NationStates Jolt Archive

We've become so accustomed to a democratic society that we find it impossible to even imagine a different regime, let alone have one available to follow. If you think about it, only one way of living, a set path, a must-do list of goals (tasks in actual fact), it seems, in theory, like a dictatorship rigged to support our wealthy masters and disparage everybody else.

Let's analyse the average life timeline shall we?
Conceived: A typically enjoyable occasion, marred by particular social conventions. Prudish conservatism, ignorance of truth creates powerful obstinate anti "free love" ideals within individuals; thus these ideals are spread.
Birth: Untouched by any standards, schemes or regimes.
Childhood: Where society starts. Parents have already been desensitized, they strongly confirm and affirm principles that protest against personal freedoms.
Adolescence: A path of personal growth as well as finding out about oneself. We must all conform up to this point. It's when we reach inner maturity, we can begin to comprehend some of lifes more difficult questions. We can follow the path we set for ourselves, society says it should be a path of conformity and following along with what society says we should; especially when it comes to career (working). Career is merely a pleasant word for an (generally) unpleasant task. I quote "Truly, our needs are few. Those needs manufactured by our society are just tools used to keep us slaving for our rich masters." Think about that one.
Aging: From early adulthood to old age. It's during these years we face everything. Things that we consider priceless are NOT achievable by any system. Marriage, children, friends. We cannot put a price upon these, nor can any political scheme. Happiness is derived from such pleasantries. Money is useless, possessions likewise. We sincerely need a basic quota to survive and be absolutely happy. Our current system places great emphasis upon such futile materialistic possessions. We practically become brainwashed. Look around right now and see how much brand name crap you possess, much of this void and useless to a true life.
Death: Leaving behind our cars, our homes, every possession we ever encountered during our surprisingly difficult existance within a system. That's right, within a sytem. Nothing within a sytem is truly free; it can't conceive any true freedoms. The next generation we leave behind, not because of any "system" has to exist and abide within this system. Discovering the unavoidable hardships it contains. The true happiness has absolutely nothing to do with any systems.

Systems try to pollute, corrupt and destroy our free moral agencies. It ties you down with immoral materialistic crap that's completely irrelevant in the whole scheme. You may disagree with me at this point, stating it makes you happy and that you just can't live without these "things you own." Have you even experienced a true happiness? What were the causes of it? Surely they were things money just can't buy, things a regime cannot touch no matter how hard it tries. They* want to control everything, not just what you buy, but WHY you buy; how you buy; when you buy. They want your brainspace and unavoidably, they may already have it. Fight it. Fight it with everything you have, promote a possession free material free society. No leaders, no apparent harms to our ecology.

That's another dangeriously serious effect of our current scheme. Our ecology can't keep up with a rapidly consuming presence. A pagan belief is this: Mother nature will compensate by easily and thoughtlessly releasing an uncurable disease upon all of the over-consuming beings; which equates to practically all human beings on this planet, even those who concur with a truly free society will suffer that wrath of such major over-consumption of natural resources. What's cancer? What are the causes of it? I don't know these answers, but certainly some unnatural substances, genetically modified foods, pesticides and chemicals all create instability within the body; all just to generate cash for the "wealthy." It's so unbelievably hard to avoid these products. Shows how powerful, gready, unmerciful and apathetic these people really are.

All we truly need is sustainability, peace and freedom. They come hand-in-hand. Nothing above us and thus nothing below. A truly equal society brings about an instant resolution to so many of the supposed "victims of circumstance" obviously, they're victims to our system.

I'm lucky. I haven't had to face the unavoidable hardships yet; I presume I'll have to though. Certainly I won't enjoy it, and certainly I will fight it. Inside and out, conciously and subconciously. It's the only real way to world peace, over-throw such systems that harbour the possibility for leaders and followers. All humans were created equal; it's apparent that only the "political systems" influence the way we see the world and vice versa. We could all live in such beautiful harmony. Imagine it; no war; no apparent (serious) conflicts. No pathetic leaders, no blatent brainwashing by multi-national companies and owners polluting everything there is and will be forever. *They referring to the above.

Make your own informed choice about the way you'd like to live your life. I know I have.

Moral thinking isn't so simple, as this link (http://faculty.plts.edu/gpence/html/kohlberg.htm) suggests.

You sure do make a lot of assertions without any arguments to back them up, fellow.

What's cancer? What are the causes of it? I don't know these answers, but certainly some unnatural substances, genetically modified foods, pesticides and chemicals all create instability within the body; all just to generate cash for the "wealthy."

Cancer is caused by an accumulation of harmful mutations in cells. A bunch of things have to go wrong for cancer to happen:

0) The mechanisms that restrict cell growth and division need to go haywire, allowing the cell to just grow and divide, grow and divide.

1) A cell's self-destruction mechanism needs to be disabled through a harmful mutation. Generally, cells self-destruct when they go out of control.

2) A cell's aging mechanism needs to be disabled through a mutation. If telomeres keep being shortened as the cell divides, then the cancer will soon divide itself out of existence.

At this stage, you now have a tumor - a small group of cells that don't really do anything besides divide. They might be annoying, but not necessarily deadly unless they happen to be in a particularly dangerous place.

3) Angiogenesis - the cells somehow attract new blood vessels to grow to them, supplying them with nutrients to grow and divide even more.

At this point, the tumor can get quite dangerous, since it will grow and grow and then push on the neighboring organs and cause discomfort and possibly damage.

4) Metastasis - when some cells detach from the main tumor and go into the bloodstream. They then start attaching themselves to wherever they happen to land, basically starting lots more tumors in various parts of the body.

This is when the the tumor becomes really really deadly - when it starts spawning lots of little tumors all throughout the body. Then you're screwed - it's only a matter of time until it gets to somewhere where it'll kill you.

Or at least those are the general steps as I remember them from my Cell Physiology class from two years ago.

Anything that causes mutations will increase the incidence of cancer - notably, age! Since mutations accumulate, the incidence of cancer increases greatly with age. When life expectancies were lower, there simply wasn't enough time for those mutations to accumulate - and unless they happen in sperm or egg cells, they don't get passed on to offspring, and so the new generation can start with a fresh slate.

I'm sure that plenty of the artificial drugs that we put into ourselves raise the mutation rate sometimes, but they also make us live long enough for this to actually have an effect.

(Actually, as far as I know, genetically engineered foods don't fall into the category of "bad things that mess with your body." The body can't tell what sequence of deoxyribonucleic acids the thing it just ate has. )