Is Mise,

I've had to go against all kinds of people through
the years just to be myself.

Her Majesty the Queen however was not one of them.

Foxy,
Then we can take it thar you don’t admit that you denigrated the Queen by saying that we could do better than what we have?

Dear Foxy,

I must be so thick-headed - can you please help me find in the text how things could improve for me?

As it stands, only the government harasses me, I live in fear of them but not of the good Queen who never harassed or threatened me in word or deed, and I believe not even in thought.

Should the proposal go ahead, government would still be harassing me, while the head-of-state could not possibly harass me any less than the blessed Queen (because Her level of harassment is zero, can't go less). Moreover, according to this proposal they will have no power to kick out even the most evil prime-minister, which the Queen currently can.

So may you show a dull-headed like me what my own eyes cannot find?

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Dear Yuyutsu,

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You wrote :

« I consider the world to be a school, where we receive whatever lessons are necessary for our growth, rather than as a goal unto itself where anything needs to be achieved »

I replied :

« Well said, Yuyutsu. I agree : life apparently has no purpose – nor does nature, other than its own preservation, adaptation, evolution, and continuance »

And you answered :

« You claim to agree, but that is not what I said. What I said is that life HAS a purpose - to be a school. The purpose of a school is not to preserve the school-building, nor to keep the students in forever. Individuals come and go, entering as children and coming out as adults »
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The world is “the earth, together with all of its countries, peoples, and natural features” (OED), and a school is an institution, “an institution for educating children” (OED). I found your idea that “the world [is] a school” – i.e., that “all nature embodied in the Earth and everything with it (including all forms of life) is a school” – poetic, original, and interesting.

You went on to specify that “the school” (is) “where we receive whatever lessons are necessary for our growth, rather than a goal unto itself where anything needs to be achieved”.

If “the school” does not have “a goal unto itself where anything needs to be achieved”, that signifies that it has no purpose.

And as we agreed that “the world [is] a school” – i.e., that “all nature embodied in the Earth and everything with it (including all forms of life) is a school”, I replied :

« Well said, Yuyutsu. I agree life apparently has no purpose – nor does nature, other than its own preservation, adaptation, evolution, and continuance ».

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(Continued …)

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(Continued …)

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You now affirm that “life HAS a purpose - to be a school”, whereas you previously indicated that you considered “the world to be a school” – the” world” meaning “all nature embodied in the Earth and everything with it (including all forms of life).

In summary, if I correctly understand your reasoning, Yuyutsu, life is a school and that is its purpose, but the school of life has no purpose (no “goal unto itself where anything needs to be achieved”).

Please forgive me for saying so, Yuyutsu, but that is about as clear as mud.

Would you please be so kind as to enlighten me ?

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If a majority of Australians confirms that it wishes to keep our old colonial Constitutional Monarchy intact with the British Crown as our head of state, the least we could do would be to negotiate a pact of reciprocity with the UK to permanently install a true-blue Australian dynasty as the head of state in the UK.

That thought brings to mind the long-standing relationship between the House of Windsor in the UK and the Namatjiras in Australia.

The relationship began in the 1940s when Albert Namatjira sent Queen Elizabeth one of his landscape paintings to celebrate her 21st birthday. Then in 1954, he met the Queen and Prince Philip in Canberra. The Duke was clearly impressed and privately purchased more of his paintings and several done by one of his sons.

In 2013 it was the turn of the grandchildren, Lenie and Kevin Namatjira, to visit Buckingham palace and present the Queen with their paintings - the third generation of Namatjiras in the Royal collection.

What could be more fitting than for a venerable dynasty of the Western Aranda people in the heart of Australia to assume the prestigious role as head of state of the UK ?

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