I have become a little obsessed in recent months watching and reading all I can about the life extension movement, I suggest everyone do the same it’s fascinating reading, the idea of it and the science itself too! There a lot of people saying a wind ranging amount of things, Dr Aubrey de Grey seems the most interesting character in the movement, and most vocal with his unique style. I posted a lecture he did at TED which you can find by clicking here. Also click here for the SENS (Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence) homepage which gives lots of information about it, and ability to donate and get involved. Also click here to see the The Methuselah Foundation which is the other half of SENS with information and what they hope to achieve and what not. No one knows what the future holds but this research just seems so important to try. Some people say they think ‘what’s the point it probably won’t come to anything’. But that’s like saying of we probably won’t find a cure for Cancer, AIDs whatever, we don;t not pursue these things, because we want it to happen, it’s the same principal is it not? Curing cancer and AIDS is about preventing death, so exactly the same concept. I just don’t get some peoples problems with trying. The point isn’t to try and ‘live forever’ it’s about trying to have choice in how long you live rather then now which is little choice. Like I said who knows, but something this important must be worth trying!
Well it’s pretty much exactly 14 days ago I had the treatment on my eye. As far as I’m aware everything is ok! Not seen the doctor since my last post but my vision seems fine currently. I believe on the letter I got from the doctor, after two weeks I can go swimming again which will be good as I was doing that quite frequently up until the treatment, I will double check that is right however! Still got another two weeks of the anti viral drugs and three weeks of some eye drops but neither physically or mentally effect me so all is well! Just got to remember to take them forgot a couple of times now with the eye drops and once with the pills!!!
So far I’m glad I did it, although still early days, I suppose it will be the coming months and years when I will know if it was or not!
I am hoping that by the time I need it in my other eye it will be on the NHS! Hope so anyway, not sure how long they take with this stuff, I know it’s in trial currently so who knows…
Frequently I try to work out the logic of the Far Right, but you begin to realise there is no logic and its pretty ridiculous, groups like Combat 18, Blood and Honour and The Aryan Nation are clearly just mentally ill.
Is the BNP different? After all there policy’s certainly seemed to have moved away from there more extreme days. But I think this is the important point tot remember. It’s the same lunatics running the asylum as before. The same people that have said that they admire Hitler, that the Holocaust never happened, that a few years ago Nick Griffin himself attended and spoke ta a meeting with the KKK saying they fundamentally agreed (the BNP and KKK) but that you need to go about a certain way to get it.
Are BNP voters racist? Probably not, the BNP are a evil little organisation. They frequently use under handed tactics to convince people of their lies and ideology arguments. For instance they will go into areas with new ethic communities, and begin stirring the pot when before things where fine, things kick off and they come back saying, see we told you so. Well no things where fine before you scum bags came along!
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The attempt to cling to tradition celebrating ‘Britishness’ in a shameful attempt to attract support for something the general population wouldn’t support if they knew the real BNP. You just need to look at there poor understanding of British history to start with. Firstly Britain has always been a multicultural society! We have mixed and integrated other cultures into ours for centuries. Much of what we even call British now wasn’t originally. This idea of an island on its own is ridiculous. Not to mention there classic gaffe recently in which for the ‘Battle of Britain’ campaign they in fact used an image of a WW2 plane that was flown by Polish asylum seekers here during the war…
Even with their toned down image to read discussion forums where people are saying they plan to vote BNP they don’t even realise what the BNP are still willing to admit. For instance the BNP still oppose mixed race marriage, still oppose homosexuality, lump all Muslims into the same pot, it is still a white only party, they don’t allow any other race to join. You know up until a couple of years ago they were still coming out with denying the holocaust (griffin himself twice), still trying to use distorted social Darwinism to say that white people are more intelligent then black people. Can people honestly believe a party that was saying this stuff a very short time ago could have changed that much? You know you just need to look at the many videos out there were high ranking BNP members have been caught saying very racist things right up until the present day.
Finally have a look at this, I might have posted it here before from Griffin talking about Obama, it’s just so ridiculous I’m not sure anyone could possibly take him seriously after watching it…
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