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• Does the individual matter for humans? Yes.

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Christie

What is God?

By Christie Ewen

“Wake me up from my hibernation” – Bjork (Pagan Poetry)

As a parent, I am overwhelmed by a sense of responsibility for both life and death.  It’s incredible for me to know so much over a new life.  I feel like I am all-knowing as I watch my newborn learn about the world and discover things I used to take for granted … such as sleep.  It frightens me to think one day when I die, I will be helpless to ever waking up and as a parent, I am saddened to think the life I have given will one day also slip away helplessly into the void, all alone.

When I say, “God, help me” …
I see God.  God gave me life.  God was my mother.  God helped my mother give birth.  God was her doctor.  God gave my mother life.  God was my grandmother.   God is everyone.  God is everywhere.  God is everything.  I am God.

“May God Be With You” …
Communicate and “God” will save you.  Note, that I put God in quotes.  God is not one entity.  God is not the trinity.  God is not any number of entities but rather in life lending its hand in progress.

“God save me! (from the deepest, darkest pit of emptiness)” …
God is the police, firemen, government, worker.  God is the scientist.  I’m putting my plea out there on the internet to communicate with you all that we’re capable of bringing back people from the dead.  My hope is that you will one day bring me back to life.  Life is programmable and so is our consciousness.  Our consciousness, our self, our soul is programmable.

Sometime after writing my blog "What is God?", I watched an interesting in-depth analysis about resurrection on the TV series Through the Wormhole with Morgan Freeman.  According to the show: maintaining a continuum of our memories makes us who we are so cloning is not enough.  I disagree.  Although I may have lost some of my memories over the years, I still have a sense of who I am.  I am not you and you are not me.  I have a very real sense of myself.  Clones are not empty vessels.  I believe consciousness is a manifestation of the physical human body.  This is a question I'd like to further investigate: Is a clone a copy of the soul?  I agree that memory is important for context but not necessary.  Including memory as part of resurrection would be an added bonus.

Some say life does not seem much of a life worth living if it’s just spent worrying about death.  The alternative is to live life blissfully and just accept death as a natural part of life.  Rather than worrying about death but working towards not dying makes sense.  We do it every day.  By "it", I mean "not dying".  The next step is to not do it ... ever.

Please note, that sometimes my blogs are edited without notice.  No need to be alarmed, it's merely my making adjustments in my writings to reflect my true thoughts.  I realized after re-reading my posts, I didn't elaborate enough and there was too much left up for interpretation.  I'm rewriting some of my posts to make myself more clear.

REFERENCES:

What is Life?
http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,2119649,00.html?xid=fblike

Bonnie Bassler on How Bacteria Communicate
http://www.ted.com/talks/bonnie_bassler_on_how_bacteria_communicate.html

Robin Ince says, “that science dictates we can live forever- not our consciousness, not ourselves, we only have one go at it”  Well, I disagree.  I believe ourselves and our consciousness is ingrained in our cells and that could be recreated.
http://www.ted.com/talks/robin_ince_science_versus_wonder.html

Is Death the End?
http://science.discovery.com/videos/through-the-wormhole-2-is-death-the-end.html

Grey Hair

By Christie Ewen

I started having gray hair when I was in my teens.  A few strands here and there.  Not the stringy, dry, mass of gray hair I have today.  Well, I noticed today that a strand that was once gray turned black.  I was watching for this since I changed my diet.  It started with one strand then I noticed more.  I followed a diet with more copper such as avocado, radishes, and spirulina according to Live Strong’s website on fruit and vegetables that reverse grey hair.  I also drank a cup of coconut water daily.

Since there was a deliberate recent change in my diet, there’s no denying that diet has made a significant improvement in my case.  It has already been established according to several sources that diet is one of many influences of grey hair so it should come as no surprise.
 

REFERENCES:

Live Strong Fruit and Vegetables that reverse grey hair

http://www.livestrong.com/article/325982-fruit-vegetables-that-reverse-grey-hair/

World's Oldest Person Turns 128

http://www.thedominican.net/articles/pampo.htm

Life After Steve Jobs

(February 24, 1955 à Oct. 5, 2011)

By Christie Ewen

"No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It is life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new." -Steve Jobs, Stanford University commencement speech, 2005

Just believing is where I find religion to play a significant role in what is possible.  Unfortunately, Steve Jobs accepted that mortality is a necessary part of life: in his own words, “And that is as it should be”.  How could a man worth over 8 billion dollars who lived every day of his life as if it was his last not live forever?  I believe the cure is in reprogramming the genes.  If only he had contacted me ...

Steve Jobs has done so much for humanity in liberating knowledge and I’m ever so grateful.  I wish he could have stayed true to himself to the very end – “stay foolish” and ultimately defied death.

References:

Steve Jobs: 20 Best Quotes

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/steve-jobs-death-20-best-quotes/story?id=14681795#

http://www.mfoundation.org/

Nature vs. Nurture

"The winner was a mouse that did not receive any dietary or pharmacological treatment at all, just an enriched environment. The mouse lived for 1551 days (about 4.2 years)." -- http://www.methuselahfoundation.org/


We have polluted the earth almost to the point of no return.  I am astonished by how many plastic bags are distributed in stores.  Consumerism for economic recovery does not have to be irresponsible spending in plastic and toxic wastes.  Protecting our environment is critical for longevity.  


I have this idea for a business and longevity (you are more than welcome to implement this particular cemetary/agriculture idea): What begets life begets death and vice versa.  How about a cemetery that accelerates this process?  Cremation is not the answer for reincarnation rather a cemetery that is also used for agriculture.


(c) Christie Ewen 2011

How does something old turn new again?

Life and death go hand in hand.  What gets old need to turn new again and that usually happens by destruction.  Imagine if people were like bacteria, never to die but get old complete with the accumulation of the diseases of mind and body - Mankind would be wiped out as we know it.  The multi-priceless question is: How does something old turn new again? and how can we go about this in a continuum?  How can a person be immortal?

Reproduction through intercourse was through evolution and the next evolution will come about by self reproduction.

Is there an example of life where something old turns new again through which humans can imitate?

It has been a while ...

I was reminded what's been going on in the NYTimes article about "Awaiting the Genome Payoff". I can't believe the daily obstacles that are getting in the way of progress. Progress has been slow but there is progress. The most awesome news to date is the creation of artificial life.

I'm going to raise the question again: "Where is the soul?" In the DNA. Simply the recreation of an individual is the recreation of the soul.