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Reimmagine Australia adopting 60,000 year old culture.

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Dear Josephus,

Go back an re-read the post you cited from the previous
link you gave us. Your interpretation does not quite
gel with what you've quoted to us.
Posted by Foxy, Thursday, 16 December 2021 3:36:26 PM
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There is nothing but God.

Thinking that God might have rivals, any competing entities, anything or anywhere where He could be absent, is so ridiculous.

Everything, whatever it seems to be, is in truth God. It is only due to our limited senses and minds that we perceive reality as independent objects with separate forms and names.

All qualities too, are but manifestations of the One and only God. Different qualities all emerge from God, yet God is not bound by any of them.

Since our minds are limited and impure, we cannot conceive God with our mind.
As much as we want to worship God and thank Him for all we are and all we have, we don't know how to do it. Rare indeed is the person who is able to worship God in total abstract without imagining Him having this quality or the other - the rest, the vast majority of us, need some object or the other to represent God for us and instill some sense of reality into our prayers.

For many in the West, God is represented by the Bible, by the cross, by the holy chalice, by the bread turned body-of-Christ, etc. Anything more tangible that gives our connection with God more sense of reality.
Nobody ever suggests that we pray to a book, that we worship a chalice of wine or a piece of bread, that we think of a cross-symbol to be God. These are only representations of God. Reinforced by the positive concentrated energy of generations of worshipers, they help us direct our attention away from the mundane and toward the Divine.

For others it could be the Kaaba in Mecca, or the Torah scroll: nobody ever suggests that God is a rock or a leather scroll.

[continued...]
Posted by Yuyutsu, Thursday, 16 December 2021 5:00:30 PM
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So for aboriginals who live in nature, it is quite possible that certain animals remind them most of God, inspire them most to worship, most effective in directing their minds towards the Divine. For most of us it is hard to conceive how animals could inspire us toward God and elevate our thoughts, how animals could possibly entice anyone to be thankful to God for all He provides us with, but this is only because we live in cities, meet most animals only on screens and real animals perhaps only in zoos.

So it would be utterly silly and artificial to ask us to worship animals.
Rather, the call should be to come and live closer to nature, to smell the earth, to get out of cities, to shun excessive technology, etc.
Suppose we worship a cross, then make a wooden cross from local trees, cut roughly by our own hands rather than smoothly by machinery.

Then when we obtain food, by God's grace and not from supermarkets, when truly hungry and not overfed, we will more likely feel the urge to thank God for this food. After some generations, possibly (but not necessarily) our grand-grand-children might naturally associate the animals and plants they eat with God, and should that happen then let them worship God through that food. Nothing wrong with this if it happens naturally - for everything is God anyway!
Posted by Yuyutsu, Thursday, 16 December 2021 5:00:33 PM
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Where can I read call about this 60,000 years of Indigenous culture?
Posted by Is Mise, Thursday, 16 December 2021 5:31:56 PM
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Hi Foxy,

You're too kind, reading PBJ's opening post and having seen what is actually being presented, and given his forum record of racism, I say he purposely misrepresented the facts to put the boot into aboriginal people.

The same bloke posts this; "aboriginal mothers placed on ants nests to be eaten by ants" implying its indicative of aboriginal culture, the charmer ttbn adds; "Virtually every white observer of aboriginal life in colonial Australia remarked on the shocking mistreatment of women almost invariably found in Aboriginal tribes throughout Australia". These are the same murdering colonial savages bashed the heads off aboriginal babies with polo mallets, or cut the penis and balls off aboriginal men, just to watch them run around in agony until they bled to death! Raped and murdered aboriginal women.

Just down the road from me; Hannah Baxter and her three children died after the car they were in was set on fire by her estranged white man husband in the Brisbane suburb of Camp Hill. Hannah was taken to hospital in a critical condition but later died from her injuries, the children died at the scene. Is this White culture?

Foxy I have to stop, I might get angry.
Posted by Paul1405, Thursday, 16 December 2021 7:24:19 PM
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Paul you are denying the cultural history of an aboriginal tribe in the Northern Territory, who practised offering the second twin to the Earth. My friends Missionaries took those abandoned children in and raised them. The same tribe when a man took a wife if she did not submit to his wishes, bashed her until she did. It was cultural. You have the gall to post an abusive case that has nothing to do with culture but is criminal and compare the two. Where in Australian is this behaviour accepted as culture.

The snake in the Genesis story refers to one who promotes deceptive religion, challenging the revelation of God - "do not believe what God says". Revealing the heart of man even today - deceived by lies
Posted by Josephus, Thursday, 16 December 2021 8:37:26 PM
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