What are your views? please share them?

Megan Emily Jones wrote on Aug 31^st, 2016 at 8:43pm:


What people?  What exactly do 'they' claim "Megan Emily Jones?"

Australia is a house of cards that the Superannuation companies are reluctant to invest in

The great thing I luv about Australia is that we can watch heaps of buzzardball...sorry Netball....

Megan Emily Jones wrote on Aug 31^st, 2016 at 8:43pm:


No australia is totally overrated and overpriced. It is full of ripoff merchants screwing each other blind on overpriced services.

The United States exports continuous propaganda about it being the greatest country in the world, and has done so for a very long time. Certain Australian PR groups have tried to do this with our country since 1960. Much of it is media based, using shamelessly plagiarism. Referring to Canberra as Capitol Hill, Gallipoli as The Birth of a Nation. The boring colonials who established the Commonwealth, as The Founding Fathers, as if we had a Washington, Jefferson and Franklin.

Give me F***ing break. Australia was a rather quiet and unassuming stop at the end of the line, until the 1970s. But even so, nothing has ever happened here worthy of note. That is why the brown highway signs that indicate historic sites in the Northern Hemisphere, are used in Australian to announce stops like the Big Banana.

It is how you interpret the idea of best and lucky that clarifies the claims. Much of our coastline is gloriously Mediteranean, but you really have to spend some winters in Europe or America before you appreciate just how benign it is.

Socially important, but denigrated and dismissed by many who count themselves progressive, is the foundation of our legal system in English Common Law. All of those former colonies that were so delighted in getting rid of the British, have not come up with a better alternative.

English is our first language. That has been a huge advantage internationally. Our education system followed the strides made in the emancipation of the working class during the 19th Century in Western Europe, while Russians, Arabs and the Asian working people lived in serfdom, which is not much better than slavery.

There are plenty of aspects of Australian life that are pretty shabby, especially the treatment of natives. That is where Australia has close parallels with the USA. However, it seems to me native Australians have a louder voice than their American counterparts.

Since the rise of Muzlim Terrorism, the biggest threat to world peace, the gradual restriction of firearms and explosives since 1900 puts Australian society in much safer circumstances today than Europe and North or South America.

While the two major political parties use economic woes to lambaste who ever is in power, and warn of imminent doom, the standard of living has grown steadily from what it was prior to WW2 when the ownership of such items as a refrigerator or an automobile were only attainable by the wealthy minority.

Australia's long coastline is difficult to defend, but the surrounding ocean gives us some natural advantage, but only as long as we do not give it away in misguided exercises of compassion, as the British are doing with the English Channel and North Sea.

Most of us love Australia, but no country is the best country in the world. Some are better than others. Australia is high on the list. One reasons is the lack of sectarian violence. It was one of the reason the grand experiment in multiculturalism seemed logical in the post war years. It is a noble cause, but it never considered possible that some would not see Australia as anything other than a platform for their religion, and that our tolerance was their advantage.

The convict system was ugly. It did have a positive legacy though. It bequeathed a general lack of respect for institutional authority, which is why Australian society is a bit too skeptical to fall for political firebrands and religious zealots. And for this we are luckier than Pakistan and the USA. It is from the children of the convicts, the currency lads and lasses, that Australia developed its secular tradition. It was not a gift, it was paid for in blood and poverty. Multiculturalism has undermined that secularism in as much as it has forgotten the superstition at the foundation of most religions. Perhaps we have been lucky for too long and have forgotten why.

Polluting the pool does not 'improve' the pool.          pool = = a pool of fresh water



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Ecclesiastes 7:29
Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions.


Ecclesiastes 12:13
Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.
14  For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil.


Leviticus 18:24
Defile not ye yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the nations are defiled which I cast out before you:
25  And the land is defiled: therefore I do visit the iniquity thereof upon it, and the land itself vomiteth out her inhabitants.
26  Ye shall therefore keep my statutes and my judgments, and shall not commit any of these abominations; neither any of your own nation, nor any stranger that sojourneth among you:
27  (For all these abominations have the men of the land done, which were before you, and the land is defiled;)
28  That the land spue not you out also, when ye defile it, as it spued out the nations that were before you.
29  For whosoever shall commit any of these abominations, even the souls that commit them shall be cut off from among their people.
30  Therefore shall ye keep mine ordinance, that ye commit not any one of these abominable customs, which were committed before you, and that ye defile not yourselves therein: I am the LORD your God.




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It is a mistake, to promote the idea [in a society of men] that all [ill conceived] 'consequences' 'can be dealt with', later, rather than choosing care to prevent them in the first place.
- Yadda



Jeremiah 15:19
Therefore thus saith the LORD, If thou return, then will I bring thee again, and thou shalt stand before me: and if thou take forth the precious from the vile, thou shalt be as my mouth: let them return unto thee; but return not thou unto them.


Deuteronomy 8:2
And thou shalt remember all the way which the LORD thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, and to prove thee, to know what was in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments, or no.


Psalms 9:17
The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God.



Don't ya just love bible quotes.

issuevoter wrote on Aug 31^st, 2016 at 11:05pm:


Great post