{"id":27604,"date":"2016-02-07T00:12:20","date_gmt":"2016-02-06T22:12:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/norkhosq.net\/?p=27604"},"modified":"2016-02-07T00:12:20","modified_gmt":"2016-02-06T22:12:20","slug":"two-brief-essays-by-professor-pilikian-from-president-obamas-website","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/norkhosq.net\/?p=27604","title":{"rendered":"Two Brief Essays by Professor Pilikian from President Obama&#8217;s Website"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1454789570977_9636\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 5px;\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-C1IVebuxH_g\/U5oSqQCN8ZI\/AAAAAAAAAF4\/kIxDOCsq3Nk\/s1600\/blogger-image-1363222934.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"177\" height=\"145\" \/><strong>by<span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1454789570977_9635\" style=\"font-size: medium;\"> Phaedra Behrent, <\/span>Poet, Researcher<\/strong><\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1454789570977_9631\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">*<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1454789570977_9629\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1454789570977_9628\" style=\"font-size: medium; color: #0000b7;\"><a id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1454789570977_9627\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/professorpilikian-on-obama-website.blogspot.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/professorpilikian-on-obama-website.blogspot.co.uk\/<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1454789570977_9619\">\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1454789570977_9617\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #8a0000;\">In  the following two pieces, Professor Pilikian briefly journeys onto\u00a0two  different tangents.\u00a0 But what glorious journeys of deep meditation &#8212;  his definitions are gems of memorable wisdom, composed in a most stylish  English discourse.<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1454789570977_9622\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #8a0000;\">His  diagnosis of illness generally as directly caused by socio-economic  structures is a path-breaking radical innovation in Epidemiology.  Although there has always been the occasional recognition that there is a  link between stress and illness, I do believe that our governments  deliberately play down the Stress-factor in the capitalist pursuit of  the nation\u2019s health as a whole.<!--more--><\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1454789570977_9656\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #8a0000;\">We hear time and time again how many billions of pounds are spent on the National Health Service (NHS), but nobody points out\u00a0<strong id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1454789570977_9659\"><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1454789570977_9658\" style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">how much tax we, the nation&#8217;s poor pay to the government<\/span>, while the rich avoid taxes and the big companies pay pennies<\/strong>. With the criminal abolition of\u00a0<strong>Free<\/strong> Education  and the cutting back of the Welfare Benefits year in year out, and now  every year, our NHS should be swimming in money&#8230; rather than choking  in dried up lakes of plenty.<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1454789570977_9669\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #8a0000;\"><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1454789570977_9668\" style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">We have millions of people living below the poverty line<\/span>. In 2014, a report by the\u00a0<strong id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1454789570977_9672\">Institute for Fiscal Studies<\/strong> said that \u201c<strong><em>23.2% of Britons were now in relative poverty, the highest since 2001\u201d<\/em><\/strong>&#8218;  (Wikipedia, Poverty in the United Kingdom, 30\/01\/16).\u00a0 That\u00a0is almost a  quarter of our population suffering from financial stress leading  to\u00a0their health being\u00a0at risk, not only\u00a0due to the fact that they are  unable to feed themselves properly, and heat their homes adequately, but  at risk of catching dangerous microbial and harmful viral diseases  because of\u00a0<strong>reduced immunity as a direct result of poor diets<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<div><span style=\"color: #8a0000;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ssl.gstatic.com\/ui\/v1\/icons\/mail\/images\/cleardot.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><\/span><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #8a0000;\">Professor  Pilikian has quite correctly identified the root of the problem faced  by our country \u2013 instead of mumbling and nagging over the cost of the  Welfare System, and scapegoating the NHS, it must be the job of our  politicians to relieve the socio-economic pressures (hence the Stresses)  on the people who vote for them, which will in turn improve the overall  health of our nation, in turn reducing the demands on the NHS.<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1454789570977_9675\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #8a0000;\">Medical Doctors must know in their hearts that the Professor is totally right about the causality of illness in general.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #8a0000;\">The Professor adds (in a\u00a0<em>personal communication<\/em>);<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #00006c;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">&#8222;even external infective <\/span><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">mechanical<\/span><\/em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"> <\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">forces, like\u00a0<em>microbes\u00a0and viruses<\/em><\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"> <\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">can only grab\u00a0hold of the body in their mortal grip, if the Body&#8217;s immune system is reduced by<\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"> <\/span><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Stress<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1454789570977_9676\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #00006c;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #00006c;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">&#8222;I would argue that Stress is indeed the<\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"> <\/span><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">sole direct cause of all illness<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">, including complex ones like <\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Alzheimer\u00a0&#8230; the reason the medical profession would reject this concept, and trains Doctors\u00a0<strong>exclusively<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"> <\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">in  the Newtonian mechanistic model of the Body &#8212; Patients are treated as  machines, with replaceable soulless bits and pieces &#8212; is a disturbing\u00a0<strong>commodity-concept<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"> <\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">of illness and disease.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1454789570977_9701\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #00006c;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">&#8222;Because if Medicine would accept<\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"> <\/span><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">the truth<\/span><\/strong><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"> <\/span><\/strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">about the dignity of the human being, and<\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"> <\/span><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Socio-economic Stress<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"> <\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">being the<\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"> <\/span><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">only cause of Disease<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">, then Medicine, and<\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">medical practitioners (Doctors and Nurses) cannot but be\u00a0at the forefront of the fight for Socialism<\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">,  rather than Knighthoods and Lordships, and never permit medical  practice to transmute into a\u00a0saleable\u00a0commodity\u00a0as whores of  Mafia-Bankers&#8216; Capitalism.<\/span>&#8222;<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1454789570977_9703\" style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"color: #993300;\"><strong>Phaedra Behrent.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1454789570977_9691\" style=\"text-align: left;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #993300;\">*<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1454789570977_9685\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1454789570977_9684\" style=\"color: #000000;\"><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1454789570977_9683\" style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Britain\u2019s Free National Health Service:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1454789570977_9680\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1454789570977_9679\" style=\"color: #000000;\"><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1454789570977_9678\" style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Britain\u2019s Passport to Civil Society of sheer Human Decency and Compassion<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1454789570977_9706\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1454789570977_9708\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1454789570977_9712\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1454789570977_9711\" style=\"color: #000000;\">A  mad British Conservative Member of the European Parliament recently  attacked the universal Free medical care system in Britain known as the  NHS = the National Health Service, advocating its abolition.\u00a0\u00a0 He was  then mis-used by the powerful money-men of America in their attempt to  subvert President Obama\u2019s plans of inserting a similar system into  America for the compassionate benefit of the American people.<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1454789570977_9714\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1454789570977_9718\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1454789570977_9717\" style=\"color: #000000;\">The British system of free universal medical care is not perfect; its\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">faults usually derive from the attempts of those in the British officialdom<\/span> that tamper with it\u00a0<span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1454789570977_9721\" style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">to destroy it insidiously from within<\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1454789570977_9726\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1454789570977_9725\" style=\"color: #000000;\">I too have suffered seriously on the fault-lines of the service.\u00a0 However, I know I\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">speak for millions of Britons<\/span> who want\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">to improve the NHS, not destroy it<\/span>.\u00a0\u00a0<span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1454789570977_9723\" style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The majority of the doctors and nurses are angels saving lives daily<\/span> from the ravages of\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">serious  illness caused directly by the stresses and evil of an inhuman  socio-economic system controlled by ruthless market forces<\/span>, servile to the whorish profit motive at all costs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1454789570977_9728\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1454789570977_9733\" style=\"color: #000000;\">Free  universal medical care (and free universal Education at all levels) was  the great contribution of Lenin\u2019s 1917 October Revolution in Russia.\u00a0  The British imperialist elite was so panicked that the same may happen  in Britain,\u00a0 they cleverly absorbed its greatest humanitarian  contribution and created the welfare-state as a bulwark against  potential communism.\u00a0 Today, they deny all copycat action, but the  un-acknowledged historical facts are unalterable and inevitable.<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1454789570977_9735\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1454789570977_9739\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1454789570977_9738\" style=\"color: #000000;\">It  was a terrible crime to eliminate Free University Education in  England.\u00a0 Fortunately, Scotland did not follow suit.\u00a0 But Free Health  care must be saved to Doomsday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1454789570977_9741\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1454789570977_9745\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1454789570977_9744\" style=\"color: #000000;\">There  can be no civil society imbibed within a culture of humanitarian care  and compassion for fellow human beings without a free universal health  care service. Britain owes its humanity to it.\u00a0 Abolish it, and we shall  reverse to the Jungle Law already rampant in most countries of the  world today.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1454789570977_9747\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1454789570977_9749\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1454789570977_9751\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">*<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1454789570977_9756\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1454789570977_9755\" style=\"color: #000000;\"><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1454789570977_9754\" style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The Abolition of the Death Penalty <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Britain\u2019s greatest historical Contribution yet to humanitarian society<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1454789570977_9760\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1454789570977_9759\" style=\"color: #000000;\">Mankind\u2019s  historical record of inhumanity and barbaric torture still going on in  this beautiful world soiled by tyrannical systems is unforgivable and  shameful, evil beyond belief, and evidence of satanic low-life.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Renaissance humanism could not eradicate the centuries old practices of hanging, quartering, and all manner of\u00a0<strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">state-crimes<\/span><\/strong> which finally evolved into the horrendous genocides of our own centuries.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Yet,  official Britain, in 1969, had the spiritual fortitude and wisdom to  abolish Capital Punishment\/The Death Penalty perpetrated by the State,  setting a godly example for the rest of the world to follow, even though  there are still diabolical forces even in Britain struggling to reverse  it and restore\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">capital punishment \u2013<\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"> <\/span><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">state-crime<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"> <\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">by another name<\/span>!<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">As  my beautiful psychologist wife, Clarice has observed, the horrendous  practices that accompany state-murder, say for example, the preparation  of an American Electrical Chair, the peeping-tom witnesses to the  execution etc. are in themselves corruptive of the human soul.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The  Death Penalty means the State compounds the crime by a perverted  individual by even worse deliberately executed murder.\u00a0 No such a State  can pretend to be civilized.<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1454789570977_9762\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The  world shall be a better place if the governments of the United States,  Russia and China\u00a0 follow Britain\u2019s lead, albeit thirty years too late,  by abolishing the Death Penalty in their own countries, to start the  process of civilizing the rest of the world everywhere. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #993300;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #993300;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #993300;\">*<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000061;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">&#8222;A  world rid of Death-Penalty is truly a first step to civilized Civil  Society, something, like the Regime in Saudi Arabia &#8212;\u00a0America&#8217;s great  milk-cow and petrodollar cash-machine\u00a0&#8212; needs desperately, sooner,  rather than later&#8220;,<\/span> <span style=\"color: #993300;\">writes Professor Pilikian.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000061;\">&#8220;\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">It  is in fact the first rung on the ladder of civilized culture, miles  away from the barbaric Medieval Euro-times the Saudi ruling class seem  to want to perpetuate<\/span>&#8222;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000061;\">&#8222;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Shame  on the American ruling elite that feels no shame of such friends who  chop heads and limbs, and stone to death loving women as fornicators.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #000061;\">\u201cShame on the American Lesbian Feminists that do not campaign for the freedom and empowerment of the Saudi women.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #000061;\">&#8222;Regimes  like the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia are a cancerous cell infecting the  whole of the Middle-East Region regress into Barbarism.<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1454789570977_9765\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000061;\"><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1454789570977_9764\" style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">&#8222;It proves that large American gold-plated cars in<\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"> <\/span><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Riad<\/span><\/em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">, the capital city, do not maketh the humane<\/span>.&#8220;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #000061;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #000061;\">\u201cI had just written those lines, when I read in the London\u00a0<em>Daily Mail <\/em>(30  January, 2016, p. 40), that a blonde Baboon with the gift of the gab,  named Donald Trump, in all likelihood the next President of the USA, who  wants to build an Israeli Chinese Wall across the Mexican border, owns  actually \u201ca gold-plated toilet\u201d \u2013 no wonder he innovated modern  political campaigns by introducing\u00a0<strong>the anus<\/strong> into the races; \u201cMany wear badges with their favourite\u00a0<strong>Trump slogans<\/strong>: \u201cBomb the shit out of ISIS\u201d, or \u201cUp yours, Hillary!\u201d, a reference to Mrs. Clinton, the likely Democratic opponent\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000061;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">\u201cThe  Muslims the US Baboon wants to chase out of the USA are really small  fry for him \u2013 as President of the USA, he may not only decide to nuke <\/span><em>North Korea<\/em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">, but also <\/span><em>China<\/em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">, and everyone else who dislikes the American Dream, that <\/span><strong>means the whole world,<\/strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"> including his compatriots who live in the nightmare of his gold-plated toilet.<\/span>\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000061;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #993300;\">What reasonable and rational person could disagree with that!<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #993300;\">The  practices mentioned by Professor Pilikian that take place in the Middle  East are simply unforgivable. How can any nation, especially one who  would have the rest of the world believe that their religion is the  cornerstone of their people\u2019s entire structure of society, squander the  miracle of human life so readily and frequently?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #993300;\">To  take the life of another is the ultimate sin, whatever the  circumstances.\u00a0 Here is one of the Professor\u2019s aphoristic statements,  rich in extraordinary puns;<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1454789570977_9781\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000060;\"><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1454789570977_9780\" style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">\u201c<strong id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1454789570977_9778\">Life is divine, God\u2019s greatest gift to mankind \u2013 taking it is Satan\u2019s greatest crime\u201d<\/strong><\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1454789570977_9787\" style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #993300;\">Phaedra Behrent<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Phaedra Behrent, Poet, Researcher * http:\/\/professorpilikian-on-obama-website.blogspot.co.uk\/ In the following two pieces, Professor Pilikian briefly journeys onto\u00a0two different tangents.\u00a0 But what glorious journeys of deep meditation &#8212; his definitions are&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/norkhosq.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/norkhosq.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/norkhosq.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/norkhosq.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/norkhosq.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27604"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/norkhosq.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27605,"href":"https:\/\/norkhosq.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27604\/revisions\/27605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/norkhosq.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/norkhosq.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/norkhosq.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}