Posts

Showing posts from November 21, 2021

JUST CONTEMPLATING ON - 'THE THING ABOUT SEEKING TO PROLONG HUMAN LIFE, IS.....? PART 1.

Image
  Yes, the first 'thing about seeking to prolong human life, is, 'why'? Why should anybody be seeking to prolong our lives?  Is seems accurate to state with a high degree of certainty, that, never has there been a time in history of our species, when our kind was as plentiful on the Earth, as we are now.  All 7.9 billion of us, and still counting. There is more than twice of us living now in 2021, than there were in 1960, only 50 years ago.  If our species were to continue breeding, procreating at this unsustainable rate, by the end of this century, by 2200, there could be 14-16 billion humans living on the Earth at any one time; all things being equal.  Of course, with the Climate Change Crisis, it is most probable that all things will most likely not be equal. To what purpose would the endeavour to prolong human life be intended;  considering the travail of the Earth and its resources, in trying to sustain the existing number of humans and other primates, in the first ins

JUST A THOUGHT ON - 'THE THING WITH SOME OR MOST MEN IS THAT....' PART 2.

Image
  Contextual relevance .- I n doing this post, I do acknowledge that that none of it is likely to apply to all women and females.  Due to demographical factors such as the females age range, peer groups, cultural, religious and social circumstances, ethnicity, nationality, relationship statuses and political and economic circumstances. Or where the woman, living with her partner, is engaged in carrying out other tasks which a man, living on his own, would have to carry out, as well as 'bread-winning activities'.  Thereby freeing up the man to contribute more time engaged in the 'bwa.' And then there is 'the thing with some or most men', where there is the belief, the expectation, and even the reality of them protecting their families.  Usually from conflicts and wars. Something we could consider as a paradox; as 'the paradoxical thing about most men.'  The fact that men are expected to protect their families and themselves from, yes, other men. Placing i

AN ENIGMATIC AND POIGNANT JOURNEY AROUND MY AGEING AND EVOLVING MOTHER! PART 141.

Image
  That she is all alone with seemingly everyone having abandoned her to her fate.  They are the times when when she can be imagined, if not actually heard saying: 'Where is all of my family, my children, my grandchildren, my great grandchildren'?  Why am I not living with a member of my family or a member of my family living with me?  Of course, these are not unreasonable questions for my dear mother to be asking or thinking, or both.  No, they are reasonable questions. It is the answers to these questions which are more nuanced and complicated. It is the circumstances of the relatives which will not allow a simple answer.  Which is why my dear mother has not, and will probably not get the preferred solution that she would like to have to her 'problem.'  That of having this or that relative having her to live with them, or with her. And yes, although my dear mother has, is sometimes, probably oftentimes feeling this great burden of loneliness, of being alone.  Her circu

JUST PHILOSOPHISING ON - 'THE THING ABOUT MEAT EATERS IS THAT...' PART 1.

Image
  'The deliberate taking of life, or, more graphically stated, the killing of a person or other primate, by an apparently sane person, requires a potent, even if not necessarily logical justification.  Normally it is one based on the premis of 'them not being like us', where 'them' can be perceived as 'the enemy', 'the bad guys' 'those of the wrong religion or ethnic group or nationality.'   Or, where it pertains to animals produced for human consumption, 'that they arenot capable of feeling pain and perceiving death like humans do, and therefore their lives worth less.'' So, what is 'this thing about meat eaters'? Is it not the case that eating meat providers the people who eat it, with necessary protein to promote all the functions which protein performs in the chemical and electrical autonomous organic system which each human's body is?  Surely, no logical person can take issue with the critical nature of protein in