Reflections

On Facebook I often share my personal reflections. I publish some of them on this page. ***

The death of Richard Benson, my music teacher in 1991

Richard Benson died on May 10, 2022, a guitarist and television personality and Internet very famous, also for his extravagance. I met Richard Benson in person, many years ago, in 1991, when I was only 17 years old. Many years ago it was not so strange, it was not a laughing stock to which people threw objects at concerts in the clubs of Rome, as can be seen in several videos on YouTube. Thirty years ago he was, instead, a good rock and heavy metal guitarist. Born in Woking, near London, England, on March 10, 1955, during his childhood he lived in Milan, later moving to Rome, where over the years he began a career as a musician. In the early nineties, in a local Roman TV, TVA 40, he hosted the program Ottava Nota, in which he presented the best records of the best rock, metal, fusion, jazz-rock, thrash guitarists.

Me, Roberto Di Molfetta, student and friend of Richard Benson

In 1991/1992 I was one of the best guitarists, as a technical level, among the many music students of Richard Benson, as well as his friend, and often he greeted me on live television during his program Ottava Nota saying "I greet the excellent guitarists Roberto Di Molfetta … " and then continuing with the names of his good students like me. Almost every day I went to his house to play the electric guitar, and very often we spent hours improvising rock and metal solos with our guitars.

We had a lot of fun playing together, thanks to him I had become a virtuoso of good level, one who could play the solos of Metallica, Pink Floyd, Santana, Eric Clapton, guitarist Slash of Guns'n'Roses and many other guitarists much more technical metal, rock, fusion that you surely do not know, such as Joe Satriani, Steve Vai, Yngwie J. Malmsteen and many others.

I had met him the first time, reading an advertisement in the national magazine Chitarre, one of the most read in Italy on the instrument. It was written in his announcement: "You want to play like Metallica, Joe Satriani, Steve Vai, Yngwie J. Malmsteen? "Call me," he offered to give electric rock guitar lessons.

I still remember that the first time I went to him, he treated me very badly, it seemed that the same on the cock, on the skin. He said that I didn't know how to play, that the technique with which I used the pick on the guitar strings sucked, it was horrendous. I remember that I felt very bad, because I considered myself a good guitarist, having only played for two years without any music lessons in my life, and already the first months I did the solos of Slash by Guns'n'Roses quite well. After a few days, he made me come back and told me that at first he did not want to take me as a student, precisely because according to him I did not have enough talent. Over time I became his favorite pupil and friend. He was a bit arrogant and presumptuous, with everyone, like the famous art critic Vittorio Sgarbi for example, like a primadonna of opera, but at the same time he was very nice and joking in person, especially with me who was now his friend. With Richard we spent all day playing together, joking together, listening to the new records of the best guitarists of the time, which he bought by the hundreds every month, watching instructional videos of the rock and metal virtuosos of the time on the guitar, such as Ritchie Kotzen, Paul Gilbert, Vinnie Moore, Marty Friedman, Michael Angelo, Chris Impellitteri, and many others. He charged me 20 thousand lire per lesson, I went once a week like all his students. Since he had a student per hour all day, all week, every month he pocketed a sufficient sum at the beginning of the nineties to feel very good (I did a quick calculation with the PC calculator, he caught about 3 million and 800,000 lire, 4 million lire a month). Over time I had become such a friend, that I was always with him. I went early in the afternoon, after being at school in the morning, and I saw all his lessons with the students, who were dozens, almost all kids like me. Then in the evening we would play together, and in the evening we would go out to eat something. He lived behind Piazza Venezia, in the center of Rome. We went to have dinner in bars, pubs, pizzerias, restaurants, where it happened.Often one of his girlfriends came, among the many women I saw at his house. A blonde much shorter than him. He certainly liked women, I don't know if he was bisexual, like David Bowie, but he certainly had a lot of girls. He dressed like a gay, but in reality with me and with all the other guys present he never tried, nor did he ever make gestures or say things as homosexuals, not even a move. In my opinion he had that look just for show, the same thing that I think Damiano, the singer of Maneskin, who I don't think is really homosexual, but he wears makeup, dresses, does women's things. All scene, as in the theater.

Anecdotes about Richard Benson

I remember a lot of anecdotes from the time I was dating Richard.

The film with Carlo Verdone

Richard made a film with the famous actor and director Carlo Verdone, in which he conducted a fantasy television broadcast, with the fictitious name of Hydrogen Jukebox, which resumed his real transmission Ottava Nota. In the fake broadcast of the film invited Carlo Verdone as an expert on guitarist Jimi Hendrix. Then after the interview with Verdone, who in the film was very excited and got stuck in talking (I seem to remember, by heart), Richard performed a heavy metal solo with the sound of the distorted guitar, as he played, often and really, at his home. In the film, a technician asked Carlo Verdone, who was leaving the studio: "But what did you take, oh?". And Carlo Verdone: "I who know 'taken? But who took that!", pointing to Richard Benson, as he threw himself into the ground playing, with all 'I'm messing at full volume of electric metal guitar, with the distortion in throttle. As in many films by Carlo Verdone, a very funny scene… Fun! At the time I went with Richard to the cinema, to the release of the film, to see him for the first time, together with his girlfriend.

The years of Richard Benson's humiliation in front of all of Rome, all of Italy

I have a lot of memories of that time, in 1991, when Richard Benson and I were friends. After so many years, seeing him reduced, in front of thousands of people, in the premises of Rome, to take in the face all evening vegetables, fruit, used toilet brushes, dirty toilet paper, detergents, chickens, eggs, bags of manure and urine, acid, I repeat, in the face for hours, for years, by thousands of guys who were there just to have fun like this, like a laughing stock, a subject to be mocked, a village fool with whom to have a lot of laughter, to the public pillory, in front of all the people of Italy, who after years still comment amused on the YouTube videos of the shit envelopes that he pulled in his face … well, it made me so much, so much sadness.

It's a real crap how they treated it. First of all for him, of course, who suffered without fully realizing, I am sure, of what they did to him, to be the laughing stock of all; for his wife, who was on stage with him, but I think without even understanding the absolute shame, the humiliation without any dignity of those evenings on stage with her husband; but also for me, who was his friend and pupil, and for all the friends, relatives, students, for all the Romans, the Italians, who esteemed him and followed him on television, who read his reviews in the national magazine Chitarre, for those who knew him, esteemed, loved him, for his ex-girls, for many people throughout Rome and throughout Italy, in short. It is also a shame for the same guys who did those things to him, indeed, for the whole of Italy: how can you treat a man in front of everyone, without him even having any particular fault?

For me Richard Benson in the years when he was humiliated in the Roman premises, targeted by thousands of objects all evening, had serious health problems, mental problems, perhaps not officially diagnosed by a specialist doctor, such as a psychologist or a psychiatrist.

He was no longer in himself, otherwise he would not have accepted to be treated like this for hours, for years.

If he had been in full mental health, at the first egg in his face, during the first concert, he would have closed the evening by leaving, without returning. A few years ago he went on TV to Barbara D'Urso on Canale 5, aged thirty years, without teeth, to ask for help because poor and sick, to ask for money not to die to his fans, the same guys who for years enjoyed pulling shit in his face in the clubs, who boast amused in the YouTube comments to his videos of having done these things to him in those evenings. Knowing that he is dead now makes me so sad, it gives me so much nostalgia. I remember that period as a beautiful moment in my life, without real suffering, my youth spent between music, guitars, guys playing, having fun, going out in the evening every night in the center of Rome. I was happy, and I didn't know it. As soon as I read "Richard Benson is dead," I cried. They look like memories of 2 thousand years ago, the moments of that period. Today people no longer have fun, they are always from morning to night, with their children, with their partner, with their parents, with their colleagues, they feel bad if polar bears no longer have ice, they worry if a big iceberg is detached from the Arctic just because a TG report links the fact to climate change, he spends his life arguing over masks, about the green pass, he is furious like a beast if one approaches, by mistake, less than one and a half meters, not respecting the safety distance on Covid. Young people spend hours on their mobile phones liking people they don't know in person, they'll never meet in life. You see couples of boys, boyfriends, sitting at dinner, scrolling the Instagram feed on the thousand-euro iPhone, liking Fedez or Belen Rodriguez's sister, instead of spending the evening looking into each other's eyes, shaking hands, smiling, talking and joking like the lovers of twenty years ago. They are engaged, they go out to dinner, and they are on their mobile phone to see the posts of the Island of the Famous on the official profile of Mediaset. We are in a bad position today, trust us. At 17 I had a great time, without porn sites, pornstars, fake tits, redone lips, tattoos on my face, without spending hours putting likes on Instagram on Chiara Ferragni's selfies together with Fedez. I was a musician, who enjoyed playing the guitar, listening to music, together with young people, crazy about Richard Benson, spending the days after school having fun with friends, playing, improving as a guitarist, enjoying the days of my youth. You were better off when you were worse. Trust. ***

The most beautiful things in life do not need words

We use many words, we listen to many of them every day, to explain ourselves, to communicate our thoughts, our emotions. Yet think about it, the most beautiful things in life do not need words: being in the Sun on a beautiful May day at the park of Villa Borghese in Rome, walking with the person you love hand in hand through the streets of the center, hugging your mother on her birthday, caressing your child in his cradle, see your military brother back at home after a year of mission in war, a father looking at his daughter dressed as a bride on the wedding day, two lovers kissing, stroking a labrador puppy, savoring good Italian food in the evening at the restaurant, drinking a good glass of red wine, a night of sex, admire up close an artistic masterpiece by Raffaello Sanzio or Leonardo da Vinci, listen to a composition by Ennio Morricone, swim in the sea, look at the sky with friends on the night of San Lorenzo… the most beautiful things in life do not need rivers of words to be lived! Why do we spend time talking, chatting, even complaining, arguing, arguing with polemics about politics, football, people and we don't think about enjoying the good times of life? I close with a quote from an Oscar-winning film: "Don't you hate all this? The silences that make you uncomfortable… Why do we feel the need to chat about whores to feel more comfortable? […] It's only then that you know you've found someone really special: when you can shut that fucking mouth for a moment and share the silence in peace." Mia Wallace (Uma Thurman) talking to Vincent Vega (John Travolta). From the film "Pulp Fiction", by Quentin Tarantino (1994) ***

Misanthropy: we judge all humanity badly, because of our past sufferings

One mistake we all make is to misjudge all human beings, because there are so many bad people in the world. This is a mistake, derived from our psychic characteristics as human beings. When we are hurt by other people, in a profound way, we are led to be biased, to see others as similar to those who have hurt us. For example, if a woman is raped as a child, she will always remain conditioned by the trauma of rape, remaining wary of men. He will never again see them in a neutral way, but as possible rapists, even unconsciously, unwittingly. It is in human nature, and it comes from the most primitive instincts present in our brain. After all, we are descendants of monkeys, a part of our brain has the same instincts as primates. Animals also behave like this. Watching so many videos of abused dogs, you can see the animals that have suffered torture, that when they are cared for by animal rights activists in a shelter, they do not initially trust the caresses, to eat their food. They are wounded in the soul, they see men as enemies, ready to hurt them. It happens to human beings, for example, by fighting in war. Many films show the psychic discomfort of Vietnam veterans. For example in Taxi Driver, with Robert De Niro. Or in Rambo, with Sylvester Stallone. In the latter film, Rambo is immobilized and the sheriffs of the county want to shave him by force. He seems to relive the shock of torture with the sword, when he was a prisoner in Vietnam. And beating the sheriff's men, he escapes and becomes a fugitive. It is called post-traumatic stress syndrome. Search the Net, it's an interesting topic. When we suffer, we tend to see everyone else as those people who have hurt us. In these days I have understood that this is a mistake, which conditions us too much. There are so many mediocre, arrogant, bad people, so many criminals around. But there are also good people, of heart, good people, honest, hard-working people, who would never treat us so badly. The mistake is to consider the whole society composed of ugly people, because others have hurt us. Instead we must try as much as possible to avoid toxic, negative, bad, drinking people, and try to hang out with beautiful people, to spend time with them, to make them friends. Humanity, men, are capable of anything. History proves it: we have the saints, like St. Francis, the heroes who give their lives like the others, like Salvo D'Acquisto, but we also have the bloodthirsty dictators, like Hitler and Stalin. It is up to us not to make a bundle of all the grass. Open to the righteous, love beautiful people, reward the good; hinder evil, move away from the unjust, prevent the bad guys from making others suffer. So we have to reason. It is not true that all men are assholes, that women are all whores, etc. There are so many beautiful people in the world. Maybe they are a minority, a small percentage, but with a world of 7 billion people, they are always many. And you have to think about them, to trust others.

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Envy, an ugly beast

One of the most widespread and least confessed negative feelings is envy. A proverb that my mother often quotes me is "if envy were fever, the whole world would have it". I was reading an article in a psychology study done on a group of elderly guests of a nursing home. Many of these elders revealed to interviewers that they envied other elders who received more visits from their children, grandchildren, and other relatives. The Catholic religion puts envy among the seven deadly sins. St. Augustine considers it the worst beast. In the Bible, Cain kills his brother out of envy of being favored by God. In the Gospels, Pontius Pilate knows that Jesus Christ was sent by him to be condemned, because he was envied by the Sanhedrin of the Jews. Among the thousand ideas that have come to me in the last period, I also have that of writing a book on this feeling. The title I thought was: "Envy. An unspeakable feeling" ***

Judging people only on the basis of social position: a common mistake

Often people rate people based on social position. If one is a great entrepreneur, a university professor, a famous surgeon, a great actor, he has so much esteem, without ever having met him. It evaluates it according to the social level reached. Instead he despises like filthy beasts the prisoners, people in prison for crimes such as murder. But an intelligent person, who has known people enough, knows that sometimes you can kill a man in a moment of anger, maybe a husband who punches his wife's lover when he discovers them, and that falls to the ground, hitting his head and dies. So let's say that guy who's in jail was just a betrayed husband who gave a to the one his wife cheated on him with. Circumstances led him to jail for intentional homicide. But he only punched the man his wife cheated on him with. But people that people esteem, as politicians even important, have never ended up in jail, are rich, famous r esteemed, and maybe they are colluding with the mafia bosses throughout their career, without naming names . That politician so esteemed, loved, is perhaps a carrion, a despicable man, an unscrupulous being, but his social position makes him consider an excellence, when perhaps he does the interests of the Sicilian mafia to the government of the country. So that poor man who angry with his wife's lover becomes a despicable being for a punch, while these illustrious Italians have spent their lives favoring the mafias that dissolve children in acid. Listen to me: in jail there are many bad and cruel criminal people, but many criminals who will never go to jail you find them in Parliament, in government, you have voted for them for years, you even love them. This is respectability: to think that criminals are the scum of society, while illustrious people are great men to be appreciated. I evaluate case by case, person by person. Reasoning based on clichés is from mediocre people, who is truly intelligent a person must know him, understand him, evaluate him for what he is. Look at the Italians: for years they appreciated Putin; Di Maio, Salvini shook his hand, even Letta of the Democratic Party, Berlusconi treated him like a fraternal friend. He was the president of Russia, a personality. Now we all know what a man he is: one who sleeps peacefully at night while children in Ukraine jump into the air for his missiles. Do not trust respectability, the opinions of others, reason with your head. Do not trust the appearance, the image of people on TV, in newspapers, on social networks on the Net. Often people are wolves disguised as lambs. ***

The Wolves will always tear the Lambs apart, they will never change

All of us would like to live in a world in peace, with men who love each other as brothers. But since people are not all the same, this is not possible, and will never be possible. Millions of people are born evil, selfish, abusive, violent, overbearing, bad, even some are sadistic, they enjoy the suffering of others. The world is then led everywhere by powerful people who want to have the world under their feet, they are greedy, and History proves it. Since ancient times, war has been waged against neighboring peoples to build empires. The ancient Romans, the Persians, the Mongols, Hitler, Mussolini, Putin, European colonialism in Africa, the English colonialism in India, the Japanese colonialism in the Pacific, it is enough to study History to understand that it is human nature to use violence mercilessly, to have more and more. Without bothering presidents, kings and emperors, every day we read in the newspaper about horrendous facts, such as that young man, Benno, who killed his parents to pocket the inheritance, or that boy who burned his brother alive to get the money of his life insurance. And the mafias? Camorra, Cosa Nostra, Sacra Corona Unita, 'Ndrangheta, who kill you because you don't pay the lace? And without caring about the murderers, just look at how many thieves, scammers, criminals every day use violence to make money. A completely peaceful world is impossible. There are too many violent, evil, because they were born this way at the DNA level, it is in their genetic code, their brain is structured like this, their thoughts push them to evil because they were born like this. Like a lion in the savannah: if he sees a gazelle if he tears it apart immediately, it is his brain that tells him to do it, he was born like this. There are those who are lamb, like my mother, and those who are wolves, like Putin. And wolves have always torn lambs apart, it is in their nature. We cannot think that with the beautiful speeches, with the words, with the poetry, with the culture, the education, the discourses on human rights, the Art, with the progress commercials of the government, we will make the wolves of the lambs. If the Jews had spoken in person before Hitler, saying beautiful words of peace, asking for mercy on their knees before him, crying and embracing their small children, the Führer always sent them to the gas chambers, he did not give a damn to the chief dictator of Nazi Germany of what the Jews said to save themselves. Wolves will always be wolves, and lambs will always be lambs. Those as soon as they can tear us apart. Simply, they are made like this.

It is not God who created man, it is men who created religions

I do not deny that there is a God, but I believe that the Christian God who is Supreme Love, who loves us like the Christ of the Gospels who is crucified for us, is not there. A world too full of suffering, of diseases of all kinds, in which so many are cruel and unscrupulous, wars and much more, how can a being who loves us so much abandon children suffering from cancer to pain, let men do so many atrocities as in Ukraine now or the extermination of Jews in Nazi concentration camps during the Second World War. Theologians and clergy claim that God has left us free will. Man decides to do good or evil, it depends on his choice. According to them, God leaves freedom to men. So the children in hospitals, who die of a malignant tumor? Where is the free will of a 5-year-old boy who dies suffering in the hospital, through no fault of his own? And his parents, who choose wrongly did they do to see him die? What harm did that family destroyed by pain do? Why does God sometimes perform miracles, according to the Church, and other times, millions of times, he lets sick children die, without intervening? If a God created us, he is not interested in us. No one protects us from another world. It's just us fighting life. If I were God, Almighty and who loves us immensely, I would do everything to stop the war in Ukraine, I would not let people die in an atrocious way, I would not make mothers live with their children killed, I would not allow children to remain orphans forever. I am sorry for the people who suffer, who am not a saint. A Supreme Love God would have mercy on us. Studying history, I think that all peoples invent a religion to find a consolation at death, to have hope that by praying someone will help them, to alleviate the pain in life, to hope for eternal life in the other, which compensates for the fear of dying that we all have. Mithras, Krisna, Christ, Allah, Jupiter, all creations of humanity. I think it is not God who created man, but it is man who created the gods. ***

The greatest Love: that of mothers

On God we are not sure that he exists, that he loves us, but of the love of mothers, the true mothers who love their children, we are 100 percent certain, you can bet your life on it.

I too have probably suffered damage from Covid vaccine, albeit mild. I did three doses, the first two Pzifers, the third dose was the Moderna, in early January 2022.

After a month, I started to feel chills all day. Initially I thought it was the winter cold. But now that we are in late April, I still have chills all day, it's much hotter than in February. I think it was the third dose. Obviously I can do nothing, the rubber wall of the State and doctors to not recognize anything of the risks of vaccines makes any road, medical and legal, very difficult.

My mother also probably suffered vaccine damage. She took the second dose of Pfizer in April 2021, and after four months she began to suffer from severe dysphagia. While eating he feels suffocated, almost every day. He can't eat solid foods at all: bread, pasta, pizza, biscuits, meat, vegetables, fruit… nothing eats anything anymore. It goes on with smoothies, puddings, broths, ice cream… this stuff here.

Thanks to our politicians, the leaders of Freemasonry, doctors, journalists, pharmaceutical companies and their shareholders, for giving us safe vaccines and excellent information about how perfect scientific tools are for our health and well-being. Thank you, I love you and I respect you so much, you are people with a big heart.

After my personal thanks to those who have been so concerned about our health, I want to offer you two videos on vaccine damage. They are very interesting, I recommend you look at them. The first is a video in which an Italian mother, Antonella, recounts the ordeal she has been going through since Edi, her son, was vaccinated. Real and very touching testimony, of a serious adverse reaction to the vaccine of a child born healthy, and the day after vaccination, became autistic. The second video is an excerpt from the television program Fuori dal Coro, on Rete 4, in which the presenter Mario Giordano talks about the story of Giulia, a 51-year-old woman, who after a dose of Covid-19 vaccine began to feel sick. After 8 months spent with hallucinatory pain, Giulia committed suicide, throwing herself from the balcony of her home. Severe Vaccine Damage Video: Testimony of the Mother of an Autistic Child After Vaccine

— Video on the tragic story of Giulia, 51, who committed suicide after 8 months from the Covid-19 vaccine

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Freud's theories: the primitive instinct, without any morals, has the last word on our thoughts and actions

The Id, of which Sigmund Freud, the founding neurologist of modern psychoanalysis, speaks: the deepest, strongest and most primitive instinct of our brain.

The libido of which the founder of psychology speaks: the sexual drive that derives from our monkey ancestors. There is no rule, no political idea, no religion, no affection that is superior to this primitive psychic energy.

That is why mothers kill their children, put them in the washing machine to kill them, husbands slaughter their wives suddenly, sadistic pedophiles rape and kill children, for pure pleasure, risking life imprisonment. From this deep instinct of our brain derive the monstrosities that men make to other people, even to children and wives, and that we read almost every day in the newspapers.

When the Id commands, men are like furious monkeys, they no longer reason, they no longer look at any value, no kinship, for them there is no Homeland, God, family, they are ferocious beasts that strike any other living being without any mercy, like the men of the S.Hitler's s. inside the Nazi concentration camps, for example in the Auschwitz concentration camp, which carried out the worst atrocities against the captive Jewish deportees.

Read Freud's theories about the human psyche. His theory about the Oedipus complex, which we all develop, no man or woman excluded. The "Austrian neurologist, psychoanalyst and philosopher, founder of psychoanalysis, the oldest among the currents of psychology", tells us in his works that at the base of all our mental activity there is this unconscious, which has such a force on our mind and our actions, so if he gives us the impulse to act, there is nothing in the world that can stop us from taking the consequent actions.

Put simply, as a species we are much smarter than all the others on planet Earth. But in the end, behind the parts of our most advanced, civil and elevated thoughts of our mental activity (Freud speaks of I and Super-Ego), where we have consciousness and consider laws and human rights as rules to be respected, we have the dark zone of the Id that has a primitive drive without scruples, amoral, where we are without mercy and without any humanity, bestial like that of the primates from which we descend.

It is the one at the base of all sexual desire for example, of reproduction, of the search for sexual intercourse, of orgasm.

This shadow, this beastly part, is the one that takes over when people do monstrous things, which we read in the crime news, or see on TV.

The rapes, the brutal murders, like a mother who puts her little son in the washing machine, the atrocities in war, all the worst tortures you have read and heard all your life, all come from this beastly side, the unconscious, which does not admit brakes, rules, laws.

It is impossible to have a world where everyone is honest, good, respects all the rules.

There will always be murders, rapes, the worst violence.

Because it is part of our nature, to do this evil: we all have this part of our mind, bestial, even if many of us are not aware of it.

It is the basis of Freudian psychology, of psychoanalysis. I don't say it, Freud says it, it is the basis of all the psychology of which he is the founder.

We are doomed to never be fully civilized.

We will always be part animals, indeed, when the bestial part of our brain calls, all the others, such as our conscience, our morals, succumb. This explains the serial killers, the pedophile priests, the parents who mercilessly kill their newborns, and all the atrocities that even today that we are in 2022 we read everywhere on online news sites.

Dante Alighieri wrote: "you were not made to live like brutes but to follow virtue and knowledge", affirming that as men and women we were created for virtue and wisdom. But he was an intellectual of the Middle Ages, he saw the world as a Christian with an absolute faith in God, and at the same time seeing together with Christian virtue, the importance of culture and philosophy, of knowledge, as a guide for human beings.

But after centuries, Freud, as a neurologist, without seeing men as created in the image in the likeness of a perfect God, makes us understand that it is not true that we were created for wisdom, for virtue.

We are simply monkeys that with evolution on Earth, we have become so intelligent that we consider ourselves superior to all animals.

But being grandchildren of chimpanzees, our brain is guided by the strongest instinct, the one that serves to push us to reproduce, because without this search for mating, orgasm, no species could survive over millennia.

Evolution has meant that the strongest instinct is the sexual one, stronger even than the hunger instinct, precisely because it is so tiring for animals to mate, to the point that lions and gorillas have to fight risking their lives to have sex with females, that if this instinct were not so strong, all animals would not fight for females, they would do anything else, such as eating or sleeping.

That's why humanity is so beastly in a Facebook post: why we are the descendants of primates, monkeys. Our ancestors were animals. And the children of animals, it is difficult for them to be perfect, pure, totally civilized and advanced beings. Here is a link on the crime section of an important Italian information site, Fanpage, read by millions of Italians every day: https://www.fanpage.it/attualita/violenza-italia Read only the titles of the whole page, then tell me if we human beings are totally civil, perfect, as the Supreme Poet says "you were not made to live like brutes but to follow virtue and knowledge" or we are simply the descendants of monkeys who have an instinct primitive, unconscious, without any morality that guides them, as the neurologist father of modern psychology, the scientist Sigmund Freud, writes in his books.

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The creation of man described in the Bible has been disproved by modern science

People still believe in ancient religions. Take the Bible, book one, Genesis.

You know more or less all that according to that book written millennia ago, when modern science did not exist, God creates man from the earth, and later, woman from one of his ribs.

This biblical account has been denied by science: we humans are descendants of primates, we are a biological evolution of monkeys.

So this point alone is enough to say that in the Genesis of the Bible, that very ancient text says something that is not exact.

Search the Internet for articles about Charles Darwin. He was the scientist who first spoke of our descent from monkeys.

In the following years came endless scientific evidence, that this was true. Officially now all the scientists of the world who deal with biology and the natural history of the world, consider it proven in a certain way that we are evolved monkeys in the species Homo Sapiens Sapiens. This is a certain fact, not refuted by anyone.

So Christians all over the world believe in a completely wrong origin of humanity.

And I have not covered all the rest of the Bible, I recommend an excellent book by the scientist and science fiction writer Isaac Asimov, which I read 25 years ago, where he compares scientific theories with the first book of the Bible. In the end he shows that everything that is written in that part of the Bible is completely or partially wrong, contrary to science.

Here is the link to Asimov's book that I told you, if you wanted to deepen: https://amzn.to/3LHROjF

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Putin, the invading president of Ukraine

I predict a bad end for Putin.

Not right away, of course.

I read now that another important ship of the Russian fleet is burning, hit by the Ukrainians.

Whereas:

– The economic sanctions of the USA and the European Union are very heavy

– Western companies have abandoned Russia en masse

– The commercial, financial and economic boycott is very heavy

– The Ukrainian army is fighting in an exceptional way, inflicting very heavy losses on the Russians from the first day of the war; for example it killed generals, destroyed hundreds of tanks, thousands of support vehicles carrying fuel, medicines, food, spare parts for tanks

– 15,000 Russians have died, perhaps 20,000, and this means that at home 100 thousand family members, friends and acquaintances mourn their loved ones, talking about it, even secretly, with all their acquaintances.

Putin seems to be powerful, but in reality he is just a former KGB secret agent, chosen by Boris Yeltsin as his successor. He does not seem to be a genius, he is just a ruthless and determined dictator, like Hitler, and he commands like a tsar having around him the oligarchs, billionaires linked to the Russian mafia, with whom he is linked by patronage relations.

– The Russian army made many mistakes in the invasion of Ukraine at the strategic level. Moreover, Russian vehicles are not advanced at all, tanks were designed 50 years ago, it seems to me, and in general all armaments date back to projects of the Soviet Union.

– Many Russians are against the war, but they cannot speak under penalty of immediate arrest and imprisonment for many of them. This means that in case of internal difficulties of the dictator, they would be ready to support a coup, or to take to the streets to protest against him, if it were possible without repression.

– Russian propaganda on TV and its newspapers can do nothing against the Web. Who knows how many millions of Russians use Telegram, WhatsApp, email, video calls and countless other systems to communicate the reality of the war to the Russian people, with videos, images, writings, links to Western newspaper articles. With the Internet and a smartphone it takes nothing to spread a file or link to millions of Russians in a second.

– The US and several European nations, such as Italy, are sending billions of dollars to support the Ukrainian army, over hundreds of millions of euros in weapons and aid. While Putin can only count on the riches of his own nation, perhaps on some support from other friendly nations, but I do not believe that powers like China are willing to send him billions of aid for his war.

In my opinion, in a few years he will lose power.

He will end up killed by a coup, or after a trial of a new, more democratic Russian government; at most, he could be tried and sentenced to life imprisonment for multiple war crimes by the International Tribunal in The Hague.

But it doesn't last. Rome, 6 May 2022 ***

The Gossip

Many people tend to spend their time more doing harm, for example talking about others, gossiping, than taking care of their own interests and doing good to their loved ones. Example: gossip women, especially elderly spinsters (unmarried) and widows, perhaps in small provincial towns, in Italian countries of 5 thousand, 10 thousand, 15 thousand inhabitants. I am obviously only talking about those who do this, those who are just like that, not about all women and old women. Maybe they spend hours talking badly about others, neighbors, friends, their acquaintances, but maybe you never read an article in a women's magazine on how to improve your health, something for example that my 83-year-old mother does when I buy her magazines like Oggi, Gente, Chi. In those magazines my mother always reads and comments on me, articles where journalists report interviews with medical specialists, on health issues such as the prevention of heart diseases, circulation, Alzheimer's, diabetes, osteoarthritis, on foods that prevent cancer and many other things. In short, instead of spending whole days making poisonous and malicious comments about the lives of others, they could think about how to improve their health, or ask their elderly friends for advice on how to help their children, their grandchildren, tell each other and comment on the TV programs they watched the night before. Instead nothing, always there to talk every day of the other villagers: that is a woman, that is powerless, that is crazy, the son of the notary I know that he is gay … think of an elderly woman gossip, maybe bad and malignant, and there are, when she is together with other women like her, what she can say in a day, a week, in a month, of the other villagers! I remember that in a city I inhabited, the mother of our landowner, an 80-year-old woman named Anna, said to me and my mother, pointing to our palace: "Here they cut and sew!" For a moment I was surprised by the sentence, but within a few seconds and especially after months living in that apartment building, I understood everything about the meaning of his words. As you may have guessed, our neighbors, and many were women over 60, some widows or spinsters (in Italian: unmarried), according to Mrs. Anna, spent time gossiping about neighbors, and about all those they knew and jumped into his mind. And they were so busy and good at it, that Mrs. Anna even made the joke above ("Here they cut and sew!"), she who had been their friend for 40 years, using a phrase that is an old popular saying. Think if one of their villagers gets involved in some mess, some scandal, some bad news story, perhaps with a sexual background, and ends up in the local newspapers (without disturbing the sensational case of the president of the Lazio Region, the journalist Piero Marrazzo, married with children, discovered with a video having sex with a transsexual while consuming drugs): guilty or innocent, the gossip of the country destroys him, annihilates him, for him it would be much better if they beat him three men only once, rather than having these harpies talking about him every day for a year. These are worse than the heavy artillery of the Italian army, you are finished if they attack you all together, other than poor old villagers !!! ***

I close with a quote: I have too much respect for the idea of God to hold him responsible for such an absurd world. Georges Duhamel ***

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