Re: New article On Morgellons Disease: Dec 7th, 2007

[Kritters]

Ok Jonsi,
Are you ready for this? This from the last few paragraphs in one of two of really awesome books I'm reading. This one is 'Parasite Rex' and I've mentioned it before. Wow.

"We humans exist within Gaia, and we depend on it for our survival. These days we live by using it up. We strip topsoil away with our farms without replacing it; we fish out the seas; we clear our forests. I thought about what Brooks had just said, about learning how to use nature without terminating it.

"You talk as if we were a parasite," I said.
Brooks shrugged his shoulders. The idea was fine with him. "A parasite that has no self-regulation is going to put itself out of existence and may take its host with it," he said. "And the fact that most species on Earth are parasites tells us that hasn't happened a lot."

I chewed that over for a while. Here was a new meaning parasites could have for us---one that could take the place of Lankester's degenerates, Jewish tepeworms, and all the old myths of failed evolution. One that could be biologically faithful without turning life into a horror movie, without having parasites come bursting out of our ribs. It is we who are the parasites, and Earth the host. The metaphor may not be perfect, but it chimes well. We reroute the physiology of life to our own ends, mining fertilizer and blanketing farm fields with it, much as the wasp reroutes the physiology of its caterpiller to make the kind of foods it needs. We use up those resources and leave behind our waste, like Plasmodium turning a red blood cell into a garbage dump. If Gaia had an immune system, it might be disease and famine, which can keep an exploding species from taking over the world. But we have dodged these safeguards with medicines and clean toilets and other inventions and they've allowed us to put billions of people on the planet.

There's no shame in being a parasite. We join a venerable guild that hs been on this planet since itsinfancy and has become the most successful form of life on the planet. But we are clumsy in the parasitic way of life. Parasites can alter their hosts with great precision and change them for particular purposes; to take them back to their ancestral home in a stream, tomove on to their adulthood inside a tern. But they are expert at causing only the harm tha's necessary, because evolution has taught them that pointless harm will ultimately harm themselves. If we want to succeed as parasites, we need to learn from the masters.

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Okay, I'm not going back to proofread. Had fun sharpening my typing skills.

I thought this profound.
Kritters

[jonsi]

Kritters~ like us "you and me" being parasites of the earth but being smart enough to keep our planet healthy so we in turn are healthy?

Or like the Morgellons being a parasite of "us" only to keep us healthy and alive to stay healthy and alive within and among us? Watch those toxins...

Did I get it? I've thought of this before but the parallelism you presented is delicious.

~jonsi

ps-perfect practice on your typing-i didn't get stuck anywhere

[Kritters]

Jonsi,

This book was amazing in so many ways. It really opened my mind regarding parasites. I can't put it together yet, but I will. When i do I will share it, but I have stopped actually hating parasites and view them in a different light.

It's like we should learn from the master parasites. we are behaving as they do only by using the earth for our needs, but we are trashing it so badly we are creating an imbalance. Parasites, on the other hand, only push their hosts so far because they are aware that without them they will cease to exist as well.

No, I don't think Morgellons are a parasite of us to keep us healthy. It's definitely for their own purposes. They don't understand that we have lesions or whatever else bothers us. They don't care. But they will use us for their needs. And what I'm learning is that in this process our own bodies are the main culprits. Our immune system becomes a major battle unit and takes no hostages. Most of the diseases today are autoimmune because our bodies are attacking us. Sad but true. Our autoimmune system can sometimes be overkill. They have found in third world countries that have so many parasites that in comparison us westerners are not able to live symbiotically with parasites because we have become pristine because of all the microbiotics we have been taking. Especially if there is another pathogen/toxin that is monopolizing our immune system. We suffer, the parasites, don't give a ****, and they live as long as we do, no matter how uncomfortably we do it.

Makes sense to me, huh?

Kritts

[Kritters]

Jonsi,

I just re-read your post.

Yes.

What you said.



Kritts

[jonsi]

Kritters

~jonsi

[Kritters]

Jonsi,
I just added to (edited) my post before to .......

add.



Kritts
I don't see it though. Maybe it'll show up.