What is the future of Christianity?

Do you ever wonder?

Do you think Christianity in 10 or 20 years will look exactly like Christianity today?

Well, some verses in the Book of Psalms echo this future, and certain aspects of Cesidianism bring it sharply into focus, but if you want to know the future of Christianity, you have to study the conclusions of the Church Fathers. If you want to know the future of Christianity, you have to study Christianity's past.

The conclusions of the Church Fathers demonstrate that future Christianity will be so different from present-day Christianity, that people who practice future Christianity will look like heretics to most Christians today.

Are Men supposed to become at least 'miniature Gods', as the Cesidian 14 Commandments seem to imply, and as we are beginning to see indirectly even in other disciplines such as biology?

The answer is, believe it or not, yes!

Here's the proof:

The Latin above actually comes from a sermon attributed to St. Augustine, Sermones de diversis, Sermo 370 (De nativitate domini), verse 1.

The words or the thoughts that lead to that statement, however, probably originated from St. Irenaeus in Adversus Haereses (Against Heresies), Book III, Chapter 19, Paragraph 1 (Greek version; English version):

For it was for this end that the Word of God was made man, and He who was the Son of God became the Son of man, that man, having been taken into the Word, and receiving the adoption, might become the son of God. For by no other means could we have attained to incorruptibility and immortality, unless we had been united to incorruptibility and immortality. But how could we be joined to incorruptibility and immortality, unless, first, incorruptibility and immortality had become that which we also are, so that the corruptible might be swallowed up by incorruptibility, and the mortal by immortality, that we might receive the adoption of sons?

This is pretty old theology (2nd century AD), not new theology!

So many people think I'm at least a Christian heretic, if not extremely arrogant in my theology for equating, or making Man and God as equal as possible, but the truth is that I'm actually a genuine future Christian, as St. Augustine and St. Irenaeus saw it, and it is everybody else that is living an ancient form of Christianity closer to Judaism than to the way actual Christianity should be today!

Yeshua didn't die on a cross so Man would remain the same, but so Man would begin to resemble God, more and more every day.

Yeshua did not walk on water to show us the power of God, but to show us, by that very act, the future of Man!

We were made in God's image physically, but it is imperative today that our spirits also begin to resemble the spirit of our Creator.

The scientist of today, especially the genetic engineer, imitates his Creator Father with his power, but he does not even remotely approach the enormous grace, the gigantic humility of that same Father, and you cannot separate divinity's power from the responsibilities of the divine.

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God has taken his place in the divine council; in the midst of the gods he holds judgment: "How long will you judge unjustly and show partiality to the wicked? [Selah] Give justice to the weak and the fatherless; maintain the right of the afflicted and the destitute. Rescue the weak and the needy; deliver them from the hand of the wicked." They have neither knowledge nor understanding, they walk about in darkness; all the foundations of the earth are shaken. I say, "You are gods, sons of the Most High, all of you; nevertheless, you shall die like men, and fall like any prince." Arise, O God, judge the earth; for to thee belong all the nations!

Psalm 82:1-8, Revised Standard Version

Alex A. Pollen, a graduate student at Stanford University, has compared human evolution to "going in with a very fine needle".

It is not like evolution. It is more like gene splicing.

Okay, let me not beat around the bush: human evolution doesn't seem to be the n-result of natural evolution at all, but more like deliberate, quite unlikely to occur in nature, genetic engineering...

It turns out that compared to chimpanzees, we have a few missing genetic elements, not additional ones, and the missing elements appear to be like a volume control, and the volume control for fetal brain growth appears to me missing entirely.

The only other creature that appears to have the same, very selectively missing feature as Homo sapiens sapiens, is another big-brained creature called Homo sapiens neandertalensis.

How Our Brains Got Big and Our Penises Lost Their Spines
http://goo.gl/yL4lW

The Principality of Filettino will rely on the trendiest legal luminary Carlo Taormina to study a way to legal independence. Besides the new and successful local currency, the fiorito, another step in that direction may be to turn Filettino into a duty-free area like Livigno.

Who shall be the future prince of the Principality? Contending for the spot are already fifty names — said Mayor Luca Sellari. There are more Italians than foreigners on the list.

At first they had asked Prince Emanuele Filiberto of Savoy if he wanted the honour, but the popular Prince is already heir apparent to the House of Savoy, Italy's former ruling dynasty, so he could not accept.

In the interim for news about the first noble of the Principality of Filettino, the town plans a summit where all the mayors of the municipalities at risk of elimination will take part, scheduled for 17 September 2011 in Filettino itself. Among the scheduled list of attendees are Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, and Minister of Economy and Finance Giulio Tremonti.

Silvio Berlusconi earlier this year vowed to leave his "shitty country" (Italian, paese di merda) saying it "sickened" him — the Guardian writes. The remarks are contained in the transcript of a telephone conversation secretly recorded by the police investigating claims he was being blackmailed about his sex life. Paradoxically in response to this, an indignant Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung has published, under a picture of a splendid Tuscan sunset, an editorial entitled "Let's stop (the coarse judgment) Cavaliere!".

The guy in the video below has already gone further than most micronationalists can even dream of, and the fact that even the Mexican government wants to turn his island into a special part of Mexico is incredible! When was the last time you heard a sovereign state fall in love with a plastic-based micronation? So much for the earth-based ones!

Richie Sowa's man made island
http://goo.gl/ckf2

Initially, after seeing the video for the first time, I wished that Sowa had a laptop and some Internet connection with the rest of the world, but I figured that that was probably not the case.

I also wished that he had somehow managed to attract some nice-looking woman to his 'island of junk' paradise, and that would have been the cherry on top of an already great cake!

However, I later found out through research that if Sowa doesn't have an Internet connection, he certainly doesn't lack help through the Internet, and now he is actually at his second built island (Spiral Island II):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiral_Island

http://spiralislanders.info

This may be the solution to our ocean garbage patch problem, if taken to a higher level than the legal one we have already adopted!

So if you haven't signed the extension to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch Treaty (GPGPT), aka the Multi-Oceanic Garbage Patch Treaty (MOGPT), I hope the video above at least inspires you enough to actually turn the idea of junk into something more, and something less "come on — you have got to be kidding".

No, I am not kidding, any more than Richie Sowa is kidding!

There is evidence that God exists.

This evidence, however, is not theological evidence, but biological evidence.

There is in an equation that all terrestrial and marine mammals follow, which predicts their average lifespan based on their average adult body mass. All placental mammals (Eutheria) follow this equation fairly closely, except one: Homo sapiens sapiens. The equation is the Sacher equation:

t_life = 11.8 × M_b^0.20

The Sacher equation shows that human lifespan greatly exceeds that expected for mammals of their mass. In fact, our lifespan is at least 2.5-fold greater than would be predicted from body size alone.

It isn't just human lifespan which is totally out of the mammalian ballpark, and which thus makes human beings look very alien when compared with other terrestrial and marine mammals, at least as alien as AquaBounty salmon (genetically modified organisms or GMOs) appear with respect to normal salmon. Even our brain size is out of the mammalian ballpark, and the human brain is 3-fold greater than is predicted from body size alone (source).

This is pretty strong evidence that humans cannot be a natural species (sorry, Darwin), and are probably a genetically modified species. Moreover, since humans so far have had nothing to do with their own genetics through genetics engineering, it is clear some other being played a role, a being which probably looks a lot like us, and yet for some strange reason this being did not make man, and then turn him into a slave. Quite the opposite in fact happened. Yes, this being appears to be not just more technically advanced than us, but also more ethically advanced than us, for humans have often enslaved their own kind, and continue to do so to this day, while this being (Homo sapiens divinus) has not even attempted to enslave a lesser kind (Homo sapiens sapiens).

As powerful and undeniable as these thoughts are, however, what is the position of some Catholics? For some, evidence that God exists can be found in the "fact" that the Earth is at the center of the universe, a model, the geocentric model, which has been thoroughly superceded since the heliocentric model of Copernicus, Galileo and Kepler. No, I'm not making this up. There are still people who think that the Sun revolves around the Earth, and not the other way around:

Some Catholics maintain Galileo was wrong and Earth is at universe's center
http://tdn.com/lifestyles/article_2f0bc744-a9bf-11e0-a6c2-001cc4c03286.html

Many other kinds of Christians, on the other hand, like the Catholics above, search for God in the literal interpretation of the Bible, and as a consequence, propose the universe is only six thousand years old — there is strong evidence humanity is older than that.

While it is probably a waste of time to try to find faults in the so-called hard sciences, such as the natural, physical, and computing sciences, this doesn't mean there aren't serious problems with the social sciences, such as business administration, economics, education, government, international relations, and political science. Most of the problems in these fields, in fact, stem from problems religious men and women have not attempted to solve, and the solutions to these problems can only come, paradoxically, from religion, because only religion can provide special insight about those special creatures, special creatures indeed, that are mammalian, but also (uniquely) human.

I believe religious men and women should stop trying to prove the Bible is right, and should start trying to solve the problems that only they can solve. The Bible is not the only source of religious authority, because there are, in fact, at least six other sources of religious authority:

1. Scripture (or sacred texts);
2. Tradition;
3. Reason (and science);
4. Prophets;
5. Personal experience;
6. Orthodox syncretism;
7. Mathematics (source).

Moreover, just as there are more sources of religious authority than the Bible alone, one can also find the fingerprints of God entirely outside the sphere of religion, as I've shown above.

The biological evidence of God above, not only shows that there is indeed a being higher than man. But man himself, in an imperfect way, is actually imitating the very being that made him.

Yes, we are quite fallible children, not just sinful children, but we are children of (a real) God.

Just one reading of a couple of days worth of news in my email box, an email box that suggests that I live in London, not close to New York City, is enough to reach the conclusion that either the world will end soon, or humanity itself will end before the world does.

You can now make more money with a precious metal you never heard of, than with good old-fashioned silver, gold, or even platinum.

The International Criminal Court is seeking to arrest the Gaddafi regime trio for crimes against humanity. The International Criminal Court, mind you, is not a country.

Viagra is no longer the help of impotent men, but a war crime tool for massive rape. Think about it. The drug that works so well that it has the name recognition of Coke and Nike, is now also used to commit crimes against humanity. Was it too much of a good thing that they had to spoil it?

An exoplanet near the Gliese 581 star has been found, at only about 20 light-years away, but this one hosts the first definitively habitable planet outside our Solar System. Even planet earth itself doesn't look like the oyster of life it used to be with GMOs running out of control.

According to an authoritative financial newspaper, there is no value in being a jack of all trades anymore, but this news is not surprising.

What is surprising is the news that in the future the workplace will demand highly specialised masters, but then you will also need to be capable of morphing into something completely different in order to meet market demand!

There was no mention in the article, of course, if it is really useful to work for anybody else anymore, since serial masters will need at first Master's degrees, not a Bachelor's, and then even one's Master's degree will eventually become useless in the next great depression worse than the previous one, and you'll need to get another Master's degree yet.

The question at this point is this: who the hell will actually pay for all of this? Bill Gates definitely will not, and he's probably not a very generous employer to begin with. Who the hell will actually make all of this worthwhile with shrinking workforces, shrinking salaries, shrinking benefits, chronic job insecurity, and ever-increasing job demands? I don't even think my own Bachelor's degree will ever pay off, and I'm not even working for anybody else!

So yes, the (stinking) world is definitely coming to an end, and actually I can't wait for all these useless bugs, passing for exalted human beings, to all get fried.

Who needs so-called employers? I definitely don't. And nobody is going to cry over those criminals anyway, so they can probably expect zero compassion on Judgement Day. Even God Almighty is got to be fed up with these useless denigrators of humanity. Lets face up to the facts: if these bastards don't deserve the ultimate death penalty, then nobody does!

Yesterday, 2 July 2010, I prepared the final touches of the autodidactic formulas that will serve me well for the educational program I have just started, and today I actually started the program of study.

What am I talking about? A few days ago I inquired about a Colorado Technical University Master's degree program that caught my attention.

What actually happened was that I saw an advert over the Web that promised "no money needed" for college through a combination of scholarships and grants, and I input my contact information, and other information, and this lead to setting the emails in motion that would have me contacted a day or two later by someone at Colorado Technical University, in order to discuss the details about a special online Master's degree program — I have earned a Bachelor's degree in Information Technology from the University of Phoenix in April 2007.

I didn't expect to actually get so much help that the furthering of my education would have costed absolutely nothing, because I'm fully aware that grants can only cover some of the expenses associated with university tuition, and most scholarships are only for limited amounts, which usually don't cover even a full year's tuition expense. However, if I could at least cover a significant portion of the expense, then I figured that it was worth the bargain, not to mention the additional effort, in order to gain a more advanced degree than the one I earned in the past.

I have spent my free time in my post-University of Phoenix years either searching for full-time or part-time employment, launching new countries, writing articles or books, or searching for an academic program that would suit me and my interests well, especially the kind that could improve my employment prospects.

I was very confused about how to follow-up educationally on the effort that finally lead me to graduate from the University of Phoenix, because if I had had a real choice back in September 2004, I would have chosen to complete my degree in the field of Mathematics, not Information Technology, and having a BS in Information Technology doesn't automatically lead to a MS or MA in Mathematics, and I certainly was not interested in simply getting a MS in Mathematics Education. Making matters even more confusing, my BS in Information Technology has not served me well with employment opportunities, and I am attracted to, or interested in, other fields of human endeavour, especially Natural Health.

Interest in a MS or MA in Mathematics would have either forced me to complete an additional BS or BA degree in Mathematics, or I would have at least needed a significant amount of undergraduate courses even before taking on a Master's degree program in Mathematics. Not exactly a straightforward or expedited path.

Interest in the field of Natural Health only provided few accredited avenues, and all of them are either full Bachelor's degrees, or degree programs that lead to a Bachelor's degree when you have an Associate's or another kind of Bachelor's degree.

What was especially attractive about this Master's degree program at Colorado Technical University, is that I could have started, in theory at least, with an accredited BS in Information Technology, and after perhaps only a few additional courses, I could have pursued a fully-fledged MS in Computer Science program, a field which is more intellectually challenging than Information Technology, but also more rewarding for employment purposes. The shift from Information Technology to Computer Science, is definitely less dramatic than the shift required from Information Technology to a program of pure or applied Mathematics. Colorado Technical University has a 44 credit program, and with a price tag of $635 per credit, so the cost of an additional education is not obscene, even considering that it is a graduate level program.

Unfortunately the person I spoke with at Colorado Technical University was not very helpful with my goal, and the second person I spoke with over the telephone said that scholarships were not available for Master's level programs, and was not very helpful or encouraging in other respects either. I know that even maxing out on Pell Grant money is not going to make my education significantly more affordable.

There is a Buddhist proverb that goes like this: "When the student is ready, the teacher will appear". Well, the student is ready, has never been more ready than he is now, and yet the 'teacher' seems to think money is more important...

So a day or two later I reached the conclusion that the student and the teacher are actually, in this case, the same person.

You can't get water from a desert, and you can't get wisdom from fools incapable of running their own affairs wisely, so you might as well search your own inner resources. At $635 per credit, a 44 credit program would have cost me at least $27,940, not counting all the additional fees, and all the additional courses I might have to take. With that kind of money, I can get the finest computer, and purchase books perhaps for the rest of my entire life!

Who needs traditional universities at this point, since my educational expenses are no longer being subsidised by my parents, and one parent has even recently kicked the bucket?

Who needs non-traditional universities either, when they are still too expensive and inflexible for my hunger for knowledge, and even a college degree these days offers no guarantee of employment after?

What is the difference, at this point, between an accredited education and an unaccredited one except, perhaps, the price tag? Yet both educational routes cost significant sums of money if your goal is to get a serious education.

As a said before, "When the student is ready, the teacher will appear". I'm not going to let the limitations of this world stop me from getting the education I seek.

Yesterday I prepared the final touches of the autodidactic formulas that will serve me in my quest for higher understanding and wisdom, and today I actually started the program of study. I am thus now officially a Student of Saint René Descartes University, fully matriculated, and since there are no regular professors there, I'm essentially Student, Professor, and to be perfectly honest, also degree program Administrator. I'm the one studying, the one trying to honestly and objectively to evaluate the Student's progress, and I'm also the one who created the program, and who determined the amount of college or university credits that should apply.

This is the task I have ahead of me: to study, in my free time, as many books that objectively add up to a degree. I know exactly how many studied pages in your average book add up to the equivalent of one academic credit, and actually I can even figure out how many original pages I have to write per credit for my final dissertation!

The three degrees I plan to acquire entirely through self-study are a Diplomate's Degree (DD), which is about 120 credits, a Professional's Degree (PD), which is an additional 60 credits, and a Scholar's Degree (SD), which is another 120 credits excluding the dissertation. Later, I will also write my dissertation, which by itself is worth another 60 credits, and I will write it in the form of a published book detailing everything I've learned along the way, and everything I can share about the experience.

My three progressive degree programs will be in Holistic Studies, i.e. about anything and everything under the sun. Even the first six books of my program of study, which amount to about 26 college credits altogether, range wildly in subject matter from History, to Economics, to Systems Theory, to Chemistry, to Mathematics. Later on, during the course of my studies, I also predict that I will embrace other subjects in my Holistic Studies degree programs, even some subjects not considered academic.

My university, Saint René Descartes University, is not traditional or even non-traditional, but being entirely autodidactic, at least for me, it would definitely be considered a radical institution. I am fed up with the educational establishment, and I'm not about to spend more money in order to acquire knowledge which may prove neither useful, nor beneficial for the purposes of employment.

If you are also interested in completing these degree programs in Holistic Studies with me, largely through self-directed study in your free time, for the tuition price of the books you will require, and perhaps for some minor additional administration costs, just contact me through my contact form.

After a major death in your family, and after surviving a pnemonia during virtually the same time period, you feel like the person who is too shell-shocked to even move. Yet the valleys of dispair often carry within themselves the seed of their own rebirth, the fountain for their own renewal.

On 24 August 2006, the International Astronomical Union (IAU) redefined the term 'planet', and turned Pluto, which was considered a planet for over 70 years, into a 'dwarf planet'.

The IAU's classification states that bodies large enough to have cleared the neighbourhood of their orbit are defined as 'planets', while those that are not massive enough to be rounded by their own gravity are defined 'small solar system bodies'. 'Dwarf planets' like Pluto, are somewhere in the middle between those two extremes.

The definition officially adopted by the IAU in 2006 has been both praised and criticised, and has been disputed by scientists such as Alan Stern, who has sensibly stated, "I can't think of a single distinguishing characteristic that would set apart Pluto and other things that you'd call a planet, other than its size. So I like to say, a Chihuahua is still a dog." (source)

I too believe Chihuahuas are still dogs, and Pluto is still a planet, even though my Pluto was not placed in the best way in my birth chart. If there was anybody that should have felt happy about Pluto's demotion, it should have been me, and yet I never felt completely negative about the Virgo-based and retrograde Chihuahua in my natal chart.

Pluto certainly didn't look like that brilliant Australian Shepherd of Mercury in Gemini in my chart, was not as aggressive as that Bullmastiff of Mars in Aries, nor was it as good-natured as that Great Dane of Jupiter in Pisces. No, I go stuck with a Pluto surrounded by negative aspects, and placed in the sign of Virgo, not exactly an ideal placement. I got stuck with a laughable Chihuahua.

Well, that was Pluto's condition at my birth. When Pluto moves, however, transformation follows in its wake.

I noticed lately that the transiting planet Pluto is now approaching a very positive trine, or 120-degree aspect to that of my natal planet Pluto, in the sign of Capricorn. As if this were not enough of a positive long-term aspect, next year the planet Jupiter, the jovial planet par excellence, will also form a positive trine to my natal planet Pluto, and in the other earth sign of Taurus. It doesn't get any better than this in terms of potential for life trasformation and happiness, and October 2011 should prove to be the astrological equivalent of a month of stupendous fireworks.

Well, a Chihuahua is no German Shepherd, but the Chihuahua that is Pluto in my chart shall rise again. Like the fabled Phoenix, the firebird that came originally from Paradise, Pluto shall rise again from its ashes, and shall be a perrito indomable!

A curious thing happened the other day. Truth was shown to me in such a way that it is virtually impossible to deny it. Mathematicians call these kinds of truths axioms.

When on 17 November 2001 I founded the Cesidian Church, according to Catholic religious thought, and Canon law, through this action I became both a heretic and a schismatic. These are offences for which one incurs excommunication.

According to the Catholic Church, he who has incurred occult excommunication (latae sententiae) should treat himself as excommunicated and be absolved as soon as possible, submitting to whatever conditions will be imposed upon him by the local Bishop.

I never sought absolution for the action of founding the schismatic Cesidian Church. In fact, on 12 December 2005, I also became a legally ordained minister through Rose Ministries, a non-denominational ministry. By this action, I also became an apostate, another offence which in the Catholic faith incurs excommunication. Moreover, on 17 April 2007, I didn't seek to be absolved by a Catholic Bishop, but legally became the Bishop of the Cesidian Church, through an independent Church Charter granted by Saint Luke Evangelical Christian Ministries, a non-denominational church.

So it is clear, almost without a doubt, that having committed the triple offences of heresy, schism, and apostasy, I am as excommunicated as ever. According to Catholic religious thought, I am damned for all eternity.

Nonsense. Saul of Tarsus, before he became the real founder of Christianity, and in the process even turned a very Jewish Yeshua into a blond, blue-eyed Gentile Jesus, prosecuted even Yeshua's Holy Apostles, yet the Roman Catholic Church today calls him not only Paul, his Roman name, but Saint Paul.

Nonsense. If it is true that I am damned, then why is it that under the Catholic Church's Code of Canon law I am still considered a Christian, simply because I was baptised as a Catholic as an infant?

Nonsense. If it is true that I am damned, then why is it that the 'heretic' Copernicus was reburied the other day with honour and fanfare? Wasn't he also supposed to be damned for all eternity?

But even if after all these examples you still think I am damned, being both the Founder and Primate of the schismatic Cesidian Church, then let me ask you how was it possible for this excommunicated fellow to take Holy Communion during his father's funeral on 21 May 2010? It didn't happen by accident or my own free will either!

Not only I took Holy Communion during my father's funeral mass, but I also had to bring the host and the wine to the priest during the ceremony!

Not only I took Holy Communion during my father's funeral mass, but had I not taken Holy Communion, the perfect post-Vatican II Catholic ceremony of the Mass would have been null-and-void, or would have at least looked incomplete, since besides the concelebrants (the sacristan and hymn leader in this particular case), nobody else came forward to take Holy Communion among those facing the altar when the priest came forward with the host. Yes, I had to actually take Holy Communion for Everybody Else present, and I wasn't the only 'Roman Catholic' present there by any stretch! I also did not take Holy Communion by my own free will! It was clear who was in charge of the outcome of the ceremony of the Mass, and it wasn't really the Catholic priest, nor was it the Cesidian Bishop!

What a fine way God has of reminding everyone, including fully ordained Roman Catholic priests, that not only I am indeed a Bishop in his eyes, but according to God I am still in fact a Roman Catholic, perhaps even 'The Roman Catholic', a role I certainly played during my father's funeral mass, even though my religion doesn't resemble Saint Paul's religion that much beyond a few details!

In the eyes of men I am a Cesidian, and apparently the only Cesidian in existence in the eyes of others still. In God's eyes, however, I'm still a Roman Catholic, even after 'excommunication', and I also happen to be a Cesidian.

Moreover, God surely knows I'm not the only Cesidian in existence. God knows a lot more than any mortal man, even more than the 'infallible' Pope, and other men who also deem themselves infallible, whether they realise it or not, since they too believe their mere opinions to be as authoritative or rigorous as the science of physics.

Jesus remained a Jew as much as I am still a Roman Catholic. Don't have any Jew, Roman Catholic, or even Christian tell you otherwise. Only puny man divides what mighty God in fact sees as One.

Yesterday, 10 May 2010, was my birthday.

I normally announce things like that ahead of time, but this year, I almost felt like it wasn't a day to celebrate.

My self-effacing feelings this year about my birthday turned out to be almost psychic.

Yesterday night my brother and his kids celebrated my birthday with a truly delicious cheese cake covered with all kinds of fruit, and I even managed to break the usual culinary routine by ordering some great Chinese takeout food for lunch, but the day was not destined to be a happy one.

Last night, after a short birthday celebration, they had to rush my father to the hospital in an ambulance because he couldn't breathe. He is now in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU), and in a coma.

The only thing that is keeping him alive, I believe, is a heart-lung machine, which forces him to breathe, otherwise he could not. The only reason his heart hasn't stopped completely, is because a very big and good nurse was able to revive him even after the defibrillator had apparently failed.

My father was already breathing with an oxygen machine, because he has Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), but his health has continued to deteriorate.

These are the unfortunate things that sometimes happen in one's life.

Your prayers are appreciated, even though I don't believe my father chances are even minimally optimistic.