Even after the human genome project, cloning, and robust tissue regeneration. Even after trips to Mars and the Large Hadron Collider, they still do not believe. Is it ingrained in their DNA? Is it some innate, psychotic emotional safety mechanism that simply cannot be overcome? We don't know. But, the fact remains: Most people reject the longevity therapy altogether, and choose death instead.
We saw evidence of this mentality early in our research, even before an effective therapy was available. Oh no, it wasn't the immediate visible results they rejected, quite the contrary. As we engineered new tissues using extracellular matrices just about everyone was cheering us on. The media looked upon us favorably as we regrew fingers, bladders, and hearts. There were no complaints then.
Did they not see the implications?
Did they not realize what we were doing?
How does it work? It's conceptually very simple. The body is a machine, a very complicated machine, but a machine no less. This machine powers itself though metabolism, converting organic matter (i.e. food) to the energy we use every day. Our research has revealed exactly how our bodies do this. In order to administer the aging therapy we require you to understand some basic aspects of our research...
Look at nature in general, and humanity's interaction with it. The current global warming hysteria has emphasized the damage we are inflicting upon our environment. Let's put aside the controversy for a moment and consider what both sides agree upon: the creation of energy causes harmful pollution. All our efforts to produce clean energy in sufficient quantities have failed. Whether we harvest the sun's power by unlocking ancient stores of hydrocarbons available as coal or oil, or fuse atoms of uranium derived from supernovae billions of years ago, we are left with dangerous byproducts that pollute the air, land, and sea. We simply can't figure out how to avoid this. While acquiring sustainable energy has proven difficult for humans, the problem has been resolved by mother nature relatively well. The evidence for this is no further away than our own bodies.
The human generator is more sustainable than our most advanced energy technology. At an average temperature of 98.6, we are constantly maintaining a slow chemical burn. This is similar to a coal furnace or a nuclear power plant, but under conditions that are carefully controlled and regulated for incredible efficiency. Yet, even at this low temperature, our cells produce harmful byproducts that must be diluted and safely removed from the body. Incredibly efficient biological machines are working diligently in our cells to deal with these harmful byproducts, neutralizing them and delivering them to the bloodstream for elimination. The physical waste that results from our metabolism is harmless, and returned to the Earth in a condition ideally balanced with the environment. The resilience of the body's cleansing mechanisms are extraordinary, but not invincible.
Over time the toxins produced as a byproduct of metabolism cause minuscule amounts of cellular damage. Our bodies function perfectly well with this damage, and repair it efficiently. Metabolism carries on normally for years and decades during this process of energy creation, cleaning, and repairing. But, over an extended period of time, the damage begins to impair the cleaning and repair functions. Gummy substances begin to build up in our cells that hinder the perfectly efficient cleaning process we had as children. Even this is not an immediate cause for concern, as our cellular constitution is incredibly robust, and prepared to deal with massive assaults upon our bodies from these dangerous impurities. But, as we all know, in the race to repair our cells we eventually begin to fall behind. Finally, after many decades of cumulative damage, our organs finally fail to regenerate fast enough and we die. The point is, death is not the result of any pre-programmed age limit. It is not part of our genetic code. In fact, our DNA is specifically optimized to prevent aging, and does this with remarkable success for the duration of our lifetimes. But, the differentiated cells of our body simply cannot endure the assault forever, so we currently deal with this by delivering our genetic material to offspring who carry the torch of our genetic information into the future. Our abused bodies disintegrate back to the Earth. We recognized long ago this ugly tradition was arcane and rather unnecessary.
Now that you have a general idea of our physical condition, I will make one brief mention of our spiritual one...
If you are a God fearing man, you are not prohibited from the therapy, contrary to what you may have heard from the media. But, understand that the one true God created man, and gave him the intellectual power to destroy or heal himself. If you are Christian you know, through your knowledge of His son, which option we are instructed to choose. Your faith may indeed save you.
If you are not a spiritual man, you must respect the ancient, sacred truths that permit humanity to accept the healing of the body indefinitely. We are not healed so that we can endure an eternity of depraved concupiscence. One is better off in the grave. Read scripture in the context of today, when an aging cure has been discovered and rejected to properly comprehend the meaning of these sacred texts. Ignore all popular superstitions and free your damn mind.
The real scientific quest to end aging began over 150 years ago. Evolutionary biologist August Weismann, in his 1881 essay The Duration of Life begins by quoting the words of a former scientist Johannes Muller:
Organic bodies are perishable, while life maintains the appearance of immortality in the constant succession of similar individuals, but the individuals themselves are passing away.He was referring to the fact that some of our cells, germ cells, are essentially immortal, and are not damaged even after the passage of thousands of years, but deliver their genetic content to multitudes of perishable beings/hosts over the course of that time. Somatic cells, which perform specialized functions in the body, are vulnerable to the environment. Our organs are made of somatic cells. The questions our researchers asked was: "How can we give somatic cells the durability of germ cells?" For that, we needed to investigate certain aspects relating to the origins of life.
It turns out our bodies were not always, in the course of our lifetimes, so vulnerable. In our first months we did not suffer any damage as a result of metabolism. In fact, at this point, our cells were regenerative. Much like a salamander can regrow its tail, it is well-known that human fetuses can regrow entire limbs in the womb. They do this using undifferentiated stem cells, which are essentially capable of growing any type of human tissue. This is basically how we manufacture bladders, fingers, heart valves, esophagus' and so forth. There is nothing new about this. We've done it for years.
First, we used our body's own regenerative abilities and our own stem cells to regrow organs. These were harvested in a laboratory, and used the patient's own DNA. They were exact replicas of the patient's lungs, heart, liver, or whatever organ was required. We would keep these organs in a storage facility, and they were available for transplant whenever required by the patient. This had obvious drawbacks, including surgery, so we found ways to regenerate and repair human tissue using stem cell therapy without removing the organs. Our efforts were so successful, we discovered only a small amount of therapy was required to stall aging altogether in healthy patients. Then, with somewhat more therapy, elderly patients could be regenerated entirely. As it happens, our own DNA is perfectly capable of extending our own lives indefinitely. All the body needs is a little gentle nudging from science to keep those cleaners working as well as they did in our youth.
We thought this news would be received by the public quite favorably. Unfortunately, it was not. The problem was not the technology. The technology was and is perfectly reliable. The problem is people...
It just so happens that many individuals had always expected to die around a certain age, and had no plans of delaying that experience for more than a few years. We didn't understand it. In our educational campaign, we explained that we use their own cells (not foreign embryonic stem cells) to enhance the body's own capabilities. They nonetheless accused us of 'playing God.' We explained the relatively low price of the therapy, and they said we were selling snake oil and taking advantage of people's hopes and fears. They accused us of quackery. We tried to explain that this was very, very good news for all mankind. They wouldn't accept it. They seemed to live by the mantra, "anything that sounds too good to be true, probably is." They were making the most unfortunate logical mistake imaginable. Their apathy was literally killing them.
We do have the capability to provide restorative therapies for the entire human population. All that is required is a relatively small reallocation of global resources to accommodate it. What are expensive clothes, electronics, or fancy food compared to longevity? It seems people would be right to give up all their luxuries for a longer, healthy life. We thought this campaign would be rather easy and that the shift in global effort would be inevitable. This was not so.
It became startlingly obvious that the global medical and industrial infrastructure depends on sickness and death. It was constructed for a world of the dying rather than one for the living. Our cure for aging, if believed, would completely destroy the current industrial world and replace it with a new one. But, our current world is less prepared for this change than we previously realized. The problem's tentacles reach into every aspect of the society, and into your everyday way of life. The enemies of life are everywhere!
Look at the most simple example. Look at the food you put into your body. It's not the food that accompanied human evolution. Or, if you believe we've only been around for 6,000 years, it's clearly not the food God provided for us. Yet, these synthetic food-like substances, like refined flour, hydrogenated oils, and other marvels of 20th century food-science are staples of the modern diet. They appear in every microwavable entree. They are evidenced by unpronounceable names listed on the label of canned soups, beverages, and everything you see in the grocery store. These are tools that the food industry uses to produce foods as cheaply as possible. They do have limits: 1) Their food must taste good, as the consumer would not accept a sacrifice in taste. 2) Their food must not have immediate health consequences, as consumers would reject food that, for example, causes cancer immediately. What's the problem? While these foods are perfectly harmless in small quantities (as I mentioned earlier, our metabolism is capable of astounding feats), over multiple decades this diet causes all of the massive health problems we have grown to accept as a natural course of aging. For example, cancer is a chronic metabolic disease, which means it is almost always the result of poor nutrition, usually over an extended period of time. But, let's take the most obvious example we can...
In the 1960s there was not an obesity epidemic. At that time, food manufacturers began using synthetic substances and refinement in earnest to boost efficiency. This improved corporate profits, but they saw additional potential. If they could shift the American diet to include more highly-economical foods, they could reap greater profits. What better way to do that than exploit American vanity? So, they essentially hired 'researchers' to publish studies that suggested the most expensive foods were fattening, such as those that included animal fats. Then, these 'researchers' published additional studies that suggested the cheapest foods were healthy and promoted weight loss. The food industry collaborated with mass media to aggressively publicize these 'findings.' American's eager to lose weight shifted their diets to foods high in carbohydrates and refined flour. Well, 'scientists' hired by the food corporations were more crafty than anyone realized. They knew that foods high in simple sugars caused a rapid rise in blood glucose levels. The subsequent crash in blood glucose would result in a feeling of hunger. Through the introduction of other chemicals, such as high fructose corn syrup, they were well on their way to turning food into an unnaturally addictive substance. Dieters, by turning to a low-fat diet, stifled their metabolism and became addicted to these cheep foods. After enduring the pain of an unnatural cycle of hunger and malnourishment from the absence of fat soluble vitamins, they would eventually cheat, and end up binging. This predictable scenario was exploited by food manufacturers with impunity for decades, and the evidence is apparent in the waistlines all around us. Then, they exploited American laziness in their creation of 'diet' foods that only exacerbate the problem.
But, waistlines are relatively insignificant compared to the systemic catastrophe. Weight is only the tip of the iceberg...
Rampant heart disease, low bone density, cancer, and virtually all other age-related medical problems are greatly exasperated by decades of a population ensnared by the American diet. Pharmaceutical companies are dependent on sustained American malnourishment, as it means huge sales of products like cholesterol lowering drugs. The medical-industrial complex reaps billions by those who find themselves afflicted by this lifestyle, and suddenly restrained to a hospital bed. This is simply part of our experience. I am not blaming corporations or consumers, as we act as both at the same time without any real knowledge of the consequences. I am only stating the facts. They are relevant, because they are perfectly transferable to the therapy we have developed, and its refusal.
It turns out humanity's whole economic infrastructure survives through this cycle of hurting and healing its consumers. Our treatment, if generally known, would obliterate the stock portfolios of billions of people. Whole hospitals would shut down and millions would be unemployed. We never thought about these things in the laboratory. It simply wasn't an issue. Whole factions of lobbyists and special interest groups have assembled to defame and discredit us. Businesses shovel money to bureaucrats to pass anti-longevity, 'pro-God' legislation. It just so happens most people are just dying to die. The same ignorance that caused them to fall into the dietary trap of hurting and healing is now causing them to deny the cure for all of this.
The true devil is in the action of well-meaning but ignorant activists behaving on behalf of their conscience.
The effectiveness of public persuasion is astounding, but it is mostly limited to what consumers decide to eat, drink, and purchase in general (and maybe vote for). Yet, there is a small, vocal minority of trusting, altruistic 'do-gooders' who can be counted upon to go one step further. These individuals are highly vulnerable to persuasion, and honestly believe the therapy is a great lie. Behind these chanting 'pro-God' activists lie the hopes, dreams, and profits of the rich elite. Behind this sincere front of protests, the moguls desire to enjoy an exclusive life-extending therapy themselves. They don't believe that sheep who can be persuaded to act against their own preservation deserve longevity.
These zealous activists are relentless. They pose as clients to gain access to our facilities, then sabotage our equipment and research. At first we suspected they were all radical religious fundamentalists, but later we learned that many were only saboteurs posing as radicals. They were actually well-paid stooges acting on behalf of insurance companies and government sponsored industries who were attacking our efforts in every way. They slandered and framed our best scientists, engaged in massive Internet campaigns to alter data on open-source encyclopedias, and even infiltrated our labs and planted data so that it appeared as though our reports were doctored. We never imagined that people could destroy the very science that would almost certainly improve their own lives and the lives of their families and friends. The deceptions and falsifications were perpetuated by propagandists with profits to lose or political campaigns to win. The lies were repeated on television and in the movies. Anyone willing to join the army against us "Longevity Quacks" was rewarded with fabulous wealth. We were marginalized to the brink of destruction. The very lives of us all were at stake. After the bombings began, we were absolutely forced to take the therapy underground.
We now know we cannot advertise. Our adversaries will find us. We must let our clients seek us. It sounds terrible, but was and is the only way. We must discriminate against the enemies of life; those who insist that our work is somehow false or unjustified. We do not discriminate in any other way. For scientists who can interpret the hard data, the choice is simple. They have all joined us already. For all those who do not comprehend the data, they have already abandoned themselves to faith of some kind. They have faith in either the persistent corporate/government propaganda, or they have faith in, well, that silent voice in their head that tells them something is not right. With the scientists of the Earth suppressed, that voice is the one tiny thread that can lead them to us. It is their only hope.
We privately sought the Vatican and other branches of the Christian church for aid and asylum. After all, they were the last institutions on Earth with any power separate from the global industrial complex. We discovered their separation was largely a facade, and we were immediately refused all forms of assistance. We knew their founding document, the Bible, included much theological justification to help us. We insisted they meet with us, appealing to the words of Christ, and were granted one short meeting. We desperately attempted to explain the science to the Pope, to cardinals, to ministers. But, there was no way to simplify it enough for them. Believing it was quackery, they universally rejected our proposals, and suggested we abandon the devil's work.
Who dedicated to the real and practical advancement of abundant life could be accused of contradicting Christianity? Who could have imagined the technology for eternal life would actually exist, but not the moral and spiritual sensibility?
[To be continued...]
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