Bazz,

Yes I know how it works. All of your details are sent straight to Beijing where they will assign a number and threat category against your name and arrange for one of the millions of Chinese in Australia to keep an eye on you.

When you walked into that cafe you unknowingly took 20 years off your life.

Bazz, the shackles placed on women in particular by organised religions, I see why god is defiantly a man. Monotheism religions, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam have much to answer for. Some adherents to all three of these religions can at times be rather intolerant, hateful, nasty people and nothing is more evident of that than among some of the most devout within Islam. The problems arise when religion is used as a political weapon to suppress and control the majority by way of perverting their thinking through that religion. The first thing the religious elite do to take control is subvert education of the mass by denying it to the majority, particularly females, but males as well, keeping them ignorant will keep them poor, and then control through religion is possible, Christianity did it extensively in the past, but as the necessity for modern education become the norm, Christianity lost much of it political influence, although it still has a significant say in the largest Christian country, America. Today the state of Israel, often has difficulty enacting secular laws giving equality in the face of fundamental orthodox religious opposition. The orthodox are fighting a losing battle in my opinion because of the high levels of education within that state, religion cannot defeat education.

It is interesting if you look at another great "religion" of the World, Buddhism, and its approach to the problems of humanity as opposed to that of the monotheism religions. Buddhism although somewhat conservative has an entirely different approach with entirely different (good) outcomes.

At the moment I am brushing up my reading on Christianity, Geoffrey Blainey, 'A Short History of Christianity' makes for a good start, its anything but "short", and a couple of other books as well.

Paul1405,
So, all your knowledge is from reading books ? All clear to us now ! Suspected it since Day 1 but now you confirmed it personally !

Indy, reading books is only part of my life experience, I find a good array of reading material at my local library. You should join, people such as you are also catered for with picture books for the illiterate. You could even join the group 'Stories For Littlies' read by one of the mothers. Me thinks its 'Noddy and Bigears' this week, you'll enjoy that one.