Dear OUG,

You are so warm and wise, and one cool dude.

I will miss your other-worldliness and totally unique expression if OLO heads have their way.

You see through the facades.

Don't stop.

I wish you much luck with your latest challenge.

Kind regards,

Constance

A good starting point for changing the world, would be to identify some cars with foglights on while there is no fog, drag the drivers out of their vehicles by the hair and bash them senseless with a 3 iron.

Dear UOG: I am very happy to see the changes in you so quickly. I apologize if I have judged you wrongly. It is not my position to as I do not know you in person. Keep up the good work, believe in yourself. Everything happens for a reason.

Your typing skills have improved tremendously. If anyone says now they can't get you, they need to go back to school.

Fight in what you believe in. We all know how wrong the system is. We need more people like you: brave enough to stand up to the crap.

Take it easy, you have lots of supporters here. Share, express, and you are making a difference! :)

Hi Jinny and OUG. Am learning a great deal by your conversations. A couple of things baffling me. If a person feels genuinely sorry for another's attitude or view/outlook of a situation, being genuinely compassionate, how is it a put down to that person?

The other query: how is anyone an outcast living in Australia? How do you OUG perceive to be an 'outcast'? I have never looked at another person regardless of addictions, criminal history or lack of assets, or a loner, as an 'outcast'. I had no idea people thought of themselves as 'outcasts' living in Australia.

There is no 'caste' system in existence here.

Kindest wishes.

unique break down the question

quote<<If a person feels genuinely sorry>>
only acts of helping them
ie feeding housing clothing education them
[actually changing the problem into solution]

expresses your being truelly empathetic

not judging them lesser beings
but only equals being given [freely] 'help'

did they ask for sympathy or help

if we 'judge' ..<<for another's attitude>>
thats only your opinion

do you have the facts /experience they had or are having
to reach their situation needing more than opinion?

recall our opinions are rooted in the facts
revealed in OUR life

you might not have had their experience [yet]
thus empathise in ignorance
making arrant hasty opinionated 'judgment'

judging not empathising

<<or view/outlook>>
thats only your vieuw
not theirs

are you looking down
or looking up
or from the same level?

the same level is impossable
as we all have had different lives /experience
that formed differing opinions life circumstances

different awarness
different learnings
different hates loves

different fears biasies
differing life situations
divergent status or lack of status

we empathise from.. <<of a situation>>
unlike but presumably better-than we judge theirs,

<<being genuinely compassionate,how is it a put down to that person?>>

did they ask for help
or sympathy

did they indeed ask for anything
yet we judged them ''poor you'

that was either a presumption
[if you didnt seek to help]

or a judgment
if we presume them to 'need' our opinion

us thinking our opinion can help
is only an opinion

its just/ not actually helping any-thing
but our selves to feel good

about not physiclly helping
not physicly doing/ giving a physical solution
only metal solace opinion
in lue of physical assistance

<<how ..outcast living in Australia? >>

think of ab-origonals living in exile
herded into town camps herded onto islands

the homeless living under bridges
the drunk leaning on the bar
[at opening time]

those osolated into the suburbs
without anything but a tv set
unable to afford the electicity for a warm bath

its easy to feel excluded even in a crowd
or excluded from a converasation
or not being heard

<<How do you OUG perceive to be an 'outcast'?>>
i cast my self
out of being type-cast
changing myself to fit in
pretend to be something i could never be

take spelling as a weak egsample
i could spell check
yet still be revealed as ignorant
because i still cant use the other commas full-stops etc

there is also the matter of individual...un-educated-ness
to be considerd..

i cant tell my
'/'...from my..'\'
nor my"*" from my'^'

and its not cause im dumb..

but just never have been taught/..
what they mean
or how they are used

for that matter '....'
i think reads like errr or ummm

but i use it them
to divide one point from the next

often i seek to expand.... upon a previous point
by using a slash '/' or a ./.
to indicate an aternative ...or expaned point

or 'breakup' one word [break-up]
or join two from [one-word]

i use these devisices...for clarity
or to rebut specific-points

as many realise/.. im illiterate..

but doing the best i can
within the limitations of my lack of education
while trying to remain clear
and within the rules

anyhow its hard to change your writing style
[but i have had to do it so often

i dont have any style what so ever
[or should those 3 words be one word

[whatsoever] or be hyphenated? [what-so-ever]
but that looks funny [wrong to me]

so i write it [what?so-ever]
or what!-so_ever]

eventally settling on
what_ever



<<There is no 'caste' system in existence here>>

tell that to a
abo
dero
druggie

addict
pensioner
single mother

homeless person
indiginous person

welfare recipiant
refuse regugegee

detainee
the accused