Venu's Thoughts Series

  A Story of Three Jars --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This article was originally published at https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/story-three-jars-venu-gopal/ on Aug 25, 2021 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Once upon a time, in a laboratory belonging to Mother Nature, there existed a circular table.  The name of the table was E (short for ‘Earth’). There were many jars on this table.  All the jars were filled with creatures - creatures of a very interesting kind.  They went by the name of ' humans '. These jars were sometimes referred to as ' religion 's. However, three of these jars were much larger than the others.  They were named ' C ' , ' I ' and ' H '.  In 2020, C held approx. 31% of all these special creatures, I about 24% and H about 15%. While the jars had no lids, and the creatures inside could climb out, that was a tremendously difficu...

  THE TREE OF LIFE (A 'slightly' different view on when life begins/ends) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This article was originally published on March 18, 2017 at https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10209139132655147 and subsequently republished at https://www.facebook.com/SDPerspective/posts/183400929085800 on Feb. 3, 2018, and at https://www.linkedin.com/posts/venupgopal_a-slightly-different-perspective-activity-6839330234345562112-55rq   on Sep 3, 2021 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Nobody denies that - at birth - that a child is alive. So we'll take that as a given. Prior to birth, there is a live and kicking fetus in the womb - most people would agree that it is alive. The kicking fetus grows from an initial embryo into what it is - so there is no question that the single-cell embryo itself is alive - because we can't create a living, kicking thing from...