Boghos Artinian

The performance of a symphony orchestra in unison with a large choir can be classified as a super-organismic activity bordering on the divine.

To those perplexed and sickened by the upheavals of the modern age I say: Visit often a carpenter's shop. Here, with the tools of yore, the lone carpenter labors on wood - the eternal raw material. Here the Chair is still a chair, the Table still a table, the Bed still a bed, and their creator Man is still a man.

The nucleus of a single human cell contains all the information necessary To reconstitute a whole human organism. On the other hand, a single human brain- a homologous organ- Doesn't as yet contain information anywhere nearly sufficient To reconstitute a perfect society (a super - organism.)

Few recognize greatness, when the great are humble, or mediocrity, when the mediocre are sociable!

By laying a landmine one could be sealing the fate of someone a hundred years hence, though he is not yet born.

Looking a couple of centuries ahead, One expects all those living now, to be dead; Their sole link to the future, besides the genes, To be jotted hues, tunes and ideas keen.

Enduring pandemics Should Humanity take the path of evolving into an extremely complex society (human super-organism) it should be well prepared to bear the burden imposed on its components; millions of cells die daily in the human body(a cell super-organism) , yet we hardly empathize or even feel their plight while we enjoy their services. So Humanity, better prepare for millions of casualties as collateral damage in the service of this future human super-organism.

I'd rather consult a terrestrial deacon Than search for an extraterrestrial beacon!

A collection of amoebae will never constitute a multicellular organism for the amoebae have chosen not to compromise on their interpretation of the concept of individual freedom.

I clearly see, during my lifetime, the development of the ‘nervous system' of an embryo of a human super-organism growing on the globe; telephone, radio, television, computers, the internet, communications satellites, GPS, Whats App etc…all working at the speed of light.

The terror engendered by the verdict: 'Cancer', is as intense as that engendered by being the 'man overboard' from a ship called life.

When emotions run high, Deities take the reins; Come, a calamity, They could reign supreme!

In tissues we seek tolerance to reduce rejection reactions, especially to transplanted tissues. In society we seek to abolish hatred -‘love your enemies'- to avoid wars, ethnic cleansing and genocides

Word processors shuffling hard, May produce rhythm and rhyme; But to produce verse like a bard, There never will come a time!

Apoptosis: Is the whole holy enough for unquestioned obedience, or should we bail out before programmed death is imposed?

Cell death is programmed, And so will be Man's, I guess! For surely he must be damned Mimicking cells, more or less

Most people die while still collecting data; few die having produced some desiderata.

Human beings must satisfy two major urges in life: One, an urge below the waist that serves to disseminate his genes. The other, an urge above the shoulders that serves to disseminate his thoughts.

Religion is the spiritual intervention in human affairs to keep our society healthy, just as medicine is the biological intervention in cellular affairs to keep our bodies healthy. Boghos L. Artinian MD

The greatest scientific discovery in this century would be that of a pharmacological or psychotherapeutic intervention that would convert hatred into love, and intolerance into tolerance. It would prevent many future wars and genocides as has already been done at the tissue level in preventing rejection reactions in transplantation surgery and in autoimmune diseases.

The younger the people you remember, the better a leader you are; The older the people you remember, the better a follower you are.

A beacon During our adolescence we often scaled the mountain facing our village in the Valley. We used to carry a mirror to reflect our position on the mountain, to our late father, who in turn, reflected the sunlight with a larger mirror from our home to say, ‘I have seen your position alright'. I am now seventy-eight years old and still hope to someday see a reflection or a beacon from my father to show his whereabouts and his condition in the universe!

Genocides often begin as conspiracy against the principle of ‘Natural Selection', whereby a human race that is the ‘fittest' in a peaceful environment becomes the ‘poorest' in a hostile environment that is fomented by a genocidal race, that in turn, becomes the ‘fittest' in the environment it creates, and it survives instead of the victimized race.

So significant Our petit talk would be Millenniums hence That we should jot down Trivia, as scribes did Millenniums ago

Man craves for immortality, yet dreads the immortalization of his own cells (cancer) .

I would rather be a fossil when I am no longer living, for thus I could maintain my form though my soul would be missing.

When a state provides its citizens with instantaneous access to data and interactivity in cyberspace, it is only logical and fair that in like manner it also be instantaneously aware of all their whereabouts and intentions.

To a soldier going to war 'We've got an atlas Of your entire genome; Hence fear no cutlass, Nor minefields dread to comb! '

A single human cell nucleus contains all the information necessary to constitute a whole human being. On the other hand, a single human brain doesn't contain information anywhere near sufficient to constitute a perfect society (the human super-organism)

Back to Natural Selection? It is becoming medically so expensive to keep citizens alive, that the ruling classes may ultimately decide to leave them to die of natural causes rather than pay for their medical expenses.

Funeral: Today we bury yet another fellow Of our generation; a stark reminder That we are mortal; that the end is near; That we are temporarily here!

The irony in medicine Millions of patients are kept alive at exorbitant costs, Yet a small virus can wipe out millions of healthy people In as short a period as a few months!

During the covid19 Pandemic Homologous to the interruption of blood flow to cells in the body The flow of currency to citizens of the world has been interrupted; Therefore the world would suffer industrial and commercial disruption Homologous to vascular accidents and dysfunction of body parts!

Why bother to leave a cultural legacy to a world that is vulnerable to a doomsday?

Purpose Have I lost my purpose in life, or there is actually no purpose to life at all, to start with, that I have come to realize belatedly now?

Corruption in the government of a nation is homologous to Alzheimer's disease in a human being: The real estates the politicians possess would be the senile plaques, their huge bank deposits would be the beta-amyloid deposits and the work they do would be the neurofibrillary tangles.

It is unethical of drug companies to repurpose a cheap old drug for a different serious illness and patent it under a new name and to charge an exorbitant price for it.

On YouTube, thousands have turned eloquent speakers who had never spoken publicly before...

Double cancer in the family. I have to face the death of my youngest brother, then that of the middle one, before I, the oldest, die. What an injustice in longevity!

The unbelievably large footprints shown in photos may actually be handmade by men, and not real footprints by giants, to scare enemies by insinuating the existence of giants on their side.

The internet has become the principal and ideal outlet for brainstorms.

The asphyxiating Covid19 virus could well be a harbinger of doomsday

Medicated citizens will ultimately check on their embedded microchips for the sentence ‘Days left to live' and accordingly pay drug companies to ‘refill more days'.

The covid19 is asphyxiating; it robs you of oxygen. Another virus in the future might, like insulin, rob you of glucose. Oxygen and glucose are both needed to keep you conscious.

In evolution, the preservation, reproduction, and accumulation of naturally selected 'correct' steps, progressively reduces the 'needless' further mutations to find alternative and even better solutions.

Taking fish out of the water may seem innocuous, but it is tantamount to throwing a mammal into outer space; it is murder.

Before you decide on killing someone, Know that you would be annihilating An 'empire' of one hundred trillion cells That has a perfect 'government': the brain. Boghos L. Artinian

A single neuron (Donald Trump) in the brain (government) of the USA has fired rogue action potentials (tweets) that caused an epileptic seizure (upheaval) in a super-organism (USA) on the 6th of January 2021.

The farther back, in your life, you regress in a dream, the nearer to death, you may be venturing in your sleep. Should you thus reach the moment of your birth, you may have gone too far back to wake up without resuscitation.

The scrambling of asphyxiated patients, with their families, in front of hospitals, in search of oxygen, reminds me of fish, just taken out of the water, writhing in agony on the floors of fishing boats.