WHY ARE WE HERE? WHERE WILL WE GO?

Here is a summary from The New York Times showing that the COVID-19 pandemic in our World is getting worse. More revelations from President Trump’s tax records The latest Times investigation into the president’s tax data   and other records found that more than 200 companies, special-interest groups and foreign governments had patronized Mr. Trump’s properties, funneling in millions of dollars, while reaping benefits from him and his administration. “As president, Mr. Trump built a system of direct presidential influence-peddling unrivaled in modern American politics,” writes an investigative team that has been covering the president’s finances and taxes for almost four years. Here are the investigation’s   key findings   and   a note from our executive editor , Dean Baquet, that includes links to all of the team’s work. You think President Donald Trump has been evasive about his true health condition?  From TNYT : In Britain,   Prime Minister Boris Johnso...

It was damning enough that the boorish performance by Donald Trump in his debate with Joe Biden last week hurt his cause.  Then soon thereafter Trump contracted COVID-19.  He could have blamed Biden, but it was all too clear that the unmasked nomination ceremony at the White House of Amy Barrett to the Supreme Court was probably the super spreader source.  More than 20 people working there have now been infected, and it is the world hotspot, in cases/million, for this disease. Wonder why Amy Barrett escaped this ambush?  No Neanderthal gene?  ( scroll down to my previous posting ) Not sure, but the primary reason is that she already suffered from this coronavirus a few months ago.  Oh, an aside, she is (was? ) a church leader for a secret church society known as People of Praise , which is severely anti-abortion and where only men are ordained to head family and church.  The Democrats will have some fun if enough Republicans can stay healthy for the c...

Experts are slowly beginning to understand why some of us are more prone to become infected from COVID-19 with higher  mortality rates.  Pre-conditions and older age certainly hurt, and so does economic level.  Now, your genes are coming into play. As only a beginning, if you have Neanderthal genes , that is now almost a pre-condition for COVID-19 mortality, or soon will be.  How do you know if you harbor this cluster of genes?   You can test for your DNA.  Genetics Digest provides some guidelines: Don't necessarily buy a popular brand. Look for the details you want. Find a company with a professional in charge. Top three: #1 CRI Genetics :  two options, $99 and $199 ( supposedly they had a 50% off offer that expired yesterday ) #2 23andMe :  $99, $199 and $499 kits #3 AncestryDNA :  $99 and $119  You need to confirm with them about that Neanderthal gene. In general, what are your odds of harboring this gene  ( the darker the pur...

On 23 September 2020 I presented the scientific view of why we are here .  Today, from the religious perspective.  One of Paul Gauguin's most famous paintings is,  Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are we Going? At the heart of the issue is the age-old question, what is the meaning of life?  Read this  Wikipedia summary, where, after traipsing through all of history with the most eminent philosophers of their day, a passage appears: In  Monty Python's The Meaning of Life , there are several allusions to the meaning of life. At the end of the film, a character played by  Michael Palin  is handed an envelope containing "the meaning of life", which she opens and reads out to the audience: "Well, it's nothing very special. Uh, try to be nice to people, avoid eating fat, read a good book every now and then, get some walking in, and try to live together in peace and harmony with people of all creeds and nations." [213] [214] [215] Good an expla...