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AN ENIGMATIC AND POIGNANT JOURNEY AROUND MY AGEING AND EVOLVING MOTHER! PART 91.

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Her focus on what might seem small things to someone whose universe is not consisted primarily of their own little apartment, leads to her becoming frustrated and resentful, angry and sometimes depressed.  As her feeling of powerlessness to change the functioning of 'her home universe' becomes magnified. In our lives, our living, it is not necessarily a virtue for us to be always focused on making a detailed examination of all that is put before our eyes or cross our vision.  If we are too preoccupied with examining all the details, we can, we could become at risk of not seeing the bigger picture, the overview of how the object of our examination was put together.  At the same times, if we are given to focusing too much on the wider picture.   Then we could become at risk of overlooking the details and not being sufficiently aware of and appreciating the details and how they are put together to give rise to the bigger picture.  Our objective should normally be to get a balanced

IT WAS WRITTEN IN THE STARS - AN ACCOUNT OF LIVES IMPACTED BY 'EVERYDAY ADVERSITIES.' PART 59

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'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.' He would do this as well as having to conform to the prison culture. The culture that required him, Kazaliwa to, as it were, see everything but admit to having seen nothing.  Hearing as much as is required to protect yourself, but do not repeat what you have heard, especially to the prison officials.  The culture which requires you to endeavour to get redress, for anything you decide you need redress for.  But to do so according to your own methodology, and without the assistance of the prison officials, either directly or indirectly. Which explains why Kazaliwa would oftentimes end up being involved in conflicts or incidents with prison guards and/or other inmates/residents.

UST A QUICK THOJUGHT - ON THE RIGHT AND DUTY OF THE CITIZEN

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It should be the right of the citizen to enquire of the police-citizen the reason for them, the police-citizen, approaching and making enquiries of them, before having to comply with their request.  It should also be the duty of the citizen to exercise this right, in a reasonable and respectful manner, before complying with the enquiries of the police-citizen. In societies in which the police is seen as 'the enemy of not only those breaking the law, but the ordinary citizen who is not', then the battle against 'lawlessness' is nearly lost.

THOUGHTS OF BEING - ON LOOKING INTO AND EMBRACING THE VOID. 2

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So why do we fear the void as much as we do, whether it is looking up into the voidness of space, or the voidness of the end of life, our life. And so it seems to me, that even though it might be difficult for us to do, we do need to learn to put away our fears about going into the void, and begin to learn to embrace it.  As a lover might embrace the love of his/her life. After all, it is the void that gave birth to us and all that there is within and outside of our visual and perceptive fields.  And it is to the void that we are destined to return, after having emanated from it and gained the intellect to consciously behold it.  Before returning to it in a state of disorganised and non-comprehending disintegrated matter. And attain the ultimate freedom and eternal peace, which should be the desire of all of us.

IT WAS WRITTEN IN THE STARS - AN ACCOUNT OF LIVES IMPACTED BY 'EVERYDAY ADVERSITIES.' PART 57

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How would he, Kazaliwa looked, and how is he coping, they were wondering, as, with intense anticipation, they waited and carefully scanned around the large room. As Kazaliwa approached them, they stood up and greeted him warmly with handshakes and hugs.  This kind of greeting would become the norm for the duration of Kazaliwa' time being incarcerated.  Many of the visits would be bitter sweet, as Kazaliwa would tell them about the travails he was having, and they would be powerless to do anything to help him.  Kazaliwa was still young, but he knew the codes and expectations of the system he was in and he abide by it.  He would tell his parents and brother about the fights he was having.  Of how he would be injured or hurt and how he would hurt others in defending himself, but he did not want them to contact any of the prison officials to plead his case. Indeed, Kazaliwa did struggle to cope for probably the second or 3rd year in the pen.  This was partly because he initially contin

THOUGHTS OF BEING - ON LOOKING INTO THE VOID.

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In the beginning there was the void. And the void was without form and distinction, as it were, probably because it was full of cosmic dust and gases. which obscured the view of the onlooker.  Or probably because there was nobody, no onlooker to perceive of and see the void.  Nobody with the intelligence we now have, to see and comprehend the void or state of voidness.  No unless we who now exist but did not at the time of the void, were to personify the void and cause it to become capable of introspection and reflection, so that it can or could look upon itself and behold its voidness. Indeed, by the time the void became filled with gases and cosmic dust clouds, it was no longer the beginning. There was nobody, no perceiving and comprehending intelligent being to witness the beginning. 

UST A QUICK THOJUGHT - ON THE EXERCISE OFLAWFUL AUTHORITY. PART. 2

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2. It is the duty of the state and government to inform and educate the citizens of their rights when they are confronted by the police, and of how the police should conduct themselves in such engagements. The Police-citizen, although having more authority as a state controlling agent, should not consider themselves as being of a higher status than the citizen, when he/she is not on duty, as it were.  When a police-citizen begins to think of him/herself as being primarily a police officer and no longer a police-citizen, and that he/she is of higher status than the citizen. That is when he/she begins to become toxic and open to becoming corrupted. If the police acts unlawfully, then he/she is no longer covered by the law, though it, the law, might be corruptly used to give false legitimisation to their unlawful acts. In an enlightened society, it becomes the duty of the state and the government to inform and educate the citizens on their rights, and how the police should conduct themsel

RELIGION DILEMMAS AND PARADOXES - THE RELEVANCE AND VALUE OF 'GOD' IN OUR LIVES TODAY! PART 4.

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'If we hold onto a thing or idea beyond its time, then we will prevent the birth of something more useful, more relevant.  This is a dilemma for the world's religions, as their doctrines become increasingly irrelevant and they refuse to make way for the evolution of human thought.' Now, it is or should be clear to those of us who prefer reason and logic over 'belief' and 'religious doctrines' and superstition.   That, at best, it is very probable that none of the 'gods' of our ancestors would have been able to protect any of our ancestors from wars, famines, floods, pestilence, etc.   Even with the additional and cruel enticement of human sacrifices.  However, until they were able to develop improved weapons which could deter their challengers and enemies.   They, or some of them, placed their 'trust' in their 'gods', with the oracles purporting to intercede on their behalf. And yet, despite the apparent, if not blatant failure of the