it_is_the_light wrote on Feb 2^nd, 2014 at 5:33pm:


That’s so pre-2012, Light.

Remember? The apocolyptic cell-splitting became the New Age of love and light when nothing happened.

Try to keep up with your own predictions, dear child

Forgiven.

Australia is full of the very subtle British style racism with the pretence that Australia owes nothing to blacks and other races for the crimes committed against them by Australia and especially the British.

It is incredible how the British have evaded denouncement and reparations for their past racial atrocities.

I don't mean the British intellectuals who hung the monkey in Hartleypool.

Mattyfisk wrote on Feb 2^nd, 2014 at 7:05pm:


many blessings ,

not all are blind unto these happenings

in love and light ,

and so it is that the scriptures ring true as

those with eyes still do not see

so be it

namaste

- : ) =

ॐ

The British weren't the only ones.... all Colonialists did.

Why don't you take up cudgels against the Germans, Portuguese, Spainish, the Dutch etc.?

The French are still oppressing the Kanak in New Caledonia & the Polynesians of Tahiti & the Society Islands.

As for reparations individuals in Australia have received up to $500k pay outs for being of the supposed Stolen Generation.

And billions of dollars are allocated every year for Aboriginal specific welfare, schemes, Health & Education.

In fact buckets of money ..... & yet the problems of alcoholism, drug abuse, malnutrition, diabetes, child abuse, domestic violence, destruction of housing & equipment continue unabated.

How about you come up with a solution instead of banging on about what the British did 200 plus years ago?

Aboriginal Autonomy? Modelled on Nunavut?

"It is the light"

or "It is trying to put up a very very poor series of pictures which are totally unrelated"

"It has blown a fuse"?
"It is the blackout"?
"It has forgotten to pay its power bill"?

aquascoot wrote on Feb 3^rd, 2014 at 7:32am:

But would it work?

Laugh till you cry wrote on Feb 2^nd, 2014 at 8:23pm:


The fact is that humans (not just the British by any stretch) have tended to move around since the dawn of history, and as a species, we're pretty volatile, we tend to try to take over and make areas our own. I would think this instinct has been necessary for survival in the past.
Nothing stays the same forever. I was reading somewhere that  they suspect that about 96% of creatures that have ever lived on this earth are now extinct.
We know that some languages are now extinct and different cultures have come, had their time in the sun, and gone.

We can't change it and the people directly affected by it all are no longer alive. The British Empire's glory days are no more, either, for that matter.

I will say this though. Don't assume that all the British influence was bad, the natives would have done things better.
A while back I was listening to a woman speak at a seminar. She was a migrant from Sudan, I think it was. She was saying that, because of civil wars there that had raged over generations, over 80% of the people there were displaced persons, their culture had been decimated with most young people having none of the traditional discipline from parents and grandparents, and the only solid buildings still left standing were those the British had built a century or so earlier. There were now no people from that country with the skills or education to be able to so much as build a road, the only ones who could help were those who had fled to refugee camps outside the country. They at least had had some education.

They did all that damage to themselves, after independence.

And the present day aborigines. Their ancestors were mistreated, they were decimated by contact with illnesses such as the common cold and flu, but that would have happened eventually, no matter if the newcomers had been British or otherwise. Or did you imagine Australia could remain undisturbed forever?
But the present day aboriginal people-they need to get on in the 21st century, it is a simple as that.
And you have to ask yourself-are their communities helping them towards that, or are they like the Sudanese, scoring an own goal?