"As Paul Collins believes that Christ is God"
"we live in Commonwealth of Australia"
Which one are you arguing for? I've heard the RSL commemoration:
"they died that we may live" and RAR symbol is 2 crossed swords.

Dear Is Mise,

There's many who would agree with you that what
was preached so many centuries ago (and written
in the Holy Books) no longer applies to our current
way of life. But as we know there's also many who
believe otherwise. I guess our beliefs will
dictate our actions.

Whether we choose to destroy our civilisation or save
it is a collective decision and hopefully we may hope
and trust that our ultimate choice will be to enhance
the life on the bright and lovely planet on which
billions of us share our adventure.

'collective decision'? Which collective might that be? Democracy is constantly being circumvented by collectives and the first casualty is freedom of speech.

Proof that the pen is mightier than the sword and even more dangerous is available daily in the endless spin in the media. Where much of that misleading, manipulative spin is being generated by the media themselves, who can and do make up the news.

That is how an event that happened half a world away, in a country that is vastly different to Australia, is presently being used to frighten and threaten the public, to create public hysteria. That suits politicians who are forever seeking scare issues to direct attention away from their own mistakes, such Australia becoming one of the foremost illicit drug consuming countries of the world and still on a growth trajectory in that respect.

Or to take another example, the media's and especially the ABC's protection of Sydney's Lord Mayor Clover Moore, by turning a blind eye to the deliberate conversion of the inner suburbs of Sydney into the preserve and playground for the wealthy, 'arty' types, preferably international. Clover's Moore's 'Progressivism' (that is the exact reverse of progressive) suite the idealism of the heavily leftist (and naive) ABC's bureaucrats.

Yet Sydney could more easily follow the examples being set in the Netherlands for example, where the aged and less well to do are not being ruthlessly pushed out but are having their suburbs revitalised for them through new greater density development (cheaper living) and with community improvements to enhance their lifestyle and wellness. That is cheaper on the public purse and for ratepayers too.

Entrenched elite in Sydney,

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/nsw/lord-mayor-clover-moores-deputy-kerryn-phelps-in-shock-resignation/news-story/af323a0cf4751a248345920b9409a604

I can see that perhaps further explanation is
necessary for some. My apologies to those who've
heard all this from me in the past and understood
what I was trying to say.

A fundamental insight of sociology is that once
people no longer take their world for granted, but instead
understand the social authorship of their lives and
futures, they can become an irresistible force in history.
As I stated earlier - whether we choose to destroy our
civilisation or save it is a collective decision and it
is one that may well be made within our lifetimes. By that
I mean that if more and more nuclear weapons are built, and
if more sophisticated means of delivering them are devised,
and if more and more nations get control of these vile
devices, than we surely risk our own destruction.

If ways are found to reverse that process, then we can divert
unprecedented energy and resources to the real problems that
face us, including poverty, disease, overpopulation, injustice,
oppression, and the devastation of our natural environment.

I shall repeat that - we may hope and trust that our ultimate
choice will be to enhance the life on the bright and lovely
planet on which billions of us share our adventure.

Nuke disarmament is now the precondition for doing something about those 'Struggle Streets', drugs, poor city planning and the problems of mass immigration?

But nuke this and Trump that didn't prevent you from demanding gay marriage first and foremost. It has preoccupied Labor and Greens and the federal parliament for decades.

When will those 'Struggle Streets' and the other 'wicked' problems be getting priority? No sooner than never, where the always entitled political elite are concerned, huh?