can heal better than others. Some people can also heal to a greater extent than others. In a nutshell, regrowth is what is most important once the damage has been done.
 
So, what does this all mean? Why should anyone care that someone you don't even know can regrow a tooth? Well, you should care because of gene research and the extensive amount of effort being put into it. I'm not talking about supposedly killing babies for their stem cells or T cells, I'm talking about skipping that whole area with the minimum amount of research safely possible.
 
What does regrowth mean for you? Do you smoke or drink heavily, or did your doctor put you on liver damaging medication? Well, doctors will be able to remove the healthy tissue from whatever part of your body that's damaged, put it into a regrowth chamber for safety, and within a short period of time the healthy tissue will read the DNA instructions about how to restore itself. This means that if your liver is 90% gone, they take it all out and regrow the healthy stuff. Then they put your recently removed liver back into you, good as new.
 
The best part about it is that it's your own body doing the regeneration. Your own cells with your own DNA can be stimulated essentially into regrowing your entire body. Until recently, the body was just built to do what it does, but now that scientists are figuring out how to make the body do whatever they want it to, the possibilities are endless. Although the science is relatively complicated, many scientists in this field are also claiming that they should soon figure out how to make people live indefinitely.
 
This all means that within a few years everything about how we live will be redefined. We will have to consider our choices of mortality based on whether we want to live for another hundred or even thousand years instead of a mere forty or fifty years. When you decide to eat something, you must first consider the concequences of the foreign chemicals in it, and how you will feel in thirty years when the accumulative effect starts to wear down your system. Perhaps you will decide to put on that helmet, since the brain doesn't regrow so easily. Maybe you will decide to double-check your parachute before dropping into who-knows-where and risking death. Now you can start that impossible hobby that you've always wanted to try.
 
On the other hand, perhaps an eternity is too long for you. Perhaps you want to end it all after one hundred years of perfect health. Maybe it's unlucky to live to be six hundred sixty-six years old. Perhaps you were living your life for conquest and you now have all that there is to have, or maybe you were living your life to experience everything and you did. Maybe your loved ones couldn't handle it and you are experiencing survivor's guilt. What if you were simply depressed one day and found an easy way to end it all.
07/06/2007

Friendship

People define friendship in different ways, some say it's a partnership between people who have known eachother for a while, others say they are friends with anyone who is nice to them, still others say that they have no friends and that it would be a waste of time. Human beings are a naturally social species, and whether we know it or not, we are making friendship bonds in our life, whether they are healthy relationships with people or with other objects.
 
I define friendship as a positivity guarantee. No matter how bad the situation is, all decisions are made based on keeping the friendship. This does not mean lying or overworking yourself, it means forgiving accidents and limitations of others. In a friendship, depending on the region you are from, you usually treat eachother warmly and in a friendly manor. When two people disagree on an issue that may never be resolved, one or more people in the argument must realise that it is not worth breaking a friendship over and say so.
 
Usually, thinking of a good friend can create a feeling of well-being. This can in turn help stabilize mood and stress levels. The more agreeable the friendship, the greater the benefit. For instance, if your friend notices that you are stressed out, he/she may decide to help you out with whatever task you are trying to perform, such as taking out the garbage or some kind of common household task. Taking the time to recognize such friendly actions also increases the beneficial effects.
 
Friendships can take on different quality levels based on the situation. Some people are in very high quality friendships which include scheduling your own tasks together and doing things at one or the others house. Some people are in medium quality friendships which include meeting at regular events like a weekly religous activity or going to the same job. Some people are in low quality friendships which include meeting at the same grocery store once in a while, playing the same online game, or just communicating by mail.
 
Some people are concerned about their capacity for friendship involving emotional attachments. It is true that you may naturally place a lower value on friendship and have a lower tendency to hold onto relationships, this is usually circumstantial or based on a psychological disorder. Some pople simply have too much to do in their daily lives, or are malnourished, or may even simply be forgetful. Such people may all benefit from keeping and regularly looking at a list of their friends. There are other cases, which can be quite common, in which a person is simply not a very fast learner when it comes to social interaction. If your desired partner is right for you, they can be made to understand this and will forgive you for it.
 
There are some cases in which people lie to themselves about a relationship. They think they are great friends with someone, but may not even like the person. Here are some warning signs to look at:
  • A feeling of discomfort or annoyance when thinking about things involving the person
  • A blank or weak feeling toward the person
  • Unexplained tiredness or weakness during or after interaction with the person
  • Negative mood change during or after interaction with the person, may be directed at the person, self, or others