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Haruna Darbo <[log in to unmask]>
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Why are you always going to Malmo??? I thought you lived in Copenhagen???  
You're always looking for trouble. Why don't you bring that hungry Jola home  
with you. Chances are if he hadn't eaten for two days, he doesn't have a place  
to stay. Or does Sweden provide homes but not food???
 
Anyway and for your info, I don't wear khaftans or Daba Kurtos. My folks  are 
always trying to get me to wear these elaborate grand boubous they  
commission especially for me they tell me. I wouldn't be caught dead in a  straight 
jacket of a grand boubou. What?? Even if I become President of Gambia.  I 
wouldn't be caught dead in a suit and tie either. So before you vote for  me or 
nominate me my "nephew", you must be informed of what I can and cannot do.  I will 
wear jeans and boots and straw hats though. I think that is appropriate  
attire for a "Working" President.
 
So you're going to Malmo Hah?? Pass by Ramelsvag 77 and pick me up a set of  
SOVA sheets and cases my friend Kerstim has been wanting to send me for years. 
 Call Suntou when you receive it. By the way, Moribolong says hello. You 
don't  know him but Suntou does. He is runnin around with Obama these days. I hear 
he's  part of Obama's closest advisors now. You know the Clintons do not have 
a prayer  in hell with Bolong over there already.
 
Easy. Have a nice weekend "nephew".
 
 
In a message dated 8/9/2008 2:15:41 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
[log in to unmask] writes:

Omme  Uncle your nephew is on his way to Malmø on route to Helsinborg to feed 
some  Jolas and serrer´s one of the jolas called saying  has not eaten for  
two days, you what that means. 
You cost me dearly all because of you. If  we ever meet in The Gambia you 
have give DABA KURTO Ha  ha! 
Cheers 
Mbye

Let modesty be the rule  of  observance. 



----- Original Message ----
From:  Haruna Darbo <[log in to unmask]>
To:  [log in to unmask]
Sent: Friday, August 8, 2008 11:41:33  PM
Subject: Re: Where do viruses/Jinns come from??? Scientific  American


Dinding Ikango Jaata. Suntou, if you click on the link  provided where Mr.  
Rybicki's article came from, you will see what  the EBOLA virus looks like. 
In  
that picture, the EBOLA virus is a  complex protein or it uses complex 
proteins  
similar to its host's  proteins as a decoy to infect and live in the host.  
Multiplying  ad-infinitum. What I shared with you and what you had already 
shared 
with  my nephew Dibassey, is that given their mutational attributes (Like  
Jinns),  viruses vary as their hosts vary. Perhaps this is what  created the 
confusion for  you to say that "Jinns are beings just  like we are". Yes they 
can 
act like us,  mimick us, and look like us.  You also shared that they can 
come in 
different  life-forms; animals.  And inanimate objects. So can viruses. When 
they are in  inanimate  objects, they lay dormant. Perfectly comfortable in 
their dead host.   But as soon as maggots, worms, insects, birds, or reptiles 
land 
on or  utilize  the inanimate objects, there they go again to attach to the  
live predator. You  see how I mean don't you? So in effect, viruses  are 
different 
as their  hosts are unique. You and I probably have  some and we don't even 
know it. If  they are not causing us  noticeable harm, we consider them 
benign or 
good. That  is why I am  on a quest to find good viruses/Jinns.

Where's my nephew anyway?  Haruna.

In a message dated 8/8/2008 10:12:55 A.M. Mountain Daylight  Time,  
[log in to unmask] writes:

Haruna,  i am not as  multi-facet as you are. i am sure about what jinns are 
in   attributes, i just need a bit of explaining as to what viruses are. any 
one  
can do me a favour. the guy may be up to some thing. i hope you look  after  
your new found nephew as i am look after you my nephew.  no  laugh.

Haruna Darbo <[log in to unmask]> wrote:   
Suntou,

Unawares, you just timidly acknowledged one  similarity  between a virus and 
a 
Jinn, if with an Islamic  perspective. You were at  pains to share with my 
"nephew" Dibassey  that you dont and the Ulemaa dont  really know what Jinns 
consisted  of. You share that only their  characteristics (polyform and  
mutational 
attributes, ability to respond to  sensation - perhaps  endowed with a 
nervous 
system of sorts, etcetera).  That they can be  snakes, frogs, wind, insects, 
etc. Similarly, Mr.  Rybicki, in the  article below, submits that we have not 
yet 
determined  what  constitutes a virus. One reason being that they do not 
leave  

fossilized traces. Another reason is because they mutate and mimick  the  
host's characteristics in such a way that it is hard to separate  their  
constituent 
elements from those of their hosts. You have  shared implicitly  that several 
humans can have a Jinn or Jinns in  common. And so can humans  a 
virus/viruses 
in common. That goes to  contagion.

I think we are  embarked on classical research here  that combines both 
spiritual and  mechanical/scientific research to  solve a common quandry. At 
least 
for my  "nephew" Dibassey. In  time I will share with you good folk some  
information about a virus  called PRION. Don't let the names fool you. It  is 
just like  
giving your Jinns names, or hurricanes and tornadoes names  for want  of 
other 
qualification. So having a name does not constitutive  form  make.

Innahu huwa yubdi'U wayu-eed, wahuwal ghafoorul wadood.  Thul  arsil majeed 
.............
Masoud. MQJGDT. Al  Mu'Umin.

In a  message dated 8/7/2008 11:30:37 P.M. Mountain  Daylight Time,  
[log in to unmask] writes:

good efforts  haruna. on my part i  believe that jinns are a being just like 
we  are. are they a virus, unless  some one explains what consist of a virus, 
 
i 
cannot accept that  claim.


Haruna Darbo  wrote:
Could the two be one and the same?  Enquiring minds want to  know. Dibassey 
I'm trying to help you in your  lifetime of angst. We  may discover something 
together with Suntou.  Avogadro's  contemporaries thought he were silly too. 
Haruna. And he never   obtained an invite to the infamous gaseous conference 
in   
Nouackchott.


Ed Rybicki, a virologist at the University of  Cape  Town in South Africa, 
answers: 
Tracing the origins of  viruses is  difficult because they don't leave 
fossils 
and because of  the tricks they  use to make copies of themselves within the 
cells  they've invaded. Some  viruses even have the ability to stitch their  
own 
genes into those of  the cells they infect, which means  studying their 
ancestry 
requires  untangling it from the history  of their hosts and other organisms. 
What  makes the process even more  complicated is that viruses don't just 
infect  humans; they can  infect basically any organism�
from 
_bacteria_   
(http://www.sciam.com/topic.cfm?id=bacteria) to horses; seaweed to  people.  
Still, scientists have been able to piece together some  viral histories,  
based on the fact that the genes of many  viruses�such as 
those that  
cause 
herpes 
and  mono�seem to share some properties with cells'  own  
genes. This 
could 
suggest that they started as big bits of  cellular  DNA and then became 
independent�
or  that these viruses came  along very early in _evolution_   
(http://www.sciam.com/topic.cfm?id=evolution) , and some of their  DNA  stuck 
around in cells' 
genomes. The fact that some viruses  that infect  humans share structural 
features with viruses that  infect bacteria could  mean that all of these 
viruses have 
a  common origin, dating back  several billion years. This highlights  
another 
problem with tracing virus  origins: most modern viruses seem  to be a 
patchwork of bits that come from  different  sources�a 
sort of "mix 
and 
match" approach  
to  building an organism. 

The fact that viruses like the  deadly Ebola and  Marburg viruses, as well as 
the distantly related  viruses that cause  measles and rabies, are only found 
in a limited  number of species suggests  that those viruses are relatively  
new�
after all, those  organisms came along  somewhat recently in evolutionary 
time. 
Many of  these "new"  viruses likely originated in insects many million years 
ago  and at  some point in evolution developed the ability to infect other   
species�probably as insects interacted with or fed from  
them.  

HIV, which is thought to have first emerged in humans in  the 1930s, is  
another kind of virus, known as a retrovirus. These  simple viruses are  akin 
to 
elements found in normal cells that  have the ability to copy  and insert 
themselves throughout the  genome. There are a number of viruses  that have a 
similar 
way of  copying themselves�a process that  reverses the 
normal  flow of 
information in cells, which is where the term  "retro" comes  fromââ‚
¬â€�and 
their central 
machinery for  replication  may be a bridge from the _original life-forms on 
this  
planet_   
(http://www.sciamdigital.com/index.cfm?fa=Products.ViewIssuePreview&ARTICLEID_
CHAR=6A1A42E0-16E8-4F62-A20A-233B2E760B1)   to what we know as life 
today. In fact, we carry among our genes  many  "fossilized" retrovirusesÃ
¢â‚¬â
€�
left 
over  from the infection of  distant ancestors�which can 
help  us trace 
our 
evolution as a  species. 

Then there are the  viruses whose genomes are so large that  scientists can't 
quite  figure out what part of the cell they would have  come from. Take, for 
 
instance, the largest-ever virus so far discovered,  mimivirus: its  genome 
is 
some 50 times larger than that of HIV and is  larger than  that of some 
bacteria. 
Some of the largest known viruses  infect  simple organisms such as amoebas 
and simple marine algae. This   indicates that they may have an ancient 
origin, 
possibly as  parasitic  life-forms that then adapted to the "virus 
lifestyle." 
In  fact, viruses  may be responsible for significant episodes of  
evolutionary 
change,  especially in more complex types of organisms.  

At the end of the day,  however, despite all of their common  features and 
unique abilities to copy  and spread their genomes, the  origins of most 
viruses 
may remain  forever  obscure.



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