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Paul Kagame's election as President of Rwanda for a third term, is a testament to the healthy state of 'democracy' in that country.  The Rwandan people, in great numbers, have overwhelmingly endorsed President Kagame as their leader.  With over 90 per cent of the electorate who voted, supporting the President.  It is a clear indication of the will of the Rwandan people.  It is about them telling the President and his ruling Party, that they trust him/them, with the nation's future. That they are willing to follow in the path which they have taken. Since the brutal genocidal  slaughter which the Hutus had inflicted on the Tutsis, and on Hutus who refused to indulge in the genocide. Paul Kagame and others like him, have taken Rwanda, successfully, along the path of reconciliation. And, despite this magnanimity on the part of the Tutsi, and the very clear evidence of the people of Rwanda supporting it, and of its success.  What has been the response o

So, are you one of the chosen, or one who belongs to what must, by definition, be the most privileged and exalted people on the face of 'god's earth'?  Are you one of 'God's chosen people'? Are you a Christian, or Muslim, or Jewish?  Do you belong to a religion which makes the godly, if irrational claim, that the people of your faith, are the 'chosen people of God.? Are you protected by inclusivism, while other humans are condemned to suffer the perils of exclusivism? And, if you are of 'god's chosen people', what is it about you and the people of your faith, that confers such a special relationship between you and your god?  Was it the result of some special covenant or agreement? Was it the result of a conspiracy between your ancestors and god?  Did god, according to the 'sacred doctrine' of your faith, promised to not forsake your people, and to treat them preferentially, above all his other people.   If only

This is a short video of the Big Wheel in Bournemouth, accompanied with some Bluesy Jazz! Please take a brief look, and, if you are so inclined, have a bit of fun!

In order for the human organism to keep intact and survive, it is vital that it remains healthy and become as resistant as it, we, can. To diseases which could and, as we attain advanced years, destroy us, individually, as opposed to collectively. We have to remain on the move, as it were, as becoming static and stationary, deprives our bodies of the sharpness and challenges which they need to keep them fit and functional.  This we can see from muscles becoming atrophied from lack of usage, and body parts losing their toning from lack of exercise.  Joints becoming stiff and ceasing up from not being exercised. All of which adversely impacts on the symmetrical coordination and operation of our entire bodies and function.  Which can be manifested in circulation problems, weight problems, aches and pains, and the onset of early morbidity, or even avoidable ones. As I have argued in previous posts, as human societies move away from our hunter gatherer and pastoral past.

This is a short video of another day on the beach, looking out to the sea. Please take a look and see what you make of it, in the hope that it will add something to your day's or night's contemplation.

It is times like these when we fear or are reluctant to make eye contact.  Fearing that we might see what we are fearful of seeing.  That we are looking into the eyes of an unhappy soul. That they might see the unhappiness in our own soul.  That our eyes might betray the sadness which we do not want to communicate, because we are only too aware that they cannot do anything to remove it.  Not yet, not now. That we must continue to wait, powerlessly, as we risk allowing time to just past by, in our endeavour to 'kill it', quickly.  So that the time when we can be together and happy again, comes by, more quickly.  And then we will probably regret the time which has gone by, which we wanted to 'ill'; which we did not, could not live fully, and which has now become lost time. It is time like these that we fear to look into the eyes of our loved ones, from whom we have been forcefully separated.  Sometimes for reasons which do not appear to make

John Newton wrote Amazing Grace after his 'Damasconian' like conversion to Christianity.  following him, as us humans are apt to do, calling out to god to save him, when the ship he was on, encountered a terrible storm off the coast of Ireland.  Again, as tended to be the case, that debacle was not sufficient to make a 'true devotee Christianity' of Newton.   And it was not until long after he had done his bit as a slave trader, and suffered a serious stroke, that he became more devoted to god and Christianity.  Amazing Grace was not published until 1779, when Newton was 54 years old. In trying to balance the evil he had done.  By contributing towards the development of the African slave trade, Newton also wrote a somewhat weak 'anti-slavery' poem, called the 'Negro Complaint.' I am not about to condemn John Newton for the 'bad' he has done, or praise him for the 'good' he has done.  Just to highlight how people, us humans