Cancer is one of the many leading causes of death around the world and the number one leading cause for children in the United States. This disease is heavily funded and most times the topic of terminal illness. Cancer has been normalized to the point we are blinded by how it is actually beneficial. Beneficial? of course, it is. Why terminate an illness that makes people wealthy?
In 2012, cancer made 124.6 billion dollars and in 2014, 895 billion dollars a year, only spending 1.8 billion in prevention costs. They are really making bank on the deaths of millions. The cost for a well-known cancer research organization to run tests is $22,874,676 a year given through donations and outside funding. A small portion of what cancer earns and there is no definite proof that this money goes directly towards the cause of cancer research. "National audit office report indicated that we do not know enough about how the money is spent and whether it is spent wisely and for the benefits of patients," meaning that is "research" could ultimately be for nothing. This research consists of studying the dieting patterns of healthy people and people with cancer and comparing the substances within the food to trace it back to cancer. Then doing tests on healthy people with this information, having them eat the cancer-prone food and the cancer prevention food. Each group not knowing what they are given. Each section of research is consequently disclosed with something along the lines of "the accuracy of this experiment does not directly help to find a cure," not at all reassuring.
All they are actually certain of is that if you eat your veggies, you have a possibility of not getting cancer...a possibility. When the goal for curing cancer was actually for the benefit of patients rather than a face for increasing income from "treatments," they were shut down and shut up. "A great deal of research is covered up, potential cures are ignored because there is far more money in perpetuating illness than curing it."
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It is ironic that the movie "A Cure for Wellness" came out while I write this because just like cancer research it is only benefiting the person, not at risk and leaving the patients in a loop of cancer "cures" while they go broke.
My grandma was one for being cured of cancer multiple times but never long enough for it to make a difference. Her cancer had a huge effect on my grandparent's financial situation. They went from living in a house that was oversized and for the time being, comfortable to a trailer park in the scary part of Olivehurst. But it was all for nothing. As the money paid for cancer, my grandma progressively got worse. Before she got cancer, she was always health conscience. She ate mainly fruit, vegetables, and fish all of these big on the list of cancer prevention foods. So, to me the research does not add up, nor is it effective or worth the millions that could be used in actually using possible cures which have been put off. And as March comes around, I remember her and how if people were not so focused on how much money they make and more on the lives of millions, she might still be here.
Alexander Hamilton was the most influential and controversial man in history and those were his best qualities; as told in "Villainous business." His ideas on how to rid this country's debt were unthought of and for most people unacceptable. He pulled ideas from developed nations in which we were feuding and sought to seek peace with them in order to establish foreign trade, talk about backward thinking. He created an incentive for the people, to unknowingly want to pay for the debt the revolution caused. To give credit and expect people to pay it back with interest, what a thought. In that day and age, Hamilton was almost laughable when it came to his ideas. Due to his new ideas, people began to think he was scheming against them through a funding system and they gossiped and bickered on his intentions but this did not stop him, he persevered. He also proposed luxury taxes on items like alcohol and tea and way later this would spread to things like feminine products which is totally sexist but you know, at least we can help the debt this way. Hamilton also established a start to our taxes and refunds. Washington and Hamilton shared similar ideas on how they wanted to build our country, to get all states into one nation; check, to pay off the debt in a timely manor; check (well the revolutions debt), create a navy and army; check, and harmony among its people; mostly check. Hamilton set the stage (not just in the play) for all of these issues in his 'villainous business.
While reading this passage, a strange character came to mind, his catch phrase, "better than I deserve" rang in my ears. Dave Ramsey; the master debt defeater. I could not help to think what if he was in
Hamilton's place? The short answer would be this country would go to hell because he is woefully unqualified. Ramsey's ideas on how to rid debt now but at the time our nation did not have a steady income to back itself so his 'baby steps' would collapse on themselves. And I know that is Dave Ramsey were around in Hamilton's day, he would be one of the many to reject his ideas........mostly the ones about credit. In Ramsey's book, credit is the equivalent to the devil.
Alexander Hamilton had an extraordinary way of thinking and innovating thought process which needs to be reintroduced today. He attacked debt by creating debt among small things that would eventually pay for themselves later and profit the national fund. He approached things differently without thought of disapproval. He had a great support system, as well as many who disagreed but that never stopped him. He worked for the good of the country as a whole and for her people and without his ideals, we would not be as established, we would not be properly informed about money or have a banking system, and we would not be where we stand today. Thank you, Alexander Hamilton.
Basing a marriage solely on your love for "god" and another person is like setting a trap in which it is "morally" wrong to escape. To say a pagan marriage is selfish is to say our choice means nothing when the standing for all Christian belief is that God gave free will to man, to make their own choices, to love whom they want to love, to do as they please but know the consequences.
It was discussed that for pagan individuals; marriage is merely the next social step on the ladder of life but this is less true than that of a Christian. "As Christians, we don’t use statistics to determine our morality, but you would expect that doing the right thing would demonstrate itself in some form of success ( Scott Turansky)." Success being that god will see that they have suffered through a marriage and done the right thing by him, for him, with him. It sounds like some kind of widespread state farm commercial to dignify that the Christian way is the right way, the only way. To get married because "It is the Christian thing to do." But other than it being the Christian thing to do where are your intentions, what are your motives, what is your plan!
Culture is mainly a concept created by the imagination of man followed by tradition, ceremony,etc.... The Christian culture does not approach marriage in a way that would seem generally accepted but because it is so widely known this idea has been given many lights that have the possibility of being the cause of a number of divorces. By following the rules of basically a glorified book club, in which little to known have direct experience with the love they talk so highly of.
My dad once told me that marriage is meant for childbearing, nothing more. To procreate and dominate, the Christian way. I use dominate loosely as a more intense word for convert/spread word of this god.
Say that you are in a Christian marriage and you have had a child or children and one is not exactly the cookie cutter Jesus you were hoping. Does this mean your due diligence was not done? You have only made it to Samaria but not the ends of the Earth. Is your marriage all for nothing? In the end, that is for you to decide but basing it on a love that a god who may or may not exist without having directly experienced this 'so-called love' makes little sense.
In a pagan relationship, marriage is a choice, we have the will to marry or be married rather than making in another step in the seven sacraments.
