I just received my flu shot for this year. It was a mere prick in the muscle of my upper arm, followed by a couple of days of soreness, and then it is over. I took the injection in hopes that I would not wind up with the flu that percolates during the year. At best, I have bettered my chances by thirty three percent, as at any given time there are two to three circulating the globe.
The vaccination utilizes killed or inactivated flu viruses to introduce immunity into the body via the immune response. It really is a pot shot, as guessing, if this years flu shot is going to have the right sequence of DNA that will prevent this years flu.
There are brilliant minds that have turned to a much more basic way of attempting to find a vaccination that will introduce immunity into the body regardless of the variety of flu of this year or that year.
It involves causing the body to create a deeper immune response, by causing the thymus to produce cellular immunity, a deep seated immunity that lasts a lifetime. What is critical, though is that the thymus gradually reduces in size after puberty and by the time you are sixty, it is at the size it was at birth. It continues to reduce in size until death.
At birth, you are granted immunity via your mother’s immune system, but soon thereafter, you must begin building your own. Essential in living, this immunity cannot be cast off, as death is the sure accomplice.
It seems there is a rich spiritual parallel in living the Christian life. . . At the New Birth(Repentence, Baptism by immersion, in the name of Jesus, and the reception of the Holy Ghost with evidence by speaking in an unknown tongue), you are granted immunity from sin. However, you must rapidly begin to cast off old things that are viral in nature, that are killer to your walk with God.
Paul was direct in his statement, “Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before,. It is leaving things behind that we begin inoculating ourselves against the virus of sin that tries its best to kill the spiritual man day after day.
There have been times in which the thymus, where the T cells that grant immunity, has been removed. It is almost always followed by an infection that normally wouldn’t kill an individual doing just that. . .killing them. We can ill afford to take away things that are cornerstones of faith. When we remove those, without having any idea of the effects long after they are gone, we consign ourselves to death of things that wouldn’t have matter in the prior years.
The thymus isn’t reimplanted after it is removed. It is gone forever. And along with it is the immunity of the past, and no protection for the future. Should we be paralyzed by the future? Not at all, but in order to face the future, we need to retain those essential ingredients that are protective, even if you don’t understand them.
The vaccination utilizes killed or inactivated flu viruses to introduce immunity into the body via the immune response. It really is a pot shot, as guessing, if this years flu shot is going to have the right sequence of DNA that will prevent this years flu.
There are brilliant minds that have turned to a much more basic way of attempting to find a vaccination that will introduce immunity into the body regardless of the variety of flu of this year or that year.
It involves causing the body to create a deeper immune response, by causing the thymus to produce cellular immunity, a deep seated immunity that lasts a lifetime. What is critical, though is that the thymus gradually reduces in size after puberty and by the time you are sixty, it is at the size it was at birth. It continues to reduce in size until death.
At birth, you are granted immunity via your mother’s immune system, but soon thereafter, you must begin building your own. Essential in living, this immunity cannot be cast off, as death is the sure accomplice.
It seems there is a rich spiritual parallel in living the Christian life. . . At the New Birth(Repentence, Baptism by immersion, in the name of Jesus, and the reception of the Holy Ghost with evidence by speaking in an unknown tongue), you are granted immunity from sin. However, you must rapidly begin to cast off old things that are viral in nature, that are killer to your walk with God.
Paul was direct in his statement, “Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before,. It is leaving things behind that we begin inoculating ourselves against the virus of sin that tries its best to kill the spiritual man day after day.
There have been times in which the thymus, where the T cells that grant immunity, has been removed. It is almost always followed by an infection that normally wouldn’t kill an individual doing just that. . .killing them. We can ill afford to take away things that are cornerstones of faith. When we remove those, without having any idea of the effects long after they are gone, we consign ourselves to death of things that wouldn’t have matter in the prior years.
The thymus isn’t reimplanted after it is removed. It is gone forever. And along with it is the immunity of the past, and no protection for the future. Should we be paralyzed by the future? Not at all, but in order to face the future, we need to retain those essential ingredients that are protective, even if you don’t understand them.
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