Possible names for future companies:
Clones ‘r US.
Clone Co.
Clone Jr’s.
J.Clones
CloneAid. ßTaken.
Oh boy a real subject to talk about for once. But first, let me explain why there have
been no new updates to this website in the last month or so: I’ve been writing. Trying to finish the first draft of a new screenplay and the last
30 pages or so have been a real dog for some reason.
Seeing this in the news:
http://www.cnn.com/2002/HEALTH/12/30/cnna.cloning.rael/index.html
really got me to thinking and I hate that. Frankly if my life consisted of 24 hours a
day drinking, or playing video games, or tapped into an IV of heroin, I’d be
fine. I really don’t need the struggle
that actually firing neurons can cause.
In case you’re under a rock or something, this group of
people calling themselves Raelians (http://www.rael.org/)
are claiming to have produced the first clone.
If you go to the website you’ll see Rael, the spiritual leader of the
group and he’ll explain how the group came to be. First off, he claims to have met aliens on a mountain somewhere
by simple accident (he was driving alone and thought, “hey I should stop here
for a walk”). These aliens told him the
secret of the world, that being that all life on earth was created by them and
that in 2034 or something they (the aliens) will return to further complicate
our already confused lives I guess.
Is it just me or is the idea that this guy, Rael, putting
himself up as spiritual leader of a group of science minded aliens who mastered
genetics a little to close to the idea of our friends that bordered the
Hale-Bop comet a few years ago? Why
would a race of aliens need a spiritual human leader to guide the humans? What kind of arsine approach to religion is
this. Frankly, that alone stinks this
whole thing up. And it’s that part of
it that really pisses me off.
You see cloning could be a good thing. Just like anything else humans do, it both
has a good side and a bad side. Even
though I think humans are better as fertilizer than I do at being people, I
believe that in general human beings would use cloning for doing good
things. Like what? I’m sure some would use it to further
increase the population of this planet, that’s a selfish act, but good in it’s
own way. But I’m mostly talking about
the medical benefit of genetic replacement parts. We human beings are on the verge of becoming nearly immortal,
solely by the simple idea of replacement parts. I don’t want to take this quick rant onto a tangent about the
nature of living and dying. Let’s just
say, that as it stands now, aging, is a function of the body not a function of
time. To reverse the aging process
means to change the nature of our genes (Y1 & Y2). These two genes dictate the growing
process. Y1 starts the process in our
youth and Y2 ‘ends’ the process in our maturity. At present changing the Y1Y2 pair would only make things
worse. If Y1 never turned off, we’d
never die of old age, but probably wouldn’t live much past 30 anyway, do to the
all the complications of continual growth.
Anyway, since this Y1Y2 issue seems a long way off (not to mention that
chemical biology, such as the effect of oxygen on the body, are still a barrier
to cross) the easiest way to increase life span would be create replacement
parts for the body that exists today.
The best way to do this would cloning new parts from the host so that
the exact part would work perfectly.
What these idiots, the Raelians, have done is to quite
possibly put an end to cloning as a whole.
It won’t take to long for the supposed Free/Non Religious governments of
the ‘rational’ world to climb up from their slumber and call this whole thing
an abomination. At which point they’ll
outright outlaw it. In countries that
don’t pretend freedom, people who practice it will be summarily
eliminated. So when you’re 63 and
you’re knees are shot, you’re heart is ticking louder and louder, and your
blackened lungs are eating away at you…remember to blame the religions of the
world for you eventual death. Remember
that those religions who claim that life is beautiful and sacred, are the ones
that refused to allow the technology that would have saved your life. And these same people are claiming that science
is playing god, when everyday they hold off science by claiming the name of
god, they hold off a helping hands that could one day save more lives than a
single solitary religious figure did in their whole lives…don’t believe me,
read Joshua.
Is it a fraud? I
don’t know. I read a little about
cloning and during those times of lucidity where the text wasn’t boring me to
tears, what I gained from it was that it really shouldn’t be that
difficult. Oh, it might be, but maybe
there is a simple way of doing it that no one thought. I don’t know. But saying that, I really do think that these alien morons have
more to loose by supporting a fraud than they do by supporting the reality of a
clone. If they are exposed as frauds it
destroys their religion. Their funds
will dry up very, very quickly. If it’s
real, then they stand to make more people believers in their insanity. But it could be that they are completely
nuts and that it is all just a ploy from the beginning. After all, people believe in all sorts of
impossible things that defy not only logic, but historical evidence. So the very idea that someone would
intentionally perpetrate a hoax is possible: ie. Branch Davidians (http://www.religioustolerance.org/dc_branc.htm) and Jonestown (and speaking of Jonestown you
HAVE to read this: http://www.jonestown.com/. Jesus Christ. MK-Ultra? I thought that
thing was finally done).
I wish I were very, very rich. I’d just buy my own country and set it up as a science
society. Science only, that would be
the new religion. And we’d mass produce
our own army from genetically engineered animals as well as building micro-war
machines that transformer into animals.
Stupid world.