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JUST PHILOSOPHISING ON - RUSSIA'S INVASION OF AND ATTEMPT TO SUBJUGATE UKRAINE AND ITS PEOPLE. FINIS.

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  It takes only one leader, usually a man, to orchestrate and start a war or a national nation-building project, but it is the whole nation which has to bear the cost. President Putin had expected to wage a 'Blitzkrieg War', probably even a so-called 'surgical strike or 'Special Operations' invasion against Ukraine.  He had anticipated that the tremendous might of the Russian armed forces partly surrounding Ukraine would have resulted in the quick capitulation of the Ukrainian state, with minimal death and destruction.  But that did not occur, as is often the unpredictable way of wars.  Instead, the Ukrainians, similar to how Russian patriots fought against Hitler's armies invading Russian during the WW2. Have so far given the Russian forces more than the proverbial 'bloody nose.'  At the same time, this war is proving to be a terrifying trauma for the Ukrainians, with seemingly unimaginable devastation being brought upon them and thousands of their livi

THE BEAUTY OF THE WATERY SOURCE OF LIFE - ENJOYING SOME TIME ON THE BEACH.

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  Water, be it that of the ocean, sea, lake, rivers, or amniotic fluids, speak loudly of our evolutionary roots. Which is probably why it, water, probably rarely fails to appeals to our inner being, be it with joy or fear. Please enjoy this video, if you find it appealing. It was taken at Lytham ST Anne, Blackpool, United Kingdom.

JUST A THOUGHT ON - IF I WERE A MAN, OR, INDEED, WOMAN OF THE CLOTH, HOW WOULD I BE ABLE ...? PART.2

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  ... to live with myself, if I were to find, or admit that have misled 'the flock'?     No, I only had to think of a sinful act, be it of hitting my mother when she subjected me to the whip for some misdemeanour I had committed or  act of kindness I failed demonstrate.   Or a now considered, innocent act of responding to the fire in my loins, by masturbating.  As 'God' is said to be capable of seeing and hearing everything, it followed that my thoughts were never private.  'God' would be privy to all of them and would, on the DJ, use them to condemn me.  It is probably a testament to the resilience of the majority of innocent and vulnerable souls like me, that, even as a child, as a teenager and now as a man.  I have not allowed this alien religious takeover of my head, my cogitations, my psychological functions, to take permanent root in my being. So, how would I really feel is I were a man of the cloth and find out that I have been deceiving my flock?  Someth