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Sitting in the defendants holding area in the Court No.3, was a young man who had, only two months earlier, began his 20th year of life. And here he was now, looking forward, anxiously, although he gave no real indication of that anxiety, appearing, instead, outwardly, calm and contained, awaiting his sentencing by the court.  As he sat, somewhat forlornly in the holding area, guarded by a single prison guard, and in sight of those in the court, the young awaited his fate. Which, at this stage of his life, was to hear how many years of the rest of that life the court, in the form of District Judge G, was going to deprive him of.  Through continued incarceration, and, subsequently, through that most unjust of non-custodial imprisonment; the dreaded ‘extended sentence.’ This might have been the culmination of the young man’s life, up to then, but so much had gone on in his life before, as he strayed onto and remained on the precipitous path of half-life, which h...

Whereas, for the European, the past might be a place of guilt which they are reluctant to look back to, and, in any case, for the majority, would not have been an happy one either. The same applies to religion. Of course, each tribe or nation has their own history, which speaks of how they live their lives in the past, and gives an account or accounts of why they followed the path they have been following, which has taken them to present. As well as indicating the kind of future they aspire to build. Now, I am not arguing that all history is 'bad' or negative. Indeed, aspects of our histories can be rich sources of entertainment and pleasure, which, of course, is what I see as the main purpose of human living.  If aspects of our history, as particular peoples and nations, can inspire us to live more harmonious lives with our neighbours, then that is a good thing.  Those are the kinds of historical events which are worth recalling and and using to inform our future ad...

So, why is it that after so many years of homicidal people, who have forfeited their humanity and choose to turn themselves into dehumanised bombs to kill humans, do the media continue to refer to them as 'suicide bombers.? No, it is more than time enough for the media to cease to allow these dehumanised beings from taking over the semantics of our languages, and manipulate it to serve their own interests. This is something which I find very strange and problematic, especially as it is usually the media which manipulates the written and spoken words and pictures to manipulate us; the viewer, the reader and the listener. You do not transform yourself from being a human with heart and compassion, into a lethal 'self-propelled bomb to blow up human beings, and still retain your right to be called a human being, and your act, 'a suicidal act.' No, it does not work like that.  A person who wishes to commit suicide is a person who, for some strong personal...

A very brief act of a complex and intricate game, performed by a pair of pigeons. Yes, I know it is not the full play, nevertheless, do take a look, a very brief one, if you will.

Similarly, religion is serving a significant role in helping the ruling elites to maintain their control over the masses, which makes it essential for them to support the continuation of the religious institution. So, notwithstanding the fact that theistic religious belief is most probably the most monumental fraud which has been perpetuated on us humans, there is every likelihood that it will persist until our specie exist no more.  It has simply become too successful to be seen for the big lie it is. For it to matter whether it is a lie or a truth. How paradoxical, that, an institution such as theistic religion, which makes such big claims to concepts of 'truth', of 'morality' and 'divinity', should be founded upon lies, fraud and deception? But that is really the way it is. So, for those of us who are concerned that Christianity, Judaism, Islam and all of the other theistic religions are not based upon an ounce of truth, but, instead, are fo...

AND FATE WOULD HAVE IT NO OTHER WAY. This is the story of a young man who, even at the pre-pubescent years of his life, appeared to have known that  fate   had something challenging and unfortunate in store for him. That, try as he might,  fate  would not be denied, and he would not be able to escape the devastating but challenging test it had decreed he should contend with. On more than one occasion his parents would hear the then adolescent, without any sign of being frightened by the thought of what he was saying, matter of factly commenting on how he knew that he would be going to prison at some point.  Probably just as how another teenager might glibly comment on how he/she would be going to college or university to do a course when they left school. The young man, as far as his parents could remember, did not say when he felt or knew he would be going to prison. Just that he would be doing so. However, looking back and co...

This was one of the simple delights on offer on a certain day in February 2017, if you were to take a walk along this canal. Please take a look and, if you are so minded, enjoy this simply pleasure of a pair of ducks making waves, without causing any undue concern to the space and time which surrounds them.

If we were to compare some industrial and commercial and economic scams with the unproven and likely unethical scam with religions or aspects of them really are, religions would not be being allowed to service its followers and others as poorly as it is currently doing.  It would not be being allowed to be taking so much for granted, and would be required to demonstrate that it was delivering good value for money and the belief which it is demanding and which is being invested into it. I can understand how theistic religions can get away fraudulently with so much in Islamic countries, where the religious elite has great influence over the government.  However, it is less comprehensible why, in western secular societies, religions are being accorded this privileged position of not being morally, legally and intellectually accorded other important aspects of our lives. Is it that religion is too big to be allowed to be robustly questioned and analysed to ascert...

All of this, irrespective of the fact that, except for their overwhelmingly darker shades of colour, and comparative differences in their societies, Africans would have looked very much like Europeans.  A situation, you could now argue, which could have been applied to the principle that, 'if it looks like a duck, and it quacks, then most probably it is a duck', but was not.  That dictum was not applied because the then elites had already decided that they wanted to enslaved Africans and use their labour to create wealth in the colonisation of the new worlds.  In doing so, they gave rise to the psedo-scientific theory which postulates that Africans were inferior to Europeans, and that that, some how, justified European elites enslaving them.  Now, we know that the Europeans ventured into the new worlds in 15th century, several centuries before the 'age of enlightenment' in Europe.  Similarly, we also know that the enslavement of a people by another ...