Joe,

Talking about a "nasty piece of work?"

Altrav,

Many people around the world believe they have always been wherever they happen to be now. I remember a Samoan bloke explaining that to me.

I suppose the Uni of NSW has a geology department. Perhaps they should be teaching the many theories about the Earth. My favourite is the Burmese one which declares that the Earth is a huge plate resting on the back of four elephants. The elephants stand on the back of a giant turtle. Somebody asked, what does the turtles stand on ? The answer: it's turtles all the way down. Of course, outside the borders of Burma, the earth is variously round, flat, square and pear-shaped.

Obviously, for any sane person, the sun goes around the earth. Maybe if I lived on the moon, I would assume as obvious that the earth and the sun both revolve around the moon. The Ngarrindjeri used to believe that the moon, a young woman, travelled across the sky from one camp to another, from its rounded full-moon state at first, then as she went from camp to camp and let the blokes all have their way with her, she withered up into an old woman, until she was re-born again as a young woman. After all, it's obvious that all the stars are camp-fires of alien tribes, perhaps of departed elders. Everybody knows that.

We should respect everybody's crackpot beliefs and teach them to our kids, like so much other rubbish, so that they can take their pick. After all, there's no such thing as 'truth', it's a bourgeois concept; 'truth' is all relative. 'Knowledge' too: it's all an illusion. Nothing is true or knowable. Including this statement. And that one. And that one too.

'Science' - pah !

Joe

You carry forever the fingerprint of being
under someone's thumb.
Foxy,
If anyone is under a thumb it's you, the thumb of indoctrination & delusion !
People would take you more serious if you came up with your own ideas rather than just referencing some academic gits in some University !
Why do you never bring up links that lead to the work & statesmen/women & real, proper scholars ?
Is it out of your league to find such ?

Individual,

Poor thing, You think you know it all and have
no way of finding out - you don't!

Foxy, sweet, half-wit child,

Individual has worked for many years in Indigenous communities and has more solid experience in his little finger than you will ever have. Try to learn from such contributors. No ? Didn't think so.

So now we await your smart-arse 'rebuttal'.

Joe

Dear Foxy,

You are wasting your time trying to explain things to the likes of mhaze, Loudmouth, ttbn, individual, etc. They don't even know what a university is let alone asking them to come to grips with the epistemological underpinnings of a higher education.