Cancer, as we all know, is a cruel illness. One that can be treated, but not cured. And people can survive it with the allocated treatment, but many don't. So what I want to know is why the hell it is taking so long to find a cure! Below I will debate as to various ideas as to why ...
First of all, we must focus on the pharmaceutical companies that are searching for the cure. Some people say that they are profit-driven and more bothered about making money than actually keeping people in good health. If this is the case, then the pharmacueticals would probably want to delay a cure because treatment for cancer brings them more money than they would probably get for a widespread cure. Furthermore, finding a cure would put an end to all of the research funds and donations given to cancer research and thus terminate a massive source of income for the pharmaceutical business - and the question is .. would they want this to happen?
To be honest, the pharmaceuticals shouldn't really mind due to the amount they make from other treatments and drugs, so I hope they aren't being greedy. However, selling drugs and treatments is their business and they want it to prosper. This is probably why there never seems to be cures for that many illnesses, but rather TREATMENTS for them instead, which make people rely on drugs that they must keep taking - of course, this brings them more money than complete cures would (a cure is a one-time thing whereas treatment is ongoing). Hence, I ask if a cure for cancer hasn't been found because the pharmaceuticals don't want to reduce their funds.
In their defence though, cancer is a tricky illness to cure because it consists of the human cells going corrupt, so scientists need to find a way to destroy only the corrupt human cells and not the healthy ones. Also, there are still illnesses that can't be cured, such as the common cold. So maybe, despite the marvelous scientific feats of this world, some things are still simply incurable at this moment in time.
Some people think there could be a natural cure for cancer, contained within some animal or plant, like there is for other various illnesses. Deforestation doesn't help the situation because a cure hidden in the rainforests could become extinct before scientists realise it could have cured cancer. Perhaps such a cure is already extinct, who knows. A man-made cure, however, could still be put together by the Cancer Research scientists although the absense of a natural remedy is a contributing factor to why a cure for cancer is taking so long to find.
And finally, I will suggest a much darker possibility for why a cancer cure hasn't been discovered. Some people seem to think that governments around the world don't want a cure to be discovered because they want to reduce population growth as much as possible. With the threat of overcrowding the planet and using up all of its resources, it may be indeed possible that governments have plans for population control in place. As we know, the leaders of different nations meet up and talk about things regularly; hopefully, they do not talk about things such as population control, but it is indeed possible. Perhaps governments don't want to stop wars, murder, cancer, AIDS/HIV, poverty etc because these different things take so many lives and play their part at keeping overpopulation at bay. Of course, our governments may not have these intentions and do campaign for the end of such problems, yet do they campaign hard enough if these problems remain ongoing.
So there you have it ... a few different suggestions for why cancer is taking so long to cure! Feel free to question each of these ideas or suggest your own, as you may come up with something that I haven't mentioned. Let us pray that a cure will be discovered soon and put an end to the suffering of many people. If anybody with cancer is reading this or you know somebody with cancer, then I hope you all get healthy again soon.
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Friday 17 July 2009
Thursday 9 July 2009
Is there life after death?
This is a question to which most of us seek an answer, yet unfortunately, can only debate about the potential answers. In this article, I will put forward some of the possibilities of what could happen to us when we die and discuss the validility of these suggestions.
First of all, I think I should start with the most conventional view that we go to heaven after we die, suggesting that there is life after death. To have such a belief, a person is usually religious and believes that they must live their lives accordingly in order to be granted passage to heaven rather than being tossed into the fiery depths of hell for being a naughty individual. Personally, I don't follow any of the mainstream religions so I will try not be biased here ... but the validity of heaven is DEBATABLE!
For a start, I definitely don't think heaven would be a physical place otherwise everybody who died would eventually overcrowd it! And besides, if heaven was a physical place then that would mean it would be findable, somewhere up there among the clouds! But to argue against this, heaven could be a spiritual place where time and space don't shape it ... this would be a more accurate vision of heaven rather than the belief that it would be three-dimensional like this world.
But this all counts on whether heaven and hell exist in the first place, and this in turn relies on the validity of our religions. Were the writers of the holy books really graced by different Gods or were the writers acting on their own accord? It certainly makes me feel uneasy how people can hang on the every word of religious leaders when it was HUMANS that wrote the holy books, and the fact that new religions are being introduced to the world all the time show how easily that new religions can be founded. But anyways, back to the point of this post!
An argument to completely oppose that of heaven is the view that the human body is like a computer. People who think this believe that when people die, that's the end of it, just like a computer. I can see the validity of this because there isn' t an afterlife for computer motherboards is there! But I do not think we can fully support this belief because humans have natural consciousness that is very powerful ... so much so that many of us find it hard to believe that it simply ends after death.
If it does though, the bright side is that you won't know any different! If you do simply switch off like a broken computer then you have nothing to fret about because you won't feel a thing afterwards! Nevertheless, it may change your approach to life, because if you are LIVING IN WAIT FOR THE NEXT LIFE then you may start LIVING LIFE FOR TODAY, which everybody should do anyway, within reason! Whether you start living life for today depends on how much you think the human body is like a computer and whether you want to accept this theory.
Another theory in support of life after death is the spiritual side of things rather than religious ideas - and there is a difference because spiritual practices differ greatly from religious ones. But the theory I wish to express is that EVERYTHING in this universe is said to be connected and part of the same consciousness. What this means for life after death is that when we die, our consciousness simply leaves our body (a tool which allowed us to explore our world) and become part of the collective consciousness again. Of course, you have to be really spiritual to think this (it's very similar to 'the force' from Star Wars) but it's definitely a theory you can lay out on the table. If it is true, then after death we will all rejoin the same spiritual consciousness we came from ....... in fact, what if this spiritual consciousness is the equivelent of Mother Nature!
Now I'm a Mother Nature type of guy actually! I do believe she has rule over this planet more than any God and their accompanying dogma (note: if this offended ANYBODY then please be reminded that this is an individual belief that won't hurt you!). So, in a way, I do believe we return to the mass consciousness, which could be percieved as Mother Nature. We could do it in the way above (the last paragraph), which would be the continuity of our minds.
Or instead we could do it by the continuity of our bodies, which would mean that Mother Nature would recycle our bodies through decomposition (eaten by worms and soaked into the soil and helping out nature in other ways) meaning that we would live on after death ... but I don't think many of us would like to live on JUST in this way!
There is the possibility we could become free spirits, without a body and humanly needs, free to roam the earth as we please. This could be possible through the aforementioned consciousness/nature theories but who knows eh. This sort of life after death would be quite good as we could keep watch over our loved ones we have left behind. The validity of this, however, is somewhat tarnished by notoriously fraudulent ghost and spirit hunters, such as the TV show 'Most Haunted', who make a mockery of the genuine ghost sightings that cannot be explained. So what I am saying is that ghosts are spirits are probably the same thing, and this could be our afterlife; though if it is, nobody will ever believe it due to some folk making false claims of ghost sightings.
To conclude this article, I just DON'T KNOW what comes after death, if anything at all. But what I do know is that people will continue to seek the answer and fear death as it comes ever closer. What all of us must do is forget death for now as it is a natural thing that will eventually claim everybody, so we should make sure that we do everything we want in this life before it is too late. Live everyday like it is your last, my friends!
If you want to question these theories or suggest your own, then please feel free to do so!
First of all, I think I should start with the most conventional view that we go to heaven after we die, suggesting that there is life after death. To have such a belief, a person is usually religious and believes that they must live their lives accordingly in order to be granted passage to heaven rather than being tossed into the fiery depths of hell for being a naughty individual. Personally, I don't follow any of the mainstream religions so I will try not be biased here ... but the validity of heaven is DEBATABLE!
For a start, I definitely don't think heaven would be a physical place otherwise everybody who died would eventually overcrowd it! And besides, if heaven was a physical place then that would mean it would be findable, somewhere up there among the clouds! But to argue against this, heaven could be a spiritual place where time and space don't shape it ... this would be a more accurate vision of heaven rather than the belief that it would be three-dimensional like this world.
But this all counts on whether heaven and hell exist in the first place, and this in turn relies on the validity of our religions. Were the writers of the holy books really graced by different Gods or were the writers acting on their own accord? It certainly makes me feel uneasy how people can hang on the every word of religious leaders when it was HUMANS that wrote the holy books, and the fact that new religions are being introduced to the world all the time show how easily that new religions can be founded. But anyways, back to the point of this post!
An argument to completely oppose that of heaven is the view that the human body is like a computer. People who think this believe that when people die, that's the end of it, just like a computer. I can see the validity of this because there isn' t an afterlife for computer motherboards is there! But I do not think we can fully support this belief because humans have natural consciousness that is very powerful ... so much so that many of us find it hard to believe that it simply ends after death.
If it does though, the bright side is that you won't know any different! If you do simply switch off like a broken computer then you have nothing to fret about because you won't feel a thing afterwards! Nevertheless, it may change your approach to life, because if you are LIVING IN WAIT FOR THE NEXT LIFE then you may start LIVING LIFE FOR TODAY, which everybody should do anyway, within reason! Whether you start living life for today depends on how much you think the human body is like a computer and whether you want to accept this theory.
Another theory in support of life after death is the spiritual side of things rather than religious ideas - and there is a difference because spiritual practices differ greatly from religious ones. But the theory I wish to express is that EVERYTHING in this universe is said to be connected and part of the same consciousness. What this means for life after death is that when we die, our consciousness simply leaves our body (a tool which allowed us to explore our world) and become part of the collective consciousness again. Of course, you have to be really spiritual to think this (it's very similar to 'the force' from Star Wars) but it's definitely a theory you can lay out on the table. If it is true, then after death we will all rejoin the same spiritual consciousness we came from ....... in fact, what if this spiritual consciousness is the equivelent of Mother Nature!
Now I'm a Mother Nature type of guy actually! I do believe she has rule over this planet more than any God and their accompanying dogma (note: if this offended ANYBODY then please be reminded that this is an individual belief that won't hurt you!). So, in a way, I do believe we return to the mass consciousness, which could be percieved as Mother Nature. We could do it in the way above (the last paragraph), which would be the continuity of our minds.
Or instead we could do it by the continuity of our bodies, which would mean that Mother Nature would recycle our bodies through decomposition (eaten by worms and soaked into the soil and helping out nature in other ways) meaning that we would live on after death ... but I don't think many of us would like to live on JUST in this way!
There is the possibility we could become free spirits, without a body and humanly needs, free to roam the earth as we please. This could be possible through the aforementioned consciousness/nature theories but who knows eh. This sort of life after death would be quite good as we could keep watch over our loved ones we have left behind. The validity of this, however, is somewhat tarnished by notoriously fraudulent ghost and spirit hunters, such as the TV show 'Most Haunted', who make a mockery of the genuine ghost sightings that cannot be explained. So what I am saying is that ghosts are spirits are probably the same thing, and this could be our afterlife; though if it is, nobody will ever believe it due to some folk making false claims of ghost sightings.
To conclude this article, I just DON'T KNOW what comes after death, if anything at all. But what I do know is that people will continue to seek the answer and fear death as it comes ever closer. What all of us must do is forget death for now as it is a natural thing that will eventually claim everybody, so we should make sure that we do everything we want in this life before it is too late. Live everyday like it is your last, my friends!
If you want to question these theories or suggest your own, then please feel free to do so!
Hello everyone!
The purpose of this blog is to QUESTION THE WORLD as we know it! What I mean by that is questioning the commonly accepted views and perceptions that people have on particular subjects. So in this blog, I will indeed question the world and see if our views are accurate ... any arguments opposing conventional views could be rather thought-provoking, so stay tuned!
And also, feel free to question the world with me! If it is necessary, QUESTION MY QUESTIONING of the world ... so together we can work out what the hell life is all about!
And also, feel free to question the world with me! If it is necessary, QUESTION MY QUESTIONING of the world ... so together we can work out what the hell life is all about!
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