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The chef and the wine connoisseur depend on their sense of taste and smell more than most people to be able to continue to do their jobs.  The fighter pilot and the racing driver look to their sense of sight to keep them out of harms way, as the earlier you see the approaching obstacle or danger the more time you have to react.  But for the majority of us humans, our senses are seemingly taken for granted. They are things, functions which we have and use without having to think of them; mostly. We only truly consciously value our senses when we lose any of them.  And probably the most critical of our senses, at least from the perspective of a sight person, who has not had to make the compensations and other adjustments of unsighted person.  Yes, it seems to me that, being sighted is or is nearly important of our human sensors, as far as living is concerned. Which is why, on considering the matter, I admire the persistent courage of the unsighted person.  N

'The evidence of the human faculties and intellect, is that us humans are the 'greatest' of all discernible sentient beings, and not the 'God' or 'Gods. In other words, us human are more powerful than any other sentient species'' Allahu Akbar, is often the refrain of Muslims, in citing what they proclaim is the greatness of 'God.'  And, for the Christians and the Jews, and for all others who pay homage to what they have or might proclaim to be 'the living God', the 'greatness of God' is axiomatic.  It is, for them, a self-evident concept, even if they are not able to demonstrate how it is or could be a reality.  Some people, among them, I believe, is the great Formula 1 racing driver, Lewis Hamilton, has proclaimed that "God is the Greatest."  When people speak of 'God being the greatest', we do not have to ask them to specify the context in which they are making their assertion.  Such as, a

In the case of Israel, as the symbolic 'Mecca', 'Kaaba' of religious Jews, this 'victimhood' acts as the incentive, the motivator for a radical and very aggressive 'Jewish personality type.'  One that says, 'never again', and in order to ensure that the wrongs which have been done to our ancestors and to us, we, in the form of Israel.   Will always take preemptive action, even if we make victims of and victimise those we, the State of Israel, perceives as posing potential or actual threat to us. A classic form of 'victim So, what have I concluded about whether or not I am an 'Antisemite' or capable of 'being antisemitic'? Well, I have never knowingly physically or verbally harmed anybody, because he/she happens to be of Jewish origins.  Neither can I rule out the likelihood of a Jewish person reading something I have written, and perceiving of it as 'antisemitic' and taking offence.  When it

Which might or might not be without some validity, but challenges me to carefully decide what, if anything I should do respond.  Because I must be careful to avoid making things worse than they are, including making my dear mother more vulnerable than she already is.  Her perception of things, of events, are not always to be trusted, so I must be careful not to appear to to be accusing people of saying or doing things.   Simply on the basis of my dear mother having told me that they have or have not done them. Indeed, although I share, or have been infused with the cultural and traditional beliefs of my dear mother.  Having been exposed to more diverse information, knowledge and perceptions of the world than she has been.  And having shown myself to be more malleable than she seems to have been.  I now either no longer believe some of my inherited cultural norms, or consider them to be true, to the same extent I did when I was a young person living in an

Of course there is a legitimate place for 'political correctness' in our societies.  Who could reasonably argue against women being treated as being of equal value to men, and that they should be respected and treated as such?  At the same time, taking political correctness to the extremism of rigidly prescribing, proscribing and policing the male-female interaction and relationships.   And viewing it through the prism of abusiveness/non-abusiveness, sexism/non-sexism, misogynistic/non-misogynistic, and consent/no consent, etc, etc.  All of which can  become very predictable, boring and oppressive for real people who have real lives to live.  While at the same time placing the females in the role of having to feel guilty and become apologists for the role they have been ascribed, by law and/or society, whether or not they want to do so.  And making males become more tentative, insecure and more 'risk-averse in their relationship

Thus we might all be perceived of or be capable of meeting the criteria of being 'antisemite' and/or have our actions labelled 'antisemitic.'  In some cases with justification, in other cases with none. Better that we continue to try to stop this madness and focus on the harm which people are doing to other people, and how to stop or reduce it.  And not on how they try to 'legitimise' or 'defend it' against justified criticism.  Causes which can only be or are largely justified or predicated upon past harm and/or the risk of future harm, must, of necessity, keep, nurture and appeal to the past wrongs, to maintain its validity.  In doing so, it is difficult, if not impossible view the future through 'a prism located in the past, which will also be reflected in the present, instead of a more measured and balanced future-friendly prism.  The more traditionalist or conservative Jewish people who perceive of themselves as

Yet another short video of Brr Fox and his family at play and teaching and learning the ropes of being foxes. Please take a look and a listen, and extract what pleasure you can from it.

No; none of them have become such models. Because it is easier and quicker to destroy than to build something better.  Which is why 'revolution and/or rebellion' is such a terrible method of trying to build a better country. Sudan needs a strong and prudent leader to pull it back from the brink, to reestablish security and stability over the country.  So begin to create and strengthen the necessary conditions for it to make progress towards better governance.  This cannot be achieved by the opposition forces holding 'a gun at the head of the nation, and giving the government an ultimatum.' It does not have the moral and/or legal and political legitimacy to do so.  The opposition should engage in a process, a gradual process of working with the existing structures to help to bring about the conditions for the gradual, but relentless improvement of Sudan and its people.  As the saying goes, 'Rome was not built in a day', in fact, neith

Those governments which the West has been arguing, are 'despotic', 'authoritarian', and 'undemocratic.'  It does not help that societies in the west has tended to argue that, them telling people to think, speak and act in a ' politically correct ' way, is for the good of society in general.  How can it; when those countries behaving as if they are or are perceived as being less 'democratic.'  Are also telling their people that the restrictions their ruling elites are placing on their thinking, speaking and behaviour , are also for the 'good of society?' I mean, imagine if the philosophers, the rulers, the 'great and enlightened - at least for their epochs.   Who have done so much to wrest the world of the Middle Ages out of the stagnant pool or pond of conformity, in which we have been embedded for centuries, if not thousands of years.  Had not dared to think and act different from the norm, what might have beco

It was a very memorable and charged event, and one which should not be reduced to being seen mostly or solely through the misfortune which has befallen Team Ferrari and Vettel, So, a Very Big Congratulation to Team Mercedes and Hamilton, for having, with a little help from the Gods, pulled off another seemingly unlikely Grand Prix win.   Also a Very Big Congratulation to Team Mercedes and Vettel and Charles Leclerc, for having made it to P.2 and 3.   Having, with obvious difficulties, contained their emotions and being able to keep it together after Vettel's unfortunate error. It is probably not helpful that the Canadian Grand Prix had became mostly about the battle or incident between Hamilton and Vettel, but that is how it has transpired.  Which was a shame, as, prior to the penalised incident, it had been, in my opinion, much more than that, and a very exciting race. But let me not give any more energy to the controversy. ~Let us learn to apprecia