Paul1405,
Is calling people racist your only alternative when you have no answer, it certainly looks like it !
I imagine you'd call your own mother racist if she disagreed with your insipid mentality !

Indy, you attack pre-colonial aboriginal people as living in "miserable conditions" without any evidence, then go on to say they must have enjoyed the whiteman's alcohol, a poison inflicted on aboriginals by the European. If anyone were living in miserable conditions it was the majority of Europeans. You denigrate aboriginal people on the Forum at every oppertunity. When I call your racism out you get all defensive. I suggest you came to Australia after living in miserable conditions yourself, but you won't say, you emigrated to escape a sh!t hole created by your "tribe", and that's understandable.

You most likely don't see yourself as a racists, which many racists don't. If I constantly attacked Jews in the negative way you attack aboriginals then it would be fair to say I am racists against Jews.

Paul1405,
Deceit & twisting truth are your trade mark ! When did I ever attack indigenous people?
If you're too stupid or too integrity-devoid that you call telling facts racism than you'd be better off going to an indigenous community & strut your stuff there. Buy a return ticket because you'll need it in less than a week !

Indy, we are all living on aboriginal country, what makes you special. Where's the evidence that pre-colonial aboriginals were living in "miserable conditions". I'll agree post colonization many aboriginals were living in miserable conditions, but that was thanks to the European.

I say your tribe turned your home into a sh!t hole with miserable living conditions, and that caused you to flee to Australia. Can't deny it, so think of your own circumstance before bucketing on others.

Nathan,

It is frustrating when some posters veer right of your topic, just so they can carry on pointless arguments among themselves. I say 'pointless' because nobody has ever changed his/her mind since I have been on OLO, and that's pretty close to the time it started. People don't change their core beliefs. All the back and forth, the citing of references that prove nothing except that somebody else thinks the same way as the querulous poster thinks - often where they got their idea in the first place - is a waste of time and effort.

How on earth your subject 'Santa yes, but no to God' was twisted around to Australian aborigines I can't even begin to imagine.

I often disagree with you, but I'm with you on this. Not that it will make any difference of course.

Hi Nathan,

Discussions do often wonder off on a tangent.
In this discussion the talk centred on myths
and mythology beginning with Santa, going on to
the Easter Bunny, and Individual raising the
topic of The Rainbow Serpent and Aboriginal
beliefs and thus explanations were given.
All of these topics were inter-related.
And made for a broader discussion.

In future though if you want to limit your
discussion to your set of beliefs only then
perhaps you should make that quite clear in
your opening post.