individual,

Score a job in the guilt industry?

You flatter me.

"Every man is guilty of all the good
he did not do."
(Voltaire).

I wasn't aware that I was making you feel guilty.

However, if guilt leads to change then it can be useful
since it is then no longer guilt but the beginning of
knowledge. Yet all too often guilt is just another
name for impotence. It becomes a device to protect
ignorance and the continuation of things the way they are,
the ultimate protection of changelessness.

PBJ, there was no Roman census in Judea around 1AD. That's Biblical bs. Don't knock Paul, all Paul's are good blokes.

While Santa is not mentioned in the bible, the point of Xmas is to celebrate family even for an atheist like me and even for some of my Jewish friends.

As for Aboriginals Xmas is there to be enjoyed or ignored if they wish.

Other things aboriginals missed out on is written language, maths, all sciences, medicine, civilisation, agriculture, etc.

What many of them experienced was frequent wars, cannibalism, infanticide etc. and the hardships of a nomadic existence.

"Every man is guilty of all the good
he did not do."
(Voltaire).
Foxy,
Voltaire was the kind of dreamer you look up to ? I bet he never did a day's work to feed himself !

SM, how can you "miss out" on things you have never known or experienced? Did 19th century Europeans miss out on TV for example. Did pre-colonial Aboriginal people miss out on two world wars. Are we missing out on inter-galactic travel, or the wonders of "Ecocentraism" and all its fantastic benefit for mankind.

Did pre-colonial Aboriginal people miss out on two world wars.
Paul1405,
they had more than enough tribal fighting & other miserable conditions to make up !
Imagine their joy at their first cold beer or hot cuppa.
Then, the joy of getting fed & housed without having to put in any effort.
Of course I'm talking about the smart ones not the watered-down white clowns of late.