Rakesh Ahuja @DwnlodingMyMind · Jul 9
Abused turn Abusers
Does the Defence Minister realise the irony implicit in his statement? The abused learn from their abusers and 'normalise' the means to abuse.
@netanyahu
#GazaHolocaust #TheHolocaust
Rakesh Ahuja @DwnlodingMyMind · May 15
The timing of this re-assertion is notable. China plays long, and seemingly off-handed statements such as this can never be ignored in the quest for its long-term goals.
Rakesh Ahuja @DwnlodingMyMind · May 15
Sharing a Morning Muse
#1
on Sigmund Freud's birthday, 6 May, 1856
1. Life is a sum total of Chance and Choice. This core equation shapes every human existence.
2. Chance has a (much) greater X value than Choice in this equation.
3. You can not control Chances: your birthplace, death, genes, or health, etc, are beyond your grip.
4. You can control Choices. Choice is what one does with a given Chance. One always has a Choice for how one deals with or 'converts' a given Chance into something, positive or negative, for your life.
5. Making Choices requires discipline. Not necessarily a large, all-encompassing discipline, but even small disciplines will do. For example, giving up a craving for an hour in contrast to giving it up forever. Each is equally valid and shows that you can steer your life even if for an hour only.
6. It is disciplines, big or small, that confer on you, consciously or unconsciously, self-respect. The core meaning of self-respect is that you value yourself, like yourself and take pride in who you are.
7. Conversely, without self-respect, you undervalue yourself, do not like who you are and neglect your own existence.
8. The lack of self-respect is an irrefutable manifestation of deep-seated insecurity. This demands a raw, painful delve into one’s past to discover the strains and stresses that seeded the sense of diminished self-worth.
Rakesh Ahuja @DwnlodingMyMind · Apr 21, 2025
This is unforgivable - as was the "professional failure" of the German army's role in the Holocaust. Murder is murder is murder.
Rakesh Ahuja @DwnlodingMyMind · Mar 28, 2025
This reminds me vividly of two 'refuseniks' being hauled away by
unidentifiable 'persons' from a December 10 (Human Rights day) protest in
Pushkin square in 1982. Reminiscent of several other similar incidents
I witnessed in Moscow, Leningrad, Irkutsk and in other 'open' cities before
1986. But that was the first, and remains painfully etched.
I presume that various countries in the South will now be spared (or can
ignore with impunity) any condescending lectures about Human Rights
etc., from the State Department.
Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump · Mar 27
I don’t have to agree with what this student wrote — that’s not the issue. You do NOT snatch someone off the street over an op-ed. That’s the kind of thing you see in China, Russia, or Iran — not in the United States.