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  I get the bit about the pleasure and happiness of giving birth to ones own babies, of having cute and adorable babies and children. I get the bit about the happiness and joy which children can bring to their parents.  I also get the bit about having to deal with the stressful challenges involved in caring for children and parenting them.  But I still question the fact that all of this is doomed to come to a tragic, though 'natural end.'   Even though it, the process of our species having children,  will continuously be repeated and have the same 'tragic' but 'natural outcome.' While our species continue to exist. And then, I ask myself, for what purpose? What would us humans, individually and collectively, have lost.  If we were not to exist anymore? What would we lose, if we were to stop existing? The answer, it seems to me, is absolutely nothing. Our existence is more filled with foreboding and pain, of various kinds, than it is filled with joy and happiness

  That, like it has been in so many other things, it has been promoting the art of deception, selfish, self-interested, and machivellianistic. And the lesson that the people of Afghanistan have to learn from this debacle, is that people have only themselves to depend on to build the society they aspire towards.  Therefore, it makes good sense for them to make it easier on themselves, by applying the necessary degree of tolerance and reasonableness.  To eschew the path of extremism and irrationality, so that there can be more common ground between all the peoples of Afghanistan to unite, cooperate and build their nation.  And herein lies the biggest challenge for the Taliban administration. Do they want to be a conduit or enabler for a better Afghanistan?  Or do they want to deprive the people of a future, by effectively amputating the nation's feet and hands, and forbid the people from developing and applying their intellect to building their country? It is a crime against both hum

  This period of Kazaliwa's life was to see him making progress both in accepting, however reluctantly, parts of 'the system', as well as rejecting some of the pressures to conform. It was when Kazaliwa decided that he did not want to work for anybody doing the proverbial 9 to 5 job. So, he went into researching, exploring and setting up his own online business. His first being that of creating advertising campaigns for businesses. This he did in collaboration with someone involved in graphics designing. Kazaliwa worked hard at it, doing more than the proverbial 9 to 5, but, unfortunately, the business failed to make any headway. It was also a period of time which saw Kazaliwa making the move towards acquiring his own accommodation. In doing so, he relented and accepted the necessity of registering for any benefits for which he was eligible. And so it was that on a certain day, Kazaliwa was successful in renting his first independent accommodation. This was constituted a ro

  In the end, Hamilton trailed home behind Max by 1.333 seconds. However, the margin of Max's win is much bigger than it might appear, or, looked at from Hamilton's perspective, his comparative loss is much larger than it might seem.  Because , like the person who only missed winning the lottery by one number, it really does not matter whether it is only one or more numbers they got wrong.  They still failed to win. Similarly, it really does matter whether  It did not matter whether Hamilton came up 1 or 20 seconds short.  He still ended the race behind Max. And with  the Championship race being this close, only winning or losing  or DNFing it really matters. Unfortunately for Team Mercedes and Lewis Hamilton, unlike the small margin by which Max won the race, the points points advantage which it accrues to Max, is quite another matter.  Because, here, a 12 points difference between him and Max, is, indeed, not small matter. Verstappen's 12 points advantage is very big and

  A Very Big Congratulations to Team Red Bull and Max Verstappen, and Team Mercedes and Lewis Hamilton, and Team Red Bull and Sergio Perez, for making it to P.1, P.2, and P.3 respectively, at the 2021 Formula 1 United States Grand Prix!! And now, having paid homage to these two front contenders for the both the 2021 Drivers Championship, and the Constructors Championship, what am I going to say about the race? Well, it certainly was a very exciting and fascinating race. One which thrilled us with Hamilton having benefitted from a great start of the Grid, to overtake Max, while he held off Sergio Perez, to take the lead and led the race for the first dozen or so laps.  And, we were also intrigued by the strategy of Red Bull, in pitting Max earlier than might have reasonably been expected.   But with the desired outcome of enabling their Star to regain the lead from the Team Mercedes' Star, when it most mattered.  Because, as it turned out, when Team Mercedes decided on the strategy

  And so it was that the West gave itself the 'divine mission' of invading Afghanistan to fight the forces that opposed it, and to 'pacify' the country and its people.  To inculcate them with its own values, political systems. As is the almost unavoidable outcome of all or most intervention and colonial models. Afghanistan has to be successfully pacified and to a state of peaceful coexistence with her neighbours and the 'international community.'  If it was/is to cease to be a threat to the West and the rest of the world. But, was that ever the case? I mean, if it was, then what does the West now expect of the country, by having deserted it and its people, leaving them to fend for themselves, as best they can?  Why is the West applying 'collective punishment' to the people of Afghanistan, by refusing to trade with and offer them reasonable assistance?  Why are these nations, individually and collectively, folding their hands behind their backs, tightly p

It does not make any sense, that the Western nations, primarily the United States, Canada, and the nations constituting the European Union, should be so suddenly turning their backs on the people of Afghanistan.  That they should be so implicitly, if not overtly, telling said people to fuck off.  The West is telling the Afghans that whatever intervention it made into their country.   Whether it is to kill and maim them, or to provide what it oftentimes, euphemistically calls 'humanitarian aid', it will only do so on their, the West's terms. And I ask myself, how can this be? Where is the logic; where is the prudence and where is the humanity in any or all of this?  The West, collectively, proclaimed itself to have been in Afghanistan to save the people from themselves.  From their internecine warfare, and from their old traditions, and, arguably, religious and tribal excesses.  All or some of which, examined through the prism of those of us who see nothing wrong with people

  There are other more human-specific reasons supporting the case for not having children. Reasons which could indeed be at the very root or core of the formulation and growth of theism and theistic-orientated religions.  Reasons such as the fact that, like all other living creatures, humans must pay the price of life, which is to die, and, in time, be forgotten.  A phenomenon which begs the question as to why is it that we were born, in the first place.  Of course, the simple answer is not that we were born because, according to the ancient religious texts, 'God' created Adam and Eve and instructed them to go forth and multiply by having children and populate the Earth.  No, that is not the reason why the Earth is now home to over 3 billion humans.  The real reason why we humans were born, is because our parents - and their parents and their parents' parents back to generation Alpha - indulged in having sex, became pregnant and gave birth to us.  And now that we are born,

  A situation which  can appear worse than it actually is, due to her noticeably apparent increased difficulty in concentrating and hearing what is being said to her.  Whether it is the case that she is having more difficulty in hearing, because she is finding it more difficult to listen and concentrate and process what is being said to her, I do not know.  And then there is her tendency to stop talking while she is on the phone, which can be abit alarming, as it is not clear whether it is because she has nodded off, or has taken her final breath.  It is at times like these when it is reassuring to be able, with the use of modern technology, to have a look in on her from a far. It seems that more often than not, my dear mother's non-human interactions or preoccupations are restricted to her head.  With her apparently thinking, but about what? I am conflicted about her ability to think, to acquire information and process it and logically display it.  I have to acknowledge that I am

  And, if so, of what benefit is it likely to be to my mother at this stage of her life? Thus my dilemma, and hers. But not for long, because my dear mother, being the down-to-earth and pragmatic person she is.  She has now decided that she might as well go ahead with the appointment. As she commented, they have sent her it, so she might as well keep it.  Which sees fair and reasonable, considering that there are times when we continue to hope against seemingly states of hopelessness.  She might be only a few days short of two months of her 102 Birthday, but my dear mother seemingly has no plans about going over the abyss imminently.  As can be deduced from her apparent reluctance from me selling her scooter, on the rationale that she will not be using it any longer.  Yes, she contradicted me when I frankly, but probably less than tactfully, some might argue, told her that it might as well be sold or given to a charity.  Of course, there are some things she will say now which should no