The Master's Code - Part 1

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June 8, 2021

The Master's Code

Part 1 of 3

Something has been bothering me for a while. Sometimes it's just a niggling in my background consciousness. Other times it comes to the forefront and gets in the road of other important stuff. But it's always there. That something is GMOs.

Well, actually, GMOs themselves aren't what's bothersome. I know where I stand. And I know where we stand as a farm and a family. We simply don't use GMOs or have anything to do with them. Never have, never will, end of discussion, hands down. We don't need them; they don't do anything for you who source food from our farm so it's a complete non-issue. It's not even a temptation.

But I do feel I should explain what's behind our GMO objection. And I haven't. I've been neglecting, pushing off and procrastinating.

And that bothers me.

I'm somehow not satisfied for you to simply know THAT we object to the genetic modification of life... I think it's critical that you to understand the WHY behind it.

It might be best to start with an analogy. I've found that comprehending truth in something familiar goes a long way in shining a light on the less familiar.

So here goes.

Imagine if, years ago, there was a Super Master Computer Programmer. This master code writer's skill was brilliant. The complexity of his programs is beyond belief. Their sophisticated, intricate design shows supreme intelligence. In fact no code writer today can ever begin to replicate his software.

And even though his code is thousands of years old, it's still so far over their heads that, no matter how intensely they analyze his work, even as whole teams of code experts, only the most basic lines of command are understood. The rest remains a mystery.

But complexity and sophistication of the code isn't the only thing that's incredible about this master programmer. The sheer volume of programs that he's authored also completely blows the mind and defies comprehension. Their diversity is so vast that today's software experts can't even count his distinct system types.

Some estimate the number of the Master's programs to be in the hundreds of billions. Some say there are close to one trillion. No one knows for sure. The number is just too vast. So, give or take a few billion unique programs, either way, the volume and endless diversity of the Master's programs makes the combined code writing power of Microsoft, Apple, Android, Google, Facebook and the rest a drop in a bucket.

Are you ready for the breathtaking part? If you haven't yet felt the touch of his hand, here is the Master stroke.

The Master wrote LIFE into his codes!

His software is living! All one trillion of them! They breathe, move, eat, and have self-repairing capacity when broken. Many of them have intelligence. Some are even self-aware!

Plus, get this... all of them have the capacity to make new, perfect replicas of themselves. The Master intentionally authored perpetual reproduction into every one of his trillion, marvelous, mind boggling, diverse information codes.

Hey Apple! Your technology lacks. Why won't my iPod grow a seed pod?

So I'm sure you get the point, but stick with me just a bit.

The plot thickens.

What if, since the Master Code Writer did his work so long ago... what if today's programmers began to disrespect the Master's code? Even though it is beyond their comprehension, even though they cannot reproduce it even in their wildest dreams. What if they have, by a slow process of human ego, allowed themselves to first doubt and then deny that the Master Code Writer ever existed?

What if to save face, these egotistical programmers try to convince themselves and, worse yet, teach others to believe that all of the Master's intense display of design and order arose by chance? ...as ridiculous as that should be to anyone who thoughtfully observes even one of the trillion intricate, living, reproducing systems of the Master's code.

And so, since they try to believe these super codes developed by chance... and since they adamantly deny the existence of a Master Code Writer, these deniers have no ethical obligation to respect his masterpieces, his handiwork... his art. They claim it's their right to fiddle with the Master's programs. They are in the driver's seat. They like to be in power and in control. They will be like unto the Master Code Writer!

These high-minded impostors delete formulas, they edit code, they insert information into the Master's Code growing ever bolder even as they slip down the slippery slope.

It would be funny if it wasn't sad.

"Look," they naively say as they fiddle with the code, "this changes that!" I can only imagine the Master behind the scenes saying, "Of course this changes that! But stop! You're messing up a bunch of other connected things that your small minds and even smaller experience can't even begin to grasp. Please...just respect my work! Even if you don't understand why... just believe me, just trust me. I wrote the code exactly as it needs to be! It's a God thing. You won't understand."

Sigh.

I personally don't write computer code, but I do write some spreadsheets. One of the most disrespectful things I can imagine is for some novice, who can't understand my work (but who is proud to have learned to click the mouse and tap the keyboard) to assume he can make improvements. You know, make edits... deleting, and inserting information into my formulas just because he can.

Of course he'll mess it up. He'll not understand how cell connects to cell and formula calculates off formula and how changing even one single symbol, letter or digit in a formula like this: =(((Q478+R478)/2)/(D478+V478)*W478) (which I just copied off our dairy herd milk production tracking spreadsheet) would be disastrous with long range consequences. Even though the spreadsheet would look deceptively unchanged at first, disaster would be inevitable.

Folks, DNA is the building blocks of all life on this earth. It is the code of life that has been written by God himself. DNA is remarkably similar to computer code. It is information, genetic information – data, big data. God is the Master Code Writer of all living, reproducing things. He has no equal, and never will. He is God. It's unethical and dangerous to disrespect his work. This is the Master's doings and it is marvelous in our eyes.

I know I'm mostly preaching to the choir here among The Family Cow Tribe. But I also know that some subscribers to this Fresh Thoughts on Real Food newsletter may be thinking some of this through for the first time. It is for you I write.

Think about the classic masters; artists, authors, painters, musicians and sculptors. Think of Michelangelo, Mozart, Beethoven, Dickens, Tolstoy, Bach, and Handel. Think of the outcry if someone, even a modern expert, were to try to edit and modify say, the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, the 9th Symphony, the Messiah, A Tale of Two Cities, or War and Peace.

Even if the 'expert' insisted that he was improving the classical work, folks the world over would unanimously cry foul and declare it unethical and disrespectful to mess with the masterpiece.

Ardent students of the master would understandably be the most passionate and would rise to defend their Master's work. They would plead that it be respected, protected and preserved.

This is serious, folks.

If a society cannot or will not respect and honor the masterpiece works of our great God on at least an equal level with the work of Michelangelo, this... is a very bad sign.

Is it possible that the GMO issue may be more of an ethical, moral issue than some people care to admit?

Think about it. I do. A lot.

Blessings,

Your Farmer ~ Edwin Shank

~to be concluded in two more parts

P.S. I originally wrote The Master's Code and posted it via this newsletter in 2016. It was all in one huge 3000+ word article. I read over it a few weeks ago and thought it may be good to resend it since so many of you are new since 2016. But I am a little more practical now than then, and decided to break it down into smaller bites. Even now at over 1000 words per part, I realize that only the top 5% of the most intellectual and literate of our tribe will read the whole thing. So, if you are here and still reading, I have a special message for you: "Kudos to you! You are among the top 5% in reading skills and focus and long-term attention span. You will go far in life. Keep reading. Keep learning. Keep thinking deeply. Life never grows old when the mind is kept young with new thoughts to think." :)

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Good morning Family Cow farm Tribe!It's been a long time since I've explained in detail the probiotic building-of-immunity-pathway to health and wellness as opposed to the antibiotic kill-all-bacteria-method. It is important to understand that these are my answers, not necessarily the answer. Each of you will need to decide and be ultimately responsible for yourself and for your family. Let’s start with an analogy. I find that sometimes observing and understanding the simple and visible helps us grasp of the more complex and obscure. According to the CDC, there are 4,500 drowning deaths per year in USA. That works out to over 12 deaths by drowning per day. For every death caused by drowning there are another 20 near-drownings involving hospitalization and many times permanent brain damage. These are sobering facts. This is reality for families somewhere in America every day. It is only normal for parents, and others who care for the health and wellbeing of our communities, to ask the obvious question. "What can we do to protect ourselves and our loved ones from a similar tragedy?" Since all drowning occurs in water, we might quite logically conclude that water is the enemy and that the best preventive would be to prohibit people from getting into water. Make laws against getting into water. Pass regulations. Establish a Federal Drowning Prevention agency to enforce the laws. Raise taxes to pay them to protect us. The FDP could arrest anyone who dared to violate the law which obviously was established for public welfare. You see where I’m going with this? An alternative drowning prevention is to learn to swim and to teach your children to swim. The ability to swim makes you and your loved ones practically immune to drowning while avoiding water like the plague only leaves your family more vulnerable. More vulnerable since it is highly possible that sometime in your life, in spite of your best attempts, you or your children will find yourselves unexpectedly in water without the least idea how to save yourselves. Swimming does not make one 100% immune to drowning of course, so the FDP can always publicize a few highly emotional stories per year in which those who were experienced swimmers still drowned. Parents who dared to risk their children’s lives by attempting to teach them to swim, as a preventive to drowning, could be prosecuted for willful endangerment and their children taken from them. After all, they were carelessly ignoring data from the CDC which irrefutably documents thousands of deaths per year caused by water. I know this analogy is not perfect, so don’t drag me through the coals to tell me so, but there are many parallels.The Federal government estimates that in America there are about 48 million cases of foodborne illness annually with 3,000 deaths.This is the equivalent of sickening 1 in 6 Americans each year. These also are sobering facts. And it is only normal that parents and others ask the obvious question. "What can we do to protect ourselves?" Many well-meaning people have concluded that bacteria are the enemy and so have set out to kill… set out to sterilize themselves and their environment. "Kill all the bacteria! Fight BAC! Buy Purell… put a dispenser in every room. Get antibacterial soap. Anti-biotics for every sniffle. Outlaw unpasteurized cider. Pasteurize the nuts and almonds too. Outlaw raw milk. These foods may contain pathogens!" There is only one problem with these bacteriaphobic reactions. In spite of our best attempts, in spite of living in constant fear of the microbe, and in spite of efforts to increasingly sterilize our food… if we chose to live this way, someday a stray bacterium will penetrate our sterile bubble… and our artificially protected, flabby immune systems will have no defense against it. The alternative defense against foodborne illness is to embrace bacteria as a part of a larger eco-system, within which we humans integrate ourselves. It's much like learning to swim. We who take this approach are not careless and neither do we underestimate the power of the microbe. Rather, we respect it, and because of this respect we carefully and intentionally educate and help our immune system in its duty of defending us. We focus on life instead of killing. Pro-biotic instead of Anti-biotic. This is what raw milk, raw cheese, butter & cream, and Lacto Fermented Veggies are all about… building immunity and health! We learn to swim and teach our children to swim. Instead of fearing the water we relax and enjoy life as God created it! We embrace living whole foods. Whole foods full of immunity building probiotic bacteria, living foods full of nutrient-absorbing, living enzymes. Whole living foods full of unadulterated, unprocessed, unmessedwith, cell-nourishing, cell-repairing raw fats and protein. Only living foods give life. Only living foods full of a diversity of natural micro flora from our local, natural environment can provide the education and information that our immune systems desperately need to actually protect us as God designed it. God has designed the entire eco-system to live in harmony with bacteria. Be clean, but don't kill The sooner we drop our hubris and accept this humbling fact, the wiser and stronger and healthier we will be. Think about it! Your Farmer ~ Edwin Shank P.S. If you are new to gut healing foods, start with our clean, A2A2 Organically Grass-fed Raw Milk, Raw Milk Kefir or Raw Milk Cheeses... and they are all lactose intolerant friendly! For an immunity boosting non-dairy food, try Lacto Fermented Veggies. Get Immunity Building Food you can eat with confidence.

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