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Modern Babel

Antibiotics

inventions for surgery
more effective and 
renown – disinfectants
so germs are deadly affected,

yet disease and poverty
abound – we build our
towers ever higher

loftier into the ground

addictionbiblecultureevilnaturalfree verse

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Bill Baker

June 26, 2023 at 2:46 PM

Babel is a good analogy for todays' antibiotics, Joe. I try not to medicate except when absolute necessary. There is a better way. I'm certainly don't know enough to say no one should use them, but gecoming dependant of medicines and such is scarry to me. Thanks for sharing your thoughts through your poetry, my friend. Bill

Joseph P. DiMino

June 27, 2023 at 10:36 AM

Hi Bill; I don't think God wants us to keep looking up, getting a sore neck. He is close as our combined hearts. Thank you my friend.

Anne-Lise Andresen

June 21, 2023 at 12:25 PM

- Norway has reduced the use of antibiotics for humans... and that's great - An important topic, Joe - hugs

Joseph P. DiMino

June 22, 2023 at 3:12 AM

Each to their own. I am no doctor. But I have never gotten a flue shot. Did not get the COVID shot, and have rarely used antibiotics willingly...who knows what was in the food I've eaten?~not privy to information as to what animals are given in their diets.

Victor Buhagiar

June 20, 2023 at 11:33 PM

I had a bad fall but was discharged from the hospital with a bag of antibiotics. It will take me three more weeks to battle the antibiotics. The manufacturer is getting rich.

Joseph P. DiMino

June 21, 2023 at 6:21 AM

I hear you, Victor; when at all possible I always try first to go the holistic way. Sometimes we have no choice. Drugs then are a blessing. Blessings my friend. May God heal you quickly.

Kim Rodrigues

June 20, 2023 at 7:10 PM

The want for more money…give them reasons for these drugs. We appreciate some for sure but growing too dependent on them could backfire.

Joseph P. DiMino

June 21, 2023 at 11:35 AM

Spot on! Thank you, Kim; blessings! We can only speak Truth as we see it...and hope we are making a positive contribution. If we can help turn one soul back toward God, then we have helped the many.

Kim Rodrigues

June 21, 2023 at 8:52 AM

It’s the shaking of the tree, the lines being drawn in the sand….what will people do? Be violent, steal, help their neighbor, keep faith in Christ? Interesting how city streets were cleaned up…the calm before the storm.

Joseph P. DiMino

June 21, 2023 at 6:19 AM

Disease (hardship of all forms) emanates from within, and not from the without. There are many classes of micro-organisms – none of them are bad or evil. Some of them are simply recyclers...feeding on what is already failing. We are individuals while also relating as one within the greater body of humanity, each of us affected by the Spiritual Consciousness of the All. Christ was not evil – far from it!~the Blessed Son of God...yet, he suffered greatly. COVID is a perfect example, a wake-up call, showing how an entire, so called advanced civilization, with thousands of years of modern science, can be brought to primitive knees in an evolutionary instant. No one gets to heaven and stays there before we all do. The destinies of Heaven and Earth inseparably linked. We must uplift one another, though often very frustrating and at times, in-fact, profoundly disgusting. “Easy to be a brother to your brother~until we are forced to work cooperatively together.”