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Controversial Is Cancer Intended Or Is It Just There?

Abneet

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Is Cancer intended by God or Is it just there?

*When I mean is it just there, I mean we as Humans created cancer*
Cancer is a big concern today. A lot of it has to do with what we consume and other reasons etc...

But is it intended by God? I don't know the answer to be honest. But in my opinion why would God put cancer in this world for a reason and know we would find cures for it. Doesn't that just beat the purpose of Cancer if God intended it to harm people?

OR

Is Cancer just caused by many things we have around today in this world in food and unclean water? Why does it exist is the question? Why would God put such a life-taking disease in this world? Or did we create cancer ourselves over time?

People use evolution for the cause of cancer. Or groups like Christians will say Sin brought cancer to the world. Who knows?

We are responsible for our own suffering due to our desires not being in our control and individual past actions (individual karma)
Suffering is the mechanism which brings us back to the reality of God
Evil is just the absence of good and allows us to understand the value of goodness
Death is not suffering, it is the one thing that life guarantees and is not the end
Guru Arjan Dev Ji’s example should give us the strength to get through suffering
We should realise that our situation could be a lot worse and to learn from the experience
Meditation, sharing and honesty are proactive ways to end suffering

http://www.wahegurunet.com/why-is-there-suffering

Answers would be appreciated.
 

Ishna

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120,000-year-old tumor discovered in Neanderthal remains

A tumor found in a Neanderthal specimen more than 120,000 years old may give scientists insight into the origins of cancer.

The rib tumor, which was an abnormal bone growth known as a fibrous dysplasia, is consistent with a kind of cancer that is found in modern-day people. It is one of the most common bone tumors in humans, the researchers noted.

"Evidence for cancer is extremely rare in the human fossil record. This case shows that Neanderthals, living in an unpolluted environment, were susceptible to the same kind of cancer as living humans," co-author David Frayer, a professor of biological anthropology at the University of Kansas, said in a press release.

The part was one of 876 fragments found in a rock shelter in Krapina, Croatia, in the late 1800s, and is thought to belong to one of a dozen individuals. Scientists have speculated that the bones were so fragmented either because the Neanderthals were cannibals or they were eaten by carnivorous animals, the Smithsonian reported.

The tumor was found by completing an X-ray and CT scan on a rib bone. The images showed a upward-protruding lesion on the rib that could not be an injury because there was no other traumas visible on the back of the rib.

Because the growth was found in an incomplete specimen, scientists will not be able to speculate about how the tumor affected the health of the Neanderthal.

The tumor was surprising because Neanderthals are estimated to have had half the lifespan of modern humans in developed countries, meaning this individual developed his issues earlier in life.

"Most cancers affect people when they get older, and most Neanderthals and earlier populations died before they got old. So this was really exciting to see," Frayer explained to National Geographic.

In addition, Neanderthals lived in completely different environmental factors so known carcinogens may not have been present.

"They didn't have pesticides, but they probably were sleeping in caves with burning fires," Frayer explained. "They were probably inhaling a lot of smoke from the caves. So the air was not completely free of pollutants -- but certainly, these Neanderthals weren't smoking cigarettes."

Before finding this tumor, the oldest evidence of cancer was between 1,000 to 4,000 years old.

"Some people think that cancer is only a modern disease, but there's evidence from fossils, bones and mummies that it's actually many thousands of years old," Kat Arney, science information manager at Cancer Research U.K., told the BBC. "So this discovery isn't entirely surprising, even though such finds are very rare, but it helps to shed light on the complex history of cancer in humans and our ancient relatives."

The study was published in PLoS ONE on June 5.

© 2013 CBS Interactive Inc. All Rights Reserved.
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/120000-year-old-tumor-discovered-in-neanderthal-remains/
 

Ishna

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Abneet Ji

I don't presume to speak for the Creative Force, the following is just my guess (as good as any).

Absolutely everything is changing, everything comes into being and dies. Humans are not so special as to be exempt from this cycle, or given any more particular focus than other things. We are star dust in the giant expanse of the Universe. Stars are born, they live out their time, and then the burn out and die. Plants gets diseases, animals get diseases, humans get diseases. It's part of being alive and part of the cycle.

The only thing is that humans have a different awareness of disease. It is no fault. It is simply a fact. This cycle is Hukam.
 

Harry Haller

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Abneetji

let us look at the different religions take on suffering as per your website

The major world religions generally agree in the triad of God, that God is all-loving, all-knowing and all-powerful. However, for those who believe in God, the concept of suffering appears to contradict God’s all-loving and all-powerful nature. The questions people pose are, ‘How could an all-loving God allow God’s creation to suffer?’ and ‘Why would an all-powerful God not use his power to intervene and stop the suffering in the world?’

The major world religions have different ways in justifying suffering:
  • Christianity, Islam & Judaism – Suffering is due to our sins and there is a Devil who tempts us to commit sin
  • Hinduism – Previous and current bad deeds (karma) cause suffering
  • Buddhism – Desire and attachment cause suffering
  • Atheism – There is no God, so nature and humans are responsible for all suffering
  • Sikhism – Previous and current bad deeds (karma or kirat) as well as desire and attachment cause suffering

Note that Sikhism is on the bottom of the list, strange for a Sikh website, also note how the Sikh view is a combination of Buddhism and Hinduism, strange again that Sikhism does not have its own view, this website promotes karma, samsara, all Vedic concepts.

I would like to add that I strongly believe that Vedicism in its own right is a wonderful and enlightened concept, it all adds up, following the way of life brings its own merits, but if I wanted to be a Hindu, I would be a Hindu. If others want to be Hindus, brilliant, its a great religion, be the best Hindu you can, but if its Sikhism you want, then why not be a Sikh, why do you have to buy a BMW and cover it with Mercedes badges?
 

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<H1 class=title>Spiritual Sex
Introduction to Spiritual Sex

Spiritual sex in India, Tibet, Nepal, China and Japan, has long been regarded as both an art and a science. In general the eastern view of life is that no life is complete without a thorough knowledge of the sexual principals underlying all existence.
Difference between Love and Lust

Some people assume that sex is all to do with lust. However this is absurd because sex for procreation is an act of love, not lust. Love is a relationship which is about union, selflessness and something which comes from the heart. Lust is a sexual desire which is materialistic, selfish and comes from the flesh. Lust is concerned with fulfilling its own needs conditionally. Love is concerned with satisfying the needs of others unconditionally.
Chinese Taoist Tradition

The Chinese have always regarded sex to be as natural and indispensable to human health and longevity as rain falling on the fields is to plant life.
Sacred sexuality is mentioned in a little-known text by Lao Tzu, an ancient Taoist who says, “Where ordinary intercourse is effortful, angelic cultivation (careful sexual intercourse) is calm, relaxed, quiet, and natural. Where ordinary intercourse unites sex organs with sex organs, angelic cultivation unites spirit with spirit, mind with mind, and every cell of one body with every cell of the other body.”

Clearly Lao Tzu believes there is much at stake in our lovemaking and an opportunity to experience oneness as he goes on to say, “The cords of passion and desire weave a binding net around you…The trap of duality is tenacious. Bound, rigid, and trapped, you cannot experience liberation. But through dual cultivation it is possible to unravel the net, soften the rigidity, dismantle the trap. Dissolving your yin energy into the source of universal life, attracting the yang energy from that same source, you leave behind individuality and your life becomes pure nature. Free of ego, living naturally, working virtuously, you become filled with inexhaustible vitality and are liberated forever from the cycle of death and rebirth.”
Indian Spiritual Tradition

Ancient Indian sages composed the Kama Sutra on the basis of the Vedas which is the study of kama or erotic practice, and its cultivation in both man and woman. The Kama Sutra promotes intimacy between partners, attention to mood, atmosphere and the senses, and is not just focused on sexual positions. About 20 percent of the book is devoted to sexual positions which number 64 in total. Vatsyayana believed there were eight ways of making love, multiplied by eight positions within each of these. The remainder gives guidance on how to be a good citizen and insights into men and women in relationships. The Kama Sutra describes making love as ‘divine union’. Vatsyayana believed that sex itself was not wrong, but doing it frivolously was sinful. The Kama Sutra has helped many couples enjoy the art of sex at a deeper level and can be considered a technical guide to sexual enjoyment.
Spiritual Sex in Sikhism

Sex for Procreation

Some Sikhs feel that sex should only be used in procreation, however, this is a personal choice and there is no religious directive either way. At the same time, celibacy is not encouraged either.
Merging of Auras and Consciousness

Having intercourse within the institution of marriage, when performed with the proper care, knowledge, and techniques can not only be a very pleasurable, energising and a healing experience, it can also give one the experience of God-Consciousness.
In ‘Sexuality As A Sacred Meditation’, by S.S. Guru Terath Kaur Khalsa Ph.D she writes, “Sexual intercourse is not a relationship between his ***** and her vagina. It is total merger of their polarities, auras, spirits and consciousness. Appreciating and respecting this can bring a blissful merger for both on the highest spiritual levels. Sex is a sacred act, created by God, which if done consciously, can take the couple straight to God.”
An Abundance of Energy

Also in ‘Kundalini Yoga, Flow of Energy’ by Dr. Dyal Singh Khalsa, we have some very enlightening information, “Sexual intercourse, between a man and a woman is the relay of energy through the physical body, to the auric body, to the pranic body, and to the radiant body, which gives everlasting fulfilment. If properly done, it will give each other the equivalent of FIVE YEARS OF ENERGY, one year per tattwa.”
There are five basic elements called tattwas (earth, air, fire, water, ether) that make us who we are. We have a total of ten bodies including our physical, auric, and pranic body. We have eight chakras or centres of energy. The second chakra is connected to our sex organ. The tantric experience may start in our creative sex chakra, but it should expand to include all the chakras and bodies.
Pre-Martial Sex

Sex in Sikh dharma is only allowed within the institution of marriage with your spouse. Sex before marriage is not supported or encouraged.
Excessive Sex and Masturbation

Sikhism warns that overindulgence in sexual intercourse or masturbation, can be a drain on one’s energy, as well as a shock to the nervous system, opening the doors for sickness and disease. It will also shut down a person’s higher consciousness. Men especially should not overindulge in having a physical orgasm, especially masturbation. The reason for this is to do with the loss of life force energy called semen or ‘bindu’.
Yogi Bhajan has said, “A man’s semen contains all the vitamins, and minerals that he needs. One should bring this semen or Bindu up his spine, so that it may become Ojas (life force) and distribute it throughout his body. It takes Eighty bites of food, when fully digested, to give you one drop of blood. Eighty drops of pure blood makes one drop of semen. A man needs 90% of his semen, to maintain his body.”
Partner Meditation

Kundalini yoga uses a variety of sacred Sikh meditations for couples, called Shukra or Venus Kriyas, as a way to augment the experience of oneness by the merging of auras. To perform a partner meditation:
  • Sit down opposite your partner
  • Put your hands together in prayer pose (palms of the hands together with the base of the thumbs pressed against the sternum)
  • With your hands still together, look into your partner’s eyes and don’t blink
  • Repeat the mantra ‘SA TA NA MA’ for 3 to 30 minutes everyday for 40 days
Sat Kriya

Sat Kriya is a Kundalini Yoga set for sexual energy control. Sat Kriya pulls energy to our higher energy centres where the energy is more useful:
  • Sit on your heels (put a cushion underneath your feet if necessary)
  • Interlock all your fingers, except your index fingers (next to your thumbs), which point straight up and touch
  • Raise your arms over your head so that your arms are hugging your ears
  • Close your eyes and look up towards the top of your head
  • Inhale and say ‘Sat’ while pulling in your navel point and solar plexus in towards the spine, then say ‘Naam’ and relax all the muscles. This should be rhythmic and you should be doing one ‘Sat Naam’ every second
  • Continue for 3 minutes, then inhale and squeeze the muscles tightly from the buttocks and pull in the navel point, to allow the energy to flow all the way to the top of the skull, then exhale slowly after holding your breath for as long as you can
  • Relax for equal the time you practice the Kriya, by lying down with palms of hands facing up and breathing slow and deep
Work your practice gradually up to 31 minutes. Do this for 40-90 days. In 90 days, you will learn to control your energy.
Food for Building Life Force

Eating garlic, onions and ginger, known as the trinity root, will help to build up your Ojas (life force) which is the substance that maintains life and is used within our sexual fluids.
Contraception

There are no injunctions in Sikhism against the use of contraceptives, and in fact contraceptives should be encouraged to protect against sexually transmitted diseases such as HIV and AIDS. However, it should be advised that when using any form of contraception, care should be taken with regards to possible physical side effects.
Abortion

Women should be physically, mentally, spiritually, economically and emotionally fit to bring a child into the world, otherwise a child may not have the quality of life it deserves. The yogic scriptures say that the soul enters a human foetus on the 120th day of pregnancy, therefore having an abortion before this day is permissible. However, abortion at any stage of the pregnancy is a personal decision and compassion, intelligence and intuition should be used.
Circumcision

Sikhs do not support male or female circumcision. The physical, sexual and psychological harm caused by circumcision begins from the moment a baby is strapped into the circumstraint, a board designed especially for the surgery. Usually performed without anaesthetic, the operation is excruciating for the baby. Research published in medical journals like ‘The Lancet’ shows that circumcision causes overwhelming pain, traumatic shock and behavioural changes. It also alters a baby’s sleep patterns, feeding habits and activity levels, and disturbs the mother-infant bond.
Homosexuality

The Sikh scriptures do not mention homosexuality. Sexuality is a part of nature, and to go against one’s nature is to not live in one’s own truth. The most important aspect of a human being is the soul which has no sexual orientation and therefore the spiritual path is open to all, regardless of whether a person is gay, lesbian, bisexual, transsexual, transgender or queer.
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its a 3HO website, enough said, although I do wonder what exactly the yogic scriptures are, I though Sikhs followed the SGGS..........
 

Abneet

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Apr 7, 2013
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120,000-year-old tumor discovered in Neanderthal remains

A tumor found in a Neanderthal specimen more than 120,000 years old may give scientists insight into the origins of cancer.

The rib tumor, which was an abnormal bone growth known as a fibrous dysplasia, is consistent with a kind of cancer that is found in modern-day people. It is one of the most common bone tumors in humans, the researchers noted.

"Evidence for cancer is extremely rare in the human fossil record. This case shows that Neanderthals, living in an unpolluted environment, were susceptible to the same kind of cancer as living humans," co-author David Frayer, a professor of biological anthropology at the University of Kansas, said in a press release.

The part was one of 876 fragments found in a rock shelter in Krapina, Croatia, in the late 1800s, and is thought to belong to one of a dozen individuals. Scientists have speculated that the bones were so fragmented either because the Neanderthals were cannibals or they were eaten by carnivorous animals, the Smithsonian reported.

The tumor was found by completing an X-ray and CT scan on a rib bone. The images showed a upward-protruding lesion on the rib that could not be an injury because there was no other traumas visible on the back of the rib.

Because the growth was found in an incomplete specimen, scientists will not be able to speculate about how the tumor affected the health of the Neanderthal.

The tumor was surprising because Neanderthals are estimated to have had half the lifespan of modern humans in developed countries, meaning this individual developed his issues earlier in life.

"Most cancers affect people when they get older, and most Neanderthals and earlier populations died before they got old. So this was really exciting to see," Frayer explained to National Geographic.

In addition, Neanderthals lived in completely different environmental factors so known carcinogens may not have been present.

"They didn't have pesticides, but they probably were sleeping in caves with burning fires," Frayer explained. "They were probably inhaling a lot of smoke from the caves. So the air was not completely free of pollutants -- but certainly, these Neanderthals weren't smoking cigarettes."

Before finding this tumor, the oldest evidence of cancer was between 1,000 to 4,000 years old.

"Some people think that cancer is only a modern disease, but there's evidence from fossils, bones and mummies that it's actually many thousands of years old," Kat Arney, science information manager at Cancer Research U.K., told the BBC. "So this discovery isn't entirely surprising, even though such finds are very rare, but it helps to shed light on the complex history of cancer in humans and our ancient relatives."

The study was published in PLoS ONE on June 5.

© 2013 CBS Interactive Inc. All Rights Reserved.
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/120000-year-old-tumor-discovered-in-neanderthal-remains/

So Cancer was there ever since the beginning of mankind? We didn't bring cancer to this world.
 

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