OF IMMORTAL MICE – AND MEN
How appropriate, after all their experimental suffering, that possibly the first beneficiaries of Mankind’s search for immortality will be Mice! To be spared the onset of old age and the decline of organ function: health and wellbeing!
Using gene therapy and associated research techniques, scientists at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have prevented this age-related decline in an entire organ — the liver — and shown that, as a result, the livers of older animals functioned as well as they did when the animals were much younger.
Plainly, this is not the only research lab working in this area. The subject is so commonly researched there are ‘In’ jokes about it and its KnockOut Mice!
But we are not in the business of promoting labs nor even of justifying their work.
We look instead to see what this might portend for future Mankind. The reality is that many diseases have already been tamed with this involuntary assistance from the various animals used in medical laboratories: pigs, rabbits, dogs, rats and mice.
Interestingly, the principal studies conducted at the Albert Einstein College and reported, for instance, at: http://www.physorg.com/news137592884.html focus specifically on the functions of the liver. Their work devotes itself to unravelling the mechanisms by which the body keeps itself healthy and what to do to maintain that activity with age, because with age the process begins to decline and the liver, as is the case in other organs, becomes ‘clogged’ with protein. Put briefly that is. What makes this interesting is that the liver is the Hepatic Gland or organ and is the repository of Hepatitis and we are pretty sure there are several millions out there who would thrill to be told a new method might be found to deal with HIV. The research we are commenting on does no such thing.
What it does is specifically identify one method by which the body determines itself to be less able to be fit. Fitness for living must be defined as the capacity to cope with stress and to organically cleanse itself of ‘toxic waste’.
Any person dealing with kidney failure and the need for repeated dialysis knows a very great deal about the kind of ‘fitness for living’ that we mean. Without this fitness, the body eventually succumbs to the build-up of toxicity in its systems, a toxicity that would be naturally excreted by a healthy and fit body.
So this research was specifically looking at ways to ‘switch’ on and off a genetically engineered ability to rid the liver of this undesirable protein build-up. It worked.
Immortal mice! Not quite, but the process worked within the bounds of the experiment and the researchers are encouraged to experiment further and also, as you would imagine, to conjecture upon studies related to Alzheimer’s and other degenerative disorders in Mankind.
This is very good. We accept even during the ‘Dark Ages’, pockets of brilliance existed in the minds of men and besides, it seems apparent that men of all ages ‘knew things’ in the Olden Days. This current Age is the scientific pinnacle of Mankind’s endeavour so far.
Emotionally and societally, mankind has not changed one iota in all the Ages of Time, so far as can be seen. Every Historical evidence points to people doing precisely the same things, often foolish, for the same age-old reasons.
One of the thrusts of this Blog is that Time is short for Mankind because the markers are in place and they line up unerringly for the imminent demise of the Race, or certainly of Civilisation as we know it. Yes, if you are American, it is civilised to spell it with an s.
Now. Let’s look then at what this item in our Blog is about.
We believe in God. There would be no point to angels without God but in saying this we simply make the point for Jews, it is permissible to write the letters ‘God’. The taboos by which modern Jews live rest upon truthes that were lost, again, two thousand years ago and are WHY they repeatedly get the boot. Worshipping the WORD instead of the BEING is unworthy of the Elect of God, which they are.
The wonderful records which the Jews have handed down to us of their dealings with God and His words to them are Keys to the meanings of Mankind. “Surely the Lord GOD will do nothing, but he revealeth his secret unto his servants the prophets.” Amos 3:7
Those prophets, derided as they may be in the modern world, saw our day and days yet to come. They saw things that plainly were impossible to believe or understand thousands of years ago. Their words must always be accepted with Faith.
The words of Ezekiel, Isaiah, Daniel, Malachi and others are frequently bandied around, along with those of John the Revelator, by individuals seeking to justify whichever axe they seek to grind. We will not go there. When the terrible Truthes contained in the words of the Prophets become apparent to Mankind it will be even more too late that it is already.
Instead, we will look at some concepts which must be senseless in the past and not very comprehensible now. This is the connection with our immortal mice.
Of old we are told a Time must come when Man will live to the age of a tree and then, dying be turned in a twinkling into an immortal being.
We will leave the true immortality to God but insofar as He enables Mankind to delve deeper and deeper into the secrets of our ‘mortality’, it must seem daily we inch closer to the day when we obtain mastery at last over the senescence by which our bodies weary and ultimately long for the grave. Not because WE despise life but because our aged bodies can no longer DO it. We become mortally unfit for life.
How pleasant it must be to not grow old. Perhaps not !! Just the guilt associated with ONE adolescence might be as much as we would like to bear. To live endlessly, with the frailty of human foibles, would hang an ever growing flock of albatrosses around our necks as we remain inseparably chained to the mast of mortal life. heh
Now these scientists advance, no doubt clad in their sterile garb, dauntless upon the Fountain of Youth. In reality, as can be seen from the Collegiate stature and the professional vitae of the players, this is a profoundly commercial work and is most competitive and industrial in its application.
Strangely, in a sense, it requires all these vast and complex societies, their banal seeming works of this world, the housing crises, the financial and economic booms and busts and crucially, the wars, for this vast undercurrent of scientific discovery to survive. It requires the gamut of individual freedom and liberty, of institutional freedoms and unchained minds that characterise the Western World at least, and elements of course of what we have and that is being exploited in the East. Nuclear medicine might develop far from Western laboratories but we calculate the greatest strides in curative and preventative medicines will derive here rather than under the thumbs of despots, tyrants and zealots.
So.
What we said.
What is the chance that the flowering of Mankind’s prowess, to prolong life and creativity, to extend the ‘vital years’, will prosper so long as millions or billions of pathogenic Islamic Militants continue to abide with us? What kind of peaceful pursuits will we be allowed so long as this Planet is increasingly inundated with chaotic propaganda based on evil, malice, hatred and perverse religious zeal?
No.
We have accepted that the Human Race, which will in anycase survive, will go on totally without these sick Muslims.
Is this religious discrimination?
When we put down snailbait, is this discrimination against snails or simply a matter of eliminating a damaging influence from our environment? The ‘treehuggers’ will immediately pounce upon the opportunity to scream, “Save the snails!” But they will be the very first to complain when they are put on a diet of nothing just so the snails can live. The reality of this existence is the connectedness of it.
But what if the snails have the elixir of eternal life?
French people ate them for years and years and continue, belatedly we admit, to die.
heh sorry about that – French angels will understand
No. We have accepted that when all is said and done, particularly having in mind the totally cold-blooded qualities that made the West the winner, after a long and almost completely destructive struggle, the ferals will lose.
Mankind will go on. The Race will survive. We guarantee it will be a Theocratic Kingdom and that, after the Wars that must soon come to pass, those in it will desire to make war no more. This much at least the Prophets have told us!
Islamists and their false prophet attempt to steal the truth. They seek to destroy Agency – the capacity to act, in thought, word and deed. Islamists are the enemies of God. God intends that you, who read these simple words, must decide for yourselves in everything.
Will you venerate moral equivalency? Will you dedicate the rest of your life to the contention there is no Truth but only that an ‘average’ of the moralistic pretensions of men and philosophers, mingled with scripture, is as good as the Truth?
What was the Truth?
Love God – and you can hardly love yourself unless you love God.
Love your neighbour as yourself.
Upon these two commandments hang the whole of the Law and the Prophets.
What are the chances that Militant Islam would permit sufficient Peace for such medical progress to be achieved?
Nuuuu ! heh They will kill you if you try.
Intelligence is Eternal. Intelligence is Light. Intelligence is Love. Intelligence is Truth. All these things are eternal and they are manifestations of the same Thing. We are here in the midst of this mortal moment to test our capacity to see these Truthes and to accept them and to act upon them – because our willingness to do so defines us in both Time and Eternity.
Every creature that hath within it the breath of life must die. Mortal birth is a step UP for the angels. There would be no point to this life without death. Death would be futile without Resurrection. There would be no point to Eternal Life without the Resurrection.
We must die to live forever.
Immortal mice regardless.
But between then and now we must struggle to the death with Militant Islam, not because it’s a religion but because it is an evil, dark falsehood.
rai@wenublog.com
Once again we suppose we will be inundated with unprintable personal threats against me on the mistaken basis that I hate anyone. For goodness sake, read what is written. “These words are silver” Angels will swear to the fact you are not innocent, having read it here.