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I thought it was going to be Gonorrhea, Syphilis and Hiv.

It has many names, presence, awareness, spirit, soul, god etc. We know nothing about something so ethereal. Religions point to it with myths and stories but can't grasp its essence. Those mystics, Hindu, Buddhists, Christian etc. who have had a glimpse can't describe it. Those who have had a near death experience all say they have no words to describe it and resort to allegories. One doesn't even have to be near death to have such an experience, a monk can strive for enlightenment for 40 years and sees nothing while an atheist bus driver can suddenly have a burst of perception while driving his bus. A die hard materialist physicist Federico Faggin got up one night for a glass of water and experienced a burst of light coming from his body which enveloped the whole room, he experienced an overwhelming love, he was love, he was for a few seconds the whole universe, it changed his life forever. Tony Parsons (author of 'The open secret') experienced the same thing while walking through a park in Balham London, he sat down in shock, he was the trees, the grass, the dog for a split second, he called it 'the beloved'. See a doctor for your mouse bite, it could be life threatening.

Desperation comes in many forms, no matter how futile the attempts to correct a situation is it may seem logical at the time. He was married 20 years to her and has 3 children, we don't know his financial obligations. His world has just crashed around him resulting in a mental breakdown and possibly has no one to turn to for moral support, we all have our limits, the 'persona' we present to the world is more fragile than we think. After such tragedies our false sense of self, the ego, collapses and it takes time to build a new one. She cheated on him several times, one would think the best thing to do is to walk away, that's a solution if you are dating but if married with a home and children that isn't always easy so your 'fight or flight' instinct can't be resolved, something has to break, sometimes as murder, suicide or in this case, a mental breakdown. Easy solutions come in fairy tales.

Got his stuff from confiscated narcotics no doubt.

NO nobody can, one could say aware of being aware makes one conscious but nobody knows what consciousness actually is. Neuro scientists think consciousness is caused by the brain but they don't know where or how. How can something non material be made by something material, where is the taste of chocolate in the brain? There are correlations but the experience of taste isn't there. Conscious awareness is experienced by everyone but we don't know what it is.

Well I'm one of those nutters who has studied spirituality for nigh on 30 years and believe that only consciousness is primary and irreducible, matter is its manifestation and spacetime is its interface to its creation, your consciousness therefore was neither born nor can it die. I am in good company with such people as the cognitive scientist prof. Donald Hoffman, the physicist Thomas Campbell, physicist Federico Faggin (inventor of the micro processor) and many others. As for fatalism it seems to me that causality and not free will is life's determining factor and nobody has the power over causal events, whether you go left, right or straight on, order a beer or a cheeseburger each has a causal reason. Einstein was a believer in the spacetime block theory where past, present and future all exist together, cut into the block and your childhood is there, cut further up your wedding, further still, your death. Near death experiences and terminal lucidity seem to show that the brain is a Receiver of consciousness not a transmitter, in fact Prof. Hoffman has shown with computer modelling ( mathematics of evolutionary game theory) that the brain hides the truth of reality, without this deception we couldn't survive.

You are thinking tribaly, my side can do no wrong. It's not even 'them and us' because we have no real idea what goes on behind the scenes and neither do the Russians but young Russians are absconding in their hundreds of thousands and many Ukrainians aren't too keen....no wonder. The Americans interfere and blunder internationally like a bull in a china shop. As for voting for Putin, it was Stalin who said votes don't matter, only the people counting the votes are important. There was an interesting rant from an old Russian woman in Moscow to a reporter saying voting in Russia is a farce, we all know who is going to 'win' before the vote. Before the Cuban crisis the US had missiles on the Turkish/Russian border, when the Russians put missiles in Cuba it was a threat to world peace, de-escalation came about when the US removed the missiles from Turkey and Russia removed theirs from Cuba.

5555555, it's brilliant, hop along you Torturing one legged git

It's all rather sad, non acceptance of any situation produces conflict and stress but acceptance of 'what is', although the golden path to harmony within oneself, is hard and has to be practiced before it is easily achievable. What on earth was going through the wife's and boyfriends mind at the time? ''Let's wait till he falls off'' presumably.

The average Russian didn't start the war, those that are here are running from conscription (as are many Ukrainians). The stress would result from worrying about what would happen when they return and their source of income. Getting to politics one could say that NATO ie. America isn't entirely without blame, against all agreements they have continually moved NATO's borders Eastwards, continually prodding the bear was never going to end well. America did a proxy Cuban invasion when the Russians moved Westwards. Neither the CIA or the Russian SVR are friends of peace and stability.

I still get 153 pounds so That means I would have to live there to get a full pension....no thanks.

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I think you are delving in the realms of fantasy here, what is true is that I would get all the increases starting from the moment I arrived, that might bump my 153 pounds up to 180 or so but who on earth would want to willingly live in the UK (apart from the dingy people).

My German pension, which gets every increase no matter where I live, is higher than any UK pension I could get.

Hopefully not their colleagues.

Every country with a convertible currency.

Maybe they should reopen as a demolition firm, that was serious ground zero.

A very small one that I use as petrol and electricity money, I haven't lived in the UK for 55 years.

Why bother? what is the UK to me, nothing more than a supplier of my passport.

I've got nothing against Russians or Ukrainians, we're all unhinged to a greater or lesser degree. I can imagine that the stress levels felt by both citizens of these two countries must be higher than that for citizens of other countries, we aren't in a position to judge.

They fit in well so why not.

Let us not be naive, the sun will still rise, rice will still be eaten, it is the way of the world, big boys will beat little boys, who said life should be fair. It is as it is.

I doubt it, the trip was just a Japanese jolly, their department hadn't used up all its budget.

It's enough to turn one off smoking.

and they need to be, too many pounds per sq inch