mhaze,

Thanks for such a lovely post and link.

My spiritual life is important to me.
As is meditation. Rodin's sculptures
are quite awesome. I gave a copy of
"The kiss," to my husband once as an
anniversary gift.

I have a wonderful Russian icon that I
was given. As well as a sculpture of
a nun from the Daylesford Gallery.
Plus a few other treasured objects
brought from overseas.

We were given a wooden work of art as a wedding
present of - "Our Lady of the Gate of Dawn,"
by a Lithuanian artist. It is a treasured piece.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_Lady_of_the_Gate_of_Dawn

It's interesting what fills us with wonder.

Thanks ttbn for the comment on women being fooled into handing over their children to what appears to be Albanese woke universalist globalist communist childcare by convincing them to go back into the workplace and "take the power".

http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?discussion=10272#354765

Wise power is knowing when to take it and when to delegate it- and when others are more suited to it. Seemingly communists telling women how well they weild power so they can take it from them. Sounds like the Aesop's Fable of "The Fox and the Crow with the cheese" when the Fox convinces the Crow to sing and drop the cheese.

http://fablesofaesop.com/the-fox-and-the-crow.html

As others have said men and women are a form of division of labour but the family needs both for optimal survivability. Two parents- male and female to bring up children. Even better is an extended family to provide childcare, education, continuity, belonging, a sense of inter-generationality, importance and influence within the local community.

Kudos Kid,

Like the Old Fart, your stupidity knows no bounds; "woke universalist globalist communist" what a contrived ridiculous description of something or someone who doesn't actually exist. Are you are member of some mini cell of nut jobs who believe such rubbish? There can be no other explanation for such nonsense!

I've provided some links (not all I agree with) here to clarify terms...

woke= woke-washing and woke capitalism seemingly coined to describe the conduct of persons or entities who virtue-signal support for socialist / communist/ globalist "power" rather than working toward genuine sustainable support of disadvantaged.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woke

universalist= those that believe in forcing principles on cultures without regard to cultural context and possibly to genocidally destroy cultures.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universalism

globalist= those that believe in global government (could be Locke Liberalism, Global Totalitarian Free Tradism, Global Communism such as "Communist International" COMINTERN) that disenfranchises local people from their cultural heritage of territory, built environment, cultural space, and similar.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Globalism

communist= Those that believe in the principles of communism. Although truth can be in the eye of the beholder- you can see that a person or organisation seems to embody the elements of communism even if that person or organisation doesn't identify with communism themselves. Given the horror connected with Marxist Communism many try to distance themselves with Marxist Communism at least in public or in the name of Communism. Given Marxism's connection with horror it's possible for those identified as Marxist's to take out legal defamation proceedings against the identifiers- so it's important to compare and not accuse a person or organisation- to avoid being sued. While there are a few types of Communism in common parlance it often refers to Marxism and it's derivatives.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communism
There appear to be links between Marxism and the Feminist movement.

Dear Paul,

I've read an interesting article recently that's worth a read:

"Political labels are a farce."

http://iai.tv/articles/political-labels-are-a-farce-auid-2090

We're told that one of the main reasons that public discourse
is so unproductive and hostile these days is that people are
thinking about politics all wrong.

That our society seems to be under the mass delusion that
there is just one issue in politics and that everyone can
be placed on a left-right spectrum, depending upon
where they stand on a given issue.

"Communists" on the far left. "Moderates" in the middle.
"Conservatives" on the right. and "Fascists" on the far-right,
and so on.

We're told that -

In politics, as in any other complex realm, there are thousands
of issues and an infinite number of ways to think about them.

Yet many of our news outlets, social media
commentators, public intellectuals, academics, and some on this
forum, are convinced that there is simply one issue, and they
form all of their political discussions around this assumption.

Of course the labels and concepts they use to discuss and think
about politics are misleading as well, causing widespread
misunderstanding and hostility,

They've become incapable of seeing a political reality that is
multidimensional because they are captured by a model that is
one dimensional.

Something to think about.

Hi Foxy,

Interesting article by Hyrum Lewis, thanks for that. The Kudos Kid who has a fixation with the subject of Communism (has made reference on the forum at least 500 times) and likes to labels all kind of people "Communists", your're a Communist, I'm a Communist. Notice he's very careful not to give anything away about himself, maybe he thinks we'll brand him a Communist as well! I don't think he is WOKE, more likely WANK.