Ultimately, however, even if this is 'just' a political ploy (I wonder how many people will be driven to commit suicide because of this sort of political 'ploy' - like those driven to suicide by the austerity measures in Greece? Or will suffer stress and exacerbation of health problems? If Abbott turns out to have done this as a ploy ), Australian voters have a role to play in this: we deserve the level of political so-called 'debate' that we get because of our lack of basic political understanding, short sightedness, selfishness, materialism, fear, xenophobia, and rampant head-up-our-backsides blind determination to party and have a 'good time'. (The sort of business views being espoused by the rich cliques associated with Abbot-Hockey et al, incidentally, are those I associate with incompetent business managers - the sort of people I try very hard not to work for.)
Lobsang Rampa wrote about this in, I think, "Chapters of Life", saying that the future leading nations would be Brazil, Australia and Canada, but only after more suffering - particularly for Australia. After the last two decades, and what I've seen in too many Australians, I think he was right.
That's not to say all Australians are like that: I know many who are keen to manifest the spiritual purposes of life, purposes such as compassion / love, maturity and responsibility, and seeking excellence.
But they're the minority, it would seem.
On a bigger scale, we had two decades (the 60s and 70s) when socially progressive things happened (I am excluding fashion sense from that assessment), and nearly half a century of conservative reactionary social engineering (including economic rationalism) since which has undone many - not all! - of those gains. Now, we have a world of haves and have-nots, a world of conflict and things like this, and in Australia, conservative reactionary attempts to allow the 'old' ways of discrimination.
Things will generally get better in the long term (meaning tens of thousands of years) - but not if we, as a species, allow the last half century of gains made by evil to continue or remain unchecked.
[2]
Please see here and my post "The
Death of Wikipedia" for the
reasons I now recommend caution when using Wikipedia. I'm also exploring use of
h2g2, although that doesn't appear to be as
extensive (h2g2 is intended - rather
engagingly - to be the Earth edition of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to
the Galaxy").
Love, light, hugs and blessings
Gnwmythr
(pronounced "new-MYTH-ear"; ... aka Bellatrix
Lux? … Morinehtar?
… Would-be drýicgan
... )
I started this blog to cover karmic
regression-rescue (see here and here), and it grew ... See here for my group mind project, here and here for my "Pagans for Peace" project (and join me
at 9 PM on Sunday, wherever you are, to meditate for peace), and here
for my bindrune kit-bag. I also strongly recommend
learning how to flame, ground
and shield, do alternate
nostril breathing, work
with colour, and see also here and be flexible.
- One size does NOT fit all.
- Don't be mediocre - seek to excel.
- Gnwmythr's Stropping Strap: Occam's Razor only works if the simplest solution is actually recognised as being the simplest, rather than the one that best fits one's bigotries being labelled 'simplest'.
- Our entire life experience, with all the many wondrous and varied people, places and events in it, is too small a sample for statistical reliability about Life.
- May the world of commerce and business be recognised to be a servant, not a master, of the lives of people.
- Ban the dream interpretation industry!
- A home is for living in, not feeling, becoming or being rich or a “better” class than others.
- Housework is for ensuring a home is comfortable to live in, not competing to outdo or belittle others.
- Being accustomed to interacting via certain rules makes those rules neither right nor universal.
- Like fire to the physical, emotions to the soul make a good servant, and a bad master.
- Expertise at intimacy and emotional happiness is generally not the same thing as spiritual growth.
- Any person, male or female, who has neither a serious health issue nor dependents and expects their partner to work to support them, is, spiritually speaking, little more than a parasite.
- "Following the crowd" is not "going with the flow".
- Armageddon is alive and well and happening right now: it is a battle between the indolence of "I only ..." and/or "I just ..." and/or "Everyone knows ... " and/or "they can ..." and what Bruce Schneier calls "security theatre" on one side, and perspicacity and the understanding that the means shape the end on the other. Indolence vs. perspicacity, and expediency vs. honour.
- The means shape the end.
- BPLF restraint of uncooperatives is NOT an opportunity for revenge or getting even - even unconsciously.
- As words can kill, the right to freedom of speech comes with a DUTY to be as well-informed, objective and balanced as you can be.
- My favourite action movie of all time is "Gandhi", although I've recently come across "Invictus" and might put that one in to that category. However, I loathe the stereotypical action movie - and, for similar reasons, I loathe many dramas, which are often emotionally violent, more so in some cases than many war films.
- All of the above - and this blog - could be wrong, or subject to context, perspective, or state of spiritual evolution ...
Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be
stronger [people].
John F. Kennedy (who was
quoting 19th Century Episcopal Bishop Phillips Brooks)
Jesus loves you. Odin wants you to grow up.
We make our decisions. And then our
decisions turn around and make us.
F.W. Boreham
Females, get over 'cute'. Get competent.
Get trained. Get capable. Get over 'cute'. And those of you who are called
Patty and Debby and Suzy, get over that. Because we use those names to
infantalise females – we keep females in their 'little girl' state by the names
we use for them. Get over it. If you want to be taken seriously, get serious.
Jane Elliott
The only thing necessary for the triumph of
evil is for good [people] to do nothing.
(based on
writing by) Edmund Burke
The significant problems we face cannot be
solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.
Albert Einstein
We didn't inherit the Earth from our
ancestors, we only borrowed it from our children
Antoine De Saint-Exupéry
Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the
personality and eats away its vital unity.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
True compassion is more than flinging a
coin to a beggar; it is not haphazard and superficial. It comes to see that an
edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Those whom we cannot stand are usually
those who we cannot understand
P.K. Shaw
Few men are willing to brave the
disapproval of their fellows, the censure of their colleagues, and the wrath of
their society. Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or
great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential, vital quality for those who
seek to change a world which yields most painfully to change.
Senator Robert F. Kennedy (US
Attorney General, 1966 Speech)
Too much and too long, we seem to have
surrendered community excellence and community values in the mere accumulation
of material things. Our gross national product ... if we should judge America
by that -- counts air pollution and cigarette advertising, and ambulances to
clear our highways of carnage. ... Yet the gross national product does not allow
for the health of our children, the quality of their education, or the joy of
their play. It does not include the beauty of our poetry or the strength of our
marriages; the intelligence of our public debate or the integrity of our public
officials. It measures neither our wit nor our courage; neither our wisdom nor
our learning; neither our compassion nor our devotion to our country; it
measures everything, in short, except that which makes life worthwhile."
Robert F. Kennedy 1968
Tags: attitudes, Australia, caring, compassion, economy, fear, governance, love, personal responsibility, politics,
First published: Fryrsdagr, 2nd May, 2014
Last edited (excluding fixing typo's and other minor matters): Friday, 2nd May, 2014
