Monthly Archives: January 2016
The Australian Cricket Team’s Behaviour
Posted on January 19, 2016 Leave a Comment
Disrespectful behaviour towards others is a big issue with me. It is the one thing that tarnishes my attitude to the Australian cricket team. I suspect many among the cricket loving fraternity feel the same. I admire, am even in awe of, the skill of many of the cricketers this country has produced, but I cannot abide the bad behaviour of […]
Thoughts on My Race
Posted on January 19, 2016 Leave a Comment
For the human race I think the emergence of a cognitive brain has relegated purely physical evolution to secondary status. Survival and progress of the human species are being entirely driven by evolution of the cognitive capabilities of the human brain. “Survival of the fittest” no longer applies to individuals. It is now has only […]
Lynchpins
Posted on January 14, 2016 Leave a Comment
Good physical health is the lynchpin of my day-to-day life. If I am exercising regularly and eating well I feel better about myself, am more alert, able to think more clearly and, in general, am more cheerful and optimistic. I am not sure if I have succumbed to a dependency on physical exercise in order to function properly or if I am […]
Asylum Seekers
Posted on January 14, 2016 Leave a Comment
Who are asylum seekers? They are people fleeing their homelands to seek asylum in other countries because their lives and the lives of their loved ones are in danger. Today there are many millions of such people fleeing because civil wars, unrest, lawlessness, roving bands of thugs and militia are endangering their lives. Amongst them are a […]
Thoughts on Racial Prejudice
Posted on January 11, 2016 Leave a Comment
I like the notion that, as human beings, we belong to just one race, the human race. All racial subdivisions below that are just constructs, concoctions, to give certain people a reason for feeling exclusive and superior. Racism therefore exists, but it is built on a fiction, on an imaginary division of human beings. Physical differences […]
My First Post
Posted on January 6, 2016 Leave a Comment
Why Am I Blogging? Like most people on this planet I have strengths and weaknesses, likes and dislikes, and opinions about a lot of things. There are some things I am passionate about, things that I either passionately love or passionately hate. Only people close to me know something about what truly moves me. I write about […]
Gerry Roberts 
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