We live in a post-vocational age. Without any theology of vocation we lapse into debilitating alternatives: fatalism (doing what is required by “the forces” and “the powers”); luck (which denies purposefulness in life and reduces our life to a bundle of accidents); karma (which ties performance to future rewards); nihilism (which denies that there is any good end to which the travail of history might lead); and, the most common alternative today, self-actualization (in which we invent the meaning and purpose of our lives, making us magicians). In contrast the biblical doctrine of vocation proposes that the whole of our lives finds meaning in relation to the sweet summons of a good God (Paul Stevens).
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Basic Epidemiology 2

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Basic Epidemiology

Basic Epidemiology 2

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Excerpts from Seale, J. “Origins of the AIDS viruses, HIV-1 and HIV-2: Fact or Fiction? Discussion Paper.” Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine. 81:9 pp. 537-539

“Published results of experiments in primate colonies, carried out since the early 1960s, show that epidemics of AIDS-like disease, and of leukaemias, which previously did not exist, have been produced artificially in non-human primates.”

“An outbreak of infectious leukaemia, affecting 100 of more than 1000 baboons of the monkey colony at the Institute of Experimental Pathology at Sukhumi, Georgia, in the USSR, started in 1967. It followed injection of blood from members of one primate species, Homo sapiens [humans], into 10 members of a different primate species, Papio hamadryas (baboons). Thereafter ‘close contact’ was sufficient to transmit the disease amongst the baboon.”

“Numerous published papers describe the successful growth of several lentiviruses from primate and other mammailian species in human cell culture, starting with the growth of visna virus from sheep in cells from human embryos in 1961.”

“The technology required to produce, artificially, epidemics of HIV-1, HIV-2 and other new retroviruses pathogenic to man was already available in the 1960s.”

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