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Re: Re: Re: How should the Bible be interpreted?

Bigthink — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 01:49:25 +0100

I agree with Linky. It is important that evangelicals and other religious groups join the environmental movement. I'd also like to note that the Pope recently decried pollution as a sin.

http://humboldtherald.wordpress.com/2008/03/14/pope-decries-pollution/

This is a much better interpretation of the bible, then the converse. I've heard many times that the bible promotes us using up the earth (be fruitful and multiply).

Re: Re: The Dilemma of Organ Donation

Bigthink — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 01:02:55 +0100

Since it was already stated that even if everyone became a registered organ donor that would not solve the issue since there would still not be sufficient numbers (not enough people die in the required manner), I believe the real solution is through networking. For example, if I needed a kidney and my brother offered to donate his, we would go get tested to see if we are a match. He might not be a match. However he may match someone else on the kidney waiting list. That other patient may also have a willing non-matching potential donor relative/friend. That person could possibly be a match for me, and essentially we could trade our donors. Usually it would not be as easy as two people swtching, but when you have many people pooled together, many matches can be found. This domino-donation concept is already in pratice as seen in this article.

http://www.medpagetoday.com/Surgery/Transplantation/tb/4567

Re: Re: Could genomics be a fountain of youth?

Bigthink — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 17:13:33 +0100

: There is already a very strong correlation between socio-economic status and longevity.

Re: A Poet Watching Time Pass

Bigthink — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 14:46:18 +0100

: I believe that time accelerates in our perception because as we age periods of time become a smaller fraction of our total life experience. For example, a four year old thinks a year is a very, very long time because it is at least 1/4 of his/her complete life experience. However, an 80 year-old will see one year as much less, as it makes up only 1/80 of his/her total life experience. Perhaps we only have so much memory space and we fill it up with as much as we can throughout each year. But as we accumulate more experiences, we have many more memories to fit inside of the same amount of memory space. Maybe we have to shrink these newer memories to fit in the space available?

How can a U.S. citizen encourage positive change in our government?

Bigthink — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 03:39:09 +0100

Write your congressman? How do we really get the positive changes we require?