Eradicating Malaria: 2

I recently read about the scientists genetically re-engineering the malaria carrying mosquitoes - Anopheles. They intend to alter the immune system of the mosquito so that it destroys the malaria parasite before it can reproduce and be passed on to other humans through the blood. When they create this variant of malaria-proof mosquito, it will be released into the wild to mate with and ultimately replace the current breed of Anopheles mosquitoes. We are going down a path to replace a mosquito created by nature with one created my man? Do we really want to erase the anopheles from the eco-system without knowing what the effect will be? 

Now don't get me wrong, I am all for science and research and appreciate the advances science has made towards human longevity, whilst possibly increasing the number of chronic illnesses we now have to contend with, but, I digress. After reading all the horror stories about the effects of so called clinical trails on this continent I can't help but be a little skeptical about why, once again we can't seem to want to get rid of malaria the easy way, but have to resort to toying with genetics  (on our little 'dark' continent, non the less). Isn't it much less expensive cleaning up our environs than it is conducting all these back and forth experiments to create a mutant mosquito?  

Call me paranoid or a conspiracy theorist but if you've seen (or read) I am Legend, but could unleashing that mutant mosquito on our continent be a (unintentional) ploy to get rid of the sub saharan people?  This may just be one of the cases where our ignorance is not so blissful anymore. 

Peaceful Existance

God may not live in the skies nor the devil down in the earth. They both just may live in us; in our minds and in our hearts. Its our life choices that either takes you to heaven or to hell; when your good triumphs over your evil, thats your heaven and when your evil triumphs over your good, thats your hell. 

When you are at peace with yourself, when you are at peace with those around you and when you are at peace with the earth, thats your heaven. 


When you have achieved an almost perfect state of balance, when the bottom line is not always the money, when you can resolve your conflicts with those around you amicably, when we know ourselves enough to be honest to our true self and with each other, when we are wide open enough to see other's point of view, see where they may be right but be brave enough to tell them where you disagree with them. When you think about and act on your life's impact on the earth and future generations, thats your heaven; where your God resides.

When you are not at peace with yourself because everything you do puts you in conflict with the earth, with those around you and with yourself. That is your unhappiness, the place where you weep and that just maybe where your devil resides.