Musings of a Timid observer

Good evening fellow sojourners through this absurd existence. Today I had an interesting conversation with 2 friends that intimated that I am the "most open person that they don't know anything about". They said they know about my love of certain things (Philosophy, Product and systems development, Chapati etc) but they felt I am a little too willing to see differences in opinion... That I entertain ideas they're not sure I fully believe. "That is the mark of intelligence! "  I countered, nearly breaking my arm trying to pat myself on the back. But I realized it might be worth sharing an opinion, thought or sentiment towards 7 key areas of life.. Right here with Zuckerberg and friends. Won't you join me? If you want to play along... Just reply to this status update or share it with your answers and then tag a few people whom you'd want to see it and hopefully share their thoughts on the 7 topics over the next 7 days... . I will do one t...

7 topics over the next 7 days. I'm sharing my thoughts on 7 topics this week stemming from a conversation with some friends who say I'm too obtuse. So, I'll write a little something of my thoughts on these topics: Government, Gender, Religion, Race, Marriage, Sex, and Culture If you want to play along... Just reply to this status update or share it with your answers and then tag a few people whom you'd want to see it and hopefully share their thoughts Day 2: Gender Boys will be boys. Girls will be girls. This little saying used to wrap up behavior we'd see that fit what we knew about how men and women behaved. Boys were brash, troublesome, adventurous and wild. Girls were more refined, helpful, cautious and domestic. That's all been ripped to threads. Things were nice and neat, and roles were simple. There was a pathway to becoming a man or a woman. It turns out however, like in most things, gender is a lot messier than we'd like to ass...

7 topics over the next 7 days. I'm sharing my thoughts on 7 topics this week stemming from a conversation with some friends who say I'm too obtuse. So, I'll write a little something of my thoughts on these topics: Government, Gender, Religion, Race, Marriage, Sex, and Culture If you want to do the same ... Just reply to this status update or share it with your answers and then tag a few people whom you'd want to see it and hopefully share their thoughts Day 3: Religion This is perhaps the topic I’ve opined on the most on here and as such, many might not see anything new in what I’m saying but a few of my views have changed in this regard. Having grown up as I did, religion as just something fascinating in the world that people did to worship God. We weren’t nudged one way or another, so I guess the feeling of something being sacred or beyond question was never planted in my head. I read all kinds of books my father left lying around with all sorts of views. The Gree...

7 topics over the next 7 days. I'm sharing my thoughts on 7 topics this week stemming from a conversation with some friends who say I'm too obtuse. So, I'll write a little something of my thoughts on these topics: Government, Gender, Religion, Race, Marriage, Sex, and Culture If you want to do the same... Just reply to this status update or share it with your answers and then tag a few people whom you'd want to see it and hopefully share their thoughts Day 7: Culture The term Western Culture and the West have always been quite confusing. East is East and West is West and never the twain shall meet wrote Rudyard Kipling. The people of Turkey would want to speak to him. When we say “western “, what do we really mean? It can’t be geographical given that Australia is further south and to the east of Africa. Perhaps we mean the embrace of certain virtues and manner of speaking, dressing and eating. In which case, is Russia Western ...

7 topics over the next 7 days. I'm sharing my thoughts on 7 topics this week stemming from a conversation with some friends who say I'm too obtuse. So, I'll write a little something of my thoughts on these topics: Government, Gender, Religion, Race, Marriage, Sex, and Culture If you want to do the same... Just reply to this status update or share it with your answers and then tag a few people whom you'd want to see it and hopefully share their thoughts Day 6: SEX “Guys are studs when they bang loads of chics,: He said in response to her calling him a ho. “… because it’s difficult to do. Do you know the shit I had to do to get some? I have to be fucking cool” “Women don’t find it any easier. “ “Pleasssssee…Go to the bar right now and offer those guys sex and let me go try with those women over there and we see what happens” This is a small bit of a debate that happened in university a little over a decade. All the guys ones nodded along to thi...

7 topics over the next 7 days. I'm sharing my thoughts on 7 topics this week stemming from a conversation with some friends who say I'm too obtuse. So, I'll write a little something of my thoughts on these topics: Government, Gender, Religion, Race, Marriage, Sex, and Culture If you want to do the same... Just reply to this status update or share it with your answers and then tag a few people whom you'd want to see it and hopefully share their thoughts Day 5: Marriage I just watched the video in which the Ugandan security forces abducted Bobi Wine from the Entebbe airport before he could reportedly go and seek medical attention. As he was being dragged away, abhorrently so, he screamed out his wife’s name “Barbie. They want to kill me. No no. “Or something o that effect. This chilling reminder of the regime we live under has caused ire in myself and in many Ugandans. But as a tangent, I saw a few people talk about that kind of love being rare. Bobi a...

7 topics over the next 7 days. I'm sharing my thoughts on 7 topics this week stemming from a conversation with some friends who say I'm too obtuse. So, I'll write a little something of my thoughts on these topics: Government, Gender, Religion, Race, Marriage, Sex, and Culture If you want to do the same... Just reply to this status update or share it with your answers and then tag a few people whom you'd want to see it and hopefully share their thoughts Day 4: Race No true Scotsman Fallacy You don’t sound African. I’d heard this a few times from when I first hit the soil in the land of the free and home of the brave. It always puzzled me what I was meant to sound like. Especially because I’d heard it uttered in order from a white gentleman at immigration and his partner who appeared to be of Samoan descent. Then from the Cameroonian man that helped me with my bags into a cab driven by a black man from South Carolina who was fascinated that people...