People in the “brainy circles” of our hypocritical society talk about diversity. But how much are differences really valued? “I wonder”, a mother of a child with Down’s Syndrome writes, “whether my friends and colleagues would recognize the value of a child who was slower, less capable and more dependent”… (1)
Love is hard to find. And even harder to give.
Take a nap. Watch TV. Don’t care about people with problems or children with genetical problems. You will not see them anyway. You will not let them be born. Being active is hard.
Giving your hand is hard. Being passive is easy. Live and let DIE…
Previously blind patients who receive the recently FDA-approved Argus II bionic eye system will regain some degree of functional sight. The retinal implant technology, developed and distributed by Second Sight, can improve quality of life for patients who have lost functional vision due to retinitis pigmentosa, a disease that causes retinal cells to die. [1]
We are not machines. But we wish so much to become one. Help to the suffering will come with love and compassion. Not with artificial components. One can lose an eye and still be happy. But a man with 20/20 vision could still be utterly miserable without love and caring… A life in the dark can be glorious. A life in the light can be full of darkness…
Police who are investigating a series of sexual assaults in the southern French city of Marseille have arrested identical twin brothers.
The 24-year-old unemployed delivery drivers, named locally as Elwin and Yohan, were placed under investigation on Friday. Officers say they are sure that one of the two men carried out the attacks, but that they do not know which.
Standard DNA tests are unable to differentiate between their DNA.
Extended specialized DNA tests, which will cost more than a million Euro, will be required to determine which of the two did the crimes. [1]
Even though many will stay on the surface if this, I think there is more than meets the eye here.
I do not think the part of DNA analysis is the important part of this story. If you ask me, a million Euro is too small a price to pay for such a thing. Determining who is innocent and who is guilty must always be based on the most strick evidence. We are building a whole system based on DNA forensics. So far it is going well. We must be nothing but grateful for the DNA analysis which has saved thousands of innocent people from being sent to prison. Technology and science at its best.
(I only wish we have the maturity to abandon this system of proof, as soon as technologies of distoring the results will emerge…)
I believe the important aspect of this story is the role of love. And fear.
Fear, due to which one of these twins is too afraid that he is ready to allow his beloved brother to be in jail for something he did not commit. All he has to do is confess and his innocent brother will be free. But he is afraid.
Love, due to which one of these twins (the innocent one) does not give up on his guilty brother and stays patiently in jail. Just because he loves him. Just because he thinks it is right and just to suffer for someone you lone.
John and Ann Betar weren’t supposed to get married. Her father had arranged for her to wed another man, but she and John fled Bridgeport and eloped to New York. That was more than 80 years ago. The couple is still happily married, a fact that has led to their naming as the “longest married couple” in the U.S. for 2013 by Worldwide Marriage Encounter, a Christian marriage group based in San Bernardino, Calif. (1, 2)
After all, this is what really matters folks! Not arguments for or against God. Not debates for or against theism.
What atheists will never understand, is that life’s truly important things are the things which make us humans, the things one cannot measure. The things one cannot replicate in a lab. The things science is silent about. The things for which true and honest religion talks about.
Religion has exalted marriage to one of its greatest Mysteries. I am truly curious to see how atheists celebrate love, besides their inherent belief that it stems from… eating too much chocolate.
