Genitically Modified Cows Produce 'Human' Milk

4-05-2011 @2:43AM Jesus Schmesus said... You spelled "genetically" wrong in the headline.
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4-12-2011 @11:27AM ROLAND SHAFER said... It's clear that the laws of nature have been disrupted by the meddling of the human being.

Let me explain:

Others have always considered me competitive, in sports and business. I was married at 19, had my first child at 20. Received $600 from my parents for a wedding gift and the rest was up to my wife Connie and I. Connie was in her sophomore year in college when our first child (David) arrived. Interest rates were at 18% and times were tough. I started welding to provide an income. Became the best welder in the plant in a few years. Had a unique welding helmet, obtained the rights to manufacture it and started competing in mans business world. By this time we had three beautiful kids. Connie was teaching school and we were doing our best to fit into mans competitive world. Every month or so, I would leave my family for a week at a time and travel across the US, Canada, and Mexico doing trade shows. I started making a pretty good income. I also competed in sports playing softball. There I met Larry Stutheit. Larry loved the outdoors as much as I did and asked me to go with him and four others to the Quietco Park in Canada, just north of Ely MN. Quetico is a protected, pristine wilderness retreat of international acclaim west of Lake Superior on the Canada-U.S. border. Canada protects this area from mans destruction, they only allow a certain number of people to visit yearly, they only allow man powered boats (no combustion engines) man is not allowed to build there, planes are not allowed to fly within 20,000 feet. It is considered pristine wilderness. It sounded like a great time, so I decided to go. We picked up our gear and headed for the wilderness. The first day we were all excited to get there and start catching fish. We had a competition to see who could catch the most and biggest fish. Trying to achieve and compete. So the first day was spent beating the water with fish lures to try to catch the most and biggest fish. That night someone caught the most and the biggest. The second day was a little more relaxed, and slowed down a bit, but the bet was still on. That night some won and some lost. The third day I was in a totally different state of mind and didn't care if I even caught a fish, I started to notice how beautiful, quiet, and harmonious everything was. My schedules, bills, and time limits of mans world were fading away, there was no, or very little stress. The calm and quiet around me was unmistakable. I remember getting out of the canoe and going into the woods by myself and just sitting there for quite some time. I can only try to describe with words, the feelings go far beyond our vocabulary.
After the evening meal on the fourth day I walked off by myself and as I lay on top of a huge boulder that was warmed by the days sun, I was looking out over a lake as smooth as glass, there were northern lights dancing in the sky, every now and then an occasional loon would add it’s spiritual song in the distance. I closed my eyes and felt a total connection with the environment and my creator; I was for the first time just being, not doing. I felt connected. I’m not sure if you can truly understand it without experiencing it. I strongly suggest spending at least four or five days in the wilderness. It took that long for mans world to dissipate. It was a calm that I will never forget. I felt a oneness, a part off if you will. It brings tears to my eyes even now when I feel it. It's a place I go to in my mind, heart, & sole when I let mans world become too much.

I'd like you to contrast that feeling with this experience. I spent thirteen days in 1998 in downtown Chicago doing the IMTS trade show at the McCormick Place. Normal trade shows last three days, I had never done this show before and had no idea what to expect. It was an international trade show and I was the only person to man the booth. A person was to come along and help, but his plans changed at the last minute. I booked a room at the Hampton Inn located by Midway Airport, pretty much in downtown Chicago. I got there the day before and setup the booth and went back to the motel to get ready for the show. I remember opening the door of the Motel on day one. Bam! Right in front of me was twenty lanes of traffic, cars speeding by, the noise the hurry up chaos. Everywhere I looked there were cars, trucks, planes, buildings, concrete, even the air smelled of jet fuel from the planes overhead. There was no unraped nature to be seen. Man had completely recreated over Gods creations. The first day of the show I realized I was in over my head, it started early, with a crowd so large that I had people 8-10 deep in front of my booth all day, I could not leave the booth. I had no time to eat; I couldn't even go to the restroom. It was high pressure sales from start to finish. The lines of people never slowed. I remember the pain and stress afterward, my chest hurt, my body was buzzing. Again our vocabulary doesn't do it justice. I stopped at a Chinese restaurant on the way to the motel and asked for a quiet place in the corner, ordered some good food and tried to calm down. I spent a couple hours just sitting in shock. I got a little better prepared for the second day with some trail mix and juice. Went to the motel didn't sleep very well, got up early, worked out, ate a little and opened the door to the motel and Bam! There it was again, the cars, the noise the smell the concrete. I jumped in my van and headed for the show. Again, did not leave the booth from 8 am to 6 pm. The same stress the same pain and buzzing. It hurt. I hurt all over. It was even a little worse because of the drain it took on my body from the previous day. Same Chinese restaurant, same quiet corner. Went to the motel and got ready for the day three, day four, day five, day six. After six days of being in a total man made environment I started to feel very strange. It was making me crazy. Keep in mind I come from a small rural community. I remember thinking; if I were born in this environment and didn't know any different I would consider this normal. I probably wouldn't live very long. On the seventh day after the show I was getting tired of Chinese and decided to do something different. So I drove north on Lake Shore Drive and saw the Shedd Aquarium on one side and the Museum of Natural History on the other. I flipped a coin in my mind and went into the Museum. As I walked around for quite some time gazing at mans and Gods creations, I found myself in front of a glass enclosure of a large Boa Constrictor skeleton. It was an amazing site, all the rib bones precisely attached, I remember staring at it for quite awhile. But the part I remember most was the plaque in front that read: “Through magnification mans creations get jagged and rough edged but Gods creations get more precise and perfect.”
I thought about that for a while and agreed.
That explained the way I was feeling. We can create, but not at a perfect level.
The next few days of the show seemed easier, I was actually getting used to it.
I survived the remainder of the show and headed home and back to what I considered a normal routine.
Most mornings at my office I would set aside some time to relax and get ready for the day.
While reading my program, doing my breathing exercise, praying, going to the Quetico in my mind and connecting with my creator. I usually looked at a nature picture over my computer screen. For some odd reason one day I was facing an adjacent wall that has a large world map on it. As I was looking at the map I noticed how the continents were at one time together (I am sure you have heard this before) they looked like they were in a sense cracked and breaking up, then I asked myself what was it like before it started breaking apart? What was it like when it was perfect? Then this thought came to me. It was at one time the Garden of Eden, a perfect pure harmonious creation of God's love, he created this perfect ball of divine perfection, there existed no evil, just perfect harmony & love. (Take a moment and imagine)
What happened? When did all this suddenly change? It happened in the Garden of Eden. As the bible says, a serpent tempted Eve to bite the forbidden fruit, first with a question, then by saying she would become like God. Offering her the power of God if she would bite the apple. Most people say she was deceived by the devil, but I know she was not. We did get the power of God, What is God? He’s the creator. What other animal on the planet creates on a perfect environment? What animal is no longer in harmony with nature? What animal is killing the world? What do animals do when humans enter the forest? This is when the perfect world, the Garden of Eden started to breakup! The first thing Adam and Eve did was to create clothes to hide themselves. We allowed imperfection to enter the world. We let evil in. God is all about perfection, that’s what offended God.
The earth is breaking up, the storms came the path of destruction was started; the disease of more began. The reason we have the problems we have now is because man has the power to create, but by no means at a perfect level. That is why after man changes Gods creation to his liking; it will have problems or imperfections! We are like a cancer on the earth, going off doing our own thing and jeopardizing the whole body. A tumor is nothing more than a bunch of rogue cells that go off and start their own body.
We are asking questions to our imperfect brains and getting an answer that is filtered by mans priorities. Greed, envy, lust, hatred, gluttony, pride, anger all of mans sins.
I try to read a couple pages from the bible daily and kept noticing how God spoke to Mosses or God spoke to Paul etc. I asked why isn't God speaking to someone now? Then I realized that he is speaking to all of us now, through our hearts. Then it all came together. When eve bit that apple we started using our imperfect brain to make decisions, which resulted in imperfect answers. Our heart is what we should be asking not our brain. God created this endless universe. We can't even come close to imagining its vastness, and here we are trying to figure things out with our little imperfect brain. We have a direct connection with the creator of the universe who will speak to us through our heart. You will see that when you use your heart instead of your head, you'll filter everything through love. It may be just a small little muscle now, but if you condition yourself to use it, it will change your life and this world.
Roland Shafer
2714 Hadar Dr
Ord, NE 68862 rolshafer@frontiernet.net


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