The Vegan Lifestyle

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Is the soul really immortal? Why most people believe that the soul is immortal?

The soul is not immortal. There is only one immortal being in this whole universe, and that is God.

The doctrine of the immortality of the soul is not based on the Bible. There is no single verse in the whole Bible to support it. This man-made doctrine supports the doctrine of spiritism. Many people believe that the soul of the dead still comes back to converse with their loved ones and relatives. They believe that souls are alive, and they talk to them and offer them foods during All Souls Day.

When Adam and Eve fell in sin, God, in his mercy to man, immediately sent powerful angels to secure the tree of life that man may not partake of the fruit of the tree of life and remain a sinner forever and suffer its consequence without end. So a powerful angel with a flaming sword guarded the tree of life that man may be saved from suffering this consequence eternally.

Man is a living soul. This soul that makes man alive is the breath of God that enlivens a body created from dust. When this body dies, the soul or breath returns to its rightful owner, God, and the body returns to dust. A dead man does not go to heaven or hell – he decays in the tomb. He “sleeps”, and is unconscious of everything that is happening under the sun. He does not ascend to heaven nor descend to the pit of hell. For why should Christ come again to judge the living and the dead if these dead men are already in heaven or hell? None has gone up to heaven except Enoch, Elijah, Moses, and those who were resurrected together with Christ in Jerusalem. All others are still in their tombs. So the doctrine of the immortality of the soul is a doctrine of spiritism. It is a doctrine of the devil. Fallen angels mimic the appearances and voices of our dead loved ones to deceive us that the soul is really immortal, and are able to converse with us anytime they want to. We should be careful conversing with them – these devils might easily posses us.

Do not be deceived. Be vigilant, because our enemy the devil, as a roaring lion is walking around, seeking whom he may devour. The great deceiver and his cohorts are all around us all the time trying to pull us to hell.

I used to be ignorant of this fact. Whenever somebody dies in our neighborhood, I was terribly afraid that their soul or ghost will show up at night. I had fear of corps, coffin, and candles. It was only lately that I had been freed from this great lie, and I laughed at myself behaving like an idiot on those days.

Dead men are dead. They no longer know whatever thing is done under the sun. The bouquet we buy – they cannot see anymore nor appreciate its beauty. No matter how fragrant, they cannot smell it anymore. A truckload of beautiful fragrant flowers cannot bring them joy and happiness anymore – they are dead and their senses are dead with them. These flowers should have been given when they were still alive, and could have given them inspiration to live and prolong their lives. The tender loving care we showed to the dead should have been better done when they needed our help the most in their time of sadness and sufferings. The money we spent on flowers, candles, and expensive coffins could have been spent to buy medicines, food, shelter and all the basic need of our loved ones. The time we spent on sleepless vigils could have been usefully spent on them when they were still alive in their sick bed, at home when they needed our quality time to converse with them and vent their pent up feelings and problems that eventually cause their demise. It could have been spent with the kids in the park – to breath the refreshing and invigorating air from the trees, and appreciate the beauty of Nature that strengthens the body and ennobles the mind to appreciate life and live it to the full with zest.

This is our moral lesson: We must love our wife, our husband, our children, our parents, our in-laws, our brothers and sisters, our friends, our neighbors, and all our loved ones, and even our enemies . Let us show them our care and affection while they are still alive with us. Let us love them in deed and not in words. For in death, there is no more consciousness to appreciate all things that are being done under the sun. Flowers, candles, vigils, and even an ocean of tears are all useless when given for the dead.

Flesh meat eating is harmful to health. It is the main cause of cancers, tumors, heart diseases, heart attack, strokes,  and other diseases.

In the beginning, God gave man his original diet: fruits, grains, nuts, and vegetables. Man was originally designed as a herbivore. As such, the structure of his mouth, teeth, jaw, and intestines, are distinctly very different from carnivores. He has small mouth opening, and he has sharp cutting incisors with flat or nodular surfaced molars for crushing and grinding food. His jaw has  three distinct motions – up and down; sideways; forward or backward, but in a limited degree. Also man’s large intrestines runs through the abdominal cavity like an inverted U, and consists of ascending, transverse,  and descending colons.

After the Flood, plants and all the vegetation were all totally destroyed, and man was allowed to eat the flesh meats of clean animals which were brought in the Ark. From then on, man started to eat flesh meats, and all forms of diseases followed. His life span became shorter –  from over a hundred years to 70 years old.

During those ancient days, the animals were clean, and grazed on clean grasses, as vegetation started to grow back. Nowaday, animals are injected with growth hormones that are harmful to the body. And their feeds are mixed with dried pulverized carcases, additives, and other toxic chemicals. These animals are butchered in dirty slaughter houses – where animal fecal wastes mingle with their flesh meats. Also some of these animals are sick with communicable diseases that are transferred to the consumers, such as flu, pneumonia, tuberculosis, mad cow disease, foot and mouth disease, bird’s flu, Ebola Reston virus, and others.  Even the flesh meats of healthy animals, besides the chemicals from feed, and other additives, are flooded with insulin which they secrete in reaction to fear when butchered.

In the 17th century, Mrs. Ellen G. White, by the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, wrote a warning concerning flesh meat eating. She predicted that flesh meat eating will be the cause of tumors, and cancer. It is only now in the 21st century that doctors confirmed her prediction as true.

Flesh meats contain a stress hormone called 17-hydroxycorticosteroid which stimulates the pituitary gland, and cause man to be more animalistic, and less rational. During cooking, some chemical substances are produced in meats, such as benzopyrene, and methylcholanthrene. Benzopyrene can cause stomach tumors, and leukemia. It is so toxic that in a one kilo of charcoal-broiled steak, there is as much benzopyrene as in 600 cigarettes. Methylcholanthrene is a cacinogenic  sustance formed when the fat of meats are superheated.

Besides, the toxic chemical substances in meats, there is also greater risk of having heart diseases, heart attacks,  strokes, and cardiovascular diseases that are closely related with flesh meat eating. Animal flesh meats are high in cholesterol that clogs the vein and arteries resulting to heart attacks and strokes.

Laughter The Best Medicine

Laughter is the best Medicine

A lot of diseases could have been cured had people learned to laugh. More deaths could have been prevented had they laughed their diseases and problems off.

A study by Doctor Lee Berk and Doctor Stanley Tan of Loma Linda Hospital showed that laughter lowers blood pressure, produces a general well being, and boosts the immune system by raising the levels of infection-fighting T-cells, disease fighting proteins called gamma interferon, and B-cells which produced  disease producing antibodies. Laughter reduces stress hormones such as epinephrine, cortisol, dopac, and dopamine. It triggers the release of endorphins, the bodies natural pain killer.

The study showed that after exposure to laughter, there is a general increase in activity within the immune system including an increase in the number of activity of natural killer cells that attack viral infected cells and some type of cancer and tumor cells. It was found that after exposure to humor there was an increase in activated T-cells (T-lymphocytes) also the following were noted; increase in the antibody IgA (immunoglobulin A) which fights upper respiratory tract infection, increase in gamma interferon which tells various components of the immune system to “turn on”; increase in IgB, the Immunoglobulin produced in greatest quantity in the body, and an increase in compliment free, which helps antibodies to pierce dysfunctional or infected cells.

Laughter is the best medicine. There is indeed a built-in healing mechanism that is activated when we laugh. Laughing relaxes the muscles, and brings rejuvenation to the organs of the body. Laughter has a tremendous curative power. Indeed laughter cures almost all ailments and diseases even without the aid of any medication.

How To Grow Organic Vegetables At Your Backyard

Organic is the trend in vegetarianism nowadays. Vegetables sold in markets are not safe anymore. Commercially grown vegetables are sprayed with pesticides, and boosted with fertilizers that areloaded with chemicals harmful to health. And to preserve these vegetables fresh, they are sprayed with formalin.

A safe alternative is to grow your own vegetable at your backyards.When your backyards have limited spaces or no soil, you can plant them in flower pots or in plastic bags. Buy flower pots or plastic bags big enough to accomodate your plants when they grow. Among the vegetables that thrive well on pots are tomatoes, eggplants, raddish, pechay, okra, and bell pepper. You can also plant lemon grass, sweet potato, and lemon.

Use sandy, loam soil. Do not use soil mixed with clay – it becomes sticky when you water the plant, and eventually becomes hard, preventing the water to go down and to be absorbed by the plant. Cover the soil with rice husks to prevent it from drying.This will prevent excessive water evaporation, and maintain the soil moisture.

Before transferring the seedling, or the young plant, be sure to prepare the soil in the flower pot or plastic bag well. Put enough loam soil up to the level will prevent draining out or erosion when you water the plant. Put fertilizer around  the plant, especially the bottom part. Put more soil and fertilizer at the bottom for the roots to really absorb the nutrients. Then plant the seedling or young plant on the pot. Be sure that the roots are not damaged or cut, and the soil are not pressed hard around the plant.

Use home-made organic fertilizer. Make a compost pit. Put grasses and leaves in it, and let them decompose until ready for use. You can buy an organic fertilizer at the store. There are one or two varieties of organic fertilizer available in the market; choose those made by vermiworms. It is really organic and very good for the plants. If you can afford, you can make your own organic fertilizer from vermiworms. Look for stores that sell vermiworms. It is a little bit expensive, but it is a good investment. Cover these worms with dried grasses, and after a time you will have a pure organic fertilizer.

Be sure to put fertilizer in your plants from time to time, either once a month, or once every two months. It depends on the plants – how big it is, what kind of plant it is, how fast it absorbs the fertilizer, and of course, how much fertilizer is eroded with the soil when watering the plants. Do not forget to put rice husks as toppings over the top soil. This will prevent excessive water evaporation, and will maintain water moisture around the plant.

Do not forget to water your plants. Water them in the morning and in late afternoon before the sun sets. Like us, they need water to grow. When the soil are left dry for a certain period, the plant withers and die. So water your plants regularly.

Do not just water your plants – check them also for insects. Insects eat up the leaves of plants, and kill the plants eventually. Check for caterpillars and snails too. They also eat the leaves of plants. Caterpillars are hard to find. They crawl behind the leaves, and can mimic the color of the leaves. And the snails too. You cannot see them crawling on the leaves – you will only see leaves eaten up.

Check your plants for aphids too. Never use toxic chemical spray to control them. Put a little petrol in water-soap mixture, ansd spray on plant leaves to remove aphids.

Avocado has many health benefits. It is a very palatable fruit that tastes and looks like an egg yolk. It is a very nutritious food that contains all the nutrients in egg less its cholesterol. It is good for the brain and the nervous system. It is  packed with vitamins,  minerals and other phytonutrients or plant compounds that are very  important for a healthy body functioning. It has monounsaturated fat that lowers bad cholesterol levels in the body. It was shown in research studies that monounsaturated fats reduces LDL (bad) cholesterol level in the blood, and increases or boost the HDL (good) cholesterol.

Avocado contains folate, one of the B complex vitamins that promotes healthy cell and tissue development. Folate also reduces the risks of birth defects.

Avocado also contains potassium, vitamin E, vitamin C, vitamin B6, lutein, beta-sitosterol. Potassium helps balance the body electrolytes. Vitamin E is a powerful antioxidant known to slow down the aging process, and helps protect against heart diseases and some types of cancer. Lutein is a carotenoid that can protect against eye diseases such as macular degeneration and cataracts. Beta-sitosterol is a phytonutrient that inhibits the absorption of cholesterol in the body, and it helps lower blood cholesterol levels.

Avocado also contains magnesium, riboflavin ( vitamin B2), glutathione, niacin (vitamin B3), pantothenic acid(vitamin B5), biotin (also a Bvitamin), copper, vitamin K, iron and zinc.

Avocado is nutrient booster. A research in Ohio State University showed that when avocado is added to green salad, more disease-fighting nutrients like lutein, lycopene, alpha carotene, and beta carotene are absorbed. These members of the carotenoid family are associated with healthy heart, prostate, and good vision.

Certain foods can prevent cancer. These foods are primarily found  in fruits, grains, nuts, and vegetables.

Fruits, grains, nuts, and vegetables are rich in phytonutrients that are very essential in the healthy functioning of the body. These phytonutrients not only supply the body with the needful energy and vitality, but also have healing powers for a lot of diseases including cancers.

The following foods are best for the prevention of cancers:

• deep-green leafy vegetables, such as spinach, collards, kale, and broccoli.
• deep-orange or deep-yellow vegetables, such as squash, carrots, and others.
• all the allium-containing foods, such as onions, garlic, chives, and leeks.
• citrus fruits, such as lemons, oranges, grapefruits.
• red fruits and vegetables, such as strawberries, raspberries, tomatoes, and beets.
• whole grains, such as barley, whole wheat, and oats.
• legumes, such as soybeans, red beans, pinto beans.

There are many testimonies from terminal cancer patients who were  miraculously cured by drinking on a daily basis the fresh juices of  fruits and  vegetable. The juices from red beets, carrots, apples, pineapples, grapes, tomatoes, papaya, spinach, onions, garlic, cabbage, and grapefruits have potent curative powers for cancers. Cabbage and broccoli are good for the prevention and treatment of colon cancer. Horseradish has a phytochemical niazimin that can prevent the development of cancer cells. Cayenne can prevent prostate cancer. Soybeans and its products can prevent stomach cancer, colo-rectal cancer, prostate cancer, and lung cancer. Garlic and onions are powerful body detoxifiers that cleanses the blood to prevent a host of crippling diseases including cancers. The laetrile in cassava tubers is used to cure certain cancers.

Physical exercise is very important for a healthy body. To stay healthy and fit, we need to exercise regularly.

Most people believe that exercise and work are the same. They believe that if they exert effort, flex their muscles during work, it is already an exercise. But exercise and work are not the same thing. Although both expend energy, exercise has an element of pleasure. When you work,  you become tired, the same as when you exercise. But in exercise, there is a sense of pleasure and leisure, and this what makes exercise more beneficial than work. It is this sense of pleasure that adds to the benefits of a physical exercise.

Exercise is very important to everybody. Moderate and vigorous exercises can  reduce bad cholesterol levels in the body to prevent heart attacks and strokes. Exercise promotes good blood circulation, and is therefore very beneficial for all the organs of the body. It helps in the removal of wastes and toxins in the body through perspiration.

A good exercise need not be strenuous. Brisk walking for 30 minutes three to four times a week can give the body a rejuvenation equivalent to ten years. Exercise improves the tones of the muscles, and makes them stronger and firm. It increases the efficiency of the heart to pump more blood to all parts of the body. Exercise also improves digestion, and normalizes bowel movement.

Exercise is good for the lung, allowing it to process more air with less effort, and increases oxygen consumption by body cells. It enables a cheerful quality to the mind,  and strengthens the will. Exercise promotes a restful sleep at night, a good mind to think better, and restores energy and vitality to perform more efficiently during the day.

Exercise increases the pumping efficiency of the heart. It can prevent heart attacks, and other diseases, especially in the elderly when done consistently in moderation.

Other health benefits of exercise are:

• strengthens the involuntary muscles, such as those of the stomach and intestinal canal
• relieves painful menstruation
• helps children to grow
• improves the nervous system
• provides more oxygen to the body, and improves its utilization by all tissues in the body
• speeds up  the recovery of surgical, maternal and other patients
• prevents phlebitis, kidney stones, embolism, clots, and loss of calcium from bed patients
• reduces blood pressure slightly
• prevents abnormal or accelerated clotting of the blood in coronary, cerebral, and other arteries and veins
• promotes rejuvenation and longevity

Rest is very important to man. Rest is essential to good health. Without rest, fatigue results, and diseases follow.  Lack of adequate rest causes sickness.

There is healing power in rest. When we are sick, the first thing we do is lie down and rest. The key to a successful remedy from diseases is the restorative power of rest.

Rest is not exclusive in sleep. You can rest by changing activity from a tedious or monotonous ones. Going out and exercising outside, and taking deep breaths under the shades of trees can give rest to the mind and body. Look at the green foliage of plants and trees around you – they give rest to tired eyes. Look at the trees, the birds, the flowers – they all give rest to a weary mind. Think about God and all the blessings he has given you daily – a genuine sense of rest and relaxation will come over you.

All parts of our body need rest. Even the hardest-working organ, the heart, rests after each beat. Also the lungs, rest after each breath. And the stomach needs thirty to sixty minutes rest after each meal.

Rest must be preceded by exercise or any activity, and rest at night is easier and comfortable when done with empty stomach. We can also rest at the middle of the day. Fifteen minutes nap is equivalent to 45 minutes or more at night. This kind of rest not only keeps you active throughout the remainder of the day,but lengthens your life span as well.

Do not sleeping pills. They drastically alter sleeping cycles, and suppress the very important REM (rapid eye movement) sleep. This is the dream part of sleep. Suppressing REM is very harmful to the body. During this stage of sleep, the heartbeat becomes irregular, and brain waves are similar in the waling state.

Sleep is divided into stages. In the presleep stage, the  alpha brain waves are prominent. Stage 1 begins as the pulse slow down, and the muscles relax. After 5 to 10 minutes, stage 2 begins, where the brain waves become larger, and the eyes roll from side to side. Twenty minutes later, stage 3 is entered, and the brain waves becomes slow and larger. Muscles are relaxed, and breathing is slow and even. Then stage 4 or delta sleep enters and generally last for 20 minutes, after which the REM sleep starts. After 10 minutes, the sleeper returns to stage 2, 3, and then delta sleep  in a cycle lasting about 90 minutes. Then REM sleep starts again. In a night sleep, there is more delta sleep earlier in the night, and more REM sleep toward the morning.

Sleepers who do not get their REM sleep awaken irritable and tired. They become aggressive, restless, angry, depresses and pathetic.ep, REM sleep, empty stomach

Why do some people hate the Bible? Is it because it convicts them of their wrong deeds? Is it because it is hard to understand, or is it because they do not have the time to read it?

In our modern time, people tend to consider the Bible as nothing but a simple book which is not different from the common books they can buy from stores. To them, mere mortals wrote it, and there is no divine inspiration in it. To them, it is not different from magazines, and other materials they read.

There could be reasons why they behave like this. Probably, they do not believe in God. People may dislike the Bible because they cannot understand it, or worst of all, perhaps it convicts them of their sins, and it trouble their conscience, thus hating and avoiding it.

There are deep-rooted reasons why they behave like this. Some do not believe in God because they have not seen Him or His manifestation. Most oof these atheists are evolutionists who do not believe in the story of creation. To  them everything evolved from a one-celled organism by chance, and there is no Creator. They believe that they came from that one-celled organism to monkey up to image they have now.

Some people do have some faint idea about God. They believe because their neighbors said so. These are the common people in almost all walks of life: the barbers, the drivers, the bus conductors, the factory workers, the sales girls, the workers in bars and night spots, the gamblers, the vendors and others. All of them have different jobs, but have one thing in common: lack of time to read and study the Bible for themselves.. To them, their work is more important than the Bible.

Another groupof people have their reasons also why they do not like the Bible. These are the gamblers, the hoodlums, the prostitutes in brothels and night spots, the swindlers, and other workers of sin. To them, there is God, but He is too far to help them in their time of need. They want to be “practical” in life, than wait on a God that they have never ever seen nor heard from. And in their being “practical”, they indulged in immoral works and commited heinous crimes against their fellowmen and God. Most of these people do not read the Bible because it convicts them of their sins.

But why do a majority of people that do not belong the above groups have no interet in the Bible? They are not so busy in their work, and not doers of immoral things. They have a lot of time reading the newspapers and the magazines, frequenting the malls, going to the theaters, attending  parties, going  to the discos, and ballroom dancing, attending  regular aerobics training sessions, and attend lots of self-improvement crash courses – in all of these activities they have plenty of time, but they lack time when reading the Bible.

There are  probable reasons why they behave like this. You might have heard these first time here, and they  may sound so incredible for you to believe. But medical science has confirmed them. It is up for you to check and verify to satisfy your curiosity.

Most people hate the Bible because it is so profound for them to understand. Actually, it is not of being profound that  they cannot understand it, for other people can understand it easily and clearly. Why should God, who wanted us to be holy by following his words, give us an instruction or command that will be very hard for us to understand? Think about it. Is He a foolish God to do that to us? Of course not. He desires to gather us all to His kingdom in heaven, and He surely speaks in simple words that are easy for us to understand. The real reason is in our diet and our intemperate indulgence in foods that we gulp into our stomach. Flesh meat eating destroys the brain,especially the frontal lobe,which is the center of wisdom, conscience, and spirituality. Mixture of sugar and milk also destroys  our spirituality. Rock music is another reason. This is the music designed by the devil to destroy the frontal lobe, and separate us completely from God. Caffein, nicotine, drugs, and other excitotoxins also destrys the brain. And the ever-ready entertainer, the seemingly harmless box at home, the television,  has a very big bad influence on the frontal lobes of children and adults alike. These things are indirect reasons why people do not like to read the Bible, and would rather read other useless reading materials, such as novel, science fiction, and love stories. These things go on day by day until such a point is reach that obscene, pornographic, and other demonic reading materials become good to their senses, and they eventually indulge and do the things they have read from these materials. Then they begin hating the  Bible and other spiritual things about God.