Albine's Corner

I heard someone say: " we could not get lasting happiness through this material body and senses ." Well, I agree on that one and I'd like to add: it is best to live in such a place where everyone understands that we are all spiritual in nature. If I am a spirit, I am not asking for freedom. I simply understand that at this present time of ours, part of us is material being. We are imperfect but are given a chance to heal or reconstruct such imperfection into something that is spiritual by going into several stages or processes. There are lots of challenges here in the place we call 'world' but as spirits, we look forward to another dimension where love, life, and happiness are everything. Thus freedom is not anymore essential because of the perfection that everybody has got. I also believe that there are two kinds of spirits, the good and the bad. That's why wearing this temporary body of ours means we are subjected to those two conflicting forces. That's

I was intrigued... or maybe just the my ignorance pushed me to dig some little "information" about this thing known as genetic engineering; Or genetic manipulation; Or genome sequencing; Or germinal choice technology. Well, so much of scientific terms but i think they just mean one thing: we are facing the period wherein men become creator of some "living things". Much more that pushes me to think and discuss this topic is that the Vatican considers genetic engineering as one of the seven deadly sins of our present times. Debate seems running on my mind: a sin or not? Good or bad? Benefits vs. dangers, which one outweighs the other? Shall we live in fear? I just read ( http://www.emagazine.com/view/?632 ): "The Nobel Prize-winning chemist Robert F. Curl of Rice University spoke for many of his colleagues in science when he proclaimed that the 20th century was "the century of physics and chemistry. But it is clear that the next century will be the century o