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

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  Thus religious life continues as if there is not insurmountable and valid evidence that it is based on fiction, on myth, instead of fact and history.  Conscientious and intelligent men and women of the cloth, still continue to perform religious rites and rituals and make pronouncements about 'God', as if  he  really  exists  and has any objective relevance to us humans.  Beyond that which religion has deceptively attributed to him by our ancestors, and reinforced by the present clergies.  The motivation, now that the evidence is there for those who are courageous enough to examine it, and then go on to making the necessary changes it warrants, can only be that of continuing to deceive the masses.  It has to be at least in part, probably primarily so, about being loyal and faithful to the errant and, in some cases, deliberately conspiratorial apostles, priests, disciples, et al by refusing to acknowledge 'the truth' about the  'holy gospels.'    The truth being

BRITISH GRAND PRIX - WON BY CARLOS SAINZ AND FERRARI, BUT MERCEDES AND HAMILTON ARE BACK...!!!!!

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  A Very Big Congratulation to Carlos Sainz and Team Ferrari, for having triumph by winning the British Grand Prix at Silverstone Circuit on Sunday 3rd July 2022, and to Sergio Perez and Team Red Bull, for making it to P.2. In what was a most exciting and thrilling grand prix, arguably the most adrenalised Formula 1 race of the 2022 season so far, probably the most significant outcome of the race was what it said about Team Mercedes and their racers.   While George Russell had the misfortune of suffering a dnf during an explosive first lap of the race.   One which saw Zhou Guanyu's Alfa Romero's flipped over on its back and spun wildly towards the circuit barrier and flipped over it before coming to rest.  All because of the manic and collision strewn first lap. It was undoubtedly a thrilling race, but there was always the feeling that anything could happen, and sometimes it did.  With the race having to be restarted after having been Red Flagged as those in charge went about r

JUST PHILOSOPHISING ON - THE IMPOVERISHMENT OF BEING ONLY ABLE TO LIVE A 'ONE-DIMENSIONAL LIFE'! FINIS !!

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  Music can and does performs the role of being an accompaniment to many of the activities us humans perform in our daily lives.  Like a chosen wife for the appropriate menu, the right music can help to put us in the 'right mood' for love, for war, for contemplation, for feelings of pain or grief, for working fast or slow, and so on. Music can act like a drug on us. It can soothe our restless and anxious 'souls', or it can help us to 'snap' out of our melancholic mood.  And so it seems to me, that we are richer and healthier to be blessed to have access to different kinds of music, considering that no one genre is likely to be able to suffice our changing moods needs at any given time.  Whether it be for music which cheers us up, assist our need for reassurance, helps us to better contemplate our options, or navigate our sadness or sorrow. Probably even more profoundly, music, like language, can and does reflect the 'soul', the identity and culture of it

CANADIAN GRAND PRIX - VERSTAPPEN AND RED BULL TOPPED IT, AS TEAM MERCEDES THREATENS THE CHAMPIONSHIP LEADERS!

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  Max Verstappen is undoubtedly a Formula 1 racer of distinction, and one who is clearly fated to win another Drivers' World Championship, including the current one, barring any unforeseen developments during the second half of the season.  So his winning of the recent Canadian Grand Prix is not unexpected. Providing Team Red Bull continue to provide Max and Sergio with reliable cars, while their nearest competitors, Ferrari and Mercedes remain significantly off the pace.   The Red Bull duo can be predicted to have somewhat of an assured racing towards the Driers Championship. At the same time, the outcome of the Canadian Grand Prix, with Verstappen, Carlos Sainz and Hamilton taking the respective honours, suggest that the conclusion of the 2022 Season is likely to end somewhat differently from how it had started.  We have seen how Team Red Bull and Team Ferrari laid down the competitive markers, suggesting a likely two teams and 3 cars competition.  At the same time, we have seen

MAKING AN ISSUE OF IT - THE CAR INCIDENT.

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  It is the nature of our human psyche that we can do each other terrible harm by either verbally affronting them/us, and/or physically attacking members of our species.  Yes, we can also do terrible harm to ourselves by attacking, verbally and/or physically, our loved ones. Of course, being the oftentimes or normally rational beings that we, or most of us humans are, we do not normally automatically mete out retribution to others who offend or even physically attack us.  No, where we have some the opportunity to acquire some time to contemplate our response or reaction, we indulge in consideration of the probable reasons why the perpetrator of the offence had done what he/she has done to us or other victims.  Yes, we consider the probable motive/s; whether they intended the harm we perceive them to have done to us.  The principles of 'motive' and 'intent' are crucial in jurisprudence. We can see the first as helping us to evaluate and understand whether the wrong we pe

IT WAS WRITTEN IN THE STARS - AN ACCOUNT OF LIVES IMPACTED BY 'EVERYDAY ADVERSITIES.' PART 93.

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  Again, Kazaliwa applied himself to his new tenancy with much determination, pride and commitment to making it his home.  Like his previous tenancy, this one was comprised of a room and a shared kitchen and shower and toilet. It also had the added luxury of having a washbasin in the bedroom.  Kaziliwa was fated to remain in this tenancy for probably 2 or so years. He was to take an added pride in establishing a good standard of management of his new home, having had a vision of how he wanted it to look.  It was transpire, as time went by, that the challenges of him maintaining his new home as he had started, would again defeat him somewhat.  Not least because of the difficulty in getting all the tenants in multi-occupied houses to exercise their collective responsibilities for maintaining proper standards of tidiness and cleanliness in the communal areas.  Such as keeping the corridors, shared kitchen, bathroom and toilet clean and reasonably tidy.  Even with Kazaliwa's best endea

JUST PHILOSOPHING ON : SOME OF WHAT I HAVE LEARNT FROM LIFE! PART 2.

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  So, what have I learned from observing life? Well, beginning with when I was a young child, what I have observed was that, for a child, the world is and/or can be a very frightening and fearful place.  Both in mind and on the physical level. Thus was the world full of duppies, rolling calves, spirits, demons. monsters of all kinds, depending on where in the world you happen to be born and grown up.  And then, as if that is not bad enough, according to the religion you are born prisoner to, you also have to ponder Hell and hell-fire or everlasting boredom and torture in Heaven, when you depart the world. I have learnt that, as a child, demons, monsters and frightening entities do really exist, and they do in every society and culture.  It does not matter that, when considered rationally, these frightening creatures are or might be mostly mental constructs which have been past on from generation to generation.  For young children living in external environments, in cultures which reinf