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JUST PHILOSOPHISING - ON WHETHER IT WILL GET BETTER? PART 1.

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So, will it really get better? I mean, the problems which are seriously affecting the world, Planet Earth, on which we live.  Will things 'improve'? Will hungry and the starving people, fellow humans, become satiated, by having enough to eat and to drink, on a regular basis?  Will the 'poor' and 'the Wretched of the Earth' be liberated, become rich and affluent?   As those fellow humans who have climbed and been pushed several rungs more up the latter which separates the rich from the poor, and the extremes on both ends?  Will every family on the Good Planet Earth, be able to have a nice house and at least one car?   So that there be no stark difference between them and other families in the country in which they live?  And, indeed, between them and other families in any country on Planet Earth? Will the Favelas of Brazil, other countries in the Americas, the Philippines, parts of the Indian Sub-continent, et al.  Be demolished a

JUST PHILOSOPHISING - ON MATTERS OF GOD AND HUMANS AND THE NEED FOR MORE OR LESS RELIGION. PART 4.

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That should or could tell us that, the probable problem with religions is not that, like politics.  They are failing and will always fail to deliver any of the wondrous 'out of this world' events which the deceivers and the misguided have claimed for them.  In this respect, except for those religions claiming that sentient life persists beyond our death.   It is not the religious message per se, especially when it speaks of us doing 'good' and not 'evil' to our fellow humans, which is misplaced.  It is the conditionality of making 'our salvation' dependent on the invisible and unsubstantiated gods. In order to bring  'heaven' to Earth, and in the life time of humans, all of us humans must take full responsibility for the challenge of doing so. This does not have to be a mission with any religious underpinning. To leave it to 'God', or the gods, is to recklessly and hopelessly relegate our rightful responsibility for our

CANADIAN GRAND PRIX QUALIFYING - HAMILTON IS DELAYED, BUT VETTEL, BOTTAS AND VERSTAPPEN FLEW TRUE AND STRAIGHT.

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Lighten might well strike in the same place upto to 3 times, but, considering the frustrating time Lewis Hamilton had during the Canadian Grand Prix, in Montreal.   Securing another Pole in this, probably him most successful Grand Prix winning hunting circuit, winning Pole position was not to be his. While Hamilton struggled big time to point and keep Car 44 in the direction he needed it to go.   Finding and applying the persistent and precision concentration and manual execution which he needed to deliver another coveted Pole position, was frustrating missing.  Tried as he might and did, he was simply not able to execute the faultless coordinated manoeuvres he needed to perform, in order to achieve the prize he aspired towards. No such frustrations and disappointments for 'Vettel the Veritable', and Bottas 'The Consistent.'  Both of whom were able to coordinate the energies of mind, body, cars and circuit and successfully execute the manoe

The Beauty Of Flying!

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Not being blessed, or, sometimes, cursed, with wings, except in our dreams, with which to fly and partake in the joys of seeing the Earth and its wonders from above.  It is left to us humans that we should only be able to defy gravity for prolonged periods of time.   In the flying machines we have invented, or, probably with some envy, in watching the beauty of the birds which do not obey the command of gravity. Please take a look at this video, and, if you are so inclined, do enjoy its momentary aerial delights!

JUST A THOUGHT - ARE PRISONS A SYMBOL OF A PUNITIVE SOCIETY? PART 1.

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So, why does a society has to have prisons; is it self-evident? Does a society needs to have prisons so that it can incarcerate 'bad people'? ⏳ Those people who poses a serious risk to the health and welfare of its citizens and/or  the essential state of the organs of the society.  Dangerous people. But society, including 'modern and enlightened societies', do not have prisons just to incarcerate 'dangerous', 'evil' and 'wicket people', real or imagined or suspected.  No, the incarceration of people has become a way of life for probably most societies.  They have become an industry, with the incarceration and processing of 'prisoners' becoming the products of this rather insidious industry.  One which has a vested interest in the generation and processing of the 'raw material' - the criminalisation of ordinary people - to keep the industry going.  Yes, as well as in the retention and punishment of  those citizen

JUST PHILOSOPHISING - ON PREPARING FOR THE CHALLENGES OF THE NEW DAY. THE END...

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It is not easy for an abused woman to have to confront another day of her partner abusing her and her and her children living in fear of his rage.  It is not easy to have to confront another day of debilitating pain, even if it has become the cost of continuing to live the life you are living; having to live. These are states of being, of being worried, of being anxious, of being fearful, of being stressed, which we carry from one day to the next, and not having the convenience of being able to just drop or shed them.  As we do to dirty clothes. As we do to the dirt we wash off our bodies, so that we can feel refreshed. No, the mental and psychological challenges which have become a part of our being, are challenges which we are fated to carry around with us, from day to day.  Yes, they might accumulate or they might become diminished and even dormant. But they remain with us.  If we become more skilful and resourceful at managing them, then their control or

JUST PHILOSOPHISING - ON BEING OLD. THE END ...

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It is true that, to some extent, like childhood in developed and developing and lesser developed countries around the world.  'Old age' and becoming old has become less static and more elasticated.  The perception of 'being old' has become more informed by economics and social changes.  Even though our bodies continue to bear irrefutable 'proof' of our ageing. As does the efficiency of our mental faculties. We could see 'becoming old' as a process, which, of course, is a gradual one.  A process which, depending on the peculiarities of the forces of production, distribution and supply and demand, and the personal circumstances of each person.   Will influence when the majority of working men and women exit the workforce. Growing old is not a process in which only time and fate, as it were, do things to us. Such as adversely impacting our physiology and our spirit, as if it desires to drag us down.  Back into the earth from which we