"He that heareth you heareth me" - Anti-Virus Minute Robots Smaller than a Mustard Seed

 

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Anti-Virus Minute Robots Smaller than a Mustard Seed

A corona-virus has the diameter of about 80 to 220 nm (10^-9 meters).  So, in a cubic feet, one million times one trillion (10^18) viruses can be put.

On the other hand, the size of a human cell is about 20 micro-meters, which is 100 times larger than the virus.

As the time goes by, with development of science, someday the mankind might be able to create a robot of the size of a virus or a human cell.  This minute robot designed to fight and kill viruses would save the mankind from viruses.

Regrettably, at the present time, the mankind can only create medicines based on chemical formula and experimental data to combat viruses and consequent diseases.

So, how many years should pass till the mankind can create this anti-virus minute robot that can be taken into the human body like a medicine?

At present, the smallest engine the men has ever made has the diameter of 0.06 micro-meters or the size of one thousandth of the diameter a human hair, which was created by the University of Cambridge.  So, in decades, we may be able to create anti-virus minute robot that can get inside the human body, flow in the blood, and find, fight, and kill viruses.

But, as viruses can be biological weapons, this type of new robots can be also used as weapons.  The mankind may be saved from viruses and pandemics, but must face a new threat of virus-size robots as weapons.

The competition among nations must not only be restricted in the space, the moon, or the mars, but also be widened and deepened to the virus world. 

Indeed, for true development of science and technology, we need faith in God.

Matthew 17
20 And Jesus said unto them, Because of your unbelief: for verily I say unto you, If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto you.

If scientists in this century has faith as a grain of a mustard seed, they can create an anti-virus minute robot smaller than a mustard seed.  

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Luke 10 King James Version
15 And thou, Capernaum, which art exalted to heaven, shalt be thrust down to hell.
16 He that heareth you heareth me; and he that despiseth you despiseth me; and he that despiseth me despiseth him that sent me.
17 And the seventy returned again with joy, saying, Lord, even the devils are subject unto us through thy name.
18 And he said unto them, I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven.
19 Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you.

"know my sheep, and am known of mine" - One of 600 Billion Men: God's Son

 

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One of 600 Billion Men: God's Son

There is a theory that anything that has ever happened in this universe can happen again.

The fact that a certain event has ever occurred means that the possibility of occurrence of the event is not zero.  And situations around the event can be given a relevant trial for them to realize the event again infinite times.

So, no matter how small the probability is, it can happen again in infinite trials in the situations, since any number multiplied by infinite can be greater 2, 3, or more.

However, in reality, this whole university is finite at any moment and the time that can elapse in this university has not be proven to be infinite (specifically it is said to be less than 14 billion years since the emergence of this university). 

For example, it is said the the total number of human beings who have ever been born is about 600 billion (6 x 10^11) in past 2 million years, according to a certain calculation (on the assumption that 5 million people lived 10,000 years ago in the earth; http://www.kijo-riron.com/ronbun/2003/ningensousu.html).  

But only one man is the Son of the God.  The probability that the Son of the God is born among human beings is about 1/(10^12), which is 0.000000000001 but not zero, in terms of the number of human beings.  But, the establishment of one man must be a result of some complicated trials in the nature and spirit.  It means that one Son of God can appear once in 600 billion multiplied by the numbers of certain trials (such as recombination of DNA, mutation of genes, etc.) related to establishment of a man. 

So far as now, factors that enable emergence of the Son of God have not had power equivalent to far more than these past 600 billion plus trials.  Therefore we have only one Son of the God.

But when some critical factors come to have power equivalent to more than 600 billion plus times of those past trials, there should be the Second Coming of Christ Jesus.  

In this context, if the total prayers and religious actions of Christians come to have power equivalent to more than 600 billion plus trials of those past factors, the Second Coming of Christ Jesus might be realized. 

It might mean that all the present people, about 7 billion, must live each at least 100 times more pious and religious life than each of the past men had, on the assumption that such pious living accelerates the probability of emergence of the Son of the God among the mankind.  

From a different point of view, as Christ Jesus appeared 2,000 years after Abraham, we might see the Second Coming of Christ Jesus sooner or later in the 21st century, since 2,000 years have passed since the First Coming of Christ Jesus.  Time in the history might have more power than the mankind can have. 

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Joh 10:14 I am the good shepherd, and know my sheep, and am known of mine.
Joh 10:15 As the Father knoweth me, even so know I the Father: and I lay down my life for the sheep.
Joh 10:16 And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one fold, and one shepherd.
Joh 10:17 Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again.
Joh 10:18 No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This commandment have I received of my Father.

"more tolerable in that day for Sodom, than for that city" - The 2020 Pandemic and The 1918 Pandemic

 

A Shinto Shrine around Tokyo

The 2020 Pandemic and The 1918 Pandemic 

The current corona-pandemic and the 1918 Spanish-flu pandemic were caused by the same type of viruses, influenza A virus subtype H1N1 (A/H1N1).

In virology, influenza A virus subtype H1N1 (A/H1N1) is a subtype of Influenza A virus. Well known outbreaks of H1N1 strains in humans include the 2009 swine flu pandemic, as well as the 1918 flu pandemic... 

Some strains of H1N1 are endemic in humans and cause a small fraction of all influenza-like illness and a small fraction of all seasonal influenza, for instance in 2004–2005. Other strains of H1N1 are endemic in pigs (swine influenza) and in birds (avian influenza). Its size is 80 to 120 nm in diameter... 

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Influenza_A_virus_subtype_H1N1)

However, how the 1918 Spanish-flu pandemic was generated is not yet fully understood.  Some argue that the epicenter was a British military post in France in WWI; others claim that it started in State of Kansas, USA; or part of the rest stress that about 100,000 Chinese laborers mobilized by the UK and France in WWI brought the Spanish-flu viruses to Europe.

Interestingly 17 million people died in India due to the 1918 Spanish-flu pandemic, which accounted for 40% of global deaths due to the pandemic.  In WWI, India joined the UK in WWI as a British colony, sending Indian soldiers to Europe, Africa, and the Middle East.  When these Indian soldiers went back to India after WWI, India came to suffer the pandemic.

No matter where the 1918 Spanish-flu pandemic was generated, it spread globally due to the massive movement of Chinese and Indians that had been promoted by development and intensification of the Industrial Revolution started in the UK before the start of the 19th century.  The early modern and large-scale globalization of economy and culture in the early 20th century caused the global spread of the damage due to the pandemic.  The main players must be the British Empire as well as then its colony India in addition to China under threat of the Western colonial powers.

Now in the early 21st century, as economic globalization has entered into a new phase with economic success of Japan after WWII, subsequent success of China after Japan, and following success of India now independent from the UK due to WWII, the possibility of global spread of a new pandemic has increased and it actually has come true.  This time, the epicenter has been identified as Wuhan, China.  China has been actively and ambitiously pursing economic and political hegemony in the world since the start of the 21st century sending, every year, millions or more of tourists, business men, students, etc. to the U.S., Europe, and Japan in addition to other developing countries.  But, the U.S, and Western Europe are suffering far greater damage and infectious deaths of 400,000 or 40% of the global deaths (combined as of in the middle of October 2020) while China has reported only less than 5,000 deaths, which is dubious though, (Japan with less than 2,000 deaths). 

So, the current corona-pandemic and the 1918 Spanish-flu pandemic can be discussed and analyzed from the same point of view: the side effect of the globalization of economy and culture.  The 1918 Spanish-flu pandemic occurred while the world was experiencing the first modern globalization with the UK at its center, and the 2020 corona-pandemic has been spreading while the world is experiencing the second modern globalization with the U.S. and China at its core. 

But, in the 1918 Spanish-flu pandemic, the number of related global deaths surpassed the total number of war deaths in WWI.  This 2020 corona-pandemic might foretell the coming WWIII where biological weapons might be used although WWII ended with world's first nuclear weapons used by the U.S.

China, Islamic terrorists, Russian  militarists, etc. that are against Western democracy and freedom might secretly launch WWIII with unseen viruses or other disease germs.  In the 1918 Spanish-flu pandemic, it is estimated that 500 million people were infected and the number of deaths was 50 million or more.  If science made it possible to create more devastating biological weapons, damage would far surpass the level in the 1918 Spanish-flu pandemic.

In this context, how the U.S. and the world will suppress the spread of and damage from the current corona-pandemic is all the more important.  It must lead to prevention of WWIII.  As the Bible tells, WWIII must come at unexpected time in an unexpected manner, or its prelude might have already begun with the 2020 corona-viruses.  

The Revelation or the Apocalypse must not be included in the Bible for any other reason than real warning to the mankind living 2,000 years after the crucifixion of Christ Jesus. 

 

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Luke 10    King James Version
10 But into whatsoever city ye enter, and they receive you not, go your ways out into the streets of the same, and say,
11 Even the very dust of your city, which cleaveth on us, we do wipe off against you: notwithstanding be ye sure of this, that the kingdom of God is come nigh unto you.
12 But I say unto you, that it shall be more tolerable in that day for Sodom, than for that city.
13 Woe unto thee, Chorazin! woe unto thee, Bethsaida! for if the mighty works had been done in Tyre and Sidon, which have been done in you, they had a great while ago repented, sitting in sackcloth and ashes.

"seeth the wolf coming, and leaveth the sheep, and fleeth" - A VIP Patient and an Old Decent Female Patient

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A VIP Patient and an Old Decent Female Patient

A Japanese medical doctor specialized in terminal care who has seen death of a thousand people wrote a book on impressive cases of death in the hospital he has been working in.

One of the cases is about a person of weight in local business and politics.  Until his death, the VIP patient behaved in a reasonable manner as an influence.   Even when he had to see a famous politician coming from Tokyo to the city, he asked the doctor to give him steroid to suppress his difficulty in breathing so that he could go out of the hospital and properly respond to a political boss from Tokyo without showing his weakness.  The doctor judged that steroid was safe if given in a short time.  So, the VIP patient could perform his duty without seriousness of his disease being noticed by others.

Many executives and presidents of various local organizations and companies came to the hospital to see the VIP patient, but sometime the VIP patient gave reprimand to them in loud voices for some reasons, which could be heard by nurses outside the hospital room, so that nurses were impressed that the VIP man was still full of spirit although he was close to the end of life.  This attitude of the VIP patient never changed.  He did not even show his fear of death to the medical doctor.  And, in the middle of a kind of power struggle where the VIP patient won, he passed away surrounded by his entourages enjoying the victory but being embarrassed by the death of their boss.  The medical doctor thought that the VIP patient finally died without showing his personal weakness to anybody.

In another case, a 80-year old woman who was still infused with grace died in the hospital like a tree died with leaves falling.  She always expressed her appreciation to nurses, hospital visitors, etc.  The medical doctor thought that this old woman must have looked extremely beautiful when she was young, although she was not married but her younger sister and her younger sister's husband took care of her.  The old woman was liked by all in the hospital because of her amiablity, and said to the medical doctor one day that a tree finally lost all leaves and died with only its bare trunk left.  Indeed, several months later, she died rather peacefully.  

After her death, the doctor talked with her sister's husband as she created a very positive image as a patient at the terminal stage.  To the doctor praising her attitude always expressing her appreciation to people around her, the sister's husband said that his sister-in-law was stern with him.  She never had an overly sweet manner in facing relatives.  Yet, the medical doctor thought that the old woman died like a glorious tree.   

A man can be a social personality he has made up for himself even at the end of his life so as to protect himself.  But a woman may have enemies in her private world more often than a man.  In this context, a hidden female enemy might be more dangerous than explicit enemies in society. 

Even Christ Jesus had an enemy or a betrayer among His followers.  It must be a good luck that He was not betrayed by a female follower.

  

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John 10    King James Version

10 The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.
11 I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep.
12 But he that is an hireling, and not the shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, seeth the wolf coming, and leaveth the sheep, and fleeth: and the wolf catcheth them, and scattereth the sheep.
13 The hireling fleeth, because he is an hireling, and careth not for the sheep.
14 I am the good shepherd, and know my sheep, and am known of mine.

"his disciples asked him again" - When He Lived as a Mere Son of Man

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When He Lived as a Mere Son of Man

When a Japanese boy was seriously sick, he seriously thought that he might die.  But a female medical doctor gave him certain medical drugs that miraculously cured him.  The boy was so thrilled and got determined to be a medical doctor someday himself.

As time went by, the boy graduated from a medical school to become a physician.  But, what he saw in a university hospital was ugly sates of dying people.  While in movies or TV dramas, a dying man usually left impressive words to crying family members surrounding him.  But, reality was ugly.  Patients in their last weeks or days before death behaved in ugly manners without human dignity.  So, he decided to be an end-of-life expert.  He changed the hospital to work in to a hospital specialized in end-of-life care. 

Through various experiences, he found that steroid, when used at proper timing, worked well and stabilized symptomatic states of many patients in the end-of-life period, although guidelines told not to use it readily for old men.  

He also found that use of morphine (hydromorphone) was often rejected by old patients as wrong information prevailed that use of morphine led to intoxication or mental troubles.  But he reached a conviction that proper use of morphine helped relief of suffering of dying old patients.  He started to use morphine in the form of adhesive skin patches to confirm the effect.

So, the medical doctor saw hundreds of old men passing away.  He focused on applying medical care that gave less pains to dying patients.  If a patient is noticed that he or she is given, say, only half year to live, he thinks, medical service workers including a medical doctor should concentrate on making the patient feel less pain and keep quality of life rather than inserting an intravenous line to give unnecessary nutrition.

Within days before death, old dying patients sometimes develop delirium or psychotic disorders that take away human dignity from them and make family members sad.  So, the medical doctor thinks that it is reasonable that the mankind came to produce religion and develop the concept of Heaven and the God to cure themselves from extreme sadness they felt facing death of closest family members, friends, etc.   

However, Christ Jesus said that He was from the God and we were from this world.  And we could get to Heaven only through Christ Jesus.  

Probably human religions before Jesus had been not sufficient to save people, so that the God sent His Son to correct and enhance human religion.  Indeed, no matter what race a man is of or no matter what religion he believes in, a man dies within a maximum of 130 years.  Death is universal among the mankind, even for Christ Jesus when He lived as a mere son of man around Jerusalem.        

    

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Mark 10 King James Version
9 What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.
10 And in the house his disciples asked him again of the same matter.
11 And he saith unto them, Whosoever shall put away his wife, and marry another, committeth adultery against her.
12 And if a woman shall put away her husband, and be married to another, she committeth adultery.

"Go not from house to house" - If One Was Promised Eternal Life

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If One Was Promised Eternal Life

A few decades ago, a publisher of a monthly magazine in Japan asked readers to post real stories (non-fiction) about death of their families, friends, and people around.  Most of their stories told peaceful sates of death of closest family members.     

Although Japan is not a Christian country, dying persons were not afraid of the hell but believed that they could enter the paradise, despite their fear of being dead.

An old dying woman told her grand son that death was not anything special but a natural event.  An old dying man told his daughter that it was the time to go; when she asked where to go, he replied that he was going to another world.  When a dying man said that he was afraid, his daughter said that there was no need to be afraid, although she was not so sure, and then her dying father got into a peaceful death.  In another case, an old father told in his dying bed to his crying family what should be prepared for his funeral in details and gave an alert to watch out and get cracking. 

There is influence of Buddhism among ordinary people in Japan.  Although most of them are not Christians and do not believe in the one God, the creator of the world, they do believe existence of anther world, the paradise or the Pure Land taught in Buddhism.

A certain reader even wrote that her dying father was entering into another world and coming back to this world for some time at his will while lying in his dying bed.  Her father told her that another world was so splendid that she should also come together now, but his daughter said that it was impossible since she was busy in this world.  Then, her father said that it was understood, and added: "Oh, I lost the key.  I cannot come back any more."  Accordingly, the old father was soon gone forever.  

Nowadays, about a million people die in Japan every year.   But only few people seem to worry about the Last Judgment or whether they can be admitted into Heaven.  Most of factions or schools of Japanese Buddhism teach that anybody who believes in the Buddha or Amitabha Buddha would be welcomed in the paradise or the Pure Land.  Some schools even tell that bad guys can be surely accepted in the paradise due to mercy of Amitabha Buddha, so all the more faithful people are welcomed in the paradise.  There is no strong sense of the Last Judgment by the God, but the Japanese common sense that "let the water carry it away" seems to prevail in the last stage of one's life.   

 

When one dies and goes into Heaven or the hell or another world, money, social status, and past worldly success become useless.  Only the relationship between oneself and the God, the Buddha, Amitabha Buddha, or Satan counts.  And such relationship cannot be bought by money even from Satan who would request one's soul for any wealth or success in this world.

Christ Jesus should not praise any dead man who has earned big money in this world.  But rich men should not be able to think of anything but money they can rely on even after death.  So, they must think that that they should earn money as much as possible, in case, for a need in another world if they think that it ever exists. 

In my personal view, it is most encouraging that the Bible or Christ Jesus tells that anybody believing Him and the God would be given eternal life.

But one of the most impressive stories about someone's death was reported by a nurse who wrote a book on her professional experiences.  A girl in an early elementary grade hospitalized for a specific illness, who friendly communicated with other elder patients of the same illness in the hospital, cried out to her doctor one day: "Please never let me die since others will become so sad, since I am the youngest among those patients."  The nurse wrote that the girl finally lost her life due to the fatal illness, but she lived well until death, which moved the nurse.

If one was promised eternal life, one might wish others their happiness and mind them more than one's own death like this Japanese little girl. 

      

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Luke 10    King James Version
6 And if the son of peace be there, your peace shall rest upon it: if not, it shall turn to you again.
7 And in the same house remain, eating and drinking such things as they give: for the labourer is worthy of his hire. Go not from house to house.
8 And into whatsoever city ye enter, and they receive you, eat such things as are set before you:
9 And heal the sick that are therein, and say unto them, The kingdom of God is come nigh unto you.
10 But into whatsoever city ye enter, and they receive you not, go your ways out into the streets of the same, and say,

11 Even the very dust of your city, which cleaveth on us, we do wipe off against you: notwithstanding be ye sure of this, that the kingdom of God is come nigh unto you.

"Peace be to this house" - How a Man Survived a Crisis at 8,000 Meters

 

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How a Man Survived a Crisis at 8,000 Meters

In 2013, Yuichiro Miura at his 80 stood on the top of Mt. Everest (with the height of 8,848 meters (29,029 ft)) for his third time but as the oldest man who accomplished this great feat.  But he had succeeded in reaching the summit of Mt. Everest in 2008 at his 75.  Even in 2003 Miura at 70 had stood on the top of Mt. Everest as the oldest man at the time together with his second-eldest son Gota.  But Miura is mostly known as the skier who skied down the slope of Mt. Everest from a 8,000 meter point as recorded in the 1975 film named The Man Who Skied Down Everest.  Yet, Miura's son might be a hero as a man who survived a crisis at 8,000 meters.

When Yuichiro was climbing up Mt. Everest in 2008 with his son Gota who accompanied Yuichiro for assistance in case, Gota suffered from altitude sickness at a point over 8,000 metes and was about to almost lose his life, but was narrowly saved by taking Decadron (dexamethasone) for himself, which he happed to carry with him as he had read the book "Last Breath" telling how a climber suffering altitude sickness was saved by taking Decadron. 

Gota went up to a 7500 meter level without oxygen as he had done so in 2003, but started to take about 2 liters of oxygen per minute when he passed a 8,000 meter level as with his old father.  After that, he felt discomfort and breathing difficulty.  Gota decided to go down with help from local guides, while his father Yuichiro continued ascending as he aimed at securing the honor as the oldest man who stood on the summit of Mt. Everest.  

A device that indicated oxygen saturation (SpO2) of Gota's arterial blood showed the value of 52% (normally 90%).  The oxygen bottle he was using showed 150 atmospheric pressure as the remaining pressure.  He tried to calculate how long oxygen could be taken from the bottle based on the formula of (amount of oxygen x remaining pressure) / (flow rate of oxygen per minute).  But his brain could not work.

To cure himself, Gota took an injection of Decadron by himself and started to take 4 liters per minute oxygen.  He called a medical doctor who stood by in Japan via a satellite phone from the slope of Mt. Everest and got advice to get another shot 2 hours later.  Then he continued descending to an intermediate camp while hearing a Japanese voice of someone importunately calling to him, "Don't rest.  Hurry up.  Go back to the camp!"  It is a kind of near-death experience.  With effect of Decadron and 4 liters of oxygen per minute, he finally survived.

Climbers who suffered cerebral edema at the altitude of 8,000 meters or above surely came to a miserable end.  But Gota could remarkably survive due to the mysterious voice, which made him forget a fear of death, persistently encouraging him to continue descending in addition to Decadron and 4 litters per minute oxygen.

This episode might be useful for patients suffering from corona viruses and needing artificial respirators.  Appropriate medicines such as Decadron, enough oxygen, and encouraging and comforting voices like one coming from one's father must save such patients.        

NOTE:  Decadron (dexamethasone) is a corticosteroid, similar to a natural hormone produced by the adrenal glands, used to treat arthritis, skin, blood, kidney, eye, thyroid, intestinal disorders, severe allergies, and asthma. Decadron is also used to treat certain types of cancer and occasionally, cerebral edema. The brand name Decadron is no longer available in the U.S; it may be available as a generic.

(https://www.rxlist.com/decadron-drug.htm)

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Luke 10    King James Version

3 Go your ways: behold, I send you forth as lambs among wolves.
4 Carry neither purse, nor scrip, nor shoes: and salute no man by the way.
5 And into whatsoever house ye enter, first say, Peace be to this house.
6 And if the son of peace be there, your peace shall rest upon it: if not, it shall turn to you again.
7 And in the same house remain, eating and drinking such things as they give: for the labourer is worthy of his hire. Go not from house to house.3 Go your ways: behold, I send you forth as lambs among wolves.

"Judas Iscariot, who also betrayed him" - No Followers of Christ Jesus Died from Viruses

 

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No Followers of Christ Jesus Died from Viruses

The body clocks controlling the circadian rhythm inside the human body regulate work of autonomous nerve system.  The autonomous nerve system influences capillary blood vessels.  The capillary blood vessels deliver immune cells to tissues in the body.  Therefore, setting properly the body clocks is the key to suppressing corona-viruses and other disease germs.  

These daily rhythms help us to survive by making sure we are the most alert at the most stressful times of the day, making sure our organs run smoothly with our meal times and making sure we fall asleep at the right time.
(http://samtalksabout.blogspot.com/2014/05/are-we-ignoring-our-body-clocks.html)

Blood includes white blood cells including lymphocytes consisting of T cells, B cells, natural killer cells, etc. constituting the immune system against corona-viruses and other disease germs.  Put simply, for the immune system to work properly,  capillary blood vessels should work properly.  For capillary blood vessels to work properly, the autonomous nerve system should function properly.  For the autonomous nerve system to function properly, the body clocks controlling the circadian rhythm should work properly, since the whole body is built on hierarchical, networked, and tightly nit relationships of each element. 

Especially when the parasympathetic nerve system in the autonomous nerve system becomes dominant, lymphocytes increase to enhance immunity.  To make the parasympathetic nerve system dominant, it is important to increase blood flow by performing appropriate physical exercise, deep breathing, and warming the body.  

However, in stress-full life, the sympathetic nerve tends to be dominant.  When one feels stress, the brain nerves reflecting the stress would send corresponding signals through nerve systems in the whole body to result in distortion of body clocks, disruption of the autonomous system, contraction of capillary blood vessels, and insufficient activation of immune cells.

But when you feel love of Christ Jesus, who is at least the Son of the God, it would provide a deep feeling of relaxation in you, and thus your body would be freed from adverse effect of stress, keeping or enhancing immunity to defeat corona-viruses and other disease germs.

In this context, to be loved by the God is the final solution to suppress corona-viruses and other disease germs.  In fact, past Christian saints all conquered epidemics, pandemics, and biological crises that attacked them in slams,  ghettos, and rough places, since they believed that they were loved by the God.  

The Bible never reports that any followers of Christ Jesus died of viruses, since they believed the love of the God and kept their body clocks in a normal state according to the natural rhythm of life given by the God without interference of Satan. 

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Matthew 10 King James Version

4 Simon the Canaanite, and Judas Iscariot, who also betrayed him.
5 These twelve Jesus sent forth, and commanded them, saying, Go not into the way of the Gentiles, and into any city of the Samaritans enter ye not:
6 But go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
7 And as ye go, preach, saying, The kingdom of heaven is at hand.

"if any man be a worshipper of God, and doeth his will, him he heareth" - Being Young and Not Obese: the Key to Conquering the Corona-Pandemic

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Being Young and Not Obese: the Key to Conquering the Corona-Pandemic

To suppress corona-viruses, T cells generated in bone marrow and led to the thymus for further development play a key role.  (However, in the process of development, 95% of T cells are cast out as disqualified in the thymus.)  Aging of the immunity system, which decreases immunity of our body, is mostly ascribed to aging of T cells.

(https://www.researchgate.net/post/T_cells_hidden_immunity_against_Covid-19_What_do_you_think)

The thymus becomes the largest when one is at teenage.  The amount of newly produced T cells in the thymus at one's 40s is one hundredth of those produced in his newborn period.  Accordingly, immunity by T cells at one's 70s decreases to 10% of the level in its prime around the age of 2 years.   The degree of this decrease is larger in "naive T cells" than in "memory T cells" with memory of past viruses.  Therefor old people are vulnerable to new viruses they have never experienced.  

However, calorie restriction is effective for prevention of atrophy or contraction of the thymus caused by aging.  Calorie restriction is generally known to have effect for prevention of aging of mammals.  It suppresses fatty change in the thymus, leading to prevention of naive T cell decrease due to aging and thus strengthening the capacity to resist infection.

Corona-viruses response to T cells through a process similar to that of HIV viruses.  Therefore patients with less T cells need to be taken to early emergency medical care.

So, it is no wonder that the U.S. with many obese persons has many victims of corona-viruses among old people.   Being young and not obese is the key to conquering the corona-pandemic especially in America.  

Especially, calorie restriction seems necessary for old men so as to have a small appetite.  Specifically, it is recommended since the glycolytic systems using energy taken from foods lower their activity in old men but the mitochondrial systems using oxygen come to play a major role in energy generation in their bodies.  So, it is natural for old men to come to have a small appetite, because they can get energy from mitochondria in their cells rather than from foods. 

Christ Jesus must have modified His body so that His body could take more energy from the mitochondrial systems of His body than the glycolytic systems needing foods when He was tempted by Satan in wildness for 40 days.  As a result, He must have been able to travel across Palestine taking few foods. 

So, Christ Jesus said that the body surpassed foods.

Do not think about what you want to eat! 

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John 9    King James Version

29 We know that God spake unto Moses: as for this fellow, we know not from whence he is.
30 The man answered and said unto them, Why herein is a marvellous thing, that ye know not from whence he is, and yet he hath opened mine eyes.
31 Now we know that God heareth not sinners: but if any man be a worshipper of God, and doeth his will, him he heareth.
32 Since the world began was it not heard that any man opened the eyes of one that was born blind.
33 If this man were not of God, he could do nothing.

"This kind can come forth by nothing" - 2001, 2008, 2020, 2060, and the 22nd Century

 

Tokyo

2001, 2008, 2020, 2060, and the 22nd Century

This is the third time that the United States is on alert socially as a whole in the 21st century.  The first was the Islamic terror in 2001, and the second was the subprime loan-triggered financial crisis in 2008.  Finally the U.S. is facing the corona-virus pandemic in 2020.

However, the underlying causes are not addressed completely.  Islamic terrorists have bee active in the Middle East, Africa, etc.; Wall Street companies have been pursuing their profit based on worship of money; and China has no intension to respect democracy and freedom while generating corona-viruses.

They symbolize the major factors threatening the world in the 21st century: religious conflicts generating fanatical believers, devastating greed linked with capitalism, and fight for leadership among major countries (especially between Western countries and the block of China and Russia).

The disillusion to the war on terror and the caution to Wall Street companies allowed for realization of the first black President in the U.S.  Then, reaction occurred in the American society with the emergence of Trump, a dubious billionaire real estate agent and TV personality with racial bias in entertainment programs who claims he has achieved the American Dream.  And, finally, corona-viruses were generated in China starting to openly pursue hegemony in the world to spread in the world and kill a million people in the whole world and 200,000 Americans.     

Put simply, in the 21st century, the U.S. must address the challenge from Islamic extremists whose backgrounds include the gap between rich Christian and Jewish world and the poor Islamic world, the gap between the rich and the poor in the U.S. and other Western countries under capitalism, which can cause devastating financial catastrophe, and anti-democratic counties such as China that can even generate a virus-caused pandemic.

These challenges cannot be addressed by simply electing a black President such as Obama.  And, it must be impossible to fully settle them by electing Biden supported by liberals as president.

In 2001 and 2008, 200,000 Americans were not killed and a million global citizens were not killed.  But, this 2020 corona-virus pandemic is expected to kill a half million Americans and globally 3 million people till it will be subdued probably in the middle of 2021.  This pandemic must eventually trigger WWIII like the 2018 Spanish Flu became a prelude to Great Depression, the rise of Hitler, and WWII.

Since it looks impossible that the mankind can completely suppress and eliminate the possibility of emergence of viruses 10 times or more harmful than the present ones in the future, it can be estimated that the mankind face the collapse of their civilization, the danger of their extinction, or the end of the world in WWIII caused through conflicts among the Christian and Jewish countries, non-democratic China and Russia, and anti-Jewish Islamic countries in great global financial debacles and more fatal pandemics in the 21st century as Isaac Newton predicted that the end of the world might start around 2060.       

Indeed, this 2020 corona-pandemic seems to be a prelude to the more critical crisis, such as WWIII, that will happen in this century.  How will historians in the 22nd century describe the history of the 21st century even if they exist?

For example, they may write: the Son of the God appeared 2000 years after Abraham, and the mankind faced the end of the world 2000 years after they had executed the Son of the God, even if any historians, who might be robots, should exist in the 22nd century.  

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Mark 9    King James Version
28 And when he was come into the house, his disciples asked him privately, Why could not we cast him out?
29 And he said unto them, This kind can come forth by nothing, but by prayer and fasting.
30 And they departed thence, and passed through Galilee; and he would not that any man should know it.
31 For he taught his disciples, and said unto them, The Son of man is delivered into the hands of men, and they shall kill him; and after that he is killed, he shall rise the third day.

"Thou son of David, have mercy on us" - Mercy of the God or Amitabha Buddha to Save People from the Corona-Pandemic

Tokyo

Mercy of the God or Amitabha Buddha to Save People from the Corona-Pandemic

Almost 800 years ago, when the political power was about to shift from the imperial court to a samurai regime in Japan, some unique and notable Buddhist monks appeared, establishing their own schools or versions of Buddhism.

One of them taught that people should concentrate on Buddha or specifically Amitabha Buddha to be saved in this world under control of Satan.  For this purpose, he said that people should just call the name of Amitabha Buddha and ask the deity to save them.  "People should just rely on mercy of Amitabha Buddha to be saved and allowed to enter into the paradise but should not rely on their efforts," he taught.  He asserted that believing in salvation of one's soul by Amitabha Buddha and calling its name was the only way for him to be saved in this corrupted world.

One might acquire enlightenment to be saved through long-term hard learning and rigorous ascetic training, but it is only possible for rare excellent saints such as the Buddha.  Such severe conditions should not be requested or expected to be fulfilled by ordinary people most of whom are poor and not highly educated.  Therefore, ordinary people should abandon their desperate efforts to enhance their levels in understanding truth of the life and the world as well as the paradise and the hell, in order to have their souls saved and allowed to go to the paradise.

Some Buddhist denominations built on such a creed are still active in Japan today.  

The teaching that good people can be saved because even bad people can be saved through calling the name of Amitabha Buddha is the core of their teachings.  According to such a school of Japanese Buddhism, no good deeds, study, training, etc. are useful and effective for one's souls to be saved.  Any man that calls Amitabha Buddha, relying on and trusting in its mercy can be saved and welcomed into the paradise.

It is a kind of anti-elite movement.  When the imperial court was losing political power, which had lasted for centuries, and samurai clans were gaining momentum with their military strength in the Japanese society 800 years ago, people were involve in big turmoil, conflicts, and attrition as well as various natural disasters, famines, etc.  Dead bodies were sometimes left even in streets and river banks of the capital Kyoto at the time of a civil war or a famine.  Buddhism that had been supported, managed, and diffused by the imperial court became useless to help and save ordinary and poor people and, especially, farmers.  Therefore, new schools of Buddhism came to be widely accepted by people around the 12th century of Japan.

Their teachings resemble some Christian principles written in the Bible.  However, the Bible stresses that love is the most important factor among faith, hope, and love.  The Bible ultimately declares that whoever calls the name of God for help can be saved.

For example, when one is suffering from corona-viruses, one's learned wisdom, scholarly achievements, past good deeds, social status and even wealth are useless.  One can and should only rely on mercy of the God or Amitabha Buddha.               

  

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Mat 9:26 And the fame hereof went abroad into all that land.
Mat 9:27 And when Jesus departed thence, two blind men followed him, crying, and saying, Thou son of David, have mercy on us.
Mat 9:28 And when he was come into the house, the blind men came to him: and Jesus saith unto them, Believe ye that I am able to do this? They said unto him, Yea, Lord.
Mat 9:29 Then touched he their eyes, saying, According to your faith be it unto you.
Mat 9:30 And their eyes were opened; and Jesus straitly charged them, saying, See that no man know it.

"Lord, I believe; help thou mine unbelief" - Activation or Deactivation of Some Genes trough Tragedy or Emergency

A Museum around Tokyo

Activation or Deactivation of Some Genes trough Tragedy or Emergency

Our body is built on genes on DNA, but it is said only less than 10% of genes are working in a cell.  It is also found that a mechanism to suppress activation of some genes plays an important role.

And, it is also studied what factors influence and how they influence activation of genes.  However, it is known that some factors inside and outside the body also influence genes.  It can be easily understood that natural environment influences work of genes to change physical properties of a man.  For example, people in Africa and other tropical regions have dark skins while those in northern areas have pale skins due to their genes.

It can be also understood that foods and physical exercise influence work of genes.  Even laboratory mice fed well in favorable environment grow healthy and sound.  But mice under various stress show various symptoms. 

The point at issue is how psychological or spiritual conditions affect work of genes.  For example, it is said when one faces a sudden tragedy or emergency his physical expression changes in a moment or he he suddenly starts to show extraordinary physical power.

In this context, it should be noticed that most of great religious people had experienced severe conditions to deepen and expand their religious ability.  Through hard ascetic training or living under severe conditions, they developed their faith to be great religious figures.  They must have activated some genes necessary to be excellent religious men.

Jewish people wandered through deserts for 40 years after exodus from Egypt led by Moses.  Christ Jesus spent 40 days in wildness while being tempted by Satan.  Even the tradition of having a simple life and enduring severe living conditions is somewhat inherited in Christianity.  Buddha spent six years in ascetic training even to get close to starvation, although he got enlightenment after this period of training.  Even today, it is recommended to Buddhist disciplinants to train themselves in ascetic training.  Confucius politically roamed and wandered among nations in the Chinese continent for 14 years.  Muhammed often practiced mediation in a cave in a desert.

So, it seems that Jewish people as a mass activated some genes to become religious people through the severe experience.  Christ Jesus, as a son of man, activated some genes to become a founder of new religion in the human world, if I may say so, through the fight against Satan in wilderness.  Or they must have suppressed work of unnecessary genes for their aims.

Especially to suppress unnecessary work of genes seems to be essential for a man to be religious or come to rely on the God.

In this context, a field of medical studies called epigenetics is important:

Epigenetics is the study of heritable changes in gene expression (active versus inactive genes) that do not involve changes to the underlying DNA sequence — a change in phenotype without a change in genotype — which in turn affects how cells read the genes. Epigenetic change is a regular and natural occurrence but can also be influenced by several factors including age, the environment/lifestyle, and disease state. Epigenetic modifications can manifest as commonly as the manner in which cells terminally differentiate to end up as skin cells, liver cells, brain cells, etc. Or, epigenetic change can have more damaging effects that can result in diseases like cancer. At least three systems including DNA methylation, histone modification and non-coding RNA (ncRNA)-associated gene silencing are currently considered to initiate and sustain epigenetic change.1 New and ongoing research is continuously uncovering the role of epigenetics in a variety of human disorders and fatal diseases. (https://www.whatisepigenetics.com/fundamentals/#:~:text=Epigenetics)

Through pandemics in the past, the mankind must have activated some specific work of genes to suppress adverse effects of viruses in their bodies.  Even through this corona-virus pandemic, the mankind may come to activate some specific work of genes to suppress corona-viruses.  Or they may come to suppress some work of genes vulnerable to corona-viruses.

Men can activate or deactivate some work of genes, details of which we do not understand yet, through a tragedy or an emergency, like in the cases of ancient Jewish people.  Probably through hundreds of millions of years, the mankind must have evolved by changing their genes or their work through various tragedies and emergencies to the present status. 

So then, how will our genes be modified after this corona-pandemics?  But, when we fight against Satan and win the fight like in the case of Christ Jesus, we must evolve closer to the God, acquiring o suppressing specific work of genes.

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Mark 9 King James Version

23 Jesus said unto him, If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth.
24 And straightway the father of the child cried out, and said with tears, Lord, I believe; help thou mine unbelief.
25 When Jesus saw that the people came running together, he rebuked the foul spirit, saying unto him, Thou dumb and deaf spirit, I charge thee, come out of him, and enter no more into him.
26 And the spirit cried, and rent him sore, and came out of him: and he was as one dead; insomuch that many said, He is dead.
27 But Jesus took him by the hand, and lifted him up; and he arose.