Belly your presumption that without religion multiculturalism would work is an absolute nonsense. Greed, hate immorality is deep in the heart of man. I observe how both you and Shadow Minister (both atheists or agnostics) go for each other. You are living in a dream world in denying your Maker. The Greens (socialist) are often the most violent in Australia and most of them claim no religion.

Belly. This is not like you:) Poor runner, he's just doing what comes natural, like many others:::::) MC...lol..wait until there's 10 billion people/ 50 MILLION FOR au! and you think you have something to complain about now! lol...thinking green will save you. Now apparently I'VE been elected the new god! well, I never.;0...lol but because we all live in such interesting time , dreams are for free.

See humans just cant stand each other for long periods of time, and the model " the ten rats in a box " will show that of cerntain substance, one can be seen, before the final chime of the clock:) But of all of mans greatest in-sights, he will not see this one coming. Just have fun with my posts, I mean.....If you cant trust your Governments, who can you trust;)

There's a lot of fear spreading all-over the globe, and could some-one tell me why?

Quote from a movie....The people stood at the edge of a broken world, and after all was destroyed, only then could they truely see. That always touched an inner string with me, and yet......the foolish still lead us.

MC wont work, because thats what you want. When humans can evolve in there billions from the start, then and only then, can we end it in our trillions.

Have a great evening.

BLUE



But fat chance that message is going to get through:)

Grim you ask

'So am I to understand runner, that you believe 'worthiness' (of eternal life) has nothing to do with morality or ethics?'

No you are wrong Grim. Worthiness has much to do with morality and ethics. The reality is that the Lord Jesus Christ is the Only One who can give sinful man the right standing before His Holy Father. He is and was the only Man with the morality and ethics that was not tainted by a corrupt nature. The thief on the cross did nothing but humble Himself beside the Worthy One who died beside Him. He got a free ticket to paradise. The other thief was full of mocking and self righteousness so missed out. When the Jewish Zealot Saul who was willing to kill for his faith saw the Righteous One he realised how far short of God's grace even a zealot falls. He repented of his self righteousness and realised that it was only His faith in Christ that could save him.

Poor Runner must be spending 15 minutes at the end of each day inspecting himself in a full length mirror to examine all the bruises from the 'Runner Bashers' :) man you lot love to whack Runner.

And you pick on me for picking on 'other' things ? come come.

So.. Pericles.. we disagree often.. most of the time... so.. do you "hate" me ?

Boazy/Pericles/AGiR,I doubt any one here hates you, I find your intractable waffles a bit of a problem, but do not dislike you.
Tell me, runner tells us here the greens are violent? how?
Wrestling over the last bottle of expensive plonk?
Gillard,our temporary leader, Abbott yours,both seem not to want to take on board the concerns of middle Australia.
We are and will even more pay for that.
Last night I watched a TV show , never saw it before gangs of Australia.
Saw our flag being burned , saw guns and knives and saw police butchered in our streets.
My concerns,fears, see me highlighted as xenophobic, racist,red neck, rather uninformed, but in truth my views are shared by most.
Hard to take? maybe but always and forever politicians should listen to the majority or get out of the game.

Certainly not, Boaz.

>>So.. Pericles.. we disagree often.. most of the time... so.. do you "hate" me ?<<

Whatever gave you that idea?

Let me assure you that I have never hated anyone in my entire life - it is an emotion that I have been fortunate enough never to have experienced.

I don't think there is a great deal of it on this forum, either.

Real hatred doesn't need discussion or word-play. It just is.

What I do detect though is an undercurrent of personal mental and emotional discomfort that causes people every so often to express themselves with "fear and loathing". But I usually put that down to a need for self-validation, rather than ascribe it to a form of hatred.

runner is clearly one of those people who needs the reassurance that comes from opposition. Having someone react to your posts is after all a form of recognition, and if you espouse the sort of absolutist view that he does, then he obviously derives a very specific pleasure from his views being vilified. In his eyes, it is a form of reinforcement when those he regards as sinners react to his words in such a predictable manner.

I confess too, that I use your offerings in much the same way, Boaz. You represent a position on oh-so-many issues that is the polar opposite of my own, such that I am goaded to reply simply in order to reassure myself that I still find my own position to be sound and secure.

Similarly, there are posters whose views on global conspiracies or young-earth creationism continually keep me on my toes, mentally speaking. Who knows, one day I might find a grain of truth that needs to be followed up, which without their constant stimulus, I might otherwise have missed.

But hate? Naaaah. Far too much like hard work.