{"id":2868,"date":"2018-01-16T22:14:35","date_gmt":"2018-01-17T06:14:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wordsareshadows.us\/?p=2868"},"modified":"2018-01-16T22:14:35","modified_gmt":"2018-01-17T06:14:35","slug":"new-epoch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wordsareshadows.us\/?p=2868","title":{"rendered":"NEW EPOCH"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW EPOCH<\/p>\n<p>I<br \/>\nWhat keeps our mind occupied day and night?<\/p>\n<p>It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s neither love nor games or success.<br \/>\nIt\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s actually something nobody should do without.<br \/>\nWe live in a bubble which exerts its influence on our health.<br \/>\nNo life ever happens in a void.<br \/>\nAll life is part of a design in constant flux.<br \/>\nAt times we experience great achievements.<br \/>\nAt other times we seem to relapse into a state of utter ignorance!<br \/>\nBut at every turn we cherish health as a great good.<\/p>\n<p>II<br \/>\nWhat can I contribute?<\/p>\n<p>-Expand your horizon! Be curious! Be in the know!-<\/p>\n<p>If we understand the background better,<br \/>\nWe have a better understanding of the here and now.<br \/>\nActually, we can be pro-active and more selective in our choices.<br \/>\nAll existence is based on universal rules,<br \/>\nBut we not always grasp their subtle significance and depth.<br \/>\nOur essence and consciousness is a reflection from the beyond,<br \/>\nBut it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a filtered reflection tailored to the here and now.<br \/>\nA filtered reflection keeping us alert to specific tasks in the here and now,<br \/>\nWhich at times filters out other meaningful interrelations.<\/p>\n<p>III<br \/>\nWhat can we change?<\/p>\n<p>Everything in the Universe has some underlying causes.<br \/>\nThe course of the Universe is an evolutionary path.<br \/>\nAnd the evolutionary path is all-encompassing.<br \/>\nEvery aspect of nature and life is part of it,<br \/>\nIncluding diseases that befall nature and people.<br \/>\nDiseases effect people as well as everything else in nature.<br \/>\nDiseases are not manufactured by individuals.<br \/>\nIndividuals don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t create singular diseases affecting whole societies.<br \/>\nDiseases are the result of socio-economic changes and progress as well.<br \/>\nSociety is responsible for the diseases in different epochs.<br \/>\nAnd society needs to be held accountable for the diseases they cause.<\/p>\n<p>IV<br \/>\nWhat is my responsibility?<\/p>\n<p>Looks can be deceiving! and we are not always aware of the underlying danger.<br \/>\nWhat might looks tempting may contain dangerous toxins.<br \/>\nA banana looks pretty good to us and tastes pretty good too.<br \/>\nWe don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t taste everything that is in our food and water.<br \/>\nPesticide residues don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t announce their presence.<br \/>\nBut they certainly affect our individual cells in some way.<br \/>\nScience and studies work hand in hand to help us to better understand.<br \/>\nIt\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a fact; chemical-based sunscreen is highly toxic to the coral reefs.<br \/>\nJust as sunscreen washed off our body is bad news for coral reefs around the globe,<br \/>\nSo are all the toxic elements that devastate our air, land and water resources.<br \/>\nIndustrialization is the major cause for poisoned air, land and water.<\/p>\n<p>Do you really think that all the chemical pollution to our crops, animal feeds, animals that we consume and all the sea animals that are part of the food chain have no effect on the global health of this world?<\/p>\n<p>Not to forget all the pharmaceutical waste that is globally shared with our land and water resources.<br \/>\nWhere do you think the toxic chemical elements emitted by methanol plants go?<br \/>\nThey are also globally shared where our crops grow and with the water where our fish resources live.<br \/>\nAnd all the medication given to animals which we consume directly or through their products.<br \/>\nIn my mind there is no doubt that all this has an effect on our food resources and ultimately the health of our bodies.<br \/>\nIndividuals do carry a certain responsibility for their actions,<br \/>\nBut we should not be held accountable for something that we did not deliberately cause.<\/p>\n<p>V<br \/>\nWhat do we need to do?<\/p>\n<p>-Be just! Be strong! Be kind!-<\/p>\n<p>Are we responsible when our individual cells react to invaders that we never personally invited into our food chain?<br \/>\nAren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t these invaders now worldwide in the environment and wreck globally havoc on our health?<br \/>\nAre we responsible for diseases caused by unknown factors to us? I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t think so.<br \/>\nPesticide residues in the nurturing fruit as the banana are invisible and tasteless.<br \/>\nThey are a danger to anyone who consumes them.<br \/>\nAnd not only are the consumers of these bananas subjected to this danger,<br \/>\nFarm workers on conventional plantation farms who are coming in contact with the pesticides are directly in the path of dangerous toxins.<br \/>\nThe farm workers who come directly in contact with pesticides are pained more often than farm workers on bio farms with dizziness, vomiting or cell changes, which increase the risk for acquiring some kind of cancer.<br \/>\nConsidering that diseases are induced through the worldwide industrialization and man-made changes, diseases are a problem that the society is responsible for and needs to be held accountable for.<br \/>\nSociety benefits from socio-economic growth,<br \/>\nBut it is also responsible for arising problems due to man-made changes in the environment.<br \/>\nThere are no isolated environments in this bubble.<br \/>\nAll of these occurrences are shared with the whole world.<\/p>\n<p>Culture and life are closely related synonyms.<br \/>\nCulture\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s and life\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s end is death.<br \/>\nIn an ever repeating pattern cultures decay,<br \/>\nAnd things are simply over and a new epoch has arrived.<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a9 Jan 16, 2018 MUSE (Ute Sonja Elisabeth Medley)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW EPOCH I What keeps our mind occupied day and night? It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s neither love nor games or success. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s actually something nobody should do without. We live in a bubble which exerts its influence on our health. No life ever happens in a void. All life is part of a design in constant flux. 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