The HIV Connection

A bunch of years back i came to the understanding that i have stated here previously. Everything is connected to everything else. The physical to the emotional to the spiritual to the intellectual. Everything is interconnected. As i was thinking about this interconnection in my prayer and devotional time i came across a correlation that really shocked me. The more i thought about it, the more it made sense and came together.

Bear with me as i try to explain and piece this together. It's a simple concept really, just not easily explained. (Keep in mind, this explanation of AIDS is merely a simplified explanation of something very complex. You might say that it is the dumbed down high-school version [ddhv].) AIDS (Auto-Immune Deficiency Syndrome) seems to be a really hot topic nowadays. The AIDS epidemic in Africa. AIDS rate rising in the US. However, as much as AIDS kills people, AIDS in and of itself is merely a symptom of HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus). How HIV works (ddhv) is that the virus infects a person and begins to reproduce. It imitates our bodies white blood cells (our body's natural defense system) to such a degree that the white blood cells can't distinguish the virus from other white blood cells. The virus then infects the white blood cells using them as a host to reproduce while destroying that white blood cell in the process. Thereby they successfully and effectively imitate and destroy our body's immune system without the immune system being able to fight back. Thus it destroys our defense against other diseases faster than our bone marrow can produce more. Without that defense system in place our body becomes more susceptible to other forms of disease. Our bodies become unable to fight complex or over time even simple sickness. Thus without our white blood-cell count up to par a person can be killed by a simple common cold that an ordinarily healthy person would have beaten in a matter of a day or two.

The same thing happens to us intellectually & spiritually. Our morals, principles, and values protect us. They help to define who we are, and they keep us healthy. They help us to fend off invading sin and corruption in our lives that would work as disease corrupting and destroying us. They act as our spiritual white blood cells. The stronger and better they are, the better they work at keeping us healthy. Their source is the truth. The truth is the foundation of our morals, principles, and values. Truth is like the bone marrow that produces and stabilizes our spiritual white blood cells. Relative truth states that there is no real truth. It states that truth is dependent upon circumstances not any real source. Relative truth acts as though it is truth only instead of producing healthy morals it destroys them. It states that truth is dependent upon the circumstances around it and has no definite source or value in itself. Thus truth and the values, principles, and morals that it produces are merely a representation of ourselves and thus can be whatever our society as a whole or we as individuals decide it to be. Thus truth becomes a slave to our desires and our actions follow suit. Thus our desires become the driving force in our lives.

Thereby relative truth imitates truth and then turns around and destroys it from the inside out. When we embrace the concept that truth is relative and doesn't really exist the only thing that stops us from destroying ourselves and others is fear of retribution. So a person with nothing to fear or nothing to lose becomes a person intent upon destroying themselves and others.

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