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CHECK IT OUT - SPREAD A BIT OF JOY TO THE YOUR FELLOW HUMANS AND THE WORLD!

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As days go, today, from my perspective, seems to be a good day. How about from your perspective, is today, so far, being a good day for you? If it is not, then let us beseech the gods of good fortune that it develops into being a good day, or night, as the case might be. If it is being a good day or night, then let it continue to be so. Let today or tonight, from wherever you are located on this small planet Earth, be a day or night to spread a little joy into the lives of others, and feel the positive energy or resonance reflecting back onto you.  Say something simple like, 'hello' or 'hi', to your neighbour or the stranger you are passing, as that might the the first pleasant thing they have heard today, or tonight, as the case might be.  Smile and greet your neighbour, or the stranger you pass on the street or sit by on the metro, the train or the overcrowded bus. That they might look at you strangely is no more than an indication of the extent to

JUST PHILOSOPHISING ON STATES OF BEING - EMPLOYED. THE END!

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While offering the opportunity to the employed to earn a wage or salary, the state of being employed has other values which are not really about wealth creation. But more about ensuring that certain essential functions and principles in society are being upheld and performed.  We know that some jobs or employment are destructive, repetitious and provide products which do nothing to contribute meaningful value to human lives and living. In fact, some employment and products do more harm than good. It is known that, with the increasing automation of production processes, the pace of employment creation should, in time, decreases.  Something which should lead to a weakening of the perceived link between 'having a job in order to merit or be eligible for an income.'  At least for the workers who are being displaced from the job and employment market, by the increasing automation and robotisation of the work place. Once the links between work and the promotion

CONTEMPLATIVE MOODS - IF LIFE IS A B..... THEN CHECK OUT SOME CLASSICAL MUSIC BEFORE YOU DIE!

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So, if life were a bitch and then we die, need we say or do or think anymore of the matter? If life were a bitch and then we die, might we not surmise that it be our duty to screw life before we die, that we might gain some small pleasure, some small satisfaction from our life the life we live, before we die? But of course, some of us might as some point, consider that it is life which screws the living and not the living who does the screwing. And, in the knowledge that the term screwing can have an ambivalent meaning, in that it can mean participating in an event from which we derive pleasure, as well as being used as a pejorative term of abuse.  So it is that life and living can be both pleasurable and miserable to us who are required to endure it. To live it, to savour it. And so it is that I wish to comment on the beauty of music, with which we can fill many moments of our lives and our living with. Music, said the song, is the food of love. Yet, we need not

JUST A THOUGHT - NEW FRIENDS OF THE UNITED STATES' PRESIDENTIAL DON. THE END!

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Finally, there are those leaders and countries that might or might not be aware that, as you, Don, progresses the implementation of your policies, which are intended to 'make America great again.  As you proceed to 'magatise' America's relationship with the world, in respect of trading with other countries, in respect of diplomacy, commerce and globalisation, there are those formerly friendly leaders and nations which will 'de-friend' the United States. But for now, Don, man, tell me; what do you really have in mind when you speak of making 'new friends'?  Are you thinking of making Russia America's 'new friend'? Or, probably, Iran, Cuba, Syria, Yemen, and Venezuela?  And what about North Korea; is it likely that Kim Jung-un could become the Don's 'new friend'? After all, all of these countries have been categorised by the United States Congress as 'enemy or unfriendly' states.  Being the apparent Chr

IT WAS WRITTEN IN THE STARS. PART4

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It was about 13 months earlier that this current phase of madness had enveloped the young man and his family. It erupted on 28th October 2009, late in the evening, when the young man, just several day short of his 20th birthday, entered the living room of the family’s home and uttered the fateful and devastating words: Dad, it has been confirmed.  By which he meant that the ID photos which had been taken of him at the Police Station in BoT on 26th October, had been identified by most of the witnesses who have testified that they saw him attacking another person.  The young man then went on to give his father more information which he has just received in a telephone call from his solicitor, earlier.  He told of how the Police has bailed him to return to the Station on Friday 6th November, when, he has been advised, he would be kept in custody until 7th November.  At which point he would be put before a Magistrate with a request for him to be Remande

JUST PHILOSOPHISING ON STATES OF BEING - THE DISPOSSESSION OF THE BREXITED E.U. NATIONAL THE END!

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And so, without knowing if this a a battle we can win, us designated Brexit orphans, 'aliens' and refugees, must throw in our lot with the 48 percent of the UK's population, who did not vote for the country to leave the European Union.   And, as a consequence, place ourselves in the invidious position we now find ourselves. And how will the 52 percenters react to our desire to preserve our own self-interests, as they, or many of them, act to preserve what they see as theirs?  Will they see us as 'being undemocratic' and as being 'unfair', because we, who are among the 48 percent of the people who want to remain united under the banner of the European Union.   Refuse to prostrate ourselves before the paltry 52 percent majority who would have us sacrifice our vision for their? Why should we, the Brexited orphans of the United Kingdom, passively surrender ourselves to the invidious fate which has been allocated to us; that of being those to be

JUST A THOUGHT - NEW FRIENDS OF THE UNITED STATES' PRESIDENTIAL DON. PART 1.

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Does a speech maketh a man or woman, or is it the essence of their philosophical approach to life and living? How is it that, just by making or 'delivering' a reasonably well-crafted speech, composed by other people, President Trump, T.U, is being lauded and if he is a 'born again Christian', when he certainly has not changed his inner self? Hey, Man, Don; what's up now? Watching you making your inaugural speech to the United States Congress, man, I could not be more surprised to hear you say you will be making some 'new friends.'  You kidding me, man, Don? Hell, man, I thought everybody were the friends of the United States. You did mean to refer to 'old faithful', did you not, man, when you said 'we will be making some new friends'? I mean, Don, yes, let me refer to you as Don, seeing you are now bigger and more powerful than the  'man.' I mean, you did not mean to imply that you, The Don, would be making new fr