March 2020

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Heart or Mind Decisions

 Always an interesting question: should your heart or your mind rule your decisions?  Generally speaking, we tend to make rational decisions, which means mind. We analyse a situation and ma read more..

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Encouragement during lockdown

The world is crazy right now, because of the Corona Virus. The main feeling is Fear. Fear is a bad adviser, and we tend to do stupid things when fear is in charge. Countering that is a series of addr... read more..

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We are slaves to pleasure

Being a slave is hard. A slave has to do what is commanded, good or bad. A slave is not free.  Each on of us is a slave. A slave to our pleasures. We run after them and go through hell to get wh... read more..

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368

I love watching others work...

One thing that strikes me, is how much effort individuals put into avoiding taking responsibility. Look wherever you like and you see and hear people doing their best to get out of doing something. F... read more..

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365

Today is the only day of your life

Waking up in lockdown again. The Coronavirus has taken over the world - at least, the external world. So what are we going to do with the day, when many of the usual activities we take part in, are ou... read more..

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367

There's enough work to go around

Currently there is a huge debate going on, on how to compensate all those loosing earnings because of the Corona Virus. Everyone agrees, it's not fair for some to loose all because of circumstances be... read more..

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Money, money, money, makes the world fall down

And suddenly, it's not money that's important, but health.  Thanks to the fears of corona virus, the world is standing still, or almost. And likely to stay this way for a while. And then we shou... read more..

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Being old means being stupid

Ageism is really strange. Why would I now be considered stupid and incompetent because I'm over 60? There was a time when, families stayed together and were dependent on each other. With onset of the... read more..

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Kindness is reality

Coronavirus is rampant and has changed our everyday life, possibly permanently. As one of the old people prone to this virus, it makes me change many of the carefully nurtured habits. One in particula... read more..

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375

Together against each other

I've been thinking about "Respect". If I understand that I am as unique as every other individual on the planet, then surely I have to respect each person for their uniqueness? On the other hand, app... read more..

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Ignorance and wilful ignorance

Wikipedia uses the phrase "Wilful Blindness" which is, apparently, also used as a legal term! Wilful blindness (sometimes called ignorance of law, wilful ignorance or contrived ignorance or Nelsoni... read more..

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Expectations and Illusion

The biggest illusion dictating our lives is Expectations. We expect life to follow a certain path: that was good enough for my grandfather and it's good enough for me. In all aspects of our lives, we... read more..

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What is Love ....

I listen to the radio quite a lot, these days, mostly Ska - great radio station for that is Bob's Ska Radio - and I like Music Night on BBC4. Last night they had on the soul queens and that reminded m... read more..

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The problem with religion is....

EACH SOUL, IS POTENTIALLY DIVINE.THE GOAL IS TO MANIFEST THIS DIVINITY WITHIN, BY CONTROLLING NATURE. EXTERNAL AND INTERNAL.DO THIS EITHER BY WORK, OR WORSHIP, OR PSYCHIC CONTROL, OR PHILOSOPHY read more..

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Fear and the Coronavirus

The headlines are full of the latest illness to be discovered by humans and named. Panic is causing disruptions on an unprecedented scale other than through a major war. But why? As my teacher once p... read more..

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Quantum Mechanics

This topic is really not easy to understand, but I have added a few links to videos by Jim Al-Khalili (Physics Professor) which offer an explanation I could understand. Maybe they'll work for you too.... read more..

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Coronavirus - the Future?

The media is currently full of information regarding the Corona Virus. The impact is huge, with millions of countries and their peoples reacting in all sorts of ways. Panic buying of face masks and di... read more..

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Science or what?

Here's a definition of science I found in Wikipedia: Science is a systematic enterprise that builds and organises knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe. ... read more..

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564

They should do something about it....

Yes, somebody ought to do something about whatever, or, it's your fault, or, it's because somebody did something, etc. Whatever the problem, it's not my fault. I'm not to blame! I didn't do anything!... read more..

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The illusion behind sexism

The illusion that men are better than woman is almost as old as mankind, it seems. It's basis is the power of muscle: "I (man) can beat the hell out of you (woman), so I must be superior". Clearly, th... read more..

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Illusion? What illusion?

Today, most commentators would agree that the world is in crisis.Nothing appears to be stable, despite the protests of politicians claiming stability, the spiral appears to be heading rapidly and appa... read more..

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Christian Science

According to Wikipedia, Christian Science is a set of beliefs and practices belonging to the metaphysical family of new religious movements. It was developed in 19th-century New England by Mary Baker ... read more..

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