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RELIGION DILEMMAS AND PARADOXES - THE RELEVANCE AND VALUE OF 'GOD' IN OUR LIVES TODAY! PART 7.

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  And so it became necessary for intellectually advanced humans to further develop and maintain the already existing 'God firm or company.'  Even if, in secular societies, as opposed to the more religiously oppressive Islamic ones.   The religious and secular communities might maintain, for the most part, a certain easy mutuality which is characterised by an absence of tension and conflict.  Except for where it is promoted by religious and/or political demagogues. However, with the rapid and increasing advance of the scientific and political estates, religions and the concept of 'God' have been laid somewhat bare; even naked.  They have now come to be seen and understood as having no authentic substance.  To be hallow and powerless, except for the human power and rationale which have always been the foundation on which they were built.  Not only are they, religion and 'God/s' been proven, time and time again, in every test, to be powerless.  But they have also b

IT WAS WRITTEN IN THE STARS - AN ACCOUNT OF LIVES IMPACTED BY 'EVERYDAY ADVERSITIES.' PART 63.

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  Kazaliwa was not in a very different world to the one he had left behind, and it was important that he knew and understood the cultural difference.  That he could speak and understand the language and even the prison hierarchies.  He would have initially had to deffer to those who had been there before him and understood the system and had become assimilated or adjusted to it.  But if nothing else, Kazaliwa was a quick learner, and now, with his body and functioning being less compromised by the ill-effect of illicit drugs and irregular sleeping and eating pattern.   The chances are that his learning efficacy would be more enhanced. And learned he did. So much so that, although having been incarcerated for what seemed to his parents and family to be an exceptionally long period of time.   Pretty much as soon as he turned 18 and became technically an adult, Kazaliwa was fated to survive the experience and come out of prison without having been noticeably massively damaged, either ment

AN ENIGMATIC AND POIGNANT JOURNEY AROUND MY AGEING AND EVOLVING MOTHER! PART 94.

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  As I remain of the view that her 'strong character' and inflexibility has done much to turn a positive relationship into a negative one. There are times in the lives of us humans, when we have to consider carefully which are the most important of many important things in our lives.   That we are going to prioritise, and which are the ones we are going to compromise on. When we cannot have or maintain the things which matter most to us. Of course, for one to properly weigh up and evaluate the issues and concerns impacting on us, requires us to have the ability to perceive those things objective.  This is not a capacity which my dear mother is always able to demonstrate. There are times when she is not able to see the individual trees for the wood.  Times when she sees to be only able to see things distortedly, despite the obvious clarity with which it would appear to someone not suffering from temporary delusion. But let me not dwell on the negative, as it were, since when the

SPANISH GRAND PRIX - HAMILTON AND TEAM MERCEDES MADE IT LOOK EASY!

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  A Big Congratulation to Lewis Hamilton and Team Mercedes for making it another Win at the Spanish Grand Prix on Sunday 16th August.  No, it was nothing spectacular as such; just a competent and reassured mistake free drive from start to finish.   Probably partly aided and abetted by a timely and intuitive tyre call by Hamilton for his final pit stop.  Which might have offset any disadvantage he suffered from a rather long first pit stop.  As providence might have been expected to have it, Hamilton's team mate, Valtteri Bottas, did not experience the as much of the beneficence of the gods as did Hamilton. Not with a problematic race start which saw him being displaced from his P.3 position on the Grid, and pushed back.  And, although as I have said on previous occasions, or should have said.   A racing driver should not leave winning the race or achieving the highest finishing place he can, until the final laps.  In Bottas' case, not even a fast second pit stop was able to giv

IT WAS WRITTEN IN THE STARS - AN ACCOUNT OF LIVES IMPACTED BY 'EVERYDAY ADVERSITIES.' PART 62.

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  'What we recall of our experiences of the past, tends to be a factor of how they impacted on our senses at the time, the strength of our continuing attachment to those experiences.   And the extent to which we have succeeded in assimilating them into our subsequent experiences and move on with our lives.' The purpose of his incarceration was primarily to punish him for the offences for which he was convicted.  If his time inside also succeeded in helping to reform him and turn him away from pursuing a life outside of the law, that would be good, but it was not the primary reason for giving him the long sentence he was given.  Kazaliwa had to resolve to be tough, very tough, if he was to survive his time inside, without it, yes, fucking him up too badly.  And probably leading to him pursuing the same lifestyle after he leaves prison.  He had to be both mentally, psychologically and physically strong.   Being less empathetic towards other might serve him better than being too e

VENUS - GOD OF OUR HUMAN COSMOS!

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  Behold Venus, a God of the Cosmos, planet which captures the admiration of us humans!!

AN ENIGMATIC AND POIGNANT JOURNEY AROUND MY AGEING AND EVOLVING MOTHER! PART 93.

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My dear mother, of course, having lived to attain the grand age of 100, would have experienced and inculcated the kind of values, morality and lifestyles which would have made her into a person with a strong character.  Not for her the more contemporary or 'modern' and convenient  'wear and change value-system' which came later.  Hers is the character which says 'God exist', and would probably never consider questioning that 'received reality', in light of more upto date knowledge, and the irony of her having had so much unhappiness in her long life.  My morality is the kind that says, the fact that she has in some cases been dealt such a bad hand is proof that their is no God. My dear mother, you could say, has learnt how to out-smart the opposition, sometimes.  So, it probably should not be so surprising that my dear mother appears to have brought her often declared dissatisfaction with her care workers to an head.   By contriving a situation which has