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<b>Of Canvas Buckets, Hyperspace, and The Great Departure</b><p><p>
<b>Introduction</b><p>
The God Who created all things has a vast plan for you and me. Since we are only humans we cannot know the full plan of God. But The God has given us a sort of road map of a large portion of his plan for the Universe of his creating. This plan is so important to God that he even took flesh and dwelt among us to further our understanding! <p>
The God chose to intersect our space and time limits as Jesus. But being a man, Jesus was unique even in his manhood. The astonishing thing we learn from the Bible is that there is coming a time when we who believe in who Jesus is will be like Him! [ 1 John 3:2 Beloved, we are God's children now, and what we will be has not yet appeared; but we know that when he appears we shall be like him, because we shall see him as he is. ] We will use this brackets method to point to the passages in the Bible which point to the notion just shared.<p>
The aim of this manuscript is to address the final destination for this phase in the development of humans as God has designed in his continuing development of beings with whom he can commune, to know him and be known by him, our Creator.<p>
In order to understand the final phase – the Rapture and the Tribulation - we must start by revealing who is Jesus, according to his word for us. [ John 10:27-30 My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me. I give them eternal life, and they will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand. My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all, and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father's hand. I and the Father are one.” ] Then we will move to what we are, how he has made us to exist in this phase of our development. After that, we will attempt to show three phases under the title of The Rapture, or as translated in the earliest English versions of the Bible from Greek to English as 'the Departure'.<p>
This work is founded upon what we may learn from the Bible. The Bible is a data transfer method which God has given to us. It is supernatural in origin. We have found that it contains data streams which describe events hundreds of years before they occurred in human History. It is our intention to look at the messages found in the Bible using our recent understanding of the Universe and how it is fashioned. We will literally start with a Physics lesson taught by Jesus, found in John's Gospel.<p>
<b>Jesus, God With Us</b><p>
The Bible gives us the name by which Jesus was to be known, before he was even entered into our limits as humans. Before he was even in Mary's womb we were given his identifying name. [ Isaiah 7:14 Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and shall call his name Emmanuel. ] <p>
Let us start with how that name was shown to be true. Jesus is God with us. [ Matthew 1:23 ]<p>
The scene we turn to is found in the fourteenth chapter of John's Gospel account. The setting is the Upper Room where Jesus shared the Passover meal with his disciples, particularly the time after Judas left to betray him to the Jewish leadership for arrest. Jesus shifts understanding of the Passover to focus upon him as the Passover sacrifice, by shifting the disciples focus from the kingdom age, which was rejected by the Jewish leaders, to him as source of a new age.<p>
He has appeared as God with us for a purpose God has for we humans. We will see God doing something in our sensing realm as Jesus, God With Us. Before that last Passover meal, Jesus was sent only to the Jews, to offer The Kingdom for them. When the Jewish leaders rejected the offer, Jesus opened a new age of grace for all, not just the Jews. The Age of Grace is God building a Body of Believers where there is no difference between Jew and non-Jew. Think of 'Body of Believers' like we would the collected student body of a school. All in this body are members by faith alone in Christ alone.<p>
Here is the passage from John's Gospel which we will focus upon to catch the Physics lesson:<p>
<b>John 14:1-12 , English Standard Version</b>
“Let not your hearts be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in me. In my Father's house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you? And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, that where I am you may be also. And you know the way to where I am going.”<br>
Thomas said to him, “Lord, we do not know where you are going. How can we know the way?” Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. 7 If you had known me, you would have known my Father also. From now on you do know him and have seen him.”<br>
Philip said to him, “Lord, show us the Father, and it is enough for us.” <br>
9 Jesus said to him, “Have I been with you so long, and you still do not know me, Philip? Whoever has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’? 10 Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words that I say to you I do not speak on my own authority, but the Father who dwells in me does his works. 11 Believe me that I am in the Father and the Father is in me, or else believe on account of the works themselves.<p>
The Physics lesson is in verses seven, nine, ten, and eleven. What Jesus has told them is 'The only place you can see the Father is where he is in your space and time limits. All you can know of the Father by your bodily senses is where he intersects your space and time limits as Jesus.'
Jesus has in so many words told them that their limits of perception are such that the only place they can 'see' the Father is where the Father is intersecting their space and time, as Jesus, The Son of God in flesh and blood, God with us, stepped from a hyper-dimensional Universe into the four variables we now sense; length, width, height of space and present time.<p>
God has come from a greater coordinate system than three variables of space and one variable of time. This greater coordinate system has more variables of space and time and the Bible shows us many scenes where at least one extra space variable is in play. We will look at one in particular, found in the Old Testament Book of Daniel, chapter five..<p>
To illustrate this lesson, there is a little exercise Carl Sagan used during his COSMOS TV series. He didn't use the analogy to support the scriptures; he used the analogy to illustrate dimensional variables and how the variables effect perception.<p>
Paraphrasing, Sagan said that if you are a two variable being, having only length and width variables of space sensing, the only place you could sense a ball, a three spatial variable thing, is where the ball intersects your two variable perception limits. Length and width are your perception limits. You can only see the length and width of the ball, not the height, so you see less than the all of the ball.The sphere shape of the ball will touch the length and width plane of your existence as a point on your plane, then as it passes through your plane it becomes a circle, expanding the circle on the plane of your reality, increasing in size until half of the ball has passed through, then the circle will begin reducing in size until it becomes a point on your plane, then vanishes.<p>
Because The Creator is by definition greater than his creation, wherever he is in the created Universe, he will be greater in variables han the location. Where God is in the Universe he exists as more than the location.<p>
God is Omnipresent, meaning everywhere at once because he has all the variables of location anywhere and everywhere in his creation ... except with Jesus. God chose to limit his variables at the location known as Jesus. Jesus was still God but by choice he completed the mission in the limits of flesh and blood as a man.<p>
[ <b>Philippians 2:5-8</b> Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross. ] <p>
Jesus, a man with extraordinary powers but yet a man. And he has promised us that we too will have those powers he showed with miracles, signs, and wonders. The wonders happened because the Life of God, the power of God remained in his human spirit. Once a person is saved from the penalty of sin, God's life abides in the spirit of any man or woman, boy or girl who by faith in Jesus is a member of the Body of Christ. [ John 14:12 “Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever believes in me will also do the works that I do; and greater works than these will he do, because I am going to the Father. ]<p>
The question may arise -an incorrect question, by the way- 'since God can do anything, why would he be conceived in a womb, grow to birth age and be so vulnerable? Why not just create an adult body for himself to walk in our space and time limits?'<p>
The answer is a huge hint at the grace and love of God. He has chosen to create beings greater than the Angels with whom he can relate, directly. The Angels are called the sons of God in Genesis, so we humans are to be greater than even that created species. Because of our limits the power of our position in spoace and time is built upon faith. Faith is believing a promise from God without seeing what marvelous phase shift is coming. God promised to us that Messiah would be of seed of David, so the human process was promised and fulfilled in Jesus.<br>
[ The Word of God was with God in the beginning and was God and the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us. [ <b>John 1</b> ]
As a human, what were the characteristics of his humanity? Well, he had a human spirit, a human soul / behavior mechanism of mind, will, and emotions, and a physical body. The difference in Him is / was the reality that his seed of Life, the God-seed of spiritual life, remained in His human spirit! [ 2 Corinthians 5:21 For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God. ]
A simple analogy would be an electric lamp, remaining plugged into the electrical outlet, always ready to broadcast light by the electrical power. Jesus told his disciples, “The words that I say to you I do not speak on my own authority, but the Father who dwells in me does his works.” God tells us in the Bible that we will live by the same means Jesus lived by, having God-life abiding in us the same way God-life was abiding in Jesus. He was doing miracles because there was no sin to limit the power of God-life in his human spirit. God puts that spirit life in us when we are made righteous by Jesus. When God remakes us physically we will accomplish miraculous things during a coming age where Jesus is reigning upon Earth. The miraculous we will do will be by God's power flowing through our new glorified body and soul, because there will be no sin to reduce the flow of God's energy through us to do the miracles.<p>
<b>What Are We As Humans</b><p>
Every person descended from Adam has inherited a body, a behavior mechanism ( a soul of mind, will, and emotions ), and a spirit. In God's plan every human descended from Adam's seed has a spirit but now without God-life on it due to the fall from grace when Adam chose to disobey the simple command of 'don't eat from the Tree of the Knowledge of good and evil.' Adam chose to disobey because he did not want to risk losing his relationship with Eve. Satan did not trick Adam as he did Eve. Adam chose the world rather than to obey God. When Adam made that choice, the life upon his human spirit departed and Adam's spirit was immediately in a state of deadness, not gone out of existence just unable to do right with deadness in his spirit. The spiritual change was so astonishing that Adam felt guilty and naked. We might even say that Adam forfeited his hyper-dimensionality … he lost his glow of righteousness.<p>
Every person descended from Adam has inherited that emptiness in the spirit. God has made a way for putting his God-life into the human spirit through faith in whom he sent for our salvation. We each must be redeemed from that state of deadness.<p>
The spirit in each of us exists in a different space and time coordinate system than the body. When one dies and the body returns to atomic dust, the spirit still exists. It is not in the same coordinate system as the physical body. There is a physical body and a spiritual body. [ <b>1st Corinthians 15:44</b> It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body. ]<p>
The question sometimes arises at this point as to why didn't Jesus come into the world with a deadness in spirit since he too is descended from Adam. Human flesh is from Adam and Jesus had human flesh. [ When using the term flesh in a Bible sense, we are referring to the physical body with a behavior mechanism called the soul. Taken together the body and soul are 'the flesh'. ] The answer we have been given is that 'the spiritual deadness is passed through every human generation via the seed of the man, and Jesus is the Promised 'seed of the woman', a woman descended from David. So far, every human being has had both a mother and a father, except with Jesus God is his father, not a man descended from Adam.<p>
A deadness occupying the human spirit does not mean 'going out of existence'. It means some influence other than God-life is fueling the human spirit which in turn directs the human behavior mechanism ... and we sin, we all sin. We sin naturally because we are unable to do righteously because we do not have the spirit of righteousness in our human spirit … until we get born again.<p>
But God has provided his way for putting that righteousness into our dead human spirit, and it has nothing to do with behavior changes we might make in the soul. God's righteousness is given by God as his response to an individual's faith alone in whom God provided. By faith alone in Christ alone the righteousness of Christ who knew no sin is imputed or counted to us. Saving faith is created by believing God's promises. [ <b>Romans 4:3</b> For what does the Scripture say? “Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousnes”; <b>James 2:23</b> and the Scripture was fulfilled that says, “Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness”—and he was called a friend of God. ]<p>
With spiritual birth from a state of deadness is forever following that change of will. When you believe God provided Jesus for our salvation, God thereafter abides in the newly alive human spirit, never to depart, joined to our human spirit irrevocably. Why irrevocably? Well, his seed cannot sin! And we have his seed in our spirit. [ b>1 John 3:9</b> No one born of God makes a practice of sinning, for God's seed abides in him; and he cannot keep on sinning, because he has been born of God. ]<p>
Once born again we possess God-life, by the work only God can do, because only God can give his righteousness to someone. It cannot be worked for, like wages. Once his righteousness is in us, because we cannot manipulate God's Life in us, we are forever in his family by his Life in our human spirit. Your father's life is in you and that cannot be changed, for your physical body. God is Spirit so his life in your spirit makes you his child and that cannot be changed by any failure or mistake you make while still in your flesh.<p>
There is a part to each human descended from Adam which does not die when the flesh dies. Can I prove that? Not directly, but quantum Physics indicates that a data source beyond our four variable realm is influencing our four variable realm. This is the reality of hyperspace, hyper-dimensionality.<p>
The Bible illustrates this hyper-dimensional reality with many many scenes, not the least of which is the scene of a disembodied hand, from Daniel chapter five, with what appeared to the people at palace party central, Babylon. That hand was connected to a being, an alive functioning being who was not visible to the King or his party guests. That being exists in a hyper-dimensional realm we cannot sense as we are presently fashioned. [ Daniel 5 This is a large portion of scripture and we have limited our use of same to no more than ten or twelve sentences. The story is a real doozer, so if you haven't read it it is worth finding a Bible and reading it from the Old Testament. ]<p>
In a book written by Lisa Randall, Physicist,, the growth of certain crystals indicate the growth is being influenced by dimensional variables 'not able to be measured except by the effect on the crystal growth. [ Pages 4 and 5 of Lisa Randall’s <b>Warped Passages</b> ]<p>
The Word of God through Paul tells us that to be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord, for those who are alive spiritually in Christ. [ <b> 2 Corinthians 5:8</b> Yes, we are of good courage, and we would rather be away from the body and at home with the Lord. ]<p>
There is a phenomenon known as 'remote viewing' which makes a strong case for some about human beings which can access data in a hyper-dimensional reality not governed by the same Physics as our four-variable reality. It suggests that the soul of mind, emotion, and will is not completely in this four variable realm. It can sense hyper-dimensionality.<p>
Briefly, let us go deeper on the notion of hyper-dimensionality. For illustration conside a photon. Science says the photon is both a particle and a wave. The particle exists in a coordinate system of just line, or linear space, no widrth or height ( no plane made of length and width or volume made of length, width, and height ). As this particle of light crosses the volume of the Universe it remains in the present of the moment it was emitted from a source such as a star.<p>
That particle has another part to its nature which is hyper-dimensional to the linear coordinate in which the particle travels. The photon has something that is planar, something existing in width not just length, as wave energy. The particle is not sensing the wave energy because the particle is existing in linear or line coordinates only. The wave energy of the light particle exists in a greater coordinate system having length and width. The particle is in linear space only, but the wave energy is in a planar coordinate system, and planar has two variables of space, length and width. For a linear existing particle the wave is hyper-dimensional.<p>
[ A little more technical explanation of hyper-dimensional follows, for any wanting more: <br>
The particle of light energy in motion is always traveling in a line, it is in linear space. The wave function of the particle is in planar space, planar being length and width together. To the linear limits universe, planar is hyper dimensional. To planar limited space, volume space is hyperdimensional. To volume limited space coordinates, any 'next' space coordinates added are hyperdimensional. It is worth noting that each greater coordinate system has all the variables of the lesser coordinate system plus an addition not part of the lesser coordinate system]<p>
Our body is in three variables of space coordinate system ( length, width, and height, or linear, planar, and volume ). Our spirit is in a greater variable system of linear, planar, volume and at least one extra coordinate. Our body does not sense this extra coordiante because the physical body does not have that next or extra coordiante. To the body limited by linear, planar, and volume, the extra variable where the spirit exists is hyper-dimensional.<p>
As a child ( just turned two, summer of 1947 ) I had an experience with the tools an Army Colonel used to wash his big Green car in the parking lot at out apartment complex. He did not have a hose to deliver water from the building to his car so he used canvas buckets to carry water and have soapy water to the job. I squatted down beside one of the rinse buckets and pushed my finger against the wet side of the bucket. Water spilled out over the rim of the bucket and I heard a voice behind me say, 'Remember this, it will be important when you are older.' Well, I am much older now and I use that canvas bucket experience to illustrate the spirit with which we are born.<p>
Our spirit is like the non-functioning canvas bucket when it is empty of fluid. It has not gone out of existence, it is just not functioning as a bucket. The Bible uses water in illustrating the Holy Spirit. Without the 'water' the spirit of a man is not functioning as intended by the creator of that bucket. But when filled with water the bucket takes its intended shape and functions as the maker intended it to be used. Illustrating spiritual aliveness, when the bucket is full of water the canvas sides ooze water out and if filled the water begins to come out all around the rim sharing water with the zone around the bucket.<p>
The spirit part of each of us is not in the same coordinate system as the body. When the body dies and returns to the atom dust of which it was made, the spirit still exists. It is either asleep by the loss of a body for expression, or off to Heaven to be with The Lord, awaiting a return to Earth for a glorified body, a body with hyper-dimensional qualities.
But how is it possible to be redeemed and be with the Lord in a hyper-dimensional body and soul? ... Let's take a look!<p>
<b>The Three Phases Of Salvation</b><p>
The three phases are Justification, Sanctification, and Glorification, Something has been done for one who is 'born again': Justification, a past event. One 'has been' justified in order to have God's seed abiding in their human spirit forever more. I like that term 'justified' because that is the term Paul used to identify what only God can do for a sinner. God removed his spirit from upon Adam's spirit when Adam chose to rebel. Only God can restore his Life to a human spirit which is in a state of deadness. [ Romans 3:24 ; 6:3-6 ]. In this Age of God's Grace counted by faith alone in Christ alone, where Adam had the God-life upon his spirit, we who are in Christ have God-life IN our spirit.<p>
This brings to mind why God made Adam and gave him the ability to rebel. With Adam the God-life was upon Adam but only on his canvas bucket spirit. With Adam's descendants God puts His God-life IN the human spirit of those who have trusted in the One God sent for our salvation. For those in the Body of Christ, the seed of God abides IN their born from above spirit, not upon their 'canvas bucket' spirit. [<b> 1 John 3:9</b> ]<p>
The state of deadness is a non-functioning existence. Without the righteousness of God-life in our spirit we cannot do any righteous acts. A righteous act requires something humans do not have on their own efforts, righteousness.<p>
To fix that state of spirit deadness, righteousness must be transferred from the source of righteousness, God, to the one who has no god-level righteousness. When God counts his righteousness to someone, they are forever after that moment in a state of present righteousness. They have the source of righteousness abiding in their come alive spirit. [ <b> Philipians 2:13</b> for it is God who works in you, both to will and to work for his good pleasure. ]<p>
You might say the righteousness of God has a price so high no human can meet it. The price is the blood of an innocent human. Since we are born with a sin weighed spirit, we are never innocent, never have righteousness that would allow us to come before a Holy God with a box of righteous works. We might have a full box we are dragging along but there is not one righteous deed in it because we have no righteousness to energize a work. <p>
God has the righteousness. It is his nature to be righteous. Only God can transfer or count as ours his righteousness. God has chosen to do that transfer by putting his seed of life in anyone who will glorify who God sent for their salvation, God has made his means of counting his righteousness to our dead account as simple as believing upon the One he sent to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. By the power of his sinless blood, shed on the cross for us, individually, God's righteousness is counted for us, transferred to us, imputed to us through faith / active belief in whom he sent for our salvation!<p>
There are religions and Christianity-look-a-likes which claim a man or woman can strive to achieve acts of righteousness, and in so doing earn the righteousness which God has proclaimed is only given by his grace not as wages. There is no exchange rate between works done by those having no righteousness, and the Grace of God in Christ for our deliverance from a dead state. His righteousness is imputed by him, not us. These look-a-like cults and religions fail to recognize that only the righteous blood of The Redeemer can cleanse the unrighteous state of deadness in the human spirit. Some religions will claim that an incantation or 'convocation' by one of their priestly class can turn a liquid into the righteous blood of The Christ.<p>
The intercession with the blood of Christ can only be done by God, never by man. As Jesus was among us he was fully God and fully a man. His blood carried no taint of Adam's sin because He was The Seed of the woman, not a man. The scriptures tell us the life of the living creature is in the blood. [ Genesis 9:4 and several more places given in Moses, then repeated in the first great Church Council, Acts fifteen, to not eat the blood. ]<p>
The Life in Jesus carried by his precious blood was the Life of God not of man, so no man can manipulate the life of God. To be justified is to be cleansed by God through the Holy Blood of God. Only God can justify a man or woman. And when He does that justifying, the blood is applied to the believer and the seed of God takes up abiding in the newborn spirit. That is the first phase of the redemption for a human being, and it cannot be reversed or removed, according to God's Promise. [ John10:27-30 ]. God justifies someone through His blood, canceling the penalty for sin.<p>
The next phase of salvation requires the work of the justifioed newborn in order to grow in grace and knowledge as a new member of God's family. This phase is identified as sanctification, the present tense, as in a daily walk accessing the life abiding in the newborn spirit of the child of God. Agreeing with the still small voice within our come-alive spirit is the real action of confession when a behavior is sin. Sinful behavior is a glaring error to the righteousness abiding in the newborn spirit.<p>
Too many born agains are lured away from this daily walk. The lusts of the flesh do not disappear just because God cleanses the spirit. The end of the flesh is a life-long sanctification process requiring the full cooperation of the newborn. What needs to be defeated is the habit of sin, the literal power of sin. [ 1 Peter 2:24 ] The sanctification process removes the power of sin in our soul, in our mind, emotions, and will. The power of sin is removed to the degree we are accepting the leadership of the righteousness God put in our human spirit.
The flesh is the combined behavior mechanism called soul, made up of will, emotion and mind, directing the physical body which can sense pleasure and can will the body to unrighteous acts which defile the person.<p>
When one is born again, born from above [ John 3:5 ], the will of the soul has turned from the sin habit, to believe Jesus is the cure for the power of habit. God responds to this repentance. That is what a change of the will and change of the mind is, repentance.<p>
God does not erase the habit of sin. That requires the newborn spirit cooperation, toppling the statuary of sin's repetitions, the little idols our emotions erect as hallmarks of pride in self, pleasure for self. This canceling sin's power does not earn justification, for only God can justify a sin-laden spirit and cleanse the hideous ghosts of the spirit that sin imprints upon the deadness dominated spirit.<p>
The Glorification phase is future destiny in hyper-dimensionality for all who are in Christ as Believers. Like the justification phase, this glorification is an event which a person cannot make to happen, cannot do it for their self. The glorified person is promised the ability to do as Jesus did after his resurrection, for instance appearing in a locked and shuttered room without using a door or window, just appearing in the midst of the disciples. [ Luke 24”36 & 39 ; John 20:18 ]<p>
In his resurrected body, Jesus came from and went to a space and time coordinate systems different from what we can now sense. We are fashioned with limits, for our protection, where faith is the substance and evidence of things not seen. Our spirit and or behavior mechanism are not in the same space and time limits of the physical body, so they are unseen but real. <p>
Recall the reference to the Daniel chapter five scene, where a real being was in a completely unsensed coordinate system no further away than the length of a hand. This hyper-dimensional being reached 'down' one variable or 'over to' the coordinate system of the party people, to write a judgment upon the wall for the king to see. [ The way the scriptures portray it the king peed on himself and his knees knocked together in fear. ]<p>
The righteous born agains will be glorified by God, not by any effort they might try. Just as a man or woman cannot justify their self, they cannot glorify their self. These are the work of God. These happen for us in a realm currently unseen unheard unfelt where the spirit is real, where there is a spirit body.<p>
When my Pastor teaches on the three tenses of salvation he uses the three “Ps”: penalty, power, and presence. When God justifies a man, woman, boy or girl God has erased the penalty for sin. The sanctification process, in which the newborn participates is a present tense activity working on the behavior patterns, to bring the individual behavior to fit the character of God. This is being saved from the power of sin, the power of temptations. The final tense of salvation is the glorification of the actual physical body, soul, and spirit by removing the children of God with the righteousness of Christ in their spirits away from the realm where sin is acted out / where sin takes place. All the Believers since the Day of Pentecost preaching by Peter will be saved from the presence of sin crashing upon this four variables coordinate system in a man, a man of sin working all signs and lying wonders under the power of satan. [ 2 Thessalonians 2:1-10 ].<p>
As this is being written, saved from the presence of sin is yet a future event which we will address next. But before we move on, it might help to address again salvation from the penalty of sin.<p>
Each descendant from Adam is born with a sin nature, caused by the absence of Life, the absence of righteousness in the spirit. The behavior of the natural person will always be in rebellion to the character of God. A new born baby human has a featureless 'canvas bucket' spirit. On the day that such a human understands right and wrong and chooses to act on the wrong to please the self, that canvas bucket spirit begins accumulating sin. The penalty for sin is separation from the Presence of God, said in the scriptures as 'the penalty for sin is death'.<p>
Since every one of us is born with a state of deadness in the spirit, to what death is this proclamation referring? Well, the future final penalty of sin is eternal separation from God and all goodness. That is the final destiny for all unrighteousness and unbelief in The Promises of God. Jesus referred to this in his statement, found in Luke 13:27 . Without righteousness there is no degree of greater dimensional life in a person, so the body dies. Later, the spirit must stand before the Great White throne of judgment and be exposed as naked, lacking any righteousness, so there is no 'being / no existing in the presence of the source of all life'.<p>
The Creator made the Universe sort of like an onion or series of increasing in size globes, with layers of space and time coordinate systems. The simplest coordinate system at the start with fewest variables, growing to more variables. The simplest is a point, such as the point of photon, then added is the coordinate of length or linear in which photons exist, then length and width, planar, and so on. There are extra space coordinates, extra space variables beyond length, width, and height.
The point of light also remains on a linear pathway, as if it does not recognize the other variables of space such as volume. The point of energy stays on a line coordinate system, but because it is also a wave of energy the pooint of light has an other coordiunate system in which it is exists. Scientists say it is both a particle and a wave of energy. The particle of light in the line coordinate is not 'in' the width as a particle. I have a soul and spirit but these parts of me are in a different coordinate system than my physical body. These parts of me have more variability than my physical body.<p>
We exist physically in a coordinate system where temptations abound and sin abounds, Death in the spirit and body is the rule due to whom it is who now holds title deed to this coordinate system ... or held title deed until Jesus went to the cross to redeem all from the foolish mistake Adam made.<p>
When God created this coordinate system for man's first physical living, mankind was to hold the title deed and tend it all by the spiritual power of God-life upon man's spirit. With Adam's rebellion the ability to be the title holder was removed from man's spirit. This allowed another spiritual power to take over the title deed. Satan became the ruler of coordinate system Earth and his spirit of rebellion and defiance has soiled the entire realm. But God reveals in the Revelation of John the taking back of the title deed. [ Revelations chapters four and five ]
The presence of sin is the source of the over-spread state of physical deadness, due to the power of sin in this coordinate system. All living things die because the spiritual power running the place is deadness. All of creation growns under this horrible state of deadness, under a title deed holder who wants no blessing of God to be active.<p>
Yet there are cracks and holes in the working of this evil title holder. The beauty we humans sense in the ongoing life is one of those huge holes. We humans recognize beautiful things, like flowers and puppies, and kittens, and children ... and satan hates that.
God did not make this physical Earth coordinate system to be a place of death. By Adam's rebellion and the removal of God-life like a drape or shawl upon (not in) Adam's spirit, all of Adam's descendants exist in an 'other' spiritual presence that has taken hold of the title deed and is fashioning his character upon man and the entire coordinate system. Satan\s character is to lie and murder.<p>
The Word of God shows us that when King Jesus returns to the Earth at the end of the seven years of tribulation to rescue Israel, he will establish a millennial ( one thousand years ) reign during which the proper functioning of the coordinate realm will happen, where war, pestilence, and starvation will be abolished. [Revelation 20: 1-3 Isaiah 11:7; 65:21-25 ]<p>
[ Assurance of Salvation is a most precious gift from God: Col_1:27 For God wanted them to know that the riches and glory of Christ are for you Gentiles, too. And this is the secret: Christ lives in you. This gives you assurance of sharing His glory. ]<p>
If you or I will not believe only God can justify our dead spirit and soul, substituting instead chosen notions which tweak the pride of self, as if you or I can do works of righteousness without righteousness in us, we will die in our sins and go to Hell, eventually. GOD does not want that but he is the only one who justifies those he has determined he will justify. His justification is based in something that glorifies Jesus, not you or me.<p>
God does not recognize our works in the Justification step of Salvation. He does expect our participation in the Sanctification process of Salvation. The amazing preciousness of God justifying our dead spirit is that there is no failure in the sanctification phase that will erase or remove or nullify what GOD did in the Justifying phase to make us members in his family. There is coming a moment when God does something like the justification phase, a moment when only God can do the work. <p>
<b>Three Phases Of The Departure</b><p>
In the first letter from Paul to the believers in Thessaloniki Paul described the removal of the dead and the living from Earth to meet the Lord in the air. He used the Greek word 'harpazo' to describe the removal as a snatching away event. <p>
An early Church father, Jerome, made a translation of the Greek New Testament into Latin. When he came to 1st Thessalonians four and verse thirteen through seventeen he translated the Greek 'harpazo' into the Latin with a word from which we get out English word 'rapture'.<p>
To get a deeper understanding of the meaning of this Rapture event, it is necessary to convince ourselves that hyper-dimensionality exists, because what the Bible relates to us on this Rapture is hyper-dimensionality at work.<p>
There are for scripture passages which relate the departure event. The first is from Jesus in John's gospel, Jesus taught his disciples that glorification will happen for those whom he has been adding to his Body of Believers. The second is the description Paul gives in 1st Thessalonians, chapter four. A third passage is 1st Corinthians, chapter fifteen and verses fifty through fifty-eight. The fourth passage is found in 2nd Thessaloniansm chapter two and verse three. We will begin with the passage in 1st Thessalonians.<p>
[<b> 1st Thess 4:13</b> But we do not want you to be uninformed, brothers, about those who are asleep, that you may not grieve as others do who have no hope. 14 For since we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so, through Jesus, God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep. 15 For this we declare to you by a word from the Lord, that we who are alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will not precede those who have fallen asleep. 16 For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the sound of the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. 17 Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we will always be with the Lord. 18 Therefore encourage one another with these words. ]<p>
The relating to hyper-dimensionality is right there! Jesus is coming from the Third Heaven Throne Room, where Stephen saw Him when Stephen was on trial before the Sanhedrin. [Acts 6 & 7 ] The Sanhedrin members could not see what God was allowing Stephen to see, seeing into hyper-dimensional reality. Jesus is not coming in our four variable coordinate system when he comes to gather his Body of Believers. He is descending from one level of Heaven to the air around this planet, what the ancient Rabbis identified as the first Heaven. Why is this hyper-dimensional reality notion useful for deeper understanding of God's Word? Here's why it is important in our day, the days just before this event related by Paul to the believers in Thessaloniki:<br>
Most Christians believe there is a 'rapturing' departure of the church to take place. [ 'The church' refers to the entire membership in the body of believers growing in number since Peter preached on the Day of Pentecost, ten days after Jesus ascended to the Father.<p> ]
Growing in grace and knowledge Christians believe the scriptures are absolutely true. But among Christians the time when this departure with Jesus to the Father's House will happen is debated, hotly. Debate can stop if the reality of the events are understood as they relate to hyper-dimensionality, because the Rapture event does not happen in our coordinate system. <p>
The departure happens in that greater dimensional reality where Jesus is now. The reality where Jesus hyper-dimensional to our four variable Earth scene. The coordinate system to which our spirits are attached is where Jesus is. Death disconnects our spirit from the four variable coordinate system, the system where the body returns to the atomic dust.
One of the most heated topics regarding the Rapture event is whether it is the second coming of Jesus or not. The simplest answer requires a belief in hyper-dimensionality because the event is not a four variable event (length, width, height, and time).<p>
The spirits of the dead who are members of the body of Christ are with Jesus in hyper-dimensional third heaven. They will be brought by God with Jesus when he returns in the hyper-dimensional realm to gather all his body of believers, both the dead and the living. He will gather them all in new glorified bodies with hyper-dimensional variables incor[ported in the creation of their real physical bodies and souls.<p>
When Jesus came the first time he came to dwell among us in our limits, our four variable coordinate system. When he returns to rescue Israel, end the Tribulation, and establish his millennial Kingdom it will again be in this four variable coordinate system, not in the hyper-dimensional realm.<p>
Jesus has visited this world via the hyper-dimensional realm on many occasions in his glorified body. These happenings are recorded in the Old Testament and labeled by today's scholars as Christophanies. Jesus also visited Saul on the road to Damascus via the hyper-dimensional coordinate system affecting Saul's limits of perception. Saul saw the Lord but the men with Saul were not given that ability. [ Acts 9:1-9 ]<p>
The Rapture departure is an hyper-dimensional event, whereas the Return of The Christ / Christ's Second Coming is an event to happen within the four variable realm we now sense. Why can we make this claim? Because all the world will see his Second Coming, but the Rapture gathering happens in a coordinate system we cannot now sense with our four variable limits. Only those given the gift to see him in his glorified state saw him after his resurrection, like the men of Galilee who watched his ascension. [ Acts 1:11 ]<p>
After the resurrection, in his glorified body Jesus appeared to groups and Paul says even a group of more than five hundred. [ 1st Corinthians 15:6 ] When Jesus ascended into Heaven, he was visible only to those who believed in him, and all of those present were Jews, not gentiles. When he comes to end the Tribulation, defeat the antichrist, and set up his kingdom, the world will be seeing him as he descends into our coordinate system. I say our coordinates because he will be descending into the zone of sin, visible to those who have refused to believe in him. But there will be a remnant of Israel who are believers at his appearing, out from hyperspace into our space. And we who have been in the Third Heaven with him will be appearing with him.<p>
The Church Age had not been started yet when Jesus ascended. As he told his disciples, 'the comforter' will come when Jesus sends him and it was necessary that Jesus go to the Father so the Holy Spirit Comforter could be sent [ John 16:7 ] That beginning of the Church of Jesus was to happen ten days after the ascension, on the Day of Pentecost when Peter preached to the Israelites gathered in Jerusalem for the feast. Three thousand were added to the believers, the new Body of Christ Believers Church. This is not an organizational denomination. It is the real spiritual church Jesus spoke of when Peter under Holy Spirit direction stated Whom Jesus is:<br>
[ Matthew 16: 13 Now when Jesus came into the district of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, “Who do people say that the Son of Man is?” And they said, “Some say John the Baptist, others say Elijah, and others Jeremiah or one of the prophets.” He said to them, “But who do you say that I am?” Simon Peter replied, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.” And Jesus answered him, “Blessed are you, Simon Bar-Jonah! For flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father who is in heaven. And I tell you, you are Peter, and on this rock (profession) I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. ]<p>
It is a good guess that many if not most of those who witnessed His ascension were among the three thousand born again on the Day of Pentecost.<p>
Let us take a closer look at the scene revealed in 1st Thessalonians four.<br> The first phase of the gathering is The Lord descending in hyperspace with a loud command. This command is a creative work by the One Who is creator of all. When God spoke, worlds leaped into existence. Jesus called Lazarus from the grave by His spoken word.. He shall suddenly create in hyperspace glorified bodies for those who have died in Christ. The dead in Christ spirits are individually brought with him as he descends from the Third Heaven. The author of creation speaks things into existence. [ Isaiah 55:11 2 Corinthians 4:18 ]<p>
I imagoine that moment of the command to be somewhat like millions of spirits instantly sent to the site on Earth where their spirits got separated from their bodies, to the spot where they died. But these spirits are not in the four dimensional limits. They are in hyperspace, so they do not go down into the Earth, they are just united with a new creation body and soul at the region where they were separated from their natural body. Then they begin to rise up toward the clouds.
Paul relates that Jesus gave him a vision of the next phase shift, the transforming of the alive members of the Body of Christ away from the four dimensional realm, into the hyper-dimensional realm, into glorified bodies that then rise up to join the resurrected members of the Body of Christ, to meet the Lord in the air (the third phase of The Departure), then return to the Father's house. The alive in Christ are changed in the twinkling of an eye [ 1st Corinthians fifteen fifty through fifty-eight. ]<p>
Right here might be a good place to introduce the Biblical doctrine of immanency, the truth that Jesus could come to gather his body of believers at any moment. There is no sign which must happen before he would appear to gather those in Christ, at any moment, even before I finish this sentence. ... But he didn't, so we will continue. But he could come now ... but, well, he has not, so we will continue to explain this doctrine.<p>
In the passage we are exploring Paul uses the pronoun “we”, showing us clearly that even he expected that the Lord could come to gather the Believers in Paul's lifetime: 15 For this we declare to you by a word from the Lord, that we who are alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will not precede those who have fallen asleep.<p>
The concept of how imminence is important is illustrated by my Pastor, Dr Andy Woods, with his relationship to his parents who would tell him when he was a young teen that they were leaving Friday and would be back on Sunday evening. Under such timing he and his younger brother would not be good stewards of the household, perhaps allowing pizza boxes to pile up around the house, the kitchen sink to fill up with food drying dishes, and clothes dropped where they were removed, and the laundry they were told to wash, dry, and fold would languish. When Sunday rolled around they would panic a little and run around trying to get the house in order. ... But, if the parents said they were leaving on Friday and could return any time during the weekend, the treatment of the household went very differently since the return could happen any moment. I was once a teenage boy and can relate to that explanation! Only I was not given the warning that Mom could come back any day. The embarrassment was huge!<p>
The Lord's return for his Body of Christ Believers can happen at any moment. Christians are instructed to expect his return, not the revealing of the antichrist man of sin who comes with all signs and lying wonders from satan. That wicked one cannot be revealed until the Restrainer is removed.<p>
[ <b> 2nd Thessalonians 2: 5</b> Do you not remember that when I was still with you I told you these things? 6 And you know what is restraining him now so that he may be revealed in his time. 7 For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work. Only he who now restrains it will do so until he is out of the way ]<p>
We believe the Restrainer is the Holy Spirit. He is in the spirit of every living Christian, and of course in the born again spirits of those who have died in Christ. There are many reasons to see the Restrainer as the Holy Spirit because of the supernatural hyper-dimensional reality of the restraining. The Holy Spirit is restraining the great deceiver while He is building the Body of Believers. All of satan's false signs and wonders are restrained. But that is grist for another mill, to be addressed in the accompanying essays.<p>
In 1st Thessalonians 1:9&10 Paul almost as an aside focuses his readers on the sure return for them. [ “For they themselves shew of us what manner of entering in we had unto you, and how ye turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God; and to wait for his Son from heaven,” ]<p>
James the half brother of Jesus points to the imminent return in James 5:8 : Be ye also patient; stablish your hearts: for the coming of the Lord draweth nigh.
Paul in his first letter to the Corinthians presumes imminent return; [ 1st Corinthians 1: 7 … so that ye come behind in no gift; waiting for the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ ...]<p>
There are many passages in the Epistles, the New Testament letters, which urge the anticipation of the Lord's imminent return to gather his own to himself and return to the Father's House. According to his Promise in John 14 he has been preparing a place for us in the hyper-dimensional realm, heaven. The focus Jesus wanted was upon anticipating our blessed hope, his return for us, to remove us from -as Paul put it in 1st Thessalonians 1:10- the wrath to come. [ <b>Titus 2:13</b> looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Savior Jesus Christ; ]<p>
So we who are alive at His coming in hyper-dimensional coordinates will be changed. [ <b>1st Corinthians 15: 51</b> Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, 52 n a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. 53 For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. 54 So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality. ]<p>
That is the Christian's blessed hope: our Lord and Savior will at any moment gather us into hyper-dimensionality to himself, out of the this four variable coordinate system, instantaneously into the hyper-dimensional coordinate system, into glorified bodies, and return via hyper-dimensional reality to The Father's House and the Throne Room. Even as the Body of Christ Believers Church was so new, the believers were urged to expect his coming for them collectively at any moment.<p>
A friend and fellow Christian was confused by the reference to spirits of those who have died in Christ and the phrase 'rise first'. His understanding was that rise referred to these dead in Christ coming up out of the grave, so they could not have been with Christ in Heaven before the gathering to himself.<p>
That mistaken thought is swept away by the context of the passage. The focus is upon rising up into the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. Returning spirits are sent into newly created, glorified bodies around the world at the locations where they were separated from the natural body. Returning spirits will be receiving new glorified bodies with hyper-dimensional abilities which are not in the Earth but already in the air, in hyperspace, and rising to meet the Lord. We who are alive and transformed in the twinkling of an eye ( 1st Cor 15:51-58 ) join them in the clouds, rising up to meet the Lord in the air.<p>
The 'away from here to there' change is instantaneous. The rising up is not necessarily in an instant because we who are alive have to catch up, join those already rising up. The rising up is not visible as bodies rising up in this four variable coordinate system, for those who have not been changed into hyper-dimensional beings. Those not being gathered from our coordinates now, into the hyper-dimensional coordinates might see the phenomenon as a heavy mist rising from the surface of the earth, or as shimmer of light passing through a heat wave distorting the light. The alive in Christ will suddenly disappear from 'here' to the greater dimesnional Universe 'there', where the being in Daniel chapter five is.<p>
This brings us to a very controversial passage in 2nd Thess chapter two, which can lend understanding if we refer to the original Greek words used to form a compound word, 'apostasia'.<p>
In the Greek, verse three of 2nd Thess 2 contains a word made from the preposition 'apo' and the verb 'stasis'. These two words are sourced in the Greek 'apos' and 'histemi'. The meaning of apos is 'away from'. The meaning of histemi is 'to stand'. Together with the definite article 'the' these two words form the term 'The Apostasia' or basically 'the away from stand'. Isn't that what an instantaneous transformation from a four variable coordinate system to being in a greater coordinate system is all about?<p>
The being to whom the hand was attached in the Daniel chapter five scene was 'away from' the four variable party room, 'standing' in hyperspace. He was invisible to the partiers in palace party central, Babylon.<p>
In the 1st Thessalonians 4:13-17 Paul describes the event with the Greek word 'harpazo', meaning snatched or whisked from in a moment. The same word is used to describe many events in the Old and New Testaments, in the Septuagint.<p>
The Hebrew to Greek Septuagint was a translation of the Old Testament because there was not yet a New Testament. Described in the Old Testament, Elijah was snatched from the four variable realm / harpazoed' several times when dealing with King Ahab. In New Testament. Philip was 'harpazoed' after baptizing the Etheopian new Christian. In the Revelation the two Old Testament style witnesses who are killed in Jerusalem by the antichrist, are 'harpazoed' after God raises them from the dead. There are other examples such as Jesus coming from hyperspace to our four dimensional variables then leaving again back to the hyperspace from whence he came.<p>
Two different words are used by Paul when referring to the event of The Rapture. Could it be that he referred as a summary the event described in 1st Thessalonians 4 giving an over-view of the phases of the event? Then when referring the believers in Thessaloniki to his previous teaching he uses a different word, 'apostasia', to focus their attention to the departure from our current spacetime realm to the hyper-dimensional realm. The entire Body of Christ -both the dead in Christ and the still alive in Christ- are drawn up into the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, in a greeater reality zone, to escape the revealing and evil of the antichrist who rages during the Tribulation seven years.<p>
A careful reading of 2nd Thessalonians appears to indicate just that; that he was referring their memories to one of the phases which he had previously taught in more detail as best he could describe it with the understanding of his times. In Paul's day what we are calling hyperspace was known to them as the first Heaven or second heaven. In the context of current Physics we understand this first or second Heaven as greater dimensional variables realm not sensed by we four dimensional variable creatures.<p>
We want to show how Paul used harpazo and apostasia accurately. First he described the step-wise snatching away Rapture event as a summary of phases, with 'harpazo'. Then he describes more specifically the departure from this four variable realm to the greater dimensional realm with 'The Apostasia / Departure', before being drawn up into the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. The sudden transformation of the living is to protect us from the evil which will be released in this four variable realm when the Restrainer is removed.<p>
John supports this notion, indirectly, when he wrote in the first letter, 1 John 3:2, that when we see Jesus we will see him in his hyper-dimensional glorified state. At that moment we are like him in hyper-dimensional glorified body and soul. When The Christ appears in the air we have been changed into hyper-dimensional bodies and whisked up, seeing / sensing him as he is in his hyper-dimensional body.<p>
Can we understand the Rapture to happen in three phases? First the loud shout of command from the creator Lord, uniting the returning-with-him spirits to newly created hyper-dimensional bodies. Next the transformational departure of the alive and remaining members of the Body of Christ snatched from this dimensional realm, Is it 'the dead in Christ' first united to hyper-dimensional bodies, then The Apostasia for the still alive at his coming, then the final phase of gathering all of us together to him by the trumpet of God, and returning to the Third Heaven?<p>
Is this how we in his spiritual church go with Christ to the Father's House described in John fourteen in the Upper Room Discourse? The Throne Room is not in our body's coordinate system. Our spirit already exists in hyper-dimensional reality. But we will be given flesh and bone bodies to also exist in that realm. When Paul and John were taken to the third heaven, they were in spirit body only.<p>
If that is an accurate, more detailed look at the Rapture, then that event is not The Second Coming to Earth as shown at the end of the Revelation. The Rapture event takes place in a higher dimensional realm where Jesus comes from the Third Heaven to the First Heaven and removes his Body of Believers into Heaven. According to Paul, that snatching up happens before the Restrainer is taken out of the way for the revealing of the antichrist, so the stronger the signs that the antichrist evil rule is being arranged, closer then is the removal of all of the Body of Christ.<p>
When you see the Christmas decorations dis[layed in early November, you know Christmas is approaching ... but Thanksgiving Day is even closer.<br>
<b>***</b>M Gallowayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15076485084500021853noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1271101993122934886.post-5575933128788003272021-02-08T16:44:00.003-08:002021-02-08T22:48:35.999-08:00The End Times<B>Foreword</B><p>
For purposes of this essay we are presuming a few things as fundamental truth from the Bible. Some of these presumptions may not be acceptable to a reader or three but that ought not prevent reading through the entire essay to the conclusions.<p>
We are presuming the following points for discussion purposes:<p>
<blockquote>+ All that is real is in the Universe God has created and all that is not in this created Universe is God and only God;<br>
+ Jesus came to Earth as God With Us, as prophesied in the Old Testament and realized in the New Testament;<br>
+ When the Jewish leaders rejected Jesus and His offer to begin The Kingdom on Earth, God opened the Age of Grace which set aside a differentiation between Jews and non-Jews, such that God's salvation was opened to all of humankind descendants from Adam;<br>
+ The Age of Grace will come to an end and then God will resume His dealings with Israel, putting an end to sin in Israel as prophesied by Daniel in the Book of Daniel;<br>
+ The Departure of the Body of Christ Believers ends the current Age of Grace building of the Body of Christ believers;<br>
+ The Spirit of God indwells every individual member of the Body of Christ Believers, as the born again, born from above 'experience' Jesus spoke of with Nicodemus;<br>
+ The Body of Christ Church is not a denomination but a complete list of all who have been born again by the Spirit of God based upon their individual faith alone in Christ alone as Savior and Redeemer;<br>
+ The Body of Christ Believers might be thought of as one would identify the entire student body of a particular school and this Body of Believers has been accumulating since Peter preached on the Day of Pentecost;<br>
+ During the Age of Grace, God is putting His seed of eternal life IN the spirit of every believer in Christ alone as The Redeemer.<br>
+ Instead of using 'dimension' to identify aspects of space and time, we will be using 'variable expressions' to identify discrete aspects such as length, width, height for variable expressions of dimension Space, and past, present, and future as variable expressions of dimension Time; all the dimensions of the Universe God has created are IN the Universe He has created.</blockquote><p>
<B>The Age We Are In</B><p>
We are living at the end of the Church Age. The moment the Age ends is the Great Departure of the Body of Christ. Within every member of the Body of Christ there is The Seed of God, the Seed of The Holy Spirit ( 1 John 3:9 ). Only the members of The Body of Christ have God's Seed in their human spirit., making the Age of The Church complete Body of Believers by faith alone in Christ alone a unique phenomenon, apart from the Law since God in us fulfills the character of the law of God in us.<p>
What follows in this essay is a concept of 'what and how' the Great Departure happens. The hallmark of members of The Body of Christ Believers is the Presence of God in that Believer, and where God's Seed is there is eternal Life, not indeterminate life but eternal life ( Philipians 2:13; 1st Thessalonians 2:13 ). When God fulfills His Promise, there is no going back to before He fulfilled His Promise.<p>
We are the generation of Believers who have the necessary History of human knowledge required to conceptualize aspects of the 'how' which previous generations could not even guess at.<p>
Our generation has developed the understanding that there are more variable expressions of Space and Time than sensed by us in our 4D existence, in our three of space and one of time reality. We can know that such 'other' dimensional variables exist because the Bible exhibits them through scenes such as Daniel 5, with the seemingly disembodied hand writing on the wall in Palace Party Central, Babylon.<p>
That hand was attached to a being 'standing' in another set of spacetime coordinates not sensed by the partiers or the king. That real physical being had variables of space and or time not shared by the partiers or the king. That being reached into the limits of the partiers to write visibly upon the wall. <p>
Another clear example of the real existence of this other coordinate system is found in 2 Kings 6:14-16 where the Prophet Elisha asks God to 'open' the eyes of the student so he can see who is for the protection of the prophet and his student. God opens the young man's eyes and he sees the vast army encamped upon the hills surrounding the valley where the offending force seeking the seizure of the prophet are encamped. <p>
There are scenes from the New Testament which display this 'other' coordinate system of variables of time and space, such as Jesus walking on water; Jesus passing 'through' the mob seeking to throw Him off of a cliff and stone Him; Jesus leaving the burial wrappings behind as He exited a rock hewn tomb blocked by a large stone, without removing the stone; Jesus appearing in the locked and shuttered Upper Room following His resurrection, without coming through a door or window; Philip disappearing from the presence of the Eunuch and reappearing miles away; Peter visited by an Angel, coming from a where/when Peter could not sense but a place of space and time nonetheless.<p>
There are two axiomatic expressions which were keys to my own comprehension of this space and time reality beyond our sensing but real in space and time having more variability than our 4 dimensions / variables of space and time:<p>
<blockquote>Without time events do not occur in the Universe God has created<br>
Without space a thing is not existing in the Universe God has created</blockquote><p>
These two axioms brought sense to what was percolating in thoughts regarding the scenes from the Bible. If an object is not occupying space it is not in the Universe of God's creating. [ A stream of photons can all land on the same spot on a wall, seeming to occupy the same space without piling up like a stream of bullets; the photons are in the Universe God has created, so we might say they occupy a variable expression of space not in our sensing range. They are not outside the Universe God has created. ] For these two axioms to be true for the entire Universe there must be spatial coordinates in all levels of reality, even the reality where Angels dwell. Everything IN the Universe God has created has to have existence relative to Time and Space. All that is the Universe has been created by God. There is only God outside of the Universe of His creating. That is, God The Father Almighty must, by definition of God the Creator, be greater than that which He creates.<p>
<B>The Where / When</B><p>
With that foundation of details, we would ask how this relates to The Rapture Departure of the Body of Christ Believers?. Only in our generation can the aspects be brought together to make sense, to express reality that is about to happen. Our generation embraces the notion of 'other' variables of space and or time. This allows us to assign coordinate system reality to the 'place' our soul and spirit have real substance which can be effected by command from God, as with what Paul describes in 1st Thessalonians 4:13-17.<p>
At this point, if you don't believe in the Rapture of the Body of Christ Believers, keep reading anyway. God illuminates His Word and He has something amazing to share with us.<p>
Jesus told Nicodemus ( John 3 ) that in order to 'see' the Kingdom of Heaven one must be born again. Of course Nic, having a very limited understanding of reality, asks how a man can enter again into his mother's womb and be born again. Jesus replies with a rhetorical question: 'You are a teacher in Israel and don't comprehend spiritual reality?' I am paraphrasing because that is what God's Spirit relates to my mind when I understand the scene more fully. Nic's mind leaped to reality in his 4D understanding, and Jesus expanded the discussion to encompass a greater Universe of reality which includes the very real existence of the soul and spirit of man.<p>
The soul and spirit are real, they have existence and are somehow attached to the 4D vehicle body of the individual but we do not know how they are connected. They exist IN the Universe God has created. They have a real relationship to the physical body in space and time but exist in a coordinate system of space and time which we cannot sense with out touch, taste, sight, etc. This is, in a way, a protective arrangement God has designed into our existence, possibly because the spirit exists in a time coordinate system which does not allow sin to go on existing eternally, so we are protected from our spirit sinning once we are dead or born again (1 John 3:9 ).<p>
We are humans by God's design and so long as we remain human our spirit is the way God has designed it, albeit we inherited our spiritual state of 'deadness' from Adam with our spirit existing but without the illumination of God's Spirit. It might be that our spirit has spatial reality with greater spatial variability than our body, but 'it' lacks temporal movement. [ That notion will be more clear further on. ]<p>
So what Jesus says is essential to our 'seeing the kingdom of God', that we must be born again. He is not referring to something outside of the Universe God has created. Even the Kingdom of God is IN the Universe because Stephen was granted the ability to see the Throne Room right before he was stoned to death! The Throne Room has space and time variability in a coordinate system far beyond our 4D realm, but it does exist in the Universe God has created. Paul was in some fashion ( 'in the body or out of it, I know not which' 2nd Corinthians 12:1 ) given access to that reality of space and time, briefly. John was given the blessing to visit Heaven while alive on the Island of Patmos. Enoch walked with God and was taken rather than dying in our 4D realm. Elijah left this 4D realm to enter a greater coordinate system, disappearing from Elisha's sight. Greater variables of space and time are real and they are IN the Universe God has created.<p>
When God makes us born again by His Spirit in response to our faith in Christ alone, Life comes to the human spirit, God Life, eternal life, by His Promise which glorifies Him not us. It is The Gift of God, restoring the human spirit inherited from Adam back to the state God began the connection, within His creating Adam, meant for all Adam's descendants. God's Word tell us in more than one place that once born again it is God Who is in the human spirit, to will and do of His good pleasure, to transform our fallen nature by the renewing of our mind, the mind of our soul.<p>
The soul is the behavior mechanism of the individual. God intended that our spirit be the driver of the behavior mechanism. But with Adam's rebellion that relationship was stopped. In our regeneration by God due to our faithing in Jesus as Lord of our spirit, God restores the relationship between soul and spirit under His guidance, but only to the extent that we bow to His Lordship over our behavior mechanism ... some Christians, though born again, have so little relinquishing to His leadership in the soul, their behavior mechanism.<p>
<B>The Physics Lesson</B><p>
Now we delve into the reality and reason of the rapture, how it happens.<p>
We have reasoned that the spirit exists and is connected to the human soul and thus the human being by an as yet undetermined method of God's creating. The state of our aliveness is such that we have a body, a soul, and a spirit, albeit the spirit is not 'alive' in the sense which it existed in Adam before the rebellion.<p>
The spirit in Adam did not go out of existence, it ceased to function. In the Hebrew meaning of 'ded' is the notion of non-action, in active; not gone out of existence. The spirit of every human is an eternal thing, existing in a coordinate system with eternity as the temporal / time variable! The word of God indicates that every spirit of humankind will exist eternally, alive by the Power of God's Presence in that spirit, or existing in eternal deadness, sensing torment but not being extinguished in that torment ... forever. That is a sobering thought, to put it mildly! The human spirit exists in a coordinate system where the temporal ( time ) reality is eternity.<p>
The spirit bodies of humans who have rejected the Life God offers do not go out of existence, because the temporal coordinate of their spirit is eternity. The spirit of those who have accepted God's Grace in the Sacrifice of Jesus for our salvation also exist in an eternal coordinate system of time, but those will also have a real physical body in which to operate in the Universe of God's creating! At the Rapture departure of The Believers making up The Body of Christ. According to Paul's learning, there is a spiritual body, a spiritual spatial existence of some shape, but it is not inhabiting more 'layers' of reality than the spiritual, but it can experience torment in the spiritual level of reality, eternal torment according to its temporal ( time ) orientation.<p>
Just as the being writing upon the wall in Babylon's Palace has real physical reality, we too will have real physical reality. We will exist in more than just the spiritual layer / coordinate system of reality! John tells us, almost as an aside, that when Jesus appears for the Great Departure we shall see Him as He really is in His Glorified body, because when He appears we shall have been transformed to be like Him in His glorified state. [ 1 John 3:2 ] To understand this better we should look back at John 14, where Jesus gives His closest friends a sort of Physics lesson.<p>
The disciples wanted solid proof that Jesus was Whom they had been shown He was, God with them. Philip ( the one who was later on snatched / raptured from the presence of the Ethiopian Eunuch to a spot miles away in the Gaza ), having witnessed miracles that only God can do, was still confused. So Jesus tried to upgrade their comprehension, albeit without the background of centuries of growing understanding of how the Universe is fashioned in God's creating ( a benefit we enjoy in these last days, a fund of knowledge we may draw upon regarding the nature of reality as having dimensional variables beyond what we sense with our bodies ). Philip declared that if Jesus would show them The Father that would convince them of Jesus's 'Messiahship'.<p>
Jesus asked Philip, “Have I been so long with you and yet you still do not know that all you can see of the Father is where I am. If you have seen me you have seen The Father for I am in the Father and The Father is in me. All you can see of The Father is where He intersects the coordinates of your sensing abilities.' That is my paraphrasing, but it is I believe an accurate rendering of what Jesus was conveying to the disciples ... and to us.<p>
The only place you could sense God The Father Almighty is where He is intersecting your space and time coordinate system of your sensory abilities ... as Jesus, God with us. God did not make us with the ability to sense a magnetic field, yet it exists and is important to our very physical reality. Many birds sense magnetic fields due to God incorporating a region in their brains which is magnetized on a very small scale and thus by interaction with magnetic fields they are able to sense magnetic fields like that of the earth and use that ability for navigation.<p>
Owls have a more sensitive visual acuity which allows them to see in the light spectrum what we cannot see. God has made us to have limits of perception which I believe is a protective orientation allowing for 'faith' on a level greater than just the 4D realm. A dog or horse exercises primitive faith when it crosses a bridge seeing water below. I exercise primitive faith when I drop my poundage onto a chair. But our limits under intellectual capabilities is a limit which requires faith in God's Promises without physical evidence streaming into our senses. This glorifies His Promises not our efforts.<p>
Put in different terms, the Physics lesson was that all the disciples could see of the greater reality that IS God was where He, God, was intersecting their 4D limits ... as Jesus, Emmanuel, God with us. If I could sense only length and width of space, there is no way for me to comprehend or even sense a pencil except where that pencil would be passed through my length and with limits. A three spatial ( length, width, and height ) sphere cannot be sensed by a length and width only 'plane dweller' except where the three variable sphere is passed through the plane, making a dot then expanding circles, then diminishing circles and down to a dot then disappears. God, as Jesus, came into our limits and died for our sinfulness, so that He can give us the Righteousness of Jesus, regenerating life into our dead spirit.<p>
<B>We Are Transformed In A Moment, In The Twinkling of an Eye</B><p>
In the beginning, God spoke and world's leaped into existence. In the beginning was The Word and the Word was with God and was God in the beginning. God brought the Universe into existence by His voice. His voice accomplishes His creating, both to create the realm of space and time and to create within the Universe He has created.<p>
Under inspiration of The Holy Spirit Paul tells us about the snatching away of the Body of Christ Believers ( 1st Thessalonians 4:13-17 )<p>.
In 1st Corinthians 15:50-58, Paul further explains that a transformation of each alive Believer happens in the twinkling of an eye. That time span is approximately how long it takes a beam of light traveling at the speed of light to pass from outside the eye to inside the eye. How can this be? I will be transformed in an instant? Into what? By what means? To what reality? And what of those who have died in Christ, born again in spirit but no longer having a physical body? ... Let's dig into the answers for those questions! Similar questions were probably voiced in the Thessalonians' minds, to which Paul wrote the second letter to the Thessalonians, answering some of the questions, albeit indirectly.<p>
First, what of the dead who no longer have a physical, active body? Well when they were born from above God enlivened their spirit, their spiritual body. [ See Paul's referencing the spiritual body, 1st Corinthians 15:44 ] That spiritual body of the dead in Christ is present with the Lord until it is brought with Jesus back to the 4D Earth to receive new glorified physical '4D plus' bodies.<p>
It might help to reread the 1st Thessalonians 4 passage again here:<p>
<blockquote>For this we say to you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive and remain until the coming of the Lord will by no means precede those who are [d]asleep. For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And thus we shall always be with the Lord. Therefore comfort one another with these words.</blockquote><p>
The order Paul describes is as follows: those who have died in Christ will God bring with The Christ ( traveling in their spiritual bodies, in a space and time coordinate system we cannot directly sense ), for The Lord Himself shall descend from the Throne Room to the first heaven around the Earth. [ 'Descend from Heaven with a shout' ... reminds us that God's voice created in the beginning, eh? ] Could it be that the shout causes new glorified individual bodies to leap into existence? I think so, I think that the shout creates new bodies in a greater coordinate system for the spiritual bodies of those who have been born again. Then there is the voice of the Archangel ... can this be the transformational command which transforms me from a dying 4D dweller into a glorified greater coordinate system being for my eternally alive spirit to join?<p>
But how is this possible you might be asking; perhaps? Well, it is a thing known as 'resonance'. If you have a non-vibrating tuning fork tuned to the same note of another tuning fork, and you set one of these to vibrating at its note, it will start the other tuning fork to vibrating. The two forks are said to be in resonance. <p>
The born again spirits of the alive members of the Body of Christ have God's 'seed' abiding in their new spiritual existence ( 1 John 3:9 ). That Presence in the born agains resonates with the command from God, resonates with the voice of God's creating power, the Shout creating instantly new glorified bodies for the returning individual spiritual bodies.<p>
Perhaps the voice of the Archangel transforms rather than creates, so that we who are alive and remain are transformed in a moment in the twinkling of an eye.<p>
Then the Trumpet of 'move 'em out' sounds and all we new bodied beings are caught up together into the clouds to meet the Lord in the air! The Israelites had such a 'move 'em out' last trumpet as their last trumpet when moving the encampment in the desert.<p>
<B>Summary Conclusion</B><p>
Every one of Adam's descendants has a body, a soul or behavior mechanism ( mind, emotion, and will ), and a spirit. We have a spirit body which can be alive or in a state of unutilized / none functioning / dead. The state of deadness is not a 'going out of existence' because God made the spirit to be in a time state of eternal, eternally alive with His seed of Life, or eternally in deadness without dissolution. The body returns to the dust of which it is made ,,, the atomic and molecular dust. The spirit body is not made of atomic and molecular dust. It is made of stuff which has eternal existence in the Universe of space and tune God has created.<p>
Because the seed of God Life comes to abide in the born again spirit, a member of the Body of Christ has the seed of the Spirit inside their spirit body. When the Lord descends to the first Heaven around the Earth, God's shout instantly creates new physical bodies for the individual spirit bodies returning to the Earth with The Lord. Then the voice command of an Archangel transforms the physical bodies of alive members in The Body of Christ Believers, giving them glorified bodies like that of the returnees. With the 'move 'em out' trumpet, we join in the rising up into the clouds to meet the Lord in the air and return to the Father's House where Jesus has been preparing many rooms for us, there.<p>
<B>Anecdote</B><p>
When I was a little boy living in Fairlington, Virginia near the Pentagon, there was an Army Colonel who lived with his family in the first apartment in our four apartment building. He had a big Grey car which he washed on Summer weekends in the parking lot in front of his apartment. Instead of a hose to run water to the job, he used canvas buckets. These buckets were standard issue for tanks and trucks during Wprld War 2 because they took up so little space. When empty they collapsed down to two metal rings sewn into a wide strip of canvas for the body of the container.<p>
When the buckets were filled with water they sweated liquid through the sides. If filled to the top I could push my finger into the side of the canvas and water would spill over the top ring.<p>
This canvas bucket is a sort of metaphor for the human spirit body. When we are not yet born again our bucket, er, I mean our spirit body is empty and not functioning as God intended. Like an empty canvas bucket our spirit body is not fulfilling God's purpose for that spirit body. But when the water is ... er, I mean when the spirit life is in our spirit body we function as a whole if the 'filling' is used for proper intent.<p>
In scripture water is often used to signify Holy Spirit. When we are born again God puts the first 'water' in our spirit body, and we are containers of His Presence, filling up to over flowing to the extent with which we seek His filling us.
M Gallowayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15076485084500021853noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1271101993122934886.post-79993830580839961462020-10-04T10:54:00.000-07:002020-10-04T10:55:43.880-07:00<B>Four and Twenty Elders</B><p>
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This essay is about what I believe to be the most compelling reason to believe in a pre tribulation Rapture gathering of the Body of Believers in Christ, The One True Church ( Matthew 16:18 )gathered to Christ in the air and returned to The Father's House. ( John 14; 1 ; Thessalonians 4:13-17 )<p>
If we are seeing this accurately, the gathering unto Him event is very close, since the gathering unto Him happens before the Tribulation begins and assumes a period of business in Heaven before the final judgments begin with the opening of the seven sealed scroll. ( Revelation 5:5 and following ))<p>
For those who have not yet believed in Jesus, time is short, very short. Don't continue to wonder and ponder and not make a choice. Choose you this day life in Him and don't be left behind for the horrors which will follow Him gathering those who believe in Whom God sent for their salvation. ( John 6:29 )<p>
Most Christians believe The word of God teaches a Gathering unto Christ, because Jesus introduced the notion in John chapter fourteen. To those who believe the event will happen the issue filters down to 'when', as in before the Tribulation, during the Tribulation, or after the Tribulation (this is not about the specific day or hour).<p>
There are those who call themselves and believe themselves to be Christian who reject the notion of a Rapture. So be it with them, I pray for them and pray earnestly that this essay might be of help for them, also.<p>
If we can show that the Body of Christ, the Ekklesia, The Church per se is in Heaven when the seven sealed scroll is opened by Christ ushering in the Tribulation Time of Jacob's Troubles, there is no further argument on the when for the Rapture. Please follow along as we point to clues from The Word of God which take our presence in Heaven at the opening of the seals as axiomatic, a notion fundamental to the scene.<p>
In 1st Chronicles 24 and following David identifies a category of priesthood involving many families from whom the duty as priests for the Temple work will activate. Though the Temple is not yet built, these are the category identified as the four and twenty elders. This is a category identity since the numbers are well beyond a mere twenty-four individuals and refers to the rotating priesthood of Temple workers drawn from many families named in the passages there in 1st Chronicles.<p>
If these four and twenty elders are a category representation applied later to The Body of Christ in Christianity, there should be many clues in the New Testament which point to this conclusion. And there are! First, let's see how The Spirit had John the Revelator depict them:<p>
<blockquote> Revelation 4:4<br>And round about the throne were four and twenty seats: and upon the seats I saw four and twenty elders sitting, clothed in white raiment; and they had on their heads crowns of gold.</blockquote><p>
For the readers' context, read Revelation chapters four and five from the beginning as John is suddenly in Heaven in the spirit ... he had not yet received his new body. Note please the identifying points of four and twenty, seated in the Presence of God ( Angels always stand in God's Presence ), clothed in white raiment ( the garb of the redeemed ), and they had gold crowns on their physical heads not spiritual heads ( they had heads, so these are not Tribulation saints who lose their heads during the Tribulation and before ) .<p>
The scholarly question arises 'who are these 'twenty four'; do they represent specific men numbering twenty four ? I am convinced these twenty four represent a category of people numbering much more than twenty four, and I come to this conclusion as follows.<p>
In 1st Chronicles the four and twenty elders represent a vast category of men who will be identified as priesthood serving the Temple work. These twenty-four seen by John are not twelve from the Hebrew patriarchy because the resurrection of the Jews comes at the end of the Tribulation, at the establishing of the millenial Kingdom with Jerusalem as the center of the Earth's nations.<p>
During the Church Age / Age of the Ekklesia there is no differentiation of Jew and Gentile under The Gospel of Christ establishing of the Body of Christ Believers. The twenty four are not specific Apostles since John would be looking at his resurrected body which will have God's Spirit indwelling for eternity and John is still alive in his old body when the Spirit reveals the scene to him.<p>
So next we address the clues fonud in the New Testament and in the Revelation to John which support the notion that the four and twenty elders represent The Body of Believers who have received their new bodies and rewards crowns at the Bema Seat of Christ.<p>
A major clue is the seated position in the Presence of God in Heaven. <p><blockquote>Ephesians 2:4-6 <br>But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, 5 Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;) 6 And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus: <p>
Mathew 19:28 And Jesus said unto them, Verily I say unto you, That ye which have followed me, in the regeneration when the Son of man shall sit in the throne of his glory, ye also shall sit upon twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel. [<I>Note the saying twelve thrones does not omit the other twelve thrones for some different category, it addresses directly the positional status of these specific twelve among the four and twenty</I>]</blockquote><p>
Another clue as to the status of the four and twenty elders is found early in the Revelation:<p>
<blockquote>Revelation 1:5 And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, and the first begotten of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth. Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood, 6 <u>And hath made us kings and priests unto God;</u> to him be glory and dominion for ever and ever.<p>
Revelation 5: 8 And when he had taken the book, the four beasts and four and twenty elders fell down before the Lamb, having every one of them harps, and golden vials full of odours, which are the prayers of saints. 9 And they sung a new song, saying, <u>Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation; 10 And hast made us unto our God kings and priests: and we shall reign on the earth</u>.</blockquote><p>
Please note that scene -when the Lamb takes the scroll- is in Heaven happening before the seals are opened ushering in the Tribulation, and attended by the category identified as those whom Jesus has redeemed out of every kindred and tongue, and people and nation. This is the more personal identity of the category of four and twenty elders.<p>
This category of The Redeemed are witness to the lamb being worthy AND before He begins to open the seven seal scroll.<p>
The four and twenty elders are a category identified as those The slain Lamb has redeemed from the whole world through their faith alone in Christ alone, They are seated in God's Presence in Heaven. They have white raiment of the redeemed and crowns on real physical heads, crowns which they cast down at the feet of Him Who opens the seven sealed scroll. Folks, Christians,<p>
ALL Christians since the day of Pentecost preaching by Peter and the internalizing of the Holy Spirit are gathered in Heaven before the seven sealed scroll which ushers in the tribulation is even opened. The Rapture Gathering unto Him is very very close, with the tribulation, the opening of the scroll to follow after that super natural event of His Church snatched out of this world.M Gallowayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15076485084500021853noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1271101993122934886.post-31932972719763105572020-04-23T17:32:00.000-07:002020-04-23T17:32:52.913-07:00Immunity<br />
There is one goal with this virus, immunity, but three ways to reach it as a society:<br />
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1) Open everything up and let all who will get infected catch the virus (Sweden is trying that, it's called herd immunity; it would definitely solve the SS shortfall problem looming) 2) Keep everything locked down and wait until a vaccine is proven to yield immunity (and even an effective vaccine is only about sixty percent effective in yielding immunity on an individual basis; plus vaccines have scary side effects and this one coming will have a Gates data dot for everyone who gets it side effect) 3) Make a drug cocktail like HCQ + Doxycycline + zinc supplementation available (without restriction to hospitals only), so every physician and physician's assistant can write the scripts at first sign of a symptom and open the nation up to go back to being GREAT.</blockquote>
Since it is the human body immune system which defeats any virus that is defeated, reducing the viral load and keeping inflammation down is the best way to give the immune system a shot at developing immunity. Hydroxychloroquine appears to have two sides to its efficacy: a) the drug has been proven as an inflammation reducer (used in RA and Lupus, and now with covid patients to reduce their airway inflammation); b) Hydroxychloroquine is a proven ionophore, ferrying ZINC into the infected cells where ZINC works to stop the viral replication thus reducing viral load. So which of the three ways to have immunity in a society do you think the globalist oligarchy has in mind for America? And which of the three means to immunity do you think saves people and the last great hope for humanity, America? M Gallowayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15076485084500021853noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1271101993122934886.post-78564682994131271032020-04-10T12:44:00.000-07:002020-04-10T12:44:22.409-07:00The nitty gritty truthFor those who may not read American Thinker, here is a link to an article we all should take to heart. This virus will go down in defeat IF the slugs at FDA and CDC will cut their ego tape and allow hydroxychloroquine + zinc supplementation + either the Zpak or doxycycline to be written by ANY PHYSICIAN in the country patient hospitalized ort not.<br />
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<a href="https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2020/04/a_solution_to_covid19_is_in_sight.html">https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2020/04/a_solution_to_covid19_is_in_sight.html</a>M Gallowayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15076485084500021853noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1271101993122934886.post-48890763606165512582020-04-07T13:16:00.000-07:002020-04-07T13:21:45.103-07:00We have some very smart folks in the family. For those wishing for a more 'professional rendering, here is a medical study : <a href="https://chemrxiv.org/articles/COVID-19_Disease_ORF8_and_Surface_Glycoprotein_Inhibit_Heme_Metabolism_by_Binding_to_Porphyrin/11938173">https://chemrxiv.org/articles/COVID-19_Disease_ORF8_and_Surface_Glycoprotein_Inhibit_Heme_Metabolism_by_Binding_to_Porphyrin/11938173</a>M Gallowayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15076485084500021853noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1271101993122934886.post-10577515846397816552020-04-06T13:37:00.001-07:002020-04-07T13:21:10.153-07:00Medical news for family<br />
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First a video explaining why
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to stop the virus: beginning at one minute forty seconds
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Next a video from a doctor treating
patients who has discovered soemthingdeviously bad about this
particulart virus ... he does not think the treatment ought focus on
acute respiratory disease syndrome using higher pressure ventilator
process, and he hints at why:
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Covid-19 had us all fooled, but now we might have finally
found its secret. libertymavenstock libertymavenstock Follow</blockquote>
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In the last 3–5 days, a mountain of anecdotal evidence
has come out of NYC, Italy, Spain, etc. about COVID-19 and
characteristics of patients who get seriously ill. It’s not only
piling up but now leading to a general field-level consensus backed
up by a few previously little-known studies that we’ve had it all
wrong the whole time. Well, a few had some things eerily correct
(cough Trump cough), especially with Hydroxychloroquine with
Azithromicin, but we’ll get to that in a minute.</blockquote>
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There is no ‘pneumonia’ nor ARDS. At least not the
ARDS with established treatment protocols and procedures we’re
familiar with. Ventilators are not only the wrong solution, but high
pressure intubation can actually wind up causing more damage than
without, not to mention complications from tracheal scarring and
ulcers given the duration of intubation often required… They may
still have a use in the immediate future for patients too far to
bring back with this newfound knowledge, but moving forward a new
treatment protocol needs to be established so we stop treating
patients for the wrong disease.</blockquote>
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The past 48 hours or so have seen a huge revelation:
COVID-19 causes prolonged and progressive hypoxia (starving your body
of oxygen) by binding to the heme groups in hemoglobin in your red
blood cells. People are simply desaturating (losing o2 in their
blood), and that’s what eventually leads to organ failures that
kill them, not any form of ARDS or pneumonia. All the damage to the
lungs you see in CT scans are from the release of oxidative iron from
the hemes, this overwhelms the natural defenses against pulmonary
oxidative stress and causes that nice, always-bilateral ground glass
opacity in the lungs. Patients returning for re-hospitalization days
or weeks after recovery suffering from apparent delayed post-hypoxic
leukoencephalopathy strengthen the notion COVID-19 patients are
suffering from hypoxia despite no signs of respiratory ‘tire out’
or fatigue.</blockquote>
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Here’s the breakdown of the whole process, including
some ELI5-level cliff notes. Much has been simplified just to keep it
digestible and layman-friendly.</blockquote>
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Your red blood cells carry oxygen from your lungs to all
your organs and the rest of your body. Red blood cells can do this
thanks to hemoglobin, which is a protein consisting of four “hemes”.
Hemes have a special kind of iron ion, which is normally quite toxic
in its free form, locked away in its center with a porphyrin acting
as it’s ‘container’. In this way, the iron ion can be ‘caged’
and carried around safely by the hemoglobin, but used to bind to
oxygen when it gets to your lungs.</blockquote>
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When the red blood cell gets to the alveoli, or the
little sacs in your lungs where all the gas exchange happens, that
special little iron ion can flip between FE2+ and FE3+ states with
electron exchange and bond to some oxygen, then it goes off on its
little merry way to deliver o2 elsewhere. Here’s where COVID-19
comes in. Its glycoproteins bond to the heme, and in doing so that
special and toxic oxidative iron ion is “disassociated”
(released). It’s basically let out of the cage and now freely
roaming around on its own. This is bad for two reasons:</blockquote>
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1) Without the iron ion, hemoglobin can no longer bind to
oxygen. Once all the hemoglobin is impaired, the red blood cell is
essentially turned into a Freightliner truck cab with no trailer and
no ability to store its cargo.. it is useless and just running around
with COVID-19 virus attached to its porphyrin. All these useless
trucks running around not delivering oxygen is what starts to lead to
desaturation, or watching the patient’s spo2 levels drop. It is
INCORRECT to assume traditional ARDS and in doing so, you’re
treating the WRONG DISEASE. Think of it a lot like carbon monoxide
poisoning, in which CO is bound to the hemoglobin, making it unable
to carry oxygen. In those cases, ventilators aren’t treating the
root cause; the patient’s lungs aren’t ‘tiring out’, they’re
pumping just fine. The red blood cells just can’t carry o2, end of
story. Only in this case, unlike CO poisoning in which eventually the
CO can break off, the affected hemoglobin is permanently stripped of
its ability to carry o2 because it has lost its iron ion. The body
compensates for this lack of o2 carrying capacity and deliveries by
having your kidneys release hormones like erythropoietin, which tell
your bone marrow factories to ramp up production on new red blood
cells with freshly made and fully functioning hemoglobin. This is the
reason you find elevated hemoglobin and decreased blood oxygen
saturation as one of the 3 primary indicators of whether the shit is
about to hit the fan for a particular patient or not.</blockquote>
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2) That little iron ion, along with millions of its
friends released from other hemes, are now floating through your
blood freely. As I mentioned before, this type of iron ion is highly
reactive and causes oxidative damage. It turns out that this happens
to a limited extent naturally in our bodies and we have cleanup &
defense mechanisms to keep the balance. The lungs, in particular,
have 3 primary defenses to maintain “iron homeostasis”, 2 of
which are in the alveoli, those little sacs in your lungs we talked
about earlier. The first of the two are little macrophages that roam
around and scavenge up any free radicals like this oxidative iron.
The second is a lining on the walls (called the epithelial surface)
which has a thin layer of fluid packed with high levels of
antioxidant molecules.. things like abscorbic acid (AKA Vitamin C)
among others. Well, this is usually good enough for naturally
occurring rogue iron ions but with COVID-19 running rampant your body
is now basically like a progressive state letting out all the
prisoners out of the prisons… it’s just too much iron and it
begins to overwhelm your lungs’ countermeasures, and thus begins
the process of pulmonary oxidative stress. This leads to damage and
inflammation, which leads to all that nasty stuff and damage you see
in CT scans of COVID-19 patient lungs. Ever noticed how it’s always
bilateral? (both lungs at the same time) Pneumonia rarely ever does
that, but COVID-19 does… EVERY. SINGLE. TIME.</blockquote>
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— — — — — — — — — — — — – Once
your body is now running out of control, with all your oxygen trucks
running around without any freight, and tons of this toxic form of
iron floating around in your bloodstream, other defenses kick in.
While your lungs are busy with all this oxidative stress they can’t
handle, and your organs are being starved of o2 without their
constant stream of deliveries from red blood cell’s hemoglobin, and
your liver is attempting to do its best to remove the iron and store
it in its ‘iron vault’. Only its getting overwhelmed too. It’s
starved for oxygen and fighting a losing battle from all your
hemoglobin letting its iron free, and starts crying out “help, I’m
taking damage!” by releasing an enzyme called alanine
aminotransferase (ALT). BOOM, there is your second of 3 primary
indicators of whether the shit is about to hit the fan for a
particular patient or not.</blockquote>
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Eventually, if the patient’s immune system doesn’t
fight off the virus in time before their blood oxygen saturation
drops too low, ventilator or no ventilator, organs start shutting
down. No fuel, no work. The only way to even try to keep them going
is max oxygen, even a hyperbaric chamber if one is available on 100%
oxygen at multiple atmospheres of pressure, just to give what’s
left of their functioning hemoglobin a chance to carry enough o2 to
the organs and keep them alive. Yeah we don’t have nearly enough of
those chambers, so some fresh red blood cells with normal hemoglobin
in the form of a transfusion will have to do. The core point being,
treating patients with the iron ions stripped from their hemoglobin
(rendering it abnormally nonfunctional) with ventilator intubation is
futile, unless you’re just hoping the patient’s immune system
will work its magic in time. The root of the illness needs to be
addressed.</blockquote>
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Best case scenario? Treatment regimen early, before
symptoms progress too far. Hydroxychloroquine (more on that in a
minute, I promise) with Azithromicin has shown fantastic, albeit
critics keep mentioning ‘anecdotal’ to describe the mountain,
promise and I’ll explain why it does so well next. But forget
straight-up plasma with antibodies, that might work early but if the
patient is too far gone they’ll need more. They’ll need all the
blood: antibodies and red blood cells. No help in sending over a
detachment of ammunition to a soldier already unconscious and
bleeding out on the battlefield, you need to send that ammo along
with some hemoglobin-stimulant-magic so that he can wake up and fire
those shots at the enemy.</blockquote>
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The story with Hydroxychloroquine All that hilariously
misguided and counterproductive criticism the media piled on
chloroquine (purely for political reasons) as a viable treatment will
now go down as the biggest Fake News blunder to rule them all. The
media actively engaged their activism to fight ‘bad orange man’
at the cost of thousands of lives. Shame on them. How does
chloroquine work? Same way as it does for malaria. You see, malaria
is this little parasite that enters the red blood cells and starts
eating hemoglobin as its food source. The reason chloroquine works
for malaria is the same reason it works for COVID-19 — while not
fully understood, it is suspected to bind to DNA and interfere with
the ability to work magic on hemoglobin. The same mechanism that
stops malaria from getting its hands on hemoglobin and gobbling it up
seems to do the same to COVID-19 (essentially little snippets of DNA
in an envelope) from binding to it. On top of that,
Hydroxychloroquine (an advanced descendant of regular old
chloroquine) lowers the pH which can interfere with the replication
of the virus. Again, while the full details are not known, the entire
premise of this potentially ‘game changing’ treatment is to
prevent hemoglobin from being interfered with, whether due to malaria
or COVID-19.</blockquote>
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No longer can the media and armchair pseudo-physicians
sit in their little ivory towers, proclaiming “DUR so stoopid,
malaria is bacteria, COVID-19 is virus, anti-bacteria drug no work on
virus!”. They never got the memo that a drug doesn’t need to
directly act on the pathogen to be effective. Sometimes it’s enough
just to stop it from doing what it does to hemoglobin, regardless of
the means it uses to do so.</blockquote>
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Anyway, enough of the rant. What’s the end result here?
First, the ventilator emergency needs to be re-examined. If you’re
putting a patient on a ventilator because they’re going into a coma
and need mechanical breathing to stay alive, okay we get it. Give ’em
time for their immune systems to pull through. But if they’re
conscious, alert, compliant — keep them on O2. Max it if you have
to. If you HAVE to inevitably ventilate, do it at low pressure but
max O2. Don’t tear up their lungs with max PEEP, you’re doing
more harm to the patient because you’re treating the wrong disease.</blockquote>
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Ideally, some form of treatment needs to happen to:
Inhibit viral growth and replication. Here plays CHQ+ZPAK+ZINC or
other retroviral therapies being studies. Less virus, less hemoglobin
losing its iron, less severity and damage.</blockquote>
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Therapies used for anyone with abnormal hemoglobin or
malfunctioning red blood cells. Blood transfusions. Whatever, I don’t
know the full breadth and scope because I’m not a physician. But
think along those lines, and treat the real disease. If you’re
thinking about giving them plasma with antibodies, maybe if they’re
already in bad shape think again and give them BLOOD with antibodies,
or at least blood followed by plasma with antibodies. Now that we
know more about how this virus works and affects our bodies, a whole
range of options should open up. Don’t trust China. China is
ASSHOE. (disclaimer: not talking about the people, just talking about
the regime). They covered this up and have caused all kinds of death
and carnage, both literal and economic. The ripples of this pandemic
will be felt for decades. Fini.</blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">WHAT
is 'to be born again'? WHY should we get 'born again'? HOW do we
get born again? WHO is to be born again? WHEN and WHERE to be born
again?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> <span style="font-size: medium;">So
you have been born from the amniotic fluid water world into the air
world, and you have grown and learned to read this language, and you
might wonder what this 'born again' notion is about. You may not yet
believe this, but the very Creator of the Universe, Creator of time
and space and all that is seen by us and all that is unseen by us is
glad when you would ask such a question. He, the Creator, has
actually given the answer to that! It will help you to understand if
you believe there is a Creator God and that He has used men in the
past to relate His words to us, but believe it or not that is not
necessary at this point in the rendering!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"> There
is an included appendix listing the Bible passages not quoted in the
text, as rendered with the English Standard Version. You do not have
to believe the Bible is the Word of God, but it helps. If you do not
believe fully in the Bible, just follow the logical progression about
to be offered. Many have done that and ended up trusting that the
Bible is a supernatural communication from The Creator.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"> God
wants all of us to be born again. He gave us a body and a soul and a
spirit and wants us to gain full use of all those aspects of our
nature. But to do so, to get the full measure of what God desires
for us, we must reach a point when we are born again, born of the
Spirit after being born from the water world. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"> There
is a God-designed progression from the moment God creates our
rudimentary self. We are given physical life in the womb of our
mother when our most elementary stage of life attaches to our
mother's uterine lining and we begin receiving life support from her
life.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> While
in the realm of the water world we build a body for living in the
realm of the air world. While in the air world for however many years
we develop a soul presence, a sense of self as different from the
inanimate realm of the air world. We humans are a spirit, a soul, and
a body. We build the body in the water realm, we develop the soul
while in the air realm, but what of the spirit that is in the soul?
That is what being born again is all about, kind of like canvas
buckets, all about getting life in the spirit, developing the spirit.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"> To
explore this notion on more than a simple level we will need to
explore what is the nature of the Universe, and more particularly
what is there of the unseen Universe that we may come to recognize.
We will start with a really neat scene in Palace Party Central,
Babylon, and a gathering intended for praising the gods of gold,
silver, iron, wood and stone.</span></div>
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One:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><b>The
Old Testament Book of Daniel, Chapter Five, English Standard Version
of the Bible:</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"> <b>1</b>
King Belshazzar made a great feast for a thousand of his lords and
drank wine in front of the thousand. <b>2</b> Belshazzar, when he had
tasted the wine, commanded that the vessels of gold and silver that
Nebuchadnezzar his father had taken out of the temple at Jerusalem be
brought , that the king and his lords, his wives, and his concubines
might drink from them. <b>3 </b>Then they brought in the golden
vessels that had been taken out of the temple, the house of God in
Jerusalem, and the king and his lords, his wives, and his concubines
drank from them. <b><a href="http://biblehub.com/daniel/5-4.htm">4</a>
</b>They drank wine and praised the gods of gold and silver, bronze,
iron, wood, and stone. <b> 5 </b><b>Immediately the fingers of a
human hand appeared and wrote on the plaster of the wall of the
king’s palace, opposite the lampstand. And the king saw the hand as
it wrote.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><b> </b><span style="font-weight: normal;">The
scene takes place during the siege of Babylon by armies of Darius,
king of the Medes and Persians. The city was surrounded and under
attack, but for a long time the walls held and supplies were feeding
the inhabitants. Fresh water ran under the walls and nourished the
people and the crops inside the walled city. Belshazzar trusted the
walls to keep the invaders out. In his pagan mind praise was due to
the gods of things, things like stone and iron and wood. But his
error was in misusing the cups and articles used for worship in the
Temple of God in Jerusalem. That very night the city fell to the
invaders. The writing on the wall was a proclamation of judgment: in
Aramaic, 'mene mene tekel upharsin' (or in mixed languages, mene mene
tekel and parsin); in English weighed weighed found wanting. </span><b>[
</b><span style="font-weight: normal;">Daniel's interpretation for the
king</span><b>: </b><b><a href="http://biblehub.com/daniel/5-24.htm">24</a>
</b><span style="font-weight: normal;">“Then from His presence the
hand was sent, and this writing was inscribed. </span><b><a href="http://biblehub.com/daniel/5-25.htm">25</a>
</b><span style="font-weight: normal;">And this is the writing that
was inscribed: Mene, Mene, Tekel, and Parsin. </span><b><a href="http://biblehub.com/daniel/5-26.htm">26</a>
</b><span style="font-weight: normal;">This is the interpretation of
the matter: Mene, God has numbered</span><a href="https://biblehub.com/esv/daniel/5.htm#footnotes"><sup><span style="font-weight: normal;">g</span></sup></a><span style="font-weight: normal;">
the days of your kingdom and brought it to an end; </span><b><a href="http://biblehub.com/daniel/5-27.htm">27</a>
</b><span style="font-weight: normal;">Tekel, you have been weighed in
the balances and found wanting; </span><b><a href="http://biblehub.com/daniel/5-28.htm">28</a>
</b><span style="font-weight: normal;">Peres, your kingdom is divided
and given to the Medes and Persians.”</span><b>] </b></span>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">For
many decades scholars believed the entire Book of Daniel to be a
fabrication, a story book of events, written hundreds of years after
the purported origin. Events prophesied in Daniel, by a writer
looking back in History, were asserted to have imagined a king named
Belshazzar. But in the modern epoch, Archaeologists excavating the
foundation for a tower in the old city of Babylon found a clay tablet
bearing cuneiform writing that named Nebuchadnezzar and his son
Belshaazzar (actually grandson) in dedication of the tower. </span>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">And
from the old man, Daniel: upon entering the city, Darius received an
astonishing revelation of his conquering Babylon, written more than
150 years earlier in the Prophetic scriptures. For being shown that
prophecy fulfilled, Darius ordered the return of the Hebrews to
Jerusalem and their freedom from Babylonian captivity.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"> There
is what folks call a supernatural aspect to the scene in Palace Party
Central. I am sure you caught it: the hand appeared and wrote a
judgment on the wall; just the hand was seen. There appeared a
disembodied hand which wrote on the wall! But that hand was attached
to an arm and a body of a living being located in a realm, a space
and time coordinate system not seen by the partiers or the king. The
scene bespeaks a realm of space and time reality where real physical
beings exist, yet the entire realm is totally un sensed by us. An
aspect of the Universe God has Created exists no further away from us
than the length of a hand, a realm with space and time coordinate
reality yet it is totally unseen!</span></div>
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is another aside:</b><span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></span>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">For
the Universe God has created, without time events do not occur and
without space a thing does not exist. Since the being in that other
realm did something -reached into the Party room- there is time in
that realm, and since the hand was visibly taking up space as it
wrote on the wall, the being exists in the Universe God has created,
BUT in a realm with space and time coordinates not accessible to us
in our space and time realm.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> For
many scholars that passage is an example of a 'Christophany', an
appearance of Jesus beyond </span><b>/</b><span style="font-weight: normal;">
before His birth to Mary and Joseph, an appearance possible because
in His present glorified state He has access to all of time and space
and can appear to Moses on the mountain, and to Daniel by the River
Chabar, and to ... well you get the point. [ Frankly, there are other
humans who could be the messenger sent by God to deliver the
judgment, humans who did not taste physical death and were translated
into God's Presence without dying (Enoch and Elijah). That notion of
not tasting death and being whisked away from Earth will arise again
soon in this exploration.]</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"> There
are other scenes in the Bible, two of which are worth noting here as
bespeaking space and time coordinates not usually seen by us. When
Stephen was being stoned to death for angering the rulers of Israel,
he looked in the sky and saw into the Third Heaven, where He saw
Jesus standing beside the Throne of God (Acts 7). The men with stones
could not see what Stephen was seeing then. In the Old Testament a
realm at first unseen is opened up for a young man to see, where an
entire army was camped along the ridge nearby, protecting Elisha the
Prophet and the young man from the king of Syria forces which
surrounded the little town of Dothan to capture the Prophet (2 Kings
6).</span></div>
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Two</span></div>
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in the Gospel of John, chapter three, is an interesting exchange
Jesus had with one of the foremost teachers in Israel. Let's listen
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<span style="font-size: medium;"> <b><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/3-1.htm">1</a>
</b>Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of
the Jews. <b><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/3-2.htm">2</a> </b>This
man came to Jesus by night and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that
you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that
you do unless God is with him.” <b><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/3-3.htm">3</a>
</b>Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is
born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.” <b><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/3-4.htm">4</a>
</b>Nicodemus said to him, “How can a man be born when he is old?
Can he enter a second time into his mother’s womb and be born? <b>5</b><b>
</b><b>Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is
born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God</b>.
<b><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/3-6.htm">6</a> </b>That which is
born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is
spirit. <b><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/3-7.htm">7</a> </b>Do
not marvel that I said to you, ‘You must be born again.’ <b><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/3-8.htm">8</a>
</b>The <sup>wind</sup> blows where it wishes, and you hear its
sound, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes. So
it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"> <b><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/3-9.htm">9</a>
</b>Nicodemus said to him, “How can these things be?” <b><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/3-10.htm">10</a>
</b>Jesus answered him, “Are you the teacher of Israel and yet you
do not understand these things? <b><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/3-11.htm">11</a>
</b>Truly, truly, I say to you, we speak of what we know, and bear
witness to what we have seen, but you do not receive our testimony.
<b><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/3-12.htm">12</a> </b>If I have
told you earthly things and you do not believe, how can you believe
if I tell you heavenly things? <b><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/3-13.htm">13</a>
</b>No one has ascended into heaven except he who descended from
heaven, the Son of Man. <b><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/3-14.htm">14</a>
</b><u>And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must
the Son of Man be lifted up, </u><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/3-15.htm"><u><b>15</b></u></a><u>
that whoever believes in him may have eternal life.</u></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"> Did
you catch that? Jesus tells this educated teacher that one must be
born of the water world AND the spirit, in order to enter the Kingdom
of God. There it is, life more abundant, life in the otherwise dead
spirit. Why say dead spirit? Because we inherited from Adam something
God intends for His life to animate, the spirit of each of His
created humans. </span>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"> God
put a spirit in the soul of Adam, not by Adam believing, but just by
God's creative gift. Then God breathed into Adam and the alive man
became a living soul, a soul with the Light of Life in his spirit. </span>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"> To
have God's life in the human spirit but then lose it when sin entered
the soul might be illustrated by a watch with a face sensitive to
light such that the dial glows when a strong light activates
fluorescing chemicals ; the glow of the hands and dial points fades
if no new light energy is shone upon the watch dial. We will soon
contrast that slow fade with what happens when a person is born
again. Instead of a stimulated glow, it is like a sudden source of
power to produce the flow is inserted into the watch face.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"> Adam,
when he rebelled against God's command, forfeited the life glow God
had shone upon Adam's spirit. But the spirit remained, though dead,
'for in that day they should surely die' (Genesis 2:17). 'Somehow'
all of us via DNA descended from Adam have a dead spirit, thus the
world is constantly wooing our flesh .</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Here
is a quick aside: </b>our soul without life in our spirit is
connected to our physical body in the world. That combination is 'the
flesh'. The term refers to the behavior mechanism of mind, will, and
emotions which direct the body's behavior.</span></div>
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'death' was a spirit thing even as the physical body continued alive.
Satan's great lie hinged upon the humans not realizing they had
levels of life, so satan's lie was you shall not surely die,
referring to the physical which he knew would not end then, but
hiding his lie behind the couple's ignorance of the spirit life they
possessed by grace 'shining' upon the spirit component of their
being. The reality of these levels of life is related to the
coordinate realms, for the soul is real and the spirit is real, thus
they are in the Universe God has created.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"> Now
we can get into the meat of this 'born again' notion.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Here
is another aside:</b> Paul, when writing to the little band of
Christians he established in the city of Thessalonika, wrote a
blessing to them citing their spirit and soul and body. He identified
the three aspects of everyone, spirit, soul, and body (1
Thessalonians 5:23). In another passage he wrote of the origin /
author of sin in us (Romans 7:16-18). With no spirit life in the
spirit, our soul learns sin, not righteousness. Thus each of us is
identified as being dead in trespasses and sins. There are so many
degrees of 'fleshly' deadness, but only one degree of spiritual
aliveness. Only the spiritually alive can enter the Kingdom of God,
because the spiritually alive have the righteousness of Christ
imputed to their spirit, by the power of God's Spirit.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Part
Three:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"> The
question many ask at this stage is 'so why do I have to be born again
since I am enjoying life as I am now?' The answer is at first simple,
then very involved.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"> Simply
stated, you can continue on in life with your spirit dead in
trespasses and sins. God will not force you to accept His Life into
your spirit.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">We
see all around us varying degrees of this deadness, from the extreme
criminality to seemingly harmless little lies, from drug abuse to
only a little glass of wine in the evening, imbibed to settle our
conscience for sleep. The little glass of wine is not sin, it is the
use of it to absolve the conscience of the sins during the day, that
is the sin so well disguised. God desires that all come alive in
spirit, but He shares His glory with those who actually want it. He
does not force His Life upon you for it is received as Grace not
merit or by command. </span>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"> Some
want spiritual life because they have come to realize there is more
to living than being tossed by cares of the world, tempting the
flesh, by an evil source. There is more aliveness and more reality
coming which requires that God's Life is abiding in their individual
spirit. They have also come to realize that sin in their record of
living in the body makes them unfit to be in God's Presence and they
have accepted the Grace God has provided so that they can be
spiritually, perfectly righteous before God.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">
So, you might ask, what is coming that requires me to have an alive
spirit? Good that you ask, because God has arranged for the future to
be understood through prophecy. And here we will tap into the
dimensional stuff mentioned earlier.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"> There
is coming (sooner rather than later) a supernatural event which will
snatch all those who have been born again -whether alive now or long
since dead- away from the Earth and the coming wrath of God poured
out upon those who have refused the Grace of God offered through
Christ Jesus. That is the simple answer, now the involved answer.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"> The
Bible tells us (thus God tells us) that the Word of God is sharper
than any two-edged sword, able to separate soul and spirit (Letter to
The Hebrews 4:12). As we are when born from the water world, our
spirit is attached to the soul. The truth declared by the word of God
found in the Bible can slice apart the spirit from the soul.
Separated from the fleshly soul, the spirit can be cleansed and have
God deposit His Spirit Life in the newly cleansed spirit. </span>
</div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"> When
God works this miraculous change, He then abides there in our human
spirit and 'it' our newly alive spirit cannot then sin because God's
Seed abides therein (1 John 3:9). Does the fleshly soul continue to
sin? Yes! But if we submit our fleshly soul to the directing of God's
Presence within our spirit, gradually (sometimes quickly with many)
changes in the behaviors of the body by renewing our mind with a
desire to do right things is the result of being born again (Letter
to The Romans 12:2).</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"> So
you might now ask, 'how is this behavioral change important to this
snatching away of all believers?'</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"> Here
follows the involved part, the dimensional characteristics part. In
one of his letters, Paul writes the following to the believers in
Thessalonika, to address the worry some were having regarding Jesus
returning for His Body of all believers and the reality that some
believers had died since he was with them, teaching:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><b>1
Thessalonians, 4, English Standard Version: </b></span>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"> <b><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_thessalonians/4-13.htm">13</a>
</b>But we do not want you to be uninformed, brothers, about those
who are asleep, that you may not grieve as others do who have no
hope. <b><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_thessalonians/4-14.htm">14</a>
</b>For since we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so,
through Jesus, God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep.
<b><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_thessalonians/4-15.htm">15</a> </b>For
this we declare to you by a word from the Lord, that we who are
alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will not precede
those who have fallen asleep. <b><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_thessalonians/4-16.htm">16</a>
</b>For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a cry of
command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the sound of the
trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. <b><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_thessalonians/4-17.htm">17</a>
</b>Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together
with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we will
always be with the Lord. <b><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_thessalonians/4-18.htm">18</a>
</b>Therefore encourage one another with these words.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"> We
need to add one more clue before we dive into the scene. As Jesus is
now, He is described as in a glorified state of physical existence.
Physical because presumably Thomas could feel and see the wounds from
the crucifixion (John 20:26-29; Luke 24:32-43). </span>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"> Jesus
has a body that is able to appear and disappear, able to enter a
locked and shuttered room without opening any portal, able to eat
broiled fish, able to leave a stone blocked burial chamber without
rolling away the stone, able to walk with disciples then suddenly
disappear after speaking a blessing over the supper bread. He
ascended into Heaven, just drifted upward as He was speaking a last
blessing on His followers, when He left this planet after His
resurrection from the dead.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"> The
Bible obliquely indicates that only those who believed in Him
actually were able to see the resurrected Jesus (1 Corinthians
15:3-8). [<i>On the road where Saul -renamed Paul, the Apostle- was
confronted by Jesus, Saul saw Jesus but the men with Saul did not
see, much like Stephen seeing into the Throne Room in Heaven but the
stone throwers could not see it.</i><span style="font-style: normal;">]</span><i>
</i><span style="font-style: normal;">But</span> for those who now
believe in Him, when He returns to snatch away the believers we shall
see Him as He is because in that moment we will have been transformed
to be like Him (1 John 3:2). This change of appearance, for us, will
happen so fast we will just disappear from view of those around us
who are not alive in their spirit (1 Corinthians 15;50-53). </span>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"> Why
do we say we shall disappear? Well, in His glorified state Jesus was
not visible to those who did not have God's Life in their human
spirit. Our transformation will be a sudden phase shift from our
current space and time coordinate existence, into a different space
and time coordinate system as illustrated in Daniel chapter five,
with the hand writing on the wall yet the being to whom that hand was
attached remained in a different, unseen realm of space and time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"> Friend,
there is a very real event about to happen, wherein those who have
died with God's Spirit abiding in their spirit (1 John 3:9) are going
to be given new bodies and a new behavior mechanism (that flesh
thing) and then whisked away into the clouds to meet the Lord in the
air! No doubt this will have some sort of physical effect upon the
space and time realm we now sense. But these risen people will not be
visible and will be whisked away so fast that anyone who thought they
saw something will perhaps shake their head and deny it. These not
snatched away will also be told a great lie, no doubt issued from the
deceitful media, to explain away the departure of His body of
believers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"> To
top that, we who are alive at the moment the dead in Christ rise to
new bodies and souls for their alive spirit, well we will be suddenly
transformed in the time it takes a photon to pass from outside an eye
to inside (and that photon is traveling at the speed of light in that
short distance). This event will be a world-wide scene. </span>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"> Imagine
what catastrophic effect the sudden disappearance of millions in
America will have! There are believers in Jesus who fly our planes,
drive our buses, direct our trains, and drive cars on the freeways.
There are believers who maintain our infrastructure, farm our food,
drive our delivery trucks, and stand as defenders of our society, in
the military and law enforcement capacities. Jesus is taking all of
the believers out of here before the wrath of God is poured out in
increasing severity upon an unbelieving world.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"> There
will be some countries and regions which might have to watch CNN to
find out something catastrophic has happened! Those are the places
where unbelief in Jesus is the norm, places where mocking the
spiritual phase shift is a comedic interlude. Those places, found all
over the planet reject the notion that God offers an easy means to be
born again, born in the dead spirit, places where heresies are an
everyday belief, and blasphemies are common ritual. The event program
for this horrific time in Earth's History is written down and saved
in The Revelation of John, the last book in the Bible.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"> To
avoid being on Earth when that horror begins to unfold Jesus says you
must be born again, you must come alive in your spirit before He
comes to snatch away those in whom God has placed His spiritual Life.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Part
Four</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Hopefully,
by now you are asking how does one get born from above, born again?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> <span style="font-size: medium;">That
is the easy part. By an act of your will, which is a part of your
fleshly soul, you can turn to Jesus, turn to God-with-us and simply
trust that He IS and that He is telling you the truth through His
Word that you have a dead spirit. You believe with your will and God
springs into action on your behalf! The very God Creator will create
in your human spirit a clean well kept place where He will abide in
you. You will be alive forever more by His Grace and power, not by
anything you could do to earn such a gift (1 John 3:9).</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Corinthians+1:30&version=ESV"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><b>1
Corinthians 1:30</b></span></span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"> And
because </span><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>of</b></span><span style="font-size: medium;">
him you are in </span><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Christ
</b></span><span style="font-size: medium;">Jesus, who became to
us wisdom from God,</span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">
righteousness</span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>
</b></span><span style="font-size: medium;">and sanctification
and redemption</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> In
that little verse, Paul tells us there are three parts to our
salvation</span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>:</b></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">
justification by His</span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>
</b></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">righteousness
imputed or gifted to us; sanctification of us by transforming our
soul's mind; and glorification </span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>/
</b></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">redemption,
the moment He returns and makes for us a new body and behavior
mechanism fit for eternal living. After Paul taught a group who
became born again, he would write to them giving exhortation to live
clean lives thereafter. He said it is God who is in you both to will
and to do of His good pleasure. [This is our cue to explain what
follows new birth.]</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> When
we believe and are born again we are considered justified before the
God, justified in God's Presence, with the righteousness of Jesus
Christ imputed to us, to our spirit. His righteousness is not dripped
into us as if an intravenous infusion as we work our way to what we
hope will be eternal life. In the instant you believe in your heart
that Jesus is Savior righteousness is imputed to your spirit. Our
new born spirit is alive forever more. But the soul which has been
trained in sin remains and will sin. Since the spirit has been
separated from the fleshly soul, the spirit does not sin for God's
seed remains therein, by the Promise of God not efforts on our part.
But there is still sin in and by the fleshly soul. God says that
blemish is erased from the records of your soul when you confess that
sin to Him. That is sanctification happening, the renewing of our
fleshly mind, the transforming of our flesh to move us away from sin
and closer to our God Creator. </span></span>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"> In
Paul's letter to the (Romans 8:10) we read that if Christ is in you,
although the body is dead because of sin, the spirit is life because
of righteousness, the righteousness of Christ in you.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Here
is the canvas bucket aside:</b>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">The
following is an analogy for the human spirit before born again and
after born again:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"> When
I was a little boy of two (1947) an Army Colonel three doors down
from our home used to wash his big car in the parking lot out front
of his home. Not having a hose, he used canvas buckets to hold soapy
water and then clear water to rinse the car. These canvas buckets had
a large steel ring sewn into a swath of canvas and a smaller ring
sewn into what was the bottom of the canvas bucket. These were handy
during the war, to carry water for the engine cooling radiators of
jeeps and trucks and tanks, and to make a wash basin for refreshing
the tired or sleepy soldiers. When not filled with water they stored
well in the crowded vehicles since they flattened down when empty.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"> I
squatted down at one of the rinse buckets which was full, with water
sweating out the canvas sides. When I poked the canvas with my
finger, water would spill out over the rim.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"> When
we are born our human spirit is like the canvas bucket when empty of
water. The bucket is flattened, with the smaller bottom steel ring
resting inside the larger top ring. The bucket is not fulfilling the
goal for which it was created. Without the water of the Spirit, er, I
mean without the Life of the Holy Spirit in our human spirit our
spirit is not fulfilling the purpose for which it is created. </span>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"> The
spirit in the man is designed to drive the behavior mechanism, the
flesh of the man. Without life in the spirit there is no director, no
king in our body temple. There is a declaration in Judges, the Old
Testament, chapter 21, verse 25 which states that 'in those days
there was no king in Israel so every man did what was right in his
own eyes.' Without liquid in the canvas bucket, the bucket is not a
bucket fulfilling its purpose. Without the Life of God abiding in the
human spirit, every soul, every flesh does what is right or pleasing
or powerful in its own eyes. The dead spirit cannot direct the
behavior mechanism so the flesh does the directing. The results are
not behaviors that are righteous before God so they are lumped under
the broad heading of sin, and every man has sin in the life of the
flesh. </span>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"> Being
born again, born from above, brings Life of and from God into our
before dead spirit. And by His Promise He then abides there with us,
without any sin tainting our spirit thereafter. When Jesus comes back
into the first heaven (Biblically the atmosphere and space
surrounding Earth) to snatch all His believers away, all believers
trusting in Him will receive new bodies and a new behavior mechanism,
to carry our eternally alive spirit around God's Creation.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"> And
that is why we need to be born again in the now, because the
snatching away is very close now, based upon what The Word of God
tells us to watch for as signs of the spiritual season of His return
for us. And to get born again one needs only to believe God is and
that Jesus is Whom God has sent for the empowering of our faith, then
ask Him to be your redeemer. In response to that belief, that faith
in Him, He makes our human spirit to have His Life in us.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"> Believing
on The One lifted up on that cross for our deliverance heals the
poison of sin and makes us alive in Him. Moses lifted up the brass
serpent in the desert, and ALL who looked to that brass serpent
believing God's Promise to deliver them from the snakes were
delivered from the poison (Numbers 21:4-9).</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Here
is a last aside</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">On
the night Jesus was betrayed, He and the disciples took the Passover
together in the Upper Room. After Judas Iscariot had left to alert
the Jewish leaders of where they could capture Jesus that night, the
disciples asked to be given a sign to assure them that Jesus was the
Messiah sent from God. Let's pick up the conversation as recorded in
John 14<b>:</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"> <a href="http://biblehub.com/john/14-1.htm"><b>1</b></a>“Let
not your hearts be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in me. <b><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/14-2.htm">2</a>
</b>In my Father’s house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I
have told you that I go to prepare a place for you?<sup> </sup><b><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/14-3.htm">3</a>
</b>And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and
will take you to myself, that where I am you may be also. <b><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/14-4.htm">4</a>
</b>And you know the way to where I am going.” <b><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/14-5.htm">5</a>
</b>Thomas said to him, “Lord, we do not know where you are going.
How can we know the way?” <b><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/14-6.htm">6</a>
</b>Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life.
No one comes to the Father except through me. <b><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/14-7.htm">7</a>
</b>If you had known me, you would have known my Father also. <b>From
now on you do know him and have seen him.”</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><b> <a href="http://biblehub.com/john/14-8.htm">8</a>
</b>Philip said to him, “Lord, show us the Father, and it is enough
for us.” <b><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/14-9.htm">9</a> </b>Jesus
said to him, “Have I been with you so long, and you still do not
know me, Philip? Whoever has seen me has seen the Father. How can you
say, ‘Show us the Father’? <a href="http://biblehub.com/john/14-10.htm"><b>10</b></a>
Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me?
The words that I say to you I do not speak on my own authority, but
the Father who dwells in me does his works. <b><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/14-11.htm">11</a>
</b>Believe me that I am in the Father and the Father is in me, or
else believe on account of the works themselves.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></span><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/14-12.htm"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>12</b></span></a><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">“Truly,
truly, I say to you, whoever believes in me will also do the works
that I do; and greater works than these will he do, because I am
going to the Father. </span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/14-13.htm">13</a>
</b></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Whatever
you ask in my name, this I will do, that the Father may be glorified
in the Son. </span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/14-14.htm">14</a>
</b></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">If
you ask me anything in my name, I will do it.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><b> <a href="http://biblehub.com/john/14-15.htm">15</a></b>“If
you love me, you will keep my commandments. <b><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/14-16.htm">16</a>
</b>And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Helper to
be with you forever, <b><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/14-17.htm">17</a>
</b>even the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because
it neither sees him nor knows him. <b>You know him, for he dwells
with you and will be</b><sup><b> </b></sup><b>in you.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><b> </b>In
that exchange<b> t</b>here is an important lesson regarding God and
the Universe of His creating, along with an obvious promise by Jesus
to come for all believers in whose spirit God abides. God is Spirit,
to be worshiped in spirit and truth (John 4:24)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"> When
Philip asks Jesus to just show them the Father Almighty and that will
be enough to convince them, Jesus gives these men a sort of Physics
lesson. In essence Jesus tells them, all that they can see of God the
Father Almighty is where He, God, is in their sensing range as Jesus
... as the spirit director of Jesus who was named hundreds of years
before His birth as 'God With Us'.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"> What
Philip asked was not possible given the space and time sensing
limitations of these men. God is so much greater than the dimensional
extent of these men, of our world, that the only place we can sense
or see God is where He is intersecting our limits. We are limited to
three variables of space and one of time. God is unlimited, but He
intersected and passed through our limits as Jesus.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"> As
Jesus is now, in His glorified body of much more complex space and
time coordinates, we cannot see Him, but when He appears we will see
Him as He really is because in that moment we will have been made
like Him, existing in a much greater, more complex space and time
coordinate system. But to experience that Kingdom of God we must be
born again, born in the spirit, right now and wherever you are, for
we do not know how close is the transforming event, the snatching
away before the wrath of God is poured out on an unbelieving world.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"> The
spirit and soul exist and are real in space and time. Let God put
Life into your spirit, today, wherever you are as you read this
essay, by just believing Jesus is and is your deliverer from the
spiritual poison of sin.</span></div>
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M Gallowayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15076485084500021853noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1271101993122934886.post-58052228202206497732020-03-02T07:19:00.000-08:002020-03-02T07:19:46.929-08:00Hardware, Software of Soul and Spirit
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<span style="font-size: large;">On
Hardware and Software, Soul and Spirit</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"> Chuck
Missler was fond of noting that our soul and spirit are software not
hardware. His assertion was that the body we occupy as we read this
text is hardware and the meaning of the words and the thoughts
conveyed are not physical things and are being understood by a
software package called mind.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"> Chuck
analogized that assertion with a compact disc and the difference of
weight before data is downloaded and after data is downloaded to the
disc. His point was that there is no difference in weight. The
software data has no mass thus it has no weight. The disc weighs the
same before download and after download. Let's focus more deeply on
the notion(s) inferred by this assertion, because Chuck is correct,
that our soul and our spirit are not hardware thus they have 'eternal
existence' and the state in which they will express is something each
of us ought to deal with.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"> We
will start with the compact disc and the reality of a media in the
hardware which allows data to be downloaded to the disc. The floppy
discs Missler was referring to had a magnetizable surface. Data is
transferred to the medium on the surface of the disc in bytes of 1s
and 0s, ons and offs, opens or closeds, or how ever you wish to
denote a binary language, a language with only two expressions.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"> A
message is coded then transferred to the disc in the binary language.
It is then up to a receiver of the data to upload the string of
information and translate it into whatever language the mind of the
recipient is using or the receiver uses for thought. The message
starts as a thought from a source, is translated into a code and
imprinted upon the disc, then read by another device to decode the
data into a language targeted. The message has no mass, but there is
a requirement for there to be some mass which is manipulated to
express the message, then mass in a receiver to interpret or
re-express the message.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"> Our
DNA does something very much similar, in that the molecules making up
the DNA strand have been 'arranged' into an information message which
when 'read' manipulates masses to build a body (masses of molecules
which arrange into proteins and then into larger arrangements or
tissues and organs). I am information expressed by an arrangement of
molecules ... an arrangement which will eventually decay and revert
back to the atomic level of carriers for data. But wait! There's
more!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"> This
leads to a new insight building on Chuck Missler's assertion. The
data is not any thing unless it has a receiver to express the message
of the data, so our soul and spirit must have some actual / physical
carrier that does have space and time reality! So Chuck's assertion
is not a finished expression because our soul and spirit are not just
the software but are also the hardware. The message has a carrier
that is vital to the existence of the whole.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"> There
are two axioms given to me by a very dear and intelligent Lady:
without time events do not occur; without space a thing does not
exist in the Universe God has created. Let's apply those two axioms
to this discussion of soul and spirit as software. The soul and
spirit of you do exist IN the Universe God has created, but they
exists as software being carried by <b>/</b> expressed IN hardware of
some sort. </span>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"> Now
the fun begins ...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"> The
Bible gives us many clues to the existence of real space and time
coordinate systems which are un sensed by us in our current
configuration. Our sensory mechanism is limited to three variables of
space and one of time. Science is telling us that there are more
variables of space and perhaps time which are beyond the smallness
level to be located. In effect when a thing goes smaller than 10 to
the minus 33 centimeters it loses a property called 'location' ...
smaller than 10 to the minus 33 centimeters and you cannot say it is
'there' or 'here', it is non-local. </span>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"> There
is a similar limit to span of time. If an event happens faster than
10 to the minus 43 seconds it is said to cease being a temporal
event.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">[<b>Here's
an aside:</b> the Bible describes a physically real transformation of
those Christians alive when the snatching away of all believers
happens. This transformation is said to happen in the twinkling of an
eye. That span of time is the time it takes a beam of light traveling
at approximately 186,000 miles per second (or 300,000 kilometers per
second) to pass from outside your iris to inside your eye, an event
lasting about 10 to the minus 43 seconds!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"> We
have referred to Daniel chapter five many times in essays, but let us
now focus upon the reality inferred from the scene, specifically the
nature of the being who wrote upon the wall while just the hand of
that being was visible to the palace party central participants. We
would presume that the hand was attached to an arm that was attached
to a body of a real, physical being. Why so sure the being was
physical? The hand made changes to the physical wall that remained
visible in the party zone. We would presume that being has mass and
was standing somewhere in some when. But, was the coordinate system
of time and space for the messenger different from the party room
such that some variable in his coordinates makes the messenger
invisible? </span>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">[
</span><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Here is an aside:</b></span><span style="font-size: medium;">
When Jesus appeared to His disciple after His resurrection they were
frightened as He suddenly appear in their locked and shuttered room.
The room had six sides: floor, ceiling, plus four walls. And Jesus
entered the closed six-sided realm without going through any of the
sides. He enters, somehow, and exhibits His physical body of flesh
and bone. Once visible to them, He then responded to their fear by
telling them to handle His body, challenging them with</span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><b>:</b></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;">
“See my hands </span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">and</span></span><span style="font-size: medium;">
my feet, that it is I myself. Touch me, </span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">and</span></span><span style="font-size: medium;">
see. For a spirit does not have </span><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>flesh</b></span><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>and</b></span><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>bone</b></span><span style="font-size: medium;">s
as you see that I have.” ( Luke 24:29 ) Aside from the fact that He
did not mention blood, Jesus brought a physical body into their
midst, without using a doorway or window! And He was using that
physical body to convey a message, so the mass-less information was
being translated by a real physical transmitter </span><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>/</b></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">
</span></span><span style="font-size: medium;">sender of the
data. The scene in Luke 24 is like the scene in Daniel five, except
the whole being not just the hand is in the same space and time realm
as the disciples! ]</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"> If
the soul of mind, will, and emotions is not hardware and the spirit
is not hardware, but there is a hardware carrier </span><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>/</b></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">
expressor for each, we wonder what it is 'shaped' like? Well, it is
likely a match for the shape of the body limited to the spacetime of
our now physical senses. The coordinate system must be different than
our now physical body because the spirit (and perhaps the soul </span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>/</b></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">
behavior mechanism) continues to exist in the Universe God has
created even as the now body is giving up the atomic structures for
life in the air world with four-D bodily death. Literally, the
message of life carried by the DNA hardware is no longer being
expressed by the thing the carrier of the DNA information fabricated.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"> So,
perhaps, just perhaps, the coordinate systems of space and time for
the soul carrier <b>/</b> receiver and for the spirit carrier <b>/</b>
receiver have more spatial variable expressions than our air world
space and time coordinates? </span>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"> Addition
of just one more coordinate variable would form a coordinate system
beyond our senses. So long as that extra is intertwined with our
where <b>/</b> when three of space and one of time, the greater would
have access to the lesser, as in Palace Party Central, Babylon. The
extra variable would needs be intertwined with our four-D limits so
that an interface can happen between coordinate systems. At our death
in this where <b>/</b> when the connection, the interface is broken
to our four-D realm but continues in the five-D realm where
expression of mind, emotion, and will are real. And since the Word of
God is sharper than any two-edged sword, able to separate soul and
spirit, an extra variable might be a six-D where <b>/ </b>when of the
spirit and can be separated so that God can cleanse it from sin stain
and abide therein. <b>[ See 1 John 3:9 ]</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"> Can
we say that life is a software expression utilizing a hardware
carrier; is the life of the body more primitive than the life of the
soul, and the life of the soul more primitive than the life of the
spirit? Biblically, before being born again, there is no life in the
spirit. The carrier is non-functional so when born again it is
God-life animating the spirit and its carrier. </span>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> Is
that what Jesus meant when He said He had come to give men life and
more abundantly? [ </span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><a href="https://biblehub.com/bsb/john/10.htm">Berean
Study Bible</a> </b></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">“I
have come that they may have life, and have it in all its fullness.”
John 10:10 ]</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Part
Two</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><b> </b><span style="font-weight: normal;">What
of angels? What is the where </span><b>/</b><span style="font-weight: normal;">
when of angels? There is a reason to ask this question since the
voice of an archangel will be involved in the snatching away of all
believers. [ </span><b>Berean Literal Bible 1 Thessalonians 4:16
</b><span style="font-weight: normal;">because the Lord Himself will
descend from heaven with a loud command, with the voice of an
archangel, and with </span><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">the</span></i><span style="font-weight: normal;">
trumpet of God. ] Angels are real beings, alive in a sense that we
cannot comprehend. They do things and occupy space so they are in the
created Universe, but where are they? We would presume they are
higher dimensional beings but can share our dimensional limits if
they choose to do so.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"> That
verse in the first Thessalonians letter seems to indicate there are
three phases to the snatching away of all believers, dead or alive.
We are about to see (figuratively) an event men would characterize as
supernatural because it involves aspects <b>/</b> realities not
sensed by us in our current where <b>/</b> when. If extra dimensional
variables cited previously are real in the Universe God has created
-and we believe they are because of clues found throughout the Bible,
then what occurs in the Universe is not super natural, it is natural
to the Universe because it is happening in the Universe created. The
event is very real and involves hardware -new bodies- and software
-new behavior mechanisms- conveying life in more fullness than we can
express now as we posses deadness in our real spirit ( unless we are
born again, born from above John 3:3 ). </span>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> First,
there is the command from God as Jesus descends from the Third Heaven
Throne Room ( or the second heaven, not the Throne Room; who knows,
this is not Google Earth driving directions ). We are assured that
God is bringing with Him ALL spirits of those who have died in
Christ. They are either in the Third Heaven or the Second Heaven, not
here upon or in the Earth because Jesus is there and God is bringing
them with Jesus. We might liken that loud command to the scene when
Jesus raised his friend Lazarus from the tomb. </span><b>[ John 11:43
] </b></span>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> Is
the voice of the archangel a redundancy, or is there an other step in
the process, one aimed at those who are not coming with Jesus but are
still alive, in Him by the Holy Spirit Presence in their spirit? </span><b>[</b><span style="font-weight: normal;">
</span><b>Ephesians 11:13&14 ] </b><span style="font-weight: normal;">Is
the voice of the archangel to transform us?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"> It
could be that we who are alive are transformed in the same instant
Jesus creates new bodies and behavior mechanisms for the dead. So
what meaning can we assign regarding the voice of the archangel? Here
is an odd conjecture, a suggestion for the world-wide thundering
voice of the archangel. </span>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"> Our
atmosphere is teeming with electromagnetic filth being beamed all
around the globe. Would Jesus descend into such filth and meet us in
such a nasty environment? We are to be caught up into the clouds to
meet the Lord in the air. Those electromagnetic waves are a form of
pollution seeking a receiver to manifest their filth. Perhaps the
voice of the archangel suddenly stops all electromagnetic
transmission and erases the waves of filth! Such a cleansing need
last only a brief amount of time and would cause such chaos upon the
earth that everyone everywhere would be aware simultaneously. This
sweep would not be permanent for we see in the Revelation of John
that the whole Earth will witness events in Jerusalem not long after
this snatching away event -maybe just three years later.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> The
third step in the snatching away of all believers is Trumpet of God.
We have a big clue for this step, found in the opening verse of
chapter four, the Revelation of John; </span><b>Revelation 4:<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://biblehub.com/revelation/4-1.htm">1</a>
</span></b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">After these
things I looked, and behold, a door was standing open in heaven, and
the first voice that I heard like a trumpet was speaking with me,
saying, “Come up here, and I will show to you what it behooves to
take place after these things.”</span></span><span style="font-weight: normal;">
</span></span>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"> The
simultaneous blast of the name of everyone just given new bodies and
behavior mechanisms might well sound like a trumpet blast, to those
not called up into the clouds to meet the Lord Christ in the air. The
action is so fast in this process of snatching all believers away
that the electromagnetic collapse and the blast of God's Trumpet may
seem simultaneous to the left behinds, the earth dwellers. </span>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"> How
easy will it be to explain away the snatching away disappearance of
hundreds of millions of people simultaneous with the electromagnetic
collapse and that never heard before sound created by the blasting
noise simultaneous as the moment of every name of believers is
suddenly called out? You can bet there will be some great lie told to
explain it away. There are thousands of scientists who have bowed to
the anthropogenic global warming lie ( man made global warming ).
They appear easy to be controlled. There are already what sound like
trumpet blasts happening around the globe, as if preparing humanity
for the great lie. The public is already taught the real chance of a
devastating electromagnetic pulse from the Sun or a EMP, pulse
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the prophecies of His coming is the name meaning God With Us. When a
teenager asked how the God who created the Universe could be a man,
just a man, the following was given for sharing with others on How
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John's Gospel, chapter 14, Jesus tells His disciples that if they
have seen Him they have seen The Father, for He is in the Father and
the Father in Him. All they could see of The Father was Jesus, God
with them.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"> If
you were a being who was created with only length and width spatial
variability, you could not perceive a sphere of length, width, and
height, except where that sphere was in your length x width plane. If
I want to show a sphere to these flatlanders (from the short novel,
Flatland) I would have to pass the sphere through their plane, making
a series of expanding circles then shrinking circles.remely
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Philip's request to be shown The Father so he could believe Jesus was
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are two axioms which can help with understanding, regarding anything
of the Universe, the Universe, and anything in the Universe God has
created/is creating:</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"> All
things in the Universe God created have some variability of space and
time, even a photon. A photon passes or 'events' inside the Universe
never going out of the present of its creation, thus it arrives at
your eye, for instance, and imparts data of the source at the moment
the photon is created, even if it takes a billion years (perceived
from our position in the temporal field) to reach your eye. The
photon remains in the present of its creation. Photons are a mix of a
pinch of space, a moment in time, and energy. Photons carry 'present
moment data'.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"> God
made Man to have a physical body, a behavior mechanism or soul, and a
third aspect, the spirit, into which God put His Spirit life but
which was forfeited in Adam; the human spirit remained but the life
on a spirit level was removed, and that is what God puts back into
the spirit of a believer in Jesus, a saved person.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"> The
soul is real, it exists in time and space, but in a different
coordinate system from the physical body, though it interfaces with
same. In the same fashion, spirit is real, having some variability of
time and space, though existing in a different coordinate system from
the soul yet interfacing with same. When one is 'born from above'
(John 3), God puts the earnest of a greater existence into the human
spirit. (That is important to comprehend if we are to see what will
happen at the Rapture.)</span></span></div>
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more clue: the being who wrote upon the wall in Palace Party central
(Daniel 5) exists in a spacetime coordinate system un sensible to the
partiers, so He reached 'down' into the Palace spacetime coordinate
system and wrote on the wall, while the portion not the hand writing
remained in a different spacetime coordinate system.</span></span></div>
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maybe one more: when Stephen was close to death, he looked and saw
Jesus standing at the right hand of the throne of The Father; God
allowed Stephen to have the ability to see more than the coordinate
system in which he was about to die, physically. What Stephen saw was
real, had real space and time variability, but was un sensible to
those who would be throwing rocks.</span></span></div>
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<br />M Gallowayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15076485084500021853noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1271101993122934886.post-41142665216300715592018-01-31T09:33:00.000-08:002018-01-31T09:33:48.433-08:00In John's Gospel account of Jesus and the coming of the Christ --to be 'God With us' and then God in us following the Resurrection and Church Day of Pentecost,-- in that Gospel we are given the scene of one Nicodemus, member of the Jewish Sanhedrin in that day, coming to Jesus at night to ask Him for something to show He was Messiah. They get into an exchange during which Jesus tells Nicodemus that a man must be born again, born of the Spirit, in order to enter into Heaven. <p>
Throughout the letters of Paul --and especially in the letter to the Romans-- Paul addresses this notion of being born again, born of the Spirit, for Salvation in Christ. And he, Paul, explains it using the verb tenses and cases in the Greek which indicate an immediate deliverance followed by an ongoing transformational process called ‘sanctification’.<br />
The Blood of Christ cleansed the Mercy Seat in Heaven and thereby those who died before the Cross were made righteous because of their belief (‘faithe‘) in God’s Promises.<br />
The Blood of Christ cleanses your heart allowing God’s Spirit to come into your inner self, your spirit, and dwell there to transform your soul as you ‘faithe’ in the promises of God to transform you, thereby ‘establishing’ the Law of God (fulfilling the Law) in your heart, as Paul put it.<br />
When one reads these passages in the Greek, there are certain specific aspects of the Greek words which give insight into the specifics of the written passages. Here's a simplified example from Romans chapter ten:<br />
Romans 10:8-10 But what saith it? The word is nigh thee, [even] in thy mouth, and in thy heart: that is, the word of faith, which we preach; That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. (KJV)<br />
Romans 10:8-10 10:8 But what doth it say? `Nigh thee is the saying -- in thy mouth, and in thy heart:` that is, the saying of the faith, that we preach; that if thou mayest confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and mayest believe in thy heart that God did raise him out of the dead, thou shalt be saved, for with the heart doth believe to righteousness, and with the mouth is confession made to salvation; (Young’s Literal Translation)<br />
The underlined words --faith, believe, and believeth-- all derive from the Greek word ‘pisteuo’. In the Greek the verbs give rise to the nouns, so ‘pisteuo’ --to faithe-- gives rise to ‘pistis’, the noun --faith. Important to the understanding of the use of ‘pistis’ is that it is at its heart an action word which, in the way written in the passage, is an ongoing action, an immediate application with continuous force, an unending application --not continuous if referred back to, but a thing instituted by God not man, then remaining in effect WHILE the ‘faither’ lives the remainder of life ‘faithing’.<br />
Faith is action based upon belief sustained by the confidence that what God promises He will do. That is why we read repeatedly that Abraham ‘believed’ God and it was counted for him righteousness. … The words in blue --confess and confession (’homologeo‘)-- are derived from ‘homos’ which is Greek for ‘at the same place or time’; adding ‘logeo‘ we have ‘at the same time or place spoken‘. … The word in red --salvation (soteria=deliverance)-- is derived from the Greek word ‘soter’, meaning ‘a deliverer’. <br />
It has been offered at FreeRepublic that ’Salvation is a thing that is worked out on one’s knees in prayer and in repentance.’ More accurate it is to say, salvation --deliverance-- is something you receive immediately when you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead. Then you seek to live the rest of your life, daily, as you function in every aspect of living, ‘faithing’ in the promises of God that He will transform your soul by the renewing of your mind.<br />
You receive deliverance in your spirit and remain delivered in your soul (your behavior mechanism) --are transformed-- through a daily walk (which should include time on your knees and/or in quiet solitude with His Spirit sifting and cleansing your soul) in which you ‘faithe’ in His Spirit within which you received the minute you were delivered.<br />
You received a deliverer (soter) in your dead human spirit when you confessed Jesus Christ. You are ‘sotered’ daily, to coin a word mixing Greek and English, in your behavior mechanism, your soul.M Gallowayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15076485084500021853noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1271101993122934886.post-73570043580970266702015-09-13T08:37:00.000-07:002015-09-13T08:37:46.687-07:00<strong><span style="color: blue;">The Rapture Is Coming</span></strong>
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Greetings, in the name of Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior.
This little essay will be a quick explanation of The Rapture, a coming event in the History of Humanity, coming soon to this planet. We will seek to show 'what it is' and 'who will be taken' in it when Jesus returns in the air.
There are three main passages in the Bible that teachers cite for the event. I will quote them as follows, from the World English Bible, a particularly good translation made from the earliest manuscripts available to scholars:<br />
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<span style="color: blue;"><strong>13</strong> But we don't want you to be ignorant, brothers, concerning those who have fallen asleep, so that you don't grieve like the rest, who have no hope. <strong>14</strong> For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God will bring with Him those who have fallen asleep in Jesus.<strong> 15</strong> For this we tell you by the Word of The Lord, that we who are alive, that are left to the coming of the Lord, will in no way preced those who have fallen asleep. <strong>16</strong> For the Lord Himself shall descend from Heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, with God's trumpet. The dead in Christ will rise first, <strong>17</strong> then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air. So we will be with the Lord forever. <strong>18</strong> Therefore comfort one another with these words.</span>
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<span style="color: red;">John 14:1-3, the Upper room Discourse the night before Jesus sacrificing Himself for us :</span></strong>
<span style="color: blue;">“<strong>1</strong> Don't let your heart be troubled. Believe in God. Believe also in me. <strong>2</strong> In my Father's house are many homes. If it were not so, I would have told you. I am going to prepare a place for you. <strong>3</strong> If I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and will receive you to myself; that where I am, you may be THERE also.”</span>
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51</strong> Behold, I tell you a mystery; we will not all sleep, but we will all be changed, <strong>52</strong> in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet; for the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed.<strong> 53</strong> For this perishable must put on the imperishable, and this mortal must put on immortality.</span></span> <br />
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So, the Rapture is going to be a super natural event. There will be a resurrection of those who have died believing in Jesus as Savior and Lord, even those who may not have spent their life completely following Him, due to so many things warring against their souls (the world, the flesh, and the devil). Of these the Apostle Paul wrote they will stand IN HEAVEN before the Bema Seat (rewards seat) of Christ and His glory will burn away every act they have done since being 'born from above', as if those works were wood, hay, and stubble. [ <span style="color: red;">See 1 Corinthians 3: 10-16</span> ] Of those who have been being raised up by His Spirit in the Way that they should go, well their works will be looking like gold, silver, and precious stones (they show up in the walls and foundation of the new Jerusalem which descends from Heaven at the end of the Great Tribulation into the new age).
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You may be asking yourself at this point 'who' are the Bride of Christ and the 'Bridesmaids' Jesus spoke of in the story of the ten 'virgins' (bridesmaids ... a groom does not come for five to ten brides, but the bride he does come for has a company of bridesmaids who watch for the bridegroom's coming for the Bride).
God has made Salvation in Christ so simple that men and women try to add something to it, as if it is too simple. But God's Grace is like that, beyond our comprehension to understand how free it really is! That adding to the simple Grace of God in Christ is why there are so many denominations. But God assures us that ONLY He can save us through His Son, Jesus Christ. Only God can put His holy Spirit cure on us and His life in us. <br />
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How do we know this? Well ...
When a member of the powerful Jewish Sanhedrin, Nicodemus, came to Jesus one night (snuck in, probably to keep his fellow religious rulers from catching him talking privately to Jesus), Jesus revealed a truth to Nicodemus that had no explanation in the entire Old Testament and Jewish scholars, for more than a thousand years. Jesus referred Nicodemus to an episode involving terrible poisonous snakes, in the desert, after the Hebrews had been led out of Egypt by Moses. [<span style="color: red;">John 3, Jesus referring back to Numbers 21:9</span> ]<br />
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People were being bitten by snakes all over the place where the camp was set up. Moses was instructed by God to make a brass snake and put it on a long pole, and when he held it up, any -and that means ANY- who even looked at the pole believing the Promise of God to cure the bite, well they were healed of the terrible poison! Sin is a poison. <br />
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Once we confess our bankrupt state in sin to God and believe in our heart that God through Jesus's sacrifice on the Cross accomplished our payment for being completely unrighteous before a Holy God, well, when we make that confession to God we receive a sentence of 'debt paid in full'. We are, as Jesus told Nicodemus we must be, born from above, born of His Spirit into His family. Any who make that confession are absolutely and forever saved from the death penalty that goes with a sin nature inherited from Adam. We have God's Promise of that salvation. There is no more sure Promise than a Promise from God.
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At this stage many will object, asking questions of 'what if' and citing some sin of any degree, from drugs, to sexual immorality, to murder, as if there is some sin that God could not wipe away with the Sacrifice of God as Jesus on the Cross. The quickest way to send such questioning away from your mind is to ask yourself, 'what sin could you commit in the future that would take God by surprise?'
If there were some sin that would take God by surprise AFTER you have believed Jesus is your Savior, how limited would God's vision be that He would not know of it well in advance? <br />
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The Bible, God's Word to us, tells us that He knows the end even at the beginning, and all that happens from beginning to end, all at the same time. So when God Promises to make you born from above when you believe in Jesus Who was raised up on that cross for our sins (as Jesus showed Nicodemus like the brass snake in the Desert -John 3: 14-15), the Promise is absolute and eternal in reach ... He Promises you are debt free from that moment of glorifying His Son Jesus as your Savior. NOTHING can end that Promise of God.
So, who is the Bride of Christ? <br />
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Jesus is coming soon for His Bride and the Bridesmaids who have been struggling to keep their lamps lit and trying to stay alert to the return of the Bridegroom for the Bride's party, to go to the Father's House for a wedding and wedding party. [<span style="color: red;">See Matthew 25</span>] <br />
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If ALL who believe Jesus is their Savior are Saved, what are they saved from? It is more than just the penalty for their sins. It is saved from the horrors about to come when God pours out His wrath upon the world that has rejected so simple and Grace-filled Salvation by just believing Jesus is their Savior! The Bible, through Paul and other Apostles who wrote to new Christians, even John in the Revelation, the message is that we who believe are not appointed to that wrath, but to obtain salvation, escape, deliverance from even the hour of that 'time of testing'. [<span style="color: red;"> See Rev 3, the Philadelphia Church </span>]
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If anyone has been paying any attention at all to folks around them in their life, and seen some who have professed faith that Jesus is Savior and Lord, well it is apparent over time that most stray from their faith, and sin, then return to their Lord confessing for forgiveness and cleansing. This old man has been there, done that, got lots of T-shirts for it. But there are others, a few in number, who seem to be especially transformed in their faith in Christ. Their lives change so dramatically that we cannot help but notice they are no longer of the world, no longer taking part in the life they led before being born from above. <br />
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These are they who have taken the Promise of God so literally that they grow in Grace and Knowledge.
God puts His Holy Spirit seal on ALL who look upon, er, excuse me, in all who have professed belief that Jesus is THEIR Savior and Lord, who have -at any time- called upon Him to save them from their sin nature. But some are not only saved, sealed, born from above, they are daily calling upon God's Holy Spirit IN THEM to raise them up in the way that they should go as newborn members of His family! THESE are the Bride of Christ. There is no way that God is going to let The Bride go through what is coming when the 'man of sin' walks upon the human stage to be absolutely and totally wicked. We get a strong hint of this series of events in 2 Thessalonians 2, where Paul writes to the same group he addressed earlier in 1 Thessalonians 4.
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The question that was nagging at the Thessalonian's minds was 'had they missed the Rapture and the terrible “day of the Lord” and God's vengence was building in the Tribulation? Paul told them what to watch for to know that day had not come yet, that first there would be the great departure of all believers, dead and alive (I Thess 4:13-18) and THEN, with the restraining force of the Holy Spirit in believers taken out of the way, then would the man of sin and lawlessness burst forth. [ <span style="color: red;">2 Thessalonians 2:3 and 8</span> ]
When Paul wrote 'Wherefore, comfort one another with this information because it is directly from The Lord', Paul meant the information should be comforting, to know that they were still in Christ and Christ in them, regardless of the persecutions they were getting. The time of the snatching away and the beginnings of the wrath of God had not come, and would not come until they were departed from the scene as the restraining force of the Holy Spirit in believers is taken out of the way.
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And finally, if the question lingers, 'So what must I do to be departed with the believers in the Rapture?' Know this, that IT is as simple as Moses making a brass snake and lifitng it on a pole so that ANY who looked at it and believed the Promise from God, they were healed of the poison. Sin is poison. Believe Jesus is your Savior and you will be healed of that poison, forever, so that no man (or woman, or devil), not even you, can take you out of the two hands of God holding you by His Promise. [ <span style="color: red;">See John 10: 27-29 </span>] Call upon the Lord and be born again. It is that simple, so simple that even a stiff-necked bunch of grumbling Hebrews in the desert, plagued by snake bite poison, could receive healing.
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There is much that I could write about the 'when' and the 'how' of the Rapture, but I will save that for another time, if you want more than this introduction. There is so much that God has for us.
May the Grace of God in Christ be with you and deliver you into His truth, and there you may dwell always in the Peace and Power of our Lord, Jesus The Christ.M Gallowayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15076485084500021853noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1271101993122934886.post-51947541917686849552010-10-08T11:18:00.000-07:002010-10-08T11:25:56.818-07:00About America, We Need To TalkFor those wishing to download the manuscript, it is free. Take it, share it with your pastors and priests, so they understand stem cells and cloning, and just how dangerous is this utilitarian harvesting of embryonic aged humans for their body parts, their stem cells.<br /><br />If you wish to use the page numbers as shown in the table of contents, just download the manuscript to the notebook of your computer and select all to make it Times New Roman 12, with all the bells and whistles. Then select edit, view header/footer and then click insert page numbers for header. There should be 81 pages, since I didn't include the color pictures of DNA molecules and charts I retain in the manuscript I printed originally.<br /><br />The manuscript is not for publication and sale because I have not gone to the trouble of acquiring written permission for all the articles included, thus it will always be free. *smiles*M Gallowayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15076485084500021853noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1271101993122934886.post-54112364785216636222010-10-08T10:59:00.000-07:002010-10-08T11:10:43.824-07:00America, We Need To Talk[Manuscript to discuss ESCR, cloning, and abortion, from / for a layperson’s perspective] <br /><br /><br />"Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe." - H.G. Wells <br /><br /><strong>TABLE OF CONTENTS</strong> <br /><br />Introduction <br />Chptr 1 - Basic Biology ----------------- 4 <br />Chptr 2 - In Vitro Fertilization --------16<br />Chptr 3 - Stem Cells And Cascades -------27 <br />Chptr 4 – Cloning -----------------------40<br />Chptr 5 - Stem Cells And Controversy ----48<br />Conclusion ------------------------------59<br />Glossary --------------------------------68<br />Appendix --------------------------------72<br />Bibliography ----------------------------79<br /><br /><strong>INTRODUCTION</strong> <br />Exchange between two Washington Lobbyists at a recent costume party:<br /> <br />Woman, dressed in a donkey costume: “Knock knock.” <br />Man, dressed in an elephant costume: “Who’s there?” <br />Woman: “Clone.” <br />Man: “Clone who?” <br />Woman: “Don’t know, Senate hasn’t decided yet.” <br />Man smiles while staring at the wall with a far-away look in his eyes, then lifts his trunk, downs his drink, and heads for the bar, shaking his head, knowingly.<br /><br />* * * <br /><br />At the turn of the tumultuous twentieth century, a distinguished elderly journalist was guest speaker at a Washington Press Club luncheon for journalism students. Jack Anderson asked of his youthful audience, ‘who rules America; who is the sovereign of this nation?’ Not surprisingly, his resounding answer was, ‘We The People’.We citizens of America are the sovereigns of this nation, though the way some elected representatives conduct themselves while in office you might be hard pressed to convince them of that truth. We The People elect representatives at the state and federal level whom we task with doing our business … when things are running according to the founders’ designs, that is. It is unsettling to realize that events and discoveries at this time in our nation’s history tend to separate us from the decision making process. <br /><br />If We The People are to be more in charge, we must have a better grasp of that which our elected representatives are addressing. Case in point: as this manuscript is being written, in the Fall of 2003, there are two bills currently developing in the United States Senate that address human cloning; one bill would ban all human cloning, while the other bill would ban human reproductive cloning yet make it legal to do human cloning for research purposes. But all human cloning is reproductive, at the start. <br /><br />To understand the differences in cloning bills requires some basic understanding of the biological processes. [Differences are claimed between reproductive cloning and what is loosely called research cloning—someone tried to call it therapeutic cloning, but that didn’t hide the reality enough for comfort. Really, it is the end use for the clone that determines the difference in characterization.] The information is not so abstract that the average citizen cannot grasp it, if it’s presented in clear terms and facts are not hidden via technical flourishes by scientists overly proud of their accomplishments … those scientists who ignore all but their own moral perspective. <br /><br />Some scientists will assert that they take no moral position. But they are as human as any other member of human society, so they cannot be as unbiased as they would have us believe. Humanity ought to have learned that lesson given the history of chem-bio weaponry ‘baggage’ nations have carried into the twenty-first century. Not until decades after World War II does the public finally discover the extent to which Japan, Germany, Russia, and the United States built up stockpiles of pestilence and poisons. Nearly a half a century after the fact, the public learns the extent to which researchers in Japanese and German chem-bio weaponry were employed after WW II, by the Soviet Union and the United States, to further their stockpiles of horrific weapons during the Cold War. Those weapons programs and the pestilence produced by them still loom as threat to life on earth, as a new source of maniacal totalitarianism arises in the Middle East to spread around the world!<br /><br />A bill making it legal to do research cloning will set a dangerous precedent, at least dangerous to a segment of the populace and, many believe, humanity in general. To explain these technological achievements in accessible language is a formidable task. We will try to accomplish such a task for the average citizen because our representatives will be writing into law that which we will have tacitly approved of, simply because we elected these representatives and thus it is our law they write. Ask yourself, ‘If our Senators were debating whether to knowingly fund research into a doomsday bomb that if ignited would deplete all the oxygen on the planet, would We The People approve of that?’ Doubtful, and it is not too great an exaggeration to assert that human cloning holds nearly as dangerous a potential for the human species—over time—as the outlandish example just offered, yet We The People have little or no idea what are the details of cloning, details of the different bills, and details of future impact upon our civilization. Why? … Because the facts have been kept in the abstract by scientists wanting to do the research and elected representatives in agreement with those scientists. <br /><br />There is vast wealth to be gained by those who learn to harness the science, as long as the people do not object to the methodologies. But how can the people object if they don’t understand what it is that the scientists want to do? And are there reasonable alternate ways to reach the medical goals? <br /><br />Gradual application of technologies not well understood by the voting populace leads down slippery slopes that arrive at horrific ends We The People would likely avoid, if we but understood the real destiny of the slippery slopes. Case in point, the abortion debate in America, now more than thirty years tied in a Gordian knot, tells us that we ought to get our facts straight and have open, honest debates, before small interest groups impose their will, their morality, their ethic upon the entire nation. <br /><br />The court case, Roe v Wade, circa 1973, led to the horrors of partial birth fetacide in the name of a woman’s right to choose, circa 2003. Did anyone ask American voters in 1972 whether they would authorize planned parental partial-birth fetacide of healthy, sensing children as a means for a woman or couple to avoid the responsibilities of an already alive baby conceived via behavior willingly engaged in? No, but that horrific reality is where we are, debating in the fall of 2003 whether to ban a grisly way of killing alive unborn children, debating whether to keep legal, planned parental partial-birth infanticide in the name of ghostly application of court rulings. [Once individual humanity before birth is truly understood, it is no exaggeration to characterize partial birth fetacide as partial birth infanticide. Fetal ability to live outside the womb now reaches back to 22 weeks from conception (40 weeks is normal to birth), and partial birth abortion is the most used method for killing the unborn from about week 18 all the way to birth. Those unborn babies are being killed in the name of a woman’s right to choose infanticide rather than have the already alive children continue their own individual lifetimes.] <br /><br />Did the 1973 federal court decision that de-legitimized state abortion laws nation-wide actually accomplish the dehumanization of the alive, viable unborn? No, the Roe decision was but one large slide along an already slippery slope, where personal liberty and personal pursuit of happiness were trumping personal right to life for the vulnerable. The nearly unopposed litany of statistical lies and false characterizations of prenatal life from those demanding federal legalization of abortion is why the slippery slope got steeper and more perilous with the Roe decision by the Supreme Court. It was difficult to imagine in 1973 that lawyers and physicians would tell lies to the Supreme Court, and that the Court would allow the lies to carry the day! A close reading of History reveals, that is exactly what brought about the legalization of abortion on demand in America more than three decades ago.<br /><br />This nation need not take a slide along a new slippery slope that includes in vitro fertilization and embryonic stem cell harvesting, and foretells human cloning for body parts. But to avoid the slide, We The People must have basic facts with which to discuss the honest perils and with which to discern the half-truths and outright lies already sullying the national discussion. What follows is a primer in the biology of human reproduction and the earliest development of the human organism, then information regarding in vitro fertilization, embryonic stem cell research, and cloning; the technologies are interconnected. We will try to keep the words and concepts intelligible, using asides from experts, using word pictures that help to visualize that which is usually seen only through a microscope, and using simple interactive sketching exercises. After we discuss the basics, we will briefly address the underlying moral issues regarding these biological manipulations. After that, We The People will have to make up our individual minds whether we want certain lines of research to proceed—with our blessing, or whether we will demand that our elected representatives ban certain lines of manipulation with the earliest manifestation of human individual lives.<br /> <br />{ Here’s our first aside, to illustrate the importance of knowing more about cloning: In February 2002, scientists at Texas A&M University reported successful cloning of a pet tabby cat. Cats are in the category of animals called mammals, the category in which we humans are placed also. But the clone cat was not visually an exact duplicate of the parent cat, even after the many, many failed attempts to duplicate the parent cat. Soon after announcing their success, the University entered into a partnership with a biotech firm, Genetic Savings and Clone (catchy name that), a company that plans to clone pets for their loving owners.[1] } <br /><br /><strong>CHAPTER ONE – Basic Biology</strong> <br /><br />Two graduate students are together late at night in the coffee shop near campus, having high-test with no cream or sugar. One looks up from the table to ask, “Whaddaya get when ya cross a chicken and a man?” Other student looks up from the table, to respond, “I dunno, what?” First student looks back down into his dark brew, answering, “I don’t know what to call ‘em yet, but they work for chicken feed.” <br /><br />*** <br /><br />It may at first sound silly to write it this way, but ‘traditional’ human reproduction is accomplished through the union of a sperm and an oocyte—sometimes called an ‘egg’ (incorrectly, according to modern embryologist, because women aren’t hens) from the female of the species—popped out from her organ called ovary. The oocyte of human reproduction is and is not similar to the egg humans serve at meals. Understanding why they are dissimilar is important when discussing in vitro fertilization, embryonic stem cell harvesting, and cloning. As we will discover, it is now possible to produce a human being without the traditional reproductive processes. [That’s right, sex fans, reproduction without doing the sex or even the union of sperm and oocyte!] In order to understand alternative processes, let’s first cover traditional basics. Using repetition of concepts, we will add information with each retracing of the basics. By the time this first chapter ends, the basics will have been addressed and a foundation for discussing embryonic stem cell exploitation and cloning will be established. <br /><br />The birds, the bees, and the larva<br /> <br />{ Here’s a simple interactive project, to illustrate a few notions about to arise in this chapter. <br />On a piece of paper, draw a nicely rounded circle about the size of a soda can sitting on the paper. Inside the circle, as close to the center as you can estimate it, draw a much smaller circle and draw a few wavy lines inside that small circle. Now place tiny circles and dots all around inside the larger circle, but not inside the small circle at the center. <br />What you’ve illustrated with the large circle is a cell membrane (‘skin’ on the cell) enclosing cellular components floating around in the cytoplasm. The smaller inner circle near the center represents the cell nucleus; the wavy lines represent the chromosomes within the nucleus; tiny circles and dots represent mitochondrial grains and other cell components that function in the life of a cell. The human female cell of reproduction is a spherical shape, beach-ballish, nicely rounded, with the cell nucleus situated at the center. All other human cells are not so nicely rounded, but all have a membrane enclosing the cytoplasm, the fluid of the cell interior. <br /><br />We will not spend much effort discussing the little mitochondrial dots and grains outside the nucleus, but mitochondria are very important in cells. They are our molecule factories, the cell’s energy factories, and because they contain DNA material separate from the cell nucleus, they are sometimes tested for DNA matches that link criminals to crimes, for instance.<br /><br />[More about DNA, shortly. For those not familiar with this ‘DNA’, in the glossary at the end of this book there is a definitely layman’s guide to what it is, how it is shaped, and of what it is composed. For simplification purposes at this beginning stage, let’s say it is a complex molecular chain of reactive chemical inside the nucleus of a cell that carries the genetic instructions for making living organisms. The reactive potential may be switched off or on at various specific sections of the long chain through a chemical reaction, a ‘methylation’ process (see glossary).] <br /><br />These little grains, these mitochondria, provide a cell’s energy needs, to move, to divide, to produce secretory products and the molecular building blocks with which chromosomes build and program the immune system. Mitochondrial grains are about the size of bacteria (very small) and shape differs depending on the type of cell in which they exist. These tiny molecule factories come to the individual from the mother’s side of the family because as far as science has discovered, mitochondria of only the woman are reproduced with each new cell of a new individual … the oocyte destroys the mitochondria brought in within the sperm. <br /><br />The cat in our first aside differed in fur marking appearance from the parent partly because of mitochondria in the borrowed cat egg used to conceive the clone. Scientists are just beginning to understand the problems. } <br /><br />A typical human cell, also called a somatic cell, contains 46 chromosomes within its nucleus (with rare exceptions; ex. mature red blood cells shed their entire nucleus). The nucleus is the ‘driver’ of cellular life. Sex cells, called gametes from the male and the female, each shed 23 chromosomes prior to fusing of their nuclei at fertilization. The sperm cells have already pared their chromosome number to 23 each by the time they leave the male body; the waiting oocyte is prepared to shed 23 of its 46 chromosomes, and pares down at fertilization. Chromosomes are delicate filaments within the cell nucleus, they are the ‘strings’ that carry our genes. Genes are located at sites, or loci along chromosome filaments, and each gene has within it DNA that codes for building specific enzymes and proteins, and can generate specific tissues. A complete chromosome complement is the ‘genome’ of the individual organism, normally 46 for people, more or less for other species. <br /><br />[It is tempting to use the word ‘conception’ when referring to fertilization. Modern embryologists urge us not to, because the term is used to mean either/or both fertilization and implantation. Some scientist type will eventually read this manuscript and red circle the ambiguous terms, if we don’t make the effort to follow Embryology convention.] <br /><br />In descending order of size there is the cell; the nucleus within that cell; the chromosome filaments laced together within the nucleus; all along the chromosome filaments are specific gene strands; within each gene strand is DNA that codes for building other molecules and directs assembly of specific tissues. <br /><br />{ Here is another aside, to illustrate how incredibly small are genes and DNA molecules. The following analogy is taken from a paper presented more than two decades ago by Doctor Jérôme Lejeune, geneticist [2]: <br />“On the magnetic tape of a tape recorder, it is possible to inscribe by minute alterations of local magnetism, a series of signals corresponding, for example, to the execution of a symphony. Such a tape, if introduced in the appropriate machine will play the symphony, although there are no musicians in the machine and no notes, even, written on the tape. That’s the way existence is played! <br /><br />In this analogy, the magnetic tape is incredibly thin, for it is reduced to the size of a DNA molecule, the miniaturization of which is bewildering. To give an idea of this minuteness, we should remember that in this thread every character of each of us is described. Thou shalt have blonde hair, hazel eyes, thou shalt be six feet tall, and thou shalt live some eighty years, if no road accidents intervene! All these instructions giving a full description of a man, are written in a thread a yard long. But the thread is so thin and so carefully packed inside the nucleus of the cell, that it would stay at ease on the point of a needle. <br /><br />To give another impression, if we were to reassemble on this table all these threads which will specify each and every quality of the next three thousand million men who will replace us on the surface of the planet, this quantity of matter would fit nicely in an aspirin tablet. The fertilized egg is comparable to a tape recorder loaded. As soon as the mechanism is triggered, the human work is lived, in strict conformity to its program. <br />The very fact that we have to develop ourselves during nine months inside the bodily protection of our mother does not change anything, as you can easily observe by looking at the egg of a hen, from which the chicken will emerge. It makes no difference whether he was incubated by fowl, or by an electrical heating device. The chicken is still a chicken. If one day a child can be entirely grown in a test tube, the test tube will never believe that the child is its property.” } <br /><br />Within hours after a sperm penetrates the oocyte, 23 chromosomes of the female parent and the 23 chromosomes of the male parent combine for the 46-chromosome complement of a new individual life, a new organism. The genome of that particular embryo is established when the chromosomes have fused, though the genome will not be activated until cell division has begun. This one-celled organism is called a zygote, zygote being one age of a new organism’s life (one age along the continuous journey of your individual life as an organism, for example), much the same as neonate or toddler or pubescent is an age of a human individual’s lifetime.<br /><br />{ Here’s another aside: <br />Moments before fertilization, there were two separate cells, cells produced by organs, organs which were in turn sub-units of the parent organisms. It is important to differentiate organs and their sub-units, from the greater thing defined as organism. There is a segment of society desirous of exploiting embryos, for medical applications. One of the misleading arguments such folks raise is an effort to class sex cells and zygotes as neither having greater significance so neither will be afforded legal protections. The following is an excerpt of how scientists Dianne M. Irving says what we’ve so far covered, with more, exposing why it is wrong to say sex cells are insignificant and therefore the zygotes—brought into existence through union of sex cells—are insignificant [3]:<br /><br />“During the process of fertilization, the sperm and the oocyte cease to exist as such, and a new human being is produced.<br /><br />To understand this, it should be remembered that each kind of living organism has a specific number and quality of chromosomes that are characteristic for each member of a species. (The number can vary only slightly if the organism is to survive.) For example, the characteristic number of chromosomes for a member of the human species is 46 (plus or minus, e.g., in human beings with Down's or Turner's syndromes). Every somatic (or, body) cell in a human being has this characteristic number of chromosomes. Even the early germ cells contain 46 chromosomes; it is only their most mature forms — the sex gametes, or sperms and oocytes — which will later contain only 23 chromosomes. <br />HYPERLINK "http://www.l4l.org/library/" \l "1" 1<br /> <br />Sperms and oocytes are derived from primitive germ cells in the developing fetus by means of the process known as "gametogenesis." Because each germ cell normally has 46 chromosomes, the process of "fertilization" cannot take place until the total number of chromosomes in each germ are cut in half. This is necessary so that after their fusion at fertilization the characteristic number of chromosomes in a single individual member of the human species (46) can be maintained — otherwise we would end up with a monster of some sort.<br /><br />To accurately see why a sperm or an oocyte are considered as only possessing human life, and not as living human beings themselves, one needs to look at the basic scientific facts involved in the processes of gametogenesis and of fertilization. It may help to keep in mind that the products of gametogenesis and fertilization are very different. The products of gametogenesis are mature sex gametes with only 23 instead of 46 chromosomes. The product of fertilization is a living human being with 46 chromosomes. Gametogenesis refers to the maturation of germ cells resulting in gametes. Fertilization refers to the initiation of a new human being.” }<br /> <br />The union of sperm and oocyte (fecundation / fertilization) normally occurs at or in a fallopian tube, the orchid-shaped tubule that curves away from the woman’s organ called ovary and connects to the woman’s organ called uterus. There are two fallopian tubes, one for each ovary. Both fallopian tubes connect to the uterus, left and right side of the uterus ‘top’ … bottom of the uterus being defined as the cervix (or cervical opening), the connecting point to the vagina, at opposite end from the fallopian connections.<br /><br />To recap, the uterus, or womb as it is known with pregnancy, is shaped somewhat like an upside down pear, larger toward the ovaries, smaller toward the vagina, with three openings, two leading out to the ovaries, and one out into the vagina. Of the more than one million sperm deposited in the vagina during intercourse, only the most athletic marathon-swimming sperm reach the fallopian tube to seek out the much larger oocyte (15 to 20 times larger than a typical other cell of the body) … after those sperm have journeyed a distance characterized as equivalent to a man swimming the English Channel! [Now THAT is some dedication to purpose!]<br /><br />The original cell membrane of the oocyte becomes impenetrable to sperm moments after one sperm penetrates the oocyte’s ‘coat’. [The oocyte has two membranes, with the outer ‘coat’ called the zona pellucida.] Soon, a new individual with a unique identity in its genome occupies the inner space, an organism that is greater than the father’s sperm cell or mother’s oocyte cell. <br /><br />Construction project extraordinaire<br /> <br />The newly conceived single-celled life (the zygote) begins a process called mitosis (cell division) within hours after fertilization. Cell division indicates a new human life is expressing itself, indicates that the genome has activated or is activating—the new human life is being, doing the things a living thing does in its environment, metabolizing and growing, surviving. <br /><br />To repeat, human fertilization establishes the genome of a new member of the human species ... an individual who is called a zygote at earliest age; but even at the zygote age, this individual’s sex could be determined by examining the chromosomes.<br /><br />The first mega-cell (zygote) will give rise to the placenta as well as all the tissues and organs of the body at least one new individual organism will use upon exiting into the air world. The zygote duplicates its 46-chromosome nucleus, and divides up the collection of mitochondrial grains, and then separates into two distinct cells—each having 46 chromosomes as established from fertilization. The embryo has now two cells, each of the two capable of giving rise to a placenta and all the organs and tissues of a human body. Embryologists would say that the individuality of the genome has not yet activated in the new life, because ‘construction tasking’ has not yet begun for the stem cells that will emerge in the mitotic march [stem cell differentiation march]. <br /><br />[We said above ‘at least one new individual organism’ because twins with separate placentas or twins sharing a placenta can emerge, should the totipotent or pluripotent stem cells do a repeat duplication before or just after activating the genome for tissue specialization. There will be more on twinning, shortly.] <br /><br />Within a few more hours, one of the two totipotent cells will divide and differentiate slightly to net three cells inside the chamber enclosed by the zona pellucida. From the three stem cell stage onward, in normal reproduction, assigning of tasks for the stem cell lines to come will begin, tasks such as building the placental organ and building the embryo body to be used months later for survival in the air world. This formation will take time as more cells are built by the embryo, then arranged to form a hollow sphere surrounding an inner cell mass when the embryo gets to the uterus. Several cell divisions occur while the new embryonic life is making its way down the fallopian tube; upon exit from the fallopian tube, the embryo is approximately sixteen cells in size.<br /><br />Within a matter of days, the first mega-cell will become a mass of more than one hundred cells. By the time the early embryo reaches the uterus and burrows into the lining of the uterus, an outer layer of the embryo’s cells has encapsulated its new life. That self-constructed outer cell layer acts to protect the embryo and generate signals that allow the embryo (called a blastocyst at this age) to implant, to draw nourishment and breathe, after a fashion. <br /><br />Functions of this outer layering of cells meets the criteria for this structure to be defined as an organ—the first organ you as a newly conceived individual built for your own survival. The hard outer shell of the chicken egg is somewhat similar to the zona pellucida encapsulating the embryo before implantation; one difference being, the chicken egg contains within it all the nourishment and oxygen needed to build a chick, while the human embryo must forage for survival after exiting the zona pellucida, and depend on the mother for nourishment for at least the first half of gestation (pregnancy). <br />{ Here is an aside to reveal an astonishing piece of knowledge regarding the embryo, knowledge that is so new, it has yet to make it into all the modern textbooks. Doctor Jérôme Lejeune was a geneticists and pediatrician, world renowned for discovering the cause of Down’s Syndrome. On occasion, he testified in court trials as an expert witness. The following is from questioning done by an attorney during a 1991 trial in New Jersey, regarding efforts by Alexander Loce to restrain his girlfriend from aborting his child. [4] We will skip through this testimony, to focus on specific notions that are highlighted. <br /><br />Q: Dr. Lejeune, based upon the empirical data you presented, do you have a conclusion as to what exits at the moment of fertilization?<br /><br />A: Well, at the moment of fertilization, what exists is a pure novelty. It has never occurred before. It's a new constitution of a new personally-devised constitution for this person. <br /><br />Q: If you had to give it a name what would you call it? <br /><br />A: I would call it a human because I know that the whole information is human. I can read it. I can see the dimensions and make up of the chromosomes. <br />I can be sure it is human. Now I would say it is a being because I know by its own information that it will develop itself. It just needs nurture and protection. That is all it needs. Then, being human, it is a human being. <br />… <br />But at the moment of fecundation, part of the DNA coming from father is underlined in the male way, and DNA coming from mother is underlined in the female way. And, therefore, the fantastic discovery was never expected ten years ago. Nobody predicted it—that, in fact, the father underlines instructions to make immediately the membranes inside which the embryo will develop itself, so to speak its space capsule; and to make the placenta which is the body by which it will take the nutrients from the vessels of mother. <br /><br />That's underlined on the sperm, not on the egg. But on the egg what is underlined is all the tricks of the trade to make the spare pieces, which if they are put together will build an individual. <br /><br />Now it is extraordinary because it was a moving observation for geneticists to see in this one millimeter and a half sphere of living being this separation of the tasks which we see in ordinary life. And the man in biology builds the membranes which is the shelter and the placenta which is a gathering food system. On the other hand it is up to the feminine genius to underline the way how to manufacture a baby. <br />…<br />Now we come to an extraordinary observation that the only cell in all my life in which those two methylation systems from father and from mother were present together inside one cell was in the first cell which gave me life. <br /><br />Because progressively at each division, this methylation is erased and replaced. And progressively cells learn by a cascade of reaction to specialize. So that one will make nails, another will make the brain, another will make the liver and another will make the bones and another will make the muscle. } <br /><br />We will return to the specialization cascade mentioned in the above aside, when we address stem cells. Following is a simple summary of the development an embryo accomplishes in an astonishingly short time period of days. We have generalized several of the major steps in the process of embryo formation and actualization. <br /><br />{ Fusion of the 23-chromosome nuclei from sperm and oocyte marks the creation of the 46-chromosome zygote and the end of fertilization. This fusion takes up to eleven hours from the time the sperm enters the oocyte. The fusion establishes the genome for a new individual within the species. <br /><br />Within one to three days after an oocyte pops out of the ovary and is fertilized, the mega-cell zygote begins to divide, to form two cells, then three, evidence that the genome of the new individual is activated. Cell division will happen about every twenty hours thereafter. The earliest cells are called blastomeres and when there are approximately sixteen, the mass is referred to as a morula because it is shaped something like a mulberry fruit. These first sixteen or so cells are all contained within the outer cell membrane of the original oocyte as the morula exits the fallopian tube and enters the uterine space—approximately two to four days post fertilization. <br /><br />[Some pundits stubbornly continue to refer to this morula as a ‘fertilized egg’ because the blastomeres remain inside the female parent’s oocyte outer cell membrane. That is an incorrect characterization, because the 23-chromosome oocyte (their egg) no longer exists; all the cells within the morula have the unique genome—46 chromosomes and a complement of mitochondrial DNA—of the newly conceived individual life. <br /><br />The incorrect term ‘pre-embryo’ is used by some, referring to the new life—pre-embryo being the designation until approximately fourteen days after fertilization. Such an arbitrarily chosen perspective is proposed because it is believed no twinning will occur after the embryo has implanted and is attaching to the uterine lining … one can suspect such an arbitrary dehumanization is made because of the uses to which these folks want to put their ‘pre-embryo’.]<br /> <br />As cell division continues, a cavity forms in the center of the morula (an inner space called the blastocystic cavity). If you blow up a large balloon with a smaller not yet inflated balloon inside, that is the structural notion of a cavity formed, within which a bump appears. Cells flatten and gather on the inside of the inner cavity while the ‘coat’ (cell membrane) of the original zygote remains the same size. The entire embryo is now called a blastocyst, forming two lines of cells: the trophoblasts (the largest number of cells enclosing the blastocystic cavity) and the embryoblasts (2 or 3 cell mass on the inside of the cavity). The trophoblasts will build the placental organ to feed and ‘breathe’ for the entire embryo; the embryoblasts will build the body of organs to be used upon exiting the womb.<br /> <br />Within six to eight days from fertilization, the embryo seeks implantation into the lining of the uterus. As the entire blastocyst breaks out from the cell membrane of the original oocyte, the outer cells—the outer ‘skin’—surrounding the rest of the embryo secrete an enzyme that erodes the cellular structure of the woman’s uterine lining and creates an implantation site for the blastocyst.<br /><br />The ‘burrowing’ embryo releases human chorionic gonadotropin [a growth stimulating hormone]. Glands in the woman’s uterus enlarge in response to this hormonal release by the embryo, and the implantation site becomes rich with new capillaries built by the woman’s body. Blood circulation begins within these freshly made capillaries, circulation that will provide from the mother’s body the life support for the newly conceived individual. [Gentlemen, you and the lady are definitely pregnant at this point … within days after fertilization!] <br /><br />For several days, outer layer embryo cells destroy cells of the uterine lining, creating blood pools, causing new capillaries to grow in the mother’s uterine lining. The embryo’s inner mass of cells, increasing in number at one location on the inner wall of the blastocystic cavity, divides, forming two layers. The top layer of cells become the amniotic cavity and the new body for use in the air world, while the lower cells become the umbilical vesicle which will be tasked with connecting to the placental organ to bring nutrient material to the developing new body.<br /> <br />Within thirteen to fifteen days from fertilization, tiny ‘fingers’ (chorionic villi) of the embryo’s forming placental organ anchor the embryonic individual to the mother’s uterus. Embryonic blood and blood vessels begin to form at this stage, in the placenta surrounding the embryo body, and the umbilical vesicle begins to generate blood cells without nuclei. These blood cells will accomplish exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide through the embryo’s placental organ attached to the mother’s uterus.<br /><br />To repeat, this outer ‘shell’—the earlier trophoblast cells—define a blastocystic cavity, encapsulating an inner cell mass that has two divisions, the umbilical vesicle and the forming body that months later is born into the air world. The inner mass is connected to the embryo-built placental ‘shell’ by a stalk (arising from the umbilical vesicle) that will develop as the umbilical cord connection to the embryo body. <br /><br />The embryonic age lasts for eight weeks, as organs and structures of a developing human are built and arranged. The age of embryo ends arbitrarily at eight weeks. The fetal age that follows involves growing the embryo-built organs and muscles into bigger versions that are more hooked to, synchronized with, and dependent upon the individual’s fast-developing ‘central processor’, the brain. } <br /><br />All cellular structures making up the inner and outer layers of the placental organ, and the bulbs of the inner embryo mass, were built by the embryo, none were built by the mother’s body … although it is the cellular ‘coat’ of the 23-chromosome parent oocyte, transformed at fertilization then commandeered by the zygote, that acts as a ‘mobile home’ while the growing embryo travels to the uterus. <br /><br />{ Here’s an aside, regarding twinning, for those wondering about how and when that oddity occurs. The information is taken from a website where a science correspondent answers questions sent in to USA Today newspaper. The column is titled Wonderquest. It is a great source for information, geared to the non-professional. [6] <br /><br />Q: In the case of identical twins, what triggers a single fertilized egg to result in two embryos? What is the probability of having identical twins?<br /><br />A: Your first question has me stumped. I've asked medical experts from various universities and hospitals. The general consensus is: we don't know.<br /><br />Identical twins do not run in families and, therefore, twinning is not related to genetics. Comparisons among different ethnic groups rule out an ethnic cause-no difference. Only mother's age correlates with twinning: the older the mother, the greater the likelihood.<br /><br />I can mention how and when two embryos form instead of one even though we don't exactly know what triggers the events. We have some hunches though, which I'll mention as we discuss the timing. Twinning is abnormal in humans. Things can go wrong at different times during the embryo's development.<br /><br />During the first four days after fertilization, the huge fertilized egg (zygote) splits into many smaller cells suitable for building the eventual baby. Sometime after the fourth day about 30 of these smaller cells are hanging around. The spaces between them have filled with pools of clear fluid and gather together to form a hollow cellular ball, called a blastocyst. An inner cell mass forms inside. This is the stuff that an embryo will develop from.<br /><br />Now consider the approximate time sequence (from fertilization) of when things can go wrong and what kind of twins result:<br /><br />Day 1: the zygote has split into two smaller building-block cells. If the 2-cell mass splits into two clumps now, then twins result that are the most identical. These twins always have separate placentas since the split into twins occurs at such an early stage. Doctors often mistakenly identify such twins (with separate placentas) as fraternal twins even though they are the most identical twins that can happen. Ironical. <br />Day 4 to 5: Most twins form in this interval. What happens at this time? The blastocyst and its inner cell mass (i.e., the developing embryo) must "hatch out of a shell" says Harvey Kliman, M.D., Ph.D. at the Yale University School of Medicine, much like a chick hatches out of its shell.<br />… <br />Michael Tucker, a consultant embryologist in Roswell, Ga., and world-renowned cryopreservation specialist, captured a hatching event with [an] incredible photograph. The shell (a gelatinous capsule called the zona pellucida) is the fuzzy layer around the blastocyst. The inner cell mass (the proto-embryo) is just starting to hatch through the hole in the shell. <br />When the whole blastocyst passes through its shell, the inner cell mass can fragment into two (or very rarely three) clumps of cells. The two cell clumps form into complete embryos, which become identical fetuses, and eventually twin babies. The twins are mirror images of each other. Dr. Kliman's daughters are mirror-image twins, one having a set of moles on her right side and the other with the same set of moles on her left.<br /><br />The reason age contributes to the likelihood of a woman having twins is that the enclosing shell (that the blastocyst hatches out of) is harder in older mothers. It's more likely, therefore, that the inner cell mass will break into clumps as it hatches out of a tougher shell.<br /><br />Day 9 to 10: After this time, if the inner cell mass divides into two clumps, the twins share the same inner sac. This luckily happens only 1 % of the time because the umbilical cords may twist together then, which can lead to death.<br /><br />Day 13 to 15: If the inner cell mass splits into two masses after Day 13, then the cells forming the two embryos don't totally separate and the twins are born joined together, called conjoined or Siamese twins.<br /><br />… About three in every 1000 deliveries results in identical twins. This average seems to be the same worldwide and the reasons are uncertain. } <br /><br />Even monozygotic twins (two embryos formed from the first zygote cell) can have observable differences such as one having an allergy to milk yet the other doesn’t have the allergy. This is related to the response to proteins by the individual, somewhat related to the particular mitochondrial mix in the cells. With cell division, mitochondrial grains are reproduced since mitochondrial grains have DNA material; mitochondrial energy plants can affect the molecules built to act as immune system identity markers in cell membranes.<br /><br />Though such twins have the same genes, thus they have the same immune system identity markers from duplicated chromosomes (mostly from chromosome number 6 in humans), the mitochondria—as with the cloned cat of the introduction—split into two different sets at the very first division of the zygote, before twinning occurs and before the new genome begins expressing. Some mitochondria may not be duplicated at first cell divisions as the individual’s genome activates, thus even identical twins are not ‘exactly’ identical.<br /> <br />Here is one final note regarding the oft-raised notion that the potential for twinning is reason to say there is no individual human being in the earlier stages of development following fertilization, using the term ‘pre-embryo’ as if there is not yet a human embryo until the twinning potential is over. The following exchange occurred during an on-line discussion of early human development. One person noted that because two individuals may emerge from the zona pellucida or emerge following the hatching from the zona pellucida, that doesn’t mean that at least one individual hasn’t been there all along and identity of a second individual emerges at a later point in time from first cell division of the zygote. A net-friend rephrased that notion as follows:<br /> <br />“I think I see your point. If we thought one person (let's call him "Fred") might be in a box, we would not shoot at the box. If we find out there is not just one person in the box, but there are two persons in the box, (Fred and Francis), we would not decide it is therefore okay to shoot at the box. It's not the singleness of the person in the box that makes us hesitate to shoot, it's the human life/lives of whoever is in the box, which causes us to refrain from shooting.” [Freeper named ‘Syriacus’, at FreeRepublic.com] <br /><br />This entire construction project—from zygote to implanted, protected embryo—takes place within fourteen days from fertilization, in healthy reproduction. [For the carpenter readers, even a whiz bang construction crew would be hard pressed to raise a new home ‘into the dry’ in fourteen days, starting with a tract of land and standing trees.] <br /><br />Well, that’s how it all starts, normally. With traditional reproduction, a father’s sperm cell and a mother’s oocyte cell, each carrying 23 chromosomes in their nuclei, unite in fertilization, eventually fusing chromosomes of their nuclei to conceive a new, unique individual human life having 46 chromosomes (the individual’s genome) in his or her nucleus and in the nucleus of the trillions of cells he or she will generate throughout her or his lifetime. <br /><br />{ Here is what a few of the textbooks have to say on the issue of when there is a new individual human being present: <br /><br />"It is the penetration of the ovum by a spematozoan and the resultant mingling of the nuclear material each brings into the union that consitutes the culmination of the process of fertilization and marks the initiation of life as a new individual." Patten, Dr. Bradley M., Human Embryology, 3rd Ed.,(New York: MCGraw-Hill)p.43<br /><br />"Each of us started as a zygote." … "The (zygote) results from fertilization of an oocyte by a sperm and is the beginning of a human being." Moore, Dr. Keith L. The Developing Human: Clinically Oriented Embryology, 2nd Ed. (Philadelphia: W.B. Saunders) (p.1 & p.12) <br /><br />"The Zygote thus formed represents The Beginning of a new life." (Drs. J.P. Greenhill and E.A. Friedman, Biological Principles and the Modern Practice of Obstetrics (Philadelphia: W.B Saunders) p.17 <br /><br />“Although life is a continuous process, fertilization ... is a critical landmark because, under ordinary circumstances, a new, genetically distinct human organism is formed when the chromosomes of the male and female pronuclei blend in the oocyte. This remains true even though the embryonic genome is not actually activated until 2-8 cells are present, at about 2-3 days. ... During the embryonic period proper, milestones include fertilization, activation of embryonic from extra-embryonic cells, implantation, and the appearance of the primitive streak and bilateral symmetry.” Ronan O'Rahilly and Fabiola Muller, Human Embryology & Teratology (3rd ed.)(New York: Wiley-Liss, 2001) p.8 } <br /><br />If a human morula is dissected or destroyed, at least one human lifetime ends. We may assert this individuality is present, this expression of an individual life, because even at his earliest age, the newly conceived individual must send out chemical signals as he is ‘hatching’ from the zona pellucida when residing in the uterine environment. If he or she is not ready to trick the environment, if not ready to send strong chemical messages upon hatching, the embryo will be rejected by the woman’s body. Preparation for ‘chemical communication’ occurred while the embryo was making his or her way to the uterus, as a being of no more than sixteen cells.<br /><br /><strong>CHAPTER TWO – In vitro fertilization</strong><br /><br />God calls a group of His Angels together, to show them the seven-day project He has accomplished. Angel Michael surveys the universe and focuses upon the Earth, with humankind spreading across the planet. Michael turns to God to ask, “Well this is a beautiful bit of creating, but it really isn’t so taxing since You are Omnipotent, so why the seventh day, of rest?” God answers matter-of-factly, “Because with humans, I know what’s coming.” <br /><br />*** <br /><br />There are two general categories of stem cells currently under study: embryonic stem cells—stem cells harvested from embryos—and ‘adult’ stem cells—stem cells harvested from various sources in the already born human body or from placental cord blood following delivery or from fetuses following abortion. [There is a third line of stem cells, taken from fetuses, but called embryonic germ cells; we’ll deal with that when we get to stem cell discussion.] In order to discuss stem cell research and the nuances of stem cell harvesting we need to first back up a bit, to discuss artificial insemination and in vitro fertilization, for it is from these technological achievements that the ability to harvest stem cells and especially embryonic stem cells has arisen. <br /><br />Life without sex <br /><br />In vitro fertilization is conception in a laboratory, rather than in a woman’s body. How is this ‘conception without sex’ possible? Human ingenuity, but more importantly, science has discovered that the sex cells of mammals are heartier than at first believed. In fact, with the advent of in vitro fertilization, it is now understood that an individual in the earliest age of its human lifetime is amazingly resilient to manipulation (and freezing, but not to dismemberment). <br /><br />The first healthy human birth through in vitro fertilization occurred in 1978, in England, when an embryologist and a gynecologist succeeded in extracting matured oocytes from a woman’s body and fertilizing them in a laboratory with a man’s healthy sperm, to achieve several living embryos. One of those embryos, out of several inserted into the uterus of the willing woman, implanted successfully in the uterine lining from whence to be born months later. The little girl conceived and born from that effort has grown up and continues to thrive; her name is Louise Brown, for anyone wishing to find out more of her story. <br /><br />In vitro fertilization is an accomplishment tied directly to earlier artificial insemination methods, where scientists succeeded in ‘harvesting’ sperm from a male mammal and ‘artificially’ inserting the semen into the vagina or uterus of an ovulating female mammal of the same species; fertilization and implantation occur in the ‘traditional’ fashion following artificial insemination. [This process is used routinely with cattle and other domesticated animals and is still used with humans.] <br /><br />Once scientists realized that they could successfully manipulate sperm outside of the male body, the rest of the reproductive processes fell quickly to experimentation. There are currently approximately one million living humans world-wide who owe their existence to in vitro fertilization. There are currently more than one hundred thousand embryos in the United States, in limbo, stored away, alive, suspended in clinic freezers of in vitro fertilization programs. A few are adopted and thawed each year, for impregnating women who did not donate the original oocytes.[Snowflake Embryo Adoptions – contact at Nightlight Christian Adoptions / 801 East Chapman, Suite 106 / Fullerton, CA 92831] <br /><br />There are a few pure research labs now accumulating and experimenting with human embryos conceived with no intention to implant and allow them to continue their lifetime already begun. Those embryos are sources for harvesting embryonic stem cells to be used in experiments, killing the embryos in the harvesting process, thus ending the lifetime of a human being and all the human descendants that might follow from that individual life.<br /><br />To put the above notions in a context: the flow of ‘reproductive’ technology is persistent, developing from artificial insemination, to in vitro fertilization, to harvesting cells and tissues from aborted fetuses, to harvesting stem cells from only-moments-before living embryos, to cloning of individual animals. But technologies do not always exist without restriction from the taboo structures of the society, the laws, the restraints. <br /><br />[Case in history: it is now known that the ancient Egyptians accessed electricity. They built primitive batteries and constructed wading pools stocked with electric eels, for the priestly class to use treating citizens with arthritis. But this technology was not shared openly with the general populace, in order to prevent the technological advances from disrupting the society’s well-defined hierarchy … and look how long the Egyptian civilization was able to thrive with that hierarchy!] <br /><br />To date, America has witnessed many examples of the ‘slippery slope’, but unchecked application of technologies and discoveries doesn’t always lead down a slippery slope. In America, to avoid slippery slopes the sovereigns must be in touch with advancements and the long-range implications, because exploitation of technology tends to corrupt checks and balances within the moral and legal taboo system of a society like ours. We’ll explore that notion as we delved deeper into the technologies of stem cell exploitation and cloning.<br /><br />{ Here’s an aside, to remind us what conception is. If you choose to read up on this subject at on-line sources, you will see the term ‘zona pellucida’ repeated, the cell membrane of the original oocyte that the embryo breaks out of in the uterus when seeking implantation. The following is an example as stated at one such excellent net source for pregnancy information. The description is accurate, whether the fertilization occurs in a woman’s fallopian tube or in a well-lit lab. <br /><br />“Fertilization begins when a sperm penetrates an oocyte (an egg) and it ends with the creation of the zygote. The [traditional] fertilization process takes about 24 hours. <br />A sperm can survive [unsupported, in the wild, so to speak] for up to 48 hours. … Only one sperm needs to bind with the protein receptors in the zona pellucida to trigger an enzyme reaction allowing the zona to be pierced. Penetration of the zona pellucida takes about twenty minutes.<br /><br />Within 11 hours following fertilization, the oocyte has extruded a polar body with its excess chromosomes [the extra 23 female chromosomes not used in fusion]. The fusion of the oocyte and sperm nuclei marks the creation of the zygote and the end of fertilization.”[The Visible Embryo HYPERLINK "http://www.visembryo.com/baby/index.html"] } <br /><br />In vitro fertilization clinics were established to assist couples in having a child when their traditional conception efforts appear to be failing. There are many reasons why the traditional method may fail to conceive. We will focus upon the process used to assist in conceiving embryos in a laboratory, and then inserting them into the woman’s uterus.<br />In order to prime the woman’s ovaries, hormone injections are given, then the ovaries are observed via ultrasound imaging to see how many oocytes are about to pop from the ovaries. With the current technology, a needle probe is directed via ultrasound imaging through the muscular tissue of the vagina, into the lower pelvic cavity and over to the ovary to be harvested from. Several oocytes are usually extracted from the ovaries. These oocytes are placed in or on a sterile platform (the famed petri dish), and then healthy, active sperm are introduced to the oocytes. [Talk about your ‘arranged dates’!] <br /><br />{ Here’s an aside, regarding clinical oocyte retrieval, lifted from the website of an in vitro fertilization clinic headquartered in New Jersey that enjoys an excellent success rate.[7] <br />“The egg collection process (retrieval) is usually accomplished using the Ultrasound-Guided Trans-vaginal method. Other methods of retrieving oocytes that are rarely utilized in our practice but are sometimes necessary, include Laparoscopy or a Trans-Abdominal approach. <br /><br />The Ultrasound-Guided Trans-vaginal method of egg retrieval allows this procedure to be done in an out-patient setting. A vaginal ultrasound allows for visualization of both ovaries. A needle is inserted through the vaginal wall into the ovary. Each follicle is punctured individually and the fluid containing the egg is examined by the embryologist under the microscope until the egg is found. The duration of this procedure is usually less than 45 minutes.” } <br /><br />Some oocytes to which sperm are introduced in the lab will be fertilized and will change in appearance almost instantly.The change of appearance is caused by the oocyte transforming the zona pellucida (outer cell membrane) to make it into a sort of barrier, so that a second sperm may not then penetrate. To be even more in charge of fertilization, some clinics now needle inject a single selected sperm into the oocyte. [Now THAT IS the ultimate in arranged unions!]<br /><br />The in vitro fertilization technician observes the embryos as they reside, alive, in the lab dish, watching them to see if the structure will take on the appearance of a mulberry fruit (the morula stage). If the embryo makes it to the morula stage, technicians don’t wait much longer before implanting those active embryos into the target uterus. <br /><br />A few in vitro fertilization clinics have become so able to carefully manage the embryos, they now assist the ‘hatching’ process, aiding the embryo in its break-out from the protective zona pellucida. This is quite an achievement because the embryo is much more fragile after it breaks out from the tougher protective capsule that was the original oocyte’s cell membrane. Recalling the information about twinning, such ‘assisted-in-hatching’ embryos have better odds of achieving pregnancy but are problematic for fusing of embryos [we’ll address this oddity in the next chapter, discussing a human chimera] resulting in conjoined twins from the IVF process. <br /><br />{ Here’s a second entry from the website listed above. This is what clinics do with the embryos conceived in vitro.[7]<br /> <br />“Embryo Transfer (ET) usually occurs seventy-two hours post-retrieval. The time of the transfer will be designated by the IVF staff. The embryo(s) that is(are) assessed to be developing normally will be considered for transfer. Although a recommendation (3-5 embryos) will be made regarding the number to transfer, the final decision resides with the couple and the physician. Transferring multiple embryos may result in the growth of more than one fetus. If you have extra embryos after the transfer, they will be cryopreserved if they have demonstrated appropriate development, unless you signed the consent to forgo cryopreservation [freezing]. <br /><br />The method used for transferring embryos is similar to that of the mock transfer. You will need to drink fluids to fill your bladder before the actual transfer so that we may visualize the uterus by ultrasound during the transfer. ET is performed by inserting a small catheter through the cervical opening into the uterine cavity. The Embryo Transfer is usually a painless procedure. There is a recommended rest period after the transfer. You will be given specific instructions prior to the Transfer regarding your medications, future testing dates, and activity restrictions.” }<br /><br />In February 1989, a very unusual case was argued before Judge W. Dale Young in Blount County, Tennessee. In that case, Junior L. Davis filed suit against his ex-wife, now Mary Sue Davis Stowe, over the custody of seven cryogenically frozen embryos that the two of them had created at a fertility clinic prior to their divorce. The following was offered by Dr. Jerome Lejeune (from court transcript), after giving extensive testimony as to why Embryologists and Geneticists hold as a fundamental principle that individual human life begins at fertilization:<br /><br />“When we come back to the early human beings in the concentration can, I think we have now the proof that there are not spare parts in which we could take at random, they are not experimental material that we could throw away after using it, they are not commodities we could freeze and defreeze at our own will, they are not property that we could exchange against anything. And if I understand well the present case and if I can say a word as geneticist, I would say: An early human being inside this suspended time which is the can cannot be the property of anybody because it's the only one in the world to have the property of building himself. And I would say that science has a very simple conception of man; as soon as he has been conceived, a man is a man.” <br /><br />Dr. Lejeune went on during his testimony to describe the effect upon the embryos held in such cold storage. <br />A.: “If we stop the process, if we slow down the movement of the molecules, we progressively come to a relative standstill, and when the embryo is frozen, these tiny human beings, they are very small, one millimeter and a half of a dimension, a sphere a millimeter and a half, you can put them in cannisters by the thousands. And then with the due connotation, the fact of putting inside a very chilly space, tiny human beings who are deprived of any liberty, of any movement, even they are deprived of time, (time is frozen for them), make them surviving, so to speak, in a suspended time, in a concentration can. It's not as hospitable and prepared to life as would be the secret temple which is inside the female body that is a womb which is by far much better equipped physiologically, chemically, and I would say intellectually than our best laboratories for the development of a new human being.<br /><br />That is the reason why thinking about those things, I was deeply moved when you phoned to me, knowing that Madame, the mother, wanted to rescue babies from this concentration can. And to give to the baby--I would not use term baby, it is not perfectly accurate, not good English--would offer to those early human beings, her own flesh, the hospitality that she is the best in the world to give them.” <br /><br />Dr. Lejeune described the freezing as suspending the embryos in time, slowing down their metabolism to such a degree that the embryos were in suspended animation but could be thawed carefully, to resume their normal cellular activities (in the deep cold, mitochondrial energy grains almost completely cease functioning). In the following exchange, notice how intention for the freezing appears to be the focus of the attorney’s questioning, while he skillfully seeks to dehumanize the embryonic individuals using a term Dr. Lejeune has debunked in earlier testimony … ‘pre-embryo’:<br /><br />Q.: So that you can expect, therefore, by the rules of statistics if we freeze one hundred pre-embryos, and we come back to thaw them at any point, we know the odds are very, very high we'll only have seventy, seventy-five or eighty?<br />A.: Uh-huh (affirmative).<br />Q.: We knew that before we put them in the frigidaire? <br />A.: Yes. <br />Q.: Would you regard that as an intentional killing of embryos? <br />A.: No, but I would consider that it's making the embryo running a risk, and whether this risk was in the best interest of the embryo or not is an open question. I explain. When we do an intervention in a baby for a heart disease, in some intervention we know that around twenty percent of them will be killed by the intervention. And in this case the intervention is made only if we know if we don't operate the child will be killed by the disease at ninety-nine percent of probability. Then we say in the real interests of this patient the best for him is to operate even if the operation is still dangerous, the danger is much greater if we don't operate. That is a way you can make indeed some choices in medicine which are dangerous but which are, in fact, the best that you can do in the interest of this particular patient.<br />… <br />Q.: So in cryopreservation we know that we are going to kill ten, twenty, thirty percent of these early human beings merely so the woman has a better chance of getting pregnant? A.: That would be one of the reservations that I would have, but I dislike you say you kill. It's not killing. <br />Q.: If we were to take the members, the individuals seated in the jury box and I were to have a room I could put them in where we would know that thirty percent of them would come out dead, would you not agree I would be guilty of murder? <br />A.: Well, it depends, sir, because if the room you were talking about were a shelter during a bombing time and if remaining in that room all of them will be dead, but in the shelter some of them will survive, even if thirty percent of them will be dead, you did well. So it depends on the reason why you did it.<br />… <br />Q.: You recognize the ethical and moral dilemma I'm raising, of course? <br />A.: No, I don't recognize it, sir. <br />Q.: You don't? <br />A.: No, because you use the word killing. And if you take a embryo which has been frozen and you put him briskly at normal temperature so that he will die, you are killing the embryo. If you are freezing the embryo you are not trying to kill him, if I understand what you have in your mind is to help the embryo surviving so he could be implanted in the womb of the mother. So your technique is not good because you lose part of them, but you are not killing. And I would not say that my colleagues who are freezing embryos are killers. It's not true. Otherwise, maybe it's because I don't understand English, but I would not use the word kill. } <br /><br />It is important to note that an in vitro fertilization technician will not seek to implant an embryo that has not proven it is developing, growing. The lab will not waste valuable assets in cryopreservation for such non-growing embryos, either. The embryo’s cell division, even in a petri dish, is evidence that at least one individual human being has begun expressing its genome and is growing, living its individual life. It is also important to note that freezing of embryos not used in the implantation step is a practice aimed at preserving the individual life of the embryos; the freezing step is done to preserve the life of the embryos as best the lab can short of implantation. To view these tiny individuals in suspended animation as sources for stem cells by killing the embryo is a very different kettle of fish, sweeping aside their inalienable right to life, if you will. [More about that later.]<br /> <br />Under natural circumstances, with healthy human males and females, embryos are conceived fairly regularly during sexual behavior. It is estimated that approximately half the number of embryos conceived naturally fail to reach birth age or even to implant successfully. The reasons for this failure in reproduction are varied, from chromosome copying mistakes in early cell division, to hostile environment for the embryo. In vitro fertilization / implantation does raise the odds of successful reproduction in couples having problems with traditional means; the assisted method avoids several stages of peril during the first few days from introduction of sperm to the female host.<br /> <br />A slippery slope <br /><br />It will not be long before scientists develop a useable artificial womb into which the in vitro embryo may be implanted and receive life support. Scientists have already harvested and grown uterine lining cells in the lab and implanted a human embryo into the matrix structure. We The People need to decide, before it’s too late to turn back, whether our laws will extend value (embryos as humans, being) and therefore protect the embryo of in vitro fertilization even though it may never reside inside a human body for life support! <br /><br />{ Here’s an aside, regarding artificial wombs: <br />Men redundant? Now we don’t need women either The Observer (UK) | 02/10/2002 | Robin McKie [13] <br />‘Doctors are developing artificial wombs in which embryos can grow outside a woman's body. The work has been hailed as a breakthrough in treating the childless. <br /><br />Scientists have created prototypes made out of cells extracted from women's bodies. Embryos successfully attached themselves to the walls of these laboratory wombs and began to grow. However, experiments had to be terminated after a few days to comply with in-vitro fertilisation (IVF) regulations.<br /><br />'We hope to create complete artificial wombs using these techniques in a few years,' said Dr Hung-Ching Liu of Cornell University's Centre for Reproductive Medicine and Infertility. 'Women with damaged uteruses and wombs will be able to have babies for the first time.' <br /><br />The pace of progress in the field has startled experts. Artificial wombs could end many women's childbirth problems - but they also raise major ethical headaches which will be debated at a major international conference titled 'The End of Natural Motherhood?' in Oklahoma next week. <br /><br />'There are going to be real problems,' said organiser Dr Scott Gelfand, of Oklahoma State University. 'Some feminists even say artificial wombs mean men could eliminate women from the planet and still perpetuate our species. That's a bit alarmist. Nevertheless, this subject clearly raises strong feelings.'<br /><br />Liu's work involves removing cells from the endometrium, the lining of the womb. 'We have learnt how to grow these cells in the laboratory using hormones and growth factors,' she said.<br /><br />After this Liu and her colleagues grew layers of these cells on scaffolds of biodegradable material which had been modelled into shapes mirroring the interior of the uterus. The cells grew into tissue and the scaffold dissolved. Then nutrients and hormones such as oestrogen were added to the tissue.<br /><br />'Finally, we took embryos left over from IVF programmes and put these into our laboratory engineered tissue. The embryos attached themselves to the walls of our prototype wombs and began to settle there.' <br /><br />The experiments were halted after six days. However, Liu now plans to continue with this research and allow embryos to grow in the artificial wombs for 14 days, the maximum permitted by IVF legislation. 'We will then see if the embryos put down roots and veins into our artificial wombs' walls, and see if their cells differentiate into primitive organs and develop a primitive placenta.' <br /><br />The immediate aim of this work is to help women whose damaged wombs prevent them from conceiving. An artificial womb would be made from their own endometrium cells, an embryo placed inside it, and allowed to settle and grow before the whole package is placed back in her body.<br /><br />'The new womb would be made of the woman's own cells, so there would be no danger of organ rejection,' Liu added.<br /><br />However, her research is currently limited by IVF legislation. 'The next stage will involve experiments with mice or dogs. If that works, we shall ask to take our work beyond the 14-day limit now imposed on such research.'<br /><br />A different approach has been taken by Yoshinori Kuwabara at Juntendo University in Tokyo. His team has removed foetuses from goats and placed them in clear plastic tanks filled with amniotic fluid stabilised at body temperature. In this way, Kuwabara has kept goat foetuses alive and growing for up to 10 days by connecting their umbilical cords to machines that pump in nutrients and dispose of waste.<br /><br />While Liu's work is aimed at helping those having difficulty conceiving, Kuwabara's is designed to help women who suffer miscarriages or very premature births. In this way Liu is extending the time an embryo can exist in a laboratory before being placed in a woman's body; Kuwabara is trying to give a foetus a safe home if expelled too early from its natural womb.<br /><br />Crucially, both believe artificial wombs capable of sustaining a child for nine months will become reality in a few years.<br /> <br />'Essentially research is moving towards the same goal but from opposite directions,' UK fertility expert Dr Simon Fishel, of Park Hospital, Nottingham, said. 'Getting them to meet in the middle will not be easy, however. There are so many critical stages of pregnancy, and so many factors to get right. Nevertheless, this work is very exciting.' <br /><br />It also has serious ethical implications, as Gelfand pointed out. 'For a start, there is the issue of abortion. A woman is usually allowed to have one on the grounds she wants to get rid of something alien inside her own body. <br /><br />'At present, this means killing the foetus. But if artificial wombs are developed, the foetus could be placed in one, and the woman told she has to look after it once it has developed into a child.'<br /><br />In addition, if combined with cloning technology, artificial wombs raise the prospect that gay couples could give 'birth' to their own children. 'This would no doubt horrify right-wingers, while the implications for abortion law might well please them,' he added.<br /><br />Gelfand also warned that artificial wombs could have unexpected consequences for working women and health insurance. 'They would mean that women would no longer need maternity leave - which employers could become increasingly reluctant to give.<br /><br />'It may also turn out that artificial wombs provide safer environments than natural wombs which can be invaded by drugs and alcohol from a mother's body. Health insurance companies could actually insist that women opt for the artificial way. Certainly, this is going to raise a lot of tricky problems.' } <br /><br />As noted in the above article by Robin McKie, scientists in Japan have succeeded in removing a goat fetus from its mother, then removing it from support and protection of it’s placental and amniotic sacs by placing it in an artificial chamber filled with amniotic fluid. At latest checking, they have sustained goat fetuses for up to seventeen weeks in their artificial womb! To be in opposition to such procedures is to be a ‘right-winger’, but is opposition to such manipulations really so radical? … Well, coupling artificial womb methodology to in vitro fertilization then stem cell exploitation would be ideal to such researchers since they would control the embryocide and feticide of lives coaxed into existence inside private confines of laboratories, IF laws do not establish the clear protection of earliest human existence along the individual lifetime continuum. [We’ll delve more deeply into that issue when we get to the ethics of these artificial procedures.]<br /><br />As is usually the case in reproductive science, scientists gear up to discover ways in assisting infertile women / couples. That’s what spurred the quest to do artificial insemination, and then in vitro fertilization. Similar claims will no doubt be raised as a credible use for cloning techniques, somewhere. But the abuse potential is enormous … abuse especially if you consider the in vitro conception and farming of individual human embryos solely for the purposes of harvesting the stem cells to be at least objectionable, at most cannibalizing! <br /><br />The will to live and grow <br /><br />How tenacious are embryos? Well, if fertilization happens to occur before the ovum is moving along the fallopian tube pathway, there is the chance that the embryo will seek implantation somewhere other than the uterus (called an ectopic pregnancy). The new individual life may try to implant in the fallopian tube, or somewhere in the lower abdomen, or even in the tissues of a nearby organ! Usually, an ectopic pregnancy is surgically interrupted because of pain for the woman and the threat for tissue rupture with severe bleeding. The following article from the BBC News Online (Friday, 23 May, 2003) illustrates such a pregnancy … a child that beat the odds for implantation and succeeded all the way to assisted birth! <br /><br />{ Miracle baby grew in liver [9] <br />A healthy baby has been born after developing in its mother's liver instead of in the womb.<br /><br />Reports from South Africa say Nhlahla, whose name means "luck" in Zulu, is only the fourth baby ever to survive such a pregnancy. In all, there have only been 14 documented cases of a child developing in this way. Nhlahla was born after specialists performed a difficult operation to deliver her on Tuesday. <br /><br />She had to be put on oxygen after her birth, where she weighed a healthy 2.8kg, but was breathing without aid by Thursday. Doctors said Nhlahla and her mother Ncise Cwayita, 20 - whose first baby was born normally - were both doing well. Liver specialist Professor Jack Krige, who helped deliver the baby, told a South African newspaper: "She is the real thing. She is truly a miracle baby."<br /><br />Risks<br /><br />When an egg is fertilised, it normally travels down the fallopian tube to the womb, where it implants and grows. But sometimes, the embryo implants in the fallopian tube, a standard ectopic pregnancy.<br /><br />In some cases - around one in 100,000 pregnancies - it falls out of the fallopian tube and can implant anywhere in the abdomen. In extremely rare cases, such as this one, the embryo attaches itself to the liver, a very rich source of blood. The baby is protected because it is within the placenta - but it does not have the usual protection of the womb - and is at more risk in the abdominal cavity. Most babies in extrauterine (out of the uterus) pregnancies die within a few weeks.<br /><br />Window <br /><br />In this case, doctors only discovered the baby was growing in the liver when they performed a scan this week. Her womb was found to be empty, even though her baby was due in a week.<br /><br />Ms Cwayita was transferred to the Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town. Dr Bruce Howard told the Cape Argus newspaper said: "We knew it was an extrauterine pregnancy but we didn't know it was in the liver until we started the operation on Tuesday morning." Doctors found a small "window" where the amniotic sac connected with the outside of the liver where they were able to go in to deliver the baby. Doctors had to leave the placenta and amniotic sac in the liver, because the mother's life would have been at risk. It is expected they will be absorbed back into her body.<br /><br />Professor James Walker, president of the British Ectopic Pregnancy Trust, told BBC News Online abdominal pregnancies could be very dangerous. "The mother is at a huge risk. One in 200 women die before we can do anything to help them. The main problem for the baby is that it is not protected by the muscular wall of the womb." } <br /><br />Several things are illustrated with that pregnancy in a woman’s liver tissues. First, it is the newly conceived life that directs the steps of its own growth and development, not the uterus of the mother. Second, and not so obvious, the newly conceived individual life must accomplish some tricky moves, to receive life support from a woman’s body, even under normal circumstances, much more so when trying to implant in an organ not intended for gestation and birth. Why? … Because the newly conceived life is a foreign ‘invader’ to the woman’s immune system, an invader her body will attack and try to eliminate if her system recognizes the invader. <br /><br />It is a trick of chemical signaling by a separate entity (the new individual) that allows the embryonic individual to implant in the woman’s body, because the tissues of the embryo and later the fetus are poisonous for the woman if the ‘other’ is not inside a separating membrane. This was illustrated tragically when a young woman in California (only 18 years old) used an abortifacient pill regimen, but her body failed to flush all the tissues of the dead embryo body (fetus) and the placental organ from her body; and she died of septic shock. <br /><br />The woman in the BBC article was very fortunate since the placental tissue left behind from birth would be absorbed by the liver due to the liver’s special regenerative abilities not found in other organs of the human body.<br /> <br /><strong>CHAPTER THREE – Stem cells and cascades</strong> <br /><br />The Chimaera - or Chimera - was said to be made out of three different creatures: lion, goat and serpent. A savage beast, sprouting fire from its mouth, it devastated the land until it was killed by the hero Bellerophon who flew over it riding his winged horse Pegasus. This story, although apparently simple in its basic lines, is among the most ancient ones of occidental mythology and it hides some deep and still not exactly known meaning. [ http://www.unifi.it/unifi/surfchem/solid/bardi/chimera/ ]<br />* * *<br /><br />{ Here’s an interactive exercise, to graphically illustrate what the stem cell cascade of specialization represents. The cascade runs from most generalized (having the greatest capacity to activate the DNA data) to most specialized (having the least capacity to activate the stored data; the DNA pattern remains throughout the lifetime, but has been deactivated except in multipotent stem cells). As one step from general to specific is taken, a ‘switch’ is turned off so the step is not repeated unless extra ‘switches’ for the task are active at some other gene.<br /> <br />With a pencil or pen and a piece of notebook paper, make the following drawing. Place a circle about the diameter of a soft drink can at the top of the page, to represent the zygote. Just below that large circle, draw a row of three circles each about the size of a quarter. Now, down another two or three inches from the row of three circles, draw a row of sixteen circles, each circle about the diameter of a dime. Go back to the large first circle and draw a line from the one circle to the circle on the left in the row of three, then another line from the top circle to the middle circle in the row of three; now draw a line from the middle circle in the row of three to the circle on the right in the row of three. Now draw lines from the circles in the row of three, to each circle in the row of sixteen, one line per circle in the row of sixteen. <br /><br />To be more precise in the analogy, you would eventually need to draw a row with more than two hundred small circles in it, connected to a row above that one with fewer circles in it, because the stem cells of the early embryo eventually give rise to more than two hundred tissue lines within the human body. <br /><br />In our drawing there is some confusion when trying to draw lines from the row of three to the row of sixteen. We’ve arranged the exercise that way, to illustrate a puzzle in embryonic stem cell exploitation. When harvesting stem cells from embryos—cells to be used in treating human disease in individuals older than the embryo or fetus—it is difficult to know which line of cells comes from which earlier pluripotent cells, and it is difficult to know whether a less specialized cell is captured when in fact a much more specialized stem cell is desired. A scientist wouldn’t want to inadvertently extract embryonic stem cells destined to be teeth and implant those in a Parkinson’s patient’s brain, for obvious reasons. } <br /><br />You existed briefly as a single mega cell called a zygote. Your first age in life was as a zygote. As you lived through your embryo age then into your fetal age, you built the tissues and organs you are using now as you live in the air world. Those organs and tissues were constructed by stem cells (those blastomeres in the morula, then those trophoblasts that went to building your placental organ and those embryoblasts that built your primitive body of organs which grew into the one you are using now). <br /><br />There is an ordering to stem cells. Your first single cell (zygote) contained ALL the codes and messages, in ‘un-played’ form, that would be used to build your entire organismal structure as well as the first organ support structure (the placenta) that you used during your ages in mother’s body then abandoned. The zygote is totipotent. <br /><br />Recall if you will the phrasing by Dr. Jerome Lejeune: “Now we come to an extraordinary observation that the only cell in all my life in which those two methylation systems from father and from mother were present together inside one cell was in the first cell which gave me life.” Dr. Lejeune is referring to the chemical cascading that follows as a zygote (a totipotential cell) undergoes cell division, mitosis. Again in Dr. Lejeune’s words, “… progressively at each division, this methylation is erased and replaced. And progressively cells learn by a cascade of reaction to specialize.”[4] And “And the very thing is that during this process, the expansion of the primary formula which is written in the early human being, nothing is learned but progressively a lot of things are forgotten. The first cell knew more than the three cell stage, and the three cell stage knew more than the morula … In the beginning it was written really not only what is the genetic message we can read in every cell, but it was written the way it should be read from one sequence to another one.” [14]<br /><br />The cell naming game progresses from totipotent, to pluripotent, to multipotent. With each progression, the cells that follow become more specialized, able to cascade into fewer and fewer of differing tissues, ‘forgetting’ a tiny bit as each step in the process is ‘lived’. <br /><br />[The stem cells inside the blastocystic cavity are pluripotent cells, able to differentiate into the entire of the tissue and organ multipotent stem cell lines of your air-world body. Interestingly, even an adult has multipotent stem cells being produced inside the body. Journalists are calling them ‘adult stem cells’, but they’re there throughout individual lifetime in embryo and fetal age and the ages to follow, there to act as ‘spare parts’, if you will. These cells may turn into several different needed tissues in an organ system; this is one of the topics we will be discussing shortly.] <br /><br />The totipotent cell divides, forming two totipotent cells, then one of those two divides to net three cells. Very early in mitosis, a change occurs, such that a last totipotent pair is produced. The next classifications of stem cells are pluripotent cells. With the tasking for placenta and the inner cell mass, the multipotent stem cells begin to have specific construction pathways they will follow as they in turn divide and give rise to more cells and eventually giving rise to more than two hundred tissue systems and organs (as with the differentiation of trophoblasts and embryoblasts before implantation).<br /><br />Even as an early embryo only days old, the new individual life is growing and doing things to survive in its environment. The in vitro clinicians will observe the lab-conceived embryos for no more than three to five days from conception, then implant selected embryos that show they are actively growing, preparing to search out life support. Is this search by the embryo a ‘conscious’ effort, like a hungry person foraging for food? No, the individual has not built its brain that it will require in the air world, but it is a real effort to survive that is directed by the individual new life, it is an effort by a human individual at least equal to that which single-celled living things undertake. But it is so much more, a dialog even, between embryo and mother, that can last a lifetime for the mother, as we will see at the end of this chapter.<br /> <br />The cells forming the outer encapsulation of the embryo, the placental organ cells, are one class of embryonic stem cells. The cells building the embryo body inside the encapsulation are also embryonic stem cells. And these inner stem cells will give rise to all the OTHER organs of the developing body and the amniotic sac in which the baby ‘floats’. But even the stem cells that form the sac are involved in the formation of the internal organs to be used upon exiting into the air world. The tissues that encapsulate some of the body’s internal organs and line the gut derive from the cells that helped form the amniotic sac connected to the placental organ.<br /> <br />So, stem cells related to the placental organ and stem cells held within the inner cell sac of the blastocyst for the embryo body are involved in the construction project of the organism that lives in the air world. That’s important to note, because to date the disasters associated with embryonic stem cell harvesting and medical applications in humans have occurred due to inability to target and remove only the precise cells desired which will differentiate into the specific organ or tissue to treat the patient.<br /><br />As mentioned before, there are sources for stem cells, other than living embryos. As you read this material, your body is busy creating new stem cells (called adult stem cells) for various tissue and organ classifications, to allow for repairs and renewal of organs and tissues vital to your survival. Adult stem cells are multipotent. Many of these adult stem cell lines are yielding treatment breakthroughs and are very effective since they come directly from the patient’s own body and are inserted back into the patient in a treatment regimen. Such stem cells taken from the patient for the patient’s treatment have what scientists call ‘histocompatibility’ … the recognition of tissue by the patient’s immune system which reads these stem cells as part of the patient, not foreign cells to be attacked. <br />There are stem cells in abundance to be harvested from cord blood left in the placenta and umbilicus of birthed infants. The trick of fooling the mother’s body into not reading the placenta as foreign tissue carries over to cord blood stem cells, also to a great degree sidestepping the tissue rejection problem if early immune system cells of the fetus can be isolated from the mix before using the cells with a needy patient. It is as if cord blood transferring the nutrients and gases to and from the growing baby is generalized, not well defined as from a specific member of the human family.<br />There are also stem cells harvested from aborted fetuses and the victim’s placental organ. The fetal tissue harvesting industry is now more than a billion dollar enterprise. We will not delve too deeply into that area of stem cell harvesting because of the sadness therein. But we ought not be naïve to assume that scientists are not actively pursuing fetal stem cells; the trick scientists want to achieve is targeted stem cell differentiation, as they direct the stem cell march into specific tissues and organs, a trick done routinely by the growing unborn child before being aborted and removed from the womb. That is what has given impetus to collecting embryonic germ cells (EG cells) of aborted fetuses, ‘harvesting’ from the reproductive organ region (the gonadal ridge) of the very young fetus.<br /> <br />Myth meets fact, a chimera <br /><br />As a way to illustrate the ‘plasticity’ trick of early life, and to raise important points regarding the ‘whys’ of embryonic stem cell exploitation and cloning, let’s look at a very rare example of human chimera, then we will look at examples of chimera experiments that have actually been done, mixing human and animal biological materials! <br /><br />{ HYPERLINK "http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1021334/posts" The Mum Made of TWO Women From BRIAN FLYNN in New York [10] <br />A MUM has stunned the medical world after tests showed she is made up of TWO women.<br /><br />And even more incredibly she is NOT the biological mother of two of the children she conceived and had naturally.<br /><br />Docs found the woman, named only as Jane, was formed from non-identical twin embryos who fused together in her own mother’s womb.<br /><br />Her blood and some of her organs are made up of her own cells — while other parts of her body “belong” to her unborn sister. <br /><br />The amazing condition, which baffled doctors for two years, first came to light when Jane was given the bombshell news that two of her three sons did not share her DNA.<br /><br />That meant they could not be hers — even though docs confirmed her husband was their father. <br /><br />Finally Jane was diagnosed as a “chimera”, a person made up of two distinct sets of DNA. There have been just 30 known cases, though this is the first described in detail.<br />Jane’s bizarre story, reported in the New Scientist journal, began when she needed a kidney transplant. <br /><br />Doctors in the US city of Boston did blood tests on her three sons to see if they might be donors.<br />Instead they found two of the boys could not be her own. Dr Margot Kruskall of the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston told how the results stumped her team and sparked a huge inquiry.<br /><br />She said: “No-one could figure it out. One suggested Jane had secretly undergone fertility treatment using donated eggs. Another speculated she and her husband had got her sister to conceive with his sperm.” <br /><br />The breakthrough came when tests on Jane’s brother revealed the sons were all related to her family in some way or other.<br /><br />They then tested DNA from different parts of Jane’s body, including the thyroid gland, mouth and hair — and were astonished to find they came from two different people. <br /><br />An examination of her ovaries led to the conclusion that she must be the result of embryonic twins who already had their own reproductive organs when they merged.<br />Cells from both twins existed in her ovaries side-by-side, meaning she could produce eggs with two different DNA fingerprints.<br /> <br />Dr Kruskall said the discovery meant there could be many more mums and dads who have no idea they are not their kids’ biological parents. And she warned it could have implications in custody battles.<br /><br />Scientists also fear the number of chimeras will rise because increasingly common IVF treatment boosts the chances of conceiving twins. [The Sun, U.K.] } <br /><br />The first thought that occurs to many reading the above articles is, ‘what if Jane’s children had been born through in vitro fertilization?’ Can you imagine the conundrum lawyers could have constructed from the situation, upon learning there is different nuclear DNA and mitochondrial DNA in the children than the woman who bore those children? The in vitro clinic would face a formidable task, trying to prove the integrity of their services. And as legal appeals create legal precedent, imagine what the impact would be on criminal cases where nuclear DNA identification is used as evidence to convict or exonerate! It boggles the mind. How could a defense attorney or prosecutor ever explain enough basic biology and embryology for all the jurors to understand the possibilities? <br />Without a jury of Embryologists, perhaps the prosecutor would present the biological facts and the defense attorney would then cite the exceptions. … Or worse, the defense attorney would cite the facts and try to confuse the jury, only to leave the poor prosecutor at a loss to explain why the differences didn’t create reasonable doubt! But let’s focus upon the ‘when and how’ for this human chimera formed from the embryo bodies generated by two individual genomes.<br /><br />Our first clue to ‘when’ is the embryos with different genome identity existing side-by-side in Jane’s mother’s uterus, and the different nuclear DNA found in various tissues of Jane’s body. Some tissue differentiation of the blastocyst stage had to have occurred in both embryos prior to fusing of the inner cell masses. <br /><br />Because Jane emerged as one whole neonate, without two belly buttons, we surmise the ‘how’ to be: combining of Jane’s DNA and her twins DNA likely occurred following the formation of two different morula then two separate blastocysts that oozed together shortly after hatching from separate zona pellucida that carried them to the mother’s uterus … two ‘hatchlings’ combined into one blastocyst, with one placental organ sustaining one blastocystic cavity and one umbilical vesicle. <br /><br />Using more technical terms that the reader now understands, Jane is the result of two different sets of pluripotent stem cells that mixed very early in development. Perhaps these differing pluripotent stem cells mixed because the twin embryo failed to develop its separate placental organ after hatching from a separate zona pellucida. Or, perhaps the twin’s lifetime began when a second sperm fertilized the ‘castoff polar body’ Jane’s mother’s oocyte separated from the 46-chromosome start of the fertilization process. In other words, the polar body of the ‘unused 23 chromosomes’ of Jane’s conception, may have been fertilized by a second sperm that managed to reach the inside of the zona pellucida at Jane’s conception. During a more generalized methylation process of stem cell cascading, some tissue lines from one genome cancelled out a duplicate construction process in the twin genome, so that organs of differing genetic blueprints developed alongside each other. Because Jane has her oocytes and a twin’s oocytes contained within her ovary—without the twin’s genome being identified by Jane’s immune system as ‘not me’—we may surmise development allowed the directions on gene number 6 of both genomes to exist ‘peacefully’ in the construction of Jane’s immune system … fusing of the inner cell masses happened before Jane’s immune system was activated. Her twin’s cells have histocompatibility with her immune system, so her immune system recognizes the twin’s molecular marker identity as ‘also me’. <br /><br />A situation similar to Jane’s can occur if one twin donates an organ such as a kidney to its sibling … if the immune systems are a close enough match, the organ will not be rejected by the receiver of the organ donation and anti-rejection drugs will not be needed. Such a close match is very rare unless the twins are identical—monozygotic. But in Jane’s case, if she and her twin were identical, the twins would have emerged from a single first zygote and have identical chromosomes. Jane is the merging of separate and individual genomes from two zygotes because she has non-identical chromosomal DNA co-existing within her body. Jane’s transplantation process occurred at Jane’s earliest age in utero and involved many organ and tissue systems! Recall the words of Dr. Lejeune: “Because progressively at each division, this methylation is erased and replaced. And progressively cells learn by a cascade of reaction to specialize. So that one will make nails, another will make the brain, another will make the liver and another will make the bones and another will make the muscle.”<br /><br />What makes Jane a chimera is the evidence of two different genomes existing side-by-side in one functioning organism. At this point some will assert that ‘because Jane is the reality of two different genomes, then before the two genomes thoroughly combined, there were no individuals in embryonic state, just embryonic stem cells.’ We would direct them to the analogy of Fred and Francis, and reply that from the first division of cells by two separate zygotes in two separate zona pellucida, having two separate genomes from the same common father and mother, two individuals developed to the point where one was absorbed into the construction project for one vehicle of organs.’ We would note also that, ‘the two sets of pluripotent stem cells worked in competition and in concert during the entire embryonic age of Jane’s embryo body construction.’ Finally we would cite chimera individuals created through organ transplants. [And if that didn’t confuse them enough, we would suggest two or three college level Embryology textbooks, where this writer struggled through his balance of confusion.]<br /><br />Jane is solid evidence that two genomes were activated, that two organisms were living their genome program, but when the two got too close to each other early in the blastocyst age, their inner cell masses of pluripotent stem cells fused when the twin’s placenta failed to develop, and one genome went on to dominate in the construction project while carrying her sister’s injured life along with her, but without canceling the twin’s genome completely because the combination occurred so early in the lifetimes of both, before an immune system was developed.<br /><br />Remember that mitochondria we weren’t going to spend much effort on? … Well, it was through the mitochondrial DNA that the sons were all matched to Jane’s family tree, as per, “The breakthrough came when tests on Jane’s brother revealed the sons were all related to her family in some way or other.” The brother would have mitochondrial DNA from the same mother as Jane and the twin that was incorporated, so Jane’s sons could be matched to their maternal grandmother’s generation. <br /><br />Beyond Jane, to Rabbit and Jane <br /><br />Human tissue rejection is mostly related to the immune system built on instruction from chromosome #6 of the embryo’s nucleus. Some scientists have decided to pursue a chimera approach to growing embryos using human genome (human 46-chromosome complement for a nucleus) and denucleated cow or a mouse or a rabbit ovum still containing the animal’s mitochondria. The mixing has already begun in order to create material with which to study human stem cell cascading, and perhaps grow transplantable organs … the genome will be human while the DNA driving the mitochondria will be from another species. The following article excerpts should be enough to illustrate the direction some research is heading.<br /><br />{Chinese Scientists Create First Human-Animal Embryo by Sherrie Gossett For NewsMax.com Friday, Aug. 15, 2003 [11]<br /><br />Scientists in China have created the world’s first embryonic chimeras, hybrid embryos that contain human and rabbit DNA, according to the Journal of Cell Research. …<br /><br />In the Chinese experiment, human nuclei was extracted from foreskin tissue and facial tissue from males and females ages 5-60. Samples were obtained from tissue discarded after surgery.<br /><br />The somatic nuclei were then transplanted (“nuclear transfer”) into extracted New Zealand rabbit eggs and allowed to develop to the embryonic stage. The scientists report that the rabbit DNA successfully reprogrammed the human nuclei, causing it to multiply and develop into embryos that contained the human genome and the rabbit DNA [rabbit mitochondria].<br /><br />After several days of development, embryonic stem cells were obtained from the interior and put into frozen storage. Since the resultant stem cells were found to be encoded by the genome of the donor DNA [the human donor], the scientists hope that the research could be used to produce cells or tissues for human autologous transplantation. [In this context, autologous means from the patient, back to the patient] “Cells or tissue derived by this pathway would have nuclear DNA identical to the patient's and, therefore, would likely not be subject to immune rejection,” said the scientists. For this reason the scientists are hoping the research will lead to curative medical applications where tissue rejection has previously threatened the health of many patients.<br /><br />The scientists say that the experiment proves that human and rabbit DNA can co-exist in a cell [human nuclear DNA, rabbit mitochondrial DNA], and that age might not be a factor for human compatibility with such future cell/tissue transplantation. Some uncertainties still exist, but the scientists report “it is possible that these cells will be recognized as ‘self’ when transplanted back into the same patient." In a previous interspecies nuclear transfer (NT) experiment, rabbit eggs successfully reprogrammed panda nuclei, but according to the report, this was the first successful experiment using human nuclei. <br />… <br />In October 2000, the European Patent Office assured Greenpeace activists that it would never grant a patent on mixed-species embryos because they were considered an affront to "public order and morality." The activists were researching patents related to the human genome. A month later a researcher in Greenpeace's German office discovered that a patent had been already been granted for creation of a man-animal hybrid. <br />The patent stated it included a method for producing a non-human chimeric animal by the implantation into the animal of embryonic stem cells, including those from humans. <br />…<br />An Australian company, Amrad, was granted the patent in 1999, which covers embryos containing cells from humans and from "mice, sheep, pigs, cattle, goats or fish." It was later sold to U.S. company Chemicon International, a provider of some of the basic material for the Chinese breakthrough. <br />…<br />Douglas Melton, a cell biologist and cloning expert at Harvard University, called the work a major advance "because it offers a new system for exploring the mechanisms by which egg cells get adult cells to act in embryonic ways. That could provide deep insights into human development, wound healing and tissue regeneration," the Washington Post reported Thursday. The research is "extremely interesting, and I hope they pursue it," he said.<br /><br />R. Alta Charo, an associate dean of law and professor of bioethics at the University of Wisconsin, told the Post, "Short of putting one of these embryos into a woman's body for development to term, I don't think this work harms anyone alive."<br /> <br />The experiments should force opponents of cloning research to specify where they would draw the line against the cloning of human embryos, she said.<br /><br />The report of the rabbit-human embryo experiment appears in the August edition of the Journal of Cell Research, a peer-reviewed scientific publication of the Shanghai Institute of Cell Biology and the Chinese Academy of Sciences. } <br /><br />There is a clue toward the end of the article as to why scientists are so focused upon embryonic stem cells: “… because it offers a new system for exploring the mechanisms by which egg cells get adult cells to act in embryonic ways.” Ultimate goal? … To understand how embryos signal differentiation into specific tissues and organs, so that the stem cells found in the adult may be de-differentiated and redirected to build tissues for the specific patient, thereby producing autologous transplants so no anti-rejection medications would be necessary. The end goal is most ethical, but the means to accomplish the understanding of process is not. [We’ll get into that more in the next chapter.]<br /><br />The most immediate danger with the approach touted in the above article to generate human stem cells and perhaps human tissues and organs, using other animal eggs, is the likelihood of a viral disease that the host animal is resistant to, being passed to the human donor of the nuclear material who receives the cloned tissue back into their body. [Again, there are also major ethical issues to be addressed.] <br /><br />A sideways step, to Jane and John <br /><br />Such experiments with chimeras are not always received by fellow scientists as ‘worthy’. Witness the following excerpt from a New Zealand newspaper, noting particularly the raising of the moral / ethical specter. <br /><br />{ Creation of human 'she-males' angers IVF experts by Steve Connor [12] <br />An experiment that created human "chimeras" by merging male and female embryos in a test tube has been condemned as scientifically vacuous and ethically questionable by leading proponents of research into IVF [in vitro fertilization].<br /><br />A team of privately funded researchers created the hermaphrodite chimeras- a mix of cells from two separate embryos - as part of a study into ways of treating inherited disorders but their colleagues in the field of reproductive medicine have strongly denounced the study.<br /><br />The chimeric embryos, which contained both male and female cells growing side by side, were not allowed to live beyond six days after conception when they were still microscopic balls of cells. <br />…<br />"It doesn't make any sense to me," said Alan Trounson, a leading authority in IVF research at Monash University in Melbourne, who publicly criticised the study when it was presented at the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology in Madrid.<br /><br />"I think it's a flawed experiment. Unless you can be certain that you're doing good with something, you shouldn't do it at all. It is the Hippocratic principle of doing no harm," Professor Trounson told the meeting. "I think we've got to stand up and say we don't understand the point of this and we don't think it should proceed unless you have a much better reason. It is essentially trivial science that's unlikely to be useful. It's difficult to argue why it should be done to the public," added Professor Trounson.<br /><br />The study was carried out at the Center for Human Reproduction in Chicago by a team led by Norbert Gleicher, the founder of the privately-funded institute, who is also a visiting professor of obstetrics and gynaecology at Yale University.<br /><br />Professor Gleicher injected embryonic cells taken from male embryos into "high quality" female embryos that were about three-days old. Some of the chimeric embryos continued to develop apparently normally for three more days at which time the male cells had divided and spread throughout the female embryo. Professor Gleicher explained that he deliberately chose to insert male cells into a female embryo in order to make it easier to see whether the injected cells had managed to integrate into the recipient embryo, then he looked for the presence of the male Y chromosome.<br /><br />He emphasised that he had approval from an in-house ethical committee and also took outside legal advice. He said the experiment would never be done on an embryo that he intended to implant into the womb. It was only conducted as part of an investigation into treating single-gene disorders, such as muscular dystrophy, by introducing healthy cells at an early stage of embryological development. <br />…<br />"Normally you would do this with embryos of the same sex, but we did it with different ones as a model. Our primary purpose was to see if this was feasible and I think we have convincing evidence that the answer to that is yes," he said. <br />… <br />However, other scientists were not convinced. Lyn Fraser, professor of reproductive biology at King's College London, said: "For me it's a non-starter. It's a biologically questionable approach. "There is no way you can ensure that so-called good cells would get to the organ in question. There is no guarantee it will work," she said. <br />… <br />Human chimeras can be created naturally when two embryos of siblings fuse spontaneously within the womb - an exceptionally rare event. [New Zealand Herald 3/07/2003] } <br /><br />Since the sex of the individual may be discerned even at earliest embryo age in a petri dish, what the researcher did was use male and female embryonic stem cells to create what nature accomplished with Jane in the ‘Two Mums’ story. He targeted a living female at embryo age, injecting into her blastocystic cavity embryonic inner cell mass stem cells removed from a previously alive male individual at embryo age, then observed the mitotic dance! As stem cells of her turned on to begin building organs, the stem cells from him were turned off from that task. And while stem cells from him turned on to begin building perhaps muscle and bone, stem cells of her were turned off from that task. We’ve stated that it is the end use for the clone that determines the characterization of the methods; in this case it is the end use of the chimera that determines the ‘ethical’ status of the research. <br /><br />The scientist in the above article ‘emphasized that he had approval from an in-house ethical committee and also took outside legal advice.’ Some ethicists, those! Is the public already clamoring for utilitarian exploitation of human life? While the nation awaited President Bush’s decision (fall of 2001) regarding federal funding for embryonic stem cell research, it was proven during testimony before a Congressional Committee that there are scientists and Hollywood stars who believe human embryos should be afforded no more respect than a goldfish. The human embryo would become source for stem cells to be used in research on human diseases and to generate tissue lines for treating diseases of older individual humans. “Why wait, why hold off?” they would ask; “Science is already dissecting aborted fetuses, to harvest portions of their tiny bodies desired for research; sick and injured people need this technology,” they would note. … And the world’s morality would be further mutated into Hollywood’s twisted vision of ‘the good life’, better living through human embryocide. <br /><br />Astonishingly, this chimeric approach isn’t a new slippery slope before us: for more than twenty years, mice containing human genes spliced into their genome have been residing in laboratories, being studied as they pass the human gene along to their offspring. Was that insertion of a portion of human DNA into a rodent’s nucleus a wrong thing to do? Hardly, but it is a downward ethical leap to equate inserting a piece of DNA into a mouse genome, with terminating individual human lives, even chimeric human lives, in order to harvest body parts. If it has not already happened, soon human stem cells could be placed in mouse embryos, or human nuclei could be placed in a mouse egg, or mouse nuclei could be placed into a human oocyte. [I wonder, would that create a manly mouse or a mousely man?] <br /><br />{ Here’s an astonishing new insight regarding the interaction between the embryo / fetus and the mother, presented to a panel in 2000. Note in particular the role of stem cells addressed in the work presented by Dr. Salvatore Mancuso. <br /><br />Pregnant Women "Inherit" Some Characteristics of Their Children<br />8-Sep-2000 -- ZENIT.org News Agency [19] <br />MILAN, SEP 5 (ZENIT.org). - Mothers undergo permanent changes during pregnancy, in which they "inherit" some characteristics of the child they carry and, through the child, also receive some characteristics of the father.<br /><br />This is but one of the surprising discoveries to be presented at the congress entitled "At the Dawn of Human Life," organized by the Institute of Gynecology and Obstetrics of the Catholic University of Rome. The congress begins Sept. 6 in the Vatican, as part of the Jubilee of University Professors. <br /><br />The child inherits half of his genetic patrimony from the mother. He also "hears" the outside world while in the womb, through the mother's body, a fact which substantially conditions the unborn child's life. Now, research indicates that the mother also undergoes long-term changes caused by the "person" of the child and, indirectly, also from her husband. <br /><br />Professor Salvatore Mancuso, head of the gynecology institute, said: "We have proofs that beginning in the fifth week of gestation, in other words, when a woman realizes she is pregnant, an infinite number of messages pass from the embryo to the mother, through chemical substances like hormones, neurotransmitters, etc. Such information serves to adapt the mother's organism to the presence of the new being.<br /><br />"Moreover, it has also been discovered that the embryo sends stem cells that, thanks to the mother's immune system tolerance, colonize the maternal medulla, and adhere to it. What is more, lymphocytes are born from here and remain with the woman for the rest of her life."<br /> <br />Mancuso continued: "From the fifth week there is clearly a passing of cells, but messages begin at conception. Even during the first phase of cellular subdivision, when the embryo is moving in the fallopian tubes, there are transmissions through contact with tissues touched by the moving embryo.<br /> <br />"Later, after implantation in the uterus, the dialogue is more intense through the blood and cells, and chemical substances enter the mother's bloodstream.<br /> <br />"Finally, the child's stem cells pass to the mother in great quantity, both at the moment of birth, whether spontaneous or Caesarean, as well as at the time of abortion, whether spontaneous or voluntary. These cells are implanted in the mother's medulla and produce lymphocytes, which have a common origin with the cells of the central nervous system; they have receptors for the neurotransmitters and can make messages pass that the maternal nervous system understands."<br /> <br />He added, "An astonishing area of research is opening up. This is information of enormous importance on the first phases of life." <br /><br />When asked whether it was difficult to make rigid divisions of the phases of the embryo's development, Mancuso said, "It is a grave error to make distinctions between the embryo and pre-embryo. It is such an initial phase - one cannot of course speak of a central nervous system - but the messages the embryo sends to the mother express manifestations that are proper to the human species. The instruments used are highly specialized chemical substances and cells, such as stem cells.<br /><br />"It should be remembered that if communication was lacking, the maternal organ would reject the embryo. The dialogue makes possible the perfect acceptance of an organism that is 50% foreign to the mother's genetic patrimony. In fact, these chemical substances, which express nutritional and metabolic needs of the embryo to the mother, cause an immune depression in her that facilitates the acceptance of the new being."<br /><br />When asked how long the fetus' influence on the mother lasts, the professor answered: "Stem cells have been found in the mother even 30 years after the birth. It could be said, therefore, the pregnancy does not last the 40 canonical weeks, but the woman's entire life. … "This should be cause for reflection also in regard to the hypothesis of 'renting' a womb: In this case, the mother who carries the embryo accepts a being whose genetic patrimony is 100% foreign, and who will 'modify' her for the rest of her life. We have no idea of the long-term consequences of such operations. <br /><br />Regarding the transfer of the father's characteristics to the mother via the unborn child, Mancuso said, "These are areas that are yet to be explored. Of course it calls for reflection on a new way of understanding pregnancy. Also, a very close tie is undoubtedly created between man and woman, because the child has 50% of the father's genetic <br />characteristics. Moreover, the hematopoietic [blood-producing] stem cells go to the medulla and produce offspring cells, lymphocytes and neurotransmitters with the capacity to dialogue with the maternal central nervous system. It is somewhat as though the 'thoughts' of the child pass to the mother, even many years after his birth." } <br /><br />There is so much that is noteworthy in that article, it is hard to know where to begin! Think of it: <br />embryonic stem cells colonize the mother’s medulla (‘medulla’ refers to the inner portion of an organ; in this case the uterus or womb); <br />the embryo carries on a dialogue with the mother’s central nervous system and endocrine system (glands and their secretions); <br />some of the stem cells that colonize the uterus remain for the rest of the woman’s lifetime, to message with her physiology (the functioning of cells);<br />because the embryonic stem cells remain alive within the mother’s body, to effect her glandular systems, there may be feedback loops which should not be interrupted artificially because cancers may arise in her body related to disrupted feedback (note: the body’s endocrine system works through fundamentally a back-and-forth chemical signaling system between glands and organs and tissues; there are ongoing studies implicating abortion as a possible cause in some breast cancers); <br />the messaging system between embryo and mother proves the embryo is an alive organism, a human organism that is working to survive; <br />since genetic aspects from the father (via his 23 chromosomes in the 46-chromosome complement of the embryo) remain within the mother’s body for the rest of her life, the two really do become one flesh in her!<br /> <br />And finally there is this very disturbing potential: if scientists conceive hundreds of thousands or even millions of embryos for embryonic stem cell harvesting then tissue transplants into adult humans, what will be the effects of inserting chromosomal portions into the human family genome that have not been ‘tested’ through the stages of natural growth and development? Could scientists ‘treat’ us to extinction as a species?<br /><br />Posing that alarm another way (as if contemplating our fictional ‘oxygen bomb’ in the introduction to this manuscript), nature has a built-in system for testing and discarding random genes—mutated genes—that may be bad for the long-term health of the species. It’s called growth and development. Genes arise through randomness, but bad genes die out through reproductive selection and shortened lives, even shortened embryo lives (bad genetic aspects are responsible for most miscarriages). Additions to the species, via embryonic stem cells from beings no older than days, will not have been tested by the natural range of growth and development. Could scientists pass from their laboratories to the species ‘genetic’ time bombs?<br /><br />It is now believed that 60 to 80 percent of conceptions do not reach birth age, because of genetic anomalies, errors in the genes or chromosome complement [27]. ‘Nature’ has a way of discarding badly shuffled genes or flawed DNA through growth and development, but what embryonic stem cell harvesting (whether from ‘left-over embryos in IVF clinics or from specially created embryos using cloning) will do is extract the stem cells from the pre-implantation embryo and implant those cells in an adult patient … and thus bypass the growth and development process which would likely have discarded flawed genetic messages! It is also important to note that some genetic diseases don’t even materialize until the adult organism reproduces or even until one or more generations later! <br /><br /><strong>CHAPTER FOUR – Cloning</strong> <br /><br />Two electricians, taking a break while wiring a new house:<br />First electrician – Did you read the paper this morning? … According to the newspaper, science can now clone any mammal. So what do you think they ought to clone first?<br />Second electrician – I’d like it to be me.<br />First – Why’s that?<br />Second – So I can play golf while I work.<br />*** <br /><br />Well of course, if a clone of the electrician were born, there would be a matter of decades in age difference between the man and his clone. Surely the contractor would notice differences, and call the golf course to ask about that elderly guy playing from the senior tees! So why are scientists trying to do this DNA manipulation?<br />The term cloning can be used to describe more than one technique for working with biological materials. Only a few methodologies would fit the carelessly touted category of cloning an organism. Let’s look at two methods of manipulating DNA that are not aimed at reproducing the organism. <br /><br />PCR identification: Brainchild of Kary B. Mullis <br /><br />One example of manipulating only the DNA happens when a crime lab wants to take a bit of tissue or saliva found at a crime scene and compare the DNA (unique genetic markers) of that evidence with a sample from a suspect. The lab makes ‘shadow pattern’ copies of the DNA using a process that mirrors exactly the patterns within the long, complex molecule that identifies the being from which the DNA originates. The lab is merely constructing a shadow of the DNA pattern. The process is PCR identification (made famous during the O.J. Simpson trial and on television programs like CSI). The technique works with sub-units of biological material that came from an organ of an organism. Since every cell an individual human makes during their lifetime has the same DNA pattern in the nucleus, only DNA of the suspect (not the whole suspect) need be manipulated to identify the pattern, as recorded in a shadow transferred onto paper by an ‘imaging’ molecule (a polymerase molecule). The imaging molecule binds to pieces of carefully, systematically separated DNA and carries data of these distinct pieces to a recording surface, creating a pattern much like the bar codes you see on articles in a grocery store. <br /><br />The same identification method may be applied to the mitochondrial DNA, but the matching doesn’t point as precise a finger since all mitochondria is inherited from the mother’s side of the gene pool. Narrowing down the suspect list is all such mitochondrial identification accomplishes, pointing to a particular family tree, but not a particular individual within that family tree. PCR is the brilliant invention of Kary B. Mullis. He received a Nobel Prize for his brainchild and testified at the O.J. trial, to explain PCR . [Here’s an Internet link: HYPERLINK "http://usitweb.shef.ac.uk/~mba97cmh/history/history.htm" … and an Internet search engine request for PCR will yield even more on the subject.] <br /><br />If the technician is replicating the actual molecule or only portions of the DNA molecular chain, instead of the just identifying the pattern of DNA, then it is actual cloning, said to be ‘recombinant DNA’ cloning. Going one step further, if replicating the entire organism, it is called ‘research’ cloning or ‘therapeutic’ cloning, or reproductive cloning. <br /><br />Beings for sale or rent <br /><br />We will avoid the complexity of DNA molecule cloning (recombinant DNA), where a section of DNA from a specific gene is attached to a loop that is inserted into a bacterium. Yeasts cells can be used also. The bacteria or yeast duplicate very rapidly, making perhaps billons of copies of the selected DNA section in a rather short period of time. This method is used when the specific function of a particular gene or piece of a gene is to be studied. Let’s focus now upon the category of cloning which involves replicating of an individual organism.<br /><br />Categories of organism cloning are reproductive cloning and therapeutic or ‘research’ cloning (there is a third category, called ‘parthenogenesis’, but it doesn’t involve transferring the nucleus of a donor, so we will discuss that at the end of this section). These ‘categories’ all start with an ‘in vitro’ cloning of the entire organism, using a method called ‘somatic cell nuclear transfer’ (abbreviated as SCNT, and sometimes just NT). The word ‘somatic’ refers to the body (the soma). A typical well differentiated cell of the body (taken perhaps from the inner cheek cells or from bone marrow cells) has its nucleus removed then ‘transferred’, by injecting the somatic cell nucleus into an oocyte that has had the nucleus removed, or into a zygote that has had its nuclear core removed, or into a pluripotent stem cell of the early blastocyst that has had its nuclear core removed. [There is one method that injects an entire somatic cell into the denucleated oocyte. Since the oocyte is 15 to 20 times larger than the other typical cells of the body, certain smaller cells may be treated then injected entirely into the oocyte.] Once the transfer is accomplished, the resulting construct is stimulated with an electrical current or a chemical, and hopefully the newly constructed organism at single cell age begins mitosis (cell replication).<br /><br />The first whole cloned higher mammal was Dolly the sheep. Roslin Institute of Scotland accomplished the feat, but it took 277 attempts before Dolly was born. [Dolly’s conception and birth were reported in the following publication: Nature, # 385, pages 810-13, 1997] <br /><br />{ Here’s an aside, a sort of obituary regarding Dolly the clone: <br />“Celebrity Sheep Has Died at Age 6 [15]<br /><br />Dolly, the first mammal to be cloned from adult DNA, was put down by lethal injection Feb. 14, 2003. Prior to her death, Dolly had been suffering from lung cancer and crippling arthritis. Although most Finn Dorset sheep live to be 11 to 12 years of age, postmortem examination of Dolly seemed to indicate that, other than her cancer and arthritis, she appeared to be quite normal. The unnamed sheep from which Dolly was cloned had died several years prior to her creation. Dolly was a mother to six lambs, bred the old-fashioned way.” } <br /><br />Dolly or any other animal created using somatic cell nuclear transfer technology is not truly identical to the donor. [Remember the cat from the introduction?] Only the clone's chromosomal or nuclear DNA is the same as the donor (even that chromosomal pattern can be juggled slightly in reproduction, yielding different construction). Some of the clone's genetic material come from the mitochondria in cytoplasm of the host ovum that had its nuclear material removed. Removing the nucleus from the ovum is called ‘enucleation’. The ovum is said to be denucleated or enucleated, in case you see the term in a magazine article. Mitochondria contain their own short segments of DNA. Random changes (called mutations) in mitochondrial DNA are believed to play a role in the aging process of mammals.<br /><br />Dolly's success proved that the genetic material from a specialized cell, such as an udder cell (where Dolly’s DNA came from), could generate an entire new organism if only the nucleus were injected into the proper enucleated mother cell. [Recalling the words of Dr. Lejeune, where he used the analogy of a magnetic tape filled with the pattern to reproduce a symphony, and the tape player needed to play the pattern … the denucleated ovum is the player and the injected donor nucleus material is the pattern for the symphony.] <br /><br />Before the success of Dolly, scientists believed that once a cell differentiated (became specialized as a liver cell, heart cell, udder cell, bladder cell, or any other type of cell), the change was permanent and unneeded genes in the cell would become inactive. Recall, if you will, the ‘methylation’ mentioned by Dr. Lejeune, where a methyl molecule at the end of a particular section of DNA is deactivated so as to make that particular gene ‘silent’. The gene is not destroyed, merely deactivated by selection during the expression phase of building the organism. Some scientists believe that errors in the reprogramming process cause the high rates of death and deformity observed among animal clones (errors in causing the nuclear chain, the entire DNA pattern, to ‘remember’ the way to build the organism).<br /><br />With reproductive cloning, the idea is to produce a close twin to the donor of the nucleus, giving life support to the embryo then the fetus, all the way to birth. Once the cloned embryo reaches a suitable age, it is transferred to the uterus of a female host where it continues to develop until birth. <br /><br />With therapeutic cloning, the object will be to start an embryonic individual on the growth processes that yield pluripotent stem cells, then multipotent stem cells differentiating into the organs and tissues of the body that would exist in the air world in a matter of months. Stem cells are extracted from the embryo after it has built cells for 5 or 6 days. The embryo at this age is called a blastocyst. Therapeutic cloning will arrest the lifetime of the individual embryo, in order to harvest the desired multipotent stem cells for treating perhaps Parkinson’s disease in the adult donating their somatic cell for the nucleus transfer. This of course ends the lifetime of the cloned embryo.<br /><br />In typical double-speak style, some scientists and legislators prefer to use the term ‘research cloning’, though both reproductive cloning and research cloning start the same way, by ‘conceiving’ a new individual life. Which phrase is used for the methodology depends on whether the cloned embryo will live its short life in a lab and be dissected for stem cells, or whether it will be implanted in a host mother and allowed to continue its lifetime to birth. ‘Research cloning’ appears to better fit the work of those who conceive chimeras, such as a mix of the enucleated rabbit ovum and the nucleus from a human cell (the experiments mentioned in the previous chapter). The goal is pure research, trying to understand the molecular processes that cause the specialization changes from zygote to morula to blastocyst to fetus.<br /><br />At this writing, a human being has yet to be proven born from the SCNT cloning process, but someone, somewhere, is no doubt trying! [An interesting Internet search of the Raelian religious cult will net discussion on ‘reproductive cloning’ efforts. Here’s one: HYPERLINK "http://www.cnn.com/2002/HEALTH/12/27/human.cloning/" <br /> Raelian leader says cloning first step to immortality … I wonder, do you suppose he’s a golfer?] <br /><br />A tadpole was cloned in 1952. Following the success with frogs, the duplication of somatic cells (stem cells from animal embryos) in a tissue culture was accomplished (cell cloning). Then came the whole mammalian organism, Dolly, in 1997. Since Dolly, scientists have cloned several animals, including sheep, goats, cows, mice, pigs, cats, rabbits, a mule, and a gaur. All these clones were created using SCNT. Reproductive cloning for certain species such as monkeys, chickens, and dogs, have so far been unsuccessful. The process of stripping the nucleus from an ovum and replacing it with the nucleus of a donor cell is traumatic for the cell and the nucleus. Improvements in cloning technologies and deeper understanding of the early mitotic processes are needed before certain animals can be cloned successfully.<br /><br />So what is driving the cloning frenzy? Reading the published debates, it appears that tissue rejection problems—when patients need transplants—is the force behind the research. <br /><br />{ Here’s an excerpt from an Internet published paper discussing cloning. The paper was prepared by congressional staffers, planning for debates on whole- organism or embryo cloning of humans, the scope of the Weldon-Stupak Human Cloning Ban legislation. [16] The paper, with illustrations, may be found at the following Internet link: HYPERLINK "http://www.house.gov/weldon/issues/clone_basics.htm" <br /><br />Reasons for cloning <br /><br />Some want to produce cloned children (so-called "reproductive cloning") because they want to replace a lost loved one, copy someone with desired genes, or to treat infertility. Indeed, Drs. Panos Zavos, Severino Antinori and Brigitte Boisselier are [sic] have claimed that they will produce the first cloned human early this year. <br /><br />However, the cloned child would not be identical to the person who was cloned, that is the person who donated the nuclear material from a body cell. Though the cloned embryo, with the complete set of 46 chromosomes, would be the same as the donor, there are mitochondrial chromosomes from the female egg. The mitochondria are structures in the female egg outside of the nuclear DNA that contain some genetic material. These provide energy to the nucleus and therefore would effect the genetic development of the growing child. Therefore, a cloned child would not be completely genetically identical to the cloned person.<br /><br />Moreover, personality is not determined by one's DNA but is significantly influenced by environment and individual choices. Creating cloned live-born human children necessarily begins by creating cloned human embryos, a process which some also propose as a way to create embryos for research purposes (so-called "therapeutic cloning"). <br />Some scientists and biotech organizations want to create cloned embryos and use them for research or to derive stem cells, which would destroy the cloned embryo. Some of the more vocal advocates of this research are as follows: Dr. Rudolf Jaenisch of the Whitehead Institute in Massachussetts, Dr. Tomas Okarma who is the President of Geron a major embryo stem cell research company, Dr. Michael West who is the President of Advanced Cell Technology, MA which has begun experiments to clone human embryos, as well as the national Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO), and Dr. Michael Soules, who is President of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine.<br /><br />Creating the cloned embryo for research is a type of reproduction, since the cloned embryo is biologically new human life. It is therefore scientifically misleading to call cloning for research purposes "therapeutic " as distinct from "reproductive" cloning. <br />… <br />There are no models in animal cloning in which scientists derived stem cells to cure the animals. The prospect of creating clinical treatments from stem cells derived from cloned embryos is completely speculative.<br /><br />Some tout “research cloning” as necessary for embryo stem cell research, because creating stem cell based tissues from your own clone would not have the same tissue rejection problems as from tissues created from embryo stem cells with someone else's genetic makeup. This is fiction.<br /><br />Rejection Problem: It is false to say that cloning solves the transplant rejection problem. Each embryo clone would still contain mitochondrial DNA from the egg donor; the clone is NOT an exact genetic copy of the nucleus donor, and its antigens would therefore provoke immune rejection when transplanted. There would still be the problem of immunological rejection that cloning is said to be indispensable for solving. [Remember the note about ‘histocompatibility’, in a previous chapter?] <br /><br />Reprogramming Problem: Some argue that "therapeutic cloning" must be performed to research reprogramming errors, in order to better develop tissues using embryo and adult stem cells. The argument is that once we understand reprogramming errors, we can take a body cell and reprogram the cells to become stem cells. At best this research is decades away [with] no animal work to suggest whether this is even doable. Other currently pursued lines of research to solve the rejection problem are more promising. }<br /> <br />Parthenogenesis, girls and boys the hard way <br /><br />{ Let’s begin with an excerpt from an Internet encyclopedia entry [ 1 8 ] : <br />Parthenogenesis , in biology, a form of reproduction in which the ovum develops into an individual without fertilization . Natural parthenogenesis has been observed in many lower animals, especially insects, e.g., the HYPERLINK "http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/a1/aphid.asp". <br />In many social insects, such as the honeybee and the ant, the unfertilized eggs give rise to the male drones and the fertilized eggs to the female workers and queens. The phenomenon of parthenogenesis was discovered in the 18th cent. by Charles Bonnet. In 1900, Jacques Loeb accomplished the first clear case of artificial parthenogenesis when he pricked unfertilized frog eggs with a needle and found that in some cases normal embryonic development ensued. Artificial parthenogenesis has since been achieved in almost all major groups of animals, although it usually results in incomplete and abnormal development. Numerous mechanical and chemical agents have been used to stimulate unfertilized eggs. In 1936, Gregory Pincus induced parthenogenesis in mammalian (rabbit) eggs by temperature change and chemical agents. <br />… <br />The phenomenon is rarer among plants (where it is called parthenocarpy) than among animals.}<br /> <br />In the first chapter, when we described the oocyte preparing for fertilization, we noted that the human oocyte has the typical 46 chromosomes of any other somatic cell, prior to arrival of the sperm. When a sperm cell penetrates the outer coat (the zona pellucida), the oocyte finishes dividing 46 chromosomes in half, with 23 chromosomes being pushed aside in a ‘polar body’ and the other 23 chromosomes fusing with the 23 chromosomes brought in by the sperm cell, to conceive a new genome for an individual human life. With parthenogenesis, the scientist captures an oocyte before it divides its 46 chromosomes. Using a chemical or electrical stimulus, the scientist causes the oocyte to begin cell division (mitosis), forming an embryo, called a parthenote.<br /><br />If such an individual could be brought to term—born—she still would not be an exact duplicate of the woman from whom the oocyte was taken, because gene shuffling occurs in gametes (primitive sex cells) as they are being formed in the fetal body. [This ‘shuffling’ during gametogenesis helps to account for the vast diversity within a species.] <br /><br />Scientists are hard at work trying to devise a way to construct a male version of this trick. The idea would be to use the 23-chromosome complements from two sperm, fusing the two complements—to net 46 chromosomes—then injecting the nuclear mass into a donor oocyte that had been denucleated. <br /><br />Why this difficult trick to derive male parthenotes? Because the scientists want to produce tissues from embryos closely matched to the person to be treated. Chromosomes of any particular parthenote would be tissue compatible with only the individual donating the gamete(s), so the same trick of tissue compatibility would be necessary if treating a male using the stem cells harvested from the resulting embryo. [And as culture changes, there is of course the issue of a being with two fathers, as genetic parents. If homosexual marriage catches on … well, families?]<br /><br />This parthenogenic trick is not a new development with mammals. As far back as 1983, Elizabeth J. Robertson demonstrated that stem cells removed from parthenogenic mouse embryos could form tissues such as nerve and muscle. In 2001, Advanced Cell Technologies reported creating parthenotes that developed to what appeared to be the blastocyst stage, but none contained the inner cell mass from which the air-world body develops. We’ll take a look at their work in the next chapter.<br /> <br />Fiction and facts <br /><br />Cloning of whole organisms is still a science in its infancy. The popular movie, Jurassic Park, was a fictional speculation on cloning extinct animals … extinct for millions of years! Cloning technologies will have to reach tremendous insights into constructing from scratch the DNA molecular chain, before such fancies can be achieved, if readable DNA can be found in a fossil. But science is hard at work trying to save endangered species, and even trying to clone a wooly Mammoth using DNA found in the cells of frozen carcasses, and then injected into the denucleated egg of an elephant. The cloned embryo will be placed back into the elephant—if she’ll allow it—to give life support until birth.<br /> <br />{The possibilities for successful cloning of species other than humans are measurably important in saving endangered animals. The following is an excerpt from a whimsical article related to real science [17]: <br /> HYPERLINK "http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/924554/posts" Cloning Could Make Champion Gelding a Dad <br /> HYPERLINK "http://www.freerepublic.com/perl/redirect?u=http%3A%2F%2Fstory.news.yahoo.com%2Fnews%3Ftmpl%3Dstory2%26u%3D%2Fap%2F20030606%2Fap_on_fe_st%2Fny_cloning_funny_cide%26e%3D1" \t "_blank" Associated Press ^ | Fri, Jun 06, 2003 | MICHAEL GORMLEY <br /><br />There's a not so funny side to the thoroughbred who could win The Triple Crown.<br /><br />Unlike Secretariat and other superstar sires, Funny Cide is a gelding. That means he can't reproduce, costing his owners millions of dollars in stud fees and ending a champion's lineage. <br /><br />But a scientist who recent [sic] helped clone a racing mule believes Funny Cide could probably buck the odds right now. <br /><br />"I feel quite confident that technically it can be done. It will be a natural extension now that we've cloned the mule," said Dirk Vanderwall, assistant professor in the Department of Animal and Veterinary Science at the University of Idaho. "It is extremely likely that, yes, we can clone an individual animal like Funny Cide."<br /><br />Vanderwall and two other scientists are responsible for the May 4 birth of Idaho Gem, the first clone from the horse family. Vanderwall said scientific scuttlebutt is that two cloned horses, one in Texas and another in Paris, will be born soon. Sheep, cows, pigs, cats and rodents have already been cloned.<br /><br />A clone, however, doesn't mean an exact double. Environmental factors and even the gene expression" in a cloned animal can make an offspring different from the "founder," he said. But Idaho Gem so far isn't showing any physical problems or anything other than the racing spirit of its champion founder, Taz the mule.<br /><br />"From the moment of birth, (Idaho Gem's) just been very healthy and vigorous and continues to be," Vanderwall said Friday. } <br /><br /><br /><strong>CHAPTER FIVE Stem Cells and Controversy</strong><br /><br />As the story was told, King Minos, the ancient king of Crete, succeeded in defeating the pirate bands plundering his Mediterranean Sea. Minos believed the sea god, Poseidon, aided him against the pirates, so Minos planned a celebration and sacrifice to Poseidon. The sea god sent a most worthy sacrifice, a magnificent white bull, swimming to Minos out of the sea. Old King Minos was so fond of the magnificent beast, he decided to sacrifice another bull from his royal herd and save the white bull as a prized possession. Failure to use the most worthy sacrifice properly and selfish keeping of the gift angered Poseidon. He cast a spell upon Queen Pasiphae, wife of Minos, causing her to become enthralled with the white bull. In her twisted love for the beast, she enlisted the help of an inventor, to make a fake cow so that she might mate with the bull. Pasiphae was successful; she conceived and bore the cruel Minotaur, a creature with a man’s body but a bull’s head. <br /><br />[Soon after the above synopsis of the Minotaur myth was typed into the outline of this manuscript, the author read an article regarding the private company, Advanced Cell Technologies, which is actually injecting the nucleus from human somatic cells into de-nucleated cow eggs. The resulting alive embryos prove that mammalian mitosis marches onward. Could the mythical Minotaur be a reality in our future?]<br />* * * <br /><br />Not long ago, during National Public Radio’s ‘Morning Edition’, reporter Joe Palca interviewed ethicist Ron Green, a supporter of destructive embryonic stem cell research. When asked if the special creation of stem cell lines from ‘extra’ embryos of IVF clinics might lead to creating specific embryos for spare parts/organs, Green opined that it was probably not going to happen, that we could probably pass a law banning such a practice. <br />Joe Palca also interviewed R. Alta Charo, a professor of Law and Ethics at the University of Wisconsin. Professor Charo found the practice of anonymous donors of oocytes and sperm a method preferable to using ‘left over’ embryos of IVF clinics for producing embryonic stem cells … she favored conceiving embryos specifically for harvesting, feeling somehow ‘anonymous’ conception would remove the practice from ethical barriers. Charo noted that this way, “scientists could avoid altogether the possible emotional attachments parents might feel toward the children they had created but not implanted.” That was a most chilling revelation, coming from a professor of Law and Ethics! … She can acknowledge that the parents have conceived children, yet she sees nothing amiss in using these children for experimentation. <br /><br />The Professor Charo mentioned above is the same Professor Charo who saw no ethical or moral problems in mixing a human nucleus and rabbit de-nucleated egg to create chimeric embryos for research! It is such ‘blurred ethics’ at major research institutions that are at the heart of corroded societal taboos and the dehumanization of the earliest ages in individual human lifetimes. It is a quantum leap away from ethics to go from placing human adult stem cells in other animal embryos and watching the results, to the creation of a minotauresque being. The cow remains a cow if only human adult stem cells are placed in its embryo to develop for tissue research (a xenotransplant– an action in which an organ or tissue is transferred from one animal to another of a different species). But to try and create likely severely handicapped humans using a denucleated cow egg? Yes, America, we need to talk about these things! Is it more ethical to create a severely handicapped being from whom scientists will remove body parts for research?<br /><br />To prepare for the discussion that follows, let’s do a quick review of embryonic development and stem cells: <br /><br />The fusion of nuclei from father and mother brings into being the genome for at least one new individual human life. The first cell of a new individual is called a zygote. The zygote is a totipotent cell; it will give rise to the placental organ used to accomplish life support and also will give rise to stem cells that build the body the individual will use upon exiting into the air world.<br /> <br />By the time the growing embryo reaches the uterus, the sixteen or so stem cells, called a morula, quickly generate cells to raise the total to more than one hundred cells, differentiating into mostly trophoblast stem cells (directed toward constructing the placenta and related tissues and membranes) and very few pluripotent stem cells, called embryoblasts. The entire collection of stem cells is called a blastocyst (the preimplantation embryo consisting of a sphere of cells with an outer cell layer, a fluid-filled cavity, and a cluster of cells on the interior that is the inner cell mass—the embryo body). <br /><br />As the embryo ‘hatches’ from the zona pellucida that has encased the increasing cell mass on the journey to the uterus, stem cells are increasing the blastocystic cavity surrounding a few (2 or 3) pluripotent stem cells—embryoblasts that will be tasked with building the amniotic sac and embryo body which develops into the body of organs and tissues for use when the new individual exits the womb into the air world.<br /> <br />Within 5 to 6 days from fertilization, embryoblast stem cells form a ‘bump’ (inner cell mass) on the interior of the blastocystic cavity; the ‘bump’ has two aspects, the embryo body and umbilical vesicle. The umbilical vesicle begins immediately to produce blood cells (within about a week after fertilization, normally). As the embryo body develops, the pluripotent stem cells differentiate into multipotent stem cells tasked to build specific organs and tissue systems. Researchers target these embryonic stem cells for harvesting and exploitation because the cells have specialized somewhat, but not so much as to lose their desired plasticity for many pathways to building organs and tissues.<br /> <br />The embryo age of the new individual ends at eight weeks and the fetal age begins. [Embryo age ends rather arbitrarily at eight weeks, for legal purposes, but biologically, many tissue lines have yet to be instituted. It is 3 months from fertilization before all the systems of the baby have been formed.] <br /><br />From the fetal age onward, the human individual’s existence is characterized by growth and specialization of the organs and tissues built during the embryo age. There are construction sites within a fetus that continue to have less differentiated stem cells (pluripotent stem cells) even during the fetal age. One of these sites is the gonadal ridge from which sex organs and the gametes arise in the individual. Stem cells are harvested from the gonadal ridge of the early fetus (approximately five to nine weeks of age) when these hapless beings are aborted. These stem cells are believed capable of giving rise to the three main tissues lines of the body. <br /><br />It is the dream of medical science, perhaps even the ‘holy grail’, to find a ready source of tissues that can be profitably manipulated to cure human injury and diseases, without causing tissue rejection or death due to unwanted side effects in the patient being treated.<br /> <br />During an Internet discussion on abortion, the following was posted regarding the 1981 Senate Judiciary Subcommittee hearings on the question, "When does human life begin?" Appearing before the Committee to speak on behalf of the scientific community was a group of internationally known geneticists and biologists, all saying the same thing, namely, that life begins at conception—and they told their story with a glaring absence of opposing testimony. Of the 57 people who testified, only one was wishy-washy about conception being the beginning of individual human lifetime … from a philosophical standpoint, not a scientific one. Here are a few notable responses to the Committee: <br /><br />Dr. Micheline M. Mathews-Roth, Harvard medical School, cited references from medical textbooks and more than 20 Embryology texts, that human life begins at conception.<br /> <br />Dr. Richard V. Jaynes offered, "To say that the beginning of human life cannot be determined scientifically is utterly ridiculous." <br /><br />Dr. Alfred Bongiovanni, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, asserted confidently, "I am no more prepared to say that these early stages represent an incomplete human being than I would be to say that the child prior to the dramatic effects of puberty ... is not a human being."<br /><br />Geneticist, Dr. Jerome Lejeune, told the Senators, "To accept the fact that after fertilization has taken place a new human has come into being is no longer a matter of taste or opinion, it is plain experimental evidence."<br /> <br />Dr. Hymie Gordon, Chairman of the Department of Genetics at Mayo Clinic, offered, "By all the criteria of modern molecular biology, life is present from the moment of conception."<br /> <br />Dr. McCarthy de Mere, medical doctor and law professor at the University of Tennessee, stated, "The exact moment of the beginning of personhood and of the human body is at the moment of conception." <br /><br />Dr. Landrum Shettles, to some the father of In Vitro Fertilization, noted, "Conception confers life and makes that life one of a kind." And on the Supreme Court Roe v. Wade ruling which sought to establish ambiguity, he noted, "To deny a truth [about when life begins] should not be made a basis for legalizing abortion." <br /><br />In a previous chapter, we noted that there are two main sources for human stem cells: 1) embryos, and 2) developed human beings beyond the embryo stage. Hopefully, the reader has reached the conclusion (as supported by the sciences of Embryology and Genetics) that even at the earliest embryonic age, as soon as mitosis is evidenced, there is an individual human lifetime up and running. <br /><br />Controversy over stem cell exploitation and cloning has a simple dividing line, if the reader applies the standard of ‘first, do no harm’ … meaning, ‘first, don’t harm one individual human being in order to treat another human being.’ This standard is at the heart of more than two thousand years of medical science. If coupled with a second notion, namely, ‘no individual or society has the right to own another individual human being’, it is easy to decide whether harvesting the body parts of early human individuals is ethical or not. It is also not so difficult to decide whether creating human-animal chimeras is ethical. <br /><br />No matter how strange may be the chimera created from injecting a human nucleus into a denucleated animal egg, that chimera is of the human genome, not the other animals genome . Such a perhaps grossly handicapped individual is no less an individual member of the human species.<br /><br />Consider the following string of questions: <br />Q - Is it permissible to purposely conceive a handicapped individual who will not be born (raised in a lab or living host), or if born will be unlikely to survive?<br />Q - Is it permissible to target purposely handicapped individuals for harvesting of body parts (the stem cells of such an embryo are in fact that individual’s body parts)?<br />Q - Is it permissible to conceive an individual then raise that individual in an artificial womb, in order to dissect him or her for useful tissue and organs used to treat other individuals?<br />Q - Is it permissible to abort alive unborn babies with the intention to harvest their useful body parts?<br />Q - Is it permissible to harvest tissues from babies who were naturally miscarried, not purposely aborted, or form individuals dead due to unintended consequences, such as an accident or heart attack?<br /><br />Applying the two fundamental principles of ‘first, do no harm’ and ‘no one may own another individual’, the only question that may have a ‘yes’ answer is the last one. It is the only category for which helping flows from not intentionally harming another.<br />Relying upon the above two notions as a measuring rod for ‘ethical’, let’s take a look at recent articles that discuss stem cells. <br /><br />Let us now look at three articles regarding stem cell work that would not be unethical according to our ‘measuring rod’:<br /> <br />{ UNR researcher's stem-cell work lauded / Elaine Goodman / Reno Gazette-Journal / October 22nd, 2001 [20]<br /><br />It sounds like a science fiction novel but researcher Esmail Zanjani’s experiments at the University of Nevada, Reno are real. Zanjani injects human stem cells into sheep fetuses. The sheep grow up to have human cells growing throughout their bodies. The proportion of human cells is small, and the sheep don’t show any outward human characteristics. The experiments could lead to ways to treat genetic diseases while a child is still in the womb. The research might also produce hybrid human-animal organs for transplant into humans, with less chance of rejection than a purely animal organ. And Zanjani’s sheep give researchers a unique way to study stem cell behavior.<br /><br />Most other stem cell research involves putting animal stem cells back in the same species of animal, or studying human stem cells in laboratory dishes. Zanjani’s work looks at how human stem cells behave inside an animal. “This is one of the best models that exists today,” said Dr. John Wagner, a stem cell researcher at the University of Minnesota. “It was a very helpful breakthrough. Wagner and other stem cell researchers across the country send Zanjani stem cells to test in his sheep. Before Zanjani’s sheep, stem cell researchers were limited to testing their cells in mice, Wagner said.<br /><br />So far, Zanjani has used human bone marrow or umbilical cord blood stem cells in his research. Those stem cells don’t involve the destruction of an embryo. Now that President Bush has lifted a ban on federal funding for embryonic stem cell research, Zanjani expects he’ll test those cells in his sheep, too. Zanjani said he’ll need to get approval from the National Institutes of Health, which funds much of his research, before he works on embryonic stem cells in his laboratory. “In a couple of years, we’ll know a lot more than we know now,” he said.<br /><br />Zanjani has worked with sheep since the 1960s. The 61-year-old scientist has a sheep poster and toy sheep throughout his cluttered office at the Veteran Affairs Medical Center in Reno. Zanjani tried working with goats for awhile, but that didn’t last long. “They ate my papers,” he said.<br /><br />A native of Iran, Zanjani earned his doctorate in experimental hematology at New York University and has been a professor in the University of Nevada School of Medicine in Reno since 1987. Sheep work well in Zanjani’s research because their development closely mirrors that of humans.<br /><br />Zanjani injects sheep fetuses with cells from human bone marrow or umbilical cord blood. The cells are injected before the animal’s immune system develops, so they’re not rejected as foreign. Zanjani studies the sheep after they are born and grown up to see whether the human cells survive. Usually, human cells can be detected throughout the animal’s body. Zanjani is hoping his research will lead to procedures to cure genetic diseases while a child is still in the womb.<br /><br />Stem cells have been implanted into human fetuses to correct genetic immunodeficiency. Further study could lead to treatment in the womb of other genetic diseases, such as sickle cell anemia, Zanjani said.<br /> <br />But scientists still have much to learn about stem cells. For example, umbilical cord stem cells have been used to successfully treat leukemia. But the amount of cord blood is so small, researchers are looking for ways to multiply the cells in the laboratory before injecting them into patients. “The more stem cells you give, the better the outcome (for the patient),” said Wagner of the University of Minnesota.<br /><br />Researchers need to know if the stem cells grown in the lab work as well as the ones straight from the umbilical cord. Zanjani’s sheep system lets scientists such as Wagner treat stem cells in different ways and test them in a living animal.<br /><br />Another possible application of Zanjani’s work is xenotransplantation, the transfer of an animal organ into a human. For example, doctors might be able to remove stem cells from a patient with liver disease, inject them into a fetal pig and transplant the newly grown pig-human liver into the patient. The hybrid liver, with human cells matching the patient’s genes, would have less chance of rejection than a purely animal organ. “It would certainly be better than giving them a pig liver with no human portion,” Zanjani said. While some researchers sing the praises of embryonic stem cells and their potential to become any cell type in the body, Zanjani prefers the umbilical cord cells. He calls embryonic stem cells “untamed beasts.”<br /><br />Unless treated in a special way, the embryonic cells will grow unchecked when injected into an animal’s body, essentially becoming cancer cells, Zanjani said. “Embryonic stem cells cannot be used as they are,” Zanjani said. “You have to instruct them to do something.” Yet Zanjani is pleased that President Bush decided to lift the ban on federal funding for embryonic stem cell research. <br /><br />Only by studying the different types of stem cells will scientists be able to determine which ones have the most potential, Zanjani said. But Zanjani hopes that lifting the ban on federal funding for embryonic stem cell research won’t drain money from studies on other types of stem cells. “It will be a major, major shame if they divert a large portion of the funds to one at the expense of the other,” he said. <br />* * * <br />Blood could generate body repair kit / 19:00 26 November 03 / Andy Coghlan for Newscientist.com [21] <br /><br />A small company in London, UK, claims to have developed a technique that overturns scientific dogma and could revolutionise medicine. It says it can turn ordinary blood into cells capable of regenerating damaged or diseased tissues. This could transform the treatment of everything from heart disease to Parkinson's. <br /><br />If the company, TriStem, really can do what it says, there would be no need to bother with conventional stem cells, currently one of the hottest fields of research. But its astounding claims have been met with bemusement and disbelief by mainstream researchers. <br /><br />TriStem has been claiming for years that it can take a half a litre of anyone's blood, extract the white blood cells and make them revert to a "stem-cell-like" state within hours. The cells can be turned into beating heart cells for mending hearts, nerve cells for restoring brains and so on. <br /><br />The company has now finally provided proof that at least some of its claims might be true. In collaboration with independent researchers in the US, the company has used its technique to turn white blood cells into the blood-generating stem cells found in bone marrow. <br /><br />When injected into mice, these cells migrated to the bone marrow and generated nearly all the different types of human blood cells, the team will report in the January edition of Current Medical Research and Opinion (vol 20, p 87), a peer-reviewed journal. <br />Proof required <br />"I would be extremely sceptical of these findings and would need more proof," says stem cell expert Evan Snyder of the Burnham Institute in La Jolla, California, whose response is typical of many scientists New Scientist contacted.<br /><br />"I was extremely sceptical," says team member Tim McCaffrey, a cardiovascular researcher at George Washington University in Washington DC, who was asked to evaluate TriStem's claims. "They did it in front of my eyes with my own blood," he says. "It's stunning."<br /><br />Even if replacing bone marrow is all TriStem's method can achieve, it is still significant. Tens of thousands of people need bone marrow transplants each year. In some cases, doctors already extract stem cells from the blood instead of transplanting bone marrow itself. A donor is given growth factors that make their marrow stem cells proliferate and spill over into the blood, but the procedure takes several days. TriStem's method might make it possible to obtain vast numbers of blood stem cells in a fraction of the time. "What's radical is the speed and ease with which it works," McCaffrey says. <br />Much, much more<br />But the company claims it can do much, much more. Ilham Abuljadayel, the founder of TriStem, says that by adapting standard culturing methods she has managed to turn white blood cells into heart, nerve, bone, cartilage, smooth muscle, liver and pancreatic cells. TriStem has not yet published results proving all these claims. Since the company has worked only with human cells, it cannot perform what is regarded as the "gold standard" test of stem cells' versatility: inserting them into an embryo to show they can form all the different tissues. But if TriStem's method really can produce a wide range of cells, its potential is huge.<br /><br />For starters, it would avoid the ethical issues associated with embryonic stem cells, the most versatile kind of stem cell. TriStem's method would also make it easy to treat individuals with their own cells, avoiding any problems with immune rejection. The only way to obtain ESCs that match a patient's own tissues would be therapeutic cloning, yet to be achieved with human cells. The adult stem cells found in various tissues in the body could also solve both these problems. But there is still much debate about their versatility, and even if some are capable of forming just about any cell type, they are scarce. Extracting and multiplying them is difficult and time-consuming. <br /><br />In addition, TriStem's claims challenge the scientific dogma that specialised cells cannot revert back to an unspecialised state or be converted from one type to another. Other groups also claim that they can "transdifferentiate" cells (New Scientist print edition, 12 October 2002). But none can do so as swiftly and easily as TriStem .<br />Killer antibody<br />Its "miracle" hinges on an antibody manufactured by DakoCytomation of Denmark that is normally used to detect abnormal brain cells. In the early 1990s, while working as a consultant immunologist, Abuljadayel tried to use the antibody to kill leukaemia cells. <br />Instead of dying, the cells altered form and flourished. Abuljadayel says the antibody binds to a receptor on the cell surface. But how the antibody triggers "retrodifferentiation", if indeed it does, remains to be established. To avoid arguments about whether the cells produced are genuine stem cells, she calls them "stem-cell-like cells". Abuljadayel applied for a patent on retrodifferentiation in 1994, and in 1999 founded TriStem with the help of her husband, Ghazi Dhoot, then an investment banker.<br /><br />The company has long struggled to convince mainstream scientists that its system works. <br />Like TriStem, McCaffrey encourages sceptics to try the procedure themselves before condemning it. "I don't think there's voodoo involved, but until a number of people do it, other scientists have every right to be cautious," he says. <br /><br />For many researchers, alarm bells ring loudest over the failure of TriStem to get such groundbreaking results published in a leading journal. They also ask why Abuljadayel has had no permanent academic position. <br />Gross mortality<br />Then there is the question of whether TriStem really has achieved retrodifferentiation. Alexander Medvinsky at the Institute of Stem Cell Research in Edinburgh thinks the antibody might simply kill ordinary white blood cells, leaving stem cells behind. But McCaffrey rejects this, saying that tests show the white blood cells remain alive. "There is no gross mortality, and the numbers surviving are of the order of 90 to 95 per cent." <br />Not all researchers are as sceptical. "The results reported here are impressive," says Bob Lanza, chief scientific officer of Advanced Cell Technology of Massachusetts. "If successfully repeated, this process could have broad clinical potential."<br /><br />TriStem is sufficiently confident that its method works to start human trials. Earlier in November it received permission to carry out a clinical trial of its technology for creating stem cells from blood. Senior government research collaborators in the country hosting the trial have asked for the location to be kept secret for now. The method will be used to treat a dozen patients with aplastic anaemia, a condition in which people have a severe lack of bone marrow. Abuljadayel plans to treat the patients with blood stem cells derived from tissue-matched donors. "Within a week, we should find if the cells have taken," she says, adding that any improvements in the patients' condition should be immediately noticeable.<br />* * * <br /><br />Ultimate stem cell discovered / 19:00 23 January 02 / Sylvia Pagán Westphal, Boston, for Newscientist.com [22] <br /><br />A stem cell has been found in adults that can turn into every single tissue in the body. It might turn out to be the most important cell ever discovered.<br /> <br />Until now, only stem cells from early embryos were thought to have such properties. If the finding is confirmed, it will mean cells from your own body could one day be turned into all sorts of perfectly matched replacement tissues and even organs. If so, there would be no need to resort to therapeutic cloning - cloning people to get matching stem cells from the resulting embryos. Nor would you have to genetically engineer embryonic stem cells (ESCs) to create a "one cell fits all" line that does not trigger immune rejection. The discovery of such versatile adult stem cells will also fan the debate about whether embryonic stem cell research is justified.<br /><br />"The work is very exciting," says Ihor Lemischka of Princeton University. "They can differentiate into pretty much everything that an embryonic stem cell can differentiate into." <br />Remarkable findings<br />The cells were found in the bone marrow of adults by Catherine Verfaillie at the University of Minnesota. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof, and though the team has so far published little, a patent application seen by New Scientist shows the team has carried out extensive experiments. These confirm that the cells - dubbed multipotent adult progenitor cells, or MAPCs [pronounced ‘map seas’] - have the same potential as ESCs. "It's very dramatic, the kinds of observations [Verfaillie] is reporting," says Irving Weissman of Stanford University. "The findings, if reproducible, are remarkable."<br /><br />At least two other labs claim to have found similar cells in mice, and one biotech company, MorphoGen Pharmaceuticals of San Diego, says it has found them in skin and muscle as well as human bone marrow. But Verfaillie's team appears to be the first to carry out the key experiments needed to back up the claim that these adult stem cells are as versatile as ESCs.<br /><br />Verfaillie extracted the MAPCs from the bone marrow of mice, rats and humans in a series of stages. Cells that do not carry certain surface markers, or do not grow under certain conditions, are gradually eliminated, leaving a population rich in MAPCs. Verfaillie says her lab has reliably isolated the cells from about 70 per cent of the 100 or so human volunteers who donated marrow samples. <br />Indefinite growth <br />The cells seem to grow indefinitely in culture, like ESCs. Some cell lines have been growing for almost two years and have kept their characteristics, with no signs of ageing, she says.<br /><br />Given the right conditions, MAPCs can turn into a myriad of tissue types: muscle, cartilage, bone, liver and different types of neurons and brain cells. Crucially, using a technique called retroviral marking, Verfaillie has shown that the descendants of a single cell can turn into all these different cell types - a key experiment in proving that MAPCs are truly versatile. Also, Verfaillie's group has done the tests that are perhaps the gold standard in assessing a cell's plasticity. She placed single MAPCs from mice into very early mouse embryos, when they are just a ball of cells. Analyses of mice born after the experiment reveal that a single MAPC can contribute to all the body's tissues. <br />MAPCs have many of the properties of ESCs, but they are not identical. Unlike ESCs, for example, they do not seem to form cancerous masses if you inject them into adults. This would obviously be highly desirable if confirmed. "The data looks very good, it's very hard to find any flaws," says Lemischka. But it still has to be independently confirmed by other groups, he adds. <br />Fundamental questions<br />Meanwhile, there are some fundamental questions that must be answered, experts say. One is whether MAPCs really form functioning cells. Stem cells that differentiate may express markers characteristic of many different cell types, says Freda Miller of McGill University. But simply detecting markers for, say, neural tissue does not prove that a stem cell really has become a working neuron.<br /><br />Verfaillie's findings also raise questions about the nature of stem cells. Her team thinks that MAPCs are rare cells present in the bone marrow that can be fished out through a series of enriching steps. But others think the selection process actually creates the MAPCs. "I don't think there is 'a cell' that is lurking there that can do this. I think that Catherine has found a way to produce a cell that can behave this way," says Neil Theise of New York University Medical School. } <br /><br />In the first article, Dr. Zanjani mentioned President Bush lifting the ban on federally funded embryonic stem cell research. The research for which federal funding will be available involves embryonic stem cell lines created prior to the President’s ruling. His ruling establishes controls that prevent federal funding to create new cell lines, thereby banning federal funding for future embryocide.<br /><br />In the second and third articles, the ‘gold standard’ is mentioned, by which stem cells are tested for their placticity. In the third article, the MAPCs were isolated from mice and injected into mice embryos, proving their ability to differentiate into the actual tissues and organs of the mouse. In the second article, the ‘gold standard’ would not be applied. <br />Since the blood-generated stem cells were from human blood, testing on human subjects is happening already, because the blood-born cells are isolated from the patient into whom the cells will be re-injected—remember ‘autologous’?<br /><br />Now, let’s take a look at an article reporting efforts at ‘therapeutic cloning’ that doesn’t measure up to our standard axioms, our ethics measuring rod:<br /> <br />{ The First Human Cloned Embryo / November 24, 2001 / Scientific American<br />by Jose B. Cibelli, Robert P. Lanza, and Michael D. West, with Carol Ezzell [23] <br />“THEY WERE SUCH TINY DOTS, YET THEY HELD SUCH immense promise. After months of trying, on October 13, 2001, we came into our laboratory at Advanced Cell Technology to see under the microscope what we’d been striving for—little balls of dividing cells not even visible to the naked eye. <br />… <br />With a little luck, we hoped to coax the early embryos to divide into hollow spheres of 100 or so cells called blastocysts. We intended to isolate human stem cells from the blastocysts to serve as the starter stock for growing replacement nerve, muscle and other tissues that might one day be used to treat patients with a variety of diseases. Unfortunately, only one of the embryos progressed to the six-cell stage, at which point it stopped dividing. <br />…<br />WE LAUNCHED OUR ATTEMPT to create a cloned human embryo in early 2001. We began by consulting our ethics advisory board, a panel of independent ethicists, lawyers, fertility specialists and counselors that we had assembled …” } <br /><br />The scientists in that article consulted with an ethics advisory panel of their choosing, before jumping into ‘therapeutic cloning’. The panel gave their okay, knowing fully what was intended. The article goes on to describe how women were recruited to willingly provide anonymous donor oocytes, how skin cells from anonymous donors were used for the DNA source to inject into the denucleated oocytes, how the researchers turned to trying parthenogenesis when their SCNT efforts failed to create more than a six-celled embryo. [Perhaps it means nothing, but this particular human cloning experiment began in earnest, July of 2001.] The parthenogenic effort yielded what appeared to be human embryos at the blastocyst stage, but they lacked an inner cell mass from which to harvest stem cells.<br /><br />One can take the scientists at their word, that they were trying this manipulation of early human life in order to discover sources for tissues that could be used to treat the maladies of our fellow sojourners. They mean well, but their means to this therapy are an affront to the sanctity of individual human lives, tiny lives these scientists sought to bring into existence along a lifetime however shortened, as sources for body parts to treat older individual humans.<br /><br />Will it stop with failure after failure? Well, to quote the closing sentences of the article, “Meanwhile we are continuing our therapeutic cloning experiments to generate cloned or parthenogenetically produced human embryos that will yield stem cells. Scientists have only begun to tap this important resource.” And THAT is why We The People need to talk, America. We need to talk amongst ourselves and talk to our elected representatives.<br />Every human being alive today started their individual life at the time of their conception, and they continue along an individual journey in their body until someone ends it or natural event ends it ... individual human life begins at conception. Whether it happens in a woman’s fallopian tube or a well-lit laboratory, conception is the start of at least one individual lifetime. Harvesting stem cells from human embryos or fetuses, to be used for treating or searching for treatments for the illnesses of older individual human beings, is no less cannibalism than if the patient were served extracted embryonic stem cells on chocolates, for a cure. <br /><br /><strong>CONCLUSION </strong><br /><br />In the introduction, we raised the issue of ‘slippery slope’. This issue has also arisen during discussions and debates by The President’s Council on Bioethics, regarding embryonic stem cell exploitation and cloning. To formulate conclusions regarding these bio-technological issues, we will do well to heed the subtle alarm raised by Dr. Charles Krauthammer, a member of the committee for The President’s Council.<br /><br />April 25, 2002, during a session discussing ethics of cloning in biomedical research, Dr. Krauthammer made the following important observations regarding one of the other panel member’s plea that the nation allow science to ‘roll’, to explore all avenues of human cellular development, harvesting stem cells from any human embryos, whether derived from ‘leftover’ IVF clinic procedures or created anew with cloning technology. The Chairman of the committee, Dr. Leon Kass, had listed four categories of opinion regarding the research and the status of the human embryo: the first being total disregard for the human embryo, granting that life no more significance than a glob of cells, and four being total regard for the human embryo as a member of equal value to any other human individual because the human embryo is a living member of the human race. The text may be found beginning on page 17 of the transcript for the afternoon session [24] ( HYPERLINK "http://bioethicsprint.bioethics.gov/transcripts/apro2/apr25session4.html"): <br />DR. KRAUTHAMMER: “Mike [Michael S. Gazzaniga, Ph.D., another of the members on the panel] says and I think if I have the quote correctly, those not trained in science don't understand that what we need to do is let science roll.<br /><br />Well, we let science roll in the 20th century. We got eugenics. We got the Tuskegee experiment. [The Tuskegee experiment was an unethical study of a sexually transmitted disease, where black persons in particular, presenting with the disease, were studied rather than treated, as a means to understand how the disease effects the human nervous system and human anatomy and physiology. The study was extremely dehumanizing for the persons presenting with the disease and in fact ‘sacrificed’ the infected individuals as a means to study the particulars.] We had such horrors in mid-century that we needed the Nuremburg Code [following revelation of medical atrocities, experiments on imprisoned human subjects, committed during the Nazi’s reign over Germany and Europe].<br /> <br />Humanity hadn't had to write it before, but it had to write it after. So I'm a little skeptical about letting science roll. Scientists are one of the great resources in any society. They do the science, but they don't own the science. And the reason that we're here is because we don't have a guild system in this society, we have a democracy. We don't say to automakers you know how to make cars, therefore you will determine what safety standards will be in cars. No, it's the non-experts, it's the lawyers and the Congress who decide what are going to be the safety requirements in cars and that is imposed on the experts who make the cars and that's how we do it in a democracy and that's why we have this council to advise the President and the country on what restrictions might or might not be applied on what is undoubtedly a wonderful enterprise. <br /><br />But we don't have a guild system in which all the rules are made internally, not in a democracy.<br /><br />The reason I'm against research cloning is not because of the reasons underlying position 4 which is somehow attributing a worth to the blastocyst equal or at least comparable to that of a human, but out of a prudential consideration as to what happens if we don't. [Here comes the ‘slippery slope’ …] <br />The first slippery slope and I think an argument that in and of itself would be enough for a person to oppose research of cloning is that I think there can't be any doubt that if we sanction an industry -- and it will become an industry -- for the creation of cloned embryos, it is absolutely inevitable that we will begin to see those embryos implanted and we will have the moral horror of having a cloned embryo in gestation which under penalty of law would have to be destroyed and that is a moral certainty that I think is intolerable. But as I wrote in my piece in The New Republic [Dr. Krauthammer is perhaps better known for his formidable journalistic talents …], that is a little bit too easy. I think it would be reason enough to prudentially oppose research cloning, but let's assume, put it aside. I think there are other reasons and the reasons are that once you start on this, once you start rolling along this road, it will lead us to places where I think that we don't want to go. I may be wrong, obviously nobody knows exactly how we will end up or where this will take us, but I think a prudent society needs to make choices based on past history and some understanding of human nature.<br /><br />The problem, Daniel [Daniel W. Foster, M.D., another member of the panel], is not that the research might fail. The danger is that it might succeed wonderfully and we will then have scientists say as we just heard, give me three more weeks with this embryo. Why not have a fetus where the organs are developed and use them for transplantation rather than have a Rube Goldberg system of growing it into a blastocyst, teasing out stem cells, tweaking them into developing into cell lines? Why not let nature produce with that wonderful machine a fetus and let's strip it apart for its parts? Most of us would say today that is unconscionable. Well, I suspect that if we live in a society where we do this kind of stuff at an earlier level, for a decade or two or three, it will be less unconscionable.<br /><br />In the end, I think the major issue here is that we are crossing a new barrier with research cloning and that is the creation of embryos solely for their use and I'm afraid that once you do that and we create an industry in which this will be the business of that industry, embryo creation, that we will so desensitize ourselves to the use or misuse of this entity that we will end up doing things that we don't want to do and don't want a society to do.<br /><br />I think that prudential argument is one on which we can argue about well, what are the likelihoods of these things happening, but I think we ought to be realistic, that once you start on that road, we will be, as a society, far less able to resist the temptations that today seem obvious that we ought to resist, but tomorrow, probably won't.”<br /><br />CHAIRMAN KASS: “Jim Wilson?”<br /><br />DR. WILSON (James Q. Wilson, Ph.D.): “I've listened for years to Charles and read Charles for years without, I think, disagreeing with a single word he's uttered until today. And my problem is with the slippery slope argument. The slippery slope argument which we hear much of in the literature although it's rarely defined, is kind of a warning sign that's put up on a highway, don't go any further or unknown bad things will happen to you. But rarely is it carried out to show that if you walk past that sign, these unknown, soon-to-be-named bad things will, in fact, happen to you. The slippery slope argument here does have a name as what's going to happen to us if we permit the use of somatic cell transfer for the purposes of creating clones for biomedical research. It is inevitable that we will soon have cloning to make babies and perhaps cloning to produce from fetal organs parts to be used by human beings and after that God knows, perhaps organs taken from babies.” <br />…<br />“Now you might be able to say that sliding down that slope is inevitable in the case of cloning because there will be such a huge financial demand for the benefits of cloning that any form of cloning, however benign in original intention, will lead to the worse forms of cloning to satisfy that demand. But from all the scientific testimony I've heard so far, there isn't this huge financial demand and there isn't because nobody has found yet the exact techniques that competent, but ordinary physicians can use to cure these diseases, so that I want us to back away from the prudential or this particular prudential argument because I don't think it's correct unless Charles is in a position to show that the slope is so slippery, so covered with banana oil, that one step past the warning line we have now drawn on the pavement will bring us down into chaos.”<br /><br />DR. KRAUTHAMMER: “Well, let me give you a recent and empirical example of that slope. The country had a debate on stem cells about a year ago [2001] and the major argument by the proponents of stem cell research –and I was one of them—was that we are using discarded embryos, everybody understood that, and we were going to bring a benefit from something that would otherwise bring no good. The understanding was, in fact, Senator Frist made the presentation on the floor of the Senate and he established conditions under which he would support stem cell research, the regulations that we ought to institute in support of that research and among them he listed very emphatically that the research would not be done with embryos created for the purpose of using for stem cells. That was what he said.<br /><br />Now and here we are a year later and we're arguing over a technique of cloning which can only be done in a manner in which an embryo is created in order to destroy [it]. So within a year, what we have is the ground shifting on this debate on precisely a point that a year ago we had been assured would be excluded by regulation and by law.” <br />Dr. Krauthammer has represented the slippery slope most effectively! Those in favor of exploiting ‘extra’ embryos at IVF clinics and in favor of cloning new embryonic lives as nothing more than globs of cells are understandably against the argument, but the entire matter revolves around ‘what is the embryo’? As we return to the transcript, please note how the moral perspective of each panel member frames their perception of the human embryo, and how they go to great lengths to avoid expressing their actual perspective on the embryo, to instead focus upon the uses for this human life:<br /><br />CHAIRMAN KASS: “Janet [Dr. Janet Rowley], did you want to comment?” <br /><br />DR. ROWLEY (Janet D. Rowley, M.D., D.Sc): … “I would like to respond to the discussion that Leon framed as we began this session and my points of view are certainly influenced substantially by my view that we are really, we have the potential of being on the threshold of some major biological discoveries that will be of enormous importance, but I qualify that with the same statement I made when we began this discussion in January, that this is a hope and at the present time we have no idea as to how much that hope will actually be successful and that was reiterated and confirmed again by both speakers this morning, that these are very, very, very early days and the promise that many of us see in this kind of research may -- I think it's not fair to say that the promise will not be realized, but I think that it is fair to say that the promise may take a very long time. And I just want to point out that we began the war on cancer in 1970 with the notion that it was all going to be over in 10 or 20 years and we're far from it. We're far from it because we're dealing with very complex systems in cells about which we are woefully ignorant, but I think the part of the research that will be permitted by going ahead with cloning and some of the aspects of experiments with somatic nuclear cell transfer will enlighten us so much that we'll be able to see better how to expand on these in the future. And I would only echo our morning speakers by saying that I think that to ban this kind of research which has the potential for therapy would be a great tragedy.”<br /><br />CHAIRMAN KASS: “Michael Sandel?”<br /><br />PROF. SANDEL (Michael J. Sandel, D.Phil.): “I just wanted to pick up on the last small uncharacteristic slip Charles where he slipped back into the polemical action description to use Professor Outka's phrase of what cloning for biomedical research is. I thought following Paul's and Leon's corrective which Outka accepted, we agreed that there are two possible action descriptions for both of these practices. By both, I mean creation of embryos for reproductive purposes and creation of embryos for purposes of medical research, a charitable description and an uncharitable one. The charitable description in each case describes the action in terms of the end it's aimed at. So in the case of embryos created for reproduction we point by the description to the end. Likewise, in the case of cloning for biomedical research, the end there is the creation of an embryo for the sake of promoting the curing of disease. There is an uncharitable description available equally to both and if we want to compare them, compare the moral status of these practices, we should use either the charitable descriptions of each or the uncharitable descriptions of each. The uncharitable descriptions in each case doesn't refer to the end being aimed at, but instead to the foreseeable, though undesirable effect.<br /><br />So it would be fair to say that with Charles and with Outka's paper that in the case of creating an embryo for the sake of biomedical research to describe that as creating an embryo in order to destroy it, but only in the same sense that we should describe creation of embryos for reproduction purposes as the creation of embryos in order to discard the inevitable extras that will accompany the practice of IVF. So both activities admit of charitable and uncharitable descriptions and if we're going to compare their moral status, we should compare them either under one description, the things they aim at or under the other description, the foreseeable, but undesirable side effects that accompany both.”<br /><br />DR. KRAUTHAMMER: “Michael, I'm surprised that you also made an uncharacteristic slip when you said the inevitable destruction of the embryos in IVF because you know, as I know, we could, in principle, establish an IVF clinic tomorrow in which you assign only a single embryo to a woman. So you would thereby have a process of IVF where you have no inevitable, indeed, indeed no discarded embryos.<br /><br />On the other hand, in cloning, it is absolutely inevitable that that embryo, because it will be disassembled, will be destroyed.” <br /><br />PROF. SANDEL: “Well, if the practice of creating embryos for reproductive purposes involved no spares, no extras, then it would have a different moral status and character from the practice we currently have.” <br /><br />Please note that Professor Sandel affirms in oblique fashion a notion we’ve touched on, that ‘the end use for the individual embryo will be allowed to define the nature of that individual life and the moral status of the practiced utilization of that individual life!’ Such a perspective shows how dehumanizing beliefs regarding the embryonic life totally dominate the utilitarian perspective. Dr. Kass put this in perspective for his ‘ethics’ panel: <br />CHAIRMAN KASS: “The slippery slope, to call something a slippery slope argument is already to put it in a category where you can abstract it and then say you like those arguments or you don't. Rather, it seems to me, it's worth thinking about, not in general in the light of other examples, but to think about it in the context of the particular thing we are talking about.<br /><br />I think I might have said once before that the reason that arguments about continuity of action are so appropriate in the area that we are here talking about is because development is itself a continuum and the value of the thing being developed, never mind morally, but biologically, increases with development and if it should turn out that tissues down the road are really more valuable for the treatment of the same patients we now want, the argument that's now being made for doing it will be very hard to resist.<br /> <br />The real essence of the slippery slope argument is not a prediction, an empirical prediction. It is a question of the logic of justification and it's very important how you somehow justify what you're doing here because if, as in this area, the continuity of development and the continuity of research offers such great promise, you might, without even knowing it, be countenancing the next sort of stages and in the end you will wind up as Bertrand Russell said about pragmatism. ‘It's like a warm bath. It warms up so imperceptibly you don't know when to scream.’ … <br /><br />So, what IS the human embryo? Well, the staff working with the committee cited above did the grunt work, defining and establishing the limits with which the committee would work. Included at the end of this manuscript, in an appendix, is an authorized copy of a working paper the staff prepared regarding terminology. Upon reading the excellent descriptions by the staff regarding just what is the human embryo, one cannot explain why some members of the President’s Council on Bioethics continued to dehumanize the individual human embryo … unless it is solely an effort to support the desire to exploit these individual human lives suspended in IVF clinic freezers and created in well-lit laboratories via cloning technology, regardless of the moral or ethical status of the lives to be exploited. Before closing this manuscript, please visit the well-written explanation prepared by the Council Staff. It will serve as summary of the information covered in this manuscript, and clarify the ethical perspective one ought to use when contemplating the harvesting and cannibalizing of individual human lives at their embryo age.<br /><br />We will close with the opening remarks offered by Dr. Leon Kass, as he prepared the panel for discussion of the ‘Public Policy Options’ regarding human cloning [25] ( HYPERLINK "http://bioethicsprint.bioethics.gov/transcripts/jun02/june20session2.html") <br /><br />CHAIRMAN KASS: “Could we start to reassemble, please?<br /><br />All right. This is the Council's, believe it or not, human cloning session 11, public policy options, the first of two sessions on public policy in which with no absolutely firm boundaries between them, we want first to have a general discussion of the strengths and weaknesses of available policy options, and then especially in the afternoon gradually move toward the policy recommendations that we might put forward.<br /><br />I'd like to say a little bit by way of introduction to this because I think this is a difficult and vexing subject, but a very important one, and especially in the spirit of the conversation that we've just heard, one that is in some ways more important than the cloning issue itself.<br /><br />It's very hard to tell when one is in the middle of a historical situation what it really means and whether it has the kind of signal importance that some of us think it does. One would like to think not that we have the authority over this matter, but one would like to think that one would try to think about this matter in such a way that 15 or 20 years down the road one doesn't look back and say, you know, we treated something as trivial which turned out to be massively important," or conversely, we turned out to treat something which was really quite trivial as if it was of world historical significance.<br /><br />I mean, I have my own hunches about this. I don't know that they're shared, but I think it's at least important to be mindful of the question that this could be something very important.<br /><br />Cloning, if it works, as we have already seen, would be a new mode of human procreation, and it might also serve as a kind of precedent for selecting in advance the genetic make-up of children. So it is something in itself and something that belongs to something larger than itself.<br /><br />Cloning for biomedical research, if it works, is a powerful tool for understanding and treatment of human disease, but it also is an instance of the production of new embryonic life solely for use and necessary destruction.<br /><br />And if it were legislatively provided for, this would not be just permitted as it now is, but it would be officially endorsed by U.S. law. So that is something to be reckoned with.<br /><br />Also, this debate about cloning is a new instance of at least some tension in the longstanding, tacit, social contract between science and technology, society and politics, on the other. It is a social contract with a moral foundation, a foundation in which scientists and researchers are encouraged to pursue the truth, but in the service of the goods of the society that contract necessarily being stressed or tested, when the things that technology and science proposed to do or want to do might come in conflict, in fact, with the values or norms of the society.<br /><br />And ordinarily we, at least in this country, have allowed these things to go along without too much attention. This now comes to be a test not just about the question of cloning, but how this community will, in fact, deal with those questions when we have goods in conflict, and whether there can be democratic self-governance about these matters or whether there should be or can be democratic self-governance about these matters.<br /><br />So I want to suggest to you that although it looks like a small, little question, there are lots of things just in the penumbra of this that I think are quit important.<br /><br />Second, I think we've all seen why this is so hard. We have in our previous meetings taken up the questions of the ethical issues of cloning to produce children and the ethical issues of cloning for biomedical research independently of one another, and that makes perfectly good sense because the moral issues that are raised there are, indeed, quite different.<br /><br />And in fact, a sign that they're different is people can be opposed to the one and be in favor of the other, and people who might be opposed to both will differ as to which they think is worse.<br /><br />It might, therefore, seem sensible to disaggregate these two forms or these two uses of cloning and develop independent public policies for each, and I think if anybody has thought about this a little while sees that it's virtually impossible. It's very difficult, if not impossible, to do so.<br /><br />And the reason is simple. I'm just stating the obvious, but this is to at least make it clear why we are having such a hard time. The reason is simple because both of these activities of cloning begin in the same way with the initial act of cloning by somatic cell nuclear transfer that produces the cloned embryo, and therefore, it's difficult, perhaps impossible, to craft the policy that deals with one, but does not tacitly, and usually explicitly, affect the other.<br /><br />A thoroughgoing attempt to prevent cloning to produce children by banning the first step would obviously prevent cloning for biomedical research. An attempt to promote cloning by biomedical research might well have consequences for cloning to produce children. An attempt to prevent cloning to produce children at the step of the transfer of a cloned embryo to initiate a pregnancy would tacitly approve the creation of the cloned embryos for research.<br /><br />And imposing penalties on implantation while sanctioning creation, a policy that banned only transfer to the uterus, would then require that the cloned embryos be destroyed at risk of federal prosecution.<br /><br />So these things are, alas, mixed up together, and as the conversation has already showed, even if one tried to craft policy through statutory language, the difficulty of doing this is enormous. Let's say you wanted to make a particular act illegal. You have to precisely define what act is proscribed.<br /><br />And when I first started on this subject, I thought it very simple. It shall be unlawful to attempt to clone a human being. But it's simple to say and vexing to specify.<br /><br />The question that is contested is: what do you mean by a human being? Does it mean a child or adult, or does it also mean the human embryo as a human being understood at that stage of development?<br /><br />And the definition of cloning is, therefore, impossible to specify unless you've specified that in advance, and attempting to clone, if you want to say, "You shall not attempt to clone," that could either mean blocking somatic cell nuclear transfer itself or the transfer of the resulting cloned embryo to a woman..<br /><br />Now, there would be a way of disentangling these two things or at least having them separate if, in fact, it was done as the British, in fact, did it or as some of the other nations have done it, namely, they have a general policy on embryo research which governs everything or they have a general policy on assisted reproduction and embryo research.<br /><br />And then the cloning question fits in in some way. We don't have that, and that makes our situation here, I think, terribly difficult.<br /><br />Just a couple of other things and then I think we can move to the discussion. It's perfectly clear from the conversations we've had, especially on the ethics of cloning for biomedical research, that we have a clash of competing goods and interests, and it's also clear from the discussion bearing on the question is this research necessary.<br /><br />This notion of necessity came up in the previous discussion, and it is important to the moral analysis. There's a dispute even on that question because we do not have full knowledge about the science so that we proceed in this discussion as almost everybody does whenever they do public policy under the veil of ignorance, sometimes more, sometimes less, but always with the kind of uncertainty about the future.<br /><br />What that means is when one moves from the discussion of ethics where one could sit in one's armchair and construct one's hypotheses to the realm of policy, one really has to move from the realm of principle to the realm of prudence, which is not to say uninformed by the moral analysis, but can't simply be settled by it.<br /><br />And this means really thinking about the ends that we're seeking, thinking about selecting the fitting means always in the light of the circumstances, a very complicated task always, and especially when the best simply might be different from the best possible here and now. That might be the situation in which we find ourselves.<br /><br />And I would at least like to suggest that the ethical analysis that we've been engaged in is certainly pertinent here, but it has now to consider all kinds of other things that are related to the complexity of what happens if you actually try to give voice to your ethical intuitions at the level of public policy, given the difficulties of drafting, given the competing goods and the like.<br /><br />There is a question, I think, that will lurk beneath the surface of this discussion, which is who bears the burden of proof and persuasion in these kinds of matters. Is it the proponents who are proposing that we cross certain kinds of moral boundaries or is it the people who want to say no, when in a country, by and large, freedom is the rule? You have to do more than sort of say certain kinds of things might happen, but you have to show that they might likely happen and the costs to the common good are sufficiently great before you restrict people and even put them in jail.<br /><br />I mean, these are important things, I think, to keep in mind.<br /><br />Let me just introduce the specific proposals that we can consider. Then I would open the discussion either on the general matters and then gradually move to -- I'll go wherever you'd like, but we have, if you think about it, one has, thinking now just about human cloning, and we've got, let's say, Cloning 1 and Cloning 2. I mean cloning to produce children and cloning for biomedical research.<br /><br />There are two large categories, allow and forbid, and under each category, there are two possibilities: allow without regulation or allow with regulation; forbid for now, forbid permanently.” …<br /> <br />Someone will eventually write legislation to address these issues. Even if We The People do nothing, say nothing, and wait upon our elected representatives to offer some leadership, the essence of what we believe regarding individual human embryos will be stamped upon America for all History to inspect. I suspect we have historical lessons upon which to draw, if we will do so. Currently, in vitro fertilization methodology assumes that parents own the embryonic individual lives they bring into being. That perspective will be easily transferred to in vitro cloning creation of human embryos. But does a clinic or individual have the intrinsic right to own another individual human life? If these ethicists actually want our opinion, then America, We Need To Talk!<br />*** <br /><br /><strong>GLOSSARY</strong> <br /><br /><br />Allogeneic stem-cell transplantation – the transplantation of tissues from genetically different donors<br /> <br />Androgenesis – a term that one may encounter when reading articles on cloning and parthenogenesis; it refers to the forming of a 46-chromosome nuclear mass fusing the 23 chromosomes from two separate 23-chromosome male gametes (sperm), with the goal to create an embryo having two male parents (trust me, with the political environment of homosexuality issues, you will see this term if you’re paying attention; Advanced Cell Technologies and other labs are currently researching this ‘option’ for generating ‘therapeutic’ clones, and who knows, perhaps even alternate lifestyle families)<br /><br />Asexual reproduction – The term "asexual reproduction" means reproduction not initiated by the union of oocyte and sperm. [http://bioethicsprint.bioethics.gov/background/workpaper2.html] <br /><br />Autologous – meaning, from the same organism (see xenotransplant) <br />Biologically related children – Children are "biologically related" to the individuals who are the sources of their genetic endowment, in the case of sexual reproduction, to one man and one woman who are the sources of sperm and egg (the "biological" parents), in the case of cloning, to the source of the donor nucleus. [http://bioethicsprint.bioethics.gov/background/workpaper2.html] <br /><br />Blastocyst – An early stage in the development of mammalian embryos, when the embryo is a spherical body comprising an inner cell mass that will become the fetus and an outer ring of cells that will become part of the placenta. [http://bioethicsprint.bioethics.gov/background/workpaper2.html] <br /><br />Chromosomes – Structures inside the nucleus of a cell, made up of long pieces of DNA coated with specialized cell proteins, duplicated at each cell division (22 pairs plus two X if female; 22 pairs plus an X and a Y, if male). Chromosomes thus transmit the genes of the organism from one generation to the next (ex: sperm with 22 chromosomes plus a Y chromosome and an oocyte with 23 chromosomes—for a male to be conceived—make 23 pairs at reproductive fusion, thus 46 chromosomes). <br /><br />Cloning: <br />"Reproductive" cloning -- 1) Obtaining a human or animal egg cell and removing its DNA. 2) Inserting a nucleus or a cell from a donor human or animal in order to produce a reconstructed egg that is genetically very similar to the donor. 3) Implanting the reconstructed egg in a uterus and delivering the resulting baby or newborn animal. <br />"Research" cloning -- 1) Obtaining a human or animal egg cell and removing its DNA. 2) Inserting a nucleus or a cell from a donor human or animal to produce a reconstructed egg that is genetically very similar to the donor. 3a) In some cases, termed "therapeutic" cloning or "cell replacement through nuclear transfer" (CRNT), the next steps include growing the reconstructed egg to the 100-200 cell embryo (blastocyst) stage, then taking the embryo apart to isolate and preserve "individualized" stem cells for immediate or future use in cell transplantation therapies. 3b) In other cases, the next steps comprise various scientific experiments designed to better understand the earliest stages of human embryonic development. <br />Gene (molecular) cloning -- Using carrier pieces of DNA (called vectors) to isolate and characterize DNA segments coding for proteins. <br />Human cloning-- The term 'human cloning' means the asexual reproduction of a new human organism that is genetically virtually identical to an already existing, or previously existing, human being. Operationally, it is currently accomplished by introducing the nuclear material of a human somatic cell into an oocyte whose own nuclear material has been removed or inactivated, to produce a living organism -- at whatever stage of development -- that has a human (or predominantly human) genetic constitution. [http://bioethicsprint.bioethics.gov/background/workpaper2.html] <br /><br />DNA – In most organisms the genetic code is carried by very long molecules called deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA). These long duplex molecules are tightly packaged and form part of the genes, which in turn form the chromosomes. DNA molecules also run functions of mitochondrial grains within the cell cytoplasm. Information is transcribed from DNA to RNA, from which the information is then acted upon to from proteins (RNA, ribonucleic acid; in this instance a copying molecule and action molecule; the notion is like a stamp pad, where the original DNA molecule directs the image carved onto the stamp pad plate—the RNA—yet the DNA molecule remains out of the stamping action).<br />DNA is a polymer (a chemical compound formed from small molecules). In natural state, DNA exists as the form of a spiral or coiled spring, or perhaps more like a very long spiral-twisted ladder, with step treads that are paired reactive molecules binding across the gap between the side rails. [Excellent graphics available at HYPERLINK "http://www.ornl.gov/sci/techresources/Human_Genome/graphics/slides/images1.shtml"]<br /><br />There are four different base reactive molecules, thymine (T), adenine (A), cytosine (C) and guanine (G) (bound by chemical bond to make the treads in our ladder analogy), and the sequence in which they are arranged determines the genotype and characteristics of the organism. The bases can form complementary pairs (at one side of a single step in our long-ladder analogy), thymine binding with adenine and cytosine with guanine. The genetic code is formed by triplets of bases, called codons; each triplet encodes for an amino acid, the building blocks of proteins. <br />The human genome contains approximately 3X109 bases (that’s a three followed by 9 zeros, or three billion … a number so large, only Bill Gates and legislators could hope to comprehend it). Large sections of the DNA sequence are common to many organisms; some sequences are shared by related groups of organisms; small sections are unique to the individual. <br />Codons are ‘words’ of the DNA message, and the arrangement of words express the directions of form and function for the organism. [This description—with author asides—is based upon data presented by Dr Ruth McNerney, lecturer at the London School Of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine; Dr. McNerney has posted an excellent explanation of PCR, found at HYPERLINK "http://www.lshtm.ac.uk/pmbu/staff/rmcnerney/homepage/basicstext.html"] <br />Chemical DNA was first discovered in 1869, but its role in genetics was not proven until 1943. In 1953, James Watson and Francis HYPERLINK "http://www.britannica.com/needmore" Crick , using x-ray photographs created by Rosalind Franklin, determined the structure consisted of two matching chains of chemical bases wrapped around each other in a double helix. <br /><br />Egg – the roundish reproductive body produced by females of birds and reptiles, consisting of ovum and its complement of albumen, jelly, membranes, and egg case (shell, according to species; reptiles form a leathery shell, while birds form a harder shell) [Random House Dictionary Of The English Language, 2nd Ed.] <br /><br />Embryo – 1. An organism in the early stages of development. 2. In humans, the developing organism from conception until approximately the end of the second month; developing stages from this time to birth are commonly designated as fetal. [http://bioethicsprint.bioethics.gov/background/workpaper2.html] <br /><br />Epigenetic modification – Turning genes encoded by chromosomal DNA on and off during cell differentiation through changes in a) DNA methylation, b) the assembly of histone proteins into nucleosomes, and c) remodeling of chromosome-associated proteins such as linker histones. [http://bioethicsprint.bioethics.gov/background/workpaper2.html] <br /><br />Epigenetic reprogramming – The process of removing epigenetic modifications of chromosomal DNA, so that genes whose expression was turned off during embryonic development and cell differentiation become active again. Epigenetic reprogramming of the donor cell DNA is believed to be an essential process in generating live offspring through "reproductive" cloning using adult donor cells and nuclei.<br />[http://bioethicsprint.bioethics.gov/background/workpaper2.html] <br /><br />Fecundation – the same as fertilization; in his quoted texts, Dr. Jerome Lejeune used the word because his native language was French and the English term fertilization is ‘fecundation’ in the French vernacular <br /><br />Gametogenesis – the word refers to the maturing of germs cells (not bacteria germs, but human reproductive sex cells); the term ‘maturing’ is somewhat misleading since this process begins in the fetal age, with female gametes preparing for the far-off event of fertilization when they will so late in maturing shed half of their 46 chromosomes active during the ‘maturation’ process; male gametes accomplish the paring down from 46 to 23 chromosomes while still in the male body; for more, search out the word ‘meiosis’ in a good encyclopedia <br /><br />Gestation – the period of intrauterine fetal development (as noted in this manuscript, that ‘intrauterine’ realm will soon be achievable without the continuous life support from a mother’s body!) [Taber’s Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary, 11th Ed] <br /><br />MAPCs – (pronounced ‘map seas’) multipotent adult progenitor cells, perhaps the promethean stem cell of all adult stem cells, able to differentiate into nearly every tissue line of the human body <br /><br />Medulla – inner or central portion of an organ, in contrast to the outer portion or cortex [Taber’s Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary, 11th Ed] <br /><br />Methylation – a methyl molecule is formed with one carbon atom and three hydrogen atoms (written as CH3 in Chemistry); reactive potential is governed by how many ‘H’ atoms are attached to the ‘C’ atom; the word ‘methylation’ in the text refers to a hydrogen atom being replaced with a methyl molecule on a DNA portion, acting as a switch to ‘turn off’ (or ‘silence’, in Dr. Lejeune’s analogy of a magnetic tape and the music information) that portion of the DNA that was, prior to methylation, in the ‘on’ mode for chemical reactions<br /> <br />Mitosis – the action whereby a cell duplicates its chromosomal count and mitochondrial grains, then divides to form a duplicate of itself, literally making its twin (a clone) of itself; during gestation, the organism has cells duplicating, but becoming slightly more specialized as the organ systems are constructed, so the mitosis cascade during gestation is not exact duplication because developmental abilities are ‘turned off’ selectively as stem cells differentiate in their duplication (see methylation)<br /> <br />Organ – in biological terms, a grouping of tissues into a distinct structure, as a heart or kidney, that performs a specialized task [Random House Dictionary Of The English Language, 2nd Ed.] <br /><br />Organism – 1. a form of life composed of mutually interdependent parts that maintain various vital processes. 2. any life form considered as an entity [Random House Dictionary Of The English Language, 2nd Ed.] (Author’s added note: a being constructed from sub-units called organs, functioning as an integrated whole) <br /><br />Parthenogenesis – a form of reproduction in which the ovum (oocyte in humans, though it seems odd to refer to human parthenogenesis) develops into a new individual without fertilization <br /><br />PCR – polymerase chain reaction <br /><br />Placenta – in mammals, the placenta is the first organ built by the embryo, functioning to protect but also generate signals from the embryo to his or her surroundings, then as the placental organ develops, it acquires nourishment and ‘breathes’ for the embryo then the growing baby or babies; this organ for survival in the water world is cast off at birth into the air world <br /><br />Polymer – a chemical compound formed by union of small molecules and usually consisting of repeating structural units [The Merriam-Webster Dictionary © 1994] <br />Xenotransplant – an operation in which an organ or tissue is transferred from one animal to another of a different species. <br /><br /><strong>APPENDIX</strong> <br /><br />(http://bioethicsprint.bioethics.gov/background/workpaper5.html)<br />This staff working paper was discussed at the Council's HYPERLINK "http://bioethicsprint.bioethics.gov/transcripts/feb02/feb13session1.html" February 2002 meeting. It was prepared by staff solely to aid discussion, and does not represent the official views of the Council or of the United States Government. [26]<br />Staff Working Paper <br />On Terminology <br /><br />Introduction: The Importance of Careful Use of Names<br />There is a great deal of confusion about the terms used in discussing human cloning. There is honest disagreement about what names should be used, and there are also attempts to select and use terms in order to gain advantage for a particular moral or policy position. It is terribly important to try to be accurate and fair in the matter of language. Choice of names can decisively affect the way questions are posed, and hence how answers are given. Efforts to win the moral argument by Orwellian use of speech must be resisted. The issue is not a matter of semantics; it is a matter of trying to call things by their right names, of trying to fit speech to fact as best one can. We should not only stipulate the meanings we intend by our use of terms; we should also choose terms that most accurately convey the descriptive reality of the matter at hand. If this is well done, the moral argument can then proceed on the merits, without distortion by linguistic sloppiness or chicanery. <br /><br />Many of the terms that appear in the cloning debate are confusing or are used in a confused manner. There are difficulties concerning the terms that seek to name the activity or activities involved: cloning, asexual reproduction, reproductive cloning, research cloning, therapeutic cloning, somatic cell nuclear transfer (or nuclear transplantation), nuclear transfer for stem cell research, nuclear transfer for regenerative medicine. There are difficulties concerning the terms that seek to name the "product" or "products" of the activities: cell, activated cell, clump of cells, reconstituted (or reconstructed) egg, zygote, embryo, human embryo, blastocyst, potential human being, human being, clone, person. And there are difficulties concerning the terms that seek to describe the relation between the "product" and the person whose somatic cell nucleus was transferred to produce "it": genetic copy, replica, genetically virtually identical, non-contemporary twin, clone. <br /><br />Let us try to sort out the terms by beginning with the nature of the activity or the deed done in the activity of cloning. As a prelude to doing so, some general observations will be helpful. Although all aspects of an activity or action are relevant to understanding its full human meaning, when describing a deed we do well to distinguish WHAT it is from both HOW it is done and WHY it is done. The act itself (WHAT) may be accomplished by a variety of means or techniques (HOW), and it may be undertaken for a variety of motives or purposes (WHY). To be sure, there is disagreement about the degree to which the motives or purposes of the agent are to be reckoned in the description of the act itself. For example, do the different motives make an act of "mercy-killing" different AS AN ACT from murdering a person or killing a murderer or killing someone in self-defense? Or are they all equally acts of homicide (killing of a human being) whose MORAL meaning we can then proceed to debate, if we wish, by attending not only to the act itself but also to the agent's motive and purpose? (See Meilaender comment on "Distinguishing Motive and Intention.") Though we do not wish to beg this question, the very existence of this disagreement suggests that we do well not to ignore the naked act itself, since it may well have a meaning independent of what moved the agent. <br /><br />To illustrate: in vitro fertilization (IVF: the extra-corporeal -- in vitro = in glass -- merging of egg and sperm, creating a zygote that is the beginning stage of a new living being) is the WHAT. It is an act of "fertilization," of making fertile, of making the egg cell ready and able to develop into the human organism. This fertilization may be accomplished in at least two ways (HOW): by merely mixing egg and sperm, allowing the sperm to find and penetrate the egg, or by the technique of injecting individual sperm directly into the egg (a technique known as ICSI, intracytoplasmic sperm injection). And it may be done for the (proximate) purpose (WHY) of initiating a pregnancy, in turn for the (ultimate) purpose of providing a child for an infertile couple; or it may be done for the (proximate) purpose of providing living human embryos for basic research on normal and abnormal embryological development, in turn for the (ultimate) purposes of understanding human development or of discovering cures for diseases and producing tissues for regenerative medicine. Though the technique used or the purposes served may differ, in the crucial respect the act remains the same and bears a common intrinsic meaning: a human zygote, the first stage of a new human being, is intentionally produced outside the body with technical assistance.<br /><br />As it happens, this fact is more or less accurately reflected in the descriptive terminology used for IVF. Interestingly enough, unlike the situation with cloning, no one distinguishes between "reproductive IVF" and "therapeutic IVF" or "research IVF," naming the activity or deed after the motive or purpose of the agent. This may reflect the accidental fact that IVF was initiated solely (or mainly) by people who were interested in using it to produce live-born children for infertile couples; the research use of "spare" embryos created by IVF came only later. But it happens that this common name is also descriptively apt: the deed is fertilization of egg by sperm, creating a living human zygote, the first stage of the development of a new human being. <br /><br />It should be noted that, although we began by trying to describe the deed rather than the product of the deed, the two aspects merged necessarily. The meaning of the act of "fertilization" falls forward onto the nature of the "object" that fertilization creates: the fertilized egg or zygote or earliest embryo. HYPERLINK "http://bioethicsprint.bioethics.gov/background/workpaper5.html" \l "one" 1 (By contrast, there is nothing in the name of the technique, "intracytoplasmic sperm injection," that even hints at the immediate result or goal of the intended injection.) Similar attention to the nature of the product may turn out to be indispensable for a proper characterization of the activity of cloning.<br /><br />Cloning: Toward an Appropriate Terminology <br />Though much of the terminological confusion and controversy concerns the way to describe the different kinds of cloning practices that are envisioned, the term "cloning" itself is not without its own ambiguities. A "clone" (noun, from the Greek klon, "twig") refers to a group of genetically identical molecules, cells, or organisms descended from a single common ancestor, as well as to any one of the one or more individual organisms that have descended asexually from a common ancestor. "To clone" (verb) is to duplicate or create a genetic duplicate(s) of a molecule, cell, or individual organism. The replication of DNA fragments in the laboratory is called "DNA cloning." The propagation of single-cell lines in tissue culture is sometimes referred to as "cell cloning." Asexual propagations of bacteria or of plants by means of cuttings are instances of organismal cloning. Cloning of higher organisms is more complex: all cloning of vertebrate organisms must begin at the embryonic stages. Contrary to what some people imagine, cloning of amphibians or mammals (including human beings) is not the "Xeroxing" of an adult organism. <br /><br />In the sense relevant here, "cloning" is a mode of asexual reproduction (parthenogenesis is another), the creation of a new individual not by the chance union of egg and sperm (from female and male individuals, the parents), but the creation of a new individual by some form of replication of the genetic make-up of a single individual. (The essence of sexual reproduction is not bodily intercourse but the fusion of male and female germ cells; thus IVF, though it takes place outside the body, is-biologically speaking-a form of sexual reproduction.) The WHAT of cloning is the activity of producing a clone, an individual or group of individuals genetically the same as the precursor that is being "replicated." HYPERLINK "http://bioethicsprint.bioethics.gov/background/workpaper5.html" \l "two" 2 <br /><br />In much of the current public discussion, we encounter a distinction between "reproductive" cloning and "therapeutic" cloning. The distinction is based entirely on the differing goals (the WHY) of the cloners: in the first case, the goal is the production of a cloned baby, in the second case, the development of treatments for diseases (suffered not by the clone, but by others). Both these terms have been criticized by partisans of several sides of the debate, and for understandable reasons. <br /><br />Some object to the term "reproductive" cloning used as a term of distinction, because they argue that ALL cloning is reproductive: all cloning intends and issues in the creation of a living human embryo, a creature that is a new human being in the (its) earliest stage of development or "reproduction." (This is a descriptive, not a normative point; it does not necessarily imply that such a being is fully human or "one of us," hence deserving of the moral and social protection accorded "persons.") The fact that only some of these embryonic cloned humans are wanted for baby-making purposes does not, in the view of these critics, alter this fact about their being. <br /><br />Others object to the term "therapeutic" cloning for related reasons. The act of cloning may be undertaken with healing motives. But it is not itself an act of healing, nor does it issue in or effect a treatment or a cure (compare, in this respect, what used to be called "therapeutic abortion," an abortion undertaken in cases in which pregnancy was life-threatening to the pregnant woman and where abortion was therefore intended to save the woman's life). The prospective beneficiaries of any acts of cloning are, at the moment, purely hypothetical. And if medical treatments do eventually result, the embryonic clone produced in the process will never be the beneficiary of any therapy. On the contrary, this sort of cloning actually sacrifices the being that results from the act of cloning. <br /><br />To avoid the misleading implications of calling any cloning "therapeutic," we might prefer the term "research" cloning, again indicating the purpose of the activity. Yet others find fault with this replacement. Because it appears to be a deliberate substitution for "therapeutic" cloning, it seems to imply that the scientists have abandoned the pursuit of medical cure in favor of research (as an end in itself). Believing that creating embryos just for research would seem to be less justifiable than creating them with healing motives, these critics want to avoid the impression that scientists want to experiment on new life just to satisfy their curiosity. (The same argument applies with equal force against the term "experimental cloning.")<br /><br />Some proponents of "therapeutic" cloning-the use of quotation marks are intended only to indicate that there is dispute over whether this term is apt-also now complain about the term, but not about the adjective. Though they originally coined and used the term, they now want to shed the term "cloning," fearing that the opprobrium of the latter will weigh against the activity itself. Cloning, they insist, should be reserved for the activity that creates live-born cloned babies; it should not apply to the initial act that starts the process, which they would rather call "somatic cell nuclear transfer" or "nuclear transplantation." While not inaccurate, such a substitution is, as the sequel suggests, also problematic. <br /><br />To escape from the bad connotations of "cloning," and to stay closer to scientific terminology, scientists now seem to prefer the term human "somatic cell nuclear transfer" (SCNT) as the name for the activity they support. But accurate though it may be as a description of the technique that is used to produce the embryonic clone (HOW), it does not touch the nature of the deed itself (WHAT). The WHAT is "the creation of a living-human-zygote (or embryo) that is genetically virtually identical to the donor organism," a fact or meaning not captured in the name for the HOW, the transfer of a somatic cell nucleus (into an unfertilized egg whose own nucleus has been removed or inactivated). This reduction of act to its mechanism is roughly analogous to describing walking as "sequential alternate leg advancement" (SALA). In fact, it is not even as good as this, for, as a name, SCNT is not a fully accurate description even of the technique itself. Not only does it make no reference to the intended and direct result of the deed of nuclear transfer. It also omits mention of the fact that the recipient of the transferred nucleus is an EGG (rather than another kind of) cell, which then can be made to behave as if it were a zygote produced by fertilization. The further amendments, "somatic cell nuclear transfer for stem cell research" or "nuclear transplantation for regenerative medicine" only compound the difficulty, mixing in the purpose of the activity (WHY) with its technique (HOW), thus further obscuring the immediate meaning (the WHAT) of the act itself, the creation of a living human embryo of a certain type, i.e., cloned. <br /><br />There is a further difficulty with these expressions. All these descriptions of the activities that the scientists wish to pursue omit all reference not only to cloning but also to embryos (and human embryos). Indeed, some are insisting that the immediate product of somatic cell nuclear transfer is not an "embryo" but rather "an activated cell," and that the subsequent stages of development should not be called embryos but "clumps of cells" or "activated cells."<br /><br />Once again, we see how the meaning of the act, and hence its proper name and description, falls forward onto the nature of the product. We come then at the question of names from a consideration of the outcome.<br /><br />The initial product of SCNT is, to be sure, a cell. But it is no ordinary cell. It is a cell that resembles and can be made to act like a fertilized egg, a cell that not only has the full complement of chromosomes but, unlike a somatic cell, is capable of developing into a new organism. In other words, it is a zygote or a zygote-like being. It is, to be sure, not just a cell but an active cell, or, at least, it can be activated, say by electric shocking. But to name it "activated cell" is much too vague to describe the activity of which it is capable. For once stimulated, the activity of this "cell" produced by SCNT is nothing other than human embryological development, initiated and directed by the cell itself. The processes of cellular growth, chromosomal replication, cell division, and (ultimately) differentiation into the tissues and organs of the organism are coordinated processes under the governance of the immanent plan for such development encoded in the cell's genetic material. In other words, the "cell" is an organism in its germinal stage, and its activities are those of an integrated and self-developing whole.<br /><br />For the same reason, it is inaccurate to describe the next few stages of this developing being as "clumps of cells." Yes, there will be 2, then 4, then 8 cells "clumped" together, and the 100-200 cell spherical stage called the blastocyst may be externally described as a "ball of cells" or a "clump of cells." But this ball or clump is not just a heap or an aggregate; it is a primordial and unfolding whole that functions as a whole and that is in the process of developing into a mature whole being, if nothing interferes (and if it is implanted). It is, in short, an embryo. That it can be interfered with to prevent it from reaching that maturity does not alter our assessment of what it is, here and now, any more than the eating of a sprouting acorn by a squirrel denies that the acorn is a nascent or embryonic oak tree. <br /><br />The fact of the matter seems to be this: the product of somatic cell nuclear transfer is a living (one-celled) human embryo. The immediate intention of transferring the nucleus is precisely to produce just such a being: one that is alive (rather than non-living), one that is human (rather than non-human or animal), and one that is an embryo, a developing being capable of unfolding into an articulated organismic whole (rather than just a somatic cell capable only of replication into more of the same cell type). This is the intended product of SCNT, whether the motive or purpose is baby-making with the embryo or scientific research to be conducted on the embryo. Also, the blastocyst that develops from this one-celled embryo will be the same being, whether it is then transferred to a woman's uterus to begin a pregnancy or it is used as a source of stem cells for research and possible therapy for others. <br /><br />The name "SCNT" also omits one further, crucial, and indeed essential aspect of this activity and this product. The human embryo thus produced will be a clone: a genetic copy (rather, a near copy) of the individual that was the source of the transferred nucleus, hence an embryonic clone of the donor. There is, to be sure, much discussion about how close the genetic relation is between donor and embryonic clone, and what that bodes for the phenotypic identity of the clone. The environment in which the donor came to be and lives surely differs from the one in which the cloned embryo may develop (if it does develop). There may be imprinting differences in gene expression early on that may affect the degree of genetic identity. There is also the matter of the mitochondrial genes, some 13 or so genes out of a total of some 30,000, which are inherited from the female source of the egg (the clone would be genetically identical only in those cases in which the same woman donated both egg and somatic cell nucleus, to produce an embryonic clone of herself). Yet the goal in this process is in fact an embryo or child that is genetically virtually identical to the donor; otherwise there would be no reason to create the embryo by SCNT rather than by ordinary IVF. <br /><br />This analysis leads to the following conclusion regarding the terms most descriptive of the facts of the matter: <br /><br />WHAT: The term "human cloning" means the asexual production of a new human organism-at whatever stage of development-that is genetically virtually identical to an already existing or previously existing human being.<br /><br />HOW: It is currently accomplished by introducing the nuclear material of a human somatic cell into an oocyte whose own nucleus has been removed or inactivated, to produce a living organism that has a human genetic constitution virtually identical to the donor of the somatic cell.<br /><br />WHY: This same activity may be undertaken for purposes of baby-making or for purposes of scientific and medical investigation and use. <br /><br />Human "reproductive" cloning and human "therapeutic"/"research" cloning should now be understood to mean the following: <br /><br />1. "Reproductive" cloning: Creation of a living cloned human embryo, produced for the (proximate) purpose of initiating a pregnancy that will issue in a child who will be a genetic (near-)twin of a previously existing individual, with the ultimate goal of satisfying one or another parental desire to have such a child. <br /><br />2. "Therapeutic"/"Research" cloning: Creation of a living cloned human embryo, produced for the (proximate) purpose of using it in research or for extracting its stem cells, with the ultimate goals of gaining scientific knowledge of normal and abnormal development and of developing cures for human diseases. <br /><br />What Does This Mean for the Council's Work? <br />Where does this linguistic analysis leave us? One possibility is to adopt the dominant terminology ("reproductive" and "therapeutic" or "research"), given that we have little hope of changing the current usage. We could make perfectly clear what these terms mean in our hands, so that there will be no ambiguity. At the same time, our analysis might serve to chasten people regarding the power and pitfalls of the terminology, including the ones we are adopting. The analysis would also alert people to the danger of euphemism and misleading speech. <br /><br />A second possibility is to attempt a better way of describing these matters, perhaps even coining some new terms. No one should underestimate the difficulty of the task, or exaggerate the chances that our terms, even if better, could gain currency. But the invitation is open to anyone who would like to make a proposal. <br /> <br /><br />1. Though not needed for present purposes, a more careful analysis of the WHAT of this activity would distinguish between the activity itself and the product that results from it. Unlike non-productive activities, for example dancing ("How can we know the dancer from the dance?"), the work (activity) of making and producing issues in separable objects or works (products). Although shoemaking completes itself in the production of a shoe, the shoe as RESULT is distinct from the ACTIVITY of shoemaking. Similarly, though fertilization is an activity that is intelligible only as issuing in a fertilized egg, the now-fertile egg as RESULT or PRODUCT stands apart from the deed of IVF. <br /><br />2. Although cloning, like fertilization, is responsible for bringing forth a new organism, the activities are named in very different ways, yet in each case emphasizing the inner intention of the activity. "Fertilization" describes the activity in terms of the capacitation of the egg, as a result of which development begins. "Cloning" describes the activity in terms of the relation between the progenitor and the product. In cloning by somatic cell nuclear transfer, the egg, though it is activated as if it were fertilized, is not cloned; cloned rather is the donor from whom the nucleus was taken; and the resulting organism (at all stages of development) is a clone of the donor. The name of the activity, "cloning," even more than "in vitro fertilization," refers to the product of the activity, an identical (or near-identical) thing. <br /><br /><strong>BIBLIOGRAPHY</strong><br /><br />1. Francesco Fiondella, “Cat Copied,” Discover (January 2003) p 56 <br />2. Jerome Lejeune, “The Nature of Man,” Nature (March 2002) v 29; number 1 [www.womb.org/omrrca/bulletin/vol29/no1/Nature.pdf] <br />3. Dianne M. Irving, MA., Ph.D; copyright 1999; “When Do Human Beings Begin?” [www.l4l.org/library/myhtfact.html] <br />4. Jerome Lejeune; Testimony; Municiapal Court of New Jersey – Law division, Morris County criminal action docket no. c1771, et seq. 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President’s Council on Bioethics; January 16, 2003; Session 1 [http://www.bioethics.gov/transcripts/jan03/open1.html]<br /> PAGE <br /><br /> PAGE 81 -Galloway-America, We Need To TalkM Gallowayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15076485084500021853noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1271101993122934886.post-55874833469316859112010-04-27T21:18:00.001-07:002010-04-27T21:22:29.924-07:00Time to get down to the nitty gritty. America is being transformed into a European socilaist nation, no longer a Republic. We the people are now ruled by a federal oligarchy which is seeking to collapse the freedom we have and replace our sovereignty with a federal oligarchy dictating life in America.<p><br /><br />Please, readers, take the time to watch the linked material. America is dying right before our eyes!<br /><br /><strong>LINK:</strong> http://apathetic-usa.com/M Gallowayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15076485084500021853noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1271101993122934886.post-34122216959377059302009-11-24T10:01:00.000-08:002009-11-24T10:28:02.217-08:00The Soon-to-arrive 'Big Machine'By now, many have concluded that the current administration is being used to crash the American economy. They didn't start the crash, but they will be finishing it. The debt load is so large now that our taxes only pay the interest to the privately held federal reserve banks who funnel it to others like the Chicoms holding our notes. The questions become: what is the purpose of this destruction; what is the goal of this managed destruction?<p><br /><br />It is evident that the Obama/Democrat controlled government is radically leftist. The people now destroying the American economy and thus the Constitutional Republic are far more radical than their inspirations such as Francis Piven or even Saul Alinsky. It is also becoming more apparent that these radical leftists are not occupying their positions of their own efforts ... these radical 'progressives' have been funded and directed by some other force. I believe the clues point inexorably toward a banking force so large that it is outside the consciousness of the average person.<p><br /><br />Bush allowed Bernanke and Paulson (the Fed Reserve principles in the Bush administration, who have now insured Goldmen-Sachs a member of the system) to aim the nation's monetary system in the direction of consolidation through focused liquidation. The Obama administration followed up with focused takeovers of financially vulnerable auto companies which unions had made brittle to the point of insolvency. With these two points --the banking protection and government control of auto companies-- I think we were given the first major clues to the banking interests behind the current purposeful destruction of the American economy.<p><br /><br />Cap and Trade was designed to take control of the means to produce energy and the means to tax the consumption of energy. The obamacare leg is designed to give the government the means to control every aspect of life related to health, including the food industry and the commercial dispensing of healthcare. With the federal foot in the door, anything which can be construed to impact health will be then regulated/controlled by the federal oligarchy, which means the banking interests, ultimately.<p><br /><br />A misdirection game is being played out before our eyes. This new machine is based upon old European social democracy now updated to make democratic process subservient to dictatorial oligarchy of the banking powers, via the political processes shammed up to look like democratic process. While we are focused upon the extreme radicals of the Obama administration and Obama himself, the real machine being constructed by the banking powers is sliding into place, world-wide.<p><br /><br />You might ask, 'So, how do the banking powers get back control over the world systems once the radical commies have destroyed the capital market system? ... If the radicals bring down America and end the potential of American might being used to enforce transition of the world to a controlled central authority, how do the banking powers wring control away from these radicals?'<p><br /><br />The answer is as simple as managed chaos, and as complex as world governance. Radical destroyers can never govern. Once the control by one system is murdered, some other system of organization must be instituted in order for the world to run on time once again. Once the American economy is bankrupted beyond recovery (and we are extremely close to that point now; with Obamacare the economic impact will be the last straw finally breaking the system down over a five to eight year period), the new 'world economic system' will be the skeleton around which the new order from chaos will be established.<p><br /><br />So, the machine being built is much larger than merely the destroyer of the American economy. Even the insidious Obama commie regime will crumble before this larger machine. The machine is a world banking system/world governing board controlled by a select few who are now holding all the asset deposit receptacles. The unions and election cheating systems are merely the tools this larger monster machine is using. If it has escaped your notice, Andy Stern and Wade Rathke are expanding SEIU and ACORN world-wide. Europe has already succumb to the complete usurpation of individual liberty. The 300,000,000 American rebels are the last obstacle to this new world order.<p><br /><br />If you're asking how the Chicoms can be reigned in to allow this new world order to take complete control, consider whose debt they now carry to any negotiation of world economic system! If you wonder what the effect of the Islamofascists will be, ultimately, they can be nothing more than a dissonance to be squelched with sufficient destructive force. <p><br /><br />It is tiny Israel which stands as the most obstinate bump in the New World Order road. And even they can be manipulated to do the bidding of the larger force because Israel will fight to prevent their total annihilation, which works right into the squelching of Islam, eventually, turning Islamic governors into the willing allies of the NWO. The people of Islam are the toothy sheep of demonic manipulation. The income doling 'princes' are the real power in Islam.<p><br /><br />I wonder what the name of the world currency will be? ... Quatloos perhaps? ;^)M Gallowayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15076485084500021853noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1271101993122934886.post-86734835416544363422009-09-25T10:28:00.000-07:002009-10-15T20:23:24.511-07:00Indoctrination Anyone?Imagine what is being done without parental notification if this little video happened to surface in liberal New Jersey! And this is part of what Obama and his marxist administration had planned to accompany the personal touch of Obama speaking to all students on a specified day ... <br /><br /><STRONG><a href=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zrsl8o4ZPo>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zrsl8o4ZPo</a></STRONG><br /><br /><br />* * *<br /><br />Update 10/15/09<br /><br />Well, that's so fascist typical of Youtube, to yank the video off their files because it reveals too much of the Obama-marxist goals for our children. Censorship is a nasty word to liberals, when someone tries to squelch porn so it doesn't infect the minds of children. But let a truthful video of leftist agenda infecting children with faux green philosophy/propaganda be posted and the fascists at Youtube rush in to squelch that! ... Yes, the above link no longer works.M Gallowayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15076485084500021853noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1271101993122934886.post-2226696079937831912009-09-02T11:44:00.001-07:002009-09-02T13:27:34.624-07:00Why Is Barry Telecasting Himself To All School Children on September 8th? ... LimelightChildren aged twelve to sixteen are only a few short years from being the largest voting constituency for not only Obama in 2012 but his avowed commie, Van Jones-inspired Apollo Alliance socialist/fascist dream nation. <br /><br />When excon, black nationalist turned outspoken communist Jones dreamed up a welding of social justice, green movement, and unions into an alliance for radical change of Amerika, he knew well that the children must be indoctrinated to be the foundation of making these societal engineering changes permanent else adults will quickly reject the dole based feckless nanny state. <br /><br />William Ayers, being a close friend and associate of Barry Obama—much more than just a past terrorists fellow traveler with Wade Rathke of the same Weather Underground—it is the method of indoctrination of children through the federally controlled school system that is a specialty of Ayers (he even traveled to Venezuela to assist in arranging such an excellent system). So the Pres_ _ent cannot but step into the limelight of the ongoing programming of children in social justice and green issues, to marshal their worship and solidify the indoctrination with complete cooperation of the National Education Association union members! All three legs of Van JOnes's Apollo Alliance for societal engineering are represented in that bargain. <br /><br />When Barry Soetoro, aka Barry Obama, aka Hussein on the Potomac, said five days before the election in 2008 that radical change was coming to America, he meant what he said, and his radicals now ensconced in White House czaristas should leave no one wondering which way his change is directed. We are to become a better version of Chavez's Venezuela, if Barak and his henchradicals can manage it. With the silence of American parents, he will do just that! <br /><br />* * * <br /><br />For those with children in public schools, here is an outline copy of what every school has been sent, to align the public schools with the agenda of the telecast. <br /><br /><STRONG>Before the Speech:</STRONG> <br /><br />·Teachers can build background knowledge about the President of the United States and his speech by reading books about presidents and Barack Obama and motivate students by asking the following questions: Who is the President of the United States? What do you think it takes to be President? To whom do you think the President is going to be speaking? <STRONG>Why do you think he wants to speak to you?</STRONG> What do you think he will say to you? <br />· Teachers can ask students to imagine being the President delivering a speech to all of the students in the United States. What would you tell students? What can students do to help in our schools? Teachers can chart ideas about what they would say. <br />· Why is it important that we listen to the President and other elected officials, like the mayor, senators, members of congress, or the governor? Why is what they say important? <br /><br /><STRONG>During the Speech:</STRONG> <br /><br />·As the President speaks, teachers can ask students to write down key ideas or phrases that are important or personally meaningful. Students could use a note-taking graphic organizer such as a Cluster Web, or students could record their thoughts on sticky notes. Younger children can draw pictures and write as appropriate. As students listen to the speech, they could think about the following: <STRONG>What is the President trying to tell me?</STRONG> What is the President asking me to do? What new ideas and actions is the President challenging me to think about? <br />· Students can record important parts of the speech where the President is asking them to do something. Students might think about: What specific job is he asking me to do? Is he asking anything of anyone else? Teachers? Principals? Parents? The American people? <br />· Students can record any questions they have while he is speaking and then discuss them after the speech. Younger children may need to dictate their questions. <br /><br /><STRONG>After the Speech:</STRONG> <br /><br />· Teachers could ask students to share the ideas they recorded, exchange sticky notes or stick notes on a butcher paper poster in the classroom to discuss main ideas from the speech, i.e. citizenship, personal responsibility, civic duty. <br />· Students could discuss their responses to the following questions: What do you think the President wants us to do? Does the speech make you want to do anything? Are we able to do what President Obama is asking of us? What would you like to tell the President? <br />· Teachers could encourage students to participate in the Department of Education?s ?I Am What I Learn? video contest. On September 8th the Department will invite K-12 students to submit a video no longer than 2 min, explaining why education is important and how their education will help them achieve their dreams. Teachers are welcome to incorporate the same or a similar video project into an assignment. More details will be released via www.ed.gov . <br /><br /><STRONG>Extension of the Speech:</STRONG> <br /><br />Teachers can extend learning by having students <br />· Create posters of their goals. Posters could be formatted in quadrants or puzzle pieces or trails marked with the labels: personal, academic, community, country. Each area could be labeled with three steps for achieving goals in those areas. It might make sense to focus on personal and academic so community and country goals come more readily. <br />· Write letters to themselves about what they can do to help the president. These would be collected and redistributed at an appropriate later date by the teacher to make students accountable to their goals. <br />· Write goals on colored index cards or precut designs to post around the classroom. <br />· Interview and share about their goals with one another to create a supportive community. Participate in School wide incentive programs or contests for students who achieve their goals. <br />· Write about their goals in a variety of genres, i.e. poems, songs, personal essays. <br />· Create artistic projects based on the themes of their goals. <br />· Graph student progress toward goals. <br /><br /><STRONG>Folks, this is way beyond a man inserting himself for hero worship. This is no less than the planned, refined indoctrination of America's children, to enlist them in the 'change' Obama has brought to Amerika with his radical czarist regime. National Socialism is raising it's very bloody, deadly head in America. It is being birthed through an unholy alliance of 'social justice', the green movement, and unions, currently the brainchild of one very radical and dangerous man, Van Jones. But this dangerous change to America is not an overnight phenomena, it has been fomenting through the public education system, colleges and universities for deacdes. It is just that a dyed in the wool avowed communist and his Pres_ _ent now have the Democrat Party empowerment to finsih U.S. off, finally.</STRONG>M Gallowayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15076485084500021853noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1271101993122934886.post-10026520943068783102009-08-27T18:20:00.000-07:002009-10-15T16:15:59.167-07:00The Old Republic is Falling to Fascist/Communist Coup de TatIn answer to several people at FreeRepublic claiming the '60 million gunowners' are the check to the Obama imbalance, I wrote the following on the discussion thread we have every day for watchers of Glenn Beck's FOX program. I don' t think I'm all that far off the mark here. Tyranny from totalitarians is what we are witnessing being built in America.<br /><br /> <br /><br />[[ For those who have put so much faith in the so far lawful weaponry we possess, let's take a look at how the commies and fascists will work their magic, this time. Remember please, they have the lessons learned in Germany, Russia, and Venezuela. We are perhaps confused because these usurpers are using communistic as well as fascist tactics.<br /><br /> <br /><br />The Americorp/Obamacorp approach will indoctrinate millions and millions of youth and willing elders into the cult of the obama-nation. These inductees will be paid and put to work on make work projects and feel good tasks. <br /><br />Eventually, the Americorp alums will be so sold on the cult that they will be the pacification influence tool put to work in communities. <br /><br /> <br /><br />First, they will be called to talk, then get in your face if you disagree with the 'wave sweeping the wounded nation'. Eventually, most folks will buckle under the pressure from insistent voices and the growing scarcity of food and fuel. <br /><br />Finally, a well observed body of elites will be taken aside to form the numbers of an armed protector force, 'to stop violence in struggling communities'. Massive unemployment aids the fascist process because households are over-stressed, and eventual scarcities always result from massive unemployment! More people are moved onto the rolls of government dependents.<br /><br /> <br /><br />This process is the wedding of Communism, Fascism, and societal engineering. Right now, there are literally millions who are speaking out against the communistic takeover of the healthcare industry. But right now we are well fed and housed and have gas to drive to townhall meetings and still get to the grocery, work, and church. We hardly even raised our voices as the banking industry was nationalized, and two major car companies were brought under obama rule in fascist fashion, and control handed to the unions. <br /><br /> <br /><br />As the Obama nation takes more fascist control over industries buckling under threats, the federal oligarchy will hold the U.S. in a strangling grip with which to stifle dissent, cower the moderates, and starve the unfaithful to the Obama wave. Eventually, after a few of U.S. scattered across the nation take up arms and resist the fascist bastards, even those guns will be silenced by the trained 'peacekeepers' sent to make life safer for those in compliance with dictates from the lord high obama and his fascist czars/advisers. And make no mistake, when the shooting starts, there will be tens of thousadns of volunteers in service to the obamessiah new America. <br /><br /> <br /><br />What the blustering do not understand is, the process will not happen in such a way as to allow a clear line of demarcation. Communities will be fractured by an onslaught of propaganda from the enemy fifth column media (once called the fourth estate), by debates allowed to happen under ever increasing scarcities, and by community organizing 'to hold on while the hard times pass'. <br /><br /> <br /><br />The massing of tens or hundreds of armed resisters will not happen in the populated centers because the vast majority of dependent sheeple will be led to see resisting the obama nation as a threat to their personal and family survival. These sheeple will be the willing allies in pointing out whom is the kink in the cogs. Some of U.S. will die with William Wallace's battle cry on our lips, and find true freedom. The vast majority will whimper and cry to be protected by the organized community and it's elite forces. <br /><br /> <br /><br />The Fascist of today may have hate to spare in their hearts, but they are not stupid, and their conquering of Amerika and sweeping away of the Old Republic will hear mostly 'feed us' rather than free us. ]]M Gallowayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15076485084500021853noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1271101993122934886.post-815967052791635132009-08-24T10:01:00.000-07:002009-08-24T10:04:49.624-07:00BARACK OBAMA’S AND THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY’S CHANGE FOR AMERICA, THE HOPE AND DREAMS OF RADICAL ACTIVISTS EVERYWHEREFrom where have these thousand page plus bills sprung onto the American scene in so short a time? From the minds of ‘progressives’, ‘social activists’, and ’enlightened social engineers’ not even in political office prior to Obama taking control! Literally, within hours after Congress went into session in 2009, Congressional committees were issuing lengthy bills being rushed through for passage into law. Congressman Obey, whose committee issued the Stimulus Package, couldn’t have conceived of such a lengthy socialist oriented bill in so short a time. He took the framework from already designed change oriented progressives not even in government, but rather in activist organizations seeking to change America, FAST. The dirty little secret perhaps missed by not reading the entire bill before voting on it is that the Stimulus Package contained billions in funding for these ‘progressive’ organizations, much of which will flow through front organizations of parent orgs who have joined in an alliance to change America!<br /><br />As Barack Obama rose to prominence in 2008, rising with him was an agenda represented as a three-legged stool conceived as the brain child of Van Jones, now green jobs czar. But several of the czars answering only to the White House are sent up from the legs of this change oriented alliance stool, like Brian Deese, who worked for John Podesta and was appointed to fashion the ‘cash for clunkers’ government dole debacle designed to keep union jobs solvent by moving union made cars off of storage lots. This three-legged stool is named ‘The Apollo Alliance’ and the legs are unions, the green movement, and ‘social justice‘.<br /><br />The unions include SEIU, the AFL-CIO, and the United Steelworkers, to name three. The green movement includes Sierra Club, Green Peace, and League of Conservative Voters, to name only three. The ‘social justice’ leg includes ACORN, ‘black farmers’, and the Ella Baker Center, to name three, yet ACORN is literally more than a hundred front organizations funneling taxpayer monies back to radical weatherman Wade Rathke‘s brain child.<br /><br />It was the goal of Van Jones to integrate these three ‘change oriented’ fronts to achieve a rapid and complete transformation of America, by combining the assets of these general movements under one directive, the Apollo Alliance project. [ Van Jones was an avowed black nationalist serving time in prison when he became an avowed communist. He is now serving Obama’s administration as the green jobs czar. ]<br /><br />ACORN was founded by weatherman Wade Rathke, who was subsequently on the board of the Tides Foundation, which funded and gave credence to the Apollo Alliance. SEIU’s current VP, Gerald Hudson, is on the Apollo Board. John Podesta, president of the Soros funded Center For American Progress, is on the Apollo Board. Phil Angelides, once treasury secretary for the bankrupt California government is on the Apollo Board. In fact, if one looks at the board members of the Apollo Alliance, it is peopled by radicals and change oriented activists who have functioned in leadership roles for activist groups.<br /><br />If you are not familiar with a social methodology know euphemistically as the Cloward-Piven Strategy, it would be good to take a long look at that methodology for changing America. Basically, the strategy embraces overloading services funded by the federal government in order to crash the system and sweep away the powers that be, to be replaced by ‘social justice’ mongers, the green movement, and various social change orgs like unions. Manufactured crisis is the hallmark of the Cloward-Piven strategy. Does Rahm Emanuel’s crisis quote come to mind? It should! To activist leadership, a crisis should never be allowed to go to waste.<br /><br />That Cloward-Piven strategy to crash the system of federal funded programs, combined with a fascist approach to taking over control of major aspects of the American economy is what the Obama Administration is all about. The evidence is now overwhelming that such is the goal. The people writing the agenda for their brand of federal government are in fact right out of the Apollo Alliance and subsidiary orgs such as ACORN, SEIU. And Green Peace. Harry Reid even thanked the Apollo Alliance for helping to write the Stimulus bill, and the TARP bill oozed from a similar source.<br /><br />First came nationalizing of the private banking system, reacting to a major financial crisis which threatened to close banks with too many calls on their assets, at nearly $600 billion before the calls were shut down. The source of those calls has yet to be made public, if anyone actually knows beyond the goons making the calls on assets. The plea was that if the fed did not inject nearly a trillion dollars immediately and seize the major banks (Goldman Saks and its competitors), the world-wide system would be crashed and all credit would seize up, stopping commerce world-wide. <br /><br />While Bush was still in office, the first injection and seizure occurred. Then, when Obama came into power, the nationalizing of private banking industry was enacted, with Goldman Saks at the top because of Paulson’s influence. [ Hank Paulson was the past President of Goldman Saks, before becoming Bush’s Treasury Secretary.] As a sprinkling of infused cash was paid back, the monies were not paid back to the taxpayers, they were instead re-directed to other banking ‘needs’, in countries like Germany!<br /><br />The next phase was to pass a cap and tax bill, which was the green movement’s leg of the Apollo Alliance equivalent of seizing the means for energy production and use in America. This action, if passed finally into law, will in fascist fashion give complete control of energy in America to the federal oligarchy Obama is fashioning. And 85% of the projected collections from energy producers and users has already been promised to constituent organizations rather than the federal tax coffers!<br /><br />The next phase was to seize major portions of the American auto industry, in service to the union leg of the fascist Apollo Alliance stool. Oddly, Ford Motor Company declined the ‘offer’ and has remained solvent. Control of the auto industry reaches deeply into any industrial function associated to auto production, such as steel production, and will give the federal oligarchy power over every industry where unions can force their way in via the ‘balloting’ which unions may use to strong-arm non-union workers, effectively giving power to threaten any industry with union shutdown if their demands are not met. With the nationalizing of GM and Chrysler, we are witnessing the Obama administration service to a second leg of the Apollo stool, the unions.<br /><br />The next phase is to take over the broad institution of healthcare in America, by demonizing the insurance industry and seizing the payment methodology for reimbursing physicians and medical institutions, while running the insurance industry out of business over the next ten years. [ The health-care industry is the largest employer in the U.S. It produces almost 17 percent of the nation’s gross domestic product. ]<br /><br /> As a means to institute ‘social justice’, taking over the healthcare industry will extend government forced medical care to illegals and welfare dolees at the expense of degrading the fundamental care, efficiency, and soundness of our current <strong>doctor run </strong>healthcare system. Federal oligarchs will make treatment decisions, dictate whom will receive what level of treatment, and control the means of housing and caring for all ages of American citizens. Death panels are but a small aspect of such fascist controls, and the means to formulate such panels was actually tacked on at the end of the Stimulus Bill already passed into law. Regions now seen as ‘red’ will be strong-armed into following the oligarch’s system or be denied payments and upgrades until they comply and follow the federal ‘mandates’. <br /><br />Healthcare systems without entrepreneurial incentive see research in medicines and treatment advancements grind to a halt. Government run Healthcare will perniciously degrade the American healthcare system which is now hallmarked by innovation and technological discovery. Under total government control, focus will switch quickly from Doctor-Patient perspective, to bureaucrat-patient-doctor … the doctor could become less than a current physician’s assistant, relegated to merely following the guidelines dictated by federal oligarchs. With the new system, the federal bureaucracy will dictate ‘care‘ and terminations of same.<br /><br />So, from whence came the healthcare bill now slogging through discussion at town halls and congressional backrooms? Whom designed this monster being spun, twisted, and lied about in the fifth column enemedia, in service to the Obama administration? <br /><br />Well, since we know the TARP and Stimulus bills had major input from Apollo Alliance, it’s a sure bet that the healthcare bill is also the product of radical thinkers. And we need look no further than John Holdren, Jacob Hacker, and Tom Daschle to see the origins of a monster fascistic usurpation now claimed by congressional deadheads. Jacob Hacker was the ‘health industry’ adviser to the Edwards, Obama, and Clinton campaigns in 2008. John Holdren is the current science czar int eh White House, and he has openly advocated for population controls as the means to stop global degradation of the environment. He does not recognize a newborn as fully a human beings until perhaps socialization has begun! Retired Senator Tom Daschle has been pushing healthcare ‘reform’ as a lobbyist for years. Given his experience during the Clinton years, it was his advice to Obama that healthcare reform be passed quickly, before the public could discover the vagaries and debate begun in earnest over the issues. <br /><br />The healthcare reform alliance is yet another brainchild of progressives who really don’t like the America we recognize, so they are hard at work changing it, sweeping away the Old Constitutional Republic, to be replaced by a federal oligarchy perhaps already too powerful to stop. We The People are being transmogrified--to borrow a term from Calvin & Hobbes--into subjects of a federal oligarchy, conceived by the Democratic Party as a benevolent despot empowered through burdensome taxation, tasked with controlling every social institution upon which individual existence depends.<br /><br /><strong>Welcome to Obama’s Amerika, comrade. Progressives will take care of you and your offspring … from government approved birth to federally mandated burial.</strong>M Gallowayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15076485084500021853noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1271101993122934886.post-87616261924401761072009-08-15T11:26:00.000-07:002009-08-15T13:14:29.518-07:00What's In A Name?Who knows where or even when Barack Hussein Obama was born? We can't even be assured that his name is in fact legally Barack Hussein Obama! <br /><br />The phony exhibit shown on the Internet via Factcheck.org., Daily KOS, and Obama's own campaign website was claimed to be a photocopy of an Hawaiian Certification of Live Birth for one Barack Hussein Obama, natality August 4, 1961. But that document was proven to be a complete fabrication built from many layers of photoshop material, and the Vital Records department in Hawaii has stated that they did not issue a CoLB for Obama in June 2007 (that's the date bleeding through from the reverse side of the forgery, a forgery which had no raised stamp, also; later exhibits showed the raised stamp)! The first exhibit, the obvious forgery, has been scrubbed from the Internet, although it is cached at several safe locations not accessible to Factcheck and Daily Kos, awaiting court scrutiny if a suit ever makes it to the discovery phase.<br /><br />Was this 'greater than Allah' liar-in-chief born somewhere else and his grandmother registered him in Hawaii, so he could be an American citizen through the very slack Hawaiian birth registry system which didn't even require more than someone applying for a BC without any proof except the sworn statement from the applicant seeking registry for the child?<br /><br />Was the name on the first registry Barry Dunham, with 'father un-named'?<br /><br />Since no marriage license has ever surfaced for Stanley Ann Dunham and Barak Obama, even with a divorce decree from 1964, there is no proof that Barack Hussein Obama, pres_ _ent, is in fact the actual biological son of Barak Obama, Kenyan.<br /><br />Barack Obama might have been born in Kenya, in 1961, or even in Canada in 1961, and even in Hawaii in 1961. Without documents from credible sources the American people are being treated to the middle finger from Barry Obama (Barry Obama was one of the names he used in High School and college), as if we the people have no right to require an affirmative action applicant provide proof dictated by the law that is the Constitution!<br /><br />In reply to Barry Obama's <em>'Screw you, America, I'm not divulging my past to you peons</em>', I'm going to offer a little lesson in applied reasoning based upon known facts from Barry's lie, er, I mean life.<br /><br />First, some conjecture: if the child born to Stanley Ann Dunham did not have a father listed upon first registry in Hawaii, we may accept that when Barak Obama-Kenyan allowed himself to be successfully sued for divorce in 1964, he allowed the name Barack Hussein Obama to be registered in Hawaii for the child, even if he, Barak Obama-Kenyan, was not the biological father. So, we may now move on to what is not conjecture.<br /><br />A few years after receiving a court divorce from Barak Obama (that is the way the Kenyan spelled his own name), Stanley Ann married one Lolo Soetoro, Indonesian. The wedding happened in Hawaii, but a marriage cert for that event has not yet surfaced. Shortly after or at the time of marrying Stanley Ann, Lolo formally adopted little Barack, in Hawaii, and named him officially Barry Soetoro, passing Indonesian citizenship to the little guy. <br /><br />Within a few months Lolo was off to Indonesia and then points further away, doing his job for a petroleum company. Stanley Ann followed him to Indonesia within a few more months, bringing Barry along. Barry Soetoro went to school in Indonesia. That's where he learned to recite so perfectly the call to Islamic prayer. <br /><br />Stanley Ann was officially an Indonesian via her marriage to Lolo Soetoro, so she likely traveled to Indonesia with her son Barry using Indonesian passports ... contrary to lies circulating on the Internet, even a child of four was required to have a passport/Visa to travel into Indonesia from Hawaii.<br /><br />Within a few years, Lolo was no longer residing permanently with Stanley Ann, even though they had conceived a daughter named Maya. Stanley sent Barry back to Hawaii at age ten to live with his grandfather Stanley Dunham and grandmother Madelyn (Toot). Barry Soetoro entered the States on his Indonesian passport at age ten. We can be confident of that because he remained the adopted son of Lolo, named Barry Soetoro-Indonesian, until Stanley divorced Lolo in 1980.<br /><br />Fast forward to 1979, June. Barry Obama (yes, he was using that name, though there is absolutely no indication that a formal name change had occurred in a court) graduates from an Hawaiian High School and in August of 1979 enters Occidental College in California, still legally named Barry Soetoro, though it is not clear whether he was allowed to enter Occi as Barry Obama without providing proof credentials for that name. <strong>BUT, he could have passed himself off as Barry Obama by showing some document from Hawaiian vital records <em>dated to before he was adopted formally by Lolo Soetoro</em>!</strong><br /><br />In 1980, Stanley Ann files in Hawaii for divorce from Lolo Soetoro who is already playing house with a different woman back in Indonesia. In her pleading to the court, Stanley Ann cites <strong>TWO</strong> children of the marriage whom Lolo is legally responsible to support, a minor child, Maya, and a child over eighteen who needs financial/educational assistance. That child is Barry Soetoro, student at Occidental College! In 1980, Barry is still legally Barry Soetoro, adopted son of Lolo Soetoro.<br /><br />There is no documentation to show that Barry Soetoro ever made a formal legal name change to Barak/Barack Obama. Interestingly, Barry traveled to Indonesia and Pakistan (and perhaps to India, but it is not clear if he went into India or remained in the Pakistani side of a particular border city). As far as we may reason, the only passport ever issued for the son of Stanley Ann Dunham was an Indonesian passport which Barry traveled under at age four and age ten. It is possible, and in fact likely that Barry Soetoro traveled to Pakistan as an Indonesian citizen in 1982. Interesting also is the fact that Barack Obama's passport files were broken into THREE TIMES prior to the election of 2008! Barry traveled overseas in 1993, but we have no documentation to show what passport/nationality he traveled under then, either!<br /><br />By the time Barry arrives at Columbia University in New York, he is calling himself Barak and Barry ... Obama. But he was a student at Columbia when he traveled to pakistan, so he was likely holding/using(?) two names at that time.<br /><br />Fast forward to Barack Hussein Obama applying for the Bar Association in Illinois. When filling out the application, the current occupant of the Oval Office lied to the state by signing that he had used no other name than Barack Hussein Obama in his lifetime! I wonder if anyone in corrupt Chicago or the state of Illinois would find it of interest to see that this Barack Hussein Obama may still legally be Barry Soetoro? <br /><br />And a couple of final notes. Not only was the first CoLB posted on Obama's campaign website and at Factcheck a forgery, the Selective Service registration exhibits Obama offered upon being questioned if he had ever registered for same, well, that material is obviously forged also. The 'stamped' date with the exhibit has his eighteenth year, but is shown as the named postal service which did not come into existence until later, and the typing is so bungled from erasure and type over, the document wouldn't pass a bank teller's scrutiny, much less a documents experts examination! And that faked CoLB the media is waving about from his website and Factcheck? Well a retired FBI documents expert has officially in sworn affidavit to Californai courts stated that the exhibit is not credible for court purposes!<br /><br />The above facts are but part of why there are 'Birthers' like me still digging for the truth about the 44th Pres_ _ent. We still have no credible ID for this liar-in-chief David Axelrod, master of astroturfing, has foisted upon America.M Gallowayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15076485084500021853noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1271101993122934886.post-35455729320839098782009-07-29T19:18:00.000-07:002009-07-29T23:29:34.949-07:00We Have A Criminal From A Criminal Enterprise Political Party In The Oval OfficeHere is a quick list of deceits the Pres_ _ent has committed regarding his history ... finding more is very difficult because the fraud has sent detectives and lawyers out to bury his past, like the only file missing from the kindergarten he attended is, you guessed it, Barry Obama, aka Barry Soetoro's file!<br /> <br /><strong>--</strong> Obama lied on his application to the Illinois Bar Association and the photocopy is part of legal filings in court, where he swore that he had never been known by any name except Barack Obama ... he has used Barry Dunham, Barry Obama, and Barry Soetoro as so far discovered<br /><br /><strong>--</strong> Obama's Selective Service card is so badly forged that the type face doesn't even match, and may have been created erecently because to become an Illinois legislator he would have to have registered Selective Service when he turned eighteen, and probably didn't<br /><br /><strong>--</strong> Obama filed on the Internet a supposed copy of his CoLB he claimed was sent from Hawaii ... it is a clear forgery, a false document which, when it appeared a legal case just might get to discovery, the Obama campaign goons scrubbed the forgery from their Internet site and everywhere else they could, including Daily KOS<br /><br /><strong>--</strong> After posting a clear forgery of a supposed CoLB through the Obama-servile Factcheck website, Obama presented an exhibit to the same factcheck.org people (and other journalist outlets like World Net Daily, to be fair here); Factcheck posted his first forgery has claimed that this is the real CoLB from Hawaii; Factcheck has said he showed to them his actual original birth certificate and they were allowed to handle it and photograph it<br /><br /><strong>--</strong> The supposed newspaper birth announcements, for Barry from supposedly 1961, mysteriously surfaced from microfiche files listing an address where witnesses have said no black man with a white wife and a mixed baby ever lived, a home occupied by a different family, continuously, until just three years ago; the address may in fact be the residence address for the Nordykes (Dr and Mrs) who had twins just hours after Barack was supposedly born in the same hospital, but oddly the Nordyke twins are not in the list of births found in the suspicious newspaper exhibit<br /><br /><strong>--</strong> The driver's License listed on the parking tickets from Cambridge Mass from when Barry was in Harvard reference a Social Security number which belonged to a man long dead; the number was assigned more than a hundred years ago to someone else and is a Connecticut issue<br /><br /><strong>-- </strong>Barack Obama has 39 different social security numbers and they are listed in a court filing in California <br /><br />It is interesting to note that an Hawaiian official representing the Vital Records Department in Hawaii just yesterday 7/28/09) stated that the official has seen the document<strong>S</strong> in the Hawaiian archives that prove Barack Obama is a native born Hawaiian which proves he is a natural born citizen! <br /><br />Such a legal finding--stating that he is Constitutionally a natural born citizen--would be just the sort of statement the Obama/Acelrod/Emanuel goons would present for the sympathetic or under duress official to say, but would indicate two things: <br /><br /><strong>1)</strong> The poor official was far from unbiased and professional, allowing to be so blatantly used by a White HOuse in panic mode.<br /><br /><strong>2)</strong> The public statement was anything but a simple statement released in business as usual in Hawaii; someone is leaning on Hawaiian Health Department officials to help someone try and squelch the relentless effort to have Barack Obama disclose the simple facts about his birth and life--which is definitely unlike the disclosure past Presidents and Presidential candidates have undergone in order fro the voters to know whom they are voting for, information so fundamental to what is the reality of the figure presented by the political party for the job of President of the United States.<br /><br />The way the media, which has transmogrified from biased to down right DNC servitude, is doing the Pres_ _ent's dirty work rather than seeking the truth of his history is a shocking revelation of just how far down the toilet journalism in America has been flushed. Even the head of CNN made a bold-faced lie on air, stating that Hawaii destroyed all paper records when they created their electronic filing system ... Jon Klein's effort to shut down Lou Dobbs for simply agreeing that it is not outrageous to expect the Pres_ _ent show to the American people what they have to show to obtain a passport, or even entry into the little league baseball system!M Gallowayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15076485084500021853noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1271101993122934886.post-3249715333993008132009-07-27T10:53:00.000-07:002009-07-27T17:41:31.443-07:00Obama Is A Liar, By His Own Signed DocumentsNo, this is not an essay about Barack Obama's perjury when he applied for the Illinois Bar Association. It is instead an address of the duplicitous deceit open to any in media, if they were actually doing the fourth estate work they used to do, before transmogrifying themselves into the fifth column enemy of We The People.<br /><br />During the run for the Democratic Party nomination, Barack Obama signed/entered apps to all fifty states which stated that he swears he is qualified for the position of President according to the Constitutional eligibility requirements. Signing onto the McCain Senate resolution indicates Obama does accept the definition as applied to McCain's particulars, two citizen parents + born on U.S. soil.<br /><br />On his own website, Obama states that his father was a British subject from a British colony now an independent nation called Kenya.<br /><br />Iterating again, in April of 2008, Barack Obama signed on to a Senate resolution which addressed McCain's status as a natural born citizen. The resolution stated specifically that McCain was a natural born citizen because he was born to two American citizen parents <strong>and</strong> was born on American soil.<br /><br />Barack Obama has contradicted his own sworn applications for the primaries in all fifty states, because he does not meet the Constitutional requirements he himself signed onto with the Senate resolution concerning John McCain's status.<br /><br />So, if this is not perjury of sorts, what could it be? ... The affirmative action liar-in-chief swore to all fifty state election officials that he was eligible according to the Constitutional requirements, but he has stated openly that his father was not an American citizen, yet Obama signed onto the Senate resoultion which stated clearly that <strong>McCain was a natural born citizen <em>because</em> he had two American citizen parents and was born on American soil</strong>.<br /><br />An open liar/perjurer is now pretending to be the eligible President of the United States handing out orders as CIC (at least one brave soldier has challenged the liar, however) and signing into law legislation which he is not actually eligible to sign as President of the United States ... and the Democratic Party demands through their slugslime media outlets that American voices objecting to this liar-in-chief just shut up and get out of the way of this illegitimate poseur! This same slugsliming media wave a false CoLB which Obama posted on his website, as if this forgery is proof of qualification that Obama has already attested he cannot meet because his father was a British subject!<br /><br />Should we be surprised that this liar continues to lie and dissembling in nearly every area of his life and political work? ... As far as I can tell, he hasn't told any lies regarding the White House family dog. At the rate this Democrat liar-in-chief is moving, it might be better to try and list what things he has not lied about! Sadly, there appear to be none in the media who care that this open liar is a LIAR in the Oval Office.M Gallowayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15076485084500021853noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1271101993122934886.post-61018895317154130742009-07-08T22:00:00.000-07:002009-07-08T22:19:05.259-07:00Media Lies For Their Affirmative Action Messiah<em>Here is a long portion from a deceitful editorial written to shill for a lying Pres__ent who has committed document fraud with forgery, offered from a typical obamanoid enemedia source which seeks to keep lies afloat for Barry Soetoro, aka Barry Dunham, aka Barry Obama, aka Barack Hussein Obama. Following the lying filth from Fartley is a letter sent to him by a man who has done the research to expose Barry’Obamas criminal fraud. Enjoy, I’ve posted them here to save them for posterity since so many things are scrubbed from the Internet which expose the criminal affirmative action fraud-in-chief.<br /><br />I have taken the liberty of adding a few comments in italics.</em><br /><br /><strong>Obama's birth certificate: Final chapter. This time we mean it!</strong><br />By Robert Farley<br />Published on Wednesday, July 1st, 2009 at 7:12 p.m.<br />Politifact.com [ http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/ ]<br /><br />Back on June 27, 2008, PolitiFact published a story we hoped would put the whole Obama birth certificate controversy to rest. It ran under the now-laughable headline, "Obama's birth certificate: Final chapter." <br /><br />Oh, how naive we were. <br /><br />More than a year later, the debate continues to rage on the Internet among the "Birthers" movement, people who doubt that President Barack Obama is a natural-born citizen of the United States and is therefore ineligible to serve as president. Or at least, they say, Obama has yet to sufficiently prove things one way or the other. [<em>As far as I can discover, this is one of the few truthful entries in this obscenity from Fartley.]</em><br /><br />The conservative WorldNetDaily.com Web site is the conductor of the Birther train. On the site, you can donate money to rent billboard space that asks "Where's the Birth Certificate?" They've got a petition demanding the president produce his original birth certificate — now signed, they say, by 400,000 people. From the site, you can buy "Where's the Birth Certificate?" yard signs and bumper stickers. The site has recently run stories about a man whose attempts to sell a purported Obama birth certificate from Kenya on eBay have been repeatedly shut down. <br /><br />And on May 28, WorldNetDaily.com correspondent Lester Kinsolving pressed the issue all the way to the White House, squeezing in a couple questions at the end of a daily press briefing with White House spokesman Robert Gibbs. <br /><br />Here's how the exchange went: <br /><br />Kinsolving: "One question concerning what the president said in his speech on Thursday, and I quote, 'I ran for president promising transparency, and I meant what I said. This is why, whenever possible, we will make information available to the American people so they can make informed judgments and hold us accountable.' End of quote. Do you remember that statement?" <br /><br />Gibbs: "I can confirm he said that." <br /><br />Kinsolving: "Good. In consideration of this very good promise of transparency, why can't the president respond to the petitioned requests of 400,000 American citizens by releasing a certified copy of his long form birth certificate listing hospital and physician?" <br /><br />Gibbs: "Are you looking for the president's birth certificate?" <br /><br />Kinsolving: "Yes." <br /><br />Gibbs: "It's on the Internet, Lester." <br /><br />Kinsolving: "No, no, no — the long form listing his hospital and physician." <br /><br />Gibbs: "Lester ... This question in many ways continues to astound me. The state of Hawaii provided a copy, with a seal, of the president's birth. I know there are apparently at least 400,000 people that continue to doubt the existence of and the certification by the state of Hawaii of the president's birth there, but it's on the Internet because we put it on the Internet for each of those 400,000 to download. I certainly hope by the fourth year of our administration that we'll have dealt with this burgeoning birth controversy." [ <em>Gibbs lied dutifully, in typical convoluted fashion, like every good democrat will to protect their criminal-in-chief.</em> ]<br /><br />WorldNetDaily.com, through an owner, the Western Center for Journalism, responded with an ad in the conservative publication Human Events that called Gibbs' response arrogant, factually incorrect, lies. <br /><br />Moreover, the ad said, "members of the liberal elitist media ... instead of pressing Gibbs on his outrageous statements ... openly laughed." <br /><br />The ad is right about that; journalists could clearly be heard chuckling at Kinsolving's questions. <br /><br />The question here is, did Gibbs lie? <br /><br />Some background: On June 13, 2008, after months of hounding by the media and wild Internet speculation that Obama was actually born in either Indonesia or Kenya, the Obama campaign finally released a copy of Obama's "Certification of Birth" from Hawaii and posted it on the Internet. [ <em>This is a very important point since it is a major admission that the Obama campaign is behind the forgery which has been posted on the Internet! The specious CoLB ‘thing’ Obama has claimed is a valid Hawaiian document is a clear forgery with numerous contradictory aspects Dr. Ron Polarik has easily exposed! Even a retired documents expert with the FBI has submitted a sworn affidavit in the Keyes v Obama eligibility lawsuit in California which states the thing on the Internet is bogus!</em> ] The document states that Barack Hussein Obama II was born on Aug. 4, 1961, at 7:24 p.m. in Honolulu, Hawaii, to parents Stanley Ann Dunham and Barack Hussein Obama. <br /><br />End of story? Hardly. If anything, it merely intensified the debate. Numerous critics arose on the Internet claiming the document was a fraud. It was the wrong color. It was missing an embossed seal. There was no crease from it being folded and mailed. <br /><br />Our friends from FactCheck.org went to Chicago, held the document in their questioning hands and examined it closely. Their conclusion: It's legit. [ <em>One would hardly expect document forgery co-criminals to state otherwise. I mean really, didn’t courts take Willie Suttons gang members’ statements as exonerating for Willie’s whereabouts? … Oh, they didn’t? … Exactly!</em> ]<br /><br />On Oct. 31, 2008, Dr. Chiyome Fukino, director of the Hawaii Department of Health, issued this statement: "There have been numerous requests for Sen. Barack Hussein Obama’s official birth certificate. State law prohibits the release of a certified birth certificate to persons who do not have a tangible interest in the vital record. <br /><br />"Therefore I, as director of health for the state of Hawaii, along with the registrar of Vital Statistics who has statutory authority to oversee and maintain these type of vital records, have personally seen and verified that the Hawaii State Department of Health has Sen. Obama's original birth certificate on record in accordance with state policies and procedures. <br /><br />"No state official, including Gov. Linda Lingle, has ever instructed that this vital record be handled in a manner different from any other vital record in the possession of the state of Hawaii." <br /><br />Even the governor of Hawaii, Linda Lingle, a Republican who at the time was stumping for John McCain, said it was on the up-and-up. [ <em>An interesting sleight of hand here, Fartley! The statements from Hawaii are placed together in your essay as if issued in a single release--they were in two separate releases, and you tried to infer that these statements are evidentiary of an Hawaiian long form but they are carefully worded to avoid making such an assertion since to do so would be a violation asserting the person making the statements had seen and was verifying what is written in the documents held in the Hawaiian vaults! This is the typical careful deceit characteristic of those sent to protect the affirmative action liar in the Oval office from being exposed.</em> ] <br /><br />Over? No way. <br /><br />All that proved, the birthers concluded, was that there is, in fact, an original birth certificate, and that the public hasn't seen it. The new argument goes like this: Obama never published his "Birth Certificate" (a "Certificate of Live Birth") on the Internet; what he posted was a "Certification of Live Birth," what WorldNetDaily describes as "a 'short-form' document that is generated on-the-spot and based on what is contained in a computer database at the time it was printed out." <br /><br />Some on the Internet speculate that the original "long form" — which might include the hospital where he was born as well as the attending physician — might show Obama was foreign-born and ineligible to be president, but that that wouldn't show up on the "short form." <br /><br />Moreover, WorldNetDaily claims even the state of Hawaii doesn't accept "Certification of Live Birth" as proof that an individual was physically born in Hawaii. <br /><br />They point to a policy from the Hawaii Department of Home Lands, which stated on its Web site: <br /><br />"In order to process your application, DHHL utilizes information that is found only on the original Certificate of Live Birth, which is either black or green. This is a more complete record of your birth than the Certification of Live Birth (a computer-generated printout). Submitting the original Certificate of Live Birth will save you time and money since the computer-generated Certification requires additional verification by DHHL." <br /><br />That's actually a misnomer, said Lloyd Yonenaka, a spokesman for DHLL. In order to be eligible for their program, you must prove that your ancestry is at least 50 percent native Hawaiian. And when he says native, he means indigenous. They don't even care if you were born in Hawaii. [ <em>This is a boldfaced lie. Typical! If one reads the list of requirements, one is aimed precisely at proving ‘born on Hawaiian soil, the presentment of a valid long form birth certificate!</em> ] They use birth certificates as a starting point to look into a person's ancestry. Very different. <br /><br />Here's what the DHLL site says now: "The Department of Hawaiian Home Lands accepts both Certificates of Live Birth (original birth certificate) and Certifications of Live Birth because they are official government records documenting an individual’s birth. The Certificate of Live Birth generally has more information which is useful for genealogical purposes as compared to the Certification of Live Birth which is a computer-generated printout that provides specific details of a person’s birth. Although original birth certificates (Certificates of Live Birth) are preferred for their greater detail, the State Department of Health (DOH) no longer issues Certificates of Live Birth. When a request is made for a copy of a birth certificate, the DOH issues a Certification of Live Birth." <br /><br />When we spoke to a spokeswoman for the Hawaii Department of Health, she said too much was being made of the difference between the so-called "long" and "short" forms. <br /><br />"They're just words," said spokeswoman Janice Okubo. "That (what was posted on the Internet) is considered a birth certificate from the state of Hawaii." [ <em>What Okubo actually stated when asked what she could verify regarding the thing posted on the Internet was that she could not know what that thing was since she had not seen the physical document from which the images--which she had not seen until that day--were produced! Professional lying is so quaint don’tchaknow.</em> ]<br /><br />"There's only one form of birth certificate," she said, and it's been the same since the 1980s. Birth certificates evolve over the decades, she said, and there are no doubt differences between the way birth certificates looked when Obama was born and now. <br /><br />"When you request a birth certificate, the one you get looks exactly like the one posted on his site," she said. "That's the birth certificate."<br /><br />As for the theory that Obama's original birth certificate might show he was foreign-born, Okubo said the "Certification of Live Birth" would say so. [<em> This is a proven lie since there is at least one very prominent Chinese man of historical import who held an Hawaiian CoLB stating he was born in Hawaii yet he was born in China. Lying is a way of life for obamanoids--Obama annoyance droids.</em> ] Obama's does not. Again, it says he was born in Honolulu. [ <em>So did Sun yat-sen’s! Sun Yat-sen, Chinese revolutionary and political leader often referred to as the “Father of Modern China,” was able to file a “Certificate of Hawaiian Birth” application and immigrate to the US in 1904 using the form. And it shows Honolulu as his place of birth, just as the Internet forgery shows Honolulu as Barry’s place of birth.</em> ] <br /><br />We have one more thing. We talked to reporter Will Hoover, who wrote a well-researched story for the Honolulu Advertiser on Nov. 9, 2008, about Obama's childhood years in the the Aloha State. It ran under the headline "Obama Slept Here." <br /><br />In researching the story, he went to the microfilm archives and found the birth announcement for Obama. Actually, he found two of them, one in his Honululu Advertiser on Aug. 13 , 1961, and in the Honolulu Star-Bulletin the next day . They both said the same thing: "Mr. and Mrs. Barack H. Obama, 6085 Kalanianaole Highway, son, Aug. 4." <br /><br />But here's the thing. Newspaper officials he checked with confirmed those notices came from the state Department of Health. <br /><br />"That's not the kind of stuff a family member calls in and says, 'Hey, can you put this in?'" Hoover explained. <br /><br />Take a second and think about that. In order to phony those notices up, it would have required the complicity of the state Health Department and two independent newspapers — on the off chance this unnamed child might want to one day be president of the United States. [ <em>This is the typical red herring deceit the obamanoid sycophants usually try, in order to make derisive assertions against any who would dare to require the lying CIC prove he is not a criminal fraud. Never have I read of a ‘Birther‘ making that assertion, that his mother or grandmother placed the entry so he could someday run for Pres__ent! But there are other more reasonable aims for placing a false entry regarding the affirmative action fraud‘s birth. Stench like Fartley are not likely to name them however, too plausible for their tastes.</em> ]<br /><br />In Honolulu, the Obama tour buses take you by the old Kapiolani Maternity and Gynecological Hospital, now called Kapi'olani Medical Center for Women & Children. Federal laws prohibit hospital officials from confirming that he was born there, but Hoover said it's common knowledge among locals. <br /><br />So back to the claim that Gibbs lied about posting Obama's birth certificate on the Internet. WorldNetDaily is correct that the Obama campaign didn't post his original birth certificate on the Internet. But their suggestion that there is some significant difference between the two documents is wrong. They both prove the same thing. Maybe the original would identify the hospital where Obama was born, but that's irrelevant. The issue is what city, and therefore country, was he born. The document posted by the campaign proves Obama was born in Honolulu, according to Health Department officials. And that's really the central issue here. <br /><br />The Health Department says the "Certification of Live Birth" is Hawaii's version of a birth certificate. Calling it by other names — Certificate of Live Birth, Certification of Live Birth — is just semantics. WorldNetDaily may be right that the original birth certificate wasn't posted, but if Hawaii says the the document Obama posted can rightly be called Obama's birth certificate, how is Gibbs lying? We harbor no delusions that anything we say here will slow the persistent drumbeat of the birthers, but we rule this statement False.<br /><br /><strong>. . .</strong><br /><br />##########<br /><br /><em>And now for the crushing exposure of Mister Farley’s sycophantic deceits, by the man who has actually sepnt the time and has the expertise to expose the Internet fraud of Barack Hussein Obama.</em><br /><br /><br />Dear Mr. Farley:<br /><br />I’m glad you find document fraud to be so funny, because the American people who were deceived by these phony images are not at all amused: <br /><br />They certainly are not happy about Politifact promulgating a forgery.<br /><br />Exactly which part of Obama’s spending a million dollars of campaign contributions to keep his real birth certificate hidden, is “laughable?”<br /><br />Obama has gone the entire year without ever showing a real, paper birth certificate to anyone in government, anyone in authority, even anyone not shilling for him. What has been shown, however, is a totally fabricated Certification of Live Birth (COLB) image.<br /><br />Now, what is a really sick joke is claiming that this heavily-doctored "scan image" that’s posted on Obama's website, Daily Kos Website, Politifact's website, and Factcheck's website, was made from the same object shown in Factcheck's photos: the ones with the exaggerated Seal impressions and second fold lines.<br /><br />Even a five year-old can see that there’s no way in Hades that a high-resolution "scan image," with no Seal or second fold line showing, could ever have been made from the document object shown in the Factcheck photos.<br /><br />Do you really think the American public is as mindless as the people perpetrating this fraud?<br /><br />I have to give you props, though. <br /><br />I never thought that Politifact could be more wrong than the last time they tried to pass off this forgery as the real deal.<br /><br />It was back in June of last year. Amy Hollyfield was the reporter at the time, and in talking with Janice Okubo, she created a conundrum.<br /><br />We all know Janice Okubo, don’t we? She’s that helpful Public Relations Officer (Communications Officer) at Hawaii's DOH, who’s not exactly Hawaii’s answer to Google when it comes to all things COLB. <br /><br />When asked about Obama’s birth certificate, Okubo told Hollyfield that "a copy of the birth certificate was requested in June 2008," but she wouldn't specify by whom.<br /><br />Even Amy pondered the implications of that statement as she was reviewing the many criticisms of the bogus "scan image":<br /><br />• Isn’t the date stamp bleeding through the back of the document “June 2007?” (Odd since it was supposedly released in June 2008.)<br /><br />"Odd, indeed!"<br /><br />How can a 2007 Certification of Live Birth (COLB), date-stamped "June 6, 2007" have been requested in June 2008?<br /><br />The answer, though, is quite simple, really: <br /><br />Hawaii never produced a 2007 Certification of Live Birth for Obama with a date-stamp of June 6, 2008. <br /><br />Last year, I spoke with the Hawaii State Registrar, himself, Dr. Alvin T. Onaka, who provided me with the following bit of information. <br /><br />When I asked him if Janice Okubo had confirmed that his office produced a 2007 COLB, date-stamped June 6, 2007, with Obama's birth information on it. He said, <br /><br />"Absolutely not. No one in our office confirmed it.”<br /><br />That’s right, Mr.Farley. Obama's 2007 COLB is a nonexistent document, and what’s shown in the "scan image" alleged to be real a real copy of Obama’s birth certificate is nothing but that same, original fabricated forgery that first appeared on June 12 of last year.<br /><br />What does that "scan image" prove? <br /><br />Document fraud. Internet fraud. Voter fraud. A forged Certification of Live Birth, designed and proffered with one purpose in mind: to deceive the American public into believing that Barack Hussein Obama was born in Hawaii and is qualified to be President.<br /><br />A secondary purpose of this document fraud was to prevent citizens and lawmakers from ever seeing his real, original "vault birth certificate.<br /><br />So, it comes down to this:<br /><br />Anyone who says that Hawaii issued a 2007 COLB for Obama, and that a true copy of it is posted online, is either (a) misinformed, (b) misleading others, or (c) lying through their teeth. <br /><br />Regarding Politifact's ridiculous “Truth-o-Meter,” <br /><br />Did Press Secretary Robert Gibbs lie when he said that the Obama Administration posted a copy of his birth certificate online?<br /><br />Did Clinton have sex with Monica Lewinsky?<br /><br />Of course Gibbs lied. Obama’s Campaign lied. Factcheck lied. Daily Kos lied. Snopes lied. Politifact lied. The Star Bulletin lied. The Honolulu Advertiser lied. All the media who are in-the-tank with Obama lied. All of his liberal Leftist supporters lied. <br /><br />But, the facts don’t lie. There is no 2007 COLB for Obama.<br /><br />Last year, in addition to getting the word from Onaka, I conducted five months of empirical research that proved, conclusively and irrefutably, that the "scan image" alleged to be Obama's COLB is a fabricated image, and no amount of bitching by the opposition is going to change that fact. <br /><br />I can't really blame them for thinking they see a real COLB instead of a phony one. After all, there are a lot of people who claim to see religious characters in Cheetos, corn flakes, or fried eggs. <br /><br />It's all in their heads.<br /><br />All of the statements claiming that the "scan image" posted online looks "identical" to an actual 2007 COLB, is pure nonsense. <br /><br />None of the real scan images of a real 2007 COLB, as well as the photos taken of a real 2007 COLB, look anything like what Politifact and Factcheck claim. <br /><br />The Seal shown in Factcheck’s photos looks nothing like the real Seal shown in real 2007 COLBs.<br /><br />If you go to my website, The Greater Evil, and read my research, you’ll find at least twenty reasons why the image posted online is totally bogus. <br /><br />I’ve got another twenty more that show how this one, bogus scan image has engendered the biggest cover-up in political history. All of the efforts made by Factcheck, Politifact, Snopes, and other, assorted Obama flunkies, have been either to promulgate the forgery as a real document or to cover up the fact that document fraud has taken place.<br /><br />It goes like this: the Obama Campaign claims that they posted a genuine copy of Obama’s real, original birth certificate and then points to Factcheck when anyone asks for proof. Factcheck then refers them to their August 21 article, “Born in the USA,” and points the finger back at the Obama Campaign as the source of the real, original birth certificate.<br /><br />And, so it goes. What a nice, neat little circle of deceit going on here. <br /><br />One hand washes the other.<br /><br />In case you forgot or never knew, Factcheck is funded by the Annenberg Foundation – the same foundation that gave a $30 million grant to William “The Unrepentant Pentagon Bomber” Ayers, to start the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, and then hire an inexperienced community organizer in one Barack Obama, to be the Chairman of the Board working alongside him. <br /><br />Besides lying about Obama’s birth certificate and doing all it can to cover up the fraud, it was Factcheck who claimed that Obama never interacted with William Ayers as an adult -- let alone directly worked with him on the Annenberg Challenge. The lies that Factcheck has told run long and deep. <br /><br />Nice sister site you got there, Robert.<br /><br />Think about that the next time you want to write a screed about Obama's bogus birth certificate.<br /><br />Regards,<br /><br />Dr. Ron PolarikM Gallowayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15076485084500021853noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1271101993122934886.post-50589185168925367352009-07-05T16:17:00.001-07:002009-08-15T11:25:40.186-07:00<img height=400 src=http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a319/fladj11/Dems%20and%20Libs%202/DemMoralValues.jpg>M Gallowayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15076485084500021853noreply@blogger.com0