-
Starting today August 7th, 2024, in order to post in the Married Couples, Courting Couples, or Singles forums, you will not be allowed to post if you have your Marital status designated as private. Announcements will be made in the respective forums as well but please note that if yours is currently listed as Private, you will need to submit a ticket in the Support Area to have yours changed.
-
CF has always been a site that welcomes people from different backgrounds and beliefs to participate in discussion and even debate. That is the nature of its ministry. In view of recent events emotions are running very high. We need to remind people of some basic principles in debating on this site. We need to be civil when we express differences in opinion. No personal attacks. Avoid you, your statements. Don't characterize an entire political party with comparisons to Fascism or Communism or other extreme movements that committed atrocities. CF is not the place for broad brush or blanket statements about groups and political parties. Put the broad brushes and blankets away when you come to CF, better yet, put them in the incinerator. Debate had no place for them. We need to remember that people that commit acts of violence represent themselves or a small extreme faction.
My perfect solution vs Covid
- Thread starter timewerx
- Start date
1 John 2:17
The world and its desires pass away, but whoever does the will of God lives forever.
Proverbs 23:5
Cast but a glance at riches, and they are gone, for they will surely sprout wings and fly off to the sky like an eagle.
Proverbs 27:24
for riches are not forever, nor does a crown endure to every generation.
Upvote
0
- Feb 4, 2006
- 46,773
- 10,979
- Country
- United States
- Gender
- Male
- Faith
- Protestant
- Marital Status
- Single
- Politics
- US-Others
Healthcare and medicines have the unintended consequence of weakening our general health, not strengthening it.
Upvote
0
- Feb 4, 2006
- 46,773
- 10,979
- Country
- United States
- Gender
- Male
- Faith
- Protestant
- Marital Status
- Single
- Politics
- US-Others
I'd rather be the rich and holy man who finds a poor, innocent peasant girl and sweeps her off her feet. Oops... was that chauvinistic?
That's the stuff of romantic fairy tales.
Upvote
0
- Jul 23, 2007
- 56,363
- 11,085
- Country
- United States
- Gender
- Male
- Faith
- Atheist
- Marital Status
- Single
- Politics
- US-Others
We have been pretty much doing this throughout human history. Sadly this hasn't resulted in us being immune to all diseases, especially new mutations. Genetic engineering and the incredible advances medical science will undergo in the next 1000 years will make your impossible goal irrelevant anyways.
I can sympathize with the concerns that we are gradually becoming less healthy every generation. People who would have otherwise died and have been weeded out of the gene pool has a much higher chance of reproducing and in the long run this might be bad, but I just think science will solve this way before it becomes a serious issue. No reason to intentionally subject ourselves back into the misery our ancestors faced.
Upvote
0
That first one doesn't make any sense, immunity and resistances to diseases often don't have anything to do with your immune system at birth, or even at all. If you have diabetes from drinking too much coke that doesn't mean anything about how well your children can avoid diseases, plus things like HIV immunity come from the black plague and not to do with your immune system.
Upvote
0
Uhm genetics is a strong factor.
You probably haven't seen it in people yet that's why you don't believe it.
But it works among animals. Quite well documented in science. Not so prevalent among people since we pamper ourselves with medicines and we really don't follow natural selection. Animals does. Our concept of beauty is quite unnatural - financial eligibility which can fall flat on its face in some situations.
THis is why we are totally unprepared for pandemics. It wouldn't be a problem otherwise.
Upvote
0
Animals are often just as unprepared you don't. And yes genetics play a part like with the hiv imunity, but the hiv imunity isn't played in any part by the immune system, it's just random mutation that makes the HIV unable to infect t cells as well. Our ability to fight off infections has as much to do with the diseases as our immune system.
Upvote
0
- Jul 23, 2007
- 56,363
- 11,085
- Country
- United States
- Gender
- Male
- Faith
- Atheist
- Marital Status
- Single
- Politics
- US-Others
Upvote
0
With a few notable exceptions people are not rats. Respiratory and digestive system diseases are quite common in rats and mice.
Upvote
0
Similar threads
