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  • Posted By: Juanny @ 03/19/2009 5:33:53 PM

    To all the those making such intellictual sounding comments about science, I say: Science has indeed made extraordinary contributions to welfare of mankind and will no doubt do so in the centuries to come. However, just take a moment and study your history...as long as man is concerned with his own selfish advantage, which has been the case since a history of man exists, there will be no cure for anything physical, phsycological or otherwise. For the most part man's interest are purely selfish, no matter who he may be. How often does anyone put the next person first when they are faced with any kind of peril. It is only when someone personally faces a physical or mental situation themsleves or someone dear to them does that the awaken to the need to take action. These oddities depicted here or those like them had to resort to being put on exibition in order to survive or put in a sanitarium somewhere out of sight in order to prevent shame to their families, if they in fact had a family that accepted them in the first place. For all those too proud to accept the truth, you have my sympathy. However, if you want to know the truth about life now and what is to come and a real promise of health and youth in a disease free world consider visiting www.watchtower.org. and allow yourself a moment of freedom from prejudices and preconceived ideas. You might be surprised at what you might learn irrespective of how many years of academic learning might be under your belt.

  • Posted By: Juanny @ 03/19/2009 5:32:05 PM

    To all the those making such intellictual sounding comments about science, I say: Science has indeed made extraordinary contributions to welfare of mankind and will no doubt do so in the centuries to come. However, just take a moment and study your history...as long as man is concerned with his own selfish advantage, which has been the case since a history of man exists, there will be no cure for anything physical, phsycological or otherwise. For the most part man's interest are purely selfish, no matter who he may be. How often does anyone put the next person first when they are faced with any kind of peril. It is only when someone personally faces a physical or mental situation themsleves or someone dear to them does that the awaken to the need to take action. These oddities depicted here or those like them had to resort to being put on exibition in order to survive or put in a sanitarium somewhere out of sight in order to prevent shame to their families, if they in fact had a family that accepted them in the first place. For all those too proud to accept the truth, you have my sympathy. However, if you want to know the truth about life now and what is to come and a real promise of health and youth in a disease free world consider visiting www.watchtower.org. and allow yourself a moment of freedom from prejudices and preconceived ideas. You might be surprised at what you might learn irrespective of how many years of academic learning might be under your belt.

  • Posted By: DiasRavenGuard @ 09/06/2008 6:57:29 AM

    To the guy TwistedWar, might be interested in http://news. bbc.co. uk/2/hi/health/7577501 .stm Title of the article is "Universal flu vaccine tests start" and that is exactly what it might mean... Ever consider the possibility of having one vaccination every "5 to 15 years" or even longer maybe 90 years is long enough for you to not take medicine for it to affect the drug market? There's a lot we don't know about yet and one of the biggest things holding us back isn't a god, (or gods or whatever...) or an organization, it's the fact that we are still learning about how things work! Things get better but I doubt there will ever be an age of "disease free" after all, life always tries to stay alive and changes to match with what is thrown at it. Even without that little issue of "possible evolutionary trends visible in real life," if not kept in balance the bacteria in your gut could be considered a disease

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