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THE HUNGARIAN GRAND PRIX - MERCEDES-RED BULL BATTLE JOINED BY THE GODS, AS BOTTAS BECAME UNINTENTIONAL DESTROYER!! PART 1

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  If you are a conspiracy theorist, or simply superstitious, you could be forgiven for carelessly allowing yourself to conclude that Team Mercedes and their racers, Lewis Hamilton and Valtteri Bottas, have it in for Team Red Bull and their racers, Max Verstappen and Sergio Perez. I mean, with Max Verstappen having come of the worst from his brutal encounter with Lewis Hamilton in the first lap of the British Grand Prix.  By what strange and brutal bad luck could he - along with other hapless racers - have had a second and consecutive major mishap in the first lap of the Hungarian Grand Prix, and with Team Mercedes, again, being the architect of it?  Yes, at times like these, emotions are likely to taken control of people's brains and tongues.  As we take, hopefully only temporarily, of our intellect, our normal adherence to logic, especially in the highly technical environment of Formula 1 racing.  Yes, it is at times like these when we are more susceptible to being superstitious,

JUST PHILOSOPHISING - ON THE GENERATIONAL STRUGGLE AGAINST RACISM. PART 5.

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  The concept and practice of collective punishment, with the children paying for the 'sins of their father.'  Can  be just as unjust and iniquitous, unfair, as that of the children being heirs to the ill-gotten titles and wealth of their fathers.  Not to mention how ironic it should be, that, the same source, The Bible, used to give legitimacy to the dictum requiring the children  to 'pay for the sins of their fathers.'  Is also one of the main sources which has been used by 'the architects and purveyors' of the racism which is used to legitimises the past enslavement of one race, by the elites of another race.  Just as how racist theorists have 'studied' aspects of the physiology and cultures of some black and native peoples and draw general and extensive conclusions about their intellect and behaviours.  So, should black people avoid doing the same when they place their prisms on white people; as opposed to 'the white man.'   Should they not a

JUST PHILOSOPHISING - ON THE CASE FOR HAVING CHILDREN! PART 1.

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  Posing the question, as it were, about the 'case for having children', presupposed that there is a choice as to whether humans, as opposed to individuals, have a choice on whether or not to have children.  And broadly speaking, as it were, I am of the opinion that such a choice does not really exist.  Us humans, as opposed to couple A,B or C, do not have  choice about having children.  Having children is something which is written into our DNA.  We, as a species, do not have as say in the process; we are hardwired, pre-programmed to procreate, to have children and keep our species going.  The bodies of both the male and the female of our species have evolved with the complementary chemical and physical chemistry which naturally, instinctively lead us into the kind of interaction, activities that result in sexual intercourse.   Or, probably more basic, mating, and to the woman becoming pregnant and having children.  Indeed, though we might think of a woman becoming pregnant an

THE HUNGARIAN GRAND PRIX - LEWIS AND BOTTAS MADE IT P.1 AND 2, AS MAX CAME IN AT P.3.

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  So, A Very Big Congratulations to Team Mercedes and Hamilton and  Bottas, for achieving P.1 and 2, in Saturday's Qualifying  session of the Formula 1 2021 Hungarian Grand Prix, and to Team Red Bull and Max Verstappen, for making it to P.3. It is great to see that Max has not lost any of his racing courage and verve, after his unfortunate but spectacular and premature exit from the last Grand Prix, the British Grand Prix at the Silverstone Circuit.  Indeed, Max's pace during Q.2 recalled his and Team Red Bull's dominance prior and upto his misfortune at Silverstone. With Lewis having achieved his Pole during the first lap of Q.3, it is a further reinforcement of the principle that you should never bank on your last lap during Qualifying being your winning lap.  You just never known what will happen, such as whether the session might have to be prematurely ended due to some mishap. So, the aim should be to make your first or second lap be the best. While Hamilton and Bottas