The MASTER

of

THE HOUSE.

by

JACOB SINGER

BEAUTY.

NATURE’S HOUSE.

“Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.”

That is a famous quotation, but it only applies to us human beings. Nature has no eye so does not see beauty as we see it. A beautiful flower, a red rose, a yellow daisy, Nature created them only to attract insects that will assist the plant to reproduce. Some flowers, like the Starfish flowers of Africa and many others, attract flies and maggots to pollinate. They throw off a scent of rotten meat.  In some instances the plant even resembles rotten flesh. These are the flowers we ignore, but to Nature, all plants are one and the same, and serve rule #1, namely, be fruitful and multiply.

The original flowers were small. The beauty found in gardens, flower shops and nurseries today, are hybrids, the result of selective breeding; of intervention by man. If left alone they will soon revert back to their original form, small, attractive only to the insect or animal that they were created to lure.

What about the picture of a mountain reflected in a lake, its shore line surrounded by pine trees, and filled with trout leaping from the water as they feed on insects? Nature never intended this scene to be something of beauty. It is only we that see and admire a snow covered glistening mountaintop rising into the clouds, or a sunset over the African bushveldt.

Did prehistoric man ever sit in front of his cave and enjoy the sun rising in the early morning, lighting up the clouds, pinking a stairway into the heavens? Did he or she ever look at the ocean, admiring a whale as it jumped out of the water flapping its tail as a greeting to those watching? No, they did not.  They were far too busy taking care of themselves, trying to survive in the harshness of the day.  And yet, there must have been those who did enjoy and take pleasure in what they saw. We see this in the few etchings that were scraped on the walls of caves.

Man evolved physically adapting to his surroundings as a method of survival. We have only to look around us, at the various population groups to see that. Why does the African have a dark skin, a wide nostril and kinky hair? Why is the African pygmy small? Why do the Chinese and Japanese have slit eyes, and why does the Caucasian have a white skin and a long thin nose? These are all the result of evolution of homo sapiens, where they evolved to survive in the climate they were living in. The fact that all the human racial groups can interbreed, shows that they all originated from one being.  They evolved to survive; to produce offspring, to feed them and educate them. Beauty came much later. History has shown that it has been far easier for man to live longer in an unpolluted area of beauty than in the slum ridden filthy city we see today, and yet, when we look back in time, we see that man of yesterday died earlier than man of today.

The first law of Nature is to reproduce. The second law is to educate children so that they may survive longer than the parent. The third law is to live in an environment that will produce the BEST and most HEALTHY of offspring. Those are Natures rules, and if man does not obey them, then he must die.

The medical fraternity of today is interfering with Natures laws. Nature created certain plants containing chemicals that would shorten life. Man has to eat and he slowly and painfully learned which plants would kill him. He also learned which plants would pleasure him. The medical fraternity is learning this.  As an example note that it is only in the last few years that the medical fraternity restricted alcohol and smoking from pregnant mothers. They found that infants produced by mothers that smoke and drink have a lower IQ, than infants born from mothers who abstain. The infant born is also smaller. Did Nature want her children to have a higher IQ or be taller? Yes, evolution has shown that. An example is the Japanese, who lived on a crowded small island, and evolved to be smaller than the American who lived in a world with wide open empty plains. Those that left the island had offspring that over time started growing taller.

Nature punishes gene defective infants. They become less efficient in later life and die off earlier, this to reduce the passing of their defective genes to another generation. One should not forget that Nature is cruel. There is no place for sympathy. Nature goes by the basic rule, survival of the fittest.  It is only today, through our medical health systems that we seek to the prolong lives of the infirm and aged.

Looking at our society, I am continually amazed at the number of members of various environmental organizations that will hug a tree in the face of a chain saw; take tremendous risks to express their love for Nature and everything that is a part of Nature’s house, and yet, destroy that ultimate creation of Nature, their own bodies, simply by taking and becoming addicted to narcotics and drugs. One can argue that if Nature had intended us not to smoke marijuana, or inhale cocaine, even indulge in too much alcohol, why did she create these plants, and the chemicals within them? Were these plants created by accident, or intentionally, so that those that indulge and overindulge, would die off? Perhaps this is one way, and a natural way Nature controls over population of the planet.

Human evolution has speeded up over the past 80,000 years. So said the Economist magazine in their article Darwin’s children of December 15^th  2007. Robert Moyzis of the University of California, Irvine, and his colleagues asked the question: how much evolutionary change has happened since Homo Sapiens climbed out of his African cradle and began to colonise the world? The answer, they found is, quite a lot – and the rate of change seems to have speeded up. 

Then of course, there is also the unnatural way Nature controls over-population. There is the creation of men who placed their personal greed and cruel ambition above that of the norm. Here I am talking about men in the 20^th Century; men like Adolph Hitler who with his Dictatorship murdered between 70 and 80 million people; Joseph Stalin who is said to have killed close to 90 million people.  One is inclined to forget Idi Amin  Dada who was know as the “Butcher of Uganda.’ He is said to have killed a half a million of his people. Then there is the  Rwandan Genocide that took place in 1994, where the Hutus of Rwanda slaughtered over 500,000 Tutsis. Communist China today alone has been said to have murdered a staggering 70 million of its people. The earth’s population has been reduced by millions and millions of people and this in the last 100 years alone.  Did Nature deliberately create these men to control overpopulation of the planet, or are they a part of natural evolution?

Can anyone forget the millions of Africans that are today dying in Africa from starvation, as Nature itself has acted, creating a drought by changing the world’s climate or, is the climate change rearing its ugly head as a result of Global Warming created by man? Is all of this Natures way of applying the lemming effect to its intelligent creation? 

One is only now, with the identification of a DNA molecule, beginning to realize the enormous complexity of the human genome, and the amount of work, that Nature, through the slow process of evolution, achieved in creating life. Consider the complexity of life on this planet, from the smallest of bacteria living next to volcanic chimneys at ocean depths, to its supreme creation, man.

RULE #8

Take care of your offspring in an area as unpolluted as possible and never put your genes at risk by living in areas of our planet that is polluted.

The Serpent asked God. “You have punished me for giving Eve knowledge, by having me crawl on my belly in the dust. Surely I have served my sentence after all these years?”

God answered. “Why should I relent? By giving Eve knowledge, she has passed it on to Adam and he is destroying my Paradise as he tries to become Godlike. How can I ever forgive you?”

MAN and WOMAN.

WOMEN and MEN

The lyrics sung by Maurice Chevalier in the musical production Gigi is typical of the male attitude to the female.

“Thank Heavens for little girls…they grow up in the most delightful way.”

This is society of today, where sex plays an important part in all aspects of the way we live, but, is it any different to the past? The answer is “No”. From Delilah, to Mati Hari, women have always been able to twist a man around their little finger. They are the weaker sex, physically, but there is no doubt that they are the stronger sex in almost everything else. Their one disadvantage is their hormonal fluctuations, which can put them out of kilter for a period of time… yet it is this irrationality that makes them even more attractive to the male.

Is this not Natures intention? Reproduction first and last? Consider.

Nature gave women a womb to bear children, and the mental ability to raise the newborn child as well as educate that child in its most formative years. Nature also gave women the ability to identify the male most suitable to her, in reproducing and improving the genetic makeup.

The sole purpose of the male, on the other hand, besides supplying the sperm, was to protect both mother and child, from all forms danger. It is also his duty to feed her, and care for the family. The more efficient he is in meeting her needs, the more desirable he becomes as a mate. He therefore developed physically, more so than the woman, becoming stronger in body, but not always stronger in mind.

Throughout the various continents of the world, both the male and female have evolved differently, and this depends on the challenges presented to them by Nature to feed a family.

One has only to look at a line up of the 100 yard dash, in any Olympic competition. The majority of men competing are all African. Why? Well, in the bush of Africa, the male had to run very fast to catch his prey, and his body evolved allowing him to do that.

Long distance runners on the other hand, all tend to come from Kenya. Why?  The male in Kenya had to run long distances in the open plain and only caught and killed his prey after it had tired.

Why did the European and Asian not evolve physically to the extent the African did? Probably because of farming, something not needed in Africa where food was in abundance in the form of game?

Women developed the mental capacity to protect, educate and raise a child under all types of circumstances, prepared, if necessary, to survive should a male not be around to protect her. She would attract another male if she needed to, with her sexuality.  However, as she ages, and her genes start to decay, a fact that can be seen by the number of Down Syndrome children (a condition caused by a chromosomal abnormality) born to older women, Nature has planned that her sexual desire should die.  She reaches menopause, and as her oestrogen levels drop she finds that giving birth is no longer a compulsion. The male, on the other hand, will continue to look around for a younger female looking to bear his children. It remains his responsibility though, to look after his previous mate, even though she is no longer sexually desirable.  Nature insists that this remains the male’s responsibility, as long as she is the teacher of their children.

Should her mate however die, either naturally or in a hunt, then Nature encourages her to become sexually attractive once more, so that she may find another male to care for her and her children.

In Today’s society Natures plans have changed. An accumulation of material assets offering security, more than offsets a tremendously powerful physique. This has definitely altered a woman’s way of identifying a suitable male. A male on the other hand, that has both a wealth of material assets and a strong physique, is very much at an advantage.

History has suggested that not only has the male dominated women physically, but mentally as well. Is this truly so, or is it because women, bound by her reproductive duties are restricted? Modern Society, with women being released from her reproductive burden, has shown that she is more than capable of challenging man mentally. Yet I ask, where is the female Einstein, or a female Steve Jobs? Are they still to come? Is a Madame Curie an exception or is it that taking care of children takes precedence?

Evolution has differentiated the sexes. Men are greater risk takers than women, who are inclined to be more conservative in their thinking. Women also live longer than men, probably because Nature has acknowledged their mental superiority, and has designated them, the Teacher of the Children.

PHEREMONES

As man evolved, his physical attractiveness to the female has slowly lessened against a mentally superior male. As mentioned earlier, security and protection are far more important to a female than brawn, however should one have hired two auditoriums, one with Einstein appearing, and one with Elvis Presley, no bookie will take odds on which auditorium will sell the most seats to young fertile females.

One is inclined to wonder why a woman will accept a male that is not ‘a hulk of a leader’. The answer is pheromones. Nature has realized that if all the females are fertilized by the dominant male, genetic inbreeding will occur, and that is a no-no. So, pheromones evolved to make sure that a women will accept a male less than perfect than she, and so keep genetic inbreeding at bay.

I have often wondered about ‘TRUE LOVE’, where a woman will desert her children for a male, or a male will commit suicide should a female leave him. I can only conclude that this is an aberration of Nature’s true intentions, namely of man spreading his seed, and women choosing her seed, but more of this later, under the paragraph Mental Telepathy.

So how does knowing the above help you live longer? Well, if you are a loser, both physically and mentally, then Nature will kill you. You have to continually balance the equation. If you are lacking material assets, concentrate on your physical attributes. Either way, the Book of Life limits your life-span, but you want to enjoy every moment of life until the last day, so whatever the equation, stay healthy.

THE MODERN GENERATION.

In the world of today, many Men and Women live together without marriage, and without feeling the necessity to bear children. Science created ‘The PILL’, allowing a woman to have sex without falling pregnant, and drugs like ‘Viagra’ to give aged men, whose sperm no longer meet Natures standards, sexual ability.

In today’s world, homosexuality is accepted by us humans. Is this acceptable to Nature?  I believe that it is. I believe that Nature is encouraging homosexuality as a way to control overpopulation.

I am also inclined to believe that Nature created the HIV virus to bring its population control laws back into force. The HIV virus has killed many, and it is only now that medical researches are beginning to find a cure. What worries me is that Nature may decide enough is enough, and that population control is far too slow. That a catastrophe will occur, that will end the world as we know it today. Whether it will be global warming that will kill millions throughout the world, or whether it will be a natural catastrophe, one can only wait and see.

Then again I must ask, is homosexuality and women living with or without a male and not bearing children, Natures way of successfully controlling overpopulation? I am beginning to believe that Nature itself is experimenting with our way of life. By encouraging women not to have children; by encouraging homosexuality, Nature is possibly attempting to protect the world from overpopulation.

RULE #7

Whether you are Rich or Poor, exercise regularly and above all stay healthy.

Man is born with a penis, but every man would like to have a vagina, however every vagina no longer needs to be fertile.

MENTAL COMMUNICATION

MENTAL TELEPATHY.

Many years ago, I would wake up in the middle of the night, hearing someone call out my name, followed by a string of numbers. I would look at my wife, sound asleep next to me and wonder whether she was not calling my name in her sleep. She wasn’t. This happened almost every night for almost a month.

Thirty years later, I decided that the only way I could win the lottery was by telling myself mentally, what the winning numbers were, and hoping that sometime in the immediate past, those numbers would come to me. At night, I would lie in bed and mentally shout, ‘Jack… 15, 12 etc’. Then I suddenly remembered how, many years before, I would wake up at the sound of someone calling my name, followed by a string of numbers.

After a great deal of thought, I have concluded that sometime somewhere in the past, my brain and thoughts synced.  That when they did, my two brains, past and present, could communicate with each other. Consider. The brain closest to your brain as you read this, is your own brain of less than one second ago. However, as time passes and your brain ages, it could sync with your younger, or even your older brain.

This would explain the story I once read as to why, an identical twin, separated at birth, and living in different parts of the world, spoke alike, dressed alike and even ate alike. Their brains, as they grew older, would have remained identical.

Mental telepathy must therefore exist, and it is that mental telepathy, where two minds are almost linked together that makes a man and a woman come together to have children. Love is the linking of those minds, a creation of Nature so that a man and a woman may mate and procreate.

Then of course, there is the afterlife. What happens when a person dies? When we watch a movie and a person dies, the movie shows them closing their eyes and no longer breathing. But is that so? I ask this question because of two experiences I have had, and one experience a friend has had.

First experience.

My father’s brother was very old. He was in his middle 80’s, deaf, and no longer able to walk. We all knew that the number of days he had left to live was limited.

One afternoon, at about 5pm, the cash registers in my store all opened with a loud ringing. The lights flickered on and off for several minutes and then died. I ran to the switchboard and checked all the trip switches. They were all on. When I went back to the store, the lights were still flickering on and off, but as I walked in, the flickering stopped. Then the phone rang. I picked it up and heard my aunt’s voice say, “Jack, please tell your father that his brother has died.”

Exactly one year later, almost to the day, my father died. In that year no-one in the Jewish community passed away, so the two brothers lie in their graves, next to each other. Once my father was buried, death in the community returned to its normal routine.

Second Experience.

The wife of a friend divorced him. He was devastated, and over an Easter weekend, he bought five bottles of whisky and drank himself to death.

My wife and I had already emigrated to Canada, so we could not attend his funeral. I contacted his wife by email, and expressed my sympathy. I never heard a word from her.

The Jewish New Year was in September that year. When I went to sleep, after celebrating the New Year, I had a dream. I dreamed that I saw my friend’s corpse lying in a mortuary. He tried to tell me something, but because he was a corpse, his mouth never moved, so I could not hear what he said. I was shaken by the nightmare, and woke and told my wife about it, because it was so real.

The next night, I dreamed of him again. This time he was the wind, and when he tried to tell me something, all I heard was woosh woosh, the wind coming out of his mouth.

On the third night, in my dream he was standing under a willow tree at the Yatch Club, with his arm around his wife. “Jack,” he said, “Please phone her, and tell her it was not her fault. No one should blame her for my death.” I woke in a cold sweat, and did not do as he asked.

Being newly arrived in Canada, we had not yet joined a Synagogue. The morning before The Day of Atonement, (Yom Kippur), a man at my office where I worked, approached me. “Jack,” he said, “My wife and I are unable to attend the synagogue tonight. Would you like to use our tickets?” I thanked him, and took them, pleased that we could attend a service.

Walking into the synagogue, I found that the seat was in the front row.  As is customary, with the start of the service, the scrolls were removed from the Ark and carried through the congregation. When they were being placed back into the Ark, I suddenly found myself on my feet, walking towards the Rabbi to tell him that one of the scrolls would fall out of the Ark. I stopped, halfway to him, thinking ‘this is crazy’. I turned to walk back to my seat, and as I did so, a scroll fell out of the Ark.

I got my late friends warning. That night I phoned his wife in Johannesburg, and told her that I had been given a message for her. I told her about my three dreams.  I could hear her crying on the phone as I spoke to her.  Then she said, her voice filled with emotion. “Everyone blames me for his death. Not one of our friends came to me to wish me a long life or sympathise with me at the funeral. I was absolutely devastated. Thank you for phoning me, and giving me his message.”

Third Experience.

A friend in my office, of Indian descent, told me this story.

“My wife and I lived in a small village in India. We had a small house, basically two rooms. One day, a family with two children from another village, walked past our house. A little girl with walking with them, looked at our house and then ran towards it shouting, “I want my doll.” She ran into the main room before we could stop her, walked to a wall, removed a brick that we had never noticed was loose, and took an old doll from behind it, hugging it with love.

 Her parents told me that they had never ever been to our village, and were as surprised as we were that their daughter knew about the doll.

 My Conclusion.

Although the human body may die, the mental life created does not die and reappears continually in some or other form.

INTUITION.

If, as I have written above, ones mind can sync with ones mind of sometime in the past, would that not explain intuition? You instinctively ‘feel’ that the decision you have come to is correct, or wrong. Surely this could be your mind of the future syncing with your mind of the present?

GHOSTS.

Yes, I do not believe in ghosts, but I have come to believe that when one sees what one believes is a ghost, one is seeing a scene from the past. The past reappears in today’s world via a syncing of dimensions across time. It is only in the movies that we see and hear ghosts talk and move. Those who do see a scene from the past, I believe are seeing exactly that, a scene where the past and present dimensions have came together.

 RULE #6

Live your life with purity, because if you do not, you will pay the price in the afterlife.

Is their re-incarnation? I am starting to believe there is. I believe that ones mental aura remains and only slowly and gradually fades away.

 

 

THE WHEEL THAT IS RELIGION

Religion is like a wagon wheel.

• The axle. These are the ultra orthodox that practice their religion by a book written over 2000 years ago. They are small in number and very concentrated.
• The spokes. This is the migration from the ultra orthodox (the axle) to the rim. A slow process, but picking up speed as it approaches the rim.
• The rim. These are those who acknowledge the religious sect they belong to, but observe the ancient customs and traditions only when it suits them. The rim is thin, but large and comprises the bulk of the members of a religious sect.
• Beyond the rim. The edge of a wheel, the rim, wears away with time. They are those who have given up religion and are agnostic or atheist. They have become the vast majority.

Note the following.

• Without the axle, the wheel will fall apart. The axle is as necessary as are the spokes and the rim to keep the wheel functioning correctly.
• When the axle becomes the wheel, problems occur and the wheel will become heavy and unwielding, not functioning efficiently as originally designed.

Christianity accepted the wheel of religion in the 19^th Century. It was Henry VIII^th of England who first divorced the Church from the State. He refused to accept Papal influence in English affairs. He founded the Anglican religion, and was the first to separate the Church from Parliament.

I mention this, because this is where the Muslim religion is today. The acts of the few religious zealots (the axle) are tainting the entire religion (the wheel). This can be seen where the recent cartoons in Denmark, republished throughout Europe, were condemned by the ultra religious Muslims throughout the world. For a large majority of Muslims, the axle IS the wheel, and therefore the wheel no longer functions as it should. This has resulted in the West looking at all Muslims as terrorists and suicide bombers.

When the Muslim religion learns to confine its zealots to the size of the axle in a wheel, and divorce religion from politics; with the spokes and the rim of the wheel operating at maximum efficiency, only then will Muslim as a religion have matured.

This weekend I watched a movie called the American President. In the final scene, the President of the United States acted by Michael Douglas makes the following statement at a press conference.

‘Western Democracy is the right to free speech. If a citizen wishes to burn the American Flag, that is their right to free expression. That is America.’

Any one can go to Hyde Park in London with a soap box, stand on it and say what they want, as long as no criminal action is involved. The London Policeman patrolling the area probably yawns with boredom. That is FREE SPEECH, and it is a right of every citizen in a truly democratic nation.

The West is enjoying the WHEEL as it is, designed to function properly and efficiently. Many countries throughout the world have yet to learn about how the wagon wheel of religion truly functions.

RULE #5

Be very careful who you listen to, especially if they are standing in front of a captive audience. They tend to forget their own vulnerability; they swell with their own ego and believe that God has spoken to them in their left ear.

 The little boy asked his father as they sat listening to the preacher give his sermon.

“Daddy”, he asked, “is that a halo I see around his head?’

“No my son, “his father answered, “that is simply hot air.”

YOUTH

TO BE YOUNG

It is sad that it is only as one ages does life become more precious. I have read many a cynic’s thoughts that Youth is wasted on the youth, but is it? Is Youth not a time of testing, of experiencing the world and determining the limits of physical and mental ability?

Sex drive is greatest during youth, which is exactly what Nature intended. Nature wants reproduction, before cosmic rays, bacteria, virus and a multitude of other ‘death traps’ can alter the gene. It is youth’s duty therefore to look after themselves physically and to reproduce early in life. Unfortunately today’s society, with the ‘Pill’, and Youth’s flirtation with drugs, is contrary to Natures original plan.

Not all the youth are intent on destroying themselves, and I have often wondered whether it is not Nature’s plan that those that are mistreating their bodies, are not meant to die early, as a way of controlling over population of the house? However, it is not for me to question Nature’s plan. In this book, I am looking for ways to live longer, and in doing so, I must look at every aspect of life, and what Nature’s ultimate intentions are.

Below is a poem I discovered many years ago, written by Samuel Ullman. I believe that in these words he has epitomized youth in all its pure essence. I say pure, because in a society of guns at schools, drugs and fear, youth has become a period of trial rather than a period of experiencing the joy life has to offer.

YOUTH.

Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind. It is not a matter of rosy cheeks, red lips and supple knees; it is a matter of the will, a quality of the imagination, a vigour of the emotions; it is the freshness of deep springs of life.

·Youth means temperamental predominance of courage over timidity of the appetite, for adventure over the love of ease. This often exists in a man of 60 more than a boy of 20. Nobody grows older merely by a number of years. We grow older by deserting our ideals.

Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust.

Whether 60 or 16, there is in every human being's heart the lure of wonder, the unfailing child-like appetite of what’s next, and the joy of the game of living. In the center of your heart and my heart there is a wireless station; so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, courage and power from man and from the Infinite, so long are you young.

When the aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with snows of cynicism and the ice of pessimism, then you are grown old, even at 20, but as long as the aerials are up, to catch the wave of optimism, there is hope you may die young at 80.

Samuel Ullman.

What the poem envisages is that it is not the growing old that is the concern, but how one grows old. I have observed too many retirees literally dying from boredom. Suicides amongst the aged are highest in September than any other month of the year. Now this is an interesting fact. In the Northern hemisphere, it is September, in Summer. In the Southern hemisphere, it is in August, the start of Spring.

So how does one stay young as one ages? I found the answer purely by accident. Many years ago, I developed chronic back pain. It became so bad, that one day, as my wife and I were browsing through a bookstore, I had to lie down on the floor on my back for relief. Lying there, I did feel rather stupid, but looking to my right, I saw a book, THE FOUNTAIN of YOUTH by PETER KELDER. I took this as an omen, bought the book and today, twenty five years later still religiously practice its simple Tibetan Yoga exercises. I have never had chronic back pain since that day.

RULE #4

Adopt a health routine and practice that routine religiously. Trick Nature into believing that you are young and active, by thinking and acting young and being active.

A retired friend told me that after three months sitting at home, one morning when he came down to breakfast, there was a brown packet with a peanut butter sandwich in it, next to his bowl of cornflakes.

“What is this” he asked his wife.

“I married you for better or for worse,” she replied, “not for lunch.”

He got the message, and soon found a job.

THE BOOK OF LIFE

HOW TO LIVE LONGER. .

Religious documents throughout the world have their followers believing that their Deity is all knowing, and that the length of one’s life is written in ‘The Book of Life.’ In a way this is true. The length of one’s life, should one survive all the various death traps Nature has placed in the path, is fixed, but not by the written hand. It has been fixed genetically, by a little tail on each gene called a Telomere.

Telomeres are a class of repetitive DNA sequences usually located at chromosome termini and are thought to stabilize the chromosome ends. Recent scientific research has determined that the shortening of the telomeres at the end of chromosomes is the "biological clock" that determines how long a particular cell line will live.

Every time a cell divides and DNA replicates, the length of the telomere shortens. Patients with the childhood aging disease called progeria, have significantly shortened telomeres in their cells. It is hypothesized that this is the cause of their pre-mature aging. On the cellular level, it has been shown that when the telomere becomes too short, the cell enters senescence and eventually dies. That is when the body dies, the end of one’s natural life.

Recent research has shown that in cancer cells, when division occurs, the telomere does not shorten. Immortal cancer cell populations overcome telomere shortening by activating an enzyme, telomerase. Laboratory researchers are today looking for ways to prevent the growth of cancer cells by finding a way to control telomerase. In this way they hope to kill the cancer cell before the host dies.

Soon, a second group of researchers will probably start looking for a way to prolong life, by preventing the telomere from shortening on cell division. Is this wise? Nature created man by evolution, the survival of the fittest. From the very beginning man fought Nature by taking herbs to control the various illnesses Nature created to kill him, the argument being that if they were not there to be used, why did Nature create these plants?

Will Nature allow immortality? The answer lies in RULE 2, ‘The Book of Knowledge’. The law of the survival of the fittest was applied by Nature, not only to the physical attributes of man, but to mental ability as well. Those who are physically superior, as well as mentally astute, survive and become the leaders of the tribe. Those who suffer a lack of physical prowess, but make up for this by mental superiority, they also survive. However, the equation must be balanced.

Physical + Mental = Survival

These ‘Survivals’ also become the most attractive to the female, who instinctively want their superior genes for her children. She in turn chooses either a physically superior male, or a mentally superior male based on her attributes as a mate. The equation must be balanced with her.

The renowned beauty, Lady Hamilton is rumoured to have said to George Bernard Shaw,

‘Mr. Shaw, you and I should have a child. With your brains and my beauty, the child will be a super child.’

‘Madam,’ he replied, ‘and what would it be if it had my beauty and your brains?’

So, can the book of life be rewritten so that one can live longer? The answer is ‘Yes’. By keeping ones body healthy; by ingesting only the ‘good’ drugs, and not the ‘bad’; by keeping ones cells living longer and dividing less frequently, one can lengthen the life of a telomere, and in this way, one’s own life.

RULE #3.

Make sure that at all times your body remains healthy. Exercise and be very cautious with your diet, and above all, stay away from any medicine or drug that is harmful to you.

The Student asked:

“Why, if it is bad for our bodies, did you create plants that are harmful to us?

Nature answered:

“SO THAT YOU WILL DIE.”

The Student asked:

“By why make them so addictive?”

Nature answered:

“So that you will die sooner.”

THE BOOK of KNOWLEDGE.

Teaching ones children is primary to Nature.

Before we die, we have to pass whatever we have learned onto to our offspring. The successful species achieves this, and their offspring successfully pass this knowledge plus anything new they have learned during their lifetime, onto their children. These children therefore have an advantage over others and a greater chance of survival. The unsuccessful species pass very little to their children, who in turn learn less during their lifetime. They do not adapt to changing circumstances and surroundings, and so die early.

With many species this learning is instinctive. In the animal kingdom a large amount of knowledge is ‘born’ with the offspring. An example of this is a newly born searching for a nipple.

Can a baby survive without its parents? We all know that they have to be taken care of and taught how to fend for themselves, until such time as they wean themselves from the care of their mothers/teachers, and are able to look after themselves. In today’s society, we have also learned that the more love a baby receives, the more emotionally stable it is in later life.

Man is no different to the rest of the animal kingdom, with the exception that with man, it takes longer to raise one’s offspring. So before we die; before Nature kills us, we have to teach, and the longer we teach the chances of Man living longer increases. Remember, in Nature, the handicapped child does not survive. It is only modern medicine and our emotional intelligence that has made us care for our sick and handicapped.

So, here is one way to bluff Nature into letting us live longer. Never stop teaching children, especially your own. If you are unable to have any more children, then teach the children of others. However, you must convince your body, mentally and emotionally, that these children are yours; that they need you and rely on you for their survival.

HOW TO LIVE LONGER.

1. Bluff your body into thinking that it is continually reproducing.

2. Always teach offspring.

RULE #2.

The sole reason for your existence is to reproduce and pass what you have learned onto your children, so that they may be more perfect than you are.

Sarah prayed: “God, I am barren, how may I conceive a child.”

God replied: “If as you say, you are barren, then I have no need of you, you must die.”

Sarah begged: “But, my Lord, I want to live”

God replied: “Then my child, become expert in the ways of my house, and teach what I have taught you to those less knowledgeable than you,”

GOD'S HOUSE

THE MASTER OF THE HOUSE.

Nature is cruel.

There is only one objective to living on this planet and that is survival. Every living thing that has been born on this earth has one genetic law programmed into it, and that is ‘Survive and Procreate.’ If they don’t and if they cannot adapt to changing conditions, then they must DIE.

This is so obvious when one looks at history. The Dinosaurs died when our planet was hit by a large asteroid that changed the climate of the world, destroying a food chain; ending a life era. Yet, life survived and in many forms, in the harshest of conditions, eventually giving rise to that ultimate of evolution, MAN.

But is Man as we know him today truly the end of the evolutionary cycle? I don’t believe so. I believe that Man will evolve to an even higher life form, unless Nature decides otherwise. If Nature does, it will destroy the world as we know it today and build a new life form from the ashes, in exactly the same way the Dinosaurs (cold blooded) were destroyed and the mammals (warm blooded) became the dominant life form.

From cold blood to warm blood, very much suggests that the earth cooled, which lends even further credence to the asteroid theory, when a huge cloud of dirt and dust would have been blasted into the atmosphere, keeping away the warm rays of the sun. One thing about Nature is certain, and that is that it always looks for the survivor, and will repeat the process over and over again until a successful survivor emerges. Remember, time is on Nature’s side.

Nature is the ultimate experimenter.

This can be seen all around us. How many different types of birds, plants, insects and animals are there? For that matter how many different types of Man is there? Each species adapted to its surroundings with only three objectives, to SURVIVE, to REPRODUCE and to EDUCATE their offspring.

Australia is an excellent example. The continent of Australia was the first to break away from the single mass land structure that existed before the continents formed. In doing so, Australia took the beginnings of life with her, and this life evolved into MARSUPIALS, not mammals as found in all the other continents. Certain of these marsupials evolved into similar life forms to mammals, eg the Dingo, but Kangaroos, Koala Bears, Wombats, they are all adapted to the food chain that evolved in the isolated continent and are not found elsewhere. Man’s intervention, the Maori, was far later, yet even man started to adapt to Australian conditions and may have evolved differently had they been isolated for long enough.

Beauty and ugliness.

A beautiful flower; the beauty of a butterfly; the grace of an animal hunting; the smell of a plant; they are all there simply to reproduce. Whether the plant looks like and smells like a rose, or looks like and smells like carrion, the purpose of the appearance and scent is reproduction and survival. The flower evolved to attract a bee; a fly; a bird to distribute its pollen, sperm, and seed. Of all the creatures that evolved on this planet, it is only man that sees and appreciates the beauty of Natures creations.

RULE #1.

The purpose of life is survival of the species.

This has been recognized as far back as the Rabbi’s who put the teachings of Abraham, Isaac and Moses into a book called THE BIBLE. The followers of Jesus Christ created THE NEW TESTAMENT, adapted to the teachings of the day when ancient Rome ruled Israel. Both books encouraged reproduction and survival.

In ancient Greece, mythology tried to explain Natures beauty, with Nature given the name of Gaia. Gaia was the personification of Earth to the Greeks, the great mother of all the heavenly gods. Her equivalent in the Roman pantheon was Terra Mater or Tellus.  

In Arabia, Mohammed wrote the KORAN as a way to bring religious laws to war mongering Arab tribes, and in Asia Buddhism and many other religions that suited the nations that practised them, were formed, all with a similar purpose, do not kill your fellow man; learn to live peacefully and produce children.  

“Be fruitful and multiply,” was the epiphany of each Holy Book.

Adam asked GOD, “Why did you create Eve and I ?”

God answered “So that you will populate the earth.”

Adam asked again “But why did you make Eve so beautiful?”

God answered. “So that you will never stop populating the earth.”

ABOUT ME

JACOB SINGER

VANCOUVER, BC, CANADA

My first book, is a book of short stories. It is called Brakenstroom.

The VASE with the Many Coloured Marbles is my second book, about a family I knew as a child.

The Master of the House are my thoughts.