we are unique: You can't change how a person feels and think. You need to accept that. It is their right to express what they feel. Whether right or wrong, this is where we are now. OUG feels like an outcast because he is/was subjected to unfair treatment and injustice by the system. It is his believe. He is entitled to that. Every single being have rights to their decisions in life. OUG seems to be very passionate about everyone/thing else. That much that he has forgotten about caring and looking after himself.

We have no one to blame except ourselves in the end. If we did not try hard enough, if we allowed ourselves to be hurt, abused, used, sad, upset, stressed, negative, controlled. This is our life. We always have a choice, a choice to live it to the fullest, or we can choose to live in the past, never growing, never experiencing, wasting your life away because of the present world we live in.

The secret to have a great life, is in YOU, you yourself. Not the government, not your love ones, it is in yourself. When you can see that clearly as I can, everything will fall into place, everything will make sense. You will then understand, why it is, how it is....

Hope everyone is having a blast of a weekend! :) Cheer

Hi OUG

I can understand where you are coming from in relation to the questions I posed. Half of those labels you listed I have been there and experienced; however my point is that it is how 'one' [ourselves] view ourselves/soul that is [my opinion/my reality/fact].

This attitude, about ourselves, ie whether we are outcasts, comes from within ourselves is my point. Other peoples labelling or opinions are irrelevant and false.

For instance, for each, at the time, negative experience I have worked my way through, from being semi-illiterate, non tertiary qualified, a single and destitute mother, a welfare recipient, homeless, etc, my faith in God and praying for assistance, has allowed me to realise that I am not a victim, not an outcast, not any lesser of a human being within society, than any other person, therefore, neither is any other person an outcast, totally illiterate or a lone single mother or welfare recipient. These situations vary and if observing these labels closely, they do not in fact exist. It is how we view ourselves at any given time.

I stand up for the rights of the downtrodden in society a great deal emotionally and physically, part of the unpaid work I do is sharing with those people who are experiencing hardships, primarily children, teenagers and parents, in part, assisting them to feel, that they are not a victim, nor an outcast or any lesser of a human being than any other person.

There is no such thing as an outcast; only a person's viewpoint [opinion/labelling] of another, and/or a person's lack of self esteem [viewpoint of themselves]during certain low periods of time within their lives as a result of experiences.

Words/opinions/viewpoints made to another, if expressed genuinely, and if that person has experienced the same issue, for the most part, can be highly beneficial to the person who feels a victim.

If God does not label, why should we label others or label ourselves?

Thank you Jinny for your comments. My viewpoints are my own as are yours and others.

OUG

In relation to the things regarding change and improvement of our system to benefit other Australians. I have contributed greatly [my opinion] to changing both private and government systems over 30 years during the course of both my work and personal journey, at times, risking employment at various places [while working within the law], to better Australians working and private lives.

As do many other Australians.

I do not consider myself an outcast, rebel or crusader opposing or suggesting changes to Acts/Legislation/government and private processes when my objective is to assist other Australians in improving their conditions.

We are all equal [regardless of assets] home shelter education food intellect, and we all suffer, at various times in our lives, for a reason [reasons that God is fully aware of: a 'higher reason']. I have always seen my life journey this way, especially enduring hardships.

One of those 'higher reasons' was to give me genuine compassion and empathy for others who are experiencing the similar hardships I have endured, in order to assist them.

Words and opinions do assist others OUG and sometimes the firmer words and messages conveyed to others, as you would know, are required on occasions, in order for people to treat themselves equally

OUG,

Last comment for tonight, your writing style has never bothered me and I have noticed not bothered the majority of people responding to your beautiful intelligent contributions here on OLO.

There is great room for improvement expressing myself when writing, therefore disregard your english and writing style as a problem for people. It is not.

People soon catch on to the context and points that posters are contributing if the subjects interest them and they wish to participate.

Most people fully comprehend both yours and Belly's issues, writing and writing styles. More than you both realise!

For those who are interested, it was me who complained about OUG. This site has rules which govern our interactions and one of those rules is that the word limit is 350 per post. I go to some trouble to edit my contributions to fall within that limit while remaining coherent and cogent and I am fed up with watching OUG deliberately flaunt it to write gibberish.

I hope that oug can learn from this and change his "style" as he puts it to one which is both readable and compliant with the rules. Rational content would be nice, but I'm flexible. Obviously some people feel he has something to say worth reading.

Dear Antiseptic,

Seems that you are giving yourself a huge pat on the back for having relieved the forum of what you obviously consider to be blatantly eccentric, unreadable, non-compliant and wanton "rule-breaking".
You appear to be what writer, Tom Hodgkinson, refers to as a "botherer" (closely related to self-important puritans). Botherers go through life sniffing the wind for any behaviour that deviates from that which is prescribed or that transgress certain unwritten sensibilities.
So OUG was technically posting outside the rules - so what? Was he hurting anyone?
I think this has more to do with your unease at people who don't conform than anything of more profound value