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miércoles, octubre 19, 2005

We did not create ourselves

It does some time while I studied in the university the physiology branch (study of the internal operation of our organism) and I was surprised by the incredible form as the different systems that allow our life are related.
The relation of the Respiratory System with the Circulatory System, for example, is surprising; all our body is in constant renovation, production and remainder of the useless thing. Said of another way, each cell that composes our body, when making its work, eliminates among other things, dioxide of carbon. This remainder of the cell is taken by the red globules of the blood and taken until the lungs, where the globule make round delivery carbon dioxide and receives oxygen, which is taken to the cells of all the corners of our body again so that they follow the essential work of reproduction and product manufacture that our body needs. The interesting thing of the previous example is like two different systems, one related to the movement of the blood and the other related to the movement of oxygen, work in the most perfect agreement to obtain that the life follows ahead, so that each one of us can rise again in the morning, feels desires to feed itself, to undertake all type of challenges, to love, to walk, to communicate and to plan the future among other many things.
Each part of our body works in perfect complicity with all the others so that we are able from moving a finger, happening to raise running a hill, until the possibility that only the human beings have, to dream about a future that not yet exists.
In order to illustrate I am going to name two examples more; The skin indicates to the brain by means of nervous completions that is being burned, from the brain travels an order to the nervous system so that this it contracts a certain nerve, (which is a true cable), and this way the part of the body that was exposed to the fire retires quickly of the danger. The eye presents to us the characteristics of a certain object, thanks to that information our hands know exactly how and from where we must take that object to move it of place.
The cooperation between different parts from our body is perfect and we do not realize generally, because all these miracles comprise permanent of our daily routine.
And how did this take place, as it got to work this fantastic harmony? Many say that it took place by himself, which passing of thousands of years so that from a basic cell (whose origin they cannot explain with absolute certainty) and by means of evolution, it was come to conclusion. But this theory has between many faults, the one of not explaining as the perfect cooperation got to take place between one and the other systems. Systems that cannot have been born first one and later the other, because each one needs the other to survive.
There is an order established in a certain moment, until the person with less knowledge can ocurr to take knowledge about this, and that order inevitably speaks us of a superior being, speaks to us of God. God ordered all the things so that they worked correctly and that order was not structured alone, by simple chance. God in its Word shows to us that was He the one that create and organized each part of our body and the form in which it had to work so that the life took place.
In the Bible, the book of David, says the following thing about God:

13: For thou didst form my inward parts, thou didst knit me together in my mother's womb. 14: I praise thee, for thou art fearful and wonderful. Wonderful are thy works! Thou knowest me right well; 15: my frame was not hidden from thee, when I was being made in secret, intricately wrought in the depths of the earth. 16: Thy eyes beheld my unformed substance; in thy book were written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there was none of them.
(Psalm 139, 13-16)

Its surprising that this text says "... in thy book were written... ", it reminds me a lot the Genetic Code that the man finishes discovering and that still he is deciphering. Thistext, written does more than two thousand years, it speaks to us that God was the one that create our body and allow that worked. How, reviewing the perfection of this could we think that we created ourselves?. That idea escapes to all human logic. Its like if we were saying that a certain building created itself, due to the passage of time. In this situation the idea becomes inconceivable, and we say that an architect must it have done. And a building is infinitely simpler than still the simple part but of our body.
God leave us the wonders of its creation like testimony of its existence, of such form that not yet having heard never speak about Him, we pruned to deduce its presence by the wonders that surround to us.
Then, how not believing in the existence of God? It would be easier to show its existence that try to deny it.

jueves, octubre 13, 2005

Why do we maintain addictions?

When we talk of addictions, normally thinks about alcohol, drugs or tobacco. I speak of addictions in a ampler sense, which involves the use of the mentioned substances, but that includes in addition the actions that we make repeatedly to escape of the things we do not like, of the world that surrounds us, or of we ourself. I speak of the addiction to the work, of the addiction to opposed sex, the game, Internet or to any other made activity compulsively and that implies a so exclusive attention that it leaves others things important for our development outside. One and another addiction is harmful. The addiction to drugs is more well-known, but the conducts that have character of addictive, being accepted socially, also are harmful. I believe that what differentiates to one from another one are the effects that each one produces, but the problems that initiate them, are similar, although varying in intensity and complexity.
The drugs always have existed, but why now its use is so necessary to the people? I see the man moving in two scopes, the social one, that is like part of a group and the personal scope, intimo, the one of the reality of the weaknesses and defects. In group means the man (or woman) must be a triunfador, a conseguidor of goals and all we are in this same merry-go-round. Everything to ours around sings odas to which it makes money, scale, the one is able to obtain visible goals (without mattering as) and on the contrary watches with a little scorn to which it does not put all his effort in the daily fight and prevails. Some will say that always it has been thus, and is right, but never with the intensity of our days. This competition that is part of the life of all us, is growing permanently in intensity and every time we are more demanded, our fatigue at the end of the day is greater, our desire to make other activities is smaller every day, and finally our isolation by the lack of time increases.
As it is our life then; mediocre, without motivations, occupied of everything, of anything, because always single tour around the urgent thing but for anything of the important thing that finally is for which the human being is put in this earth. But in spite of everything, the poor citizen man follows (and he must) working, and as group obtains great things; the technology advances vertiginously, the economy generates wealth and it sells endless things that often we did not need, are constructed gigantic engineer installations, are obtained deep and disquieting scientific advances, the society "evolves" and in appearance it becomes every day more liberal and...
But in the meantime, what is happening with the other part of this human being? with that it has relation with his privacy, with his fears, his limitations, its personal experiences that formed and deformed him, what happens with this being who is of meat and bone, that has limits, that needs by its mental health to have them and to stop sometimes to reflect or to rest and under no point of view can do it. How does this creature makes to survive in a world that on the one hand urges on it to produce more, in many cases beyond of its physical forces and that on the other hand fill it of many small great gifts (carrots??) in order to maintain it happy and working. What exit does it has left to balance its own limitations versus the excessive exigencies of the means that surround it. The most occupied are the small addictions, those that make it forget by a while, to alienate itself of the stern thing, the demanding thing. And these go from the simple act to arrive at the house and to remain beaten in front of the television set, happening to work in excess to avoid to consider another kind of problems, to arriving at the frank use of alcohol, tobacco or drugs. The addiction happens to be the crutch that it affirms us in our weaknesses and for that reason they are so difficult to leave, because on the one hand the pressures of the means that surround to us, far from diminishing, increase and our weaknesses follow there, living with us, making us uncomfortable and uneasiness.
I feel that the human beings, in some aspects we are very weak and I do not say it like something negative, but like another leave more from our own nature. Suddenly we seem invincible, proud of the obtained thing, untiring in our eagerness, but the truth is that all we needed to be beloveds, recognized in our profits, accepted in our vulnerability, forgiven in our mistakes. Whenever we thought that we have all the solution in our hands, harder the way is done to us, because we are not able to solve everything, we cannot reach everything what we want, we have limitations, we are finally "Human beings".
The addictions arise then like an answer, easy, at the hand to face a hostile world in some aspects, that we must face with weaknesses that are part of ourselves. We can improve these deficiencies ours, but also it is important that we consider that we do not have to be super-people to be happy. All we are different, each one with his and to his. In the acceptance of our strengths and weaknesses the departure point of better life. But it is not enough with it, it is necessary that we consider to another one, to which we have close, not to have some type of emotive transaction(you give me, I give you), but to want to know it a little beyond the habitual thing, to communicate and to review together all this that is happening to us, like individual beings and society. I believe that the greater risk than we are running, is the isolation (in the era of the communications, oh paradoxical) in which we worked daily; we do not go to the meetings of our children in the school, talked with other only of superficial things, we marvelled ourselves with one and thousand stupid things comunications media tell to us, we participated little in group initiatives to review what happens in our district and in short, we preferred a good afternoon of TV in house to any other activity. To participate, to be made listen, to look for the improvements that we needed as social group is the best remedies against the addictions, because the fullness is not thinking only about ourselves but in the others and as I comprise to them.

miércoles, octubre 12, 2005


I declare my principles

Today I am going to begin this experience. The possibility it is to share, to contribute, to come off themselves as much content without processing.
The world moves without halting and in they are passing all type of event that apparently are unconnected or distant of others. And While this happens, the human beings moved away more and more of others. We isolate ourselves, we plasticized ourselves to be beautiful and winner. And the world follows ahead and the facts that happen are taking form and indicating an arrival place, a point at the end of the way that seems not to have deflection.
To the misfortune of Icaro and Dedalo, we are flying more and more low, between the maze and the shades, entangled in the slippery shade of the technology, the work to prevail or to live. I want, I am, I hope, you will love to me?, will be worth the pain your love? Live Icaro, I prefer to risk to me to be to me locked up in mazmorra, I chosse to jump to emptiness to look for what all man must find.
I rescue the looking for the truth in the middle of as much lie and adornments, and I do it today from here like would do it if I was shipwrecked in an island, sending to the water a bottle with its message, without knowing if it will arrive, without imagining toward where can travel, whereupon winds, with as tides.
The truth I think that she is a single one, the perspective are many, the points of view are so many as human beings there are in this world, and I today like many, I want to express mine