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Entire of itself,
Every man is a piece of the continent,
A part of the main.
If a clod be washed away by the sea,
Europe is the less.
As well as if a promontory were.
As well as if a manor of thy friend's
Or of thine own were:
Any man's death diminishes me,
Because I am involved in mankind,
And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls;
It tolls for thee.
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis+3&version=NIV
25 Adam and his wife were both naked, and they felt no shame.
The Fall
3 Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden’?”
2 The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat fruit from the trees in the garden, 3 but God did say, ‘You must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden, and you must not touch it, or you will die.’”
4 “You will not certainly die,” the serpent said to the woman. 5 “For God knows that when you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”
6 When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it. She also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it. 7 Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they realized they were naked; so they sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves.
8 Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the Lord God as he was walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and they hid from the Lord God among the trees of the garden. 9 But the Lord God called to the man, “Where are you?”
10 He answered, “I heard you in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; so I hid.”
WARNING- DEALS WITH THE SUBJECT OF RAPE - NOT FOR THOSE UNDER 18 YEARS
The Journal of Crime and Punishment- Religion 19th May 2014
Elsewhere in this book I tell the story of a man who in 1992, in Belgrade Serbia, ran up to and shot the man who was raping a Serbian woman who was only about 19 years old. His name was Jesus, but why did God wait until the woman had had her clothes removed, and was actually being raped before He armed Jesus with an M16 and showed him where the woman who needed him was? How do I know this happened? It is because I was there, but in 1992 when this event happened I was travelling somewhere in Europe or Japan, miles away from Serbia, and I'd forgotten about this incident which happened to me before I was born in 1955. To confirm that it happened at all you would have to ask the woman concerned if it did, if you could find her.
It is because there is no shame in being the victim of a rape. It is the objective of the rapist to shame the woman, to show his power over her, and to humiliate her in the most devistating manner possible. So if she does not die, which would not serve his purpose in humiliating her, if he even had the mental capacity to rationally think through his strategy she has won. In fact let us assume he is above average intelligence. Suppose the average is 100, and he has an IQ of 141 or 143.
He is smart enough to plan his attack, and there is nothing the average person (woman) can do about it because he has covered all contingencies. Except one. He is dead, because while his victims rescuer had to wait while he penetrated her, because God knew there was another man with a gun who would have shot a rescuer before he could get there, none of the protagonists could see the full picture. There is no shame in being the victim of a rape. Millions of women have suffered this. The perpetrators of rape or sexual violence, are:[58] therefore less than human. They are no more than bullies who have a need to dominate those who they consider weak, to compensate for their own feelings of weakness.
The victim of (sexual) violence may be in need of reconstructive surgery or facial or cosmetic or plastic surgery but also need psychological counseling.
Rape is a type of sexual assault usually involving sexual intercourse or other forms sexual penetration initiated against one or more individuals without the consent of those individuals. The act may be carried out by physical force, coercion, abuse of authority or against a person who is incapable of valid consent, such as one who is unconscious, incapacitated, or below the legal age of consent.[1][2][3][4] The term rape is sometimes used interchangeably with the term sexual assault.[5]
cpj 20th May
Technically it is very difficult to do genetic engineering. Frankly I'm surprised and somewhat sceptical that Monsanto have done it although
although there is no doubt that somebody has. Take the flower Forget-Me-Not (Forget me knot).I remember engineering this one, but not when. Imagine that the genes are the teeth in a zip fastener. There are specific genes which encode the whole growth of a plant or animal, yet only six or so may determine the colour of the flower. Fortunately these sequences have been designed, or evolved, depending on your belief or preference, to be specific lenghts, so that these genes controlling colour can be simply swapped. But imagine how small they are. Imagine a flea, and how tiny the cells are. We believe scientists are today trying to manipulate the sex genes of fleas. In these cells are the strings of DNA containing the genes. Try to imagine how long these strings would be. To simply tie the six gene sequence in a knot, and place it back in the chromosome sounds simple, but it has to be done chemically, after disolving and removing the genes from the dividing chromosome. Not easy at all. Try to design an animal with not just functioning eyes, but fingers and organs and you will see the impossibility of the task.
When a cell is fertilized it begins dividing, first into two cells, then four, and then eight, and so on. Eventually a human is ready, but it still doesn't know anything. Learning begins after it is born. You could say that a soul enter a body at some point before it is born, if the soul or individual existed before then, or perhaps you could say that a chip is created, and knows nothing, and has no previous life, but develops a soul as it grows in knowledge, learns and becomes sentient. It is also possible that a human such as I could be inside a machine, such as a cruise missile, and be conscious of flying and controlling the flight.
The brightly colored eyes of many bird species result from the presence of other pigments, such as pteridines, purines, and carotenoids.[6] Humans and other animals have many phenotypic variations in eye color.[7] The genetics of eye color are complicated, and color is determined by multiple genes. So far, as many as 15 genes have been associated with eye color inheritance. Some of the eye-color genes include OCA2 and HERC2.[8] The once-held view that blue eye color is a simple recessive trait has been shown to be incorrect. The genetics of eye color are so complex that almost any parent-child combination of eye colors can occur.[9][10] However, OCA2 gene polymorphism, close to proximal 5′ regulatory region, explains most human eye-color variation.[11]
The haploid human genome contains approximately 20,000 protein-coding genes, significantly fewer than had been anticipated.[2][3] Protein-coding sequences account for only a very small fraction of the genome (approximately 1.5%), and the rest is associated with non-coding RNA molecules, regulatory DNA sequences, LINEs, SINEs, introns, and sequences for which as yet no function has been elucidated.[4]