Life Is Designed To Go Wrong

We are fed, or we acquire, false information, day in and day out.
Understanding the confused world in which we dwell
is the path to enlightenment.

The world happens outside.
Our world happens inside.

We experience the world through our senses, which send a message to the brain and then to the mind: that’s how we relate to the world. The way in which the world reflects back our projections – the feedback we receive – dictates the way in which we see ourselves, and this creates a social I. This collective false reality gives rise to mass confusion and suffering. Taking advantage of, and exploiting this confusion gives rise to more confusion and suffering This is the work of Mara. Most of us try to put things right, only to find that ‘someone’ is deliberately cocking it up again, and so we go round in circles.

There is always something lurking around the corner.
We have to look at the causes of suffering
and its perpetuation.

Key facts about Cancer

Cancers figure among the leading causes of morbidity and mortality worldwide, with approximately 14 million new cases and 8.2 million cancer related deaths in 2012.

The number of new cases is expected to rise by about 70% over the next 2 decades.

Among men, the 5 most common sites of cancer diagnosed in 2012 were lung, prostate, colorectum, stomach, and liver cancer.

Among women the 5 most common sites diagnosed were breast, colorectum, lung, cervix, and stomach cancer.

Around one third of cancer deaths are due to the 5 leading behavioural and dietary risks: high body mass index, low fruit and vegetable intake, lack of physical activity, tobacco use, alcohol use.

Tobacco use is the most important risk factor for cancer causing around 20% of global cancer deaths and around 70% of global lung cancer deaths.

Cancer causing viral infections such as HBV/HCV and HPV are responsible for up to 20% of cancer deaths in low and middle-income countries.

More than 60% of world’s total new annual cases occur in Africa, Asia and Central and South America. These regions account for 70% of the world’s cancer deaths.

It is expected that annual cancer cases will rise from 14 million in 2012 to 22 million within the next 2 decades.

http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs297/en/

List of wars by death toll with over 1,000,000 deaths

War	Deaths	Date	Location
World War II	60,000,000–85,000,000	1939–1945	Worldwide
Mongol conquests	40,000,000–70,000,000	1206–1324	Eurasia
Three Kingdoms War	36,000,000–40,000,000	184–280	China
Second Sino-Japanese War	25,000,000	1937–1945	China
Qing dynasty conquest of Ming Dynasty	25,000,000	1616–1662	China
Taiping Rebellion	20,000,000–100,000,000	1850–1864	China
World War I/Great War	20,000,000	1914–1918	Worldwide
An Lushan Rebellion	13,000,000–36,000,000	755–763	China
Conquest of the Americas	8,400,000 – 137,750,000	1492–1691	Americas
Dungan Revolt	8,000,000–20,770,000	1862-1877	China
Conquests of Tamerlane	8,000,000–20,000,000	1370–1405	Eurasia
Chinese Civil War	8,000,000	1927–1949	China
Russian Civil War and Foreign Intervention	5,000,000–9,000,000	1917–1922	Russia
Napoleonic Wars	3,500,000–6,000,000	1803–1815	Europe
Thirty Years’ War	3,000,000–11,500,000	1618–1648	Europe
Second Congo War/Great War of Africa	2,500,000–5,400,000	1998–2003	Central Africa
French Wars of Religion	2,000,000–4,000,000	1562–1598	France
Goguryeo-Sui War	2,000,000 At Least	598–614	Korea
Shaka’s conquests	2,000,000	1816–1828	South Africa
Korean War	1,200,000	1950–1953	Korea
Siege of Jerusalem	1,100,000	73	Middle East
Mexican Revolution	1,000,000–2,000,000	1910–1920	Mexico
Iran–Iraq War/First Persian Gulf War	1,000,000	1980–1988	Middle East
Japanese invasions of Korea	1,000,000	1592–1598	Korea
Biafra War	1,000,000	1967–1970	Nigeria
Soviet war in Afghanistan	957,865–1,622,865	1979–1989	Afghanistan
Conquests of Mehmed II ‘the Conqueror’	873,000	1451–1481	Eurasia
Seven Years’ War	868,000–1,400,000	1756–1763	Europe
Vietnam War/Second Indochina War	800,000–3,800,000	1955–1975	Vietnam

List of wars by death toll with fewer than 1,000,000 deaths

876,000 – English Civil War (1642–1651)

800,000– American Civil War (1861–1865)

770,000 – Second Punic War (218–201 BC)

500,000–1,500,000 – Ethiopian Civil War (1974-1991)

500,000 – Spanish Civil War (1936–1939)

400,000–1,000,000 – Gallic Wars (58–50 BC)

470,000 – Syrian Civil War (2011–present), see Casualties of the Syrian civil war

400,000+ – First Indochina War (1946–1954)

400,000 – Civil war in Afghanistan (1989–92), Civil war in Afghanistan (1992–96) and Civil war in Afghanistan (1996–2001) (1989–2001)

400,000+ War of the Triple Alliance (1864–1870)

350,000–1,500,000 – Algerian War of Independence (1954–1962)

350,000 – Kalinga War (262–261 BC)

350,000 – Third Northern War (1700–1721)[

315,000–735,000 – Wars of the Three Kingdoms (1639–1651)

300,000–3,000,000– Bangladesh Liberation War (1971)

300,000 – Second Burundian Civil War (1993–2005)

300,000 (TFG)–500,000+ (AFP) – Somali Civil War

272,000–1,260,009 – War on Terror (2001–present)

234,000 – Philippine–American War (1899–1912)

220,000 – Colombian conflict (1964–present) (1964–present)

200,000–1,000,000 – Albigensian Crusade (1208–1229)

200,000–500,000 — Lord’s Resistance Army insurgency (1987–present)

200,000 – Algerian Civil War (1991–2002)

185,250–3,000,000 – Hundred Years’ War (1337–1453)

178,258–461,520 – War in Darfur (2003–present)

176,913–1,120,000 – Iraq War/Third Persian Gulf War (2003–2011), see Casualties of the Iraq War, part of the War on Terror]

138,800–320,100 – Iraqi–Kurdish conflict (1918–2003)

120,000–384,000 – Great Turkish War (1683–1699) (see Ottoman-Habsburg wars)

120,000–150,000 – Lebanese Civil War (1975–1990)

120,000 – Islamic insurgency in the Philippines (1969–present)

115,311 – Arab–Israeli conflict (1920–present)

106,800+ – Mexican Drug War (2006–present)

100,000–10,000,000[80] – Indian Rebellion of 1857

100,000–500,000 – Ugandan Bush War (1981-1986)

100,000 – Insurgency in Laos (1975–2007)

100,000 – German Peasants’ War (1524–1525)

97,000–107,000 – Aceh War (1873–1914)

97,214–104,732 – Bosnian War (1991–1995)

90,969 – Mahdist War (1881–1889)

90,000+ – Third conflict in the Goryeo–Khitan War (1018–1019)

85,000–235,000 – 1991 uprisings in Iraq (1991)

80,000–110,000, Kashmir Conflict – (1947 to present)

80,000–100,000 – Sri Lankan Civil War (1983–2009)

63,500–88,500 – Mozambican War of Independence (1964–1974)

60,000 – Ituri conflict (1999–2007)

47,246–61,603 – War in Afghanistan (2001–present) (2001–present), part of the War on Terror

45,852 – 78,946 – War in North-West Pakistan (2004–present), part of the War on Terror

45,000 – Kurdish–Turkish conflict (1979–2013)

34,000 – Iranian-Kurdish conflict (1918–present)

34,000 – Ethnic conflict in Nagaland (1954–present)

25,000 – Insurgency in Northeast India (1964–present)

25,000 – Shia insurgency in Yemen (2004–present)

20,000 – Ragamuffin War (1835–1845)

18,069–20,069 – First Opium War (1839–1842)

17,200 – First Anglo-Afghan War (1839–1842)

16,765–17,065 – Balochistan conflict (1948–present)

16,000 – War of the Pacific (1879–1883)

15,000 – Nigerian Sharia conflict (1953–present)

13,929 – Republic of the Congo Civil War (1997–1999)

13,812 – Naxalite-Maoist insurgency (1967–present)

10,000+ – Malayan Emergency (1948–1960)

9,400 – Libyan Civil War (2011)

8,136+ – Iraqi insurgency (post-U.S. withdrawal) (2011–present)

5,641 – Sudanese nomadic conflicts (2009–present)

5,469 – South Thailand insurgency (2004–present)

5,000 – Casamance conflict

5,000 – Chilean Civil War of 1891

4,000–10,000 Conflict in the Niger Delta (2004–present)

3,699 – Al-Qaeda insurgency in Yemen (1992–present)

3,529 – The Northern Ireland Troubles (1969–1998)

3,000–6,000 – Negro Rebellion (1912)

3,000 – Second Ivorian Civil War (2010–2011)

2,781 – Iranian Revolution (1978–1979)

2,751 – Third Anglo-Afghan War (1919)

2,557 – Sudan internal conflict (2011–present) (2011–present)

2,394 – Sinai insurgency

2,198 – Insurgency in the North Caucasus (2009–present)

2,000 – Six-Day War (2000) (2000)

2,000 – 2010 South Kyrgyzstan ethnic clashes (2010)

1,643–2,237 – War of Transnistria (1992)

1,554 – South Yemen insurgency (2009–present)

1300+ – Allied Democratic Forces insurgency (1996–present)

1,229 – Basque conflict (1959–2011)

1,227–5,600 – Kargil War (1999)

1,119 – Political violence in Egypt, 2013 (2013–present)

1,000–1,500 – Cabinda conflict (1994–present)

1,000 – 1991–92 South Ossetia War (1991–1992)

907 – The Falklands War (1982)

846 – 2011 Egyptian revolution (2011)

740 – Indonesia–Malaysia confrontation (1963–1966)

659–2,496 – Russia–Georgia war (2008)

643[163] – 1,500[164] – Sudanese conflict in South Kordofan and Blue Nile

391+ – M23 rebellion (2012–present)

174–194 – United States occupation of Veracruz (1914)

95 – 2013 Guinea clashes (2013)

84–134 – Lahad Datu standoff (2013)