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'If humans aspire for a better life, then we need a utilitarian and activist 'God', and not a passive and non-interventionist one.' How does it impacts and cast light or darkness upon our lives? Is the relevance of 'God' and its value impact on all of our lives or just the lives of some of us; such as those who believe in 'God?'  On what areas or aspects of our lives can we see the relevance of 'God' casting its light or dark shadows?  Does it differ from religion to religion and whether our vision of 'God' is that of a sentient being or an inanimate object representing 'God?'  Does 'God's' relevance has meaning for our physical, spiritual, economic, mental and psychological wellbeing, as well as our political wellbeing? And, if 'God' is relevant to our lives, is his relevance inherent, or is it ascribed; socially and culturally generated by us, as opposed to having been ordained by a 'sentient God'? Is

'It is the intergenerational duty of each succeeding generation to preserve the gains of the previous generations and make their own contribution towards lightening the burden for future generations.' Have now driven them mad and cruelly demand thats they make even more self-sacrifice and appeasement to its insatiable appetite, by destroying their own belongings.  Yes, we will have seen or heard of the likes actions of Langston Hughes, of Frederick Douglas, of Sojourner Truth, of Paul Robeson, of Rosa Park and of The Freedom Marchers.   Of Angela Davis, of Bobby Seale, of Jonathan Jackson, of the Symbionese Liberation Army, of Muhammad Ali, of Malcolm X and the Nation of Islam, of Martin Luther King, of the Black Panthers, and others.   Who have had a go, as it were, of forcing, encouraging, pleading with the American government and people to take note and begin the work of 'civilizing America.' However, although some good have come of it, such as 'desegregation'

It is the prerogative and duty of humans to ask questions of and interrogate our environments, both internal and external, and endeavour to create new realities and experiences.  There are no 'given' or 'received' wisdom which we should spare the microscope, including that pertaining to the  relevance or irrelevance  of 'God.' This is the condition on which our survival is based!' This is how advances have been made in the medicine, surgery and other areas of our lives. It is how us humans are able to make major advances in healthcare, in understanding and defying gravity, and making planes and being able to fly.  In being able to get men and women to space and the Moon and being able to explore them. To develop new tools with which to work, such as the radio, TV, camera, internet.  So, why not in the area of theism, as the central pillar of religious belief?  I mean, imagine how much and how negatively the world, the advancement of us humans, would have bee

'In the struggle against racism and racial oppression, unity is strength. Unity amongst those who are being oppressed and unity between them and those who are perceived as the children and beneficiaries of the oppressors.  Let the people unite under the Banner of Black Lives Matters, because All Lives Matters!' I mean, we have seen civil unrest, both peaceful and violent, in American cities and neighbourhoods before.  None of this is new. For the younger generations, the people who probably form the biggest detachment of the current 'warriors against racism,' With more advanced media technology, the increased dissemination of poignant and stirring images and verbal accounts of black people resisting and rebelling against their suffering under the yoke of America's slave-ocratic conditions.   Might appear to be a new phenomenon, but this is far from being so.  It goes back probably as far and even before the end of the American Civil war in the last half of the 1860s

'All Lives Matter, which is why Black Lives Matter. We are we, the human race, which is inclusive and made up of all of us people of different ethnic origins.  Black people do not claim to be unique or exceptional, even though history has had a tendency to treat black people as if they/we are of less value and consideration than the white tribes of Europe and America.'  Which is why we are, people of all ethnic tribes, here in 2020, declaring and striving to achieve the vision of #BlackLivesMatter'  Judging from the righteous and justified outpouring of collective anger, rage at and condemnation of the American police and institutional racism.  For continuing to murder black citizens with apparent impunity, it seems a timely moment to ask or pose the question:  'Will it, or probably more accurately, how much more different will it be this time?  When the justified and reasonable anger, rage and calm but powerful emotions have abated somewhat, will things have fundamenta

'What we recall of our experiences of the past, tends to be a factor of how they impacted on our senses at the time, the strength of our continuing attachment to those experiences.   And the extent to which we have succeeded in assimilating them into our subsequent experiences and move on with our lives.' While we wait for our turn to enter the belly of the scanning beast. Before having another patting down at the other side. How interesting and crucial is this feeling of 'sensitivity', and how important it is that we should learn to navigate, mediate and regulate.   If we are to be able to cope, to make adaptations and get on with daily life?  Even if it has to be be changed, however drastically, before it is accommodated and accepted as 'the new normal'? Indeed, if we allow ourselves to make the necessary changes, as it were, we can even find, after awhile, that our id appears to give our conscious state the permission to remove our moral guard and to even beg

Such as that of her anxiety about being on her own and being tormented by apparent demons, could mean her being deprived of her comparative independence in her own home, and being placed in a care home? Or when taking up all or each of the concerns she raises about this and that persons, would risk causing unnecessary pain and loses her their goodwill? Sometimes, however, even when there are no black and while or only black and white, we do need to try to see it from the other person's perspective, however limited and delusional that perspective might be, or appear to be.  Which is why there are times when I do act upon my dear mother's revelation and raise things she related to me, even at the risk of appearing to make a fool of myself and/or causing unnecessary offence to the person she is complaining about. Not to do so would only reinforce her belief that she is 'not being listened to and taken serious.' Something which is not going to do any good to her mental heal