Listen To Your Elders

It appears to me that at the coming australia day celebrations we should spare a thought for that other australian citizen that we have seemingly abandoned and left to rot in a US concentration camp.

We could also have cause to mourn the passing of our independence to become a “whipping boy” for the US administration , without even having the status of statehood or even colony, we just do as we are told even if it is illegal as in the case of Guantanamo Bay prison camp and the invasion of Iraq.

Australia day has become a time when the well heeled can show off their wealth, but I’m thinking that we have less to be proud of as a nation, having abandoned our principles and belief in fair play and a fair go for every citizen.

It seems to me that it is both immoral and dangerous to keep financing private education from the public purse because it is from these sources of learning that we get the extremist views of the terrorists and racists.

I object to my taxes being used to spread the mumbo-jumbo of the religions which is basically a way to ensure that the religions maintain their control of the masses. I pay my taxes to try to spread the knowledge of the sciences and the arts and not belief in man made gods.

I can understand how gods were first introduced into the system to answer the questions that were beyond the knowledge of the early days. However, it seems rather stupid these days to believe that the earth is only 6 thousand years old, and all the other stories of the various religious books of wisdom.

Unfortunately, it would appear that the gods which were first introduced to answer questions beyond the knowledge of the day are now used to override the teachings of the prophets so that the leaders of the religions can now say, for example, that it is wrong to kill, unless it is a jew or a muslim or a christian etc. The prophets never put provisos on the teachings, it was, “thou shalt not kill” period.

I think that it would be better if people were to acknowledge the teachings of the Buddha which included the non acceptance of information blindly. Even his own teachings were open to question, blind acceptance is a denial of the power of the human intelligence which is the only thing which seperates us from the other animals.

Secular education is the only way forward to national security and cohesion between the peoples of the country and the world.

How is it that Kevin Andrews thinks it so necessary to look after the interests of the Village Theatre complex which has millions of dollars when it is not necessary to reward a loyal employee of 20 years.

An ordinary man devotes 20 years of his life to a company and then that company is under no obligation to see that he has a fair deal and a chance to continue his life in some degree of comfort as a reward for his service.

This is from a politician that at the end of his political career, soon we hope, will want a pension of several thousands of dollars a year for the rest of his miserable life. I still can’t understand how ordinary working people can vote into power these people that have never done a day of labour in their life and are prepared to screw down anyone that does have to work for a living.

This man claims to be a believer in the teachings of Jesus but hasn’t any understanding of the meaning of charity or compassion, the man, like most of his coleagues, is a monster.