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Yes, it is the case that some countries, such as Japan, is experiencing a declining birth rate and fall in their population However, in our current state of affairs, declining population is not  high on the world's agenda.  No longer, if ever it did, is the survival of our species depends on the fertility of any one woman or man, or even on that of many men and many women?  Evolution has already taken care of that threat, by ensuring that the different species of life tend to be rather profligate in their/our reproductivity, rather than being restrictive.  Indeed, the restriction tends to be a mechanism which we have put into place, whether by means of perishing through wars, or artificial birth control, in the case of human species. And so it seems to me, that, the preoccupation of a given man or women with his/her infertility, is predicated upon the personal, the individual, rather than on the group or community prerogative. To be continued!

Be they her children, grandchildren, medical professionals, et al, et al. All will at sometime, more often many times, be the subject of her displeasure.  Not so much because of something this or that person might have done or not done recently. It could be something which was done or not done months and even years ago.  But that does not prevent her from speaking of recalling it as if it was something done or not done yesterday or a few months ago.  This is partly or mostly, it seems to me, a function of my dear mother's increasingly problematic short-term memory recall.  With things which occurred even a long time ago, still appearing as if it has only recently occurred or is still occurring.  Such is the ageing process that, as we approach or exceed our proverbial 3 score and 10 years, the earlier rigidity delineating periods of time, whether it be in hours, days, months, and even years.   Can sometime become more fluid and inaccurate or uncertain in

This is what came to me, as it were, as I heard Zaphaniah Benjamin introducing a programme on men infertility, and how men should talk about it.  I mean, within the context of the constantly spiralling increase in the human population.   How can the infertility of some men be perceived as a problem that needs addressing?  How can male infertility be more than a personal, rather than a societal problem for human societies? Why is it that an infertile man or couple should burden themselves with the quest to be able to conceive and have a child through their own copulation? Is this an a basic 'survival-induced- prerogative of all species; that they/we reproduce ourselves in order to ensure the survival of the species?  Yes, that I can see, and even accept at that level, but, surely, its validity is weakened when human societies have evolved to the point where the survival of our species.   To be continued!

The supposed and deceptive interaction between 'God' and the faithful continue to be based upon suppositions, implications, assumptions, and magic.  And never on any explicit and honest discourse between 'God' and humans, whether the latter is from the clergy or the ordinary believers. In this respect, it does not really matter - except for the amount of pain and suffering meted out on us humans - whether a person believe in and/or worship, subjugate themselves to the Abrahamic God, or to an inanimate God.  Since neither the one nor the other has any power, except for that which their human devotee exercise on their behalf.  Neither the one nor the other is capable of saving us from our follow, as we have inflicted our own illogicality and fallacious modus operandi on the Gods we have created.  Which is probably inevitable, as the Gods which we have created, can only be representations of us.  Bearing signs and evidence of their creator, us, wi

You might think that is an improvement on the inanimate objects that have been used as, let us say, religious props, before the dominance of the Abrahamic religions in the western world. But it is not much of an improvement, since this supposedly more enlightened and modern humans, the clergy and religious scholars.  Are no better able to prove the existence of their sentient 'God.' Than their supposedly more primitive and 'paganistic' predecessors had been able to that their  inanimate objects and relics were really representing, shall we say, 'living Gods.'  The followers and advocates of the Abrahamic religions are not able to speak on behalf of their 'God' anymore eloquently than their animist and pagan counterparts.  Neither are they able to get their 'God' to intercede in the affairs of humans benevolently.  We already know that us humans do not need the gods to help us in making wars and causing great suffering. 

Bad enough as dynastic rule has been for India, even though it is a composite state made of many previously dynastic states.  It has not been as backward and unstable as its sister state, Pakistan. Whose founding fathers had opted to make it into an Islamic state, instead of constitutionally a secular state.  How much worse it is, now, that the BJP and its supporters should appear to be planning to make India into a religious, a Hindustani state? This is a very regressive and backward step by the BJP government, and one which, with the government's use of modern technology and media.   Has the potential for making India just, if not more of a terrifying place in the future, than Hitler's Third Reich.  Any society that values their 'gods', 'deities', rituals, and religions more than they value human lives, is capable of making the lives of the people truly hellish.  It is, in my view, the gods who, if they are so powerful, should be

To force on them anachronistic aspects of their culture, including dictating to them which animals, if any, they can kill and eat, and which they cannot. Now, what I find most concerning, is how the BJP's programme is backward looking, and, in some respect, almost infantilistic.  At its core, it seems, is the BJP's and its Hindus' theorists' attempt to re-invent the history of the country's Hindus.   And the role of their fabled gods and deities in making India what it is, or, in accordance with their doctrine or religious script, what it was until the Muslims and, I suspect, the British rulers, changed it.  This reminds me of how some people amongst the African Diaspora and Africanists, have sought to delve deep into African and ancient history, to both discover and uncover great kingdoms and empires of the past.  The main difference with the BJP probably being that they want to 'recreate' this perceived 'great Hindu project or e