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On this day a year ago
From the newspapers
The cruel harrying of the sick and disabled has been one of the worst aspects of the “Conservative” governments of the past 13 years, though in fact it started under Labour, especially under the government of that (supposed) “great humanitarian” Gordon Brown.
Sounds like the sect of the “Skoptsi” in Imperial Russia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skoptsy.
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When I see a creature like that, I know that, as matters stand, the USA has no future, no decent future anyway.
At least creatures like that are unlikely to breed.
More from the newspapers
“A wealthy Nigerian politician, his wife and a medical ‘middleman’ were today all found guilty of an organ-harvesting plot to traffick a penniless market trader to the UK to harvest his kidney in a NHS hospital.”
[Daily Mail]
It was not so long ago that anyone talking about such matters was labelled “conspiracy theorist”…
Stray thoughts
If one has had a dream, perhaps a rather bad dream, and then wakes up still thinking about it or affected by it, that affect or, indeed, effect, dissipates quickly. One realizes that —quite apart from having been merely a dream— it is now finished and gone; in the past.
Now, what about things that have happened to us in the course of life? However important they may have been to us, however unpleasant perhaps, that those events were, they too lie in the past now. They have no more reality, no more present reality, than those bad dreams, except in two respects: firstly, that those “real world” events actually happened (objectively) and, secondly, they may still play on our minds, or are at least remembered (i.e. had and/or have also subjective reality).
It is the remembrance of the “real world” events that affects us, but both dreams and “real world” events have the obvious equivalence that, as we look back on them, they are in the past. We feel obliged to honour the “real world” events by recalling them. However, that sense of obligation might be said to lie “not in our stars but in ourselves“.
The sense of remembrance-connection to real world events is a silver thread which binds us to them via the laws of Karma, yet it is postulated that those laws operate whether we recall anything (in one life or a series of lives), or not.
In terms of our lives as lived on any particular day, events of the past, whether trivial, important at the time, or even shocking, are as insubstantial as those bad dreams. “We are such stuff as dreams are made on“, if you like.
No conclusion; just a few “thoughts out of season”.
Late tweets seen
A symptom, indeed one personification, of a sick society.
Otherwise known as drunk, and drug abuser, Nigella Lawson.
Jew extremists are a menace everywhere in the world, but especially in USA, UK, Australia, France, and Germany.
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Ian Robert Millard 