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The Scholarship of Poverty

09/24/2021 - 11:12 by Anonymous (not verified)
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Selected Narrative of Poverty Journalism

by Staff Writer

Editors Statement

“ I believe, and teach that all writing about poverty should be first person narrative. It should be exciting, cinematic, seductive,
grabbing the reader’s interest down to the last word.’’

-- Dee Gray,
Editor, The Scholarship of Poverty
Co-editor, POOR Magazine

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Arcata Stands Up To Orwellian Tactics

09/24/2021 - 11:12 by Anonymous (not verified)
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by Alex Cuff, Newsbrief Editor

Last month, Arcata, CA joined increasing number of municipalities to pass a resolution urging local law enforcement officials and others contacted by federal officials to refuse requests under the Patriot Act that they believe violate an individual’s civil rights under the Constitution.

Arcata didn’t stop there…this little city passed an ordinance that outlaws voluntary compliance with the Patriot Act.

“I call this a nonviolent, preemptive attack,” said David Meserve, the City Council member who drafted the ordinance with the help of the Arcata city attorney, city manager and police chief.

The Arcata ordinance may be the first, but it may not be the last. Across the country, citizens have been forming Bill of Rights defense committees to fight what they consider the most abominable attack on liberties contained in the Patriot Act. In Arcata, where forums drew little debate, the new law is an unqualified hit. It passed by a vote of 4 to 1, but has what looks like near-unanimous approval from residents.

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Lawrence Chan Endorses Displacement and Homelessness

09/24/2021 - 11:12 by Anonymous (not verified)
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50 Low-Income Renters Targeted For Eviction

by Alex Cuff, Newsbrief Editor

After a ten year contract comes to a close in July
2003, for a low-income housing project, 50
units of mainly Cantonese speaking immigrants are soon
to be dumped upon the streets of Oakland with no where
to go. Oakland’s Measure EE (Just Cause Evictions)
does not cover or protect units built after 1984 – these rental
units and the tenants are vulnerable to a “no cause” eviction.

Wealthy Hotel tycoon Lawrence Chan plans to expand
his profits by evicting poor local immigrants in
Oakland, at 989 Webster Street. Lawrence Chan is the CEO and founder of Park Lane Hotels International and C&L Financial Inc., which
develop and operate hotels and real estate projects
across United States and Asia. Projects in the Bay
Area - the 1009 rooms Renaissance Parc 55 Hotel in San
Francisco; the City Center Marriott Hotel and
Courtyard by Marriot in downtown Oakland; the San Jose
Marriott (opens in 2003); and the 1.2 million sq. ft.
mixed use retail/residential/commercial Pacific
Renaissance Plaza in the East Bay.

Mr. Chan has served as a member of the White House
Board of Advisors on Private Sector Initiatives under
President George Bush, the Presidential Round Table
under Senator Phil Gram. He was formerly the Co-Chair
of the San Francisco-Shanghai Sister City Committee,
and has received awards including numerous
proclamations by the California Secretary of State and
State Assembly, and the Key to the City presented by
the then Mayor of San Francisco, Senator Diane
Feinstein

Local activists are urging everyone and anyone to
reach out by phone, fax, or e-mails, to protest and
stop the evictions of the low-income immigrant renters
before it's too late. The property is being managed by International
Hotelier Management Corporation located at 388 9th
Street, Suite 228, Oakland CA. (Phone number
510/251-6448.)

Sources say that Lynette Lee of East Bay Asian Local
Develpoment Corporation helped to refine the original
deal with Lawrence Chan to set aside 50 units of
low-income housing now at risk. Contact Lynette Lee (510/ 287-5353 x596) to urge her to seek a long extension to the housing deal as a means to save the housing for the low-income renters.

Lawrwnce Chan resides in Hillsborough Ca.
(Population of 10,825 -- Rich S.F. Businessman Town)
His home phone number is not listed. Hillsborough City Council Meetings are scheduled for the second Monday of each month at 6p.m.
(Hillsborough Town Hall -- 1600 Floribunda Ave)

Lawrence Chan -- SFSU Foundation Board of Directors
Phone 415/ 338-2297 Fax 415/338-2670

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Past Rot Return. Get The Odd Feel Of Time Reversing Itself as if Some Folks Want The Bad Old Days Back?

09/24/2021 - 11:12 by Anonymous (not verified)
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It does look like
earth's in a backward spiral

Let's go fo'ward not back.

We have to be our own
heroine's and hero's.

by Joe B.

Rot Rises Ominous, Tidings Ahead

First off let me get this of my chest these MAILER DAEMON@ smtp1. webco... failure notices From The SmarterMail program.

As someone not up on the online expertise I’ve been sent these constantly.

I guess its time subscribe because when at first one gets a 207.134. 171.110 does not like recipient or a 553 domain thing I realized after sending her the "Sorry,you don’t like recipient.

You have a long life and all the best to you and it still comes back as
Sorry,you don’t like recipient.

I saw that it wasn’t Ms. Angela,Linda,Lauren, Tracy,or Hanna but the flookin’ program guidelines.

Although these ladies may indeed not like me I have not heard from them but the insidious program.

Guess its time to be a subscriber to really converse one to one.

Guys,Gals,new to this online date,chat,cyber- link stuff don’t believe the program if it sounds like a form letter if you get an email from people instead of program then talk then at least is a living breathing life form after all isn’t that what we that art too busy doing trying to connect so we can touch flesh to flesh and form attachments, friends,lovers,and families?

From 1999 it rocked, blazed,a trail for artists,comics,singer, inventive musical improv.

Mr. Keith Savage was their from its inception along with Bob-O-matic as MC
[Minister of Ceremony’s]

I don’t know what I know is Hotel Utah’s last night was in its current location was Monday,Dec. 1,2003.

But already its spirit which always resided in the people inside the hotel slash bar/café/ music/comic improvisational space.

Charles Pitts,current ‘Po Poet,ex Poor Magazine Alumni introduced me to the Hot-U in mid 2002 because after being Poor M for a time I was feeling burnt out and had for my own sanity find more than media,media,media.

Being an A-political guy in politically savy in a fem organization began feeling a bit like Hades plus there were other outlets to explore that is to me private like trying out comedy,singing,and other than political polemic poems sometimes they all blend into drek.
[I know both employees didn’t think much about what I did after work as long as I returned the next day.]

Finding other ways of expression in the U helped me see way beyond my work at "PM" now its closing (Hotel U not PM)because of some deal but as I’ve said its not the building though it will be sorely missed as a gathering place it’s the soul force of the people residing it that made H-U a place to be Mondays or any day of the week.

I'm too depressed to tell where the new U is but that’s no secret its already spreading by word -of-mouth.

I’m glad the Utah will be reborn in a new space but its spirit never died.

And now,The Return Of Past Rot.

Governator A. Schwarzenegger’s freeze of the enrollment of California’s Healthy Families program will place more low income families already struggling in vicious vice.

His proposed cutting of $3.8 billion from both current and coming budgets shreds whatever help families were depending on.

Yes,there's a number to voice your complaint to the Governor about what he’s seems oblivious to –
THE HEALTH AND WELL BEING OF ALL CALIFORNIAN’S WHETHER THEY BE YOUNG, MIDDLE AGED OR ELDERLY.

‘Um,I don’t believe cutting state medical funds to those families who need it the most helps anyone only creates more devastating illnesses and houseless people who are in now worse medical need than before,for many it will be a life ending Death Sentence.

As for immigrant driver’s license’s being revoked is wrongly written,a bad mean,and will ultimately back fire
when many people who need their license’s to drive to/for work,their children to/from schools or work that involves driving to or from work or truckers, taxi cap drivers, chauffeur’s.

But as usual few pol’s think in long term but only in short term bumps adding to their next elections.

The word has already changed,ancestors of Aztecs are voting,they like other rainbow tribes know all the tricks now.

Keep pissing us rainbow folks off as we all join up,compare notes,hers/ histories,tragedies,and triumphs and begin a distinctly Old World Order,where everyone is included not like the false New World Order of globalized commercialized, consumer driven market place.

Everyone know this world multi-faceted, lingual,ideas,and peopled by the vary ones who were at one time or another poised on an extermination list.

Those days must never be forgotten.

Remember the first to die,be experimented on, are the lame,blind,death, or anyone not physically perfect then the rest until it didn’t matter if one was sound in body and brain just being different means death and beauty, brains either in female or male form scared those who felt inferior but had the power of life and death and abused that power for their own selfish whims….

Remember our collective past folks,if we don’t, well Bush 1&2 is a glimpse at that dying but struggling past to be alive a plunge our world in blood yet again.

Like I said I’m A-political,I just want outlive all this bull "S" don’t you out there want the same for you and your children’s children?


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The Reign Of What? Two Gorgous Glam Guys, I can care less about style.

09/24/2021 - 11:12 by Anonymous (not verified)
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Pretty Boy Mayors?

Time to go Commando Yet?

by Joe B.

The Reign Of What? Between Gonzalez/Newsom great looks debate who care?

In my last column (which was written a few hours ago in the same day because this is "stay late Joe night"

I was reading in the 50 cents Chronicle about people going agog over the looks of the candidates.

This shouldn’t be a trend but then again the Kennedy factor is supposedly being used by one of the candidates.

It all seems so passe when one is running for Mayor,Governor, Senatorial,or Presidential because faces,styles, fashions,ideas change.

Will this race mean anything in 5 to 10 years after this ends?

Probably only as fable, allegory,or political mythos.

Me,I’m not GQ handsome but haven’t been hit with an ugly stick either.

One must talk to me face to face without all the flash,sizzle,glamour, that artificial light beams brightly from ceiling to participants on the dance floor.

New to all that stuff to and yet I know there is non way for me to shine there but in a quiet setting where people not nerved or trying to show their best selves one on one where I shine.

Some people have it all born to wealth,athletic, wit,charm,charisma,and to top it off integrity.

The last is a rare especially for of the beautiful jet setters real or those that somehow ended up there accidentally.

Yes,one can accidentally be there among the beautiful and rich all that’s needed is to be working among them, know them long enough to be trusted.

Maybe because of your upbringing especially if you’ve been taught or found out you have integrity,honesty,loyal and not a betrayer believing your word-is-your-bond kismet could work in that the friend you he/her may have been through many scrapes, secrets,hurts,harms caring deeply bucking each other when the other is down.

It’s a rare thing to know someone who knows you and when and if some sort of fame hits they’ll keep you grounded,won’t change because your circumstances has.

That’s why famous folk don’t reveal their first true friends,or true ones to come in whatever business they are in because real lasting true friendship is as precious a gift and sometimes can save lives.

Imagine yourself a newly minted starlet, recording star,artist, athlete,scientist, anything in the public eye.

Everything is whiling about you contracts, monies,investments,real estate, venues, and you need to get perspective on in and ideas where to begin anew who could help you because they knew you before all this hoopla happened?

A cherished friend who said "Whatever happens I there for you buddy."

Now she/he cannot get to you because of they are not where you are economically but its nothing for you to by a round trip ticket and if luck happens they might get a job and stay.

They come, notice your stressed,anxious.

Your best friend(s) knows what to say,when to say it to calm those jumpy nerves,no drugs,drink,or pills just both sitting or walking about town or city really catching up on each others lives and finally the missing ceremony or custom you use to do when feeling nervous or out of sorts.

Invited to a party or whatever there is jealousy from new friends about the unknown X factor friend from the past but before judgement is passed you as he/she has done automatically shut that hate fueling,gossiping process down and inside you realize you haven’t change much at all defending your friend as your friend has defended you even when he/she knew you were wrong wouldn’t deny you they’re trust.

I believe some famous people(the very blessed lucky ones) have friends and not working for but with them independent of the wall-o’-fame surrounding them.

For those who become famous without friends and seem forever to be unknown X quantities it must be difficult to know when to and when not to reveal their true selves.

I wonder if that happened to the famous star known as May West.

I don’t know what’d I do with overnight or justified fame. Would I have one true friend who’d know my quirks, idiosyncrasies,knowing the true would help when I’m crisis mode.

That’s it for me, take care,and slow down a bit.


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Non Pol Guy = Non Political Guy. Politics is Awkward Adults In Public.

09/24/2021 - 11:12 by Anonymous (not verified)
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Don't hate or love Politics
just indiferent to it all.

I don't like 'Pol in Summer...

you think when its rainning I'll get to
like it,not EVEN A little bit.

by Joe B.

Well,you read one San Francisco Chronicle reporter’s "in depth, up close view of houseless folk and their dire situations.

Mr. Kevin Fagan’s "SHAME OF THE CITY" is one more reporter manure-penning low blow potshots at the poor.

At least when doing my "Mess on Market Street series,way back in 2001 or so it was by someone who not only lived the life I was and still no where near out of poverty’s grip.

Its just one citizens with a bit of access by way of a job telling the daily woes,danger’s, funny,and offbeat of living an irregular life on Market Street.

I don’t know if I interviewed people like on the street but do respect their right of privacy as citizens or simply as human beings and not to frame them in a powerless state of being.

All Mr. Fagan did was focus on the most negative of images,freeze them in that focus and rarely talked to people who though houseless struggled to gain employment for themselves and or families.

I looks like another negative attack-dogs-on- poor slam cynical political slight-of-hand.

Its easy to set up "the homeless" as a mass of marginal people who all won’t work,eat all day, screw all night,and are either drinking or smoking up various non prescription drugs.

Only one problem it’s a myth-in-stasis that is what may seemed to have been true decades ago if it ever were is a false image trotted out for pol’s to set up their campaigns around.

The shame of the ‘Chron is instead of having one reporter,a video person(s) (Camera person(s) to cover one or more shelter, hotel,church,highway under -pass,or local bars, restaurant,fast food places frequented.

Why didn’t they have multiple teams of such and a some undercover investigative reporters who are doing it for 6 to 9 months at time with fresh replacements so the flow in info doesn’t sour, become stale,or prevent job burn out for those not "too close" the issue they’re covering all over the country in other cities and small towns all across America?

It couldn’t be money, don’t corporations have money allocated for just such long term,intense reporting?

Or is easier to just have a few weeks of quickie snap shots of jobless,houseless,persons and families struggling from no pay to minimum,to sub-minimum wage that hasn’t kept pace with the cost-of-living for over 20 years.

That’s why Coalition On Homelessness and other organizations including Poor Magazine covered the protest against the S.F. Chronicle outside their building.

No,don’t know the address all I did was hold my umbrella for those filming,recording,or speaking to reporters.

I’m at the protest under protest though it was interesting that a reporter either from Chron or another news outlet used a telephoto lens, walking around photographing the proceeding while he stays well away from the protest.

Finally the protestor converges where he is because verbal altercations and being threatened with violence by some folks angry at his out-of-loop surveillance like tactics.

Though no one came to blows there is a spirited discussion of technical/ psychology of "The Gaze" of photography,photo,the photographer’s responsibility in this complex process the way it (photographed subject) can be framed showing weakness or strength or fanciful absurdity.

Like I said,I’m at this protest under protest.

I mainly held the umbrella
much like make up people spraying fine mist on two nude skin flick actors to make a scene seem more glossy giving a gritty 3D-sweat- from-pores effect.

My only part aside from waterproofing folks on both sides of heated discussions was saying "Why don’t both out you meet somewhere neutral and talk this out."

This is between Tiny, co-editor of Poor Magazine and the Framing-Gaze- reporter.

No,don’t know his name but others on the scene do.

Done my bit for media folks… Bye.

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Closed Ranks Pt.1/Glide Program Pt. 2. Too long for one column so 2 must do both equally important, maybe on more so.

09/24/2021 - 11:12 by Anonymous (not verified)
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I dislike writing two columns
in a day.

These two topics are important
in that both can save lives...

if correct and informed choices are known.

by Joe B.

Close Ranks Pt. 1/Glide Program Pt. 2

It’s a not-to-bad Monday morning in the second city of lights. Mr. Newsom and Mr. Gonzalez are so close that both are metaphorically if not actually physically sweating Tuesdays election results.

Matt is no pushover and Gavin has run a savvy campaign.

That’s all I’m saying about both candidates being completely A-political myself.

Folks, you have 3-count-‘em 3 days to chose the best person for the post of Mayor Of San Francisco Sunday,Monday and Tuesday.

Three days folks,if ‘ya don’t vote don’t bitch and groan on who did or didn’t win.

Its up to all native San Franciscan’s and transplanted ones from everywhere to send a message how we want San Francisco to be run: for elite social/business multi national interests or rank and file regular working poor families or individuals just wanting to live,work,and raise families.

We must remember historically whom first made turned this wilderness place of mud manure covered streets into a sprawling city.

The were and are wandering artists,rebels, seekers of fame and fortune,disinherited of scions of middle to upper crust families,outlaws, soiled dove women,widows, and widowers,law abiding citizens and maybe a few established business folks.

San Francisco always seemed to be a mixture of all the elements of human endeavors but these days it seems the business interests want the city to oust to keep the workers to a rigid sharp edged bumpy grindstone freezing the mandatory minimum raise as the cost of living continues to rise astronomically.

Some historians might know what happens to the towns that made impossible for families,or individuals worker to live.

They pack up and leave taking with them all their skills, loyalty,and knowledge and these once tough scrappy towns die slow agonizing death or quickly get taken over by desert sand or overrun by vegetation.

I don’t know if I want to live in a Multi National Corporate Owned City constantly looks to the bottom line where citizens become interchangeable cogs in the M.N.C.O.C’s. in cities people are the real infrastructure as buildings,hi-free ways, transportation are more impermanent.

Whatever the outcome folks will adapt,survive, and change whom so ever is supposedly in charge.
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Glide Program Pt. 2. Sometimes in Public Speaking Your Real Self Emerges.

09/24/2021 - 11:12 by Anonymous (not verified)
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3 Programs.

Lives saved,futures changed
who otherwise would've died.

Glide Memorial's NEEDLE EXCHAGE PROGRAM.

by Joe B.

Glide Program Pt. 2

Besides "A Date That Will Live In Infamy." Spoken by the late President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the aftermath of Japanese Zero’s (Airplanes)bombing Pearl Harbor in the early morning that got millions of Americans in the in 1941. Footnote:
[even though it’s been raging since 1938].

[Didn’t American’s avoid war the World War I 1914 – 1918 by not going at the start but only after the Civilian Luxury Liner Lusitania was torpedoed by a German U-boat in 1915.

Another anniversary or milestone was acknowledged on Sunday in Glide Memorial which began for me last Wednesday.

It was to be my last day working with Mr. Willie Dudley and Mr. David Rivera my immediate supervisors of the HIV/AIDS Needle Exchange Program are first line foot soldiers in the war on SID’s= Sexually Transmitted Diseases.

Me,originally volunteered for inputting data of persons varying in sexual orientations.

It’s the boring data entry most people avoid but I only practiced it years ago as a sampling of what I could be doing as an Electronic Office Manager ‘uh,it’s a glorified Secretary surrounded by constantly updated technologies.

While PC’s are reconfigured,new programs installed I was now filling 1.( Bleach For clean needles for addicts preventing premature death especially for those trying quit.


2. Condoms: (male and female condoms help to prevent STD’s and HIV/AIDS Virus from infecting more people.


3. Hygiene (In clear plastic bags or in black kit bags are Band-Aids, ointment,towelet,water, soap,lotion,cotton swabs, wide rubber band,(for tying off arm,find a vein placing drugs through it, also shampoo,and conditioner and paper with information if further help is needed.

It was my last day Wednesday,Dec. 3, everything goes as usual except about a half hour into my work doing I was asked to sum up what I thought about Glide’s Needle Exchange Program.

Mr. Rivera and Mr. Dudley helped by explaining I already knew what was going and to speak from the heart.

I though "Ok, only 9 am and I’m home free.

Wrong by Sunday I find it’s a tradition to speak twice once for 9 am. and again at 11 am.

This really didn’t set with me well but its better to do this without delay because that same day as part of the ‘PO Poet’s there is a performance at City Hall.

Second row, never been that close to the music, band,and chorus of singer’s I’ve always avoided being to close because the noise.

An hour ticks then my name is called.

On shaky knees I walk to up blue carpeted stairs onto the wood floors.

The words came slow, halting, but clear and then my brain rebels as I hear myself saying
I have had safe sex, some of it against so called nature but I was lucky being monogamous. I don’t drink, smoke, or do drugs,I’m heterosexual and available."

There is laughter, murmurs,then outright cheers,whistles,and claps from many pews and I’m thinking You stuuupid horny ass, Why did you say that at the end of the speech?"

I left dazed, confused, thinking I made a complete fool of myself but also admitted to myself I’ve always wanted to say that because of the if-you’re- from-there-you’re-gay B-S.

Walked home checked message and found my friend from Mills was going to be here to spit her words.

I didn’t want her out in the weather because she sounds like she’s just getting over a head cold and coming out here might make her sick again.

Back a second time I’m sitting on steps leading the stage instead of sitting down when my name is called.

This time was better as I explained what that Glides’s Needle Exchange Program saved lives should be expanded everywhere in every city and town and then my mouth turned against me again!

I don’t know if I said hopelessly heterosexual or simply I’m available want to have a relationship in this city without going to Oakland,Berkeley,or anywhere else.

Its over,after a restroom break I was picking up my coat,hat, looking for my umbrella with its telescoping white plastic cover.

(whew, glad I didn’t say sheath)

First an well dressed elderly black gentleman suggested I see his daughter or was it sister?

A young woman said I’d like to see you giving me her number,we exchanged numbers and emails.

It felt heady,after the exchange I didn’t want to just say thanks because does take courage to ask someone,or tell someone something so in leaving as a gesture and answer I kiss her hand in heartfelt thanks for her act of trust.

I’m given money for a cab to whisk me off to City Hall fast its was only 5 dollars.

Before going to the poetry,I decide to vote that day instead of Monday or Tuesday.

The poetry is outside across from City Hall. I hear her voice with a strain in it.

That means she’s still sick even though dressed up for winters chill and though she says she’s alright as we spend a few hours shopping,taking Muni to Balboa I see her sleeping.

I know she should’ve been at friends,relatives or at my place where she would be alone or both of would be sleeping because I wasn’t feeling that energetic either.

She’ll be visiting relatives,friends all over the country and that she chose to be with me during the day before leaving is something I cherish but won’t admit until asked by her and no one else.

It was a great Sunday, turning church into a huge dating pool is cool and I just had to try it so I did.

Now for on-liners watching I wish everyone a very safe and happy holiday,who knows I may have a few dates this season and be in a budding relationship.

Now that’s a gift that keeps on giving and giving as longs as both participants keep giving of themselves.


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Vote On Our Terms. There are few absolute choices in life. This, if blown could be a loss we may never return from.

09/24/2021 - 11:12 by Anonymous (not verified)
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Not a column.

But Positive Thinking.

Think Hard,but not long then
vote your choice of Mayor and D.A.

by Joe B.

Its Time! Do We want to be Corporate Cogs In
Multi National Businesses as mere consumers?


Or Do We remain free citizens running our lives our way minus secret police,government busybodies dictating how we live our lives?

Well today its up to all of us from 18 to 108 to input our votes and not have policies,laws, initiatives,or proportions rammed down our throats.

We don’t have to eat and swallow any of this crud. So Vote Your Will Folks.


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Life Exstension Calls, Sooner Then Everybody'll Want More Life!

09/24/2021 - 11:12 by Anonymous (not verified)
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Just 'spitballin The Future.

We don't want to live forever...

Of Course we do,but we've got to from
point A before getting to point B.

by Joe B.

Life Extension Calls

Church is over,some work at the office by lunch time means no Free food at Glide’s or St. Anthony’s.

Trail mix snacks will do until the extra money earned this bright, blinding summer-in-winter’s day trick of San Francisco is in my hand.

Earlier in the morning I began rereading a science fiction adventure with continuing character who’s immortal lives span from the early pre recorded history to a far futuristic space faring humanity.

Though it’s a tale well written with characters somehow through an evolutionary quirk found themselves at first to be singularly blessed or cursed with unending life not just very long extraordinary life spans but truly immortal though death may come by misadventure,accident,in the course of time but rejuvenating, regenerative,powers they know nothing of.

They live,learn,love, raise families,fake old age before others find they are deathless beings.

I wonder if somewhere in our predawn, prerecorded history it had happened once or a couple of times in give or take a few billion years.

Evolution has been found not to be slow sometimes its also speeds up though the normal pattern is very slow.

That certain men, women,animals,don’t die in the fullness of time only means that its improbable but impossible not in the realm of evolution arbitrary hand.

These women,men wouldn’t know at first for a long time until certain things occur over time friends,lover’s,family getting ill,growing older, then dying while they themselves retain their vitality whether they are chronologically older their biological time keeps them young.

If they are women plain they or pretty they outlast ephemeral mortal beauty,have many lover’s, and many children and yet their progeny may never inherit the I-gene because it is too early in the human species as mortality is the norm and our mystery woman’s Immortality gene is a recessive trait.

Outliving, rapes, their hymen regenerates to virgin status as broken bones renew,serious otherwise lethal head – body damage rejuvenate though memory taught them harsh lessons on surviving the live and only pass the I-Gene to rare female or male offspring.

Men in battles,wars, find mortal blows to head, hear,in back,ribs,and belly,hurt like hell but rapidly heal without scar tissue.

They to may even suffer the greatest pain (besides giving birth) castration but again re-grow lost organ over time.

Having many lover’s, wife’s,in their incredibly long lives.

Embryo’s born,toddlers, to children,to adolescent, young adult,to mature adult marrying or dying young in street fights or in wars not able to pass their I-G’s except rarely.

The tragedy of many going mad,committing suicide not knowing how to handle what nature,time, maybe a deity or deity’s has given them.

Would any of you out there accidentally found this devastating truth come forward and reveal yourselves?

If it were me I wouldn’t knowing some what people have don’t to each other I couldn’t in all conscious do it unless there were others as I and the search would begin.

Still for me it were me mind you, the most radical course for me was to conspire to turn regular mortals into people such as myself turning rare I-G recessive into dominant but I wouldn’t want 8 – 10 –12 to 15 year old immortals what an accursed abnormal blasphemy
that will seem to many and yet they too might exist without our knowing.

Most of us don’t believe actual walking, breathing immortals exist if they did a few of us would have a difficult time excepting this reality if it were true.

For now we don’t worry because we all know everyone dies that’s the equality of life (mortality) everyone of us will die either young, middle aged, or elderly.

But folks the time is quickly approaching when applied Bio Sciences continue making breakthroughs in slowing, reversing, extending, or otherwise stopping the human aging process; we already think of if as not natural but an accumulation of errors in our genes all the way up to our brains!

What if 3D models down to the molecular subatomic strands of DNA was of all humanity was drawn up and there with minute precision of human’s and micro to nano sized PC’s were able to pinpoint the exact moment human beings begin falling apart?

We find, have those area’s classified and begin meticulous corrections to and perfecting all molecular, chemical, genome in the 3D model human.

Both woman and men can finally borrow which works best in both sexes and improve upon ourselves.
Men would be able to think in tandem using both sides of their brains as women normally do, be more in touch with their emotive sides.

While women would now naturally know why men act they way they do without men trying hopelessly to explain and could physically be men’s equals in physical strength no longer verbally out talking them because men would not know the cues subconsciously as women have been socialized as young girls.

I don’t about any of you out their but I’d like to really able to spar with women verbally in an even tongue battle without smarting emotionally because of the barrage of remembered dates, facts, q+a’s, plus cutting remarks.

Most Women still cannot fight men physically because of the smaller, lighter bone structure, and socialized upbringing it either has to be punches, kicks, or objects thrown at men’s most vulnerable the old nut sack, throat, back, side, or bridge of the nose which can send pieces of nose bone cartilage into the brain and any powerful enough grab-hold or kick to said sack area can easily not only cause great pain, internal damage, but is also lethal.

Most guys if their honest know they’re no superman with balls of steel but only made of flesh and hold their scrotums dear.

Anyone has any ideas to create the I-Gene in us all tell me about it, is it real, or does it have to made in a lab?


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