Healing, Killing and Compassion WAS: Re: retrocausal healing

On Sun, 16 Mar 2008 16:21:36 -0700, coerdelion wrote:

> Would we really want to do "nasty" things, even to bacteria?

Question: is it only a matter of what is done, or is it a matter of the 
attitude towards what is done? If you are performing a scientific 
experiment, for instance, to see if an experimental medicine will kill a 
certain known pathogen, and you apply the medicine thinking "Die, you 
s***my bacteria!" is that the same or different than applying the 
medicine with an attitude of indifference, "well, let's see what happens" 
and are both of those different from applying the medicine while 
thinking, "I'm so sorry, poor bacteria, that you must suffer and die so 
that humans might live better"?  Of course, the 2nd one is the usual 
attitude of researchers, or at least one would like to think...

Seriously, though, all life involves a competition between forms, each 
struggling for survival in its own ecological niche. Obviously it's not 
any more wrong for a bacterium to kill its host than it is for the host's 
immune system to kill the bacterium. Right or wrong doesn't really seem 
to apply. So, IMHO, it *is* the attitude that's the im****tant part. OTOH, 
does that leave us with "killing with compassion"?

Love and Light,

Garry


> On 16 Mar, 10:02, "eruyqerywtrquyq76r5765"
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>> > Why do you ask?
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>> 1) it might be a way to treat disease that has progressed to far to be
>> treated in the present.
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>> 2) It could give us an inkling into what paradoxes might arise if we
>> could travel in time. If we treated someone by sending healing into the
>> past would they mysteriously get better or would we forget about one
>> "present" and just assume the changed present was always the way things
>> were? It would be hard to tell of course. But controlled, blind,
>> labaratory experiments might be done. If you use a system like a flask
>> of bacteria as the patient you can do all sorts of nasty things to it.
>>