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By: JonathanAquino send a private message
Manila : Philippines | 5 months ago  
When John F. Kennedy was brought into the emergency room after the assassination, a geneticist named Dr. Thor Bitterbaum swiped off some tissue and, with an unsuspecting...
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    Posted By slydog slydog | 5 months ago
    Brave New World has become Brave Now World!
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    Reply By JonathanAquino JonathanAquino | 5 months ago
    Yeah -- the future is now! That's bad news for procrastinators.
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    Reply By slydog slydog | 5 months ago
    I never put off today what I can put off tomorrow! :-)
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    Posted By BorderExplorer BorderExplorer | 5 months ago
    Jonathan, you have presented so much to think about. Sometimes it seems like scientific advances are outpacing our ability to integrate them into human life. I really appreciate the way you make the material understandable.
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    Reply By JonathanAquino JonathanAquino | 5 months ago
    There's a Reader's Digest cartoon I saw a while back. Guy was talking to the phone, and the caption underneath says: "Thank you for calling TechSupport. If your computer unit has already been phased out, press 1." Well, we all heard it said that the only constant thing in life is change. We just have to adapt, I guess, and maybe even learn a thing or two while we go about it. Thank you BorderEx, and when I feel down and unsure about my writing future, I'll remember your encouragement.
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    Posted By Snoidlepuff Snoidlepuff | 5 months ago
    Im slightly confused on the basis of Josh. Was the presidents cloned offspring real? Or was it attempted, but failed?
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    Reply By JonathanAquino JonathanAquino | 5 months ago
    The idea of President Kennedy being cloned is the actually the scenario of the novel "Joshua, Son of None" by Nancy Freedman. It was written in the 1970s and its prescience is unnerving -- but it is fiction. Then again, I wouldn't be suprised if the U.S.government have made secret attempts to clone human beings. They sure took some tissue samples from the aliens they caught at Roswell -- oh never mind!
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    Reply By Snoidlepuff Snoidlepuff | 5 months ago
    Aliens, I want to here/know of this, please tell ^^
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    Posted By JarretteFellowsJr JarretteFellowsJr | 5 months ago
    Interesting article. Raises a lot of moral questions. What category does a clone belong? It is not human. Human beings are comprised of a spirit and soul. Man cannot provide these. They are the providence of God. So, I ask, what is a cloned being? Will human clones be accorded rights under the Constitution (in America for instance)? Will they be able to procreate? What Pandora's Box are we about to open (or have aleady opened)? Besides, the world already has 4 billion people. God didn't need any help creating people.
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    Reply By JonathanAquino JonathanAquino | 5 months ago
    There is a saying that "If it looks like a duck and talks like a duck, then it must be a duck" -- or something like that. I believe that if a human clone comes out in the open, he DESERVES the full protection of his inalienable human rights as provided by the Geneva Convention. That's the thing about moral issues: they are inherently subjective --I'm sure you've heard "One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter." Personally though, if a human clone exists out there, I would rather have him keep it secret, unless he wants to be treated as a carnival novelty, and subjected to the whims of scientists and government agents. God doesn't need our help in creating new earthlings, but we're always there to give Him a hand when it comes to destroying earth itself.
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    Reply By allknower allknower | 5 months ago
    Jr.,

    Even for people who are born through the natural process - how many of them have a 'soul'? How can a person say that the cloned ones are the cursed ones? 'cause last time I checked nothing moves let alone gets created until God says 'Yes'. So, that being said , I'd back you up on your last point - you are spot on when you say that already we have too many naturally cryin' babies ; sick, dying, starving that who would want to go through the trouble of having one through artificial means. Government's should now interfere and ban any research focused on making cloned humans - but R&D for cloning other than human cloning may continue.
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    Reply By JonathanAquino JonathanAquino | 5 months ago
    Sadly, yeah, I've encountered people who I perceived as "soul-less." In fact, in my blog post today, there's a line that goes, "I have encountered college graduates without good manners and professionals without good conduct." I fully believe that having a soul is NOT the basis of being human -- it is CHARACTER. A live human clone is animated by the lifeforce, or if you will, soul, which permeates the entire universe; you know, like The Force? Zen Buddhism teaches that nature is a living being. As for further research and development, I'm all for it. I fully agree that modern scientific knowledge should be oriented towards solving existing problems and not satisfying whims.
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    Posted By caitlin caitlin | 5 months ago
    Great article- raises the issues of cloning without pulling the soap box out of the closet.
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    Posted By JonathanAquino JonathanAquino | 5 months ago
    I've heard of "skeletons in the closet" and "closet queens" but it's the first time I encountered "Pulling the soap box out of the closet" -- and I'm supposed to be an English teacher?! Thanks for post Caitlin!

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