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» 7/05/2024 10:56:26 PM Dear Random, Until the 6th of October 2023, Israel was on the brink of a civil war with p.....
» 7/05/2024 1:17:11 PM 70 years old dancer, Louis Har, is now back dancing after being taken hostage by Hamas and.....
» 1/05/2024 4:27:16 PM Dear Foxy, "it isn't fashionable to trust Palestinians, any Palestinians." So .....
» 1/05/2024 1:37:56 PM Dear Ttbn, «Slaughtered, raped and mutilated by cowardly hyenas just because of their rel.....
» 1/05/2024 7:52:16 AM Dear Mhaze, It is not possible to watch the clip you pointed at which demands to first &q.....
» 29/04/2024 6:20:17 PM The workforce has not changed - the workforce was newly created. Beforehand, people just .....
» 28/04/2024 7:41:12 PM Dear Critic, «Was I wrong to comply?» Going along with sensible and life-saving medical .....
» 28/04/2024 5:45:36 PM Dear Ttbn, «The Covid years saw Australians under the yoke of the most authoritarian rest.....
» 28/04/2024 5:22:46 PM Dear Foxy, «eSafety will not be threatening your freedom to communicate.» My personal fr.....
» 28/04/2024 1:14:30 PM Dear Critic, You Are right, I can only do what I can, I cannot get everyone to agree and .....
» 27/04/2024 7:56:23 PM Dear Foxy, I have no objection that those who prioritise online safety organise themselve.....
» 26/04/2024 5:39:54 PM Dear Bezza, «I do not think that just anyone can make their own cipher system, unless som.....
» 26/04/2024 3:59:45 PM Dear Ttbn, «The woman is actually threatening to MINIMISE WHAT WE CAN SEE.» She only obe.....
» 26/04/2024 10:04:16 AM Dear Ttbn, «Big Sister and Albanese are out to remove our basic rights» As long as you t.....
» 26/04/2024 6:58:11 AM Dear Critic, Yes, the Australian government is trying to silence Australians who tell the.....
» 26/04/2024 3:14:16 AM Dear Ttbn, It has been long since I stopped differentiating between political parties - a.....
» 25/04/2024 5:25:55 PM Dear Bezza, Those who want to encrypt their communications can and will always be able to.....
» 24/04/2024 8:30:07 PM Dear Ttbn, «'Safe' in Australia now means 'ignorant' of what the government is up to.» '.....
» 24/04/2024 1:27:38 PM Nobody owes anyone a permanent-residence: Permanent-residence is an entry form of acceptin.....
» 24/04/2024 1:13:56 PM All it is, is sending sequences of electric 0's and 1's down a wire. Governments should ne.....
» 23/04/2024 9:24:02 AM Dear Ttbn, «I take it that SMFS is a self managed super fund.» Yes, so here is another c.....
» 22/04/2024 2:06:06 PM Yes, it's all bad enough and I am glad that I won't have to remain in this terrible world .....
» 20/04/2024 7:02:43 PM Dear Critic, Your last comment is well balanced and I agree with everything you said ther.....
» 19/04/2024 4:05:10 PM Dear Critic, «Take note that I did NOT say 'Will wipe ISRAEL off the face of the earth'. .....
» 19/04/2024 12:43:40 PM Dear Critic, «You said the other day there was none, and I'd already seen the footage.» .....
» 19/04/2024 10:50:19 AM Thank you Alon for your words of wisdom. --- Dear Critic, «The correct word here is not.....
» 19/04/2024 10:12:35 AM Dear Critic, «To free up space, Ben-Gvir suggests executing Palestinian detainees» No su.....
» 19/04/2024 10:12:31 AM Dear Critic, «Israel is not going to stop with it's hubris until it gets smacked across t.....
» 18/04/2024 5:27:44 AM Dear Ipso Fatso, Yes, the next score by Israel is diplomatic: Israel is successfully conv.....
» 17/04/2024 9:06:20 AM Dear Paul, To begin with, I do not believe the "three Abrahamic religions" to a.....
» 16/04/2024 10:18:07 PM Dear Critic, «Do you think they were just going to take the degrading treatment of the Is.....
» 16/04/2024 9:27:28 PM Dear Paul, Indeed, Islam has no problem with Jews and indeed the whole Middle-East situat.....
» 16/04/2024 5:14:14 PM Social cohesion is a tool in the hands of the regime in its wish subdue us for eternity. .....
» 15/04/2024 5:34:48 PM Dear Paul, «That was all done without any official orders from Berlin.» Unlike the Wehrm.....
» 14/04/2024 9:55:28 PM Dear Paul, «What there is evidence for, and its undisputed fact, tens of thousands of Pal.....
» 14/04/2024 2:24:23 PM Dear Ttbn, «The U.S is involved in shooting them down.» And Britain too, but many thanks.....
» 14/04/2024 10:12:59 AM Dear Ttbn, No, the wars would not have ended without Netanyahu, but they would become muc.....
» 14/04/2024 9:20:00 AM As I write, these very minutes, Jordanian fighter jets are shooting down Iranian drones ta.....
» 12/04/2024 4:32:59 PM Dear Ttbn, «Who will be more successful than Netanyahu?» Practically anyone, even your h.....
» 12/04/2024 12:40:01 PM I agree with this article: Netanyahu is a monster and Israel's greatest enemy, possibly ev.....
» 10/04/2024 9:08:21 AM Yes Bezza, the wars in the Middle East will go on, militant Islam is not going to disappea.....
» 9/04/2024 1:04:47 PM Dear Paul, So long as you keep speaking of "Zionist death squads", nobody is go.....
» 9/04/2024 8:48:18 AM Dear Foxy, «I am beginning to be unable to watch the TV programs of the news. The images .....
» 8/04/2024 11:49:14 PM Dear Maverick, What I read is that Israel used overall more explosives than in World-War-.....
» 8/04/2024 7:27:53 PM It looks like AI did not help Israel. AI located the kind of targets it was programmed to.....
» 8/04/2024 9:25:44 AM Dear Critic, Whatever happened 76 years ago, while we could keep analysing it ad nauseam .....
» 7/04/2024 9:06:53 AM Dear Paul, «The "quick as you can" report by a couple of biased ex IDF people i.....
» 6/04/2024 10:17:45 PM Dear Paul, «I wouldn't want to be a member of any organisation, political, social or reli.....
» 6/04/2024 9:57:08 PM Dear Critic, I am in pains when Israel does wrong things. I am in great pains when consc.....
» 5/04/2024 5:34:34 PM Dear Ttbn, «If it were not for Netanyahu and the IDF, all Israelis would be "gutted&.....
» 5/04/2024 2:04:52 PM One more possibility, now circulating in Israel, is that information as if the convoy cons.....
» 5/04/2024 1:52:30 PM Dear Nathan, There is no way to understand and explain Israel's poor performance in this .....
» 5/04/2024 7:16:34 AM Dear Paul, «the facts are clear, this was a premeditated war crime» Possibly and if so, .....
» 5/04/2024 7:10:46 AM Dear Paul, «they considered themselves religious, and that's all that matters.» To you, .....
» 5/04/2024 4:51:48 AM Dear Banjo Paterson, «He indicated that the vehicles had a clearly visible WCK logo on th.....
» 4/04/2024 9:51:25 PM Regardless of what happened or did not happen in Gaza, AI should be banned and overall the.....
» 4/04/2024 7:54:50 PM Dear Paul, «The evidence is growing that this was a premeditated Zionist attack on innoce.....
» 4/04/2024 7:25:58 PM Dear Josephus, Of course you are allowed to have your own opinions, this is OLO after all.....
» 4/04/2024 12:35:22 PM Dear Josephus, «Gender ideology is part of the issue that Christian Churches and religiou.....
» 4/04/2024 11:44:17 AM Dear Ttbn, «Israel is going to continue doing what it is until Israel, and only Israel, i.....
» 4/04/2024 9:50:13 AM So you are out only when convenient, Foxy? --- Dear Josephus, Foxy has been adding new .....
» 3/04/2024 1:13:17 PM I also was shocked to hear about this terrible event. The convoy was shot by an unmanned .....
» 3/04/2024 12:39:22 PM Dear Foxy, «For your information:» This is not for my information, this is in attempt to.....
» 2/04/2024 3:56:57 PM Dear Foxy, Earlier you asked us seemingly innocent "Should" questions - "S.....
» 2/04/2024 12:39:14 PM Dear Josephus, «we must accept rainbow beliefs in our churches ans schools otherwise we a.....
» 2/04/2024 8:13:03 AM Dear Ttbn, Elections in Israel are likely to be held in January 2025. The present war sho.....
» 2/04/2024 4:55:53 AM Dear Banjo Paterson, Thank you very much for the trouble you have taken to help me! Now .....
» 1/04/2024 4:51:56 PM Dear Foxy, Nobody is holding you responsible, not everyone is designed to be a teacher, n.....
» 1/04/2024 1:29:22 PM Dear Foxy, «If there are elections - and a weakened Haredim - then maybe change will happ.....
» 1/04/2024 1:21:05 PM Dear Foxy, «No. My posts are quite clear.» Your posts may be clear, but they do not addr.....
» 1/04/2024 11:45:23 AM Dear Foxy, «They're all inter-connected threads of the same tapestry. As the title tells .....
» 1/04/2024 11:35:20 AM Thank you Nathan for introducing this topic. I am having harsh discussions about it with .....
» 1/04/2024 11:09:31 AM Dear Foxy, This discussion started off about religious freedoms, with a particular stress.....
» 1/04/2024 10:40:06 AM Dear Ttbn, Underground just means underground. Buried from the prying eyes of enemies, bu.....
» 1/04/2024 10:00:52 AM Dear Josephus, It is not nice to make assumptions about people and try to guess their int.....
» 31/03/2024 9:58:47 PM Dear Paul, Firstly, Lucifer is not mentioned in the Bible. Isaiah 14 actually refers to a.....
» 31/03/2024 4:46:37 PM Dear Paul, Thank you for your good questions. With objects, indeed for two objects to co.....
» 31/03/2024 3:53:00 PM Dear Paul, Fine, I understand, but this still does not explain your specific claim that &.....
» 31/03/2024 3:03:43 PM Dear Paul, Fine, I understand, but why did you say that "when given the chance this .....
» 31/03/2024 10:06:07 AM Dear Foxy, «There is no such thing as unlimited freedom to do whatever you want.» By ris.....
» 31/03/2024 6:14:37 AM Dear Paul, «Possibly beginning with a false premise; the existence of a god or gods.» We.....
» 30/03/2024 11:18:08 PM Dear Banjo Paterson, «the fastest-growing religion in Australia identified over the two l.....
» 30/03/2024 10:12:32 PM Dear Ttbn, «If this right to choose is lost, there will be no reason to keep Christian sc.....
» 30/03/2024 7:54:58 PM «All over the world people face inequality, discrimination, violence, injustice and cruelt.....
» 29/03/2024 6:02:05 PM Dear Indyvidual, I would rather hear from Paul himself - his claim is intriguing......
» 29/03/2024 4:52:18 PM Dear Foxy, Nice thoughts, but are you sure you posted them on the correct thread? What &.....
» 29/03/2024 10:24:33 AM Dear Foxy, «The overwhelming majority of non-government schools are faith- based and comm.....
» 29/03/2024 8:01:15 AM Dear Paul, «hard to be at liberty when given the chance this mob would most likely lock u.....
» 28/03/2024 2:40:22 PM It is so sad when politicians openly advise each other how to cut corners to gain quick tr.....
» 28/03/2024 7:34:14 AM Dear Mhaze, «But but but...you'd just got through saying taxation was introduced when mon.....
» 27/03/2024 9:58:42 PM Nevertheless, it is wrong to assume that people prefer one party over another when they ma.....
» 27/03/2024 9:28:03 PM Dear Foxy, «I wish that all the schools in this country, in all their diversity, were sim.....
» 27/03/2024 2:18:18 PM «Yuyutsu, the money the government has is what it took from the citizenry. Its not their m.....
» 27/03/2024 1:32:23 PM Dear Mhaze, «I also live in hope that there'll come a time when people realise that just .....
» 27/03/2024 6:11:32 AM With visions like Banjo Paterson's, where the principle of secularity is made sacred, we m.....
» 26/03/2024 11:11:46 PM Dear Ttbn, «Christians and Jews have always been exposed to hatred and ignorance, and per.....
» 26/03/2024 5:53:30 PM Dear Foxy, I fully agree with your last post: Let us have no funding and no restrictions......
» 26/03/2024 11:57:31 AM Dear Paul, «A politician not only has to represent those who voted for them, but also tho.....
» 26/03/2024 11:39:29 AM Dear Foxy, «Discrimination is endemic in religious schools and organisations around Austr.....
» 26/03/2024 6:52:49 AM Dear Paul, If indeed some 80-90% of the population value stability, then stability will r.....
» 26/03/2024 5:33:55 AM Dear Banjo Paterson, «It would be anti-constitutional to “build a community of faith by g.....
» 25/03/2024 1:20:01 PM [...continued] «As for 'the Right To Discriminate?'» Without discrimination we would not.....
» 25/03/2024 1:19:58 PM Dear Critic, You made lots of good questions, let's see: «Is the 'right to religion' rea.....
» 25/03/2024 7:53:09 AM Dear Ttbn, «We already have freedom of religion.» Well yes, we retain our freedom to pra.....
» 24/03/2024 9:27:49 PM Dear Foxy, In answer to your questions: «Should religious school have the right to discr.....
» 24/03/2024 9:14:42 AM Dear Ttbn, China is communist in name only. That does not detract from its totalitarian,.....
» 23/03/2024 10:39:21 PM Dear Ttbn, In the above countries, no TTR can even help - the transaction itself is forbi.....
» 23/03/2024 8:01:38 PM Dear Ttbn, Most European countries, and Israel. http://www.evz.de/en/shopping-internet/c.....
» 23/03/2024 7:48:22 PM Dear Ttbn, Indeed, we are in great trouble. One thing that we can do, is to let our frie.....
» 23/03/2024 7:39:07 PM Dear Indyvidual, «Why have an Immigration Department at immense cost when...» I fully ag.....
» 22/03/2024 11:38:15 AM I agree with Ateday. I do support the reduction in and eventual elimination of the use of.....
» 22/03/2024 9:00:17 AM Good Morning Ttbn, «Public servants are just that - servants. I used to be one. Public se.....
» 21/03/2024 5:08:50 PM Dear Canem Malum, You presented a very interesting hypothesis - are you aware of the impl.....
» 21/03/2024 7:36:50 AM Not me!.....
» 20/03/2024 11:05:23 AM Dear Ttbn, «Not your personal take on morality.» Regarding morality, there are no three w.....
» 20/03/2024 8:10:44 AM Dear Ttbn, «Sovereign governments have the right to decide who enters their countries» T.....
» 20/03/2024 5:49:09 AM Dear Alan, A two-state solution? I doubt the "Palestinians" will ever accept i.....
» 20/03/2024 5:34:58 AM Dear Paul, «A past wrong, and given the context of the time it probably wasn't a wrong fo.....
» 19/03/2024 4:15:09 PM Dear Indyvidual, «I have no doubt that many of the settlers would have tried until the re.....
» 19/03/2024 4:03:38 PM I mostly agree with the article. However, some of the suggested measures are impractical:.....
» 19/03/2024 6:37:24 AM The author presents a revolutionary idea: "The challenge is to manage and facilitate.....
» 18/03/2024 10:14:52 PM Dear Indyvidual, «btw. which group has had the most positive impact in your opinion.» We.....
» 18/03/2024 1:03:32 PM Dear Indyvidual, Your last three posts as well as the responses they received, are comple.....
» 17/03/2024 12:42:33 PM Dear Ttbn, "Where one or both parents are Australian citizens or a permanent residen.....
» 17/03/2024 12:28:35 PM Dear Critic, I got 19/20 correct. The only question I missed were the colours of the Aus.....
» 17/03/2024 11:30:15 AM Dear Ttbn, «you are too clever for that. You can't apply for citizenship unless you immig.....
» 17/03/2024 9:03:44 AM Dear Ttbn, I thought the topic you introduced was the Australian citizenship test, rather.....
» 17/03/2024 4:45:45 AM Dear Critic, «Israel consistently ranks the highest in West Asia for documented cases of .....
» 16/03/2024 9:20:41 PM Well said, Armchair Critic! «'an understanding of what it means to be an Australian citiz.....
» 15/03/2024 5:57:17 PM Dear Alan, «Sorry, will need to see an independent validation before commenting on this o.....
» 15/03/2024 4:47:28 PM Dear Aries, For certain, Susan placed herself in great danger when she visited Gaza. But.....
» 15/03/2024 1:59:52 PM Dear Aries, «I have just read the most brutally honest assessment of the 'situation' in G.....
» 15/03/2024 1:47:30 PM Dear Foxy, «I can only be responsible for what I post.» That goes without saying. «Not .....
» 15/03/2024 3:25:51 AM Dear Foxy, In your introductory post, you mentioned "multiculturalism" as one o.....
» 14/03/2024 6:33:26 PM Dear Foxy, «You're the one who addressed me in this discussion.» I did, but it was not o.....
» 14/03/2024 2:08:50 PM Dear Foxy, I think I do understand your posts, they are clear enough, but sometimes I do .....
» 14/03/2024 1:41:31 PM Dear Foxy, «over 80% of Australians are fully committed to multiculturalism - the doctrin.....
» 14/03/2024 12:31:59 PM Good article, thank you Alon! I still reserve my judgement as to what portion of Israel's.....
» 14/03/2024 11:57:30 AM Dear Mhaze, «Yuyutsu tells us "First we need definitions"...and then proceeds t.....
» 14/03/2024 11:06:25 AM Dear Ttbn, Yes, we are certainly under siege. Lucky for us, we now do not have that long.....
» 13/03/2024 5:18:41 PM Dear Mhaze, «There is no evidence that multicultural societies are 'stronger', more resil.....
» 13/03/2024 3:58:15 PM Dear Foxy, «Modern Australia today is a multitude of cultures» What is modern about Aust.....
» 13/03/2024 3:06:16 PM Dear Foxy, Thank you for sharing your lovely experiences and observations, even though I .....
» 13/03/2024 11:18:09 AM Dear Foxy, «Is Australia a melting pot, a salad bowl, or a mosaic?» Australia is a conti.....
» 12/03/2024 4:12:27 PM I want to be able to choose my own doctor so that he/she shares my own values. I want to .....
» 10/03/2024 11:58:04 AM Dear Alan, «Yuyutsu. Some of the nicest, most decent people and my best friends are Jews......
» 10/03/2024 9:36:44 AM Dear Critic, «After reading that, I have to ask myself:» After reading that, you have to.....
» 10/03/2024 9:10:16 AM Dear Canem Malum, «if the Palestinian's are pushed back by Israel then Australia will get.....
» 10/03/2024 3:53:47 AM Dear ShadowMinister, «The source of the 20000 is Hamas whose figures are fabricated.» Th.....
» 10/03/2024 3:45:22 AM Dear Alan, «David Singer is a flesh and blood» Why are you saying so? Is that because yo.....
» 9/03/2024 9:37:35 PM «Eftpos refers refers to debit cards only. I imagine it would be different for credit card.....
» 9/03/2024 8:42:20 PM Dear Shadow Minister, «Y are you spouting Hamas propaganda?» I very much hope that your .....
» 8/03/2024 1:56:36 PM Dear ShadowMinister, «Holding the hostages enables the Israelis to purge Gaza of Hamas.» .....
» 8/03/2024 11:05:02 AM Dear Maverick, «Might the author's many OLO articles over the years boosted Jew hatred?» .....
» 8/03/2024 10:48:30 AM Dear ShadowMinister, It is important not to underestimate your enemy. Sinwar is intellig.....
» 8/03/2024 8:19:31 AM Dear Ttbn, «It seems that you and I are the only ones here who care.» I also care very m.....
» 7/03/2024 3:45:43 PM On paper and for convenience I am considered a dual national. In reality I am nobody's na.....
» 7/03/2024 2:12:55 PM Dear ShadowMinister, From Sinwar's perspective, everything is good and going to plan. Th.....
» 6/03/2024 9:56:23 PM Well if Malaysians wish to remain Muslim, that would not be tolerated under Chinese occupa.....
» 6/03/2024 3:56:45 PM Dear ShadowMinister, «A word for the Arabs:» The Arabs did not start a war - Hamas did. .....
» 2/03/2024 11:27:59 PM Dear Ttbn, Just a quick notice that I am unsubscribing from this discussion, so if there .....
» 29/02/2024 8:47:35 PM Dear Ttbn, «They are the policies I think that the Coalition needs to push if they want t.....
» 29/02/2024 5:26:33 PM Dear Ttbn, «do the rest of you agree/disagree?» Did you mean to ask us whether we agree .....
» 29/02/2024 4:58:34 PM Dear Paul, «Despite what some think, educated people contribute far more to the bettermen.....
» 29/02/2024 11:37:33 AM Dear Bronwyn, «What an atrocious article!» Have you never heard of the atrocity called &.....
» 29/02/2024 11:21:45 AM Dear Foxy, «our youth is floundering and I support a National Service for school leavers......
» 29/02/2024 3:56:54 AM Dear Critic, «- I'd say that right now, there are quite a lot of IDF that require 'justic.....
» 28/02/2024 12:32:18 PM Dear Bezza, Arabs, Jews, Christians and other Middle-Eastern and North-African tribes, ha.....
» 28/02/2024 12:29:21 AM Dear Indyvidual, «To have the sense of duty to help defend the nation that harbours you i.....
» 27/02/2024 10:58:50 PM [...continued] When an organised body, such as a state (but it could also be a family, a .....
» 27/02/2024 10:58:44 PM Dear Indyvidual, «where everyone capable of defending the Nation they live in/off has a m.....
» 27/02/2024 2:23:58 PM Dear Foxy, I have no idea why you needed to bring in this fellow, Tisdall, whoever he may.....
» 27/02/2024 1:30:41 PM Dear Indyvidual, «people, Leftists in particular, do demand & expect others to respect th.....
» 27/02/2024 11:44:10 AM Dear Foxy, «Israel's deliberate industrial scale attacks on the Palestinian people under .....
» 27/02/2024 8:33:32 AM Dear Critic, «Every bomb Israel dropped, it knew innocent people would die.» The bombs n.....
» 27/02/2024 6:28:38 AM Dear Foxy, There are no grounds to believe that Israel deliberately murders "Palesti.....
» 26/02/2024 10:49:30 PM Dear Indyvidual, There is a fundamental difference between not making you happy and takin.....
» 26/02/2024 4:24:12 PM The USA has many problems, they are in deep trouble and are certainly not saints, but that.....
» 26/02/2024 2:14:05 PM Dear Foxy, Perhaps you are correct - I don't claim to see the future, I don't even have a.....
» 26/02/2024 1:25:19 PM Dear Indyvidual, --»a better future lies in education, and not in some pack-drill in a bo.....
» 26/02/2024 6:13:25 AM Dear Paul, «a better future lies in education, and not in some pack-drill in a boot camp!.....
» 25/02/2024 2:39:57 PM Dear Foxy, «If Israel thinks that» Israel does not and cannot think - only sentient bein.....
» 25/02/2024 8:11:05 AM Well done, Paul! «I refused to "volunteer" for in my 2nd year of high school, m.....
» 25/02/2024 5:28:39 AM Dear Canem Malum, We are so afraid and disgusted of China for the very reason that it for.....
» 24/02/2024 10:31:54 PM Dear Critic, «the continued taking of more land and building permanent settlements lends .....
» 24/02/2024 9:12:49 PM «What is the alternative to conscription with mindless demographic ?» Such as goats? - Yo.....
» 23/02/2024 2:52:56 PM Dear Critic, What Mhaze tells is correct: Between Rabin and Netanyahu there was an Israe.....
» 23/02/2024 9:56:00 AM Dear Critic, «Israel gets most of it's water from West Bank. They steal it then deprive t.....
» 23/02/2024 9:20:04 AM Dear Critic, «Well, that's what self-determination means, which was originally promised t.....
» 22/02/2024 10:57:16 PM Dear Bezza, «Land once conquered by moslams remains Islamic land forever.» That is one v.....
» 22/02/2024 7:22:27 PM Dear Critic, «If you don't want them here ttbn, then support a ceasefire, resolution to t.....
» 22/02/2024 5:29:51 PM There are no 2 states because the so-called "Palestinians" never wanted a state .....
» 22/02/2024 1:16:26 PM "Julian Assange is a journalist who uncovered..." Julian Assange is not a journ.....
» 21/02/2024 4:09:59 PM Dear Mhaze, «If a scammer in India steals from an 80 yr old in Australia, he has committe.....
» 21/02/2024 2:16:30 PM Dear Riley, «Those that live with the enemy are the enemy.» Are you referring to the Isr.....
» 21/02/2024 1:59:44 PM Dear Fester, «They said he was not being prosecuted for publication of the leaked materia.....
» 21/02/2024 5:16:49 AM Dear Critic, «Israel is not going to give the land it took back, and the Palestinians are.....
» 20/02/2024 11:22:09 PM Dear Critic, I cannot deny that there are some despicable people in Israel and its govern.....
» 20/02/2024 12:50:22 PM Dear Critic, «It's not statement of pride it's a statement of fact.» That and most of th.....
» 20/02/2024 9:03:09 AM Dear Foxy, «The crime rate for our youth is on the rise.» Possibly, from 1% to 2% - is t.....
» 20/02/2024 8:34:19 AM Dear Foxy, «I live in Australia not the Middle East» That was my exact point - neither d.....
» 20/02/2024 8:04:01 AM Here again: At a press meeting Goebbels tells an American journalist: "If Roosevelt .....
» 20/02/2024 6:08:16 AM Dear Foxy, «Has Assange been treated fairly?» Have you not been seen outdoors with a min.....
» 20/02/2024 12:16:15 AM Dear Critic, «ICJ opens historic hearings into Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territo.....
» 19/02/2024 11:30:48 PM Dear Critic, I see nothing wrong with your proposal, but I am confused when you mention &.....
» 19/02/2024 4:50:59 PM Dear Critic, «We are top of the food chain, humans have domain over the earth. We can tur.....
» 19/02/2024 3:00:19 PM Dear Critic, «- What in Ukraine / Russia?» Don't be silly - this particular thread is al.....
» 19/02/2024 2:43:37 PM Dear Critic, «before they decided they wanted the land that other people already lived on.....
» 19/02/2024 11:50:21 AM Dear Foxy, «As for offering young people the choice of serving?» Certainly, no problem s.....
» 19/02/2024 11:38:16 AM Dear Bezza, «The area occupied by Israel was captured by moslem Arabs in 637 AD so they c.....
» 19/02/2024 12:54:44 AM [...continued] «The second you are on our shores you will gain benefits from our society......
» 19/02/2024 12:54:41 AM Dear Critic, Since the Israel-Gaza wall fell on October 7th, over 5,000 hungry and neglec.....
» 18/02/2024 4:19:49 PM Dear Critic, This is not NATO or Turkey, only a private NGO. They cannot seriously hope .....
» 18/02/2024 4:07:03 PM Dear Indyvidual, «I don't see proponents, only insipid people who can't distinguish betwe.....
» 18/02/2024 2:53:28 PM Dear Foxy, You are correct: There are both proponents and opponents of tyranny in this fo.....
» 18/02/2024 2:02:06 PM Dear Indyvidual, «No, she won't be "forced' just as she is not "forced" to.....
» 18/02/2024 1:06:11 PM ¹ There was this professor who invented a machine to lower I.Q., so one genius once approa.....
» 18/02/2024 1:06:08 PM Dear Critic, Australian Jews have no control over the Israeli government (well even Israe.....
» 18/02/2024 9:18:23 AM Dear Ttbn, Thank you for your support. «Volunteering is very rare in modern society, any.....
» 18/02/2024 9:02:33 AM Dear Ttbn, Sorry, I have no idea about these surcharges because I just don't use these th.....
» 18/02/2024 2:05:05 AM Dear Critic, «I don't think any human being should be treated like an animal.» Neither d.....
» 17/02/2024 11:28:48 PM Thank you Ttbn. In addition, other forms of financial transactions depend on the stabilit.....
» 17/02/2024 11:13:33 PM [...continued] «If they need to be forced to defend themselves & those who provide for th.....
» 17/02/2024 11:13:27 PM Dear Indyvidual, Still going round and round: «Are you seriously expecting it possible t.....
» 17/02/2024 9:57:08 PM Dear Nathan, «but we can't keep taking people from generally financially well off countri.....
» 16/02/2024 6:28:01 PM Dear Indyvidual, Another irrelevant response, anything but looking us in the face and sta.....
» 16/02/2024 1:08:48 PM Dear Indyvidual, I see that you still go round and round to avoid a simple Yes/No questio.....
» 16/02/2024 5:30:17 AM Dear Critic, «- Maybe we should be happy for the innocent Israeli dead on October 7?» Ac.....
» 16/02/2024 5:12:38 AM Dear Indyvidual, You are going round and round, mainly speaking of motives rather than im.....
» 15/02/2024 7:09:28 PM Violent reactions and arrests are not going to help, as they would only create more martyr.....
» 15/02/2024 6:34:18 PM Dear Indyvidual, You are not speaking about conscription - you seem to be speaking of a p.....
» 15/02/2024 1:59:38 PM Dear Critic, «They were never offered a fair deal whitemouse...» What stopped them from .....
» 14/02/2024 10:28:13 PM Dear Mhaze, «Why? Why would Trump being president mean no Taiwan?» Isn't it common knowl.....
» 14/02/2024 5:15:05 PM Dear Mhaze, «China at the same time would be seeking to cut Taiwan off from its supply ch.....
» 14/02/2024 1:41:05 PM So much for human's feeble and stupid attempt to duplicate justice with their limited inte.....
» 14/02/2024 11:47:23 AM Dear Indyvidual, «Those who say getting rid of conscription was a good move, could they p.....
» 14/02/2024 5:14:05 AM Dear Critic, «That kind of resentment doesn't usually happen on it's own.» No, but it is.....
» 13/02/2024 10:30:13 PM "Can these two groups of people, of different faiths, of contrasting cultures, with d.....
» 13/02/2024 1:02:05 PM Dear Foxy, Should Trump be elected, Australia can forget about any American support, also.....
» 13/02/2024 12:48:33 PM Dear Paul, FYI, Israel's Knesset Speaker from Netanyahu's Right-wing Likud party, is open.....
» 13/02/2024 8:13:31 AM The Forum > General Discussion > Rape The Royal Commission into the depletion of Au.....
» 12/02/2024 2:27:44 PM Today is a very happy day - two Israeli hostages were freed, men aged 60 and 70 from Kibbu.....
» 12/02/2024 7:48:10 AM Dear Critic, «What could they do to stoop lower? - Rebomb the hospitals, ambulances and r.....
» 11/02/2024 10:41:26 PM Dear Bezza, I do not consider it to be worth risking the life of the living for mere corp.....
» 11/02/2024 10:12:29 PM Dear Ttbn, From years of interaction with Nathan, I believe that he opposes violence, thu.....
» 11/02/2024 5:24:35 PM Dear Alan, I can think of better ways to make tax fairer, but what has this to do with th.....
» 11/02/2024 4:08:23 PM Dear Ttbn, Replacing all politicians is a blessing in itself, but is hardly relevant to t.....
» 11/02/2024 1:30:28 PM Dear Nathan, No matter what 'cap's you set, unless you use guns to physically stop people.....
» 11/02/2024 1:13:58 PM Dear Ttbn, «I find it ridiculous to expect Israel, or any other country, to take care of .....
» 11/02/2024 8:19:23 AM Capitalism (that means true capitalism, referring to Ttbn's last remark, not the state-pro.....
» 11/02/2024 8:08:51 AM Dear Critic, «This is the type of humanitarian aid that Israel likes best.» The article .....
» 10/02/2024 11:09:56 PM Dear Nathan, «we must stabilise our population below 30 million to stop the growing impac.....
» 10/02/2024 10:59:41 PM Dear Bezza, «Israel to make the best agreement it can that will release all the hostages .....
» 9/02/2024 3:23:55 PM Dear Ttbn, American intelligence sources claim that Israel is still far from completely d.....
» 9/02/2024 11:38:43 AM Dear Critic, «IDF kicking in your door at 2am and shooting your kids.» You seem to be co.....
» 9/02/2024 9:40:49 AM Dear Paul, Well, Netanyahu not only agrees to a cease-fire, he just didn't agree to some .....
» 6/02/2024 11:53:16 AM Dear Ttbn, There is no "Mr. Singer", nor can robots be frustrated. As for the .....
» 6/02/2024 8:40:04 AM Dear Paul, «p/s I know you don't like the term Zionist, substitute any other word you cho.....
» 6/02/2024 6:17:25 AM Dear Paul, «The Israelis have declined» All 9 million of them?.....
» 5/02/2024 3:33:35 PM And some Jews still claim that Christians should not interfere with their own internal pol.....
» 5/02/2024 12:42:01 PM Dear Dan, «I can be more serious if you wish» I do not: you sound better when you lighte.....
» 5/02/2024 12:24:18 PM Dear Indyvidual, You certainly took my words well beyond their intended context. Neverth.....
» 5/02/2024 7:58:32 AM Dear Critic, «- Are they? maybe - but I hear Israel runs a fairly efficient organ harvest.....
» 4/02/2024 1:47:28 PM [...continued] «IDF soldiers voting in Gaza is not a good look.» It was initially consid.....
» 4/02/2024 1:47:25 PM Dear Ttbn, «I just find these demonstrations by some Israelis bizarre under the circumsta.....
» 4/02/2024 11:56:47 AM Dear Critic, «The Jewish religion is not a religion that treats all people fairly and equ.....
» 4/02/2024 10:52:24 AM Dear Ttbn, Israel was due to have municipal elections on October 31st, 2023. They were po.....
» 4/02/2024 9:23:35 AM Dear Dan, I support a strong and healthy Israel - and in order to heal, Israel must humbl.....
» 3/02/2024 10:21:58 PM Dear Critic, «Well I guess that depends on how we define what a religion is.» Religion i.....
» 2/02/2024 7:53:23 AM Dear Critic, «All religions are flawed, - And Jewish religious beliefs are certainly just.....
» 1/02/2024 7:31:21 AM The average politician is unaware of the scientific thermodynamic fact that renewable ener.....
» 30/01/2024 12:13:21 PM Trump claims that he cares only for America (in truth, Donald Trump cares only about Donal.....
» 30/01/2024 6:51:32 AM Dear Dan, I thought the topic was Israel, not my psychology......
» 30/01/2024 6:41:46 AM Dear ShadowMinister, «Australians now know any promise from this Prime Minister is worth .....
» 29/01/2024 10:48:27 PM Dear Dan, «The load on Israels back is made in America.» Indeed, most of the violent Jew.....
» 29/01/2024 5:52:12 PM Dear Dan, As I said earlier, once Israel leaves those cursed territories which it took in.....
» 28/01/2024 10:44:58 PM Dear Bezza, «Yuyutsu, Fatimas fate seems to get repeated over and over again.» The Bedou.....
» 28/01/2024 5:28:10 PM Lots of Taiwanese, Ukrainian... and American refugees. And lots of abortion-tourism too, .....
» 28/01/2024 4:10:29 PM Dear Bezza, «There is a way to cut down the number of wars significantly;» If you want t.....
» 28/01/2024 12:51:44 PM Dear Foxy, «But he'll support Israel.» I can realistically see Trump dispatching America.....
» 28/01/2024 10:31:45 AM Dear Dan, Everyone in Israel is equally paying the highest price on the battlefield - rig.....
» 28/01/2024 6:54:52 AM Dear Paul, Nobody should be forced to be held captive for 3 years - as I wrote, the defau.....
» 27/01/2024 10:19:08 PM What happens when a representative quits, should be part of a pre-existing contract betwee.....
» 27/01/2024 9:56:53 PM As I understand it, what the ICJ concluded is that: 1) No genocide is presently being carr.....
» 27/01/2024 9:05:43 PM Dear Foxy, It's not that Netanyahu will still be there for long, he will very soon be gon.....
» 26/01/2024 6:31:39 PM Dear Foxy, Negotiations may work when you have exactly two sides, each with a clear agend.....
» 26/01/2024 5:11:45 PM Dear Foxy, Yes, I am still here, in Australia - I have not travelled to visit my family i.....
» 26/01/2024 2:46:56 PM Dear Paul, Indeed, CIRCUMSTANCES CHANGE OVER TIME, and therefore the Bible tells us: &qu.....
» 26/01/2024 2:29:55 PM Dear Foxy, «We're told this is not genocide because Israel is conducting a military opera.....
» 26/01/2024 2:01:57 PM Dear Foxy, «Doing nothing or the same thing over and over again should not be an option.».....
» 25/01/2024 10:24:37 PM Dear Nathan, People elected their representative. If the way their representative "r.....
» 25/01/2024 10:10:03 PM Thank you, Ttbn - I agree with Nigel Biggar......
» 25/01/2024 10:03:00 PM Dear Foxy, You need to decide whether you prefer self determination OR two states: You c.....
» 25/01/2024 9:54:58 PM «so Zionism and the occupation of Gaza and the West bank needs to collapse in 2024» Zioni.....
» 25/01/2024 7:06:41 PM On a blank slate, the decision to modify the tax-changes was correct. But there was a pro.....
» 25/01/2024 6:46:06 PM Dear Mhaze, «Socialism is an economic system. Capitalism is an economic system. Fascism i.....
» 25/01/2024 5:29:08 AM Dear Canem Malum, «Ayn Rand died of lung cancer» Ayn Rand advocated smoking as an expres.....
» 24/01/2024 9:19:06 PM I oppose these stage-3 cuts, but promises need to be kept nevertheless. Otherwise you neve.....
» 24/01/2024 8:30:06 PM Dear Foxy, To simplify my response further for you: 1. A second ("Palestinian".....
» 24/01/2024 4:48:45 PM Dear Foxy, «I see peace talks as the only way forward.» Talk, Talk, Talk, but what's the.....
» 24/01/2024 1:28:47 PM Dear Foxy, «Are the Israelis really talking about the possibility of ending their occupat.....
» 24/01/2024 7:50:55 AM «The British legal system originated nearly a millennium ago» During which slavery and to.....
» 23/01/2024 11:47:54 PM Dear Paul, «All what you say is gleaned by you from Zionist propaganda» Zionism ended wh.....
» 23/01/2024 6:01:53 PM Dear Paul, «Seems you are comfortable for thousands more innocent women and children to d.....
» 23/01/2024 12:15:10 PM Julian Assange was neither ever an American citizen, nor been in America when committing h.....
» 22/01/2024 6:36:39 PM What is a two-state "solution" supposed to solve? Giving a state to people who .....
» 22/01/2024 3:28:13 PM Dear Ttbn, Yes, the Kibbutz system is not completely kaput, but been highly privatised, m.....
» 22/01/2024 8:43:36 AM Dear Ttbn, I am not an expert on economics, so perhaps you are correct that from a one-di.....
» 21/01/2024 10:51:51 PM Enough was said and many books written about the evils of a socialist system (including Ay.....
» 21/01/2024 10:14:49 PM Dear Critic and Ttbn, «I assume you weren't a fan of the Kibbutz system then?» There is .....
» 21/01/2024 6:53:00 PM Surely socialism brought much pain and its absence is a relief, but why attribute that rel.....
» 21/01/2024 12:01:53 PM Dear Foxy, «"What Israelis think of the war with Hamas?"» In terms of a war, t.....
» 21/01/2024 6:52:47 AM Dear Paul, Those despicable people which you describe exist, but are not Zionist, they on.....
» 20/01/2024 11:49:17 PM Dear Paul, «now you have a problem with the word GENOCIDE!» The word I have a problem wi.....
» 19/01/2024 5:29:18 PM Dear Foxy, «It is difficult to have any dignity when you're forced to live under an apart.....
» 19/01/2024 4:31:42 PM Dear Foxy, Thank you for your detailed response! While I agree on the content of your re.....
» 19/01/2024 3:57:08 PM Dear Olivera, «There is no reason why correspondents who wish to comment should not be su.....
» 19/01/2024 1:14:31 PM Dear Critic, «you disgusting piece of human trash.» «David Singer fights from his air-con.....
» 19/01/2024 11:10:37 AM Dear Foxy, «Australia supports a 2 state solution in which Israelis and Palestinians can .....
» 19/01/2024 4:36:20 AM Dear Critic, «but there's plenty wrong with many of the people living in it and running i.....
» 17/01/2024 4:22:31 PM [...continued] «Where else can peace realistically begin? First both sides need to reconc.....
» 17/01/2024 4:22:29 PM Dear Critic, I was not following closely on the Al-Aqsa events at the time, because there.....
» 17/01/2024 3:19:04 PM Dear Critic, Thank you for keeping my family in your prayers, they are all OK, not happy .....
» 16/01/2024 8:46:21 PM "So how do we make a better world?" Seriously? There is nothing wrong with the.....
» 16/01/2024 3:49:49 PM Well said, Foxy!.....
» 16/01/2024 12:21:58 PM Dear Critic, Thank you for your kind post. «I agree, If Israel was to negotiate in good .....
» 15/01/2024 11:57:19 PM Dear Critic, «Your whole nation is SICK.» Australia? «What sort of a living nightmare d.....
» 15/01/2024 8:14:37 PM Dear Canem Malum, There is a vast difference between: 1. "Anglophobic bigots that w.....
» 15/01/2024 5:26:20 PM Dear Critic, «Somehow or other a lot of people have been programmed to think that when Is.....
» 15/01/2024 3:00:28 PM [...continued] There is no reason to believe that peaceful Ugandans would attack peaceful.....
» 15/01/2024 3:00:25 PM Dear Critic, «I mean, you are what your history says you are, right?» ABSOLUTELY WRONG! .....
» 15/01/2024 8:04:04 AM Dear Ttbn, I fully agree with you last post, well said. Now: "Imports of useless f.....
» 15/01/2024 5:14:33 AM Dear Canem Malum, «Seems to examine paradoxes of Hebrew/ Gentile relations and asks the i.....
» 14/01/2024 4:30:04 PM Dear Ttbn, «I was advised that the site wasn't “safe”. But I have noticed that little mes.....
» 14/01/2024 10:50:18 AM Dear Ttbn, «11 of 12 Hamas 'battalions' had been put out of action.» These are only of t.....
» 13/01/2024 11:46:36 PM [...continued] «If negotiations and compromise were possible» Compromise OK, but no poin.....
» 13/01/2024 11:46:32 PM Dear Critic, «If Israels ancient biblical stand towards issues is 'an eye for an eye'» I.....
» 13/01/2024 9:41:50 PM Dear Canem Malum, «Mammals and most animals are territorial. Let them have their ancestra.....
» 13/01/2024 9:30:13 PM Dear Foxy, «Sooner or later Israel is going to have to negotiate with Palestine and recog.....
» 12/01/2024 7:25:35 PM Dear Critic, Sorry I have no time to respond, I will later, but for now just one point: .....
» 12/01/2024 4:23:59 PM I usually agree almost totally with Alon Ben-Meir, but sadly not this time. "and mee.....
» 11/01/2024 3:23:37 AM Dear Canem Malum, «I suspect that Trump might be able to "do a deal"» He proba.....
» 11/01/2024 3:04:21 AM Dear Andras, I'm not clear whether your last post is in response to my post or otherwise......
» 10/01/2024 10:11:55 PM I am less concerned with the material or even the environmental aspects of the problem - t.....
» 10/01/2024 2:49:20 PM «Both the left and right in Israel support the genocide» That's because they are Jews of .....
» 9/01/2024 4:58:52 PM Dear Foxy, «The one who replaces your current one may also not be to your liking.» Corre.....
» 9/01/2024 3:16:06 PM Dear Foxy, «People choose their political parties for a variety of reasons.» In Australi.....
» 9/01/2024 12:28:10 PM Dear Foxy, «We need to seriously consider any legislation that's raised and also look at .....
» 8/01/2024 10:31:46 PM Dear Canem Malum, «Society has been degraded to such a state that the institution of stat.....
» 8/01/2024 8:43:31 PM Even the best of goodwill cannot produce a warship out of thin air. If not ships, then I .....
» 8/01/2024 6:51:42 PM I oppose Nazism and its symbols. I oppose Communism and its symbols. Anyone who forcibly, .....
» 8/01/2024 3:22:47 PM Dear ShadowMinister, «the most vicious Jew-hater that I have seen on OLO ever.» Yes, you.....
» 7/01/2024 3:46:38 PM «Maybe the Jewish people should've gone to Uganda instead» Are you referring to the Jewis.....
» 5/01/2024 6:31:47 PM Dear WhiteMouse, «According to archaeological records, writings (and the developing Hebre.....
» 5/01/2024 12:40:02 PM "I wonder what the attitude of the Israel/Jewish critics would be if Israel was not J.....
» 4/01/2024 4:09:17 PM Dear Josephus, «The World must outlaw the reading / teaching of the writings of Mohamed a.....
» 4/01/2024 1:59:41 PM Dear Foxy, Did your children ever come home crying with a thorn in their toe? In order t.....
» 3/01/2024 6:43:34 PM I wish this whole conversation about Jews and anti-Semitism in American universities, woul.....
» 3/01/2024 12:55:02 PM Dear Ttbn, «Within anyone weaker than Netanyahu,...» First find us someone like that, it.....
» 3/01/2024 10:08:14 AM Amen, Alon. "If Netanyahu has any ounce of dignity left in him, he should resign bef.....
» 2/01/2024 1:57:59 PM Dear Nathan, I join your prayers......
» 2/01/2024 1:34:40 PM Dear SteeleRedux, «Absolutely not. The continuing carving up of the West Bank,...» I was.....
» 1/01/2024 9:49:26 PM Dear Aries, «To date, the government of Israel has done nothing to convince me that the k.....
» 1/01/2024 7:34:28 PM Welcome back Ben Gershon and thank you for the contribution. Indeed, this HKOP thing is j.....
» 1/01/2024 2:03:16 PM [...continued] «Should we really try to do the same thing again and expect a different ou.....
» 1/01/2024 2:03:13 PM Dear Critic, True to your nickname, you only criticise but provide no alternative solutio.....
» 1/01/2024 1:01:32 PM [...continued] The way this sentence is constructed suggests an intentional direct connec.....
» 1/01/2024 1:01:29 PM Dear Foxy, «I don't agree that criticisizing Israel makes you a Jew-hater or that it's an.....
» 31/12/2023 4:15:03 PM Dear Foxy, We could sit down over a nice cup of tea to discuss Israel's colonial violence.....
» 31/12/2023 1:57:57 PM Dear Critic, Could we not agree that Israel HAS to do roughly what it does now in order t.....
» 31/12/2023 8:10:09 AM Dear Foxy, «Surely this can't be a healthy state of mind?» Spot on. Feeling a "vic.....
» 30/12/2023 10:11:32 PM Dear Bezza, «You misunderstand my peace implies good faith.» So are you modifying your d.....
» 28/12/2023 9:51:44 PM The sad truth is simple - there is no other way to finish off Hamas. Hamas operates from .....
» 28/12/2023 9:26:30 PM Dear Bezza, «At one end would be at a minimum an absence of war.» That is called a ".....
» 28/12/2023 2:33:40 PM Dear Bezza, Please define "peace"......
» 26/12/2023 12:52:19 PM Dear Critic, I think you may enjoy reading the classic story "The Sermon" by th.....
» 26/12/2023 11:23:53 AM Dear Foxy, «If they - would visit the Occupied Territories, cross over into East Jerusale.....
» 26/12/2023 10:12:46 AM Dear Alan, «Obliging Jordan to accept additional millions may work for an expansionist Is.....
» 25/12/2023 7:54:40 AM Dear ShadowMinister, Don't you find it nice that the world considers Israelis to be adult.....
» 25/12/2023 12:24:31 AM [...continued] «I'm not familiar with the event you mention» As well as many other event.....
» 25/12/2023 12:24:28 AM Dear Critic, «I'm not so sure about that, democracy assumes the voters can have free and .....
» 24/12/2023 5:07:03 PM Dear Mhaze, «When the Abraham Accords were close to fulfillment, there was a chance the P.....
» 24/12/2023 11:41:29 AM Dear Foxy, «however we should care about the present and what can be done. The land must .....
» 24/12/2023 9:31:46 AM [...continued] «They won't accept a 2 state solution, [etc., etc.]» This describes the p.....
» 24/12/2023 9:31:26 AM Dear Critic, «Israel will continue to do its utmost to destroy Iran regardless, even if I.....
» 24/12/2023 12:08:43 AM Well, the statement that "Only a hurt person will hurt another" is actually corr.....
» 23/12/2023 11:52:53 PM Dear Foxy, «Israel prefers the status quo.» You speak of Israel as if it were a person: .....
» 23/12/2023 11:41:39 PM Dear critic, «I think it's a reasonable possibility Israel may end up with 150,000 guided.....
» 22/12/2023 3:57:49 PM Dear Foxy, Correct: as long as there is occupation there will be resistance, but that doe.....
» 22/12/2023 11:29:46 AM Dear Foxy, «Israel can recognize Palestinian rights.» This concept of "rights".....
» 22/12/2023 5:16:40 AM Dear Foxy, "around the globe"? That article is 100% about the United States of .....
» 21/12/2023 10:49:10 PM Dear Bezza, The Jews were exiled by Nebuchadnezzar 1348 years before Baghdad was first bu.....
» 21/12/2023 4:53:56 PM Dear Critic, «And I think they calculated the cost was worth a shot at their peoples free.....
» 21/12/2023 4:32:48 PM Dear Critic, «"But it is OK to make statements about the above anyway?" - Not .....
» 20/12/2023 10:38:39 PM Dear Critic, «It's hard to for someone not familiar with everything to understand a diffe.....
» 20/12/2023 5:32:06 AM Dear Indyvidual, «Someone unbiased please enlighten us on this !» The reason Muslims fra.....
» 19/12/2023 11:16:38 PM Dear Critic, «I hope you don't begrudge me for my criticisms.» I have my own criticism o.....
» 18/12/2023 7:35:02 PM Funny creatures, humans: they really think that what they say matters........
» 18/12/2023 6:18:39 PM Dear Foxy, «We all wish that there could be Peace...» Yes, Israel should stop its occupa.....
» 17/12/2023 3:49:05 PM Dear Delivery, I have no obligation to relate to everything that happens to be in an arti.....
» 15/12/2023 1:39:46 PM A great article! I agree with every word. As for the promised next article that will arg.....
» 15/12/2023 12:35:19 PM Dear Delivery, So you changed the subject and now rather speak about Gaza. While I mainl.....
» 15/12/2023 12:14:58 PM Dear Foxy, «We can only hope that Netanyahu and his government will agree.» I would beli.....
» 14/12/2023 1:35:52 PM Dear Delivery, I did suggest that the more likely reason for your earlier strange post wa.....
» 14/12/2023 1:30:16 PM Dear Mhaze, Had someone else asked me to expand on my reasoning, then I would first need .....
» 14/12/2023 12:24:27 AM Dear Critic, The numbers reported to date on the official IDF website are 444 soldiers ki.....
» 12/12/2023 5:09:24 PM Dear Mhaze, «The HKOPS idea is as good a solution as any.» Solution for what? For the ex.....
» 12/12/2023 3:49:16 PM Dear Bezza, There are some whose position was already determined at their time of birth: .....
» 12/12/2023 3:25:45 PM Dear Delivery, «Are we now entering a supposition phase to justify an inexcusable?» So n.....
» 12/12/2023 12:09:03 PM Welcome, Syoksya, First, since you are new here, you should become aware that the "a.....
» 11/12/2023 7:34:08 AM Dear Alan, «Nonetheless, a two-state solution must be offered» But of course, it was off.....
» 10/12/2023 5:58:50 PM Dear Mhaze, Jordan IS an ally of Israel - a great ally, perhaps even more important than .....
» 10/12/2023 10:41:49 AM Dear Alan, «I do not believe that a two-state solution is not doable.» One just cannot f.....
» 10/12/2023 8:39:47 AM Dear Paul, I agree with Mhaze that "Veto or not, the war would have continued.".....
» 8/12/2023 4:52:43 PM The author speaks of "the Palestinians with their aspiration for statehood" - th.....
» 7/12/2023 10:47:37 AM Dear ShadowMinister, «Witnesses told of terrorists slicing off a Jewish woman’s breasts» .....
» 5/12/2023 10:59:04 PM Good news: Elma Avraham is still in ICU and very weak, but she can now talk slowly and rec.....
» 5/12/2023 10:19:20 PM Dear Bezza, Poor Muhammad, peace be upon him, was a Christian, he never claimed any relat.....
» 5/12/2023 4:39:38 PM Thank you Foxy for your lovely thoughts and prayers! --- Dear Mhaze, «And the Arabs los.....
» 5/12/2023 6:32:16 AM Dear Critic, «Found out some information earlier about Itamar Ben-Gvir, Israels far-right.....
» 4/12/2023 10:58:17 PM Dear Critic, Just prior to October 7th, there were serious conversations of splitting Isr.....
» 4/12/2023 4:16:05 PM Dear Foxy, What to do, I am optimistic, I believe that it can only get better. Most real.....
» 4/12/2023 3:53:01 PM Dear Josephus, «Those include what the group described as Israeli settlers’ desecration o.....
» 4/12/2023 2:43:30 PM Dear Foxy, «It does appear that Israel has not thought all this through. Destroying Hamas.....
» 4/12/2023 2:25:26 PM Dear Critic, «but I have seen many videos of hostages that seem friendly enough with thei.....
» 3/12/2023 5:27:32 PM [...continued] Of the surviving: 84 years old Ditsah Heiman reported increasing hunger. .....
» 3/12/2023 5:27:29 PM Dear Critic, I hope you are just being cynically kidding now. I constantly watch the sto.....
» 3/12/2023 1:09:37 PM Dear Foxy, Good on you for citing Haaretz - it is a good and balanced (though expensive) .....
» 3/12/2023 12:22:19 PM Dear Foxy, «Hamas has threatened to stop releasing hostages because Israel has not allowe.....
» 3/12/2023 9:16:37 AM Dear Foxy, « Having a temporary ceasefire - only to continue it once again - is inhumane......
» 3/12/2023 9:08:55 AM Dear Paul, «with indiscriminate shelling of Gaza by Zionist terrorist squads» There are .....
» 3/12/2023 12:47:04 AM Dear Nathan, Thank you for bringing up this issue. Religion is blamed because it is popu.....
» 2/12/2023 11:02:28 PM Dear SteeleRedux, «It is interesting to see them being referred to as "terrorists&qu.....
» 1/12/2023 6:53:05 PM Dear Paul, «I dislike Zionism and Hamas, as they are too extreme by nature.» Well, do yo.....
» 1/12/2023 4:20:28 PM Dear Foxy, The link you provided cannot open without subscription. During war-time, it i.....
» 1/12/2023 1:21:07 PM Dear Foxy, «Which is a very bold ambition in a society in which militarism, nationalism, .....
» 1/12/2023 11:38:13 AM Dear Mhaze, By you stopping to use the word 'Zionism' positively, nobody else here would .....
» 1/12/2023 10:34:35 AM I agree with the article, with just a couple of minor corrections: First: "The deat.....
» 1/12/2023 9:56:19 AM Dear Critic, Robots have no opinions, and robots never try to silence anyone - robots onl.....
» 1/12/2023 9:49:51 AM Dear Mhaze, Yes, the word 'Zionist' refers to the past and hardly applies to most Israeli.....
» 1/12/2023 8:10:21 AM Dear Paul, «A fair two state solution is the only viable possibility to achieve any kind .....
» 30/11/2023 5:05:02 PM One more person just died of their wounds. The first was Liran Tamari, a 24 year old woman.....
» 30/11/2023 4:39:57 PM Yes, there are some elements of Apartheid in Israel's behaviour, but there is one fundamen.....
» 29/11/2023 11:46:39 PM Dear SteeleRedux, «Netanyahu to members of his Likud party yesterday: "I am the only.....
» 29/11/2023 1:16:55 PM I have trust in those who serve the public as volunteers. As for the others, where does t.....
» 29/11/2023 11:43:11 AM Dear Paul, «p/s I don't think Hamas would have fattened up the hostages, but fed them no .....
» 29/11/2023 1:15:38 AM Dear Critic, Elma Avraham's condition slightly improved. She is still in ICU, but is now .....
» 29/11/2023 12:13:39 AM Dear Critic, Thank you for the information - I read Danielle's original letter in Hebrew,.....
» 28/11/2023 12:15:52 PM Dear Critic, «Should this be taken with the same spoon of salt that the claim of 40 behea.....
» 28/11/2023 8:31:53 AM Dear Paul, I saw this on Israeli news, in Hebrew, a day or two after......
» 28/11/2023 5:06:16 AM The written orders found on Hamas bodies on October 7th, instructed them to dismember thei.....
» 27/11/2023 4:42:25 PM [...continued] «The Israeli hostages from what I've seen are treated well, probably not s.....
» 27/11/2023 4:42:22 PM Dear Critic, Thank you for your concern. As you know, many families in Israel suffered gr.....
» 27/11/2023 2:34:47 PM Dear Foxy, «Sending weapons and military aid to Israel at this time only expands violence.....
» 27/11/2023 10:59:57 AM Dear Foxy, Yes, Israel is being held hostage by a Judeo-Nazi clan. One of them, the &quo.....
» 27/11/2023 8:38:58 AM Dear Mhaze, It is not helpful when you relate to Israeli hostages as "Jews": Ha.....
» 26/11/2023 11:41:34 PM Dear Critic, I don't know whether Israel is winning or not, all I know is that if Israel .....
» 24/11/2023 2:22:47 PM Dear Delivery, «If Hamas were to go, which I doubt will ever happen, another organization.....
» 24/11/2023 2:10:57 PM Dear Paul, Indeed things are not that simple and every individual is a world unto their o.....
» 24/11/2023 7:49:30 AM Once Hamas is gone, Gazan civilians will only be happier: a nurse and a local man welcome .....
» 23/11/2023 2:36:34 PM Thank you Foxy, I think we have an understanding here. --- Dear SteeleRedux, It is tra.....
» 23/11/2023 1:42:09 PM Anyone with a sufficient cognitive ability should have voted 'No' on referendums which sug.....
» 22/11/2023 9:09:28 PM Dear Foxy, Yes, I agree that a genuine discussion of the future should be liberated from .....
» 22/11/2023 1:29:09 PM Dear Foxy, but this is for everyone: You mentioned in passing that "Even Jewish teen.....
» 21/11/2023 10:45:51 PM Dear SteeleRedux, Thank you for the article, and the translation is quite good too. I co.....
» 21/11/2023 1:49:31 PM Dear SteeleRedux, «The number of vehicles attacked by Apache helicopters firing Hellfire .....
» 21/11/2023 8:37:03 AM Dear Critic, So long as you speak of just "One side [is the cause of conflict]".....
» 21/11/2023 12:25:29 AM Dear Critic, I am utterly horrified and disgusted by the actions of these Jewish extremis.....
» 20/11/2023 11:26:51 PM Dear Bezza, Hamas does not kill only infidels, they also kill observant Muslims. The Kor.....
» 20/11/2023 2:40:33 PM This author is the world's champion in bursting into open doors. "They will need to .....
» 20/11/2023 2:13:27 PM Dear Foxy, A survey from 3 days ago shows that if elections were held today in Israel, Ne.....
» 20/11/2023 9:15:50 AM [...continued] «and is now using that power to extract collective punishment on the Pales.....
» 20/11/2023 9:15:47 AM Dear Paul, It could have been nice, but in reality and in nature there is no such thing a.....
» 19/11/2023 10:36:14 PM [...continued] «Yuyutsu, there are many haters on both sides of the barbed wire, Zionists.....
» 19/11/2023 10:36:11 PM Dear Paul, «I thought you were a person who believed in the human rights of the individua.....
» 19/11/2023 6:47:42 PM Dear Foxy, «"Send Gaza back to the Middle Ages." (former Israeli Deputy PM).» .....
» 17/11/2023 5:12:26 PM Dear Fester, «I wish the IDF success and safety in showing the world how Hamas has been u.....
» 17/11/2023 4:47:16 PM Dear Foxy, Thanks for the jokes!! Just as you do not see yourself as a "Catholic Li.....
» 17/11/2023 2:34:24 PM [...continued] Now apart from the shame, the actions started by some American Jews also i.....
» 17/11/2023 2:34:22 PM Dear Foxy, You have an interesting concept of Holiness, so different from what is commonl.....
» 16/11/2023 5:59:13 PM Dear Foxy, «The Israeli army says that these facilities are being used for military purpo.....
» 16/11/2023 5:36:06 PM Dear Mox, The ethnic facts you mentioned are well-known. But how is that relevant? Zion.....
» 16/11/2023 4:20:19 PM Dear Josephus, In order to fabricate lies, one needs to have a motive. I am not interest.....
» 16/11/2023 2:45:28 PM Dear Foxy, With due respect, you have not answered my question. Israel (America too) bel.....
» 16/11/2023 2:39:02 PM Dear Foxy, «The water reservoir that was found in the hospital was confirmed by various i.....
» 16/11/2023 11:38:11 AM Dear Foxy, Why on earth would Israel want to destroy the health system in Gaza?.....
» 16/11/2023 7:31:35 AM Dear Ttbn, While I fully agree that compulsory voting is utterly wrong, I disagree that p.....
» 16/11/2023 1:07:40 AM Dear Foxy, «The hatch Israel claimed was a Hamas tunnel was only a water reservoir for th.....
» 15/11/2023 2:09:13 PM Dear Critic, «Jews probably own the UK, the City of London is a corporation full of banke.....
» 15/11/2023 6:37:01 AM Dear Critic, «Israel doesn't have the right to wage war under international laws: UN» Ye.....
» 15/11/2023 5:56:56 AM Dear Critic, Regarding Israeli civilians killed, Israel so far identified the bodies of 8.....
» 14/11/2023 4:11:34 PM Dear Bezza, «Does that infer that when the Roman Army expelled the Jews from Judea that t.....
» 14/11/2023 1:04:56 PM Dear Critic, «Isn't this the exact same thing that Putin has been charged with war crimes.....
» 14/11/2023 8:03:35 AM Dear Critic, «I found out a little bit more about what happened on Oct 7. Hamas broke out.....
» 14/11/2023 7:32:07 AM Dear Indyvidual, «it looks to me that Israel is now doing what Palestine as been working .....
» 13/11/2023 8:46:39 PM Dear Critic, 1. «but I'm not entirely sure the Arabs would be satisfied with it.» 2. «I'm.....
» 13/11/2023 6:28:49 PM Dear Critic, There may be others in this forum who could be interested in discussing with.....
» 13/11/2023 5:11:04 PM Dear Josephus, «Steele seems to have the answers to the situation» But I love his answer.....
» 13/11/2023 1:20:21 PM Dear SteeleRedux, «Just for the record the quote you seem to be arguing against came from.....
» 13/11/2023 12:24:10 PM Dear SteeleRedux, «Israel’s creation depended heavily on the actions of H.V. Evatt, the e.....
» 13/11/2023 11:52:34 AM Dear Alan, «The Russian solution was to pump sleeping gas into the building via the air d.....
» 13/11/2023 11:05:07 AM Dear Foxy, While you addressed Australia's official anthem, ceremoniously presenting Aust.....
» 13/11/2023 6:03:19 AM This is not yet the time for Israel to decide about the day after: this is the time to fin.....
» 13/11/2023 12:38:50 AM Dear Critic, A single Hamas commander held 1,000 "Palestinian" civilians hostag.....
» 13/11/2023 12:27:45 AM Dear Critic, «Which is it exactly? - are they trying to rescue the hostages, or just blow.....
» 12/11/2023 6:43:02 PM Dear Foxy, «Netanyahu has to go.» Not to worry - he will. He is now a certain goner, eve.....
» 12/11/2023 6:36:15 PM [...continued] «I do not see where I posted a lie.» Let's call it a "myth" rat.....
» 12/11/2023 6:36:12 PM Dear Bezza, «In the rein of Augustus the Romans had troubles with the Jews in Jerusalem a.....
» 12/11/2023 2:16:54 PM Dear Bezza, The foundations for Israel's existence and why it should remain are solid eno.....
» 10/11/2023 2:43:18 PM Dear Critic, On further investigation, Liel Weinstein was killed in the rave party rather.....
» 10/11/2023 1:22:19 PM Dear Critic, That rave party was the first location to be attacked on October 7th, in tot.....
» 10/11/2023 12:42:52 PM I pray to the sun - please send us a major magnetic storm that will burn all electronic ch.....
» 8/11/2023 9:41:36 PM Some of the policies are silly and indeed make no sense, like why not recognise Western Je.....
» 7/11/2023 10:35:16 PM Dear Critic, «You've just killed 5000 bloody kids in a matter of weeks, nearly 10 time th.....
» 7/11/2023 12:58:23 PM Dear Ttbn, «The Liberal Democrats, now the Libertarian Party, have not had any real impac.....
» 7/11/2023 8:23:24 AM Dear Critic, «If Israel wants to kill Muslim women and kids in the thousands while Al Jaz.....
» 6/11/2023 11:22:08 PM Dear Bezza, «They believe that it is their religious duty to get rid of the Jews, all of .....
» 6/11/2023 5:55:24 PM I only encountered this word here, on OLO. I will keep using it as the past tense of 'wak.....
» 6/11/2023 5:28:40 PM I actually agree with Foxy that Hamas are not anti-Semites: They don't particularly hate .....
» 6/11/2023 10:30:46 AM Dear Foxy, I only mentioned anti-Semitism in the context of the use of the name 'Palestin.....
» 6/11/2023 9:03:30 AM Dear SteeleRedux, «You claimed: "knees may have been lost, but under the cover and g.....
» 6/11/2023 8:32:15 AM Dear Critic, «It would have been better if they only targeted IDF, but maybe the intentio.....
» 6/11/2023 8:00:10 AM Dear Josephus, «Foxy they are not a race called Palestinians, they are Arabs, like the su.....
» 6/11/2023 7:40:56 AM Dear David, Zionism is not embodied by Netanyahu, a corrupt hedonist, a coward, a small b.....
» 6/11/2023 12:13:29 AM Dear Delivery, «and now the Israeli Jews are doing it to the Palestinians.» Yes, Israel .....
» 5/11/2023 4:10:47 PM Dear Bezza, There is nothing religious about this war - or do you really believe that God.....
» 5/11/2023 2:48:57 PM Dear Foxy, «Getting rid of one terrorist movement won't solve the conflict.» Sure, but w.....
» 5/11/2023 10:07:08 AM Dear Josephus, «1. Does Israel have a right to rescue their stolen family members? 2. Doe.....
» 5/11/2023 12:42:58 AM [...continued] At the bottom line, none of this matters, it's only hot air: My family wa.....
» 5/11/2023 12:42:55 AM Dear Critic, Regarding land ownership, the truth is somewhere in between and the land is .....
» 3/11/2023 5:27:10 PM Dear Josephus, «Israel has offered the people of Gaza their right to a separate state fiv.....
» 3/11/2023 5:03:58 PM Dear Chek, Israel has no delusions that once Hamas is gone there will be peace forever. I.....
» 3/11/2023 4:57:13 PM Dear SteeleRedux, The page you referred me to was not found. So without knowing the exact.....
» 3/11/2023 1:29:52 PM Dear Critic, «- I think it goes without saying that every person and every nation has a r.....
» 3/11/2023 8:21:03 AM Dear Critic, «Could this be true also Israel is an occupying power, and as such doesn't .....
» 2/11/2023 10:05:40 PM Dear SteeleRedux, Yes indeed, IF killing anything in Israel that moves was the only way f.....
» 2/11/2023 9:44:27 PM Dear Chek, «In my understanding, the reverse is the case.» The reverse of what? Is this .....
» 2/11/2023 3:52:38 PM Dear Critic, «Israel-Palestine war: Likud MP calls for Gaza to be 'erased from the face o.....
» 2/11/2023 2:50:06 PM Dear Chek, «How about a UN-brokered mandated two-state solution?» That would be wonderfu.....
» 2/11/2023 11:06:12 AM Dear Foxy, «Many Israeli Jews have made it clear that: "We need to work towards a s.....
» 2/11/2023 11:00:39 AM Dear Critic, «The Netanyahu government is just acting out like a drowning man, killing an.....
» 2/11/2023 10:09:31 AM Dear Josephus, Netanyahu is neither orthodox (or even a believer of any kind) nor relevan.....
» 1/11/2023 12:29:44 PM Dear Dan, First you claim (without explaining) that I am so naive, then the next moment y.....
» 1/11/2023 6:36:26 AM Dear ShadowMinister and Critic, «If the document was secret it would not have been publis.....
» 1/11/2023 1:22:50 AM Dear Bezza, What you quote is from the Hadith, considered to be the "oral teaching&q.....
» 1/11/2023 12:58:51 AM Dear Mhaze, Thank you for this beautiful clip, "Here Comes the Sun". That &quo.....
» 1/11/2023 12:22:56 AM An excellent analysis of the situation, as far as the present goes, but mixed with impossi.....
» 31/10/2023 3:59:43 PM Dear Critic, «these things effectively put an end to any 2 state agreement, is that corre.....
» 31/10/2023 12:41:21 PM Dear Foxy, «I don't understand what the aim is.» To kill each and every member and opera.....
» 31/10/2023 11:44:06 AM Dear Mhaze, «"and in the end, the love you take, is equal to the love you make".....
» 31/10/2023 12:33:46 AM Dear Critic, «Netanyahu's government is actively involved in a simple land grab.» It WAS.....
» 30/10/2023 10:47:11 PM Dear Bezza, «The Arab Islamic armies invaded Mesopotamian towards the end of the 6th cent.....
» 30/10/2023 9:02:06 PM Dear Paul, «Nothing would surprise, will we see Zionist gas chambers constructed in Gaza .....
» 30/10/2023 1:38:36 PM Oh My, Mhaze - you took a great risk! I hope and pray you are OK: Did McCartney order you.....
» 29/10/2023 11:30:02 PM Dear Bezza, «From what I read the Arab armies, which were then sent on a mission to take .....
» 29/10/2023 9:28:27 PM This is correct, Foxy. Modern research shows that Judeans (now commonly called Jews) and .....
» 29/10/2023 4:10:54 PM Dear Critic, «I wouldn't be at all surprised if this thing turns into a huge war in the c.....
» 29/10/2023 9:00:13 AM Dear Bezza, «Could we be arrested for hate crimes ?» For hate crimes one has to hate. I .....
» 28/10/2023 9:41:40 PM Dear Paul, «Yuyutsu, what is your reasoning and justification for accepting "Collect.....
» 27/10/2023 6:34:09 PM Dear Josephus, Thank you for the support, but I don't believe that Hamas is truly motivat.....
» 27/10/2023 3:59:48 PM Dear Foxy, «I have no wish to either argue or interact with you.» Neither did my family .....
» 27/10/2023 3:33:14 PM Dear Foxy, «Middle East Studies experts at ANU and Sydney University tell us that this is.....
» 26/10/2023 11:13:48 PM Dear Critic, «It's funny how I have no real solid support for either the left or the righ.....
» 26/10/2023 11:10:00 PM Dear Critic, «(no offense intended, is 'believers' a better term?)» No. That term is one.....
» 26/10/2023 11:18:57 AM Dear Critic, «2 states with a tunnel in between» The offer was for just one state, conne.....
» 26/10/2023 11:00:35 AM Dear Critic, There has been so much confusion and misunderstanding about religion, that I.....
» 26/10/2023 10:15:19 AM Dear SteeleRedux, «one that completely ignores the fact that Fatah in the West Bank recog.....
» 25/10/2023 9:52:40 PM Dear Critic, I disagree that anything about their particular beliefs is religious. But t.....
» 25/10/2023 9:45:52 PM Dear Foxy, «The overwhelming majority of men, women, and children in Gaza have nothing to.....
» 25/10/2023 8:28:23 PM With friends like these, who needs enemies?*? They are Christian Evangelicals all right, .....
» 21/10/2023 11:50:45 PM Dear Critic, «I watched another video earlier today (From the Shiekh Yuyutsu didn't like).....
» 21/10/2023 10:56:05 PM Dear Bezza, The majority of nominal Muslims do not take the Koran as seriously as yoursel.....
» 21/10/2023 10:45:19 PM Dear Paul, «AND, if this God doesn't exist then what is the purpose of it all.» Depends .....
» 21/10/2023 9:57:07 PM Dear Indyvidual, Of course I am unhappy with that hassle of referendum - especially with .....
» 20/10/2023 5:39:08 PM Dear Critic, One possibility in a comprehensive solution is for Eastern Jerusalem (or at .....
» 20/10/2023 3:22:07 PM Dear SteeleRedux, «a two state solution would mean that Jews to agree would have to defy .....
» 20/10/2023 3:14:45 PM Dear Bezza, Two state solutions would necessarily be volatile. An ongoing war between th.....
» 20/10/2023 2:47:11 PM Dear Foxy, Religions are there to help their adherents to come closer to God, and one of .....
» 20/10/2023 1:41:08 PM Dear Foxy, I am very sorry for what happened to you in your childhood - that was disgusti.....
» 20/10/2023 8:02:25 AM Dear Indyvidual, Why did you address your last post also to me? I said nothing about pro.....
» 20/10/2023 7:29:00 AM Dear Paul, If a person overtly wears a Nazi uniform and is registered in the Nazi party, .....
» 20/10/2023 12:40:00 AM Dear Critic, «They have obviously been preparing for it for some time, and they most like.....
» 20/10/2023 12:13:05 AM Dear David F., «religious people never do anything bad» Even people who are mostly relig.....
» 19/10/2023 8:09:53 PM Dear Indyvidual, «Are you listening to yourself ? How could Dutton possibly stand by his .....
» 19/10/2023 5:24:59 PM Both people are irreparably divided between liberals and fundamentalists: neither a viable.....
» 19/10/2023 3:04:30 PM Dear Foxy, «So much harm has been done in the name of religion. And the most bigoted peop.....
» 19/10/2023 12:34:40 PM Dear Indyvidual, Levy Eshkol, Israel's 3rd prime-minister, was known for his saying: &quo.....
» 18/10/2023 9:22:47 PM The question being, should promises be kept? At elections time, Anthony promised to have .....
» 18/10/2023 2:37:33 PM "Hamas' unprecedent onslaught against Israeli civilians and soldiers put a significan.....
» 18/10/2023 1:14:04 PM Israel claims to have proof that the explosion in the hospital's carpark was caused by Isl.....
» 17/10/2023 3:48:06 PM Dear Critic, «As for the bible, you could probably take out the sweet part 'Do unto other.....
» 17/10/2023 8:20:43 AM Dear David F., «At present the Israelis are fighting a war with the Palestinians.» At pr.....
» 16/10/2023 11:04:52 PM [...continued] «Why would I support a future that forces me to become a product of a reli.....
» 16/10/2023 11:04:48 PM Dear Critic, «And it's not even important what I believe, what is important is what adher.....
» 16/10/2023 5:52:16 AM «Some Muslims follow Jesus War in Israel 2023 - My First Response» This fellow believes i.....
» 15/10/2023 10:24:06 PM Dear Fester, «Didn't strike me as a bad person or a liar.» What Netanyahu says in this i.....
» 15/10/2023 9:25:15 PM Dear Paul, «A simple question to those who believe Israel has the right to exterminate Pa.....
» 15/10/2023 9:47:42 AM Dear Ttbn, «These hate-filled lunatics want to wipe Israel off the map; they have said so.....
» 14/10/2023 10:20:00 PM Dear Critic, «What are the odds?» This depends whether Hezbollah will also get significa.....
» 13/10/2023 6:24:50 PM Dear SteeleRedux, I agree. «I do find it depressing that Israel squandered the opportuni.....
» 13/10/2023 5:01:48 PM Dear Foxy, «This has been caused as a result of Palestinian anger...» Yes, I understand .....
» 13/10/2023 3:08:36 PM Dear Foxy, «Miriam Margolyes writes: "When the Zionists reclaimed Israel, they didn.....
» 12/10/2023 7:44:46 PM I fully agree with this article. Hamas' Brutal Attack Could Have Been Avoided. In an int.....
» 11/10/2023 9:57:09 PM Dear Delivery, «take the whole of what I said and relate it to the situation and state of.....
» 11/10/2023 3:48:20 PM Dear Delivery, You mentioned so many things at once that I am afraid I could not get your.....
» 11/10/2023 12:41:28 PM Dear Bezza, «The whole mess can be laid at the feet of Mohammad. He sent his Arab Islamic.....
» 10/10/2023 11:23:30 PM Dear Ateday, «However I do not believe in an hypothetical imaginary entity who owns this .....
» 10/10/2023 3:06:25 PM Dear Ateday, Netanyahu indeed leaves much to be desired. «However why do they want to in.....
» 10/10/2023 1:37:22 PM Dead Ateday, «Meanwhile keep searching fruitlessly for the title deeds that your god buri.....
» 10/10/2023 1:29:46 PM Dear Foxy, «Two people, one land Three faiths, one root» You can never get anywhere unti.....
» 10/10/2023 11:40:00 AM Dear Critic, «A nation founded by terrorism, a political party founded by terrorists, to .....
» 9/10/2023 11:41:24 PM Dear SteeleRedux, Recent research shows the the Jews/Judeans and the Canaanites are one a.....
» 8/10/2023 11:04:31 PM Dear Critic, Thank you for getting back to me about the hit on Rutenberg power station. T.....
» 8/10/2023 11:02:07 PM Dear Foxy, «What I find unfair is that The Law of Return states that any Jew , born anywh.....
» 8/10/2023 1:57:52 PM Dear Foxy, Thank you for the concern. A year ago, nobody could believe such a thing coul.....
» 6/10/2023 5:45:16 PM Dear Josephus, «We live in a free and equal society and people choose where they want to .....
» 6/10/2023 9:24:52 AM Dear Critic, I am anything but a military expert, thus I will leave such questions as to .....
» 6/10/2023 12:06:11 AM Dear Critic, «How many people here strongly believe the USA and allies can beat China, Ru.....
» 4/10/2023 5:51:31 AM Dear ShadowMinister, «and a war between China and Taiwan is presently a distant possibili.....
» 3/10/2023 11:58:18 PM Dear Ttbn, «Australia would actually have to assist in the defence of Taiwan» And it doe.....
» 29/09/2023 1:00:08 PM Dear Critic, «I however think that there's some merit in the idea of approving some and '.....
» 29/09/2023 10:42:06 AM Dear Ttbn, «These unwanted, useless people» I suppose we, spent force oldies, are very u.....
» 28/09/2023 7:52:31 PM Dear Ttbn, «If Russia does lose the war, what do you think will happen after they lose? W.....
» 28/09/2023 12:32:00 PM Dear Indyvidual, There are wars because people have a need for wars. In particular those.....
» 27/09/2023 3:23:12 PM Dear Ttbn, «If you saw this woman or subjected yourself to her rudeness, 'love' is the ve.....
» 27/09/2023 2:48:22 PM Dear Alan, I am disappointed with you: once again you promote that AI robot and unnecessa.....
» 27/09/2023 2:21:42 PM Citizens will be muzzled only if they obey that law......
» 27/09/2023 9:04:42 AM Thank you Ipso Fatso for taking compassion on the convicted person. Likewise this supermar.....
» 27/09/2023 6:30:43 AM Dear Paul, Well of course, serfdom and slavery were never abolished, they just have new n.....
» 26/09/2023 5:44:17 PM Dear Duffy, «Unfortunately for all of us the situation described by Peter is a manifestat.....
» 26/09/2023 7:59:39 AM Dear Paul, Thank you, this is correct......
» 25/09/2023 9:45:57 PM Dear Critic, «A bigger question here may surround the idea that ttbn has no right to hold.....
» 23/09/2023 8:31:30 PM Dear Special Delivery, You seem to be new to this weekly thread: the others know already,.....
» 23/09/2023 8:17:01 PM Dear Ttbn, Why "personal"? Are you in person the one who decides who may or may.....
» 22/09/2023 3:46:56 PM Saint Peter at the pearly gates of heaven? Who ever gave you an authority to conduct a se.....
» 22/09/2023 12:39:30 AM I agree with Ipso Fatso that biological ancestry should not be a basis for privilege. We .....
» 22/09/2023 12:12:14 AM Dear Ipso Fatso, To summarise your post in three words: Might Is Right. Just remember th.....
» 21/09/2023 2:36:37 PM Dear ShadowMinister, «As China isn't fighting,» But it IS fighting - only each war uses .....
» 21/09/2023 8:36:51 AM Dear Ttbn, And who are you expecting to give you that unnatural (and impossible) "ri.....
» 21/09/2023 6:12:31 AM Dear ShadowMinister, Please don't rejoice too early because the battle is still long: Chi.....
» 21/09/2023 5:17:50 AM Dear Ipso Fatso, «I feel compelled to make a few more comments on comments.» Thank you f.....
» 20/09/2023 5:17:46 PM "The NO camp pretends that the Voice could do something terribly dangerous and divisi.....
» 20/09/2023 4:29:33 PM Dear Ttbn, «Depression is a complicated disease. Just taking responsibility for yourselve.....
» 20/09/2023 1:17:17 AM Dear Ross, «Being able to get over adversity (mental or other) and not crying "help&.....
» 20/09/2023 12:06:05 AM Dear Ttbn, «could it be that conservatives take more responsibility for themselves, and d.....
» 19/09/2023 11:16:22 PM "Left leaning students reported the most depression. Why?" I think that people .....
» 19/09/2023 5:09:17 PM This article was from September 2019 - it must have been re-posted in error......
» 18/09/2023 9:33:27 AM Divide the country? Sounds good! "it is hardly about recognition; it is all about cl.....
» 17/09/2023 9:44:14 PM Dear Ttbn, «You'll have to explain that to me.» The website you referred us is named: [.....
» 17/09/2023 2:01:02 PM I wish there was some https://www.binallbills.au.....
» 14/09/2023 8:24:02 PM Dear Critic, You were born in Australia. Fortunate for you, but suppose, God forbid, Aus.....
» 14/09/2023 6:22:33 AM Dear Critic, «it's clear to me that the best system so far is a mixture of socialism and .....
» 13/09/2023 11:32:10 PM Dear Ipso Fatso, I see no reason why Australian citizens/residents/visitors should not be.....
» 13/09/2023 3:45:26 PM Beware of quasi-libertarianism which approves state rolls when convenient. Collecting tax.....
» 12/09/2023 1:32:30 PM Dear David F., «Ever the romantic. Hinduism is a complex system which you may appreciate,.....
» 11/09/2023 7:12:22 PM Dear David F., «We both responded to this robot.» Actually I didn't, I responded to you .....
» 11/09/2023 11:07:18 AM Dear David F., I am disappointed that you respond to this robot. Responding to it only en.....
» 8/09/2023 3:37:39 PM Dear Fester, Thank you for your insight and care. «You seem very annoyed with things.» .....
» 8/09/2023 12:52:08 PM Dear Fester, «My considerations of this question are its legality and appropriateness in .....
» 8/09/2023 9:05:15 AM Dear Fester, «The only other issues I could think of are the wording of the preamble &quo.....
» 8/09/2023 8:51:34 AM Dear Mhaze, How dare you? Challenging the ruling class? If they were not able to take a.....
» 5/09/2023 10:52:04 PM Dear Paul, «A fair question is to ask you to name those organised groups you consider to .....
» 5/09/2023 9:41:31 AM Dear David F., «In a previous post you claim that Christianity, Islam and Judaism are not.....
» 5/09/2023 8:25:07 AM Dear Nathan, David F. is correct in saying that "Yuyutsu and I don't agree on what c.....
» 4/09/2023 4:01:04 PM Dear Paul, A Christian act, past, present or future, need not necessarily be a religious .....
» 4/09/2023 7:48:28 AM Dear David F., I was not attempting in my previous post to refute your statement that &qu.....
» 3/09/2023 11:12:21 PM Dear David F., «If there is such a thing as a soul, why should a possum not have one?» I.....
» 3/09/2023 11:12:17 PM Late to this thread, when parliament/council recites the Lord's Prayer for 3 minutes, thes.....
» 1/09/2023 5:50:02 PM Dear WTF, «The number of dissidents over self-medicating and causing toxic reactions is s.....
» 1/09/2023 11:23:11 AM Dear WTF, «My discussion was around the changes and reasons for the lifting of restrictio.....
» 31/08/2023 7:57:14 PM «As for all your other questions you should approach whoever "they" are and ask .....
» 31/08/2023 5:02:46 PM As a layperson I happen to believe Ivermectin to be both harmful and ineffective in preven.....
» 29/08/2023 2:58:38 PM Dear Foxy, «Why on earth would any rational person not listen to medical professionals? M.....
» 29/08/2023 9:37:28 AM Exactly, Ttbn, This was an exercise in enforcing authority, health or no-health plays no .....
» 29/08/2023 12:03:22 AM Dear Critic, «Funny how you provided a link to when and where the conflict started, in 18.....
» 27/08/2023 2:08:28 PM Considering the sub-sonic vibrations, the noise that is always there even while one cannot.....
» 25/08/2023 8:46:10 AM "Finally, ending the occupation will restore Israel's moral foundation" Well ye.....
» 21/08/2023 10:40:22 PM Dear Critic, «What is 'true democracy'?» Why is this question important to you? Are you.....
» 17/08/2023 7:31:05 PM Dear Dan, «Why do you think Israel as a Democracy, is different in the mentality of its m.....
» 17/08/2023 1:59:14 AM Dear David F., A democracy is supposed to represent its population, not you, I or the aut.....
» 16/08/2023 4:32:48 PM Dear David F., «Israel has a population which is divided between a well-educated, technic.....
» 16/08/2023 2:28:11 PM I support the separating of state and religion (second point); ending the occupation (thir.....
» 16/08/2023 10:54:34 AM Dear Dan, «There is an end point to the fallacy of inclusion through the fake Democratic .....
» 14/08/2023 4:02:32 PM [...continued] «and has no legal impediment to the advance of Israeli settlements.» I on.....
» 14/08/2023 4:02:28 PM Dear Dan, «I think you misunderstand my interest in the new push for the Hashemite Kingdo.....
» 13/08/2023 6:52:26 PM Dear Foxy, «How would any of you have answered the man?» I agree with David F., it was n.....
» 13/08/2023 1:45:34 PM Dear Dan, This is not about international border lines or anything international at all, .....
» 13/08/2023 9:00:34 AM Dear Paul and David F., I did not refer, not on this thread anyway, to the "meaning .....
» 13/08/2023 7:48:17 AM Dear David F., (Ipso Fatso, you may also be interested) Man used to believe that the sun .....
» 13/08/2023 12:23:48 AM [...continued] An example: Drivers often identify themselves with their car. Whatever th.....
» 13/08/2023 12:23:42 AM Dear David F., Thank you for clarifying about your dear wife's last days. «I think you a.....
» 12/08/2023 7:42:21 PM Dear Indyvidual, «the multicultural people who have migrated from different parts of the .....
» 12/08/2023 7:38:11 PM Dear Dan, If the Ukrainians in Crimea no longer want to be part of Ukraine then I am most.....
» 11/08/2023 4:54:47 PM [...continued] «What illogical stories do I believe?» Could it be any of the following? .....
» 11/08/2023 4:54:45 PM Dear David F., Sorry to hear about your wife's illness. Voluntarily stopping eating and .....
» 10/08/2023 6:34:57 PM Nothing sacred about that secular activity - voting in referendums is a profane legal duty.....
» 10/08/2023 6:15:54 PM Dear David F., «The replacement of the atoms that make up our body is not death the way I.....
» 9/08/2023 11:15:36 PM Where are the Canaanites? Modern research indicates that the Canaanites and the Jews are .....
» 9/08/2023 1:45:20 PM Dear Diver Dan, «and especially on the subject of US interference in ME politics and its .....
» 9/08/2023 12:17:44 AM Dear David F., «I don't know of any meaning for the phrase, unborn Eternal.» I think you.....
» 8/08/2023 11:16:38 PM Dear Critic, «If NATO Goes Toe-To-Toe With The Russians NATO Will Lose» I am not a milit.....
» 8/08/2023 11:07:01 PM Dear Diver Dan, I am not an American, but by the way you write you seem to be one. Ameri.....
» 8/08/2023 4:04:46 PM Dear David F., Thank you for your good wishes. It is not that I am fond or approve of hu.....
» 8/08/2023 3:51:19 PM Dear Alan B., While I am disappointed with Diver Dan who started the comments, I thank yo.....
» 8/08/2023 2:51:24 PM Dear Foxy, «The question is simple and so is your answer - YES or NO.» My answer is clea.....
» 8/08/2023 2:33:46 PM Dear Ipso Fatso, «There must be a distinct separation between church and state.» So far .....
» 8/08/2023 2:09:54 PM Dear Fester, «That population is an issue of personal liberty ultimately means that it is.....
» 8/08/2023 1:02:28 PM [...continued] «China wants peaceful reunification» So does the wolf wish to reunite wit.....
» 8/08/2023 1:02:24 PM Dear Critic, You seem to view everything through the prism of hating the United States of.....
» 8/08/2023 1:00:43 AM Dear Critic, Only blind Freddy can believe that Putin will stop at Kiev. Could this KGB o.....
» 6/08/2023 9:50:02 PM What is there to celebrate when slavery is still rampant? Some of my predecessors already.....
» 6/08/2023 12:18:17 AM Dear Fester, «I used to be concerned about population until I realised that it was an iss.....
» 4/08/2023 4:49:38 PM Dear Fester, «Do you see the contradiction there? In developed nations where women have m.....
» 4/08/2023 1:58:42 PM It is fine for a society to set rules for its members so that other members can enjoy livi.....
» 2/08/2023 2:32:08 PM I would like to present a relevant verse from a poem, "Bhaja Govindam" by Adi Sh.....
» 1/08/2023 4:27:43 PM Dear ShadowMinister, Israel's high-court judges, all 15 of them sitting together on this .....
» 1/08/2023 8:56:08 AM Dear David F., Reasonableness indeed cannot be defined objectively because behind each an.....
» 31/07/2023 8:06:27 PM Dear ShadowMinister, In reality there are no unreasonable laws (unless they contain obvio.....
» 31/07/2023 9:23:27 AM Dear ShadowMinister, The Israeli opposition agrees that a judicial reform is needed, the .....
» 30/07/2023 11:32:21 AM Dear Alan B., «l simply do not believe you on this one.» Then make this simple experimen.....
» 30/07/2023 7:13:18 AM Dear Paul, We got ourselves into a corner, so we need to turn back and no one is saying t.....
» 29/07/2023 10:35:24 PM Dear Fester, «I think of the social and scientific advances as tools.» Definitely, but t.....
» 28/07/2023 4:13:27 PM Dear Paul, It all depends on how you understand the term "Christian", is it: 1.....
» 28/07/2023 3:00:12 PM It is worth noting that Ayn Rand already criticised soy in her 1957 book, "Atlas Shru.....
» 28/07/2023 2:29:26 PM Dear Alan B., «Still flogging that dead horse.» This is what you are doing every time wh.....
» 28/07/2023 1:59:50 PM Dear Fester, «but ditch the wicked ways of sophisticated civilisation for the noble and e.....
» 28/07/2023 1:46:22 PM Dear David F., Indeed, I wouldn't think that you would like any people stoned for any rea.....
» 27/07/2023 11:22:22 PM Dear David F., «I disagree with the Biblical saying of Jesus: "let he without sin ca.....
» 27/07/2023 3:18:08 PM [...continued] "The occupation has been eroding Israel's democracy from day one".....
» 27/07/2023 3:18:05 PM First, I thank David F. for his excellent response! --- I am undoubtedly on the author's.....
» 27/07/2023 1:45:38 PM Let us look at who are the most sophisticated people: criminals (especially scammers), the.....
» 25/07/2023 12:34:39 AM Dear Pliny, Israeli leaders need this game of war no less - not for Israel's survival, bu.....
» 24/07/2023 9:29:07 AM Dear David F., If you were to follow your own belief system and apply the necessary logic.....
» 23/07/2023 10:41:30 PM Dear David F., «When religion gets benefits from the state» Can one jump naked into the .....
» 23/07/2023 1:14:55 PM The article is correct, but I will eagerly await the next one proclaiming the miracle of a.....
» 23/07/2023 12:45:50 AM Dear David F., Care to explain? One could claim, "if a state does not provide me wi.....
» 23/07/2023 12:13:13 AM [...continued] «I don't think any country can be a democracy if it represents only part o.....
» 23/07/2023 12:13:09 AM Dear David F., Well obviously democracy is a farce - no people in the world are allowed b.....
» 22/07/2023 6:54:09 PM Dear Cherful, «seeming to believe that it will all have a happy ending if they all just j.....
» 20/07/2023 6:07:22 PM Dear ShadowMinister, «The first duty of any culture/religion is to protect its people.» .....
» 19/07/2023 5:53:56 PM Dear David F., «There is no true context of scripture. There is only the context that peo.....
» 19/07/2023 9:08:08 AM Dear David F., Inasmuch as a book attempts to describe the physical universe and its hist.....
» 19/07/2023 12:05:10 AM A totalitarian state like China does not need money or any other viable currency - it can .....
» 18/07/2023 11:58:32 PM Dear Alan B., I encourage you to continue expressing your views and ideas about Israel in.....
» 18/07/2023 7:05:46 PM Dear David F., Yes, I am very aware of the contents of the Jewish Bible, it is a diverse .....
» 18/07/2023 5:16:28 PM 1. Revenge+Enmity: "No Ammonite or Moabite or any of their descendants may enter the.....
» 17/07/2023 12:34:55 AM Dear David F., Yes, Buddhism is an offshoot of Hinduism and therefore its philosophy is p.....
» 16/07/2023 3:15:28 PM Dear Paul, «Albert Einstein is often quoted as having said: "I know not with what we.....
» 14/07/2023 2:16:52 PM Perhaps unfortunately, Mr. Compton, but your country is not being and is not going to be t.....
» 14/07/2023 1:53:23 PM Dear David F., «He told me he would see a psychiatrist. Dad had more sense than the Bible.....
» 14/07/2023 1:09:43 PM Dear Syed Atiq ul Hassan, May Allah bless you. Unlike in the olden days, very few people.....
» 14/07/2023 12:00:55 PM Well we are ALREADY in World-War-III and Ukraine has ALREADY been admitted as a de-facto N.....
» 13/07/2023 10:44:19 PM Dear Nathan, I also don't like the aggressiveness of vegan organisations. I don't like th.....
» 10/07/2023 5:46:04 PM Dear Rhian, I agree regarding COVID, but the way things were going at the time I was also.....
» 9/07/2023 6:47:42 PM Dear SteeleRedux, «What is being proposed is that all the teachers must either have or ad.....
» 8/07/2023 6:56:16 PM Dear Mhaze, Vegans do not eat dairy and eggs - vegetarians do. I have been vegetarian fo.....
» 6/07/2023 10:11:52 PM Competition between states is a good thing. What I find disappointing though is that both.....
» 6/07/2023 4:07:35 PM Dear David F., When nobody makes the first comment, the article isn't listed on this foru.....
» 6/07/2023 12:37:40 PM Dear David F., Did you really have to comment first on this article? This robot wouldn't .....
» 5/07/2023 7:29:31 PM Dear Rhian, «How would your voluntary society deal with a member who refused to conform w.....
» 4/07/2023 10:08:59 PM There are more dimensions to it than the way the article presents. The main one in my vie.....
» 3/07/2023 3:09:56 PM Dear David F., «However, you preserve and venerate the superstition prevalent in a past a.....
» 3/07/2023 2:51:59 PM Go tell the wolf to stop eating lambs and eat grass instead... How naive can the author b.....
» 3/07/2023 2:19:36 PM Dear David F., «Descending into superstition is cleansing the mind?» Obviously it cannot.....
» 3/07/2023 9:00:32 AM Dear David F., To answer MacCulloch, "I appreciate the solemnity of religious liturg.....
» 2/07/2023 10:51:19 PM Dear Paul, «Sunday July 2nd to Sunday July 9th, National NAIDOC Week celebrations» You t.....
» 2/07/2023 10:26:46 PM Dear Ipso Fatso, «We are the output of a computer program.» Please speak for yourself - .....
» 2/07/2023 10:28:27 AM Dear David F., I am sorry to hear about the passing of your dear wife. My you always find.....
» 29/06/2023 10:12:44 PM Dear Ipso Fatso, «We are a computer program.» If that is not a superstition then what el.....
» 29/06/2023 3:28:04 PM Thank you Peter for another wonderful article. In summary, this particular universe can b.....
» 27/06/2023 1:15:32 PM Suppose I accept at face value this statement that: "for every extra 50,000 universit.....
» 21/06/2023 4:24:18 PM It is extremely sad, but there is just no space left in this overcrowded world for good pr.....
» 19/06/2023 11:55:48 PM Dear Ttbn, People who wet their bed are incontinent, yet that was not the point of my pos.....
» 19/06/2023 5:14:56 PM Dear Ttbn, Just for reference, in my response to Armchair Critic I was referring to your .....
» 18/06/2023 9:38:23 PM Dear Aidan, I use metaphors myself, but a metaphor must show some resemblance. One board.....
» 18/06/2023 5:51:15 PM Dear Critic, «he's such a girl in the way he goes about things» «and gets around straddle.....
» 18/06/2023 4:15:09 PM Dear Aidan, «Stupid article! The ship's not sinking at all.» Stupid indeed: not only the.....
» 18/06/2023 4:03:36 PM Dear Mhaze, «Yet Yuyutsu seems to think we could have (and should have) hired some little.....
» 17/06/2023 8:41:19 PM Australia sits stably in the middle of the Indo-Australian tectonic plate, hence has no re.....
» 17/06/2023 7:28:37 PM Dear Mhaze, If you discussed your relative's wishes in advance and she told you that she .....
» 17/06/2023 7:10:30 PM Dear Ttbn, If I had anything to hide then I would encrypt my E-mails. I would be using m.....
» 16/06/2023 3:50:54 PM Dear Paul, «What would you expect him to do, let her die.» It is not for me to expect an.....
» 16/06/2023 3:50:50 PM Dear Mhaze, That your relative had some falls is a fact. That your relative was found wit.....
» 15/06/2023 10:29:25 PM Dear David F., You should feel proud of your oldest granddaughter!.....
» 15/06/2023 9:14:41 PM Dear Mhaze, What you did to your relative was indisputably legal - but not moral. So wha.....
» 15/06/2023 2:20:39 PM Productivity has to do with quantity, not quality. Productivity means that phone calls ar.....
» 15/06/2023 1:39:41 PM Dear Ttbn, «Hashemite or termite. Nobody here can do anything about these non-stop, borin.....
» 15/06/2023 1:27:05 PM Dear David F., «If a couple should decide to have a child I think they should be prepared.....
» 15/06/2023 8:34:46 AM Dear Nathan, «The problem I have here is that people should love a child unconditionally,.....
» 13/06/2023 11:59:37 PM Dear Mhaze, «Tell me again, why do we need net-zero emissions?» 1) Governments (both nat.....
» 13/06/2023 5:51:05 PM Dear Mhaze, I agree that those who go voluntarily to a nursing home should pay for it, in.....
» 13/06/2023 4:59:25 PM I enjoyed the previous two articles by this author, but I am disappointed by this one. So.....
» 12/06/2023 3:30:23 PM So both government and corporations created inflation (and as Alan just added, Putin too) .....
» 12/06/2023 1:35:18 PM Great article, thanks! As I commented at the previous article, governments have applied a.....
» 12/06/2023 8:29:07 AM Dear Mhaze, «if the aged want to go into care they should be forced to use a large portio.....
» 10/06/2023 9:21:13 PM Dear Canem Malum, «Maybe this might answer Yuyutsu's question» My question was about rel.....
» 9/06/2023 7:33:34 AM Dear Canem Malum, What makes you think that the US is religious? Yes, there are more nom.....
» 8/06/2023 1:49:58 PM Dear Dan, «34% in U.S., 18% (Pew poll), in Israel Believe it’s possible to believe Christ.....
» 8/06/2023 1:11:39 AM Dear David F., «My cousin emailed me today on a matter of family history. I tried to help.....
» 7/06/2023 3:59:13 PM A variant of UBI is called "negative income tax (NIT)", and yes, a few slight mo.....
» 7/06/2023 2:36:50 PM Dear David F., «My cousin was president of the Orthodox Union. He is friends w Netanyahu .....
» 7/06/2023 2:31:30 PM Oops, sorry everyone, the above was posted on the wrong article......
» 7/06/2023 2:29:57 PM Dear David F., «My cousin was president of the Orthodox Union. He is friends w Netanyahu .....
» 7/06/2023 8:30:36 AM Dear Aidan, Good comments, thanks. Just one remark: «Unfortunately Netanyahu's in the l.....
» 7/06/2023 12:34:08 AM [...continued] Apart from the ultra-orthodox, a unique (and non-Zionist) group on its own.....
» 7/06/2023 12:34:06 AM Dear Dan, It is my own analysis, based on following closely on Israeli news at the source.....
» 6/06/2023 2:34:49 PM Dear David F., «There still is the one state solution. Make Israel a real democracy with .....
» 6/06/2023 1:43:51 PM Yes, we have been divided and conquered by that one nasty Mafia called "state", .....
» 6/06/2023 7:31:32 AM Dear Aidan, Normally parents (and grandparents) love their children and wish them well - .....
» 5/06/2023 11:57:28 PM Dear Ipso Fatso, «Education is necessary.» Absolutely so. 'Education' comes from 'educe.....
» 5/06/2023 12:55:09 PM Dear Alan B., I totally agree with the first section of your post, which is: «We need to.....
» 5/06/2023 11:29:42 AM "Everyone agrees that all children have an equal right to education." "even.....
» 4/06/2023 4:47:26 PM Dear Alan B., «as it suits their agenda, i.e., endless expansion of Israel. And Mr. Singe.....
» 3/06/2023 11:15:09 PM Dear Ipso Fatso, «The conflict in that area has been going on for a LOOONG time. It has b.....
» 2/06/2023 12:47:40 PM Dear Alan B., «Dream on, David» Robots cannot dream! «if you think the views of half a .....
» 2/06/2023 8:42:06 AM Dear David F., Summanus must have done his job as a god, he served his purpose, then made.....
» 1/06/2023 11:26:01 PM Dear Ipso Fatso, «Religion is a local man made idea, used to control the masses, and expl.....
» 1/06/2023 1:25:19 PM "The secular education system, was founded on a set of beliefs that, although not tra.....
» 31/05/2023 3:24:13 PM All the author predicts could have been so, except for one detail: THERE IS NO "ISRA.....
» 30/05/2023 3:34:45 PM Who in their right mind wants to share information publicly when we all know that governme.....
» 30/05/2023 12:44:57 PM Dear Paul, «Sadly Australia's foreign policy is based on the dictates, demands and strate.....
» 30/05/2023 9:14:32 AM Dear Ttbn, Indeed I would feel no obligation to relate to anyone - that would truly not b.....
» 30/05/2023 1:01:58 AM Yes, if I were to start a thread in the general-discussion area then I would feel obliged .....
» 29/05/2023 9:01:32 PM Dear Ipso Fatso, «Our reality should be based on this view.» Reality is not based on any.....
» 29/05/2023 12:12:21 AM Dear David F., «Ipso Fatso, I think, deals with reality.» Don't we all? «All concepts a.....
» 28/05/2023 10:23:31 PM Dear Ttbn, «The things you mention from the past have no relevance to the topic of suppre.....
» 28/05/2023 10:06:07 PM Dear Ipso Fatso, «The concept of a god is man made.» Yes, ALL concepts are man made. «T.....
» 28/05/2023 9:39:31 PM Dear Ipso Fatso, «Those who call themselves 'first nations' are living in a false reality.....
» 28/05/2023 12:26:12 AM Dear Ttbn, «Your sarcasm is unbecoming. In my lifetime, governments did not censor Austra.....
» 26/05/2023 4:35:32 PM Dear Paul, Certainly there are people who use churches for both the social and religious .....
» 26/05/2023 3:10:28 PM Here are some ideas for new discussion topics: * The sun is hot! * The rain is wet! * The.....
» 26/05/2023 2:43:20 PM Dear David F., You cannot be serious when on the one hand agreeing that churches are esse.....
» 26/05/2023 9:33:35 AM Dear David F., When a Christian wants you to convert, that does not usually mean that the.....
» 25/05/2023 1:09:34 AM «the centrality of memory to identity drives countless 'amnesia' plots in films, with the .....
» 24/05/2023 2:14:33 PM Wisdom is when the intellect controls the mind, overcomes its lower tendencies and makes t.....
» 21/05/2023 6:56:18 PM Dear David F., «Humans are a social animal and organise in groups.» I do not deny this -.....
» 21/05/2023 1:34:21 AM Dear Special Delivery, «a mere three thousand years as claimed by the Jews in claiming th.....
» 19/05/2023 5:13:52 PM Dear David F., What you (or the American constitution) describe as "rights", I .....
» 19/05/2023 4:01:34 PM "how many Israelis completely distort the nature and the ultimate objective of the Is.....
» 18/05/2023 11:25:31 PM So this scheme of building flats is the regime's Stage 1 in disempowering people, making t.....
» 18/05/2023 4:22:31 PM Dear David F., After years of trying to fight this column, I have arrived at the conclusi.....
» 16/05/2023 3:19:51 PM [...continued] «Yuyutsu, you say it is an internal Israeli problem. Then why do the ".....
» 16/05/2023 3:19:49 PM Dear Bezza, «You say they are Jews, well that might have been so 1400 years ago but it is.....
» 16/05/2023 1:05:26 AM Dear Bezza, «Under Islam you either accept Islam as your religion or you pay the Jizya an.....
» 12/05/2023 4:48:27 PM Dear Maverick, No, I don't think that "david singer" is made in Dimona, I think.....
» 12/05/2023 11:33:31 AM Dear Maverick, This "columnist" is not writing from anywhere, it is a robot, an.....
» 12/05/2023 11:16:05 AM Introspection is a grand virtue. Keep it up, Everald, don't jump to quick conclusions......
» 10/05/2023 9:42:52 PM Israel's democracy and Israel's health can only be restored when its 1967 occupation is en.....
» 10/05/2023 6:48:07 PM Dear Paul, «Typical of American justice!» Why do we need to discuss America? They are cr.....
» 9/05/2023 11:59:10 PM Sadly all the author seems to care about is journalism. What if Assange did not happen to.....
» 9/05/2023 2:39:36 PM Dear Ipso Fatso, «If they have genuine difficulty adjusting to modern society, then that .....
» 5/05/2023 4:01:43 PM The article comes short of addressing the root problem, which is that states belligerently.....
» 5/05/2023 2:57:30 PM Adding insult to injury, it has become fashionable to refer to aboriginal people as ".....
» 5/05/2023 10:08:04 AM Dear David F., Yes, I fully agree on these points, both with you and with Maimonides. Ex.....
» 5/05/2023 1:18:33 AM Dear Banjo Paterson, Yes, most ordinary Hindus never studied their scriptures in depth. I.....
» 4/05/2023 12:42:49 PM Dear Banjo Paterson, «the vision of its early proponents seems to have been somewhat anth.....
» 4/05/2023 12:22:38 AM Dear Banjo Paterson, 1. «I presume you’re referring to your beliefs, Yuyutsu,» Well of c.....
» 2/05/2023 3:18:55 PM "And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they .....
» 2/05/2023 12:02:42 AM Dear Banjo Paterson, «if we consider that time is simply the sequence of events and the c.....
» 30/04/2023 4:36:04 PM Dear Banjo Paterson, «I, personally, am not inclined to see time as reality any more than.....
» 30/04/2023 3:42:31 PM No law whatsoever about religion can be made, neither for nor against, for the simple that.....
» 29/04/2023 8:49:26 PM Dear Banjo Paterson, I watched the clip you referred me to. What I saw there was panic a.....
» 28/04/2023 4:56:31 PM Dear Paul, «Citizenship gives one a senses of belonging and acceptance» I can't see how .....
» 28/04/2023 11:01:16 AM Dear Paul, This is good and I don't think this move is controversial. The question is, w.....
» 28/04/2023 10:32:39 AM Dear Banjo Paterson, «nothing in the universe remains static. Everything is in constant e.....
» 28/04/2023 12:14:29 AM "It is time to look in the mirror and ask yourself: Where do I go from here?" B.....
» 27/04/2023 7:04:37 PM Dear Banjo Paterson, 1) Suppose two people make the same statement, but for one of them t.....
» 26/04/2023 5:51:58 PM Dear Alan, «I agree with Ismail.» You seem to agree with a fictional character. That &q.....
» 26/04/2023 2:42:24 PM Dear Ttbn, «Are people really interested in this stuff?» Yes. This article is part of a.....
» 26/04/2023 2:28:39 PM [...continued] «I don’t know if you consider “absolute truth” to be a divine attribute of.....
» 26/04/2023 1:36:58 PM Dear Banjo Paterson, «Whereas, in my view, truth has nothing to do with the degree to whi.....
» 26/04/2023 1:11:33 AM Dear David F., «An approximation and a relative truth are not the same thing.» I agree: .....
» 25/04/2023 11:07:44 PM Dear David F., Interesting to see that Western philosophers also came up with the concept.....
» 25/04/2023 2:08:01 PM Dear Banjo, The truth you speak about is fine, but is not only relative to the people who.....
» 25/04/2023 12:43:54 AM Dear Banjo Paterson, By definition, if one observer expresses one truth and another obser.....
» 24/04/2023 11:57:03 PM Dear David F., «Now you are telling me I shouldn't be making sweeping generalizations» I.....
» 24/04/2023 4:40:59 PM Dear David F., God cannot be a human invention, or anyone else's invention for that matte.....
» 24/04/2023 1:28:41 PM Well said, Dan: «Whoops….Democracy raises its ugly head.» If MPs are not supposed to cros.....
» 24/04/2023 1:08:15 PM Dear Banjo Paterson, «For what it is worth, my definition of truth is the sincere express.....
» 23/04/2023 6:55:58 PM A dog has faith that the food its master brings is good and not poisoned. If a stranger b.....
» 19/04/2023 3:19:35 PM The article has profound things to tell about Christianity, which I generally agree with, .....
» 18/04/2023 3:05:47 PM Dear Dan, It is becoming sadly more and more difficult in our failing world to distinguis.....
» 18/04/2023 12:50:00 PM It is just terrible, Israel is being destroyed from within by Netanyahu and his other crim.....
» 17/04/2023 10:30:02 PM Dear Dan, «Sadly, any approach to the Jewish question immediately descends into hostile r.....
» 17/04/2023 10:01:14 PM The regional super-power in the Middle East is Israel, not China. These developments are .....
» 17/04/2023 9:43:27 PM Well you see, friends, I cannot even call the "author" stupid because it is quit.....
» 17/04/2023 1:37:47 PM Dear Alan, It's not about content - post what you like, but why here under this particula.....
» 17/04/2023 10:02:01 AM Dear Critic, What you wrote happens to be true, but 1) it is not relevant to this discuss.....
» 13/04/2023 10:55:21 PM If anyone still needed evidence for the limitations of AI, just look at the above post to .....
» 13/04/2023 5:44:57 PM Dear ShadowMinister, Indeed, facts trump propaganda, the question being how can I tell th.....
» 13/04/2023 4:57:53 PM Indeed guys, we have been duped into talking with a robot, not a human! I have explained .....
» 13/04/2023 3:43:45 PM Dear David, I explained all this that you are asking many times over and even provided yo.....
» 13/04/2023 12:13:26 PM Dear Critic, I am in no position to decide whose information is correct, yours or Shadowm.....
» 13/04/2023 12:03:55 AM Dear David, Your reply screams out how you never bothered to read my comments about the o.....
» 12/04/2023 9:16:23 AM Dear David, «The Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine solution - if successfully implemented - .....
» 10/04/2023 3:00:39 PM Dear Nathan, You are on the right path, others are behind and some are ahead too. We shal.....
» 10/04/2023 8:28:46 AM Dear Nathan, Wanting to modify one's body is a phase within the process of self-discovery.....
» 9/04/2023 10:56:34 AM Making babies is a Ponzi scheme. We stuffed it in the past, now we look for a temporary f.....
» 8/04/2023 11:13:19 PM Dear Dan, As I said, I have no interest in things American - I have no family there! As .....
» 6/04/2023 12:46:10 PM Dear Dan, I could list hundreds of other issues that I have no interest in or views on. T.....
» 5/04/2023 6:29:20 PM Dear Dan, I have no views about American issues, nor care about them. What I know is abou.....
» 4/04/2023 3:55:19 PM Dear Dan, "Whoever claims to love God yet hates a brother or sister is a liar. For w.....
» 4/04/2023 1:42:38 PM Quos Deus vult perdere prius dementat......
» 2/04/2023 4:37:21 PM Dear Critic, Thank you very much for clarifying and I hope we never have to meet again on.....
» 1/04/2023 9:51:55 PM Dear Critic, «For David Singer it's all about idiot Borrell's opinions... "How dare .....
» 31/03/2023 6:17:31 PM Dear Alan, I am very disappointed that you posted here again. By replying to these anti-.....
» 30/03/2023 11:32:32 AM Seems like Whyjens are also poor at math: "We have triple the suicide rate of the ge.....
» 29/03/2023 7:33:02 PM Meanwhile Netanyahu agreed to pause his "judiciary reform" till July due to heav.....
» 25/03/2023 10:12:11 PM Dear Alan, This article may be worth consideration, but why the other one (http://forum.o.....
» 19/03/2023 3:54:09 AM Dear Alan, I appreciate your restraint in not disturbing our patient. Thank you! Israel .....
» 13/03/2023 11:47:57 PM Alan, you disappoint me again and prolong this menace. Why can't or won't you go somewhere.....
» 12/03/2023 5:17:28 AM «I have wondered what the Lord's prayer does in real terms.» It reminds people of God, so.....
» 7/03/2023 10:33:13 PM The way to combat the climate cult and its madness, is to wind down operations. Substitut.....
» 6/03/2023 1:23:05 PM Dear Paul, Yet another government program? Yes the people of this fortunate continent ou.....
» 6/03/2023 1:13:12 PM Dear Ateday, We should not disturb our patient. I responded to you here: http://forum.onl.....
» 6/03/2023 1:11:32 PM Dear Ateday, «in the sandy wastes of the Middle East» Australia has a larger proportion .....
» 5/03/2023 11:57:27 PM Dear Alan, I did warn you - our "Hashemite" madman is a lawyer and he likes to .....
» 5/03/2023 4:29:50 AM Dear Alan, If there is anything you like to say about Israel, please do so here or on sim.....
» 4/03/2023 8:36:07 PM Dear Alan, Shhhhhhhhhh......
» 3/03/2023 1:09:48 PM Dear Ateday and Maverick, There is nothing you or I can do about Palestinians, the holoca.....
» 3/03/2023 11:28:24 AM Dear Alan, I am very disappointed with you. You disturbed our patient again and were the .....
» 2/03/2023 1:44:06 PM Dear Aidan, Obviously we want different things: You seem to prioritise survival and comf.....
» 2/03/2023 12:34:05 PM "The question is whether they want to live in peace, and grow and prosper together, o.....
» 1/03/2023 5:37:29 PM Dear Aidan, It is not about the population still growing because human population is alre.....
» 28/02/2023 2:23:04 PM Dear Ttbn, «Ukraine is being destroyed - for what?» For you and me. Had "that fail.....
» 23/02/2023 1:08:58 PM Dear Dan and Alan, I am disappointed to see you disturbing the patient again, he needs re.....
» 22/02/2023 10:07:24 AM Dear Alan, «True they wanted to drive Israel into the sea.» And they have! Not physical.....
» 21/02/2023 5:56:09 PM «Yuyutsu, In that case you need to change the we to I» Well personally I have no plans to.....
» 21/02/2023 5:10:30 PM Dear Ttbn, «Be thankful that she will no longer be responding to you: it is a blessing.» .....
» 21/02/2023 4:06:03 PM Thank you Alon for this excellent and balanced article. These "Palestinians" al.....
» 21/02/2023 1:50:27 PM Dear Foxy, «But unfortunately by you, my discussions aren't enhanced!» Your discussions .....
» 20/02/2023 4:36:32 PM Dear Foxy, «A politician is a government leader» How politicians relate to each other am.....
» 20/02/2023 2:40:59 PM «Our country's political leaders often...» STOP RIGHT THERE. «Our country's political le.....
» 19/02/2023 3:16:49 AM Dear Alan, I am sorry to hear about your health and financial situation. I am not a nucl.....
» 17/02/2023 2:20:10 PM Why wait for solar storms? We should indeed wean ourselves of electricity and electronics.....
» 17/02/2023 11:45:01 AM Dear Dan, Iron Dome was developed in Israel among other advanced air-defense systems that.....
» 16/02/2023 10:49:59 PM Dear Dan, Israel is not run by this stupid US, Israel is run by its own internal forces a.....
» 16/02/2023 6:43:46 PM Dear Critic, I was under the impression that your concern that the banks might abuse the .....
» 16/02/2023 4:13:01 PM Dear Bazz, «Then in the 700s ad the Moslems invaded Mesopotamia and drove the Jews and Ch.....
» 16/02/2023 3:58:57 PM Dear Dan, «It’s already obvious, the Hashemite Kingdom, although a far superior solution,.....
» 15/02/2023 10:53:21 PM Dear Critic, «I can see a problem here with your line of thinking. I think banks would bu.....
» 15/02/2023 3:40:23 PM Dear Paul, What you suggest can be classified as gambling. It may succeed - but it may c.....
» 15/02/2023 3:10:07 PM Dear David F., «I still don't see any difference in worshiping the Greek, Roman and Norse.....
» 15/02/2023 1:31:29 PM Dear Ttbn, Attention seeking in itself is not a crime. What bothers me here, is that the.....
» 15/02/2023 1:31:26 PM Dear David F., «You were forced to say nothing. You chose to defend your obsession.» I s.....
» 15/02/2023 8:05:46 AM Dear David F., Regarding religion, we have been through this many times and I know you ha.....
» 14/02/2023 9:57:22 PM Dear Foxy, «The fact remains - you have defended those words regardless of who says them .....
» 14/02/2023 4:52:32 PM Dear Foxy, «and to me your statements of "I hate Jews and want to kill them all,&quo.....
» 14/02/2023 1:25:57 PM Dear Foxy, «In common language hate speech refers to offensive discourse that targets a g.....
» 14/02/2023 11:23:09 AM Dear Foxy, What do you mean by the expression "hate speech"? If this means any.....
» 14/02/2023 6:40:59 AM Dear Foxy, People talking about their own psychology and feelings is not an expression of.....
» 13/02/2023 10:16:15 PM If people decide to sail the high seas in unseaworthy boats and drown as a result, then th.....
» 13/02/2023 6:19:20 PM Dear Foxy, Everyone owns their feelings. One can even choose to be upset over being told.....
» 13/02/2023 3:18:43 PM Yes, Israel lost its way. It lost its way in 1967 when it swallowed the bait and held on .....
» 13/02/2023 3:12:11 PM Dear Critic, «I'm still thinking about how I can lay these thoughts and questions out in .....
» 13/02/2023 2:50:01 PM Dear Critic, «I think a person can identify as whatever they want.» Yes, anyone can and .....
» 12/02/2023 9:21:32 PM Dear Maverick, Yes, that can work, but better still if you open a new discussion then we .....
» 12/02/2023 6:51:05 PM Dear Critic, «I think you have to be able to prove aboriginal descent.» Even while I dis.....
» 12/02/2023 6:08:05 PM Dear Critic, «none the old laws are going to apply and there will be no more free will........
» 12/02/2023 5:15:05 PM My question still hangs up in the air, in case anyone else likes to take it, but I wouldn'.....
» 12/02/2023 12:52:02 PM Dear Foxy, «I have made it quite clear that there are 3 criteria» This describes the pre.....
» 12/02/2023 7:35:08 AM Dear Foxy, One does not need attorney generals to tell what the present law is: Suppose .....
» 11/02/2023 10:23:30 PM Dear Foxy, I have read your reply on the other thread: «You told us that you wanted to l.....
» 11/02/2023 9:15:35 PM Dear Alan, While I would be happy to relate to your last post, we should do so elsewhere .....
» 10/02/2023 7:16:31 PM Dear Foxy, By no means have I claimed that life in the outback without clothes and only p.....
» 10/02/2023 2:33:01 PM Dear Foxy, What you described in your last two posts is the existing situation. I don't .....
» 10/02/2023 1:32:50 PM Dear Foxy, I asked you for your personal opinion rather than about the current legal situ.....
» 10/02/2023 12:57:08 PM Dear Foxy, «The following link is worth a read about communism and the Bible:» That link.....
» 10/02/2023 12:24:48 PM Dear Alan, «the proposed Hashemite Kingdom/ an expanded Israel!» This "Hashemite&qu.....
» 10/02/2023 7:59:33 AM Dear Maverick, «One wonders how this little read, one narrow issue author, continues to m.....
» 9/02/2023 8:16:49 PM Dear Critic, «If this is true, then please accept my humble apology.» Apology accepted. .....
» 9/02/2023 7:27:55 PM Dear Critic, Your criticism is well placed, but is not a criticism of the Hindu religion,.....
» 9/02/2023 12:39:24 PM Dear Critic, «Hidus have caste system which is like organised slavery toilet cleaners are.....
» 8/02/2023 6:56:22 PM I wish I could be as optimistic as the author. I think we are heading for a bloody war, l.....
» 7/02/2023 4:17:32 PM Dear David F., «You have assumed falsely that I only know about Judaism and Christianity......
» 7/02/2023 2:00:32 PM A modern nuclear war would not be a doomsday end of humanity scenario. Yes, millions would.....
» 7/02/2023 1:16:37 PM Dear David F., I am not representing Christianity nor have I any inside information why J.....
» 7/02/2023 10:48:30 AM Dear David F., «I don't see God as essentially different from the Greek, Roman and Norse .....
» 7/02/2023 7:59:53 AM Dear David F., «We agree that God cannot exist.» I don't know whether we do: Whereas I .....
» 7/02/2023 12:15:19 AM Dear David, «Why do you think there is a God or god?» I am happy to respond, though this.....
» 6/02/2023 4:42:11 PM Dear Paul, «Would you buy a used car under those conditions?» At the end of the day, if .....
» 6/02/2023 3:39:06 PM Dear Paul, «What is it in organised religions or within people that makes some adherents .....
» 6/02/2023 3:07:21 PM Why pay a tax when you can simply reduce operations by 4.9% a year? Let the Carbonites ra.....
» 6/02/2023 2:48:49 PM What's the fuss? The whole animal kingdom operates this way!.....
» 5/02/2023 10:18:18 PM Dear David F., These terrible tribal practices that you describe and I mourn too, are not.....
» 5/02/2023 4:57:08 PM Dear David F., «The above is not a contradiction. The two patients are different people w.....
» 5/02/2023 12:58:37 PM Dear Paul, «but never the less they [KKK] are just as Christian as any other.» I haven't.....
» 5/02/2023 10:10:06 AM Dear Paul, The KKK did not claim to seek God. They were a racist organisation, not a reli.....
» 5/02/2023 8:15:27 AM Dear Paul, «are organised religions tolerant?» This is almost like asking, "are org.....
» 5/02/2023 6:19:25 AM Dear David F., Sorry, I know that you do not enjoy corresponding with me, but so long as .....
» 2/02/2023 5:59:44 PM Dear Mhaze, «Ultimately our society entrusts the raising of kids to their parents.» Read.....
» 1/02/2023 11:13:30 PM Dear Josephus and David F., You are both right. Chastity is a virtue when one conserves .....
» 30/01/2023 12:08:44 AM The more we assign importance to this division by gender, the more we talk about it, the m.....
» 29/01/2023 11:38:12 PM Dear Critic, «I think that a negotiated resolution of the conflict is becoming less likel.....
» 29/01/2023 4:06:19 PM Dear Critic, «Countdown to WW3 has begun.» What do you mean by "countdown"? W.....
» 29/01/2023 5:24:32 AM Dear Paul, «Is PELL in HELL?» No. Whether the one who was once identified as the human c.....
» 28/01/2023 11:56:06 PM «CRC maintains the earth was created in six literal days and is around 6,000 years old.» .....
» 26/01/2023 6:55:10 PM Dear Maverick, «Yes you are correct in concurring «Israel prefers the US to arbitrate or .....
» 26/01/2023 6:04:07 AM Dear Maverick, «Is this relevant enough for you Yuyutsu?» Technically your account touch.....
» 24/01/2023 10:35:53 PM Dear Foxy, «so that their perpetrators cannot continue to commit their crimes on new vict.....
» 24/01/2023 7:22:54 PM Dear Foxy, «Now be a good chap and say a prayer for all the victims who will never see ju.....
» 23/01/2023 7:56:05 PM Isn't it dreadful that everyone has to be boxed into some industry, category, subdivision .....
» 23/01/2023 1:43:08 PM "Do you support an alteration to the constitution that establishes an Aboriginal and .....
» 20/01/2023 4:59:53 PM Dear David F., Thank you so much for all the feedback. Too bad you cannot speak for the m.....
» 19/01/2023 11:38:46 PM «Your obsession with pre-Thatcher data is an absurdity.» I am not obsessed, I could live .....
» 19/01/2023 10:49:03 PM Dear Dan, I am not clear why you addressed me here on the topic of wars, but since you as.....
» 19/01/2023 1:03:36 PM Dear Ttbn, Not a proxy war - a war of example for the West, and a lukewarm test-case for .....
» 19/01/2023 11:50:25 AM "There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens:.......
» 19/01/2023 11:21:17 AM Dear Indyvidual, Thanks, these could have been my own words but you were first of course!.....
» 19/01/2023 10:49:28 AM Dear Ttbn, «Instead of giving aid and equipment that we can't afford to give, we should b.....
» 19/01/2023 7:39:56 AM Dear Paul, «Very few victims of these predatory monsters seek revenge,» I would have hop.....
» 18/01/2023 9:13:05 PM «You are the only one asking this question.» Yes I am asking, because I think that inform.....
» 18/01/2023 8:18:59 PM Dear David, I will not bother you this time with opinions you disagree with, but I may us.....
» 18/01/2023 7:33:03 PM Dear Paul, Only humans can think, but let me say just one thing - that Ridsdale and his i.....
» 18/01/2023 6:34:40 PM «Show us your eveidence that the documents were forged.» I did not claim that they were n.....
» 18/01/2023 6:13:59 PM Dear Paul, You present a secular worldview. The secular worldview considers the world to.....
» 18/01/2023 4:33:22 PM Dear Paul, I did not expect you to understand, which is why my post was addressed to Nath.....
» 18/01/2023 1:19:29 PM Dear Nathan, There are pedophiles and rapists who cannot control their sexual urges and t.....
» 17/01/2023 7:39:01 AM Dear SteeleRedux, Care to explain the connection, if any, between your damning report of .....
» 17/01/2023 7:27:35 AM Dear Banjo Paterson, «during which Pell never uttered a single word, remaining silent thr.....
» 17/01/2023 12:30:02 AM Dear David F., «Another possible solution is for most people to abandon religion as a rel.....
» 16/01/2023 11:56:36 PM Dear David, «even if you find Version 2 of the Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine solution be.....
» 16/01/2023 10:22:31 PM Dear Diver Dan, Yes, I always like to go back to basics. «Wasn’t the intention of a Jewi.....
» 16/01/2023 8:17:59 PM Not change - cancel!.....
» 16/01/2023 8:14:32 PM Dear David, Shihabi may be an important person internally in his country, but as far as o.....
» 16/01/2023 6:50:40 PM Dear Ateday, «Well stated Yuyutsu. The dangerous power of religion.» Care to explain thi.....
» 16/01/2023 2:03:20 PM This article made me want to cry - but I have no more tears. While Israel's founders are .....
» 15/01/2023 5:33:31 PM "In 2015, investigative journalists uncovered internal company documents showing that.....
» 15/01/2023 4:28:53 PM Dear David, «1. A plan emanating from Saudi Arabia overruling Saudi foreign policy for th.....
» 15/01/2023 3:29:00 PM The percentage of sex crimes that are punished? - 100% Regardless of what human police a.....
» 15/01/2023 2:49:41 PM «The Exxon scientists and those that study climate change do not use Elloit Wave Theory in.....
» 15/01/2023 12:38:02 PM Dear David, The existence of Version 1 was never contested. That almost no one ever ackn.....
» 15/01/2023 8:00:48 AM The Elliot Wave Theory. http://elliottwave-forecast.com/elliott-wave-theory Accordingly t.....
» 15/01/2023 12:31:52 AM Dear David, «trying to muddy the waters - as did your mate #Maverick» Maverick is not my.....
» 14/01/2023 11:18:07 PM Dear Foxy, «Accordingly Pell continued to protect pedophile clergy.» So? This just mean.....
» 14/01/2023 10:42:44 PM Dear Dan S de Merengue, We seem to be talking about two different things. You are discus.....
» 13/01/2023 7:13:01 PM I don't believe that anything actually happened between Cardinal Pell and these two naught.....
» 13/01/2023 6:13:24 PM Looks like the sequel to "Arabian War Games" by the fiction author, Ali Shihabi,.....
» 13/01/2023 1:20:48 PM Dear Foxy, «Two Australian state governments will not offer taxpayer-funded public funera.....
» 13/01/2023 12:59:51 PM Dear Diver Dan, I never dodged any tax because there is nothing immoral in paying taxes -.....
» 13/01/2023 12:48:14 AM Dear Diver Dan, «In view of your dislike of State control over its citizens, inclusive of.....
» 12/01/2023 5:49:17 PM [...continued] «It is safe to say, all terrorist groups consider themselves justified to .....
» 12/01/2023 5:49:15 PM Dear Diver Dan, «Q. Do you consider the State to be worthy of the description of terroris.....
» 11/01/2023 8:36:39 PM (sorry about the last post - wrong thread).....
» 11/01/2023 8:35:38 PM Dear Foxy, «... after which the Australian Cardinal's body will be brought to Sydney for .....
» 11/01/2023 8:34:41 PM Dear Foxy, «... after which the Australian Cardinal's body will be brought to Sydney for .....
» 11/01/2023 1:57:55 PM Dear Foxy, «Should he be given a state funeral?» Definitely not - why would you want his.....
» 11/01/2023 12:26:05 AM Dear Diver Dan, «Well, you are radical with that view,» I have my view - you may judge i.....
» 10/01/2023 3:16:58 PM Dear Dan, I looked up your reference to the "Sovereign citizen movement" - this.....
» 10/01/2023 12:28:20 PM Adding one more layer of government? Adding more complexity to the terrible complex we alr.....
» 10/01/2023 12:05:11 PM Dear Dan, I was not lauding the state. I have stated time and again that states AS THEY .....
» 9/01/2023 9:52:37 PM Dear Andras Smith, Indeed, what a waste: rather than aiming at the monster's head and rep.....
» 9/01/2023 5:33:54 PM Why does the Australian freedom movement always take such unprincipled approaches, at the .....
» 6/01/2023 12:54:40 PM Do you really want to know what they have been saying? Netanyahu and his Saudi counterpar.....
» 6/01/2023 8:57:23 AM Dear Dan, The story was not a parable, but something that actually happened in the 18th c.....
» 5/01/2023 4:50:14 PM Most men (and women) never face the court system and court orders, even if they separate. .....
» 5/01/2023 7:36:35 AM Dear Paul, YES. In broad terms, you got it right! While I could dissect your descriptio.....
» 4/01/2023 9:58:29 AM Dear Banjo Paterson, As I already wrote in my first post here, I disagree with Karl Barth.....
» 3/01/2023 12:17:32 PM Dear Banjo Paterson, «Would you please explain how “… the world is … an essential part of.....
» 3/01/2023 6:18:24 AM Dear Banjo Paterson, There is no need to guess and try to read the author's mind instead .....
» 1/01/2023 6:57:31 PM Dear David F., «There are only worldly things.» That is a definition, yes. "Things.....
» 1/01/2023 2:07:47 PM Dear Josephus, It is not nice, not fair and not true to claim that David F. has no faith......
» 1/01/2023 11:50:07 AM Dear Ttbn, «Ukraine is not our problem.» Ukraine is our front line where we stop China. .....
» 1/01/2023 8:23:29 AM Dear Josephus, Indeed, Christian (or any other) faith is not based in natural sciences, b.....
» 30/12/2022 5:54:09 PM Dear Critic, «Russia hasn't embarked on 'Red terror' across Europe.» Not yet across - th.....
» 30/12/2022 1:56:37 PM Well I wouldn't be surprised if the UN "security council" adopts any scheme to d.....
» 29/12/2022 10:37:16 PM Dear Critic, You keep blindly blaming "The West", "The West" and &quo.....
» 29/12/2022 3:01:50 PM «If the major political parties wish to remain relevant during the coming decades,» Remai.....
» 28/12/2022 11:19:16 PM Dear Critic, «- But I think the only chance Ukraine has left now is to capitulate to Russ.....
» 28/12/2022 8:51:08 PM Dear Critic, Russia can never exhaust the Ukrainian forces because they are only the fron.....
» 28/12/2022 8:42:13 PM Dear Nathan, «You're not happy about that as you don't agree with throwing holy books in .....
» 28/12/2022 5:04:43 PM Dear Critic, I always believed that the common Russian people are victims of their regime.....
» 28/12/2022 1:29:27 PM Dear Critic, The Russian people are known as strong and tough, but I cannot tell what it .....
» 28/12/2022 10:46:59 AM Dear Josephus, There are many crimes which are not listed on the state's criminal code. S.....
» 27/12/2022 7:44:46 PM Dear Critic, «Everything you read is lies, but you're pro-Jew so would automatically be o.....
» 27/12/2022 11:11:43 AM Suppose China invaded and took parts of Australia, so that many Australians were forced to.....
» 26/12/2022 2:28:48 PM Dear David F., «As far as giving God a bad reputation God has been called the most unplea.....
» 26/12/2022 10:03:08 AM Dear Foxy, «I feel that your concerns about Australia's religious institutions on the who.....
» 25/12/2022 2:00:30 PM Dear David F., First, thank you for the beautiful poem! It is logically erroneous to con.....
» 25/12/2022 12:08:45 PM Dear Foxy, «Religious institutions continue to play a large role in Australian society. F.....
» 23/12/2022 6:50:00 PM Dear David, I oppose any form of external constraints on what one may or may not investig.....
» 23/12/2022 6:05:16 PM Oh Paul, «Is it right to leave a pile of hundred dollar bills at your front door?» By so.....
» 23/12/2022 5:45:45 PM Dear David, «The desire for knowledge does not always conflict with a religious attitude......
» 23/12/2022 4:57:30 PM Dear Ipso Fatso, When it comes to physical objects placed on your property, this is no lo.....
» 23/12/2022 3:19:59 PM Dear David F., «It is an item of faith for the religious view of the origins of the unive.....
» 23/12/2022 12:54:11 PM If the aim of creation was history, then how come the memory of history is so short-lived,.....
» 23/12/2022 10:58:05 AM "There are hundreds of Hindu gods, male and female" gods, not God, not just hun.....
» 23/12/2022 8:21:16 AM Dear Dan, There is no "Hindu God", nor my or your "personal God". We .....
» 23/12/2022 8:05:06 AM Hear, Hear! Gift yourself with contentment this and every other Christmas, your friends w.....
» 23/12/2022 7:10:52 AM Dear Paul, Yes, some of my suggestions are radical and would require more time and pain b.....
» 23/12/2022 7:00:08 AM Dear Dan, I am not a lawyer, I don't think any of us here is. If Nathan wanted to ask a l.....
» 22/12/2022 9:53:13 PM Dear Paul, «The elderly will be an ever increasing percentage of the population» Not &qu.....
» 22/12/2022 8:46:17 PM Dear Dan, If by "right" you mean "legal", then it's a legal question .....
» 22/12/2022 5:31:03 PM Dear Dan, I remember these stickers: "Driver, don't be right - be wise". I thin.....
» 22/12/2022 4:44:11 PM Dear Foxy, Thank you for your contribution. Indeed it is wonderful when older people are.....
» 22/12/2022 1:34:06 PM Dear Aidan, «Being late entering the workforce, it makes sense that I also be late leavin.....
» 21/12/2022 11:24:05 AM Yet another attempt to "square the circle". As long as there are too many peopl.....
» 21/12/2022 8:41:07 AM Dear Dan, You assert that distributing Bibles is necessarily a charitable action solely o.....
» 20/12/2022 11:35:19 PM Dear David F., «To me Christmas is a day of mourning.» Are you aware that Jesus could no.....
» 20/12/2022 9:46:16 PM Dear Dan, «leaving a Bible at a front door crosses no line of illegally under most circum.....
» 20/12/2022 3:49:04 PM Well it looks like churches in general no longer represent religion or God. That is not a .....
» 20/12/2022 2:27:42 PM Dear Dan, «The latter part of the question (I would conclude) , with a yes.» If "ri.....
» 20/12/2022 6:43:59 AM Dear Paul, «there is no evidence that a Christian is any more morally correct that say a .....
» 20/12/2022 4:54:55 AM Dear David F., Godless people BEHAVE as if there is no God even while some of them may me.....
» 19/12/2022 9:36:57 AM Dear Dan, But I was not speaking of "legal" - states and their laws are created.....
» 18/12/2022 9:50:41 PM Dear Dan, A saint of any religion would not be insulted by anything. Period. Being less .....
» 18/12/2022 5:38:24 PM Dear Dan, «Ok, interesting. But what if you open the bedside draw in your room at a hotel.....
» 18/12/2022 11:14:12 AM Dear Dan, The question is not whether it is legal or otherwise to enter a private propert.....
» 18/12/2022 9:29:01 AM It is wrong to place ANYTHING in someone else's property, in fact even entering it without.....
» 16/12/2022 7:09:57 AM Dear Paul, It makes no sense to speak of "conservative" or "progressive&qu.....
» 15/12/2022 1:51:38 PM What to do - I do not count myself as a traditional conservative and no political party re.....
» 14/12/2022 2:11:52 PM Dear Dan, «Why are you opposed to Hashemite solution?» Because I care and wish well for .....
» 13/12/2022 9:16:51 PM Dear Daffy, «Meanwhile why not read the new essay by Chris Hedges titled Israel and the R.....
» 13/12/2022 1:31:32 PM Wrong: Israel is not going to press its self-destruct button - perhaps the author should!.....
» 10/12/2022 10:23:15 PM I agree with David F. The state (including its government) should never compel people eit.....
» 10/12/2022 10:14:05 PM So long as people like to reproduce like rabbits in order to keep their genetic line going.....
» 9/12/2022 10:46:05 AM Dear Paul, Why are you so concerned about violence from the fringe of the fringe when the.....
» 6/12/2022 9:52:02 PM Age is no indication of wisdom and maturity. The right to vote ought to be determined by .....
» 6/12/2022 12:52:52 PM Indeed, this plan is neither new nor newsworthy. Not new because the author has already b.....
» 2/12/2022 9:06:05 AM Since Australia is not a sentient being, it is nonsensical to speak of it having any ".....
» 1/12/2022 12:24:06 PM Dear David, «Not interested in any further correspondence with you.» Thank you so much, .....
» 1/12/2022 12:24:49 AM [...continued] Israel is so fortunate to have friendly Jordan as a territorial buffer whi.....
» 1/12/2022 12:24:45 AM Dear David, OK, so beyond the ordinary criminal and local agricultural feuds and thefts t.....
» 29/11/2022 11:34:01 PM First a correction: "The 1947 UN solution creating one Jewish State and one Arab sta.....
» 28/11/2022 5:25:03 PM Dear Banjo Paterson, So you are telling me that I am an idea in my mind. Thus that I am a.....
» 27/11/2022 12:54:10 PM Dear Banjo Paterson, «I am, indeed, an idea in your mind and you are an idea in mine.» P.....
» 26/11/2022 10:49:15 PM Dear Banjo Paterson, «there obviously is no God at all. There is only the idea of God (or.....
» 25/11/2022 12:45:38 PM Dear Banjo Paterson, You spoke of "my" God, but God is not mine (or anybody els.....
» 24/11/2022 4:43:32 PM Dear Dan, «calling oneself God is blasphemy» Yes, calling oneself God while still thinki.....
» 24/11/2022 10:52:07 AM Dear Banjo Paterson, «Based on your indications and explanations, it appears that there i.....
» 23/11/2022 11:51:38 PM Dear Dan, «Even Christ doubted his God on the cross; My God, why hast though foresaken me.....
» 23/11/2022 3:21:08 PM Dear Banjo Paterson, «I interpret this to mean that the object of the exercise is to beco.....
» 23/11/2022 2:18:46 PM I agree with Ttbn, Dan and Alan. --- Dear Mhaze, «The Saudi proposal doesn't match thes.....
» 22/11/2022 11:39:14 PM Dear David F., «As you don't violate the law of the land you live in you are free to prom.....
» 22/11/2022 12:24:42 PM Dear Banjo Paterson, You speak of so many "religions" with practically nothing .....
» 22/11/2022 7:25:14 AM Dear Paul, «maybe some of our 'Old Fart' deniers can come up with some alternatives, but .....
» 21/11/2022 11:20:35 PM Dear David F., I don't think you liked it when Nazi propaganda portrayed Jews as viruses .....
» 21/11/2022 2:39:30 PM Dear Dan, «I form the view that mans need for religion and it’s rituals, is as old as man.....
» 18/11/2022 5:24:45 PM Dear David F., Following your last comment I looked up Daffy's article; and whether we ag.....
» 18/11/2022 12:58:12 PM Thank you David F. and Alan B. for your thoughtful contributions. While God is not an ent.....
» 18/11/2022 12:13:14 PM Thank you Peter for this very thoughtful article. I do wonder how many of the readers cou.....
» 17/11/2022 2:19:44 PM There is no moral justification whatsoever for anyone to rule over others against their wi.....
» 17/11/2022 1:28:00 PM As for me, I would rather be free even if that meant a 10%-12% annual death rate and 10.5%.....
» 17/11/2022 6:21:28 AM Why has the sun risen today? Well of course, it was quick out to greet me! Why has the moo.....
» 16/11/2022 2:21:29 PM Dear Critic, «What if you're a Wall St banker and your religion is money and greed? What .....
» 16/11/2022 12:47:44 PM Dear Critic, You seem to jump into conclusions too quickly: «There's actually 3 categori.....
» 14/11/2022 10:34:40 PM Dear Paul, «This was in the opening post from me;» But the words were of Bobby Azarian, .....
» 14/11/2022 5:19:09 PM Dear SteeleRedux, Will you kindly tell us how these shaming reports like the one above, w.....
» 14/11/2022 2:59:27 PM Dear Foxy, "there's not much more to discuss" in the context of this thread, me.....
» 14/11/2022 2:28:09 PM Dear Megatherium, I cannot speak for the other two. One reason I decry that idea is that.....
» 14/11/2022 9:55:47 AM Dear Foxy, «Read the link I gave. It may help this discussion. It is on topic. Here it i.....
» 14/11/2022 7:50:07 AM Dear Paul, I understand your urgency to return to the trunk of the discussion which you s.....
» 13/11/2022 10:58:57 PM Dear Nathan, First just a small concern about your use of language: I find calling abori.....
» 13/11/2022 10:25:46 PM Dear Foxy, Since we live in a world of opposites, every single thing is a danger to somet.....
» 13/11/2022 2:11:04 PM Dear Foxy, «We surely don't want people running the country who... X Y Z» Just as you do.....
» 13/11/2022 7:04:36 AM Dear Paul, So long as you speak of Christian fundamentalism rather than misrepresent it a.....
» 13/11/2022 5:20:00 AM Dear Paul, «We are all aware of the dangers presented to the world by religious fundament.....
» 9/11/2022 2:12:14 PM Dear "Indyvidual", Xi Jinping announced that Hong Kong will be ruled by patriot.....
» 9/11/2022 12:27:10 AM I could be wrong, but I do sincerely believe that even the most corrupt hardened criminal,.....
» 9/11/2022 12:13:45 AM Dear Indyvidual, In this particular case, I rather follow the original Australian spirit:.....
» 8/11/2022 3:54:53 PM The whole idea behind defending ourselves against China is to protect our freedom. Should.....
» 5/11/2022 10:22:58 PM Dear Dan, Yes, there is a room for radicalism, but not when it causes suffering for other.....
» 5/11/2022 9:29:29 PM Dear Dan, «The broader aim is to divide the West along the line of conservative V liberal.....
» 4/11/2022 1:56:27 PM Dear David F., On the side, this "identity" thing is total rubbish. Looking at .....
» 4/11/2022 8:50:38 AM Now, I expect the usual suspects to use this platform to condemn Israel. Yes, Israel's de.....
» 4/11/2022 8:40:11 AM There cannot be a "two-state solution" because there cannot be any solution. Th.....
» 3/11/2022 5:22:23 PM Dear Banjo, The distinction must be made that your last post only relates to Hatha Yoga r.....
» 3/11/2022 12:14:22 PM When I grew up I had a children's book telling about Gypsies who might come at any time in.....
» 2/11/2022 8:52:55 PM Dear Maverick, Similar to Iran under the Ayatollahs rule, following the last elections an.....
» 2/11/2022 4:13:34 PM Yes, Maverick, I will be busy on the phone line tonight and in the coming days, trying to.....
» 1/11/2022 12:04:48 PM Dear Dan, I can't see why you keep speaking about that stupid US - America is a spent for.....
» 31/10/2022 10:42:24 PM Dear Dan, Indeed, I am not familiar with the American plans, but frankly, nobody listens .....
» 31/10/2022 2:54:56 PM We can learn nothing from the fact the Netanyahu opened his mouth - his own friend and all.....
» 30/10/2022 9:57:42 AM [...continued] What has belief to do with this? Why has it been so stressed in some dicti.....
» 30/10/2022 9:57:38 AM Dear Banjo Paterson, Thank you for looking at the 7th edition of the OED. Though still a .....
» 29/10/2022 10:22:02 PM Dear Banjo Paterson, «The Oxford University Press began writing and releasing the Oxford .....
» 29/10/2022 8:10:35 PM Dear Bazz, Well, Muslims tend to ignore the Koran anyway when convenient... «Abbas was o.....
» 27/10/2022 12:58:20 PM Dear Indyvidual, It happened to George Pell, it can happen to anyone, it can also happen .....
» 26/10/2022 4:51:29 PM Dear Ttbn, He who pays the piper calls the tune! Doctor-patient relationship is interfer.....
» 26/10/2022 2:22:28 PM Dear Ipso Fatso, «True atheism and religion are both personal belief systems.» Only the .....
» 26/10/2022 1:17:45 PM All right, all right, but what did you expect, Kara? For decades, you, doctors, flirted w.....
» 26/10/2022 8:16:15 AM Dear ShadowMinister, «There have been negotiated settlements that gave the Palestinians 9.....
» 26/10/2022 12:34:29 AM Dear David F., «I am an atheist. At this time that is an aberrant view.» I am really sur.....
» 25/10/2022 4:19:24 PM Dear Dan, I thank you too for this discussion......
» 24/10/2022 11:02:50 PM Dear Dan, Surprise, Surprise, but I do not support the rainbow flag. Actually, I do not s.....
» 24/10/2022 5:57:53 PM Dear Dan, «And what is the problem with a Theocratic Israel?» Theocratic Israel (or Theo.....
» 24/10/2022 1:58:04 PM Dear SteeleRedux, «How were these so called terrorists when they were largely targeting o.....
» 24/10/2022 9:37:53 AM Dear Dan, Ben Gvir is not motivated by security and defense, but by the desire to enforce.....
» 23/10/2022 10:14:25 PM Dear Is Mise, «Put simply, religion is away of life that has followers and rules, thus Pr.....
» 23/10/2022 9:46:32 PM Dear Ipso Fatso, A team has common goals. A team is in agreement of what constitutes succ.....
» 23/10/2022 2:00:27 PM Dear Ipso Fatso, Albert Einstein was once asked by a blind person to explain them what 'w.....
» 23/10/2022 12:56:15 PM Dear Paul, «offending against state law was severely punished, as was offending against r.....
» 22/10/2022 11:02:38 PM Dear Dan, Thank you for the clip. Israelis are very good with satire, they say it all in.....
» 22/10/2022 10:39:26 PM Dear Ipso Fatso, I second David F. «We have laws.» No - THEY have laws, they who call t.....
» 22/10/2022 10:28:20 PM Dear Ipso Fatso, «I am sometimes surprised to find that those with a religious bent can b.....
» 21/10/2022 4:40:29 PM The situation is depressing, but the article is excellent - thank you Dara! What name cou.....
» 21/10/2022 3:42:00 PM Dear Foxy, «It explains things much better than I can.» Is your estimate of your own kno.....
» 21/10/2022 1:24:38 PM Dear Foxy, «The problem of how to reach a mutually acceptable compromise between these tw.....
» 20/10/2022 11:45:20 PM Dear Bazz, «The Koran states that land once occupied by moslems can never revert» Possib.....
» 20/10/2022 3:08:59 PM «Israel wants all of Jerusalem as its capital.» Half of Israel. The other half wants onl.....
» 20/10/2022 1:48:35 PM Dear Ttbn, «As long as Israel itself wants it that way, so it should be.» Israel as such.....
» 19/10/2022 5:00:38 PM Dear Banjo Paterson, «Justice, in its broadest sense, is the principle that people receiv.....
» 19/10/2022 12:38:40 PM What is now Western Jerusalem has been a rural area in Biblical (and Roman) times - it is .....
» 19/10/2022 12:26:42 AM I can't see why Israel should be bothered about it. What is a "capital" anyway?.....
» 18/10/2022 11:53:37 PM [...continued] «Our end is final.» That is a tautology, but there is no evidence whatsoe.....
» 18/10/2022 11:53:34 PM Dear David F., «Being executed does not guarantee a person a fresh start.» I didn't make.....
» 18/10/2022 2:42:46 PM Dear Paul, I feel divided on this issue. On the one hand, I do not approve of the concep.....
» 18/10/2022 12:20:36 PM Putin could not have devised a better 3-stage plan than the author's "solution":.....
» 18/10/2022 5:23:34 AM Dear Banjo Paterson, Firstly, the number of Australians who selected "no religion&qu.....
» 18/10/2022 5:11:59 AM Dear Bazz, Bigpond might consider OLO messages as spam. Have you tried registering a diff.....
» 17/10/2022 11:37:17 PM Dear David, Whatever you happen to think of God, this discussion is about religion, not a.....
» 17/10/2022 11:09:42 PM Has there actually been a power outage? Or have you been hoaxed? I know someone who was a.....
» 17/10/2022 10:53:41 PM Dear David F., I am sorry if my last post seems insulting: it was not my intention to ins.....
» 17/10/2022 3:06:56 PM Dear David F., «Since we have different definitions of religion we are not talking about .....
» 17/10/2022 9:19:45 AM Dear David F., You seem to think of religion as a belief, but belief is only one possible.....
» 17/10/2022 12:20:17 AM Dear David F., I excluded the first 4 commandments simply because they were not relevant .....
» 16/10/2022 9:27:36 PM Dear David F., «I don't see how one can give religion a good reputation.» Okay, Okay, bu.....
» 16/10/2022 4:54:22 PM «Some religious groups...» To be accurate, some groups who claim to constitute a religion.....
» 15/10/2022 9:26:09 PM Dear David F., «We have the New Testament to tell us what Jesus taught.» No, we have the.....
» 15/10/2022 9:26:02 PM Dear Critic, «Christians can't place an ad or make an offer for employment and say 'Gays .....
» 14/10/2022 5:57:50 PM Dear Aidan, You are right, but I was using Indyvidual's terminology in my response to him.....
» 14/10/2022 4:00:43 PM Dear Indyvidual, Economy is not my specialty, so I am in no position to tell whether or n.....
» 14/10/2022 1:30:39 PM Dear Everald Compton, You claim that higher taxes stimulate the economy. If I am to beli.....
» 14/10/2022 12:55:02 PM Dear Foxy, «We are a secular nation with...» Please speak for yourself - I am not a nati.....
» 13/10/2022 8:55:28 PM Dear David F., I fully agree......
» 13/10/2022 8:02:08 PM Dear Critic, You should always perform your duty. The question being, what is your duty .....
» 13/10/2022 7:05:58 PM Well well, one (but not the only) reason they could not influence me to take drugs was bec.....
» 13/10/2022 6:52:06 PM Dear Critic, «Surely the churchies have some lawyers in their ranks.» You know, one day .....
» 13/10/2022 1:26:08 PM Dear Foxy, So the club added a new condition of employment, just one day after employing .....
» 13/10/2022 12:05:14 PM Dear Foxy, My logic was in the most general sense, that a club which is prejudiced, intol.....
» 12/10/2022 9:08:03 PM I don't care what they smoked themselves, but does anyone here know by chance, or at least.....
» 12/10/2022 9:03:12 PM Dear Foxy, You wrote me on the twin thread to this ("The compelling need for a Feder.....
» 12/10/2022 8:47:31 PM Dear Indyvidual, «The only one to prevent this from becoming a global catastrophe i.i. en.....
» 12/10/2022 5:37:33 PM Dear Foxy, «I don't understand your logic.» Which part exactly? That the organisation i.....
» 12/10/2022 1:18:38 PM Dear Indyvidual, «Europe has nothing to fear from Russia !» Yes, as far as conventional .....
» 12/10/2022 1:06:46 PM Dear David F., Thank you for correcting me. Still, in the context of this article, men a.....
» 12/10/2022 12:49:24 PM Dear David F., «but you still did not explain how one can become closer to a non-existent.....
» 12/10/2022 12:56:46 AM Dear David F., Please let me attempt my most simplistic brief reply, because a full respo.....
» 11/10/2022 11:39:28 PM Shall men be thankful that they were not born as ant/bee drones? Only one male is needed t.....
» 11/10/2022 11:15:37 PM Sad but mostly¹ true. It all starts and ends with Netanyahu, but Netanyahu is not immorta.....
» 11/10/2022 6:03:07 PM Dear Foxy, I disagree: one can wear one hat on the one job and another hat on the second......
» 11/10/2022 3:37:49 PM Dear David, «I tried to keep kosher by avoiding eating meat since it had not been slaught.....
» 11/10/2022 9:59:45 AM Dear David F., With all respect, I did not know your father and all I can relate to are y.....
» 10/10/2022 11:33:29 PM Dear Rhian, «I think the answer to all three of your questions is "yes".» That.....
» 10/10/2022 4:44:45 PM Dear Rhian, Aren't we all sinners? Can't a Christian, a sinner themselves, hold the view.....
» 10/10/2022 9:18:49 AM Dear ShadowMinister, «According to you, there should be no restrictions on any employer f.....
» 10/10/2022 7:58:18 AM Dear Foxy, «It would be interesting to see how this case would play out in a court of law.....
» 9/10/2022 5:34:47 PM Dear Foxy, Regarding your link: I wouldn't like to work for an employer who meddles with.....
» 9/10/2022 8:58:50 AM Dear David, «Religion often preserves concepts that are not applicable to the current wor.....
» 8/10/2022 11:47:39 PM "But Christians need to prepare for the worst." This is only a test, a rite of .....
» 8/10/2022 11:13:55 PM Dear David F., «Since the sabbath in Exodus was on Saturday this would make all people wh.....
» 6/10/2022 10:14:36 PM Dear Maverick, But I did obviously enjoy the music! Had I understood the words and how m.....
» 6/10/2022 4:44:47 PM I was able to love the Beatles only because my English was so poor at the time that I didn.....
» 6/10/2022 1:21:07 PM Dear Daffy, «How come he was not charged with and (quite rightly) jailed for such proven .....
» 6/10/2022 12:51:59 PM Safetyism as it stands is immoral, yet the article's rejection of it is too extreme. I wou.....
» 6/10/2022 11:51:34 AM 1) The club did the wrong thing in rejecting Andrew. 2) The law should never forcibly prev.....
» 5/10/2022 8:34:03 PM 49 years ago (October 1973) on this most sacred and solemn day of the Jewish calendar, Egy.....
» 2/10/2022 1:14:35 PM Dear Foxy, I appreciate your enthusiasm for the "Palestinians" to enjoy better,.....
» 1/10/2022 10:05:08 PM Dear Foxy, $38 billion is over 10 years - 3.8 billion per year. Israel's GDP for 2022 is .....
» 30/09/2022 5:27:48 PM Dear Foxy, With Israel's GDP of 520 Billion US dollars, 3.8 billions are a drop in the oc.....
» 30/09/2022 4:27:59 PM Dear Foxy, The days when Israel depended on the United States are long gone. At present,.....
» 30/09/2022 3:32:16 PM Dear Foxy, «and force Hamas to chose between its rockets and re-construction.» Well they.....
» 30/09/2022 9:19:35 AM Welcome MedIT, Israel, whether you like it or not, is not anybody's "child", le.....
» 29/09/2022 6:53:06 PM Dear David, As you all speak of a "solution", I can reasonably believe that you.....
» 29/09/2022 12:50:05 PM Dear Foxy, No chance Snowden will be sent to Ukraine: 1) Snowden has no former military .....
» 29/09/2022 12:44:23 PM How can we ever speak of a "solution" where the (so far) four of us here speak o.....
» 29/09/2022 8:40:00 AM That's right: nobody other than the author and some Saudis is keen on the destruction of J.....
» 28/09/2022 11:42:05 PM Dear David F., Thank you for introducing this topic. But before we can start discussing .....
» 28/09/2022 6:22:10 PM Well anyone who believes in "Climate-Change" should oppose the burning of flags .....
» 28/09/2022 2:58:13 PM Dear Ttbn, «Nothing we can do about it. As the West gets weaker, the barbarians in places.....
» 28/09/2022 1:18:37 PM Dear Critic, «I want a multipolar world not a unipolar one.» Well I don't want any poles.....
» 27/09/2022 1:26:27 PM Good article. I agree. However, why start at the far end of obviously harmful drugs where.....
» 27/09/2022 12:12:52 PM How is it that the properties of ordinary people can be invaded (with government backing) .....
» 27/09/2022 12:01:01 PM "What really holds it together is the belief in people's right to make as much money .....
» 25/09/2022 11:05:05 AM Dear Ttbn, «I will stick to the facts: there are two sexes; their plumbing is different; .....
» 23/09/2022 9:03:38 AM The Bible, at least its first part, the "Old Testament", is the national book of.....
» 22/09/2022 12:18:51 PM The author has got one thing right, in his concluding sentence: "Doing so could chan.....
» 20/09/2022 12:40:21 PM Congratulations to the author on what is probably the shortest OLO article - only 433 word.....
» 15/09/2022 10:59:39 PM The Washington Post just published that in 2018, Donald Trump offered the West Bank (which.....
» 15/09/2022 3:59:38 PM So what's new? "Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? then ma.....
» 14/09/2022 10:05:08 PM Good to learn from the author that King Charles is a decent bloke. An Australian ruler mi.....
» 14/09/2022 4:57:42 PM Dear Shadow Minister, We must thank God for this good news......
» 14/09/2022 4:40:39 PM "The struggle for liberty is always a work in progress against the behemoth." I.....
» 14/09/2022 3:57:23 PM Dear David F., Thank you for replying. You don't need to respond to me, but would you as.....
» 14/09/2022 2:48:04 PM Dear Ipso Fatso, «I don't understand why some want to treat atheism and organised religio.....
» 14/09/2022 2:05:03 PM Dear JP, «Yuyutsu – you make a lot of assertions but provide little, if anything, to back.....
» 13/09/2022 12:25:50 PM Dear JP, As in your own words: «It is only if we actually do have free will that we can g.....
» 13/09/2022 9:44:28 AM Dear JP, «Thanks for your attempts to explain your position Yuyutsu. However, to be compl.....
» 12/09/2022 3:24:09 PM While governments can give us hell, no government can fail you - unless you have any expec.....
» 12/09/2022 3:16:01 PM Dear JP, «It never ceases to amaze me that, from my experience, most people don’t seem to.....
» 12/09/2022 3:15:56 PM Allow me to step back a few days into the discussion about free will. I think we can all .....
» 10/09/2022 8:20:06 PM Dear JP, «Yuyutsu – the best I can make of what you are saying is that you believe that G.....
» 9/09/2022 3:37:00 PM Dear JP, «Yuyutsu – I don’t believe it is possible for all religions to be going in the s.....
» 9/09/2022 9:34:37 AM Dear Davif F., When one looks at the world, one can either see it as the crap it seems to.....
» 9/09/2022 12:35:27 AM "These challenges are 'existential' in that they both materially and physically threa.....
» 9/09/2022 12:27:02 AM "The Australian Government recognises the Government of the People's Republic of Chin.....
» 8/09/2022 11:14:43 PM Dear David F., Have I ever claimed that God existed? We corresponded about this issue fo.....
» 8/09/2022 6:38:48 PM Dear Dan, As I see it, it is the continued occupation of 1967 which sadly drowns Israel i.....
» 8/09/2022 6:29:34 PM Dear David F., JP and Ipso Fatso, I am yet to contribute on this great and vast topic and.....
» 8/09/2022 2:41:35 PM As usual in this weekly hatred-sermons, the author claims that all 120 members of Israel's.....
» 8/09/2022 2:14:58 PM It was politicians first, starting from Margaret Thatcher, who decided that CO2 affects cl.....
» 8/09/2022 1:36:32 PM Dear Foxy, Most of your last post continues to discuss the events of 1947-1949, as if you.....
» 8/09/2022 12:15:05 AM Dear Critic, I am so sorry, I did not mean that members of your family were stupid, only .....
» 7/09/2022 10:59:02 PM Dear Foxy, You ask me to read about 1948. By then, it is clearly agreed that no Arabs wer.....
» 7/09/2022 7:48:06 PM Dear Foxy, "The Zionist project that established Israel in 1948 had at its core the .....
» 7/09/2022 6:54:56 PM [...continued] «Then there is the question of laws, and the need for ordered society, wha.....
» 7/09/2022 6:54:54 PM Dear Paul, «However, saying that I cannot divorce government from the people, or governme.....
» 7/09/2022 3:14:56 PM Dear Dan, «The Kurukshetra War will be left in the shade of the cataclysmic war over Taiw.....
» 7/09/2022 2:37:17 PM There is a Jewish story about the Wise Men of Chelm: Background: the people of Chelm are .....
» 7/09/2022 1:14:20 AM Dear Critic, «I suggest Australia worry about Australia and let China worry about China.».....
» 7/09/2022 12:38:32 AM Dear David, I notice that you moderated your words: Until now you persistently spoke of .....
» 7/09/2022 12:05:23 AM Dear Paul, «What I have presented is good people wanting to do good, there can be nothing.....
» 6/09/2022 11:51:28 PM Dear Dan, Of all OLO members, you should know best who the earth belongs to: God alone! .....
» 6/09/2022 7:03:57 PM [...continued] «So recriminations should cease, and new 'boundaries' should be accepted?».....
» 6/09/2022 7:03:54 PM Dear Ipso Fatso, «I think we need to think about what it means to 'own' property.» I lik.....
» 6/09/2022 9:59:44 AM Thank you Jack for this interesting information. However, there is no need to depend on h.....
» 4/09/2022 3:40:29 PM Dear Paul, «there is more to national wealth than simple population numbers. ttbn do you .....
» 4/09/2022 12:32:27 AM Dear Paul, «many Australians are now aware and involved in grass roots private community .....
» 2/09/2022 1:59:23 PM Dear Alan, «WTF has Saudi got to do with any of it? De Gaulle or de Goose?» Simple - the.....
» 2/09/2022 9:57:44 AM "Gantz told Kan Reshet Bet: Those who, in a clear left-wing position, consider 'two.....
» 30/08/2022 10:39:03 AM Dear Critic, «I'm not sure I know who the greater or lesser evil is anymore.» If we had .....
» 30/08/2022 7:08:57 AM Dear Critic, I understand how you passionately describe American and Australian hypocrisy.....
» 28/08/2022 10:54:11 AM Dear Indyvidual, «I don't know anything about this book other than it upset Muslims. Coul.....
» 26/08/2022 5:34:46 PM Long ago I started reading the "Satanic Verses" to see what the sensation was ab.....
» 26/08/2022 3:46:05 PM How lovely, aren't you beautiful? Regardless how many articles you post here, Israel shal.....
» 26/08/2022 3:27:31 PM How interesting, David - so you consider the fact that most Jews love and care for Israel .....
» 26/08/2022 11:35:20 AM Why, most Jews do love and care for Israel, most Jews wouldn't like to see Israel being de.....
» 24/08/2022 2:21:34 PM Dear Paul, I contest this title of "Village Idiot": I don't care, and why shou.....
» 22/08/2022 10:37:51 PM Just learned about this fungi that take over insects' minds and turns them into zombies at.....
» 18/08/2022 5:54:22 PM There are only two types of creatures in the internet, all identical, so which of them is .....
» 18/08/2022 5:31:22 PM Here is a member of the establishment who tries to drown out the last voices of protest, w.....
» 18/08/2022 6:38:20 AM Dear Paul, «In earlier times many believed The Plague was caused by sin» Please understa.....
» 18/08/2022 5:20:03 AM Dear ShadowMinister, Without prejudice on the original subject matter, you wrote: «Disea.....
» 17/08/2022 2:59:08 PM In the Jewish tradition, it is forbidden to pray or study scripture in a filthy place or w.....
» 16/08/2022 9:57:56 AM Another week - another incitement by our resident Syrian (or perhaps Iranian or Russian?) .....
» 16/08/2022 9:43:15 AM Dear David, Your country seems to be a total waste of space - how about dividing Syria be.....
» 13/08/2022 9:06:47 PM Correction: in my rage about this conspiracy to kill my family, I inadvertently omitted th.....
» 13/08/2022 9:01:56 PM Dear David, I have read the message and understand it very well: serves the interests of .....
» 11/08/2022 10:33:56 PM Dear David, Did you mean this nonsense? http://english.alarabiya.net/in-translation/2022/.....
» 11/08/2022 8:19:41 PM Dear David, For once - try to stop blowing your own trumpet! Any part of the West Bank o.....
» 9/08/2022 2:29:18 PM Here comes the regular weekly attack on Israel and Jordan... "His Majesty King Abdul.....
» 5/08/2022 4:50:54 PM Dear Paul, «There are many genuine people who enter politics for the right reasons.» Ind.....
» 5/08/2022 4:38:07 PM Dear David, May I remind you that I still did not receive a reply to my question, which I.....
» 5/08/2022 3:20:26 PM Well all politicians are the same and are at their best when going on holiday where they d.....
» 4/08/2022 12:19:07 PM Dear David, I have fallen into your verbal trap once before, so I am now more vigilant. .....
» 4/08/2022 7:17:41 AM Dear Banjo, Hinduism recognises that life has four purposes: 1) Artha - building up secur.....
» 4/08/2022 12:19:41 AM Dear Banjo, «Religion historically regards homosexual sex acts as sinful» Not quite, not.....
» 3/08/2022 9:32:50 PM Dear Voice of Reason, «I literally did not say that, can you read?» Page 16: «"You .....
» 3/08/2022 9:20:59 PM While there are good reasons to lower the rainbow flag, monkeypox is not one of them: how .....
» 3/08/2022 8:52:37 PM Dear David, Some Yiddishkeit for you: According to the Mishna, people who fly pigeons ar.....
» 3/08/2022 7:20:08 PM Dear Critic, OK, so NATO didn't keep their word not to expand eastward. Tsk Tsk. I unders.....
» 3/08/2022 10:59:48 AM Dear Voice of Reason, Previously you claimed that socialism is about "to give people.....
» 3/08/2022 12:16:06 AM Dear Voice of Reason, «Why is it, boomer? What are gay people mad at?» That is totally b.....
» 2/08/2022 2:21:50 PM Dear Voice of Reason, «You think that pride is about anger?» No: pride is pride, I just .....
» 2/08/2022 12:22:07 PM I don't have a visual artistic talent, my drawings would probably look like those of an 8 .....
» 2/08/2022 11:38:08 AM Dear Critic, «It seems clear the west planned for Ukraine to join NATO, just as they are .....
» 2/08/2022 11:19:12 AM Dear Voice of Reason, ...or this is how you call yourself here, yet your manner of speech.....
» 1/08/2022 6:02:52 PM Dear Voice of Reason, I assume, but please correct me if I was wrong, that since you quot.....
» 29/07/2022 2:07:21 PM Oh dear voice of reason, «I hate scum who want to harm strangers for things they can't co.....
» 29/07/2022 1:50:15 PM Everyone, I think we can all learn honesty from the personal example shown by person with.....
» 27/07/2022 6:32:18 PM Dear Foxy, "Human beings desire attachment, belonging, and connections" Yes th.....
» 27/07/2022 6:17:41 PM Dear Ttbn, I don't think that anyone can suspect me of supporting the Greens and their po.....
» 27/07/2022 6:02:45 PM This should draw our attention as to why, just in order to play a sport, players are force.....
» 27/07/2022 3:21:48 PM "Slavery is no longer an issue in Australia." OK, so slavery is no longer being.....
» 23/07/2022 9:46:21 PM Taking the cash is shameful regardless of taking/keeping oaths. Since candidates serve the.....
» 22/07/2022 12:20:51 AM Dear Critic, By your very name it is your role to criticise, but why write "the West.....
» 21/07/2022 7:12:05 PM If the question is of survival and proper feeding, then technology allows human population.....
» 21/07/2022 8:19:58 AM Dear Critic, Thank you so much for clarifying - I am proud of you........
» 21/07/2022 7:10:04 AM Well said, LEGO! Dear Critic, Yes, the possibility that this could lead to a nuclear war.....
» 20/07/2022 10:28:56 PM Dear Ttbn, «You are always so proud to proclaim your lack of knowledge and disinterest,» .....
» 20/07/2022 9:15:25 PM Dear Critic, «if I was to become an MP it wouldn't be to serve the Queen, but to serve ou.....
» 20/07/2022 5:36:03 PM Dear Ttbn, «The question is, CAN she or anyone else be removed for lying, breaking an oat.....
» 19/07/2022 3:07:08 PM The so-called "Palestinians" will never forget their historical true allegiance .....
» 19/07/2022 2:34:53 PM Only $100 million? Well Aidan was ahead with what I wanted to say - I second him!.....
» 15/07/2022 4:38:38 PM Some drunkard climbed the roof of the council building naked, threw down beer bottles and .....
» 15/07/2022 2:36:27 PM Dear Paul, «What do you define as being "religious"?» In the most general term.....
» 14/07/2022 8:39:18 PM Dear David F., «I am most interested in religion» Is that so? You do seem to be focused.....
» 14/07/2022 3:06:28 PM Dear David F., «In my opinion the best remark concerning religion was made by the Roman, .....
» 13/07/2022 11:16:25 PM No matter what Israel does, there will never be peace between it and the West-Bank's local.....
» 13/07/2022 12:11:17 AM Dear Foxy, If your family loves and respects your grandchildren, then they should not sen.....
» 12/07/2022 11:58:51 PM Dear David F., «Are the Chinese doing worse than was done in the mission stations in Aust.....
» 12/07/2022 7:31:35 PM Dear Paul, An excellent observation! «Is it not the end result that counts?» The end re.....
» 12/07/2022 12:59:39 PM He who seeks shall find. I am not that familiar with classical culture, but from this art.....
» 12/07/2022 9:29:19 AM Dear Dan, «It’s a mean and ruthless world in which the wealthy are not forced by the stat.....
» 12/07/2022 12:02:21 AM Dear Rhian, «I’m not sure that government does directly subsidise religious organisations.....
» 11/07/2022 2:08:42 PM Thank you Rhian for your prompt comment: I am a Hindu and do not consider my beliefs to be.....
» 11/07/2022 10:52:48 AM Historically, churches were a meeting place for all sorts of people, whether or not they w.....
» 10/07/2022 12:59:11 AM «the Bible commands: "you shall not murder" (Exodus 20:13). The question now bec.....
» 10/07/2022 12:28:03 AM This just demonstrates that constitutions never represent the people upon which they are f.....
» 8/07/2022 1:45:04 PM Dear David F., «I looked the reference you included in your post and saw nothing about th.....
» 8/07/2022 9:11:42 AM Dear David, Thank you. The question of Roman "good-heartedness" was already di.....
» 7/07/2022 9:56:22 AM Dear David F and Maverick, The Philistines are mentioned many times in the Bible as Judea.....
» 6/07/2022 5:45:24 PM Dear Spencer, Sorry I have been wrong: The thread opened with this question of presumabl.....
» 6/07/2022 5:34:37 PM Dear Dan, «I’m astounded to read of your conclusion that children without a future should.....
» 6/07/2022 12:41:46 PM Dear Maverick, I agree, but please don't blame Israel for this bizarre idea, which was is.....
» 6/07/2022 11:09:45 AM So, every time some fool says something stupid, everyone else (including UN, EU, Jordan & .....
» 6/07/2022 10:57:28 AM Dear Dan, «Should we abort all Lebanese from here on.» What a leap of thought... like wh.....
» 6/07/2022 9:20:18 AM Dear Dan, Not to worry, I estimate about 90% of abortions today to be of selfish motive -.....
» 6/07/2022 8:30:33 AM Dear Spencer, Indeed, so I presume this is why you won't disclose your Christianity in th.....
» 5/07/2022 10:39:27 PM There is a famous story in the Mahabharata about Ganga who married King Shantanu, then dro.....
» 5/07/2022 6:06:03 PM Dear Ttbn, «The religion question was the only non-compulsory question in the census. And.....
» 5/07/2022 2:23:35 PM Dear David, 1. There's no conflict between Arabs as such and Jews as such (even to the sm.....
» 2/07/2022 11:57:17 PM Dear David, «Would all those who have commented so far care to abandon their usual practi.....
» 30/06/2022 11:26:30 PM «Australia has no vital interests in Ukraine and should not get embroiled in a messy forei.....
» 30/06/2022 8:45:41 AM Dear SteeleRedux, Yes, the so-called "Palestinians" are not welcome in Israel, .....
» 29/06/2022 2:01:15 PM Well Shihabi cannot be blamed for promoting what is good for his country, Saudi Arabia. Y.....
» 27/06/2022 11:34:28 PM Dear Ttbn, I thank you for your honest response which comes from the heart. I find Austr.....
» 27/06/2022 5:21:06 PM Dear Hasbeen, «Presently it looks like instead of a prime minister we got a prime tourist.....
» 27/06/2022 5:09:05 PM Dear Paul, My simple answer to you is that I do not believe in flags. You ask: "Is .....
» 27/06/2022 3:29:43 PM Dear Paul, With due respect, you have not addressed the specific issues I raised. You se.....
» 27/06/2022 2:02:59 PM Dear Ttbn, I have no time or interest to go researching about individual politicians, thu.....
» 27/06/2022 10:56:30 AM Dear Ttbn, I must admit that I haven't been following this discussion, mainly because of .....
» 26/06/2022 11:57:28 AM Dear David F., «I see no point in repeating our past arguments.» I respect your choice t.....
» 25/06/2022 11:44:16 PM Dear David, «That's exactly what they DID between 1950 and 1967» What else could they do.....
» 24/06/2022 1:21:02 AM Dear David F., «The identity of a people is often in the reality or feeling of being oppr.....
» 24/06/2022 12:18:25 AM «Palestine Arabs desire unity between Transjordan and Arab Palestine and therefore make kn.....
» 22/06/2022 1:07:16 PM «Note that all the Greens MsP swear or affirm allegiance to Australia and at that swearing.....
» 21/06/2022 9:24:29 AM Dear Ttbn, «how about the wackjob, Adam Bandt, refusing to stand in front of the Australi.....
» 21/06/2022 9:10:48 AM Dear David F., Have you read the article or only its title? The author could have done b.....
» 21/06/2022 6:18:39 AM Dear Critic, Please don't dilute and divert this conversation into a discussion about the.....
» 21/06/2022 5:56:52 AM Dear ShadowMinister, «Who would think giving a family of illegal immigrants a free pass» .....
» 21/06/2022 12:22:12 AM Both sides are violent and disgusting......
» 21/06/2022 12:03:12 AM I thank O Sung Wu for reminding us of Australian and other women who are locked up in the .....
» 20/06/2022 11:38:45 PM Dear Dan, «I don’t vote. I will not support State sanctioned criminal enterprise. It’s ti.....
» 20/06/2022 2:38:16 PM "I was reading Isaiah's scriptural book when I came to the place where the prophet sa.....
» 20/06/2022 11:08:00 AM Dear Ttbn, Well of course elections were vacuous, as always - what did you expect?.....
» 20/06/2022 10:20:40 AM Dear Canem Malum, «Most people seem to only get to halfway of JSM's Liberty because he ra.....
» 19/06/2022 9:10:51 PM Dear Canem Malum, The differentiation between "Left" and "Right", tod.....
» 19/06/2022 2:16:52 PM Dear Fester, «If Jules goes to the US, he will face a trial in an impartial court and...».....
» 19/06/2022 7:02:35 AM Dear Canem Malum, «My understanding of Libertarianism is that it essentially means ".....
» 19/06/2022 12:20:51 AM "Australia's new ALP Government has gigantic green energy plans to be funded by elect.....
» 18/06/2022 11:49:37 PM Dear Ttbn, I was as upset about George Pell being jailed as now about Julian. Just as I .....
» 18/06/2022 10:25:52 PM Dear Fester, Clearly if someone posted a bomb from Australia, then either it would alread.....
» 18/06/2022 9:03:12 PM «How does anyone break US law when they are not US citizens and are not in US jurisdiction.....
» 18/06/2022 8:30:48 PM Dear Canem Malum, «Ayn Rand's Model of Libertarianism is based on some assumptions that a.....
» 17/06/2022 1:33:22 PM Dear Canem Malum, «I suspect that Yuyutsu's comment was more due to mental shorthand.» O.....
» 17/06/2022 11:35:25 AM Dear Paul, «With too much self-interest and too little integrity the Coalition Government.....
» 16/06/2022 7:03:37 PM Dear Paul, Well obviously, if you want to ensure seeing results immediately, in our own l.....
» 16/06/2022 12:35:29 AM Dear Paul, According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estimates_of_historical_world_popula.....
» 15/06/2022 2:57:15 PM Dear Paul, «even at that number a huge reduction would be required, how would it be achie.....
» 14/06/2022 6:59:34 PM Dear Paul, If the world population decreases evenly from 8 billion to 200 million people,.....
» 13/06/2022 11:33:21 PM Dear Canem Malum, Having a living, breathing, human body is important, but is only a mean.....
» 13/06/2022 2:36:06 PM Dear ShadowMinister, Death is not a problem but a most common and natural occurrence - pe.....
» 12/06/2022 2:42:13 PM Dear ShadowMinister, «It is the uncaring and bigoted pedogreens and Labor left whingers t.....
» 10/06/2022 5:10:51 PM Dear Critic, «People don't share a common destiny, it's a fantasy.» They do share, only .....
» 10/06/2022 5:07:11 PM Dear Foxy, «Including the thousands still in detention in this country.» Amen!.....
» 10/06/2022 4:53:15 PM Yes, we are all happy today. «It took a caring government less than two weeks.» Yet we m.....
» 10/06/2022 9:27:48 AM Dear Foxy, «we have a long way to go in our society in terms of tolerance.» There will a.....
» 10/06/2022 9:12:33 AM Dear Aidan, «Paul's too old for me to regard him as a future thinker. I'm not sure about .....
» 9/06/2022 5:40:57 PM So young guys would be divided into three, more or less equal, groups: Those who can affo.....
» 6/06/2022 4:04:51 PM Dear Indyvidual, «there is simply no alternative to such a service.» Castration! Even c.....
» 6/06/2022 9:03:38 AM Dear David, «Humans are creative animals. We created God.» Can you be serious? Puny hum.....
» 5/06/2022 10:27:22 PM Dear Pogi, As you wrote nothing of essence, I am gratefully relieved of any further time-.....
» 4/06/2022 9:17:41 PM Dear Pogi, «I wrote nothing AGAINST christianity and nor did I of buddhism.» You wrote: .....
» 3/06/2022 10:34:48 AM Dear Pogi, No, I was not referring to heaven. «In my previous post to you I described se.....
» 2/06/2022 1:29:41 PM «Albanese will continue to pursue the UN's anti-Israel agenda» Why should this be conside.....
» 1/06/2022 9:01:14 AM All true, but what can we do? The others are even worse!.....
» 31/05/2022 9:57:05 AM One of the strangest concepts I ever encountered - "identity needs". Why should.....
» 31/05/2022 9:19:27 AM Dear Paul, «since Satan told Adam and Eve they had nothing to worry about eating God's ap.....
» 31/05/2022 12:48:29 AM Dear Pogi, My statement which you quoted does not speak about either Buddhism or Christia.....
» 30/05/2022 10:56:42 AM The people of Biloela wanted to live with their friends and the cruel Canberra regime, 140.....
» 29/05/2022 2:19:50 PM Thanks be to God and thank you Paul for bringing us this good news!.....
» 29/05/2022 10:49:55 AM Dear Canem Malum, Harsh as it may sound, it is not for me or you to pick and choose how G.....
» 26/05/2022 4:52:00 PM Great article - thank you Peter! Are the books that you read in your Church truly Scriptu.....
» 17/05/2022 5:19:12 PM I begin to wonder whether this is what Putin wanted all along - to destroy his own army be.....
» 16/05/2022 10:20:42 AM Dear Paul, «Not sure how your snakes and goats biblical quote comes into it.» Several Bi.....
» 15/05/2022 10:00:33 PM Dear Paul, «The problem Yuyutsu is you assume 'A' and 'B' are negotiating on a level play.....
» 15/05/2022 2:39:10 PM Dear Paul, «Does this guy Morrison really care about ordinary Australian's? Me thinks not.....
» 15/05/2022 1:50:52 PM Dear Paul, Poverty is poverty, period. If you consider poverty to be a problem, then deal.....
» 13/05/2022 3:03:46 PM Dear Foxy, «anyone can win at this stage.» Please don't rub salt into our wounds - we kn.....
» 12/05/2022 1:30:22 PM My sympathies, Ttbn, There is a solution for those debates: next time hide some small kni.....
» 11/05/2022 7:02:21 PM Jonah prayed from the belly of the whale and God answered his prayer. Is there anywhere w.....
» 9/05/2022 10:53:06 AM Dear SteeleRedux, «Well done all.» Yes, we have been great, the people of Australia did .....
» 9/05/2022 12:32:42 AM Dear Critic, «I was really only wondering what your opinion was on the first few links, i.....
» 8/05/2022 1:12:25 AM Dear Critic, What do you want from me with all these links you bombard me with, all that .....
» 7/05/2022 10:41:42 PM Dear Critic, How about also giving China some tactical advice, over which bridges they sh.....
» 3/05/2022 11:47:54 AM Amen, Shadowminister!.....
» 3/05/2022 11:44:58 AM How depressing! --- Dear ShadowMinister and Ttbn, Time would tell, but while I hope oth.....
» 29/04/2022 9:41:04 AM To curb the lust for power, one needs to overcome weakness. A man is naturally weak, his(.....
» 29/04/2022 8:49:27 AM Dear Dan, I have no problem discussing the Russia-Ukraine war and its motives, which inde.....
» 28/04/2022 6:18:56 PM Well as Mhaze explained, it wouldn't be proper to compare Ukraine with Syria, but perhaps .....
» 28/04/2022 4:02:17 PM Dear Dan, The only one who needs to know what goes inside Putin's sick mind, is his psych.....
» 28/04/2022 1:02:17 PM These drunkard clowns sat in the gambling capital of San Remo and idly chatted their minds.....
» 26/04/2022 12:51:14 PM Dear Alan, «Agree with one condition. That we return to the practice and belief of the or.....
» 24/04/2022 4:58:08 AM Dear David F., «Your limited definition of religion does not include non-theistic and pol.....
» 24/04/2022 4:13:25 AM Dear David F., You say that Buddhism is a religion: It is a religion for some Buddhists b.....
» 23/04/2022 11:00:15 PM Dear David, "By their fruits shall ye know them" refers to people, especially p.....
» 23/04/2022 8:55:06 PM Dear David F., Clearly you do not understand what religion is because the people you just.....
» 22/04/2022 1:16:55 PM Dear David F., Thank you for clarifying that you do not support the use of force. You kn.....
» 22/04/2022 2:14:29 AM Dear David F., Well you know that we disagree over some issues on God and religion, but t.....
» 21/04/2022 6:40:50 PM Dear David F., «With civil marriage, an integrated school system and separation of religi.....
» 21/04/2022 6:22:42 PM Dear Ttbn, «Please try to be realistic.» I agree that this specific example/scenario is .....
» 21/04/2022 2:28:57 PM Dear Ttbn, «No, Yuyutsu. We do not all have trouble with the law. I certainly do not.» A.....
» 21/04/2022 1:05:49 PM That's the problem with lawyers - they think that writing documents is equivalent to solvi.....
» 21/04/2022 8:32:41 AM God Bless you, Dan: «when we can find a way to vote with a bullet, then and only then wil.....
» 21/04/2022 5:56:39 AM Dear Ttbn, «You seem to have a lot of trouble with the law.» Don't we all? How we handl.....
» 20/04/2022 10:27:20 PM Dear Paul, «ttbn made a claim in his opening post attributing something to Greens Senator.....
» 20/04/2022 8:47:12 AM Dear Paul, Yes, I understand that the world (as seen from human eyes) is less than ideal......
» 19/04/2022 9:47:26 PM Dear Ttbn, «We DO know that the Greens are a danger to the economy, freedom of speech and.....
» 19/04/2022 9:26:40 PM Dear Paul, «The Greens membership like in other parties, Labor, Liberal etc, are not a ho.....
» 19/04/2022 12:26:15 PM Dear Foxy, What do you mean by "integrity"? Suppose someone promises you to cu.....
» 18/04/2022 11:57:05 PM Dear Paul, Thank you very much for your response. «Firstly, unsubstantiated claims by tt.....
» 18/04/2022 7:10:56 PM I would really like to understand this phenomenon and the best way is to hear an explanati.....
» 18/04/2022 2:13:53 PM Dear Foxy, «We don't have any other option and doing nothing is certainly not an option. .....
» 17/04/2022 1:53:19 PM The zoo-keeper was very disappointed - all his animals failed their test! He placed nice .....
» 16/04/2022 10:31:07 PM Dear Canem Malum, «Rand believed that societies infrastructure and life itself is created.....
» 12/04/2022 5:02:03 AM Indeed not a good look, but Israel (with the exception of Netanyahu) is known for its acti.....
» 11/04/2022 9:02:31 AM Dear Dan, I have faith that evil will eventually be stopped. The question is just the nu.....
» 9/04/2022 11:08:53 PM Dear Canem Malum, Other than in Hollywood cartoons, I never saw animals marching in prote.....
» 9/04/2022 11:03:59 PM Dear Canem Malum, Yes, it was quite a few decades ago when I read Atlas Shrugged (and two.....
» 9/04/2022 10:51:27 PM Dear Fester, SLAVA UKRAINI!.....
» 9/04/2022 10:48:34 PM Dear Dan, «All boys feel the same pain when shot. It ain’t nice!» Not at all. No two boy.....
» 8/04/2022 6:04:32 PM I have no further need to discuss anything with sadists......
» 8/04/2022 5:00:56 PM Dear Is Mise, «Your officers were your fellow citizens.» In the army, "citizen".....
» 8/04/2022 1:33:35 PM Dear Dan, «All boys, Hitler included if you will, begin life from their Mothers womb.» T.....
» 8/04/2022 1:30:41 AM [...continued] «The idea of National service is to capture natural youthful aggression an.....
» 8/04/2022 1:30:35 AM Dear Dan, «But you did reference Putin’s childhood into your passivisic (my conjugation),.....
» 7/04/2022 11:42:06 PM Dear Is Mise, «And yet you contemplated murdering your Senior Officers» No, I didn't thi.....
» 7/04/2022 11:16:53 PM Why "mostly", David? The whole world is my fiction, this book included......
» 7/04/2022 8:42:35 PM "Allah requires that land once occupied by moslems remains moslem forever." O B.....
» 7/04/2022 8:11:40 PM Dear Foxy, You believe what you believe and I respect that. I also believe in what I beli.....
» 7/04/2022 5:33:49 PM Dear Foxy, «That's why we have laws to keep everyone safe, comfortable, and have a better.....
» 7/04/2022 1:52:30 PM Dear Ttbn, Refusing to answer a question does not amount to not knowing the answer. What .....
» 7/04/2022 1:27:11 PM Dear Foxy, «People are entitled to protest - but they need to do it lawfully or they face.....
» 7/04/2022 1:17:51 PM Dear Is Mise, There is no glory and no merit, on earth or in heaven, for doing anything, .....
» 7/04/2022 7:27:51 AM Dear Canem Malum, This is a lot of information, quite overwhelming as I did not expect su.....
» 6/04/2022 10:19:31 PM Dear Alan, «The only solution in the Middle East, is...» For there to be a solution ther.....
» 6/04/2022 4:07:48 PM Indeed, why block roads against innocent ordinary people when instead you can serve them b.....
» 6/04/2022 4:01:18 PM Dear Alan, Jordan and Israel are not at war and there are no hostilities between them. -.....
» 6/04/2022 1:03:19 PM Dear Paul and Is Mise, «If you were a young bloke in the Russian Army today, Pr Issyski 3.....
» 5/04/2022 10:53:39 PM Dear Canem Malum, Yes the underlying problem is population numbers: no amount of tinkerin.....
» 5/04/2022 10:36:03 PM Dear Dan, «You’ve gotta stop this.» Sorry, but that was not clear enough: What is ".....
» 5/04/2022 8:05:00 PM Opportunity + Self-effort = Outcome We all initially had the exact same opportunity, but .....
» 5/04/2022 4:21:17 PM What's the point in challenging? When the wolf accused the lamb: "you pollute my wat.....
» 5/04/2022 4:07:56 PM Why is this philosophy of equality limited to humans? Is that fair that it does not extend.....
» 5/04/2022 1:36:04 PM Only someone who had an empty or a miserable life, who had nothing and no one dear, doesn'.....
» 4/04/2022 10:44:13 AM Dear SteeleRedux, «Perhaps you are being a little overly semantic.» Well, I think that t.....
» 4/04/2022 6:24:09 AM Dear OzSpen, «What was the original language of Psalm 19?» Hebrew, certainly and the fir.....
» 3/04/2022 3:08:28 PM «Any petals who think they are too good to get their hands dirty are certainly not worth w.....
» 3/04/2022 2:49:10 PM Dear SteeleRedux, «Who says they are faith based? They themselves.» Indeed, but you chan.....
» 3/04/2022 10:22:39 AM The sadism expressed by some members on this thread knows no bounds. Who ever imagined tha.....
» 3/04/2022 9:52:04 AM Dear SteeleRedux, «You are essentially calling for religious based schools, hospitals and.....
» 3/04/2022 12:42:39 AM Dear Paul, Clearly your intentions are good. You don't want to allow people to abuse reli.....
» 1/04/2022 5:57:31 PM Dear Divergence, Thank you for your considered response. It makes no sense to me how dis.....
» 1/04/2022 12:18:23 AM Just as Israel survived and prevailed over the invasion attempt by the armies of six Arab .....
» 31/03/2022 6:02:11 AM Dear Paul, Thank you for your response that you are not opposed to religious freedom. Yo.....
» 30/03/2022 7:29:47 PM Dear Paul, There is a line of thought that the Prophet Muhammad (p.b.o.h) passed to his f.....
» 30/03/2022 12:37:44 PM Dear Ipso Fatso, «Let's talk about heterosexuals and homosexuals. Everyone else seems to .....
» 28/03/2022 3:35:28 PM Dear Mox, I noticed that you don't like or trust the Americans: well neither do I, but an.....
» 28/03/2022 2:28:50 PM While man sees the external actions and hears the spoken words, only God sees to the heart.....
» 28/03/2022 8:37:12 AM "Freedom of religion is a universal human right to be protected for the benefit of al.....
» 27/03/2022 9:21:23 AM Should Ukraine fall, God forbid, then Xi is not going to say as Mox might be hoping: ".....
» 25/03/2022 6:13:14 PM Suppose Ukraine falls, is completely destroyed and all Ukrainian people killed - America w.....
» 25/03/2022 4:21:16 AM What then about India? Like Ukraine and Israel, India too was invaded many times, and too.....
» 22/03/2022 2:44:57 PM Yawn, that stupid organisation still exists? The only purpose of this expensive geriatric.....
» 22/03/2022 6:44:05 AM Dear Imajulianutter, «Answer: Arabs and Jews ... without suppressive military occupation......
» 20/03/2022 11:56:56 PM It was a stupid mistake to block men of ages 18-60 from leaving Ukraine. Keeping people in.....
» 20/03/2022 10:44:50 PM It follows from this discussion that America is more of a hindrance than support, that the.....
» 16/03/2022 7:58:01 PM Glory to Ukraine! I am currently studying to pronounce correctly the words of the Ukraini.....
» 16/03/2022 7:37:29 PM First, Ttbn has already stated the obvious: that no-good organisation never had any releva.....
» 15/03/2022 4:12:22 PM Self-esteem is important, but the problem is that people tend to esteem their extended-bel.....
» 14/03/2022 12:42:09 AM Sanctions do work. Even if (suppose the author's claims are accurate) they fail to convinc.....
» 8/03/2022 2:30:25 PM It would be reasonable for Ukraine to agree to give up its territories where the majority .....
» 4/03/2022 4:49:19 PM It never was......
» 4/03/2022 4:41:24 PM The author may be correct in claiming that the Ukraine outcome will have no impact on paci.....
» 3/03/2022 5:58:57 PM What is there to negotiate? Nothing, negotiations can only work when the other side has s.....
» 3/03/2022 5:35:28 PM Dear Individual, I respect your personal disdain of freedom, but I hope you only treat yo.....
» 3/03/2022 1:32:09 PM Look how humble the author is: That was his own plan all along which he preached to us ov.....
» 2/03/2022 8:04:34 PM Dear Individual, I understand - so your view is that the Israelites should have never lef.....
» 2/03/2022 12:50:34 PM Dear Individual, «How many times has it been alluded to that the West has been underminin.....
» 2/03/2022 8:21:59 AM Dear Individual, I have no mood or patience for your riddles - if you have a question the.....
» 1/03/2022 10:13:46 PM Dear Critic, I also support self-determination of any group of people so they can be inde.....
» 1/03/2022 6:09:25 PM Dear Individual, I did not understand your question......
» 28/02/2022 11:53:15 PM Dear David, «However, Putin is not a mad man. He is sane and has gambled that he can get .....
» 23/02/2022 11:56:18 PM Russia, especially under Putin, is not a place I would like to live in. Given a choice bet.....
» 23/02/2022 6:28:18 PM Dear JBowyer, Indeed, I stay in a way figuratively "under my bed" these days un.....
» 22/02/2022 11:33:03 PM Dear JBowyer, I never denied my fear of government, any government. This whole concept as.....
» 22/02/2022 5:33:59 PM Dear JBowyer, They cannot frighten me, even if they try because I make my own independent.....
» 22/02/2022 12:22:16 PM AT ATTENTION - Trump, Guterres, Netanyahu, Abdullah, Abbas: this is the plan for you to fo.....
» 21/02/2022 9:54:15 AM Dear Banjo, I could easily respond to the issues you raised, but since you prefer to call.....
» 21/02/2022 6:18:11 AM Dear Banjo, «I have great respect for the kaleidoscope of human culture around the world,.....
» 20/02/2022 9:02:21 PM Dear JBowyer, Someone very dear to me died of COVID, she was active, healthy and only 60 .....
» 20/02/2022 5:58:02 AM Dear Banjo, «I understand we human beings branched off from our common ancestor...» If y.....
» 19/02/2022 9:50:39 PM Dear Banjo, So long as you comment about the Church, that is not my place to intervene an.....
» 18/02/2022 11:46:58 AM Dear JBowyer, I am neither obedient nor compliant, I just don't want this virus, neither .....
» 18/02/2022 4:48:41 AM Dear David, «It is worse. It means one supports even though one does not agree.» Yes, th.....
» 17/02/2022 6:36:16 PM Dear David, «My cousin was head of the Orthodox Union and stated his 'unconditional suppo.....
» 17/02/2022 5:01:43 PM "Semitic" was commonly used specifically for anything Jewish - see this Hebrew t.....
» 17/02/2022 1:11:38 PM Why flog a dead man? Isn't he the one that for long months denied us the ability to obtain.....
» 17/02/2022 5:15:03 AM "This Report fails to acknowledge that there has been an ongoing unresolved conflict .....
» 16/02/2022 9:56:26 PM «No response will be given to this latest comment.» Nor was any sought. It is understand.....
» 16/02/2022 1:54:22 PM The author would not respond because then he would need to admit to his false accusation a.....
» 16/02/2022 6:46:37 AM Dear David, "government should not be involved with education to begin with, because.....
» 16/02/2022 6:39:56 AM Dear Paul, I will not even endeavour to tell who is a true Christian - that is not my pla.....
» 16/02/2022 12:35:02 AM Like it or not, humans are historically and genetically related to apes. Most people are n.....
» 15/02/2022 10:42:11 PM Dear Dan, «Private schools are doing service for Government; education.» Shouldn't a pat.....
» 15/02/2022 10:40:13 PM Dear David, «When a child is expelled from a school not only is the child expelled but al.....
» 15/02/2022 5:57:50 PM I think it unwise, probably also unethical, to expel children from one's school based on t.....
» 15/02/2022 5:27:40 PM Dear David, I never read the English translation, only the original Hebrew. "Matai v.....
» 15/02/2022 2:56:12 PM Dear David, The relevant paragraph in my original post in answering your question (".....
» 15/02/2022 9:54:53 AM Dear Paul, Interesting account - I was not previously aware of Phibionite Christians. Wh.....
» 15/02/2022 12:00:23 AM [...continued] but this process could not have in any case bring about a decisive change.....
» 15/02/2022 12:00:19 AM Dear David, Google translate isn't going to be of much help since I have the book in phys.....
» 13/02/2022 9:34:36 PM Dear David, «your sources please» Well there is a difficulty here because my sources are.....
» 13/02/2022 1:17:21 AM Dear Is Mise, I would assume that the word of God, should one truly believe that a given .....
» 12/02/2022 9:59:40 PM No law can define "religion" anyway. Nobody in their private capacity should be.....
» 12/02/2022 8:53:23 PM Dear Ttbn, «Should a person who publicly denies that there is god be in a religious organ.....
» 11/02/2022 8:47:23 AM Seriously, would any religious person here want to be served by someone who despises their.....
» 10/02/2022 3:23:25 PM The idea behind this bill is both wrong and ridiculous. Wrong - because private people an.....
» 10/02/2022 12:45:50 AM Dear David, I am not telling these people how to see themselves - why should I even care?.....
» 9/02/2022 7:23:09 PM Dear David, «Are you really serious in claiming that "most of today's so-called &quo.....
» 8/02/2022 11:07:50 PM Dear Canem Malum, Technically, Hebrews are the descendants of Abraham the Hebrew (meaning.....
» 8/02/2022 1:34:40 PM Dear Ttbn, «Around 1030 BC, Israel became a sovereign Jewish kingdom.» 1047 BC to be exa.....
» 8/02/2022 1:21:40 PM Dear Dan, I have great appreciation for the Mossad. Had people like "Dave" bee.....
» 7/02/2022 8:53:36 PM Dear Foxy, «And Israel's policies and practices have not changed since its inception as t.....
» 6/02/2022 12:43:26 PM Dear Josephus, «When Abraham left Mesopotamia, he was looking for a place to practise his.....
» 5/02/2022 10:52:12 PM Dear Critic, «If Australia stopped our athletes from competing in the winter olympics bec.....
» 5/02/2022 10:46:06 PM Dear Critic, Thank you for your sympathy! My nightmares of being forcibly returned to th.....
» 4/02/2022 9:00:52 AM Dear Foxy, Did you bring this topic in order to push it down our throats? Many of us rep.....
» 2/02/2022 8:12:34 PM Dear David, «Our preferences are not set in stone.» Indeed. But this does not imply that.....
» 1/02/2022 4:46:04 PM Dear David, «I think it more worthwhile, more conducive to peace and more interesting to .....
» 1/02/2022 8:03:25 AM Ttbn nailed down the situation: "A republic would not change the fact that Government.....
» 31/01/2022 7:48:12 PM Dear David, «I would like to see Wednesday as the Sabbath.» Great, then you should be ab.....
» 31/01/2022 5:35:23 PM [...continued] Since the majority of Israelis are Jews and since the core of Judaism is t.....
» 31/01/2022 5:35:20 PM Dear David, «Israel does not have a state school system.» That would be nice because I d.....
» 31/01/2022 2:25:19 PM There is this very disturbed, angry and violent orphan in town, let's call him 'Pali', alw.....
» 30/01/2022 11:13:07 PM Dear God, Should my sins be so heavy that I deserve to come back again to this world as a.....
» 30/01/2022 12:56:31 PM No comparison indeed. When one is raped, it is of course very humiliating and painful, bu.....
» 30/01/2022 8:54:42 AM If I am ever forced to shoot anyone then I would turn my gun back at Is Mise and his ilk!.....
» 30/01/2022 12:41:46 AM Excuse me for bowing out: I don't really want to be drawn into revisiting my painful exper.....
» 28/01/2022 6:31:03 PM Dear Is Mise, No, I have no concept, I don't need any because I have the actual experienc.....
» 28/01/2022 4:09:14 PM Dear Foxy, «I think that Australia will eventually become a Republic. It may not happen i.....
» 26/01/2022 8:45:58 PM Dear Is Mise, «They may well have been very unhappy but what’s that got to do with fighti.....
» 26/01/2022 8:35:00 PM Dear Bazz, «Well how would you like it if someone came along said get out of your house a.....
» 26/01/2022 2:52:27 PM Dear Bazz, «how do you get around the belief that the land occupied by Israel does not be.....
» 26/01/2022 9:06:58 AM Dear Shadowminister, That the Arabs should have been stopped is not contested. But once .....
» 25/01/2022 3:43:31 PM Dear Shadowminister, «Why is the 1967 line any less valid than the 1949 line? as only Egy.....
» 25/01/2022 1:16:47 PM Conscription is one of the worst forms of slavery. There can be no justification for it, .....
» 25/01/2022 11:53:05 AM I would use this article as a superb material for teaching year-9 students about the meani.....
» 25/01/2022 11:20:51 AM Dear Is Mise, «Allegiance is to Australia, yes» Yes, for those holding (or who held in t.....
» 25/01/2022 9:49:00 AM Yes, no one should willingly step into enemy territory other than military forces and secr.....
» 25/01/2022 8:16:01 AM Dear Bazz, «Don't be silly, of course I do not believe it.» Neither do them - most of th.....
» 25/01/2022 1:06:08 AM Dear Is Mise, «We all owe allegiance to our country, it’s part of what being a citizen is.....
» 24/01/2022 8:45:01 PM Dear Is Mise, «Fair enough, but I think that citizens, old and new, owe their allegiance .....
» 24/01/2022 9:47:06 AM Dear Bazz, «The Angel Gabriel dictated the Koran to Mohammad including the verse that lan.....
» 24/01/2022 7:42:00 AM Dear Bazz, «So who do you think are the occupiers ? Jews or Arabs ?» Arabs?? What have t.....
» 23/01/2022 10:05:06 PM Welcome, Gazza91 You are very correct. Names and boundaries are not the reality, they ar.....
» 21/01/2022 11:32:56 AM Dear David, «I would like to see Australia become a democracy. To me a democracy means se.....
» 20/01/2022 7:15:34 AM Dear Banjo, While the world (not limited to planet Earth) has a purpose, it is not a goal.....
» 19/01/2022 9:19:34 PM Dear Foxy, I must be so thick-headed - can you please help me find in the text how things.....
» 19/01/2022 6:14:04 PM Dear Foxy, Let's have some reality-check: What do you perceive as my fears which the lin.....
» 19/01/2022 3:25:43 PM That proposal is horrible for Israel and horrible for Jordan, but why would the author car.....
» 19/01/2022 3:10:54 PM Dear Foxy, «They may re-assure your concerns.» No: according to this proposal, there wou.....
» 19/01/2022 11:06:43 AM Dear Foxy, «Still the model that has been presented by the Australian Republic Movement i.....
» 19/01/2022 7:56:03 AM Dear Banjo, «Well said, Yuyutsu. I agree : life apparently has no purpose – nor does natu.....
» 18/01/2022 11:46:51 AM In summary, the author wishes for the state to impose the Bible even over the unbiblical. .....
» 18/01/2022 10:52:22 AM «That is because natural immunity remains superior to vaccine-induced immunity. This makes.....
» 18/01/2022 10:25:30 AM Dear Banjo, «Bertrand Russell was simply expressing the opinion that most of our problems.....
» 17/01/2022 8:45:49 PM Thank you Michi for this interesting account! Now the RAA is obviously a good step, but i.....
» 17/01/2022 8:23:56 PM Dear Is Mise, «Remaining passive in the face of negative anarchy either means thar you gr.....
» 17/01/2022 6:34:19 PM Dear Individual, Foxy, Ttbn, Shadowminister, Mhaze and Josephus, English already has the .....
» 17/01/2022 6:14:29 PM Dear Banjo, «No, Yuyutsu, Bertrand Russell would never have blamed “the Creator for doing.....
» 16/01/2022 9:46:15 PM Dear Individual, Oh dear, Oh dear, this sounds so awful. Fortunately I never met anyone .....
» 16/01/2022 9:26:23 PM Dear Foxy, Margaret Thatcher was correct (on these two accounts). Those of us whose hear.....
» 16/01/2022 5:09:58 PM Dear Individual, I cannot properly respond to your reply because I have no idea what you .....
» 16/01/2022 4:30:08 PM Well, nobody wished for COVID, nobody wants it, but one good thing seems to have come out .....
» 16/01/2022 4:21:14 PM Dear David, «I hope for the day when we will be able achieve the second version of anarch.....
» 14/01/2022 3:36:02 PM Thank you so much, David - much appreciated......
» 14/01/2022 11:02:47 AM Dear Foxy, I cannot blame your naivety - your intentions are good. «David was the 2nd Ki.....
» 14/01/2022 9:33:57 AM Dear David, And the following verse says: 1:4 And the damsel was very fair, and cherishe.....
» 13/01/2022 6:31:58 PM Dear Foxy, Thank you so much - I think it has been years since we last agreed on somethin.....
» 13/01/2022 2:21:23 PM Dear Foxy, «Yuyutsu and Bazz, Here's nine things you should know about a potential republ.....
» 13/01/2022 1:47:54 PM I hate guns. Nevertheless, I realise that if we are to accept anybody's authority to deny.....
» 13/01/2022 12:51:18 PM Dear Foxy, «There can be no doubt that our head of state is a British woman» Heaven forb.....
» 13/01/2022 10:41:49 AM Dear Banjo, There are things I agree with you and others that I don't, but since you deci.....
» 13/01/2022 10:33:36 AM A 10-lettered word......
» 12/01/2022 9:04:05 PM There ought to be no state, thus no head of state, but... If there is to remain a "he.....
» 12/01/2022 8:53:11 PM [...continued] 4. «judging from our exchanges on this forum, there is little doubt in my .....
» 12/01/2022 8:53:08 PM Dear Banjo, So we seem to be converging, with differences being mostly linguistic: Perhap.....
» 12/01/2022 3:09:30 PM Dear David, «Wow - so now you are an advocate for two Jewish States in former Palestine!!.....
» 11/01/2022 3:07:22 PM "Abbas walked away with a bag of goodies - but Gantz got nothing in return." Bu.....
» 11/01/2022 10:54:25 AM [...continued] Whether you take to the Buddhist idea, the Hindu idea, some other idea tha.....
» 11/01/2022 10:54:22 AM Dear Banjo, 1. Back to high-school physics: Any physical object is affected by many force.....
» 10/01/2022 2:39:33 PM Dear Banjo, 1. The law of gravity produces forces of gravity. The effects of these forces.....
» 10/01/2022 1:08:48 PM Dear David, «1. Israel is the Jewish National Home reconstituted under the League of Nati.....
» 9/01/2022 11:09:52 PM Dear Banjo, 1. What was neutralized by Apollo's rockets was the force that was generated .....
» 7/01/2022 10:59:54 AM «I categorize people who hold that view as Jew-haters.» The Romans hated the Jews for reb.....
» 6/01/2022 10:58:58 PM Dear Banjo, 1. «To make a law ineffective is to violate, break or contravene that law.» .....
» 6/01/2022 10:08:34 PM [...continued] «Jews from around the world are free to return and resettle in their homel.....
» 6/01/2022 10:08:32 PM Dear David, «You statement clearly indicates that you do not agree that Israel is the Jew.....
» 5/01/2022 4:04:17 PM Dear Dan, «...philosophy contested between the materialist and the spiritualist...» A sp.....
» 5/01/2022 2:57:18 PM Dear David, «Go and join your fellow anonymous Jew-haters» I can understand why this wou.....
» 5/01/2022 9:00:26 AM Dear Banjo, I am dumbfounded by your suggestion that by flying to the moon people broke t.....
» 4/01/2022 10:19:50 PM [...continued] In that light, expecting a poor, single working-class woman not to abort i.....
» 4/01/2022 10:19:46 PM Dear Dan, Thank you for raising this interesting topic of pragmatic morality. Morality i.....
» 4/01/2022 4:48:11 PM So half the Israelis are "Jew-haters": http://www.fourals.com/2022/01/01/brothe.....
» 4/01/2022 3:41:20 PM Dear Banjo, 1. «and the latter are of a philosophic nature: a system of right or justice .....
» 3/01/2022 6:42:18 AM Dear Banjo, Let me respond in brief now, then by God's grace I will have the time to answ.....
» 2/01/2022 10:20:04 AM Dear Banjo, First I must clarify that in my previous post when I wrote "there is no .....
» 1/01/2022 10:09:57 PM Dear Banjo, «You note that I “speak of autonomy and free will”. Yes, I do speak of autono.....
» 31/12/2021 1:49:45 PM Dear Banjo, In your previous post you praised objective reality over the subjective, but .....
» 31/12/2021 8:20:10 AM Dear Paul, God does not change just because human perception/understanding (or mispercept.....
» 31/12/2021 8:08:24 AM Dear Banjo, "one cannot conceive of..." is just an expression. For example, whe.....
» 31/12/2021 12:38:15 AM Dear Banjo, Life has no beginning simply because one cannot conceive of a time when life .....
» 30/12/2021 5:56:40 PM Only God never changes......
» 30/12/2021 5:46:39 PM Life has no beginning and no end. The questions raised by the author stem from the artifi.....
» 30/12/2021 5:10:35 PM Dear Delivery, What relevance, if any, has your question with the topic at hand? But sin.....
» 30/12/2021 1:46:58 PM «These venerable clergymen should surely be also focusing on threats to Christians and Chr.....
» 28/12/2021 8:50:58 PM The author's assumption is that vaccinated people are almost as infectious as unvaccinated.....
» 28/12/2021 2:30:16 PM It is all about Scomo's terrible [non-]handling of the COVID pandemic, particularly around.....
» 24/12/2021 1:42:42 PM Let us look at the following scenario: An Australian lady, while strip-dancing in a Thai .....
» 24/12/2021 9:50:06 AM Dear Ttbn, Thank you for your last comment. It is indeed frustrating that, having once o.....
» 22/12/2021 7:39:50 PM Dear Rhian, Thank you for the insight!.....
» 22/12/2021 5:05:07 AM Congratulations, Josephus, «Faith is like asking if you are the cells of your body - in a.....
» 21/12/2021 8:33:02 PM Nice for Christians that they can adapt - not so for other religions. Physical pilgrimage.....
» 21/12/2021 7:25:17 PM Dear Nathan, «God though is another question, something Atheists and others have not been.....
» 21/12/2021 12:56:37 AM Dear Nathan, It is normal for people to not be ready for God. The majority of people are .....
» 19/12/2021 9:29:13 PM I thought that we were discussing the aboriginal culture, not the aboriginal people - I se.....
» 19/12/2021 6:07:11 PM Dear Foxy, «"Living with the virus" is risky possibly because an increase in ho.....
» 19/12/2021 9:52:38 AM Dear Ttbn, «he has overseen the worst loss of freedom and abuse ever to occur in Australi.....
» 18/12/2021 10:27:07 PM Dear Paul, I completely agree with your first post. In your second post you ask: «In the.....
» 18/12/2021 9:36:33 PM Dear Paul, «This thread is not about "luvvies wanting Australia to adopt bits and pi.....
» 17/12/2021 6:47:16 PM Dear Mhaze, «I can offer a few plausible reasons why their societies never increased much.....
» 17/12/2021 1:45:36 PM Dear Nathan, 'Education' comes from 'Educe' and by the Merriam-Webster dictionary, ".....
» 17/12/2021 11:22:11 AM Yes, all this great effort could have been worthwhile, it should have been worthwhile, but.....
» 17/12/2021 9:21:52 AM Dear David, «Seneca said, "Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the.....
» 16/12/2021 5:00:33 PM [...continued] So for aboriginals who live in nature, it is quite possible that certain a.....
» 16/12/2021 5:00:30 PM There is nothing but God. Thinking that God might have rivals, any competing entities, an.....
» 15/12/2021 6:21:57 PM Dear Josephus, There is much merit in your suggestion, but I rather take the best from bo.....
» 15/12/2021 6:01:13 PM Dear Is Mise, Unfortunately, anyone who chooses to accept benefits of money taken from ot.....
» 15/12/2021 11:00:41 AM Dear Is Mise, «Why do you live in Australia?» Well I had to park my body somewhere and o.....
» 15/12/2021 8:07:55 AM Dear Individual, «People have worked & contributed for over half a century towards their .....
» 15/12/2021 2:10:37 AM Dear Bazz, So why rely on something you don't know? The prophet Saint Muhammad (peace be.....
» 14/12/2021 7:25:04 PM Dear Is Mise, Resistance to the Nazis and disagreeing with their political outlook were a.....
» 14/12/2021 5:09:20 PM Dear Is Mise and Ttbn, The differences are: * In Nazi Germany, wearing the Star of David .....
» 14/12/2021 1:19:50 PM The only change I would make to the age pension, is to require anyone who receives it, in .....
» 14/12/2021 1:11:31 PM Dear Hasbeen, I have no problem with free medical treatments for anyone who asks for it. .....
» 14/12/2021 10:48:45 AM Dear Paul, «I'm also refering to government and institutions, business and organisations .....
» 14/12/2021 10:35:39 AM Thank you Thinkabit, I agree with your posts. --- Dear Bronwyn, Why must stopping the v.....
» 14/12/2021 9:42:49 AM Dear ShadowMinister, «In 3rd world countries, they have a simple solution. Each voter get.....
» 13/12/2021 10:24:07 PM This mess could be avoided had states not involved themselves in sports to begin with. Sp.....
» 13/12/2021 9:48:27 PM Dear Nathan, No words can describe you. Any attempt to do so is degrading. Any teacher wh.....
» 13/12/2021 9:09:10 PM Dear Individual, You should at least give Paul the benefit of the doubt before blaming hi.....
» 13/12/2021 5:08:06 PM Dear Paul, Your question, "Is Australia A compassionate Nation?" makes no sense.....
» 13/12/2021 4:52:48 PM Dear JP, I like your first post. Thanks. Your questions are of course hypothetical in na.....
» 13/12/2021 4:36:50 PM Taking vaccines for COVID-19 is a good and proper thing to do and only few, I believe, wou.....
» 13/12/2021 2:54:48 PM Dear Ttbn, «It could make a big difference where the vote is close.» Difference? Of what.....
» 13/12/2021 7:44:37 AM Dear Ttbn, «The three major areas of fraud are: multiple voting, voting for someone else .....
» 9/12/2021 2:05:08 PM "Without a clear view of what humans are for, governments have no view of the future,.....
» 7/12/2021 4:06:42 PM So much for the author's claim that the land of Israel belongs to this group he calls &quo.....
» 7/12/2021 4:06:40 PM A little red hen lived on a farm with a cat, a dog and a duck. One day, she found a few gr.....
» 6/12/2021 5:18:32 PM Dear Atheist, «If for some reason I did face life in gaol I would prefer to end it all wi.....
» 6/12/2021 5:15:51 PM «As children, we are introduced to the idea of linear progress,» Thus child-abuse began. .....
» 30/11/2021 3:45:49 PM Dear ShadowMinister, «Seriously, you are trying to boil the ocean.» Yes, this is how it .....
» 30/11/2021 11:59:08 AM Dear ShadowMinister and LEGO, My last post cannot be understood in the context of this ar.....
» 29/11/2021 6:55:23 PM Wow, have we broken a record? The article mentions the phrase "Jewish People" 5.....
» 29/11/2021 4:42:57 PM Jacqui used some poor examples and false general statements, but was overall correct in st.....
» 24/11/2021 11:58:54 PM Dear Graham, I just need a clarification: How come this "google" can flag a pag.....
» 18/11/2021 3:52:52 PM Dear Paul, «Hi Yuyutsu, not sure what you are saying, millions of Victorian have not been.....
» 18/11/2021 7:43:09 AM Dear Paul, «With 86% of Victorians now double vaxxed it looks like the people are voting .....
» 18/11/2021 5:28:26 AM Dear SteeleRedux, «Settler violence against Palestinians serves as a major informal tool .....
» 17/11/2021 6:58:41 PM It is an insult to the good people of this land to claim as if: «Almost everyone identifie.....
» 15/11/2021 12:28:08 AM Indeed, the territories in question should not be labeled "occupied Palestinian terri.....
» 3/11/2021 11:27:05 AM Dear Nathan, Just to let you know that I am quitting this useless discussion: in case you.....
» 30/10/2021 9:45:54 PM Dear Nathan, Thank you for your perfect words of wisdom: «For those who know themselves .....
» 28/10/2021 4:44:48 PM Dear Nathan, «I think it's important to realise that any inclinations you have are simply.....
» 28/10/2021 3:12:54 PM Dear Nathan, Certainly, your sexual inclination is quite an unimportant detail and nobody.....
» 27/10/2021 11:37:42 PM Dear Critic, «It doesn't make any difference anymore.» Indeed, not on the macro level, b.....
» 26/10/2021 3:40:04 PM Great article - thank you! Surely no one could object to the article's title, thinking th.....
» 26/10/2021 10:47:50 AM Blessings to the European Union and Germany for this endeavour. Their reasoning and this .....
» 25/10/2021 3:07:03 PM Dear SteeleRedux, So we agree that one way or the other, Andrews "managed" to a.....
» 25/10/2021 1:09:52 PM Dear Paul, «What the vaccines offer is lower infection rates with less sever symptoms and.....
» 24/10/2021 9:54:34 AM Dear Hasbeen, I agree with what you said: The people of Victoria are now so fed up with .....
» 24/10/2021 9:08:58 AM Dear Individual, «Forcing is vastly different to reminding people to do their duty of coo.....
» 20/10/2021 12:37:24 PM Dear Paul, I do not consider mandatory voting in terms of which party could win or lose a.....
» 18/10/2021 1:14:44 PM Dear Critic, You claim to be honest in your criticism of religions, and I believe you are.....
» 18/10/2021 12:13:55 PM I agree with Ttbn - Australia is rooted, but not just Australia, the whole world is. The .....
» 18/10/2021 9:42:41 AM Dear Mhaze, «There are no official figures about where informal votes appeared to be for......
» 18/10/2021 1:16:28 AM Dear Critic, «if you care about Israel so much GO BACK THERE» David Singer does not belo.....
» 16/10/2021 11:49:56 PM Dear Hasbeen, «Yuyutsu you are much more likely to get it wrong voting for an individual,.....
» 16/10/2021 10:46:24 PM Dear David, «all of you - the Jew-hating choir singing its poisonous Jew-hating chorus on.....
» 15/10/2021 1:03:00 PM Dear Hasbeen, To summarise what you just wrote: "taking control over my life is just.....
» 15/10/2021 12:05:36 PM How could we possibly "abandon" political parties when we never supported them i.....
» 14/10/2021 2:26:21 PM I agree with the author on one point: Other occupiers who conquered adjoining lands by mil.....
» 14/10/2021 1:43:48 PM Dear Paul, «if paying for vaccination is the overriding consideration that determines you.....
» 13/10/2021 11:48:19 PM Dear Paul, I feel like you, the existing electoral-system is very wrong, but one ought to.....
» 13/10/2021 12:25:30 AM Since the refugees are no longer behind fences, what stops New Zealand from just sending a.....
» 11/10/2021 9:37:10 AM I don't care what powers the engine so long as the car has no computers onboard and I rema.....
» 10/10/2021 10:46:24 PM Dear Ttbn, «It's called a Federation. That's what Australia is: a Federation.» Yes, but .....
» 10/10/2021 1:50:34 PM The COVID pandemic demonstrated that when real trouble strikes, each state is on its own, .....
» 10/10/2021 9:56:01 AM This is still a legitimate topic: you need to recognise and respect that other people's th.....
» 9/10/2021 8:07:31 PM Dear Jayyes, «There is nothing noble being moral when immoral Anti-Semites try to kill yo.....
» 8/10/2021 11:16:19 AM Dear Jayyess, The Hebrew word 'betselem' means "in the image" and refers to the.....
» 8/10/2021 7:26:33 AM Dear Banjo Paterson, I am saddened to see you too speaking like a robot, regurgitating th.....
» 7/10/2021 12:58:00 PM Dear Nathan, «I know of people who have taken in refugees for short term periods in their.....
» 7/10/2021 12:33:09 PM Dear David, «To claim that there is "no 100-years old Jewish-Arab conflict" is .....
» 7/10/2021 11:28:35 AM Dear Banjo Paterson, «It provides us with vaccines that were miraculously produced and ap.....
» 7/10/2021 7:31:42 AM Dear Mhaze, «But now we see that we are just like them. Vast numbers of us encourage the .....
» 6/10/2021 11:37:45 PM Dear Critic, «Full of crap. "Any peaceful resolution of the 100-years old Jewish-Ar.....
» 6/10/2021 10:05:45 PM First, I thank the author for acknowledging that there is no atrocity worse than conscript.....
» 6/10/2021 4:04:15 PM Dear Mox, «Sometimes decent Jews would be in the best positions to help bring badly behav.....
» 6/10/2021 3:19:09 PM Dear Nathan, My heart is already open for the people of Afghanistan. As for my home, to t.....
» 3/10/2021 4:23:02 AM How does Andrews get everyone vaccinated when there is a shortage of vaccines? - make ever.....
» 3/10/2021 12:42:35 AM Pity we have no tabulation on OLO, so just think of the following as a table: First colum.....
» 2/10/2021 11:34:20 PM Dear Foxy, «These past months have been hard on us all. We have missed our loved ones as .....
» 1/10/2021 3:09:42 PM So long as people arrive only into infected areas where people and governments gave up on .....
» 30/09/2021 7:26:46 PM Dear David, Well of course, nobody could ever provide a physical evidence for that which .....
» 30/09/2021 4:17:45 PM Dear Foxy, «The numbers would go back down again if the rules were more strictly followed.....
» 30/09/2021 3:52:20 PM Dear David, «Why do you think there will be a next time around?» This is the most likely.....
» 30/09/2021 2:10:13 PM Dear David, «One cannot learn a fatal lesson. Somebody else may learn a lesson from the f.....
» 29/09/2021 11:18:44 PM Dear Atheist, «Imagine the number of people killed in the name of one religion or the oth.....
» 29/09/2021 4:17:23 PM Dear Foxy, «This means some restrictions are easing just as the Premier has promised. The.....
» 29/09/2021 2:30:02 PM Well the author has taken a text completely out of context - the purpose of the Bible is t.....
» 28/09/2021 8:21:11 AM Dear Andras, First, regarding your last paragraph, I have no idea why you brought the sub.....
» 27/09/2021 11:08:29 PM If epidemiological science finds that unvaccinated people should not attend certain places.....
» 27/09/2021 2:22:52 PM Stay at home and become a martyr - with the Victorian holocaust costing 6 million lives, A.....
» 24/09/2021 12:09:47 PM Dear Foxy, «I wonder if these protesters have families and kids and whether their kids ha.....
» 23/09/2021 5:25:50 PM Dear Canem Malum, «Overall there is an interesting interaction between Communist, Capital.....
» 23/09/2021 5:03:54 PM The protest is being described as "anti-vaccine", but is it? Do we know for a f.....
» 22/09/2021 11:43:17 PM Alas, Gaia favours tyrant regimes over dissenters - See what happened to those who disagre.....
» 22/09/2021 11:25:16 PM Very well, besides the terrible moral implications, the occupation also endangers Israel's.....
» 21/09/2021 10:45:14 AM Dear Andras, I understand and accept the epidemiological need to have different rules for.....
» 20/09/2021 6:13:56 PM In theory, a parliamentarian is supposed to represent his/her/its voters, thus should owe .....
» 20/09/2021 6:03:30 PM Dear David, Well, I suppose it is about the nuances of the English language: I never even.....
» 20/09/2021 1:46:03 PM Dear Paul, I will not argue for or against the actual practice of assisted dying, but why.....
» 20/09/2021 1:25:56 PM Funerals are optional and so should burials be. As far as I am concerned, once my body sto.....
» 16/09/2021 7:57:04 PM Dear Nathan, «I agree nationalism is a posion I don't want to ever take or give to somebo.....
» 15/09/2021 4:47:47 PM "the inescapable need to find a peaceful solution to the conflict" Why inescapa.....
» 15/09/2021 2:09:45 PM I support the public-health FUNCTIONALITY of vaccine passports, but not the passports them.....
» 15/09/2021 8:15:46 AM Dear Canem Malum, I am also internationally displaced and there is nothing wrong about it.....
» 14/09/2021 6:25:01 PM Dear Aidan, «Nuclear weapons may have been valuable in the 20th century, but they're not .....
» 14/09/2021 2:01:16 PM Dear Macedonian, «The world needs to get rid of all nuclear weapons which can destroy lif.....
» 13/09/2021 3:05:23 PM If you add 'F' (6) and 'L' (12), you get an 'R' (18). Nay, Australia (or any other place .....
» 13/09/2021 2:53:23 PM Most of those who die from COVID are killed by a cytokine-storm, where their own immune sy.....
» 10/09/2021 4:48:51 PM Good on them: let alone why would anyone want to be ruled by others, but why would anyone .....
» 9/09/2021 11:58:23 PM Hindu philosophy speaks of four levels of truth: 1. Asatyam - complete untruth (e.g. the .....
» 6/09/2021 5:56:07 PM Dear Individual, «These mutts will never be at peace as long as both lots are around !» .....
» 6/09/2021 4:42:11 PM Just the usual - the author thinks that he controls Israel and may order them and their Pr.....
» 6/09/2021 4:31:23 PM Dear Dan, «All societies are governed by rules. The necessity of those rules are obvious......
» 6/09/2021 10:23:30 AM Well, whenever the word "nation" or its grammatical derivatives is mentioned, on.....
» 6/09/2021 8:38:12 AM Dear Dan, «I think the question should read; Is there evidence that all of society must c.....
» 5/09/2021 11:00:42 PM We can only do what we can to stop China, which is probably not a lot. But we must do all.....
» 2/09/2021 1:36:20 PM Dear David, Fortunately your fringe Jewish cult who wants to take over and control Israel.....
» 1/09/2021 6:27:10 PM Dear David, The more you rant the way you are doing - the more you expose yourself as hat.....
» 1/09/2021 4:46:59 PM Dear Ttbn, I wish there was no state and no government. Regardless, with or without a go.....
» 1/09/2021 11:02:40 AM Dear David, Well, how childish this is getting: "If you don't give me your doll this.....
» 31/08/2021 11:24:33 AM Well that being the case, perhaps the best strategy is to get vaccinated, with 3 shots to .....
» 31/08/2021 10:50:15 AM Dear David, You have just confirmed your disagreement that Israel is an independent count.....
» 27/08/2021 5:12:11 PM Dear Bronwyn, «religion has a lot to answer for, including the Christian religion!» Ther.....
» 27/08/2021 4:02:11 PM Dear Mhaze, «The Pfizer vaccine needs to be kept at roughly zero degrees centigrade durin.....
» 27/08/2021 1:56:11 PM Dear Paul, «"Why can't the over 50s get pfizer?" Because Australia doesn't have.....
» 26/08/2021 7:26:52 PM Dear John Perkins, Your ignorance of religion has nothing to do with the existence or non.....
» 24/08/2021 3:17:45 PM This article rests in whole on the false assumption as if the practices and political move.....
» 24/08/2021 2:23:00 PM Regarding COVID prevention measures, the author is mostly correct, but then he produces ex.....
» 22/08/2021 11:17:00 PM Should Covid Vaccination Be Made Compulsory? Of course not, it's a no-brainer and nobody .....
» 16/08/2021 9:52:35 PM Dear SteeleRedux, Again I implore you: what has that to do with the topic, about poor Jor.....
» 16/08/2021 5:03:03 PM Dear David, I see that you refuse to recognise Israel as an independent country that stan.....
» 16/08/2021 3:29:32 PM Dear Foxy, Fortunately I have no idea what you and Is Mise are talking about. I never ha.....
» 16/08/2021 1:40:17 PM Put yourself in American shoes - why sacrifice your own lives to help little Australia out.....
» 16/08/2021 1:22:47 PM Dear Foxy, «what's going to be done (if anything) about it?» The solution is very simple.....
» 16/08/2021 1:16:08 AM Neither am I bound by merits nor sins, neither by worldly joys nor by sorrows, Neither am .....
» 16/08/2021 1:16:05 AM Dear Nathan, You may be interested to know that the Bible forbids censuses and consider t.....
» 15/08/2021 6:35:49 PM Thank you Foxy, much appreciated!.....
» 15/08/2021 10:58:17 AM Dear Foxy, «What keeps dragging me back to this discussion is the misinformation that you.....
» 15/08/2021 3:26:17 AM Dear Foxy, «We need more knowledgeable moderate voices like his (and Alon Ben-Meir's) fro.....
» 14/08/2021 9:09:39 PM Well Armchair Critic has made some good points. No, I disagree with what he said about va.....
» 14/08/2021 8:53:34 PM Dear David, Are you referring to the problems that Israel has with some of these so-calle.....
» 13/08/2021 9:25:27 AM Dear Anthony, «In the next 12-months, each of you will be exposed to covid as we go from .....
» 12/08/2021 11:02:47 PM Dear Ttbn, «And who knows what China is capable of doing to force people to cooperate wit.....
» 12/08/2021 7:27:15 PM Dear Foxy, I understand that you do not wish to discuss this any further. Just to clarif.....
» 12/08/2021 7:20:30 PM Dear David, «There are a lot of concerned people trying to resolve this conflict - the UN.....
» 12/08/2021 4:01:43 PM Dear Foxy, It seems that the author of the article you quoted (an Arab name, BTW) was als.....
» 12/08/2021 1:10:39 PM I just wonder, would Bronwyn still present this criticism against mRNA vaccines had China .....
» 12/08/2021 12:45:41 PM Thank you Peter - amazing depth, may the Holy Spirit be with you! I wonder how many of the.....
» 12/08/2021 12:07:15 PM Certainly a good idea, but we need even more countries in this, especially India!.....
» 12/08/2021 9:38:36 AM Dear SteeleRedux, «Oh and by the way, anything to say about the recent death of yet anoth.....
» 12/08/2021 9:32:15 AM The author pointed out medical reasons against vaccine hesitancy, yet the issue is politic.....
» 12/08/2021 9:12:24 AM Dear Paul, «You might like this, some months back I received a letter from the ABS ".....
» 12/08/2021 8:07:50 AM Dear Mhaze, Indeed, the so-called "Palestinians" do not deserve concessions. I.....
» 12/08/2021 7:55:31 AM Dear Foxy, Whether or not Israel is a democracy (I respect your wish to not continue disc.....
» 12/08/2021 7:36:37 AM Dear Dan, «I’m a bit perplexed, but otherwise very interested to know how you got there.».....
» 11/08/2021 7:07:43 PM The census is a gross trampling on our privacy and personal life. There should not be more.....
» 11/08/2021 4:57:25 PM Dear Foxy, Israel's occupation of the West Bank and other territories is indeed very bad,.....
» 11/08/2021 2:37:48 PM Why bother with "legal concerns", picking out issues with this or that particula.....
» 11/08/2021 1:55:15 PM Dear Foxy, Whatever you wrote, what has it to do with democracy? Are you saying that dem.....
» 10/08/2021 7:13:14 PM A common misunderstanding is that Israel is a Jewish state: No, Israel is a Hebrew state. .....
» 10/08/2021 1:05:11 PM Dear David, «Why not have one state with equal rights for all, civil marriage, an integra.....
» 6/08/2021 5:41:42 PM Dear David, So you want Jordan to care more for the league of nations than for themselves.....
» 6/08/2021 1:18:25 PM Dear SteeleRedux, «This heinous killing of an 11-year-old boy demonstrates, yet again, ho.....
» 5/08/2021 2:07:39 PM In other words, the author expects Jordan to be punished and sacrifice itself in order to .....
» 3/08/2021 2:36:56 PM Thank you Aidan. Based on your description, I don't think that I ever met a neocon. Do yo.....
» 2/08/2021 11:26:30 PM Thank you Dan, I think you got age-old Hinduism mixed up with the 20th-century populist N.....
» 2/08/2021 5:13:08 PM Dear Dan, «people appear to me to choose a working model religion for themselves to perfo.....
» 2/08/2021 3:46:13 PM Dear Individual, «What do you say to necessary violence ? For example when the need arise.....
» 1/08/2021 10:53:49 PM Dear Dan, So sorry, but I am unable to divulge such private information on a public forum.....
» 1/08/2021 10:40:23 PM [...continued] I understand that you feel insecure, so let me clarify: it is legitimate f.....
» 1/08/2021 10:40:20 PM Dear Foxy, «We don't always like the laws or rules» Now this is all about our philosophi.....
» 1/08/2021 1:23:23 PM Dear Foxy, «Frankly I don't understand what you are talking about. You'll have to be more.....
» 1/08/2021 11:14:20 AM Dear Dan, May God bless you. I am a student of and try to follow the teachings of the Ved.....
» 1/08/2021 10:59:13 AM Dear Foxy, Do you consider the concept/belief that "some people or groups of people .....
» 31/07/2021 10:17:11 PM Dear Foxy, Don't we all like to prevent violence? But why focus particularly on violent .....
» 31/07/2021 10:07:31 PM Thank you Yuri. Indeed, isn't this whole world God's waiting room? "As a person she.....
» 31/07/2021 9:37:39 PM Dear Nathan, Yes, boofheads seems to be the case unless I fail to understand their motive.....
» 28/07/2021 12:55:35 PM Dear Aidan, Sorry, I could not understand your last comment, presumably in reply to my po.....
» 27/07/2021 10:08:01 PM Boofheads perhaps, but selfish? A selfish person cares only to maximise their personal ga.....
» 27/07/2021 8:07:48 PM Well well well, comparing a political movement with religion is just absolutely so silly!.....
» 27/07/2021 1:15:14 PM Given a situation where the required action is: If X, do A. If Y, do A. There is no need .....
» 22/07/2021 2:12:45 PM Dear Dan, «If you (or I for that matter) would like to open a thread on the subject, it w.....
» 21/07/2021 1:41:26 PM [...continued] «As a mortal, he had the same necessity for daily survival as do we all. A.....
» 21/07/2021 1:41:21 PM Dear Dan, Yes, I do believe that there is much more to Christ's teachings that we are no .....
» 21/07/2021 8:52:01 AM Dear Individual, «You are paying !» No, I am not. I pay tax but as it stands I do not ge.....
» 21/07/2021 5:26:25 AM Dear Dan, Why would anyone want to define 'religion' for taxation purposes? How more fool.....
» 20/07/2021 10:05:17 PM Dear Individual, Vial production? What are you speaking about? The vials are already her.....
» 20/07/2021 6:59:27 PM Dear Individual, «Our Govt has the same problem» Huh? All they need is to tell me the pr.....
» 20/07/2021 5:54:28 PM Dear Snake, «I, together with everyone I know who as undertaken the Covid jab, has had ab.....
» 20/07/2021 4:49:55 PM Dear Individual, «Unless they actually pay for a jab they should just be glad to get one .....
» 20/07/2021 10:21:21 AM Dear Dan, You essentially got it right: Christ was never too concerned with the state of .....
» 20/07/2021 7:14:01 AM Dear Paul, Mud is dirty, it can also cause health problems if you put it in your mouth, b.....
» 20/07/2021 6:44:10 AM Dear LEGO, «My natural selfishness is moderated by my understanding that our society woul.....
» 19/07/2021 8:56:11 PM Dear Hasbeen, As much as I think that Hydroxychloroquine is useless or even harmful, I wi.....
» 19/07/2021 6:44:15 PM Dear Ttbn, «The covid vaccine will in time become the same as the influenza vaccine; it w.....
» 19/07/2021 2:26:03 PM Wait! So long as we are not allowed to obtain/import our own vaccines, only to lick the g.....
» 19/07/2021 1:43:44 PM DEFINITION: That which produces a rugged curved shadow, is a tree. That which produces a .....
» 17/07/2021 8:37:51 PM Dear Nathan, Indeed, one needs to find the correct balance and this can be difficult. Li.....
» 15/07/2021 7:40:23 PM Dear Daffy, It is not right to put all "Zionists" in the same basket - there is.....
» 15/07/2021 6:25:25 PM "Abdullah will continue to hide behind the two-state solution in his meeting with Bid.....
» 12/07/2021 10:55:22 PM Dear Foxy and Ttbn, «Not everyone has the expertise necessary to form an opinion that is .....
» 10/07/2021 11:27:14 PM "Are we really entitled to our opinions?" This depends what one means by ".....
» 9/07/2021 1:04:25 PM Dear Jayb, However interesting these stories about deities, their wives and the like are,.....
» 8/07/2021 7:23:04 PM Dear SteeleRedux, I do not claim to know the exact reason(s) for Israel's disengagement f.....
» 7/07/2021 2:57:28 PM Dear Banjo, «Instead of choosing one box or two boxes, I'm sorry to have to say I walked .....
» 7/07/2021 2:55:40 PM Dear Paul, Very thoughtful, thanks. I believe the Dalai Lama to be a sage. Sages are dis.....
» 7/07/2021 2:06:27 PM Dear Mhaze, Why is everyone here talking of COVID just in terms of death? Death is the l.....
» 6/07/2021 4:11:24 PM [...continued] «I was unable to open the link» Strange, it opens in my browser. I find .....
» 6/07/2021 4:11:21 PM Dear Banjo, «They probably receive worse criticisms from every Tom, Dick, and Harry than .....
» 6/07/2021 10:37:51 AM Dear Rhys Jones, If I may add to Foxy's previous post, you wrote: «it is the Palestinian.....
» 6/07/2021 1:30:07 AM The author is chasing a ghost. There once used to be an Arab-Israeli conflict. The sides .....
» 5/07/2021 10:51:40 AM Dear Paul, Well of course it is dangerous, like always when someone pretends to follow th.....
» 4/07/2021 10:46:30 PM Jeannette Young was right in saying that taking AstraZenica for purely medical reasons mak.....
» 4/07/2021 6:57:34 PM Dear Paul, The case of this Mr. Schlydner does not sound like a religious matter, but rat.....
» 4/07/2021 4:43:50 PM [...continued] The Bhagavad-Gita speaks of people who have made spiritual efforts in prev.....
» 4/07/2021 4:43:46 PM Dear Banjo, I do not find it wise or healthy to expose identifying information on the int.....
» 4/07/2021 4:43:39 PM Dear Foxy, «I hope that your life has not be a fight as the name suggests. And that your .....
» 2/07/2021 1:33:16 PM Dear David, «The Christian religion would be more plausible if it got rid of its beliefs .....
» 2/07/2021 12:22:14 PM Dear Foxy, Thank you for your kind comment. One thing is that, I simply cannot remember .....
» 2/07/2021 9:39:29 AM Dear David, «The "cursed territory" of which you speak was occupied by Jordan b.....
» 2/07/2021 9:15:40 AM Dear Banjo, «but you did not reply to my question at the end of my previous post on page .....
» 1/07/2021 1:04:56 PM Sadly the author only considered the risk of death (which indeed is relatively less of a p.....
» 1/07/2021 12:39:35 PM Apparently there is some 100-years-old Jewish-Arab conflict going on, which the author wis.....
» 1/07/2021 11:50:00 AM Dear Banjo, Thank you for telling us about your glorious life journey. Apparently you gr.....
» 30/06/2021 4:31:00 PM Dear Banjo, «If there are no experts, then they have no alternative but to use their own .....
» 29/06/2021 11:40:56 PM Dear Josephus, I applaud your observations. What you wrote is beautiful and I would not .....
» 29/06/2021 5:01:15 PM Dear Cody, «And how many millions did die of starvation under Mao?» The Uyghurs envy the.....
» 29/06/2021 12:12:07 PM Well we have heard this before: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Goebbels Good enough .....
» 29/06/2021 11:41:58 AM Dear Banjo, «Democratic courts of justice cannot possibly be experts on everything. They .....
» 29/06/2021 9:49:50 AM Dear Paul, Thank you for bringing the excellent example of Buddhism. The fact is that wh.....
» 28/06/2021 10:50:05 PM Dear Banjo, «Democratic courts of justice settle disputes.» Unfortunately they can only .....
» 27/06/2021 3:55:46 PM Dear Banjo, 1.«The prescription for freedom of action is as large as possible – provided .....
» 27/06/2021 3:10:32 PM Dear Paul, You have every right to criticise the Church Of the Holy Orgy and so would I (.....
» 27/06/2021 12:12:05 AM [...continued] Please allow me to present an analogous example where believing in somethi.....
» 27/06/2021 12:11:57 AM Dear Banjo, How easy it is and seemingly noble to protect thoughts and beliefs, but this .....
» 24/06/2021 7:01:25 PM Dear imacentristmoderate, «Enlightenment leaders who "wrote the book" on modern.....
» 23/06/2021 9:12:04 AM Dear imacentristmoderate, «Democracy is guaranteed to fail if 100% of all families in a s.....
» 22/06/2021 3:18:28 PM Dear Graham, Why just peck around the edges? This whole sick idea of the state interveni.....
» 22/06/2021 9:58:11 AM Dear Individual, «The issue in Victoria is its ill-disciplined Demographic ! Full stop !».....
» 22/06/2021 12:24:04 AM From today's news: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-21/victoria-one-new-local-covid-case.....
» 21/06/2021 2:36:37 PM Dear Critic, «Christians are taught to forgive the rapist and the murderer.» And how man.....
» 19/06/2021 9:45:36 PM Dear Individual, I am not on a planet, though my body rests on planet Earth. I have in t.....
» 19/06/2021 9:32:03 PM Referring to Frederic Bastiat's letter, I like it how people in 1845 looked at and based t.....
» 19/06/2021 8:53:44 PM Dear Critic, I would never say that you are wrong. It can happen that we entertain a tho.....
» 19/06/2021 8:33:23 PM Dear Individual, «I ask again, would the people of Biloela be prepared to take in many mo.....
» 18/06/2021 12:12:23 PM Dear Foxy, It is indeed wrong to criticise others. I am not saying that it should be bann.....
» 18/06/2021 9:41:36 AM Dear Individual, You completely evade the topic. It has nothing to do with refugees. The.....
» 18/06/2021 3:37:27 AM Dear Critic, «I see two opposing arguments here. The first is the Christian bakery being.....
» 18/06/2021 2:38:43 AM Dear Aries, «You are now saying that none of this is supposed to be taken literally.» I .....
» 18/06/2021 1:43:37 AM Dear Ttbn, «Two illegals - revealed not to be genuine refugees» I would be surprised if .....
» 18/06/2021 1:31:02 AM Dear Peter, As for the social issues in America, I am ignorant, I never studied them and .....
» 18/06/2021 1:20:20 AM Dear SteeleRedux, You know, there was a tradition whereby the French princes (all those L.....
» 17/06/2021 6:54:01 PM Dear Peter, «why a very religious country has such inadequate social practices» Why do y.....
» 17/06/2021 2:59:36 PM Look, I am not a Christian and I do not care either way for the so-called Christian views .....
» 17/06/2021 1:15:25 PM Dear Aries, Let me keep my answers short and simple, but do let me know if you require an.....
» 17/06/2021 8:53:45 AM Dear Individual, «Why not settle all illegal arrivals in Biloela ? They'd get so much sup.....
» 16/06/2021 9:26:41 PM Dear Critic, Just hypothetically, suppose God had nothing better to do than to ordain cer.....
» 16/06/2021 8:37:55 PM Dear Ttbn, In Israel, rockets and fire-starting balloons from Gaza are just part of the w.....
» 16/06/2021 3:44:32 PM The issue is of utmost importance, but there is a problem: To secure religious freedom, on.....
» 16/06/2021 1:28:23 PM Dear Ttbn, «The cease fire has ended. Following Hamas's launching of a fire-starting ball.....
» 16/06/2021 12:47:41 AM [...continued] Note also that unlike previous Israeli governments, this new coalition als.....
» 16/06/2021 12:47:38 AM Dear Foxy, «Nothing has changed.» All changes begin in the mind before they manifest in .....
» 15/06/2021 4:38:26 PM Thank you Paul, I fully support: «What for me transcends the law, overrides all other con.....
» 15/06/2021 4:27:38 PM Dear Ttbn, «There is certainly nothing in his history or past statements to indicate that.....
» 15/06/2021 4:04:41 PM Dear Foxy, A separate Palestinian state would be the nightmare of ordinary Palestinians w.....
» 14/06/2021 5:50:42 PM Dear Paul, Yes, but it is unhelpful to call people "rednecks": people's hearts .....
» 14/06/2021 11:18:33 AM At last, Israel has a prime-minister with a heart. While I disagree with many of his view.....
» 14/06/2021 10:26:16 AM Dear ShadowMinister, «Labor and the greens in their infinite kindness managed to kill 120.....
» 11/06/2021 12:21:33 PM Is there a definition of a cult which does not at least include some agreement over some i.....
» 10/06/2021 6:56:58 PM Dear Imacentristmoderate, Your last post is so confused that I don't even know where to b.....
» 10/06/2021 2:39:15 PM Dear Foxy, «The family arrived without visas.» Same for Captain Cook!.....
» 10/06/2021 12:22:10 AM "An absolute disgrace on Australia's part, we should hang our heads in shame. Where i.....
» 9/06/2021 11:44:33 PM Dear Critic, «Menachem Begin was head of the Irgun at that time (Kind David Hotel Bombing.....
» 9/06/2021 11:01:03 PM Dear Imacentristmoderate, First, thank you for clarifying how your posts relate to this t.....
» 9/06/2021 3:35:57 PM Dear Imacentristmoderate, Plantagenet is correct in stating that this discussion is going.....
» 9/06/2021 1:10:20 PM Dear Imacentristmoderate, I am puzzled why you included my name in your address (Wednesda.....
» 8/06/2021 1:27:03 PM Dear Critic, «And the people responsible for this act of terrorism, formed the Likud Part.....
» 7/06/2021 11:54:49 PM Dear LEGO, «I can do racist jokes because I am a racist, OK?» No: all one needs in order.....
» 7/06/2021 2:13:17 PM Dear LEGO, «the Jews are the smartest race on Earth» Correct, but it is only half the tr.....
» 4/06/2021 3:44:01 PM Dear Hasbeen, I checked on your information: "$500 payments announced for Victorians.....
» 3/06/2021 7:32:26 PM Dear LEGO, «Benjamin Netanyahu, who's brother was a genuine Israeli war hero who was kill.....
» 3/06/2021 1:55:50 PM Such naivety! What happened recently in Israel/Palestine had nothing to do with Jews, Pal.....
» 27/05/2021 9:09:58 AM Dear Ttbn, Your accusations of government are superstitious because the capabilities, int.....
» 26/05/2021 3:43:25 PM It's the old story about the boy-scout who was so eager to do his daily good-deed that he .....
» 26/05/2021 1:10:07 AM Dear Pogi, I am not here to convince you of anything. The author wrote his view in the ar.....
» 23/05/2021 4:03:30 PM Dear LEGO, Indeed, your description of the Yom Kippur war is glorious, thank you! But al.....
» 23/05/2021 8:09:42 AM Dear Pogi, As for my post dated Monday, 10 May 2021 2:04:52 AM, it was not addressed for .....
» 23/05/2021 12:08:26 AM Dear Bazz, «It is a waste of time arguing about a two nation settlement.» Indeed, like a.....
» 22/05/2021 11:46:30 PM Dear Pogi, You are still abusive and ignorant, but I am glad that you learned to spell my.....
» 22/05/2021 11:43:13 PM Dear Foxy, «Different groups have different senses of national identity. It means differe.....
» 19/05/2021 11:07:15 PM Why is this NOT a Faustian bargain? - Because Faust's devil is intelligent! No sane pers.....
» 16/05/2021 5:56:09 PM Everyone, This whole discussion is based on a fundamental error: Identities cannot be cre.....
» 14/05/2021 5:13:36 PM "There will be no Israeli-Palestinian peace unless..." But this is the author's.....
» 13/05/2021 1:01:01 PM Dear David, «However it all falls apart when his apparent son, who may well have actually.....
» 13/05/2021 12:40:52 PM A whole new industry of paper-shuffling parasites: they neither farm nor produce anything .....
» 13/05/2021 12:07:05 PM Dear Foxy, «What is being discussed here is our national identity, not our individual one.....
» 12/05/2021 6:03:32 PM Blessed be the author for advocating a simpler lifestyle in the country and for quoting th.....
» 12/05/2021 5:34:11 PM Dear Foxy, «Would I change Australian identity?» It is not possible to change one's iden.....
» 11/05/2021 12:25:30 PM Dear Jack, "I am exploring preferences for Australian identity." "Identit.....
» 10/05/2021 2:04:52 AM It was the author, not me, who wrote: "Time is understood as being linear and directe.....
» 4/05/2021 1:37:01 PM "Christianity, and Judaism before it has always been about the future. Time is unders.....
» 2/05/2021 11:59:05 PM Dear Foxy, «it broadens this discussion and adds to our knowledge of the roles that relig.....
» 30/04/2021 5:40:26 PM People ought to serve God and do His work alone, whatever be their social roles. But this.....
» 19/04/2021 6:37:47 AM Dear Foxy, We could not be more fortunate as things stand today, having a benevolent mona.....
» 16/04/2021 5:30:12 PM Dear SteeleRedux, What is the difference? 1. The "Palestinians" are not in a w.....
» 16/04/2021 12:51:41 PM Dear Mhaze, «The people now claiming to be Palestinian didn't arrive for another 1200 yea.....
» 16/04/2021 10:34:02 AM Dear SteeleRedux, I am not trying to defend Israel, only to be objective about the facts,.....
» 16/04/2021 1:11:21 AM Dear SteeleRedux, «Why would documents which had been hidden in the archives have been wr.....
» 15/04/2021 10:18:36 PM Dear Foxy and SteeleRedux, What you say demonstrates that the operation in Deir Yassin wa.....
» 15/04/2021 4:58:13 PM We should remember in tears and revolt all holocausts, past and present, including the pre.....
» 14/04/2021 3:05:41 PM What a strange way to divide people up: "Tough-minded people like 'facts', and they .....
» 11/04/2021 10:18:38 PM Dear Banjo, «Love does not change reality.» True, but it changes everything: http://www......
» 9/04/2021 9:10:10 AM Reading this article makes me so grateful to God that I was not born a Christian......
» 4/04/2021 8:10:23 AM Dear Paul, Due to the unreliable nature of the authors, nothing about the life of Jesus i.....
» 4/04/2021 1:31:20 AM Had I been a Christian, I would probably feel insulted when others used this important rel.....
» 31/03/2021 12:16:41 AM Dear Bazz, «However any man here that has seen an attractive girl/woman and never had tho.....
» 30/03/2021 2:26:34 PM Of course this is cruel, very cruel and unjust. No problem if the state does not wish to .....
» 30/03/2021 2:11:19 PM He could have been a murderer, he could deserve to be hanged, but what gives anyone a righ.....
» 2/03/2021 10:47:57 PM Israel is an extremely divided country, made of a mosaic of very different people who ofte.....
» 26/02/2021 12:14:10 PM Dear Individual, «What's the point of pointing at big-time producers but not at consumers.....
» 26/02/2021 9:13:47 AM Thank you, Ttbn - nobody could have said it better!.....
» 23/02/2021 12:44:18 PM [...continued] How do these general principles apply in the specific case of this article.....
» 23/02/2021 12:44:15 PM Well, COVID took us by surprise so there was no time to apply the democratic process. Emer.....
» 23/02/2021 8:16:06 AM Sad for us. We lost a great wise and balanced commentator. As for Joe himself, he was ble.....
» 22/02/2021 3:37:31 PM It is a documented fact that humans had wars way before 6000 years ago. Still, the author.....
» 19/02/2021 12:04:37 AM Dear Nathan, «Do you find the use of such letters to describe you, including hetrosexual .....
» 15/02/2021 7:13:42 AM Dear Paul, May I understand from your cryptic response that you have no objection to slav.....
» 14/02/2021 11:28:15 PM Dear Paul, What right have you to categorise people, telling them: "you are an emplo.....
» 12/02/2021 4:39:50 PM Dear Mhaze, First they came for the...., indeed but is there anything we can do? As it s.....
» 11/02/2021 1:20:35 AM Dear Mhaze, I am shocked! Not that I particularly care or side with any sexual/gender &q.....
» 10/02/2021 8:14:42 AM Dear Mhaze, Where did you get this information about Andrews? To the best of my knowledg.....
» 9/02/2021 11:54:56 PM Dear Ttbn, In the old dispute between socialism and communism, communism believed that th.....
» 8/02/2021 11:21:50 PM What a storm in a teacup! Who cares? One can marry a broom if they like, even three broom.....
» 8/02/2021 2:22:23 PM Not much we can do on our own: we can try to offer PNG a better deal, otherwise we need to.....
» 7/02/2021 8:09:13 AM Dear David, I was definitely referring to the signposts BEFORE 1967. I have seen them mys.....
» 5/02/2021 1:38:16 PM The usual dribble from this hater of both Israel and Jordan, seeking to harm them both. I.....
» 5/02/2021 10:58:31 AM Dear SteeleRedux, There is of course no such thing as God, for God is not a thing, nor is.....
» 4/02/2021 2:04:58 PM Dear Ipso Fatso, Speak for yourself if you like - I am not an operating system. My brain .....
» 3/02/2021 8:51:40 PM Dear Daffy, I understand what you wrote, but without some preparation and explanation of .....
» 3/02/2021 6:03:23 PM Dear David, Thank you for correcting me. I made this mistake of accepting the article's w.....
» 3/02/2021 1:20:28 PM Dear Peter, The American constitution supports the freedom to pursue happiness (and so ha.....
» 2/02/2021 10:23:30 AM Dear Hasbeen, Obviously those who arrive from overseas that were already fully vaccinated.....
» 2/02/2021 10:00:49 AM Dear Ttbn, Indeed, how sad that the fight against China's was sidelined by attitudes towa.....
» 2/02/2021 9:52:34 AM I agree with LEGO to a point: «To have a democracy you need a population which is smart e.....
» 2/02/2021 9:05:18 AM Suppose the author is correct and the border closures are indeed unconstitutional - so wha.....
» 1/02/2021 11:01:21 PM Dear Ipso Fatso, «Dare I say: 'nothing stays the same forever?'» Almost. In order to ob.....
» 1/02/2021 2:12:26 PM Dear Hasbeen, Clearly, quarantine facilities should be run only by those who already reco.....
» 1/02/2021 1:59:19 PM Dear Aidan, Most of my teachers in primary school did not have formal qualifications. Ins.....
» 1/02/2021 1:08:33 PM If indeed the use of a search engine has become an essential service, then it needs to be .....
» 31/01/2021 10:53:55 PM Dear Ipso Fatso, I wonder, is it by great wisdom or by mere chance that you have hit the .....
» 31/01/2021 10:29:46 PM Dear Aidan, When I was studying in university, some professors would refer to this phenom.....
» 31/01/2021 6:15:52 PM Dear Aidan, There are indeed people, a minority, who are genuinely thirsty for knowledge,.....
» 31/01/2021 1:59:11 PM Dear Aidan, «War with China would threaten millions of innocent lives, but would accompli.....
» 30/01/2021 10:32:37 PM "Government's purpose is to protect God-given freedoms: first of all life, and then l.....
» 30/01/2021 9:46:42 PM Dear Alan, I clearly do not support Israel's occupation, I actually grieve for Israel's l.....
» 30/01/2021 9:38:27 PM O'connor spoke the truth - here are his words: "If [Australia] were to follow us and.....
» 29/01/2021 7:32:49 PM Yes, Israel behaves immorally in this case because its described actions are not for its o.....
» 29/01/2021 5:28:05 PM Dear Joe, There is no point staying outside when the bombs fall, he has just two left tod.....
» 29/01/2021 1:25:14 PM Congratulations to the author: 607 words without mentioning "Israel" even once -.....
» 29/01/2021 1:24:20 PM 5 more - put on your PPE and take cover!.....
» 29/01/2021 12:51:41 PM Dear Hasbeen and SteeleRedux, Well it is 6 more of them bombs that we need to endure in t.....
» 28/01/2021 8:33:29 PM Dear SteeleRedux, His aim is to demoralise, terrorise and bring us to despair: psychotic .....
» 26/01/2021 3:13:07 PM Well there is not much Australia can help Taiwan militarily with and we badly need our for.....
» 24/01/2021 4:22:26 PM Dear Mr. Opinion, «China is putting itself in the firing line in the hope that Taiwan wil.....
» 24/01/2021 4:15:13 PM The chances of China TRYING to invade Australia are slim, no more than 1%. They are evil, .....
» 21/01/2021 2:37:04 PM Dear Ttbn, Neo Feudalism is the inevitable result of over-population and has nothing to d.....
» 20/01/2021 7:48:27 PM Dear Critic, «Well in principle I believe in fairness to all, so that means 'What you do .....
» 20/01/2021 4:08:51 PM Dear Is Mise, Definitely, if you lived your life well, which I believe you have, then you.....
» 19/01/2021 8:07:17 PM Dear Paul, My father used to say: "God may forgive our sins, but for the sin which w.....
» 19/01/2021 5:42:26 PM Dear Mr. Opinion, I used "English" merely as an example to demonstrate your fla.....
» 19/01/2021 2:45:08 PM Dear Mr. Opinion, I agree with you that that's what you meant. But how shallow! Just li.....
» 19/01/2021 2:14:23 PM Dear Nathan, A licence is permission to do something - but marriage requires no permissio.....
» 19/01/2021 11:06:48 AM Dear Joe, Thank you, I agree with everything you said......
» 19/01/2021 10:57:27 AM Dear Mr. Opinion, Singapore? You must be joking! Singapore is a police-state and practic.....
» 19/01/2021 12:13:48 AM I commend the article. With one exception: spineless Keating was wrong from the start. A.....
» 18/01/2021 7:27:41 PM Dear Ttbn, All the objective evidence that we share about death has to do with our bodies.....
» 18/01/2021 3:03:17 PM Oh dear, Oh dear, Sudhanshu: why have you mentioned only China and Islam, omitting my bad .....
» 18/01/2021 2:11:41 PM Dear Ttbn, «OK. Somebody who thinks they know, tell me.» That which dies is only the bod.....
» 18/01/2021 7:03:00 AM Dear Paul, «Splitting hairs between a Marriage Licence and Marriage Certificate.» Yes, e.....
» 17/01/2021 9:27:59 PM Dear Thinkabit, A celebrant is not strictly required for a marriage. Nevertheless, there .....
» 16/01/2021 10:14:41 PM Dear Josephus, Very well, I believe that we agree on never giving up to the Chinese commu.....
» 16/01/2021 9:29:50 PM Dear Nathan, «So why is getting a marriage license so much easier?» Because it means not.....
» 15/01/2021 6:31:43 PM Dear Nathan, The difference between marriage and driving is that the latter is enforceabl.....
» 15/01/2021 5:51:52 PM Dear Paul, Every idea is welcome. If regional aid works then it is a good tactic to adopt.....
» 15/01/2021 10:15:36 AM Dear David and Joe, It would be terrible to treat Australians of Chinese origin different.....
» 15/01/2021 6:41:19 AM Dear Paul, An insurance policy costs. It can be painful to pay the premiums, but not anyw.....
» 15/01/2021 6:19:08 AM Dear David, Yes of course, but my question to you was about Chinese Australians: to what .....
» 15/01/2021 12:41:30 AM Dear David, Very true! But what do you suggest we do? We have so many innocent healthy p.....
» 13/01/2021 6:38:24 PM Dear Mr. Opinion, Wrong guess: I will never be working in a re-education camp because I w.....
» 13/01/2021 5:45:05 PM Dear Mr. Opinion, «One day I will visit the US and go to see great tourist sights like Di.....
» 13/01/2021 3:22:55 PM Hitler built Germany's great autostradas that are still in use even today (http://en.wikip.....
» 13/01/2021 3:07:01 PM Dear JP, There is no contradiction between what we say - we just speak of different layer.....
» 12/01/2021 10:07:35 PM Dear Joe, Thank you, no one could have presented this better. We and our friends will fi.....
» 12/01/2021 3:25:06 PM No! We rather die! And we must prepare accordingly so if China invades and we are unable .....
» 12/01/2021 12:46:38 PM Dear JP, Since there can only be one God, it is not possible for us to worship two differ.....
» 10/01/2021 2:18:38 PM [...continued] Similarly, our free will in particular and our mental experiences in gener.....
» 10/01/2021 2:18:34 PM Dear JP, I have read and commented on your article from 2015 and while I still generally .....
» 9/01/2021 11:46:42 PM Dear Truth Seeker, «I agree with you It is God who authors all life but the act of aborti.....
» 8/01/2021 6:02:20 PM Dear Truth Seeker, I understand how the concept of rights is so entrenched in Western soc.....
» 8/01/2021 6:02:17 PM Dear JP, If you feel the calling of God to prevent a rape or to advocate to preserve a ba.....
» 8/01/2021 4:43:58 PM Dear Bronwyn, «Any wonder our relationship with China is in trouble when we have ignorant.....
» 8/01/2021 11:11:10 AM Dear Truth Seeker, The theological matters touched on by the subject of abortion are pret.....
» 7/01/2021 11:09:10 PM Dear JP, «How is that any better than someone who says: "Owning slaves is not someth.....
» 7/01/2021 6:26:14 PM Dear Plantegenet, «2. continue strongly in the Quadrilateral AND Do an Israel ie. buildin.....
» 6/01/2021 6:05:21 PM Dear Canem Malum, «"I think the Chinese will be able to swing Indonesia to its side......
» 5/01/2021 9:38:16 PM Dear Aidan, Excellent observation, if only you could provide a practical path to separate.....
» 5/01/2021 12:11:55 AM Dear Aidan, That China is our enemy is not my choice, but a matter of fact, well unless w.....
» 4/01/2021 3:20:11 PM Dear Foxy, Australia is not dependent on China - it's only money and it's about time that.....
» 1/01/2021 6:32:19 PM Dear Mr. Opinion, I am well aware that the conflict between Taiwan and China BEGAN as a c.....
» 31/12/2020 4:13:39 PM Dear Ttbn, Most of us are going to have a wonderful year in 2021, the year of the vaccine.....
» 31/12/2020 10:55:03 AM Demoralising is a classic weapon of war, but we stand strong and it will come to naught. M.....
» 31/12/2020 12:16:40 AM Dear Atheist, Indeed, God does not exist. Existence is within God, not God within existe.....
» 30/12/2020 12:30:44 PM Dear Mr. Opinion, «I'm convinced that Australia will be amongst the first to fall to Chin.....
» 29/12/2020 10:59:20 AM Dear Mr. Opinion, Imagine if the people of ancient Troy had X-rays, ultrasound, MRI and C.....
» 29/12/2020 10:48:42 AM What a life: having no possessions, every movement monitored, eating only what is supplied.....
» 29/12/2020 10:26:36 AM Dear Mr. Opinion, «If I had my way I would cancel the visas of all non-Australian Chinese.....
» 29/12/2020 9:55:57 AM May I remind the author that states are not sentient beings! I applaud individuals who sa.....
» 28/12/2020 8:33:43 AM Dear Canem Malum, I am disappointed to see you joining Mr. Opinion in raising the white f.....
» 23/12/2020 1:52:05 PM There is a saying: "Hate the sin, love the sinner". Indeed hate China, but love.....
» 23/12/2020 1:29:45 PM Dear Individual, You are unlikely to understand my answer, but I will respond anyway for .....
» 22/12/2020 8:45:37 PM Dear Individual, The only "courtesy" I benefit from people living 1000's of km .....
» 22/12/2020 7:23:25 PM Dear Canem Malum, The Chinese situation is for us a test, not a ground to despair. Most .....
» 22/12/2020 2:26:26 PM Dear Alan, You are probably correct about those $70+Billions, but quality of life, in my .....
» 21/12/2020 11:00:41 PM Good article. Just one comment, Arthur: South Australia did not "learn" from Vi.....
» 21/12/2020 10:32:43 PM Dear Mr. Opinion, You have been constantly demoralising the readers of this forum, sowing.....
» 21/12/2020 10:21:10 PM Dear Ttbn, What about death? What kind of death do you have in mind? As humans we face .....
» 21/12/2020 6:08:54 PM Nothing will happen of course, but still we need to tick that box because it will appear i.....
» 16/12/2020 9:51:32 AM The threat is clear. The question is what can we now do. The author provided no answer. .....
» 15/12/2020 5:35:59 PM Dear Ttbn, I would break the law for a good reason, for a just reason, but not for a whim.....
» 15/12/2020 12:31:07 PM It is a delicate issue: the virus is real, serious and must be dealt with, but digital tec.....
» 4/12/2020 11:09:19 AM Dear Dan, «it has everything to do with why the enemy ethnic groups are and should be int.....
» 2/12/2020 6:08:25 AM Dear Individual, Thank you for clarifying - I would otherwise have no clue what you mean......
» 1/12/2020 10:26:57 PM Dear Dan, I honestly have no idea what Individual means in his "subliminal" com.....
» 1/12/2020 9:34:15 PM Dear Individual, Care to explain?.....
» 1/12/2020 4:47:20 PM Well said, LEGO! Australia-China relationship chills? How come it is not yet completely f.....
» 30/11/2020 4:27:03 PM Dear Paul, «Yuyutsu, in the long run it will be a government decision» Yes, this is alwa.....
» 30/11/2020 12:29:04 AM I don't think that there is any deliberate ill-intent by anyone, yet the result is unwhole.....
» 29/11/2020 11:37:21 PM There is no such thing as "soft totalitarianism", only totalitarianism. Remembe.....
» 29/11/2020 11:22:42 PM In my experience, we can be spiritually inspired by religious music anywhere, be it a chur.....
» 29/11/2020 11:10:43 PM I agree with Hasbeen: we must be prepared to support ourselves in terms of energy and food.....
» 29/11/2020 10:49:21 PM Isn't it obvious that an airline may place any conditions of entry they like on their plan.....
» 29/11/2020 10:26:06 PM Dear Ttbn, «You and I are well past our use by dates.» This would depend on what use is .....
» 13/11/2020 1:35:31 PM I am not sure about the legal technicality, but the right for a secret ballot is there for.....
» 10/11/2020 11:52:53 PM Dear David, Yes, I agree on both counts - thank you! --- BTW, I had a funny thought: Se.....
» 10/11/2020 6:43:42 PM It would be better if ministers were relaxed and engrossed with their private affairs, rat.....
» 10/11/2020 6:07:12 PM Dear David, I completely agree: democracy in Australia and the USA is broken. Which brin.....
» 10/11/2020 11:22:03 AM In Australia one does not need to be a woman, a slave or a descendant of a foreigner for t.....
» 10/11/2020 8:17:58 AM What few remember, is that the original founders of Israel did not mean to make it a Jewis.....
» 4/11/2020 11:19:10 PM [...continued] «people can (and do) judge for themselves whether the benefits are worth t.....
» 4/11/2020 11:19:06 PM Dear Aidan, «No, that's battery! But they often go together.» Interesting! I was not awa.....
» 4/11/2020 1:57:26 PM [...continued] Also, fulfilling desires has its costs. Some of these costs are: * the ti.....
» 4/11/2020 1:57:24 PM Dear Hasbeen, When you look in magazines, it is true that you may find what you want or n.....
» 4/11/2020 8:15:06 AM Dear Aidan, «If a business makes a product that can improve our lives, why shouldn't it b.....
» 3/11/2020 11:10:42 PM Advertising is immoral, regardless whether it is overt or covert. Polluting minds with su.....
» 29/10/2020 8:09:32 PM The biblical book of Kings opens by recounting King David's last days: as David became old.....
» 29/10/2020 5:53:19 PM Race - no problem. Culture - no problem. Values - no problem so long as they respect every.....
» 26/10/2020 9:48:54 PM No one (including government) gave us our freedom, nor can anyone take our freedom away. .....
» 26/10/2020 2:22:54 PM Musical Chairs! Too many participants and too few chairs to begin with, but so long as th.....
» 17/10/2020 11:53:49 PM Forcing people to vote is reprehensible at any time!.....
» 16/10/2020 4:07:55 PM Clearly China is our enemy. Clearly there are so many parallels with Hitler and the proces.....
» 13/10/2020 5:27:23 PM [...continued] Now for the disease: death is my last concern, for the dead suffer no more.....
» 13/10/2020 5:27:21 PM Dear Rhys, Of course I have no wish to lock you: if you can come up with creative, ingeni.....
» 12/10/2020 7:32:35 PM While the author should have his freedom to live with the virus, he should not interfere w.....
» 12/10/2020 4:46:10 PM Dear Individual, You have raised this topic time and again. - and I told you time and ag.....
» 5/10/2020 1:51:39 PM I am not a Catholic, nor a supporter of Catholic elitism, but I fear that if parents are p.....
» 4/10/2020 10:01:18 PM The following could be relevant: http://vinayrnair.wordpress.com/2016/04/09/three-types-o.....
» 26/09/2020 8:13:19 PM Dear Spencer, «So, the 'God' you have faith in does not exist?» Yes. I sufficiently love.....
» 25/09/2020 1:35:42 PM Dear Spencer, «So is the ultimate truth God or are you an atheist in regard to God's exis.....
» 25/09/2020 11:38:43 AM Dear David, «I agreed to abide by Australian law when I became a citizen of Australia.» .....
» 25/09/2020 1:48:21 AM Dear David, The purpose of glorifying God is to purify one's mind and heart, this has not.....
» 24/09/2020 9:08:19 PM Indeed: "There is only one answer to the question of personal and national purpose, .....
» 21/09/2020 9:57:08 PM Dear Mr. Opinion, No, I was not aware of the meaning of "Shariah", so thank you.....
» 21/09/2020 2:47:39 PM In the old SciFi book, "The Green Hills of Earth", the poles of Venus (which wer.....
» 21/09/2020 9:51:34 AM Dear David, You are correct about the communists and Islamists being less than half of th.....
» 21/09/2020 12:15:41 AM Dear David, There will certainly be many more Jewish voters for the "United Arab Lis.....
» 20/09/2020 5:38:53 PM Dear David, Israel does not claim or pretend to be a "western democracy", only .....
» 18/09/2020 2:16:10 PM If I had such a virus, then I would not be deliberately releasing it unless I had somethin.....
» 18/09/2020 1:51:50 PM If the death penalty + torture is to be re-introduced, then it is advertisers and their fa.....
» 14/09/2020 3:57:47 PM [...continued] This is the "original sin" - the identification with a [human] b.....
» 14/09/2020 3:57:44 PM Dear Dan, «I cant imagine a situation where the event you describe above, IE choosing to .....
» 13/09/2020 11:26:45 PM Dear Dan, Yes, no human is free, not even a hermit. Even when State-power is small, there.....
» 12/09/2020 11:45:46 PM [...continued] «You are not pretending to deny your view of freedom as totally devoid of .....
» 12/09/2020 11:45:42 PM Dear Dan, I am aware that I seem to have drifted from the topic, but this is because life.....
» 11/09/2020 5:16:59 PM Dear Dan, Perhaps no man is an island - I won't argue that since my point is that we are .....
» 11/09/2020 12:27:54 PM Dear Dan, An excellent question! So long as we [mis-]conceive ourselves as a physical bo.....
» 10/09/2020 7:29:35 PM Dear Dan, Please have patience, I have not forgotten you, but I can be busy elsewhere and.....
» 9/09/2020 5:02:20 PM Dear Dan, Struggling to understand something is normal among adults as well, but assuming.....
» 9/09/2020 1:32:33 PM Dear Daniel, Yes, we seem to have a language problem. You see, English is only my second.....
» 9/09/2020 2:12:43 AM [Judges 9:8-15] 8 One day the trees went out to anoint a king for themselves. They said t.....
» 9/09/2020 2:12:38 AM At first, everyone has freedom, total freedom. Then some of us compromised: we wanted to .....
» 8/09/2020 5:39:52 PM Thank you, Alon, I totally agree. -- Dear Alan, «That explains how much I value the Isr.....
» 4/09/2020 3:12:54 PM Dear Ttbn, «Those who who lead a simple life, lived what they earned and were generally t.....
» 4/09/2020 2:54:32 PM We do have sound COVID policies at the moment to protect those of us who do not want to ge.....
» 26/08/2020 12:25:56 AM Dear Paul, «Yuyutsu, as I understand it, the foetal cells are used in the development sta.....
» 25/08/2020 1:51:43 PM First, I think that some crucial information is missing: 1. Are the foetal cell-lines sti.....
» 22/08/2020 8:20:10 PM Dear David, I accept your apology. Sometimes I enjoy discussing on this forum while at o.....
» 21/08/2020 3:54:18 PM Dear David, The Nazis only won after getting reinforcements and tanks, and sending Ukrain.....
» 21/08/2020 12:53:57 AM Dear David, I share with you the desire to separate state and church, albeit for differen.....
» 20/08/2020 7:45:48 PM Dear David, Though not a Christian myself, I like Peter Sellick's articles and his fresh .....
» 20/08/2020 2:37:58 PM Congratulations for Israel and the UAE on ending their conflict and opening a new glorious.....
» 19/08/2020 10:23:10 PM [...continued] «In the not too distant future I will enter oblivion.» You will not enter.....
» 19/08/2020 10:22:58 PM Dear David, «Faith is the enemy of reason.» Only by way of competing over one's time and.....
» 19/08/2020 1:15:40 AM "It is a truism that the human heart needs somewhere to rest and that hope is an esse.....
» 18/08/2020 11:46:54 PM Dear Joe, Before proceeding, let me clarify that this is not a personal matter and I am n.....
» 18/08/2020 5:57:56 PM Dear Saltpetre, «Some people do 'go bush' and live off the land» This is one example, bu.....
» 18/08/2020 1:05:30 PM Dear Foxy, This is not about me or my presumed silliness - it is a serious question which.....
» 17/08/2020 4:37:19 PM Dear Foxy, «If you're a resident in Australia you must abide by Australian law.» ANY res.....
» 17/08/2020 3:37:08 PM "Sovereign Citizen" is a contraction in terms. Everyone should be able to enjoy.....
» 16/08/2020 10:30:19 PM Dear SteeleRedux, Nobody knows the future. All I can do is pray. But I am optimistic, be.....
» 14/08/2020 10:52:52 AM This is the most happy day: Since 1967, Israel's government declared that the occupied te.....
» 7/08/2020 5:33:53 PM Dear Runner, "Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things ha.....
» 6/08/2020 7:40:23 PM Dear Runner, «Our identities are largely tied to who we belong to.» They say that when o.....
» 6/08/2020 1:43:23 PM Dear Foxy, «Anyone of us could describe ourselves with a multitude of different identitie.....
» 5/08/2020 3:40:04 PM Dear Altrav, I appreciate your honesty. First, you seem to take my example too far. I po.....
» 5/08/2020 12:46:51 AM Dear Alan, «Is that your best effort at identifying what discrimination is?» No. I coul.....
» 4/08/2020 11:51:54 PM Dear Mr. Opinion, «Tells me you don't actually know what multiculturalism is.» Fine with.....
» 4/08/2020 8:57:51 AM Dear Paul, «How about you? How do you define multiculturalism?» My response is in the se.....
» 4/08/2020 6:11:20 AM Dear LEGO, The idea that it is wrong to discriminate between people is not Kant's, but th.....
» 3/08/2020 6:42:53 PM One thing is clear - they will not be there for us. When China attacks, we will be on our.....
» 3/08/2020 2:42:51 PM Dear Alan, Even a rabbit discriminates between a carrot and a piece of chalk!.....
» 3/08/2020 2:35:08 PM Dear Bazz, «I had read how Orthodox Jews cannot use electricity on the sabbath but I neve.....
» 3/08/2020 10:59:17 AM I am impressed by the depth of Kant's thought, it definitely warrants further reading. Ye.....
» 3/08/2020 10:58:14 AM Oops, wrong thread........
» 3/08/2020 10:40:13 AM I am impressed by the depth of Kant's thought, it definitely warrants further reading. Ye.....
» 3/08/2020 12:58:30 AM Dear Foxy, Yes, freedom and tolerance are non-negotiable. However, my original comment a.....
» 3/08/2020 12:47:07 AM Dear Thinkabit, The problem with nukes, is that Australia will never have enough of them .....
» 3/08/2020 12:06:10 AM Dear Paul, «You would kill billions without as must a beg your pardon.» On the contrary:.....
» 2/08/2020 6:48:27 PM Dear Saltpetre, I was mid-replying to your previous post when you took my words away by s.....
» 2/08/2020 2:53:59 PM Dear Saltpetre, What business of yours is it whether or not people who come here to escap.....
» 2/08/2020 2:26:09 PM Dear Ttbn, «While Victorians are now banned from SA, people from India are now arriving i.....
» 2/08/2020 2:04:25 PM Dear Paul, «Yuyutsu, these fanatics are far more dangerous to world health than any unsub.....
» 2/08/2020 8:47:22 AM Dear Saltpetre, Unlike the flu, this virus has an anti-mutation mechanism. It still mutat.....
» 2/08/2020 8:30:18 AM Hopefully we will soon go back to manufacturing in Australia, to be self-sufficient again .....
» 1/08/2020 11:40:15 PM Well, everyone seems to be right... What is missing so far in this discussion, is the saf.....
» 31/07/2020 5:14:42 PM Dear Banjo, «Krishna is quoted as having said “the ancient way of action is for liberatio.....
» 31/07/2020 4:46:32 PM Dear SteeleRedux, This is a very sad story. What are your trying to tell us by that? Do .....
» 30/07/2020 8:25:46 PM Dear David, «A person is known by the company he keeps.» I do not keep company with any .....
» 30/07/2020 8:10:11 PM Dear Altrav, ORGANISED religion is currently on the decline as people no longer consider .....
» 30/07/2020 8:02:36 PM Dear Saltpetre, «Maybe Hindus consider hope a sign of weakness because hope has failed so.....
» 30/07/2020 7:41:55 PM Dear Foxy, I completely agree with your last post (Thursday, 30 July 2020 6:16:49 PM). G.....
» 30/07/2020 1:05:41 AM Dear David, How tedious, you like wasting my time... Just because some idiots which I don.....
» 30/07/2020 1:04:12 AM Dear David, «The "paperwork of the gentiles" recognized the historical connecti.....
» 29/07/2020 11:39:19 PM Dear Foxy, «Being a sociologist of course he looked at religion in a systematic way - not.....
» 29/07/2020 8:53:59 PM Dear Foxy, «Durkheim believed that the origins of religion were social, not supernatural......
» 29/07/2020 7:11:35 AM Dear Altrav, Fair enough, such groups that promote murder are not religions and may be ca.....
» 29/07/2020 12:34:01 AM Dear Altrav, Let us not get bogged down by the dual meaning of the word "religion&qu.....
» 28/07/2020 4:00:12 PM Dear Altrav, «Anyway, I have found that it is much more appropriate to remove the word RE.....
» 28/07/2020 2:52:40 PM Dear Foxy, While I was relating to what you wrote earlier: «BTW: There's more than just o.....
» 28/07/2020 12:28:15 AM Dear Mr. Opinion, I am a dual citizen migrant and I have no loyalty or respect for ANY na.....
» 27/07/2020 11:52:42 PM Dear ALTRAV, «What lies beyond THIS universe?» Awakening! Suppose, in your dream you ar.....
» 27/07/2020 11:31:22 PM Dear Foxy, «BTW: There's more than just one God.» Can you get the absurdity of this stat.....
» 27/07/2020 12:47:01 PM Dear Hasbeen, The corona-virus is mutating, but not anywhere as much as the flu (which se.....
» 27/07/2020 10:26:05 AM Definitely, Elimination! Then extend quarantine time for overseas arrivals to 3 weeks. Al.....
» 26/07/2020 11:14:15 PM Dear Ttbn, «I would like to believe in God, but I don't have that sort of faith.» Perhap.....
» 26/07/2020 11:14:09 PM Dear David, I thank you for this topic. --- First Definition: This can be good or bad, .....
» 26/07/2020 6:50:57 PM A worthwhile discussion, but the author's question is faulty: "Are we humans good or .....
» 26/07/2020 4:41:53 PM Good article, Peter - thanks! A good balance was indeed reached in Australia as to how to.....
» 26/07/2020 12:44:39 AM Oy Vey, the British PM sided with the Jews who want Israel to stay out of the West-Bank an.....
» 25/07/2020 9:48:05 PM Dear SteeleRedux, Further, the Anadolu agency claims that their information comes from th.....
» 25/07/2020 8:22:41 PM Dear David, So you stick with that off-topic distraction, trying to find anecdotal simila.....
» 24/07/2020 4:18:30 PM [...continued] Unlike your arbitrary group, there was a clearly-distinct group of people .....
» 24/07/2020 4:18:27 PM Dear David, I have no idea why you still connect me to those silly, so-called, "Pale.....
» 24/07/2020 3:15:44 AM Dear David, «I am reading his "Critique of Pure Reason" and will try to live a .....
» 23/07/2020 10:46:04 PM Dear David, «That sounds precisely like the attitude of the fanatics who flew the airplan.....
» 23/07/2020 9:41:13 PM Dear Individual, «Generally, here on Earth, people work for a living for themselves» Ind.....
» 23/07/2020 9:11:30 PM Dear David, «Faith is a matter of opinion.» I disagree: faith is an attitude, not an opi.....
» 23/07/2020 6:10:20 PM Dear David, «Belief in God is a matter of personal opinion and part of a person’s culture.....
» 23/07/2020 12:00:08 AM Dear Saltpetre, «I'm afraid this does not compute:» We usually speak of evolution as a p.....
» 22/07/2020 9:15:17 AM Dear Individual, I agree with Paul, thus I assume that your question can also be directed.....
» 22/07/2020 12:01:07 AM Dear Foxy, «hundreds upon hundreds of thousands of years have passed already while mankin.....
» 21/07/2020 7:21:41 PM Dear Foxy, «It is important that we recognize the aim of having a cohesive society centre.....
» 21/07/2020 5:23:02 PM "Multiculturalism" is simply the recognition that culture is not the state's bus.....
» 20/07/2020 6:07:27 PM Dear David, «I group you with the PLO and Hamas - because you - like they - are not prepa.....
» 20/07/2020 10:43:10 AM Dear David, Paper and ink are cheap - the Israelis have paid for their country with real .....
» 20/07/2020 12:36:46 AM Dear Paddo_ron, Alright, you selected the Rabbinical definition. According to this legen.....
» 19/07/2020 10:37:38 PM Dear Altrav, «what evidence or material facts do we have to make absolute decisions that .....
» 19/07/2020 9:36:03 PM Dear Foxy, «And as for our mentality being different - that suggestion is probably correc.....
» 19/07/2020 4:52:00 PM Dear Joe, «So if I run off a cliff and refuse to believe in gravity, I won't fall.» Diff.....
» 19/07/2020 1:56:24 PM Dear Joe, The difference between Victoria and Florida, is that one is inhabited by Austra.....
» 19/07/2020 12:38:22 PM Dear Paddo_ron, For any meaningful conversation, you need to define who are these JEWS, t.....
» 19/07/2020 12:01:04 PM Dear Individual, «punitive unempathetic attitude» «It's the only attitude morons could po.....
» 19/07/2020 8:47:16 AM Dear Individual, Yes, The Victorian premier was on TV everyday since March and his face-e.....
» 19/07/2020 2:03:11 AM The situation in Victoria is very bad indeed. That is because the Victorian premier is a s.....
» 19/07/2020 1:52:22 AM Dear Plantagenet, «The State of Israel is the main, legal and most effective representati.....
» 17/07/2020 1:08:53 PM Dear Chris, «David, I like your summary» I second that......
» 16/07/2020 1:02:15 PM Dear Chris, «the overwhelming majority of Chinese Australians embrace Austalia for what i.....
» 15/07/2020 10:46:17 PM Dear ALTRAV, Have you costed prisons, I wonder, and courts too are not cheap. I think th.....
» 15/07/2020 9:41:55 PM Dear Saltpetre, «Hence, I posed two possibilities - 'band' with China in a genuine attemp.....
» 15/07/2020 7:03:07 PM Dear Individual, Call it "employer" if you prefer modern language - an employer.....
» 14/07/2020 9:04:55 PM Dear Mr. Opinion, I have no need for movies because this, unfortunately, is not the first.....
» 14/07/2020 8:03:25 PM Dear Foxy, «I think it is in Australia's national interest that we continue to discuss Ch.....
» 14/07/2020 7:34:48 PM Libertarians often tell us that "guns don't kill people", only the people who ho.....
» 14/07/2020 1:02:43 PM All that matters regarding Australians of Chinese origins, is to make sure that they do no.....
» 13/07/2020 6:07:50 PM We need to weigh carefully the cost of the virus versus the cost of lockdown, both in term.....
» 13/07/2020 5:05:58 PM Dear Popnperish, «though, as one who did control my reproduction, I would prefer to be cl.....
» 13/07/2020 3:41:39 PM Dear Plantagenet, Following some successful pork-barrelling, this controversial "bas.....
» 13/07/2020 1:58:28 PM Dear Plantagenet, Is anyone denying the right of Jews to own land? Not that I am aware o.....
» 12/07/2020 11:01:12 PM When population grows, a price is always exacted. That price can be in food, but it can a.....
» 12/07/2020 4:28:29 PM Dear Jimmy, While we cannot hope to influence internal Chinese politics, we should at lea.....
» 12/07/2020 3:30:36 PM Dear Jimmy, «its not 1941» No, it's more like 1938 now. Do we need to wait until the nu.....
» 12/07/2020 9:06:08 AM I reject the claim that our relationship with China was always based on greed: there was a.....
» 12/07/2020 2:30:56 AM Dear Saltpetre, This world is not meant to evolve and become a peaceful place, this is no.....
» 12/07/2020 12:27:22 AM Dear David, Your argument in favour of appeasement is reasonable and certainly not hereti.....
» 11/07/2020 10:03:13 PM Dear David, Nice thoughts, but Neville Chamberlain already tried this. World War III is a.....
» 11/07/2020 9:27:18 PM Dear Foxy, «Our PM has increased our defence budget.» He did, this is very good, but sti.....
» 11/07/2020 8:29:00 PM Dear Foxy, «China agreed to "One Country - two systems" regarding Hong Kong.» .....
» 10/07/2020 12:12:33 PM Dear Joe, Well said! One important thing we must urgently do, is to increase fuel storag.....
» 10/07/2020 10:53:22 AM Dear David, It seems that you know more than me about China. But would this change in an.....
» 9/07/2020 10:24:01 PM Dear Mr. Opinion, «Giving sanctuary to Chinese fleeing China has not only angered the CCP.....
» 9/07/2020 3:10:25 PM Yes, Hong Kong refugees can pose a danger, but so are returning Australians. What we do is.....
» 8/07/2020 10:44:46 PM Dear Mr. Opinion, «Too late to be worrying about it now.» Fortunately PM Scott Morrison .....
» 8/07/2020 9:22:47 PM Dear Mr. Opinion, If, God forbid, China succeeds in invading Australia, then there are ju.....
» 8/07/2020 7:23:57 PM Dear Chris, «The only solution with the CCP is a Cold War.» Too late, it is more likely .....
» 7/07/2020 8:55:48 PM Dear Mr. Opinion, I can only join Chris and Foxy in wondering where your defeatism comes .....
» 7/07/2020 3:18:47 PM The author is deluded again because nobody is presently proposing to provide sovereignty t.....
» 5/07/2020 11:31:19 PM Dear Foxy, While I absolutely condemn any anti-Asian sentiments, China is at present, jus.....
» 5/07/2020 12:12:26 AM Dear Individual, «The Unions will again put a stop any such effort !» What nonsense! At.....
» 3/07/2020 12:52:51 PM Dear Individual, Please do not despair: whatever was done in the past can be changed. It .....
» 2/07/2020 9:59:02 PM I don't know what it is that the author wants to "conserve", but with China at o.....
» 25/06/2020 9:33:19 PM Thank you, Spencer, may God bless you!.....
» 23/06/2020 8:14:00 PM Dear Ttbn, «Everyone, and particularly government, is subject to the law.» Wow, such nai.....
» 23/06/2020 12:20:01 AM Dear Nathan, Peace without can only come from peace within. If you can maintain your inn.....
» 22/06/2020 8:21:27 AM Dear Ttbn, Why do you call this "apathy"? I rather use the terms of the Serenit.....
» 21/06/2020 9:49:42 PM Dear Ttbn, «Some people are still insisting that the government had no power to order peo.....
» 21/06/2020 1:03:16 AM Demonstrations never work and at this time of COVID-19 are a sure cause for further infect.....
» 20/06/2020 7:16:19 PM Dear Mr. Opinion, Most of the Chinese people here are good, most of them hate the communi.....
» 19/06/2020 4:23:57 PM Dear Mr. Opinion, «I think it's time to give them their marching orders and send them bac.....
» 19/06/2020 2:13:35 PM Dear Mr. Opinion, «Does that include Andrew Forrest, Gladys Liu, Sam Dastyari, etc?» I w.....
» 18/06/2020 10:58:49 PM I agree with Joe: we need every possible friend in the region. China is our enemy - Pakist.....
» 18/06/2020 10:16:47 PM I wouldn't trust America, they are useless decaying goners already: while they like talkin.....
» 18/06/2020 9:01:06 PM Nice try, but peace on earth will not be possible for another 426,879 years - just get use.....
» 16/06/2020 1:49:17 AM According to this article, the problem with government is just its poor performance becaus.....
» 9/06/2020 10:42:13 PM Dear David, You provided nice examples of two outstanding individuals who went against th.....
» 9/06/2020 6:36:57 PM Dear David, The colonial Europeans did not know any better. They had no better examples t.....
» 8/06/2020 2:00:38 PM Long live our gracious Queen! If I am to be ruled over by anyone, then best that would be.....
» 8/06/2020 1:29:46 PM Dear David, «Huh?» They call it, "a race to the bottom", the Arabs won that ra.....
» 7/06/2020 11:37:47 PM Dear Critic, «Do you guys think that the company can require employees to wear PPE? Yes,.....
» 7/06/2020 6:54:45 PM Dear Paul, You made a very good point, but the situation in a pandemic is somewhat more i.....
» 7/06/2020 6:24:13 PM Dear Bazz, «Those views are unacceptable. That is it no room for compromise. Either the J.....
» 7/06/2020 12:18:26 AM It is not possible to end something which never started, never existed. The illusion of &.....
» 7/06/2020 12:09:29 AM A large portion of human consumption is only for the purpose of mitigating the effects of .....
» 6/06/2020 11:52:53 PM How dare anyone to declare that their "freedom" to make money trumps everyone el.....
» 6/06/2020 10:14:58 PM Dear David, «In a civilized democratic society people with different identities learn to .....
» 6/06/2020 9:30:40 PM I have paid the robotic "debt" of a relative who had no money themselves to pay .....
» 6/06/2020 8:45:19 PM Dear SAINTS, «My response - so why are students going to University in the first place.» .....
» 5/06/2020 4:50:56 PM Dear David, «All parties involved hold their religion dear.» I wish that was true. In re.....
» 5/06/2020 12:32:59 PM Dear Is Mise, Thanks, so what is the difference then between a "private company".....
» 5/06/2020 1:16:15 AM "Covid 19 has hit the economy hard" The economy is not a sentient being, so hit.....
» 5/06/2020 12:23:17 AM Dear Tristan, Thank you for clarifying your position. I am neither progressive nor Zioni.....
» 5/06/2020 12:11:54 AM Dear Alan, «I sorry but can't is spelled, can't! Not can!» Only time will tell, but try .....
» 4/06/2020 11:47:58 PM Dear Albert, «Should privately owned companies inform workers of dangerous conditions and.....
» 1/06/2020 12:55:14 PM Dear Tristan, Israel does not owe the "Palestinians" anything. They attacked, s.....
» 27/05/2020 11:39:55 PM Firstly, charity is not particularly Christian: all religions encourage it. Now we do hav.....
» 25/05/2020 2:26:36 PM Dear Not_Now.Soon, «Sometimes your perspective shocks me. You're views on suicide and the.....
» 23/05/2020 11:59:40 PM Alon's articles can make us cry - but what else can we do? --- Dear David, «Israel can .....
» 22/05/2020 12:19:24 AM Dear Not_Now.Soon, «Would you care to comment on your thoughts on what makes life worth l.....
» 20/05/2020 9:35:03 PM Dear SteeleRedux, «We however, to a greater degree than any other species, have a true se.....
» 19/05/2020 10:31:35 PM Dear Not_Now.Soon, Thank you for your profound questions. I keep appreciating your spirit.....
» 17/05/2020 2:56:51 PM Dear Paul, «You didn't elaborate, "illegal" that includes a lot of crimes, murd.....
» 16/05/2020 10:28:44 PM Not the MOST noticeable, especially not from outside, but it is still quite a noticeable a.....
» 6/05/2020 9:27:07 PM Dear Banjo, Regarding the precise choice of words, truth can be approached from so many d.....
» 6/05/2020 9:06:28 PM Dear Banjo, «I suspect that contemporary proponents of the Advaita spiritual philosophy h.....
» 6/05/2020 8:15:34 PM Dear Joe, One could wonder whether it was luck or providence, but the people of SA found .....
» 6/05/2020 6:53:12 PM Dear Joe, Just a small correction: SA still has two cases isolating in their homes, not i.....
» 6/05/2020 1:28:37 AM «Like them or not, is it possible that China could soon be part of Australia's (and NZ's) .....
» 5/05/2020 2:44:25 PM Dear Paul, Thank you for the information that the pension/superannuation is not automatic.....
» 5/05/2020 8:52:29 AM Dear Chris, «personally, i like the kiwi system where all get pension, but pensions are a.....
» 5/05/2020 2:35:48 AM Dear Banjo, «You have my definition of “truth”, Yuyutsu. It has everything to do with inf.....
» 4/05/2020 10:00:58 PM Dear Is Mise, I already explained why, like yourself, I strongly oppose this idea, but: .....
» 4/05/2020 8:52:19 PM Dear Paul, «What do others on the forum think of a cashless card system, where the pensio.....
» 4/05/2020 12:50:55 PM Dear Joe, «do you mean that, because everything IS God, and nothing exists outside of him.....
» 4/05/2020 10:45:11 AM Dear Spencer, «You stated you do not believe in absolute truth. However, here you have cr.....
» 4/05/2020 2:04:25 AM Oops, sorry, Banjo - most of my last post was for you, only the last part was for Joe (Lou.....
» 4/05/2020 2:01:03 AM Dear Joe, «Here is my definition of truth:» Oh, how could I miss that fascinating discus.....
» 4/05/2020 12:51:08 AM «The news from the ABS that 75% of those over 65, aged pensioners mostly, who had received.....
» 3/05/2020 2:12:39 PM Dear Is Mise, «so if a bloke hits his wife a few times to make her do what he wants but h.....
» 3/05/2020 1:44:02 PM [...Continued] They will also be Loving everyone, even without the need to rationalise wh.....
» 3/05/2020 1:43:26 PM Dear Not_Now.Soon, "Worthy is the Lamb that was slain... to receive power and riches.....
» 1/05/2020 5:21:31 PM Dear Is Mise, «Believe me, when I use sufficient force it is violence.» I do believe you.....
» 1/05/2020 4:02:16 PM Dear Critic, «But if the government is going to carry on about climate change, give incen.....
» 1/05/2020 12:18:19 PM Dear Is Mise, «If my wife is unlawfully attacked and I see that she can't handle the atta.....
» 1/05/2020 9:31:50 AM «we're run by idiots» And I thought that every one is responsible for their own life... .....
» 1/05/2020 12:14:31 AM Why does the good God allow COVID-19? Then ask why He allowed you to come out of the womb .....
» 30/04/2020 10:38:50 PM Dear Not_Now.Soon, Thank you for the beautiful article. It is worth reading a few times b.....
» 29/04/2020 1:28:21 AM God bless you all. Dear Peter, If you are looking for some God out there, separate from .....
» 24/04/2020 3:02:18 PM Dear Is Mise, While violence is indeed part of the reality of our everyday life, fortunat.....
» 23/04/2020 7:57:22 AM Dear Pogi, Castration may or may not be useful in the case you described, in order to pre.....
» 22/04/2020 12:04:55 AM Mobile phones are immoral and evil, I never had one and rather die before I ever touch tha.....
» 15/04/2020 11:15:55 PM Coming late, I enjoyed reading all the thoughtful comments. I agree with the author that .....
» 14/04/2020 1:31:29 PM Dear SteeleRedux, Given, there was systematic abuse in St Alipius Primary School over yea.....
» 14/04/2020 12:13:50 PM "The deceased choir boy’s father’s lawyer has confirmed that his client’s claim in th.....
» 12/04/2020 11:33:40 PM Dear Is Mise, Self defense is excusable. It is short of ideal, but then how many of us li.....
» 12/04/2020 12:09:01 AM Dear Individual, «How would you like to deal with people who stole nearly everything you .....
» 10/04/2020 2:03:29 PM Dear Individual, «Does that mean you'd support a call for Top Bureaucrats/PublicServants .....
» 10/04/2020 12:49:17 PM Dear Individual, I have never been a public servant, because that would commonly require .....
» 10/04/2020 12:44:38 PM Dear Hasbeen, I can see where you are coming from: It is typical of those who have no fa.....
» 10/04/2020 8:13:39 AM Dear Individual, Why compare one pain with another - no pain is to be ignored, but one pa.....
» 9/04/2020 10:36:21 PM My prayers and those of many others have been answered. Let there be humble thanks to God .....
» 9/04/2020 10:16:35 PM I welcome any initiative to reduce the number of people in prison - rain or shine, Corona .....
» 5/04/2020 12:57:16 PM Dear Plantagenet, «Doesn't the Jewish desire to hang onto the land of Israel stem from 1,.....
» 5/04/2020 12:55:31 AM Dear Plantagent, It is painful to see how Israeli society breaks down under the stress of.....
» 2/04/2020 9:56:34 PM Dear SteeleRedux, «It did however give me pause to contemplate that if they knew where th.....
» 1/04/2020 6:57:04 PM Hurray for the Swedes! It is best to give people the opportunity to make sacrifices out o.....
» 30/03/2020 9:34:49 PM Dear Ttbn, «Sales of alcohol have risen by 37%. It seems that...» Calm down: I do not dr.....
» 30/03/2020 4:07:04 PM Apologies, my previous post belonged to a different topic. --- Dear Individual, «I'd hav.....
» 30/03/2020 3:50:26 PM Dear Peter Bowden (the author): The question you pose, "Is there a God", is log.....
» 30/03/2020 3:48:54 PM Dear Peter Bowden (the author), The question you pose, "Is there a God", is log.....
» 26/03/2020 3:00:30 PM Dear Josephus, The tone of your last post, and I will only comment about this tone rather.....
» 21/03/2020 9:02:19 PM Dear Ttbn, «we must decouple from China. There would be some short term pain, but the ret.....
» 19/03/2020 11:40:43 AM Dear Individual, «Being a selfish whimpy little grub is not really a role model !» For t.....
» 18/03/2020 5:09:08 PM Dear Dan, Nathan was speaking of "civil liberties", so I explained to him that .....
» 18/03/2020 12:26:46 AM Thank you Nathan for this very important question, which demands a serious moral analysis......
» 13/03/2020 4:35:46 PM I can't quite see how this cash is going to end up supporting the building industry, but t.....
» 13/03/2020 3:41:08 PM Dear Hasbeen, «Only 26% of people aged 18-24 understand that nuclear power is a low carbo.....
» 13/03/2020 3:22:01 PM Dear SteeleRedux, In regards to Covid-19, indeed this is not a matter for politicians, bu.....
» 13/03/2020 11:12:42 AM Dear Ttbn, «it could deliver almost everything the climate alarmists have been asking for.....
» 9/03/2020 5:55:00 PM Dear Paul, Have you considered the possibility that some of these "Gerry Attric".....
» 9/03/2020 1:41:44 PM In a democracy, a person who believes that "public good" exists and is worthwhil.....
» 5/03/2020 11:22:43 PM [...continued] Now when Uridinka was six years old, she went out carefree to bath and fro.....
» 5/03/2020 11:22:39 PM Once upon a time, in the kingdom of Riccotania, the beautiful princess Uridinka reached th.....
» 4/03/2020 10:38:22 PM Dear Critic, «I feel like you're trying to stretch my brain, but that's ok. - It's just t.....
» 4/03/2020 9:41:43 PM The author is missing the Roman Empire - which terrorized the world. All that can be said.....
» 4/03/2020 8:23:33 PM Dear Critic, Congratulations on completely changing the topic, it was a good response to .....
» 3/03/2020 11:00:04 PM Dear Dan, «they could take instruction from the scriptures re James 5:16. A clear directi.....
» 3/03/2020 5:30:30 PM Dear Joe, OK, I will just take this as one of the illogical peculiarities of the English .....
» 3/03/2020 5:08:09 PM Dear ALTRAV, «We (the so called deniers)» Perhaps you enjoy this role, but it only encou.....
» 3/03/2020 12:09:27 PM Dear SteeleRedux, Anyone can represent God. It is not up to the confessor or their organi.....
» 2/03/2020 7:23:53 PM I did not bother reading the first post, only the title - and yes, the author is right: th.....
» 2/03/2020 4:05:04 PM Well everyone seems to only refer to the confession of the criminal, but this is only one .....
» 1/03/2020 2:12:29 PM Dear Individual, «If we can't trust bakers with the Dough, then who can we trust ?» But .....
» 1/03/2020 7:39:46 AM Dear Aidan, «Can someone who supports this law change please tell me:» I do not, but ple.....
» 29/02/2020 10:46:45 PM If money was taken from the public without their consent and handed over to bakers, then i.....
» 29/02/2020 10:31:46 PM If computers could conspire, then the prohibition on cash would be an important step in th.....
» 29/02/2020 9:50:33 PM "mandatory reporting laws passed on 11 September require anyone with knowledge of chi.....
» 21/02/2020 5:01:14 PM Dear Mhaze, Yes, the Palestinians lost - but what has this to do with the issue? Israel .....
» 21/02/2020 3:33:23 PM Dear Critic, And don't forget Jared Kushner - a modern orthodox Jew. But it was nice of .....
» 21/02/2020 3:18:14 PM Then? When?.....
» 21/02/2020 12:20:31 PM Dear ALTRAV, «basically in disbelief that Jews would turn on each other or attack other J.....
» 21/02/2020 8:10:06 AM Dear Critic, If you are interested in the views of MAINSTREAM Judaism, rather than in the.....
» 20/02/2020 10:06:44 PM Dear Hasbeen, «This [that the planet is controlled by forces way beyond our control, & pr.....
» 20/02/2020 9:46:16 PM Amidst all the nonsense, the author did identify four true problems: 1) "runaway tech.....
» 20/02/2020 2:56:24 PM Well, this is good: I wouldn't like to live under the rule of the Roman Empire!.....
» 19/02/2020 5:37:32 PM Based on purely moral and philosophical principles, the author is correct: people ought to.....
» 18/02/2020 12:54:52 PM Dear Individual, God never changes. Anything that can change, is subject to time, thus is.....
» 18/02/2020 12:31:21 PM Dear Altrav, You are accusing the Jews in general for the idiocy of just a few of them. T.....
» 18/02/2020 6:57:19 AM Dear Altrav, «If only people read the Tora, the Old Testament and the Talmud. You will be.....
» 17/02/2020 9:55:35 AM Yes, what a shame! How many more wars and bitter defeats, how many widows and orphans wil.....
» 17/02/2020 7:45:34 AM Dear Mr. Opinion, «You are saying that because you have a religious view of the world.» .....
» 17/02/2020 6:58:16 AM Dear Mr. Opinion, Modesty is a virtue. To be driven by a scientific view of the world is .....
» 16/02/2020 10:32:48 PM Dear Hasbeen, «I am one of the least religious people on earth» Why do you have such a l.....
» 16/02/2020 5:41:44 PM It's always the stick - why not a carrot? How about, if you have 0 alcohol, you may drive.....
» 15/02/2020 10:46:41 PM Dear Critic, This legend of the Jewish Messiah is, as you say, crap. However, it is not .....
» 15/02/2020 9:20:37 PM Dear Galen, "And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply.....
» 13/02/2020 9:01:01 PM Dear Spencer, Thank you, I will raise the issue when I next get a chance to meet my local.....
» 13/02/2020 8:10:43 AM Dear Critic, I am in pain seeing the exploitation of religion in Israel and by Netanyahu .....
» 12/02/2020 7:21:27 PM Dear Individual, In your terms, millions of people are then pleading "Please exploit.....
» 12/02/2020 4:59:59 PM Dear Chris, «as for having an opinion, I still cannot see how you have one if you do not .....
» 12/02/2020 3:45:32 PM Dear Chris, «How does anyone form an opinion if they are not aware of the strengths and w.....
» 12/02/2020 9:28:13 AM Dear Individual, No one would accompany a carer - they come on their own and will have no.....
» 11/02/2020 11:12:11 PM All over third-world countries, people are eagerly queuing to come to a first-world countr.....
» 11/02/2020 10:50:27 PM Dear Cossomby, Sorry for causing this misunderstanding: my response was not directed at y.....
» 11/02/2020 11:18:48 AM Dear Cossomby, «For example, should people who think the earth is flat be able to influen.....
» 11/02/2020 9:55:30 AM "policy possibilities"? Why some people never miss an occasion to try and play .....
» 10/02/2020 8:26:12 AM Dear Mr. Opinion, «Seems like there is something about that part of the world where virus.....
» 9/02/2020 3:10:06 PM For shame! This powerful mafia of conventional Western medical practitioners as represent.....
» 7/02/2020 12:28:41 PM A very sad day for Israel! --- Dear Critic, «the US funds terrorists to promote Israels.....
» 6/02/2020 10:13:51 PM Dear Individual, «Perhaps refuse dumps could be designed to become heating facilities ? O.....
» 6/02/2020 2:03:36 PM "we don’t want our leaders as stand-in father figures, we want them to present themse.....
» 5/02/2020 5:50:43 PM Dear Individual, «Working for the common good...» I thought that you identify with the &.....
» 5/02/2020 1:12:42 PM Dear Paul, I think that some young politicians do care about the people initially when fi.....
» 5/02/2020 1:04:19 PM [...continued] Let me give you an example: Politicians are currently attempting to abolis.....
» 5/02/2020 1:04:16 PM Dear Individual, «the bulk of legislation has been & is at this moment, Leftist. So, are .....
» 4/02/2020 2:25:03 PM Dear Individual, I have nothing against public bodies employing young and willing unemplo.....
» 4/02/2020 9:00:46 AM Dear Individual, «No, National Service is for young unemployed people who are interested .....
» 4/02/2020 12:43:01 AM A very interesting discussion, but it seems that we all have different definitions of &quo.....
» 3/02/2020 9:21:57 AM Dear Individual, Why one ought to be good to others, is clear with solid religious, philo.....
» 2/02/2020 12:13:35 PM Dear Individual, But why, pray, ought anyone to be patriotic?.....
» 28/01/2020 10:28:16 AM Dear Bazz, «If so why haven't they thrown off their European cloths thrown out their meta.....
» 28/01/2020 9:02:04 AM Dear Bazz, «Aborigines need to understand that the moment they got in a car, got on a bus.....
» 27/01/2020 12:02:15 PM Dear Shadow Minister, Poverty simply means that people fail to have what is important to .....
» 27/01/2020 11:09:01 AM Just another day......
» 27/01/2020 8:55:45 AM Dear Shadow Minister, «Only a moron with zero idea of economics would consider paying eve.....
» 25/01/2020 9:50:17 PM Democracy, socialism and fascism are essentially one and the same, so which is better and .....
» 23/01/2020 12:34:22 PM Dear AyameTan, «If god existed, he wouldn't need hundreds of...» Well He doesn't. Some .....
» 23/01/2020 4:36:16 AM Dear Mhaze, «Assange is in prison because he jumped bail. Pure and simple.» While any re.....
» 23/01/2020 4:18:47 AM Dear AyameTan, Nothing was written here with the intent of confusing English professors. .....
» 23/01/2020 12:09:00 AM Dear AyameTan, «You've never shown a logical link between the existence of people and the.....
» 22/01/2020 10:30:15 PM Dear AyameTan, I understand that you have no further questions......
» 22/01/2020 11:08:43 AM Dear AyameTan, It is not possible to define God in a positive manner, but we can still sa.....
» 21/01/2020 11:27:16 PM Dear AyameTan, «I am interested in debating almost anything» Good, but this is probably .....
» 21/01/2020 10:40:35 PM Dear AyameTan, I really fail to understand what you are trying to get at and how is that .....
» 21/01/2020 7:25:45 PM Dear AyameTan, «Yuyutsu: you assume there is only ONE god. And that god is peaceful.» As.....
» 21/01/2020 7:36:42 AM The only legitimate building codes are where building can adversely affect the neighbours......
» 21/01/2020 3:04:07 AM Dear AyameTan, «Yuyutsu, how can ISIS be anything except religious? They quote from the K.....
» 20/01/2020 9:49:31 PM Dear AyameTan, I explained this many times already in this forum, but perhaps you were no.....
» 20/01/2020 8:01:32 PM The word "education" is derived from EDUCE = "bring out or develop (somethi.....
» 19/01/2020 11:47:32 PM Dear Individual, No wonder I had no clue about "the Whitlam effect", nor could .....
» 19/01/2020 2:11:36 AM Dear AyameTan, «Yuyutsu, how can you compare sweatshops to schools?» Both produce slaves.....
» 19/01/2020 12:59:57 AM Dear AyameTan, «Yuyutsu - until you can provide something better than capitalism, I'm 100.....
» 19/01/2020 12:47:39 AM Dear AyameTan, Excellent questions: «Ever seen six-year-olds working in a sweatshop inst.....
» 18/01/2020 11:04:04 PM Dear Individual, I have no clue what the "Whitlam effect" is. I stand by my st.....
» 17/01/2020 8:08:11 AM Dear Paul, «Societies norms change over time, what was not acceptable in the past when in.....
» 17/01/2020 12:25:36 AM Dear AyameTan, I was not writing about sex, but about marriage: may I remind you that sex.....
» 16/01/2020 11:31:18 PM Dear Paul, «in fact we attended one couples wedding in NZ before it was legal in Australi.....
» 15/01/2020 3:22:45 PM From the children's perspective, they were entertained by two people wearing strange/funny.....
» 15/01/2020 2:51:56 PM Sticks and stones can break my bones, but what other people waste their time watching on t.....
» 6/01/2020 9:04:57 PM Dear Individual, There are seeds of democracy in Australia, an inheritance from mother En.....
» 6/01/2020 7:33:32 AM Dear Individual, You are wrong to believe that this way you can get away with your anti-d.....
» 3/01/2020 1:28:04 PM [...continued] There are indeed some orders of monks and nuns who live a communal life, a.....
» 3/01/2020 1:28:01 PM Dear Individual and Paul, Individual mentioned my "religious circle". But is t.....
» 2/01/2020 11:43:17 AM Dear Individual, I accept that you do not consider yourself as a member of the Sheeple, y.....
» 2/01/2020 8:02:30 AM Dear Individual, You are entitled to your views even if they are anti-democratic. Accord.....
» 1/01/2020 10:03:25 PM Dear Individual, We cannot stop people from having and swearing an allegiance to all sort.....
» 31/12/2019 1:00:26 AM Dear Is Mise, «They [the Greens] appear to be in favour of declaring a republic» I wonde.....
» 30/12/2019 7:25:47 PM Dear Paul, «Do you agree that swearing an oath to an old woman in England is archaic, and.....
» 30/12/2019 7:32:37 AM Dear Paul, «Some people here are all worked up expecting politicians to swear meaningless.....
» 29/12/2019 2:14:45 PM Thank you Aidan, First thing when I saw this thread was to check the date, making sure it.....
» 29/12/2019 11:14:17 AM Dear Mr. Opinion, «How about we get politicians to swear an oath to be honest?» The ques.....
» 27/12/2019 1:45:24 PM Dear Is Mise, «Turnbull openly advocated an Australian Republic before he was elected, th.....
» 27/12/2019 12:46:16 PM Dear Is Mise, I was not aware that the wording of the oath was in the Australian constitu.....
» 27/12/2019 10:37:07 AM Dear SteeleRedux, «Mate, this is torturous.» Yes it is. The legislators of yore created .....
» 26/12/2019 10:11:02 PM Dear Paul, «Politicians can swear allegiance to AUSTRALIA, and not to some old tart in EN.....
» 26/12/2019 11:53:51 AM Dear Is Mise, «As they are such willing perjurers how can we trust them to do anything ho.....
» 26/12/2019 8:35:13 AM «Yet it is an interesting take from you given your philosophical/political stance on natio.....
» 26/12/2019 7:29:40 AM Dear Paul, For your information, King Abdullah II of Jordan, like his late father King Hu.....
» 25/12/2019 5:32:59 PM Dear Is Mise, «Refusal is the only honourable course of action.» You have a point here! .....
» 25/12/2019 1:34:51 PM Dear Is Mise, «When you were conscripted, I presume in Australia, all that you needed to .....
» 25/12/2019 11:14:30 AM Dear Is Mise, When I was conscripted, I was forced to make an oath of allegiance, which w.....
» 25/12/2019 7:47:23 AM Dear Belly, Faith is often an important tool of religion. But faith can also exist outsi.....
» 25/12/2019 7:22:36 AM The only oath ought to be, to truly represent, as best they can, the people of their elect.....
» 24/12/2019 9:48:33 PM Dear Paul, «I simply point out that the potential for extremism from some sections of rel.....
» 24/12/2019 1:56:14 PM Dear Josephus, «Western society is a civil society where diversity of ideas and debate is.....
» 24/12/2019 12:29:19 AM Dear Belly, «But gee unless I got you wrong I think you said the nastiness here is betwee.....
» 23/12/2019 4:57:13 PM Dear Individual, «Haven't you noticed that it's the minority groups throwing spanners int.....
» 23/12/2019 4:50:21 PM Dear Ttbn, Opinions are only opinions when held by the weak. When held by the strong, the.....
» 23/12/2019 12:10:08 PM Seeing all the hatred and intolerance in this thread, between those who consider themselve.....
» 18/12/2019 6:08:10 AM Dear Graham, «and they have a right to exercise those in community» But there lies the p.....
» 17/12/2019 3:08:14 PM Dear Bren, «This takes us to a more fundamental question. What is a nation?» Excellent q.....
» 15/12/2019 11:09:08 PM Dear Aidan, I appreciate your effort to correct your inadvertent typing errors. This resp.....
» 14/12/2019 10:43:32 PM Dear Aidan, «Renewable energy has a specific meaning in our language.» I am well aware t.....
» 13/12/2019 11:58:09 AM Dear Aidan, «It's renewed by nature (mostly the sun, though for some geothermal energy th.....
» 11/12/2019 10:39:51 PM What is it for government whether I live or die? Oh please don't try to tell us that you .....
» 11/12/2019 10:27:07 PM There is no such thing as "renewable" energy - such hocus-pocus would go against.....
» 11/12/2019 6:14:24 PM Dear Belly, «This new bill, will it give me the right to not believe any God ever existed.....
» 11/12/2019 11:18:02 AM Dear Individual, The religious had all the time since writing began to document what work.....
» 10/12/2019 9:52:20 PM Dear Individual, «Nothing would surprise me with those types ! Deceit is in their DNA.» .....
» 10/12/2019 9:23:28 PM Dear Individual, «Religion interferes with the daily life» I see, you may complain that .....
» 10/12/2019 8:57:37 AM «We give our children loving care» Your very first statement is wrong, mister author. By .....
» 9/12/2019 7:41:23 AM Dear Individual, Being normal in this day and age is not something to be proud of, nor is.....
» 6/12/2019 7:26:26 PM Just seeing where the discussion is going, or might be going, I need to clarify that I do .....
» 6/12/2019 8:05:05 AM Dear Aidan, «Terrorists are criminals of the worst kind» A criminal is someone who knows.....
» 5/12/2019 10:37:23 PM All because of this ridiculous notion of "End of Sentence". Terrorists are not .....
» 4/12/2019 11:23:04 PM Dear Runner, «If God wanted to drive out the pagan nations» While I am aware that the bi.....
» 4/12/2019 5:54:05 PM Dear Bazz, Nobody has an "ultimate right" to a land, any land: we have not crea.....
» 4/12/2019 2:37:31 PM Dear Paul, «In a cohesively mutual society you do» Thank God we are not in China! «take.....
» 4/12/2019 11:10:51 AM Dear Individual, Please do not worry - there is hardly a chance for you to receive this g.....
» 3/12/2019 2:50:56 AM As evil and cruel as Arabs/Muslims might be, this ought to be discussed on different threa.....
» 3/12/2019 2:12:25 AM Dear Paul, Discrimination (Viveka in Sanskrit) is a very important faculty as it distingu.....
» 2/12/2019 3:18:52 PM Dear Faustino, «The 1967 war, the one where Israel's neighbours and other opponents sough.....
» 2/12/2019 2:27:56 PM The whole concept of "anti-discrimination" is fundamentally wrong. I definitely .....
» 2/12/2019 9:19:46 AM "but what could possibly explain this pattern of behaviour – or these types of laws –.....
» 1/12/2019 6:52:25 AM Dear Individual, Celibacy is an advanced method, it is not meant for everyone and is extr.....
» 30/11/2019 9:35:09 PM Dear Individual, «Do me a favour & put that argument to the religious people who don't be.....
» 28/11/2019 7:23:33 PM How about this hypothesis: Crime is crime, just the same, but those of the dominant cultu.....
» 28/11/2019 5:29:27 PM I commend the article. Overpopulation is our greatest disease. So long as it is not dealt.....
» 28/11/2019 12:00:18 PM Dear Joe, «So far, there is no such thing as 'too much population', it depends on technol.....
» 27/11/2019 5:29:08 PM Dear Joe, «Australian homes are bigger than ever.» This trend is changing. More people a.....
» 27/11/2019 3:11:08 PM Dear Waverley, «It's up to the parents to work out how to limit the family to what they c.....
» 27/11/2019 2:22:45 PM Dear Dan, «Access to the internet should be restricted to those older than twenty one.» .....
» 26/11/2019 2:02:05 PM Dear Individual, «So, why do you think God or Buddha don't stop the attrocities ?» How l.....
» 25/11/2019 9:48:01 AM Netanyahu can still be saved, here is the address: 28 HaArbaa Street, 11th floor, Tel Aviv.....
» 25/11/2019 9:29:17 AM Dear Banjo, «the actors of those “atrocities and terrible injustices”, all of which [exce.....
» 24/11/2019 4:06:42 PM Dear Banjo, Yes, what we truly are is God, but so long as our minds are impure, so will t.....
» 23/11/2019 8:57:15 PM Dear Banjo, «None of these atrocities and terrible injustices were committed by atheists......
» 22/11/2019 5:49:20 PM Dear Individual, «I have neighbours who literally never worked yet they receive $300 more.....
» 21/11/2019 11:53:11 PM Dear Hasbeen, I understand your sentiment, but we need to be very precise when dealing wi.....
» 21/11/2019 6:07:24 PM "It is simply immoral for taxpayers who don't even own a house to be funding the pens.....
» 21/11/2019 12:57:27 AM Dear Belly, «Why so many Gods» How possibly could there be many Gods? It is a logical im.....
» 19/11/2019 12:20:48 PM Dear Runner, «Can't speak for all religions but Scriptures declare that the Light come in.....
» 19/11/2019 9:30:15 AM It's not religion which is the problem - it's that which is mistakenly (or deceitfully) co.....
» 15/11/2019 11:28:33 AM The author, being a mathematician, believes religion to be a process of addition, whereas .....
» 8/11/2019 2:22:41 PM [...continued] If you really care about pollution then you must advocate for less humans!.....
» 8/11/2019 2:22:38 PM Dear Aidan, «There is, unfortunately, more decline in SA than the eastern states.» As I .....
» 8/11/2019 8:26:16 AM Dear Spencer, «a Christian needs to do his politics 'all for the glory of God'. His job a.....
» 7/11/2019 10:37:09 PM Dear Joe, «I won't be around but I'll bet that by 2100, the retirement (pension) age will.....
» 7/11/2019 10:18:36 PM Dear Critic, Government is there to serve itself and a political party, not its constitue.....
» 7/11/2019 9:48:04 PM [...continued] «the low tech goods that can be made just as easily by people people overs.....
» 7/11/2019 9:48:01 PM Dear Aidan, «SA doesn't want decline! We want to succeed» Nobody wants decline, but the .....
» 6/11/2019 8:12:37 PM Dear Paul, «These guys have been fooled into believing climate change is the brain child .....
» 6/11/2019 7:42:05 PM Dear Not_Now.Soon, Since I am not a Christian, it is not my place to try and answer your .....
» 6/11/2019 11:09:02 AM Deep within, the author is jealous! As noted by the author, the people of South Australia.....
» 5/11/2019 5:16:08 PM It is terrible, the state sticks its dirty claws everywhere and won't let us live in peace.....
» 31/10/2019 9:27:24 PM Dear Alan, Anything short of either direct democracy or proportional representation, is u.....
» 30/10/2019 5:56:05 PM The term "Individual freedom" remains ambiguous so long as the individual remain.....
» 29/10/2019 11:55:15 PM As someone who aspires to be religious and is extremely concerned about freedom of religio.....
» 28/10/2019 11:20:13 AM Dear Belly, Thank you for this thread. Overpopulation is our biggest problem, throughout.....
» 28/10/2019 11:02:17 AM Dear Ttbn, «We are currently being bombarded with 'free press' messages on TV.» Please d.....
» 28/10/2019 10:52:04 AM This is shocking and depressing: such companies that aid the Chinese regime, ought to be c.....
» 28/10/2019 8:03:30 AM Dear Belly, «pay those who have only the required number of kids» Which is 0! But if th.....
» 27/10/2019 6:34:25 PM Dear Joe, «Yuyutsu, so who would you propose should be killed off» Nobody, not involunta.....
» 27/10/2019 9:57:12 AM Dear Joe, One could have claimed that the problem is caused by old-age if the problem was.....
» 26/10/2019 10:55:32 PM Dear Not_Now.Soon, «Being open to a fleeing population to come and live with you is an ac.....
» 25/10/2019 8:33:27 AM Dear Not_Now.Soon, First, "Love thy neighbour" (Hebrew: "Ve-ahavta Le-re-A.....
» 25/10/2019 7:40:58 AM Dear Individual, «NATIONAL SERVICE !» Such cruelty - aren't you ashamed?! Even mass eut.....
» 24/10/2019 11:40:28 PM Dear Individual, «That advise falls into the category of bad things happening when good p.....
» 24/10/2019 10:08:25 PM Dear Individual, What exactly do you mean by "our society" and "our young&.....
» 24/10/2019 12:50:48 PM If one believes in land-ownership, then the place is theirs, the Anangu, and nothing else .....
» 24/10/2019 7:28:07 AM Dear Critic, «"I don't want to make your stupid rainbow cake! Go find another bakery.....
» 23/10/2019 10:00:39 PM Dear Individual, «I wasn't talking about monetary cost !» Then what about? «People rave.....
» 23/10/2019 3:20:57 PM I absolutely agree with Not_Now.Soon, thank you! Some additional points: The author spea.....
» 22/10/2019 1:37:15 PM Dear Mhaze, «My definition is that socialism is communism-lite. Whereas communism require.....
» 21/10/2019 9:44:46 AM Dear Individual, My point was that a true warrior for nature must be consistent: one cann.....
» 20/10/2019 10:21:41 PM Dear Ttbn and Individual, «Dragging children into their unnatural lives is unforgivable.».....
» 18/10/2019 5:59:52 PM Dear Ttbn, «Something that was not legal, but now is legal» But it WAS legal all along: .....
» 18/10/2019 5:50:27 PM Dear Runner, When one understands the reality of reincarnation, surely they cannot ration.....
» 18/10/2019 3:48:06 PM Dear Runner, «Hinduism has the untouchables» That used to be a feature of Indian culture.....
» 18/10/2019 3:28:48 PM «my question sort to find if people held the same views on SSM as they did prior to and at.....
» 15/10/2019 12:38:55 AM Dear Mr. Opinion, Australia does not have a Chinese future, but a Chinese threat which ca.....
» 14/10/2019 3:21:57 PM The author is mistaken in believing that the issue is specific to Trump: America has betra.....
» 11/10/2019 11:10:18 AM Dear Alan, I agree with your observations, except with "only those that do not pose .....
» 10/10/2019 1:21:55 AM Israel is so much more democratic than Australia, but it seems that the author prefers Bri.....
» 10/10/2019 12:50:07 AM Dear Individual, «I'm open to any plausible answer.» I hope so. «Gods are being portray.....
» 8/10/2019 8:19:59 AM Dear Belly, Never mind about heaven, wherever it is - it is not worthwhile, it is only tr.....
» 7/10/2019 11:40:22 PM Dear Individual, «Gods are being portrayed as beings/powers that need constant praise. Wh.....
» 7/10/2019 4:57:23 PM Dear Belly, «Rather think my stay in heaven would not be long see I fear a life in servit.....
» 6/10/2019 11:15:30 PM Dear Belly, «My God was going to reward me with eternal life, apparently on my knees in c.....
» 6/10/2019 11:14:20 PM Dear Individual, «if I were God none of that crap would happen, that much I'd guarantee !.....
» 6/10/2019 1:30:51 PM Dear Belly, «Thanks indy hope Yuyutsu answers his views are always interesting» The ques.....
» 6/10/2019 12:55:07 AM Dear Belly, It is both sad and hard to believe - that the Spanish Inquisition, already go.....
» 4/10/2019 5:38:59 PM Dear Belly, If you worship Christ, then you do so for yourself, not for any organisation,.....
» 4/10/2019 3:00:02 PM Dear Belly, «May I ? God, what one? the world worships about two thousand» What the worl.....
» 3/10/2019 9:22:30 PM Dear Runner, 'The world has enough for everyone's need - but not enough for everyone's gr.....
» 3/10/2019 8:25:25 PM Dear Ttbn, As much as politicians are the enemies of us, ordinary people, I believe that .....
» 2/10/2019 3:21:15 AM Dear Paul, «Hi Yuyutsu "we" and "our" are terms for the collective na.....
» 1/10/2019 2:24:49 PM Dear Paul, «Hi Yuyutsu, why do we have to assume China is our enemy, what wrong have the .....
» 30/09/2019 7:44:43 PM The comments here are very alarming and disturbing. Clearly China is an enemy. But what i.....
» 27/09/2019 3:48:32 PM Dear Hasbeen, I agree with you that "The world could feed a much larger population i.....
» 27/09/2019 12:43:16 PM It is not only "parts" of the world that are overpopulated, but this whole plane.....
» 27/09/2019 12:09:56 PM Religions can all get along well. People - not always. And people that do not get along .....
» 27/09/2019 10:15:01 AM The root error of this article is the mistaken thought as if there exists such an animal c.....
» 18/09/2019 11:53:22 AM Dear Spencer, I write about facts, how things are: whether Christianity agrees with it or.....
» 17/09/2019 2:39:47 PM Dear Spencer, A. Grace is the opposite of karma. B. Karma is a form of grace. What do yo.....
» 17/09/2019 8:56:56 AM Dear Spencer, God's Grace is always welcome. Grace comes in many forms, it is all about .....
» 11/09/2019 12:54:04 PM Dear Paul, Quite the opposite: the age-pension age ought to be reduced to 18 and be uncon.....
» 10/09/2019 7:52:27 AM Dear Banjo, I don't know why I was included in your list in being asked about aboriginal .....
» 9/09/2019 11:00:46 AM Dear Banjo, Regarding your latest post (I hope to soon find the time to respond to you fo.....
» 7/09/2019 11:28:09 PM Dear Not_Now.Soon, «Correct me if I'm wrong but based on what you've said, the four purpo.....
» 7/09/2019 10:42:23 PM So what do the pigs say about this? As they are more involved in the matter than any of u.....
» 7/09/2019 10:34:41 PM Dear Banjo, «According to Michael Naughton of the University of Bristol, under the advers.....
» 6/09/2019 9:47:00 AM Dear Banjo, «For the adversarial system of justice to operate fairly when it comes down t.....
» 6/09/2019 1:45:22 AM A PhD is a very useful thing to have: you can receive medicines from overseas by mail, add.....
» 5/09/2019 1:49:32 PM Dear Not_Now.Soon, Good observations! «In my opinion the propose of life is on the indiv.....
» 4/09/2019 11:38:24 PM Since the author did not ask what life is for, but only "What is human life for".....
» 4/09/2019 9:10:38 PM Dear Jayb, They could arrive on a big ship, perhaps a tanker or a cruise-ship. It was Fox.....
» 4/09/2019 7:13:58 PM Dear Ttbn, «Notorious Left-activist judge, Mordecai Bromberg (Andrew Bolt's persecutor) h.....
» 4/09/2019 5:47:56 PM The issue is not whether this Scott Morrison is a saint or a sinner, but how come the fate.....
» 4/09/2019 8:00:17 AM Dear Individual, Obviously the Philippinos need to be contacted first and negotiated with.....
» 4/09/2019 12:33:30 AM Dear Mr. Opinon, «There are a lot of people in the third world wanting to migrate to Aust.....
» 4/09/2019 12:15:45 AM In the war that has to come, the last thing we need is millions of hostages in a remote po.....
» 3/09/2019 3:16:16 PM Dear Hasbeen, «Just a question, why would the Chinese bother buying all the land they are.....
» 3/09/2019 11:50:36 AM Dear Mr. Opinion, It is not the Chinese that we should fear, but rather their totalitaria.....
» 3/09/2019 11:49:08 AM Dear Hasbeen, «You obviously don't understand democracy Yuyutsu» Democracy is a particul.....
» 3/09/2019 9:50:20 AM All true and terrible, but can we be confident that this is not the same here? Suppose th.....
» 2/09/2019 10:59:14 PM Dear Spencer, I was not following your conversation closely, but I am glad that you suppo.....
» 2/09/2019 5:34:19 PM "but we do know that if the royal family leaves and the Palestinian majority takes ov.....
» 2/09/2019 2:49:24 PM Dear Jayb, «That would give every Greenie/Left/socialist/Marxist Nut Case to start scream.....
» 2/09/2019 2:22:46 PM Dear Joe, «She might leave out mosquitoes the second time around though.» She already el.....
» 2/09/2019 10:01:51 AM Dear Banjo, I am sure that you know the law better than myself. That said, I was referri.....
» 1/09/2019 12:43:10 PM Dear ALTRAV, Yes, I believe that we all prefer and appreciate a private toilet space and .....
» 1/09/2019 2:21:44 AM Dear Banjo, The conclusion, «He deserves to lose his right to life», could be correct if .....
» 31/08/2019 10:49:48 PM Dear Foxy, So let us assume that indeed they are not refugees - is this the right way to .....
» 31/08/2019 10:37:07 PM Dear Runner, «now matter how much those lying liberal artist tell you» Believe me, other.....
» 31/08/2019 9:45:05 PM Dear Runner, «Men sharing bathrooms and showers with women they don't know is an open inv.....
» 31/08/2019 9:30:42 PM As a second thought, if 200,000 Australians chipped only $25 each, then this miserable fam.....
» 31/08/2019 9:24:23 PM This cruelty is beyond imagination. --- Dear Foxy, «Should Mr Dutton make an exception .....
» 31/08/2019 8:52:01 PM It is about time to stop segregating people and their toilets based on the gender of their.....
» 30/08/2019 5:29:22 PM What I find strange, is that most participants here, when asked about punishments (death o.....
» 30/08/2019 9:40:43 AM Dear Individual, Sorry for failing to address you in my previous post. «You simply don't.....
» 30/08/2019 9:06:22 AM Dear Paul, «Yuyutsu, maybe you would support a choice for criminals given life or a very .....
» 30/08/2019 2:52:25 AM Death could only be the ultimate punishment if we were actually able to die. But we canno.....
» 29/08/2019 8:59:26 PM The people of Hong Kong need to realise that this is no longer the place for them, that th.....
» 28/08/2019 7:27:55 PM Dear Spencer, Thank you for all the information. Were the organisations you worked for a.....
» 28/08/2019 1:28:52 AM Dear Spencer, Don't you have confessions in your church? I just wonder: the Roman Cathol.....
» 27/08/2019 4:58:22 PM Dear Runner, «Pell is paying the penalty for the sins of the Catholic church.» Pell is p.....
» 27/08/2019 10:46:58 AM Church attendance has fallen firstly because it is no longer socially expected. Formerly,.....
» 26/08/2019 2:33:11 PM Dear Mhaze, I don't think that Pell's conviction, as much as they now rejoice, was a deli.....
» 26/08/2019 1:56:34 PM It is legitimate for a society to determine the standards of behaviour within it, and this.....
» 25/08/2019 10:58:55 PM Dear Is Mise, «that principle is one of the reasons that the death penalty was abolished......
» 23/08/2019 2:02:26 PM Dear Is Mise, Confession to a living person has a great spiritual and therapeutic value, .....
» 23/08/2019 1:37:11 PM Dear Foxy, «What I would like to see happen is that a law is passed to make it mandatory .....
» 23/08/2019 9:01:09 AM All true, Chris, but there is too much emphasis on political rights: the people of China a.....
» 22/08/2019 7:27:33 PM If indeed what is alleged happened and if indeed it was Cardinal Pell who abused those two.....
» 21/08/2019 7:36:30 PM Dear Foxy, «The courts have done their job.» And their job is? Judges are public servan.....
» 21/08/2019 11:44:22 AM «So this will now go to the High Court ?» If I were the Queen, then I would stop this cir.....
» 21/08/2019 11:24:27 AM I am very sad. This means that it can happen to any of us......
» 20/08/2019 1:22:58 PM Dear Mr. Opinion, On page 1 I pointed out to Not_Now.Soon that life and biology are two q.....
» 19/08/2019 11:51:00 PM Dear Mr. Opinion, «Life on Earth started when a certain type of molecule developed the ca.....
» 19/08/2019 2:59:54 PM Dear Individual, Are you confusing spiritual with spiritualistic? The latter is a terribl.....
» 19/08/2019 11:27:18 AM Dear Not_Now.Soon, Regarding your quote of the beautiful verse, Jeremiah 1:5, "Befor.....
» 18/08/2019 6:08:07 PM Dear Not_Now.Soon, The second word of the bible, the verb 'bara' that is usually translat.....
» 18/08/2019 12:46:05 AM Dear Individual, I could be wrong, or it could have been so in pre-historical times, befo.....
» 18/08/2019 12:39:01 AM Dear Not_Now.Soon, «whether God created man or man created the world.» I am wary of the .....
» 17/08/2019 11:36:10 PM Dear Foxy, «Should people have a choice in the right to end their lives?» While people h.....
» 16/08/2019 4:07:06 PM Dear Not_Now.Soon, Life did not begin on earth - biology did (at least we so think). Oute.....
» 16/08/2019 8:45:31 AM Dear Individual, Tibet was not under Western yoke when it was ghastly conquered and ensla.....
» 15/08/2019 8:11:12 AM Dear Not_Now.Soon, «Hinduism has a salvation part of it's faith?» At the centre of its f.....
» 15/08/2019 2:57:47 AM Dear Mr. Opinion, Religion is doing the things and making the choices that bring one clos.....
» 15/08/2019 2:49:14 AM Dear Mr. Opinion, Unlike yourself I have not raised the white flag, nor the red. If we d.....
» 14/08/2019 7:36:31 PM Dear Hasbeen, «I don't think China is a military threat to Oz, unless the whole world str.....
» 14/08/2019 6:52:05 PM Dear Not_Now.Soon, «Jesus came to save us, and not much is asked except to recognize what.....
» 14/08/2019 1:11:09 AM Whether one ought to ever worry at all is a broad and deep question, but if one is to worr.....
» 13/08/2019 5:50:20 PM Dear Paul, «While some moved outside the cave with courage and determination, making huge.....
» 13/08/2019 1:12:04 PM Dear Individual, «Why can't people just be decent?» Because they have not yet learned it.....
» 12/08/2019 11:19:20 AM Dear Paul, Institutions for the teaching and support of religion are loosely called ".....
» 12/08/2019 7:44:53 AM Dear Not_Now.Soon, Thank you for your words of wisdom!.....
» 12/08/2019 12:40:35 AM Dear Paul, Rather than about religion, you speak about Judaism, Christianity, and Islam: .....
» 11/08/2019 4:44:29 PM Dear Foxy, «Please explain.» Religion is about coming closer to God. «By their very nat.....
» 11/08/2019 12:02:42 PM Dear Foxy, Sorry, I do not know where to begin, because you just have no clue what religi.....
» 9/08/2019 9:01:12 AM Dear LEGO, I have not read the article yet, only your comment - and I must protest, «anti.....
» 8/08/2019 1:46:40 AM Dear Nick, It is not funny to laugh at other people's pain......
» 7/08/2019 5:55:51 PM Sadly it is only a question of WHEN, not of WILL. The Hong Kong people, Britain and the w.....
» 7/08/2019 2:33:21 PM There again the author managed to deceive and lure me by the article's topic - what a wast.....
» 5/08/2019 5:35:33 PM Dear Alan, Unfortunately it is not the person of Netanyahu: there are much worse people i.....
» 5/08/2019 9:56:30 AM Will there ever be peace between Israel's secular centre-left and the ultra-orthodox? His.....
» 4/08/2019 4:33:46 PM Dear Individual, «Advising them to stand up & take action for themselves is a much more v.....
» 4/08/2019 2:17:38 PM Dear Brian, So what do you suggest? We all know already how evil the Chinese regime is, .....
» 4/08/2019 10:18:24 AM Dear Not_Now.Soon, Why do you say that my view is that all beliefs lead to God? I do bel.....
» 4/08/2019 3:21:00 AM [...Continued] A story: A letter was unearthed, addressed from Sage Zarathustra to a dev.....
» 4/08/2019 3:20:56 AM Dear Not_Now.Soon, OK, so you are using "what is from God and what isn't" as a .....
» 2/08/2019 5:30:35 PM Dear Critic, «Hero» "Who is a hero? He who controls his passions.” [Pirkei Avot 4:1.....
» 1/08/2019 8:12:01 PM So true, the article, but why target immigration when the majority of population-growth co.....
» 1/08/2019 7:04:21 PM When Joseph Goebbels died he arrived in heaven. There he saw, everyone was reading scriptu.....
» 1/08/2019 12:58:27 AM [...continued] Regarding rebellion, murder and war, "To every thing there is a seaso.....
» 1/08/2019 12:58:23 AM Dear Not_Now.Soon, Actually the book of Daniel is an exception, the only book in the OT n.....
» 31/07/2019 3:47:46 PM Dear Foxy, «Also, will Australia do anything for an Australian citizen? Can they do anyth.....
» 30/07/2019 8:17:43 AM Dear Not_Now.Soon, We have discussed the authenticity of the bible several times before, .....
» 29/07/2019 11:19:33 PM Throwing yoghurt is more serious and offensive than throwing eggs because most yoghurts in.....
» 28/07/2019 7:47:17 AM I have duplicated keys a few times over the lifetime of my car, I think it costed $5 or $7.....
» 25/07/2019 3:32:26 PM [...continued] Now suppose we are less than saintly and fall short of trusting God at all.....
» 25/07/2019 3:32:23 PM Dear Not_Now.Soon, «Without the laws and the court, who is there for the person who was m.....
» 24/07/2019 10:56:41 PM Dear Not_Now.Soon, «What that means is vigilantism» At present the worst vigilant is the.....
» 24/07/2019 10:19:58 AM [...continued] You see the difference: in self-defence, the focus is on YOU, not on justi.....
» 24/07/2019 10:19:54 AM Dear Not_Now.Soon, We are all ruled by God - those who know it and those who do not. We a.....
» 24/07/2019 10:14:02 AM Only the perfect may have a perfect childhood. Victimhood involves the superstition as if.....
» 23/07/2019 4:59:12 PM Dear Belly, Deep beneath this mask (Greek "persona") of a human, we all are equ.....
» 23/07/2019 2:10:05 PM Dear Altrav, The majority by far of children that overcrowd the world are still born to &.....
» 23/07/2019 9:21:55 AM [...continued] one way to go about it is to have prophets that can tell the difference, t.....
» 23/07/2019 9:21:53 AM Dear Not_Now.Soon, «Same treatment regardless if you are rich or poor is fair, it is also.....
» 22/07/2019 6:54:57 PM Dear Joe, «Evil embryos ! How dare they develop into foetuses and then babies» Embryos a.....
» 22/07/2019 2:19:38 PM Anyone who brings more children into this already-overcrowded world is a villain, regardle.....
» 22/07/2019 1:57:26 PM Dear Belly, «The last 30 or so posts often denigrated faiths» This includes four of my l.....
» 18/07/2019 5:51:58 PM There is no connection between a "religious discrimination act" and religious fr.....
» 18/07/2019 1:07:57 PM Dear Is Mise, «The Sikhs that I know have no problems flying they pack their religious sy.....
» 18/07/2019 12:58:26 PM Dear Not_Now.Soon, Sorry I missed addressing you: my last double-post was addressed to yo.....
» 17/07/2019 5:50:01 PM [...continued] «To be fair to a Sikhish person is a much more difficult issue. The safety.....
» 17/07/2019 5:49:58 PM «You asked what does it mean to treat all religions equally. What it means is that the law.....
» 16/07/2019 4:26:47 PM Dear Not_Now.Soon, «all religions need to be treated fairly and equally.» Definitely fai.....
» 15/07/2019 2:30:01 PM Dear Belly, You would be privileged indeed if you had even a clue what Morrison plans for.....
» 15/07/2019 10:02:16 AM Dear Belly, «BUT ignore at your peril some have hijacked God,claiming he/she is a support.....
» 14/07/2019 10:39:19 PM Dear Mr. Opinion I would also be interested in any references you may be able to present .....
» 14/07/2019 6:02:34 PM Dear Belly, «Believe it, I watched the fall of religion as it started» It was not the fa.....
» 14/07/2019 3:16:26 PM Dear Individual, Apparently trolls too......
» 13/07/2019 8:10:32 PM Dear Mr. Opinion, I see no problem with Chinese people, only with the Chinese communist r.....
» 13/07/2019 7:59:39 PM Dear Belly, «Yes when penalty rates first came about many many more followers of God» I .....
» 12/07/2019 5:22:24 PM It is rather the employee's religion which matters, not the employer's. Penalty rates act.....
» 12/07/2019 2:50:43 PM Dear Belly, I have gone over your posts here and ascertained that you never supported the.....
» 12/07/2019 2:43:41 PM The danger of China is real, but there is no need to join the USA in economic sanctions: j.....
» 12/07/2019 7:53:28 AM Dear Individual, I wouldn't advise Not_Now.Soon, or anyone else for that matter, to stick.....
» 11/07/2019 7:25:08 PM Dear Belly, Let me assure you that my posts here are not related to Ttbn in any way......
» 11/07/2019 9:18:25 AM Dear Belly, No, I don't think that this thread is a fraud, but it is misplaced: this ques.....
» 10/07/2019 1:57:22 PM Dear Shadow Minister, Thank you for this creative suggestion: It is a good start, a good.....
» 10/07/2019 11:27:33 AM This is appalling to attack people with unsolicited commercial mail: those who do so shoul.....
» 10/07/2019 5:25:21 AM Dear Not_Now.Soon, «I don't know if you can stop the graphic nature of news.» I don't kn.....
» 9/07/2019 7:00:05 PM Ordinary people have no need to know about crimes, certainly not to see their gruesome eff.....
» 9/07/2019 2:46:18 PM Dear Ttbn, «I'm not sure what you mean by religious in name only. If it's in the Bible, t.....
» 9/07/2019 11:30:03 AM Dear Not_Now.Soon, «I've heard stories of Scientology, and how it is harmful to those who.....
» 8/07/2019 11:51:45 PM Dear Individual, «aren't religious people looking forward to meet their maker ?» Sure, b.....
» 8/07/2019 11:10:49 PM Dear Spencer, «ALTRAV, In, Posted by OzSpen, Sunday, 7 July 2019 8:01:17 AM, I provided .....
» 8/07/2019 3:37:34 PM Dear Individual, Being decent is a pre-requisite for religion, it is step one without whi.....
» 8/07/2019 3:10:18 PM Well good luck indeed: God knows that we badly need our freedom to follow our religion, w.....
» 8/07/2019 2:41:24 PM Dear Altrav, You mainly commented about Christianity rather than about religion, which ex.....
» 7/07/2019 4:54:31 PM Dear Spencer, Thank you for correcting me on the topic of this thread. In any case, it s.....
» 7/07/2019 3:35:53 AM [...continued] «If someone can give me ANY tangible, objective, evidence of these spiritu.....
» 7/07/2019 3:35:50 AM Dear Altrav, «it does not mean a man can achieve it by simply thinking 'real hard' and it.....
» 7/07/2019 3:35:39 AM Dear Altrav, This particular discussion is about [public] free speech and whether or not .....
» 5/07/2019 3:51:19 PM Dear Altrav, The accusations against Folau are that the content of what he types hurt cer.....
» 4/07/2019 9:21:44 AM Dear Not_Now.Soon, Thank you for your beautiful post about kindness and tolerance. I full.....
» 28/06/2019 11:40:44 AM Dear Mr. Opinion, «What evidence would you need to have presented to you for you to be co.....
» 27/06/2019 8:43:48 PM While the Magna Carta is now 800 years old, it was about 200 years earlier when the rule w.....
» 21/06/2019 4:58:29 PM Dear Tristan, «'One State' with equal citizenship in all areas except over the apparatus .....
» 21/06/2019 3:28:06 PM Dear Tristan, There could be a war over there, because this is what the people there want.....
» 21/06/2019 1:04:20 PM Dear Tristan, «The best solution is...» A solution calls for a problem: whose problem ar.....
» 19/06/2019 2:20:12 PM Dear Hasbeen, First, I hope you are well now. «Perhaps next year I'll try a little exper.....
» 19/06/2019 1:35:53 PM Dear Shadow Minister, «Between traffic accidents and industrial accidents about 500 peopl.....
» 18/06/2019 3:56:19 PM Dear Shadow, «So if you let children play near a croc infested river you bear no responsi.....
» 18/06/2019 2:00:37 PM Dear Belly, «Asking for a better way for westerners to be governed while we ignore the ab.....
» 18/06/2019 1:39:39 PM Dear Shadow Minister, «Under labor more than 1200 died as the flimsy boats sank. Is that .....
» 18/06/2019 12:47:28 PM Dear Ttbn, Yes, the ALP lost because of their policies, but which exact policies contribu.....
» 18/06/2019 11:19:20 AM Dear Shadow Minister, The English word "better" has a dual meaning - one means .....
» 17/06/2019 11:26:52 PM Dear Individual, «In Labor's case it is a threat !» But not just - in any party's case, .....
» 17/06/2019 7:23:28 PM Dear Paul and Joe, Sorry for the mix-up: I wrongly misread the first post as if the 70%-9.....
» 17/06/2019 3:11:33 PM Dear Alan, «have started that project with a new interstellar luna restaurant?» What? a .....
» 17/06/2019 11:10:29 AM Something ought to be done about the cruel occupation of Hawaii by the United States of Am.....
» 17/06/2019 10:39:39 AM Dear Belly, «yuyutsu we must live with what we have, not what we want» Yes, and what we .....
» 17/06/2019 7:31:28 AM Dear Paul, If there are 68.5 million people in the world who could be classed as refugees.....
» 16/06/2019 2:02:27 PM Dear Belly, The Senate need not be obstructionist per se, rather, its members who are sup.....
» 16/06/2019 8:35:17 AM Dear Belly, «you both tell me minority parties,stopping elected government from governing.....
» 15/06/2019 6:52:32 PM Dear Belly, «My whole and only reason for calling for, the removal of the Senate Or the m.....
» 12/06/2019 1:08:55 PM Dear Belly, The state's impositions on the lives of ordinary people are too serious and p.....
» 11/06/2019 5:22:46 PM Dear Belly, Whatever the Senate is SAID to be (i.e. "States house"), there is t.....
» 11/06/2019 2:13:57 PM Suppose indeed that the majority of Australian citizens oppose the proposed tax cuts, then.....
» 10/06/2019 8:49:12 AM Dear LEGO, Yes, you are correct, but we ought to see the larger picture: If you pull a p.....
» 7/06/2019 8:18:28 AM Well what could we do? The Australian electoral system entrenches the absolute rule of a .....
» 5/06/2019 7:18:53 PM This issue of freedom-of-religion is too serious to be used as a football between differen.....
» 31/05/2019 4:08:50 PM Dear Belly, «Business man pointed out just on prices American made may cost three hundred.....
» 31/05/2019 3:23:31 PM Dear Belly, Both China and America are bad influences - we better learn to live without b.....
» 31/05/2019 2:51:23 PM Why we should care about Julian Assange? - Because next time it could be any of us. Ever.....
» 30/05/2019 9:58:40 PM Dear Belly, High inflation is probably "good" for sophisticated/informed invest.....
» 30/05/2019 3:57:04 PM Two good words for David Singer: 1) Neither Israel nor "The Jews" were mentione.....
» 30/05/2019 3:40:19 PM Why have a war on Queensland when instead we can all separate amicably? The Commonwealth .....
» 30/05/2019 3:18:05 PM Dear Hasbeen, «Low interest rates are pretty bad for retirees» This is short-sighted: lo.....
» 29/05/2019 6:30:59 PM Anything but the obvious: Everyone knows that when Labor wins, Australian shares and curr.....
» 28/05/2019 11:12:18 AM This phenomenon has nothing to do with Christianity, but is rather similar to supporting a.....
» 28/05/2019 8:33:18 AM Dear Belly, I don't know about America, but in Australia government dictates to the RBA t.....
» 27/05/2019 11:01:52 PM This is good. The RBA, at instructions from government, creates inflation which is effect.....
» 27/05/2019 6:37:58 PM Dear Joe, «Possibly because American interests were impacted negatively by that illegal p.....
» 27/05/2019 4:40:49 PM Assange does not seem to be a good person, but that does not mean that he deserves to be t.....
» 23/05/2019 8:06:36 PM Dear Alan, «but never ever again misrepresent my words or cast a different meaning on the.....
» 23/05/2019 7:49:31 PM Not only robots could never become intentional, but neither can humans: humans too are jus.....
» 22/05/2019 10:01:37 PM Dear Foxy, The correct question should be, why is there a parliament in Canberra in the f.....
» 22/05/2019 4:00:55 PM Leaving aside those two rogue organisations, the UN and the PLO, there are three different.....
» 22/05/2019 12:22:57 AM Dear Bazz, «Yuyutsu, the reason that the detainees were not sent to NZ was because NZ wou.....
» 21/05/2019 1:12:58 AM "Socialism lost. Identity politics lost. Political Correctness lost." All true,.....
» 20/05/2019 7:21:46 PM Dear Individual, Nothing I contribute or give up would help fighting GW: even if I give t.....
» 20/05/2019 4:54:45 PM Dear Not_Now.Soon, «so again I don't understand how going full term would be less healthy.....
» 20/05/2019 2:14:17 PM Dear Individual, They are not alone, but they FEEL alone. They call on governments becau.....
» 20/05/2019 10:05:22 AM Dear OzSpen, «I find it irrational that you don't distinguish between a human being and a.....
» 19/05/2019 11:57:35 PM [...continued] Another criticism I have about the videos (and remember again, this is not.....
» 19/05/2019 11:57:31 PM Dear Not_Now.Soon, You asked me to watch certain videos then give you feedback. I watched.....
» 19/05/2019 6:38:50 PM Dear Individual, Those who want something done about climate change mean that they want o.....
» 18/05/2019 11:14:23 PM Dear Hasbeen, Thank you for this contribution, I definitely agree. One way to stop such .....
» 18/05/2019 11:08:58 PM Indeed, Runner, and quite unexpected: So far it looks like neither of the flanks of the A.....
» 18/05/2019 8:05:17 PM Dear Alan, «In the future, I'll thank you not to mischievously reinterpret my words, mean.....
» 17/05/2019 5:23:17 PM Dear Paul, «I didn't known my test question would be» Should be "know", not &q.....
» 17/05/2019 4:50:00 PM Dear Alan, «How can religious freedom include the right to discriminate based on stone ag.....
» 17/05/2019 2:44:39 PM Dear OzSpen, «warned about the censorship (my word) of a religious ethos if the ALP is el.....
» 17/05/2019 12:32:46 PM Dear David, «Abstinence for teenagers brimming with hormones? Ha!» Hormones play some ro.....
» 17/05/2019 11:16:05 AM How can anyone expect religious or any other freedom while accepting tax-payer money throu.....
» 17/05/2019 9:30:00 AM Dear Paul, Please do not leave us in suspension - who was that other bear? (perhaps this.....
» 17/05/2019 3:09:51 AM Dear Not_Now.Soon, First, I would like to acknowledge the correctness of your interpretat.....
» 16/05/2019 6:56:10 PM Dear Belly, «And are you sure many who vote now, at any age, understand who and why they .....
» 16/05/2019 1:47:09 PM Dear Aidan, OK, so what alternative(s) do you suggest? Not reliance on America, I hope? .....
» 16/05/2019 1:24:13 PM Dear Hasbeen, To the best of my knowledge there is no such law which forces you to receiv.....
» 16/05/2019 11:51:00 AM Dear OzSpen, In relation to baptism, allow me to tell you a story: It occurred during th.....
» 16/05/2019 11:18:25 AM Dear Paul, I wholeheartedly agree, but the name "Newstart" ought to be changed:.....
» 16/05/2019 10:49:57 AM Dear Belly, «But gee you lost me here, mate are you telling me only one side of politics .....
» 16/05/2019 9:59:50 AM Interesting question - who is a Christian? To put in my 2 cents, a Christian is one who, .....
» 16/05/2019 9:32:37 AM Dear Individual, Thank you for the information, I was not aware of it. As I understand, .....
» 16/05/2019 1:07:25 AM Dear Individual, «?? What's that got to do with PNG visitors to Torres Strait islands ??».....
» 15/05/2019 7:18:34 PM Dear Individual, It seems that I need more clues: Please tell me which party(s) have a p.....
» 15/05/2019 4:46:48 PM Dear Belly, Suppose indeed that YOUTH support more of the policies that you and your part.....
» 15/05/2019 3:57:56 PM Dear Individual, «Traditional PNG visitors are now being asked to cut the stays short bec.....
» 15/05/2019 3:51:06 PM Dear Belly, Mass shootings would increase anti-gun sentiments, thus tilt the votes toward.....
» 14/05/2019 10:17:26 AM Dear Belly, «Do not agree? ask yourself it it is YOUR SIDE being stalled would your answe.....
» 12/05/2019 1:24:32 PM [...continued] (so Ttbn, David was not the first!) Was Job sinful in feeling and talking.....
» 12/05/2019 1:24:28 PM Dear Not_Now.Soon, Any "solution" calls for a problem and the notion of "p.....
» 12/05/2019 1:16:32 AM Dear David, I am sad to hear your story. Just one correction: your parents were never ac.....
» 11/05/2019 9:46:03 PM Dear Not_Now.Soon, «The solution given for the sake of the unborn baby is an unthinkable .....
» 10/05/2019 5:36:22 PM The question regarding the morality or otherwise of abortion is extremely complex, so comp.....
» 10/05/2019 12:43:56 PM So how else is the author proposing to end the suffering of the Iranian people at the hand.....
» 9/05/2019 1:27:44 PM Dear Individual, Politician=lack of integrity, doesn't get any clearer than that !.....
» 9/05/2019 1:23:47 PM There is no need to wait, so why waste any more time and energy on these elections: everyo.....
» 9/05/2019 11:35:53 AM Dear Critic, «I've heard you speak about your beliefs before but I'm not sure what religi.....
» 9/05/2019 10:10:19 AM Pacific Islanders were once conquered and oppressed by the white man and his [misunderstan.....
» 9/05/2019 1:13:47 AM If his arguments are so convincing, then why need the author lie about numbers and facts? .....
» 8/05/2019 12:36:51 AM I am very sensitive and concerned about religious persecution - this is a very serious mat.....
» 7/05/2019 12:25:44 AM Neither the asking for covert donations nor the covert "policing" by media are e.....
» 6/05/2019 11:43:31 PM On the one hand, people ought to be able to do whatever they like so long as they do not h.....
» 6/05/2019 4:13:50 PM There may well be secular ethics, but what is missing is a serious incentive to follow the.....
» 6/05/2019 10:28:10 AM Dear Ttbn, What makes you think that anyone cares or even knows about the mud, or that po.....
» 6/05/2019 12:08:01 AM Dear Foxy, «Mr Scott Morrison has promised to crack down on social media trolling and inc.....
» 5/05/2019 6:24:05 PM Dear Foxy, Take courage: «You've got to admire people who have the courage of their conv.....
» 2/05/2019 11:41:34 AM Dear Belly, You mentioned "both sides" 4 times in your last post. We need to k.....
» 2/05/2019 8:22:43 AM Dear Belly, The more people use the expression "both sides" and buy into that i.....
» 2/05/2019 7:50:57 AM Even Stalin loosened the strings on religion when the Nazi Germans invaded as he was despe.....
» 1/05/2019 7:21:32 PM Dear Hasbeen, «We should be able to exhaust our vote after just 2 or 3 preferences, or no.....
» 1/05/2019 7:09:04 PM May I bring a different angle to this discussion on dividend imputation: So far the discu.....
» 1/05/2019 12:05:49 PM Dear Ttbn, «better still, preferential voting itself should be banned.» Why? I agree tha.....
» 30/04/2019 4:25:17 PM Dear Foxy, «It's an absolute turn-off. My husband and I are planning to vote early - (at .....
» 30/04/2019 12:55:27 AM Dear Not_Now.Soon, «In Christianity there's a philosophy to be in the world but not of it.....
» 29/04/2019 2:55:56 PM The Kingdom of God is eternal, whereas social effects are temporal, thus it is a mistake t.....
» 28/04/2019 11:26:21 AM If "free speech" is indeed dead, then Good Riddance! It is immoral to hit your .....
» 27/04/2019 9:21:11 PM [...continued] «one must not worship only venerate Mary and the other Saints.» It seems .....
» 27/04/2019 9:21:06 PM Dear George, «OK, so I should have written instead that I accept that you do not believe .....
» 26/04/2019 4:37:22 PM Dear Not_Now.Soon, I am sorry if this is the impression I give you. I have good Christia.....
» 26/04/2019 3:38:51 PM Dear Spencer, «Please don't confuse the Trinity with tri-theism.» The Trinity explains h.....
» 26/04/2019 1:00:08 PM Dear Spencer, Regarding the Trinity, I was not claiming that your view is either true or .....
» 26/04/2019 4:48:04 AM Dear Spencer, «That can't be because you worship <<saints, seers and an image of Je.....
» 25/04/2019 12:35:24 PM Dear Dan, «Maybe this is an appropriate moment to open up debate on spaying female childr.....
» 25/04/2019 12:25:56 PM Dear Spencer, «How can that be when monotheism means worshipping one God while here you r.....
» 25/04/2019 11:23:29 AM Dear Not_Now.Soon, «In order to count Jesus's message as worth while and worth following,.....
» 25/04/2019 3:21:19 AM Dear George, According to John 19:33-34, the Roman soldiers pierced Jesus' side, not his .....
» 25/04/2019 3:21:15 AM Dear Spencer, Had Jesus been a fictional figure such as Harry Potter, then it would make .....
» 24/04/2019 4:31:59 PM Perhaps it is time for Israel's Left and Centre to start looking at the ultra-orthodox (ch.....
» 24/04/2019 1:17:34 PM [...continued] So to make it fair and compassionate, government should announce: anyone b.....
» 24/04/2019 1:17:30 PM Dear Belly, Yes, I understand your views. I may not always agree, but I do understand the.....
» 24/04/2019 12:11:17 AM Dear George, Obviously it is not the crucifixion that is cause to Jesus' Samadhi - Jesus .....
» 23/04/2019 11:15:05 PM "A religion is a cultural system of designated practices, morals, prophecies, or orga.....
» 23/04/2019 9:25:23 PM Dear Belly, What a bombardment of questions... As I said, I believe those questions to b.....
» 23/04/2019 8:57:57 PM Aren't we all in the same boat? The belief or presumption as if we can discern and know t.....
» 23/04/2019 6:58:22 PM Dear Spencer, «To this point, you've given your beliefs/opinions and not dealt with the N.....
» 23/04/2019 2:14:39 PM It is common for saints and Yogis to enter the state of Samadhi, or total absorption in Go.....
» 23/04/2019 1:16:35 PM Dear Canum Malum, «Any country that can not feed and house its population is over populat.....
» 22/04/2019 7:01:08 PM Dear Belly, Almost there, I follow the Hindu religion. And yes, extremists can be found e.....
» 22/04/2019 2:39:11 PM I am happy to see that nearly all of us agree: the root problem is overpopulation, whereas.....
» 22/04/2019 10:12:03 AM Dear David, «It was all based on Biblical bullsh1t anyway.» That would have been nice, b.....
» 22/04/2019 9:57:47 AM Dear Dan, «For the theist, his deeds are answerable to a greater power, His God. It's th.....
» 22/04/2019 8:57:44 AM Well I tend to agree with Foxy: agreements need to be kept. One weak point in Foxy's argu.....
» 22/04/2019 12:59:40 AM I agree with Garry: the legitimacy of any grouping of people is gained by their moral cond.....
» 15/04/2019 7:56:07 AM Dear Not_Now.Soon, «If our spirituality can only survive in the best of conditions then i.....
» 14/04/2019 9:52:04 PM Dear Belly, «Well yuyutsu what do you recomend? How do we achieve it?» Wisely, calmly, g.....
» 14/04/2019 2:45:44 PM You do not need to stop globalisation or world trade: all you need is to stay yourself out.....
» 13/04/2019 9:33:59 PM Dear Not_Now.Soon, Firstly, your response was better than mine: "Seek God in whateve.....
» 12/04/2019 9:41:24 AM «Assange has been arrested because he failed to appear in a British Court» No, he was arr.....
» 12/04/2019 1:45:56 AM Dear Critic, No foreign men are jailed in Israel because they got a divorce; what you pro.....
» 11/04/2019 5:22:12 PM Dear Joe, «Yes, vegans have the right to be vegans. Homosexuals have the right to be homo.....
» 11/04/2019 12:24:06 PM It is obvious: If you want a better world, decrease the number of people. Stop procreating.....
» 10/04/2019 5:21:34 PM This article started well, but then it descended as "morality" was bent in order.....
» 10/04/2019 4:09:13 PM Dear Critic, «Do you people they will stop believing what they believe because you decide.....
» 10/04/2019 4:00:13 PM Dear Foxy, I hope your surgery went very well. Ahimsa is indeed a principle tenet of Hin.....
» 8/04/2019 11:21:59 PM Dear Foxy, You know this prayer: "God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I.....
» 8/04/2019 6:56:20 PM Dear Belly, «Those kids in my view deserved a longer happier life, here on earth» Possib.....
» 8/04/2019 5:50:10 PM Dear Foxy, «Every religious tradition teaches the deep sacredness of life.» Actually not.....
» 8/04/2019 3:53:02 PM Dear Belly, I cannot change you anyway, but I can challenge your ideas, which is what we .....
» 8/04/2019 2:59:04 PM Dear Foxy, We all, myself included, were raised with the prevailing beliefs of our tribe......
» 8/04/2019 10:53:03 AM Dear Foxy, «This is a heartbreaking tragedy.» For whom? For you it may seem so, but whi.....
» 6/04/2019 10:33:08 PM Dear Ttbn, Indeed, Israel cannot afford to return the Golan Heights to Syria. On the othe.....
» 5/04/2019 5:57:57 PM "regarding territorial claims by the Jewish people in Judea and Samaria (West Bank).&.....
» 5/04/2019 9:22:33 AM Dear Not_Now.Soon, The rest of your posts I mostly agree with, but there is more depth to.....
» 5/04/2019 9:22:30 AM Dear Not_Now.Soon, It is my true belief that for those who have eyes to see and ears to h.....
» 5/04/2019 8:14:54 AM Dear Dan, «Many people actually kill themselves. They finally conclude, life is a total n.....
» 5/04/2019 12:51:10 AM Dear Bozec, Obviously we do not agree about the source(s) of morality: with different ide.....
» 4/04/2019 4:08:48 PM Dear Individual, You ought to have every right to prepare yourself in the way you want, b.....
» 4/04/2019 12:52:23 PM Dear Individual, Switzerland is such a beautiful country, but what you described makes it.....
» 4/04/2019 2:10:38 AM Dear Bozec, Once you have a society wherein everyone involved freely agrees to belong to .....
» 3/04/2019 2:15:59 PM Dear Dan, «Guard your children well. Society in the West has declared the death of God.» .....
» 3/04/2019 12:46:44 PM [...continued] So what to do? The spiritual journey consists of both leaps of faith and p.....
» 3/04/2019 12:46:41 PM Dear Not_Now.Soon, «if you don't understand it fully, but apply what you do understand, t.....
» 2/04/2019 10:33:07 AM Dear Not_Now.Soon, You touched on some fundamental and difficult questions, particularly .....
» 1/04/2019 8:51:25 AM Dear Pogi, I am glad that we agree that science is silent about metaphysics. Morality is.....
» 31/03/2019 11:54:56 AM Dear Pogi, «How would you identify the thing you and 1.5 bn other humans worship then?» .....
» 29/03/2019 12:28:52 PM Dear Nathan, «$25.00 per loaf, milk at $15.00 per litre and fruit and vegetables starting.....
» 29/03/2019 11:39:49 AM Perfect score, Peter. Well done! --- Dear Pogi, «I wish christians would lose their per.....
» 27/03/2019 6:49:20 PM It is a cause for grief that an old and harmless man was thrown in jail, even more so that.....
» 24/03/2019 5:26:31 PM Hate speech should be shunned and frowned upon, but not legally banned. Otherwise you can .....
» 22/03/2019 12:20:02 PM Welfare is neither gift nor privilege, but a form of compensation. Wealthy people benefit.....
» 20/03/2019 6:53:12 PM Dear Individual, My point was linguistic: «it is possible to murder "by mistake&quo.....
» 20/03/2019 5:34:31 PM Dear Bazz, «The author is Allah» And you believe this?? I don't. I firmly believe that .....
» 20/03/2019 5:26:39 PM Dear Individual, «I think it was "thou shall not murder."» More or less correc.....
» 20/03/2019 1:23:34 PM Dear Josephus, I know it's a bit off-topic, but did you seriously mean: «...our Western .....
» 20/03/2019 12:57:48 PM Over to your last paragraph: I fully believe you that you did not bugger choirboys in you.....
» 20/03/2019 12:57:45 PM Dear Paul, I disagree with this whole concept as if anyone has a right to punish others. .....
» 18/03/2019 10:30:39 PM Dear Foxy, «Wait and see what the Appeal produces. Then comment on weather it was fair or.....
» 18/03/2019 10:06:42 PM Dear Banjo, 1. I referred to one's actual sainthood rather than to institutional titles: .....
» 17/03/2019 2:37:58 PM Dear Foxy, «during my entire time on this forum I have always been against any form of vi.....
» 17/03/2019 11:49:31 AM Dear Banjo, Only a saint is completely devoid of narcissism. The rest of us have it in on.....
» 17/03/2019 8:33:48 AM With China in front, America behind, Islam on the right, the unions on the left and the re.....
» 17/03/2019 1:11:47 AM [...continued] «The foundation from God is like that. Reliable and true.» Absolutely. «.....
» 17/03/2019 1:11:40 AM Dear Not_Now.Soon, «1). My prayers were not answered because of my understanding and know.....
» 17/03/2019 12:26:31 AM Dear Hasbeen, «Yuyutsu, god is a construct of weak minded humans & has no effect on any p.....
» 16/03/2019 11:52:32 PM Dear Philip, Without God one cannot speak of neither good nor evil. Without God there is .....
» 16/03/2019 11:21:34 PM Dear Aidan, To begin with, I do not believe at all in humans punishing each other. I do b.....
» 16/03/2019 10:30:33 PM Dear Ttbn, I am not confident that Pell could have remained in the Vatican indefinitely. .....
» 16/03/2019 8:53:14 PM The question whether or not Pell's trial was fair is irrelevant, because it is simply wron.....
» 16/03/2019 8:23:49 PM Dear Philip, «What happened in NZ should not have happened.» But it did. Could anything.....
» 15/03/2019 2:47:41 PM Dear OzSpen, I am aware of this Rabbinical dispute regarding the book of Job. Whether fi.....
» 15/03/2019 2:47:36 PM Dear Not_Now.Soon, Yes, thank you, I am aware that there are many philosophies within Chr.....
» 15/03/2019 9:27:33 AM Dear Ttbn, Your above statement regarding minorities is dangerous: please note that I am .....
» 14/03/2019 11:29:14 PM «They had their identities and rights demonised during the postal survey.» Perhaps rights.....
» 14/03/2019 10:31:39 PM Dear OzSpen, Regarding the Jewish view that Job did not exist, but was written by Moses a.....
» 14/03/2019 3:36:11 PM Dear OzSpen, I never claimed that my worldview was biblical. (actually, I believe that t.....
» 13/03/2019 11:56:01 PM Perhaps because the helpless-victimhood-mentality is a modern/progressive fashion, which c.....
» 12/03/2019 11:16:27 AM Dear OzSpen, I tried to keep my response to Not_Now.Soon succinct and only respond to his.....
» 12/03/2019 9:09:41 AM [...Continued] «You seem to want to denigrate the OT and NT as the Book of Scripture.» I.....
» 12/03/2019 9:09:38 AM Dear Not_Now.Soon, This discussion over the accuracy and sanctity or otherwise of the old.....
» 8/03/2019 3:46:18 PM Dear OzSpen, "All Scripture is God-breathed" Indeed, this is almost by definit.....
» 8/03/2019 11:57:11 AM Dear Waverley, «The author left out the realms of spirituality: who are we? why are we he.....
» 8/03/2019 11:09:32 AM Dear SteeleRedux, You mentioned the Jewish state of affairs where Orthodox leaders distor.....
» 8/03/2019 10:20:54 AM Dear Paul, «You can forget all that karma and god nonsense, unless you have been living u.....
» 8/03/2019 9:18:04 AM Dear Not_Now.Soon, «If there was going to be changes in the bible, they would have remove.....
» 8/03/2019 8:13:38 AM Dear ALTRAV, Thank you for your support, but when it comes to politics I really am not in.....
» 7/03/2019 11:58:40 PM Dear Foxy, «But courts have been frustrated by the lack of successful prosecutions agains.....
» 7/03/2019 12:39:41 AM So I had a sole proprietary company and thought I will use its profit to save for old age......
» 6/03/2019 4:29:39 PM Dear Foxy, I am quite aware, nor is it news for me, that none of us has any control over .....
» 6/03/2019 3:58:13 PM Dear Paul, «I think it is incumbent on the judge to apply a custodial sentence, if for no.....
» 5/03/2019 10:45:17 PM When the same act brings two very different results, we must look at the contributing fact.....
» 5/03/2019 2:25:24 PM "He will go down in history as a convicted paedophile." Being a paedophile (or .....
» 4/03/2019 3:04:07 PM Dear Ttbn, «the system of justice based on English Common Law» Is justice a system? Is j.....
» 3/03/2019 6:07:32 PM Dear OzSpen, I am not a mind-reader! I just hope for a strong individual+religious freed.....
» 3/03/2019 5:28:27 PM Amen, David. How about a royal commission into how the two dinosaurs, Labor and Liberals,.....
» 3/03/2019 2:54:17 PM It is frightening indeed that none of the big parties cares for individual freedom. They b.....
» 1/03/2019 1:03:11 PM Dear Foxy, «if the appeal wins it will send an incredibly damaging message to survivors w.....
» 1/03/2019 9:39:07 AM Dear Is Mise, Thank you for your explanation about sacramental wine. I stand corrected......
» 28/02/2019 11:01:24 PM Dear Is Mise, «How could anyone get to the consecrated wine other than the Priest and the.....
» 28/02/2019 9:57:01 PM Dear Henry, Thank you for your comments. Well said! This case instils horror in me and m.....
» 28/02/2019 8:50:41 PM We live in a violent culture where revenge is considered a virtue. It is not! Convincing.....
» 28/02/2019 8:48:54 PM Oops, I mistakenly posted the above in the wrong thread. I don't think that discussing Pe.....
» 28/02/2019 8:44:10 PM We live in a violent culture where revenge is considered a virtue. It is not! Convincing.....
» 25/02/2019 5:00:24 PM Dear Banjo, «the majority of the Old Testament texts were composed long before Jesus was .....
» 23/02/2019 10:56:38 PM Dear Banjo, As you know I am not a Christian, nor an expert on the history of the Christi.....
» 22/02/2019 5:06:46 PM This is just to show that Jordanians are neither idiots nor fools. Having succeeded decad.....
» 22/02/2019 3:33:52 PM Thank you Peter for this great article. I wish half the readers will actually understand .....
» 21/02/2019 12:21:08 PM «WC can be defined succinctly as the belief that all humans have a right to attain their f.....
» 20/02/2019 12:19:49 PM [...continued] «Just because someone fears how others will react is no reason to not try .....
» 20/02/2019 12:19:44 PM Dear Not_Now.Soon, Regarding adjusting to one's audience: «Any audience can benifit from.....
» 17/02/2019 12:27:41 PM Dear Belly, «But are you saying the parent has rights but not the child» On what grounds.....
» 17/02/2019 12:03:32 PM Dear Not_Now.Soon, Subtracting a finite quantity from infinity does not leave a dent in t.....
» 17/02/2019 12:47:48 AM The very thought that anyone could be permitted to interfere with another's body and the b.....
» 16/02/2019 11:02:00 PM Dear Not_Now.Soon, «Seeking God is good for everyone. There is no audience that isn't ben.....
» 15/02/2019 12:55:25 PM Dear Not_Now.Soon, Your attempt to compare Buddhism with Christianity is commendable. «T.....
» 15/02/2019 12:55:14 PM Dear Paul, «An atheists can be a Buddhist, but can't be a religious with a non belief in .....
» 14/02/2019 11:46:55 PM Monotheism is a useful concept that helps to direct many of us towards God, but is God one.....
» 12/02/2019 1:42:14 PM I agree with Peter Sellick that truth need not correspond with the facts of the material w.....
» 6/02/2019 8:07:32 AM Dear OzSpen, I am not trying to persuade you, I merely am answering your questions. Rega.....
» 5/02/2019 12:21:33 PM Dear OzSpen, That you pray to God in your sufferings is excellent, but completely avoids .....
» 4/02/2019 8:36:53 AM Dear OzSpen, «I have mentioned sufferings but not complained about them.» Yes, you know .....
» 4/02/2019 1:09:40 AM Dear OzSpen, «You assume you know the nature of my relationship with God. How can that be.....
» 31/01/2019 8:33:12 PM Dear OzSpen, First, your conclusion: «In this life, there is a purpose in trials and suff.....
» 30/01/2019 2:25:37 PM Dear Toni, «It is exactly of the same nature as the Hindu's view, that the world rested u.....
» 30/01/2019 9:17:56 AM «Why would God give you touch, taste, sight, smell and hear, as well as a brain; And then .....
» 27/01/2019 12:56:15 PM Dear OzSpen, «To the contrary! We are discussing Jesus and what he did from 2 radically d.....
» 26/01/2019 11:40:27 PM Dear OzSpen, We are just discussing the same, only from two different perspectives, using.....
» 25/01/2019 6:46:03 PM Dear OzSpen, «Would you please supply New Testament evidence where Jesus stated he was a .....
» 24/01/2019 6:34:04 PM Dear OzSpen, «First Corinthians 15 does NOT teach that a physical body lasts forever beca.....
» 22/01/2019 6:49:32 PM Dear OzSpen, Thank you for the good quote, famous through Handel's Messiah! I disagree t.....
» 21/01/2019 3:54:15 PM This storm in a teacup within Christianity is due to the faith in the permanency of matter.....
» 16/01/2019 10:24:02 AM If you repeat a given statement a sufficient number of times, then eventually it will beco.....
» 10/01/2019 11:49:30 PM Dear Individual, We would be really lucky if we had imbeciles in government - at least th.....
» 10/01/2019 9:05:48 PM Dear Sara, One cannot perform arithmetic operations on "a heap of salt", only o.....
» 10/01/2019 6:38:34 PM "1+1=2" Also: 1+1=11 (side by side) 1+1=4 (rotate one '1' counter-clockwise) .....
» 10/01/2019 2:26:16 PM Dear Alan, «ensuring an equal start that just doesn't leave our best and brightest, left .....
» 10/01/2019 1:06:03 PM WHAT WOULD JESUS DO? So long as we operate through a limited human mind we have no way to.....
» 10/01/2019 12:54:41 PM Dear Sara, «1 is a finite number it stops» 1 is a finite number, but that has nothing to.....
» 10/01/2019 7:55:35 AM Dear Critic, Saving lives is not a duty but a noble virtuous act. When government turns .....
» 9/01/2019 7:41:17 PM Yes Ttbn, the cost of pill-testing should not fall on the taxpayer. It should probably be.....
» 7/01/2019 10:48:35 PM Dear Critic, «I don't believe anyone's responsible for things that happened before they w.....
» 7/01/2019 2:13:34 PM «Should there ever be any right to privacy in a public space?» This in principle is optio.....
» 7/01/2019 2:00:48 PM Dear Sara, "1" is only a representation, not a number. It can be designated to.....
» 6/01/2019 11:12:31 PM Dear Thinkabit, In my first year of university, many years ago, we studied Dedekind cuts .....
» 6/01/2019 5:41:53 PM A real number is defined as a non-empty set, S, of rational numbers, such that if: 1) x a.....
» 30/12/2018 1:45:13 PM Dear Peter and Banjo, «people like me, educated in the sciences, do not believe in miracl.....
» 28/12/2018 7:24:59 PM Dear George, Why, I agree with you that God is not reducible to humanity, or to anything .....
» 21/12/2018 7:24:33 PM «Dear George, «methodological atheism: there is no need for God to explain the working of.....
» 14/12/2018 7:31:00 PM Dear George, Thank you! Sometimes I describe myself over these pages as "technicall.....
» 13/12/2018 1:33:59 AM Dear George, «I thought the distinction between Atman and Brahman indicates that Brahman/.....
» 12/12/2018 12:52:20 PM Dear Foxy, By your silence I should assume that you agree with what I wrote so far. «Giv.....
» 12/12/2018 12:27:38 AM Dear George, You summed it up perfectly: «It depends on how you look at this evolution. .....
» 11/12/2018 11:27:44 PM Dear Foxy, «Yes, religious schools have a lot to answer.» Can ghosts be answerable? As .....
» 10/12/2018 2:56:37 PM Dear Foxy, «This is not an attack on religion as you infer.» There you go - just read Pe.....
» 10/12/2018 2:53:34 PM Dear ALTRAV, «I'm on your side» I am on the side of religion and God as my perspective i.....
» 10/12/2018 1:04:46 PM Dear Foxy, «All Australians are free to follow any religion they choose» «All Australians.....
» 10/12/2018 9:43:34 AM Dear Foxy, «I get the impression that all this fuss about religion is a storm in a teacup.....
» 7/12/2018 12:09:08 PM «Redefining the boundary between two countries sharing a signed peace treaty is infinitely.....
» 7/12/2018 2:26:25 AM Sexual orientation is a non-issue - the whole thing is about those who hate religion tryin.....
» 4/12/2018 12:30:17 PM Dear Joe, «Yes, one day, if we all simultaneously link arms and say "Om", all w.....
» 4/12/2018 11:09:15 AM So the solution for the problem that states are too big is... an even bigger state. The so.....
» 4/12/2018 12:00:15 AM Dear Not_Now.Soon, Yes, overall I agree and I think that this discussion has been exhaust.....
» 3/12/2018 10:35:50 AM «we need weapons to reduce the crime and terrorism» As for terror, rationally, a bomb or .....
» 2/12/2018 5:48:05 PM Dear Philip, Belly doesn't care because he knows that he wouldn't be around for long, unt.....
» 1/12/2018 9:17:09 PM Dear Individual, «When God is your father wouldn't anyone be always happy ?» Yes, if you.....
» 30/11/2018 7:23:57 PM Dear Philip, I suppose that banks indeed COULD stop a lot of illegal things if they wants.....
» 30/11/2018 2:30:53 PM Dear Aidan, «The rule of law is not a cult; it's the best way we have of preventing viole.....
» 30/11/2018 1:33:52 PM Notwithstanding the atrocities of some Muslim sects that force themselves on everyone arou.....
» 30/11/2018 1:23:20 PM Dear Toni, «Bollocks, most of the gay people I have met don't go in for any of that carry.....
» 30/11/2018 10:32:25 AM Dear Toni, First, I agree with what you said: «Seems to me that if Christians don't want.....
» 30/11/2018 6:14:17 AM Those who consider the article to be about politics and social welfare miss its central po.....
» 29/11/2018 10:56:41 PM Dear Galen, It is not that straight-forward because there are diverse types of zionism (h.....
» 29/11/2018 9:58:32 PM Dear Dan, «I'm not all that interested in your religious views.» My philosophy and relig.....
» 29/11/2018 9:58:07 PM Dear Not_Now.Soon, Was Robin Hood a criminal? «If a parent or an organization wants to t.....
» 28/11/2018 11:48:40 PM Just to clarify, ALTRAV speaks for himself/herself, not for me. Just because I mentioned t.....
» 28/11/2018 10:05:51 PM Dear Philip, I don't know enough in order to agree or not whether anti-laundering measure.....
» 28/11/2018 6:50:35 PM Dear Bazz, «The main problem is that the muslims have been quite emphatic that there is n.....
» 28/11/2018 6:05:48 PM Dear Philip, I did not understand your suggestion about how money could be used to stop t.....
» 28/11/2018 5:43:11 PM Dear Bazz, Only amateurs would send just a single file by E-mail and only amateurs would .....
» 28/11/2018 2:31:20 PM Dear Plantagenet, Indeed, "People should be hired for the job if they're the best fo.....
» 27/11/2018 11:28:43 PM Dear Bazz, For information within a sound recording to be found, first one needs to suspe.....
» 27/11/2018 9:00:35 PM Dear Not_Now.Soon, It is a legitimate form of self-defence to try to stop terrorism or cr.....
» 27/11/2018 3:06:49 PM One could never expect a parliament or some other secular body to determine what is or isn.....
» 27/11/2018 2:29:46 PM When choice is a problem, there's a solution: marry, then let your spouse make the choices.....
» 27/11/2018 10:30:09 AM Further, if you want to hide something real secret, hide it in a pornographic image, then .....
» 26/11/2018 11:04:15 PM The best way to encrypt a message is when nobody recognises that a message even exists. An.....
» 26/11/2018 10:29:06 PM Dear Not_Now.Soon, «Hasn't this already been discussed?» I think not. If the article is .....
» 26/11/2018 5:44:43 PM "Fix these words of mine in your hearts and minds; tie them as symbols on your hands .....
» 22/11/2018 9:26:26 PM What utter rubbish - there are no leaders and we are not anyone's followers: the evil peop.....
» 22/11/2018 4:36:56 PM Point #1: "Purpose". While the authors stated THEIR purpose ("a prosperous.....
» 22/11/2018 4:22:41 PM Dear OzSpen, «Please state who they are and in which books of the Bible they are located».....
» 20/11/2018 10:30:59 AM Dear Nick, Please allow us to stay on the topic and not to dilute this discussion with em.....
» 20/11/2018 10:19:33 AM Dear OzSpen, «You contradict the Judeo-Christian Scriptures» Regarding the Christian Scr.....
» 20/11/2018 8:37:40 AM Dear OzSpen, To spend either eternal life or eternal damnation, you must at least be eter.....
» 20/11/2018 6:56:26 AM Dear Nick, I was not thinking of embassies - I care for the good Jordanians and Israelis,.....
» 19/11/2018 9:57:02 PM Family ties or otherwise - Jordan could not survive without establishing an apartheid agai.....
» 19/11/2018 9:39:03 PM Dear OzSpen, «Nowhere do the Christian Scriptures state that people "ONLY SEEM to be.....
» 19/11/2018 6:47:50 AM Dear Nick, Well Jerusalem IS the capital of Israel, what's the big deal? It only includes.....
» 18/11/2018 9:38:19 PM Dear Nick, «The business of east Jerusalem Arabs is that Israel is expelling them.» This.....
» 18/11/2018 9:32:16 PM Dear OzSpen, Thank you for the quotes and the assessment: I agree. Yes, we are born and .....
» 18/11/2018 4:42:51 PM Dear Nick, «Can you connect approval of embassies moving there with approval of ruling ag.....
» 18/11/2018 2:45:34 PM Dear Nick, As I wrote earlier, I lament the fact that the Arabs in Eastern Jerusalem are .....
» 18/11/2018 2:32:45 PM [...continued] 1. Knowledge: including study of scripture, but also constant self-inspect.....
» 18/11/2018 2:32:40 PM Dear Not_Now.Soon, You have no need to access [what-seems-to-be] others' thoughts. There.....
» 18/11/2018 12:42:34 PM Dear Nick, «A large part of Israelis chose to join the new state by immigrating, knowing .....
» 17/11/2018 10:30:09 PM Dear Not_Now.Soon, Scripture confirms that our common experience is of being a human, lim.....
» 17/11/2018 8:51:31 PM Dear Nick, «You are against moving there and nations would do well to move there. Which i.....
» 16/11/2018 7:07:39 PM Dear OzSpen, There is no contradiction: What You and I and everyone else truly are, is Go.....
» 16/11/2018 7:02:38 PM Dear Nick, I don't give Israel a right of conquest, in fact I lament its 1967 occupation......
» 16/11/2018 4:14:49 PM Dear Nick, As you may have noticed, I also am not in favour of making that choice of movi.....
» 16/11/2018 4:01:58 PM Dear Not_Now.Soon, We may differ in our theology, but not in the practical religious conc.....
» 16/11/2018 3:31:36 PM Dear Foxy, Tel Aviv was never Israel's capital, only its main commercial hub. Western Je.....
» 16/11/2018 7:42:17 AM Dear Nick, They can say whatever they like, but the hill itself (Givat Ram), perhaps in d.....
» 15/11/2018 10:45:54 PM Dear Nick, Givat Ram in general and the Knesset in particular are incontestably well with.....
» 15/11/2018 10:22:03 PM Dear Not_Now.Soon, «The issue here is that if the second option is true, then we live in .....
» 15/11/2018 7:24:43 PM This concept (probably from Persian origins) as if God has rivals, like evil angels who wa.....
» 14/11/2018 11:22:06 AM Dear Dan, No doubt the stories of Enoch ('Chanoch' in the original text), probably from P.....
» 14/11/2018 10:50:00 AM Dear Not_Now.Soon, In everyday life it is forgivable to use simplified language: say you .....
» 13/11/2018 3:08:40 PM Dear Dan, I cannot comment on this speculation of fallen angels which is based on the boo.....
» 13/11/2018 12:35:56 PM Dear Dan, Good questions indeed: «if good and evil were already in existence, but man wa.....
» 13/11/2018 12:13:57 PM Dear OzSpen, «Which God/god are you writing about?» God. Is there more than one?.....
» 13/11/2018 6:21:07 AM Kul Kalb Biji Yomo! (Every dog shall have his day, http://looking4meaning.com/2018/04/01/k.....
» 13/11/2018 5:44:28 AM We should celebrate those 628,000 who managed to escape the system. Obviously if they wan.....
» 13/11/2018 5:40:51 AM Dear Hasbeen, «In every industry in Australia, a business person is entitled to deduct th.....
» 13/11/2018 5:03:10 AM Dear Not_Now.Soon, «Did you type up that last message to Banjo and me?» I am asking that.....
» 13/11/2018 3:44:13 AM Dear Banjo, «the only logical conclusion that one can draw from the fact that you also de.....
» 13/11/2018 1:14:59 AM Dear Thinkabit, «Thus if my body was to murder someone than I'm in no way responsible. » .....
» 12/11/2018 9:32:23 AM Dear OzSpen, Yes, if you wish to go into subtleties, then a person also includes a mind w.....
» 11/11/2018 9:08:36 PM Dear OzSpen, We CAN pursue an understanding of God and it is an excellent practice which .....
» 11/11/2018 5:17:44 AM Dear Banjo, « The faculty by which a person decides on and initiates action » A person i.....
» 9/11/2018 5:55:48 PM Dear Thinkabit, «at what point of their development does a human gain free will» Never. .....
» 9/11/2018 9:38:03 AM Dear Banjo, «I suspect that all forms of life have some degree of free will – even plants.....
» 7/11/2018 8:17:20 PM Dear Individual, «Can you confirm there is a God ?» It depends on what exactly you mean .....
» 7/11/2018 12:04:23 PM Dear Belly, You are correct, but why do you consider existence to be a good thing? Only o.....
» 7/11/2018 10:22:00 AM Dear OzSpen, «Or is your definition of 'God' different to my understanding?» You underst.....
» 6/11/2018 11:21:59 PM Dear OzSpen, I did not understand your question: "How can the 'objective world' of '.....
» 6/11/2018 2:35:18 PM Dear JP, Nothing in the objective world, INCLUDING INTELLIGENCE, can disprove determinism.....
» 5/11/2018 11:52:57 PM Dear Not_Now.Soon, Reading, Writing and Math are extremely important and nobody suggested.....
» 5/11/2018 10:42:24 PM I bow down and offer my salutations to Shri Hanuman, the divine, wise and invincible ape w.....
» 5/11/2018 9:34:36 PM This article demonstrates the kind of absurd conclusions reached by those who glorify the .....
» 3/11/2018 9:37:52 PM Dear Pogi, Perhaps you are right in saying that this custom of reading the Lord's Prayer .....
» 1/11/2018 1:53:47 PM Dear Toni, «I don't know if you were attempting to argue against your own initial positio.....
» 1/11/2018 7:12:45 AM Dear Paul, «The nonsense put forward by the non producing parasites from that money grabb.....
» 31/10/2018 9:05:49 AM Dear Paul, Horse Trading is probably the best outcome in democracy because it mitigates t.....
» 29/10/2018 11:02:28 PM This is horrific, hell on earth. All we can do is pray for the Chinese people and for thos.....
» 29/10/2018 5:39:09 PM Dear Not_Now.Soon, «Schools should teach so to prepare the students for the world.» This.....
» 29/10/2018 3:50:36 PM Dear Foxy, «Of course my intention was to discuss the rights of religious schools in our .....
» 29/10/2018 2:34:11 PM Dear Foxy, Your reply still leaves me confused: sorry for not having asked it on the firs.....
» 29/10/2018 2:08:56 PM Dear Foxy, «what this discussion is about - is what decisions the government will make re.....
» 29/10/2018 1:01:40 PM Dear Foxy, «Religion as we know exists all around us.» I am so glad to hear this from yo.....
» 28/10/2018 10:43:10 AM To look at the broader picture, a Universal Basic Income (or Negative Income Tax) is the w.....
» 28/10/2018 7:51:16 AM Thank you, David. I think that you should campaign in parliament against the misuse of th.....
» 28/10/2018 7:20:11 AM «a. a permanent population;» That's clear enough - no population is permanent hence no st.....
» 27/10/2018 8:48:26 PM Dear Foxy, «People in this country are free to follow whatever religion they want as long.....
» 26/10/2018 6:35:47 PM It is not feasible to make legal exemptions for religion because ordinary humans are not a.....
» 24/10/2018 11:14:19 AM Dear Not_Now.Soon, «It's something that students are going to have to face into their liv.....
» 24/10/2018 12:51:25 AM Dear Dan, Using the toilet is not a sexual activity. We seem to be mixing two completely.....
» 23/10/2018 6:16:18 PM Well, like him or not, Sheikh Hilali is correct in saying that schools are supposed to pro.....
» 21/10/2018 7:05:02 PM Dear Foxy, Yes I share some views with ALTRAV, but not all. I also share some views with .....
» 21/10/2018 8:07:54 AM Dear Foxy, Thank you for correcting your statement from "we" to "Australia.....
» 20/10/2018 10:25:36 PM Dear ALTRAV, Certainly, religion WILL prevail. But patience is a virtue. There is much .....
» 20/10/2018 10:16:30 PM Dear Foxy, I congratulate Kerryn Phelps for her victory: any MP who is not affiliated wit.....
» 19/10/2018 6:35:43 PM Dear Foxy, Did you mean generations upon generations of sweepers? For granddad to be a s.....
» 19/10/2018 5:59:00 PM Dear SteeleRedux, If the real issue was "discrimination", then religious school.....
» 19/10/2018 11:32:17 AM I also support the end of the Israeli occupation and the restoration of Israel's moral fou.....
» 19/10/2018 12:16:39 AM [...continued] I have already made my position known: 1) Religion and mundane power are .....
» 19/10/2018 12:16:34 AM Dear Paul, «At the core of this argument is to what extent should those that exercise pow.....
» 18/10/2018 2:10:34 PM Dear Foxy, I understand that we all are waiting eagerly for the verdict. For some perhaps.....
» 18/10/2018 12:46:05 PM Dear Foxy, «All Australians are free to follow any religion they choose, so long as...» .....
» 17/10/2018 11:41:14 PM Dear Foxy, «I am not aware of any school that does not get some form of government fundin.....
» 17/10/2018 5:14:30 PM Dear Foxy, Well kindly tell me what is your position regarding the ability of such religi.....
» 17/10/2018 4:22:48 PM Dear Foxy, «You stated to me on page 5: "Sexuality is an affliction, a disturbance .....
» 17/10/2018 3:51:19 PM Dear Foxy, Regarding the connection to this topic, while replying to Is Mise, Paul initia.....
» 17/10/2018 12:07:46 PM [...continued] «Many simply believe money is what determines all, but its not always down.....
» 17/10/2018 12:07:42 PM Dear Foxy and Paul, You cite the current citizenship-oath and indeed, today I wouldn't ha.....
» 17/10/2018 11:01:33 AM Dear Foxy, «gay men and women don't view their sexual orientations as afflictions.» Neit.....
» 16/10/2018 11:54:57 PM Dear Foxy, The abuse of the nice English word "gay" was pushed for political re.....
» 16/10/2018 11:32:00 PM Dear Foxy, «What was being discussed was this country's democratic legislature that gover.....
» 16/10/2018 5:27:14 PM Dear Foxy, If a person does not fuss or make a provocative big deal about their sexuality.....
» 16/10/2018 2:51:20 PM Dear Foxy, According to your last post: You are a member and supporter of a rogue gang w.....
» 16/10/2018 2:01:06 PM Dear Rusty, Thank you, this is a fair comparison. I wouldn't use the word "subdivis.....
» 16/10/2018 9:18:15 AM Dear Not_Now.Soon, «Same goes for if the school neglects to teach the students fundamenta.....
» 16/10/2018 8:35:21 AM Dear Ttbn, I think that you have taken my words a step too far: There are homosexuals an.....
» 15/10/2018 11:27:34 PM Dear Foxy, Being "gay" is a socio-political orientation, not a sexual one. «I .....
» 15/10/2018 10:59:27 PM Dear Foxy, «I don't want to go over this topic again with you. I was not imposing anythin.....
» 15/10/2018 6:24:16 PM Dear Foxy, «I am merely trying to broaden this discussion. It is a topic worth discussin.....
» 15/10/2018 5:51:18 PM Dear Foxy, «It's just occurred to me that the Religious Review that will be presented to .....
» 15/10/2018 3:30:51 PM Dear Belly, Why have you addressed this story about the Liberal party and the coming by-e.....
» 15/10/2018 11:52:09 AM Dear Belly, What makes you think that I like bigots? --- Regarding the SSM vote, sorry,.....
» 15/10/2018 11:17:05 AM I couldn't agree more with this article - thank you Andrew!.....
» 15/10/2018 10:58:14 AM «In summary, religious institutions, or businesses, should not be allowed to refuse their .....
» 15/10/2018 10:30:19 AM Dear SteeleRedux, «However the 'freedom' you want is already there.» I have no need for .....
» 15/10/2018 8:03:24 AM Dear Belly, «This mornings Sydney press has a poll, just over 20 percent support schools .....
» 15/10/2018 12:38:10 AM Dear Foxy, Ideally, the way it should be: The word "school" should not appear .....
» 13/10/2018 9:35:56 PM Dear Banjo, I can explain in plain words how all I wrote fits nicely together, but I resp.....
» 13/10/2018 8:53:48 PM Dear Not_Now.Soon, I was about to recommend you this reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/w.....
» 13/10/2018 8:20:26 PM Dear George, Yes, some methods of worship require exclusivity - Hinduism has no problem w.....
» 12/10/2018 4:51:36 PM Dear Banjo, Your understanding of God seems to be based on literal reading and common int.....
» 12/10/2018 2:06:12 PM Dear Dan, «Where are you on this one YUYUTSU...I'm hanging out for my dose of reality.........
» 11/10/2018 11:24:37 AM Dear Banjo, It looks like we stumbled upon this fascinating topic of dignity, but before .....
» 10/10/2018 11:15:07 PM China is an enemy that wants to take over the world, including Australia, and destroy our .....
» 10/10/2018 9:26:24 PM We cannot address the issue without first looking at the motivation to have sex, in this c.....
» 10/10/2018 9:09:31 PM Dear Banjo, I think we can agree on the value of freedom, which we both cherish. «I have.....
» 9/10/2018 12:25:29 PM I sometimes wonder why the author holds such a grudge against the good Jordanians that he .....
» 9/10/2018 10:30:22 AM Dear Banjo, This small-dog/large-dog example did not occur to me, perhaps because this is.....
» 8/10/2018 8:11:50 PM Dear Nathan, Yes, your observation is correct. But not only humans: everyone and everyth.....
» 8/10/2018 7:53:38 PM Dear Pogi, How do your claims contribute to this discussion? Suppose indeed I made a foo.....
» 8/10/2018 2:40:34 PM [...continued] «There are many different theories about how the universe came about. Some.....
» 8/10/2018 2:40:29 PM Dear Banjo, When you love someone, you don't expect them to be perfect or a deity, but ad.....
» 7/10/2018 10:28:43 AM Dear Banjo, «love is wise; worship is foolish.» Worship is an expression of love, consis.....
» 7/10/2018 12:14:45 AM Dear Banjo, «In my opinion, any “God” who expects anybody to worship him is not a God.» .....
» 5/10/2018 1:24:35 PM Dear Banjo, The way you reworded it now makes sense: "{Some people consider that hyp.....
» 4/10/2018 1:51:52 PM Dear Banjo, «I consider that there is no God until “proven” otherwise – which I don’t rul.....
» 3/10/2018 4:35:40 PM Dear George, I am impressed with your reply to Banjo. The subtlest matter mentioned in t.....
» 3/10/2018 4:35:36 PM Dear Banjo, While I aspire to be worthy of the description "religious", accordi.....
» 2/10/2018 4:28:29 PM Dear Banjo, According to the OED, 'Hypothesis'="A supposition or proposed explanatio.....
» 1/10/2018 10:39:07 PM Dear Julian, «the fiction that it is "the Jewish homeland" when it contains onl.....
» 1/10/2018 2:07:35 AM Dear Banjo, Re “hypothetical God”, clearly, God is not an hypotheses, for I do not know o.....
» 27/09/2018 3:33:47 PM Dear Fred, «All fathers should be required to take their sons to a sex worker on their 16.....
» 27/09/2018 2:16:09 PM Dear Nick, Well you know how this was discovered? It's that man who ordered a fish in a .....
» 27/09/2018 12:18:30 PM Dear Banjo, I don't quite see how this lesson in cosmology which you wrote to me, fascina.....
» 24/09/2018 1:13:00 PM Why should the poor Jordanian people need to suffer those stupid and violent "Palesti.....
» 24/09/2018 9:56:22 AM Dear Not_Now.Soon, Please keep away from ghosts and the like: this is a pathological cond.....
» 23/09/2018 3:35:18 PM Dear Not_Now.Soon, «From what I know of the world we are still a barbaric creature.» In .....
» 22/09/2018 9:09:38 PM Dear Banjo, «I am curious to know from what (according to your religious belief) God made.....
» 18/09/2018 4:34:21 PM Dear Not_Now.Soon, We may have differences of terminology. The heaven I was speaking abo.....
» 17/09/2018 3:26:08 PM Dear Dan, Correct overall, but just a few fine tunings: «abject failures in the light of.....
» 17/09/2018 2:14:49 PM Dear Fred, So you really believe that a change of location can bring about change of fort.....
» 16/09/2018 11:36:33 PM Dear Not_now.Soon, «the hopes from being a Christian are that you can be close to God in .....
» 15/09/2018 11:09:48 PM Dear Dan, Well you can call me an anti-reincarnationist... Reincarnation occurs, but it .....
» 14/09/2018 12:11:42 PM Dear Is Mise, Never be disappointed? First disappointment comes when your head is forcef.....
» 14/09/2018 2:09:34 AM Life is not a quiz! Faith has nothing to do with whatever beliefs one happens to hold: yo.....
» 10/09/2018 3:51:24 PM Welcome Boxy, First your title-question is a bit strange: "are we a democracy?".....
» 9/09/2018 3:25:16 PM Dear David, Yes, the mind does some very strange things and people truly believe what the.....
» 9/09/2018 12:45:33 AM Dear Banjo, It is not only me and Peter - you too are God, and David too, and everyone an.....
» 7/09/2018 12:13:11 PM Dear Banjo, If Socrates encouraged us to know ourselves, then the referred article fails .....
» 6/09/2018 8:13:57 AM Dear Banjo, I do not believe that Moses wrote the bible either (nor do I think does Peter.....
» 5/09/2018 1:09:45 AM Dear Banjo, The Hebrew word for rib, "Tselå" can also mean "side", bu.....
» 4/09/2018 4:39:20 PM Dear Altrav, Suffice that I don't know any person who is not selfish - should it mean tha.....
» 4/09/2018 12:42:18 PM Dear Individual, Only the human concepts about God differ across cultures, but the actual.....
» 3/09/2018 2:23:55 AM Dear Banjo, I also was at times disappointed by Peter's lack of engagement, but I underst.....
» 2/09/2018 1:16:58 PM Dear Banjo, Hebrew has no distinction between "woman" and "wife", so .....
» 31/08/2018 12:23:56 PM Dear Ezhill, On the one hand you say: «crime, injustice etc are committed in the name of.....
» 31/08/2018 12:03:56 AM The whole thing is sick: government, through the RBA, deliberately creates inflation in or.....
» 28/08/2018 5:45:26 PM Dear Belly, Preference swaps will continue, the only difference is that they will now be .....
» 28/08/2018 4:00:31 PM Anyone who signed the Paris agreement, is either a liar or ignorant of the laws of thermod.....
» 28/08/2018 3:49:11 PM Dear Belly, Previously in senate elections, parties were able to elect default preference.....
» 28/08/2018 12:38:39 PM Dear Belly, «it is said man invented near 4.000 of them» Man only invented that many REP.....
» 28/08/2018 10:28:55 AM What's this nonsense about "the unity of all Australians"? Just because people'.....
» 28/08/2018 10:10:08 AM The objective world as we perceive it, is not the Reality and yes, it is bitter for nothin.....
» 28/08/2018 9:51:38 AM Why should only Muslims be immune from Australian law? We all should, unless we opt in!.....
» 28/08/2018 9:02:23 AM Dear Belly, «Anthony Green highlighted all the crossbenchers will need to be reelected in.....
» 25/08/2018 9:39:14 PM Perhaps the bishop does not believe that someone with eight children and medieval views ca.....
» 25/08/2018 9:12:33 PM «Two peoples – the Arabs and the Jews - need two states – not three - in former Palestine......
» 25/08/2018 8:45:08 PM There is not much to add after the good contributions by Ttbn, Joe (Loudmouth), Sockadelic.....
» 22/08/2018 2:15:14 PM Dear Joe, You made two lists of necessary providers of goods and services versus the para.....
» 21/08/2018 2:22:35 PM Dear Calwest, To summarise, you believe that ordinary people are stupid and should not ha.....
» 20/08/2018 11:41:18 PM Dear Michael, «So they are also going to by-pass the Palestinian people?» The "Pale.....
» 20/08/2018 5:42:02 PM Well said, Alon: I agree with this article 99%, that is except for the mention towards th.....
» 20/08/2018 10:42:35 AM The senate is needed because the lower house is undemocratic, where ordinary people are no.....
» 20/08/2018 12:47:10 AM Life without money is healthier and happier, it is how things should ideally be. Where ca.....
» 19/08/2018 3:27:19 AM Dear Is Mise, But so long as taxes are not voluntary (as I wish them to be), one is denie.....
» 19/08/2018 12:30:23 AM Dear Is Mise, «all of the charitable work that they now do should be funded by the State,.....
» 18/08/2018 9:02:10 PM "... where sovereignty still remains undetermined between Arabs and Jews." No, .....
» 18/08/2018 8:43:10 PM Dear Belly, «what was the thought behind no tax for them in the first place?» The though.....
» 15/08/2018 12:02:52 PM Well perhaps from an economic point of view it is possible to squeeze many more people ont.....
» 13/08/2018 10:12:53 AM Dear David, Shri Krishna was not born of a virgin - he was born in jail as the eighth son.....
» 10/08/2018 1:03:58 PM Dear Josephus, «Schools are supposed to teach and equip us for the present world.» Herei.....
» 10/08/2018 12:50:02 PM Dear SM, Jews should still be able to live in Eastern Jerusalem even once Israel no longe.....
» 8/08/2018 12:48:20 PM Dear Dan, I played all three movements, but not from memory and only on the piano, using .....
» 7/08/2018 11:55:41 PM Dear Dan, Moonlight Sonata... Thank you for reminding me about it - I haven't played it .....
» 7/08/2018 6:38:24 PM Dear CHERFUL, «Violence and religion are not contradictory terms. The Muslim Koran(religi.....
» 7/08/2018 5:00:04 PM Mandatory schooling and the indoctrination that goes therein, especially towards state-ens.....
» 6/08/2018 6:20:50 PM Dear CHERFUL, «Maybe the Bill should read, “the right to believe in a non violent religio.....
» 6/08/2018 2:15:38 PM There were times when procreation was important. At those times, having convex or concave .....
» 6/08/2018 1:50:08 PM I don't know whether Trump loves Israel, I don't even know whether he loves anyone but him.....
» 6/08/2018 1:39:45 PM Yes! Identifying religion with denying others the freedom to die, is harmful to religion......
» 6/08/2018 1:18:40 PM Religion is the ultimate force in the universe, so nothing is more paramount than the free.....
» 5/08/2018 5:01:34 PM Dear Foxy, «the values of the Liberal Party - like individual dignity, self-reliance, nat.....
» 1/08/2018 4:56:11 PM I cannot comment on your body's physical health, so see the experts for that. All I can s.....
» 29/07/2018 10:45:08 PM Dear Banjo, We were discussing a moral issue: we must clearly distinguish between right a.....
» 29/07/2018 9:18:43 PM Dear Foxy, «Pure democracy would mean that every citizen would have the right to particip.....
» 29/07/2018 5:32:44 PM Dear Foxy, «In a democracy the citizen is supposed to be in charge, not the bureaucrat.» .....
» 29/07/2018 3:48:00 PM Dear Foxy, «I would like to hear your views on what the party can and should do prior to .....
» 29/07/2018 3:35:05 PM Dear Belly, «We could ask if small party voters understand they in fact vote for one of t.....
» 28/07/2018 9:39:42 PM I agree with Runner: Do you really think that you or your doctors can do a better job tha.....
» 28/07/2018 9:23:48 PM Dear Ttbn, Thank you for this discussion. «It's not particularly about immigration; ther.....
» 28/07/2018 9:00:20 PM Dear Banjo, Most people live where they are because they were born there: what's being bo.....
» 27/07/2018 12:41:20 PM Well I have created my record myself some years ago, but only because I am not and never w.....
» 27/07/2018 12:21:08 PM Dear Banjo, Democracy, including democratic legislation, is one possible way for a group .....
» 26/07/2018 1:57:56 PM Thank you, Banjo, it was a nice discussion with you. As for "morally acceptable legi.....
» 25/07/2018 5:43:53 PM The only reason I will not opt out, is that my health-record will always remain almost emp.....
» 25/07/2018 10:23:52 AM I wonder where this idea as if babies are innocent came from - not from religion anyway, p.....
» 25/07/2018 1:39:28 AM Dear David, Since you asked, I do care for pregnant women and for their freedom to choose.....
» 24/07/2018 3:11:41 PM Dear Banjo, «if a soul is someone, does that someone also have a soul who is someone and .....
» 24/07/2018 1:52:38 AM Dear Banjo, «The OED definition of soul is...» Sloppy. Humans/animals are pure matter a.....
» 23/07/2018 4:08:34 PM Dear Joe, Agreed: no physical, chemical or biological evidence for a soul. So? As I bel.....
» 23/07/2018 2:28:11 PM Dear Joe, In this context, I never mentioned heaven or hell, god or religion, so please t.....
» 23/07/2018 10:39:51 AM Dear Banjo, Assuming there is no soul, then the concept of morality is stupid and those p.....
» 23/07/2018 1:24:20 AM Dear Banjo, «There is “falsifiable evidence” of the existence of a foetus, but not of a s.....
» 23/07/2018 1:04:13 AM Dear Not_Now.Soon, You have every reason to be upset with David. So long as he only crit.....
» 21/07/2018 10:48:39 PM Dear Belly, «and knowing small parties remain small because they can not win the support .....
» 21/07/2018 10:29:25 PM Dear Banjo, «In the US, research labs pay upward of $850 for an organism such as a fœtus».....
» 20/07/2018 5:20:02 PM Dear Joe, «A non-independently-viable sub-organism ?» No organism is viable - they all d.....
» 20/07/2018 3:30:40 PM Dear Ttbn, «There is no reason why Westerners would want to appropriate any culture obvio.....
» 20/07/2018 3:07:54 PM Dear Banjo, «I think it would help if we all agree on what exactly a foetus is» An organ.....
» 19/07/2018 10:40:39 PM Dear Philip, «Yuyutsu Quote "No doctor can enter your medical information unless you.....
» 19/07/2018 12:47:46 PM No doctor can enter your medical information unless you give them your medicare number. (a.....
» 18/07/2018 1:20:23 AM Dear David, I can understand why you wouldn't want to discuss any further and respond to .....
» 17/07/2018 6:56:43 PM Dear David, «People may send their children to religious schools, but they or their relig.....
» 17/07/2018 9:00:07 AM Dear Individual, One day it could be you or one of your family, possibly for a crime you/.....
» 15/07/2018 11:59:24 PM Dear O Sung Wu, Yes I have read Orwell's "1984", I don't remember exactly when,.....
» 15/07/2018 11:12:59 PM Dear Ttbn, «I still think marriage between a man and a women is a good thing.» And I cer.....
» 15/07/2018 10:48:09 PM God bless you, Foxy! --- Dear HereNow, As OzSpen refused to answer your questions, plea.....
» 15/07/2018 8:55:34 PM Dear Aidan, We cannot reach God by our own efforts, but we can turn towards Him and remov.....
» 15/07/2018 7:15:39 AM Dear Aidan, Well if you just think of white-collar employers, then indeed CBDs are a gold.....
» 15/07/2018 1:22:56 AM Hopefully we shall see the percentage of legal-marriages for heterosexual couples drop sim.....
» 14/07/2018 11:21:30 PM CBDs are an anachronistic white elephant and an obstruction to traffic. Understandably, r.....
» 14/07/2018 10:36:32 PM Dear Aidan, The context of this discussion is the church. While others may have differen.....
» 14/07/2018 9:59:44 PM Dear Banjo, Thank you for the good poem! Allow me to throw into the ring two Jewish answ.....
» 14/07/2018 8:36:33 PM Dear Foxy, «as far as I know there seems to be no theological or doctrinal reason why the.....
» 14/07/2018 8:22:12 PM Dear O Sung Wu, But who is to say which is an error, which is a minor error and which is .....
» 13/07/2018 5:12:50 PM Dear O Sung Wu, Thanks to your reply I am really distraught and unlikely to be able to sl.....
» 13/07/2018 1:14:22 AM Dear OzSpen, You seem to confuse between rights and inherent power: "Rights" a.....
» 12/07/2018 11:11:54 PM Dear O Sung Wu, «Unfortunately not all people are like you. For this reason, we need to d.....
» 12/07/2018 1:19:48 AM God has no rights - who possibly could grant Him rights? who possibly would tell Him what .....
» 11/07/2018 2:47:40 PM Both David Singer and Emperor Julian are guilty of objectifying and reducing the Israeli p.....
» 10/07/2018 11:52:34 PM Dear O Sung Wu, «What happens if the original crime was perpetrated in the offenders home.....
» 10/07/2018 1:10:48 PM NO. Imprisonment is such a cruel, idiotic and inhumane thing that it should not be furthe.....
» 10/07/2018 9:51:12 AM Being a Christian is a tremendous claim: a Christian is willing, if necessary, to die on t.....
» 6/07/2018 5:22:30 PM Dear Is Mise, It would not be right to kill people against their will, but why not ask th.....
» 6/07/2018 5:05:59 PM Dear Belly, The whole point of Genesis 1 are the first 3 verses of Genesis 2: This whole .....
» 6/07/2018 4:00:26 PM Dear Belly, The deities which you mentioned are just gods with a small-'g'. Most were pro.....
» 6/07/2018 12:45:25 AM Bless you, Toni ("I don't have a credit card"), neither have I, ever. All that .....
» 6/07/2018 12:35:47 AM Welcome, 2far4u2! «Religion and beliefs over time corrupt their own fundamental principle.....
» 6/07/2018 12:23:30 AM Dear Belly, «why God did you let so many other Gods exist?» Which ones for example? Sup.....
» 5/07/2018 11:57:29 PM Dear Toni, «But I am not opposed to appropriate corporal punishment. Castrate the bastard.....
» 5/07/2018 4:51:51 PM [...continued] Again, it matters not that the person they confide in is a priest, except .....
» 5/07/2018 4:51:48 PM Dear Banjo, I am glad to stand corrected that you do not wish for religion to disappear a.....
» 4/07/2018 12:43:27 PM Dear Banjo, I understand that you would have liked, if you could, to have religion disapp.....
» 3/07/2018 3:46:34 PM I believe each and every TV ad that I see - all 00000000000000000000000000000000000 of the.....
» 3/07/2018 3:34:42 PM If what the author describes is correct, then the question of welfare or no-welfare dwarfs.....
» 2/07/2018 10:17:39 PM What's the point of identifying with genetic differences, why make a big deal of it? would.....
» 2/07/2018 8:21:47 PM Outlawing guns was just phase 1. Outlawing pepper sprays and the like was phase 2. All th.....
» 30/06/2018 11:05:42 PM Dear Not_Now.Soon, Isn't it wonderful when you have a prophet to tell you in advance whet.....
» 30/06/2018 10:32:40 PM Dear Foxy, «Murder, rape, threatening or endangering life are considered major indictable.....
» 29/06/2018 3:54:38 PM Dear Foxy, I am so sorry to hear about your mother. You have mentioned her many times ove.....
» 29/06/2018 1:52:56 PM Dear Ttbn, «there are non-Christians who play about with idols. Human beings - no.» In H.....
» 29/06/2018 1:30:04 PM Dear Is Mise, «What is going on at the moment is political posturing of the "See, we.....
» 29/06/2018 1:01:28 PM Dear Foxy, I, for one, live in this country and do not belong to your "we", jus.....
» 28/06/2018 10:35:20 PM Dear Rehctub, Regarding the off-topic bit, according to the bible, humans were created ea.....
» 28/06/2018 9:00:04 PM Dear Foxy, Why do your words sound so familiar? I have already responded to them in the p.....
» 28/06/2018 3:15:08 PM Dear Hasbeen, When a piece of information is important enough, I confirm it with internat.....
» 28/06/2018 3:04:55 PM Dear Foxy, «You understand full well what laws we are all subject to living in this count.....
» 28/06/2018 2:45:59 PM Dear Ttbn, While the concept of subscription is good in principle, this wouldn't technica.....
» 28/06/2018 1:23:43 PM Dear Ttbn, So how do you like my suggestion: the ABC to remain public, but those who do n.....
» 28/06/2018 12:39:30 PM The ABC should not be privatised. Having a source of news and music that is not contamina.....
» 28/06/2018 9:11:18 AM Dear Not_Now.Soon, We will probably never know all that Jesus really told his disciples: .....
» 28/06/2018 1:33:30 AM Dear Foxy, Yes, I have read this paragraph several times before. It mentions 'our' (or 'o.....
» 28/06/2018 12:47:15 AM Dear Individual, «what's your view on why God tolerates the suffering of innocent childre.....
» 27/06/2018 5:14:38 PM Dear Forward, 1) I am not Catholic, not even Christian. 2) No priest will break the seal.....
» 27/06/2018 4:48:22 PM As Foxy mentioned, such worship needs to be understood in its cultural context. Bussa Kri.....
» 27/06/2018 1:00:21 PM Dear Foxy, «there are laws that you are required to obey» Required by whom? A bunch of b.....
» 27/06/2018 9:32:34 AM A good excuse to isolate China! And the following is recommended: http://en.wikipedia.org.....
» 26/06/2018 6:18:07 PM Dear JBSH, Priests do not absolve sins - God does. (and priests who believe that it is t.....
» 26/06/2018 3:02:17 PM Bring on the blues - we know this already, we always knew what China is all about - the qu.....
» 26/06/2018 1:51:57 PM Dear Foxy, I support your second option wholeheartedly: "cut off their funding and t.....
» 26/06/2018 12:23:13 PM Dear Engineer, «Those of contrary opinion must first demonstrate how their opinion overri.....
» 26/06/2018 11:39:48 AM «Both Archbishops Hart and Fisher are out of step with Australian moral values.» There is.....
» 26/06/2018 10:29:17 AM Dear Dan, «You should stop thinking Yuyutsu» Thank you, I am trying, but it is not easy .....
» 26/06/2018 12:13:33 AM Taking harmful drugs such as marijuana does not make sense - whether legal or otherwise. .....
» 25/06/2018 9:35:45 PM Dear Cossomby, Nazi officers were just one example. Obviously there were others who recen.....
» 24/06/2018 4:56:27 PM Dear Belly, First give such a young country boy some basic income, so they don't fall pre.....
» 24/06/2018 4:34:19 PM Dear Belly, «if you sit around and make no effort? is that why thousands die of starvatio.....
» 24/06/2018 4:07:58 PM Dear Belly, «but is it [(base income for every one)] the best or only way to fix the grow.....
» 24/06/2018 3:55:53 PM Dear Dan, «So let's tick off the Jews who were gassed and melted down for valuables, dese.....
» 24/06/2018 11:26:22 AM Dear Rehctub, «Surely we deserve better.» It appears that we do not! Nobody ever gets a.....
» 22/06/2018 5:15:47 PM Having a job, particularly a formal money-earning job, ought to be a lifestyle choice, not.....
» 20/06/2018 1:39:25 AM Dear Altrav, It is said that in the Soviet Union there was a Jewish scientist who made a .....
» 19/06/2018 3:45:41 PM Dear Banjo, «A number of fervent religious zealots have come up with some fairly fantasti.....
» 19/06/2018 2:48:18 PM Dear Altrav, «just as I have had to 'suck it up' for the 67 years of my life in this mise.....
» 19/06/2018 12:15:43 AM Dear Altrav, «NO, a society may not do anything, if in doing so contravenes any laws, or .....
» 18/06/2018 3:23:30 PM Dear Rache, Thank you for the information. Let me clarify that the issue is not about th.....
» 18/06/2018 2:56:04 PM Dear Altrav, So going a full circle we seem to be in agreement that a society MAY, if so .....
» 18/06/2018 2:15:16 PM Dear Toni, «Being forced, against your will, to gain an education.» What's school to do .....
» 18/06/2018 11:00:04 AM Dear Banjo, Many indeed do refer to God as Love. They are one and the same, the only diff.....
» 17/06/2018 11:21:24 PM Dear Belly, Thank you for your great questions: «what are we a country? community? hopefu.....
» 17/06/2018 10:32:17 AM Dear Dan, The lesson is to use one's will to overcome passivity, darkness, sloth and othe.....
» 16/06/2018 10:52:43 PM Dear Altrav, You describe very well how those two charity-seekers should have behaved. I .....
» 16/06/2018 8:50:50 PM Dear Altrav, Thank you, I understand your position and identification with Scrooge. So y.....
» 16/06/2018 8:21:18 PM Dear Nathan, «History: "A chronological record of significant events"» Now who.....
» 16/06/2018 8:01:47 PM Thank you Peter, I loved this article. --- Dear Dan, «The poor of this land, live at de.....
» 16/06/2018 7:15:24 PM Dear Foxy, «Julia Gillard's NBN roll-out differed greatly from that of what the Coalition.....
» 15/06/2018 5:17:54 PM Dear Foxy, Julia is the person responsible for forcing the NBN down our throats which is .....
» 13/06/2018 2:33:17 PM Absolutely true. Thank you, Nicola. The vast majority of people agree with the principle .....
» 13/06/2018 2:12:30 PM Dear Altrav, You come out here as quite an unrefined person: rough, insensitive and incon.....
» 13/06/2018 12:07:35 PM Dear Altrav, The example you provided of a car blocking your driveway is complex and intr.....
» 13/06/2018 2:53:50 AM Dear Altrav, Could you answer just this: Most would agree that one's right not to be pun.....
» 13/06/2018 1:02:17 AM Dear Canem Malum, «Socrates the giant of Western Philosophy was also a big fan.» So what.....
» 13/06/2018 12:44:10 AM Dear Foxy, «Free speech is not a legal right people hold in Australia.» Correct, but wha.....
» 13/06/2018 12:05:50 AM Dear Runner, «there would be far less hunger in India if people ate cows instead of belie.....
» 12/06/2018 4:34:41 PM Dear Foxy, «Freedom of speech is not freedom to abuse.» But freedom of speech includes t.....
» 12/06/2018 1:39:44 PM Trust depends on choice - if you have the option to use a service or not, then you wouldn'.....
» 11/06/2018 10:53:29 PM Dear Dan, Are you sure that your last post was intended for me? If so, then it is you wh.....
» 11/06/2018 5:13:20 PM The article provides a good argument why electing citizens at random is a better system th.....
» 11/06/2018 4:46:39 PM Dear Rache, Anyone who desires world-domination cannot be religious because religion libe.....
» 11/06/2018 12:28:01 AM Dear Bazz, You are bursting into an open door: «There seems to suddenly be a lot of peop.....
» 11/06/2018 12:09:45 AM Dear Altrav, Thank you for considering what I said, even if you disagree. As I see it, r.....
» 10/06/2018 10:25:07 PM Dear Critic, Has anyone here suggested killing anyone else? I think not. Not only that, .....
» 10/06/2018 10:06:00 PM Dear Altrav, Truth-telling is extremely important and indeed should be the only language .....
» 10/06/2018 3:17:55 PM Dear Foxy, I am with you on this topic. Does it surprise you? You know that I always ad.....
» 10/06/2018 2:56:08 PM It is too late for child-support, not even for one or two. Rather, parents ought to be be .....
» 10/06/2018 2:19:20 PM Dear Ttbn, «That's a hell of a lot of Jews.» And a hell of a lot of Muslims/Christians/D.....
» 9/06/2018 10:40:18 PM Dear Runner, "Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted .....
» 9/06/2018 9:47:07 PM Dear Mhaze, When it comes to the Middle-East, one thing that may help to calm things down.....
» 9/06/2018 8:37:55 PM Dear Belly, The symptom of over-population is regimentation. Technically we could squeez.....
» 9/06/2018 8:13:26 PM Dear Belly, «minority's have got things by blackmailing government in to letting them inf.....
» 9/06/2018 7:23:11 PM Dear Foxy, «The issues are more complex than what you're suggesting» Even more? What I s.....
» 8/06/2018 5:12:12 PM The main culprit is not unfair dismissal laws (though they add a bit), not even the second.....
» 8/06/2018 4:28:49 PM Dear Foxy, «What they have to decide in the US Courts is whether a person's religious con.....
» 8/06/2018 4:02:01 PM Dear Belly, Where from this strange idea as if small groups wish to rule over the majorit.....
» 8/06/2018 2:46:48 PM Dear Ttbn, The author is himself an Israeli, who like many other Israelis that remember t.....
» 8/06/2018 12:25:25 PM Dear Alon, You certainly have an idea that needs to be listened to, but if you want other.....
» 8/06/2018 10:25:41 AM Dear Rache, «Davis was a government employee who refused to carry out her legal duty and .....
» 8/06/2018 1:14:50 AM Dear Belly, I very much doubt that radicalised Muslims in Australia have the numbers to f.....
» 7/06/2018 5:01:06 PM Dear SM, «A member of federal parliament is expected to serve the interests of Australia .....
» 7/06/2018 4:53:29 PM Dear Josephus, Life does not come from human orifices, only bodies do - life comes from G.....
» 7/06/2018 1:58:19 PM Dear Mhaze, There is a difference between DNS servers and IP-level routers. DNS servers .....
» 7/06/2018 1:10:28 PM Dear Foxy and Joe, At home, you should be able to say whatever you want. As a guest at ot.....
» 7/06/2018 12:58:40 PM Dear Is Mise, In the discussion that led us here, Hasbeen wrote: «I'm afraid that you wi.....
» 7/06/2018 8:22:35 AM Dear Belly, «America remains the country that had its CIA murder the people of Chile» Le.....
» 7/06/2018 5:41:22 AM Do terrorists view us as human? I hope not, but if they do then it explains their behavio.....
» 7/06/2018 12:16:29 AM Dear Is Mise, Thank you for correcting me. In light of the better information, do you co.....
» 6/06/2018 10:08:14 PM Dear Hasbeen, «you can't serve 2 masters» MP's are not supposed to serve any of those ma.....
» 6/06/2018 7:16:55 PM Dear Belly, «for me at least America no longer is a country we should follow mimic or rel.....
» 6/06/2018 6:42:07 PM As a horse can be elected as a Roman Consul, why can't the people elect a dual-citizen, or.....
» 6/06/2018 1:11:57 PM Dear Paul, «I fail to see the religious connection between baking cakes and Jesus Christ!.....
» 6/06/2018 8:35:29 AM Dear Belly, What you described can (and does) occur in the lower house as well and within.....
» 6/06/2018 12:02:23 AM Dear Foxy, No court CAN address the question of "religious exemptions" because .....
» 5/06/2018 7:04:11 PM The issue was sidelined and not addressed: A baker refused to bake a cake. Period, so wha.....
» 5/06/2018 4:30:45 PM Dear Foxy, I fully agree. However, when you say: "where everything is becoming incr.....
» 5/06/2018 3:03:01 PM Dear Josephus, It would have been terrible indeed if we needed a right in order to expres.....
» 5/06/2018 12:23:41 PM «a once in a lifetime opportunity to make huge changes in the way Australia is governed.» .....
» 5/06/2018 12:11:51 PM Dear Is Mise, This refers to all claims over islands, big or small, that in essence answe.....
» 5/06/2018 11:55:08 AM Dear Agronomist, «The reality is that the more you earn, the more likely you are to take .....
» 5/06/2018 10:58:37 AM Dear Hasbeen, I fully agree and tick all your boxes. No acceptance of rules - no benefits.....
» 5/06/2018 8:49:35 AM Dear Paul, «The balance between the right to express ones thoughts/beliefs through free s.....
» 4/06/2018 11:29:22 PM «When you look at nations that slash government red tape, protect private property rights .....
» 4/06/2018 7:14:56 PM I don't usually agree with professors, but I agree with this one. Free speech must never .....
» 4/06/2018 5:23:19 PM Oops, my mistake: these were the Greeks of course, not the Romans - and this policy result.....
» 4/06/2018 4:55:32 PM Dear Critic, I didn't find this article worth of comment, but since you mentioned mental .....
» 4/06/2018 4:38:00 PM Dear SM, «The government is only in for 3 years, if their policies are crap, then the vot.....
» 4/06/2018 1:52:00 PM Dear Belly, The consent for a party to rule can be seen as a mitigating factor, but canno.....
» 4/06/2018 11:02:34 AM Dear Belly, I have no objection that the majority's point of view should lead, but to be .....
» 3/06/2018 7:28:02 PM Dear Joe, It may be technically correct to call me an "anarchist", but I don't .....
» 3/06/2018 1:50:28 PM Dear Belly, Minorities can never rule in a democracy, they simply don't have the numbers......
» 3/06/2018 10:30:51 AM Dear Belly, You are right that democracy is not the best system. The major flaw of democr.....
» 2/06/2018 10:40:37 PM Dear Belly, Child molesters are filthy, but are not pure filth - they do what they do bec.....
» 1/06/2018 4:35:10 PM Dear HereNow, Speaking of evil, while not belittling the evils you listed against innocen.....
» 1/06/2018 4:27:58 PM Dear Paul, According to the law of karma, no one can escape punishment, religious or othe.....
» 1/06/2018 3:25:56 PM Dear Belly, I do not believe in either dictatorship or democracy, but if you want democra.....
» 1/06/2018 10:51:58 AM Dear Josephus, I wonder where you got these interpretations - my source of information wa.....
» 1/06/2018 8:49:29 AM On becoming an Australian citizen I gave my allegiance to Her Majesty the Queen, Her heirs.....
» 1/06/2018 7:27:24 AM Dear Paul, Yes, I have been thinking of voluntary taxation for a long time. But it would.....
» 1/06/2018 7:06:46 AM Dear Paul, Saying "nonsense" without explanation is not an answer. If an offen.....
» 31/05/2018 11:34:23 PM Preferably get rid of both houses, but if only one house is to be eliminated, then better .....
» 31/05/2018 8:15:40 PM Just some minor corrections: Orthodox Jews do believe in angels: http://www.thoughtco.com.....
» 31/05/2018 7:49:32 PM The reality is that Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman cannot get rid of clerical control al.....
» 31/05/2018 5:27:03 PM Dear Belly, Religious institutions are intended to guide our spirit, not to control the w.....
» 31/05/2018 9:11:11 AM Dear Belly, I agree with your observation. Religious believers recognise that the worst .....
» 30/05/2018 6:01:07 PM Dear Josephus, «All persons working with children, the aged and disabled in our Church at.....
» 30/05/2018 2:12:26 PM Dear Alan, Please read my previous post more carefully: I am not against taxes, only agai.....
» 30/05/2018 11:32:53 AM Great topic, yet the answer is simple: Taking things from others without their consent, i.....
» 29/05/2018 6:51:56 PM Dear Paul, Have you read my first post from Thursday, 24 May 2018 11:42:18 PM? If you di.....
» 29/05/2018 10:51:27 AM Dear Joe, I do not mourn the aboriginal people for the life that most of them had, but ra.....
» 29/05/2018 6:45:59 AM Dear Paul, «runner and Josephus, as two of the forums "religious" you act as ap.....
» 29/05/2018 6:24:18 AM Dear Dan, I agree with Duffy: «Do you believe history to be written as a form of propaga.....
» 28/05/2018 11:51:40 PM Dear Nana, Yes, what you mention is true: life for aboriginal people was indeed uncomfort.....
» 28/05/2018 11:38:37 PM Dear Joe, "Sadly", because they become trapped in the Western lifestyle, whereb.....
» 28/05/2018 6:47:03 PM Dear Joe, «according to federal Education Department figures, more than 120,000 (one hund.....
» 28/05/2018 6:30:54 PM Dear Julian, How about relocating you and your family first, some 1000 miles south? You .....
» 26/05/2018 10:23:15 PM Why, O why, do only aboriginals deserve to be left alone?.....
» 25/05/2018 4:52:44 PM Dear Foxy, None of us, no matter how strong, has total control of our land. Look in your.....
» 25/05/2018 3:59:25 PM Dear Aidan, God is not for or against anything. There are however, actions that lead us t.....
» 25/05/2018 2:55:32 PM Dear Graham, Companies have privileges that ordinary people have not, such as paying less.....
» 25/05/2018 2:22:53 PM Dear Banjo, «The Arabs have tried this many times and have failed each time as the Israel.....
» 25/05/2018 10:09:35 AM Dear Josephus, «Does this case mean persons who suspect or know of a paedophile could fac.....
» 25/05/2018 9:55:34 AM Dear Paul, I am so sorry for forgetting to address you in my above post......
» 25/05/2018 9:10:01 AM «Yuyutsu //An innocent man convicted and possibly jailed for conscientious non-action.// R.....
» 25/05/2018 12:42:49 AM One thing is clear: Had the bible been written today, it would have included the explicit.....
» 25/05/2018 12:22:01 AM The British position is the most balanced: Yes, Western Jerusalem is the capital of Israe.....
» 24/05/2018 11:56:15 PM Dear Peter, «On Line Opinion should insist on real names from commentators» So that poli.....
» 24/05/2018 11:42:18 PM This is terrible. An innocent man convicted and possibly jailed for conscientious non-act.....
» 24/05/2018 5:19:18 PM Well it is wrong to prevent individuals from using their money to try to change the regime.....
» 23/05/2018 12:15:50 PM Dear Ttbn, The connection between Iran and Hamas is opportunistic: Iran is Shiite and Ham.....
» 23/05/2018 11:10:05 AM One nuclear bomb will not destroy Israel. It will kill 10,000's, but Israel will recover a.....
» 22/05/2018 11:59:02 AM Who the hell wants a politician to lead the country? What we need is a like in Hawaii, a .....
» 22/05/2018 1:04:37 AM Dear Rache, A religion requires none of the elements you mentioned: So long as a path lea.....
» 21/05/2018 6:55:59 AM Dear SteeleRedux, Great paraphrase - so assuming both statements are true, what can we do.....
» 21/05/2018 12:41:52 AM Dear SteeleRedux, «Would you deem it acceptable that these farmers stab the illegal settl.....
» 20/05/2018 10:46:00 PM Dear Opinionated, I will not respond to your post until you correct your abusive style of.....
» 20/05/2018 9:44:45 PM Thank you Ttbn: you said all that needed to be said in the first post!.....
» 20/05/2018 9:23:11 PM Honestly, what would you personally do? Assume you are living in a village where you were.....
» 19/05/2018 11:17:23 PM I condemn Moutia's support of terrorism in the strongest possible terms. I despise her one.....
» 19/05/2018 10:53:15 PM Dear Graham, «Hiduism may have a doctrine of freewill, but it doesn't accept that each in.....
» 18/05/2018 1:47:29 PM Protection? Who ever asked for any protection? All the baker asks is for the freedom to be.....
» 18/05/2018 9:37:31 AM Dear Ttbn, I don't know any (in fact I don't know anyone in person who is currently on un.....
» 18/05/2018 9:28:56 AM Dear Josephus, I agree and regarding my personal life, who cares anyway. However keeping .....
» 17/05/2018 11:42:03 PM Dear Opinionated, Sadly your style has not changed. Regarding castes: Like it or not, c.....
» 17/05/2018 10:29:37 PM [...continued] «Would you like me to discuss some of the crazy things in Hinduism for you.....
» 17/05/2018 10:29:31 PM Dear Opinionated, «Yuyutsu I realise you aren't a Christian but life after death is one o.....
» 17/05/2018 9:46:11 PM Nice to care for young unemployed people - but why should innocent animals pay for it with.....
» 17/05/2018 9:35:24 PM Dear Graham, «For what it's worth I think the writer is correct. Christianity is more com.....
» 17/05/2018 3:30:44 PM Thank you Alon - nice observations. One correction though: Despite all hiccups, Israel i.....
» 15/05/2018 4:05:03 PM Why, Netanyahu and Putin are genuinely good mates with common interests and their conversa.....
» 15/05/2018 3:20:32 PM Dear Opinionated, «Oh it looks like the religious amongst us have left the thread due to .....
» 12/05/2018 11:56:39 PM So it goes that three guys had an argument in a bar: 1) Jesus was just like me: Strong, b.....
» 11/05/2018 6:44:15 AM Dear Foxy, «It looks like there's not much interest in this topic» This is not true, I w.....
» 11/05/2018 6:38:07 AM Dear Aidan, «few nowadays choose to have big families, even though that's what would fit .....
» 9/05/2018 7:21:41 PM Dear Rehctub, How true, thanks for this insight about "child-care". «Like it o.....
» 9/05/2018 7:12:52 PM Dear Paul, «Would it not be better if for every new born hatched, two old farts were disp.....
» 7/05/2018 4:41:40 PM Dear Bunny, «Religion is tribal, and what ever you believe, you are cast in a tribal imag.....
» 7/05/2018 4:02:50 PM Dear Not_Now.Soon, Yes, those who have kids are anxious about the welfare of the next gen.....
» 7/05/2018 9:50:24 AM Dear Aidan, «Just because you're anti-state doesn't mean you should pretend it's impossib.....
» 6/05/2018 5:07:30 PM Dear Ttbn, «non-Westerners and the poor who take but do not contribute.» Kindly look at .....
» 6/05/2018 5:01:53 PM Dear Is Mise, A human birth is very rare: as Foxy said, there are many other realms of ex.....
» 6/05/2018 1:31:07 PM Dear Paul, Yes, it is harsh, but the only way to eliminate child poverty is to stop havin.....
» 3/05/2018 9:43:14 PM Dear Foxy, «Do they import the old traditions with them? For example Indians living in Au.....
» 1/05/2018 11:56:17 AM "So, who can we trust?" Trust in God! "We used to be able to look to chur.....
» 29/04/2018 9:44:35 PM The problem is our tendency to identify with a gender: Who cares what gender it is or whe.....
» 28/04/2018 8:22:36 PM It is time to throw out the commonwealth, rather than the states. While the very concept .....
» 26/04/2018 8:12:44 PM Dear Is Mise, «When I'm in India I get classified automatically, I'm considered Kshatrya,.....
» 24/04/2018 1:06:12 AM Dear Ttbn, «Australia does not have all the resources it needs to sustain itself indefini.....
» 23/04/2018 9:27:26 AM Australia has all the resources it needs to sustain itself indefinitely. American Indian .....
» 22/04/2018 12:30:24 AM "The Chinese ambassador to Australia has threatened..." China is a bully which .....
» 20/04/2018 4:06:10 PM «Abbas's Ramallah statement has presented Jordan with a stark choice - negotiate with Isra.....
» 18/04/2018 1:57:57 PM Dear Josephus, Even the most devout Christian should have no trouble with Opinionated2's .....
» 18/04/2018 1:44:24 PM Dear Dan, «It appears you are 110% behind suppression of (free) speech in public since, i.....
» 17/04/2018 10:11:52 AM There is too much emphasis on free speech: Freedom is about the ability to actually live .....
» 17/04/2018 1:45:51 AM Dear Bunny, «They were capable of abstract thought or thinking. Spiritual matters are dif.....
» 16/04/2018 4:24:21 PM Dear Bunny, «From about at least 250,000 years ago people have had some what you could ca.....
» 16/04/2018 12:45:55 PM Dear Not_Now.Soon, Just one further thought: I get the impression that you are quite inte.....
» 16/04/2018 1:26:27 AM Dear Benk, Though there is no such thing as "global warming", I still support y.....
» 15/04/2018 11:55:32 PM Dear Foxy, I didn't find the time to be active on this thread, which turned insane, but I.....
» 15/04/2018 5:31:27 PM What's this nonsense: there is no such thing as "renewable energy" - that would .....
» 12/04/2018 2:37:07 PM Why, dump everything on Jordan: who cares about this poor country and those kind people? t.....
» 12/04/2018 2:20:11 PM Peace can only reside deep in one's heart and is quite rare, so how can anyone hope to bri.....
» 12/04/2018 2:02:58 PM So the author believes that if one contemplates and looks within intuitively to try and ca.....
» 1/04/2018 9:19:04 PM Dear Tony, «Yes.» Seems likely and intuitive, but can you tell us how you know it? Any e.....
» 1/04/2018 9:10:00 PM Dear SAINTS, You rightly complain about the rape of children - yet forcing them to attend.....
» 1/04/2018 8:43:50 PM Dear Paul, I am glad that someone is finally at least back on the topic! Now the one who.....
» 30/03/2018 3:19:12 PM Dear Hasbeen, «If you don't like our laws Yuyutsu, move to somewhere where the laws suit .....
» 30/03/2018 12:42:38 PM Dear Jayb, «Hell, why don't we make it that everyone gets tried under the Laws of the Cou.....
» 29/03/2018 8:37:35 PM Even Saudi Arabia started to move away from this stupid "One law for all" - http.....
» 28/03/2018 1:58:08 PM Dear Alan, «Well a long as Israel contends that Palestine and Palestinians have only exis.....
» 28/03/2018 1:16:36 PM Dear Ttbn, 'Neither a borrower not lender be'. How true, but it's not consumerism (bad a.....
» 28/03/2018 12:32:32 PM Amen, Peter, though the road ahead is still long. I am so happy to read such a topic wher.....
» 28/03/2018 7:00:39 AM «If you don't like it here, go home, is a favourite line among exclusivists» Then the onl.....
» 26/03/2018 9:17:16 PM Dear Not_Now.Soon, Sorry for the delay. «I would like to hear the experiences from devot.....
» 26/03/2018 7:33:57 PM Dear Not_Now.Soon, «However by your own article I can gather one thing those precepts lac.....
» 26/03/2018 2:53:39 AM Still, the whole concept is unjust: The problem is that some people assert power over oth.....
» 26/03/2018 2:33:46 AM Oh yes, buy that book to make Stephen Bell and Michael Keating $59.99 richer, yourself $59.....
» 18/03/2018 7:16:26 AM Just to confirm the good relationship between Russia and Israel, http://www.jpost.com/Isra.....
» 18/03/2018 1:57:35 AM Dear Not_Now.Soon, Being a bit busy it will take me some time to respond, but regarding t.....
» 17/03/2018 10:33:05 PM Dear Mox, The only possible military challenge for Israel is Russia - but Russia and Isra.....
» 16/03/2018 2:35:06 PM Dear Nathan, Death is only of your body - You never die. Life, either without a body or .....
» 16/03/2018 12:28:31 AM Dear Ponder, «The purpose of my original article was to put forward my opinions on the fa.....
» 16/03/2018 12:08:14 AM [...continued] «If you were ok with any commitment to the religions you say you accept, t.....
» 16/03/2018 12:08:11 AM Dear Not_Now.Soon, I could expand at length the philosophical point regarding why it woul.....
» 15/03/2018 9:37:31 PM Sorry, but I just don't understand this article: The author's religion, Buddhism, does no.....
» 14/03/2018 11:08:59 PM Dear Not_Now.Soon, The only truth is God. Whenever we perceive anything as other-than-Go.....
» 14/03/2018 3:17:31 PM This lady was totally reckless. She is lucky to come out alive after walking unguarded wit.....
» 14/03/2018 3:00:53 PM Government everywhere, sigh......
» 13/03/2018 8:41:11 AM Would you also sue doctors and psychologists for advising people to kill themselves slowly.....
» 13/03/2018 8:12:06 AM "Attention deficit" is the healthy response when the object of attention is unwh.....
» 12/03/2018 4:32:17 PM [...continued] First point: It is the nature of the mind to be restlessly jumping betwee.....
» 12/03/2018 4:32:12 PM Dear Not_Now.Soon, «Religion serves many good purposes» Incidentally it can, but this is.....
» 9/03/2018 3:45:23 PM Dear Hasbeen, You will be surprised... What you seem to have overlooked, is that if, God.....
» 9/03/2018 2:47:42 PM Dear Waverley, «Imagine how much tolerance there will be for gays, lesbians, women rights.....
» 9/03/2018 1:21:53 PM FREE TIBET!.....
» 9/03/2018 1:07:45 PM What would they do once they achieve a global government? Perhaps hand this planet to the .....
» 9/03/2018 6:03:44 AM Dear David, Air India has just announced that it will begin regular flights directly from.....
» 8/03/2018 4:31:57 PM Dear Ttbn, «You are wrong about me. I have no tolerance of 'diversity' at all.» Neverthe.....
» 8/03/2018 11:00:03 AM Dear Paul, «Yuyutsu, how do you score yourself, a big fat zero? You lost me when you want.....
» 8/03/2018 8:27:25 AM I am not a fan of Hanson, but if her true motive is as stated, then I applaud her. «The i.....
» 8/03/2018 7:23:47 AM I pity your generation, Alice. It is not democracy that you don't care about - it is life.....
» 8/03/2018 5:56:09 AM Dear Not_Now.Soon, Please calm down: of course there is good and evil, right and wrong, b.....
» 6/03/2018 2:48:50 PM Dear Foxy, «All developed countries have laws that people are required to obey.» Just to.....
» 6/03/2018 1:31:59 PM Dear David, «#Yuyutsu: Do you agree with all of the above 5 Facts?» YES. However, I do .....
» 6/03/2018 12:47:15 PM [...continued] «Look at it this way. If Christianity is right, then so is Jewish faith ba.....
» 6/03/2018 12:47:08 PM Dear Not_Now.Soon, «if He sent us a message and it became a religion, how could that mess.....
» 5/03/2018 2:44:14 PM Dear Foxy, «But we could not do that without the framework which guarantees the freedom t.....
» 4/03/2018 11:35:52 PM Dear Not_now.Soon, «then we can approach the idea of there being a choice of which is rig.....
» 4/03/2018 10:25:59 PM Dear Foxy, «We have a robust tolerance of difference in our society. But to maintain this.....
» 4/03/2018 9:59:54 PM Dear Prompete, «I enjoy and learn from your accurate and legal essays here David, but fin.....
» 4/03/2018 7:20:09 AM Dear Not_Now.Soon, «Which ones have it right? That should be the next question.» The que.....
» 1/03/2018 1:40:46 PM Good for this insentient creature called "Australia" and bad for its victims - o.....
» 27/02/2018 10:51:17 PM It is a fact of life that a significant portion of society hates religion with a vengeance.....
» 26/02/2018 4:27:38 PM I was present at an Anglican ordination ceremony and I remember (though not the exact word.....
» 26/02/2018 1:46:46 AM Dear David, «I feel no need for any religious belief and can see no point in it, but I am.....
» 23/02/2018 5:05:50 PM Dear Nathan, It would be great to live without money as we waste such a large chunk of ou.....
» 22/02/2018 11:55:14 AM Dear Not_Now.Soon, «because we can't know how everything pans out» But we do! We do kno.....
» 21/02/2018 2:40:32 PM Dear Daffy, «Meanwhile of course the good senator does not mention the government subsidi.....
» 21/02/2018 12:30:45 PM «It is not up to Australia to provide somewhere 'nice to live' for foreigners.» Correct, .....
» 21/02/2018 8:57:16 AM The main effect of this is moral rather than financial - to turn millions of Australians i.....
» 20/02/2018 10:45:56 AM Dear Not_Now.Soon, Sometimes we need hope, but how much better when we do not need it! C.....
» 19/02/2018 10:59:44 PM Dear Not_Now.Soon, «I do hope on God. I wish I could say that God is my only hope. He is .....
» 19/02/2018 1:37:09 PM When you see those two puppets ever fighting and abusing each other childishly, you know t.....
» 18/02/2018 7:25:32 PM Dear Not_Now.Soon, «But lacking knowledge does not mean we should lack hope. I think the .....
» 18/02/2018 7:16:21 PM When public transport is an ideological goal unto itself, when the idea is to force differ.....
» 18/02/2018 7:07:29 PM Dear Hasbeen, «The real things cost a kings ransom.» Of course, one gets what one pays f.....
» 18/02/2018 4:15:20 PM Dear Hasbeen, I am not proposing a return to the 1920's/1930's, but only to the 1960's/19.....
» 18/02/2018 10:34:19 AM Sadly, the author's long and unrelated socialist shopping-list dilutes the argument. I op.....
» 16/02/2018 5:00:06 PM Sorry, my last post belong elsewhere. Please ignore it......
» 16/02/2018 4:55:09 PM (...continued) «I would invite you to seek God too.» I have been doing so all my life - .....
» 16/02/2018 4:34:28 PM (...continued) «I would invite you to seek God too.» I've been doing so all my life - an.....
» 16/02/2018 4:34:22 PM Dear Not_Now.Soon, You asked me: "What do you offer? Any way is good as long as it i.....
» 15/02/2018 11:58:27 AM The author seems to exaggerate America's contribution and influence over Israel. The fact .....
» 15/02/2018 11:43:08 AM Dear Not_Now.Soon, Having information ABOUT God does not amount to knowing God. «Second .....
» 14/02/2018 1:45:53 PM Thanks, Banjo!.....
» 13/02/2018 3:18:21 PM There is nothing mystifying about working in science and being spiritual at the same time .....
» 13/02/2018 3:03:24 PM Few people actually believe that white people are superior, but the totalitarian behaviour.....
» 13/02/2018 10:15:31 AM Blessings, Banjo, on this holy day of Shivaratri. Today I am not in an intellectual/theol.....
» 12/02/2018 3:02:32 PM Discussing the views of Christianity regarding body versus soul in terms of either materia.....
» 11/02/2018 8:56:15 PM Dear Toni, «They keep coming up with artifacts and remains and stuff that they claim to b.....
» 11/02/2018 8:33:00 PM Dear Not_Now.Soon, Indeed, hatred will not disappear in a puff of smoke if you become les.....
» 11/02/2018 1:22:38 PM Dear Banjo, «And, even those who profess some particular religion rarely practise it in a.....
» 11/02/2018 2:04:45 AM Dear Not_Now.Soon, I am sorry, but due to evangelical attitudes like yours, other people .....
» 10/02/2018 8:52:29 PM Dear Banjo, The most common parody on religion is how some churches and clergymen behave......
» 9/02/2018 6:26:43 PM Dear David, Just because some idiot pretends to be a "Christian", does it mean .....
» 9/02/2018 12:28:01 PM Dear Banjo, «Do you honestly think that tables and chairs, knives and forks, etc. practis.....
» 8/02/2018 8:52:05 PM Actions speak louder than ideas. Given that you want to uphold family values while your l.....
» 8/02/2018 7:05:28 PM Dear Mhaze, Re creator: whether or not it is worthwhile to meet him, is a matter of perso.....
» 8/02/2018 11:46:36 AM Now that Susan's mother said what she said, it became a "reasonable step" for Su.....
» 8/02/2018 11:31:30 AM Why would you want to do this? You may be able to cheat OzLotto and receive the money (an.....
» 8/02/2018 6:11:35 AM Dear Nathan, «People have been told by government this is all good, it is part of a growi.....
» 8/02/2018 5:34:13 AM While true, one should not need a doctor in the first place in order to get medication (at.....
» 7/02/2018 10:20:39 PM Dear Banjo, Regarding time (past-present-future), I was drawn into it because you mention.....
» 7/02/2018 9:30:54 PM Dear HereNow, You say that there is no sin, then are we all united with God already? 'Si.....
» 7/02/2018 9:11:59 PM Dear Not_Now.Soon, «Do you recognize God in a simular way Yuyutsu recogizes God? Unknowab.....
» 6/02/2018 2:48:12 PM Dear Banjo, The issue of time (past-present-future) is complex and would require a full d.....
» 5/02/2018 1:24:05 PM Isn't Turkey a republic? Oh, also China, Russia and North Korea........
» 5/02/2018 1:07:05 PM Dear Banjo, Hopes, wishes and expectations belong in the future, but I am (and you are) w.....
» 4/02/2018 9:33:46 PM Dear HereNow, Why blame religion itself for the actions of some fanatic Christians? Kill.....
» 4/02/2018 12:59:50 PM Dear Banjo, «What, then, is your definition of God ?» God cannot be defined directly in .....
» 3/02/2018 10:27:54 PM Dear Banjo, • Sect, church or guru - all share a common function: that of spiritual guide.....
» 2/02/2018 6:07:27 PM Dear Banjo, My understanding is that at the time Christianity was a Jewish sect, it was n.....
» 1/02/2018 11:45:20 AM Dear Tony, I stand corrected regarding the origins of the bodies which we currently use. .....
» 1/02/2018 11:39:36 AM The author himself, a Christian deacon, admits that the Church never represented a religio.....
» 31/01/2018 9:39:11 PM «Does anyone believe that we evolved from monkeys?» Of course not, but our bodies have......
» 30/01/2018 6:30:24 PM I agree, Nathan, I am also vegetarian and this is disgusting and shameful. Pity they were.....
» 29/01/2018 7:35:22 PM Dear Not_Now.Soon, I am sorry to hear that I rob you of fully holding your faith. This is.....
» 29/01/2018 1:18:58 PM Dear Cherful, «Id prefer to live under Chinese rule than muslim rule.» This reminds me o.....
» 28/01/2018 3:18:29 PM Dear Nana, «The belief in the existence of a god is no less credible than the belief that.....
» 28/01/2018 10:58:49 AM Dear Not_Now.Soon, Why do you need more miracles when the fact of your own consciousness .....
» 28/01/2018 6:16:53 AM Dear Not_Now.Soon, Christianity and Judaism do not own God - all religious people worship.....
» 26/01/2018 4:04:57 PM 24 kilometres to school? that's crazy! For pre-school, at the age of 5, someone usually u.....
» 26/01/2018 11:17:11 AM Social division and tribalism based on religion - sounds good, pretty much the opposite of.....
» 26/01/2018 10:50:13 AM Dear Cossomby, The question of existence, of anything, is a material question - not a spi.....
» 25/01/2018 10:51:10 PM Sadly these discussions tend to be hijacked by this silly question, whether or not God exi.....
» 25/01/2018 1:19:06 PM Dear Ttbn, The connection of Western culture with this topic, is that you regret that the.....
» 24/01/2018 6:03:18 PM Dear David, Certainly we wouldn't want to see a repeat of those cruel murders which you m.....
» 24/01/2018 4:31:27 PM Sending a child to a public school is irresponsible. The bus company should actually be t.....
» 24/01/2018 4:24:09 PM Dear Ttbn, I don't know Linda, much less what goes on in her mind. It is quite possible .....
» 24/01/2018 4:16:49 PM Dear Ttbn, You seem very keen on Western culture: If you wish to promote it, then perhaps.....
» 24/01/2018 3:42:13 PM Dear David, «Can you really believe human females can become impregnated and give birth w.....
» 24/01/2018 11:52:26 AM Yes, God loves you - but what does it mean? Does He love your body? Then why does He let .....
» 23/01/2018 2:11:24 PM The problem with the article is its attempt to justify moral concerns using economic argum.....
» 21/01/2018 11:40:42 PM Dear Ashbo, Our ordinary day to day perceptions serve our human needs quite well, though .....
» 20/01/2018 10:08:38 PM But what else can we do? The current Israeli government and its ideology has won the demo.....
» 20/01/2018 9:09:30 PM Dear Eric, Most people would not swap the difficulties which they already got used to wit.....
» 19/01/2018 6:53:05 PM «There is no doubt that the human race has improved in its understanding of science and te.....
» 19/01/2018 5:55:08 PM Dear Paul, How crazy people can be: forcing themselves to get up tired in the morning, en.....
» 18/01/2018 3:59:18 PM Dear Ashbo, Our intellect can mitigate some distortions in perception. However, it cannot.....
» 17/01/2018 1:20:24 PM Dear Not_Now.Soon, So long and to the extent that you consider yourself as a man, then of.....
» 17/01/2018 3:42:16 AM Dear Not_Now.Soon, You seem to have changed the subject. This is expected when the going.....
» 16/01/2018 5:05:31 PM Why is there an "Australia Day" to begin with? Just cancel it - and all other p.....
» 15/01/2018 2:28:57 PM Dear Dan, Yes, I wish language could be more precise, with a clear one-to-one mapping bet.....
» 15/01/2018 12:53:44 PM Dear Not_Now.Soon, I am glad that you disagree with me: this way you can have your own ge.....
» 14/01/2018 9:19:57 PM Dear Dan, While I know my Hebrew too well, whatever thou sayest about Greek, I can only n.....
» 14/01/2018 7:34:23 PM Dear Not_Now.Soon, Thank you very much for your response. Attempting to answer these ques.....
» 14/01/2018 1:30:49 PM Dear Dan, I had no intention to join this discussion about Christianity and Judaism and h.....
» 14/01/2018 1:30:18 AM Dear Banjo, Satisfaction, no doubt, can motivate for actions that look like love; and it .....
» 13/01/2018 10:45:32 PM Dear Not_Now.Soon, Let aside the question of "What God is" and "Who God is.....
» 12/01/2018 4:12:29 AM Aspartame is a horrible substance. Sugar on the other hand is quite benign - better have .....
» 12/01/2018 3:04:44 AM Dear Not_Now.Soon, «If there is a difference between your body and your soul,ma person mi.....
» 12/01/2018 2:22:56 AM Dear Banjo, I am truly impressed by your excellent definition: «I see truth as informati.....
» 12/01/2018 12:16:39 AM Dear Not_Now.Soon, «Yet these are opposites beliefs concerning death and dying. Can they .....
» 7/01/2018 8:37:57 AM Dear Taylor, Man IS this shell, this body - which will surely die. Yet You, who at prese.....
» 6/01/2018 9:50:15 PM Dear Not_Now.Soon, One can doubt one's qualities, but one cannot honestly doubt oneself. .....
» 2/01/2018 9:47:55 AM The ultimate solution: Trump should enthrone David Singer as the King of (undemocratic) J.....
» 30/12/2017 9:31:34 PM Same-sex couples have been married in prison for decades if not for centuries. The latest .....
» 29/12/2017 4:21:56 PM Dear Aidan, «What I find far worse is that Turnbull is willing to dismantle the NBN for h.....
» 29/12/2017 1:26:13 PM Yes, this is the case - but what else could a voter do for whom policy is more important t.....
» 28/12/2017 2:34:33 PM Let people have their drugs and damage themselves if so they wish - the scandal is that it.....
» 28/12/2017 2:12:05 PM When you were a boy, Russell, fearful of crazed commie fanatics in black pyjamas, did you .....
» 24/12/2017 2:29:28 PM The word "sin" is derived from archery where it means "missing the mark&quo.....
» 23/12/2017 9:49:21 PM In most cases it is. But then, almost everything we do is sinful: "Enter through th.....
» 22/12/2017 7:19:54 PM Dear David, «enjoy the wonders of the world we live in» I would like to believe that you.....
» 19/12/2017 11:05:19 AM A Laborite?! - Cancel the NBN, then I'll vote for you......
» 19/12/2017 9:15:54 AM There seems to be a hatred-competition going on here. I am not in your league, guys. I f.....
» 17/12/2017 11:38:17 AM Dear Nick, «Bad logic. Is being a shark the same as being a pedophile? If smallpox virus .....
» 17/12/2017 8:47:32 AM Dear Paul, One may not sympathise with the Catholic Church, certainly not with its abuses.....
» 17/12/2017 2:11:34 AM Two abusive gangs are facing each other - "Australia" and "China". Th.....
» 17/12/2017 2:01:40 AM Dear Foxy, «Those people have gotten away with this for far too long.» Those people, tha.....
» 16/12/2017 10:25:55 PM Dear Josephus, «Now that SSM is legal,» It always was. «the next inequality to be fough.....
» 15/12/2017 7:04:07 PM «People are free agents and this provides evidence that they are made up of two substances.....
» 13/12/2017 8:38:51 PM Dear Foxy, «Before I leave this discussion I'd like to wish everyone» So you are leaving.....
» 11/12/2017 10:31:45 PM Dear Foxy, The link you provided says: "To be legally married in Australia, a perso.....
» 11/12/2017 4:02:02 PM Dear Foxy, I respected your wish when you earlier wrote: «Either way - I don't have the .....
» 11/12/2017 2:59:04 PM Dear Leoj, What does it matter how many voted when the question itself was illogical nons.....
» 10/12/2017 3:57:03 PM Dear Foxy, «Nobody is going to force anyone who doesn't want to get married to get marrie.....
» 10/12/2017 3:47:50 PM Dear Foxy, Yes, we have covered this ground many times before, yet you still persist. Au.....
» 10/12/2017 2:35:47 PM Dear Ttbn, What I mean is, that YOU as an individual ought to be sovereign over your own .....
» 10/12/2017 1:42:11 PM I must agree with you, Ttbn. Turnbull has uncharacteristically done a good thing, for whic.....
» 10/12/2017 1:31:41 PM Dear Foxy, «Same sex marriage was not legally allowed under the laws of the land in Austr.....
» 10/12/2017 12:43:30 PM Dear Altrav, «Yuyutsu, the weak do not have the strength to reject the notion of religion.....
» 10/12/2017 1:25:53 AM Dear Foxy, The state's recognition of SSM came at no surprise at all. Yet, I am disappoi.....
» 10/12/2017 12:38:56 AM It is false to assume as if one's faith in the bible has to depend on the bible's accuracy.....
» 8/12/2017 12:48:45 PM Australia should: 1) Recognise Western-Jerusalem as Israel's capital. 2) Keep its embassy.....
» 8/12/2017 12:24:56 PM Why should these two dinosaurs be relevant at all?.....
» 8/12/2017 12:16:42 PM Dearest Foxy, Thank you for your excellent contribution, bravo! It was sad that the SSM .....
» 7/12/2017 5:22:28 PM Jerusalem, that is Western Jerusalem, has always been the capital of Israel. That said, t.....
» 7/12/2017 11:34:09 AM Dear David, «12.5 million Australians had no trouble answering "YES" or "N.....
» 5/12/2017 2:22:09 PM Dear Julian, «Lawful marriage of a couple involves the state in that it confers on the co.....
» 5/12/2017 8:25:37 AM FREE TIBET!.....
» 5/12/2017 12:56:30 AM Dear Not_Now.Soon, My claim that "atheists do not believe in themselves", was s.....
» 4/12/2017 11:38:32 PM Dear Julian, Clerics can perform weddings without being marriage-celebrants on behalf of .....
» 4/12/2017 11:32:08 PM Dear Julian, The 1967 occupation is the worst thing that ever happened to Israel. The arr.....
» 4/12/2017 5:08:00 PM Dear Critic, The Americans could have added some fat to Israel, but their "favours&q.....
» 4/12/2017 4:30:54 PM «A person who does not wish to participate in a same-sex wedding is doing so because they .....
» 4/12/2017 1:33:40 PM Israel was created and is sustained by the toil and blood of its people - not by some friv.....
» 30/11/2017 1:50:38 PM "Dastardly remains in the Parliament, why?" - Because nobody dares to poke the .....
» 30/11/2017 1:35:33 PM First, I completely agree with the author. In the past I have warned the Christian-based .....
» 29/11/2017 3:33:18 PM Dear SM, «as only 0.6% of the population does not identify as the sex they were born with.....
» 29/11/2017 2:24:02 PM Dear Paul, When at school, I already suffered my above-average share of bullying. Now ar.....
» 29/11/2017 1:43:15 PM Dear Cherful, It is not just about Muslims versus Christians: government only cares for t.....
» 29/11/2017 10:27:43 AM "Public" (government-sponsored) schools were never a safe place for children. On.....
» 29/11/2017 10:02:25 AM [...continued] «I would say that indeed everything is dependent on God, but God is not ev.....
» 29/11/2017 10:02:19 AM Dear Not_Now.Soon, «There's a difference between acknowledging God, and understanding Him.....
» 28/11/2017 10:22:34 PM Dear Mikk, «Any exceptions for magic fairy believers are surely going to be closely follo.....
» 28/11/2017 11:51:40 AM Dear David, Which particular argument of mine are you referring to? That God cannot exist.....
» 28/11/2017 9:13:22 AM Dear Not_Now.Soon, We are up against the limitations of the human mind. How can we speak .....
» 28/11/2017 8:33:52 AM Dear Nick, It makes an interesting discussion whether what we perceive to be the Jewish r.....
» 28/11/2017 12:15:34 AM Dear Nick, «Israel means Jewish state and they mean it.» No they don't. It's true that I.....
» 27/11/2017 11:43:39 PM Dear Nathan, It is neither right nor compassionate to impose your values on others, who m.....
» 27/11/2017 11:25:33 PM Dear Not_Now.Soon, «The conclusion that God doesn't exist is wrong.» Well the conclusion.....
» 27/11/2017 6:25:09 PM While driving today I turned on the radio and heard someone speaking in parliament against.....
» 27/11/2017 3:45:35 PM Excellent article - and excellent response too, Peter. I find myself in agreement with you.....
» 27/11/2017 2:50:27 PM Dear Nick, Of course Israel is far from perfect (and who is?), of course I lament its occ.....
» 27/11/2017 1:05:30 AM Dear Nick, Keep tickling that lawyer! However, Israel does not own "Palestine".....
» 24/11/2017 7:35:10 AM It's not specifically about 44(i): this whole section 44 must go because it limits the abi.....
» 22/11/2017 8:48:32 PM Dear Paul, Excellent questions! «Do you want no laws enforced for the protection of soci.....
» 22/11/2017 4:13:36 PM I TOLD THEM! But they wouldn't listen. They needed this defeat to realise that the wheel .....
» 22/11/2017 3:57:27 PM Dear Philip, «Voting so far 1 (Iftikhar)FOR 7 against, I call that a resounding NO to Muh.....
» 22/11/2017 3:18:16 PM Dear Rusty, We seem to agree that misleading is wrong. We could discuss ad-nauseam the fi.....
» 22/11/2017 2:37:47 PM Dear David, «You have now been admitted into the Jew-hating company of #Toni, #Emperor, #.....
» 22/11/2017 1:55:10 PM Dear Paul, «Yuyutsu, he currently supports violent means. I do? Don't think so.» So you .....
» 22/11/2017 10:39:23 AM Dear Joe, Paul has a good heart. He just fails to realise that in the pursuit of his wor.....
» 22/11/2017 10:33:29 AM Ideally there would be no such bodies like the state which violently control our lives. Gi.....
» 22/11/2017 10:10:47 AM Dear Paul, I am not a Christian/Catholic and do not share their dogma, but thank you for .....
» 22/11/2017 9:55:32 AM Dear Hasbeen, Even if artificial intelligence was more advanced, still Indians would not .....
» 22/11/2017 9:51:16 AM What's bad about not being on the map? Does it mean that you are not actually where you a.....
» 22/11/2017 9:03:28 AM Dear Nana, I would like to avoid turning this painful issue which I raised into a politic.....
» 20/11/2017 11:45:55 PM Dear Hasbeen, It took me a bit of practice, but after 6-7 tries I got it right: the right.....
» 20/11/2017 11:30:36 PM Excellent response, Foxy, Thanks!.....
» 20/11/2017 11:22:55 PM Before I comment on the article, allow me to applaud Progressive Pat: Television has butc.....
» 20/11/2017 3:56:40 PM Dear Foxy, Thank you, I already looked at this link and learned from it what the current .....
» 20/11/2017 12:15:40 PM Dear Foxy, I like your good sense!.....
» 20/11/2017 12:07:03 PM Dear Toni, «Refusing to bake a gluten-free cake for somebody who was actually gluten into.....
» 19/11/2017 11:46:32 PM Exactly, Is Mise - Indians will not go like lambs to the slaughter!.....
» 19/11/2017 11:25:16 PM Dear Is Mise, «Would a Muslim baker be expected to bake a cake with an anti-Muslim messag.....
» 19/11/2017 8:47:10 PM Not_Now.Soon, «Medicine and the utilities are services that should be equally given. If y.....
» 19/11/2017 10:28:03 AM Dear Toni, Yes, no coffee and no strychnine: so then all is fine? --- Dear Nick, I wis.....
» 18/11/2017 10:36:24 PM Thank you everyone, your answers are much appreciated! Now as Foxy said, if someone hated.....
» 17/11/2017 3:45:21 PM Dear Critic, These questions should be addressed to Christians, not to me since I don't q.....
» 17/11/2017 1:00:26 PM Dear SM, What is: A. Green. B. Hangs on the wall; and C. Whistles. No idea? Still no i.....
» 16/11/2017 11:10:41 PM How does everyone here feel about eating a cake despite knowing that its baker hates you a.....
» 16/11/2017 2:57:39 PM Dear Paul, «For the Churchies, It wont be long now until the newly weds Martin and Luther.....
» 16/11/2017 2:27:17 PM Dear SM, Suppose 'A' and 'B' agree to eat 'C'. They consider it moral to fill their stom.....
» 16/11/2017 2:11:44 PM Dear David, «the following reference shows just how misconstrued religion can get» Obvio.....
» 16/11/2017 10:00:21 AM Why the assumption that Australia does not have nuclear weapons already? Do you think tha.....
» 16/11/2017 9:34:46 AM Dear David, «Most of us have been brought up within the rather narrow confines of one of .....
» 16/11/2017 9:16:17 AM Dear SM, A. Laws are based on agreement. B. Some agreements are moral. Does this imply: .....
» 16/11/2017 9:07:08 AM Dear Josephus, Exactly: "legal marriage" and marriage are two completely differ.....
» 16/11/2017 1:03:28 AM Dear Foxy, When the bankers and lawyers enter the picture, it's already too late. Let's .....
» 15/11/2017 5:57:24 PM Dear Foxy, The bakers will not consult with their churches because they will hang themsel.....
» 15/11/2017 5:36:16 PM Stop all discrimination: No longer discriminate between green and red lights at intersect.....
» 15/11/2017 5:03:03 PM Dear Josephus, I do not oppose homosexual marriage as such - I only oppose any "marr.....
» 15/11/2017 4:27:35 PM Dear SM, «All laws are based on agreements» So person 'A' and person 'B' AGREE to eat pe.....
» 15/11/2017 4:22:58 PM Dear Foxy, «Today people are celebrating, tomorrow the Parliament will legislate» And th.....
» 15/11/2017 12:05:04 AM Dear Peter, Thank you, I was relieved by your response: While some might technically con.....
» 14/11/2017 3:32:24 PM Dear Pilot, «you arrive undocumented with no visa on a unapproved illegal country to coun.....
» 14/11/2017 3:22:53 PM Dear SM, The "international law of the sea" is, as the name suggests, an agreem.....
» 14/11/2017 2:21:49 PM I think that I failed to understand this article. Is the article's main point that some (.....
» 14/11/2017 3:57:40 AM Dear Leo, While we could discuss the validity of the concept of "Australian waters&q.....
» 13/11/2017 10:28:33 PM Dear Leo, I wonder whether the boats were rented out or sold to the seafarers or whether .....
» 13/11/2017 10:14:54 PM Dear Foxy, «I've lost count of the number of door-knockers that we've had prior to the cl.....
» 13/11/2017 8:04:37 PM Dear Rehctub, «Y, they are not refugees, they are illegal arrivals.» The only reason the.....
» 13/11/2017 7:54:26 PM Give them their boats back! As it stands, Australia is a shameful pirate gang which hijac.....
» 13/11/2017 7:43:50 PM Nobody should have a right to marry and all existing marriages should no longer be legally.....
» 13/11/2017 7:37:05 PM First I protest the title: politicians are not "Leaders", but scum-bag parasites.....
» 13/11/2017 8:46:02 AM Economy should never come before personal freedoms. It should never be allowed for commer.....
» 11/11/2017 11:08:40 PM Dear Rehctub, «My point is, had she been an illegal, I will bet she would have got one on.....
» 11/11/2017 10:31:08 PM Dear Foxy, Thank you for producing the list of outstanding hiccups in equal treatment of .....
» 9/11/2017 4:11:42 PM Dear David, We can only do our best. So try to have the mechanisms to support your const.....
» 9/11/2017 1:05:21 PM Dear David, If you design a good constitution which takes into account the needs, wishes .....
» 8/11/2017 10:01:02 PM Dear David, Each enclave should have some constitution (or equivalent) which is initially.....
» 8/11/2017 9:16:53 PM What's wrong with drowning? If refugees drown, then it's by the hands of God, nature and .....
» 8/11/2017 8:59:11 PM If Jesus was a terrorist, then he was a good terrorist! Somehow the word "Jesus".....
» 8/11/2017 12:10:41 AM It looks like some people here are having a party, vicariously enjoying the explicit, but .....
» 7/11/2017 6:02:17 PM Dear Foxy, «I'm trying to find at least one positive thing that the current government co.....
» 6/11/2017 11:03:06 PM Dear Alan, I appreciate your fear. Should we kill innocent others so that we don't get k.....
» 6/11/2017 9:31:03 PM Dear Opinionated2, It seems like you have nothing more to say on the subject-matter of th.....
» 6/11/2017 2:13:47 PM Dear Opionated2, «Hinduism has the caste system» Let's address your ignorance of Hinduis.....
» 6/11/2017 11:11:27 AM The constitution ought to be scrapped, not replaced. In any case, no constitution can be .....
» 6/11/2017 10:56:07 AM I agree with this article, but I go further: Everyone ought to be free not to be ruled by.....
» 5/11/2017 11:56:57 PM Dear Opinionated2, I see that you started a big discussion about the bible: surely I have.....
» 5/11/2017 10:50:30 PM Dear Hasbeen, Regrettably indeed we no longer live in villages, yet the Australian electo.....
» 5/11/2017 10:12:58 PM I just can't understand: assuming they are (at least those who were determined to be refug.....
» 5/11/2017 10:06:16 PM Both sides of this discussion are guilty of the same: identification with gender/sex. Whe.....
» 5/11/2017 9:19:59 PM [...continued] But was Jesus speaking of the "old testament" as such? The old t.....
» 5/11/2017 9:19:53 PM Dear Not_Now.Soon, «I can't give the same kind of acceptance because of the first issue» .....
» 3/11/2017 5:46:47 PM Dear Not_Now.Soon, That differences exist is not surprising, but I consider them superfic.....
» 2/11/2017 4:17:05 PM If it were possible (it isn't) to prove that God exists, then worship of God would be chea.....
» 2/11/2017 12:19:52 PM Yes, extremely sad. I don't think though that any politician ever expected to make a prof.....
» 2/11/2017 11:50:59 AM Dear Opinionated2, «I was stating that as the nationals state that their party believes i.....
» 1/11/2017 6:34:27 PM And yet they continue to make more children :-( Will this ever stop?.....
» 1/11/2017 6:23:28 PM Dear Ttbn, Sorry, but the Conservative party started on the left foot. A true conservati.....
» 1/11/2017 5:30:28 PM (...continued) Now if you shift the discussion from law to morality, then anyone who ever.....
» 1/11/2017 5:30:24 PM Dear Opinionated2, You are asking me to show you laws that are not laws?!? The nature of.....
» 1/11/2017 10:26:56 AM Dear Foxy, «What we were discussing was the law of the land as applied to same sex marria.....
» 1/11/2017 12:04:39 AM Dear Referundemdrivensocienty, Why, do you deny the rights and intelligence of the voters.....
» 31/10/2017 11:58:44 PM Dear Foxy, Yes, common sense should prevail. The other day I was saying exactly this to .....
» 31/10/2017 11:22:25 PM Dear Rehctub, It is my understanding that people in the bush do get something from the NB.....
» 31/10/2017 5:36:05 PM I don't have anything against homosexual marriage, but I don't want it to be conducted or .....
» 31/10/2017 2:57:13 PM Dear Rehctub, I have no problems with the bush. If the whole idea was to give them acces.....
» 31/10/2017 8:37:27 AM (... continued) Hinduism offers a variety of deities to suit the varied circumstances and.....
» 31/10/2017 8:37:22 AM Dear Not_Now.Soon, To attempt to speak of God using human words and terms, is more presum.....
» 30/10/2017 2:00:49 PM Dear Aidan, «And it's likely to prove itself totally inadequate for future needs.» So yo.....
» 29/10/2017 11:32:17 PM Dear Foxy, Perhaps some people have prejudices against homosexuals - that's not me, I'm n.....
» 29/10/2017 6:54:33 PM If this was a democracy, then citizens should have been able to elect whomever they want. .....
» 29/10/2017 6:39:41 PM Dear Foxy, What you wrote would be true if the couples in question married only in church.....
» 29/10/2017 7:17:08 AM Why, the state did not lose a dollar because had this or that clown not been elected, anot.....
» 28/10/2017 11:23:59 PM Dear Not_Now.Soon, «So my question is do you know (from your experience or those of peopl.....
» 28/10/2017 10:20:40 PM Dear Foxy, «There will be no "new" definition of marriage. What there will be w.....
» 27/10/2017 6:43:52 PM Dear Foxy, I just saw your last post: Some married couples might not feel convenient to .....
» 27/10/2017 6:30:04 PM Dear Foxy, Thank you for your answers. My questions may not be directly related to the p.....
» 27/10/2017 1:19:03 PM Dear Foxy, As you claim that all other arguments are irrelevant, could you please clarify.....
» 27/10/2017 12:38:48 PM Could someone please first enlighten us regarding the facts? Is any institution currently.....
» 27/10/2017 11:21:58 AM One question for Dad: Do you support Cory Bernardi's SPAM campaign when his robots intrud.....
» 27/10/2017 8:46:48 AM Dear Not_Now.Soon, Only objects exist. Often we hear women complaining: "Stop treat.....
» 27/10/2017 8:07:01 AM One virtue of this article, is that it is short: I exhort the other authors to follow this.....
» 26/10/2017 12:00:09 PM Dear Ttbn, «How do you feel about having to pay $2,000 for something that you already hav.....
» 25/10/2017 10:56:48 PM Dear Ttbn, You already described the real problem - it's not about bandwidth (those who w.....
» 25/10/2017 10:30:39 PM Dear Nick, «But..but..the topic is about the Biblical God» Actually, the topic at hand i.....
» 25/10/2017 3:32:16 PM Dear Nick, I was referring to God, rather than to the biblical god. The biblical god is .....
» 25/10/2017 2:43:47 PM Definitely! No one should ever be subjected to anti-discrimination laws so long as they r.....
» 25/10/2017 12:55:12 PM Dear Toni and Nick, Yes, this and similar paradoxes eliminate the possibility of God's ex.....
» 25/10/2017 10:53:21 AM Thank you, Ttbn, I completely agree with your befitting first comment. Yet, coal producti.....
» 25/10/2017 10:27:34 AM Dear Banjo, Whatever is beyond my power is beyond my power and I'm not responsible for it.....
» 25/10/2017 1:05:23 AM All people that on earth do dwell, sing to the Lord with cheerful voice; Him serve with mi.....
» 24/10/2017 7:44:30 AM Dear Banjo, «I guess that what you really mean, Yuyutsu, is “assisted killing of oneself”.....
» 23/10/2017 6:08:17 PM Dear Banjo, «A yogi is a person who has spent many years practising the philosophy of yog.....
» 22/10/2017 10:36:17 AM Dear Banjo, «In my experience, there are some “pains” that are so excruciating that they .....
» 22/10/2017 6:43:52 AM How could anyone expect a public recognition of their morality when they register their &q.....
» 20/10/2017 11:43:12 AM Dear Banjo, «I fully subscribe to Yuyutsu’s words of wisdom:» I feel flattered, yet your.....
» 19/10/2017 2:30:57 PM If you are there to fill your pockets by wasting away the lives of others, with no remorse.....
» 19/10/2017 10:22:13 AM Dear Daffy, It is good to learn that the author supports good causes, such as freedom of .....
» 19/10/2017 8:45:26 AM Stop this ugly monopoly of medical doctors over life and death! Also, while people ought .....
» 19/10/2017 7:55:12 AM Well Abbott signed the Paris agreement under duress, in the same way that scientists are m.....
» 19/10/2017 7:08:09 AM Why not hire the police to investigate for you? Or if you cannot afford it, why not get a.....
» 18/10/2017 12:33:16 PM The elephant in the room is the entertainment industry. Why do we need it? Life is short.....
» 18/10/2017 12:17:16 PM Energy is always clean - the only dirt is in the minds of politicians......
» 16/10/2017 8:25:19 PM Dear Nick, Your reference to the cook is disturbing, but my experience is very different......
» 16/10/2017 7:57:54 PM The article exquisitely describes the role of the Son: Thank you! The article also sharpl.....
» 16/10/2017 6:46:08 PM Dear Ilmessaggio, Well not everyone wants a family and among those who do, there is a var.....
» 16/10/2017 1:26:04 PM Dear Killarney, «I've gone off on a huge tangent to your post.» But I can see the connec.....
» 15/10/2017 8:52:28 AM Dear Aidan, Since I am guilty of being the first to mention socialism ("Socialism fa.....
» 13/10/2017 3:51:18 PM Yes, of course we remember the Labor party: isn't this the party that enthroned Juliar ove.....
» 13/10/2017 12:45:13 PM Dear Nick, Since 1948 there is no such thing as "Palestine" - it's located in t.....
» 13/10/2017 12:42:07 PM Dear Hasbeen, You are right, because nobody would work for free for others who do not eve.....
» 13/10/2017 10:23:51 AM Dear SM, «The only way these systems would work universally would be to use draconian law.....
» 13/10/2017 7:38:48 AM Dear Banjo, «“God” may never have existed but the concept of deity lives on into the 21st.....
» 12/10/2017 10:27:03 PM Dear Nathan, «I am also at the point of considering getting rid of my television set and .....
» 12/10/2017 1:57:33 AM Dear Banjo, «but remember that in many animist religions, God may be lightning or thunder.....
» 11/10/2017 5:40:00 PM Dear Banjo, I think we discussed this already: While no positive description of God is p.....
» 10/10/2017 9:47:51 AM Dear Banjo, «Am I right in interpreting this to mean that “god is simply a figment of the.....
» 9/10/2017 11:51:10 PM As I am not a medical expert I will not comment on the medical safety or otherwise. Howev.....
» 9/10/2017 11:59:09 AM Actually, the word 'Ruach' (spirit/wind) is on a list of 20 exceptional Hebrew nouns that .....
» 9/10/2017 3:59:58 AM Dear Banjo, God Himself/Herself has no shape or form or gender and cannot be described at.....
» 8/10/2017 7:31:44 PM The court will soon decide whether Nick Xenophon is a triple citizen, but he certainly is .....
» 6/10/2017 6:16:38 PM Dear Nick, 'Maya' is derived from 'ma' (= negation) + 'yat' (= which is). So it means &q.....
» 6/10/2017 2:12:13 PM Dear Jay, «Seems to be a lot of people on "Magic Mushrooms" at the moment.» Ye.....
» 6/10/2017 1:43:37 PM Unlike the author, I wish there was a moral way to regulate such internet fashions to deat.....
» 5/10/2017 1:46:38 PM Thank you Peter, this is the best article of yours which I read, may God bless you......
» 5/10/2017 7:59:27 AM Dear Not_Now.Soon, I definitely did not mean to claim as if aims were not worth pursuing......
» 4/10/2017 7:55:36 PM Aims are never rational: Whenever an aim is derived by rational conclusion, it must be de.....
» 4/10/2017 5:58:49 AM "and I reckon it will take at least twenty before I can get it anywhere near being ac.....
» 2/10/2017 8:45:37 PM Dear Josephus, Only God knows who is truly married and who is not. The state does not rep.....
» 2/10/2017 7:14:45 PM Dear Josephus, «Are we to define their relationship as a human union of marriage?» What .....
» 2/10/2017 11:58:31 AM Dictatorship is a balancing act. A dictator must always be on guard that no other body is.....
» 30/09/2017 11:52:48 PM Dear Toni, «And what about the religious people that voted 'yes' in accordance with their.....
» 30/09/2017 10:25:17 PM Dear Not_Now.Soon, For me this survey was never about homosexuality. For one, homosexual.....
» 30/09/2017 9:54:32 PM Dear Philip, «only a fool would waste any of the limited number of long range missiles an.....
» 29/09/2017 4:49:45 PM Perhaps applying those sound-devices that were used around diplomat's homes in Cuba would .....
» 29/09/2017 3:40:36 PM We don't need old ladies with firearms and certainly not EVERY household: For one, I would.....
» 29/09/2017 3:24:17 PM Dear Paul, «I could not understand your logic for voting in the first place, given your s.....
» 29/09/2017 9:29:57 AM Dear Not_Now.Soon, I believe that all citizens can unite in rejecting the interference in.....
» 29/09/2017 1:54:35 AM I would like to make a short announcement: Following the abusive threat of Senator Bernar.....
» 29/09/2017 1:43:20 AM I have a short announcement to make: Following the abusive threat of Senator Bernardi to .....
» 29/09/2017 1:23:04 AM I HAVE CHANGED MY MIND! Following Senator Bernardi's threat to intrude people in the priv.....
» 28/09/2017 3:22:40 PM What would I do? Well, assuming I had a gun, which I don't and wouldn't, first I would ha.....
» 28/09/2017 2:45:42 PM Dear John, This is not Israeli propaganda, but a one-man propaganda. The author himself .....
» 28/09/2017 2:01:56 PM THE POSTAL SURVEY BREACHES ANIMAL'S RIGHTS! My camel ate the survey and had an ink poison.....
» 28/09/2017 1:49:49 PM Dear Paul, I wonder, was it allowed to walk naked in public BEFORE the Victorian era? Sin.....
» 28/09/2017 8:03:50 AM Yes, some may be cynical about the very possibility of true friendship. Israel and Kurdist.....
» 27/09/2017 4:06:49 PM Dear Paul, «I want to walk naked down George Street in Sydney at 12 noon Friday. Can I? y.....
» 27/09/2017 8:56:46 AM Dear Not_Now.Soon, Sin is when we aim in a direction other than God. Nothing more, nothin.....
» 27/09/2017 6:52:52 AM Dear Paul, Government does not and cannot giveth marriage, nor can it take it away. All i.....
» 26/09/2017 9:47:41 PM What is needed is the Dromi Law: http://www.jpost.com/Israel/Dromi-Law-passes-final-readin.....
» 26/09/2017 9:29:08 PM Dear Paul, Being raised with a politician as dad and being fed on state-salary, no wonder.....
» 26/09/2017 8:55:13 PM I wish the Kurdish people every success in their aspiration for independence. No one and .....
» 26/09/2017 8:45:29 PM Dear Not_Now.Soon, First I assure you that I don't intend to kill anyone, including mysel.....
» 26/09/2017 12:21:31 PM Dear Not_Now.Soon, «...Yuyutsu? You're ok with the senseless killing of children too?» T.....
» 25/09/2017 11:48:36 PM Dear Alan, Yes, but how many Donalds have you met? How many blind horses? How many one-le.....
» 25/09/2017 11:17:07 PM Dear Dan, «Christians rolling over to gay marriage, are of the modernist faith; immanenti.....
» 25/09/2017 9:36:55 PM Dear Ttbn, «and even harder to believe that it is actually their job to protect innocent .....
» 25/09/2017 2:36:29 PM Dear Peter, «And all because of the idea of the immorality of spending other people's mon.....
» 25/09/2017 1:58:21 PM Dear Dan, Yes, the author is a dangerous Marxist, but as far as I know he is not homosexu.....
» 25/09/2017 12:50:41 PM The ideal is to prepare yourself first, living such a pure and holy life as to deserve to .....
» 25/09/2017 12:07:07 PM Yes, you are onto something here, Peter. Every analogy can only take us that far, nor can.....
» 25/09/2017 11:22:52 AM Sadly, the moral aspect is missing in this article. "Nobody spends money more carefu.....
» 25/09/2017 8:28:09 AM Dear Dan, Why conflate homosexuals with any of this anti-religious crap? I don't think th.....
» 25/09/2017 7:28:30 AM The following sums the author's ideas: "it violates the sound ethical principle of eq.....
» 22/09/2017 3:56:18 PM Dear John, «Just more spin from the chief apologist for the murdering settlers & IDF/Secu.....
» 22/09/2017 10:17:53 AM The author would shamelessly knife Israel and its best friends in order to fulfil his only.....
» 22/09/2017 8:49:02 AM 1. Why would you want to have anything to do with this corrupt UN? Who are they anyway? Ho.....
» 21/09/2017 3:24:56 PM Dear Toni, I believe that by "CWA", Paul was referring to the "CommonWealt.....
» 21/09/2017 1:15:53 PM Dear Paul, Modern Sodom (Sdom) is an industrial area near the southern tip of the dead se.....
» 21/09/2017 11:22:32 AM All renewables are cheap. All renewables are expensive. All renewables are green. All rene.....
» 21/09/2017 11:11:46 AM Dear Dan, Sorry, but I do not understand what you mean by: "harbour a desire for peo.....
» 20/09/2017 5:38:11 PM Dear Dan, Have you any positives to offer? Yes, it is quite possible for people to follo.....
» 20/09/2017 8:56:14 AM Dear Dan, «The question is; who is an Australian? Citizenship is unhelpful in deciding th.....
» 19/09/2017 1:42:54 PM Dear Ttbn, The people of Sodom and Gomorrah did not actually indulge in homosexual acts f.....
» 19/09/2017 1:25:39 PM As already noted by Minotaur, parenting does not require marriage - so that's indeed a poi.....
» 19/09/2017 12:44:55 PM Dear Foxy, Yes, this is bad. Lucky I have no television so I don't get to see these thing.....
» 18/09/2017 10:01:53 PM [...continued] "people in relationships for 30 or 40 years denied defacto status by .....
» 18/09/2017 10:01:47 PM Dear Foxy, Thank you for the reference! While nearly all abnormalities were already solv.....
» 18/09/2017 4:38:33 PM Dear Paul, This seems like the old argument of evolution versus revolution (or "thin.....
» 18/09/2017 12:06:26 AM Dear Plantagenet, «All SSs should be given the opportunity to buy outrageously expensive .....
» 17/09/2017 9:25:52 PM Dear Plantagenet, «Show you don't take orders from Holier Than Thous» And you of course .....
» 17/09/2017 7:40:32 PM Dear Leoj, Yes, de-facto provisions can be intrusive, though I wouldn't say that they are.....
» 17/09/2017 6:42:52 PM Dear Leoj, I was trying to avoid the political dimension. Marriage is what it is, regard.....
» 17/09/2017 5:10:30 PM Dear Foxy, «Therefore, same-sex couples are legally unable to be wed in Australia.» I ag.....
» 17/09/2017 4:09:53 PM Dear Foxy, «The law currently does not allow same-sex couples to marry.» Can you please .....
» 17/09/2017 10:35:21 AM Dear Foxy, «No. the marriages of same-sex couples are not legally recognised in this coun.....
» 17/09/2017 2:19:50 AM Dear Foxy, «Marriage in this country is a legal contract presided over by the government......
» 15/09/2017 12:06:27 PM Dear Mememememememe, «That's why we have copper Internet... So we stay beholden to the mi.....
» 15/09/2017 11:52:42 AM Only a "nation" can be a "nation of rent-seekers", so by raising this .....
» 15/09/2017 11:35:08 AM «could this then lead to our schools being forced to refrain from» Well this is a contrad.....
» 14/09/2017 1:04:33 AM Dear David, So by diverting my direct question you seem to concede that it is indeed your.....
» 13/09/2017 8:02:54 PM Dear David, «You owe me an apology before I will respond to your comments again. Remember.....
» 13/09/2017 5:07:40 PM Dear Toni, What a mistaken impression you have of skilled migrants: «They're not Rohingy.....
» 13/09/2017 4:41:43 PM Dear Joe, «so there should be no legal problem for you to have relationships with, or eve.....
» 13/09/2017 9:17:45 AM Dear Joe, «So what's your solution to this chronic problem ? A larger annual refugee inta.....
» 13/09/2017 8:30:39 AM I second Ateday. The only wicked problem is this out-of-control plague of Homo Sapiens. .....
» 12/09/2017 9:26:02 PM Dear Bazz, «because we have decided by agreement that we will govern ourselves by these p.....
» 12/09/2017 10:25:01 AM Dear SM, «It is only the Neo Nazis from the left that want to see asylum seekers drowning.....
» 12/09/2017 9:58:37 AM Dear Alan, «What the SState of Israel ought heed, is the already agreed and ratified road.....
» 12/09/2017 9:33:58 AM So the root problem is the compulsory health system which we are subjected to. We needn't .....
» 12/09/2017 4:17:00 AM Dear Paul, An excellent argument for conservation by Prof. Schramski, thanks! What a pit.....
» 12/09/2017 3:56:56 AM Good news on Q&A - more people are starting to challenge the continued existence of ".....
» 11/09/2017 5:49:05 AM The survey and proposed legislation has little to do with homosexuality: after all, no sam.....
» 11/09/2017 4:27:15 AM Dear Bazz, I was not specifically referring to people who have "their own countries&.....
» 11/09/2017 3:38:46 AM Dear Toni, I have no need to update my dictionary to suit others' propaganda machines. T.....
» 11/09/2017 12:20:56 AM Dear Dan, «I just can't believe somebody could write this, let alone think this way! Wow!.....
» 10/09/2017 11:51:58 PM Dear Paul, «If you are not vaccinated, say for polio, and you contract the disease, has y.....
» 10/09/2017 1:28:18 PM Dear Bazz, So the state is allowed to insult you by locking you up in a cell, but you may.....
» 10/09/2017 1:15:26 PM Dear Paul, From someone like you who suffered such a disgusting experience, I would expec.....
» 10/09/2017 6:43:00 AM Dear Toni, «Nope, usage defines meaning.» 25 million North Koreans use "DPRK",.....
» 9/09/2017 10:19:01 PM Dear Toni, «I'm not sure you've fully grasped the point of language, yuyutsu. It's exists.....
» 9/09/2017 2:12:29 PM Dear Toni, «Both gay and not gay? How's that supposed to work then, Yuyutsu?» Why, Alan .....
» 9/09/2017 11:40:05 AM Dear Toni, «Ever heard of Alan Turing (1912-1954), Yuyutsu? He was gay.» I am well aware.....
» 9/09/2017 10:58:43 AM Dear SteeleRedux, «bugger our responsibilities to others.» First, we already pay taxes t.....
» 8/09/2017 12:59:42 AM It would be great to have private health insurance in Australia. The problem is that we d.....
» 7/09/2017 11:45:17 PM Dear SteeleRedux, So what you are saying is that people should not be allowed to pay thei.....
» 7/09/2017 8:45:14 AM Australia should also take a stand and ban the wearing of breast covering garments in publ.....
» 6/09/2017 7:08:19 PM Dear Alan, «recent studies have reportedly confirmed a gay gene, not just one, but severa.....
» 6/09/2017 6:52:28 PM Did I miss anything? Is it illegal for anyone to celebrate anything, including any person.....
» 6/09/2017 12:16:33 AM I was thinking: what would it take to change my vote to 'Yes'? well, I vote 'No' to preve.....
» 5/09/2017 10:38:23 AM Marriage is NOT a social institution: the fact of marriage is one thing and its recognitio.....
» 4/09/2017 5:47:28 PM Dear Cupric, «You are hardly talking about lesbians and gays then!» Half-correct: I am t.....
» 4/09/2017 2:34:24 PM Dear Cupric, A relative of mine is homosexual and has two sons, born to him and the same .....
» 4/09/2017 1:59:05 PM A nuclear war is almost inevitable and can now happen at any time. The only thing that co.....
» 4/09/2017 1:50:05 PM Dear Cossomby, «Should both staff and visitors to old age homes be required to have flu v.....
» 4/09/2017 1:06:18 PM Dear Foxy, «The point that I was making was that marriage in this country is a secular co.....
» 4/09/2017 10:35:25 AM «I read an article of a case where a daughter was marrying her mother under the now SSM la.....
» 4/09/2017 12:55:04 AM Yes, this is most painful and depressing. One unmentioned effect, is the rise of false do.....
» 3/09/2017 11:15:38 PM Dear Dustin, «Good luck getting a birth certificate, then» If, as Foxy believes, the rul.....
» 3/09/2017 11:07:12 PM Dear Cupric, «You say I assume or wish: it's a fact !!» Homosexual people can have kids......
» 3/09/2017 11:50:21 AM Dear Dustin, «but given there were zero same sex marriages prior to 2004» Really? All th.....
» 2/09/2017 11:07:23 PM Dear Foxy, By claiming that: "Marriage in this country is a legal contract controlle.....
» 2/09/2017 10:40:49 PM Dear Critic, My priority is to preserve my own morals, rather than to fix theirs. As I w.....
» 1/09/2017 5:49:05 PM Dear SF, «Trump has achieved more in his sort time as president than any before him.» Ye.....
» 1/09/2017 2:04:29 PM Dear Aidan, «People being unwilling to get qualifications or even work at all is, if not .....
» 1/09/2017 8:31:27 AM Dear Not_Now.Soon, «it's a rare thing to be homosexual and not support the gay social mov.....
» 31/08/2017 4:51:35 PM Dear Tony, «The downside, of course, is that if a bloke wears a skirt everybody assumes h.....
» 31/08/2017 4:41:54 PM Perhaps half the claims are true, perhaps half are false, but one thing is certain: this s.....
» 31/08/2017 2:32:16 PM Dear Nathan, Certainly, this survey is flawed: we could get so much more for this $122,00.....
» 31/08/2017 12:53:21 PM Dear David, Jordan has already washed off its hands in 1988 as it declared that it has no.....
» 31/08/2017 9:01:16 AM Dear Not_Now.Soon, I completely agree that homosexuals are not to be blamed - it's got no.....
» 30/08/2017 9:50:48 PM Dear Nathan, It will help you to remain focused on one topic. You write above love, abou.....
» 30/08/2017 9:29:55 PM Dear Killarney, «and secure employment that virtually everyone enjoyed in communist count.....
» 30/08/2017 8:08:38 PM Dear HereNow, I didn't claim (or think) that the religious would actually be hurt by that.....
» 30/08/2017 4:46:41 PM Dear R0bert, «My preference would be for the government to get out of the business of reg.....
» 30/08/2017 4:29:08 PM Dear Runner, The "Marriage Act" is already so perverse that it can hardly be fu.....
» 30/08/2017 3:20:52 PM Well, not everyone who is against the so-called "SSM" necessarily rejects homose.....
» 30/08/2017 3:15:50 PM But how is this related to the 'Yes' vs 'No' debate? Whether or not children live with bo.....
» 30/08/2017 2:58:45 PM Dear Calwest, «What we know for certain is that communism is not and was not the utopia D.....
» 30/08/2017 1:40:20 PM There is nothing derogatory about keeping the moral high ground......
» 30/08/2017 1:26:02 PM Dear Chris, Drug-dealers and government: it's hard to tell which of the two is worse. Bu.....
» 30/08/2017 1:14:36 PM Dear Critic, Sorry, I do not believe in tit-for-tat. This evil practice of making rules .....
» 30/08/2017 1:05:51 PM Why ask silly questions - everyone knows that Abbas/PLO are NOT committed to peace, so wha.....
» 30/08/2017 11:14:36 AM Dear Not_Now.Soon, Did you not realise until now that the purpose of this campaign for &q.....
» 30/08/2017 12:12:59 AM There is no such thing as "renewable energy" - that would contradict the laws of.....
» 29/08/2017 6:28:53 AM Dear Banjo, It all boils down to the question whether you accept violence or not. You se.....
» 29/08/2017 6:11:38 AM Dear Critic, What will you get by putting people in jail? Even if they are politicians? O.....
» 28/08/2017 11:36:55 PM Dear O Sung Wu and Foxy, «without our laws, we have anarchy, and chaos» "Anarchy&qu.....
» 28/08/2017 4:10:22 PM Dear O Sung Wu, Australia is indeed by far the best place to reside, but what I wrote is .....
» 28/08/2017 2:27:56 PM Dear O Sung Wu, «You're not standing to show your respect for the presiding member of the.....
» 28/08/2017 2:06:55 PM Dear Foxy, «The political and cultural institutions that govern Australia are absolutely .....
» 28/08/2017 9:59:16 AM So the constitution of a banana-republic declares that eating bananas is a national disgra.....
» 28/08/2017 9:40:56 AM One may feel about others however they like so long as it does not translate into action. .....
» 27/08/2017 7:18:30 PM Dear Foxy, «So why come to a country like Australia if you want to maintain customs of pa.....
» 27/08/2017 7:54:05 AM Dear Foxy, «To let kids know that it's alright to be who they are.» Who wouldn't endorse.....
» 26/08/2017 10:21:10 PM Dear Not_Now.Soon, Any two persons must have a somewhat different perspective of God. I d.....
» 26/08/2017 9:22:05 PM Dear Ttbn, Thank you for the sympathy. BTW, I am all in favour of courtesy, dignity, dec.....
» 26/08/2017 9:10:56 PM Dear Foxy, First, please leave out the Shariah/Islam/terror bits: having had that many co.....
» 25/08/2017 5:52:46 PM Dear Dustin, I know what it is called, but it is immoral. Only God is sovereign. Now I .....
» 25/08/2017 5:12:11 PM Dear Foxy, «Before coming to Australia you will be asked to subscribe to certain values. .....
» 25/08/2017 5:00:36 PM Dear Kactuz, «The fact is, Najla, that your prophet did many vile, evil things.» This is.....
» 25/08/2017 1:39:16 PM Dear Ttbn, «The LAW requires people attending court to stand when magistrates and judges .....
» 25/08/2017 12:58:40 PM Dear Mikk, «All shops think like Shocka and refuse to serve OLO posters. We all starve.» .....
» 25/08/2017 12:49:05 PM Dear Ttbn, Nobody can show respect if they don't have any. What you are trying to do is t.....
» 25/08/2017 11:18:36 AM Dear Not_Now.Soon, «My understanding that we all sin is not an endorsement of our sinning.....
» 24/08/2017 9:03:36 PM Dear Referundemdrivensocienty, «They want Australia to loose its sense of identity and na.....
» 24/08/2017 8:50:21 PM «The major reason for restricting freedom is to prevent harm to others.» So far so good, .....
» 24/08/2017 8:31:14 PM Dear Not_Now.Soon, «But for me the best possible argument for it within the church is the.....
» 24/08/2017 2:36:09 PM Dear Ttbn, «Just repulsive and unnatural is enough for me, without looking for religious .....
» 24/08/2017 11:39:16 AM Why, a Burqa is very handy when you want to drive a car with more passengers than seat-bel.....
» 24/08/2017 9:16:20 AM Nice and interesting review of Christian attitudes to homosexuality. But what has this to.....
» 24/08/2017 8:41:36 AM Dear Paul, «What can they do?» Lots - you name it: Councillors disappear, or beaten by u.....
» 23/08/2017 6:48:15 PM Dear David, «Are you unable to point out any errors in my article» I didn't even try, wh.....
» 23/08/2017 3:54:16 PM Dear Ateday, "Extinction" is probably too strong - but certainly a continued de.....
» 23/08/2017 11:00:59 AM Does "cooperative" include being forced to cooperate? Does "community".....
» 22/08/2017 4:46:47 PM Dear Engineer, «Given the past stream of one-eyed pro-Israel contributions from this auth.....
» 22/08/2017 11:40:14 AM Why should it matter whether rules are written or conventional: either way, only the weak .....
» 21/08/2017 4:47:30 PM Dear Mikk, «Can these people/businesses discriminate against adulterers, women having the.....
» 21/08/2017 1:36:38 PM Dear Paul, «then the reality is there is little that a Pope could do» Please allow me to.....
» 21/08/2017 10:57:48 AM Where's the need for such tedious arguments? Forcing someone to work/perform a task again.....
» 21/08/2017 9:50:05 AM Everyone, Why focus so much on the Catholic church? All Christian churches have confessi.....
» 21/08/2017 1:45:20 AM Dear Critic, «What does a victim need to confess to anyway» It is quite common for victi.....
» 20/08/2017 11:56:13 PM Dear Critic, «...So what, you're complaining / making the point that young alter boys who.....
» 20/08/2017 9:27:01 PM Dear Nick, «Could you say that again? Mahabharata and Ramayana suggest a Kshatriya may oc.....
» 20/08/2017 9:11:33 PM Dear Julian, «The problem to be solved is occupation of Palestine established by a terror.....
» 20/08/2017 6:56:40 PM Dear Nick, «Is it really the case that Hindus feel it's wrong to jail a crim? Not necess.....
» 20/08/2017 11:39:11 AM Dear Nick, It is not appropriate to disclose personal details on this forum......
» 20/08/2017 11:30:17 AM Dear Critic, «But young Alter boys bums and mouths they have no issue with.» So you want.....
» 20/08/2017 10:35:18 AM Dear Ttbn, «Why have citizenship ceremonies anyway.» Because the Mayor likes to help him.....
» 19/08/2017 8:31:46 PM Dear Julian, You keep speaking of "solutions": solutions for what? The problem .....
» 19/08/2017 8:09:47 PM Dear Not_Now.Soon, Thank you for sharing......
» 18/08/2017 3:13:32 PM Dear O Sung Wu, Sadly, it is not only those who committed heinous crimes who will be forc.....
» 18/08/2017 12:11:48 PM Dear Engineer, It is not "The Church" for me because I am not even a Christian......
» 18/08/2017 9:48:49 AM This is an attempt to treat fire with fire, rape with rape: Spiritual rape is even worse t.....
» 18/08/2017 2:43:08 AM Dear Killarney, Western medicine and education are a curse rather than a boon. In Austra.....
» 17/08/2017 9:49:16 PM Dear O Sung Wu, I wish I could be as optimistic as yourself - what those bastards are goi.....
» 17/08/2017 6:52:29 PM Dear Runner, I can see and appreciate your point in the light of Not_Now.Soon's explanati.....
» 17/08/2017 10:43:20 AM Dear Philip, If you do not hate religion, then why mention your belief that it is fake in.....
» 17/08/2017 8:28:25 AM Dear Not_Now.Soon, On the contrary, it is I who need to beg your forgiveness, it is your .....
» 17/08/2017 1:35:06 AM Dear Philip, That was an easy way to escape the topic. For whatever reason you hate a ce.....
» 17/08/2017 1:09:13 AM Dear Not_Now.Soon, I was going to respond to your last posts and there is much I could ha.....
» 16/08/2017 6:40:35 PM Dear Ttbn, «they don't seem to get the difference between sins and crimes.» Priests are .....
» 16/08/2017 1:30:44 PM Such a law could serve as a potential wake-up call for the church. For centuries, the chu.....
» 16/08/2017 1:55:41 AM Dear Josephus, Yes indeed, other regimes around the world are even worse, perhaps even al.....
» 16/08/2017 1:41:58 AM Dear Cherful, Using his 60 submarines, Kim can reach anywhere except the very middle of c.....
» 16/08/2017 1:38:06 AM Dear ALTRAV, «Essential services should always be the domain of govt and not private ente.....
» 16/08/2017 1:25:27 AM Dear Not_Now.Soon, I am re-reading the book "That's Not What the Good Book Says".....
» 15/08/2017 3:18:10 PM Dear Josephus, «I believe any person who has allegiance to another form of Government, or.....
» 15/08/2017 2:57:08 PM Dear Faustino, Why do you say that Buddha did not found a religion? Don't the practices .....
» 14/08/2017 7:14:08 PM Dear O Sung Wu, You were/are a warrior. As a warrior, it is your duty to try and make th.....
» 14/08/2017 2:35:31 PM Welcome Not_Now.Soon, Those who oppose religion do believe that religion is dangerous. At.....
» 14/08/2017 10:36:15 AM To summarise the article's intent: "Hitler was a vegetarian - kill the vegetarians!&q.....
» 13/08/2017 9:31:45 PM Dear Spencer, Regarding religious educators, I was referring to the "Recruiting".....
» 12/08/2017 10:30:06 PM Welcome Papa Zoom, «Is it true students are banned from talking about Jesus?» I don't th.....
» 12/08/2017 9:58:42 PM Ask yourself, then act accordingly: "How likely it is that reading the bible would he.....
» 10/08/2017 10:41:10 PM Lawyers, lawyers, so sad! So sad to see Christians who are supposed to trust in the Lord .....
» 10/08/2017 10:21:07 PM Yet again David is pushing his Jewish agenda by subtly bending the truth: suddenly the con.....
» 10/08/2017 12:14:37 AM One could live without electricity, but no one can live for more than a few days without w.....
» 9/08/2017 7:26:16 PM Dear Julian, If the state of Israel is going to be relocated to the Mediterranean Sea, th.....
» 9/08/2017 12:54:54 PM Dear Julian, Other than Zionism (an ideological impediment), the practical impediments ar.....
» 9/08/2017 1:26:02 AM Dear Foxy, Thank you for the link: I wrongly thought that the owner pursued Elijah on hi.....
» 9/08/2017 1:03:22 AM Dear Foxy, «Over 70 per cent of Australians want same-sex marriage.» Including myself: .....
» 9/08/2017 12:37:21 AM Dear Killarney, «It really depends on whether, politically, you believe in taxation and r.....
» 9/08/2017 12:11:14 AM Dear Spencer, «That's your assertion, but you provided no evidence to support your claim......
» 8/08/2017 4:54:01 PM Dear Foxy, Imagine it was not just a motorbike, which could be bought for some $$s: imagi.....
» 8/08/2017 1:02:41 PM Dear Old Man, «Muslims are people who follow the teachings of that misogynist, paedophile.....
» 8/08/2017 12:48:57 PM Dear Paul, «What is your opinion?» My opinion is that while the law should not be able t.....
» 8/08/2017 12:19:48 PM Dear Julian, Your fear of a few Australian Muslims, negligible overall except in parts of.....
» 8/08/2017 10:35:11 AM Dear Spencer, The New Testament is correct: the mentioned guidelines indeed brings one cl.....
» 8/08/2017 9:56:45 AM It's a pity that the author packed up so many other elements of her political convictions .....
» 7/08/2017 8:51:00 PM What business of yours is it whether men are healthier or otherwise? Ah, Gotcha: the auth.....
» 7/08/2017 8:37:08 PM Dear Spencer, Not all atheists follow Mano Singham's ideas, only some. Those who do, obvi.....
» 7/08/2017 8:11:28 PM Dear Julian, «I have boundless appreciation of America as the first nation to be founded .....
» 7/08/2017 2:11:49 PM Dear Julian, Indeed, Israel would be better off without America - at least, Israel will t.....
» 7/08/2017 1:32:06 PM Dear Cherful, Thank you for your excellent summary of the human condition. «It's hard en.....
» 7/08/2017 12:22:20 AM Dear Ezhil, «You were created by your parents and not by anybody else.» The above a clas.....
» 6/08/2017 11:35:58 PM Dear Foxy, I like your quotes of Tor Hundloe. --- Dear Paul, «Are property right predo.....
» 6/08/2017 11:04:29 PM Dear Foxy, I have little doubt that they will decide to have a "conscience vote".....
» 6/08/2017 9:40:32 PM Dear ALTRAV, Let us look at the bright side: at least we are not in Venezuela! Economic .....
» 6/08/2017 9:07:27 PM Dear Ilmessaggio, RESPECT is an important ingredient for ANY society, progressive or othe.....
» 5/08/2017 10:09:43 PM Well said, ALTRAV!.....
» 4/08/2017 4:30:04 PM Dear Atheist, "Dysfunction" is always relative to the functionality that you tr.....
» 4/08/2017 2:57:27 PM Dear Ilmessaggio, «what is an atheist religion?» I also considered replying to Runner ab.....
» 4/08/2017 2:28:23 PM Dear Ilmessaggio, «'love' is a wonderful thing as long as others are not being deprived b.....
» 4/08/2017 1:13:21 PM Dear Ilmessaggio, «An individual who has no emotive connection to either side will tend t.....
» 4/08/2017 11:32:06 AM Dear Atheist, «Do not pray in our schools and we wont think in your churches.» No proble.....
» 4/08/2017 11:21:58 AM Anyone who loves Israel should help it by recognising a Palestinian state whose borders ar.....
» 4/08/2017 11:09:28 AM So long as ordinary people have to pay tax, company tax should rather be increased, to mat.....
» 4/08/2017 10:35:52 AM Dear Killarney, As much as it would be in my personal interest to smash those "innov.....
» 3/08/2017 8:09:03 PM As much as I abhor the growth of the digital economy, I find most of the author's argument.....
» 3/08/2017 8:53:30 AM Terrorists have political aims. The only reason they could benefit from harming you and me.....
» 3/08/2017 8:28:41 AM One government-document which this article refers to, warns against religious educators in.....
» 2/08/2017 11:52:56 PM Dear SteelRedux, I don't think that Larrisa Waters should have resigned from parliament: .....
» 2/08/2017 8:38:11 PM Dear Foxy, Common-sense undermines the British/Australian pompous traditions of "law.....
» 2/08/2017 6:32:20 PM Dear SteeleRedux, «The American in the above blog was a university graduate before joinin.....
» 2/08/2017 12:04:48 PM Now be realistic: A young person pledging allegiance to anything, doesn't mean, analyse, a.....
» 2/08/2017 10:07:37 AM Dear Josephus, According to current "Muslim" belief, both the Koran and Hadith .....
» 1/08/2017 1:38:34 PM So long as the West values procreation, people like Mohamed can make a mockery of its &quo.....
» 1/08/2017 11:30:48 AM "who would reject a thoroughly rational - and therefore ethical, egalitarian, ecologi.....
» 1/08/2017 9:52:52 AM Anyone who decides to stand for election, thus live off stolen tax-payer's money, has alre.....
» 1/08/2017 9:47:05 AM How much should a pedestrian pay for walking on God's land? How much should a donkey-ride.....
» 1/08/2017 9:34:38 AM Dear Josephus, «If someone has falsified his teachings and behaviours then equally they m.....
» 1/08/2017 1:54:17 AM Dear Geoff, Given that there is no such thing as God, why would you (and others) treat an.....
» 1/08/2017 12:16:45 AM Dear David, «I cannot look at all the travail in the world as a result of man's inhumanit.....
» 31/07/2017 10:36:39 PM Dear Josephus, «We have the body of his teachings and behaviours» No, those alleged teac.....
» 31/07/2017 10:26:07 PM To be eligible for Israeli citizenship, one must: 1. Be a Jew; the spouse of a Jew who is.....
» 31/07/2017 1:58:01 PM Dear Josephus, «Muhammed in body is dead and buried» Without a body, Saint Muhammad is u.....
» 31/07/2017 1:26:49 PM Beware of mystery for the sake of mystery. Yes, God cannot be conceived by the mind. If t.....
» 30/07/2017 9:26:29 PM Dear Critic, «You know you're right ttbn, this country really is too far gone.» " A.....
» 30/07/2017 9:01:53 PM Dear Luciferase, «There are scientific explanations for the existence of the world» What.....
» 30/07/2017 8:31:05 PM Dear Alan, People who live (or intend to live) in high-rising apartments and lack the cap.....
» 30/07/2017 7:46:17 PM Dear Josephus, Muhammad and what he did or didn't do or say, is an irrelevant evasion of .....
» 30/07/2017 12:38:23 AM The parade approaches, the loudspeaker cheers, The parade approaches, here also is the off.....
» 30/07/2017 12:38:17 AM The truth could well be somewhere in between. Most of us wouldn't like to upset our mothe.....
» 29/07/2017 10:41:22 PM Dear SteeleRedux, I welcome your suggestion to also sterilise the Jewish settlers in the .....
» 29/07/2017 10:01:06 PM Dear Josephus, As a Christian, don't you believe that the dead are being judged and recei.....
» 28/07/2017 11:14:41 AM There is just one cause for the misery of the Gazan people - procreation! Hamas has decla.....
» 28/07/2017 10:46:25 AM Why expose children (and adults for that matter) to television? Keep it locked away so tha.....
» 27/07/2017 10:07:14 PM Dear Prompete, Do you hate Israel that much? Do you also hate Jordan? Why? Holding the c.....
» 27/07/2017 8:54:31 AM Dictator! Why not simply state your intention to rule over the Australian provinces from .....
» 27/07/2017 8:35:17 AM Already living under siege by all those electronic gadgets, I am so glad that I do not hav.....
» 26/07/2017 5:44:08 PM Nobody should be tried posthumously, as this would constitute double jeopardy!.....
» 26/07/2017 10:24:36 AM Yes, we played enough, we had a great time, now it's bed time, Donald, you know who is the.....
» 26/07/2017 10:05:05 AM Dear SM, «MC still has a slim chance in that as an adult his mother should not have been .....
» 25/07/2017 11:33:57 PM Dear Foxy, How interesting: while you sit on the sidelines, watching the program and the .....
» 25/07/2017 11:04:35 PM Here's a great idea for Russia: Is it a Russian interest for any particular Australian po.....
» 25/07/2017 2:59:17 PM Dear Foxy, Yes, it would be interesting. But I am not a watcher - I do not have a televi.....
» 25/07/2017 2:30:26 PM Psychologists often ask their patients to respond with the first association-word that com.....
» 25/07/2017 1:21:36 PM Dear Paul, «Do you think there is a cure for it?» Spiritual maturity. You see, national.....
» 25/07/2017 12:26:54 AM Simply, it's a blue-collar job: the same city-born people who won't do it are the same peo.....
» 24/07/2017 11:00:54 PM Dear SM, «I fail to see how changing S44 of the Constitution is in the national interest».....
» 23/07/2017 10:13:43 PM Dear Leoj, «That the desire should also be expressed and confirmed in nominations for the.....
» 23/07/2017 9:07:38 PM Dear Foxy, I would have done away with the whole of Article s44, not just s44(i). Implic.....
» 23/07/2017 5:19:36 PM Dear Jay, I can well understand your lack of concern for Americans (who do not renounce t.....
» 23/07/2017 3:42:21 PM Dear Foxy, «Not a good move politically» Indeed! [Proverbs 24:17-18] Rejoice not when .....
» 23/07/2017 3:34:54 PM Dear Foxy, You have a big heart. That is clear and I always appreciate your good intenti.....
» 23/07/2017 2:47:42 PM First I like to thank the author for his thoroughness and for introducing us to the radica.....
» 23/07/2017 12:23:38 PM Dear Is Mise, «Simple, an Australian is a citizen of Australia.» What about kangaroos, q.....
» 23/07/2017 3:31:12 AM Dear Stuart, I don't agree with this concept of international law. I don't agree that the.....
» 23/07/2017 3:05:48 AM Dear Leoj, «Pleased that you agree that Ludlam and Waters should be required to recompens.....
» 23/07/2017 12:12:12 AM Dear Critic, Regarding your right TO NOT BE ruled by a foreigner: Nobody should be force.....
» 22/07/2017 10:41:01 PM Vedanta states that all religions (when properly practised) lead to the same destination -.....
» 21/07/2017 2:33:50 PM The Australian constitution is a coercive document that is arbitrarily forced upon all the.....
» 21/07/2017 2:13:19 PM What an audacity to tell voters who can represent them and who cannot! Say the voters wan.....
» 21/07/2017 11:07:46 AM As we are here, on OLO, by choice, we should respect the OLO rules. In contrast, the Aust.....
» 17/07/2017 9:27:42 AM One more important reason why people do not move out to the country: FIRES! As bio-fuel b.....
» 9/07/2017 3:03:25 PM Dear Is Mise, I didn't say that I object to other people hunting animals for food, but I .....
» 8/07/2017 11:23:14 PM Dear Is Mise, I will not argue with those who feel an altruistic call to save the smaller.....
» 8/07/2017 11:11:53 PM Dear Killarney, «What a pity I was born 30 years too early.» We should call ourselves lu.....
» 6/07/2017 8:27:04 PM Dear Is Mise, Perhaps nothing, perhaps nothing indeed because I have not even looked furt.....
» 6/07/2017 3:14:54 PM Dear Is Mise, Murder is the act of taking someone else's life unprovokedly and against th.....
» 6/07/2017 2:19:31 PM Dear Is Mise, So you do not deny that the Shooters and Fishers want to target and kill li.....
» 6/07/2017 1:35:15 PM Dear Is Mise, What are the shooters and fishers want to shoot at? Just at the thin air? A.....
» 5/07/2017 6:41:24 PM Dear Is Mise, I admit that I haven't looked into this particular party because its very n.....
» 4/07/2017 6:31:49 PM Humanity is not the answer - it only complicates things because it imposes a lie. Humans .....
» 4/07/2017 6:14:39 PM What a perfect and wise conclusion: «It is about time that the Church realises that the e.....
» 4/07/2017 5:46:16 PM Dear Is Mise, Some people have the best intentions when they enter politics, but as soon .....
» 4/07/2017 1:04:45 AM Why only the Greens and One Nation? All politicians are the same!.....
» 4/07/2017 12:59:25 AM I second Pilgrim and Julian!.....
» 29/06/2017 9:02:49 AM What we need is to be able to rely on ourselves locally, at least for the basics of life. .....
» 28/06/2017 12:29:59 PM Dear Nathan, First, I protest the naming of all people who happen to live in this contine.....
» 24/06/2017 11:32:04 PM Dear Geoff, «Marriage is a secular, civil institution, enacted and regulated by the state.....
» 23/06/2017 11:28:09 AM Overall, with a few notable exceptions (including Jesus Christ), the West has always been .....
» 23/06/2017 10:38:45 AM Is the author looking for a job on the public payroll? He is asking for yet more clerks w.....
» 16/06/2017 2:54:16 PM While our streets should be weapon-free, the fact that criminals know that the people in t.....
» 15/06/2017 2:11:43 PM Yes, the "six day war" is still ongoing and the general gist of the article is c.....
» 14/06/2017 12:34:19 PM But ordinary shops would still be forced to work for free as tax-collectors - that's plain.....
» 14/06/2017 11:35:42 AM "the law makers have to understand that the laws they pass do not effect them persona.....
» 12/06/2017 4:44:49 PM Dear Foxy, «I personally wanted my marriage to be legal.» From your correspondence with .....
» 11/06/2017 3:49:45 PM Dear Foxy, «Same-sex couples want to have that basic right as well.» Having one's relati.....
» 11/06/2017 1:48:50 AM Dear Foxy, I have already gone over the Marriage Act. This Act is only relevant if you wa.....
» 10/06/2017 11:21:59 PM Dear Foxy, I agree that same sex and heterosexual relationships should be legally treated.....
» 10/06/2017 11:00:55 PM Dear Killarney, What is the problem with anarchy? Anarchy simply means that nobody rules .....
» 10/06/2017 10:15:33 PM I don't mind getting rid of the senate so long as we also get rid of the lower house!.....
» 10/06/2017 10:08:29 PM It is true that Western civilisation does not provide any positive content - but it doesn'.....
» 10/06/2017 9:56:19 PM Dear CHERFUL, «there really doesn't seem to be much difference.» So true: difference bet.....
» 10/06/2017 9:45:57 PM My heart goes out to Jonathan Pollard, also to Mordechai Vanunu who is in a similar situat.....
» 10/06/2017 9:27:43 PM Have you heard about this revolutionary new method to make your child grow faster and tall.....
» 10/06/2017 8:58:18 PM Dear Foxy, Please distinguish between state-recognition and legality: To the best of my .....
» 10/06/2017 7:42:44 PM Dear Josephus, «However the LTBGT are by wanting the term "marriage" is so as t.....
» 8/06/2017 3:08:03 PM Dear Joe, Grateful has often pointed to the teachings of his Sufi Sheikh, Nuh Keller, on .....
» 7/06/2017 11:49:34 PM Dear Joe, Grateful is a Sufi. Sufis and Ahmadiyyans do not plant bombs, run over people,.....
» 7/06/2017 11:08:26 PM Dear Killarney, A nuclear bomb does not kill millions, only 10000's, unless of course it'.....
» 7/06/2017 8:32:09 PM Dear Joe, All true - that's why Israel has nukes. The West Bank doesn't give Israel a mi.....
» 7/06/2017 7:46:11 PM Dear Joe, The death toll this year have been pretty low indeed - extremely low compared w.....
» 7/06/2017 12:27:32 PM «I call on every man and woman of conscience to bring the madness of this debilitating con.....
» 7/06/2017 12:11:27 AM Dear Killarney, There is no need for you to liberate the people of North Korea - not if y.....
» 6/06/2017 7:13:16 PM Thank you Gregory for this good and interesting comparison. --- Dear Is Mise, Radical I.....
» 6/06/2017 6:38:46 PM Dear Leoj, Had I used your name incorrectly? I just assumed that 'Leoj' is a fancy way to.....
» 6/06/2017 2:32:46 PM Dear Joel, On the one hand you criticise the progressive movement, for whatever it's wort.....
» 6/06/2017 12:23:16 PM Dear Joe, «anybody can be what they like at any moment.» No, no one can be any other tha.....
» 6/06/2017 12:25:49 AM Dear Rollyczar, So other than killing their oppressors, how do you propose to liberate th.....
» 6/06/2017 12:14:00 AM Dear Joe, We can only be what we are, this cannot change. While there is evidence that t.....
» 5/06/2017 7:39:58 PM Dear Joe, «please someone help me with this - the terms 'homosexual' and heterosexual' ar.....
» 5/06/2017 2:58:54 PM Dear Jayb, «Hey! It's them that always go on about reviving their heritage, & that's thei.....
» 5/06/2017 2:37:35 PM Excellent, Pete - Bravo!.....
» 5/06/2017 2:21:50 PM Dear Moonshine, We cannot only blame journalists - they are only trying to make a living......
» 5/06/2017 10:04:06 AM Dear Ttbn, All true, except the last sentence: «Only voters can put a stop to their stup.....
» 5/06/2017 9:52:31 AM The author is correct: America should not talk, but instead send one nuclear missile that .....
» 5/06/2017 9:38:32 AM In summary, the author believes that what's important is what you say, not what you do. Y.....
» 4/06/2017 9:08:50 PM Dear Joe, «It's none of your damn business what people call themselves.» They can call t.....
» 4/06/2017 6:35:14 PM Dear Moonshine, History is replete with such sporadic incidents. Accidents, murders, craz.....
» 4/06/2017 6:24:16 PM Dear Joe, «Sovereignty: people ceded their 'sovereignty' i.e. as clans and family groups,.....
» 4/06/2017 6:06:52 PM Dear Josephus, Given that: 1. Marriage is no longer required for procreation, even for t.....
» 3/06/2017 10:24:02 PM Indeed a day to rejoice! Next, Trump should also leave the U.N., declare them a terrorist.....
» 2/06/2017 5:20:23 PM Dear Joe, How typical for White Chauvinist British Pigs to think that everywhere they set.....
» 2/06/2017 3:12:02 PM Dear Joe, Thank you for drawing my attention to the similarities of your name with that o.....
» 2/06/2017 1:00:16 PM Dear Joel, «I believe that DNA should decide» I'm afraid otherwise, for what could preve.....
» 2/06/2017 12:46:42 PM Thank you Alon for this comprehensive analysis! Regarding the religious argument: The &q.....
» 2/06/2017 11:22:26 AM What "recognition" for so-called "aboriginals" who do not recognise th.....
» 2/06/2017 10:46:35 AM Government does not currently register the intimate relations between roosters and hens, r.....
» 2/06/2017 12:03:33 AM Dear Joe, History is history, but if a contemporary person of aboriginal ancestry, regard.....
» 1/06/2017 10:46:05 PM Dear Joel, This is quite easy to test: If you go by an English name, then you are not an .....
» 1/06/2017 8:08:15 PM Dear Cossomby, Had that been the case, then they wouldn't need any rights from you, nor w.....
» 1/06/2017 8:20:24 AM We all live in kleptocracies and so we have for some millennia. In the West that would pro.....
» 1/06/2017 2:27:02 AM Dear Julian, If your top value is indeed to support human personal existence (yours and o.....
» 1/06/2017 12:56:39 AM Wait till the whole Marriage Act is repealed, then they will only be able to sell one scoo.....
» 31/05/2017 5:13:49 PM Each and every person, Aboriginal or otherwise, should be able to decide whether they want.....
» 31/05/2017 4:48:32 PM Dear JBowyer, «Give refugees residency and safety and the first thing they do is fly back.....
» 31/05/2017 12:23:41 PM I presume that the sensitive author would condemn one of biggest acts of cruelty that pers.....
» 31/05/2017 12:15:03 PM Dear Rollyczar, «It is nice to hold on to our culture as this is our value.» I suppose t.....
» 31/05/2017 11:48:36 AM Dear Julian, I don't mind taking money that was paid by mutual consent, but so long as th.....
» 30/05/2017 3:46:57 PM Dear Julian, So long as a child is unable to express their wishes clearly, nobody can bet.....
» 30/05/2017 12:29:16 PM If only the Ottomans, who were driven away in Beersheba, were nice people, fair and incorr.....
» 30/05/2017 12:07:59 PM What an arrogance for one culture to claim a whole continent for itself, imposing itself o.....
» 29/05/2017 11:55:44 PM "Home schooling" is about protecting one's children from being indoctrinated and.....
» 29/05/2017 10:53:38 PM Dear Aidan, On the one hand, I look at the massive forensic work of Robert Spencer: Spenc.....
» 29/05/2017 3:29:29 PM { At a dinner party Churchill says to his dinner companion, "Madam, would you sleep w.....
» 29/05/2017 2:59:14 PM Let us not devalue the meaning of "slavery": Slavery has nothing to do with bein.....
» 29/05/2017 2:42:08 PM Dear Bazz, The Koran doesn't need to be modernized - rather, it should be exposed for wha.....
» 29/05/2017 8:58:24 AM Dear Rollyczar, We don't need to know - why should we? So we become scared? So we conver.....
» 28/05/2017 11:56:41 AM Can someone explain to me please? 1. What is a neo-liberal? 2. Who are those neo-liberals.....
» 26/05/2017 1:43:28 AM It seems that some members here are thrilled to have Muslim terror since it gives them a p.....
» 25/05/2017 1:54:52 PM The earth's radius is 6371 kilometres. Man's deepest mines are around 3 kilometres deep an.....
» 25/05/2017 11:16:41 AM So far, the only thing that terrorises me is the auto-immune response as seen on these pag.....
» 24/05/2017 12:22:36 AM The most effective terrorists are the media. By reporting this story they bring about more.....
» 24/05/2017 12:15:49 AM One can only rort humans, but nobody can hide from God. If you steal, you will have to pay.....
» 23/05/2017 10:45:17 AM Dear Josephus, I don't think that I need to convince you that there are no two gods - Elo.....
» 22/05/2017 5:04:21 PM Dear Phanto, Commitment itself can make a relationship great. Commitment can make a rela.....
» 22/05/2017 1:34:09 PM [...continued] «You seem to have failed to noticed that fabrication has become a low valu.....
» 22/05/2017 1:34:05 PM [...continued] Your labelling people as 'workforce' is demeaning. Do I need to remind you.....
» 22/05/2017 1:34:01 PM Dear Aidan, Thank you for taking all this time to answer me. Any connection between myse.....
» 20/05/2017 9:28:46 PM Dear Joe, «ultimately they have to put such religious foolishness behind them» Foolishne.....
» 20/05/2017 9:12:21 PM Dear Bazz, «Yuyutsu said; Untrained people cannot use Linux. I disagree, it has all the f.....
» 20/05/2017 8:54:04 PM Dear Josephus, Pharaoh was indeed considered a god, but Judaism rejected and opposed any .....
» 20/05/2017 7:59:16 PM Dear David, 1. If that was the case, then why haven't the modern Jews (or Christians for .....
» 19/05/2017 4:30:18 PM Dear David, Are you aware that Judaism never denied the existence of other gods? We all .....
» 19/05/2017 3:59:19 PM There will only be peace when America and the rest of the world draws the line, no consult.....
» 19/05/2017 10:45:45 AM [...continued] Regarding the employment of more people that would otherwise be idle, it w.....
» 19/05/2017 10:45:42 AM Dear Aidan, Have you seen the old series "Survivors"? http://en.wikipedia.org/w.....
» 19/05/2017 1:02:21 AM Dear Aidan, «While it's true we're not currently in a position to eliminate the debt, tha.....
» 19/05/2017 12:32:36 AM Dear Runner, It would not cross my mind to kill a cow in order to prevent myself or anyon.....
» 18/05/2017 6:13:41 PM Security is about your physical safety and integrity - nobody is suggesting that security .....
» 18/05/2017 5:49:12 PM Dear Runner, «Most mothers I know even of criminals love their sons dearly. So you think .....
» 18/05/2017 5:02:19 PM Dear Hasbeen, The only problem with housing today is that government no longer allows you.....
» 18/05/2017 4:31:46 PM Dear Foxy, «You need to have a licence to drive a car.» This is understandable if you ar.....
» 17/05/2017 11:26:57 PM According to this logic, marriage should not be allowed to last more than 6 months, then e.....
» 17/05/2017 11:00:48 PM While the news and prospects are terrible, it does introduce a glimpse of hope, that perha.....
» 16/05/2017 6:19:39 PM Dear Joe, «If his only citizenship is Australian, we have to take him back: nobody can be.....
» 16/05/2017 3:27:51 PM It seems reasonable to me for a refugee to subsequently obtain false documents with a diff.....
» 16/05/2017 3:15:31 PM Terrorists are not criminals - they are enemy combatants. Enemy combatants when caught sh.....
» 16/05/2017 1:30:12 PM So many inaccurate generalisation in one article... 1. "Islam as a religion was form.....
» 16/05/2017 10:08:01 AM First, Israel's electoral system is BY FAR more democratic than Australia's. The problem .....
» 16/05/2017 2:35:32 AM Dear SteeleRedux, "Obligations" are a feature of society which only apply to it.....
» 15/05/2017 11:12:11 PM Dear SteeleRedux, «It's called democracy, a civil society, the greater good. That's what .....
» 15/05/2017 5:18:35 PM Dear Foxy, «You are free to disagree» But I do agree! Like yourself, I also firmly beli.....
» 15/05/2017 3:47:18 PM Dear Foxy, It's great to feel so nice and warm, full of compassion... But does anyone ha.....
» 14/05/2017 12:04:41 AM Certainly so, Ttbn. --- Dear SteeleRedux, This is all very well and I am glad for this .....
» 13/05/2017 10:33:28 PM As for one's own insurance, the best option is to self-insure or to save for a rainy day a.....
» 12/05/2017 8:32:45 AM Dear Referundemdrivensocienty, «The Commonwealth Government exisits to serve 'we the peop.....
» 10/05/2017 5:43:59 PM Dear Ttbn, You obviously do not like welfare. Therefore you should not pay for it. Let t.....
» 9/05/2017 6:11:48 PM Dear Phanto, «Most people do not wish to hurt a soul - there is nothing religious about t.....
» 9/05/2017 4:12:32 PM Dear Phanto, «You do not have a dilemma- you have an emotional dependence on religion and.....
» 9/05/2017 9:52:33 AM Jesus had no choice. In the environment where he lived, had he failed to acknowledge the P.....
» 7/05/2017 7:46:32 AM Dear Nick, «"Care to explain why?" Care to explain your question?» Well the au.....
» 7/05/2017 5:03:57 AM "If a child aspires to be an executive of a new national high-tech company, captain a.....
» 6/05/2017 11:41:51 PM Dear Joe, I was writing specifically about the "wailing wall", that it should b.....
» 5/05/2017 5:37:49 PM Dear Joe, Lord Rama deliberately deserted Ayodhya when his time on earth was over. The pe.....
» 5/05/2017 9:28:45 AM I used to care and try to minimise the amount of chemicals I place in the atmosphere, but .....
» 5/05/2017 12:24:04 AM Dear Prompete, «Destruction of the Western Wall...... Hmmmm, does the mosque go along wit.....
» 5/05/2017 12:12:32 AM I am with Alan on this: Every minute that we delay finishing off this monster is a minute.....
» 4/05/2017 10:56:28 PM Ideally we should stop all this business of procreation anyway - there are way far too man.....
» 4/05/2017 5:34:38 PM Dear Bazz, What's that budget of government got to do with us? Don't you have your own li.....
» 4/05/2017 4:36:00 PM Dear David, You are right. Babies at present receive rights without obligations. While I .....
» 4/05/2017 4:01:06 PM Nice to see that someone is still and ever optimistic and trying, yet the situation is dep.....
» 4/05/2017 3:05:56 PM Dear Cherful, It makes no difference whether or not one believes that God exists or other.....
» 3/05/2017 5:46:55 PM Dear David, «If that care can be furthered by giving natural features rights then I favou.....
» 3/05/2017 1:54:24 PM Dear O Sung Wu, In the case you mentioned, his last thought would have been: "I migh.....
» 3/05/2017 9:11:15 AM Dear Manny, So you consider "Redemption" to be too strong a description of Suku.....
» 3/05/2017 7:52:10 AM Dear Mark, Doom and gloom? The only doom and gloom I can see in this context is, your ki.....
» 3/05/2017 12:50:26 AM With rights come obligations! (A hydro-electric dam? that's a form of taxation!) Were th.....
» 2/05/2017 2:21:20 PM Dear Joel, And why should heterosexuals be discriminated against? I knew a lady in her 7.....
» 2/05/2017 10:17:13 AM Looking forward to buy your book: "Better Tricks for Clumsy Swindlers"......
» 2/05/2017 9:52:37 AM Those who want to get married are not a side to it: those who want to get married, get mar.....
» 1/05/2017 7:45:46 PM Dear Bernie, Thank you for your kind comment and information. However, as much as I hate.....
» 1/05/2017 3:52:01 PM Such a situation where Bernie needed to comment and write what should be obvious - is a sh.....
» 1/05/2017 3:09:59 PM Dear David, Though I haven't heard those particular allegations before, I have heard some.....
» 1/05/2017 2:12:20 PM "In the place where penitents stand even the wholly righteous cannot stand" - Ba.....
» 1/05/2017 1:24:10 PM Dear Joe, There is a difference between values and attitudes: although both can change, v.....
» 1/05/2017 10:36:09 AM Dear Joe, Thank you for your consideration of me. First, I would like to re-acknowledge .....
» 29/04/2017 7:49:04 PM Dear Nana, «Yuyutsu, you may be unaware that there is a group of people in this country w.....
» 29/04/2017 7:33:24 PM Dear Joe, I understand that the word 'natural' has several competing meanings - especiall.....
» 28/04/2017 5:01:56 PM Dear Joe, Premise B: they (good and evil) exist. If you agree that the qualities of good.....
» 26/04/2017 2:15:56 PM Dear Joe, Other than being religious at heart, why else would you care to do good and shu.....
» 25/04/2017 7:50:07 PM This country is not green - it's brown, due to all the eucalyptus trees. Those oil-rich tr.....
» 25/04/2017 7:41:08 PM Dear Rehctub, I am not familiar with this Shorten guy or with what he said, but as I unde.....
» 25/04/2017 7:20:36 PM Dear Joe, It seems to me that the reason you will never become religious, is that you alr.....
» 25/04/2017 6:15:44 PM Dear Josephus, Indeed, for whatever historical reasons, the word 'Christian' came to have.....
» 25/04/2017 5:51:30 PM Dear Joe, Like yourself, I also disagree with the above four premises. Clearly, not every.....
» 25/04/2017 2:32:24 PM Dear Joe, Perfectly correct observation - we all have values. Usually we have a mix of v.....
» 25/04/2017 7:24:52 AM Dear Mikk, Yes, "work for the dole" exists for 20 years, but it was not clear f.....
» 25/04/2017 4:43:21 AM Great analysis, Banjo!.....
» 24/04/2017 4:46:50 PM Dear Joe, What's there to add? I would still support those who do not wish to work, but n.....
» 24/04/2017 12:44:17 AM Dear Ttbn, Yes, force and punishment are indeed part of the violent political movement th.....
» 23/04/2017 7:35:49 PM I oppose violence. I oppose slavery. Apparently, not everyone does. Regardless, supporti.....
» 23/04/2017 7:22:43 PM «Islam is a political movement, with some religious aspects i.e. Muslims pray to a superna.....
» 23/04/2017 6:25:04 PM Dear Ttbn, At the moment Australia has permanent residents. In accordance with our diffe.....
» 23/04/2017 3:18:54 PM Dear Joe, Well, I did not expect you to agree, given that you already objected to it in y.....
» 23/04/2017 12:16:39 AM Dear Joe, «In Australia, there should never be any different classes of citizenship» Act.....
» 22/04/2017 11:57:21 PM [...continued] Ordinary people in the West Bank and Gaza who are now called "Palesti.....
» 22/04/2017 11:57:17 PM Dear Anti, The information I provided, including the bit about genetics, was from the boo.....
» 21/04/2017 12:00:14 AM If the constitution stated that candidates cannot be elected if they have a pimple on thei.....
» 20/04/2017 11:41:09 PM Dear Banjo, Thank you, I understand your point of view. There is just one little problem.....
» 20/04/2017 4:56:49 PM Dear Josephus, People do not generally want citizenship so they could vote or hold a publ.....
» 20/04/2017 9:16:25 AM Dear Tony, Regarding alcohol and Judaism, the idea is to avoid drinking wine that was use.....
» 19/04/2017 5:11:33 PM Dear SM and Bazz, The facts are different. Jews were never re-expelled from Israel after .....
» 19/04/2017 11:17:58 AM Dear Paul, Concepts of goodness/badness are human, but so is the concept of 'tree'. One c.....
» 19/04/2017 3:23:34 AM Dear Killarney, «North Korea has never attacked anyone» Apart from kidnapping Japanese p.....
» 18/04/2017 1:43:06 PM Dear Joe, A perfect religion would still expect you to reflect and analyse your own attit.....
» 18/04/2017 1:03:26 PM Dear Paul, The need for a purpose is another indicator for the frailty of the human mind......
» 18/04/2017 10:29:09 AM Dear Killarney, I think that your last comment is a bit selective: Those who repeatedly .....
» 18/04/2017 12:07:50 AM Dear Paul, «The question being is man the creation of God, or is God the creation of man?.....
» 17/04/2017 2:24:37 PM Dear David (VK3AUU), «Just ask people like Yuyutsu and Runner, they will vouch for the st.....
» 17/04/2017 1:18:13 AM (...continued) Perhaps the constitution never intended to protect religious freedoms, per.....
» 17/04/2017 1:18:08 AM Dear Banjo, OK, so we agree on the term 'secularism', but then you state that "secul.....
» 16/04/2017 3:10:23 PM Dear Phanto, A breeze, a storm and a hurricane are all wind. While it could be practical .....
» 16/04/2017 2:28:19 AM Blessing, Is Mise and Joe, You are both correct. As Is Mise said, those of us who believ.....
» 16/04/2017 1:40:29 AM Dear Doog, «I did not understand a word of that» I'll try to break it down and make it a.....
» 16/04/2017 12:48:32 AM Dear Mikk, Other than not liking what it does (and I also don't like some of the things t.....
» 15/04/2017 11:18:31 PM Dear Doog, «To believe that someone can return from the dead is superstition.» Well, we .....
» 15/04/2017 11:04:51 PM Dear Doog, «Can violence have classifications»? Yes! Violence can be dissected in sever.....
» 15/04/2017 10:31:35 PM (continued) I can see them stumbling in the dark, to the extent that the best judges in t.....
» 15/04/2017 10:31:31 PM Dear Banjo, I think that we can agree that "secularism" and "atheism".....
» 14/04/2017 1:05:44 PM Dear Paul, According to the bible [Genesis, 6:11], Noah was 600 (or perhaps 599) years ol.....
» 14/04/2017 12:38:15 PM Would it be fair to say that some women do voluntarily submit to being beaten while others.....
» 14/04/2017 12:00:04 PM Dear Banjo, «I can only presume that he is employing the word as it is generally understo.....
» 14/04/2017 11:20:04 AM Dear David, «God, if he exists at all, didn't show any grace and love for his so called b.....
» 13/04/2017 11:43:55 PM Dear Murray, I mostly agree with your courageous article, but coffee is very bad for your.....
» 13/04/2017 10:53:01 PM Alas, if you try to trace Australian values to their source, you would not arrive at Jesus.....
» 13/04/2017 2:15:10 PM Dear Milena, The article did not mention or discuss atheism - it was about secularism. Y.....
» 12/04/2017 11:50:16 AM «Religion is that which, after the Latin, binds.» Extending this definition out of contex.....
» 12/04/2017 11:32:39 AM Malthus was right in a way he did not foresee: while he mistakenly feared material poverty.....
» 8/04/2017 10:22:57 PM [...continued] So based on the assumption that one can have only a finite number of thoug.....
» 8/04/2017 10:22:39 PM Dear Jardine, 1. Correct, except that the same proposition can be an axiom for one perso.....
» 5/04/2017 1:22:38 AM (...continued) Please tell me whether you agree that the number of thoughts that any pers.....
» 5/04/2017 1:22:33 AM Dear Jardine, 1. I admit that my claim that {"All birds have feathers" (ABHF) .....
» 4/04/2017 2:00:04 PM To summarise the article, what's going to save the "nation" and its elite and pr.....
» 3/04/2017 3:08:04 PM Dear Jardine, 1. Correct: "rational" does not imply true (nor vice-versa). Whe.....
» 3/04/2017 8:31:18 AM Dear Jardine, You can observe for yourself that people are irrational. Just watch their n.....
» 3/04/2017 1:07:19 AM Dear Jardine, If over a billion people are convinced, then whatever convinced them is con.....
» 30/03/2017 6:45:42 PM Dear Jardine, a) For something to be called "rational", it must be derived fro.....
» 30/03/2017 5:01:54 PM Beware who is to be next! Government aims to insert its talons into every child's brain, .....
» 30/03/2017 8:03:23 AM Dear Aidan, Good, so you are able to recognise that a complex violent operation can be cl.....
» 29/03/2017 4:03:46 PM Dear Jardine, I can't see why we are digging deeper into what seems to me a side-issue, &.....
» 29/03/2017 7:47:18 AM Dear Jardine, «Therefore we are entitled to conclude that it is wrong to argue that one c.....
» 28/03/2017 12:26:59 PM Dear Jardine, OK, so if I argue and deny that I argue then I am incorrect, this is pure m.....
» 28/03/2017 11:11:09 AM So what's the big deal? If Trump wants, he could do many things. He could for example bec.....
» 28/03/2017 10:59:03 AM Gender Identity Disorder? Yes, identifying with a gender is a disorder! The details, whet.....
» 26/03/2017 10:43:37 PM Dear Jardine, “you cannot argue that you cannot argue” Sure I can! My argument would the.....
» 26/03/2017 6:12:52 PM Dear Foxy, Yes, the quality of candles in Australia is quite poor, probably due to lack o.....
» 26/03/2017 5:39:57 PM Dear Foxy, «But what are we to do about it now?» 1. Buy candles! 2. Cut those eucalyptu.....
» 26/03/2017 5:20:19 PM Dear Jardine, Sorry to break your post in two. I did not see your post before posting min.....
» 26/03/2017 4:19:51 PM In the biblical text are found passages that are extremely ethical, but also other passage.....
» 26/03/2017 7:23:27 AM Dear Aidan, «Secondly, the conditional threat to use violence in self defence or the defe.....
» 25/03/2017 11:38:24 PM Dear Jardine, It would indeed be practically impossible to have voluntary states in this .....
» 25/03/2017 10:22:58 PM Dear Jardine, Good luck with trying to find any ethics in nature: so far, no trace or hin.....
» 24/03/2017 2:44:25 PM Dear Jardine, I disagree that clicking an "I agree" button is a sufficient cons.....
» 24/03/2017 2:44:18 PM Dear Jardine, "God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, cour.....
» 24/03/2017 9:29:14 AM Dear Jardine, «Sometimes I wonder whether we couldn't go direct to ethics without going v.....
» 23/03/2017 12:02:40 PM For once I agree: The settlements are not the problem. Why should Jews be prevented from l.....
» 22/03/2017 7:02:29 PM Dear Alan, «For years we have known that inflation is a tool that serves the needs of tho.....
» 21/03/2017 11:55:31 PM Dear Anti, What you wrote is very sensible. Sadly it is not up to me, nor does my family .....
» 21/03/2017 11:35:38 PM Dear Jardine, It is commonly accepted even among libertarians that it's legitimate for pe.....
» 21/03/2017 3:04:02 PM Dear Anti, No doubt, Israel has made mistakes and is paying for them. None of us was resp.....
» 21/03/2017 11:01:11 AM Dear Jardine, The state is an immoral body, but so are those who advertise at us and coll.....
» 20/03/2017 11:12:02 PM Dear Anti, First, I am more than happy for East Jerusalem to become the capital of Palest.....
» 20/03/2017 1:44:59 PM Dear David, In wars, it is common to use words as weapons, trying to demoralise the enemy.....
» 20/03/2017 1:04:22 AM OK, I was not aware of the "Times of Israel", but it clearly states what the Isr.....
» 20/03/2017 12:16:01 AM Dear Critic, One might perhaps expect that news like this would not appear on the Israeli.....
» 19/03/2017 10:21:12 PM Dear Bazz, Thank you for the information: I am certainly not an expert regarding electric.....
» 19/03/2017 5:29:22 PM Dear Rache, «The notions that "Jews are God's chosen people" and the "the .....
» 19/03/2017 5:13:31 PM I don't care about the source of energy, but rather about its centrality. Batteries are go.....
» 16/03/2017 11:09:22 PM Dear Fool, Since you admit that "Israel is hopelessly divided from within", you.....
» 16/03/2017 11:32:42 AM To deal with the Palestinians of the West Bank if they cause any trouble while Israel is a.....
» 15/03/2017 4:58:27 PM Dear Mhaze, «Christianity, of all the world's religions, provides for the most personal r.....
» 15/03/2017 11:41:46 AM A step in the right direction: It is stupid to waste that much power by sending it across.....
» 13/03/2017 12:59:40 PM Dear Jayb, Nice: melons can be split along various dimensions and what you described is o.....
» 12/03/2017 7:04:11 PM Somewhat late, I had to think about this one. I personally prefer to live in a society wh.....
» 10/03/2017 5:15:24 AM Dear Jay, «Yutsie: The author wants to restrict entry to this continent only to those who.....
» 9/03/2017 12:48:04 PM In other words, the author wants to force people to: * Touch (shake hands) each other aga.....
» 8/03/2017 4:23:31 PM Dear Old Man, «If alive in Australia today he would be in gaol as a paedophile.» «If aliv.....
» 8/03/2017 9:33:23 AM Thank you, Arturo - Indeed, the king is naked! Although Alan and Ttbn are correct in clai.....
» 7/03/2017 12:06:14 PM Yes, instead of being paid for it, prime-ministers should rather be fined for running us o.....
» 7/03/2017 9:57:58 AM The kids in year 5 got an assignment to write an essay about poverty. One boy wrote: &quo.....
» 7/03/2017 6:43:00 AM Dear Dan, «Hands up on this site, all who don't drink alcohol. 2% raise their hands. Hand.....
» 6/03/2017 6:09:45 PM I can't believe it - a David Singer article that I can actually agree with! --- Dear Geo.....
» 6/03/2017 3:30:14 PM I agree with the contents of this article, but I think that the good Senator is wasting hi.....
» 6/03/2017 2:00:05 PM Dear Julian, You unnecessarily take upon yourself the burden of other people's sins. Have.....
» 6/03/2017 12:51:23 PM Dear Julian, I don't think that one ought to feel ashamed of things that occurred before .....
» 5/03/2017 9:40:01 PM Dear Julian, I happened to be live in South Africa for a couple of years during the time .....
» 5/03/2017 5:46:33 PM Dear David, Congratulations on your thorough account about the Jews in the age of nationa.....
» 2/03/2017 6:55:32 PM Dear Phanto, No doubt that people ought to be looked after when they cannot look after th.....
» 2/03/2017 1:43:52 PM Dear Phanto, «The government gives certain advantages to couples.» Then perhaps we shoul.....
» 2/03/2017 1:26:34 PM This article is about legislation, not about morality. If the laws of the state were mean.....
» 2/03/2017 12:48:54 PM Dear David F., «Exodus 20:5 Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for .....
» 2/03/2017 8:05:59 AM Dear David F., «There was a spirit of tolerance in the ancient world for those who worshi.....
» 1/03/2017 10:46:26 PM I completely agree with Phanto. While most people are busy or lack the temperament for po.....
» 1/03/2017 10:24:32 PM Dear David F., «Alternatives are continue the present situation or form two states» Or t.....
» 1/03/2017 1:07:58 PM Dear David F., Sorry, I skimped over your last post and commented on it without reading i.....
» 1/03/2017 11:19:21 AM Dear David F., «Yuyutsu on 1 March 2017 1:45:36 AM mentioned that none of the parties in .....
» 1/03/2017 4:30:51 AM Dear Is Mise, «Wife beating is not a cultural trait but one sanctioned and indeed demande.....
» 1/03/2017 1:45:36 AM Dear David Singer, «I will answer your question on why the Arabs were not allowed to retu.....
» 28/02/2017 3:45:58 PM Dear JF Aus, «I think the state should record prenuptial agreement and make provision for.....
» 28/02/2017 12:05:21 PM Dear David F., «For peace we must learn to live with difference» Of course, peace comes .....
» 28/02/2017 12:01:30 PM Dear Mhaze, «Pick another cut-off point if you like but the principle remains the same.» .....
» 28/02/2017 11:51:59 AM Dear Phanto, Yes, it should never be the role of government to acknowledge anybody's sexu.....
» 28/02/2017 11:30:44 AM Dear JF Aus, I was not suggesting to only "repeal present Marriage Act law", bu.....
» 28/02/2017 1:58:29 AM Dear Is Mise, «Men have authority over women by [right of] what Allah has given one over .....
» 27/02/2017 10:08:36 PM Dear JF Aus, «But I would say do it at the correct time so as to allow existing marriage .....
» 27/02/2017 6:12:31 PM Dear Is Mise, Honour killings and wife bashing are not mandated by the Koran, but are opt.....
» 27/02/2017 2:11:33 PM Dear David, Religion is not concerned with silly questions such as whether God exists - a.....
» 27/02/2017 1:24:58 PM Dear David F., Both "sides" in the Middle-East are guilty of certain wrongdoing.....
» 27/02/2017 1:03:59 AM Dear One, The transaction-tax that you propose would arbitrary punish those who change th.....
» 26/02/2017 7:25:42 PM Dear One, Talking about fairness, how is it fair that some people pay less tax because th.....
» 26/02/2017 6:20:13 PM Everyone, «The Israeli government in not letting them return did do wrong. I suspect that.....
» 26/02/2017 5:57:53 PM Such a tax, while intended against big companies, would in fact hurt families whose member.....
» 26/02/2017 5:26:42 PM Dear Alan, In answering Diver Dan you have not answered my last post: please realise that.....
» 26/02/2017 5:03:11 AM Dear Alan, «Our sexual orientation is decided in the womb and by our DNA!» Even so, usin.....
» 24/02/2017 4:12:33 PM Dear Alan, I am well aware of the discovery of several such genes, toward the bottom of t.....
» 24/02/2017 2:28:10 PM Dear Alan, No gay gene was ever found: what was discovered are genes that contribute to h.....
» 24/02/2017 10:47:35 AM Marriage is not the issue since in any case, receiving a piece of paper from the governmen.....
» 23/02/2017 11:33:43 AM I see several problems with UBI, because the author wants it to be administered by the sta.....
» 22/02/2017 11:43:39 PM According to first-hand information that I got from family-members who were in Israel in 1.....
» 22/02/2017 1:08:44 PM I never authorised the state to "protect" me. While I do not wish to be murdere.....
» 22/02/2017 9:30:20 AM Dear Banjo Paterson, I acknowledge that, relatively speaking, Australia is one of the fre.....
» 21/02/2017 2:30:57 PM Dear Banjo Paterson, The difference between Yuyutsu and Don Quixote is that the latter tr.....
» 19/02/2017 10:26:46 PM Dear David, «Why are you so reluctant to tell us how your family comes to be living in Is.....
» 19/02/2017 9:53:40 PM Dear LEGO, «OK, then all you have to do is to renounce those passages in the Koran and th.....
» 19/02/2017 5:03:42 PM Dear Josephus, «If you do not like our laws and violate them you have to take the consequ.....
» 19/02/2017 2:55:34 PM Dear Joe, Yes, the settlements are definitely an unhelpful provocation, but I think that .....
» 19/02/2017 10:49:50 AM Dear Joe, «The region has been called 'Palestine' since at least Roman times» The region.....
» 19/02/2017 10:08:11 AM Dear Runner, «what an illogical irrational rant Phanto.» Very much so, but Runner, I thi.....
» 18/02/2017 11:51:33 PM Dear Graham, Following Najla's last response, I suggest that you allow article-authors un.....
» 18/02/2017 11:45:16 PM Dear Banjo Paterson, «to “opt-out” of society, one has to either cease being a member of .....
» 18/02/2017 9:26:15 PM Dear David, I believe in one law - the law of God: For the Lord God omnipotent reigneth, .....
» 17/02/2017 6:44:02 PM Dear Phanto, «But that wasn't one of the questions. Why do you need to tell us that?» To.....
» 17/02/2017 2:22:08 PM [...continued] «The sad part is that you never actually solve the problems of feeling bad.....
» 17/02/2017 2:21:59 PM Dear Phanto, «It is just too good to choose to end it without any guarantee that there is.....
» 17/02/2017 1:50:59 AM Dear David, «...pursuant to the legal rights vested in the Jewish people by the 1922 Mand.....
» 17/02/2017 12:26:58 AM Dear Joe, «Anybody who puts the 'interests' of an invented god above those of a single pe.....
» 16/02/2017 2:51:10 PM «Mark my word many Muslims loyalty is to our great nation of Australia.» How sad. One sh.....
» 15/02/2017 6:14:47 PM What a disappointment! After all the grand promises in the author's previous article and .....
» 15/02/2017 1:09:12 AM Dear Nick, You asked me to add: "Meanwhile a spokesperson for the Attorney-General’.....
» 14/02/2017 11:49:31 AM Dear Nick, Gun ownership is the least of my concerns. In his post to Foxy (Monday, 13 Feb.....
» 14/02/2017 9:22:37 AM Netanyahu visits Trump with the important mission of stopping Iran and Hezbollah as his hi.....
» 14/02/2017 2:48:13 AM Thank you, Banjo. The report is interesting indeed, but ridiculous too. Switzerland seco.....
» 13/02/2017 10:26:19 PM Dear Is Mise, If you failed to notice, Muslim terrorists and other criminals already do w.....
» 13/02/2017 12:56:44 PM Dear Nick, Of course, smaller states are not a complete solution on their own. One vital .....
» 12/02/2017 9:46:16 PM (...continued) While my direct personal suffering from this solution is quite moderate, I.....
» 12/02/2017 9:46:10 PM Dear Foxy, You are facing a legitimate problem - but this doesn't imply that your specifi.....
» 12/02/2017 3:48:43 PM Dear Alan, I make suggestions, not demands, suggestions which I believe are for your own .....
» 12/02/2017 3:12:10 PM Dear Foxy, You have no wish to argue with me, yet you do. No wonder you complain that yo.....
» 12/02/2017 1:57:24 PM Dear Hasbeen, Shall I offer you my head so the Christian country of Australia can finally.....
» 12/02/2017 12:57:27 PM Dear Alan, I am saddened to hear about your involuntary loneliness. Solitude is a great t.....
» 12/02/2017 11:55:13 AM Dear Foxy, This is not the first, nor even the second time that you quote this specific r.....
» 12/02/2017 11:03:56 AM Dear Critic, «If politicians aren't willing to get serious about running the country prop.....
» 12/02/2017 10:33:00 AM Dear Mikk, I agree that everyone deserves respect. This is not an exclusive Japanese feat.....
» 11/02/2017 10:08:29 PM Dear Steve, This discussion is empty because there is no private medical insurance in Aus.....
» 10/02/2017 5:36:49 PM Mating is NOT the core of all - The core of all is God. Any feature that supports our ret.....
» 10/02/2017 2:59:59 PM Dear Mhaze, Excellent analysis! Following this we really need to get worried about the d.....
» 9/02/2017 2:17:37 PM The moving of all embassies, not just the American, to Western Jerusalem, is long overdue......
» 8/02/2017 11:38:43 AM Perhaps migrants, who were not corrupted from childhood by the Australian secular-educatio.....
» 6/02/2017 8:36:38 AM To summarise, this approach promotes mind over matter. But this approach is also flawed b.....
» 6/02/2017 8:02:46 AM This doesn't go far enough: What in heaven or on earth, gives anyone a right to control o.....
» 3/02/2017 7:12:23 PM Dear Philip, «he will want something back of greater value» Sounds excellent - especiall.....
» 3/02/2017 12:43:37 PM Laws are never designed to help people - laws are designed to cover the legislators' botto.....
» 3/02/2017 6:14:15 AM As the author clearly explained, "we all give ourselves to something". Our illne.....
» 31/01/2017 6:56:21 AM Dear Julian, «18C is perfectly reasonable as it is. Everyone is entitled not to be insult.....
» 30/01/2017 1:07:10 PM Thank you, Kendall, Politicians like terrorism (in moderation) because it has the potenti.....
» 29/01/2017 10:20:05 PM So what do you want, mister? to govern and enforce your cruel civilisation over me? I do .....
» 29/01/2017 9:25:55 PM Dear Julian, Are you a matchmaker by trade? There are those computer-games for little ch.....
» 29/01/2017 1:20:26 AM Dear Julian, I'm unfamiliar with the story about the British and the Mau-Mau, but my fami.....
» 28/01/2017 10:38:02 PM Dear Foxy, «Most people in this country have a robust tolerance of difference but to main.....
» 27/01/2017 2:15:07 PM Dear Cossomby, One more to the list: 3) Time heals, doctors kill: by having faith in the.....
» 27/01/2017 1:05:20 PM Dear Foxy, «One pledges to share certain beliefs - democratic beliefs - [1] to respect th.....
» 27/01/2017 12:18:23 PM In the advertisement there was just one who was not amused - the barbecue lamb! In realit.....
» 27/01/2017 11:07:46 AM Dear Foxy, «We have a legal system that we are all expected to abide by in this country.».....
» 27/01/2017 10:57:54 AM Dear Foxy, «"In this country we have laws that we are all expected to abide by.".....
» 27/01/2017 2:54:59 AM Dear Julian, «#The issue is not racists in Israel, it's the right of the race-based STATE.....
» 26/01/2017 8:43:42 PM Dear Julian, By the prevailing understanding of what "racism" consists of, yes,.....
» 26/01/2017 7:44:50 PM Dear Mikk, Social breakdown can be lamentable or welcome, depending whether the society i.....
» 26/01/2017 1:15:53 PM Dear Bob, If I faced the difficult choice of having my child educated by either a Muslim .....
» 25/01/2017 3:21:09 PM Blasphemy is wrong, mocking and hurting others is definitely wrong, but using the mechanis.....
» 25/01/2017 2:46:41 AM Dear Julian, The picture from http://au.pinterest.com/pin/316377942543443020 shows an Isr.....
» 24/01/2017 1:41:02 PM Dear Julian, I like your description: "the world's only remaining overtly race-supre.....
» 24/01/2017 12:34:39 PM Dear Mikk, Yes, you have a point: all thieves should be unionised! As a further communal .....
» 24/01/2017 11:08:43 AM Dear JP, «I think the attitude, if you can get away with it just do it, is becoming more .....
» 24/01/2017 10:30:09 AM Dear Paul, Am I an anarchist? I am undecided. Etymologically the Greek "Anarkhya&qu.....
» 24/01/2017 9:08:02 AM Dear me, the author has been infected. Research should focus on the question of cause and.....
» 23/01/2017 7:11:55 PM Dear Julian, Conflict: "A serious disagreement or argument, typically a protracted o.....
» 23/01/2017 5:41:46 PM Dear Doog, «The FWA sets the wage limits as that is what is required for that aged person.....
» 23/01/2017 5:10:59 PM Dear Julian, When you speak of a "solution" you must first state what the ".....
» 22/01/2017 2:10:51 PM Dear SM, Well now you are laughing, but South Australia is getting better-prepared for th.....
» 22/01/2017 2:01:35 PM Dear Runner, While humans are animals who have most likely evolved from a common ancestor.....
» 22/01/2017 1:46:34 PM Dear Hasbeen, «Next step is how does he get back the half trillion dollars of US taxpayer.....
» 22/01/2017 10:24:14 AM Dear Mikk, «Criminals that should go to jail.» Well and good - the most common criminals.....
» 22/01/2017 7:36:34 AM Dear Doog, «What happens then you pay people with cups of coffee, or chunks of bootleathe.....
» 21/01/2017 10:43:01 PM I applaud the author for this article. However, I have a question for parents: Is this si.....
» 20/01/2017 1:49:25 PM The good Senator keeps tinkering around the edges. A voluntary society, whose members are.....
» 19/01/2017 12:57:39 PM Dear Mhaze, You mentioned three options - but there is a fourth: Have no HoS! So long a.....
» 18/01/2017 12:31:07 PM Dear Billy, «There is only one country that can bring about peace and that's Israel» The.....
» 17/01/2017 9:40:27 AM It boils down to the difference between shame and remorse: http://www.kimleatherdale.com/s.....
» 16/01/2017 12:44:42 PM «On January 8, as anyone with internet access will know, the 74th annual Golden Globes Awa.....
» 15/01/2017 12:32:48 PM Indeed, once America won a sports tournament against Russia, the Russian press announced: .....
» 11/01/2017 7:20:26 PM Whether and when killing others can ever be moral is a very complex spiritual and metaphys.....
» 11/01/2017 2:46:41 PM Dear Banjo, What we do not focus our attention on - we do not know. Formerly-perceived o.....
» 10/01/2017 9:37:30 PM Dear Billy, Are you trying to subdue the settlers? Why not practice first by catching an.....
» 10/01/2017 3:12:34 PM Dear Alan, Sorry about my poor grammar - indeed sentences that contain more than one 'it'.....
» 10/01/2017 11:06:50 AM The French Initiative is bound to fail because no matter what is decided there, Israel has.....
» 10/01/2017 9:46:44 AM Dear Banjo, You and I are not entities. Consciousness is an aspect of our very own nature.....
» 10/01/2017 7:57:19 AM Dear Killarney, While I feel for your loss, I can't see how you can retrieve it, not in a.....
» 10/01/2017 7:14:46 AM Dear SM, «Not all Arabs are the same, but most agree with genocide, public hangings subju.....
» 10/01/2017 12:05:10 AM Dear Julian, While I never condone domestic violence, comparably, social engineers genera.....
» 9/01/2017 10:16:57 PM Dear Julian, Every enclave, every state, every country, every continent, every race, ever.....
» 9/01/2017 6:45:06 PM Dear Julian, «A dear old grandmother not born in Palestine is probably a rarity» Why a r.....
» 9/01/2017 8:43:09 AM The staff at the BoM are human, they have families and it is quite understandable that the.....
» 9/01/2017 3:16:03 AM Dear Banjo, As far as I am concerned, the mystery of consciousness has nothing to do with.....
» 8/01/2017 7:11:21 PM Dear Julian, Let me understand you correctly: Suppose for a moment that everything happe.....
» 8/01/2017 11:15:00 AM Dear George, Like you, I hope that HAL-like computers remain in the realm of science-fict.....
» 8/01/2017 10:53:21 AM Dear Julian, The so-called "Palestinians" should and could have everything they.....
» 8/01/2017 7:01:53 AM Dear Banjo, According to your definition, a self-driving car is probably aware of more th.....
» 8/01/2017 1:00:12 AM Dear David, «I don’t give a snail’s fart for group rights. The only right I care for is t.....
» 6/01/2017 2:54:58 PM Dear Pogi, A housewife walking to a supermarket may have the impression that her actions .....
» 5/01/2017 6:09:37 PM Dear George, I agree with Penrose: awareness is derived from the transitive verb, 'aware'.....
» 5/01/2017 3:23:16 PM If you really want to reduce fossil-fuel usage, then your very first action should be to s.....
» 5/01/2017 1:41:41 PM Dear Peter, Phenomena occur - whereas consciousness is constant and everlasting. Phenomen.....
» 5/01/2017 12:06:00 PM Dear Alan, King Mohammed of Morocco is practising Islam (so at least he believes) and rai.....
» 5/01/2017 11:47:19 AM Dear David, «Self-determination is unfair» More "1984" stuff? War is peace, fr.....
» 4/01/2017 11:55:25 PM Dear SAINTS, «Of course, and there are many non-believers of any faith, however we can al.....
» 4/01/2017 6:51:27 PM Consciousness is not a phenomenon......
» 4/01/2017 6:41:33 PM Dear Julian, «A solution based on justice and international law:» I think that it may he.....
» 4/01/2017 6:16:34 PM Dear SAINTS, Thank you for this excellent question. One ought to adopt a belief if and o.....
» 4/01/2017 1:02:24 PM Long live King Mohammed of Morocco! --- Dear Daffy, «one of the text books created unde.....
» 4/01/2017 12:13:25 PM Dear David, Regarding Scotland, I promote freedom - not isolation. While groups of people.....
» 3/01/2017 5:01:42 PM Dear David, Some of the groups that require the highest conformity and obedience also pro.....
» 3/01/2017 4:34:47 PM Dear David, Point taken about science and the Romans. So the Romans didn't even get a cha.....
» 3/01/2017 2:34:32 PM Has the author forgot what China stands for? The cultural revolution? The denial of all .....
» 3/01/2017 12:27:31 PM (...continued) However, on the spiritual plane, diversity of gods as well as diversity of.....
» 3/01/2017 12:27:20 PM Dear David, If your analysis of Greek/Roman paganism is correct, then theirs was not a re.....
» 3/01/2017 5:00:44 AM Dear David, If the Israeli diplomats who happily paid for Pollard's information were that.....
» 3/01/2017 4:40:52 AM Dear LEGO, «eternal life in the highest level of heaven screwing 72 "dark eyed, high.....
» 1/01/2017 4:21:26 PM Dear Banjo and Ttbn, Why should I trust you that Muslims would be the first-but-last on t.....
» 1/01/2017 3:00:45 PM Dear SM, As for the dung, there goes the German proverb: Das Leben ist wie eine Hühnerlei.....
» 1/01/2017 2:22:19 PM Dear David, «You apparently want a nation to be other than a nation.» If nations are def.....
» 1/01/2017 12:38:59 PM Dear SM, «A two state solution will require sacrifices from both sides.» Solutions are a.....
» 31/12/2016 11:29:52 PM Dear David, When people are unhappy with the regime, they should be able to split off and.....
» 30/12/2016 4:40:39 PM Dear David, To have different views is normal, nothing wrong about it: I for example beli.....
» 30/12/2016 11:46:01 AM Dear Julian, As you said, Israel has no constitution. The reason is that the people of Is.....
» 30/12/2016 11:08:30 AM (...continued) Regarding education, I agree that the scientific attitude is inherent in t.....
» 30/12/2016 11:08:25 AM Dear David, I agree that forcing others how to practice their religion is a problem, whic.....
» 29/12/2016 11:04:47 AM Dear David, The question is, are you sincerely motivated by the desire for peace, or are .....
» 29/12/2016 7:51:50 AM Dear Bazz, «It is the basis of the whole problem of the Middle East.» What problem are y.....
» 28/12/2016 10:09:49 PM Dear Bazz, «The Arabs will NEVER accept that Israel can exist.» Agreed - so what? Who a.....
» 28/12/2016 7:11:47 PM Dear Aidan, You provided no reasoning to substantiate your view that businesses should no.....
» 28/12/2016 6:05:15 PM Dear Foxy, «The Kadima vision is of a concrete wall, with Jews on one side and as many Ar.....
» 28/12/2016 4:53:24 PM Everyone is entitled to believe whatever they want. Assuming your version is correct, Reh.....
» 28/12/2016 4:37:19 PM The elephant in the room is, why have superannuation in the first place?! The bottom line.....
» 28/12/2016 4:13:48 PM Dear SM, «Israel has always been prepared to trade land for peace» Very true and so are .....
» 28/12/2016 10:28:33 AM Obama did the right thing - albeit for the wrong reasons. If words could be effective in .....
» 10/10/2016 1:27:39 PM A cashless society already exists in Australia - in prisons! If Australia tries to force .....
» 10/10/2016 1:15:56 PM Dear Chris, Few would dispute the facts as you presented, but there is no need to interpr.....
» 9/10/2016 6:28:53 PM It is a mistake to Judge a belief by correlating its content with evidence. One should bel.....
» 9/10/2016 6:06:25 PM Dear Paul, Why do you want to prevent World War III? There are already far too many huma.....
» 9/10/2016 5:51:12 PM Dear Chris, You are misLEADing when you call these predators "leadership", and .....
» 7/10/2016 1:15:45 PM Eltham was not forced into anything - they compassionately volunteered to help people who .....
» 7/10/2016 10:19:49 AM Yes, but the author cannot seriously expect politicians to be able to control their sadist.....
» 7/10/2016 12:01:55 AM Dear Leo, «Not so, marriage emanated from the Church» So accordingly, marriage is a Chri.....
» 6/10/2016 12:17:11 PM Dear Cobber, «I was merely stating that the marriage equality debate is not about whether.....
» 6/10/2016 1:51:41 AM { Once when Jacob was cooking some stew, Esau came in from the open country, famished. He.....
» 6/10/2016 1:09:08 AM Dear Tom, The age pension does not resemble anything like comfortable-retirement and even.....
» 6/10/2016 12:53:04 AM Dear Alan, Good on you for mentioning Sufism. Islam and even the Koran CAN be competently.....
» 5/10/2016 7:58:02 PM Dear Pilgrim and Tony, Everyone has a right to dream - but nobody has a right to impose t.....
» 5/10/2016 11:40:52 AM Dear Cobber, «If we are saying that Homosexual relationships are okay, and that has been .....
» 5/10/2016 1:59:23 AM Excellent observations, Daffy! «The culture in which we are now all trapped... is entirel.....
» 4/10/2016 6:31:10 PM Dear Julian, «Yuyutsu seems to be seeking to describe a state as a sort of tyranny» Any .....
» 4/10/2016 2:23:30 PM So let us accept this expert-advice and assume that the Crimean cessation was indeed illeg.....
» 4/10/2016 1:15:55 AM Dear Julian, «Kumbaya in any form wouldn't stop the predators» For sure, nor even would .....
» 3/10/2016 10:25:26 PM How come the good Senator fails to question this whole idea of superannuation to begin wit.....
» 3/10/2016 6:40:53 PM Dear Julian, Predators and prey are with us since the animal-kingdom and prehistory, so w.....
» 3/10/2016 5:28:51 PM Jardine has already stolen much of my response, regarding the obvious fact that there is n.....
» 2/10/2016 12:44:19 PM Dear Jay, So far I have been impartial and my personal feelings and preferences had no in.....
» 2/10/2016 3:49:54 AM Dear Rehctub, «How can you claim something has been stolen from you when you stole it in .....
» 2/10/2016 3:30:59 AM Dear Jay, «Otherwise, we'd end up with all sorts of Riff Raff» Hmmm. And previously (say.....
» 1/10/2016 10:38:02 PM «But you cannot ignore this overall issue, for it defines Australia as a nation.» Most of.....
» 1/10/2016 8:57:29 PM «I'm not.» Hear, Hear, O Toni, what a humble man! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z861YAJ.....
» 30/09/2016 6:03:53 AM "There is no longer Jew or Greek, there is no longer slave or free, there is no longe.....
» 30/09/2016 5:41:44 AM Dear Nick, «A guy on drugs with a knife does not really need to die» «and the guy slowly .....
» 28/09/2016 12:12:11 AM Dear Hasbeen, «If Hillary is elected we had better start developing our own nuclear armed.....
» 27/09/2016 4:53:39 PM Dear SM, «However, if you are looking at competing at manufacturing with a factory in Vie.....
» 26/09/2016 3:42:08 PM Well at least there is no foreseeable danger of Australia being invaded by Israel - someth.....
» 26/09/2016 3:30:21 PM Dear SM, To what extent is the TPP about FREE trade, that is about removing restrictions,.....
» 26/09/2016 12:50:11 PM Well this is just American stuff which needn't affect us in Australia. (USA) Americans are.....
» 25/09/2016 5:49:05 PM Looks like the problem is that you are playing within the framework of the legal game, pro.....
» 25/09/2016 12:48:13 PM Dear Nick, In answer to your question, it depends on one's perspective: That the child i.....
» 25/09/2016 2:42:35 AM "My local MP"? - I can't stand the stench! And of all issues, this TPP is not e.....
» 25/09/2016 12:04:30 AM Well if the liability from those law-suits is going to fall on the Australian government, .....
» 23/09/2016 5:46:58 PM I am very saddened to hear about Karen's case. However, this could not have happened to h.....
» 23/09/2016 9:30:13 AM Dear Nick, «Is this topic about the Bible text, the practice of power priests or human in.....
» 23/09/2016 9:00:47 AM Once it is accepted that a group of people, under any name, is entitled to confiscate and .....
» 23/09/2016 2:50:53 AM Dear Albie, It is so sad to observe what people have been doing in the name of religion t.....
» 23/09/2016 2:37:02 AM (...continued) And this is how I would change it: _______________________________________.....
» 23/09/2016 2:36:55 AM The problem with the "racial discrimination act" isn't section 18C (which is ess.....
» 22/09/2016 12:08:07 AM Dear Nathan, The question was raised: "Just what can an individual do?". You m.....
» 21/09/2016 11:47:19 PM Dear Nathan, «I think many have been turned off from putting down posts on this page due .....
» 21/09/2016 11:34:06 PM Dear Thomas, «'Chewing gum and walking'» Rather, chewing a very old gum that has already.....
» 21/09/2016 11:35:51 AM Certain people from Britain stole Australia, not only from black people - but from everyon.....
» 29/08/2016 1:21:22 PM $160000000 is a huge sum: a typical person's lifetime's disposable income is around $10000.....
» 26/08/2016 12:00:08 AM Certainly, Nathan, but there is no need to take our human body with us - it probably won't.....
» 25/08/2016 11:56:38 PM They should be able to come and go as they please, but receive nothing - absolute 0 benefi.....
» 25/08/2016 11:51:53 PM Dear SM, «Most governments would disagree» But of course - their whole existence is abou.....
» 25/08/2016 8:18:46 AM Dear SM, One should not follow their feelings blindly. The universe has laws by which it.....
» 25/08/2016 12:35:17 AM Dear SM, «what laws do you deign to adhere to?» The laws of God or otherwise you can cal.....
» 23/08/2016 7:58:54 PM Dear Tony, «There are people out there who genuinely seem to enjoy stupid and dangerous p.....
» 23/08/2016 4:24:54 PM Dear Aidan, Where did you mention that they are opposed to this idea? And why would this.....
» 23/08/2016 2:20:52 PM Or, if the Communist party of China wanted to eat the cake and have it too, then they coul.....
» 23/08/2016 1:57:20 PM Dear SM, A gang of pirates counts me as one of them, whether I like it or not. If I were .....
» 23/08/2016 7:03:41 AM Dear Hasbeen, If you are after a Christian culture in Australia, here is what the First C.....
» 23/08/2016 6:48:40 AM It is so disappointing that the LibLab party was returned to power and again with absolute.....
» 22/08/2016 1:57:02 PM What else would you expect if you send your child to a state-sponsored school? Those who p.....
» 22/08/2016 1:30:40 PM You're right of course Hasbeen. Blowing those people out of the water would be more human.....
» 22/08/2016 9:09:13 AM The root of this cruelty is in signing the refugee-convention. The solution to stop this c.....
» 21/08/2016 1:36:03 PM Dear SM, «How much psychological damage did the 1200+ who drowned suffer?» More than tho.....
» 21/08/2016 12:38:09 AM Dear DreamOn, «It is the very laws themselves which require changing» There have been ba.....
» 20/08/2016 10:14:04 PM Dear Paul, «In 1956 private enterprise was selling 19 inch black and white TV's at 300 po.....
» 20/08/2016 8:16:27 PM Dear Pogi, I noticed that you cited my name as if I claimed that Phanto is deliberately l.....
» 19/08/2016 10:01:40 AM "I believe that those involved in the major political parties are good people" .....
» 16/08/2016 5:26:26 PM Dear Phanto, No forum rules prevent us from arguing here, but no rules say that we should.....
» 16/08/2016 4:03:29 PM Dear Hasbeen, Suppose there was a public park or arena where the rule said: "Everyon.....
» 16/08/2016 11:24:17 AM Dear Phanto, «The point of these forums is to argue» I would say that this is one of th.....
» 16/08/2016 9:11:36 AM Laws are not a moral requirement, so it is never immoral to repeal a law, even if the said.....
» 16/08/2016 8:22:08 AM To add to your list, Pogi, are homosexuals who endure heterosexual sex for procreation. It.....
» 14/08/2016 5:34:55 PM Dear Pogi, I do not claim equality of values, only equal respect for people's choice of v.....
» 14/08/2016 12:12:24 AM I don't like any government, but if the choice is between having our electricity controlle.....
» 13/08/2016 11:25:10 PM Dear Razor, «In your last post: <<<<While the Absolute is knowable (though w.....
» 13/08/2016 9:51:21 PM Dear Phanto, «My claim is that the most pleasurable sex is the sex that you engage in whi.....
» 13/08/2016 8:11:29 PM Dear Razor, Can you kindly show me where have I ever claimed that one can understand or o.....
» 12/08/2016 5:50:04 PM Dear Razor, We may have uncovered a gross misunderstanding, perhaps a cultural difference.....
» 12/08/2016 4:53:54 PM Dear Joe, «Some maybe, but 'most'?» Relief, curiosity, profit, obligation, manipulation,.....
» 12/08/2016 10:36:48 AM Dear Phanto, «It is observable that there are other types of behaviour which can give sex.....
» 12/08/2016 8:58:21 AM Dear MJ, You are right: Australia is an amazing place and the Australian people nice and .....
» 11/08/2016 11:09:48 PM Dear Phanto, «If you were designing the species and you wanted to make sure that it conti.....
» 11/08/2016 8:57:55 AM If anyone was thinking till now that the Australian government cared about anyone's dignit.....
» 10/08/2016 9:05:29 PM All sex is a neurotic simulation of love. Of all 237-or-so reasons people have sex (http:.....
» 10/08/2016 8:45:53 PM Dear Pogi, Once again we seem to be largely in agreement. Our remaining differences are p.....
» 10/08/2016 9:42:11 AM What hypocrisy to state that homosexuality comes from the physical body, but heterosexuali.....
» 9/08/2016 7:35:27 PM Ttbn nailed it spot on: «And of course terrorism is a special case! It is not a crime.» Y.....
» 9/08/2016 7:11:21 PM David is very right about one thing: People who ask for nothing and accept nothing from t.....
» 9/08/2016 1:00:12 PM Dear Razor, «<<<<You give me undue honour>>> I did no such thing» Y.....
» 8/08/2016 4:36:34 PM Dear Aidan, Allowing nature to take its course could be seen as cruel unless you have fai.....
» 8/08/2016 3:46:43 PM Dear Razor, You give me undue honour by attributing the grand statements of the ancient s.....
» 8/08/2016 1:04:46 AM Dear Razor, Let me know if you are unhappy with the dictionary definitions of 'claim'. Ot.....
» 7/08/2016 5:18:30 PM Dear Tony, «if we are absolutely the same as God then it is impossible to get any closer:.....
» 7/08/2016 5:09:28 PM Dear Razor, «If you cannot communicate divine knowledge then there is no point of your re.....
» 7/08/2016 3:37:34 AM Dear Razor, «Because this is what every religion claims» Please be more precise: shall I.....
» 5/08/2016 1:12:23 PM Dear Jay, «I don't think it would need to be discussed.» I agree, but not because the sa.....
» 5/08/2016 11:30:32 AM Dear Rehctub, Both are wrong, both should be frowned upon and cause other people not to b.....
» 5/08/2016 11:15:38 AM Dear Cherful, I differ regarding those slogans as if: 1. nobody is above the law in this.....
» 5/08/2016 2:24:43 AM Dear George, I was not previously familiar with Varadaraja V. Raman. Having now read his.....
» 4/08/2016 10:38:09 PM Welcome, Neoman, Since you are new here, we (the rest of this forum) still have no idea w.....
» 4/08/2016 9:32:14 PM Dear Joe, «I'm sure you don't mean that they have an equivalent right to their own laws?».....
» 4/08/2016 9:07:55 PM Dear Aidan, «What constitutes a fair go for cows, sheep, chickens and pigs?» Allowing na.....
» 4/08/2016 8:06:46 PM Dear Razor, «You just did [judge your religion as "no religion"]» Heaven forbi.....
» 4/08/2016 4:05:30 PM Dear Razor, «OK, so maybe we've come full circle and we could describe your belief as bel.....
» 4/08/2016 3:00:51 PM Dear Jay and Hasbeen, Let's look at a scenario: Australia is becoming uninhabitable becau.....
» 4/08/2016 12:52:16 PM Dear Plantagenet, What material(s) do you build a nation with? Bricks? Wood? Iron? Rocks.....
» 4/08/2016 12:33:48 PM Dear Toni, «Go camping on census night and you can render yourself invisible for census p.....
» 3/08/2016 9:39:10 PM Dear Cherful, I appreciate your intelligent questions to Dan and await his response. How.....
» 3/08/2016 9:28:22 PM Dear Plantagenet, Pharaoh was a great nation-builder, so were Stalin and Mao. All they w.....
» 3/08/2016 9:19:15 PM Dear Aidan, «The moral basis of the Left is a fair go for everyone.» Even for cows, shee.....
» 3/08/2016 8:01:48 PM Dear Aidan, «You clentered when you were born. You will clexit when you die.» If you are.....
» 3/08/2016 7:46:32 PM Dear Dan, «Jewish text is not relevant to the Christian argument.» Sorry for interruptin.....
» 3/08/2016 7:22:38 PM Dear Razor, «But they end up with a something, not a nothing. Some say its the Absolute.».....
» 3/08/2016 1:00:03 PM Thank you Don for this brilliant article. The Hindu view is that quality-of-life is cycli.....
» 3/08/2016 12:29:07 PM Dear Razor, I have been offering my views on OLO for many years now, especially about God.....
» 3/08/2016 11:13:44 AM The purpose of the census is to remind us that Big Brother is watching and keep us under h.....
» 3/08/2016 10:52:04 AM Dear Razor, I explained that I do not worship evidence and in reply you wrote: «Another m.....
» 2/08/2016 7:50:09 PM You may for example be a devout, church-attending Anglican - but this doesn't necessarily .....
» 2/08/2016 6:24:46 PM Dear Pogi, Overall I agree with you: atheism does not deserve to be called "religion.....
» 2/08/2016 5:37:12 PM Sorry, I cannot perform a Clexit because I have never Clentered......
» 2/08/2016 9:02:11 AM "For those who want a genuine separation of church and state, and who don't belong to.....
» 1/08/2016 6:09:04 PM Dear Spencer, I certainly agree. In the sense you described, "believe in God" .....
» 31/07/2016 8:41:44 PM Dear Dan, Sorry to spoil a good analogy, but the homosexuality within the sins of Sodom w.....
» 31/07/2016 1:11:04 AM Dear Nathan, What comes your way, to which you are entitled, including air and fresh air .....
» 31/07/2016 12:38:12 AM Dear AA, «The dictionary defines religion as belief in deities» Yes, but the dictionary .....
» 29/07/2016 11:50:42 AM The forceful prohibition of unwholesome practices, undermines the ability of individuals t.....
» 28/07/2016 5:34:16 PM Dear Ttbn, Yes, some people are killed or injured on the roads due to their own fault - b.....
» 28/07/2016 12:46:24 PM The author, being an Israeli, has experienced much higher levels of terrorist-fear than Au.....
» 27/07/2016 10:28:07 AM Dear Iftikhar, Nobody should ever be forced to shake hands with anybody else, whatever be.....
» 26/07/2016 12:56:19 PM Dear Poirot, «Five year-old humans require older humans to care for them» The soul who h.....
» 25/07/2016 11:48:22 PM Jocelyn just wanted to be free, but she was hunted down, caught and arrested by 100's of p.....
» 25/07/2016 11:21:23 PM Dear Spencer, «That is not my Christian perspective that we are all related to God. We al.....
» 23/07/2016 9:50:39 PM Dear Spencer, «I provided evidence to demonstrate that secularism was a religion» What y.....
» 22/07/2016 5:06:49 PM Dear Spencer, Secularism is not a religion because it does not help its practitioners to .....
» 22/07/2016 12:42:45 PM Dear George, There is nothing new about attempts, often successful, of rulers to tame rel.....
» 21/07/2016 6:32:55 PM Dear Aspley, I feel sorry for you being a victim of secular propaganda, having been brain.....
» 21/07/2016 5:48:57 PM Dear George, Falsifying the census is in fact a criminal offence which currently carries .....
» 21/07/2016 2:26:50 AM Dear George, Of course, the census form is not an invitation for anything, but a dictate .....
» 20/07/2016 3:19:44 PM Dear Ponder, Yes, love is a great analogy. Neither love nor God can be defined, but the .....
» 20/07/2016 10:22:46 AM Dear George, Sadly, dictionaries are written by people who are not into religion themselv.....
» 20/07/2016 9:44:05 AM "but no one can dispute that he is entitled to form a government" I do. Just b.....
» 20/07/2016 1:32:11 AM Dear Suse, Of course, this is a difficult situation which requires difficult professional.....
» 20/07/2016 1:21:14 AM Dear Jardine, I think that Suse has a valid point: The worship of the devil is not religi.....
» 20/07/2016 12:57:57 AM Dear Foxy, It is a mistake to assume that we have some "right" to live without .....
» 20/07/2016 12:18:02 AM Dear Aspley, «Australia is a [...] Nation.» A few people still believe in fairy tales .......
» 19/07/2016 5:41:15 PM Dear Paul, «turnout was less than 30%» Even fewer played golf and turnout for Australian.....
» 19/07/2016 12:49:02 PM Dear Hasbeen, «Shouldn't those of us who worship [or bow down to nothing & no one] be ent.....
» 19/07/2016 12:29:28 PM You still have hope, Alon - I no longer have. It seems that the good old Israel that brie.....
» 19/07/2016 9:06:34 AM The correct category would be "no conscious religion" as nothing and nobody can .....
» 17/07/2016 5:24:44 PM Dear Critic, I have no issue with your points #1, #2 and #4. «3. People who have a belie.....
» 16/07/2016 10:05:41 PM Dear Is Mise, Assuming that the railway lines are situated on what is legitimately the pr.....
» 16/07/2016 8:28:06 PM Dear Is Mise, "Thou shalt not kill" does not order anyone to do anything - only.....
» 16/07/2016 8:17:35 PM It is wrong to order anyone to do anything. Today it's the polling booth - tomorrow it's V.....
» 16/07/2016 8:06:16 PM Perhaps, in self-defence of the inhabitants of this continent, everyone should be deported.....
» 14/07/2016 11:07:52 PM Dear Bazz, So you propose that humans be treated worse than animals? Animals are not sub.....
» 14/07/2016 7:47:49 PM Dear R0bert, Discrimination is a great faculty and an indicator of our intelligence - one.....
» 14/07/2016 6:59:25 PM Dear Graham, «Certainly I can see no reason why we should take any refugee applications f.....
» 14/07/2016 6:33:53 PM Dear Paul, I am well aware that in an ideal democracy laws should reflect the wishes of t.....
» 13/07/2016 12:38:10 PM Dear Paul, You and I sincerely believe that the greyhound people are doing the wrong thin.....
» 11/07/2016 9:11:19 AM Dear LEGO, <<I'll bet you don't get invited to any bar mitzvahs.>> According.....
» 10/07/2016 2:56:48 PM Dear SM, Yes, but it doesn't matter what the Palestinians think or want: Israel needs to .....
» 8/07/2016 4:14:34 PM Dear Hasbeen, So it appears that you support atrocities - your words, not mine......
» 8/07/2016 3:07:07 PM Alas, the majority of Israelis are no longer interested in peace: http://www.peaceindex.or.....
» 8/07/2016 3:03:22 PM While Switzerland is great for tourists, it's closer to North Korea for its citizens. The.....
» 8/07/2016 2:43:58 PM I have mixed feelings about this. From the song "Had Gadia", http://www.myjewis.....
» 7/07/2016 9:03:08 PM Achieve instant marriage equality and save even more than $160M - no plebiscite is require.....
» 7/07/2016 8:33:41 AM I second this, David......
» 6/07/2016 10:20:44 PM Dear Luciferase, There is no need to apologise for not serving "the national interes.....
» 6/07/2016 10:04:45 PM Dear Dan, «I could have easily responded, what would be the effect on others' disbelief i.....
» 6/07/2016 3:32:25 PM Sadly the dinosaurs are still there, but we are so lucky that those fools are paralysed, f.....
» 5/07/2016 8:16:50 AM Dear Banjo, As English is not my person's first language, my person thanks you for the co.....
» 5/07/2016 2:16:25 AM Dear Banjo, «I understand that we human beings branched off from our common ancestor with.....
» 4/07/2016 12:49:45 PM Dear Luciferase, I spit on your "nation". What you have is one group of bullies.....
» 4/07/2016 11:01:36 AM Dear Banjo, «However, if I understand you correctly, you have difficulty accepting the id.....
» 3/07/2016 5:59:30 PM Dear Runner, I congratulate anyone who was able to snatch away seats from the two dinosau.....
» 3/07/2016 5:51:30 PM Dear Banjo, Of course, nobody denies that you are you or that you are the one who experie.....
» 3/07/2016 12:45:25 PM Dear Rehctub, Well Phanto said most that I have to say already. << if you are marr.....
» 3/07/2016 9:44:34 AM Dear Rehctub, In your heart of hearts you are either married or you are not. No state-bul.....
» 3/07/2016 12:27:48 AM Dear Poirot, A very good question: "Where are heterosexual rights being threatened?&.....
» 2/07/2016 11:34:13 PM Dear Banjo, There is a difference between self-awareness and sense-perception. Whatever y.....
» 2/07/2016 10:44:37 PM Dear Suse, These people will live either on their own properties or on the properties of .....
» 1/07/2016 1:09:12 PM Dear Jay, Grateful belongs to the Sufi sect of Islam, which is extremely peaceful (and pe.....
» 1/07/2016 12:47:59 PM Take a coin and grind it on both surfaces: how thin does it need to get until you no longe.....
» 1/07/2016 12:03:45 PM Dear Mhaze, <<That's definitely what the the homosexual community want because they.....
» 1/07/2016 11:42:52 AM Dear Banjo, While it is true that I tend to believe that we have a "soul" as we.....
» 1/07/2016 3:27:06 AM The plebiscite over this question need not be expensive if at the same time we are also as.....
» 30/06/2016 8:24:10 PM Dear Suse, We are discussing three different options here: 1. Allowing people to divert .....
» 30/06/2016 7:05:42 PM Dear Suse, <<Why don't the politicians just do what the majority in their electorat.....
» 30/06/2016 5:09:26 PM Dear Suse, I agree that your taxes should not go into anything that you do not agree with.....
» 30/06/2016 2:17:58 PM I am completely with Phanto here......
» 30/06/2016 2:09:44 PM Dear Dan, <<If you say we're all irrational, then why bother accusing David of bein.....
» 30/06/2016 3:24:46 AM Actually, the article raised valid ethical issues. Those who want to have abortions can h.....
» 30/06/2016 3:05:04 AM Dear George, Well we strayed quite a bit from the topic, so lets leave it at that......
» 29/06/2016 7:27:21 PM Dear George, <<So I don’t believe our thinking - and the achievements of human cult.....
» 28/06/2016 8:01:46 PM "A creative tax accountant is worth heaps........" How much per kilo?.....
» 28/06/2016 12:23:11 PM Dear Rehctub, <<if you take away incentives to invest, people will stop investing&g.....
» 28/06/2016 11:01:05 AM Dear Dan, <<Are you now claiming to be 'rational'?>> Not at all, Dan. I clai.....
» 28/06/2016 4:59:00 AM Dear David, <<I value the ephemeral because that is all we have.>> Even if t.....
» 28/06/2016 4:06:28 AM Dear Banjo, The concept of "soul" (or "spirit") is not necessary here.....
» 28/06/2016 3:24:54 AM Dear Nathan, Usually the labels on medication don't tell it all and at times even the pha.....
» 28/06/2016 12:22:02 AM Dear Hasbeen, <<Interest is a very large part of the cost of many businesses.>&g.....
» 27/06/2016 12:48:46 PM I am confused about what "negative gearing" means: One version has it that it's.....
» 27/06/2016 2:40:16 AM Dear Grateful, Perhaps your spelling of Keith Ward's lecture as "Why there almost ce.....
» 26/06/2016 9:11:49 PM Dear Nathan, I thought you were a vegetarian? Before being concerned about the price of .....
» 26/06/2016 8:31:37 PM Dear David, Science can potentially study all that is physical, including the human brain.....
» 26/06/2016 7:21:38 PM Dear Banjo, You write: "We are conceived by our genitors who usually become our pare.....
» 26/06/2016 6:25:37 PM Dear David, I am very new to Al Ghazali's teachings, but to summarise what I learnt so fa.....
» 26/06/2016 12:00:10 PM Dear Jay, <<Yutsie: I watched a few clips of Al Ghazali.>> Excellent. <&.....
» 26/06/2016 12:53:47 AM Dear Grateful, Thank you. I watched a few clips of Al Ghazali and I intend to watch more......
» 24/06/2016 5:03:19 PM Yes, I join in the celebration! The smaller states are, the more freedom to ordinary peop.....
» 24/06/2016 11:08:52 AM Dear Banjo, Do you participate in life unwillingly? Surely if that was the case, then you.....
» 24/06/2016 8:36:51 AM Can someone answer: is it legal in Australia to assist an elderly person to get on an airp.....
» 24/06/2016 12:05:30 AM Dear Grateful, I am impressed by Ghazzali. Thank you......
» 23/06/2016 2:18:55 PM Dear Banjo, The difference between 'rational' and 'reasonable' seems very subtle: what is.....
» 22/06/2016 11:29:52 PM Dear Banjo, If an action or an interest is rational, this implies that it is not basic or.....
» 22/06/2016 11:49:31 AM Dear Banjo, Everyone, religious or otherwise, starts off with a basic set of subjective a.....
» 21/06/2016 12:46:09 PM Watch this advertisement for a salad-dressing where the lady gets electrocuted every time .....
» 20/06/2016 10:22:32 PM Dear David F., I essentially agree, it's only that I seem to place more importance than y.....
» 20/06/2016 10:04:05 PM Dear Grateful, The Torah could still be the Word of God even if it is factually incorrect.....
» 20/06/2016 5:03:14 PM Dear David F., You probably noticed by now that I am not a utilitarian. My position in th.....
» 20/06/2016 4:13:17 PM Dear George, <<but my understanding of Brahman was as corresponding to God who reve.....
» 20/06/2016 3:27:22 PM Yes, even ALA if that's what it takes - anything to scrape the glue that sticks those two .....
» 20/06/2016 3:02:21 PM Dear David F., I cannot discard this possibility. While this could be your hope, I don't.....
» 20/06/2016 9:55:26 AM Thank you, Everald: Let us pray that you be correct......
» 20/06/2016 9:43:40 AM Dear David F., I agree with your nice reply (accidentally posted under "Five atheist.....
» 20/06/2016 8:47:36 AM Dear David, I agree, nice thoughts, though you posted your last comment under the wrong a.....
» 19/06/2016 9:52:38 AM Dear George, Thank you very much for the quotes from Tillich. Not coming from a Christian.....
» 19/06/2016 5:03:45 AM Dear Banjo, <<Of course it is possible to have faith in something which does not ex.....
» 19/06/2016 2:29:32 AM Dear Banjo, <<Naturally, we have to “believe” that somebody or something exists bef.....
» 18/06/2016 9:06:37 PM Dear Grateful, I once had the privilege to hear a lecture by Gerald Schroeder in person. .....
» 18/06/2016 8:17:40 PM Dear David F., Regardless what Gandhi said or did not say, I do not advocate that interna.....
» 17/06/2016 4:36:36 PM Dear David F., Ahimsa is non-violence. Coercing someone under threat of physical violence.....
» 17/06/2016 12:12:34 PM Dear Mikk, It is established that Rehctub doesn't want to pay for welfare. Why should he.....
» 17/06/2016 2:14:52 AM Dear DreamOn, The ones that "turned back the boats" on those fleeing the Nazis .....
» 16/06/2016 10:31:01 PM Dear Dan, <<Why quote Scripture to me when you've previously suggested I shouldn't .....
» 16/06/2016 1:36:40 AM Dear David F., This time it would not be an Israeli initiative as in Gaza. What if on the.....
» 15/06/2016 10:45:29 PM Dear David, Complicated - I agree. Yet feasible, I believe. Any universe where people ha.....
» 15/06/2016 10:29:23 PM "Read the Hebrew bible and you will find that the quest for land is a key aspect of t.....
» 15/06/2016 9:28:35 PM Dear David, Indeed, what stops the security apparatus from continuing to be under civilia.....
» 15/06/2016 9:12:50 PM Dear David F., Keeping the peace may justify such painful measures, but I still hope that.....
» 15/06/2016 8:32:45 PM Dear David, <<We could also say, “Allow ordinary Australians to vote with our own p.....
» 15/06/2016 11:20:47 AM Dear Dan, A succinct summary of what I am saying is, please remain on the side of goodnes.....
» 15/06/2016 10:40:32 AM Dear David, Yes, once the Messiah comes, the wolf will live with the lamb, the leopard wi.....
» 15/06/2016 12:53:38 AM Dear David, I admire your sentiment. However, When a person does charity, they benefit .....
» 15/06/2016 12:20:33 AM Dear Rehctub, Yes, this is an improvement - but why have super in the first place? That .....
» 14/06/2016 4:29:43 PM Dear David, These Quiverfull people, between changing nappies and chauffeuring their olde.....
» 14/06/2016 4:12:59 PM Dear David F., Even though the USA and Australia are not formally defined as Christian co.....
» 14/06/2016 3:37:38 PM Dear David, Regardless of the different rationales/theologies given, religions explain th.....
» 14/06/2016 1:01:05 PM Dear David F., <<Why not one democratic state with separation of religion and state.....
» 14/06/2016 10:25:14 AM <<"Fully ending" the 1967 occupation means kicking 650000 Jews out of thei.....
» 14/06/2016 3:48:49 AM Dear Dan, My last comment was not about the merits of the crucifixion and ressurection of.....
» 14/06/2016 1:57:13 AM Dear Dan, It is certainly good to believe in the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus - .....
» 13/06/2016 11:47:46 PM Dear David, I wholly support your ideas and effort to reduce population in Australia and .....
» 13/06/2016 11:14:10 PM Dear Dan, I personally don't care whether or not Noah's flood occurred: this or any other.....
» 13/06/2016 3:19:41 PM Dear Nana, "offended", "embarrassed", "ashamed". These are.....
» 13/06/2016 12:32:35 PM Dear Nana, When a fact needs to be said because it is beneficial, there always is a way t.....
» 13/06/2016 11:13:42 AM Dear Critic, Thank you for the information about the Armenians, I will study it. Were yo.....
» 13/06/2016 10:52:04 AM Political correctness may indeed be an idiotic modern phenomena, but correctness itself, r.....
» 12/06/2016 4:33:12 PM Dear Rehctub, <<So my $1700 per year in Medicare levy is for what!>> Just th.....
» 10/06/2016 11:10:37 AM Dear David, I am glad that we agree that "Arab-hatred by some Jews does exist and ne.....
» 9/06/2016 7:06:29 PM Why, since when is it even forbidden to make promises? Hear the words of Israel's former .....
» 9/06/2016 6:13:08 PM Dear Grateful, An evidence for the existence of God would be a disaster: it would spoil a.....
» 8/06/2016 6:23:20 PM Dear Jay, <<I think you meant "conditional.">> I meant, with the o.....
» 8/06/2016 5:20:05 PM Dear David, <<Whoever posted that tape twenty years after Leibowitz's death probabl.....
» 8/06/2016 3:38:58 PM Dear Rhian, <<- “Post-critical naiveté” accepts the conclusions of critical thinkin.....
» 8/06/2016 12:30:43 PM Dear Poirot, Thank you for the information, I did not know it. THIS is the way to do it:.....
» 7/06/2016 5:58:28 PM Both terms are wrong: One cannot commit suicide and one cannot die by trying it: only the.....
» 7/06/2016 5:38:02 PM Dear Cossomby, First, I don't take silly risks - I take calculated risks. We all take ri.....
» 7/06/2016 2:57:11 PM Dear David, I was aware that Prof. Leibowitz was actively involved in Israel's peace move.....
» 7/06/2016 1:31:13 PM Anything that helps to kick out the two dinosaurs is good. Some of your policies I really.....
» 7/06/2016 1:12:57 PM Disgusting indeed, but then many of us have jobs that aren't doing any good for anyone, pe.....
» 7/06/2016 12:47:17 PM Thank you Emily for allowing me to participate in your survey. I think you should also in.....
» 7/06/2016 12:31:35 PM Dear Dan, Science has its place: we use it to provide sustenance to our bodies: food, cle.....
» 7/06/2016 11:36:42 AM "So telling vulnerable kiddies things like: "every single person has sinned and .....
» 7/06/2016 11:19:40 AM Dear David, As I was discussing anti-Semitism with Armchair Critic, I presented this clip.....
» 6/06/2016 7:04:32 PM Dear Cossomby, <<But wouldn't be better to minimise such injuries?>> In fact.....
» 6/06/2016 3:52:26 PM Dear Dan, <<This topic might not interest you, but it obviously does some.>> .....
» 6/06/2016 2:48:08 PM Dear Critic, Please calm down, I don't want to impose fines and certainly not to put you .....
» 6/06/2016 2:16:18 AM Neither for me......
» 6/06/2016 2:12:38 AM Dear Critic, <<Let me ask the others - Was that a fair comment?>> That would.....
» 6/06/2016 12:35:19 AM The Cossomby, The vast majority of people should be able to afford a bicycle-head-injury .....
» 5/06/2016 11:12:46 PM Dear Joe, <<After all, on one hand, bullying is wrong; and, on the other, discrimin.....
» 5/06/2016 10:53:37 PM Dear Poirot, Yes, I am familiar with that skull-breaking excuse (while their true motive .....
» 5/06/2016 4:26:51 PM Dear Rhian, <<Jesus did indeed call on disciples to be like children, but I don’t t.....
» 5/06/2016 3:29:44 PM I am interested to know: is it criminal in Australia to help another, elderly or terminall.....
» 4/06/2016 10:06:48 PM Dear Critic, Sigh, yes, nationalism is a disease and Israel is badly afflicted with it. I.....
» 3/06/2016 4:53:43 PM Dear David, <<Can't we just care for each other without believing in such a concept.....
» 3/06/2016 4:06:15 PM Dear Ttbn, <<The government was certainly stupid in inviting you to come; and they .....
» 3/06/2016 12:06:14 PM Dear Cossomby, Indeed, pushing unsolicited advertisements at people is a crime. They hav.....
» 3/06/2016 10:47:58 AM Dear Cossomby, Snakes should be hit over their heads while they are still small......
» 3/06/2016 10:37:40 AM Dear Critic, Thank you for the references: I didn't previously make any connection betwee.....
» 3/06/2016 9:44:53 AM Identity has nothing to do with sex. We are divine - our true identity is God. Identifying.....
» 2/06/2016 11:16:05 PM In the coming elections I was planning to place the Liberal party second-to-last. But tod.....
» 2/06/2016 10:25:42 PM Utterly shocking, Josephus, It looks as the female teacher was using the kids to arouse h.....
» 2/06/2016 5:44:31 PM "OUR society"? There is no such thing! There is YOUR society, Scott, which you.....
» 2/06/2016 2:54:22 PM "Historical buildings" - what a joke, even the oldest building in Australia cann.....
» 2/06/2016 11:00:42 AM If I was murdered, then I wouldn't want my murderer to be jailed for it (they could still .....
» 2/06/2016 12:51:42 AM Dear Philip, Well at least SOME people are honest: do you wish to punish them because oth.....
» 1/06/2016 11:29:24 PM Dear Alan, I am not interested in discussing this stupid "climate change" hoax......
» 1/06/2016 9:36:16 PM Dear Jay, Yes, it is not always easy and clear cut in terms of natural justice to tell wh.....
» 1/06/2016 8:48:03 PM Back to basics: Given there are two people who want to have a private deal between them: .....
» 1/06/2016 8:34:11 PM Dear Critic, <<I meant claiming the land as the state of 'Armchair Critic' and supe.....
» 1/06/2016 2:00:50 PM Moshe Dayan was never a man of integrity, hence he deserves to have his words misquoted. .....
» 31/05/2016 2:17:32 PM Just wanted to note a spelling error: the correct spelling is L-E-E-C-H-E-S, not L-E-A-D-E.....
» 31/05/2016 2:01:28 PM CHICKENS, CHICKENS, CHICKENS! Shame on the so-called "Liberal" party for mumbli.....
» 31/05/2016 11:33:50 AM Dear David, <<Glad to see you would also have no objection to Graham stipulating th.....
» 31/05/2016 6:43:50 AM Dear Critic, <<The problem with all of this, is that you haven't proven in any way .....
» 31/05/2016 1:16:35 AM Thank you Rhian, I could not agree more with your reply to Dan, but since I'm not a Chris.....
» 30/05/2016 6:15:23 PM Dear Josephus, Thanks! You just gave me a great idea: If I portray the act of riding a b.....
» 30/05/2016 12:29:59 AM I only wonder whether, and if so for how longer, it is still safe for a school-child to be.....
» 30/05/2016 12:07:42 AM Dear George, Taize services are conducted in Australia both by churches (Catholic, Anglic.....
» 29/05/2016 11:13:20 PM Dear Tony, <<but if you vote above the line in the senate then whichever party you .....
» 29/05/2016 10:44:56 PM Dear O Sung Wu, The community of Taize is ecumenical, which means that it is not only tol.....
» 27/05/2016 5:04:00 PM Dear Dan, Yes, the desire to investigate exists, but it comes from error. Our bodies hav.....
» 27/05/2016 2:26:48 PM Dear Jay, Sorry, it is not possible to please everyone at once. I do hope that you have .....
» 27/05/2016 1:03:11 PM Dear Philip, I assume these questions were addressed to me. My time is short today, so I .....
» 27/05/2016 11:25:33 AM Thank you Foxy! You may be interested to know that the soothing and comforting songs of T.....
» 27/05/2016 10:26:14 AM "The gods had no real stake in being identified one from the other and were arranged .....
» 26/05/2016 5:46:06 PM Dear Jay, I have done my best to explain to you about God and religion, but it seems that.....
» 26/05/2016 11:43:28 AM Cow's milk is not really suitable for human consumption and once pasteurised, milk has alr.....
» 26/05/2016 11:28:53 AM According to Hinduism, suicide is normally a sin - but there are exceptions. Same for Juda.....
» 26/05/2016 10:18:15 AM Dear Jay, <<Regarding the Movies. I'd likely watch all three.>> Fine, you se.....
» 26/05/2016 12:38:58 AM Dear Jay, Indeed it's incorrect to describe God as 'He', 'She' or 'It', but I must use so.....
» 25/05/2016 12:36:26 PM (...continued) The movies characterise the three Gunas (modes) that run the world, respec.....
» 25/05/2016 12:36:21 PM Dear Jay, Imagine you go to the cinema and there are 3 movies available: 1. "Bunny .....
» 25/05/2016 10:07:25 AM Dear Critic, You do have a point: the main advantage of having a dictator is that unlike .....
» 25/05/2016 9:17:50 AM I do not gamble, Mr. Compton. I am doing my best to save the money that I get from hard w.....
» 24/05/2016 11:27:14 PM Most importantly, we need more of this (thanks, Grateful): http://ia601307.us.archive.org/.....
» 24/05/2016 11:10:02 PM Dear Grateful, Indeed, thinking of God as an object is bound to land us into all sorts of.....
» 24/05/2016 1:14:11 PM Dear David, You have not answered my question, which was: Wouldn't you agree with me tha.....
» 24/05/2016 9:15:37 AM Dear David, My comment was not personal: I wrote "so long as there are people like y.....
» 23/05/2016 7:07:56 PM Well said, JBowyer! Sooner or later this debt will bite into our savings, thus before int.....
» 23/05/2016 6:52:40 PM Dear O Sung Wu, You have made and rationalised your point very well. - But what a dreadf.....
» 23/05/2016 6:01:52 PM "Look, I know you are depending on Egypt, that splintered reed of a staff, which pier.....
» 23/05/2016 1:38:56 PM Dear David, First, it is refreshing to see you write on a different topic - even when I d.....
» 23/05/2016 12:22:38 PM Dear Bernie, As for your first paragraph, I couldn't agree with you more and I believe th.....
» 23/05/2016 11:14:39 AM Dear Jay, <<We can all exercise Free Will, but it is controlled (muted) by Religion.....
» 23/05/2016 2:34:48 AM Dear Grateful, "Would I be right in saying those present cannot reconcile the two?&q.....
» 23/05/2016 1:17:32 AM Dear O Sung Wu, "Islamic provocateurs acting with the intent to actually 'test' our .....
» 22/05/2016 7:58:26 AM "Those who are outside this compact threaten the rights and liberties of others.".....
» 22/05/2016 1:29:22 AM Nobody should run the country. If you live in this country and someone runs the country, .....
» 22/05/2016 1:20:32 AM Dear Beth, People today tend not to find the time to befriend and/or hang-around anyone i.....
» 22/05/2016 1:04:46 AM (...continued) <<If you can't accept that then you don't accept the fundamentals of.....
» 22/05/2016 1:04:41 AM Dear Foxy, <<We have a compact to live under a democratic legislature and obey the .....
» 20/05/2016 5:00:05 PM Hear all ye people this unholy decree: All of us living in Australia have a responsibility.....
» 20/05/2016 12:15:05 AM Dear Calwest, [[[ Numerically, the vast majority of businesses in Australia are small bus.....
» 19/05/2016 10:14:31 PM Look, I don't know anything about economy and I don't give a hoot about economy: all I kno.....
» 19/05/2016 6:30:56 PM Dear Jay, I am not knowledgeable enough to tell whether Jesus studied Buddhism. It is a p.....
» 19/05/2016 5:54:00 PM Dear Rehctub, <<The best we can now hope for is to spend millions keeping these thu.....
» 19/05/2016 4:16:21 PM Dear O Sung Wu, Have you considered the fact that those people do not want to be Australi.....
» 19/05/2016 3:57:53 PM Dear Grateful, Thank you so much for allowing me to read the refreshing wisdom of Shaikh .....
» 18/05/2016 12:54:20 AM Dear Killarney, <<However, he is not divergent enough in his thinking to acknowledg.....
» 18/05/2016 12:02:58 AM The author is correct as far as hurting and killing animals is morally wrong. And yes, Ru.....
» 16/05/2016 7:58:53 AM Dear Paul, <<I'll give you a scenario which maybe you could comment on; A vagrant a.....
» 15/05/2016 11:35:32 PM Dear Grateful, On the contrary, I am eager to hear Islamic scholars refute the views of S.....
» 15/05/2016 10:35:36 PM Dear Paul, <<But the cruelest comment of all for me, comes from the well meaning Yu.....
» 15/05/2016 5:17:06 PM Dear David, <<If you come up with Jordan and Egypt as Arab interlocutors to replace.....
» 15/05/2016 7:10:28 AM Dear David, Say a family had a terrible road accident, the whole family died except one c.....
» 14/05/2016 10:46:22 PM I agree that poor people should not be taxed, but poor Duncan will now waste all his donat.....
» 14/05/2016 10:07:59 PM Dear David, <<Why believe in any god(s)?>> For the same reason one would bel.....
» 13/05/2016 5:10:25 PM Dear Dan, Why should a king grovel in the mud with the pigs? Why should one who has fait.....
» 13/05/2016 11:56:47 AM Of course, the Palestinian narrative is rubbish. But this does not make it in Israel's in.....
» 12/05/2016 9:49:02 AM The evil here is compulsory voting. Obviously the major parties rely on it to be elected .....
» 12/05/2016 1:19:11 AM Dear Philip, I am glad this is not the case. Your single sentence appeared on its own, i.....
» 11/05/2016 8:32:58 PM A stupid ideology is better than the pure power-hungry cynicism that we currently have: le.....
» 11/05/2016 8:24:17 PM Universal health care is a punishment that Australians suffer. The author, being a doctor.....
» 11/05/2016 1:57:17 PM Dear Philip, Yes, I know very well that they won't like it: is this supposed to be kind o.....
» 11/05/2016 9:55:14 AM <<would it hurt if we picked someone outside the box?>> Yes, it would render .....
» 10/05/2016 12:32:29 PM Dear Phanto, Thank you for you post. I am impressed!.....
» 10/05/2016 12:24:10 PM Dear Banjo, <<Unfortunately, those who profess to be fervent believers in the gospe.....
» 10/05/2016 3:02:58 AM Dear Jayb, In Judaism, the maternal lineage only determines whether one is Jewish or not......
» 9/05/2016 12:38:09 PM Oh, where to begin... "We are so afraid of offending or marginalising or adding fuel.....
» 9/05/2016 12:02:00 AM Dear Banjo, Why should people define themselves by whether or not they believe that God e.....
» 8/05/2016 9:43:17 PM The problem with 18C is not in its prohibition to offend, insult and humiliate others in p.....
» 8/05/2016 9:20:31 PM Dear Grateful, <<What studies are you referring to? What are their proofs?>> .....
» 6/05/2016 5:02:15 PM Dear Rhian, There is a time for everything and a season for every activity under the heav.....
» 6/05/2016 3:49:38 PM Dear Rhian, I enjoyed and like your last response to Dan. I would like to strengthen you.....
» 6/05/2016 2:30:33 AM Dear Grateful, The word 'tafsir' appears to correspond with the similar Hebrew word for &.....
» 5/05/2016 6:48:24 PM Dear SM, It all depends what you include in "Zionism": the desire of the Jewish.....
» 4/05/2016 11:35:36 PM Surprisingly, I was impressed that this budget was more intelligent than I can remember fo.....
» 4/05/2016 11:25:46 PM Rabbi Kook is the preceptor of the Jewish settlement movement in the West Bank (Gush Emuni.....
» 4/05/2016 10:34:51 PM Dear Phanto, <<There is nothing that is superficial or mundane about the world we l.....
» 4/05/2016 2:49:24 AM Dear Cherful, <<Where was God when...>> How irrelevant! My advice was for N.....
» 3/05/2016 8:00:16 PM Dear John, Has the possibility occurred to you that this world could have a creator who i.....
» 3/05/2016 2:28:52 PM Dear Phanto, <<Please don’t use words like God, divinity and eternal bliss. Use wor.....
» 3/05/2016 10:53:19 AM Dear Josephus, The danger of abuse exists wherever there are queues for essentials and de.....
» 3/05/2016 1:45:09 AM Dear Nathan, Science will allow you to survive, it is extremely effective at that, but it.....
» 3/05/2016 1:32:41 AM Dear Dan, <<So some say Christians should be proclaiming the 'Rock of Ages' rather .....
» 3/05/2016 1:30:20 AM Dear Phanto, <<Why do you see life and mortality as problems to be solved?>> .....
» 2/05/2016 7:14:15 PM It's the eagerness to know about this world and its origins which makes one a materialist,.....
» 2/05/2016 10:49:05 AM It could be difficult to have a bank agree to make their loan completely non-transferable,.....
» 2/05/2016 10:15:42 AM What is it that you are trying to achieve, Don? Any belief that is based on material evid.....
» 1/05/2016 10:52:41 AM Dear Paul, What's wrong about giving people the benefit of the doubt? A paedophile would.....
» 30/04/2016 8:43:21 PM It's all in the contract: If you take a loan, then you should make sure that the contract.....
» 29/04/2016 9:59:17 AM Dear SM, Nothing stops you from having sex if this is what you truly want. My suggestion .....
» 29/04/2016 9:17:03 AM Well said, Jon! I was about to say the same even more boldly, but your gentle presentatio.....
» 28/04/2016 5:59:11 PM Haven't Australia already tormented these people enough that now it contemplates dumping a.....
» 28/04/2016 5:46:11 PM It's about time to take a brave step and stop making a fuss about body differences. The s.....
» 28/04/2016 5:25:12 PM Dear OnTheBeach, You are correct in saying that it is adults who sexualise children's beh.....
» 28/04/2016 8:23:58 AM Totally agree. CGT should be 100% like any other income: it should not even be separated .....
» 28/04/2016 3:44:40 AM Looks like the PC brigade is out in force tonight. The fear of paedophilia has done more .....
» 28/04/2016 1:09:38 AM Dear Suse, <<I am sick of the whole mess and the embarrassment this Government has .....
» 27/04/2016 1:59:01 PM Dear Dan, <<The first should be regulated and the later not>> Unless they ri.....
» 27/04/2016 1:52:43 PM Dear Aidan, <<Why do you even associate nation building with despicable tyrants?>.....
» 27/04/2016 12:56:37 PM Glory be to God! Had I been one of those incarcerated victims of the bloody Australian go.....
» 27/04/2016 12:45:57 PM The thing is, Alon, that nobody can ever get what they do not deserve, good or bad - inclu.....
» 27/04/2016 8:54:14 AM Yes, people should be able to experiment and innovate permissionless, but not if they rece.....
» 27/04/2016 8:26:29 AM Nation builders: Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Mao Zedong, Pol Pot - and as we progress dow.....
» 23/04/2016 11:10:15 PM Excellent, Referundemdrivensocienty, If only the general electorate resembled the OLO mem.....
» 22/04/2016 11:00:02 AM Dear Aidan, Thank you for the explanation (for Phooey) about the inflational and deflatio.....
» 21/04/2016 2:41:38 PM (...continued) "Being unselfish, thus, is what determines how much spiritual one is......
» 21/04/2016 2:41:32 PM Dear Pogi, Yes, we have been discussing religion, but it's strange to hear that we have b.....
» 20/04/2016 10:22:22 PM Jesus's resurrection could have been physical/literal, metaphoric, neither, both or perhap.....
» 20/04/2016 7:05:42 PM Dear Pogi, <<I think you must agree that when a protagonist is presented by his opp.....
» 20/04/2016 3:49:19 PM Dear Rehctub, <<So while making ones self undesirable to employers may seem harmles.....
» 19/04/2016 11:33:29 PM As Rehctub stated: My business, my choice! But as for the dole, it's different because th.....
» 19/04/2016 11:12:38 PM Dear Pogi, As defined, religion is comprised of all acts or omissions, made consciously o.....
» 18/04/2016 1:38:01 PM Dear Critic, <<I know you don't like nationalism, but I'm starting to think this (l.....
» 17/04/2016 6:30:03 PM Dear Joe, I have no exclusive club so you are welcome to comment, it's just that we seem .....
» 17/04/2016 5:37:31 PM Dear Critic, <<Can anyone tell me how I can vote, avoid fines but ensure the major .....
» 17/04/2016 1:44:56 AM Dear Hasbeen, How can you be offended by me riding on the same roads which I as a fellow .....
» 17/04/2016 1:32:52 AM Dear Pogi, First let us clear a couple of misunderstandings; 1. I suggested that you COU.....
» 16/04/2016 7:30:19 PM Dear Cherful, <<You wouldn't mind if people wore the white klux klan robes around t.....
» 15/04/2016 5:07:15 PM It's simple: I will vote for any party that will not tell us what to wear. Specifically, .....
» 15/04/2016 12:28:59 PM Dear Joe, If this is what you understood from my last post, then I may have a serious pro.....
» 15/04/2016 12:36:31 AM (...continued) <<Because of the chasm between us do you feel hatred toward me>&g.....
» 15/04/2016 12:36:27 AM Dear Pogi, Religion is no more a construct of the human intellect than light, energy, spa.....
» 13/04/2016 5:28:47 PM Dear Phooey, Since when do sheep tell the wolf what to do? Government is a predator, so .....
» 12/04/2016 3:34:07 PM Dear Pogi, I stated that religion and violence are mutually exclusive. You want to oppose.....
» 11/04/2016 5:08:07 PM Dear Suse, Just as there are bad, abusive and neglecting parents, there are guilty souls .....
» 11/04/2016 2:31:03 PM Dear Critic, <<Maybe I should proactively protect myself by taking a hammer to the .....
» 11/04/2016 2:15:30 PM Good question, Joe, True, there probably isn't a religion in the world which hasn't been .....
» 11/04/2016 8:09:17 AM Dear Pogi, I do not understand where you are trying to get: are you trying to refute the .....
» 10/04/2016 2:23:24 PM Dear Suse, There was no indication or even allegation that the parents in question are dr.....
» 10/04/2016 7:13:07 AM Dear Pogi, We could discuss ad nauseum the atrocities of those who claim to be religious .....
» 10/04/2016 12:25:01 AM Close government departments and sell off their buildings. Inner-city property can go a lo.....
» 9/04/2016 11:47:04 PM More than we should pity the child, we should pity the doctor and the judges because they .....
» 9/04/2016 9:38:16 PM Dear Pogi, <<By the same token then, roman catholicism during the Dark and Middle A.....
» 9/04/2016 8:17:55 PM Dear Peter, <<I have no wish to reduce theology to logic but it must behave in a ra.....
» 8/04/2016 3:41:08 AM Dear Aidan, <<Australian Citizenship is gold tier. Permanent Resident status is sil.....
» 7/04/2016 11:44:57 AM The Lord be with you, Peter, "The Church owes the world a consistent and reasonable .....
» 6/04/2016 5:09:47 PM If idiots want to poison themselves, why should I need to finance through my tax-money the.....
» 6/04/2016 4:52:39 PM Dear Mr. Opinion, As it stands, the concept of citizenship is absurd because they tell yo.....
» 6/04/2016 12:19:29 PM Dear Mr. Opinion, "Australian citizenship in 2016 isn't worth the paper it is writte.....
» 6/04/2016 12:08:01 PM "Islam is a religion with a violent political agenda." That's a conflict of ter.....
» 5/04/2016 12:29:51 PM There should be several tiers of citizenship, so that the outer tiers involve less commitm.....
» 2/04/2016 10:02:10 PM Dear Flowertime, <<heterosexual unions provide for the continuation of the human ra.....
» 2/04/2016 9:37:44 PM Dear Is Mise, How can you tell that Muhammad preached and practiced violence? Just becaus.....
» 1/04/2016 12:25:30 PM Essentially, publishing anyone's photograph without their consent, is criminal and whether.....
» 31/03/2016 6:25:09 PM The council gives us bins to dump our garbage in: we MAY fill them with rubbish, but we ar.....
» 31/03/2016 1:12:38 PM Dear Bazz, Israel has the right to exist and thrive, but it cannot be helped by the histo.....
» 30/03/2016 10:08:12 PM Dear Jardine, Thank you, but I searched the Crimes Act, NSW and found no such offence. Th.....
» 30/03/2016 3:27:24 PM Dear Jardine, Is it so that exchanging polyamorous vows is criminal in Australia? It is s.....
» 28/03/2016 11:19:24 PM Dear Joe, I fully agree that if people want to use the services of a state then they shou.....
» 28/03/2016 6:36:56 PM Dear Joe, As it stands, Australia does not subscribe to the libertarian ideal you present.....
» 28/03/2016 4:48:42 PM Dear Joe, Very much so for your first two questions, no for the third. The primary funct.....
» 28/03/2016 1:39:21 PM Dear Joe, Perhaps you are right, perhaps it is idiotic to demand justice in the face of v.....
» 27/03/2016 3:13:05 PM Dear Joe, Obviously, you want a state and apparently so do most others, so what stops you.....
» 26/03/2016 10:05:09 PM Dear Joe, First, we are in agreement that Shari'a and Canon laws are "are far 'worse.....
» 25/03/2016 6:20:13 PM Dear Joe, I just wanted to let you know that I am out of messages on "Homophobia cla.....
» 25/03/2016 5:12:50 PM Dear Joe, So you consider the view that imposing oneself on others is wrong, as "ext.....
» 25/03/2016 11:54:15 AM Dear Joe, While it is quite possible to not believe in any gods and the like, it is impos.....
» 24/03/2016 10:48:34 PM Dear Foxy, This Costello guy was speaking for himself: he said "There is one law we .....
» 24/03/2016 9:30:49 PM Dear Foxy, <<Religious laws have no legal status in this country.>> Neither .....
» 24/03/2016 3:27:01 PM Dear Raycom, No, I do not advocate anything like it. I find the attempted analogy very st.....
» 24/03/2016 11:20:27 AM Regardless of the occupied territories, Western Jerusalem is going to remain Israel's capi.....
» 23/03/2016 1:25:41 PM Dear John Bennets, The "losers" you refer to should indeed do whatever they can.....
» 23/03/2016 11:18:29 AM Dear SM, Why would there be no DD if some Liberal senators voted against the trigger? The.....
» 23/03/2016 9:46:26 AM I will not be drawn into discussing the [silly] contents of those pastoral letters that we.....
» 22/03/2016 4:26:01 PM Dear Sonofgloin, Even if the independents vote for the ABCC, some Liberals would be instr.....
» 22/03/2016 1:38:38 PM As a proud scout master of many years, Tony, I should not need to remind you of the words .....
» 21/03/2016 1:31:09 PM Dear Ttbn, The guy may be from the ABC and has his own agenda (perhaps he wants to be a m.....
» 21/03/2016 12:55:59 PM Dear SM, The senate voting changes are overall positive and had it been done honestly the.....
» 20/03/2016 8:42:17 AM Has anyone taken notice of the expected increase in donkey votes, of many lazy people who .....
» 20/03/2016 8:24:30 AM Dear Jon, Well it seems that you do have time to waste on something that you know for cer.....
» 20/03/2016 1:52:08 AM Dear Is Mise, How about asking people to fill the ballot paper with consecutive prime num.....
» 19/03/2016 8:54:39 PM Dear Jon, Talking about insanity, isn't it insane and what possible sense does it make to.....
» 19/03/2016 8:25:42 PM The new legislation makes politics a tad better than before, so I support the change. How.....
» 18/03/2016 8:19:33 AM Dear Is Mise, It is one thing to carry a sword, yet another to use it. Yet even if Jesus.....
» 17/03/2016 11:38:39 PM Dear Is Mise, Weren't Jesus critical of those apostles? John 18:10 - Then Simon Peter, w.....
» 17/03/2016 8:58:31 PM Dear Is Mise, If you were a saint then you would turn the other cheek instead. But as ne.....
» 17/03/2016 4:04:59 PM Dear Joe, <<Otherwise, where's the fun in being on OLO ?>> As I said, the de.....
» 17/03/2016 11:05:36 AM Dear Joe, <<But your mention of 'small states' raises the possibility that Noel Pea.....
» 17/03/2016 8:09:44 AM Dear Is Mise, <<I thought that all state sponsored compulsion was wrong in your boo.....
» 16/03/2016 11:58:13 PM Dear Is Mise, Everyone nowadays wants to eat the cake and have it too... The only thing .....
» 16/03/2016 5:53:08 PM Dear Aidan, <<But is there any good reason why that should be an above the line opt.....
» 16/03/2016 12:51:42 PM Dear Joe, <<Wow, 3:0. So 'Recognition' is seen by some as divisive?>> Why 3:.....
» 16/03/2016 11:50:07 AM Thank you Peter, I think I understand the message of this article. But in order to get it.....
» 15/03/2016 5:31:46 PM Dear Aidan, <<the duty of voting only applies to those on the electoral roll>>.....
» 15/03/2016 1:43:24 PM Dear Joe, I am prepared to support it all: A third house of review, a fourth house of re.....
» 15/03/2016 12:50:58 PM Aidan is correct: Imposing a duty on "citizens" who never consented to be citiz.....
» 11/03/2016 3:04:34 PM Dear Rhys, First, I agree with your last post. Earlier you wrote: <<In that case .....
» 11/03/2016 2:07:22 PM "It could be the case that Turnbull has taken us back to an earlier paradigm of polit.....
» 11/03/2016 10:19:32 AM Poverty is caused by breeding. Some breed for biblical reasons while others breed just be.....
» 11/03/2016 9:00:09 AM Dear Hasbeen, Between now and the real crunch there are many shades of grey - it won't co.....
» 10/03/2016 6:59:35 PM Right you are, but if you must depend on the bank for $6,000 in cash without alternatives,.....
» 10/03/2016 6:49:25 PM Good to hear that at least someone, Hillary Clinton, truly loves Israel and cares for its .....
» 10/03/2016 5:55:12 PM A person's a person, no matter how small... so long as it has no tail, but if it has a tai.....
» 8/03/2016 11:14:24 AM Dear Joe, Obviously I am in society, I never claimed to be out and personally I am alread.....
» 7/03/2016 5:52:05 PM Dear Aidan, It's not about responsibility - it's about refraining from doing evil. The o.....
» 7/03/2016 1:23:38 PM Dear Aidan, <<as they encourage people to vote in a way where the value of their vo.....
» 7/03/2016 12:18:09 PM Dear Joe, <<I can't actually imagine a life with no society, good and bad. I can't .....
» 7/03/2016 8:52:59 AM For the first time, due to partial preferencing above the line, it will become possible to.....
» 6/03/2016 10:55:25 AM Perhaps the question should be, "Is it ethical to use other people's weaknesses to se.....
» 6/03/2016 10:43:05 AM Dear Joe, <<I don't understand why you would want to be locked away from anyone els.....
» 5/03/2016 9:52:15 PM I would not be surprised to find that members of the global-warming cult deliberately ligh.....
» 4/03/2016 6:32:02 PM Dear Joe, Wanting to live completely alone is an unlikely extreme. More common are people.....
» 4/03/2016 6:08:45 PM Thank you Phanto and Critic, you have stolen the words from my mouth......
» 4/03/2016 6:03:10 PM With the money you just received for writing this article, Angela, you will never have to .....
» 4/03/2016 12:55:52 PM A better advice to keep us out of grief - live in the real physical world, spending qualit.....
» 3/03/2016 5:40:52 PM Dear Joe, You understood me correctly. The concept of free speech is born within societi.....
» 3/03/2016 11:42:39 AM Freedom of speech may perhaps be the foundation of all other rights, but speaking of ".....
» 2/03/2016 11:56:09 AM Dear Joe, My statement that "the best strategy for preventing paedophilia is to make.....
» 2/03/2016 12:47:33 AM Dear Suse, "Paedophiles like to have illegal sex with children under 16" Inter.....
» 1/03/2016 6:15:40 PM “God blessed them and said to them, `Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth an.....
» 1/03/2016 2:41:01 PM Bullies do so because they are violent and feel the need to bully. If they fail to find t.....
» 28/02/2016 2:47:45 PM Why Jordan? it has nothing to do with this. What is needed for peace in the Middle East, .....
» 28/02/2016 2:02:37 PM Dear Nemesis, <<An anthem is about unity and National Pride, you all seem to have l.....
» 26/02/2016 5:42:38 PM Dear Jayb, <<I hear that after the next election they are going to make National Se.....
» 26/02/2016 2:32:51 PM Conscription is worse than rape, because rape, however painful, is over in a few minutes w.....
» 26/02/2016 1:55:11 PM Dear David, <<why try to divert attention from what I write by raising matters that.....
» 26/02/2016 7:22:43 AM I always speak against government curtailing civil liberties and intruding into our privat.....
» 25/02/2016 10:00:05 PM Dear Cossomby, You are right: some were not bullied - they were drugged instead......
» 25/02/2016 1:54:56 PM Those who kidnap innocent children (only boys, the author suggests) from their homes, fami.....
» 25/02/2016 1:20:06 PM There should be no anthem. The whole concept is stupid. The people who live in Australia .....
» 25/02/2016 2:38:26 AM Dear Cherful, Czechoslovakia was separated peacefully. Scotland had a referendum and it w.....
» 24/02/2016 1:47:43 PM Dear Suse, <<if they are involved in a bad accident or develop a terrible illness, .....
» 24/02/2016 11:50:22 AM While positive, it's insufficient to get rid of this or that politician - we should get ri.....
» 24/02/2016 9:28:07 AM Dear LEGO, <<A hundred years from now, Australia, the worlds only united continent,.....
» 24/02/2016 8:43:48 AM Dear LEGO, What have homosexuals ever done to you? They are just nice people who go about.....
» 23/02/2016 1:04:36 AM Dear Suse, Tourists are not entitled to Medicare, so what are you concerned about? No mon.....
» 22/02/2016 11:50:43 PM Dear David, <<All Israeli Governments of differing political persuasions have since.....
» 22/02/2016 6:20:43 PM Dear Suse, But who needs your public healthcare in the first place? We are talking about.....
» 22/02/2016 12:23:38 PM Thank you Philip, you certainly have my tick on this one. I see the cases of elderly peop.....
» 22/02/2016 8:28:42 AM "Oh and btw "Our Culture" might be meat pies and Sunday BBQ's" In one.....
» 21/02/2016 4:17:12 PM Dear Runner, I am relating to Rhrosty's point: Even if the whole land of Israel belongs .....
» 21/02/2016 12:37:07 PM Dear Chris, But there is no need to provide those who come with any physical, social, pol.....
» 21/02/2016 3:28:08 AM Dear Cherful, I appreciate your perfectly-legitimate wish to keep the peace on our street.....
» 20/02/2016 10:05:52 PM Dear Suse, You are bursting into an open door: When I wrote that "anyone can CLAIM .....
» 19/02/2016 6:42:11 PM Dear Joe, You are confusing the internal processes of governance within an established gr.....
» 19/02/2016 6:23:22 PM Apple should definitely not be forced. Working for another against your will is called sl.....
» 19/02/2016 5:59:09 PM Dear Aidan, <<Yuyutsu, why do you consider nation building a threat?>> I don.....
» 19/02/2016 3:52:49 PM Sharia law is notorious because it orders people to do certain things and prohibits them f.....
» 19/02/2016 3:20:32 PM Dear Joe, First I need to correct your error: The only absolute, ultimate and underlying .....
» 19/02/2016 1:59:24 PM Dear Suse, My point was about being ALLOWED to live like Prince Leonard (and in many othe.....
» 19/02/2016 1:44:29 PM Dear Cossomby, Beliefs are never the truth because they are just ideas and the truth is n.....
» 19/02/2016 12:23:05 AM Dear Cossomby, What you describe is tragic indeed. People should not fight each other bec.....
» 18/02/2016 11:53:27 PM One problem is that most aborigines today have mixed with the European population, so many.....
» 18/02/2016 11:15:52 PM Dear Nathan, I agree that having more people makes life more difficult, that we could hav.....
» 18/02/2016 2:28:05 PM Dear Cossomby, <<I've asked religious people this over the years and have never rec.....
» 17/02/2016 1:06:47 PM Dear David, <<I therefore ask you - as I asked #plantaganet: are you prepared to ca.....
» 16/02/2016 6:42:46 PM I have withdrawn from this discussion because its initiator, Shadow Minister, expressed th.....
» 16/02/2016 4:16:55 PM Dear Brock, It is not right to accuse all baby-boomers of using negative gearing: at leas.....
» 16/02/2016 1:52:33 PM Dear Rehctub, I was not thinking of banks: if people were not restricted and required to .....
» 16/02/2016 12:14:22 PM Dear Rehctub, The way to increase new home construction and affordability, which would in.....
» 16/02/2016 11:53:19 AM A wall is a necessity as PART of the protection of Israeli citizens. Obviously efforts sho.....
» 16/02/2016 8:33:33 AM Dear Foxy, I agree with you regarding negative gearing, but your post might imply that be.....
» 16/02/2016 8:23:57 AM Beautiful, thanks Peter! Religion teaches celibacy in order to capture the enormous raw s.....
» 15/02/2016 4:41:49 PM South Africa has its own CSIR, practically the equivalent of the Australian CSIRO and thei.....
» 15/02/2016 3:02:32 PM "People are the critical human capital which the Government has a responsibility to p.....
» 15/02/2016 2:44:02 PM Well Victoria is known for its draconian laws, well and beyond even the rest of Australia......
» 15/02/2016 2:03:29 PM (...continued) <<There is one law we are all expected to abide by>> So expec.....
» 15/02/2016 2:03:26 PM Dear Foxy, <<Peter Costello - gave a speech at the Sydney Institute in which he arg.....
» 15/02/2016 7:48:46 AM Dear Sonofgloin, Yes, you may like to move our discussion to a new thread......
» 14/02/2016 8:14:26 PM Dear Foxy, Peter Costello - what a perfect example of a blind leading the blind: When so.....
» 14/02/2016 7:25:23 PM Dear David, Years ago I read what must be, along with accounts of the holocaust and life .....
» 14/02/2016 6:39:31 PM Dear Shadow Minister, <<You choice 1200 dead or a few hundred detained.>> I .....
» 14/02/2016 6:24:23 PM Dear David, <<Lots of words but none condemning the murder of civilians in Israel b.....
» 14/02/2016 5:14:43 PM Dear Sonofgloin, Let met try answering your question: <<why we have a consciousnes.....
» 14/02/2016 5:14:39 PM Dear Shadow Minister, I was only responding to your query: "For nerds like myself t.....
» 14/02/2016 1:36:16 AM Dear Shadow Minister, Instruments can only tell about the structure of the physical unive.....
» 14/02/2016 1:22:42 AM So the guy discovered how our bodies came to be - what's the big deal? Facts are facts - .....
» 12/02/2016 6:06:13 PM Dear Rhrosty, <<I never implied I wanted the new settlers to do military service, j.....
» 12/02/2016 1:52:34 PM Dear Suse, I have no problem at all with the fact that the Australian government assists .....
» 12/02/2016 11:53:16 AM Dear Rhrosty, Your suggestion to require the settlers to undertake military training and .....
» 12/02/2016 10:01:45 AM Dear Rhrosty, Netanyahu is not a Führer, he is powerlessly torn between the demands of Sa.....
» 12/02/2016 8:46:06 AM Dear Suse, Well to a degree you could call my situation "luck", yet there are e.....
» 11/02/2016 11:21:18 PM Thank you Nana, Just a small correction: "Just because someone is unhappy about wha.....
» 11/02/2016 9:07:43 PM Dear Suse, You are very right and I have not been educated in Australia anyway. My real e.....
» 11/02/2016 7:31:36 PM Dear Nathan, Despite visiting shopping centres when I need to purchase something there, I.....
» 11/02/2016 12:08:01 PM Anyone who signs their child to a state-school must already be aware that they expose thei.....
» 11/02/2016 4:50:51 AM I've just followed the special discussion in the Knesset regarding the two-state solution......
» 11/02/2016 1:35:50 AM Dear OnTheBeach, I was not previously aware of this term, "manginas", so I made.....
» 10/02/2016 9:55:51 PM Dear OnTheBeach, It is indeed concerning that those already married would find themselves.....
» 10/02/2016 9:16:38 PM Dear Banjo, First, I don't have a bike. I was about to purchase a bike in 1990, but then.....
» 10/02/2016 8:09:52 PM Dear James, I understand and share your frustration regarding the impasse in the Middle E.....
» 10/02/2016 7:13:13 PM (...continued) At olden times there were prophets who were not afraid to admonish even ki.....
» 10/02/2016 7:13:09 PM Dear Joe, Since I discard the third possibility, that you are an evil cruel and heartless.....
» 10/02/2016 1:29:28 PM Dear Joe, No natural owners, only natural robbers? What, below or above the earth, gives.....
» 10/02/2016 12:06:17 PM Thank God for saving the church from being contaminated by state-affairs and worldly power.....
» 10/02/2016 10:37:18 AM (...continued) Now I wasn't suggesting that one could ever rape with impunity, regardless.....
» 10/02/2016 10:37:09 AM Dear Joe, No group of people should have more powers than the sum of the powers bestowed .....
» 10/02/2016 8:59:39 AM All you in this communist bureau of propaganda - go starve!.....
» 9/02/2016 11:57:23 PM (...continued) Do you mean foreign companies? -Companies are one other internal mechanism.....
» 9/02/2016 11:57:19 PM Dear Joe, Democracy, elections, parties, votes, the age of 18, candidates, seats, coaliti.....
» 9/02/2016 8:49:13 PM Dear Nathan, By not having a television I manage to avoid seeing that or any other advert.....
» 9/02/2016 7:01:41 PM Dear Joe, I denounce violence - be it of the savage variety or of the civil variety. Sav.....
» 9/02/2016 5:27:05 PM I totally agree with Armchair Critic. Those greenies prove again and again to be so impra.....
» 9/02/2016 1:43:47 PM Winters in Canberra are cold and those people need to eat! They are not the type of peopl.....
» 9/02/2016 1:03:47 PM "Why shouldn't the young men and women of Australia be able to aspire to be our natio.....
» 9/02/2016 1:23:38 AM Dear Joe, I did not mention "pure purchase", but "true purchase". If .....
» 8/02/2016 2:59:32 PM Dear Joe, About paragraph 1, nobody, liking it or not, can buy or lease any state-land an.....
» 8/02/2016 1:08:46 PM Perhaps what David is asking is unrealistic in Australia - it is indeed unrealistic to exp.....
» 8/02/2016 12:11:29 PM Dear Joe, Well you seem to justify bullying - I don't. Isn't bullying a form of rape? T.....
» 8/02/2016 9:16:15 AM Dear Joe, The people who call themselves "the state" are nothing but a gang of .....
» 7/02/2016 4:48:33 PM Dear Mr. Opinion, What I read in Foxy's account is not about real marriage, but about how.....
» 7/02/2016 3:10:25 PM Dear Foxy, Your account demonstrates well how society is fleeting and unreliable: one day.....
» 7/02/2016 12:41:05 PM Dear Foxy, The facts that you state are true, but the functions you describe are social, .....
» 7/02/2016 4:54:39 AM I am most impressed by the reply of Plerdsus: "The law must not only be an ass, it m.....
» 7/02/2016 4:07:15 AM Dear Foxy, Marriage is made in heaven and as such is very precious. It binds two souls in.....
» 3/02/2016 4:18:25 PM Dear Cossomby, Sorry if I was misunderstood: you should be sovereign on your own property.....
» 3/02/2016 2:23:54 PM It is disgusting, it is disturbing, but when it comes to private property - government sho.....
» 29/01/2016 2:38:01 PM Being a Jew, David wishes Israel to take his side in this "Jewish-Arab conflict".....
» 29/01/2016 2:01:09 PM I will never touch a gun again, since as a conscript I was forced to use them against my w.....
» 28/01/2016 5:54:28 AM Dear Pogi, Is there even a question that Goddess Saraswati is an object? Having that many.....
» 26/01/2016 11:24:09 AM (...continued) If for example you are attracted to nature, then you could worship God as .....
» 26/01/2016 11:23:54 AM Dear Pogi, Ladies often complain: "Don't treat me like an object - if you are to lov.....
» 24/01/2016 12:18:47 AM Dear David, I believe that you have read my posts here long enough to know that I reject .....
» 22/01/2016 7:21:26 PM Dear Sonofgloin, Sorry for the late reply. The bible itself is ambiguous about whether s.....
» 22/01/2016 4:28:49 PM Dear David, What you are referring to are human ideas ABOUT God, of which there are many .....
» 22/01/2016 3:20:21 PM Dear David, God is not a creation of human imagination. Any creation of human imaginatio.....
» 22/01/2016 12:55:13 PM Dear Banjo, «In other words, religion = the cycle of nature with its supernatural creator.....
» 22/01/2016 12:04:20 PM In other words, McCackie, the answer is to capitulate - that would also include locking th.....
» 21/01/2016 9:59:41 PM Dear Banjo, <<I should be interested to learn what each of you mean by “religion”&g.....
» 21/01/2016 4:44:00 PM Nobody can be forced to marry two people anyway: priests could be arrested and even tortur.....
» 21/01/2016 7:27:42 AM Well said, George, If I may add, when blind people touch an elephant, at least they feel .....
» 19/01/2016 5:54:40 PM (...continued) Whether or not poor-and-wise people who lovingly accept their situation wo.....
» 19/01/2016 5:54:37 PM Dear Aidan, It was not my intention to expand this discussion into the legitimacy or othe.....
» 18/01/2016 8:01:18 PM Dear Joe, Israeli Arabs may volunteer to serve in the armed forces if they want. For many.....
» 18/01/2016 2:34:05 PM Thank you Alon. All so true......
» 18/01/2016 9:37:14 AM Dear Sonofgloin, To summarise what you wrote, "parents are bad, society is good".....
» 18/01/2016 1:58:09 AM Dear Joe, Thank you for your kind comment. I take it that you do not mean it literally w.....
» 18/01/2016 12:16:40 AM Dear Suse, <<Yuyutsu, I suppose you learnt to read and write at home then?>> .....
» 17/01/2016 9:05:45 PM Haven't they been locked up in detention long enough already? The original meaning of 'ed.....
» 17/01/2016 5:35:46 PM Dear George, Worship is not limited to deliberate rituals and the objects of worship are .....
» 17/01/2016 2:06:17 AM Dear Aidan, <<Trying to tie money down to actual goods is what caused the Great Dep.....
» 17/01/2016 2:06:11 AM Dear Aidan, You are correct when you say that "many people are innocent victims".....
» 16/01/2016 9:59:31 PM Dear George, Thank you for the quote and I can definitely identify with both Barron and A.....
» 15/01/2016 5:48:26 PM Dear Rehctub, The fact that the grandchildren are lucky is irrelevant: If it is your mon.....
» 15/01/2016 2:37:32 PM Dear David F., Good comment, I agree. But why particularly stop at ethnic nationalism wh.....
» 15/01/2016 2:03:52 PM Dear Aidan, If you caused anguish to others by borrowing their money and not returning it.....
» 15/01/2016 1:07:45 PM Dear Aidan, The rich will not be helped as they probably will pay more extra tax to finan.....
» 15/01/2016 11:47:54 AM Absolutely YES to UBI. I've always said so, including for some of the reasons that the aut.....
» 15/01/2016 10:53:48 AM Dear David, You are just confusing between God and the concept of God. I agree that the l.....
» 15/01/2016 12:24:51 AM Dear Aidan, Indeed I cannot see why inherited assets should not be subject to capital gai.....
» 15/01/2016 12:05:03 AM Dear Aidan, Just to clarify, I do not recommend suicide, I just left this example for tho.....
» 14/01/2016 2:52:33 PM Dear John, Unlike David who does, I don't think that the author actually takes sides here.....
» 14/01/2016 11:31:00 AM How true. I asked an Israeli who lives in Paris about their feelings following the recent.....
» 13/01/2016 7:45:49 PM Dear Aidan, <<BTW I think you missed my point: putting solar panels on your roof is.....
» 13/01/2016 2:49:44 PM Dear Joe, "To Abdallah El Zaquir, King of Granada, .... to be assigned certain Taas .....
» 13/01/2016 12:51:45 PM Dear Aidan, If I bought you a great birthday present, say a tree that will grow in 10 yea.....
» 13/01/2016 12:23:33 PM I am glad to hear that theology is alive and kicking, Peter. I do hope that the Christian.....
» 11/01/2016 2:31:11 PM Dear Hasbeen, I think that your best bet is to fly out and do your knees overseas - there.....
» 10/01/2016 3:06:35 PM Dear Shadow Minister, <<The most democratic would be to hold a plebiscite for every.....
» 10/01/2016 3:51:09 AM Yes, Americans need their new Archie Bunker - not for his actual views, but for the guts t.....
» 10/01/2016 3:26:21 AM Oops sorry, my last comment was posted on the wrong board, please ignore it......
» 10/01/2016 3:25:02 AM Dear Rehctub, <<So what you are all suggesting is that half a million of inheritanc.....
» 10/01/2016 3:22:42 AM Dear Rehctub, <<So what you are all suggesting is that half a million of inheritanc.....
» 10/01/2016 2:52:57 AM (...continued) Yes, an occupation that lasts even one minute beyond what is militarily ne.....
» 10/01/2016 2:52:55 AM Dear Critic, Surely one should be sorry for the Palestinians, but what could one practica.....
» 8/01/2016 7:34:34 PM It is a problem when serious and desperate concerns are dressed up as "health and saf.....
» 8/01/2016 3:54:54 PM Dear Mhaze, 1. True. 2. That's an unfortunate loophole: no tax should apply when someone .....
» 8/01/2016 10:51:26 AM Dear Critic, You write about the "Pro-Israel side" - well I am on that side, I .....
» 8/01/2016 10:29:36 AM Dear Rehctub, What you describe has nothing to do with inheritance, but with the loophole.....
» 8/01/2016 7:17:09 AM Dear Pogi, Why would you want to impose yourself on the Cosmos? This sounds to me equall.....
» 7/01/2016 9:28:00 PM The reality is complex, full of mistakes and unintended tragedies. The truth is somewhere .....
» 5/01/2016 3:42:05 PM Dear Critic, <<My honest opinion is that Israel went about it the wrong way FROM DA.....
» 5/01/2016 3:09:55 PM Dear David, <<There are laws restricting what people can do on their own land>&g.....
» 5/01/2016 7:01:08 AM Dear David, <<Habitat destruction is the chief cause of species extinction.>>.....
» 4/01/2016 2:00:40 PM Indeed, eucalyptus trees should be replaced with useful and not-so-flammable fruit-trees......
» 4/01/2016 1:43:05 PM Dear Critic, <<Do you know the reasons Israel was allowed to join the UN?>> .....
» 4/01/2016 12:39:51 PM Stranded in the present? Westerners? The most prominent feature of the Western lifestyle .....
» 3/01/2016 4:01:04 AM Dear Mr. Opinion, If the records we have are correct, then Jesus was born during one of t.....
» 1/01/2016 7:38:14 PM Dear David, <<The labelling is required of products made by Jews who are the sole o.....
» 1/01/2016 6:02:00 PM Dear SteelRedux, It is sad to discover that even Einstein was fallible like any other hum.....
» 1/01/2016 3:25:50 PM Dear Rowan, <<7. How likely is it that a faith based on a falsehood, a fraud or a f.....
» 31/12/2015 2:33:50 PM "500000 Jews will not voluntarily vacate their homes nor abandon their livelihoods in.....
» 31/12/2015 9:13:56 AM Dear Toni, Nobody, even in our worst nightmares, has ever suggested banning marriage, suc.....
» 30/12/2015 10:09:57 PM Dear Eric, I notice that you have not answered my question: Assuming that the definition.....
» 30/12/2015 12:25:50 PM While the author is probably correct in his analysis, this "national interest" t.....
» 30/12/2015 9:09:50 AM Dear Mr. Opinion, The reason that violence is incompatible with religion is that there is.....
» 29/12/2015 11:13:42 PM One cannot be religious AND violent - it's a contradiction! Obviously one could claim to .....
» 29/12/2015 4:39:11 PM Dear Daffy, Like it or not - Così fan tutte!.....
» 29/12/2015 12:22:26 PM Had people in Australia been daring enough to construct their own improvised villages out .....
» 24/12/2015 11:23:37 AM Dear Dan, Freedom requires that any two or more people are never prevented from drawing u.....
» 24/12/2015 4:14:55 AM Dear Suse, <<safety of children comes before secular, religious or any other concer.....
» 24/12/2015 3:31:11 AM Dear Suse, I was referring to this article: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-06-11/christ.....
» 24/12/2015 12:03:58 AM Dear Frank, Yes, I am dismayed at the necessity for Pell's walk to Canossa. Why did he h.....
» 23/12/2015 7:39:01 PM Dear Eric, A question for you: Once the state's definition of "marriage" is ch.....
» 23/12/2015 7:23:21 PM The author panics because, rare as it may be, their beloved state and its punitive apparat.....
» 23/12/2015 7:17:52 PM Dear Peter, <<Why do I get the feeling that I could as well publish a page from the.....
» 23/12/2015 2:32:01 PM Dear Jayb, The people worshipped a golden calf which they made - not Baal. Now according.....
» 23/12/2015 12:15:23 PM Thank you Phanto, I was about to write much of the same - that freedom of religion goes fa.....
» 23/12/2015 11:25:41 AM The author must believe that telling the same lie a sufficient number of times would turn .....
» 21/12/2015 12:54:15 PM Yes, lines such as borders need to be drawn somewhere to prevent the spread of epidemics, .....
» 21/12/2015 12:30:28 PM God has many human faces: Every event is an event in God as any one of us is of the subst.....
» 21/12/2015 9:36:54 AM I have been thinking that what I wrote earlier may not be clear enough because perhaps peo.....
» 21/12/2015 2:35:04 AM Dear Cherful, What stops you from detaining that fellow who killed Jill Meagher? Have I s.....
» 21/12/2015 1:45:29 AM Dear Cherful, Israel is strong. For Israel, the small Palestinians are just a nuisance ra.....
» 20/12/2015 1:18:56 AM Dear Bazz, <<That right is given by the person living in the community and acceptin.....
» 18/12/2015 3:48:32 PM Dear Aidan, Regarding the Sambation, it is just a legend of course and its point is to cl.....
» 18/12/2015 3:34:33 PM How punitive is this British culture, who even consider punishment as a form of entertainm.....
» 17/12/2015 5:50:23 PM Dear LEGO, I also could not care less about the so-called "Palestinians" (if th.....
» 17/12/2015 12:26:48 PM It is said that the exiled and lost 10 tribes of Israel are waiting beyond the legendary r.....
» 17/12/2015 11:36:38 AM Thank you Alon, thank you, thank you! All so true, oh Cry, the Beloved Country......
» 16/12/2015 5:40:33 PM Dear David, The climate-gang controls the media, possess all the resources to fake whatev.....
» 16/12/2015 2:49:38 PM Yes David, The temperatures will just keep going up for as long as the weatherman is paid.....
» 15/12/2015 3:40:04 PM Unfortunately, the Paris convention was a resounding success. It's not about climate, it .....
» 14/12/2015 9:55:15 AM Marriage, if done correctly, consciously and in the right spirit, is an extremely useful a.....
» 14/12/2015 7:21:19 AM Dear Nathan, You do realise that it is all about your sister's boyfriend own low self-est.....
» 13/12/2015 3:58:59 PM Dear Cherful, <<your comment assumes that wars are about intolerance.>> I wa.....
» 11/12/2015 10:40:27 AM Dear Grateful, As a fellow religious person, I will never say anything to undermine your .....
» 11/12/2015 9:39:07 AM If having brains is an unfair advantage, then why don't animals receive the same income as.....
» 11/12/2015 8:35:52 AM So we face three gloomy prospects: 1. Daesh - the terror of old style direct violence. 2......
» 10/12/2015 7:00:31 AM Dear Banjo, <<Yes the system we inherited did give us beer drinking, horse racing a.....
» 9/12/2015 7:17:26 PM Dear Banjo, I support neither the ideology of monoculturalism nor the ideology of multicu.....
» 9/12/2015 6:57:34 PM Dear LEGO, <<I think that the labelling of Jewish goods by the EU is a wonderful id.....
» 9/12/2015 6:41:42 PM Ideas as such cannot be true or false - they are just ideas! One could obviously construc.....
» 9/12/2015 3:25:51 PM Dear CHERFUL, If you are either a nationalist or a universalist then no doubt that you fi.....
» 9/12/2015 12:16:58 PM Dear Runner, People can reform Islam by exposing that both the Koran and the stories abou.....
» 9/12/2015 9:40:41 AM "Former Commonwealth chief rabbi Jonathan Sacks wrote in The Dignity of Difference th.....
» 9/12/2015 9:16:37 AM "The European Union's (EU) discriminatory and racist labelling requirements for Jewis.....
» 9/12/2015 8:54:48 AM "And as for Seth, to him also a son was born; and he named him Enosh. Then men began .....
» 8/12/2015 1:20:14 AM Dear David, <<Faith in something like the existence of a God is something else. The.....
» 6/12/2015 7:52:36 AM Dear Josephus, This only seems to be a paradox due to the false assumption as if all men .....
» 4/12/2015 1:10:56 PM Humanism is an arbitrary and irrational value-system. It just happens to pick and select .....
» 3/12/2015 4:33:26 PM Dear Jayb, <<Er... didn't you just tell me that you would like to see Hindu Culture.....
» 3/12/2015 4:29:12 PM Dear Suse, <<Why is answering a few questions such a trauma?>> Well, if we w.....
» 3/12/2015 11:00:04 AM Dear David, <<Defiance may come from strong personal and moral values>> Yes,.....
» 3/12/2015 12:10:11 AM Dear Bazz, I was not intending to discuss Muslims and Islam yet again - we must have had .....
» 2/12/2015 10:11:28 PM Dear Suse, <<Gee Yuyutsu, you must have some very violent census officials in your .....
» 2/12/2015 2:32:02 PM Another obvious reason why they like to ride - they are not forced to wear pots over their.....
» 2/12/2015 2:19:26 PM Dear Bazz, <<We do not want to impose "our" culture on anybody>> P.....
» 2/12/2015 2:08:56 PM Dear Suse, <<We need a census every so often for the purposes of interested people .....
» 2/12/2015 1:30:12 AM Dear Jay, I was under the impression that certain Muslims wish to impose their way of lif.....
» 2/12/2015 12:10:36 AM Dear David, 1. Though I have my personal views on the matter, I will not be diverted to d.....
» 1/12/2015 4:40:00 PM Yet another thread on Islam? You know, it's getting boring! Are you sure you have no oth.....
» 1/12/2015 7:30:20 AM The issue of euthanasia aside, the elephant in the room is the tyranny of the AMA, where g.....
» 1/12/2015 7:04:52 AM Yet another case of coercion, where the state forces itself on everyone despite having har.....
» 30/11/2015 9:40:27 AM Indeed, there is no peace in sight, but Israel is strong enough to defend itself single-ha.....
» 30/11/2015 5:29:16 AM Dear David, 1. "For Israel to thrive and be a light unto the nations for ages to com.....
» 28/11/2015 11:33:53 PM Dear David, 3 items - 3 red herrings. 1) About the Jews, their ancient territories and t.....
» 27/11/2015 6:54:44 PM Dear Pirate, We are coming close to the limit that words can express. Let me try another.....
» 27/11/2015 1:49:17 PM Dear Peter, "The seeing through of religion has been a profound movement that cannot.....
» 27/11/2015 12:50:51 PM It depends what the "PROBLEM" is: Yes, survival can be supported not only with .....
» 27/11/2015 11:36:29 AM I have been silent so far because the question of mathematics is difficult and I don't hav.....
» 26/11/2015 5:13:23 PM Dear David, The Europeans need to do just whatever they need to do, no less and no more, .....
» 26/11/2015 4:43:00 PM Dear Pirate, By "only requires one" I just mean that it doesn't require two, it.....
» 26/11/2015 10:48:40 AM I'm just afraid that Uber will replace taxis as the next state-protected monster, as gover.....
» 26/11/2015 10:34:53 AM Thank the European Union for caring for Israel's integrity and morality ahead of 150 other.....
» 26/11/2015 8:13:07 AM Children should not be exposed to computers and the internet. Once they are, what the auth.....
» 25/11/2015 10:31:49 PM Dear Pirate, ARE-ness (or in its alternate grammatical forms, AM-ness and IS-ness) only r.....
» 25/11/2015 6:37:30 PM Fair enough, you want an opposition - but why specifically the ALP when there are over thi.....
» 25/11/2015 6:30:26 PM While regulating against charging whatever one wants for voluntary goods and services is w.....
» 25/11/2015 6:18:38 PM Dear Kactuz, You don't seriously suggest that the Kuran is the word of God, do you?.....
» 25/11/2015 6:14:32 PM Personally, as I am unable to use services like Uber, I have a strong interest in the cont.....
» 25/11/2015 6:00:32 PM Dear Suse, I'm afraid I disagree: If two people freely and genuinely agree between them .....
» 25/11/2015 12:22:44 PM "Every religion worships the same God." Perhaps what the author wished to say i.....
» 25/11/2015 9:38:26 AM Dear Toni, I am so happy that you are aware of yourself - the one who is beyond all doubt.....
» 25/11/2015 8:35:40 AM Dear Suse, <<if you think there are actually people out there who 'realise' they ar.....
» 24/11/2015 9:56:27 PM Dear Suse, Thank you for just providing a perfect example for the state's inability to ju.....
» 24/11/2015 6:43:55 PM Dear Suse, <<I don't believe a life sentence should be given to someone who assiste.....
» 24/11/2015 6:02:18 PM "Steve101 didn't like school!" And who does? Nevertheless I did go there, endu.....
» 24/11/2015 8:59:09 AM Thank you David and good luck with your initiative. Beyond this particular issue, what sh.....
» 24/11/2015 12:49:22 AM Dear David, <<I have followed your advice>> Excellent! But still, strangely .....
» 23/11/2015 9:37:13 PM Well Ttbn, the last thing one wants to do is to vote for a prime-minister. Even if you li.....
» 23/11/2015 9:25:49 PM Dear David, <<By what criteria can we choose one over the others? Is there any evid.....
» 22/11/2015 1:01:05 PM In elemental physics, one cannot see the actual neutrinos or Higgs bosons - they are only .....
» 20/11/2015 7:08:53 PM There is a world of difference between faith on the one hand and believing that a certain .....
» 20/11/2015 11:58:14 AM CETERUM CENESEO CARTHAGINEM ESSE DELENDAM! Obama... woke up by a buzzing fly... ate bacon.....
» 19/11/2015 7:04:05 PM Dear Joe, A few chooks, a vegetable garden and a couple of cows is just one option. It sh.....
» 19/11/2015 1:56:50 PM Yes, it is very shocking and disturbing and outright wrong, but oh well, still not as bad .....
» 19/11/2015 10:16:59 AM Dear Jayb, It is very wrong to use knowledge in order to control others. The Hindu script.....
» 19/11/2015 1:08:14 AM Dear Joe, Thank you for suggesting Andamooka, Booligal and Wiluna. However, my personal .....
» 18/11/2015 11:55:29 PM Dear Jayb, The moment you talk about wages, you refer to something less than ideal, to so.....
» 18/11/2015 10:47:49 AM Dear Jayb, My ideal system? Ideally there should be no system! An ideal society would not.....
» 18/11/2015 10:18:17 AM Dear Joe, The fight at hand is a fight of all those who wish to be saved from having to l.....
» 18/11/2015 12:35:12 AM "taxis are stuck in the land that time forgot" And so am I (as I will never hav.....
» 17/11/2015 2:26:18 PM Thank you Peter for this great article. It reminds me of the poem by Yehudah Halevi: Th.....
» 17/11/2015 1:08:23 PM Dear Jayb, You are spot on, on both counts. I am sorry for India, the home of so many gr.....
» 17/11/2015 7:45:00 AM Dear Toni, <<What should we fear from a Global Government that we shouldn't fear fr.....
» 17/11/2015 12:57:06 AM Dear Jayb, Where did I ever suggest that anyone be slave to *my* Kshatriyas? May I remin.....
» 16/11/2015 2:23:45 PM Dear Jayb, Who gets to decide who is a Kshatriyas? Everyone can decide for themselves - t.....
» 16/11/2015 1:38:00 AM Dear Jayb, Being a CEO has a little correlation with one's ability to handle the duties o.....
» 15/11/2015 3:46:04 PM Dear Jayb, Yes, I don't like that observation, but I know it's true. Human nature. Now .....
» 15/11/2015 1:06:01 PM (...continued) Our current political "leaders" aren't leaders at all, they are .....
» 15/11/2015 1:05:55 PM Dear Jayb, The caste system was misunderstood and highly abused in India. It was meant to.....
» 14/11/2015 10:10:09 PM Dear SM, <<they have a monopoly on their industries where no one else is allowed to.....
» 14/11/2015 9:52:05 PM Dear David, Those concerns for the victims of violence and cruelty are uncontroversial an.....
» 13/11/2015 5:41:44 PM Dear Jayb, OK, so by "islam" you refer to the predominant (male-chauvinistic, e.....
» 13/11/2015 12:26:27 AM Dear Jayb, Yes, you are trying to make it easier for me, but your question is still ambig.....
» 12/11/2015 4:35:17 PM Dear Jayb, My ideal culture does not exist today, nor will it exist for 1000's of years t.....
» 11/11/2015 4:13:05 PM Dear David, The title of the first article that you mentioned contained "two-state s.....
» 11/11/2015 2:06:35 PM Onward Christian soldier, let's split: you hit the elusive neo-liberal monster while I tac.....
» 11/11/2015 10:50:49 AM If the parents agree then proselytising is OK - but then they should also pay for it: what.....
» 11/11/2015 9:55:43 AM So long as taxation is needed, a tax on non-renewable energy is quite reasonable. But so .....
» 10/11/2015 8:16:58 PM When I first came to Australia, it was not a Western-consumerist culture. I was in fact at.....
» 10/11/2015 6:39:57 PM Dear Imacentristmoderate, <<libertarian ideology is about personal responsibility &.....
» 10/11/2015 6:33:23 PM Dear Rehctub, It is immoral to physically block people's way, not allowing them to enter .....
» 10/11/2015 3:16:58 PM The first element of any viable solution is to withdraw from the refugee-convention. That .....
» 9/11/2015 11:05:29 PM Dear Mr. Opinion, OK, so let me try to simplify: If one believes that the human race is .....
» 9/11/2015 3:51:03 PM Dear Mr. Opinion, Some of my family members also find those four disciplines interesting,.....
» 9/11/2015 3:24:56 PM Dear Jayb, It is hard to tell and different cultures could prevail as they suit different.....
» 9/11/2015 1:47:25 PM Since I am unwilling to accept stolen money from the government (which has no other money .....
» 9/11/2015 12:59:19 PM Thank you for the article, Matt. If you hate the big corporations, then be a "man&qu.....
» 9/11/2015 12:15:33 PM Dear Joe, So what if the opportunities of the modern world are not really that exciting? .....
» 8/11/2015 8:57:51 PM Dear Mr Opinion, The most philosophers, sociologists, anthropologists and historians can .....
» 8/11/2015 7:34:40 AM Dear David, I checked and found that between Sep. 9-11 2013, I only posted in OLO 4 times.....
» 8/11/2015 2:06:26 AM Dear David, <<If an individual or an organisation calls itself religious they are r.....
» 7/11/2015 11:00:16 PM Dear David, Even if you consider someone's statements to be nonsense, you still need to a.....
» 6/11/2015 6:57:42 PM Dear David, It doesn't make sense to believe in the reality of God until and unless one b.....
» 6/11/2015 12:58:07 PM Dear David, Yes, the god(s) that you speak about in your article are human inventions. T.....
» 6/11/2015 11:21:01 AM Dear Poirot, Yes, but without quotes......
» 6/11/2015 10:36:23 AM Dear Poirot, What you have from me is only theoretical knowledge, that you are God, that'.....
» 6/11/2015 9:25:38 AM Dear Poirot, I cannot enlighten you, how less so against your own inclinations: if you wa.....
» 6/11/2015 9:14:39 AM Dear David, My hope and aim is to clear up Daesh - not to clear up legalities. To ensure .....
» 6/11/2015 7:52:04 AM Dear Jayb, Rather then starting a new discussion of what "Australian values" an.....
» 6/11/2015 7:36:38 AM Dear Mr. Opinion, Well, I try to simplify as much as I can: What philosophers, sociologi.....
» 6/11/2015 12:51:41 AM Dear Mr. Opinion, If you study your philosophy, sociology, anthropology and history, then.....
» 5/11/2015 10:38:12 PM Dear Jayb, <<Is there a problem with the way that’s worded?>> As worded: &qu.....
» 5/11/2015 6:43:33 PM Dear David, It's a hot topic currently about Catholic priests who TRIED to practice relig.....
» 5/11/2015 5:40:03 PM Dear Mr. Opinion, Indeed, no knowledge of philosophy, sociology, anthropology or history .....
» 5/11/2015 5:11:19 PM Dear James, Yes, we have been sold out by the major political parties. You say that the .....
» 5/11/2015 4:10:30 PM Dear Kirby, By "put that money into their home", I assume that Mr. Opinion mean.....
» 5/11/2015 12:46:54 PM Dear Joe, Israeli conscripts receive pocket money (currently 540-1076 NIS/month, which ar.....
» 5/11/2015 11:47:54 AM Daesh needs to be defeated, that's for sure, but what has this silly "UN" and it.....
» 5/11/2015 11:30:52 AM Just a small correction if I may, Joe: Israel DOES support slavery, in the form of conscr.....
» 5/11/2015 11:24:19 AM Dear Jay, A non-Muslim Muslim-supporter considers him/herself as haram?? According to th.....
» 5/11/2015 8:11:19 AM Perhaps it is about time to have universities close their gates. Young adults are told: &.....
» 4/11/2015 8:35:42 PM Dear SteeleRedux, It's true that governments cannot be trusted with our money, but commer.....
» 4/11/2015 8:19:16 PM Dear Jayb, Absolutely so, yet it reminds of St. Francis: O God, give us the serenity to.....
» 4/11/2015 7:34:25 PM Dear Kactuz, OK, I can live with this minimalistic definition: 1. All Muslims are bad an.....
» 4/11/2015 6:36:11 PM Dear Paul, You don't need to be Jesus in order to know that if you eat pizza on Tuesdays .....
» 4/11/2015 5:59:07 PM If you went to a supermarket and later found that your shopping basket contained items tha.....
» 4/11/2015 10:13:19 AM Dear Kactuz, You claim that: "All Australian Muslims have no problem with the hate a.....
» 4/11/2015 2:12:06 AM Dear David, If somebody came to me and said, "I am the way, the truth, the life".....
» 3/11/2015 11:29:18 PM Switzerland is one of the worst places on earth, due to conscription - which is a cruel fo.....
» 3/11/2015 10:53:33 PM Dear David, It may well be that the New Testament is lacking in historical accuracy, nor .....
» 3/11/2015 6:31:29 PM Dear Pirate, Thank you for those most interesting resources! My position on freedom is d.....
» 3/11/2015 2:12:32 PM Thank you Stuart for supporting Israel. Though there is a grain of truth in them, the fac.....
» 3/11/2015 12:14:36 PM Dear David, My interpretation of John 14:6, is that Jesus, being a realised soul, knew wh.....
» 3/11/2015 8:08:20 AM Dear Paul, I am not a Christian: I believe that Jesus had wisdom to impart because he was.....
» 2/11/2015 11:30:28 PM Dear David, It's not only that I think that what you said is good (as in "effective&.....
» 2/11/2015 10:47:23 PM Dear David, What a great response to Mr. Opinion... Love thy neighbour as thyself... and .....
» 2/11/2015 5:45:40 PM Dear Jayb, Exactly, and who will be deciding what's a serious crime? YOU, of course, toge.....
» 2/11/2015 2:12:15 PM Dear Jayb, <<The best course of action would be to expel all moslems from Australia.....
» 2/11/2015 2:04:02 PM Dear Mr. Opinion, <<A Seniors' party in federal politics should be about one thing:.....
» 2/11/2015 12:26:07 PM I looked at this web-site and was disappointed to see that the Mature Age Party are law-fr.....
» 2/11/2015 3:23:32 AM Dear Suse, <<It's not as though anyone is going to let 2 priests adopt children is .....
» 1/11/2015 4:44:18 PM If the number of Chinese in Australia is so high, then surely some of them are reading thi.....
» 1/11/2015 11:10:00 AM Dear David, I do not exactly equate 'kind and wholesome' with 'religious', but there is a.....
» 1/11/2015 10:16:02 AM Dear Pirate, <<From the point of view of freedom, I'm biased towards function, in t.....
» 1/11/2015 5:30:47 AM Dear David, I apologise for starting a discussion on religion on this thread - this is yo.....
» 31/10/2015 10:15:33 PM Dear Mr. Opinion, The fact that people were born in China or retain cultural contacts doe.....
» 31/10/2015 9:39:01 PM Dear Pirate, Well I could discuss religion with anyone who is interested - but I found th.....
» 30/10/2015 6:29:32 PM Dear Mr. Opinion, India is also a nuclear country. In the absence of America, we could at.....
» 30/10/2015 6:12:17 PM The taboo on homosexuality is alive and kicking. Homosexuals are nice people, do nothing .....
» 30/10/2015 5:26:32 PM Dear Mr. Opinion, I already left a place which I found unacceptably oppressive and at the.....
» 30/10/2015 3:57:18 PM Dear Mr. Opinion, 2050? I hope I'm not around by then anyway and never have to see that d.....
» 30/10/2015 3:12:37 PM If indeed we cannot trust America to save us from China, then we should strengthen our str.....
» 30/10/2015 3:01:29 PM Happy birthday to you, David! May you continue to enjoy many years of health, just as my .....
» 30/10/2015 2:11:52 PM Q1. Does a man become a woman if his genitalia is removed and he wears a dress? True of Fa.....
» 30/10/2015 12:59:00 PM Dear David, I appreciate the way you handle disagreements with your wife. In any case, t.....
» 30/10/2015 10:50:27 AM Dear David, My understanding of "agree to disagree" is: "we acknowledge th.....
» 29/10/2015 10:24:21 PM Dear Nathan, If respecting others is beyond your capacity, then do what you can - at leas.....
» 29/10/2015 6:07:07 PM Dear Pirate, You are right on the point that I am trying to make all along: Since most p.....
» 29/10/2015 3:32:45 PM None of the responders so far answered the real question: "Who should have the most .....
» 29/10/2015 1:08:38 PM The Cat in the Hat is Back, for power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely! As.....
» 29/10/2015 11:22:54 AM Dear Banjo, You are still a fully-fledged and undisputed Australian citizen, regardless w.....
» 29/10/2015 8:22:15 AM Dear Paul, You suggest two remedies: 1. "that its only reasonable that all state su.....
» 29/10/2015 12:30:56 AM Dear Paul, These are excellent questions, thank you. I already gave much thought to some .....
» 28/10/2015 7:02:44 PM Dear Paul, If 2 million people are so unhappy that they are willing to forego that much, .....
» 28/10/2015 1:08:01 PM Dear Paul, Thank you for the interesting link and I must commend your sincere attempt to .....
» 28/10/2015 6:02:53 AM Dear Paul, I cannot speak for Beach, but as for myself, I oppose a Bill or Rights because.....
» 28/10/2015 4:11:26 AM The view of Hinduism is that while God cannot be conceived due to the limitations of the m.....
» 28/10/2015 3:13:36 AM Dear Banjo, Thank you. As a religious person, I could not agree more. While some advocat.....
» 28/10/2015 2:14:37 AM Dear Suse, What you refer to as the "rules and laws of this country" were never.....
» 27/10/2015 10:55:36 PM Dear Suse, The country is only subject to the laws of physics, including the derived laws.....
» 27/10/2015 9:19:41 PM Dear Banjo, I think there is some misunderstanding here: I replied to Josephus that I be.....
» 27/10/2015 4:03:12 PM Oh Dear, Is Mise, I'm afraid that the police is already on their way to arrest you, havin.....
» 27/10/2015 3:53:07 PM Dear JBowyer, I really like and agree with your statement: "I do not want to harm th.....
» 27/10/2015 2:50:46 PM Dear Imacentristmoderate, It is not wrong to have something to hide for the sake of peace.....
» 27/10/2015 1:13:19 PM Dear Josephus, From what I know about Banjo, even while I disagree with him regarding the.....
» 27/10/2015 12:53:10 PM Dear Nathan, Religion is not a dying species, it is strong as ever and keeps renewing its.....
» 27/10/2015 10:37:41 AM Dear Pirate, There is much confusion around regarding freedom, which is often confused wi.....
» 27/10/2015 8:21:59 AM Well I disagree with the anonymity part: That would publicly expose the identity and poli.....
» 26/10/2015 11:24:54 PM We may indeed not like this practice of political donations, but just because we don't lik.....
» 26/10/2015 11:01:08 PM So what's the alternative? Pulling those kids on the torture rack until they agree to sing.....
» 26/10/2015 4:09:46 PM Dear Pirate, You seem to have added on what both myself and the author wrote: I mentioned.....
» 26/10/2015 2:28:30 PM Dear Suse, I didn't miss anything when I grew up without the internet, then I used it in .....
» 26/10/2015 12:40:00 PM Dear Nathan, Religion exists everywhere, within society and without society - no one can .....
» 26/10/2015 7:06:17 AM Dear LEGO, Archimedes said: "Give me a lever and a place to stand outside the earth,.....
» 25/10/2015 11:14:21 PM Dear Suse, Who mentioned "allowing"? Ceasing to violently interfere with other.....
» 25/10/2015 8:51:42 PM Dear LEGO, <<Human beings are tribal and territorial, that is in our DNA>> I.....
» 25/10/2015 8:14:48 PM Most of the things we do are wrong - but that doesn't mean that the state has a moral righ.....
» 25/10/2015 8:15:56 AM Dear Imacentristmoderate, <<All former British African colonies want them to come b.....
» 23/10/2015 5:01:21 PM Dear Imacentristmoderate, That's nice of you, yet I plan to leave them alone even earlier.....
» 23/10/2015 11:51:35 AM Solicitation for money on this web-site, as does the author ("and become a financial .....
» 23/10/2015 10:17:25 AM So it's a human-right to receive a certificate from the government? A certificate that I .....
» 23/10/2015 9:19:03 AM Dear Nathan, The general public has no idea what religion is and is not equipped with the.....
» 22/10/2015 9:05:18 PM Dear LesP, Indeed, we don’t have an ideal situation where the state leaves us alone. The .....
» 22/10/2015 7:36:06 PM Dear Imacentristmoderate, I admit that I did not read the books you recommended - but Ro.....
» 22/10/2015 4:01:30 PM Dear LesP, Despite being religious, I find myself agreeing with our atheist friends here:.....
» 22/10/2015 10:13:50 AM Dear Joe, The most basic and inclusive freedom is the freedom from association, to not be.....
» 22/10/2015 8:30:05 AM Agreed, Meg. The state and its blind functionaries could not tell a religion even if it w.....
» 22/10/2015 6:45:20 AM Dear Imacentristmoderate, I didn't mention "Multi Culti" or this Trotsky of you.....
» 22/10/2015 6:28:32 AM Dear Imacentristmoderate, Hunting people at sea, then either locking them up or deporting.....
» 22/10/2015 12:44:40 AM Just leave them alone! If they drown then let them drown, if they starve then let them st.....
» 22/10/2015 12:33:25 AM Dear Julian, All those "records" are faked - from 'A' to 'Z'. Yes, there were .....
» 21/10/2015 7:09:18 PM Dear Julian, There is no reason why Muslims should not follow their good prophet. The pr.....
» 21/10/2015 6:53:29 PM True and sad - I think it's already too late. This article could have been written 10 or .....
» 21/10/2015 6:40:13 PM Australia has laws against animal-cruelty: nobody is forced to have a pet, but if you do t.....
» 21/10/2015 5:03:41 PM I could almost have written Hasbeen's post myself, word for word. Cash is the 3rd-best wa.....
» 20/10/2015 7:17:22 PM Dear Joe, <<Can you name a single present-day dictator who you would be happy to li.....
» 20/10/2015 6:17:23 PM Dear Imacentristmoderate, Of course that's what all Islamic clerics say (well otherwise t.....
» 20/10/2015 12:15:21 AM JohnBennets wrote: "They will progressively be replaced by humanist and rationally d.....
» 19/10/2015 4:12:11 PM Dear imacentristmoderate, I don't need to tell the Imam what's written in his books, whic.....
» 19/10/2015 3:49:28 PM Dear Nathan, You are correct to write that the coercive system that we currently have can.....
» 19/10/2015 8:39:42 AM Dear Ngaire, Just because someone does not happen to believe in a deity doesn't make them.....
» 19/10/2015 7:45:59 AM "Allah's intention is then crystal clear, total war by any & all means until all huma.....
» 18/10/2015 8:23:30 PM Dear Nathan, With due respect, you have not answered my question: What are your intentio.....
» 18/10/2015 1:08:00 PM Dear Poirot, <<the kind of thing that makes one proud of their country and its achi.....
» 18/10/2015 9:45:56 AM Dear Poirot, <<Frankly, that's a bit silly.>> (that a republic would increase.....
» 18/10/2015 2:26:16 AM Dear Critic, When we analyse our motives, persistently digging and seeking the root-cause.....
» 17/10/2015 10:45:55 PM Certainly not, Nathan! A republic would heighten the prevalence of nationalism, which is .....
» 17/10/2015 10:25:47 PM Dear Julian, The terms that you use indicate a narrow perspective, based on contemporary .....
» 16/10/2015 3:05:45 PM Well, one sense of "we" does actually exist here - that collection of all people.....
» 16/10/2015 1:55:03 PM Dear Julian, Your reply indicates that you have not read my last post (or otherwise prefe.....
» 16/10/2015 1:29:32 AM Dear Toni, Riding around in fear with eyes in my back as if I'm a thief is not my cup of .....
» 15/10/2015 7:38:37 PM Dear Julian, Whatever your preference is, you have no right to enforce it on others with .....
» 15/10/2015 6:15:21 PM Dear Bazz, Since you take no interest in my inability to ride a bicycle, which prevents m.....
» 15/10/2015 5:06:12 PM Dear Dan, I am with you on being "in it, but not of it", but I cannot see what .....
» 15/10/2015 4:30:40 PM Dear Julian, The term "representative government" is only introduced in your la.....
» 15/10/2015 2:22:52 PM Dear Doog, <<Muhammad was a military leader>> The prophet Muhammad, peace be.....
» 15/10/2015 1:09:10 PM Dear Julian, So you think that a larger predator at the top of the food chain could help?.....
» 15/10/2015 11:38:04 AM Dear Julian, <<to present Palestine as "terra nullius" and a multinationa.....
» 14/10/2015 9:23:39 AM Thank you very much Don for this excellent article: so true and so depressing - curse on U.....
» 14/10/2015 9:07:36 AM If you are truly serious about any of this - then don't fly, but SWIM to Paris!.....
» 13/10/2015 12:48:14 PM Well it's slightly off-topic, but Doog stated: "Employers are not the most trusted p.....
» 12/10/2015 11:29:59 PM As we all know, the world is flat and stands on the back of a turtle. Now unless ocean-lev.....
» 12/10/2015 11:16:35 PM Dear Faustino, Regarding unconditional welfare, may I refer you to my post: http://forum.....
» 12/10/2015 3:24:44 PM My ideal car would be some 1970's or 1980's model, but NEW. It would obviously be reliable.....
» 12/10/2015 3:13:03 PM Dear Cobber, Obviously I would never support non-free arrangements. Period. If there is .....
» 12/10/2015 12:20:35 PM Dear Critic, << everyone will know they are being treated well and then we wont hav.....
» 12/10/2015 12:07:12 PM The proposed changes are far too minor and still in principle embrace the concept as if it.....
» 12/10/2015 11:35:34 AM Dear Pericles, I have visited many overseas countries, but fortunately the USA is not one.....
» 12/10/2015 9:26:33 AM Well of course there should be no children in detention (in fact nobody should be in deten.....
» 11/10/2015 5:00:15 PM Speaking of welcoming tourists, the way people are treated like criminals the very first t.....
» 9/10/2015 6:32:54 PM Dear David, <<What about Israel remaining Israel, Jordan remaining Jordan , and Isr.....
» 9/10/2015 5:46:26 PM Dear Nathan, Why would an Australian government ever care about these types of situations.....
» 9/10/2015 5:19:33 PM Dear Toni, Whatever exists, is material. Materialism is the belief that matter is importa.....
» 9/10/2015 2:54:14 PM I do not object to a public sector and to public services. On the contrary, I think that e.....
» 9/10/2015 11:08:54 AM Dear Toni, You seem to be obsessed with this question of existence, but that's only becau.....
» 8/10/2015 8:18:59 AM Dear Tony, <<Churches (the organisations, not the buildings) don't just 'promote' r.....
» 8/10/2015 1:50:52 AM Dear David, <<Marxism was a quasi-religion>> Marxism was a horrible thing, b.....
» 7/10/2015 1:36:05 AM Thank you for the information, JustGiveMeALLTheFacts, But rather than chemical pollution,.....
» 7/10/2015 1:30:13 AM Dear Peter, I am happy to take your word that Western society is a product of Christianit.....
» 6/10/2015 12:51:13 PM I second Ttbn......
» 6/10/2015 12:44:35 PM I do not possess the historical resources to even attempt passing judgement as to who or w.....
» 4/10/2015 4:12:45 PM Dear Josephus, The paragraph you quoted is shocking: it suggests "...hormone treatme.....
» 4/10/2015 12:01:50 PM Dear Paul, I agree that there is a problem and I believe that greyhound racing, along wit.....
» 3/10/2015 11:23:29 PM Dear Josephus, I think that David is doing a great job renouncing his material possession.....
» 2/10/2015 12:33:42 PM Dear David, Nevertheless, materialism is harmful and even if you regard it as nonsense, y.....
» 2/10/2015 11:04:00 AM Indeed, Urbanisation, Mickey Mouse and globalisation are leading to more and bigger catast.....
» 2/10/2015 10:20:41 AM Dear David, There is no evidence that either giving in to our instinctual desires or cont.....
» 2/10/2015 4:25:15 AM Dear Tony, Please allow me to explain why spirituality is most relevant to this topic: T.....
» 2/10/2015 4:05:32 AM The dole should be made MORE desirable - not less. The correlation between the money one .....
» 2/10/2015 3:31:27 AM What do this fellows want to progress towards? Perhaps an ant-hill is their ideal model?!.....
» 1/10/2015 5:30:05 AM Dear Tony, Agreed - There's no mystical energy field that controls your destiny. To the e.....
» 1/10/2015 1:03:33 AM Dear Percival, Overall, obese people are generally of a calmer, more peaceful and content.....
» 30/09/2015 10:45:06 PM In 16th-century England, people lost their heads for not being up-to-date with the King's .....
» 30/09/2015 8:15:26 PM Dear David, I feel sad for you for thinking that you are just a body - as well as for oth.....
» 30/09/2015 4:48:29 PM Dear Josephus, The issues you complain about, such as encouraging gender-reassignment, ar.....
» 30/09/2015 3:21:33 PM Nobody is truly godless. Some people centre their life and define themselves around sex w.....
» 30/09/2015 10:16:33 AM Dear Doog, I see no problem with limiting the choices of those who wish to benefit from M.....
» 30/09/2015 10:06:50 AM Dear Killarney, A very good question: The deconstruction of gender became popular becaus.....
» 29/09/2015 11:30:21 PM Dear Toni, I'm afraid you will have to wait for that heroin-article till the cows come ho.....
» 29/09/2015 9:50:44 PM The article is good, but doesn't go deep enough to recognise the root of the problem. The.....
» 25/09/2015 7:27:56 PM This is truly sinister. I rather starve to death than have one of those evil devices (but .....
» 25/09/2015 7:03:44 PM Dear Ttbn, <<It's the mind, not the body, that's the important difference between u.....
» 25/09/2015 4:32:23 PM Human and animal bodies are very similar in biochemical composition and physiological func.....
» 25/09/2015 2:42:18 PM I had to rub my eyes: the author is accusing people of personal morality? is righteousness.....
» 22/09/2015 4:01:46 PM At the brain's level, whether or not the brain recommends and directs our body towards alt.....
» 22/09/2015 12:06:56 AM Allowing us to ride a bicycle on the road rather than in the gym (without having to wear a.....
» 21/09/2015 11:44:17 PM Well said and I agree: it would be good if we had to pay the price of a postal stamp per c.....
» 15/09/2015 7:02:12 AM Dear Peter, Thank you for clarifying: <<I am saying that for most of us, any act o.....
» 14/09/2015 6:29:45 PM Dear Peter, <<We live in a time in which all religion has been removed from us as a.....
» 13/09/2015 11:06:37 PM Dear Peter, <<No one on this thread offers an alternative... Please direct me to a .....
» 11/09/2015 3:52:42 PM What the author failed to mention is that the employees were not allowed to come and colle.....
» 9/09/2015 9:24:03 AM If the choice is between human extinction and increased government controls, then I prompt.....
» 9/09/2015 9:09:58 AM The article points out a case of corruption - the collusion between government and a priva.....
» 9/09/2015 8:32:13 AM Even if natural resources do not end, it is a wonderful dream to live a simpler life in a .....
» 8/09/2015 2:56:19 PM A sin simply means "missing the mark" - aiming above it, below it or to its side.....
» 6/09/2015 8:22:46 AM I have anxiety and depression for not being allowed to ride a bicycle (without a pot over .....
» 6/09/2015 6:58:51 AM Don't assume it's all over - it's a pretty safe bet that they left a Trojan horse or two o.....
» 4/09/2015 8:19:08 PM Dear JBSH, I'm a bit late in this discussion (sorry, no time to visit these days): usuall.....
» 29/08/2015 9:11:33 PM Dear DreamOn, I am referring to a time way before Al-Jazeera existed, way before Palestin.....
» 28/08/2015 2:02:34 PM Dear DreamOn, There is a considerable number of both Jews and Muslims who respectively wo.....
» 28/08/2015 12:18:31 PM Dear DreamOn, Israel should not go for a two-state solution because it likes the Palestin.....
» 27/08/2015 12:38:41 AM I have every respect for homosexual people, but none whatsoever for gays!.....
» 26/08/2015 10:49:28 AM Yes, hopefully we will follow the historical example of Lech Valensa!.....
» 26/08/2015 2:41:37 AM The bottom line is that those who are unwilling to use the Australian public health system.....
» 25/08/2015 3:29:58 PM I believe it's a case of coercion. The corporations in question are mostly American and U.....
» 24/08/2015 2:42:51 PM Amen, Alon......
» 24/08/2015 10:32:40 AM Homosexual marriage itself is a petty issue not worth our time. But the author's greater .....
» 23/08/2015 11:01:25 PM Dear Jay, So government is trying to ease its bad conscience about the way they hijack pe.....
» 23/08/2015 10:53:02 PM Dear Foxy, <<They just want to be able to marry each other>> They are able a.....
» 23/08/2015 1:58:43 PM Dear Phanto, I do not believe that politicians, or anyone else for that matter, have a ri.....
» 23/08/2015 10:52:35 AM In order to maintain such huge and unprecedented numbers, mankind had to resort to tons of.....
» 19/08/2015 10:35:11 PM Dear Observer, For your information, the norm that made Sodom so notorious was not homose.....
» 19/08/2015 4:46:49 PM Dear Rhian, First, I have nothing against homosexuals and though equality is not my cup o.....
» 19/08/2015 3:33:38 PM Dear Cobber, <<what logical reason do we stop same sex couples the right to marry?&.....
» 19/08/2015 12:21:07 PM I understand that you want to minimise the damage, Paul, but why have a Prime Minister in .....
» 19/08/2015 12:17:07 PM Worse, some of the victims are not even asylum-seekers, but innocent passengers that were .....
» 19/08/2015 11:15:44 AM Great article, thanks! Dear Rhrosty, Are you claiming that there is a circuit in the hum.....
» 18/08/2015 1:03:11 PM It is a commended charitable activity to fight Daesh as well as Boko Haram, so it is shoul.....
» 18/08/2015 10:16:05 AM Dear Poirot, <<support for marriage equality has ceased to be a minority issue beca.....
» 18/08/2015 9:51:41 AM The elephant in the room is the very existence of flags and anthems, promoting the poison .....
» 18/08/2015 12:39:13 AM Dear Bazz, You are obviously correct, yet this "global warming" nonsense is par.....
» 17/08/2015 11:56:06 PM Dear O Sung Wu, I hope you had a good night. You wrote: "it's just a matter of time.....
» 17/08/2015 3:44:48 PM (...continued) Regarding your last question about about homosexuality and marriage - it's.....
» 17/08/2015 3:44:44 PM Dear O Sung Wu, Your first set of questions can be split into a material aspect and a spi.....
» 15/08/2015 10:37:57 PM Dear O Sung Wu, While like you I hate to see morality decline, governments cannot and mus.....
» 15/08/2015 7:24:21 PM Thank you, Nathan - Let us pray for better times......
» 15/08/2015 7:18:04 PM Dear Ponder, <<Religions all hold some fantasy being as the boss of life. None proc.....
» 14/08/2015 10:39:03 AM Dear Peter, I appreciate your enthusiasm in calling those who are weary and walking in th.....
» 14/08/2015 8:54:11 AM Vae Victis!.....
» 13/08/2015 3:36:53 PM Dear Cobber, I did not claim that the only thing holding me from raping and killing is my.....
» 13/08/2015 12:17:22 PM Submitting to God is the most wonderful thing - so long as you submit yourself and not oth.....
» 13/08/2015 9:25:38 AM Indeed, goodness cannot make sense without a spiritual foundation. However, spirituality .....
» 12/08/2015 10:28:20 PM Dear Rehctub, Nothing will end this debate because what drives it is anger and hatred. Ev.....
» 12/08/2015 8:48:59 PM Dear Phanto, But is it reasonable to have a secular state bless personal relationships an.....
» 11/08/2015 9:55:25 PM Dear SM, That's all nice and well for those who want to and can use Uber. There is certai.....
» 11/08/2015 11:13:50 AM Dear Rhrosty, <<Equality in marriage would finally recognize in law the fact that t.....
» 11/08/2015 10:51:50 AM Dear Rehctub, The "commercial rego" is a minor technicality, costing a few doll.....
» 11/08/2015 10:10:23 AM Dear Rehctub, <<But at the end of the day this is as much about the moral issue>.....
» 11/08/2015 10:03:46 AM Don't meddle with the Marriage Act - REPEAL IT!.....
» 11/08/2015 9:54:59 AM "We put trust in our elected representatives to govern and spend our money in our bes.....
» 11/08/2015 9:45:14 AM 1. The human brain, unique as it is, is designed for the survival of the human race, not f.....
» 10/08/2015 6:36:02 PM Dear Joe, I also admire and support the Kurdish people and wish them to live in peace and.....
» 10/08/2015 5:03:15 PM Dear David, Certainly, nobody wants to find themselves in a place where the rules are mad.....
» 9/08/2015 10:50:24 PM Dear Rehctub, Better have those entitlements lull them to sleep and do not harm. Every da.....
» 9/08/2015 10:42:01 PM Dear Cherful, What you write is sadly true. Such churches have become part of the state .....
» 9/08/2015 10:27:43 PM Dear Rhrosty, So you find it acceptable for religious people to be taxed in order to prov.....
» 9/08/2015 10:09:19 PM The wrong question is being asked: It's not about "allowing uber to operate", i.....
» 8/08/2015 8:14:18 PM Dear Cherful, Religion is always about bringing oneself closer to God - not others. Reli.....
» 7/08/2015 2:22:24 PM Dear OnTheBeach, I accept your argument about teaching Islam, but how is this particular .....
» 7/08/2015 11:43:09 AM Worldliness is a personal insanity to be practiced privately - No sane or rational person .....
» 6/08/2015 6:42:14 PM While I feel sorry for him, I find it foolish to do what Assange did, to risk his life so .....
» 6/08/2015 1:34:08 PM Indeed, Critic: Australia is a continent, so it should focus on producing more and better.....
» 6/08/2015 12:52:57 PM Revolution in Australia, Aussieboy? No problem mate, but first you need certification, a .....
» 6/08/2015 12:24:03 PM The most effective method I know of to free the North-Korean people from their rule of ter.....
» 6/08/2015 8:58:01 AM "we could all feel that we, who are living now, had done something worthwhile in our .....
» 5/08/2015 11:36:53 PM Dear Dan, Even within science there exist seeming inconsistencies, such as between relati.....
» 5/08/2015 11:18:20 PM All Industrial-Relations laws and regulations, including minimum-wage and penalty-rates, s.....
» 5/08/2015 9:48:37 PM Dear Suse, Personally I have no inclination to swim in a shark-infested beach, in fact it.....
» 4/08/2015 10:09:14 PM Dear Suse, You mistake this to be a personal matter of mine. While I am personally comfo.....
» 4/08/2015 9:10:55 PM Dear Rehctub, Why should organised sports be an exception and be paid by those who are no.....
» 4/08/2015 8:54:11 PM Both the authors of this article and the book it reviews cannot be taken seriously because.....
» 4/08/2015 8:36:15 PM There is too much stress on gender and sexuality: society considers it over-important, unn.....
» 4/08/2015 2:26:39 PM Dear Dan, Certainly, the heavens (lit. "sky" or "there-water") are te.....
» 3/08/2015 1:00:39 PM It's all true, but how long will you keep depressing us, Alon, about those things which ar.....
» 3/08/2015 10:48:46 AM Equality does not exist in nature, but that aside I find it strange that the presumably-re.....
» 2/08/2015 6:19:19 PM There are no "authorities" because no contract was ever signed between that surf.....
» 31/07/2015 5:16:38 PM Not a new bank - a very old one!.....
» 30/07/2015 1:12:56 PM Dear David, I like your last reply to Peter, it's excellent. The sentence "You are .....
» 30/07/2015 12:23:31 PM Dear Tiffy, I find several faults in Ayn Rand's teachings and I have no clue who the othe.....
» 30/07/2015 9:28:54 AM "If infanticide is murder, as it is, abortion is murder. So abortion is not only mora.....
» 30/07/2015 2:30:25 AM Regardless of my personal views, whereby science is a spoiler of faith and should thus be .....
» 29/07/2015 10:36:16 PM Dear Tiffy, <<I'd like to encourage the young lady who wrote this to not be upset i.....
» 29/07/2015 10:04:54 PM Dear David, <<The driver is not part of the car>> Nor am I a part of my body.....
» 29/07/2015 10:19:49 AM Dear David, Our bodies are part of nature. It is only due to identifying ourselves with .....
» 29/07/2015 10:02:35 AM You may give up YOUR freedom, Amy, not mine and please do not include me in your stupid no.....
» 28/07/2015 11:42:49 PM I find this discussion about values fascinating! On the one hand, I agree that there are .....
» 27/07/2015 4:22:15 PM Dear Rhrosty, <<we can't scream abusive obscene invective from our front yard at pa.....
» 27/07/2015 6:45:39 AM There is no reason why a public (i.e. a group of people) should be forced to tolerate offe.....
» 26/07/2015 8:15:20 PM Somehow what started in the article as a moral discussion, has now deteriorated into legal.....
» 24/07/2015 5:33:30 PM Dear Peter, Being a Hindu by religion, teaching Christian ethics has not even crossed my .....
» 24/07/2015 12:44:42 PM What makes the destruction of bodies most times wrong - be they young or old, others' or o.....
» 22/07/2015 10:30:43 AM We are not responsible for the acts of God, nor for the acts of other men - but we are res.....
» 22/07/2015 10:13:02 AM With the world already exploding with the burden of humans, why should the public have to .....
» 21/07/2015 1:38:46 PM Dear Foyle, Yes, if parents are unable to pay for their own mistakes then their children .....
» 21/07/2015 10:20:47 AM "Public servants" receive each about 10 times as a welfare-recipient - and that .....
» 21/07/2015 9:47:41 AM Very much so, Paul - tax is the nature of the beast. We cannot refuse to pay taxes, but w.....
» 21/07/2015 1:50:49 AM Dear Aidan, People who are outside the protection of the law (if even there is any law) a.....
» 20/07/2015 7:27:30 PM Dear Aidan, Had there been no laws, then there couldn't also be any outlaws! But I do as.....
» 20/07/2015 6:23:50 PM What's so precious about free speech? What's so special and sacred about talking, loudly,.....
» 20/07/2015 3:39:31 PM Dear Pericles, Personally I am not a Christian and do not believe in the "young-eart.....
» 20/07/2015 3:01:57 PM Dear Aidan, I was not discussing the benefits or otherwise of having a state. Lets assum.....
» 20/07/2015 2:12:12 PM Dear Critic, The whole idea of democracy is ridiculous, as arbitrary as any other regime......
» 17/07/2015 12:39:45 PM If we find it acceptable that some people may control others against their will, then why .....
» 17/07/2015 12:35:19 PM Dear Banjo, Seeing how long it takes and how difficult it is for people to quit smoking a.....
» 16/07/2015 1:16:47 PM The author is obsessed with doing the impossible - to "save lives". If "li.....
» 16/07/2015 12:44:33 PM Dear Pericles, <<To reject the entire body of science involved, in favour of the si.....
» 16/07/2015 11:10:33 AM Religion is not about explaining the world, but about transcending that illusion as if the.....
» 16/07/2015 9:28:54 AM --- Honour thy father and thy mother that thy days may be lengthened upon the land which t.....
» 14/07/2015 4:51:20 PM Dear Pericles, I don't think that Dan rejected thousands of other explanations - he simpl.....
» 14/07/2015 10:21:29 AM This discussion seems to revolve around the idea that "I think that he who approaches.....
» 14/07/2015 12:32:51 AM Dear Phanto, <<the government in a democracy is representative of a majority of the.....
» 13/07/2015 10:43:06 PM Sounds true and reasonable that "what they are really seeking is an affirmation from .....
» 13/07/2015 3:31:26 PM Aggrandising your profession, Patricia? Truly believing that "In the beginning the Me.....
» 13/07/2015 3:01:00 PM Dear Peter, <<We need to listen as well to the voice of the modern age, especially .....
» 13/07/2015 9:00:19 AM Dear David, Other than feeling miserable and desperate, I find it difficult to imagine or.....
» 12/07/2015 2:13:22 PM Dear David, Neither do I have a desire to commit crimes, nor do most people, but temptati.....
» 11/07/2015 11:55:34 PM (sorry, my last post was in the wrongly posted here - should have been in "Reasons fo.....
» 11/07/2015 11:53:55 PM The author acknowledges that this topic is highly emotional, but then tries to calm us dow.....
» 11/07/2015 11:49:34 PM The author acknowledges that this topic is highly emotional, but then tries to calm us dow.....
» 11/07/2015 10:46:40 PM "I am glad to say that emphasis on the afterlife is waning in most churches and in sc.....
» 10/07/2015 10:55:48 AM Dear Suse, <<If we don't, are we any better than the terrorist governments etc that.....
» 9/07/2015 7:59:51 PM We have way too many people employed in jobs that do no increase our overall happiness, so.....
» 9/07/2015 7:35:50 PM Dear Rhian, But why not receive the whole $1,600,000 rather than $1,440,000? Birds who f.....
» 9/07/2015 12:56:49 PM Dear BJelly, <<Australians have been subjected to an concerted propaganda campaign .....
» 8/07/2015 6:35:01 PM Dear Runner, There is no such "homosexual lobby". There are people out there, .....
» 8/07/2015 2:24:24 PM Dear Joe, <<Similarly, why the stage of payment to smugglers and getting on leaky b.....
» 8/07/2015 12:30:45 PM Excellent questions, Carz - thank you! <<The Kleins have not been asked to enter in.....
» 8/07/2015 11:29:43 AM I have warned the religious members in this forum time and again: No religious freedom is.....
» 8/07/2015 10:17:41 AM Network bandwidth is not an issue and should not be used as an excuse against working from.....
» 7/07/2015 5:31:25 PM Dear McCackie, <<I am proud that we no longer kill ongoing hundreds of people on th.....
» 7/07/2015 10:34:05 AM There is nothing to say about "national character" because there isn't and never.....
» 6/07/2015 3:16:50 PM Dear Runner, <<Personally I have lived a blessed life but realise that my grandchil.....
» 5/07/2015 2:13:51 PM Welcome Kaichen, There is some sense in your ideas. However, souls are not part of human.....
» 5/07/2015 9:51:52 AM It doesn't help to refer to every homosexual person as "gay" - only a minority m.....
» 4/07/2015 10:47:23 PM Dear Bazz, <<Yuyutsu, are there any references in Jewish histories to the attacks o.....
» 3/07/2015 5:24:00 PM Dear Hippie, What Spencer claims is not only that the Koran is not the words of Allah - b.....
» 3/07/2015 5:16:17 PM My candidate is Diogenes, the Greek. He never considered himself to be a hero, or in fact.....
» 3/07/2015 5:11:28 PM It's a certainty: it may happen sooner or it may happen later, but eventually humans will .....
» 3/07/2015 2:04:05 PM Dear Hippie, I base my view on the vast research of Robert Spencer. He has written severa.....
» 3/07/2015 1:30:16 PM Dear Hippie, Regarding your quote from Jerry Coyne: Whether the brain is deterministic o.....
» 3/07/2015 12:28:17 PM The naive author believes the Muslim terrorists as if the Koran and Hadith have anything t.....
» 2/07/2015 11:04:34 AM Dear Suse, <<I believe a human worked this out all by himself.>> How wonderf.....
» 2/07/2015 1:14:56 AM Dear Suse, Are you suggesting to do away with the superstitious law of gravity? Good luck.....
» 1/07/2015 10:03:04 AM Dear Craig, <<Funny that some seem not to want a rule of law at all.>> Why? .....
» 1/07/2015 9:46:32 AM It means nothing! There are people who like to assert themselves over others by force. Th.....
» 1/07/2015 12:05:54 AM Dear Foxy, 1. "Should older women be allowed to marry younger men?" Absolutely.....
» 30/06/2015 8:35:24 AM Dear LEGO, <<Yuyutsu from memory was always taking the humanitarian role>> I.....
» 30/06/2015 8:23:38 AM ...Or instead you could cool the earth - here is a way: tie a long rope between Jupiter an.....
» 30/06/2015 8:11:36 AM Dear Joe, <<I look forward to the day when I can buy Israeli goods in any store.>.....
» 29/06/2015 4:20:44 PM Regardless of the motivation behind, this labelling-requirement is good news for Europeans.....
» 29/06/2015 2:53:25 PM In a country like Australia where marriage has practically no legal/financial/custodial im.....
» 29/06/2015 2:00:30 PM Dear David F., <<I regard anyone who professes or practices a religious faith as re.....
» 29/06/2015 1:50:44 AM Dear BJelly, I think you are too optimistic: Suppose we do all know that children are ab.....
» 29/06/2015 12:39:55 AM But why do we need to know what they do over there in the detention centres? We can safely.....
» 28/06/2015 9:10:21 PM Dear David F., <<I don’t believe God ever said anything. The God in any religion is.....
» 28/06/2015 12:31:32 PM Dear David F., <<That is precisely the reason I find religion a dangerous and destr.....
» 26/06/2015 5:18:24 PM Dear Foxy, The questions (1) and its opposite (1a) are simply two different ways to ask t.....
» 26/06/2015 2:50:48 PM Dear SM, What kind of excuse is "It's not me - it's the guy with the patch on the ot.....
» 26/06/2015 2:29:18 PM Dear Foxy, Perhaps it may help you to decide if you note that there are two different que.....
» 26/06/2015 8:48:14 AM I agree with the author: Nothing gives me a right to know what other people are doing, in.....
» 25/06/2015 6:01:14 PM Whether you like them or not, why are the people in question called "asylum seekers&q.....
» 25/06/2015 4:42:51 PM Dear Hippie, <<The detainees that choose to go home are offered tax payer funded fl.....
» 25/06/2015 2:47:07 PM Yes, you seem to be onto something important here, Peter. According to Hinduism, life con.....
» 25/06/2015 1:15:51 AM Dear Hasbeen, How can they leave if their boats were taken away? At the moment they were .....
» 24/06/2015 9:49:45 PM Dear Jardine, Kellie indeed does the refugees a stupid disservice by speaking of their &q.....
» 24/06/2015 9:01:32 PM Does the author realise where the problem starts? It starts with the obligations of the r.....
» 24/06/2015 1:58:53 PM Dear David, You and the other David (Singer) must be good friends because you are both be.....
» 24/06/2015 1:06:38 PM Dear Pete, I know the middle east, thus Israel is and will remain armed to its teeth. Co.....
» 24/06/2015 11:00:05 AM Why bar the worst? I would bar the best and let the worst drink themselves to death!.....
» 24/06/2015 8:58:29 AM Dear Kactuz, One can have inner peace even if one's enemy does not want it. Nothing Isra.....
» 23/06/2015 3:07:55 PM Dear Brian, I never claimed that homosexuals have anything to do with this, or that they .....
» 23/06/2015 2:02:03 PM Dear Brian, I already answered your question, but you seem to ignore my answer. Do you k.....
» 22/06/2015 3:06:54 PM The question is wrong because the default is that people are allowed to do whatever they l.....
» 22/06/2015 2:19:33 PM Dear Craig, No doubt that population density creates new challenges that require modifica.....
» 22/06/2015 10:01:53 AM Thank you Alon, a true lover of Israel - may God strengthen you......
» 21/06/2015 10:12:41 PM Dear Craig, It is true that any right must have concomitant obligations, but how does it .....
» 21/06/2015 8:14:06 PM Dear Tony, <<These days slavery is just not illegal in Western civilisation: it is .....
» 20/06/2015 11:51:25 PM Dear Craig, You want to advance human rights... at the expense of other people's freedoms.....
» 19/06/2015 3:13:20 PM Dear Platt, For the time-being at least, the notion of sin is free of charge and for the .....
» 19/06/2015 12:45:26 PM What right has anyone to dictate what others may or may not purchase? If certain devices .....
» 19/06/2015 12:41:33 PM GET OUT OF MY LIFE, YOU BASTARDS! Whether I can see or not within my own dwelling, or eve.....
» 19/06/2015 12:20:09 PM The Green Line is Israel's border, to which it must return as the only way to save itself .....
» 18/06/2015 10:31:09 PM Dear Phanto, <<If the law is changed to include same-sex couples will same-sex hete.....
» 18/06/2015 1:36:27 PM Those who read my posts know that I oppose the presence of Australia's navy near Indonesia.....
» 18/06/2015 1:26:42 PM You can't strike terror unless people know about your crimes, hence the biggest terrorists.....
» 18/06/2015 12:57:15 PM Superannuation is a disaster. It is based on the assumption that ordinary working people .....
» 18/06/2015 12:07:53 PM Dear Brian, As far as I read and understand, nobody here believes or claims that permitti.....
» 18/06/2015 9:07:18 AM Any cause whatsoever can be sandwiched in De Gaulle. Had the author's teacher not requeste.....
» 17/06/2015 8:58:46 PM Dear Suse, If you sing in a choir or play in an orchestra, then you have very little free.....
» 17/06/2015 7:26:58 PM Dear Phanto, The city of Sodom, we are told, had a law: if you have a guest, then you mus.....
» 17/06/2015 3:59:56 PM Dear O Sung Wu, May I have a go at this tough, almost unfair question? "How would y.....
» 17/06/2015 3:38:57 PM Dear Phanto, <<I think you are saying that you should have the right to refuse serv.....
» 17/06/2015 2:52:07 PM Pretty deep, Xavier - but it goes even deeper: So citizenship is meant to safeguard human.....
» 17/06/2015 1:54:25 PM Thanks Plantagenet for this funny clip. So much effort to defend indefensible values. Th.....
» 17/06/2015 10:19:33 AM Dear Trevor, <<Anyone who asserts 'live as I think you should' might be bigoted. An.....
» 17/06/2015 12:43:36 AM Dear Phanto, Good, then we agree that we are discussing different problems. I am not ask.....
» 16/06/2015 8:45:16 PM Dear Phanto, EXACTLY. It LOOKS like I have another agenda, but actually I don't and unfor.....
» 16/06/2015 4:00:57 PM Dear Raycom, Do Catholic schools in Canada accept government funds? If so, then they dese.....
» 16/06/2015 2:42:25 PM "We'll all see the results and outcomes soon enough." Some Indonesian officials.....
» 16/06/2015 2:17:33 PM Dear Phanto, <<Well I think the problem I describe encompasses yours. If my problem.....
» 16/06/2015 9:13:55 AM Dear Peter, Are economics really more important than the suffering and harm done to flesh.....
» 15/06/2015 11:49:57 PM Dear Foxy, <<The law if after all the bedrock of our society today.>> Imposi.....
» 15/06/2015 11:15:41 PM Dear Rehctub, <<the queers don't want compromise they want us to change our ways to.....
» 15/06/2015 7:02:29 PM Dear Phanto, What you describe is an additional problem. Thanks for pointing that out, b.....
» 15/06/2015 6:07:57 PM Dear Craig, If I allow others to coerce others in my name, then I would have to live with.....
» 15/06/2015 1:27:22 PM Dear Craig, The idea as if some people (i.e. the state and those representing it) have a .....
» 15/06/2015 10:08:23 AM It becomes clearer that the problem is not same-sex marriage, but the anti-discrimination .....
» 15/06/2015 12:49:01 AM Dear Aidan, <<Yuyutsu, you seem to believe having people here with no legal status .....
» 14/06/2015 11:52:51 PM Dear Foxy, Sounds great: "nobody should be treated differently from anybody else bec.....
» 14/06/2015 11:19:10 PM Dear David, <<Religious faith breeds ignorance of science, history and philosophy.&.....
» 14/06/2015 6:41:39 PM Dear David, You are correct: <<Faith breeds ignorance.>> Indeed, faith bree.....
» 14/06/2015 5:35:58 PM Dear Aidan, <<Yuyutsu, economic migrants are unlikely to be after handouts, as the .....
» 14/06/2015 10:02:32 AM Dear Craig, I'm neither a Christian, nor opposing marriage equality, hence I'm probably n.....
» 14/06/2015 9:53:52 AM Dear Paul, Perhaps this slip-of-tongue of yours says it all: <<However I believe t.....
» 14/06/2015 9:26:06 AM Dear Craig, The harm is in expanding a government function. This means more public-servan.....
» 14/06/2015 1:03:04 AM Dear Pericles, <<Hardly the state of mind that would respond to a threat of "b.....
» 14/06/2015 12:43:21 AM Well, it is immoral to pay others to hurt and cheat. Relatively however, it is not as imm.....
» 14/06/2015 12:21:40 AM Thank you, Raycom, It is indeed my feeling that there is no authentic movement of homosex.....
» 13/06/2015 11:09:24 PM Dear David, Thank you for all your kind and interesting comments! While I agree with man.....
» 13/06/2015 10:14:24 PM Dear Pericles, I obviously cannot speak for Peter, but as to why "...insistence on t.....
» 12/06/2015 9:39:31 AM Dear Paul, <<the right for all working people, regardless of where they reside, to .....
» 12/06/2015 8:57:45 AM What a shame that the high court even accepted this case and that 3 high-court judges were.....
» 12/06/2015 12:58:23 AM Dear Collin, <<Clearly you have no concept of anything related to our industrial re.....
» 11/06/2015 11:15:14 PM Allah ybarek lak, Grateful!.....
» 11/06/2015 5:52:41 PM Asking Palestinians to recognise a Jewish state is too emotionally loaded, like showing re.....
» 11/06/2015 1:13:19 PM Please save us the medical details, Kerri: even if cannabis could produce the elixir of im.....
» 11/06/2015 12:42:18 PM Dear Rehctub, <<What happens if a church chooses not to marry them>> One pos.....
» 11/06/2015 12:03:08 PM Dear Critic, I wonder how much of your life was wasted watching ads, perhaps even months .....
» 11/06/2015 11:47:51 AM Dear David, This is why I was very careful to state that my gut-feeling (which has not ch.....
» 11/06/2015 1:27:28 AM Dear Tony, Like a cake without sugar (or other sweeteners), a garden without plants or a .....
» 10/06/2015 9:18:13 PM Dear David, I thought that this thread was about freedom of religion, not about homosexua.....
» 10/06/2015 6:39:19 PM I understand the desperation, Alon, but all the possible talking has already been futile -.....
» 10/06/2015 3:02:05 PM Dear Is Mise, Who ever claimed that the lot of those who serve the devil should be a happ.....
» 10/06/2015 12:22:01 PM What good can there be if even more people find jobs that contribute nothing to our overal.....
» 10/06/2015 10:32:09 AM Dear Runner, <<That obviously is the outcome that the god deniers want.>> Th.....
» 10/06/2015 10:30:38 AM "The gay rights lobby will do whatever it takes to legislate same-sex marriage, even .....
» 8/06/2015 12:46:45 PM Police are not there to protect you and me - they are there to serve their patrons, the go.....
» 5/06/2015 10:11:45 AM There is a lesson to learn from this gay uprising and bullying: as you sow, so shall you r.....
» 4/06/2015 1:50:22 PM Dear David, If one follows an entity such as the god of the Bible because they believe He.....
» 4/06/2015 9:28:49 AM "The irony of course is that in 2015 the major problem now facing many OECD governmen.....
» 4/06/2015 12:56:24 AM "If you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear"... In 16th-century Engla.....
» 4/06/2015 12:40:47 AM Dear David, <<It is not my imagination that created God.>> True, but it is y.....
» 3/06/2015 11:56:03 PM Dear George, A hotelier is firstly an individual, only then a hotelier: it is wrong to co.....
» 3/06/2015 7:25:12 PM Dear Jay, Indeed, I know a number of homosexual people, none of which to the best of my k.....
» 3/06/2015 7:12:52 PM Dear David, <<Waste one's precious life in pursuit of an imaginary entity?>> .....
» 3/06/2015 2:01:33 PM Dear David, By "such practice" I referred to the discrimination of employers ag.....
» 3/06/2015 11:33:52 AM Dear David, <<I do not think homosexuals should be discriminated in employment wher.....
» 3/06/2015 10:56:34 AM How pathetic! People in their 60's, 70's and 80's, yet still haven't learned their lesson.....
» 2/06/2015 1:13:26 PM Dear Rhrosty, Had such a bill-of-rights as you propose been established, then it would se.....
» 2/06/2015 10:43:02 AM <<So being expected to do your job is 'bullying'?>> Certainly. Being expected.....
» 1/06/2015 6:56:06 PM Dear Planatgenet, Care to explain what the "problems" are and why fixing them s.....
» 1/06/2015 10:01:23 AM Salutations, I 100% agree!.....
» 31/05/2015 6:04:55 PM Dear Rhrosty, Your interest in helping the poor in poorer countries is commendable: God b.....
» 31/05/2015 5:15:53 PM Dear Shockadelic, Slavery has been around for millennia and was taken for granted. Only a.....
» 31/05/2015 10:14:35 AM "Nah ! I think I will keep the plastic." I won't have either!.....
» 31/05/2015 1:04:13 AM Dear Shockadelic, <<And we are such a society.>> Not so, because the vast ma.....
» 30/05/2015 9:08:42 PM Dear Hasbeen, <<We could relocate 80% of them into a ring around the outer suburbs&.....
» 30/05/2015 8:58:26 PM Dear Jonathan, <<Or are you hinting at a novel idea of treating ALL taxpayers the s.....
» 30/05/2015 7:49:10 PM Dear Ttbn, <<We have the LEGAL right to stop them before they get here. Morals are .....
» 29/05/2015 5:12:50 PM Dear Ttbn, <<useless people who expect to be provided with money, given housing, me.....
» 29/05/2015 2:25:05 PM Think about the Titanic: there were not enough life-boats, so those in life-boats pushed a.....
» 29/05/2015 11:20:29 AM Yes, I've also been saying this for ages. I'd go a step further: government should not in.....
» 29/05/2015 12:57:58 AM Dear Eric, All the more so - if Dawkins' book is just an analogy and the genes do not act.....
» 28/05/2015 4:56:37 PM Dear Julian, <<Who in this thread, or known about to anyone in this thread, is pers.....
» 28/05/2015 8:47:55 AM Dear Eric, As you say, it's all biology. Biology is driven by genes, which are selfish m.....
» 27/05/2015 8:15:44 PM It started with tattoos and piercings - apparently being born in the image of God is not e.....
» 27/05/2015 7:42:59 PM Dear Arjay, <<Join a group like the CEC who have a policy of Govt owned banks.>&.....
» 27/05/2015 7:30:35 PM Dear Julian, <<I'm puzzled about all the hoo-ha over recognition of same sex marria.....
» 27/05/2015 7:04:15 PM Dear Banjo, <<Well I disagree strongly with you.>> I can tolerate that. <.....
» 27/05/2015 2:15:31 PM Dear Cobber, <<"In fact, most homosexuals are not gays." What?>> M.....
» 27/05/2015 1:08:54 PM Dear Foxy, Nobody could hold, let alone follow, hard as they may try, those "Austral.....
» 27/05/2015 11:54:16 AM Dear Rhrosty, You are straying way off the topic: [off-topic] <<If it wasn't in G.....
» 27/05/2015 10:41:21 AM The day participation in society becomes voluntary, such society could dictate whatever la.....
» 27/05/2015 1:08:48 AM Dear Arjay, <<Get your head out of the sand.>> Why? Can you or I do anything.....
» 26/05/2015 5:49:06 PM Dear Arjay, <<Just remember, inflation gets created as debt by the banking system a.....
» 25/05/2015 2:05:16 PM The author has indeed a reason for alarm: "parents in Massachusetts have been denied.....
» 25/05/2015 1:33:08 PM What about inflation? Why not count it - it is a tax on savings! The government uses the .....
» 24/05/2015 11:34:57 PM Dear Jay, <<Of course it's the fault always lies with the child taking the drug, no.....
» 23/05/2015 9:46:57 PM Rubbish jobs are clean - after all someone has to remove the rubbish or disease would spre.....
» 23/05/2015 8:55:50 PM Dear Jay, <<Chinese international students dealing methamphetamine at our children'.....
» 23/05/2015 8:29:40 PM Dear Ttbn, The prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, was not an idiot - he was a saint and.....
» 22/05/2015 11:19:22 AM His Holiness acted wisely in the best interests of Israel and against the interests of its.....
» 22/05/2015 11:09:44 AM I think we can all agree that killing babies is immoral. But what has the state to do wit.....
» 22/05/2015 10:20:42 AM Well said, Valerie, This is the age-old advice - "Don't be selfish", but tellin.....
» 21/05/2015 9:51:53 PM Dear Jay, <<The damage done to the world by Islam in 1400 years of relentless hosti.....
» 21/05/2015 5:49:14 PM Dear George, <<Whatever Western philosophy school you approve of, it was probably i.....
» 21/05/2015 12:36:41 PM Dear Rhrosty, <<Surely this power mad man, would get into bed with the devil>>.....
» 21/05/2015 1:35:44 AM Dear Thinkabit, You mentioned 4 properties of science which are to be similar to religion.....
» 20/05/2015 7:49:04 PM Dear Thinkabit, While the belief in science is irrational, that doesn't qualify it as a r.....
» 20/05/2015 7:27:19 PM Dear Graham Young, Following Banjo's comment, I like to say that I enjoy Peter's articles.....
» 20/05/2015 9:33:40 AM If ever Hippie's suggestion is accepted, whose cruelty knows no end, no Abbott would be ab.....
» 19/05/2015 4:08:26 PM Dear Hippie, <<Yuyutsu, why do you describe providing disciplined training that pot.....
» 19/05/2015 1:51:52 PM We can only pray that the Prince will grow up and wisen, realising that it's not right to .....
» 18/05/2015 6:00:00 PM Dear Ybgirp, "Cogito Ergo Sum" is in error: "I dance, therefore those leg.....
» 18/05/2015 5:22:47 PM The author has no right to call himself a "terrorist" or even mention that word .....
» 18/05/2015 2:17:25 PM Congratulations, Peter - this is a deep and great article. I fully agree......
» 18/05/2015 1:56:48 PM Dear Banjo, Obviously you know better than anyone what your calling is. Earlier I wrote:.....
» 18/05/2015 10:07:28 AM Dear OnTheBeach, <<However, you will have an open border and an open chequebook. Wo.....
» 18/05/2015 8:50:41 AM Thank you Alon for describing the sad situation in Israel as it is. However, saying that .....
» 17/05/2015 1:53:56 PM Dear Banjo, I am also inclined to agree with Camus. You are completely correct. Some peo.....
» 17/05/2015 12:11:32 AM Dear Banjo, What a beautiful story! Now that you realised that God does not exist, you a.....
» 16/05/2015 10:44:08 PM Thank you, Banjo, If indeed actions such as the burial of the dead were performed by the .....
» 16/05/2015 10:21:46 PM Above all, do no harm. Though commendable, no one should be required to sacrifice their e.....
» 15/05/2015 1:36:34 PM The title, “Man Is the Extension of Woman: Know the Ultimate Truth about Yourself” is misl.....
» 15/05/2015 1:27:39 PM Dear BJelly, <<but surely it shouldn't be illegal to report on government or corpor.....
» 15/05/2015 11:51:03 AM Dear BJelly, <<There is something that is worse than censoring opposing views and t.....
» 15/05/2015 10:11:34 AM Dear Pericles, <<Which is why any discussion with you is completely impossible.>.....
» 14/05/2015 7:48:21 PM ... Let me try to help you with your letter to Dan: <<What does the intellectual p.....
» 14/05/2015 7:48:16 PM Dear Pericles, Thank you - I realise that what I wrote requires much more elabouration if.....
» 14/05/2015 4:53:08 PM Late to this thread, I've read "The Pitchforks" - thank you David. I am not an .....
» 14/05/2015 4:13:37 PM Dear Phanto, It was never my intention to comment about your level of ability, but about .....
» 14/05/2015 1:51:43 PM Dear Phanto, The bone is indeed too large for either of us, but I have not swallowed this.....
» 14/05/2015 12:45:26 PM Dear Phanto, Thinkabit just took some of the words out of my mouth. (Thanks, Thinkabit!) .....
» 14/05/2015 11:29:31 AM Dear Hippie, <<If private owners refuse to rent to a party with a bad reputation th.....
» 14/05/2015 8:59:04 AM Dear Luca, Indeed most of them should, but not by the state or its government. Then what.....
» 14/05/2015 8:49:44 AM What is wrong, Luca, is the concept of penalty, rather than the details......
» 14/05/2015 8:37:37 AM Dear Luca, I agree, the borders to the continent of Australia should be open, but not the.....
» 14/05/2015 8:27:38 AM What is wrong about gay marriage, as proposed, Luca, is that it would expand a government .....
» 14/05/2015 12:24:20 AM So what's the problem with letting those people in, but without social rights or benefits?.....
» 13/05/2015 11:57:31 PM Yes, frugality is the key to dignity, towards stopping being a slave to the whims and dict.....
» 13/05/2015 9:00:15 PM Dear Pericles, Indeed, I probably wouldn't call the cave-man's desire to understand the b.....
» 12/05/2015 8:49:53 PM Dear Pericles, <<At least you are able to accept that "existence" substan.....
» 12/05/2015 4:16:19 PM Dear David, I don't know how the [so-called] Palestinians can be helped with their intern.....
» 12/05/2015 8:12:22 AM Dear Pericles, For me YOU SEEM to worship existence because you talk about it incessantly.....
» 11/05/2015 10:54:19 PM Dear O Sung Wu, If I may improve on your suggestion, perhaps people should be called to t.....
» 11/05/2015 7:06:41 PM Dear Pericles, Obviously, for worldly success, or even just survival, one needs some know.....
» 11/05/2015 1:58:18 PM Some love Israel, some hate it, but why does the author so bitterly hates the poor kingdom.....
» 11/05/2015 10:43:02 AM Dear O Sung Wu, You are contradicting yourself: If they depend on the government for the.....
» 10/05/2015 10:52:16 PM Dear Pericles, <<But only in the sense that you do not dislike deists, that you wou.....
» 10/05/2015 6:27:11 PM Dear Warmair, Let me assure you that party politics is the last thing I care about. What .....
» 10/05/2015 5:50:27 PM Dear Pete, There are no national rights above and beyond the sum of rights which the indi.....
» 10/05/2015 2:26:43 PM Dear Pete, "International law", as the name suggests, is based on agreements be.....
» 10/05/2015 2:06:07 PM Dear Warmair, <<If I believed in prayers,then my prayers would be for the world to .....
» 10/05/2015 12:40:45 AM If indeed global warming occurs, along with such effects as less rain, then the simple and.....
» 10/05/2015 12:32:19 AM Dear Jonathan, I don't think that Plantagenet (Pete) was querying my comment, rather he a.....
» 9/05/2015 8:16:37 PM Dear Pericles, I am not anti-deist! I believe that Deism is wonderful and at times even .....
» 8/05/2015 3:48:26 PM Had there been a "social contract", had that legendary bird actually existed, th.....
» 8/05/2015 1:31:00 PM Dear Pericles, There is value in making doors attractive - clean them, paint them, orname.....
» 8/05/2015 12:10:35 PM Dear Pete, Certainly not the UN or any other organisation has a right to determine where .....
» 8/05/2015 11:34:40 AM A society has every right to impose whatever conditions it asks for membership - including.....
» 7/05/2015 10:19:16 PM Neither is it fun to be awake in your car, constantly watching the bumper ahead with blear.....
» 7/05/2015 10:09:00 PM Keeping people in prison is way too expensive for the ordinary tax payer - they sin but we.....
» 7/05/2015 6:11:12 PM Dear Tony, You did not relate to my statement: the world cannot be harmed even if all hum.....
» 7/05/2015 2:29:17 PM Dear Tony, <<There is absolute certainty that our profligate use of energy is reall.....
» 7/05/2015 9:05:28 AM Just as fashion is worn for pride and vanity, desiring to impress others in one's extravag.....
» 6/05/2015 3:12:19 PM Abolish superannuation - it was wrong to begin with! Give people their money back to save.....
» 5/05/2015 9:36:52 PM Dear Rhrosty, <<Third paragraph starts with Ukraine nationalism. Which seems to att.....
» 5/05/2015 9:19:46 PM Very true, Runner: "actually its obvious Cobber that women and men who are enslaved .....
» 5/05/2015 9:11:58 PM Dear Pericles, <<I simply cannot get my head around the thought processes that lead.....
» 5/05/2015 3:35:47 PM Dear Rhrosty, Obviously, the people of Ukraine need to do what it takes in order to prote.....
» 5/05/2015 9:19:32 AM "Australians have all the benefits of an ultimately stable and transparent democratic.....
» 4/05/2015 12:50:29 PM So the author believes that the way to prevent Muslim radicalization is to infect young Mu.....
» 4/05/2015 12:28:49 AM Dear Is Mise, <<They are allowed by law to live together and to enjoy all the benef.....
» 3/05/2015 7:35:41 AM Dear Runner, Interesting you mentioned the High Priests: When the temple in Jerusalem ex.....
» 1/05/2015 11:50:37 AM Dear Paul, <<Yuyutsu, gay marriage is recognised as legal in New Zealand.>> .....
» 1/05/2015 8:45:29 AM Dear Paul, Any reason your friends had their wedding in New-Zealand? Surely they could d.....
» 30/04/2015 6:46:39 PM Had capital gains been taxed just like any other income, nobody would have thought of nega.....
» 30/04/2015 1:15:33 PM "twisted nationalism" is like "bad evil" - a superfluous adjective. T.....
» 30/04/2015 12:54:19 PM Dear David, This cursed land was also previously held by Egypt, the Canaanites, the Jews,.....
» 30/04/2015 10:19:48 AM Dear Suse, <<Forcing women wanting abortions to continue with unwanted pregnancies .....
» 29/04/2015 11:34:32 PM Dear David, What kind of a doctor tells their patient, "well you once had cholera, s.....
» 29/04/2015 8:50:59 PM Dear Paul, <<Then an atheist hair dresser could refuse a haircut to a priest.>&g.....
» 29/04/2015 9:02:47 AM Dear Paul, Forcing another to work for you against their will, let alone against their co.....
» 28/04/2015 2:08:20 PM "Overzealous regulation by government has ripped out the soul of 'Western society'.&q.....
» 28/04/2015 12:34:19 PM Nothing should be compulsory......
» 27/04/2015 10:10:42 PM Dear Cobber, <<Only a monster would try to save the monkey's.>> Merriam-Webs.....
» 27/04/2015 3:55:27 PM Dear Foxy, Thank you for the article. It ends with the unanswered question: "Why is.....
» 27/04/2015 12:56:57 PM There are, unfortunately, thugs everywhere who are opportunistically drawn to violence. Be.....
» 27/04/2015 12:02:10 PM Dear Philip, You are very right! The article, as written, did not entice me in the least.....
» 27/04/2015 10:35:46 AM Judging by the number of times the author mentions the word 'social'/'society', including .....
» 27/04/2015 9:11:53 AM Dear Ezhil, I believe that competitive sports are used by governments to direct the frust.....
» 26/04/2015 9:59:24 PM Dear Aidan, Few people were of the stature of Arjuna: he was well accomplished and was co.....
» 25/04/2015 7:58:55 PM Dear Aidan, That quote was from Shri Krishna, God incarnate. His friend and disciple, Ar.....
» 24/04/2015 8:19:51 AM When it comes to China, there are only two words to say: FREE TIBET!.....
» 23/04/2015 7:07:39 PM Dear OnTheBeach, Based on what you describe, you can probably substantiate that aborigine.....
» 23/04/2015 4:49:25 PM Dear Ttbn, To answer your question, we need to get to the root of what welfare payments a.....
» 23/04/2015 2:58:41 PM Dear Ttbn, Living in the stone age has both advantages and disadvantages. Naturally, the.....
» 23/04/2015 11:54:29 AM Should all those casinos by the beach be washed with salt water, all will be well. Initia.....
» 23/04/2015 11:18:30 AM Yes, beyond the disagreement about facts there is another deeper disagreement about values.....
» 22/04/2015 7:38:49 PM Dear Warmair, It is indeed interesting how the same material can be read in so many diffe.....
» 22/04/2015 7:07:27 PM Dear Sarah, I appreciate that you enjoy living in a multicultural society, that's nice an.....
» 22/04/2015 4:37:10 PM Dear Ttbn, The use of scientific, forensic and archaeological materials, including not on.....
» 22/04/2015 2:03:13 PM There is no place for comparison, because we are all born with different duties - some mus.....
» 22/04/2015 12:10:33 PM Dear Warmair, The article attempts to describe not God, but life in Australia, where peop.....
» 22/04/2015 11:51:09 AM Dear Ttbn, Please leave Muhammad, peace be upon him, out of this: his memory is yet anoth.....
» 21/04/2015 9:31:10 PM Dear Pericles, As English is a living language, it contains many anomalies which people s.....
» 21/04/2015 9:14:44 PM Well Mikk, couldn't resist: When Goebbels arrived at the pearly gates, St. Peter told him.....
» 21/04/2015 8:23:45 PM Dear Suse, <<as they were expanding their 'empire', but the Aboriginals of today ar.....
» 21/04/2015 7:54:38 PM Dear Aidan, Have you ever seen anyone falling down the chimney, yet remaining clean and t.....
» 21/04/2015 6:42:23 PM Dear Sarah, Thank you for your response. I am glad to hear that you do not hate other peo.....
» 20/04/2015 8:52:46 AM Yes, God created common-sense, packed it in a sand-bag with a small hole so it will drip d.....
» 20/04/2015 8:24:48 AM Don't send your teachers, doctors and social-workers to remote communities, but to be fair.....
» 19/04/2015 1:27:23 PM Dear Pericles, <<As an atheist, I could far better understand deism if there were o.....
» 18/04/2015 7:51:59 PM Dear LEGO, Thank you for your reply - much appreciated! I still see no reply from Sarah .....
» 18/04/2015 7:26:56 PM Dear Is Mise, <<I would add, ascertaining their political ideology, followers of th.....
» 17/04/2015 5:56:13 PM Sure Pete, I sincerely hope those coalitions will do better, though looking at the clumsin.....
» 17/04/2015 5:34:20 PM Dear OnTheTeach, I read here an article that is full of hate and I see replies that are a.....
» 17/04/2015 3:00:47 PM Dear Pete, But what are those 104,668 personnel instructed to do? We know from previous .....
» 17/04/2015 2:10:48 PM Dear LEGO, 1. "TAT" was defined by the author as "Tony Abbott Types"......
» 17/04/2015 10:20:03 AM Dear Taswegian, While the CO2 story is a bad hoax, non-renewable still means non-renewabl.....
» 17/04/2015 10:01:38 AM Dear LEGO, May I address to you the same question as I addressed Sarah in my first post: .....
» 17/04/2015 8:59:49 AM Yes Aidan, if the managers of the national currency were benevolent, omniscient, omniprese.....
» 16/04/2015 8:11:19 PM Dear Tally, The chances of Earth becoming uninhabitable during the lifetime of anyone we .....
» 16/04/2015 7:23:02 PM Dear Philip, The model you are relating to is the current model, where immigrants receive.....
» 16/04/2015 6:10:29 PM But who asked you to fund them, Banjo, or to provide for them? Let those who want to come.....
» 16/04/2015 6:01:04 PM Greer is 76, why should she be worried about the earth becoming uninhabitable? I also won.....
» 16/04/2015 3:45:29 PM Dear David, <<I know what I would be doing - negotiating with Israel on the future .....
» 16/04/2015 2:34:38 PM Of course, local currencies are great for people, but are also a disaster for governments,.....
» 16/04/2015 2:16:24 PM What would happen, Critic, should a war breaks between Australia and the Kingdom of Heaven.....
» 16/04/2015 1:44:11 PM Did you get a chance to meet Ron Hubbard, Evaggelos? You and him could be great friends -.....
» 16/04/2015 1:20:34 PM Paradise and growth are mutually exclusive. One is in paradise when they are content with.....
» 15/04/2015 10:37:07 PM <<Muslims live by the Koran; is there need to say more?>> Yes, Muhammad, peac.....
» 15/04/2015 12:06:26 PM Dear Nana, <<We never hear complaints from Budhists, or Hindus , only Muslims.>&.....
» 15/04/2015 9:55:50 AM The "Australian identity", presumably by 98% of the Australian population, scare.....
» 15/04/2015 9:30:32 AM Dear Pogi, First, I'm sorry for my ambiguous statement -"The problem with pornograph.....
» 15/04/2015 7:01:04 AM I won't side with this or the other in this ever-stupid class-war. What I observe is that.....
» 14/04/2015 6:23:32 PM How can one speak of 'progress' when there is no agreement whatsoever which way is forward.....
» 14/04/2015 6:07:09 PM Why must faith conform with the empirical? 'Empirical' means "pertaining to or deriv.....
» 14/04/2015 3:21:36 PM Would you believe anyone who claims that their calling is to serve the devil? Has anyone .....
» 13/04/2015 9:00:32 PM Dear Suse, I think that the current pope is less materialistic than the average one and t.....
» 13/04/2015 11:41:37 AM Pogi is correct on several counts: One CAN function normally without spirituality. Whethe.....
» 13/04/2015 10:49:21 AM Yes, South Australia should stop selling its soul for the welfare-money from other states......
» 13/04/2015 10:26:31 AM Dear Cobber, "Allowing" people to choose how to die is as sinister as denying t.....
» 12/04/2015 10:54:03 PM Dear David, Jordan is an island of sanity in the middle east. Jordanians are wonderful an.....
» 10/04/2015 12:46:23 PM "When we're awake to this spiritual nature of ourselves and others, the need to objec.....
» 10/04/2015 9:24:37 AM Why divest? Because fossil fuels have recently become politically-incorrect and anyone inv.....
» 8/04/2015 1:03:16 PM Well, I was never a big fan of negotiations: Netanyahu stated correctly that there is no h.....
» 8/04/2015 12:28:48 PM Dear Craig, We would be in luck if that was the whole problem. Even if we had democracy .....
» 7/04/2015 7:37:17 PM Dear Craig, <<Unfortunately, your response shows how successful the process of teac.....
» 7/04/2015 2:01:23 PM Dear Craig, When two teams play a sport they may seem to see it as a zero-sum game, but b.....
» 7/04/2015 10:53:35 AM Dear Arjay, Yes, but why blame private banks? I believe it is the government which creat.....
» 7/04/2015 10:01:15 AM Indeed, the lion should become vegetarian, all animals must be equal, earthquakes must giv.....
» 7/04/2015 12:47:08 AM Genesis 29: 16) Now Laban had two daughters; the name of the older was Leah, and the name.....
» 5/04/2015 6:25:43 PM There is nothing wrong with unions: let those who want to use their services do so, but do.....
» 4/04/2015 7:48:40 PM Dear Tristan, So are you saying that tax should not be cut, so if I paid it already throu.....
» 3/04/2015 4:18:11 PM A fair wage is whatever is agreed between two people, where one is happy to perform certai.....
» 3/04/2015 3:47:13 PM Why worry about children? If one needs to lick the government's arse, requesting their app.....
» 3/04/2015 3:34:05 PM May I ask a question please: What do they mean by "removing dividend imputation".....
» 3/04/2015 3:16:10 PM I agree with Valley Guy: God bless those who play sports, but the problem is all that pas.....
» 3/04/2015 3:06:08 PM Dear Dan, In the Song of Songs [2:14], the lover says: "My dove in the clefts of the.....
» 3/04/2015 1:20:07 PM Dear Dan, You say that you have existed for some decades. At the start of those decades,.....
» 3/04/2015 12:07:22 PM "Australians today are in desperate search for a messiah." We are all in desper.....
» 2/04/2015 6:19:03 PM Dear Dan, Yes, existence is a limitation. Apart from the obvious inability of anything e.....
» 2/04/2015 7:55:17 AM Dear Craig, <<This thread has become a perfect illustration of why it's pointless t.....
» 1/04/2015 1:08:55 PM Dear AJP, Craig related to organisations which "have often been more about secular p.....
» 1/04/2015 9:06:57 AM Dear Dan, I appreciate and learn from the profound spiritual content of many of the bibli.....
» 31/03/2015 9:21:07 AM Dear Dan, What other God could there be? Surely God, "Christian" or otherwise,.....
» 31/03/2015 1:56:27 AM "but there is little doubt that the world can feed its present population." Tru.....
» 31/03/2015 1:39:10 AM Dear Dan, I do not believe that God is a person, thus writing or wanting anything (that w.....
» 30/03/2015 10:12:29 PM Dear Dan, I have not claimed as if the Sabbath is a human construct or that it is not a g.....
» 30/03/2015 5:01:36 PM Dear George, I have little to add because you summed the situation very well: <<I .....
» 25/03/2015 1:18:47 PM Such a split would be good for us - thus bad for the political class: why on earth would t.....
» 25/03/2015 11:41:59 AM Dear Wolly, America (USA) is hardly an example for anything - it's a mad place, obsessed .....
» 24/03/2015 11:27:59 PM The question is why is it not allowed in Australia to have truly private medicine. The so.....
» 23/03/2015 10:06:12 PM I already related to this issue here: http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?article.....
» 23/03/2015 1:05:05 PM Thank you Peter, I especially appreciate your last statement: "My aim is to show tha.....
» 23/03/2015 11:55:27 AM "Young people should not be forced to live in nursing homes because there is nowhere .....
» 22/03/2015 11:44:17 PM Dear Raycom, The gay-marriage brigade cares not for gay people, but uses them as a hammer.....
» 22/03/2015 5:37:16 PM Dear Nathan, What you say is well and good - therefore the solution is to remove this arb.....
» 22/03/2015 11:47:53 AM Dear Dane and Tree, I would go along with the principle "It would be good for Israel.....
» 22/03/2015 6:34:32 AM Yes, whistle-blowers too have weaknesses. Mordechai Vaanunu, who disclosed Israel's nucle.....
» 22/03/2015 5:59:22 AM Dear Nathan, This "age of majority" thing is just one shameful excuse to contro.....
» 19/03/2015 7:32:46 PM Thank you, Rehctub, I sincerely hope that indeed this health system will not be sustained.....
» 19/03/2015 2:26:01 PM Dear David, <<I thought it was the ballot box - not the womb - that produced Netany.....
» 18/03/2015 11:42:08 PM Such heart-breaking agony, Mark-John. Please pray for the souls of the children of Israel.....
» 18/03/2015 2:34:37 PM Another 4 years of crying. But it was expected because Netanyahu (just like Hamas) is pro.....
» 17/03/2015 8:09:50 AM The Philippines are full of talented, trained and caring young people who are eager to go .....
» 17/03/2015 7:39:15 AM Dear Faustino, It is true that Buddhism as we know it somewhat diverted from the original.....
» 16/03/2015 3:44:50 PM "Freedom of speech is the paramount freedom" No, it is not, it is practically u.....
» 16/03/2015 12:54:59 PM Dear Old Man, Kellie is no fool and when you as a proud owner of a bank note mention Zimb.....
» 15/03/2015 6:18:08 AM Well said LEGO, but it's a bit over the top: what works are not the guns, but the BELIEF t.....
» 13/03/2015 6:31:26 PM No end to evil. Such a monetary system already exists - in prisons. So now that Big Brot.....
» 13/03/2015 8:40:18 AM Buddhism is a religion - a great religion: there is no need to be apologetic about it. Re.....
» 12/03/2015 1:23:23 PM Widespread carrying of guns may not make a community safer, but the RIGHT to carry a gun w.....
» 10/03/2015 5:46:27 PM It's a small step in the right direction, but it begs the question - why have superannuati.....
» 10/03/2015 3:07:37 PM Dear David, <<S. 116 prevents banning any religion.>> But it's an empty stat.....
» 10/03/2015 1:53:17 PM We need a dictator. Let's face it: the ruling political class has the guns and no matter .....
» 8/03/2015 11:51:26 AM Dear Suse, That suicide is a sin has nothing to do with the bible as the bible in fact do.....
» 8/03/2015 2:08:53 AM Dear Suse, Yes, the current practice is that where VE is legal it is carried out by docto.....
» 6/03/2015 12:59:59 PM Dear Is Mise, <<Then what is the ultimate penalty?>> It differs from one per.....
» 6/03/2015 12:44:47 PM Such naivety on behalf of the author - does he truly believe that even in the case of war,.....
» 6/03/2015 12:28:55 PM When Sam Harris claims that "you are not in control of your mind", maybe he is c.....
» 6/03/2015 10:42:57 AM Charlie Hebdo and the West ARE guilty of doing wrong things, not anywhere bad enough to wa.....
» 6/03/2015 9:43:49 AM Dear Is Mise, <<If the ultimate penalty, death, is not a deterrent then no punishme.....
» 6/03/2015 2:17:02 AM Dear Suse, The bible does not say "Thou shalt not kill" but rather "Thou s.....
» 6/03/2015 1:49:57 AM Dear Nathan, Not only is there a double standard - there are in fact multiple standards. .....
» 5/03/2015 11:02:43 AM "...those who decided, directly or indirectly, to invest in a bank that made the wron.....
» 5/03/2015 7:45:00 AM <<A person suffering from angelism may be described as, "Being like god in one'.....
» 4/03/2015 11:40:42 PM Dear Rhrosty, <<Not all religions are religious, some are just controlling cults or.....
» 4/03/2015 7:51:17 AM "Imagine if a religious leader stood on the streets of Sydney and openly called for t.....
» 3/03/2015 8:01:03 AM As usual, well said Alon, but the numbers do not bode well......
» 1/03/2015 2:31:21 PM Dear Hippie, The pervasiveness of an evil does not make it right. Further, while others d.....
» 1/03/2015 8:44:36 AM Dear Bazz, " They did agree to the rules when they came. Most have even sworn a lega.....
» 1/03/2015 1:15:54 AM In card games, when the opponent places a '2' on the table, the best practice is to drop a.....
» 1/03/2015 1:01:58 AM Dear Foxy, Interesting analysis by Adams. I understand and share your passion against fo.....
» 1/03/2015 1:01:53 AM Dear Bazz, <<When the first people came they made their rules as by majority....>.....
» 27/02/2015 7:05:43 PM Dear Foxy, <<living in this country hopefully young girls will grow up to realise t.....
» 27/02/2015 6:14:22 PM Dear Joe, <<in a democracy, yes, there IS one society,>> With due respect, y.....
» 27/02/2015 4:26:47 PM Dear Foyle, <<One proper role for the government of any democracy is to look after .....
» 27/02/2015 4:26:41 PM Dear Kirby, There is no reason why one "deserves" to be in Australia more than .....
» 27/02/2015 12:21:24 PM Dear Hasbeen, 1. I'm not a Muslim and never been one. 2. I don't support parents treating.....
» 27/02/2015 8:11:40 AM Dear Banjo, What business of yours is it what other people do with THEIR daughters?.....
» 15/02/2015 4:01:10 AM Dear George, <<Do you mean to say that the pursuit of science, with the ensuing tec.....
» 13/02/2015 11:58:07 PM I'm very short of time these days, but I try my best to follow this fascinating thread and.....
» 10/02/2015 2:03:24 AM Those who desire to know about the world ought to use science. Peter Sellick mentions tha.....
» 27/01/2015 6:16:28 PM Dear Hippie, <<There is no doubt the country has some serious problems>> A c.....
» 26/01/2015 8:43:07 PM Dear Killarney, <<No, women's 'ongoing and legitimate socio-economic grievances' ar.....
» 26/01/2015 3:26:40 PM What a storm in a teacup: Men like to see women's breasts because as boys they were not a.....
» 25/01/2015 1:24:00 AM Dear Craig, <<Hands up all the people on this forum who either arrived as refugees .....
» 23/01/2015 5:50:27 PM Dear David, <<To end the threat to their own existence as sovereign States posed by.....
» 23/01/2015 2:50:18 PM Dear Phanto, If you beat someone physically, they normally experience it as pain - unless.....
» 23/01/2015 1:18:01 PM Why have it at all? Let people take holidays when THEY want......
» 23/01/2015 10:03:00 AM Dear LEGO, In order to have Muslims stop marrying 11 year-old girls, telling them that Mu.....
» 23/01/2015 12:54:51 AM Dear Phanto, <<speech of itself cannot hurt anyone. Unless you can prove that it is.....
» 22/01/2015 11:25:15 PM Australia is a pirate state, hijacking boats on the high seas then locking up their passen.....
» 22/01/2015 11:09:24 PM Dear Rhys, <<What about animal rights vegans who find the fact that their neighbour.....
» 22/01/2015 1:03:56 AM Dear Nathan, <<If we send a message that people feel they have a "right" .....
» 21/01/2015 9:41:01 PM I just can't understand what's that big deal about freedom of speech: We are not free to .....
» 21/01/2015 1:31:05 PM Dear Allah, 13 out of the 72 virgins I received are ugly, 5 have freckles, 4 are lame, 15.....
» 21/01/2015 9:24:32 AM I need to agree with David Singer - all up to the point towards the end where he suggests,.....
» 20/01/2015 11:20:38 PM Dear David, <<Israel offered the PLO sovereignty in more than 90%>> Concerni.....
» 20/01/2015 3:36:52 PM Dear Halduell, <<I am surprised that no publication has yet published the CH cartoo.....
» 20/01/2015 1:53:34 PM There is no reason why speech should be more free than any other action. One should be ab.....
» 19/01/2015 7:53:01 PM Dear Nathan, <<I don't want chemists deciding what amounts of medication I take, as.....
» 19/01/2015 2:03:31 PM Excellent, thank you Alon!.....
» 19/01/2015 1:48:56 PM Dear Nathan, <<What ever happened to the principle, like innocent until proven guil.....
» 19/01/2015 10:02:11 AM <<In any case there has got to be regulation to safeguard against tribal practices.&.....
» 18/01/2015 5:29:57 PM Dear Poirot, I was not suggesting or recommending that one SHOULD poison oneself, certain.....
» 18/01/2015 2:04:20 PM Dear Poirot, <<Do you believe that people with no training in the areas of medicine.....
» 18/01/2015 1:20:38 AM Dear Rehctub, Poirot asked: "Just what do you mean by "proactive"?" .....
» 18/01/2015 1:10:10 AM The answer is 'Yes', but I hesitate because as soon as we say that something "should&.....
» 17/01/2015 10:12:52 PM Dear Suse, <<they neglected to realise that there ARE many patients who do only wan.....
» 16/01/2015 4:57:03 PM Dear Joe, <<But not if you want to stay on welfare all your life. Do we as a societ.....
» 16/01/2015 4:48:48 PM I opened this thread with excitement: "Oh, here is another who wants to dismantle the.....
» 16/01/2015 4:12:33 PM Dear Josephus, Thank you for answering Suse for me. I agree in general, however it is no.....
» 16/01/2015 2:49:49 PM Perfect, David: <<Considering the flaws in the Westminster good government under it.....
» 16/01/2015 2:37:24 PM We don't need more guns in practice, but ownership of guns for self-defence should not be .....
» 16/01/2015 2:11:23 PM Why this article at all? Is anything of the sort on the cards? Has anyone actually suggest.....
» 16/01/2015 1:45:23 PM Dear Phanto, <<Emotional security does not come from these things but from an overw.....
» 16/01/2015 9:05:34 AM Dear Banjo, The Bastille has no physical presence in Australia, but it seems that many Au.....
» 16/01/2015 12:02:28 AM Well to begin with, I don't drink. I also don't watch any sports, I don't have a televisio.....
» 15/01/2015 6:28:22 PM Dear Crowie, Very wise, I completely agree. I just want to add that it's not possible to.....
» 15/01/2015 6:02:35 PM Dear Foxy, Rehctub asked about how things OUGHT to be, in the future: "should not fo.....
» 15/01/2015 4:13:23 PM Dear Foxy, Rehctub asked a moral question (to which I have no clear answer so I did not r.....
» 15/01/2015 2:54:32 PM Dear Aidan, <<You assume that bludging is what most people want to do. In reality i.....
» 15/01/2015 10:47:59 AM Abbas may not be deserving, I agree - but the people of Israel do deserve to be rid of the.....
» 14/01/2015 5:56:50 PM Dear McCackie, <<Stand up strong to Muslim murderers and they quail>> Stand .....
» 14/01/2015 5:19:28 PM Dear SteeleRedux, <<The letters the so called 'Sheikh' sent the families of Austral.....
» 14/01/2015 12:47:40 PM Great article, thank you! There may indeed be no worthy negotiating partner, but even so .....
» 14/01/2015 12:36:37 PM Dear Paul, I very much agree with you about the need to not further alienate moderate Isl.....
» 14/01/2015 11:03:49 AM What's my solution? As for those already conceived, promises must be kept, but let the st.....
» 14/01/2015 9:32:11 AM Dear Poirot, Indifference is the attitude of the best fighters, not the motive - which sh.....
» 14/01/2015 8:52:09 AM Dear Banjo, I am yet to see Australians charging the Bastille - that's unless they had a .....
» 14/01/2015 8:36:56 AM Dear Kactuz, <<It would depend on what is being mocked, wouldn't it?>> Regar.....
» 13/01/2015 11:14:57 PM Dear LEGO, "When in Rome, do as the Romans do." These are not the words of Jes.....
» 13/01/2015 10:15:22 PM Dear Poirot, 'sin' means missing the target - and the target is God. Any commission or o.....
» 13/01/2015 9:40:25 PM Dear SteeleRedux, One should be allowed absolute free speech to those who are willing to .....
» 13/01/2015 9:19:08 PM Dear O Sung Wu, I have read the Satanic Verses by Rushdie, I'm sorry I did - reflecting o.....
» 13/01/2015 8:52:17 PM Dear OnTheBeach, <<Cartoonists should be able to offend without being butchered. T.....
» 13/01/2015 8:26:28 PM Dear Jay, <<If one has to be afraid of one's God then the God must not be a good Go.....
» 13/01/2015 6:45:54 PM Dear Poirot, Yes of course, but that is not the topic as well as completely uncontroversi.....
» 13/01/2015 4:38:37 PM The first verse of the first Psalm is: Blessed is the one who does not walk in step with .....
» 12/01/2015 11:34:35 PM Dear Ponde, <<Why don't we have an honesty system for Income tax as well.>> .....
» 12/01/2015 1:53:39 PM Free Trade Agreements are wrong because they bind even future generations which may not ag.....
» 12/01/2015 5:49:13 AM So much for the uncontested freedom of speech, I wish you all were as keen about other fre.....
» 11/01/2015 9:53:52 AM Dear David, In the world of facts, "whoever fears God will stand forever" is in.....
» 11/01/2015 12:30:40 AM Dear David, <<I think none of us are completely rational. However, I think a belief.....
» 9/01/2015 4:17:51 PM I also want to be allowed to lay a small minefield in my front lawn. Not that I would eve.....
» 9/01/2015 3:57:04 PM Well said, Houellebecq, thank you! Enjoy your own life, your peace and quiet while attend.....
» 9/01/2015 10:37:37 AM We are all diagnosed with cancer or the equivalent. A few decades earlier or later makes n.....
» 8/01/2015 11:32:41 PM Dear Foxy, <<Languages are intimately linked to the essentially humanistic cultural.....
» 8/01/2015 7:19:42 PM Welcome, Pixenal, <<May I remind you that we are animals too.>> No, if we we.....
» 6/01/2015 4:26:47 PM I agree with Jardine, but aren't we too optimistic? As the government finds that there is.....
» 6/01/2015 3:04:11 PM Dear Foxy, <<Australian school children would be required to learn an Asian languag.....
» 5/01/2015 8:07:37 PM Dear Josephus, <<Such religious organisations are not more than stand over men to d.....
» 5/01/2015 7:08:50 PM Dear Josephus, Advertisers don't do it because they like people, but because they like th.....
» 5/01/2015 4:25:37 PM Dear Bazz, You are very fortunate to have spoken with King Hussein - he was one person I .....
» 5/01/2015 4:15:31 PM Happy new year, Foxy, Important or not, I oppose any compulsion - including the very dema.....
» 5/01/2015 1:29:34 PM (...continued) The caste system degenerated into strict and enforced social boundaries wh.....
» 5/01/2015 1:12:04 PM Dear Marko, I am no expert in these matters, but if what you describe is correct, than th.....
» 5/01/2015 1:01:18 PM Dear Bazz, <<I am confused, if Jordan, the undisputed holder of the west bank ceded.....
» 5/01/2015 12:56:55 PM Dear Onthebeach, <<The general non-Muslim community is entitled to protest at the a.....
» 5/01/2015 9:47:21 AM Dear Joe, In India there is a term for such families as you describe: they are called 'Sh.....
» 4/01/2015 11:59:07 PM Dear Joe, <<If you have to ask what 'neglect' is, then you would never know.>>.....
» 4/01/2015 11:18:27 PM Dear SM, <<the subsequent peace treaty of 1994 by which Jordan (previous owner of t.....
» 4/01/2015 10:35:51 PM Dear Nathan, I am saying "unless" because it is none of my business whether or .....
» 4/01/2015 10:14:33 PM Dear Josephus, In Australia, it is not an offence to write "Kosher" or "Ha.....
» 4/01/2015 6:11:13 PM Why would a secular government want to prevent suicides? Believing that we are mere bodie.....
» 4/01/2015 5:07:01 PM Dear Wolly, There was no question of denying medical services from anyone who has no mone.....
» 4/01/2015 2:02:00 PM Dear Nathan, Yes, smoking is damaging to the human body and that smoke damages others who.....
» 4/01/2015 1:38:21 PM Dear David, I agree that government should not support natural therapies. However, at the.....
» 4/01/2015 1:17:42 PM Dear Nathan, <<Smoking is not a two way street - it hurts others - and there is no .....
» 4/01/2015 1:11:31 PM (...continued) <<surely the aim should be to get them out of it as soon as possible.....
» 4/01/2015 1:11:23 PM Dear Joe, <<Surely any moves to reduce child neglect...>> Please go no furth.....
» 4/01/2015 8:44:29 AM Dear LEGO, <<It costs too much money to differentiate between parasites and people .....
» 4/01/2015 12:57:20 AM Dear Bazz, The reason Jews split their kitchens is that it is forbidden to them to combin.....
» 4/01/2015 12:05:27 AM Dear David, My personal view is that the tax-payer should not fund schools at all. Period.....
» 3/01/2015 11:22:20 PM Dear Nathan, My original statement to which you referred was: "Anyone should be able.....
» 3/01/2015 11:13:48 PM Dear Killarney, <<It's my belief that the welfare spending budget could be virtuall.....
» 3/01/2015 10:43:21 PM (...continued) <<if you really want to destroy the conditions where civilisation ca.....
» 3/01/2015 10:43:17 PM Dear Aidan, <<my logic would acknowledge that war has much too high a cost for it t.....
» 2/01/2015 7:20:47 PM Dear Bazz, "Unclean" is not necessary about physical cleanliness, or about the .....
» 2/01/2015 6:08:55 PM Dear Bazz, <<Actually Yuyutsu it had everything to do with health.>> That's .....
» 2/01/2015 5:58:08 PM Dear Steele, <<I never thought I would be glad to see Australia out of the Security.....
» 2/01/2015 5:30:08 PM Since the topic is so touchy, lets begin with allowing good people to have weapons in thei.....
» 2/01/2015 5:14:59 PM Dear Josephus, <<Food produced and sold in Australia has to meet quality health sta.....
» 2/01/2015 1:51:31 PM It is wrong to cut off support to children that were already conceived on the promise of w.....
» 2/01/2015 12:48:54 PM Neither the author nor the legislators have a clue about what religion is - nor would I ex.....
» 2/01/2015 8:57:12 AM Dear George, <<Exactly, because Christianity rejected ”worship of physical beauty”,.....
» 2/01/2015 8:31:22 AM Dear Is Mise, <<The people that you mention were not indoctrinated from a Sacred Te.....
» 2/01/2015 12:35:00 AM Dear Aidan, <<Governments have the power because the people have given it to them.&.....
» 1/01/2015 11:52:17 PM Dear Nathan, Certainly, prevention is better than cure. Therefore, don't smoke. I believ.....
» 1/01/2015 10:22:51 PM Dear George, <<I wrote ‘Christians’ to indicate that not only modern science as suc.....
» 1/01/2015 9:49:43 PM Dear Aidan, <<Because it occurs in Australia. If it occurred in Denmark than it wou.....
» 1/01/2015 9:27:09 PM Dear Aidan, I'm not really keen on democracy, but since you asked, let me explain why Aus.....
» 1/01/2015 7:48:18 PM It is none of anybody's business whether, what and how other parents teach their children,.....
» 1/01/2015 5:36:57 PM Dear Nathan, <<You "assume" that smoking really only affects the individu.....
» 1/01/2015 10:55:04 AM A great business opportunity would be to sell [futuristic] bulk licenses to sin. It would .....
» 1/01/2015 9:31:44 AM I totally agree with Phanto, so I have nothing else to add, except: Dear Rehctub and Suse.....
» 1/01/2015 8:58:25 AM Emotionally, I say "kill them all!", but unfortunately I cannot find a consisten.....
» 31/12/2014 12:41:14 PM Dear Suse, The original biblical commandment is "Thou shalt not murder". No ide.....
» 30/12/2014 11:18:36 PM Dear O Sung Wu, <<And even a perfectly normal, reasonable, and law-abiding individu.....
» 30/12/2014 1:04:06 PM Dear Aidan, <<I am an Australian citizen and have a right to free speech.>> .....
» 30/12/2014 12:02:54 PM Dear Paul, Practically anything that we do has an impact, pro's and con's, on our health .....
» 30/12/2014 7:53:58 AM Dear Paul, Having identified yourself as a member of the Greens who allegedly oppose the .....
» 29/12/2014 11:31:00 PM Dear Aidan, <<I think raw milk cheesemaking should be permitted, but strictly licen.....
» 29/12/2014 11:15:24 PM Dear Ponder, I applaud diversity. What I do not applaud is a policy dictated from above .....
» 29/12/2014 10:34:40 PM Dear Foxy, I wish you success in your resolution and a happy new year. Taking care of yo.....
» 29/12/2014 8:51:59 PM Dear O Sung Wu, For most of us, hunting is immoral. But is this the topic? Are you here .....
» 29/12/2014 8:35:07 PM Aren't you ashamed, Dr. Ozdowski, to live off money stolen by government from ordinary wor.....
» 29/12/2014 8:04:00 PM Dear George, Being religious is not black or white, but a gradual progress. One spends ye.....
» 29/12/2014 7:45:17 AM Dear George, <<The parable about the two sides of a coin was given as a warning aga.....
» 28/12/2014 7:23:31 PM Dear Craig, You seem to assert that science and religion are similar and complementary, t.....
» 26/12/2014 11:48:22 AM Dear Hasbeen, <<People who are afraid of honest men having a gun are really too res.....
» 26/12/2014 11:36:19 AM Dear Rhrosty, Sorry, but I find it quite hard to understand the syntax/grammar of your wr.....
» 25/12/2014 11:04:54 PM Dear Misanthrope, <<Only ONLY army air force navy and police people need to have a .....
» 24/12/2014 4:35:08 PM Excellent point, R0bert. In the past I advocated for dual-registrations, where for a smal.....
» 24/12/2014 3:42:45 PM Dear Rhrosty, <<Yes, without the fine tuning we would not exist!>> With or w.....
» 24/12/2014 1:07:08 PM Each action produces a reaction, so if someone created this world, then that action of cre.....
» 23/12/2014 7:53:40 PM Dear Foxy, So beautiful, so precise, so true, I had tears in my eyes reading this! I sta.....
» 22/12/2014 2:06:42 PM Dear Marcio, <<To me, the whole issue of having public holidays is as simple as ens.....
» 21/12/2014 2:43:40 PM Dear Jay, <<How do you decide who's an asset and who's a liability if there's no in.....
» 21/12/2014 12:12:27 PM Dear Hippie, <<Just cut off their dole payments for life, if convicted>> But.....
» 21/12/2014 8:20:57 AM Dear SPQR, <<Betya it would NOT get past the phalanx of (tax payer funded) human ri.....
» 19/12/2014 6:02:11 PM Dear Hasbeen, Of course almost every worker would be glad to have as many holidays as the.....
» 19/12/2014 10:14:46 AM Dear Killarney, <<However, national holidays do enforce a sense of what a culture v.....
» 18/12/2014 10:03:00 PM Dear Rehctub, In retrospect we know that Monis was not a terrorist, just an ordinary dera.....
» 18/12/2014 9:50:43 PM Dear Banjo, The latest event in Sydney was not an act of terrorism. Nevertheless, your qu.....
» 18/12/2014 9:32:43 PM Dear Killarney, <<Would anyone dare to ask such an offensive question about Anzac D.....
» 18/12/2014 9:23:56 PM Dear Jay, Hitler is a different case because he lived in our times, he was recorded and f.....
» 18/12/2014 7:08:56 PM Dear Kactuz, <<Tell me, do you think there are things in the Quran that contribute .....
» 18/12/2014 2:05:56 PM Dear Kactuz, <<Actually, the problem is less that of a lone lunatic than of a large.....
» 18/12/2014 7:30:21 AM It's all part of collectivising social-engineering, attempting to create the illusion of a.....
» 17/12/2014 8:30:19 AM Yes, keep crying "Wolf", trying to impress us that "we have saved you from .....
» 16/12/2014 1:01:48 PM Dear Aidan, <<This surprises me. It seems to be a bad law, so how did it get throug.....
» 16/12/2014 7:32:14 AM Indeed, it is time for Tasmania to declare its independence and be free from those and oth.....
» 16/12/2014 12:22:26 AM Dear David, <<The plain and obvious truth is "There is no God".>> .....
» 15/12/2014 4:16:34 PM Dear Plantagenet, <<about the only comfort is that at least Australia doesn't have .....
» 15/12/2014 9:18:11 AM Great article, thanks. The lesson is clear: don't base you life on existence - or mess up.....
» 15/12/2014 8:47:09 AM "increase ones chance of death"? ? ? If you are referring to the chance of your.....
» 12/12/2014 1:07:23 PM The only function of a CBD is to block the traffic: more so if Adelaide is indeed a fly-in.....
» 11/12/2014 7:26:13 PM Dear Daffy, Thank you for the links: I have read and understood. However, you can't just.....
» 11/12/2014 12:46:51 PM Dear Daffy, <<Its "creator"-God being the invention/projection of an esse.....
» 11/12/2014 11:45:31 AM What is common to all those projects is that only few benefit. The Sydney Opera House hav.....
» 11/12/2014 11:16:37 AM Government has no authority to fund universities and colleges of any kind with tax-money s.....
» 11/12/2014 10:39:03 AM Since the media are all no-gooders, why not just close it all down and have the journalist.....
» 11/12/2014 6:36:55 AM Dear Roses, <<My grandson had a small cut on his forehead stitched and the bill was.....
» 10/12/2014 10:46:49 PM Had there been no entertainment and no news around, would that be what you choose to spend.....
» 9/12/2014 12:41:46 PM Dear Dane, <<The destruction of the Second Temple has long been interpreted as Gods.....
» 9/12/2014 12:16:42 PM I have just one advice for you, Jack: If you are indeed a Bush party, then change that 'N.....
» 8/12/2014 1:35:53 PM Dear Bagsyl, <<Parents should be allowed to have their newborn babies killed becaus.....
» 7/12/2014 5:38:32 PM Dear Peter, <<The greatest cartel still allowed to act as such, is the Legal Cartel.....
» 7/12/2014 3:24:25 AM Dear SteeleRedux, So flogging is barbaric alright, but what do you suggest in its place? .....
» 5/12/2014 5:42:45 PM Dear David, You are correct, it is I who prefer Lambie and Clive over Abbott and Shorten,.....
» 5/12/2014 3:41:03 PM Dear David, <<As inadequate as Abbott and Shorten are I prefer either of them to La.....
» 5/12/2014 11:30:21 AM Dear Paul, <<That does not justify any goodness in the stick. I would accept prison.....
» 5/12/2014 11:07:19 AM That government is evil does not mean that developers are any better. Why not simply allo.....
» 5/12/2014 10:07:45 AM Nobody should have any rights. Rather, our freedom should not be robbed to begin with. I.....
» 5/12/2014 9:57:37 AM Dear OnTheBeach, <<Think of the savings if the Australian Senate was towed to the c.....
» 5/12/2014 9:36:16 AM >> lest the world leave Australia behind << I do pray for that to happen, as .....
» 4/12/2014 6:00:59 AM Dear Paul, <<As a civil libertarian and member of Amnesty International I deplore a.....
» 3/12/2014 8:29:22 PM Dear Bren, <<The right or otherwise to choose was not the main issue. Instead I was.....
» 3/12/2014 8:07:42 PM Dear Jayb, <<The problem is they are doing us harm. Trying to change our Culture to.....
» 3/12/2014 1:48:49 PM Dear Bren, <<Once you sanction the abortion of some classes of disabled unborn chil.....
» 3/12/2014 12:54:33 PM Dear Is Mise, <<What we don't need is people who follow an anti-Democratic politica.....
» 3/12/2014 7:47:20 AM Dear Pesky Boy, Humans have been blessed with four faculties, using which they can reach .....
» 2/12/2014 9:50:58 PM Dear Banjo, <<Diversity is not the end aimed for, it should be integration and cohe.....
» 2/12/2014 3:36:48 PM Dear DarthSeditous, <<Wouldn't it be better to accept this and strive for the intro.....
» 2/12/2014 9:32:28 AM Dear Josephus, Regarding those two criminals, I already responded at the top of this thre.....
» 2/12/2014 7:03:22 AM Dear Hippie, <<Ultimately the people in Yuyutsu's visionary world will fall victim .....
» 1/12/2014 10:55:55 PM Dear Josepus, <<Persons who disrespect our laws should loose their citizenship and .....
» 1/12/2014 5:44:30 PM Dear J P C, <<Sadly few of the antis really understand the science>> What's .....
» 1/12/2014 12:02:48 AM (...continued) We must, however, differentiate between law-enforcement and self-defence: .....
» 1/12/2014 12:02:32 AM Enforcement of laws is wrong, always wrong, if it hurts other(s) who never consented to be.....
» 30/11/2014 5:44:27 PM Dear David, <<I am afraid the Palestinian Arabs have well and truly missed the boat.....
» 30/11/2014 8:07:27 AM Dear Is Mise, <<Ten Commandments?>> For your interest, even if you accept th.....
» 30/11/2014 7:31:09 AM What a great article. Thanks! The author pinpoints why the territorial-based nation-state.....
» 29/11/2014 11:09:49 PM Switzerland has an excellent policy, allowing assisted-suicide for whatever reason and by .....
» 28/11/2014 7:19:09 PM Unfortunately I cannot say "Good on them" because they are, likely, ordinary cri.....
» 28/11/2014 6:04:06 PM Dear Rhrosty, You used the term "officially sanctioned murder", but first, murd.....
» 28/11/2014 4:33:51 PM Thank you for clarifying, Killarney......
» 28/11/2014 4:08:38 PM Dear Hasbeen, Ants will remain on this earth long after the human race is gone. The earth.....
» 28/11/2014 11:51:09 AM Dear Shockadelic, Nathan is right - we have been hijacking the original discussion for qu.....
» 28/11/2014 10:54:07 AM <<Lego that's a fantastic post.>> I second this. Still, I do not agree with .....
» 28/11/2014 10:33:23 AM Dear Grateful, Please allow me to be upfront: I have a great interest in restoring and e.....
» 28/11/2014 1:38:30 AM Dear Killarney, <<Frankly, I'd like nothing better than for both these addled belie.....
» 27/11/2014 9:31:19 PM Dear Conservative, Whatever your reason for not wishing to continue this discussion, I th.....
» 27/11/2014 1:40:00 PM (...continued) <<No, but then they'd hang me.>> Dangerous beasts that are in.....
» 27/11/2014 1:39:45 PM Dear Shockadelic, <<I thought we couldn't "block" people's free movement?.....
» 27/11/2014 11:17:27 AM Dear Ateday, <<Regardless of who or what they are and how they get here the last th.....
» 27/11/2014 7:42:15 AM Let them all lie, but to each other: lock them all in Canberra and throw the keys to the p.....
» 26/11/2014 11:14:26 PM Dear Shockadelic, <<Where is *my* choice in having my neighbourhood/workplace/count.....
» 26/11/2014 11:14:22 PM Dear Hippie, <<yet they arrive with nothing and have no support network.>> N.....
» 26/11/2014 7:21:22 PM How cruel, Patrick! Why do you want so many people to lose their jobs? Currently, any id.....
» 26/11/2014 7:09:51 PM Great article, Peter - just perfect! Dear Rhrosty, <<Even so, I believe we should .....
» 26/11/2014 6:36:12 PM "There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it." That's.....
» 25/11/2014 2:55:47 PM Dear Divergence, <<All the land in Australia belongs to private individuals... You .....
» 25/11/2014 2:37:48 PM Dear Shockadelic, <<It is a commonly accepted principle in international law/ethics.....
» 25/11/2014 12:25:00 AM Dear Divergence, <<You and Yuyutsu are assuming that there is no problem if there i.....
» 24/11/2014 11:03:52 PM Dear Squeers, <<Yuyutsu, When atheism does manifest as hatred for theism, I suspect.....
» 24/11/2014 1:52:39 PM I just wonder: Do LEGO and Grateful agree on the FACTS, such as whether or not Muhammad k.....
» 24/11/2014 12:37:05 PM Dear Squeers, <<I'm happy to accept that some people simply don't believe in God an.....
» 24/11/2014 11:14:26 AM Dear Shockadelic, <<Our culture could be the worst in world history and we'd still .....
» 24/11/2014 10:04:46 AM Regarding the statement "the time of simple faith is long gone and we've created our .....
» 23/11/2014 12:42:04 PM Dear Shockadelic, <<We have a right to exist as a distinct people>> It is no.....
» 22/11/2014 10:29:45 PM Dear Peter, <<You talk about belief as if it is something we screw up our nerve and.....
» 21/11/2014 3:27:41 PM Dear Hasbeen, <<Rhrosty, Yuyutsu it matters not a damn what you think Mohammed was,.....
» 21/11/2014 12:22:26 PM Dear Mac, <<never forget that Mohammed was a murdering bandit leader and his follow.....
» 21/11/2014 11:52:07 AM Dear Peter, <<We live in a different time in which "nature" has, through .....
» 21/11/2014 11:07:13 AM I clicked on this discussion because the topic sounded interesting, but then I was disappo.....
» 21/11/2014 9:33:48 AM Thank you Valerie for this great article. My personal theory is that Muhammad himself was.....
» 21/11/2014 1:18:05 AM Dear Plantagenet, <<Instead of being locked up years ago>> But how could any.....
» 20/11/2014 10:21:01 PM Dear Plantagenet, <<The person in question is a private citizen, not above British .....
» 20/11/2014 11:06:33 AM Dear Josephus, <<The only message others have of you is how you have lived as the p.....
» 20/11/2014 1:39:15 AM Dear Julian, It is unwise to underestimate the enemy: the core-settlers are armed, well t.....
» 19/11/2014 11:42:44 PM Dear Josephus, <<Essentially you are not your DNA or your body it is only the carri.....
» 19/11/2014 10:10:12 AM Dear Bruce, <<the search for/belief in a higher purpose has led to most of the suff.....
» 19/11/2014 9:42:24 AM Dear O Sung Wu, This question is impossible to answer because it asserts an untruth. We .....
» 19/11/2014 9:17:51 AM How is it possible, I wonder, that Julian was unable to escape for all those years. Surely.....
» 18/11/2014 12:30:31 PM Dear Rhrosty, <<What did you suppose would happen as thousands of rockets, (Gaza's .....
» 18/11/2014 12:19:07 PM "No one in their right mind can suggest that Israel should withdraw from the West Ban.....
» 18/11/2014 1:25:27 AM Dear OnTheBeach, Yes, it is OK by me, hopefully Nathan could contribute his own ideas the.....
» 18/11/2014 12:06:57 AM Dear Onthebeach, <<If you want to be a vegetarian I don't think that any here would.....
» 17/11/2014 11:07:42 PM Dear Critic, <<Now that the mining boom is over (and even then the budget surplus w.....
» 17/11/2014 10:27:23 PM Dear Nathan, Perhaps you are confusing me for someone else? Because I never said or impli.....
» 17/11/2014 12:40:16 PM Dear Arjay, The links you provided are already interpretations of something that presumab.....
» 17/11/2014 1:40:18 AM Dear Bob, <<We can't disprove the existence of God>> Yes we can and I've lea.....
» 17/11/2014 12:20:11 AM Dear Nathan, You told ConservativeHippie that: "You once again, take on the "we.....
» 14/11/2014 5:30:29 PM Thank you, Constance, I also loved Father Samir's analysis. Dear O Sung Wu, I was under.....
» 14/11/2014 4:45:14 PM (...continued) <<If I say that I travelled back in time, then you would assess that.....
» 14/11/2014 4:45:01 PM Dear AJ Philips, <<you're claiming that there is some other realm/dimension/level/p.....
» 13/11/2014 9:24:36 PM For most of the 20th century, a family could live well on one salary. Now even two salarie.....
» 13/11/2014 7:56:54 AM Thank you, Jay, for the link to the interview with Sufi Sheikh Imran Hosein, It is long a.....
» 13/11/2014 12:54:47 AM (...continued) <<That would not be straying from the subject.>> If the subje.....
» 13/11/2014 12:54:44 AM Dear AJ Philips, I lost the thread long ago and have no idea why we are discussing this i.....
» 12/11/2014 9:49:52 PM Dear Poirot, Nothing is weak about farmers doing the good old and proper thing - that's i.....
» 12/11/2014 8:06:57 PM (...continued) <<I am also not forcing you to be here.>> Not exactly, becaus.....
» 12/11/2014 8:06:51 PM Dear AJ Philips, <<So why can’t you just say what you meant if you weren’t trying t.....
» 12/11/2014 4:54:05 PM (...continued) <<If you don’t want to fulfill that obligation, or state that you ca.....
» 12/11/2014 4:54:02 PM Dear AJ Philips, <<You have left this open-ended and ambiguous>> Here we go .....
» 12/11/2014 11:36:04 AM (...continued) <<How is this religious path any different from any other self-help .....
» 12/11/2014 11:35:50 AM Dear AJ Philips, <<If that were the case, then no two people would be able to commu.....
» 11/11/2014 4:55:04 PM (...continued) <<Then it still exists.>> Your mind, that is. Fine, but your .....
» 11/11/2014 4:55:01 PM Dear AJ Philips, <<The mind CAN be a "liar">> Here I suspect an ax.....
» 11/11/2014 11:57:23 AM Dear Poirot, I fully agree, but the argument of sustainability is somewhat weak and I've .....
» 11/11/2014 8:07:59 AM Dear Barry, I just want to check whether you indeed mean what you wrote, because it sound.....
» 10/11/2014 6:03:15 PM (...continued) <<The first is justified... because something here is doing some sor.....
» 10/11/2014 6:03:10 PM Dear AJ Philips, <<I meant here on OLO.>> ("How do you determine what ne.....
» 8/11/2014 11:24:56 PM (...continued) For example, if one picks a microphone and says "1-2-3, 1-2-3", .....
» 8/11/2014 11:24:52 PM Dear AJ Philips, <<then why are you still here trying to prove that you don’t?>&.....
» 7/11/2014 1:16:14 PM (...continued) <<The conundrum for you is that fact that your claims, regarding the.....
» 7/11/2014 1:16:10 PM Dear AJ Philips, <<Your suggestion that the burden of proof only applies if you exp.....
» 7/11/2014 11:07:44 AM <<There is no attempt in any of the surveys to ascertain whether the experts regard .....
» 7/11/2014 9:04:49 AM This issue of fortune is too important than to be used as a political attack on ownership,.....
» 7/11/2014 2:11:42 AM (...continued) <<You don’t have to be here.>> Strawman: I didn't claim that .....
» 7/11/2014 2:11:39 AM Dear AJ Philips, <<Yes, and in doing so, you were implicitly claiming THAT you knew.....
» 6/11/2014 7:40:16 PM (...continued) <<I, on the other hand, DO know how to respond>> You know how.....
» 6/11/2014 7:40:12 PM Dear AJ Philips, <<In this “game” there is only one rule>> So many cross-ref.....
» 6/11/2014 3:15:58 PM <<Netanyahu subordinates it to his narrow ideological agenda>> What agenda? .....
» 6/11/2014 11:50:55 AM Excellent article, well-written. Even though I do not share the author's values such as p.....
» 6/11/2014 3:22:58 AM (...continued) <<Then why not present simple logical reasons not to instead?>>.....
» 6/11/2014 3:22:53 AM Dear AJ Philips, <<Epistemic: Relating to knowledge or to the degree of its validat.....
» 5/11/2014 11:44:40 PM I once found a couple of pieces of asbestos in my yard, so I placed them in a nylon bag an.....
» 5/11/2014 1:05:05 PM Dear Aidan, <<Do you really think anarchy is the situation with the least violence?.....
» 5/11/2014 4:55:16 AM (...continued) <<How do I know it’s not the intellectual property of those of other.....
» 5/11/2014 4:55:12 AM (...continued) <<But if that's not a goal of yours, then why claim to be defending .....
» 5/11/2014 4:55:07 AM Dear AJ Philips, <<No, it’s not: {pointing to Wikipedia's "Philosophic_burden_.....
» 4/11/2014 9:11:34 PM Dear AJ Philips, <<because you tried to portray my claims, regarding the burden of .....
» 4/11/2014 2:20:10 PM (...continued) <<No, it’s not, because rational discourse relies upon convention>.....
» 4/11/2014 2:20:02 PM Dear AJ Philips, Indeed I lost track long ago of why this discussion is going and all alo.....
» 4/11/2014 12:18:55 PM Dear Nathan, Nobody, male or female, should get a special parental leave, paid or otherwi.....
» 4/11/2014 11:54:07 AM "The whole of society benefits when children are educated. This is why governments at.....
» 3/11/2014 2:55:48 PM (...continued) <<Okay then, what are your protocols other than just that I sit back.....
» 3/11/2014 2:55:42 PM Dear AJ Philips, <<Okay, so Yuyutsu DOES believe in an afterlife, he/she just think.....
» 3/11/2014 12:44:59 PM Dear Ollie, <<I do not think the "thin edge of the wedge" argument should.....
» 3/11/2014 8:57:34 AM Dear Joe, <<If one of the main reasons for being religious is a belief in an afterl.....
» 2/11/2014 7:48:35 PM (...continued) <You still have your true-religion/false-religion premise to prove and .....
» 2/11/2014 7:48:31 PM Dear AJ Philips, <<If you claim, however, that there is a right way and a wrong way.....
» 2/11/2014 5:41:22 PM Dear Bazz, PGP is OK, but nothing is as good as writing your own encryption method. Theo.....
» 2/11/2014 5:18:23 PM Dear Suse, <<I don't see any harm in believing there is an invisible father-figure .....
» 2/11/2014 10:09:27 AM Dear Barry, "You cannot deal with socialists who support liberty" How else can.....
» 2/11/2014 9:49:50 AM Dear Jay, I was not referring to the internet, but since you mentioned it, any serious mi.....
» 1/11/2014 11:05:20 PM Dear Aidan, "Do you oppose the ability of the police to use reasonable force to enfo.....
» 1/11/2014 10:43:25 PM Dear Ollie, <<You are welcome to believe that islamic fundamentalism is not a threa.....
» 1/11/2014 10:19:34 PM Dear Suse, The only purpose we have in life is to re-unite with God. We are all on this r.....
» 31/10/2014 6:54:31 PM I have so much to say about this topic, but for shortage of time I'll only say this for no.....
» 31/10/2014 2:55:33 PM Dear Rhrosty, <<What we need to see here is action, not another talk feast>> .....
» 31/10/2014 1:34:03 PM Dear Daffy, <<Hardly any of the usual dreadfully sane Christian propaganda hacks ev.....
» 31/10/2014 11:16:15 AM Dear Arjay, <<If Ebola becomes a real problem in the USA, will this ban also apply .....
» 31/10/2014 10:10:43 AM Dear Peter, Materialism is the attitude of valuing the material world, considering it imp.....
» 31/10/2014 8:12:52 AM Dear LEGO, Religion is the internal/personal process, methods or path by which one comes .....
» 31/10/2014 1:04:27 AM (...continued) <<But “creed” doesn’t embody the institutional nature that seems to .....
» 31/10/2014 1:04:22 AM Dear AJ Philips, <<Oh, I’d be fascinated to learn more about this process you speak.....
» 30/10/2014 6:15:01 PM Dear Kactuz, I mostly agree, but you wrote a paragraph ending with "Bad choice of wo.....
» 30/10/2014 4:25:06 PM Dear AJ Philips, I do not need to prove what the religious process is because it's irrele.....
» 30/10/2014 12:07:33 PM Dear Pericles, <<Yet here we are, conversing on a forum, under the impression that .....
» 30/10/2014 8:12:12 AM Dear Poirot, I can only relate to what you write here, not to what you have in mind. So .....
» 30/10/2014 6:56:22 AM Dear LEGO, <<Wrong, Yuyutsu.>> Yes, but what is wrong is not what I am propo.....
» 29/10/2014 11:26:08 PM Dear AJ Philips, A Soviet joke goes: Igor: "Vladimir, hey stop, why are you running.....
» 29/10/2014 10:49:57 PM Dear Poirot, <<If I'm "YOU" (ME) - then you can obviously define me as so.....
» 29/10/2014 8:15:13 PM Dear LEGO, Thank you for your life story. However, this is not relevant to what I wrote,.....
» 29/10/2014 6:10:21 PM Dear LEGO, <<and she thinks that being nice to anybody who wants to barge into Aust.....
» 29/10/2014 12:32:27 PM Dear Aidan, <<I did mention that there were exceptions such as for the purpose of c.....
» 29/10/2014 10:58:55 AM Dear Poirot, <<Does my consciousness exist?>> I don't think that there is an.....
» 29/10/2014 8:40:03 AM Dear Pericles, <<On what logical grounds are you able to separate the workings of t.....
» 29/10/2014 2:17:19 AM 1. They travel in order to commit murder. 2. A state may only legitimately protect those w.....
» 29/10/2014 1:43:23 AM Dear Aidan, At present in Australia, if you refuse to talk or cooperate, they forcibly th.....
» 29/10/2014 1:30:47 AM Dear Nathan, Caring for and protecting the environment is your forte - metaphysics is not.....
» 29/10/2014 1:24:29 AM Dear Pericles, <<Why must we make such a distinction - what is your rationale for d.....
» 29/10/2014 12:52:45 AM Dear AJ Philips, Actually, God isn't a layer; everything; a concept; or a label. Never m.....
» 28/10/2014 5:25:10 PM Great article! Rabbi Gershom (960-1028 AD), decreed that a messenger may not open or read.....
» 28/10/2014 4:29:38 PM Dear Pericles, A distinction must be made between the contents of consciousness and the f.....
» 28/10/2014 3:36:48 PM Dear Aidan, <<Socialism can be implemented by normal democratic means.>> I k.....
» 28/10/2014 8:07:16 AM I must agree with Banjo: What we are aware (conscious) of in the world and perhaps even h.....
» 27/10/2014 1:59:33 PM Let me suggest that 'Materialism' is not the conviction that there is nothing but the mate.....
» 27/10/2014 1:14:36 PM Dear AJ Philips, <<Islamic extremists believe that strapping explosives...What's to.....
» 27/10/2014 8:18:43 AM Dear Is Mise, <<The same as animals that are a feral pest?>> Those who actua.....
» 26/10/2014 1:08:56 PM Dear Aidan, Feeling that these people should be hanged is not the same as actually wantin.....
» 26/10/2014 12:52:07 PM Dear LEGO, Actually, all I wrote in my last post is that refugees should not be treated w.....
» 26/10/2014 8:19:39 AM Dear Jardine, <<the definition of a successful outcome is not work, it’s want-satis.....
» 26/10/2014 6:37:13 AM Dear LEGO, <<having the entire third world arrive on Australia's doorstep and deman.....
» 26/10/2014 12:07:44 AM Dear AJ Philips, <<Your only way of getting around this is to claim that those who .....
» 25/10/2014 10:17:09 PM Dear Bjelly, There is absolutely nothing wrong if you, in combination with others that sh.....
» 24/10/2014 6:10:56 PM Dear Nathan, You assume that finding a meaning to life would change how we live - specifi.....
» 24/10/2014 5:41:43 PM Dear BJelly, Some of what you wrote is touching and I agree. We are certainly responsibl.....
» 24/10/2014 5:14:49 PM The question of net benefit is indeed very complex. Very few would argue against the gros.....
» 24/10/2014 1:58:02 PM (...continued) <<Well I do, and so do scientists and medical doctors.>> Plea.....
» 24/10/2014 1:57:58 PM Dear AJ Philips, <<No-one has stolen anything. Theft requires intent.>> Or r.....
» 24/10/2014 9:56:50 AM Dear AJ Philips, According to Wikipedia, "The etymological fallacy is a genetic fall.....
» 24/10/2014 8:51:40 AM Dear Pericles, <<If my "friend or lover" said anything of the sort to me,.....
» 23/10/2014 11:21:41 AM Dear David, <<Australia - also currently a member of the United Nations Security Co.....
» 22/10/2014 11:03:47 AM Suppose your friend or lover comes in front of you and instead of hugging them you say, &q.....
» 22/10/2014 8:14:23 AM Dear Hippie, <<Can you please explain what exactly that is supposed to mean>>.....
» 21/10/2014 3:52:11 PM Yes, SM, Our prayers are with the brave Kurds, who are saving themselves and stopping tha.....
» 21/10/2014 12:49:25 PM Dear Ybgirp, <<What are the REAL reasons you mention?>> Exactly those that y.....
» 21/10/2014 12:16:24 PM <<Contracts entered into by Labor, if valued like other Commonwealth contracts, lock.....
» 20/10/2014 4:58:59 PM Dear Ybgirp, <<Why are some people so desperate to deny>> When governments t.....
» 20/10/2014 4:45:32 PM Dear Hasbeen, <<but the fish wanted 180C>> No, I'm pretty sure they preferre.....
» 20/10/2014 4:33:58 PM <<Finally some commonsense on this ridiculous topic.Finally some commonsense on this.....
» 19/10/2014 5:47:33 PM Dear Joe, <<No, I don't envisage that happening either, too many internal contradic.....
» 19/10/2014 12:26:27 PM Dear Joe, <<So what can ameliorate the excesses of capitalism ? How can democracy b.....
» 19/10/2014 2:58:04 AM Dear LEGO and Kactuz, The source of "What have the Romans ever done for us" is .....
» 17/10/2014 3:34:05 PM Dear Jay, <<Islam holds the Koran to be incontrovertible>> Yes, if Islam wer.....
» 17/10/2014 11:40:08 AM Dear David, <<Who else should we blame?>> The ones who sell their political .....
» 17/10/2014 10:31:57 AM The author, an apologist for materialistic humanism, should indeed be thankful to Islam fo.....
» 17/10/2014 8:59:18 AM Dear Rhrosty, I was not going to comment about this topic of homelessness at this point (.....
» 16/10/2014 8:13:04 PM (...continued) What I am asking is for freedom from society. This doesn't mean that one .....
» 16/10/2014 8:13:01 PM Dear Barry, As you claim that you are not a social-democrat (socialist-yes, democrat-yes,.....
» 15/10/2014 11:18:21 PM Dear David, After a socialist revolution, I would regret that ebola hasn't taken me earli.....
» 15/10/2014 6:57:25 PM Dear Barry, I understand that you like Marxism. I also can name a few ideas that I like, .....
» 14/10/2014 10:10:26 PM Dear Killarney, Should I write down the list of things that people do in public space whi.....
» 14/10/2014 8:05:57 PM Dear Barry, <<JKJ, An example of private production is anything made by an individu.....
» 14/10/2014 5:10:17 PM Well said, Emma! The colonialist mentality of Western culture yet again raises its ugly h.....
» 11/10/2014 10:55:33 PM Dear Poirot, <<So man, in his realisation of his puniness amidst the natural world,.....
» 10/10/2014 1:11:50 PM What a treasure of wisdom, Foxy - Thank you for this link!.....
» 10/10/2014 12:52:37 PM Dear Poirot, <<How about " Why would you worship God when (according to you) G.....
» 10/10/2014 11:43:02 AM Dear Poirot, <<So you appear to be saying that our minds employ the concept of God .....
» 10/10/2014 10:20:33 AM Dear Bazz, I doubt that people actually read the Linux source-code nowadays as it gets lo.....
» 10/10/2014 9:56:39 AM Dear Poirot, Isn't the tooth-fairy a female? Creating concepts for our convenience canno.....
» 10/10/2014 8:10:00 AM Dear AJ Philips, <<Interesting point, though I'm not sure that it's very useful in .....
» 10/10/2014 1:54:12 AM Thank you Philip! Of course the NSA is a different story. I suppose they wouldn't need to.....
» 10/10/2014 12:17:13 AM Dear AJ Philips and Banjo, Regarding the definition of "atheist", it just occur.....
» 9/10/2014 11:59:19 PM Dear Philip, <<Yuyutsu - EULA is End User License Agreement, viruses, hackers etc d.....
» 8/10/2014 10:18:56 PM Dear Foxy, <<Theodicies can explain human problems in many ways.>> Yes, but .....
» 8/10/2014 6:53:46 PM Thank you for all the answers! I want to narrow down my question: From a technical point.....
» 8/10/2014 6:34:32 PM Dear Foxy, The reason is historical. At the time it was discovered that hemp makes stron.....
» 8/10/2014 3:40:17 PM Dear Bazz, <<Can anyone pick holes in that?>> Yes, Hitler lived in our times.....
» 8/10/2014 10:38:03 AM A question: Does the Microsoft EULA or privacy-statement allow them to spy on other compu.....
» 8/10/2014 10:29:15 AM Dear Jardine, <<In practice, given their mutual mindset, there is no solution but f.....
» 8/10/2014 9:17:07 AM Why bring up this stupid subject again and again? It's dead and buried!.....
» 7/10/2014 11:50:30 AM Dear Hippie, I was not aware that Sufis were persecuted: by ISIS perhaps - everything is .....
» 6/10/2014 11:31:01 PM (...continued) Recalling that similar hijacking of a spiritual master's teachings by thei.....
» 6/10/2014 11:30:58 PM Dear Hippie, <<Yuyutsu, you would make a terrible lawyer.>> Thank you, that'.....
» 6/10/2014 1:35:40 PM Dear Jayb, Just a tiny correction: <<Moses was a descendent of Joseph whose family.....
» 6/10/2014 12:48:54 PM Dear kactuz, You mentioned two alternatives, then concluded: "There is no middle gro.....
» 6/10/2014 11:01:54 AM Dear Banjo, Yes, FGM is abuse no matter how you look at it. (and so is MGM) As individua.....
» 6/10/2014 10:09:34 AM When one regrets a promise they made, the honest thing to do is to ask those to whom the p.....
» 6/10/2014 8:54:27 AM Dear May, <<Are you admitting with this that you may be either partially wrong, or .....
» 6/10/2014 1:03:23 AM Dear May, No definition can be accurate - language is limited and pales to describe reali.....
» 5/10/2014 11:30:36 PM Dear May, <<Yuyustu, what is your definition of the word "god"?>> .....
» 5/10/2014 7:47:50 PM Dear Foxy, Thank you. I couldn't say it better. You wrote that "Some form of religi.....
» 5/10/2014 12:58:54 PM Dear Foxy, <<I would define religion as a system of communally shared beliefs and r.....
» 5/10/2014 10:13:52 AM Dear May, <<In a free, modern and democratic society every person has the absolute .....
» 5/10/2014 1:40:06 AM Dear Alan, I am not saying that there are no differences between the two major parties, b.....
» 5/10/2014 12:58:46 AM (...continued) <<your passive support...If you belonged to a political party or a s.....
» 5/10/2014 12:58:42 AM (...continued) <<So my question remains unanswered.>> By now, I find it hard.....
» 5/10/2014 12:58:39 AM Dear AJ Philips, <<your narrowing of the definition of religion>> I was not .....
» 4/10/2014 9:21:36 PM Dear Alan, <<The differences in policies, Yuyutsu, do seem fairly significant, espe.....
» 3/10/2014 9:01:08 AM The mutiny of the sheep - I'd like to see that day: Bah Bah, we shall no longer eat grass......
» 3/10/2014 8:30:27 AM Yes, the war is going to be long because too many are interested in its continuation. Obvi.....
» 2/10/2014 8:05:24 PM Dear May, It's becoming too long and tedious, so allow me to go back to the basics and re.....
» 2/10/2014 5:37:21 PM Dear Joe, The same questions are bugging me too. I wish I had the answers! If we had the.....
» 2/10/2014 4:14:35 PM (...continued) <<That’s why I figured you re-define religion.>> It's been ma.....
» 2/10/2014 4:14:26 PM Dear AJ Philips, I am happy to take your advice and henceforth call organised-systems-of-.....
» 2/10/2014 2:26:56 PM Dear Poirot, The graph shows only 34 countries - but the overall number is much bigger, s.....
» 1/10/2014 9:48:31 PM Dear Dane, I didn't claim that "Islam is a religion of peace". In fact, I just .....
» 1/10/2014 7:16:31 PM Dear Dane, <<If 1 billion Muslims believe Mohammed said something and are willing t.....
» 1/10/2014 7:03:30 PM (...continued) <<What relevance do other people’s brains have?>> The point w.....
» 1/10/2014 7:03:25 PM Dear AJ Philips, <<But you have still given me no reason to accept that your unders.....
» 1/10/2014 7:03:13 PM Dear May, You made a heap of assumptions in your last post, all unfounded: <<If th.....
» 1/10/2014 4:39:09 PM Dear Jardine, <<People benefit society more by avoiding and evading tax than they d.....
» 1/10/2014 12:58:07 PM Dear Runner, "One who puts on his armor should not boast like one who takes it off.&.....
» 1/10/2014 11:22:09 AM Of course, debt is like heroin - those who embark on that road can never stop. No wonder .....
» 1/10/2014 9:15:13 AM Dear Dane, << Are you saying the Koran is not the word of God through his prophet M.....
» 1/10/2014 8:38:19 AM Dear May, <<No gods/god exist. That's factual reality.>> OK, OK, and the sun.....
» 1/10/2014 12:21:10 AM Dear Rehctub, <<many large corporations are already questioning their reasons for d.....
» 1/10/2014 12:11:40 AM Dear May, <<No gods exist.>> Indeed, and I thank God for that morning and ev.....
» 1/10/2014 12:05:37 AM Dear Bazz, <<I do not think that moslems will change as they believe the Koran has .....
» 30/09/2014 11:57:40 PM All this talk of "rights" make me sick: "human rights", "woman's.....
» 30/09/2014 11:27:43 PM Dear Hippie, <<Islam by its very nature is stuck, it cannot evolve or change becaus.....
» 30/09/2014 10:53:01 PM (...continued) <<how did you rule out any of the above rational explanations for re.....
» 30/09/2014 10:52:57 PM Dear AJ Philips, I take back the "dishonest" part: you are not acting dishonest.....
» 30/09/2014 10:17:34 AM Dear AJ Philips, <<How do you know I’ve had no experience of what you describe?>.....
» 29/09/2014 8:00:28 PM Dear A.J. Philips, Sorry, but how can I possibly describe something you have no experienc.....
» 29/09/2014 5:41:40 PM Dear Hippie, My comment to you was of a general nature, not particularly about Islam. Ob.....
» 29/09/2014 5:03:24 PM Dear May, <<Here's the proof with Jesus' own words, Rev 2:22.23>> The book o.....
» 29/09/2014 1:48:33 PM Dear May, Did Jesus seek power and domination? No, he didn't! What you describe are soc.....
» 29/09/2014 10:47:00 AM WARNING! Don't open the link above (Luton) - at least don't follow the links on that page.....
» 28/09/2014 9:55:31 PM Dear Rehctub, It feels nice to be agreed with, but no, I don't think that any work-relate.....
» 28/09/2014 12:58:10 AM Dear Rehctub, <<Yuyutsu, are you aware that a business owner is not allowed to clai.....
» 26/09/2014 6:21:38 PM Dear Julian, <<Howard disarmed all owners of many types of gun simultaneously>&g.....
» 26/09/2014 11:16:08 AM OK, and thanks for the good intentions, but why this language? Implicit is that governmen.....
» 25/09/2014 10:54:38 PM Dear Julian, Parents, grandparents and heroes, as well as the food, the earth, the water .....
» 25/09/2014 3:59:19 PM Dear Ojnab, I have read this view of yours before and while I do not agree, for the purpo.....
» 25/09/2014 10:45:16 AM One should not be arrested for standing in the street and lying. Yet the "Universal .....
» 25/09/2014 9:57:33 AM Indeed, it is so unfair and sad that in Australia, true and reasonable work expenses for o.....
» 25/09/2014 9:19:16 AM When a restaurant is really good, customers want to return, again and again - so how about.....
» 24/09/2014 12:24:03 PM It is relatively so much cheaper and easier to stop ebola while it is still in Africa. PE.....
» 24/09/2014 10:11:26 AM Dear Jardine, <<I like people.>> Sure, but why do they need to come here all.....
» 24/09/2014 9:46:58 AM The state, which is supposed to protect us, is in fact aiding and abetting violent crimes .....
» 24/09/2014 9:19:11 AM Too many people. Will it stop nicely?.....
» 23/09/2014 2:04:52 PM -> Australia’s secular National Anthem is being undermined <- How wonderful! How re.....
» 23/09/2014 12:16:57 PM Religion is always peaceful. Religion leads us to realising the common ground, that essenc.....
» 23/09/2014 10:38:22 AM When I was a child, they had these chewing-gum packs with picture-cards inside. The pictur.....
» 21/09/2014 1:07:35 PM Dear Joe, <<a state has precisely that 'Good Samaritan' obligation>> But not.....
» 20/09/2014 11:08:36 PM (...continued) <<You raise an interesting point: that we can opt out of the protect.....
» 20/09/2014 11:08:30 PM Dear Matthew, I have no objection for those who want to be protected by the state to cont.....
» 16/09/2014 1:21:30 AM Dear Joe, You say you are an atheist, but if indeed you want nothing to do with God, just.....
» 15/09/2014 4:35:46 AM To capture my soul, music needs to be elevating, it needs to be directed at God, or at lea.....
» 14/09/2014 11:16:07 PM Dear Joe, I was hoping not to digress into issues of morality and religion in this partic.....
» 12/09/2014 5:46:38 PM Dear Joe, <<We - all three of us - are FOR suicide, pure and simple, agreed ?>&g.....
» 12/09/2014 10:48:44 AM Dear Ojnab, <<so have compassion for the people who wish to die by Voluntary Euthan.....
» 11/09/2014 5:42:36 PM Dear Hippie, I am well aware of the reality, the sad reality, in which an organised crimi.....
» 11/09/2014 4:52:51 PM Dear Joe, The state as it stands, perhaps all states - but that makes no difference, is a.....
» 11/09/2014 3:45:09 PM There are hosts of Filipinos and Filipinas, all well-mannered, educated and eager to fly o.....
» 11/09/2014 3:23:28 PM Dear Joe, <<So a blanket right to be involved in someone else's death is not likely.....
» 10/09/2014 8:09:08 PM Dear Hippie, <<We have intruders trying to illegally access our borders.>> Y.....
» 10/09/2014 8:09:04 PM Dear Hasbeen, <<After all we are the ones who settled it, tamed it, fought for it, .....
» 10/09/2014 12:10:52 PM Dear Bruce, <<No one has yet offered a single valid reason for Australia to accept .....
» 10/09/2014 11:56:14 AM Yes, Falk's reply is idiotic, but Israel is a special case because its own leaders actuall.....
» 10/09/2014 11:26:23 AM The language of the article is misleading: <<If we're arguing for a 'right-to-die'&.....
» 10/09/2014 8:12:15 AM Dear DreamOn, The situation you describe is inevitable so long as the slime in Canberra b.....
» 9/09/2014 11:34:47 PM Dear Joe, The only legitimate source of power of a state, is the sum of legitimate powers.....
» 9/09/2014 7:18:23 PM Dear Bren, <<If we close the offshore detention centres, be prepared for a renewed .....
» 9/09/2014 6:30:31 PM Dear Joe, <<Perhaps what may seem to be a 'moral act' to one person... may seem to .....
» 8/09/2014 11:22:30 PM Dear Bren, <<The author seems to advocate extreme libertarianism to the point that .....
» 8/09/2014 5:11:20 PM Dear Jardine, <<Yes, I thought Ludwig would be delighted at the prospect of thousan.....
» 8/09/2014 4:59:02 PM Dear Bren, <<How many people would support the assisted suicide of a distraught jil.....
» 8/09/2014 1:22:33 PM Dear Runner, I am pretty convinced that David does not advocate killing either the unborn.....
» 8/09/2014 9:34:06 AM =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= 2014: Dr Walter Starck has a PhD in marine science inclu.....
» 8/09/2014 9:04:52 AM Absolutely so! Thank you, David!.....
» 8/09/2014 8:57:03 AM Those who watch TV, allowing ads to penetrate their own home, contaminating their own cast.....
» 7/09/2014 5:09:49 PM Dear Hasbeen, <<if they had not stuck that artificial stent in the artery in my hea.....
» 7/09/2014 4:54:39 PM Yes, Ludwig has a point: it is good to have 2 billion people less on this planet. In fact,.....
» 7/09/2014 2:40:53 PM Dear Jardine, You provided several evolutionary advantages for faking religion, which is .....
» 7/09/2014 11:07:58 AM Dear Jardine, If Gibbons is correct, then this is fantastic, then what is known today as .....
» 5/09/2014 11:32:51 AM Dear Jardine, I sincerely hope that you are right about Muhammad being illiterate and tha.....
» 5/09/2014 11:09:13 AM The debate over energy storage utterly misses the point: We already have plenty of effici.....
» 5/09/2014 10:51:13 AM Dear Jon, <<Because they don't bloody well work.>> That's all relative to wh.....
» 4/09/2014 6:47:34 AM OK, I filled the form. Frankly, I can't see any connection between the questions and cult.....
» 3/09/2014 8:07:16 PM <<He has said he does not want naval or customs personnel to have to look into the f.....
» 3/09/2014 7:38:05 PM Dear Yvonne, <<I'm not altogether sure where legalizing euthanasia differs from reg.....
» 3/09/2014 6:50:57 PM Dear Jardine, About the claim that Muhammad was illiterate, see: http://radicaltruth.net/.....
» 3/09/2014 1:03:22 PM Dear Jardine, But given the horrors that go on in northern Iraq, I do believe you would s.....
» 3/09/2014 12:39:51 PM Thank you Graham for this accurate presentation. This should be a reminder for those of u.....
» 3/09/2014 11:17:10 AM Dear Yvonne, I AM writing straight on the topic, which is "Time for euthanasia to be.....
» 2/09/2014 4:42:28 PM Dear Yvonne, <<We must have this debate. We must demand legislation that creates cl.....
» 2/09/2014 2:26:55 PM Dear Julian, AS EQUALS - that would be fabulous! But of course it's a dream, it cannot h.....
» 31/08/2014 8:00:58 PM Dear LEGO, <<I prefer to think in terms of reality and logic, not superstitious mys.....
» 31/08/2014 7:39:25 PM Dear Rhrosty, We agree that taking one's own life (with or without the help of others) is.....
» 31/08/2014 9:09:47 AM Dear LEGO, What you are describing is a social issue, not a religious one: Do you in fac.....
» 30/08/2014 11:32:22 PM Dear Rhrosty, <<As someone who believes in reincarnation, and a time and a place fo.....
» 29/08/2014 4:10:50 PM Thanks for clarifying your question, Imajulianutter: The fact that some Jews/Israelis do .....
» 28/08/2014 10:22:46 PM Dear Rhrosty, <<J.K.J. Comparing being required to vote, with being caged and raped.....
» 28/08/2014 4:35:59 PM Dear Imajulianutter, <<Mate that is exactly what the Nazis said ... and did.>>.....
» 28/08/2014 3:47:46 PM Dear Jayb, <<Personally I'm for a bit of Religious Cleansing>> I wonder how .....
» 28/08/2014 12:17:33 PM Dear Jardine, I fully agree, but why specifically object to "restrict other people's.....
» 28/08/2014 11:37:32 AM Dear Jardine, I agree with most you write, but I have a problem with the following: <.....
» 28/08/2014 9:04:17 AM Dear Imajulianutter, <<I am quite justified in calling him a liar.>> That wo.....
» 28/08/2014 5:03:51 AM Dear Iamjulianutter, <<'I condemn all violence and vengeance.'>> Condemnatio.....
» 27/08/2014 5:02:12 PM Dear Wolly, It's not shameful to be the victims of theft, it's only shameful to steal you.....
» 26/08/2014 11:31:25 PM Those who have no shame may still steal our tax-money for their medical services. If you .....
» 26/08/2014 5:50:16 PM Dear Jay, <<If you believe in equality you're a Liberal,>> No, you may well .....
» 26/08/2014 9:14:06 AM Dear Avw, Indeed, the purpose of Israel's continued presence in the West Bank is due to s.....
» 25/08/2014 8:50:25 PM Dear LEGO, It may well be that A billion people want to kill me because they (stupidly) b.....
» 25/08/2014 9:20:52 AM Dear Foxy, <<There are still not enough female MPs in our Parliament.>> Nor .....
» 24/08/2014 12:55:16 AM Dear LEGO, You assume that people in general and Muslims in particular, are rational bein.....
» 22/08/2014 9:48:44 AM Dear Ozzie, <<Just more examples of why Australia does not need immigrants. We shou.....
» 21/08/2014 3:03:57 AM Dear LEGO, You say: <<Everything I see now about Muslims conforms to the stereotyp.....
» 18/08/2014 3:10:34 PM Dear LEGO, Obviously the issues around the message of Islam are in contention among sever.....
» 17/08/2014 8:36:12 AM Dear LEGO, <<All religions think that their particular religion is the one and only.....
» 15/08/2014 1:58:56 PM Dear Kactuz, One may believe the Koran, but still be moral. Anger comes out of attachmen.....
» 15/08/2014 11:17:27 AM Definitely, Ponder: Every person is entirely responsible for his own thoughts, words, and.....
» 15/08/2014 9:26:20 AM The meek shall inherit the earth and psychiatrists shall inherit their wealth. Those who .....
» 14/08/2014 8:57:49 AM The biblical book of Esther begins with Queen Vashti refusing the king's commands to come .....
» 13/08/2014 3:06:35 PM Dear Is Mise, <<If we had nuclear weapons how would we stop the naval, infantry and.....
» 12/08/2014 6:48:30 PM Dear Arjay, Who cares HOW ISIS was created? The beast is now out of the bottle and do you.....
» 12/08/2014 4:10:04 PM Whatever people did or did not in the first half of the 20th century, there are now 7.9 mi.....
» 12/08/2014 3:08:35 PM Too little, Too late. We in Australia cannot expect more than this half-hearted American .....
» 11/08/2014 3:02:37 PM Who is to say that Updike was a Christian? A Christian is someone who follows in the foot.....
» 10/08/2014 2:43:47 PM Dear Shockadelic, Democracy; voting; majority; employment; unemployment; mono/multi-cultu.....
» 10/08/2014 7:39:10 AM Dear LEGO, <<We should not bring people into this country who can not contribute to.....
» 10/08/2014 7:28:14 AM Dear Stezza, <<This is important to understand, that religion has to change to keep.....
» 10/08/2014 2:00:16 AM Dear Shockadelic, <<You don't have to identify with that group personally.>> .....
» 8/08/2014 1:12:58 PM Dear Shockadelic, <<those who stay are implicitly giving their consent.>> So.....
» 7/08/2014 2:04:14 PM Dear Shockadelic, Although being agreed with feels nice, from the rest of your response I.....
» 6/08/2014 8:25:46 PM Despite all those ugly "must"s, Valerie has a point: Citizenship is a contract .....
» 6/08/2014 11:38:46 AM Great article. This just shows how absurd and evil the power of the state is, forcing its.....
» 6/08/2014 11:01:40 AM Dear Suse, <<It seems to me that the Israelis and the Palestinians have had this lo.....
» 5/08/2014 10:21:38 PM Dear Suse, <<most violence has been committed in the name of religion...so let's ba.....
» 5/08/2014 9:09:15 AM Dear Jon, As usual, religion is being blamed for the acts of the non-religious. When I w.....
» 3/08/2014 7:33:15 PM Dear Imajulianutter, <<mate yutu and Leggo are proven cowards and liars. Neither wi.....
» 3/08/2014 9:45:39 AM Dear SteeleRedux, <<And where is the source saying this soldier was helping Palesti.....
» 2/08/2014 11:34:22 PM Dear SteeleRedux, <<Now I need to get this right, are you asking us to shed a tear .....
» 1/08/2014 5:08:33 PM Dear Imajulianutter, <<We in Australia do not fear the religion of our neighbours.&.....
» 1/08/2014 1:18:21 PM Dear Rhrosty, <<We could do worse than to invite them to do just that, in a largely.....
» 1/08/2014 12:44:47 PM Here is a face: St. sergeant Matan Gotlib was killed two days ago by a bomb that was place.....
» 31/07/2014 3:18:25 PM Nobody can legalise same-sex marriage, try hard as they can - because it is ALREADY legal!.....
» 31/07/2014 3:05:10 PM Thanks - but no thanks! I do not aspire to greatness - I am not a megalomaniac. There on.....
» 31/07/2014 2:13:19 PM Dear Julian, So lets suppose that the Australian aboriginals offered resistance to the fa.....
» 30/07/2014 7:19:52 PM Dear Julian, Yes, I do have an open account with Zionism, the Jewish settlers, the occupa.....
» 30/07/2014 1:52:46 PM Dear Mikk, <<The murderous response from the zionists>> The response you ref.....
» 30/07/2014 11:45:23 AM Dear Joe, As I wrote, some fine details may need to be looked at, such as the case of dep.....
» 30/07/2014 10:15:14 AM Dear Joe, I do not wish to draw any such line: all human laws are artificial, hence any l.....
» 30/07/2014 12:53:45 AM Dear Raycom, <<Regrettably, Christopher Pyne has succumbed to the bullying of the h.....
» 30/07/2014 12:32:14 AM Dear Julian, <<All we need to do is pick a side.>> If I were living in Gaza,.....
» 29/07/2014 11:23:18 PM Dear Joe, <<Can we differentiate between suicide, and 'assisted death', and what mi.....
» 29/07/2014 2:58:19 PM Dear Tombee, <<We cannot help them all.>> Of course we cannot and nobody is .....
» 29/07/2014 7:04:37 AM Better send all politicians flying first class non-stop with their whole extended families.....
» 29/07/2014 12:09:55 AM Dear Imajulianutter, <<How can you abhor Israel's institutionalised intolerance yu,.....
» 28/07/2014 11:11:01 PM Dear Mac, The ultimate aim of the faithful is to unite with God. Anyone who has other ai.....
» 28/07/2014 4:53:21 PM Dear Arjay, I agree that what is going on in the financial markets is wrong and immoral. .....
» 28/07/2014 4:40:30 PM Dear Jayb, <<They don't?>> Some do, some more than others - and to that exte.....
» 28/07/2014 3:44:23 PM Dear Helga, It is true that religion has much to do with self-control, but it has nothing.....
» 28/07/2014 2:40:39 PM Suicide is, more often than not, a sin - because it is usually done with a selfish motive......
» 27/07/2014 2:40:31 PM Dear Foxy, <<Dear otb, Well said! Bravo!>> Indeed, and a Bravo to George too.....
» 27/07/2014 2:32:56 PM Dear Imajulianutter, <<You show a total disregsrd for the foundation of western soc.....
» 27/07/2014 2:32:36 AM Dear David, It is very sad that you do not know yourself. Since your body was born, ever.....
» 26/07/2014 11:59:35 PM Dear David, Your body and your mind are entities, perhaps one entity perhaps not, it does.....
» 26/07/2014 10:36:19 PM Dear David, This is all so, but what has this unexpected lesson in biology to do with our.....
» 26/07/2014 9:09:40 PM Dear David, <<The mind does not survive the death of the body.>> Quite possi.....
» 26/07/2014 8:49:34 PM Dear ConservativeHippie, <<Tough talking from a declared anarchist.>> This i.....
» 25/07/2014 1:59:42 PM Dear Imajulianutter, I do not support atrocities and hatred. I care not for Palestinians.....
» 25/07/2014 12:20:37 PM Dear David, <<I have no illusions of there being a God or me being that imaginary e.....
» 25/07/2014 11:09:40 AM No Arjay, we cannot rely on the USA to protect us indefinitely - that's why we need to hav.....
» 25/07/2014 2:01:09 AM Dear David, You are rightly stating that happiness would not be recognised without sorrow.....
» 24/07/2014 7:24:07 PM Dear David F., <<There is no evidence for anything existing other than this physica.....
» 24/07/2014 3:36:47 PM Dear Imajulianutter, I am sadly aware that there are some Jews in Israel (and America) wh.....
» 24/07/2014 1:45:49 PM Dear SPQR, Everything which exists is temporary. Had God existed, then He too would be mo.....
» 24/07/2014 12:37:12 PM Dear SteeleRedux, <<2 civilians (though if they are on militarty age in Israel they.....
» 24/07/2014 1:08:52 AM Dear Suse, <<We have to have laws.>> Some laws are legitimate, others are no.....
» 23/07/2014 3:30:02 PM Neither living nor dying is rational......
» 23/07/2014 2:10:50 PM Dear Suse, Of course in the ultimate sense no government can protect one's life - but the.....
» 23/07/2014 1:49:10 AM Dear Suse, <<or are too scared of changes in medical law like this.>> What h.....
» 23/07/2014 1:11:23 AM Dear Dan, I never suggested that God would lie, is whimsical or irrelevant (it's rather t.....
» 22/07/2014 6:39:00 PM Dear SM, <<How many of the 1200 were drowned in your name?>> People drowned .....
» 22/07/2014 6:23:20 PM Dear Imajulianutter, <<I wonder at your agenda. Is it appeasement?>> My agen.....
» 22/07/2014 5:07:35 PM Zionists and anti-Zionists play football against each other - but the ball are the ordinar.....
» 22/07/2014 4:25:17 PM I agree with Ludwig: The idea about the necessity for shifting away from our dependence o.....
» 22/07/2014 3:59:20 PM The question whether people have the right to XYZ is all wrong - the real question is what.....
» 22/07/2014 8:47:11 AM Not in my name either. The act of forcibly picking up people at sea and locking them up i.....
» 20/07/2014 1:06:00 AM Cursed be the situation where we need family-names in the first place: it just shows that .....
» 18/07/2014 4:46:32 PM Dear Dan, I also am driven to tears when I sing Handel's "Since by man came death&qu.....
» 16/07/2014 8:15:49 PM Dear Dan, Whether Darwin's evolution theory is correct or not is merely a scientific ques.....
» 15/07/2014 7:56:22 PM Dear Dan, Please excuse me for delaying my response. I find it difficult to answer you wi.....
» 14/07/2014 10:57:30 PM Dear Matthew, I think you have misunderstood: That millions are playing cat-and-mouse wi.....
» 14/07/2014 9:05:43 AM Yes, marriage is a private matter and the state should not be in the business of defining .....
» 13/07/2014 4:45:42 PM Dear Dan, Such questions as to whether or not the bible relates to the same physical univ.....
» 13/07/2014 8:45:50 AM Thank you for this good article, Peter. Excuse me, but some churches are made of idiots. .....
» 13/07/2014 8:15:44 AM Dear Dan, Evolution only speaks about our bodies. It makes no reference to us, it makes n.....
» 13/07/2014 1:28:27 AM It IS possible to keep growing and growing and growing. Technology can probably keep it al.....
» 12/07/2014 10:12:13 PM Dear Dan, Animal instincts in themselves aren't a sin, just a fact - but obeying those in.....
» 9/07/2014 8:23:45 PM Dear Mattthew, <<Yuyutsu – I am very disappointed to find even you making remarks l.....
» 7/07/2014 2:49:00 PM Dear Nathan, <<but what people don't realise is that currently we have a "medi.....
» 6/07/2014 10:06:42 PM Dear Banjo, As long as you live, you serve - like it or not, you cannot help it. The que.....
» 6/07/2014 9:36:25 PM Definitely not. My health is my own business. I don't want anyone tracking me and I shop .....
» 6/07/2014 3:56:24 PM Dear Fenzink, Yes, it is harder today to get a job - so "thank" your government.....
» 6/07/2014 5:01:59 AM Dear Dan, The original commandment is literally "Thou shalt love the Lord your God w.....
» 4/07/2014 9:00:27 PM <<We may be of many faiths but we are Australians first so shouldn't be ruled by rel.....
» 4/07/2014 5:53:58 PM Dear Dan, When one bases one's faith on material or historical facts, one plays on the de.....
» 4/07/2014 12:35:59 AM Dear Dan, I never implied for a moment as if you lost your faith. I will stop here, not .....
» 3/07/2014 3:37:10 PM This story of "social contract" brings to mind the story of the wolf and the lam.....
» 3/07/2014 6:58:08 AM Unashamedly, the author treats children (other than his own) as objects, as "human ca.....
» 3/07/2014 5:46:48 AM Dear Dan, I understand that it is very difficult to look outside the square and step out .....
» 3/07/2014 4:39:50 AM Dear Bazz, <<I think we might well be seeing a battle for power between the most fa.....
» 2/07/2014 4:31:39 PM Dear Dan, It is useless to try to understand the bible through a modern mindset. If the .....
» 2/07/2014 8:39:17 AM Dear Diver Dan, <<...Is "who cares" too strong a word?>> Yes. Rea.....
» 2/07/2014 8:18:19 AM <<Israel could be Jordan's lifeline in preventing this happening.>> Israel SH.....
» 2/07/2014 7:49:07 AM Dear Banjo, <<Why then do we need religion to “detach ourselves from this world” ? .....
» 1/07/2014 9:48:08 PM Dear Dan, <<The key to understanding anything comes from understanding its origin, .....
» 1/07/2014 1:24:28 PM Godzilla cannot be placed back in its cage - because it never was caged in the first place.....
» 1/07/2014 1:52:34 AM Dear Dan. <<Every worldview or faith, even the secular, needs a good creation myth......
» 27/06/2014 9:46:25 PM Dear Foxy, <<a country where the citizens choose to ignore the laws descends into c.....
» 27/06/2014 7:00:43 PM Dear SM, <<At 18 they become adults, and the issues of child support and custody di.....
» 27/06/2014 6:38:52 PM Dear Individual, <<What really gets to me is that the racists are always calling fo.....
» 27/06/2014 4:23:09 PM Nothing happens at the age of 18. Just imagine: do youths who move to a different time-zo.....
» 27/06/2014 2:49:40 PM Beautiful article, Bernard. I agree, but take it a step further: <<At the most fun.....
» 27/06/2014 2:28:11 PM As stated by Macedonian Advocacy, There is definitely no room in Australia for racism, int.....
» 26/06/2014 3:26:27 PM Dear Matthew, This article is about why religion is to be tolerated. If we allow anyone t.....
» 25/06/2014 7:54:17 PM Dear Jardine, <<The problem with explaining the existence of religion in terms of r.....
» 25/06/2014 7:32:35 PM Dear Matthew, <<Why do you conclude that IF I do not have a belief in God and certa.....
» 25/06/2014 5:00:17 PM Dear Matthew, As for "WHY IS ANYONE BOTHERING TO ENTERTAIN THIS NOTION AT ALL?".....
» 24/06/2014 3:43:58 PM Dear Foxy, <<Although religion is a universal social institution, it takes a multit.....
» 24/06/2014 9:01:26 AM In other words, one doesn't need to die in order to arrive in hell......
» 24/06/2014 8:47:09 AM The biblical prophets were independent of the regime and risked their lives telling kings .....
» 20/06/2014 3:43:07 PM Dear Nathan, The question should be "COULD religion be taught in public schools?&quo.....
» 19/06/2014 5:47:00 PM A secular state, especially such that reveres objective evidence, is by definition totally.....
» 18/06/2014 4:40:45 AM I completely agree with everyone so far (Asclepius, individual, David F., Individual, Arja.....
» 18/06/2014 4:13:04 AM Dear Johara, You describe yourself as "a wife, a mother who juggles the responsibili.....
» 12/06/2014 12:07:38 PM Dear SM, <<Is it my imagination, or do the past and present Labor leaders look like.....
» 12/06/2014 8:55:43 AM "the longer one works, the longer one lives." Surely alcohol is even better: it.....
» 12/06/2014 12:17:53 AM Dear Jay, <<It's progressives like you and Yuyutsu and Foxy who are the problem>.....
» 11/06/2014 11:42:38 PM It's all relative, Gadfly: A Catholic father came to know that his daughter has come to n.....
» 11/06/2014 7:07:11 PM Thank you Foxy, it was a moving clip. I haven't watched this as I wouldn't allow a TV in .....
» 11/06/2014 6:52:15 PM Dear Joe, It's one thing for the police to do its job and another for reporters to gossip.....
» 11/06/2014 6:43:18 PM Dear Hasbeen, <<be damn careful to take a few bucks out of it on a regular basis.&g.....
» 11/06/2014 12:18:16 PM Neither terrorists nor the "security sector" could be successful without their f.....
» 11/06/2014 10:18:05 AM Thank you Peter. While modernity with its digital age is today's plague, the whole of the.....
» 10/06/2014 9:13:38 PM Dear Fester, <<You would be insane to choose exile under such conditions, and insan.....
» 10/06/2014 6:22:52 PM The only context where the arbitrary age of '18' means anything, is within the Western cul.....
» 9/06/2014 11:17:41 PM Dear Individual, <<You have obviously not been at the receiving end of criminals.&g.....
» 9/06/2014 5:54:51 PM Dear Individual, <<They are criminals, stop treating them better than their victims.....
» 9/06/2014 4:41:45 PM Dear Rehctub, <<until they turn up at the emergency department and EXPECT free medi.....
» 9/06/2014 1:44:56 PM Dear Rhrosty, <<One can teach themselves from books and attending STOLEN lectures!?.....
» 9/06/2014 12:54:23 AM Dear Fester, <<So calorie restriction on the inside is a serious human rights viola.....
» 8/06/2014 9:01:36 PM When I was small I was told: "If you don't eat your soup, I'll call the police, then .....
» 7/06/2014 11:34:55 PM Dear Shockadelic, <<Yuyutsu, population increase "by womb" has been decli.....
» 7/06/2014 10:51:12 PM Dear Hasbeen, <<She said she had never intended going to work, & earning to repay h.....
» 7/06/2014 10:22:21 PM Dear Rhrosty, <<It's not them who grant rights but those who elect them.>> S.....
» 6/06/2014 4:47:12 PM Thanks you, Hasbeen, <<When they needed them they paid, & would again, only when th.....
» 6/06/2014 4:22:08 PM Dear OnTheBeach, I understand Nathan's initial post, but I agree only partially. Given t.....
» 6/06/2014 1:56:21 PM Dear Rhorsty, Decriminalise - definitely. Moralise - not. While governments must not int.....
» 6/06/2014 11:45:18 AM Dear Hasbeen, <<Yuyutsu no amount of rationalizing can ever justify anyone making a.....
» 6/06/2014 11:04:04 AM Dear Rhrosty, The highest a donkey can think is "maybe my master will not hit me tod.....
» 6/06/2014 10:15:33 AM You shouldn't need a degree in engineering in order to be an engineer. If universities ch.....
» 6/06/2014 9:55:03 AM <<Human rights are entitlements that nations have collectively agreed>> There.....
» 6/06/2014 2:50:49 AM (...continued) Sorry, but I grew up with a mother who was exactly in that situation, wher.....
» 6/06/2014 2:50:42 AM Dear Saltpetre, Heaven and earth are two extremes - it doesn't need to be all black or wh.....
» 6/06/2014 12:44:45 AM Dear Divergence, <<Back in the real world, the Australian Academy of Science recomm.....
» 6/06/2014 12:29:33 AM Dear Hasbeen, Yes, your Western civilisation, or at least many aspects thereof which I fi.....
» 5/06/2014 6:51:57 PM (...continued) 5) Dole-lifestyle is better than slavery-lifestyle, where people need to w.....
» 5/06/2014 6:51:52 PM Dear Hasbeen, <<Unemployment benefits as you seem to fail to understand, are not me.....
» 4/06/2014 6:54:38 PM Dear Poirot, I don't find it interesting to stand with a tape-measure and tell exactly wh.....
» 4/06/2014 9:31:48 AM Dear Poirot, <<This govt gets itself elected with a tsunami of lies>> But of.....
» 3/06/2014 11:53:01 PM Dear Pete, <<'Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.'>> According t.....
» 3/06/2014 9:37:36 PM Dear Yvonne, <<I personally enjoyed the protest on Q&A. It was good to see Jones at.....
» 3/06/2014 9:30:58 AM Excellent, Nathan: Your friends from the WWF managed to convince me that I am a bad perso.....
» 3/06/2014 12:48:50 AM My prayers go out to Meriam. No religion could do this to her - only irreligion. Evil peo.....
» 3/06/2014 12:19:47 AM Thank you Pete, I did for the first time post first on an "Article Discussion"......
» 2/06/2014 11:58:16 PM Here is yet another example how laws are the wrong tool to produce morality. No matter how.....
» 2/06/2014 6:48:42 PM Dear Saltpetre, <<We need more jobs, and we need more people fit to take up those j.....
» 2/06/2014 3:33:43 PM Dear Pete, <<To comment first takes skill, character, charisma and of course good l.....
» 2/06/2014 10:15:58 AM Dear Residents Roundtables, <<That is what changes policy, if necessary, by changin.....
» 2/06/2014 2:29:51 AM <<test for comment thread working>> I often wonder why I never saw an OLO art.....
» 2/06/2014 1:56:35 AM Quoting from http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/coffeeroom/topic/stories-from-chelm (the town.....
» 2/06/2014 1:27:39 AM Dear Hasbeen, <<Yuyutsu you are training those kids to believe that stealing is a g.....
» 1/06/2014 11:19:57 PM Dear Nhoj, It's so simple: If you want to have a right to protest, then you need permiss.....
» 1/06/2014 9:53:18 PM Dear Nhoj, <<thanks Yuyu for confirming, with your dictionary definitions, that a r.....
» 1/06/2014 7:54:04 PM Today I found that someone entered my car and took the small change that was there. This .....
» 1/06/2014 4:38:52 AM Dear Nhoj, <<A "right" does NOT require "permission".>> .....
» 31/05/2014 11:57:03 PM Dear Foxy, <<was forced to park next to a monster of a vehicle (RV).>> Reall.....
» 31/05/2014 11:27:50 PM Dear Nhoj, <<The "real" question is whether or not people have the right .....
» 31/05/2014 8:41:00 PM Dear Foxy, In the final episode of "The Prisoner" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki.....
» 27/05/2014 12:16:08 PM Macedonian Advocacy is correct in writing: <<Voters always get the politicians they.....
» 27/05/2014 4:29:57 AM Dear Bagsyl, On the one hand you start by stating, "I agree with Bernard.", the.....
» 25/05/2014 11:40:43 AM Dear LEGO, <<Armoured divisions are not "obsolete." Where on Earth you go.....
» 25/05/2014 12:03:25 AM (...continued) <<Of course, this is what the Arabs are doing now.>> Are you .....
» 25/05/2014 12:03:19 AM Dear LEGO, <<The Golan in particular has given them room to manoeuvre their armoure.....
» 23/05/2014 5:24:43 PM Dear LEGO, <<You seem to think that if Israel returns to it's 1967 borders, that th.....
» 23/05/2014 1:59:26 PM Secular governments have no authority to assume themselves as our moral guardians. Matters.....
» 23/05/2014 1:15:41 AM (...continued) <<Your seem to be suggesting that the Israelis should hand back the .....
» 23/05/2014 1:15:38 AM Dear LEGO, <<What I can't figure out, is why you think that they are wrong for the .....
» 22/05/2014 2:21:28 PM Dear LEGO, <<People like yourself think that war can be solved by identifying who i.....
» 21/05/2014 7:22:40 PM Dear Divergence, <<If something will lead to the collapse of a society, with possib.....
» 21/05/2014 11:32:52 AM Dear Divergence, <<This appears very close to a Cornucopian optimist point of view......
» 21/05/2014 10:42:04 AM Dear Producer, I congratulate you on your hypothesis. Hopefully you will also be able to .....
» 21/05/2014 9:54:07 AM Dear Foyle, <<Human nature is more geared to co-operation than it is to tough compe.....
» 20/05/2014 5:55:28 PM Dear Divergence, <<You and Pericles seem to think that Australia has this enormous .....
» 20/05/2014 5:12:09 PM Dear David, <<Oh, vanity! Have you no shame? Your pride in your distortion of my w.....
» 20/05/2014 1:04:53 PM Penalty rates are good and proper: these are an attempt to mitigate the assault of moderni.....
» 20/05/2014 9:04:32 AM Dear SM, <<Given the above and the existing budget problems, one cannot seriously c.....
» 20/05/2014 5:22:58 AM Dear Nathan, <<We had a large amount of taxpayers funds spent to build school facil.....
» 20/05/2014 4:46:22 AM Dear David, I apologise. I misrepresented your intention. Nevertheless, your original st.....
» 19/05/2014 7:05:21 PM Dear David, Thank you for pointing out the story of Peter Kennedy. I never heard about hi.....
» 19/05/2014 1:48:26 PM Dear Ludwig, I agree that not a cent should go towards immigration. But so many dollars a.....
» 19/05/2014 9:43:56 AM Lucky you, Nathan, When you are young you just find the time for everything......
» 19/05/2014 1:11:00 AM Dear Ludwig, <<No one seems to be interested!>> The reason I am not interest.....
» 19/05/2014 12:09:39 AM Dear Suse, I was actually hoping that Clive, hearing that there's a discussion about him .....
» 18/05/2014 7:29:42 PM Deqr Nhoj, <<Yuyu, I'm so glad to see that we are both ideologically and politicall.....
» 18/05/2014 12:39:11 PM Dearest Suse? Or should I now call you Clive? Congratulations. I wasn't aware that sex-ch.....
» 18/05/2014 12:24:28 PM Dear David, <<A world where nobody bothered about god in any way would have diveste.....
» 18/05/2014 2:43:08 AM Dear Mr. Palmer, I hear that you want to be Australia's next prime-minister. I only have.....
» 18/05/2014 2:34:07 AM Cruelty is the name of the game. It knows no limits... ... unless, none of it is true. I.....
» 18/05/2014 1:36:17 AM (...continued) <<Eliminating human sexuality would eliminate humans>> Let al.....
» 18/05/2014 1:36:09 AM Dear David, Thank you for correcting my English. <<Your definition of religion: “W.....
» 17/05/2014 7:38:15 PM Dear David, Who am I to judge whether Gandhi was a Hindu or Martin Luther King a Christia.....
» 16/05/2014 5:25:09 PM Dear David, <<Religion has very little to do with non-violence>> Non-violenc.....
» 16/05/2014 4:34:06 PM Dear David, <<Considering the encouragement of violence in many different religions.....
» 15/05/2014 2:47:06 PM Dear OnTheBeach, <<Shouldn't diversity be challenging the slackers who find it diff.....
» 15/05/2014 1:59:50 PM Dear Nathan, <<We must eat a healthier diet.>> Why? Isn't death an option? .....
» 15/05/2014 1:42:44 PM Dear JP, <<how can you move further away from everything/God/yourself?>> Fro.....
» 15/05/2014 12:05:25 AM Dear Killarney, <<A country that forces people to keep working after the age of 65,.....
» 14/05/2014 11:38:29 PM <<is laziness rewarded by welfare handouts in today's society?>> It currently.....
» 14/05/2014 7:41:13 PM Dear JP, <<In an atheistic universe (I’m not inferring that you are an atheist as I.....
» 14/05/2014 6:49:06 PM << (2)Imposed a Medicare $7 *TAX* >> Regardless of items (1) and (3), this is.....
» 14/05/2014 10:31:35 AM Dear JP, <<Shadow Minister – you claim that “the cornerstone of this debate is the .....
» 14/05/2014 1:41:06 AM Dear Hasbeen, <<Yuyutsu if you don't like our laws & taxation, you are quite welcom.....
» 13/05/2014 9:27:03 PM Dear Producer, <<Yuyutsu proportional representation is not a poor man’s choice. Th.....
» 13/05/2014 8:13:04 PM Dear LEGO, I am not particularly interested in the topic of racism, nor is it the origina.....
» 13/05/2014 7:36:08 PM Dear Producer, <<I believe (to borrow a phrase) that there should be no taxation wi.....
» 13/05/2014 6:43:09 PM Dear Divergence, <<It is worth pointing out that not even all the early Christians .....
» 13/05/2014 5:08:45 PM Dear Imajulianutter, <<Do you still believe in deuteronomy 22?>> Did I ever?.....
» 13/05/2014 12:41:20 PM Given the dire circumstances, the debt levy on its own would be justified, as to begin wit.....
» 13/05/2014 9:19:33 AM Indeed, Ateday, It seems that the author is envious of those who are not as deeply bogged.....
» 12/05/2014 11:11:21 PM Dear Kevin, The problem with government begins and ends with the fact that it is a non-vo.....
» 12/05/2014 4:55:02 PM Thank you Canary for helping to get our priorities right: Life is all about our relations.....
» 11/05/2014 11:13:05 PM Dear David, <<All governments are human governments regardless of where they claim .....
» 11/05/2014 8:36:49 PM Dear David, <<The state does not decide what is right and wrong. It decides what is.....
» 11/05/2014 8:06:40 PM Dear Nhoj, Of course there is a difference between MGM and FGM, the latter being more dis.....
» 11/05/2014 3:03:48 PM Dear LEGO, I think for myself. Any correlation between my thoughts and those of "tre.....
» 11/05/2014 2:19:37 PM Dear Paul, You have very good and established arguments regarding the fate of the human r.....
» 11/05/2014 2:03:16 PM Dear Nhoj, <<David f, you have no objection to male genital mutilation?>> I'.....
» 11/05/2014 1:41:41 PM Dear Jay, <<That's Nationalism my friend.>> Are you a medical doctor? For y.....
» 10/05/2014 11:25:36 PM Dear Shockadelic, <<Speaking of identification, why should I consider an immigrant .....
» 10/05/2014 10:16:16 PM Dear Pericles, <<If you think about it, instead of instinctively pounding your keyb.....
» 10/05/2014 9:41:29 PM I support the desire of the people of eastern Ukraine for independence. I hope they remai.....
» 10/05/2014 8:47:48 PM Dear LEGO, Enough has been said about the immorality of Arabs/Palestinians/Muslims. That'.....
» 9/05/2014 1:28:34 PM Dear SteeleRedux, Empathy for all sentient beings is admirable. Identification is not. .....
» 9/05/2014 1:08:48 PM Dear Rhrosty, <<We could even grow food in the Sahara, using just sea water.>>.....
» 9/05/2014 12:30:14 PM Dear Pericles, <<Show me a mother who has elected to be one for patriotic, "do.....
» 9/05/2014 11:36:53 AM I was about to write the same, but ChrisPer was ahead of me, so I second him!.....
» 9/05/2014 11:06:31 AM Most of the listed measures to eliminate Australia's debt are positive and well appreciate.....
» 9/05/2014 10:44:26 AM Dear Nathan, <<So why still do so many people not eat organic food?>> You ar.....
» 9/05/2014 10:08:18 AM Dear LEGO, << "The history of the world, Reveals a simple plan, He takes who h.....
» 8/05/2014 9:50:09 PM Dear Banjo, <<It therefore seems logical to me that religion is an ideology.>>.....
» 8/05/2014 1:53:58 PM One of my relatives is homosexual - but he never considered himself as 'gay': he never too.....
» 8/05/2014 1:13:30 PM Quite true, Babette, for those who were already encouraged under former governments to hav.....
» 7/05/2014 3:48:02 PM Thank you Peter for another excellent and beautiful article. Keep up the good work! <&.....
» 7/05/2014 11:41:12 AM I support neither nations nor a planetary nation - democratic or otherwise. Yes, there ne.....
» 6/05/2014 7:53:48 PM Dear Rhian, Good, but just a word of caution: <<Free speech is a fundamentally lib.....
» 6/05/2014 2:07:06 PM What a dangerous and crazy proposition: a "right to be heard"? What's next if s.....
» 5/05/2014 2:13:37 PM Obviously it's not the libertarian thing to add government services or to extend existing .....
» 4/05/2014 4:49:00 AM Hear hear, naughty boys and girls - if you misbehave, then Julia will be back! <<Sh.....
» 2/05/2014 5:32:18 PM Dear JBSH, <<My answer is a most definite yes. It seems the government, and the Dep.....
» 2/05/2014 1:07:49 PM Dear Hasbeen, I can't see how you deduce that I support either Muslims or homosexuals: al.....
» 2/05/2014 10:22:02 AM <We need to unite Australians, not divide them.> YOU have such perverse need, or ra.....
» 2/05/2014 9:07:48 AM (( "It is contrary to etiquette to yawn in the presence of a king," the monarch.....
» 30/04/2014 9:42:31 AM Sounds good: we need to keep the idol of economy in check, to have a real life instead of .....
» 29/04/2014 2:24:07 PM Dear Foxy, I was looking at this question from a broader perspective: Identity is a prob.....
» 28/04/2014 10:59:29 PM Dear Foxy, <<I'd better quit and not ramble on.>> Please don't - all you wro.....
» 28/04/2014 6:11:08 PM Dear Ojnab, <<Yes! Yuyutsu the Royal family are dictators>> Have they ordere.....
» 28/04/2014 2:49:19 PM Dear Foxy, <<I'd be interested to hear your views on the subject.>> <<.....
» 28/04/2014 2:15:51 PM Dear Saltpetre, I was exactly referring the law requiring one to wear a pot on their head.....
» 28/04/2014 2:06:39 PM Dear Nhoj, You call me "radically right wing" just as others on this very topic.....
» 28/04/2014 1:22:08 PM How shallow to attribute the preference for monarchy to some silly celebrity-worship when .....
» 28/04/2014 10:15:32 AM Dear Nhoj, You may be a saint, but Jesus taught us to turn OUR OWN other cheek, not that .....
» 28/04/2014 9:42:37 AM Dear Nathan, When I'm out without the car, I don't leave the car keys at home - they are .....
» 27/04/2014 8:23:04 PM Dear Foxy, <<The world is becoming a single marketplace, where ...>> There y.....
» 25/04/2014 12:04:36 PM Dear Rehctub, <<Yuyutsu, what I am saying is that employer contribution super, not .....
» 25/04/2014 2:01:39 AM Dear Rehctub, <<I do Yuyutsu, stop allowing the punters to gamble with our super an.....
» 24/04/2014 6:13:19 PM Dear Nathan, I am not willing to throw away my outer private vehicle before my inner one .....
» 23/04/2014 4:35:40 PM This is not madness - this is deliberate cruelty! The ones who matter most, are treated l.....
» 23/04/2014 4:16:52 PM Dear Aussieboy, Yes, there is pollution and the reason is the excessive number of humans .....
» 23/04/2014 4:02:40 PM Dear Bazz, <<People will be forced onto their own resources and everything will bec.....
» 23/04/2014 3:26:08 PM Dear Aussie Boy and David G., An overwhelming reason to stop (or at least reduce) burning.....
» 22/04/2014 7:43:27 PM Raising the pension age would not improve productivity. Instead, it will: 1. Force even o.....
» 22/04/2014 7:12:30 PM Dear Rhrosty, What excellent questions: <<If God is all powerful, and everywhere p.....
» 22/04/2014 2:11:22 PM Dear Pericles, Do you wish to rob the poor man's lamb? The two dinosaur parties already .....
» 22/04/2014 12:32:18 AM Dear Shockadelic, Thank you for your support. So after a long detour we are now back 360.....
» 21/04/2014 8:16:59 PM Dear Pericles, Worship of God is indeed the best form of leisure, but it was unwise on th.....
» 20/04/2014 9:33:22 PM Dear Shockadelic, Nothing prevents people of different societies from having various leve.....
» 20/04/2014 2:34:09 PM Dear David, The binding of believers together into what Buddhism calls 'Sangha' is a powe.....
» 20/04/2014 1:06:07 PM Dear Shockadelic, <<You can't go anywhere at all without encountering a "socie.....
» 20/04/2014 12:22:28 PM Bob Day may be slightly better than the rest (in fact I think he is), but even the best of.....
» 20/04/2014 10:26:05 AM Dear Rehctub, <<running a business is about running a business, not managing the pe.....
» 20/04/2014 4:00:53 AM Dear SteeleRedux, The last poster you mentioned actually reads as follows: [ "I wil.....
» 19/04/2014 10:08:08 PM Dear David, Running a search on 'barbaric', the first result that came up was: [ bar·bar.....
» 19/04/2014 8:14:41 PM Well said, Killarney, I couldn't have said it better. Now we're just left to wonder when.....
» 19/04/2014 7:59:53 PM Dear David, <<Nonsense repeated remains nonsense.>> By claiming that "B.....
» 18/04/2014 5:24:38 PM Dear David, Religion is the process of coming closer to God - social bonds and allegiance.....
» 18/04/2014 4:30:42 PM Dear Hasbeen, The purpose of penalty rates should be to compensate real people for real s.....
» 18/04/2014 11:06:54 AM This is an excellent response, David! Just a slight correction if I may: <<It is t.....
» 18/04/2014 10:18:57 AM Dear SPQR, Regarding your second point, you can't eat the cake and have it too: If you w.....
» 18/04/2014 9:46:32 AM Dear Rehctub, <<As for other religions who wish to celebrate days other than our re.....
» 18/04/2014 9:20:08 AM Thank you, Justine, Let us remember that having to work for money is only an accident, th.....
» 17/04/2014 9:25:50 PM (...continued) <<Where controversial laws are made, there is no end to the public r.....
» 17/04/2014 9:25:46 PM Dear Shockadelic, <<Then why are they here? You don't move half way around the plan.....
» 17/04/2014 2:47:44 PM God bless you, Laura. I am proud of your courage and compassion. I am not familiar with .....
» 17/04/2014 1:49:10 PM (...continued) So maturity age, Banjo, depends on culture and aspirations, as well as ind.....
» 17/04/2014 1:49:08 PM Dear Banjo, I am happy to relate to questions of morality, good and evil, but before we s.....
» 17/04/2014 1:54:29 AM Dear Jottikii, Nothing new about the Left accusing me of being a Rightist and the Right a.....
» 16/04/2014 11:14:14 AM Dear Rehctub, <<Yuyutsu, this is Australia mate and, as it appears all are welcome .....
» 16/04/2014 10:14:38 AM Good morning Paul, I am glad about your comfortable personal situation - then you must be.....
» 16/04/2014 1:09:25 AM Dear Hasbeen, <<Oh, & get rid of all those "people of other cultural/religious.....
» 15/04/2014 5:57:19 PM This topic is not really about inheritance tax, but about tax-avoidance - so weed out thos.....
» 15/04/2014 5:47:33 PM Dear 579, <<I can't see what religion has got to do with it.>> Good observat.....
» 15/04/2014 12:42:36 PM It is sad to see how the discussion about individual freedoms is hijacked by this tired le.....
» 13/04/2014 7:51:25 PM Dear Nathan, <<Yes 'Yuyutsu' they put their life on the line - but would I have wan.....
» 11/04/2014 2:40:05 PM Dear Peter, Nobody can ever reduce Christ to an idea. People may have this or that idea .....
» 10/04/2014 6:14:49 PM Dear Rhian, I believe that Christianity can renew itself and adjust its theology accordin.....
» 10/04/2014 5:46:40 PM Dear OnTheBeach, <<Fair enough, but what about the direct and indirect costs to the.....
» 10/04/2014 3:33:51 PM Dear Hasbeen, <<Perhaps he does not consider our whole society is a victim, when th.....
» 10/04/2014 1:50:56 PM Thank you Peter for this excellent, clear and superb exposition! The final step beyond mo.....
» 10/04/2014 12:46:05 PM Dear Banjo, <<There are many, many cultural practices that we currently do not allo.....
» 10/04/2014 9:10:41 AM Dear Banjo, <<I have asked pro MC posters here just what other alien practices shou.....
» 9/04/2014 1:03:01 PM Looks like the author isn't truly concerned about racism and such, but uses its non-preval.....
» 9/04/2014 9:06:32 AM Have a safe journey, Jayb, <<When the first person dies naturally then the others e.....
» 9/04/2014 3:51:46 AM Dear Matthew, In the case of "4 men in a boat" I would agree with Kant that no .....
» 8/04/2014 9:15:36 AM If one is to expect equality, then why only between humans? <<I am diminished when .....
» 7/04/2014 2:28:10 PM Seventeen is way too old to ask young people not to have sex - by then you may as well giv.....
» 7/04/2014 10:33:37 AM Anything goes so long as you don't try to tell us that drugs are good. Drugs are drugs ar.....
» 4/04/2014 6:14:24 PM Dear Jay, <<The social contract is between the state and the people,>> Excus.....
» 4/04/2014 2:56:17 PM Dear Zoe, It is very sad indeed that you were prevented from leaving the country for 20 m.....
» 4/04/2014 11:50:32 AM It is outrageous that the government should keep records about our sex-organs in the first.....
» 3/04/2014 2:07:38 PM Dear OnTheBeach, The Australian electoral system is designed to keep ordinary people out,.....
» 3/04/2014 12:23:52 PM Dear Crackcup, <<Every individual should at least follow the ongoing proceedings of.....
» 2/04/2014 1:18:19 PM Dear Kellie, There are plenty of serious reasons to worry about food security, as well as.....
» 2/04/2014 12:27:41 AM Dear David, <<I have to disagree with all of you.>> I wonder where's the nee.....
» 1/04/2014 12:48:35 PM Thank you David, I completely agree, but even you wrote the word "we" 9 times, .....
» 1/04/2014 6:00:06 AM Dear Matthew, You say that you agree that utilitarian morality is wrong: it certainly is......
» 31/03/2014 10:14:23 PM Dear Ojnab, You should know very well that sexual abuse is not part of any religion. In f.....
» 31/03/2014 5:36:09 PM Dear Ojnab, <<I really cannot come,to terms with the stuipidy of people who believe.....
» 31/03/2014 7:05:33 AM Dear SteeleRedux, The foreigner DID indeed impart new information: If there was only one.....
» 30/03/2014 10:02:35 PM Some may like Abbott's policies, but it doesn't imply that it was the voters' wish. In th.....
» 30/03/2014 6:57:05 PM Dear SteeleRedux, Those followers were indeed a bunch of idiots and it wasn't their guru'.....
» 30/03/2014 2:11:49 PM Dear Other David (VK3AUU), If God were an illusion, would you also say that an illusion c.....
» 29/03/2014 11:29:43 PM Dear SteeleRedux, Thanks for the clip - it's the classical game-theory "prisoner-dil.....
» 28/03/2014 6:18:54 PM A bit of personal perspective: <<Population growth has the potential to get us thin.....
» 28/03/2014 5:15:08 PM Dear SteelRedux, <<In that case the split would be 96 to the head BR, 2 to the thir.....
» 28/03/2014 2:55:18 PM Indeed George, an excellent, balanced and comprehensible article: thank you Max! Now to t.....
» 28/03/2014 1:17:55 PM My mistake: with a positive but 10% or less chance to catch a cold, the third-ranking bush.....
» 28/03/2014 11:57:48 AM I had another look at this model, with interesting finds: Suppose, everything else being .....
» 28/03/2014 12:34:58 AM Dear Hasbeen, <<How anyone, with even half a brain, can not look at the world & und.....
» 27/03/2014 11:21:52 PM Dear Pat, <<Interesting article, I think it shows how abortion defines western civi.....
» 27/03/2014 5:46:55 PM Dear David, <<There are non-theistic religions such as Buddhism which do not have t.....
» 27/03/2014 4:15:51 PM Dear Jon, We're on the same boat because access to moral-high-ground is reserved for thos.....
» 27/03/2014 7:06:55 AM Dear SM, That's wonderful news, the boats have been stopped, so Abbott fulfilled his prom.....
» 26/03/2014 12:53:34 PM Dear SteeleRedux, Thanks for the game, I had a look, bookmarked it and may play it when I.....
» 26/03/2014 12:12:46 PM Dear Imajulianutter, <<The boats have stopped.>> Or perhaps they just got sm.....
» 26/03/2014 9:35:31 AM Dear Jon, You wrote to Peter: <<Never mind that it's revealing new and exciting wa.....
» 26/03/2014 12:07:30 AM Dear SteelRedux, Mathematical game theory is fascinating - situations often result in a &.....
» 25/03/2014 9:39:12 PM Dear SteeleRedux, I checked your puzzle and the result is correct. So the question is, &.....
» 25/03/2014 7:34:41 PM Dear David, If I believed for a moment that your article lacks a hidden agenda (to distra.....
» 25/03/2014 5:35:19 PM Dear Yvonne, Certainly, I agree that questioning others and especially those in authority.....
» 25/03/2014 4:31:35 PM Thank you for another great article, Peter. Proverbs 26:27 says: "Whoever digs a pit.....
» 24/03/2014 5:24:59 PM Dear Yvonne, I only comment about the analogy, not about refugee policy: <<The ana.....
» 24/03/2014 3:28:37 PM What a terrible analogy! Forget about the boat-people or however else you wish to name th.....
» 24/03/2014 2:03:53 PM Dear David, No David, I don't hate your people, who deserve pity rather than hate, especi.....
» 23/03/2014 7:57:18 PM Dear David, You misquote me as saying that I didn't give a damn about 5.5 billion anonymo.....
» 23/03/2014 9:55:48 AM Dear David, Yet more lawyer's tricks to try to get more information about my family, so i.....
» 21/03/2014 4:45:47 PM Dear Plantagenet, <<I hereby express concern for the children in Syria>> I n.....
» 21/03/2014 1:21:23 PM Dear David, I rather have 5.5 billion anonymous children die, than have even ONE of the c.....
» 21/03/2014 10:20:57 AM Dear David, The papers are full of stories about bad things happening to good people. If .....
» 20/03/2014 10:55:54 AM Dear David, <<Not one of you is prepared to acknowledge the UNICEF Report and the h.....
» 19/03/2014 7:19:40 PM Dear AJ Philips, <<I, on the other hand, can be positively defined>> I beg t.....
» 19/03/2014 6:35:08 PM Dear David, <<I am weary of our interchange so will stop.>> Thank you for th.....
» 19/03/2014 4:32:05 PM Dear David, Let's first take law-enforcement out of the equation: as it stands, almost an.....
» 19/03/2014 1:44:08 PM You would really be healthier and better off staying home, going to bed at 10pm with a nic.....
» 19/03/2014 1:04:49 PM Dear Banjo, Please don't worry: the mind cannot be transported anywhere, let alone beyond.....
» 19/03/2014 1:04:44 PM Dear AJ Philips, That God cannot be defined in positive terms, is a limitation of humans,.....
» 19/03/2014 11:32:11 AM Dear David, I can understand the case for corporations: since they asked for the benefits.....
» 19/03/2014 10:23:21 AM Surely there must be a different level of expectation from simple Ishmaelites than from th.....
» 18/03/2014 6:56:21 PM Dear David, This was in reply to your claim that: "When you deny a person employment.....
» 18/03/2014 5:43:48 PM Dear David, Most people spend their money on things they believe will make them happy. W.....
» 18/03/2014 4:33:41 PM Dear Natalie, I feel distressed to hear your story. It's just so cruel. For the last day.....
» 18/03/2014 4:14:03 PM Dear David, <<However, that is one of the risks of a free society...If we ban speec.....
» 18/03/2014 1:33:37 PM Dear Ojnab, Human birth is indeed a big and rare prize, also a big responsibility - so pl.....
» 18/03/2014 12:45:53 PM Dear George, It is not possible to define God in any positive terms, because any such att.....
» 18/03/2014 2:00:37 AM Dear George, Certainly, we don't discard the concept of set, nor forget about God: we jus.....
» 18/03/2014 12:11:30 AM Dear Wolly, That's because the so-called "private" insurance is not private at .....
» 17/03/2014 11:55:00 PM I think we can all agree that insulting others is wrong, that we should try to avoid it. .....
» 17/03/2014 11:32:40 PM Dear Ojnab, <<none of us know if a God exists or not, and never will>> I thi.....
» 17/03/2014 1:45:48 PM Dear Snake, Indeed something more creative should be done instead of locking up people an.....
» 17/03/2014 12:51:56 PM Dear Banjo, <<What does it take to be a Christian?>> To know thyself. Once y.....
» 16/03/2014 7:40:33 PM But is it right to make us keep feeding Cowan and his jailers for the rest of his life fro.....
» 16/03/2014 7:25:35 PM Dear Jon, Pain is not required - only the preparedness to endure it if required. All suf.....
» 16/03/2014 4:59:25 PM Dear Individual, <<You're just lucky that in all probability there is no God>>.....
» 16/03/2014 1:57:33 PM Dear Jon, A Christian is a follower of Christ. That has nothing to do with belief, but ra.....
» 16/03/2014 1:00:40 PM Dear Saltpetre, You should read my words within context: The question of hierarchy was f.....
» 16/03/2014 8:55:01 AM Dear Rehctub, I definitely support the removal of compulsory voting, yet I will continue .....
» 16/03/2014 2:21:13 AM Thank you George for this beautiful reference! I think that première naïveté is becoming .....
» 16/03/2014 1:58:00 AM Dear Jottiikii, Buddhism is certainly a religion, or at least it once was, as the Buddha .....
» 15/03/2014 10:19:03 PM Dear Individual, <<Why does God need religious hierarchy>> He doesn't. What .....
» 14/03/2014 4:12:48 PM Dear Individual, <<What has being religious...with believing in a supernatural powe.....
» 14/03/2014 12:35:23 PM This mockery is utterly disgusting, Rhrosty. Tony has already made up his mind: he will n.....
» 14/03/2014 9:48:06 AM My hat off to Tony. Sexuality does nor deserve to be a defining factor or made a big deal.....
» 14/03/2014 9:15:39 AM Dear 579, <<We do not need a gigantic paid parental scheme>> We don't need A.....
» 14/03/2014 8:48:10 AM This is a well-written reminder for Christians, but what have you to offer those who are n.....
» 14/03/2014 8:28:28 AM Dear Rehctub, Why would it be sad if Abbott needs to give up his position? The only sens.....
» 14/03/2014 12:15:09 AM Dear Tony, Yes, but also: I compartmentalise therefore I am. I circumstantiate therefore.....
» 13/03/2014 11:11:41 PM Dear Ojnab, Since we both agree that God does not exist, I presume you would agree that H.....
» 13/03/2014 5:46:54 PM Dear Individual, <<It is pointless & a no-win situation to argue with religious peo.....
» 13/03/2014 5:34:02 PM Exactly Philip, Now you understand how much Jordanians "like" to have the Pales.....
» 13/03/2014 5:04:00 PM Dear Ojnab, <<When all the religious people on OLO can tell me>> I'll do my .....
» 13/03/2014 4:39:49 PM Dear Halduell, Perhaps we just found an even more effective solution - maybe Singer shoul.....
» 13/03/2014 3:40:42 PM "Jordan's King Abdullah needs to step up to the plate - and Obama must not let him re.....
» 13/03/2014 3:12:02 PM "Freedom from religion" entails freedom from life, freedom from the journey back.....
» 13/03/2014 11:22:41 AM Dear Paul, <<I find it incongruous that the "leader" of a political party.....
» 13/03/2014 10:59:25 AM <<If humans are nothing more than the sum total of unguided evolutionary forces>&.....
» 13/03/2014 12:45:31 AM Why should growth be an imperative? So long as we want to grow, we are not happy with wha.....
» 12/03/2014 6:47:11 PM Dear Mustard, Good stuff, but I'm not sure what it has to do with OUG not finding himself.....
» 12/03/2014 1:09:03 PM Dear Yebiga, You should look at nationalism/patriotism as a disease, a hereditary infecti.....
» 12/03/2014 1:04:40 AM In general that's a great idea, however: 1) In the long term there won't be anyone to exp.....
» 11/03/2014 2:07:36 PM Dear OUG, <<its sad i cant prove im me/>> May I recommend you this movie: ht.....
» 11/03/2014 1:42:49 PM Yet another intruder who wishes to dictate to us what we supposedly want and how we should.....
» 11/03/2014 1:22:40 PM Dear Hasbeen, <<What we need to do is excise South Australia from the Commonwealth......
» 11/03/2014 11:12:08 AM Dear Robert, Obviously you live in a remote area which had no internet service before. No.....
» 11/03/2014 8:05:45 AM Dear Killarney, For generations most people didn't need to see the inside of a bank. Inst.....
» 10/03/2014 9:56:23 PM Dear Ant, <<Yuyutsu, you expect us to believe that climate scientists of various na.....
» 10/03/2014 7:35:35 PM Dear Sonofgloin, You only confirm what I wrote, that anyone who is able should stay away .....
» 10/03/2014 5:07:54 PM Dear Ant, Since climate change is caused by the Department of Meteorology and CSIRO, the .....
» 10/03/2014 12:20:35 PM Dear SM, You should not treat those guys as incompetent fools: <<To make it worse,.....
» 10/03/2014 11:08:17 AM Well said - May God bless you and all farming families......
» 10/03/2014 10:39:13 AM <<While the over 65s constitute 14% of the population (and the fastest growing demog.....
» 10/03/2014 10:05:19 AM Dear Paul, <<Individual agreements are no more than a ruse to reducing wages and co.....
» 10/03/2014 9:35:58 AM Dear SM, <<What is lacking from this "bleeding heart" is any sympathy for.....
» 10/03/2014 8:57:57 AM Dear Poirot, Thank you for bringing this article about Julie Bishop and China: I was not .....
» 10/03/2014 1:40:42 AM Dear Philip, I don't know myself what is the agreement between IMF and Ukraine: if indeed.....
» 9/03/2014 9:06:47 PM Dear Mustard, <<But what they don't accept and agree to, is having their money mani.....
» 9/03/2014 6:38:11 PM Dear Paul, <<I am a paid up member of The Greens, one of the few on here willing to.....
» 9/03/2014 6:13:51 PM Dear Sonofgloin, Are you suggesting that Crimeans should sell their freedom for 30 pieces.....
» 9/03/2014 9:15:40 AM <<This implies that the majority of Australians are beyond the pale when it comes to.....
» 7/03/2014 5:46:18 PM Dear R0bert, Now it takes wisdom to differentiate between one's duty and one's desires an.....
» 7/03/2014 5:00:03 PM Dear R0bert, <<A bleeding heart in my view is someone who acts from a very blinkere.....
» 4/03/2014 11:29:26 PM Dear Aussieboy, <<most bosses/employers are greedy money hungry pigs that if it was.....
» 4/03/2014 6:37:22 PM Dear Aussieboy, You write that you were employed by a company - in that case, what I wrot.....
» 4/03/2014 5:58:44 PM Dear Aussieboy, <<And if we do drop penalty rates who benefits Harvey Norman and bi.....
» 4/03/2014 5:53:24 PM Dear Runner, Mr. Abbott may be a chicken, but the root of the problem is the absurd power.....
» 4/03/2014 3:13:04 PM Dear David, Around 1967, Israel was practically facing the Soviet Union, a formidable pow.....
» 3/03/2014 11:26:09 PM Dear David, <<What is your view? If the PLO persist with this policy - how do you .....
» 3/03/2014 5:01:56 PM Dear David, As I said, I am not going to disclose any more information about my family. H.....
» 3/03/2014 1:52:16 PM Dear David, My family asks me how I can sleep at night with all those fires in Australia......
» 2/03/2014 9:03:04 PM Dear Jayb, I wonder why Western culture overemphasises the importance of life (in the bio.....
» 2/03/2014 6:06:55 PM Dear Extropian, <<Are you suggesting that the phenomenon of LIFE is not a legitimat.....
» 1/03/2014 11:49:27 PM All honest politicians have a purple tail and wings that fly them to the moon......
» 1/03/2014 11:41:11 PM It's nothing to do with money: if I were to describe the Qantas' quality of service on the.....
» 28/02/2014 4:20:40 PM Dear David, My family (who now by-the-way consider themselves atheists), lived in Israel .....
» 28/02/2014 3:15:06 PM Dear David G., <<Why do we, in Australia, have to be subjected to pro-Israel, Anti-.....
» 28/02/2014 2:24:47 PM <<Noted futurist and inventor Ray Kurzweil predicts that by 2029 computers will be a.....
» 27/02/2014 4:55:49 PM <<the emotions that animals seldom suffer – greed, hatred, anger, envy.>> But.....
» 27/02/2014 3:51:42 PM Dear Extropian, <<Are self-replicating molecules alive or is their activity caused .....
» 27/02/2014 11:08:47 AM Dear Michael, <<It is not possible to create classes of citizens, some of whom have.....
» 27/02/2014 8:15:02 AM First, I agree with Jayb - not much remains to be said afterwards. As for the child's age.....
» 27/02/2014 12:46:57 AM Dear David, As you just demonstrated by the Kashmir example, you don't need to be a Jew i.....
» 26/02/2014 7:44:18 PM Dear David, <<Why do your family - who I assume are "ordinary Israelis" -.....
» 26/02/2014 5:47:38 PM Dear Imajulianutter, <<Is it fair they are funding Ali's irresponsibility?>> .....
» 26/02/2014 10:48:41 AM Dear Shadow Minister, <<I assume that you are happy for other parents to take the r.....
» 26/02/2014 8:33:13 AM But Imajulianutter, You didn't consider the possibility that Ali married an Australian Mi.....
» 26/02/2014 12:39:18 AM Dear David, I am a Hindu. I visit my family in Israel at least every year. I will not d.....
» 25/02/2014 6:16:02 PM Dear Shadow Minister, <<Any person using rational instead of emotion will see that .....
» 25/02/2014 4:46:34 PM Dear David, <<Oops sorry - I forgot you are probably among the mindless people who .....
» 25/02/2014 11:34:56 AM Dear Yebiga, Not so fast, conversion takes time and the 30th of February has not yet arri.....
» 25/02/2014 12:32:00 AM The root of the problem and source of cruelty is that the state of Australia hogs this who.....
» 24/02/2014 11:56:50 PM Dear SteeleRedux, It's difficult to discuss the matter without taking into account ALL as.....
» 24/02/2014 2:09:59 PM Dear SteeleRedux, Let's first get Mary Mallon out of the way: People's actions against he.....
» 23/02/2014 4:56:19 PM Dear David, <<Every word said in this conflict - both by Jews and Arabs - are inten.....
» 23/02/2014 12:58:20 PM Dear Phanto, <<If religion is everything they claim it to be they would not feel th.....
» 23/02/2014 2:51:19 AM 70 patients were refused treatment while lawyers discuss paperwork-formalities. This shou.....
» 23/02/2014 2:32:23 AM Dear SteeleRedux, <<Is this movement driven mainly by discredited fears>> I .....
» 21/02/2014 12:57:47 PM The real question is why such photos and stories of murder (and other crime) are published.....
» 21/02/2014 12:15:52 AM Dear Yebiga, <<On this subject the relevant citation is Exodus Chapter 24: 30 to 33.....
» 20/02/2014 10:44:24 PM Dear Suse, <<However, if the perpetrators don't have weapons, and are just there to.....
» 20/02/2014 12:21:22 PM Dear Yebiga, Please read Genesis chapter 34 before being so hasty......
» 20/02/2014 12:00:36 PM The first chapter of Genesis along with the first 3 verses of the second, were intended as.....
» 20/02/2014 10:53:51 AM Dear Suse, <<Obviously I am closer to the truth than all the rednecks on this threa.....
» 20/02/2014 7:37:12 AM <<Where do you suggest we put those people ?>> Back in their boats. The Aust.....
» 20/02/2014 1:28:35 AM Dear Suse, I don't want to shoot anyone dead - only to have them think that I could......
» 20/02/2014 12:51:10 AM Dear Suse, The chances are quite slim that a poke of a finger or a kick to the leg would .....
» 19/02/2014 12:46:56 AM We should be shocked that universities are funded by our tax money. The rest of the detai.....
» 19/02/2014 12:39:06 AM Parents must have the freedom not to vaccinate their children, but so should doctors have .....
» 19/02/2014 12:31:38 AM The law should withdraw its protection for 5 minutes from anyone who initiates unprovoked .....
» 18/02/2014 11:46:43 PM Dear David, <<in Area "C" is very small - but strategically important for.....
» 18/02/2014 8:18:16 PM Dear Is Mise, <<Just where did I say that?>> Indeed I did not quote you lite.....
» 18/02/2014 1:33:05 PM Dear Belly, Jesus never said or implied that you should not take responsibility for your .....
» 18/02/2014 10:59:58 AM Dear David, So here is one thing we agree on: - No agreement is possible with the PLO. .....
» 18/02/2014 10:18:37 AM Dear Is Mise, Currently there are Western children who are convinced and attracted by Isl.....
» 18/02/2014 9:09:48 AM Dear Is Mise, Thanks for this impressive clip. But it produces only one side. It portra.....
» 18/02/2014 8:12:13 AM Dear Yebiga, When peaceful people are attacked by madmen, unprovoked, they may use whatev.....
» 17/02/2014 5:02:10 PM Dear David, Are you so naive to believe in a piece of paper, or is it instead that you re.....
» 17/02/2014 1:03:10 PM That's where Western culture leads. Thread after thread here panics about the threat of M.....
» 16/02/2014 2:54:43 PM Dear David, <<Some Jews reply on Saturdays - some don't.>> Some Jews take th.....
» 16/02/2014 1:54:15 PM Dear Foxy, <<many of you seem to think that there's few differences between the two.....
» 15/02/2014 11:32:32 PM Not much difference - they both believe that they have a right to order us around. In nam.....
» 15/02/2014 11:13:45 PM Dear Belly, Obviously it is not possible to be suffering at the hands of non-existant God.....
» 14/02/2014 6:42:14 PM Dear John, What made the city of Sodom a symbol of sinfulness? Nowadays, most people wou.....
» 14/02/2014 3:23:16 PM Dear Belly, It would add to the credibility of your arguments if you refer to that partic.....
» 14/02/2014 1:40:02 PM Dear Yebiga, Had the Old Testament indeed been directly dictated to Moses by God, as some.....
» 14/02/2014 12:54:29 PM Dear OnTheBeach, Surely each living being has duties, but there is no basis to claim that.....
» 14/02/2014 10:29:59 AM Dear OnTheBeach, <<I don't agree with your ideal.>> Which is well appreciate.....
» 14/02/2014 1:36:56 AM Dear Yebiga, We have just discussed this issue on Singer's previous topic, yet I am disap.....
» 13/02/2014 11:06:37 PM Dear OnTheBeach, Thank you for your concerns. Be assured that I am very happy in my pers.....
» 13/02/2014 3:49:13 PM Dear Belly, The issues discussed here are matters of principle, going well beyond the Mus.....
» 13/02/2014 12:47:12 PM What an Orwellian declaration: "it is the lamp that shows that freedom lives" .....
» 13/02/2014 9:44:07 AM Dear Bazz, <<It is otherwise known as anarchy.>> The freedom not to be ruled.....
» 13/02/2014 9:30:46 AM Several commentators here love Israel, which is great, but can't they see that the occupat.....
» 13/02/2014 1:56:38 AM Dear Josephus, The idea of "one Law for all people" was a progressive one for i.....
» 12/02/2014 10:49:08 PM Dear Banjo, <<Those persons elected...>> This assumes that the group's const.....
» 12/02/2014 7:20:29 PM Dear Is Mise, The problem is, that in the general case (other than new citizens and those.....
» 12/02/2014 6:58:53 PM Dear Joe, Please bear in mind that even if global warming is occurring and EVEN if it is .....
» 12/02/2014 6:47:41 PM (...continued) The question of whether to allow others their cultural expressions is misl.....
» 12/02/2014 6:47:37 PM Dear Banjo, <<Maybe you will tell us just who has a right to practice the culture o.....
» 12/02/2014 3:47:59 PM Dear Bazz, Now I am really surprised: Do you actually believe that the Koran was written.....
» 12/02/2014 2:34:58 PM Dear Belly, If after due rational consideration, having consulted all your experts and so.....
» 12/02/2014 9:32:39 AM Dear Chris, <<I certainly didn't fight three wars to have a git like that live here.....
» 12/02/2014 12:09:22 AM Dear OnTheBeach, <<You did make the foul allegation that there was invasion at the .....
» 11/02/2014 5:17:46 PM Dear Yebiga, I also fully agree, just as you and your friends on the philosophy forum agr.....
» 11/02/2014 1:15:58 PM Dear Yebiga, We agree that patriotism is a mental illness. Regarding organised religion,.....
» 11/02/2014 10:48:39 AM Dear Yebiga, You are blaming innocent religion for someone else's crimes. Judaism was ne.....
» 10/02/2014 11:15:34 PM Dear Buzz, <<Huh, then why are you here ?>> Weren't you singing "We've .....
» 10/02/2014 6:00:33 PM Dear Bazz, <<Only the PC would be dopey enough not to.>> I have never been a.....
» 10/02/2014 12:28:32 PM Dear Belly, <<But if we confront the importation of a culture harming our own,>&.....
» 10/02/2014 2:44:24 AM What does Islam want? - To establish and enforce Islamic culture over any area it can con.....
» 6/02/2014 5:15:33 PM Perhaps the USA should show the way by becoming democratic itself, not just in name? Your.....
» 4/02/2014 6:40:51 PM The main point of this article is that western civilisation is not special. Yes, they all.....
» 4/02/2014 5:04:27 PM Dear SteeleRedux, <<Even if the report read exactly as Joe stated it do you really .....
» 3/02/2014 6:28:36 PM Dear SteeleRedux, Rebuttal? I totally agree with Joe! My reference to those who don't ca.....
» 3/02/2014 5:34:00 PM Who cares about facts - if you say it enough times, people will believe it to be true: thi.....
» 3/02/2014 3:08:00 PM Dear Josephus, Firstly, I don't have to buy processed fruit: we can always limit ourselve.....
» 3/02/2014 2:32:19 PM Dear Josephus, Why keep this rotten band-aid? I will never support these American poison.....
» 3/02/2014 2:19:32 PM Dear 579, <<It will leave a gigantic hole in the town without SPC.>> We don'.....
» 3/02/2014 1:50:17 PM Dear Bazz, So if the problem is just the high rental costs of the machinery, can't the fa.....
» 3/02/2014 8:29:32 AM Well said, but not general enough. One limitation of this article is that it does not off.....
» 3/02/2014 8:01:04 AM Thank you Bazz! I just wonder what prevents those farmers and employees from packing thei.....
» 1/02/2014 10:20:06 PM I'm afraid that my question has still not been answered: If I now, out of compassion, go .....
» 31/01/2014 7:06:52 PM Obviously no government has a moral right to take money away from us, taxpayers, and give .....
» 31/01/2014 6:38:07 PM Boycotting Coke is certainly the healthy choice. Why would anyone want to drink that black.....
» 31/01/2014 1:09:19 PM Dear Steven, <<And we ought to be up there with the best.>> Not if the price.....
» 30/01/2014 2:11:59 PM Can Australia learn from Israel? Anyone can learn from anyone else, but it needs to be se.....
» 30/01/2014 12:08:12 PM Dear Vivienne, <<Israel should have the right to retain their Zionist and Jewish id.....
» 28/01/2014 11:08:55 AM Beware of anything that comes out of Werner Erhard and his spiritual descendants: his meth.....
» 27/01/2014 4:15:33 PM Dear Runner, <<however their are so many loathers of western culture that unfortuna.....
» 27/01/2014 3:12:39 PM We find everywhere in nature that animals - mammals and birds that live in groups, have so.....
» 27/01/2014 12:48:37 PM Dear Hasbeen, <<It is yet another stupidity fostered by our greenie "mates&quo.....
» 26/01/2014 11:57:12 PM Should motorists tip off other drivers about these traps? Sure, as a scout that counts to.....
» 24/01/2014 7:10:19 PM Indeed, older people want to contribute to society, but it doesn't mean that they want to .....
» 24/01/2014 6:18:42 PM Thief!.....
» 23/01/2014 2:52:08 PM What were Australian navy vessels doing so far away, nearer to Indonesia, in the first pla.....
» 23/01/2014 12:53:57 PM Dear Individual, <<that bloke is even more of a dud thatn I thought.>> That'.....
» 23/01/2014 12:48:35 PM Dear Rechtub, <<The dole pays around $240 per week, FOR NOTHING.>> You and I.....
» 23/01/2014 11:47:09 AM Dear Mac, In answer to your questions: 1. A "Jewish State" is a state intended.....
» 22/01/2014 1:29:49 PM Given that at least half of those who "work" produce either nothing, or nothing .....
» 21/01/2014 12:59:14 PM Don't worry, Adam, nobody believes politicians. We already know that their only motive is .....
» 21/01/2014 11:54:34 AM Dear Spindoc, <<Go get ‘em Tony.>> Hasn't this Tony promised "direct ac.....
» 20/01/2014 8:03:43 PM Dear pelican, Attending church is indeed no proof that one is religious. Not attending ch.....
» 20/01/2014 6:21:13 PM Dear Is Mise, <<How about 'broadly acceptable'? But tolerated will do for the purpo.....
» 20/01/2014 5:25:03 PM Dear Runner, <<it amazes me how people keep saying that Abbott did not win the elec.....
» 20/01/2014 1:47:21 PM Dear Is Mise, <<It is acceptable to Jews>> It is not acceptable to Jews, onl.....
» 20/01/2014 1:21:14 PM From the Liberals' point-of-view, they played their cards well: As in many card games, kno.....
» 20/01/2014 12:09:08 PM It is quite understandable that the Greens decided to add a second policy to their agenda,.....
» 15/01/2014 12:38:23 PM It is well-known that some acupuncturists are better than others, with large variance. A s.....
» 15/01/2014 8:51:15 AM There should be no maternity payment - big or small. There are way too many people on thi.....
» 13/01/2014 1:46:57 PM The existing speed limit are designed for the worst scenario, involving young/inexperience.....
» 13/01/2014 12:44:33 PM <<What should we do about this?>> Nothing! Don't people also travel to Switz.....
» 12/01/2014 5:12:39 PM Dear David, <<Some think that 8 years in a coma was enough punishment. I don't!>.....
» 9/01/2014 9:06:03 PM Dear Tonyo, The Pentateuch is full of commandments to murder: of animals for sacrifice; o.....
» 9/01/2014 12:23:11 AM What percentage of ancient Greeks were philosophers, as opposed to the majority of people .....
» 8/01/2014 5:04:23 PM Dear Belly, <<Y you are an strange bloke! how did you ever in this days climate thi.....
» 8/01/2014 10:47:11 AM Dear Paul, In one paragraph you made at least 10 assumptions: 1. Jim is a boss. 2. Maria.....
» 8/01/2014 9:01:34 AM Dear Unwiley, Nothing is wrong with having this debate, but so long as it is common pract.....
» 8/01/2014 8:32:05 AM Dear Belly, Are you referring to Bernardi's statement that "Surely an employee shoul.....
» 7/01/2014 4:09:35 PM Thank you Grateful, I listened to the CD of Sheikh Nuh and found it true religion of the .....
» 6/01/2014 8:59:00 PM Here is an Israeli joke, well known in Israel: A professor developed a machine that lower.....
» 5/01/2014 3:47:18 PM I don't like this David Holmgren because he speaks out of fear and hate. The ideas of per.....
» 5/01/2014 3:08:50 PM Dear Individual, <<Only to people with no sense of resonsibility. Decent people vie.....
» 5/01/2014 11:28:14 AM Dear LEGO, <<How you can consider primitive barbarism as a preferable outcome to ad.....
» 5/01/2014 12:46:10 AM It would be nice, but we cannot afford the price. The most obvious example is Switzerland.....
» 4/01/2014 11:45:17 PM (...continued) If a person outside society commits a crime against others outside society.....
» 4/01/2014 11:45:12 PM Dear LEGO, <<You seem to be implying that it is "immoral" for the majorit.....
» 3/01/2014 12:43:49 PM Dear David, It is said that one morning a theist asked Buddha: "Is there a God?".....
» 3/01/2014 11:49:03 AM Thank you Murray, Buddhism is a great religion and it also has the healing effects that y.....
» 3/01/2014 9:40:18 AM Dear LEGO, <<in democracies, majority rules.>> I don't think there's a need .....
» 2/01/2014 5:45:35 PM "This lack of materialism is bad for us - how's the economy going to grow and out nat.....
» 2/01/2014 12:17:56 PM It is important to maintain the infrastructure and know-how of physical posting, so we are.....
» 1/01/2014 8:10:01 PM Dear Paul, Now here's the difference: believing in Noah's Ark doesn't hurt!.....
» 1/01/2014 3:51:50 PM Dear LEGO, <<Your first premise, implies that a government which prevents it's citi.....
» 1/01/2014 3:00:20 PM Dear Grateful, <<A belief in the Hell-fire would prevent this behaviour>> Ve.....
» 1/01/2014 11:01:47 AM Dear LEGO, <<If the aborigines got drunk then that was just too bad.>> That .....
» 1/01/2014 8:30:47 AM Dear Warmair, Why does it concern you?.....
» 31/12/2013 3:12:53 PM Dear Onthebeach, Good on you, excellent posts! Dear plantagenet, Please don't confuse b.....
» 31/12/2013 2:55:57 PM OK, after reading the article I find it indeed a storm in a tea-cup, at least the first pa.....
» 31/12/2013 1:43:04 PM Dear Aristocrat, I have not yet read this article - I will read it AFTER replying to you......
» 30/12/2013 2:37:46 PM Dear Jayb, <<Your claim is that only Christians can have knowledge of Right & Wrong.....
» 30/12/2013 1:22:33 PM Dear Canary, Amen. Thank you for your blessings. May God bless you too. Just one remark:.....
» 30/12/2013 12:19:52 PM <<These days, television is a substantial part of our lives.>> So was booze, .....
» 30/12/2013 11:35:56 AM Dear Jayb, <<Oh, BS. Most people I know who aren't religious in any way shape or fo.....
» 29/12/2013 5:44:03 PM Dear Suse, I sincerely hope that you are right about women in positions of power. I also .....
» 29/12/2013 5:00:44 PM Dear Jardine, You ignore the fact that Thailand has a "Sangha act (1928)", free.....
» 29/12/2013 10:04:43 AM Dear Jayb, I make no assumptions about atheists: Atheists, like everyone else, give for a.....
» 29/12/2013 7:48:08 AM Dear Jayb, Your approach to God seems to be a variant of qualified-monism (http://en.wiki.....
» 28/12/2013 10:55:51 PM Dear Phanto, <<You show great disrespect to fellow posters when you do this.>>.....
» 27/12/2013 12:18:30 PM Dear Phanto, Yes, speaking in absolute terms, God doesn't need anything. But speaking in.....
» 27/12/2013 10:00:51 AM Dear Phanto, When Christians do charity in expectation of heavenly rewards or fellowship,.....
» 25/12/2013 11:37:20 PM "In summary, there would be none of the innumerable benefits and blessings that have .....
» 25/12/2013 10:50:42 PM Israel's former prime-minister, Levy Eshkol, is best known for his phrase: "Yes, I kn.....
» 22/12/2013 3:31:33 AM Dear AJ Philips, <<If you are going to make extraordinary claims, then it is only c.....
» 22/12/2013 1:27:47 AM Dear AJ Philips, First, thanks for the link: It tells that in Awra Amba people are: 1) w.....
» 20/12/2013 6:09:39 PM Dear SPQR, Non-violence is the foundation of morality and morality is the foundation of r.....
» 20/12/2013 10:46:36 AM "As there was no law against group libel he had no alternative but to find against he.....
» 20/12/2013 8:51:22 AM Dear AJ-Philips, Sorry I couldn't address all your points properly: I'm really struggling.....
» 19/12/2013 11:12:22 PM Dear Danielle, You've hit the nail on its head: "I would hazard a guess that not ma.....
» 19/12/2013 9:58:39 PM Dear AJ Philips, <<So are you saying that anyone who can eliminate their mind and e.....
» 19/12/2013 3:45:03 PM I agree with David G. - excellent presentation (although I dispute that you had no choice .....
» 19/12/2013 2:53:58 PM Dear David, I agree with Danielle. That people pretend to be religious, or are themselve.....
» 19/12/2013 12:51:31 PM The religious discussion as to whether and when killing may ever possibly be right, should.....
» 18/12/2013 9:25:14 PM "So with no business case, the question remains of who stands to win by winding back .....
» 18/12/2013 7:08:35 PM Dear Tony, Would you call a mentally-ill parent who holds their child's hand against a ho.....
» 18/12/2013 9:26:33 AM Dear AJ Philips, <<This does nothing to get grateful around the problem of evil;>.....
» 18/12/2013 7:59:56 AM <<All welfare payments should be paid by way of a debit card.>> Preventing we.....
» 18/12/2013 1:11:37 AM Dear Grateful, Late to this thread, I have just read your posts and thoroughly enjoyed re.....
» 18/12/2013 12:06:32 AM Dear Killarney, <<creates a national work environment in which...>> That say.....
» 17/12/2013 5:40:02 PM Dear Pericles, <<Well, pardon me, but every single one of the vegetarians I know cl.....
» 17/12/2013 3:21:10 PM Dear David, Sadly, war IS normal. So if we want to give peace a chance, we must become s.....
» 17/12/2013 2:34:11 PM Count your blessings, David, For without wars and warmongers, no peace-activism would exi.....
» 16/12/2013 12:45:32 PM Dear Andrew, <<I don’t want to live in a nation where adults can be paid as little .....
» 15/12/2013 8:55:01 PM Dear Wobbles, Woe unto those who require evidence to support their belief. Why would any.....
» 14/12/2013 9:35:13 PM Dear Nancy, Your arguments are of an economic nature. As I said, I am not an economist, .....
» 13/12/2013 7:24:45 PM I am not an economist, so I make no presumption to tell whether or not the idea of lowerin.....
» 13/12/2013 6:27:01 PM Dear Phenologist, <<while atheists prefer to use reason, science and rational think.....
» 13/12/2013 7:11:44 AM Perfect, Otokonoko, I couldn't agree more and I couldn't say it any better......
» 12/12/2013 10:19:21 PM Dear Foyle, You are bursting into an open door: <<When religions held power we ath.....
» 12/12/2013 6:23:00 PM Dear Cohenite, I suspect that nothing can stop the hold of nature over humanity, but what.....
» 12/12/2013 4:38:58 PM Dear David, Evidence is only... evidence. It can tell you what is and isn't there, answer.....
» 12/12/2013 1:19:34 PM Qantas is failing because it is a bad company which doesn't care about its customers. Ins.....
» 11/12/2013 7:25:12 PM Dear SM, <<The elections determine the will / consent of the people.>> Havin.....
» 11/12/2013 4:27:02 PM What right have you to dictate that people cannot ride a bicycle without a helmet? If the.....
» 11/12/2013 2:19:41 PM Dear Belly, <<I understand Abbott won the right to govern>> No, he hasn't. .....
» 11/12/2013 2:13:20 PM Same as Otokonoko, I don't have anything to offer here apart from my appreciation......
» 11/12/2013 11:25:55 AM Dear Pericles, Of course I agree that there is no simplistic solution to all the problems.....
» 10/12/2013 12:16:22 AM Dear Jay, How confusing, because in the context of this thread, Jews were considered &quo.....
» 9/12/2013 3:03:28 PM Dear Jay, "Liberal Jews and Whites" Does this exception mean that while practi.....
» 9/12/2013 12:31:15 PM One wrong doesn't cancel another. While it is obviously wrong to serve your opponents bak.....
» 8/12/2013 11:23:44 AM Greetings Kilmouski, The "ALL OF US" was in the context of the last example, i......
» 8/12/2013 6:42:07 AM Dear Suse, You are right of course: although the majority of doctors who oppose abortions.....
» 8/12/2013 12:05:36 AM (...continued) * Harry is a potter. He spends his days making nice pots and places his de.....
» 8/12/2013 12:05:34 AM A few respondents believe that the ones to benefit from negative-income-tax are no-gooders.....
» 7/12/2013 9:01:26 PM Dear Killarney, You missed me completely: By 'cruel acts' I referred to the forcing of C.....
» 6/12/2013 2:43:10 PM Dear Suse, <<Who forces Doctors to abort babies? No-one.>>person Not with th.....
» 6/12/2013 1:52:48 PM Finally I can write again, probably my last post till Sunday: Dear Pericles, "A. Hi.....
» 6/12/2013 8:48:50 AM Dear Suse, If you truly seek women's freedom to abort, then the militant style of your wr.....
» 6/12/2013 1:27:24 AM Could we possibly design a system that combines the advantages of both the adversarial and.....
» 6/12/2013 1:16:24 AM Dear David, I didn't mention chemical weapons: they are only effective in localised assau.....
» 6/12/2013 12:25:32 AM Dear Shockadelic, It may be the case that governments don't need any special metaphysical.....
» 5/12/2013 7:53:33 PM Dear Joe, Each one of us deserves compensation for having a particular lifestyle imposed .....
» 5/12/2013 4:34:23 PM Good questions, Joe, <<Why should anyone get anything if they are able-bodied and t.....
» 5/12/2013 2:36:08 PM Dear David, As I conveyed to you time and again, these attitudes and behaviours have noth.....
» 5/12/2013 12:54:40 PM Dear Pericles, I make no presumption to solve the issue of fraud. But then I make no pres.....
» 5/12/2013 11:55:55 AM Dear David, <<"That which you hate being done unto you - do not do unto others.....
» 5/12/2013 11:32:47 AM Dear JP, The state doesn't make laws in order to make people more moral: it makes laws in.....
» 5/12/2013 8:28:13 AM Dear LEGO, Morality is based on one single principle propounded by Hillel: "That wh.....
» 5/12/2013 12:45:34 AM Dear Pericles, Sorry, indeed my grammar was ambiguous. What I meant was that since the m.....
» 4/12/2013 11:51:11 PM Dear LEGO, Only dyslectic people confuse 'Normal' for 'Moral'......
» 4/12/2013 11:42:20 PM Dear Shockadelic, It seems that we started to confuse two different issues: Since you re.....
» 4/12/2013 3:43:15 PM I agree with Hasbeen - it is not fair! Being in jail is such a horrible thing that I woul.....
» 4/12/2013 1:17:42 PM Dear Rehctub, You have every right to be upset about Gillard's wasting-spree, but Japan h.....
» 4/12/2013 12:40:48 PM Let alone the financial costs, if even one innocent person is saved the horrors of prison,.....
» 4/12/2013 11:37:46 AM Dear pericles, <<if he decided to wait for others to kill his breakfast for him?>.....
» 4/12/2013 10:37:50 AM Dear Foxy, While Israeli Arabs are wronged in several ways, it NEVER went as far as intim.....
» 4/12/2013 9:10:18 AM Dear Joe, <<Why should any able-bodied person NOT work ?>> First, I believe .....
» 4/12/2013 12:04:45 AM Dear Shockadelic, If you are able to base your morals on sympathy, well and good. But com.....
» 3/12/2013 11:31:21 PM Dear Rusty, At first glance, Douglas's concept seems too extreme and unworkable to me. My.....
» 3/12/2013 6:13:33 PM Dear Foxy, So it's a chicken-and-egg issue. No doubt that Palestinians as well as Arab I.....
» 3/12/2013 3:10:20 PM So long as car makers receive subsidies, they will continue not asking the ordinary people.....
» 3/12/2013 2:42:15 PM Dear David, <<I do however have serious issues with the people who currently live a.....
» 3/12/2013 12:33:50 PM I am all in support. I advocated such a system long ago, including over these pages, with.....
» 3/12/2013 7:23:50 AM Dear David, <<I would need a frontal lobotomy to stifle my rational mind, to enable.....
» 3/12/2013 1:01:03 AM Dear Shockadelic, <<Like, irreligious people shouldn't care less, right? They have .....
» 3/12/2013 12:33:34 AM Dear JP, The reason we don't murder isn't because we want to prevent deaths (everyone wil.....
» 2/12/2013 6:02:09 PM Dear David, <<the world is faced with the threat of a nuclear holocaust by those wh.....
» 2/12/2013 4:19:54 PM Dear David, <<No amount of Jewish lies hides Jewish evil.>> The vast majorit.....
» 2/12/2013 2:18:04 PM Dear Suse, <<I totally agree Yuyutsu. We certainly should not have legislation to f.....
» 2/12/2013 9:03:33 AM Dear Suse, <<Abortion is now, and always will be, freely available in Australia, so.....
» 1/12/2013 12:01:43 AM Dear Suse, <<The majority of our society feel the same as I do on choice for women&.....
» 29/11/2013 10:52:50 AM Dear Suse, In many traditional societies, a doctor is considered a holistic one-stop esta.....
» 29/11/2013 1:36:06 AM Dear Suse, I fail to understand your reluctance against professional honesty: What could .....
» 28/11/2013 11:34:34 AM Dear Martin, I'm afraid that I have to disagree with you on this one: <<Fact: you c.....
» 28/11/2013 3:56:04 AM Dear AJ Philips, <<This is why we only legislate according to that which is demonst.....
» 27/11/2013 8:38:49 PM Shooting in all directions, perhaps some bullets will hit the target, others will inflict .....
» 27/11/2013 6:29:00 PM God bless you, Canary, and may God bless us all. Seek not His help, but His blessing, so .....
» 27/11/2013 2:08:54 PM Dear AJ Philips, There's a fundamental disagreement between us, which is fine: Unlike yo.....
» 27/11/2013 11:20:11 AM Dear AJ Philips, <<...overridden by a doctor’s duty of care and obligation to at le.....
» 27/11/2013 10:01:29 AM Protest against public bodies is and should remain legitimate, but protest against individ.....
» 26/11/2013 5:02:24 PM Dear Rhian, <<In my view, one of those things is that the existence of people and t.....
» 25/11/2013 1:36:16 PM Little Johny was a bit forgetful, so he was advised to note down at bed-time where everyth.....
» 22/11/2013 4:02:25 PM Dear LEGO and Foyle, While I completely agree with you about the arrogance and inappropri.....
» 22/11/2013 12:17:13 PM Dear Darcy, I wish you a pleasant swim and walk/ride to Paris - you must be training hard.....
» 22/11/2013 11:46:02 AM Dear Paul, Your beloved Labor party lost this election, or at least did not receive my vo.....
» 22/11/2013 11:22:07 AM The only thing that could have made government any different to common criminal gangs is t.....
» 22/11/2013 10:37:25 AM I am glad that I won't need to pay for his stay in prison from my tax-money......
» 19/11/2013 12:50:39 PM How can the author possibly claim that freedom and fairness do not contradict? The most o.....
» 17/11/2013 10:04:19 AM Dear Shadow Minister, You mentioned two possibilities - I see more: one is to just contin.....
» 14/11/2013 10:41:05 PM I understand that some do not like the monarchy - but what about the alternative? The aut.....
» 13/11/2013 12:19:25 PM The freedom of speech includes the freedom not to speak!.....
» 13/11/2013 11:44:47 AM Dear LEGO, <<Modern criminologists know that nature and nurture play an important r.....
» 13/11/2013 10:48:33 AM Humans are unable to do justice - so they should not even try. The role of the law is to .....
» 7/11/2013 11:00:13 AM Dear Josephus, Perverts are a general problem and can be found anywhere, not just around .....
» 6/11/2013 8:24:12 AM Our dependence on America is a tragic reality. Once we develop our own nuclear and biologi.....
» 6/11/2013 8:13:13 AM Germany is well-placed to have this option because they don't have a taboo on nudity, so t.....
» 4/11/2013 10:50:38 AM <<In my opinion had Jordan not lost the West Bank and Egypt lost Gaza to Israel in t.....
» 31/10/2013 12:58:58 AM So, what we have here is a case of Saudi conspiracy to topple the good king of Jordan - ma.....
» 29/10/2013 4:19:39 PM Dear Sabra, Israel was prematurely stopped from completing its retaliatory operations in .....
» 29/10/2013 12:04:40 PM Dear Sabra, If Israel DOES want to give back all the territories, then why doesn't it do .....
» 29/10/2013 11:24:22 AM Dear Sabra, I know it's an unholy alliance, but if it helps to bring Israel back to its s.....
» 29/10/2013 7:20:47 AM Dear Banjo, My authority to live my life does not arise from this or that other person'(s.....
» 29/10/2013 12:07:25 AM Dear Peter, I know what you mean by the "better country", I try to live there m.....
» 28/10/2013 11:48:04 PM Dear Mobilepundits, <<social contract are very much useful and necessary for each a.....
» 28/10/2013 10:27:44 PM Dear Rhrosty, A bill of rights would be an insult. Essentially, it means that the state .....
» 28/10/2013 6:08:34 PM Likely no one can bring peace to the Middle-East. It needs to be accepted that war there w.....
» 25/10/2013 2:45:35 PM David F. is Correct: Humans are not genetically programmed to seek a meaning: humans are .....
» 24/10/2013 7:54:04 AM Dear James, <<In return that citizen expects certain things of those that govern: t.....
» 22/10/2013 1:46:47 PM Dear Graham, There are many tempting features possible, but the risk is that they clutter.....
» 22/10/2013 12:58:14 PM Dear Trevor, <<What if it is the land (permanent) which 'owns' the people (transien.....
» 22/10/2013 3:06:34 AM (...continued) For those who cannot/would-not follow even secondary-morality, there are l.....
» 22/10/2013 3:06:31 AM Dear Saltpetre, Anyone can act morally, but most don't want to. Humans and animals are n.....
» 20/10/2013 11:05:48 PM Dear Saltpetre, Your argument clearly comes down to "might is right": <<.....
» 20/10/2013 6:10:27 PM Dear Saltpetre, I was looking at Bhutan as inspiration for something closer to an ideal s.....
» 16/10/2013 9:27:13 PM The environment will continue to change, but will somehow survive, the carbon-thing is a h.....
» 15/10/2013 9:51:26 PM That was no case of incompetency - the NBN was all a matter of ideology and when ideology .....
» 14/10/2013 2:34:20 PM Dear Jardine, I definitely wouldn't deny liberty. The principle of liberty is a very use.....
» 14/10/2013 10:40:40 AM Dear Ludwig, Please read what I just wrote to Jardine: much of it applies to you as well,.....
» 14/10/2013 9:37:58 AM Dear Jardine, If ownership isn't conferred, then there is nothing sacred and absolute abo.....
» 13/10/2013 7:36:25 AM Just because young, dark-skinned, Muslim immigrants of low I.Q. and low socio-economic bac.....
» 12/10/2013 10:04:40 PM Dear Jardine, <<You didn't say why "nothing on earth could confer that type of.....
» 11/10/2013 10:40:18 AM Dear Ludwig, You need not find yourself in a moral dilemma every time you drive. For one .....
» 11/10/2013 8:28:21 AM Dear Poirot, <<an economic calamity like none the world has ever seen.>> The.....
» 11/10/2013 12:11:25 AM Interference in genetically-derived objects, or in any other objects for that matter, is n.....
» 10/10/2013 11:14:12 PM There is no such thing as death. Hence no need to define something which does not exist. .....
» 10/10/2013 6:38:38 PM Dear Ludwig, Let's be accurate: The fact of an homicidal maniac owning a car is not in i.....
» 10/10/2013 2:52:09 PM (...continued) And that's why I don't place much value on 'rights', why I don't plead wit.....
» 10/10/2013 2:52:05 PM Dear Jardine, Earlier you wrote: "ownership denotes a right to use something to the .....
» 10/10/2013 7:51:17 AM The Christian teachings of the Jesuits tell people to donate their own money to the poor -.....
» 9/10/2013 7:55:49 PM Dear Ludwig, I am relieved that you do not equate law with morality! Can you also acknow.....
» 9/10/2013 7:09:55 PM Dear Jay, <<The conservatives are worried that Liberal values are under threat from.....
» 9/10/2013 4:55:58 PM Dear Belly, <<insisting taking action against the poorest is the way to a debt free.....
» 9/10/2013 1:28:05 PM Dear Julian, If we analyse our choices all the way down, they come from two and only two .....
» 9/10/2013 12:27:25 PM Dear Belly, Surely there is something more important than money: Suppose some dark angel.....
» 9/10/2013 11:58:48 AM Dear John, I do not have a mobile phone, never had, never will, as I believe it is immora.....
» 9/10/2013 11:28:36 AM Dear John, In other words, those who refuse to carry electronic pieces in their pockets (.....
» 9/10/2013 10:11:19 AM Dear Ludwig and Jardine, Your responses demonstrate that the word 'owner' is ambiguous. .....
» 8/10/2013 11:14:23 PM Dear Foxy, I happen to know that the quality of British health-care is so notoriously poo.....
» 8/10/2013 6:12:27 PM Dear Foxy, <<I've already explained earlier that most Americans would prefer a nati.....
» 8/10/2013 5:19:50 PM There is however one comfort in that regard - Death! I do hope to be already dead and bur.....
» 8/10/2013 4:28:25 PM Dear Ludwig, You claim that one's own land is not the right place for one to undertake il.....
» 8/10/2013 3:04:21 PM Dear Julian, It seems that you completely misunderstood what I wrote about the boers: the.....
» 8/10/2013 12:09:14 PM Dear Foxy, What do you mean by "SHOULD" in <<I also believe that people w.....
» 8/10/2013 11:21:28 AM The results of a survey published yesterday may be relevant to this thread: 48.9% of Jewi.....
» 8/10/2013 8:21:59 AM Dear Julian, Pope Francis recently said: "I see the church as a field hospital after.....
» 7/10/2013 9:30:57 PM Thank you Jardine, This debate is extremely fascinating. Still from the sidelines, I not.....
» 7/10/2013 2:21:45 PM Dear Bazz, Only the most poor cannot pay their medical bills (and even then, their outsta.....
» 7/10/2013 1:13:44 PM Dear Hasbeen, <<I wonder how our welfare society will react to the Chinese take ove.....
» 7/10/2013 12:58:08 PM Dear Julian and James, If you set more reasonable goals, then you may one day see them ac.....
» 7/10/2013 11:49:08 AM Dear Bazz, <<Frankly, I do not understand why the US Republicans have an objection .....
» 7/10/2013 10:53:37 AM Thank you Ludwig, I now eagerly await Jardine's response, so I'll keep to the sidelines f.....
» 7/10/2013 1:05:41 AM Dear Peter, I am not a Christian, but long before I even knew much about Christianity, in.....
» 7/10/2013 12:28:38 AM Dear Shockadelic, I agree that if 520 different states will be miniature copies of what w.....
» 6/10/2013 11:54:45 PM Dear Jardine and Ludwig, <<"Pick an issue, and I’ll tell you my point of balan.....
» 6/10/2013 11:34:29 PM Dear Belly, Obamacare would force American citizens to purchase something (health-insuran.....
» 6/10/2013 9:26:05 PM Dear Saltpetre, <<It is about social cohesion and happiness... about maintaining re.....
» 6/10/2013 12:40:42 PM Dear Rhrosty, If Palestinians can remain peaceful model citizens for say 10-20 years, inc.....
» 4/10/2013 5:09:00 PM Dear Hasbeen, <<It is not even very nice water. The tides roar through the area, sw.....
» 4/10/2013 3:51:39 PM Dear James, <<Israel has ignored UN Resolution 242 (this is for you Yuyutsu) requir.....
» 4/10/2013 1:05:41 PM Dear Halduell, First, it is common-sense that if a sector of the population systematicall.....
» 4/10/2013 12:18:30 PM Dear Rhrosty, When trying to give Palestinians a good advice, you must be assuming that t.....
» 4/10/2013 9:23:01 AM Dear Joe, <<All sides seem to want access to all of the state, so why not?>> .....
» 4/10/2013 12:14:01 AM The question, Julian, is whether any of what you call a 'religious cult' is indeed religio.....
» 3/10/2013 2:53:22 PM Dear Pericles, <<No need to go to the trouble of inventing a new country, Yuyutsu.&.....
» 3/10/2013 9:00:11 AM Excellent, good on them! The smaller the country/state, the more options one has to find .....
» 2/10/2013 7:10:20 PM Dear Halduell, Having children as a way to "save" humanity is like the ostrich .....
» 2/10/2013 12:32:24 PM Dear Rhrosty, <<Our very survival relies on universal cooperation!>> I must .....
» 2/10/2013 11:50:09 AM (Oops, my mistake, that is the fourth commandment, not the third).....
» 2/10/2013 11:49:01 AM Dear Lyn, The third commandment is "Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God.....
» 2/10/2013 9:52:01 AM Humanity will NOT survive. It may take one day for humanity to be extinct, or it may take.....
» 2/10/2013 1:15:55 AM Dear Suse, Of course - why on earth should I not be OK with gay marriage? What I'm not O.....
» 1/10/2013 11:12:46 PM Dear Suse, <<Can't the churches just marry heterosexual people, like they always ha.....
» 1/10/2013 10:01:12 PM Dear Onthebeach, <<Both parties were shown the door by voters.>> Certainly s.....
» 1/10/2013 12:04:20 PM Dear Suse, <<no one has ever actually seen any god>> Thank God for that: a g.....
» 30/09/2013 7:46:11 PM Dear Bob, Your examples demonstrate how we overemphasise sexuality where it should not ha.....
» 30/09/2013 4:17:28 PM Separation of church and state is a requisite for freedom of religion, for the prevention .....
» 30/09/2013 2:42:19 PM Dear Aristocrat, I was not suggesting a split between the body and the mind: just as you .....
» 30/09/2013 1:29:29 PM Dear Aristocrat, <<The other important point is that how do you teach history witho.....
» 30/09/2013 12:10:23 PM Dear Arjay, <<No mention of Israel's chemicals or 200+ nukes.>> That's corre.....
» 30/09/2013 10:41:12 AM "Policy-makers have always utilised the national history curriculum as an instrument .....
» 30/09/2013 10:08:07 AM How would you feel being employed by someone whose only reason to employ you is to avoid c.....
» 30/09/2013 12:29:25 AM Why such a long and repetitious title for this discussion? Any one of those two words woul.....
» 30/09/2013 12:22:26 AM Dear Zoe, Please do not blame 'religion' for the sins of organisations that misrepresent .....
» 30/09/2013 12:05:19 AM Dear Zoe, I wish you both and your son the best in your marriage, please do not consider .....
» 29/09/2013 7:51:01 PM Dear Zoe, <<Current law says that marriage is between a man and a woman. That's the.....
» 29/09/2013 3:14:17 PM Dear Zoe, <<There are many people, some straight, some gay, who, under current law,.....
» 27/09/2013 12:55:21 PM We are not talking about ideals here, right? If we were, then schools would teach their st.....
» 26/09/2013 9:33:13 PM <<As mentioned, I believe that Yuyutsu has outed himself and put himself out of all .....
» 26/09/2013 7:01:45 PM Dear Sadler, I have supported Israel's right to defend itself neither once nor twice over.....
» 26/09/2013 3:55:13 PM The issue of porn is a red herring: What this Australia Post employee did was using his e.....
» 26/09/2013 12:53:11 PM Dear Sadler, But of course Israel needs to defend itself, which it does, and of course th.....
» 25/09/2013 12:59:14 AM Dear Sadler, Both Jews and Palestinians are guilty of violence. One's guilt cannot be exc.....
» 24/09/2013 6:24:00 PM Dear Graham, <<The "happiness capital of the world" Bhutan comes in at nu.....
» 24/09/2013 5:43:04 PM Dear Kipp, <<it only becomes a marriage after the church ceremony, when the officia.....
» 24/09/2013 12:51:33 PM Dear David G., <<Plundering is for barbarians, not for civilized, caring, thinking .....
» 23/09/2013 11:53:33 PM Palestinians of East-Jerusalem are permanent residents of Israel. This implies that they .....
» 23/09/2013 4:16:06 PM Dear Jardine, <<Why should some people, who practise safe sex, have their income st.....
» 23/09/2013 4:37:10 AM Dear LEGO, The people who wrote the bible were ignorant of the things that are important .....
» 22/09/2013 10:07:08 PM Sorry Individual, but following my experience with white ants I can say that neither Abbot.....
» 22/09/2013 2:03:04 PM If you want a local car industry, then you should buy a local car to support it. And if y.....
» 20/09/2013 3:43:09 PM Dear Bren, <<Many bisexual or homosexual people indeed do get married in the conven.....
» 20/09/2013 2:52:37 PM Dear Is Mise, <<So that vulnerable girls under the age of consent are not forced in.....
» 20/09/2013 2:19:55 PM I couldn't agree more. Thanks for this article! Dear Jon J., <<since that's not go.....
» 20/09/2013 1:39:59 PM All true, but why focus specifically on sex workers? Most of us that are employed are pro.....
» 20/09/2013 12:35:51 PM Great article indeed. It is a celebration to see this variety of new faces in parliament .....
» 20/09/2013 9:54:19 AM Dear LEGO, The bible does not claim that the world was created in 7 days - only that the .....
» 19/09/2013 11:44:36 PM Dear Tony, " >>no human has a right to pursue and satisfy whatever makes them .....
» 19/09/2013 3:49:06 PM Dear Rhian, Gay people are ALREADY free to marry people of their own sex. I have no prob.....
» 19/09/2013 3:16:33 PM Dear Rhian, <<society, and more particularly government, should not interfere with .....
» 19/09/2013 12:48:35 PM Dear Rhrosty, <<Every human being extant on the planet has certain basic rights.>.....
» 18/09/2013 1:03:30 PM Why put thieves in jail? Obviously they are a great asset to the economy, forcing those pe.....
» 17/09/2013 12:31:07 PM Dear LEGO, After losing 25,000 soldiers in 14 hours in the battle of Eylau, Napoleon repl.....
» 16/09/2013 3:45:34 PM Dear David G., <<Whose interests are being served here, you may ask yourself? Israe.....
» 14/09/2013 9:08:26 PM "The LDP supports the legalisation of use, cultivation, processing, possession, trans.....
» 11/09/2013 3:48:59 PM Dear Shaggy Dog,, <<Our current senate is dysfunctional, would deleting it really m.....
» 11/09/2013 2:14:22 PM Dear Pericles, <<One thing you can guarantee though. Nobody will actually consider .....
» 11/09/2013 11:53:37 AM Dear Pericles, <<Personally, I find one under god's commentary on Peter Sellick's a.....
» 10/09/2013 9:20:13 PM The number of preferences must not be limited so long as the preferences are made by the v.....
» 8/09/2013 8:31:49 PM Dear Jay, It is no secret that I would like to reduce government interference in our live.....
» 8/09/2013 12:19:22 PM Dear Jay, <<I gave my proposal for resolving the issue in the last post, abolish th.....
» 6/09/2013 12:21:32 PM Dear Pat, Correct. This election is NOT a referendum. It's about 1000 other things, for m.....
» 6/09/2013 11:39:45 AM Dear McReal, << 1 Peter 2:18-25 (NIV) 18 Slaves, in reverent fear of God submit you.....
» 6/09/2013 8:24:31 AM Same-sex marriage should go to those same-sex people who want to marry. Actually not. The.....
» 27/08/2013 6:48:11 PM Dear Platypus, <<i submit myself to the country's law because Bible teaches me to s.....
» 27/08/2013 5:51:46 PM Dear David, <<Krishna, the Indian god, was also was born of a Virgin (Devaki) and i.....
» 24/08/2013 10:31:47 PM Dear David, Earlier you wrote that my definition of religion "is just unreasonable&q.....
» 23/08/2013 8:06:56 AM Dear David, George certainly gives me the impression of a religious man. We can agree on .....
» 23/08/2013 7:47:10 AM Dear Chris, <<Now Yuyutsu if it is your desire to suffer the be my guest>> N.....
» 23/08/2013 1:38:15 AM Dear David, Would you believe politicians who promise heaven-on-earth if elected? Then w.....
» 22/08/2013 10:42:29 PM Dear Chris, <<All religion is about sex.>> Religion is about God. Having se.....
» 22/08/2013 10:37:54 PM Dear Chris, <<I don't know where you live but try living where I do in Cairns where.....
» 22/08/2013 10:19:08 PM Dear David, I just happened to discover that this old thread is still alive. I enjoyed sk.....
» 22/08/2013 12:09:11 PM Dear Banjo, <<Few opinions expressed about late abortions. Maybe the question is ju.....
» 20/08/2013 8:35:44 PM Dear Chris, I will make the necessary enquiries. Your Spartan values are not appreciated.....
» 20/08/2013 7:52:19 PM Dear Chris, This news about schools no longer being compulsory is like Manna from heaven!.....
» 20/08/2013 7:42:59 PM Dear Lexi, <<it's neither self-evidently a human being nor self-evidently just tiss.....
» 20/08/2013 5:53:48 PM Dear Houellebecq, <<Or private schooling?>> Yes, for some people private sch.....
» 20/08/2013 5:30:24 PM Can we all agree that nobody should be paid from public-purse for their expensive hobby? .....
» 20/08/2013 4:37:35 PM Dear Rhian, I am not a believer in rights - I believe in freedom: Freedom is God-given, w.....
» 20/08/2013 2:58:28 PM "Do we believe in the sanctity of human life?" No. Why should we? What's sacr.....
» 20/08/2013 2:17:08 PM "I am still not getting what I want" The bear and the rabbit found a lantern, r.....
» 19/08/2013 12:13:09 PM Dear Platypus, <<those who want to be in (b), let them stay in peace and quiet in g.....
» 16/08/2013 2:28:00 PM <<Constant questioning of the mandate and legitimacy of political representation has.....
» 16/08/2013 11:27:17 AM Dear Antiseptic, No, I was not referring to you, I was referring to Peter's general state.....
» 16/08/2013 1:31:52 AM Dear Peter, <<While I can preach to a congregation writing for the unchurched is es.....
» 15/08/2013 2:50:47 PM <<...its invitation to us all to create a society that is more in tune with the gene.....
» 15/08/2013 11:55:47 AM Dear Jon, <<I'm particularly amused, for instance, when someone finishes up an arti.....
» 15/08/2013 6:31:50 AM Dear Beaucoupbob, Defending one's culture is a poor excuse for developing nationalism - i.....
» 14/08/2013 2:53:26 PM Dear Antiseptic, <<Yuyutsu, our "divinity" is simply our best possible mo.....
» 14/08/2013 12:41:55 AM I am certainly not a Christian theologian, but I enjoy Peter's articles, written mostly in.....
» 13/08/2013 9:14:45 PM Dear Antiseptic, I stand corrected: Jesus was not fond of social institutions, rather tha.....
» 13/08/2013 6:57:17 PM Hasbeen is right! <<History tells us that it is not pride, but diversity that comes.....
» 13/08/2013 3:26:57 PM Dear Antiseptic, <<If the church has a purpose it is to create a moral backdrop and.....
» 13/08/2013 2:45:12 AM Dear Daffy, <<And no, it is now impossible to find the Living Divine Reality via th.....
» 12/08/2013 4:29:36 PM Dear Suse, <<I believe that back in ancient times, humans believed in gods like 'Mo.....
» 12/08/2013 3:02:56 PM Cheap propaganda! Young people should especially be careful what they are wishing for. Ar.....
» 12/08/2013 11:11:43 AM Dear Jon, I like your account of Pickwickian: it's the language of love. Suppose you cal.....
» 12/08/2013 9:32:55 AM Dear Peter, <<I find myself completely disinterested in the current round of argume.....
» 9/08/2013 1:58:49 PM Dear Halduell, The analogy of frying ants with a magnifying glass was not mine, but John .....
» 9/08/2013 1:31:57 PM Shamefully, as a child I was torturing ants with a magnifying glass. Now I have no right .....
» 9/08/2013 11:54:14 AM A record breaker in the art of typing many words without saying anything. Not a word why .....
» 7/08/2013 1:42:52 PM Dear Onthebeach, <<One of the very difficult problems confronting modern society is.....
» 7/08/2013 1:24:59 PM We should keep praying for Julian's safety and freedom. As for being elected, Assange is .....
» 6/08/2013 4:34:31 PM Dear Runner, The world is full of people who claim to be religious, but are not, as well .....
» 6/08/2013 12:55:14 AM Dear David G., <<I remember it well from my Church days when I was a serious believ.....
» 5/08/2013 3:36:14 PM Dear David G., <<While so many people are wasting time discussing theo-babble, the .....
» 5/08/2013 1:46:18 PM Dear LEGO, The mistake of the Aquarian movement was in assuming that all flowers can blos.....
» 5/08/2013 1:18:07 AM Excellent answer, LEGO: Our genes, indeed, have no interest in our own welfare, but are p.....
» 4/08/2013 2:52:41 PM Dear Poirot, <<According to you, in days gone by, we're already God, as is every&qu.....
» 4/08/2013 2:14:08 PM Dear Antiseptic, It saddens me to see you here like that, torn and trapped by a pack of w.....
» 4/08/2013 2:43:21 AM Dear Lexi, <<There are legal procedures that need to be followed, applications need.....
» 4/08/2013 2:01:31 AM Dear Emperor, There is no need for nationalistic feelings - all you need is practical com.....
» 3/08/2013 10:49:01 PM Dear Jay, <<That's not true, my nation was founded on Liberal and social democratic.....
» 2/08/2013 5:44:41 PM Dear Divine_msn, <<Nobody in their right mind would wish to erode the sense of nati.....
» 2/08/2013 2:59:59 PM Each and every day is a good day for quitting patriotism. Just grow up and leave such infa.....
» 2/08/2013 2:18:51 AM Dear Chris, <<If I went into another room and got my gun, loaded it and shot the of.....
» 1/08/2013 7:06:41 PM Thank you Robert for this beautiful article. I used to chew paper in classroom out of she.....
» 1/08/2013 6:02:21 PM "He (Hawking) is claiming that scientific knowledge is the only important knowledge.&.....
» 1/08/2013 5:04:57 PM Dear Individual, <<Yes quite a number of prisoners should not be in prison. So why .....
» 1/08/2013 2:35:59 AM Conditions in Australian prisons are already worse than average, globally. Some wrong ass.....
» 22/07/2013 3:00:46 PM Dear David, <<Therefore if my belief is a valid one no scientists are completely ra.....
» 22/07/2013 8:06:49 AM Dear LEGO, <<Both you and George Virsik have now posted articles directed at me whi.....
» 22/07/2013 2:10:51 AM So long as the electoral system remains as it is, politicians should nominate their own sa.....
» 21/07/2013 8:16:46 PM Dear LEGO, <<Yuyutsu, if a God created the universe, what was he (she?) doing befor.....
» 21/07/2013 8:20:40 AM I like the idea of working, for clarity's sake, with the simple Yanomamo model rather than.....
» 19/07/2013 3:44:35 AM Dear David, It would be nice indeed if Peter joins this discussion. As a religious person.....
» 16/07/2013 5:24:07 PM Dear David, That humankind spends most of its time slaving away for their genes is not a .....
» 16/07/2013 1:00:43 AM Dear Cherful, Your observations are excellent! Our free will can only do that much - at .....
» 15/07/2013 7:17:14 AM Dear Banjo, <<Yeah, Rudd is doing a Gillard. 'there will be no carbon tax under the.....
» 15/07/2013 6:39:27 AM First I commend George's response: Peter, you have beautiful ideas which I thoroughly enj.....
» 24/06/2013 12:26:27 PM Dear Joe, <<A bit late for that now, I'm afraid :(>> It is unfortunate but u.....
» 24/06/2013 11:53:01 AM Dear Individual, Australian jails may perhaps hardly be a deterrent for an evil mind, but.....
» 23/06/2013 7:38:55 PM Dear Rehctub, <<They were given a choice, ranging from chicken, beef, pork, lamb, s.....
» 23/06/2013 12:13:38 AM Yes, it costs far too much for us, taxpayers, to keep all those jails going. Further, jail.....
» 15/06/2013 11:08:05 PM Dear George, <<Well, I described explicitly the two fundamental worldview alternati.....
» 14/06/2013 12:07:36 PM Dear David, <<The U.S. is rapidly imposing 1984 on our world of 2013>> Surel.....
» 12/06/2013 1:39:40 PM Dear SM, <<the assumption is that eventually every premises will be connected by fi.....
» 12/06/2013 12:24:23 PM Dear Pericles, <<I'll just back away, slowly...>> And I thank you for freein.....
» 11/06/2013 4:27:29 PM Dear Banjo, <<It also means that your goal in life is to become one with God, or, p.....
» 10/06/2013 7:55:15 PM Dear AJ Philips, Your questions were addressed to George, but I cannot resist answering: .....
» 10/06/2013 11:52:53 AM Dear Banjo, So much for the tyranny of language: belief and faith are two completely diff.....
» 10/06/2013 10:32:44 AM Dear Cheryl, I could not understand the following: <<Not only have Betty and Bob b.....
» 10/06/2013 3:02:22 AM Dear Banjo, Yes, Yuyutsu was a moral warrior in the Mahabharata. There is a view that th.....
» 9/06/2013 10:07:03 PM Indeed, as Divergence stated, there is nothing sinister about older people seeking peace a.....
» 9/06/2013 8:50:49 PM Dear Praxidice, <<I've always believed laws are made to be broken, after all its on.....
» 8/06/2013 11:36:14 PM ISPs in Australia charge for volume, not for speed. This means that if you have a higher .....
» 8/06/2013 11:16:51 PM Dear Banjo, <<I do not wish to hurt your feelings, Yuyutsu, but" loving a God .....
» 8/06/2013 9:51:23 PM Dear Rehctub, <<Again, i have no problem with people wanting to consume raw milk, s.....
» 7/06/2013 12:21:12 AM Dear Banjo, A Jewish scripture (http://www.hillel.org/jewish/textstudies/pirkei_avot/pa_c.....
» 6/06/2013 4:05:25 PM Dear George, <<Beyond whose doubt, yours or mine? If mine then it would not be I an.....
» 5/06/2013 12:44:32 PM (...continued, sorry Suse, I reached my message-limit) In the first category, one just co.....
» 5/06/2013 2:11:35 AM Dear Suse, Excellent questions! <<Yuyitsu, I looked up 'believe' in Wikipedia, and.....
» 5/06/2013 12:00:04 AM Dear Banjo, I do not doubt for a moment that belief is necessary for human survival and m.....
» 4/06/2013 9:08:25 PM Dear Lexi, <<This should not be about casting blame, but about fixing the problem a.....
» 4/06/2013 8:49:11 PM Dear Banjo, <<Actually, the problem is not a lack of belief, but a lack of somethin.....
» 4/06/2013 12:30:28 PM Dear Poirot, <<I'm not a Christian, but I'm interested in why people believe -what .....
» 4/06/2013 1:58:57 AM Thank heavens for asbestos! If that's going to be the thing to stop the NBN, Hallelujah! .....
» 4/06/2013 12:41:58 AM Dear AJ Philips, As one who aspires to deserve the title 'religious', I tend to agree wit.....
» 3/06/2013 1:08:40 PM Dear Pelican, <<If the reverse had happened and gambling Ads had been allowed to st.....
» 3/06/2013 11:53:57 AM Thank you, Antiseptic, for the information and nice observations. Thank you, Praxidice: .....
» 3/06/2013 2:08:38 AM Dear Antiseptic, You refer to a story where a young girl supposedly abused an adult negro.....
» 3/06/2013 1:51:40 AM Dear David, <<In the cases I mentioned - "female genital mutilation, genocide,.....
» 2/06/2013 7:27:03 PM Dear Praxidice, I have no personal interest in the hippy lifestyle. In fact, I see them (.....
» 2/06/2013 12:30:06 PM Dear LEGO, Well I made it quite clear that I do not approve of churches enforcing their m.....
» 2/06/2013 8:38:47 AM Dear LEGO, Churches have a moral authority to make rules because they are (today) a volun.....
» 2/06/2013 1:53:36 AM Dear Daffy, Thank you so much for these references! Despite its limitations, we must not.....
» 1/06/2013 11:48:54 PM Dear David, <<You wrote: "protecting viewpoints and dissenting opinions is che.....
» 31/05/2013 5:14:38 PM Dear David, <<Democracy in my opinion includes the protection of the minority from .....
» 31/05/2013 4:05:16 PM Dear Mac, <<You're begging the question by assuming the state is an enemy, where di.....
» 31/05/2013 2:26:01 PM Dear David, <<We disagree. I think separation of religion and state is a requisite .....
» 31/05/2013 1:59:45 PM Dear Jardine, Your comparison is a gem - I hate to add anything after that. But I must d.....
» 31/05/2013 12:31:15 PM Dear David, When Israel declares itself a 'Jewish state' it never referred to religion, b.....
» 31/05/2013 9:19:45 AM <<Just to be difficult, I'll argue that there is a GINORMOUS difference between chri.....
» 30/05/2013 11:40:22 AM Dear Lexi, <<We're talking about changes that should be made to the Marriage Act as.....
» 29/05/2013 8:34:14 PM Dear Lexi, "Federal legislation should not seek to privilege particular parts of our.....
» 28/05/2013 7:23:50 PM <<then appropriate legislation is warranted.>> Yes, I agree. The appropriate.....
» 28/05/2013 6:48:34 PM Dear Lexi, And I want an official and legal piece of paper stating that I am the most won.....
» 28/05/2013 12:21:42 AM <<anyone that can't see that adopting the Christian Judea ethic made the West great .....
» 27/05/2013 2:07:49 PM Dear Lexi, Thank you for your warm greetings. With great relief, we received advice that.....
» 25/05/2013 9:33:06 PM Dear Lexi, Thank you for the information, I am looking into the law and intend to receive.....
» 24/05/2013 3:50:49 PM Dear Lexi, Repeating the same words three times doesn't help to clarify, so I can underst.....
» 24/05/2013 3:08:33 PM Dear Poirot, <<I suppose it's for exactly the same reason as that enjoyed by hetero.....
» 24/05/2013 2:29:49 PM Dear Lexi, Do you care to explain in what way(s) existing legislation restricts the funda.....
» 24/05/2013 2:19:35 PM Dear Saltpetre, <<They strengthen 'the Temple' against the ravages of invasion by f.....
» 24/05/2013 12:41:29 PM Dear Suse, <<Are you suggesting it is only the Godless atheists who vaccinate their.....
» 24/05/2013 11:20:44 AM Dear Lexi, <<state regulation of marriage is unable to ensure the fundamentals of a.....
» 23/05/2013 10:11:18 PM It is theft. The best way to combat this phenomena, I believe, is to make it technologica.....
» 23/05/2013 5:57:48 PM Dear Belly, <<Both sides claiming rights, I think they important rights belong to t.....
» 23/05/2013 2:24:54 PM Dear SM, <<Everyone has the right to keep their children safe by isolating them fro.....
» 23/05/2013 1:14:44 PM Dear Poirot, <<Let's not get too pedantic about which "poisons" we introd.....
» 23/05/2013 11:50:28 AM Dear David, You ask me: <<What are you going to be doing as you while away your en.....
» 23/05/2013 3:33:08 AM Dear David, I like your response and tend to agree, accept with <<We are all going .....
» 23/05/2013 2:19:04 AM Dear Chris, <<Yes the state has the legal right to force Immunization on the popula.....
» 22/05/2013 1:31:47 PM Dear Banjo, It is surprising that you so oppose drugs in drivers but have no problem givi.....
» 22/05/2013 11:51:38 AM Dear Praxidice, <<We register all marriages that take place in Queensland. A marria.....
» 22/05/2013 10:44:43 AM Dear Praxidice, I am not aware of any law in Australia that requires a priest to report t.....
» 22/05/2013 9:04:29 AM "It ought to be made clear that I believe that marriage is fundamentally between a ma.....
» 22/05/2013 12:44:44 AM What's the big deal about the 'human status'? Murder is immoral and should be condemned, .....
» 21/05/2013 11:43:32 PM Dear Belly, <<it is proposed all Children,*bar those of moral? objectors* be banned.....
» 18/05/2013 8:23:08 PM Thank you David F. for your excellent replies and observations. Wouldn't it be time for M.....
» 16/05/2013 1:45:04 PM Discussing the anti-abortion stance in terms of the "modern" idea of 'the right .....
» 16/05/2013 12:02:21 PM Dear David, <<In philosophy, the theory of materialism holds that the only thing th.....
» 15/05/2013 3:05:03 PM <<dirty medical instruments, and cats roaming the premises.>> In Latin Americ.....
» 15/05/2013 11:47:58 AM Dear Chris, <<I would love to give it all up but "fear is the key">>.....
» 15/05/2013 9:46:21 AM Dear Chris, I wouldn't go as far as Ayn Rand as I really feel that she was too extreme. I.....
» 14/05/2013 11:47:19 PM Dear Chris, So why do you have any dealings with Medicare to begin with? What makes it r.....
» 14/05/2013 11:17:02 PM But why must it be China or the USA? If both are wrong and corrupt, then we should have n.....
» 14/05/2013 3:02:56 AM Dear Hasbeen, First, the Jewish issue is not to be confused with immigration: Most Austra.....
» 13/05/2013 3:04:14 PM Dear Belly, There are two separate issues here: One is about preventing serious crimes. .....
» 13/05/2013 11:40:45 AM Dear SM, <<If I take a photo of a public building, I don't need your permission to .....
» 13/05/2013 3:45:28 AM Dear David F., I never advocated any religious or ethnic coercion, expulsion or the like......
» 10/05/2013 9:41:09 AM Phew, economics are so complicated! I'm glad I never had to study any of this! Indeed I h.....
» 10/05/2013 2:20:38 AM Dear David F., <<All one has to do wherever one is to observe the Sabbath without t.....
» 9/05/2013 6:19:58 PM Dear Csteele, <<I note Stephen Hawking's announcement that he is boycotting what ha.....
» 9/05/2013 2:22:11 PM Dear Siller, <<Those who want the cameras turned off or removed must have something.....
» 9/05/2013 2:00:37 PM Dear Csteele, I writhe in agony upon reading such stories. I feel so helpless about it. .....
» 9/05/2013 1:25:50 PM Dear SM, <<No one is going spend the money to view the thousands of hours of footag.....
» 9/05/2013 12:27:45 PM If two consenting people want to make a deal between them, who on earth has a right to den.....
» 9/05/2013 2:47:03 AM Thank you Julian, I am happy with your answer. I have read Shlomo Sand. Yes, he falsifie.....
» 9/05/2013 1:18:26 AM Dear Julian, <<Rehclub's comment was not relevant to either the earlier thread or t.....
» 9/05/2013 12:21:06 AM Just a quick note - 1800 numbers are free on Skype, but I think you need to have Skype cre.....
» 8/05/2013 3:55:48 PM Dear Julian, It's just slightly off-topic, but you stated: <<People of Jewish ances.....
» 8/05/2013 1:17:37 PM Perhaps instead of constantly disputing as we usually do, we should rather concentrate on .....
» 8/05/2013 12:56:43 AM <<We were told Skype could only be used if the person on the other end also had Skyp.....
» 7/05/2013 11:29:13 PM I keep Telstra for emergency and for receiving calls, but I normally make my calls with Sk.....
» 7/05/2013 11:19:21 PM Yes, the only antidote to materialism is spirituality. Without spirituality, one may prete.....
» 7/05/2013 9:13:52 PM While it may be a problem for the Western world, Israel has no particular problem with Sun.....
» 6/05/2013 6:51:56 PM Dear Sonofgloin, <<CCTV is ok except in the suburbs.>> What then about out i.....
» 6/05/2013 2:29:00 AM Conservatism is not necessarily born of religion. Often it is born of trying to imitate re.....
» 5/05/2013 8:06:28 PM Absolutely correct, Rehctub, to the best of my knowledge there are no Jewish aboriginals. .....
» 5/05/2013 7:33:56 PM Dear Trevor, <<"According to Judaism, activating an electrical current is equi.....
» 5/05/2013 2:23:20 PM Dear Lexi, Thank you for bringing me up to the facts. I was indeed under the impression t.....
» 5/05/2013 12:58:05 PM Dear Belly, There is one aspect about those cameras not yet mentioned: They prevent ortho.....
» 5/05/2013 11:50:26 AM Dear Producer, I do accept the fact that my phone service over copper wires is provided u.....
» 5/05/2013 12:58:53 AM Dear Producer, I will stay out of the debate whether or not productivism is a form of com.....
» 2/05/2013 4:54:13 PM Dear Hasbeen, <<I grant you the right to do what ever you like with your earnings, .....
» 2/05/2013 1:49:04 PM Dear Hasbeen, <<Others who want a hand out should ask, nicely, accept the decision .....
» 30/04/2013 10:24:24 PM Dear Hasbeen, <<Well Yuyutsu, sounds like you are an expert in methods of avoiding .....
» 30/04/2013 4:21:09 PM Dear Individual, <<Well, that'll make them salespeople then won't it ? For that the.....
» 30/04/2013 3:38:09 PM Dear David, Do we in fact disagree that if we are to have some kind of "law and orde.....
» 30/04/2013 3:02:52 PM <<Sorry, I don't trust the LNP, which has been dragged along kicking and screaming t.....
» 30/04/2013 5:53:17 AM Dear David, I was referring to an ideal rather than to our historical past, which we all .....
» 30/04/2013 2:04:41 AM Dear Philip, <<Yuyutsu - No problem, give them food stamps.>> So they will e.....
» 30/04/2013 1:10:19 AM Dear David, I am not surprised that you don't want to be ruled by either religion or roya.....
» 29/04/2013 7:12:17 PM Dear Philip, <<Make the bludgers WORK FOR THE DOLE, no work no money.>> And .....
» 29/04/2013 4:37:50 PM Dear David, <<I agree with you that the state should not reign supreme. However, th.....
» 29/04/2013 12:30:28 PM <<The FTTN plan is far smarter, more efficient, and does not saddle the taxpayer wit.....
» 29/04/2013 10:53:53 AM Dear Rehctub, <<I say, you come here, you accept our ways, or you leave. It really .....
» 29/04/2013 9:30:52 AM BTW, for those who think that quarantining of welfare dollars is the answer - it could onl.....
» 29/04/2013 12:35:13 AM Dear Luciferase, <<Over time, all node-to-premises copper will have to be replaced .....
» 28/04/2013 9:57:13 PM Talking about bludgers, so many "public servants" grab a salary over 10 times mo.....
» 28/04/2013 7:00:14 PM <<Why is damn America more important than the rest of the world to us?>> Beca.....
» 28/04/2013 6:35:19 PM Dear Rehctub, <<laws that were introduced to protect (mainly) young lives.>> .....
» 28/04/2013 6:19:35 PM Dear Producer, <<The analogue system was switched off during the Howard government .....
» 27/04/2013 9:59:31 PM Dear Producer, If a small company in WA is able to offer a service that requires a copper.....
» 26/04/2013 5:53:15 PM Dear Producer, <<If you do this you will find there is very little difference betwe.....
» 26/04/2013 12:42:12 PM Dear Producer, <<Yuyutsu & Shadow Minister - The reason the production line for car.....
» 25/04/2013 10:44:54 PM A great point, AJ Philips: <<Let's grant that a god (your god, even) exists. So wha.....
» 25/04/2013 3:25:07 PM Dear Producer, <<Expanding one house at a time is inefficient, super expensive and .....
» 25/04/2013 10:36:54 AM Dear Foyle, <<Religion is usually considered to be belief that a supernatural being.....
» 25/04/2013 1:05:51 AM Interesting facts, Brian, but facts no values produce. Experiencing the divine can occur .....
» 24/04/2013 10:10:23 PM Dear Rehctub, <<As I have said many times over, everyones welcome, just leave your .....
» 24/04/2013 9:37:29 PM Dear Luciferase, I will leave the economic aspect of the discussion to others who are kno.....
» 24/04/2013 4:57:56 PM Perhaps I should convert to Sikhism so I get a chance to ride a bicycle before I die (on t.....
» 24/04/2013 1:49:22 PM Although there is also a financial aspect (which is of less concern to me), the most 'Chin.....
» 23/04/2013 7:07:55 PM Dear Rehctub, <<Yuyutsu, I think y may have the wrong thread.>> Doesn't Labo.....
» 23/04/2013 6:32:16 PM I am with Kenny. It is not for politicians-sake that I bid to keep the states, but for th.....
» 23/04/2013 6:17:05 PM Dear Rechtub, Wouldn't you do the same in their place? If you were given a blank cheque .....
» 22/04/2013 3:34:52 PM An elderly couple whom I know had their home invaded and searched by police because the in.....
» 19/04/2013 12:52:21 PM Dear Suse, <<I doubt there is anything more romantic than a marriage ceremony>&g.....
» 19/04/2013 11:41:14 AM Dear Robert, Please do not be so optimistic - China has no interest getting into such mes.....
» 19/04/2013 9:06:50 AM Dear Josephus, <<births and deaths was developed in Western society by the Romans t.....
» 18/04/2013 8:59:45 PM I say, take North Koreans out of their misery. A life like theirs is not worth living. Th.....
» 18/04/2013 3:29:57 PM The only jurisdiction where marriages are made, is ... Heaven! As that's where marriages .....
» 18/04/2013 1:17:13 PM Dear Csteele, I know that it is practically impossible to avoid companies that advertise,.....
» 18/04/2013 12:00:24 AM I second Producer. Today I was looking for something and my friend said "oh, I just .....
» 17/04/2013 8:45:53 AM Dear George, I don't deny the common feeling that we seem to exist, but this is, just as .....
» 16/04/2013 12:35:56 PM Dear George, There is nothing you should apologise for: I have no objections to Christian.....
» 16/04/2013 3:37:08 AM Dear Saltpetre, IF there is such a creator, and that's a big IF which theoretically scien.....
» 16/04/2013 1:12:49 AM Dear George, <<According to my understanding of ‘existence’ you exist, however I do.....
» 15/04/2013 2:33:36 PM Dear Hasbeen, <<What motivates people is the desire to eat. First & foremost, this .....
» 15/04/2013 10:56:58 AM Dear Saltpetre, <<and let the devil take the hindmost?>> Why then not let Go.....
» 14/04/2013 5:01:23 PM For a crocodile, 'progress' consists of all animals (humans included) standing in line on .....
» 14/04/2013 4:21:18 PM Dear George, <<Well, as mentioned in another post, we have apparently different und.....
» 14/04/2013 3:44:13 PM Diseases are also said to 'progress'......
» 14/04/2013 7:56:07 AM Dear George, While some atheists may view the religious process as placebo, I consider it.....
» 14/04/2013 12:31:49 AM Thank you Tony, I was just about to mention Bhutan's GNH myself, but you were first! As I.....
» 14/04/2013 12:00:51 AM Dear George, Thank you very much for your explanation. I think that diminishing the impo.....
» 13/04/2013 11:21:55 PM Dear Banjo, As I have just happened to read today in a commentary on the Narada Bhakti Su.....
» 12/04/2013 1:09:19 PM Dear Banjo, <<I think you are referring to "the idea of god">> 'Ha.....
» 12/04/2013 2:16:39 AM Dear Banjo, <<Only someone who believes in a god or gods could "hate" him.....
» 11/04/2013 1:48:56 PM Dear Peter, The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali (chapter 1, verse 33) prescribe: By cultivating.....
» 11/04/2013 11:54:42 AM Dear George, It seems that you and David agree that: <<In my opinion, if there is .....
» 10/04/2013 6:32:18 PM Announcing a major reform in Singapore: Convicted criminals who receive corporal punishme.....
» 10/04/2013 12:22:46 PM Dear David, <<Other than procreation, humans have no other purpose, just like every.....
» 10/04/2013 11:26:38 AM Indeed the purpose of life is to glorify God and enjoy Him forever. Dear Yuri, I agree w.....
» 9/04/2013 12:59:50 PM Dear David, <<Any object that exists or that one can conceive of is an entity.>&.....
» 9/04/2013 1:41:51 AM Dear David, <<The above is nonsense. One cannot be one step away from an entity tha.....
» 8/04/2013 4:26:21 PM Dear David, <<People’s morality should be no business of the state.>> We are.....
» 8/04/2013 2:55:09 PM Dear David, <<When you mention that religion has a higher level of morality than th.....
» 8/04/2013 12:05:49 PM Dear David, <<I don’t want the Pope to follow the teachings of Jesus which in this .....
» 8/04/2013 12:23:06 AM Dear David, In Matthew 5:29-30, Jesus said: "If your right eye causes you to stumbl.....
» 7/04/2013 11:20:24 AM Dear Josephus, <<We are the State>> Please speak for yourself: I know who an.....
» 6/04/2013 9:13:20 PM Dear Josephus, <<You are misrepresenting the point of marriage; the fact is you mar.....
» 5/04/2013 2:09:29 PM Dear Onthebeach, <<For any married person who believes that marriage has no meaning.....
» 5/04/2013 11:17:54 AM Dear Lexi, <<Not everyone wants a de-facto relationship.>> Fair enough, so p.....
» 5/04/2013 9:27:06 AM Dear Arjay, <<Yuyutsu the West is no longer the leader in democracy or freedom.>.....
» 4/04/2013 9:26:11 PM Dear Arjay, <<China, Russia Syria, Nth Korea and Iran are not our enemies.>> .....
» 4/04/2013 1:02:19 PM You too, Brutus? It is natural when Julia of Labor enjoys licking the backside of that co.....
» 4/04/2013 12:51:19 PM Thanks Lexi, I fully support! Get government out of our life - about 90% of legislation s.....
» 1/04/2013 6:26:53 PM Dear Individual, My suggestion has no tax breaks - it's a flat tax of say 30%. If the in.....
» 1/04/2013 5:06:01 PM Dear David G., <<Yuyutsu, the link between extreme nationalism and religious extrem.....
» 1/04/2013 1:58:30 PM Dear Individual, <<that's all fine but you're still evading the main gist of the qu.....
» 31/03/2013 10:34:44 PM Dear Individual, <<What do you suggest should be done to get everyone to pull their.....
» 31/03/2013 6:34:34 PM Dear Individual, <<Guidance is akin with discipline, if it is not sought it has to .....
» 31/03/2013 6:12:27 PM Dear David G., <<Singer, given that you are a man whose mind is a captive of his re.....
» 31/03/2013 1:25:07 PM Dear Individual, <<If you were to look up the word broken you'd find it's meaning t.....
» 31/03/2013 12:59:04 PM <<Now this has come about because governments have sifted the burden of welfare, fro.....
» 31/03/2013 12:47:31 AM Dear Rehctub, <<Exports, or should I say, mining exports are the reason we enjoy th.....
» 29/03/2013 6:30:07 PM Dear Mac, Thanks for your comment! <<Of course that's not true, some are, of cours.....
» 29/03/2013 6:13:52 PM Dear Rechtub, <<Personally, I'm getting tired of saying, I told you so, but, I told.....
» 29/03/2013 5:54:39 PM <<His highly significant use of this keyword on 21 March at the Jerusalem Internatio.....
» 29/03/2013 4:03:55 PM Dear Rehctub, Jay has a point: It's impolite to say bad things about the dead. Let's jus.....
» 29/03/2013 1:58:40 PM Dear Individual, <<Do you really believe education is the problem solver?>> .....
» 29/03/2013 9:36:23 AM Dear Crackcup, <<How dare you refer to Australian Servicemen as "the worst scu.....
» 29/03/2013 8:36:40 AM Dear Banjo, <<No. But it seems you are claiming that Jesus spent "a lifetime o.....
» 29/03/2013 12:19:57 AM Dear Banjo, Since you addressed me, may I ask what your point is? Are you claiming that .....
» 28/03/2013 6:18:15 PM Dear David F., I saw recent documentaries showing that young ultra-orthodox Jews admire s.....
» 28/03/2013 5:48:20 PM Dear Individual, <<Are you ready to support a stranger like we've supported you thu.....
» 28/03/2013 2:42:18 PM Dear Hasbeen, I admit I know not about the Australian armed services. I also admit that I.....
» 28/03/2013 12:51:52 PM Dear Individual, <<Studies are always fresh>> Sciences, when not touched for.....
» 28/03/2013 1:08:15 AM If there is one issue for which religion is shunned, which carries people away from God an.....
» 28/03/2013 12:02:52 AM Dear Chris, <<I am not a Jew but I think we need to look at the Israeli system. Eve.....
» 27/03/2013 8:50:56 PM Dear Crackcup, I take that as a legitimate provocation rather than a serious suggestion. .....
» 27/03/2013 5:30:49 PM Dear George, <<So your guru is apparently Swami Vivekananda whose roots are obvious.....
» 27/03/2013 3:12:10 PM Dear Individual, <<Why the twisting of my words ? For what reason ?>> Becaus.....
» 27/03/2013 9:17:40 AM Dear Banjo, I can envision Mahatma Gandhi giving a young person who wants to change the w.....
» 26/03/2013 10:23:46 PM Dear Individual, <<if your idea of preventing a very serious situation get a lot wo.....
» 26/03/2013 6:30:12 PM Dear David (AFA), Sorry you take the inquisition analogy personally. It is not how you ar.....
» 26/03/2013 2:59:52 PM Dear Individual, <<We are not allowed to dock them because we would be branded a ce.....
» 26/03/2013 11:18:43 AM Dear Banjo, Everything that exists is an object and every object is limited. God is not. .....
» 26/03/2013 7:40:07 AM Dear Individual, <<who don't even acknowledge you as you say good morning to them a.....
» 25/03/2013 11:55:28 PM Dear David (AFA), <<If religion expects to influence politics and the lives of ever.....
» 25/03/2013 5:59:38 PM Dear Banjo, <<but as the existence of "God" is a question of faith,>&g.....
» 25/03/2013 5:59:35 PM Dear Peter, <<When theology was barred from our universities>> Is that true?.....
» 25/03/2013 2:22:54 PM Dear Danielle, <<The world is wonderful and beautiful place. Just look at nature in.....
» 25/03/2013 10:51:59 AM Dear Hasbeen, <<I am a great believer in people doing their own thing, in their own.....
» 25/03/2013 1:54:51 AM Dear David (AFA), The choice to pay importance to objective existence, is itself subjecti.....
» 24/03/2013 9:29:14 PM Dear Hasbeen, Sorry, I was not aware that St. Vincent de Paul and Anglicare are heavily s.....
» 24/03/2013 7:37:40 PM Dear Crackcup, It is not clear from your post whether what you object to is: 1) Young peo.....
» 24/03/2013 5:17:42 PM Dear Pericles, The choice of etymology for 'religion' depends on one's attitude towards r.....
» 24/03/2013 4:05:13 PM (...continued) While religion often consists of conscious efforts to come closer to God, .....
» 24/03/2013 4:05:08 PM Dear David (AFA), Sorry for the delay. It was my mistake to use and take-for-granted the.....
» 22/03/2013 1:56:35 PM Dear Mhaze, <<I think you'll find that when Yuyutsu refereed to " people who h.....
» 22/03/2013 7:55:49 AM Dear Banjo, <<May I suggest that you see yourself as a lonesome cowboy riding acros.....
» 21/03/2013 11:37:38 PM But why should superannuation be considered "sacred" in contrast with other pers.....
» 21/03/2013 6:31:50 PM Dear Pericles, <<Not necessarily. Gott mit uns, and all that.>> "Gott m.....
» 21/03/2013 4:04:47 PM Dear Pericles, <<The fact that we are all fully aware of what the word religion mea.....
» 20/03/2013 8:13:52 PM Dear Mhaze, Yes, there are many haters of God, here and elsewhere. It all starts with peo.....
» 20/03/2013 4:15:55 PM Yes Belly, the Cypriot parliament along with Russia did their best to stop an act of insan.....
» 20/03/2013 3:55:33 PM Dear Pericles, <<We are all of us attached to this world by the thinnest of threads.....
» 20/03/2013 11:21:17 AM <<Nothing can justify hereditary succession beyond sentiment and tradition.>> .....
» 20/03/2013 10:30:57 AM Let the one who never sinned cast the first stone......
» 20/03/2013 8:13:22 AM Thank you for the news, Belly, but the damage is already done and money in the bank will n.....
» 20/03/2013 7:58:51 AM The world doesn't impress me and I'm constantly trying to understand its appeal to the mil.....
» 20/03/2013 1:31:50 AM Dear David (Atheist Foundation), <<it would be the height of arrogance to expect th.....
» 19/03/2013 7:07:02 PM Dear Pericles, Some good points: It is not that "THE RESULT IS that the universe co.....
» 19/03/2013 2:22:28 PM Dear David, What intelligent being would invest all it can in building sand castles? Thi.....
» 19/03/2013 12:27:41 PM Dear Banjo, <<If, however, your objective is not so much to express the same opinio.....
» 18/03/2013 3:52:40 PM Two lions meet. Asks one lion: how come you are so fat and healthy while I am so skinny a.....
» 15/03/2013 6:26:14 PM Dear Daffy, One should indeed take full responsibility for one's presence and actions in .....
» 15/03/2013 1:11:53 PM Dear Sam, Who cares what this or that Roman emperor said or did? Both the Jewish and Pale.....
» 15/03/2013 7:49:36 AM Dear David G., <<Looking through the comments thus far reveals that few people are .....
» 14/03/2013 6:36:00 PM Oops, I just discovered that my home, which I inherited from my grand-grandparents, expand.....
» 14/03/2013 3:31:13 PM What's worse than finding a terrorist in your sock? --- - Finding two terrorists in both.....
» 14/03/2013 10:27:18 AM Dear Snake, Your attitude is correct, but harassing people with junk-mail is not the answ.....
» 13/03/2013 9:49:35 PM <<increase taxes, so that the dole can be increased, so recipients of the new start .....
» 13/03/2013 5:06:45 PM Dear Saltpetre, I did not suggest that one should not interact with others: between being.....
» 12/03/2013 3:49:24 PM <<One can only shake one's head in amazement that Mr Ross actually believes this is .....
» 12/03/2013 2:04:43 PM Dear Saltpetre, <<but as a nation...also serves to enhance our international reputa.....
» 12/03/2013 1:12:52 PM Dear Landrights4all, <<but as something that might officially recognize what is alr.....
» 11/03/2013 7:53:57 PM Dear Landrights4all, The original topic is "our fragile liberty", where the aut.....
» 11/03/2013 1:45:00 PM Dear Landrights4all, I thought we were over this, but you keep making references to the e.....
» 10/03/2013 3:17:59 PM Dear Saltpetre, The one property that distinguishes governments from all other groupings .....
» 10/03/2013 1:46:07 PM Dear Landrights4all, There is no shame or stigma in compensation, how much more so when E.....
» 10/03/2013 10:18:09 AM Dear Saltpetre, Wonder why the article doesn't describe in a word what that money does? S.....
» 10/03/2013 3:35:47 AM <<society prospers and flourishes best when women are properly valued for their insi.....
» 9/03/2013 11:25:39 PM Dear Landrights4all, I see that so much transpired here while I was away, so I can't catc.....
» 8/03/2013 5:09:40 PM Dear MMS, Disagreeing with someone does not amount to mocking them. I believe that Austr.....
» 8/03/2013 7:48:34 AM Dear Landrights4all, You are confusing between liberty and rights. The difference being t.....
» 7/03/2013 6:22:59 PM Dear Landrights4all, So it's not space, water, air and sunlight that you are after - thes.....
» 7/03/2013 3:26:16 PM Dear Landrights4all, I agreed that in general, people should have the opportunity to acce.....
» 7/03/2013 1:19:37 PM Dear Landrights4all, I understand that it may be tiresome, but if you believe it's import.....
» 7/03/2013 6:50:46 AM Dear Halduell, <<Not true! Fear has become our governments sock in trade. They reac.....
» 6/03/2013 11:05:39 PM The author adds insult to injury by claiming that: "we were forced into a position o.....
» 6/03/2013 6:13:47 PM First, the destruction of forests is indeed a problem, so is the reduction in oxygen level.....
» 6/03/2013 12:36:50 PM Dear Foyle, Ignorance of the world, through indifference to its temporal phenomena and su.....
» 5/03/2013 2:50:46 PM Dear Landrights4all, Thank you. I will not go into numbers, firstly because I cannot read.....
» 5/03/2013 1:18:28 PM Dear Landrights4all, Your idea of a "birthright" to land puzzles me. Unless we.....
» 4/03/2013 11:22:24 PM Dear Rechtub, Just wanted to draw your attention to one spelling/typographic error of you.....
» 4/03/2013 9:47:53 AM Dear Lexi, <<Durkheim believed that the origins of religion were social>> If.....
» 3/03/2013 3:13:46 AM Dear Saltpetre, I absolutely agree with Jardine that ‘social relations should be based on.....
» 1/03/2013 7:05:17 PM Dear Jardine, <<Therefore you shouldn’t call on people who don’t consent to submit .....
» 1/03/2013 3:24:20 PM Dear Landrights4all, <<However the laws of society are, at their best, like the tea.....
» 28/02/2013 2:59:39 PM Excellent questions, Landrights4all, The answer is that there are no rights in nature, ne.....
» 28/02/2013 12:49:25 PM Dear Landrights4all, <<If I have a right to life, surely...>> Well, apparent.....
» 27/02/2013 4:00:55 PM It is with thorough delight that I read this article, deep and subtle - How beautiful are .....
» 27/02/2013 9:17:45 AM Dear Don, What many single mothers did, the moment they heard about the new decree, was t.....
» 27/02/2013 12:13:32 AM Dear Saltpetre, I am aware that your questions are addressed to Jardine, but there are a .....
» 26/02/2013 5:21:46 PM Dear Cohenite, <<Generally, I think if you clowns admire islam so much then you sho.....
» 26/02/2013 3:02:13 PM Sooner or later a Muslim nuclear bomb will explode somewhere in the Western world. Followi.....
» 25/02/2013 5:39:18 PM Tempting - but no thanks! Accepting a bill of rights from the state, would imply that the.....
» 25/02/2013 2:21:39 PM Dear Imajulianutter, Most people who call themselves Yuyutsu, being an Indian name, never.....
» 25/02/2013 8:51:32 AM Dear R0bert, When I was 6 I walked every day to school and back, on my own. It was about .....
» 25/02/2013 12:58:32 AM <<Julia Gillard has just realised that she now has so much spare time on her hands t.....
» 24/02/2013 10:37:24 PM Dear Jardine, <<Your reasoning is right up until, but excluding, the idea that usin.....
» 24/02/2013 10:00:41 PM Dear Jon, <<Prove God exists, and you have a case.>> What's that got to do w.....
» 24/02/2013 12:38:19 PM Dear Hasbeen, You consider this hair-splitting, but the one who robs off the wages of the.....
» 24/02/2013 11:50:10 AM (...continued) <<Similarly, any noxious practice against our morals and way of life.....
» 24/02/2013 11:50:07 AM Dear Onthebeach, <<Religion/culture/tradition cannot be separated in some cases and.....
» 24/02/2013 1:23:31 AM Circumcision on its own, as a physical worldly act, is bad - but the intention is far more.....
» 22/02/2013 7:02:43 PM Dear Imajulianutter, <<2. Palestinians are not Arab, and not all Arabs threaten Isr.....
» 22/02/2013 6:23:37 PM Dear Hasbeen, <<I am not however in favor of them assuming some god given right to .....
» 22/02/2013 2:35:01 PM <<After 3 years on parenting payment aid should be terminated, & the child surrender.....
» 21/02/2013 4:21:50 PM Dear Marilyn, <<What is the point of secure borders for squatters and illegal migra.....
» 21/02/2013 4:07:57 PM Unfortunately, promises must be kept. If at the time a child was conceived the government.....
» 21/02/2013 10:56:48 AM Dear James, I fully support Israel having secure borders, including a strong fence around.....
» 21/02/2013 7:19:42 AM Dear Paul, <<He is a Zionist just like his gentile father, a proud Jew and a proud .....
» 20/02/2013 10:44:30 PM Dear Rhian, I must assume that your family is also in Australia, but what would you do if.....
» 19/02/2013 12:23:16 AM Dear Geoff, First you addressed a personal question to SF: <<Oh by the way SF, per.....
» 15/02/2013 11:20:04 AM Dear Geoff, Do Australian’s really need these blinkered, biased and unfriendly fruit-cake.....
» 14/02/2013 11:32:42 PM Dear SF, <<What on earth are you talking about?>> I was referring to a blank.....
» 14/02/2013 10:06:26 PM Deqar Arjay, <<All religions are about control of human populations by a few elites.....
» 14/02/2013 7:31:53 PM Just to correct some sloppy details: <<Jewish people observing the day are required.....
» 14/02/2013 2:35:51 PM "They will pay for the sins of their parent's generation." And the sin of the b.....
» 13/02/2013 7:44:54 AM Dear Belly, <<I can not believe the thought land owners are the ones who should ben.....
» 13/02/2013 3:17:57 AM Royalties should not belong either to the federal or state governments - royalties should .....
» 8/02/2013 8:11:56 AM "What the World Needs Now is"? Excuse me, the world has no needs - the world is.....
» 7/02/2013 10:35:12 PM "The equality of all humans should be one of the most fundamental principles embedded.....
» 5/02/2013 5:45:51 PM Dear David, <<So I should unconditionally love someone or something that might not .....
» 5/02/2013 10:48:31 AM I long for the day when animals need to give their consent to being used in farming - made.....
» 5/02/2013 12:41:00 AM Dear Steven, <<I do not know whether there exists some being or entity that could b.....
» 30/01/2013 11:09:04 PM It is most insensitive of Julia to call an elections on Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, .....
» 30/01/2013 12:04:56 AM <<Yuyutsu, it may be technically possible for millions of people to vote on everythi.....
» 28/01/2013 9:39:15 PM Dear Shockadelic, I am no nationalist, but in practical terms, from the little I could re.....
» 27/01/2013 2:29:11 PM Dear Roger, It is insulting to call yourselves "The FREE thinkers Party" as if .....
» 25/01/2013 7:04:50 PM Dear Shockadelic, I have no joy talking with you as your argument is based neither on pri.....
» 24/01/2013 6:31:23 PM Dear Julian, <<Ethnocentrism a.k.a. racism is an evil if injustice is an evil.>&.....
» 23/01/2013 9:49:07 PM Dear Everett, <<your comments show that you are filled with ill will to Jews as suc.....
» 23/01/2013 8:46:17 PM Dear Everett, I think that you missed the main thrust of my words to Julian, the tone of .....
» 23/01/2013 2:38:58 PM Dear Shockadelic, <<Mission impossible, in your case.>> It isn't one's duty .....
» 23/01/2013 1:52:21 PM Dear Julian, <<There are overwhelming scientific, historical, moral reasons why the.....
» 23/01/2013 11:36:19 AM Dear Julian, <<An ethnocratic state is one that is constructed for a global ethnic .....
» 22/01/2013 10:55:02 PM That such a discussion is even necessary in this day and age, is a shame. Do we still need.....
» 22/01/2013 11:29:00 AM The Hebrew University is a bastion of peace-loving/anti-occupation, a thorn in Israel's go.....
» 21/01/2013 2:34:33 PM Dear Shockadelic, Please allow me to skip the topic of immigration as I am not really int.....
» 20/01/2013 12:37:11 PM (...continued) <<No Australian “way of life” is imposed.>> You are so used t.....
» 20/01/2013 12:37:09 PM Dear Shockadelic, <<Did Australians "consent" to their “bundling” with a .....
» 17/01/2013 3:30:09 PM In today's headline: >>Upper Nazareth mayor: No Arab school here as long as I am in.....
» 17/01/2013 2:17:50 PM Dear Runner, <<Yeah lets just take taxes from Christians and fund killing babies, p.....
» 16/01/2013 1:02:57 AM Dear Shockaelic, <<What exactly is your philosophy, Yuyutsu? Nihilist individualis.....
» 15/01/2013 4:52:22 PM Dear Sonofgloin, <<It is fireworks........not a mission statement>> Firework.....
» 15/01/2013 3:28:09 PM Dear David, So the human mind, full of itself, has universally "proven" that it.....
» 15/01/2013 1:20:00 PM Dear David, <<Religion is demonstrably intolerant of women, lesbians, gays, stem-ce.....
» 14/01/2013 11:15:48 PM Dear Shockadelic, <<A large population means any extremist tendencies can be counte.....
» 14/01/2013 11:09:39 AM <<And if so, what, please, has the last 50 years of fratricidal kerfuffle been for?&.....
» 14/01/2013 10:53:04 AM Dear Shockaholic, I happen to agree with Lance, perhaps out of different reasons: smaller.....
» 13/01/2013 8:30:03 PM Dear David F., <<However, I do not see why people who believe they have a religious.....
» 13/01/2013 2:37:26 AM Dear David F., <<You are still confused. Religion is simply no business of a secula.....
» 11/01/2013 1:48:47 PM Dear David, <<Or would you bear guilt for putting the ideas into his head?>> .....
» 11/01/2013 9:55:54 AM Dear David & David, <<You stated that Jesus never lied. How can you possibly know t.....
» 11/01/2013 9:12:33 AM Dear George, Sorry I have not made it clear enough: Given that both convictions are mora.....
» 10/01/2013 5:22:59 PM Dear Bazz, <<after all that is why we pay them>> Really? do we have a choice.....
» 10/01/2013 4:41:30 PM “We do want our fellow citizens to respect our deeply held conviction that the absence of .....
» 9/01/2013 12:15:17 AM Dear Worldwatcher, Perhaps we would like it to be different, but as it stands, a politici.....
» 8/01/2013 8:51:11 PM <<although I remain shocked that even some people who have been in jail for up to a .....
» 8/01/2013 7:21:22 PM Dear Suse, <<What surprised me most was the fact you could have been imprisoned as .....
» 8/01/2013 5:37:22 PM {{So what was Moussa hoping to achieve by his petulance in Petra? Clearly he is very frust.....
» 8/01/2013 11:31:07 AM Hi Ban, I don't know whether you are knowledgeable in Jewish religious law, but your ques.....
» 7/01/2013 9:52:19 AM Dear Bazz, <<Both Federal & State governments will become largely irrelevant.>&g.....
» 6/01/2013 5:10:02 PM Any form of regime is fine, democratic or otherwise, so long as it is voluntary, so long a.....
» 6/01/2013 2:19:12 PM Just two points: 1. The 1900 British preamble means nothing: if we don't observe it, then.....
» 4/01/2013 7:35:41 PM Dear Foyle, <<People don't own their children, they have borrowed each child from t.....
» 3/01/2013 3:42:47 PM Dear Pericles, <<Do you suppose that such a lack of awareness is common amongst tho.....
» 2/01/2013 11:51:29 PM <<These words count far more than photos>> This is not just a photo - these a.....
» 2/01/2013 9:28:19 PM <<1. There are no 1967 borders - only armistice lines> <<Is anyone prepare.....
» 2/01/2013 2:39:01 PM Dear Runner, I agree with your last post. What worries me though, is your lack of intere.....
» 2/01/2013 12:23:14 PM <<So long as someone else remembers her, she will continue to exist>> But why.....
» 2/01/2013 11:38:11 AM Dear McReal, <<Religions do receive public money by way of grants; and tax exemptio.....
» 2/01/2013 10:12:59 AM It's not even a question of religion: Any individual or truly-private body should be able.....
» 1/01/2013 8:07:00 PM Dear Runner, <<Certainly the philosophy of many of the pagan tribes and indigeneous.....
» 1/01/2013 3:42:05 PM If eating animals is moral, then so is eating humans. One who eats meat may refuse to pra.....
» 30/12/2012 8:13:49 PM Dear SF, <<Israels and Israeli Arabs are equal in Israel>> (I presume you mea.....
» 30/12/2012 12:59:08 PM Dear Arjay, <<It is about time OLO posted some articles by Norman Finkelstein or Na.....
» 28/12/2012 7:45:52 PM Dear Csteele, Nobody, especially no elderly person, was forced to leave Hong Kong because.....
» 28/12/2012 4:14:18 PM Dear Julian, <<*DEMOCRACY - a secular, non-racist democratic state from the Mediter.....
» 28/12/2012 12:15:43 PM Dear Belly, Gs know nothing about God, they are just a bunch of hyenas come to suck our b.....
» 28/12/2012 6:31:49 AM Dear Belly, <<government would be reluctant to kick the legs out from under Gods, a.....
» 27/12/2012 12:44:42 PM Dear Belly, <<Y God, every one of them is a story=men invented God.>> Ancien.....
» 27/12/2012 10:06:32 AM Dear Belly, You have not answered my questions regarding what you mean in your dream that.....
» 26/12/2012 11:50:17 PM Dear Belly, <<in Nigeria yesterday, bigoted followers of a middle ages God slaughte.....
» 26/12/2012 2:48:37 PM Dear Pericles, It's simple: 1. In our ultimate true nature we are the same, and therefor.....
» 26/12/2012 5:28:38 AM Dear Belly, <<Now you are I am sure, well aware of my intention that humanity be on.....
» 26/12/2012 2:56:16 AM Dear Belly, <<Is a wish that *ALL humanity be one* wrong?>> All humanity is .....
» 25/12/2012 10:02:36 AM Glad to know Prompete, and Merry Christmas to you!.....
» 25/12/2012 9:36:04 AM Dear Belly, <<May I too say I am unsure how any follower of any God, can be comfort.....
» 24/12/2012 8:03:29 PM The criticism against the Salvation Army is not about helping the refugees in Nauru and el.....
» 21/12/2012 3:30:51 PM <<Could the private sector have offered it cheaper and faster?>> All I care i.....
» 21/12/2012 12:54:26 AM <<Should all house break - ins result in the death penalty by firing squad after no .....
» 19/12/2012 3:18:00 PM Dear Sonofgloin, <<My mum who is 88 and in good physical condition for her age aske.....
» 18/12/2012 5:59:08 PM Dear Sonofgloin, <<The term atheist is a logical nonsense, as is the term theist. H.....
» 18/12/2012 7:37:15 AM Shame, shame on them, consorting with government, accepting their bribes of tainted money,.....
» 17/12/2012 9:30:28 AM Dear Josephus, Give unto Caesar what is his (and notwithstanding, unto God what is His): .....
» 17/12/2012 3:12:21 AM Dear Suse, <<I would hate to see all our elderly people 'armed'.>> Who ever .....
» 16/12/2012 6:43:13 PM In Israel, almost every man aged about 18-40 and most women aged 18-25 is REQUIRED to take.....
» 16/12/2012 6:21:27 PM Dear Poirot, <<What the children are being taught are the foundations of good (and .....
» 16/12/2012 5:17:37 PM Dear Pelican, <<What was once thought to be obtained only through religion eg. mann.....
» 14/12/2012 8:36:39 AM Dear Stan, Your last comment is excellent! I still hope for a two-state solution, or bet.....
» 13/12/2012 11:47:37 AM Dear David, <<Explain in the English language we use on Earth how can a god that do.....
» 13/12/2012 8:42:12 AM Dear Tony, <<Not quite: it adds another layer of complexity which William of Ockham.....
» 12/12/2012 9:03:09 PM Dear Pericles, <<An atheist is someone who rejects the notion of a supreme being. G.....
» 12/12/2012 9:03:01 PM Dear David, <<Most of us consider leprechauns, fairies, Zeus, Ra and the Lock Ness .....
» 12/12/2012 11:42:38 AM Dear David, <<No, it means the sexual attraction to children.>> The fact tha.....
» 12/12/2012 9:20:23 AM Dear Trevor, <<It's never clear whose being is the more insulted – the true or untr.....
» 12/12/2012 9:16:02 AM Dear Pericles, <<I genuinely fail to see how an atheist, who clearly states a lack .....
» 11/12/2012 7:25:12 PM Dear Pericles, <<Not to mention a tad insulting to ordinary human beings who unders.....
» 11/12/2012 6:20:53 PM Congratulations on this excellent article. So true!.....
» 11/12/2012 6:05:34 PM Great article, but one important omission: <<harass many peaceful people for their .....
» 11/12/2012 4:12:29 PM Case #1234567, Prosecution: Ms. Jane Citizen, is it true that you told the witness, ".....
» 11/12/2012 3:42:32 PM Dear Bazz, <<If you printed out something offensive to moslems you would not be com.....
» 11/12/2012 8:22:51 AM Dear chrisgaff1000 and Sonofgloin, <<"Imprisonment with hard labor">&g.....
» 11/12/2012 12:21:38 AM Two simple steps can reduce car emissions significantly: 1. Repeal mandatory helmet laws:.....
» 10/12/2012 11:46:33 PM Dear David G., Referring to Mr. Singer, you wrote: <<This is because he is a relig.....
» 10/12/2012 6:12:53 PM Dear Sonofgloin, <<Hang on a minute there Danielle, I don't think you can blame the.....
» 10/12/2012 3:49:23 PM Dear Pericles, <<Where does paedophilia fit into this scheme of yours?>> Tho.....
» 10/12/2012 3:36:41 PM An interesting idea, Danielle, Some variation of this is worth considering if we can work.....
» 10/12/2012 11:29:26 AM Dear David, Over the last 3.8 billion years, organisms were specialised by evolution for .....
» 10/12/2012 12:02:37 AM Dear David, <<May I suggest you stop playing the role of the wise prophet as you ar.....
» 9/12/2012 7:05:00 PM Dear David, “To save the world requires faith and courage: faith in reason, and courage t.....
» 9/12/2012 6:43:27 PM Dear Pericles, If you need evidence for the fickleness of the human mind and how easily i.....
» 9/12/2012 5:31:59 PM Dear DiamondPete, No deities exist. Existence is an illusion......
» 9/12/2012 3:42:11 PM Let the people of Australia decide: Those who like refugees - should pay to bring them in.....
» 9/12/2012 12:33:17 PM Dear Hasbeen, <<However I would not know what a Jew was like. I wouldn't know if I .....
» 9/12/2012 10:28:28 AM <<many thanks for your comment which has given me a possible idea for an article dea.....
» 5/12/2012 9:06:48 PM Dear James, <<The UN General Assembly voted on a resolution urging Israel to join t.....
» 5/12/2012 1:27:01 PM Dear David, <<Let me assure you, not many folk come closer to any of the imaginary .....
» 5/12/2012 1:04:43 PM Dear David, <<Education is the way to go, therefore there is the AFA.>> I ag.....
» 5/12/2012 12:26:07 PM Dear David, <<but unfortunately many of those people think their particular imagina.....
» 5/12/2012 7:55:31 AM Dear Belly, Can you seriously imagine God sitting on some cloud and driving hate and wars.....
» 4/12/2012 8:30:10 PM Dear Belly, The contemporary composer Philip Glass included in his 5th symphony several c.....
» 4/12/2012 4:47:17 PM Dear Poirot, I do not reject society as such, I only reject such societies that force the.....
» 4/12/2012 1:40:14 PM Dear Belly, <<Y I had in mind every single one of them that ever existed. That the .....
» 4/12/2012 11:02:59 AM Dear Belly, <<I see ZERO relation to what I thought we would talk of on starting th.....
» 4/12/2012 1:40:14 AM (...continued) It is but secular propaganda as if society created its rules and laws in o.....
» 4/12/2012 1:40:09 AM Dear Pericles, <<It is the organization whose rules protect the paedophiles>>.....
» 3/12/2012 2:05:34 PM Dear Belly, <<Are you however aware how very remote from most of us that is. Try te.....
» 3/12/2012 1:35:44 PM Dear Pericles, <<Is this really what you think is happening here, Yuyutsu? Or are y.....
» 2/12/2012 10:43:23 AM Millions of Catholics pray in Church and at home, do the rosary, sing and play the organ i.....
» 30/11/2012 5:17:23 PM Dear Belly, I talk with Pericles on a sophisticated intellectual and theological level, b.....
» 30/11/2012 2:11:01 PM Dear Pericles, <<Without the benefit of some external reference point>> Sorr.....
» 30/11/2012 12:53:43 PM <<Why not just draw yes or no out of a bucket>> Because there are so many bet.....
» 30/11/2012 11:49:52 AM Why should there be a fixed MP in the first place then? Or elections for that matter? Let.....
» 30/11/2012 11:05:14 AM What an oversight, Rechtub and Gypsy: First, the next politician in line may since have d.....
» 30/11/2012 9:20:11 AM If you want to elect parties - fine, but do so, change the electoral system so that one vo.....
» 30/11/2012 7:42:03 AM Dear Belly, <<Catholic Church in my view mostly looks like a PEDOPHILES structure b.....
» 30/11/2012 7:04:43 AM Dear Shockadelic, <<A tiny tax is not going to change behaviour much.>> A ti.....
» 29/11/2012 10:30:19 PM Dear Pericles, <<I could independently determine that the process of coming closer .....
» 29/11/2012 5:21:35 PM Dear Shockadelic, <<“and foreign cash in particular” Not if it's explicitly prohibi.....
» 29/11/2012 12:49:27 PM Dear Pericles, <<The fallacy here is that when you do experience an orgasm, the cha.....
» 29/11/2012 7:53:39 AM Dear Belly, <<Y thanks, from your continuing claims every crime committed by an exi.....
» 28/11/2012 11:48:04 PM Dear Pericles, First I must apologise for an awkward error I made in my last post to you:.....
» 27/11/2012 9:25:04 PM Never kill a mosquito - it's not a conflict between equals!.....
» 27/11/2012 7:57:07 PM Dear Shockadelic, <<You can't spend foreign cash in Australia.>> What stops .....
» 27/11/2012 5:27:47 PM Dear Belly, <<I wade through the words of Y unable to understand the need to not ta.....
» 27/11/2012 4:55:00 PM Dear Pericles, Suit yourself - your experiment will correlate between those who think the.....
» 27/11/2012 4:22:38 PM Thank you David, I agree and fully support the separation of church and state. It's just .....
» 27/11/2012 1:18:33 PM <<Your words do not offer hope, or answers, why is it children going to the church o.....
» 27/11/2012 12:36:39 PM Dear RevDek, I watch in pain how religion is degraded when respected ministers of God ben.....
» 27/11/2012 7:33:22 AM Dear Belly, <<You speak in tongues, as far as I can make out.>> Allow me to .....
» 27/11/2012 12:44:44 AM Dear Belly, <<am I wrong for questioning how you can tell a bad Priest from a good .....
» 26/11/2012 2:29:25 PM Well said, Mac! <<The secular state should not be involved in the support of religi.....
» 26/11/2012 1:26:13 PM Dear Chris, As someone who previously donated to Amnesty, I am surprised to hear that som.....
» 26/11/2012 10:32:12 AM Dear Shockadelic, <<If either is the case, we will never know The Answer.>> .....
» 26/11/2012 10:06:54 AM <<It is the easiest way to collect tax, now that almost all transactions are electro.....
» 25/11/2012 11:12:20 PM Lets tax stupidity - there will be more than enough to go around!.....
» 25/11/2012 10:59:04 PM Dear Belly, <<but highlight these people of your God include child rapists.>>.....
» 25/11/2012 10:49:16 PM Dear Pete, <<Hopefully, within the next 10,000 or so years science will have the &q.....
» 25/11/2012 11:47:26 AM Dear Poirot, Earlier you wrote: <<I'm not sure I understand entirely where Yuyutsu .....
» 25/11/2012 12:42:54 AM Dear Julian, <<Palestine - a secular, democratic, non-racist Palestine stretching f.....
» 23/11/2012 7:04:49 PM Dear Belly, Sorry I have no more time today to respond fully, I'll be back on Sunday. Wh.....
» 23/11/2012 11:01:49 AM Had the topic of this discussion been: "Can we prove that religion is needed?", .....
» 22/11/2012 6:30:48 PM Dear Belly, <<my thoughts on starting this thread was to talk, and even learn , abo.....
» 22/11/2012 1:41:26 PM Dear Belly, <<Glad to find Christianity is not a religion, bit baffled too.>>.....
» 22/11/2012 11:41:43 AM Dear Pericles, There is nothing but God. God does not exist, nor anything else in truth -.....
» 22/11/2012 3:27:31 AM Dear Pete, I acknowledge that you haven't said such things on the violent side, but your .....
» 22/11/2012 2:37:46 AM Dear Pete, I see no point in a engaging in a shouting match with you about what is and wh.....
» 21/11/2012 11:32:16 PM Dear Poirot, <<I suspect Yuyutsu would say that the destruction taking place in Gaz.....
» 21/11/2012 11:08:22 AM Well said, Yabby, Suffering is noble - but not the suffering of others!.....
» 21/11/2012 9:29:38 AM Dear Poirot, You couldn't summarize my view any better! Thank you for pointing this out .....
» 21/11/2012 8:33:51 AM Dear Pericles, Can you help me interpret Belly's words? They are like the Greek oracle (s.....
» 20/11/2012 10:44:47 PM Dear Tony, <<How are you going to experience things Yuyutsu? Are you expecting that.....
» 20/11/2012 8:58:50 PM Dear Onjab, What makes you assume that all that's written in the bible is religious? The.....
» 20/11/2012 7:56:23 PM <<So, what is the problem? Politicians, or more to the point, religious politicians......
» 20/11/2012 5:54:50 PM Dear Belly, Sorry, but you keep attributing to me things I have not said, then accusing m.....
» 20/11/2012 2:33:44 PM Dear "579", How is it that it's the same people who despise religion who also d.....
» 20/11/2012 12:28:55 PM Dear Pericles, So there is a dispute about the meaning of the word "religion". .....
» 20/11/2012 2:07:33 AM Dear Csteele, <<To the victims on either side they all would be seen as acts of ter.....
» 19/11/2012 11:36:17 PM Dear Tony, I have no clue where you get this idea as if without a brain one cannot be awa.....
» 19/11/2012 3:00:42 PM Dear David, Yes, I hope I deserve the title of a religious fundamentalist, meaning that I.....
» 19/11/2012 10:52:25 AM Dear Pericles, I think we have been on that page before, there is a documented dispute be.....
» 19/11/2012 4:47:59 AM Dear Belly, <<WOMEN are, in my view, victimized by followers of God, any God.>&g.....
» 19/11/2012 4:29:10 AM Dear Mac, Thank you, I truly appreciate your detailed explanation, so far we agree. Re m.....
» 19/11/2012 2:42:24 AM Dear Suse, You are perfectly right. We are talking here about 3 different concepts: 1) B.....
» 18/11/2012 11:32:49 PM Sorry to jump in, but I just find this question so funny and divorced from reality: <&.....
» 18/11/2012 11:13:35 PM Dear Suse, I appreciate your sensitivity. Belief in and reverence to God are closely rel.....
» 18/11/2012 9:33:57 PM Dear David, Yes, it is upon those encumbered to speak out, at least try to, if anyone eve.....
» 18/11/2012 6:47:30 PM Dear David, It is you who defend the irrational, which is as if the objective plane (that.....
» 18/11/2012 5:05:19 PM Dear Suse, <<but most of us can now think for ourselves...>> Right on! Pity .....
» 18/11/2012 3:53:06 PM Good point, Mac! I agree, but have 3 comments: 1) To the extent and portion that private.....
» 18/11/2012 3:15:53 PM Dear Tony, <<all religions have a common defining feature which is a belief in the .....
» 18/11/2012 2:55:11 PM Dear David, <<Which god? You have a god and others have different gods which you di.....
» 18/11/2012 2:06:33 PM Dear David, Why our brain is influenced by biology is obvious - it's part thereof. Why bi.....
» 18/11/2012 10:11:44 AM Dear Belly, How did our friend Jesus say: "if your foot causes you to sin, cut it of.....
» 18/11/2012 2:07:00 AM Dear Belly, I fully agree with Scribbler: Scribbler described religion from a social poi.....
» 17/11/2012 9:15:43 PM Dear David F., <<Is your first step making the West Bank part of Jordan? Since both.....
» 16/11/2012 6:19:49 PM Sorry I am in a hurry, David, I will answer in full on Sunday. Just one quick point for n.....
» 16/11/2012 5:54:12 PM Dear David F., <<Trying to make the West Bank part of Jordan even though it was occ.....
» 16/11/2012 2:13:14 PM Dear David, <<Can you supply a few examples of these non-rational moral/ethical del.....
» 16/11/2012 11:06:23 AM Dear Banjo, You got me wrong: the spirit and the body are not the same. Spirit clings to .....
» 15/11/2012 9:36:19 PM Dear David, <<You should attempt to use the English language to elucidate, not comp.....
» 15/11/2012 6:22:37 PM Dear David G., Iron Dome was developed and built in Israel and has no American connection.....
» 15/11/2012 5:41:54 PM Dear David G., EVERY path leads to God, no matter how it is labeled. Some paths are longe.....
» 15/11/2012 3:18:00 PM David Singer presented an offer to hand the West Bank to Jordan. Yes, I realise it's incom.....
» 15/11/2012 1:29:37 PM Dear Yabby, Having an erection is no excuse from turning one's attention away from God. I.....
» 15/11/2012 7:43:26 AM As explained by Jesus, the problem is primarily of a spiritual nature: a man who dedicated.....
» 14/11/2012 11:45:13 PM Which is just one more reason why we should not rely on America, but ensure that everythin.....
» 14/11/2012 11:24:04 PM Which is just one more reason why we should not rely on America, but make sure that everyt.....
» 14/11/2012 10:52:55 PM Dear Avw, The West Bank was in Arab hands before 1967 and should return to Arab hands (or.....
» 14/11/2012 9:20:09 PM A correction: Juliar didn't lie! What she said is: "There will be no carbon tax unde.....
» 14/11/2012 7:52:15 PM Thank you for clarifying, Arjay, <<Yuyutsu,Who are the elites? They are the people .....
» 13/11/2012 7:57:18 PM I was so far saving my 4th&last post for today, but following Arjay's post, like the crow .....
» 13/11/2012 4:36:03 PM Dear Marilyn, <<As Israel has no borders and continues to steal Palestine what is I.....
» 13/11/2012 2:03:22 PM Dear Marilyn, <<It's got to do with boycotting businesses built in the west bank on.....
» 13/11/2012 11:44:22 AM Just checked and verified that the Strauss group operates all from within Israel-proper, N.....
» 13/11/2012 10:49:23 AM I am not a Catholic, not even a Christian, nor do I support the acts of the priests in que.....
» 12/11/2012 12:34:05 PM Dear nswnotill, I don't personally drink alcohol, but everyone has their own "alcoho.....
» 11/11/2012 2:15:27 PM Dear Jay, If/When China takes over Australia, its propagandists will claim that Australia.....
» 8/11/2012 8:27:27 PM Hi Jay, <<it's highly unlikely that China would ever be able to "invade" .....
» 8/11/2012 6:09:03 PM Can't you all see that Julia is well-meaning and kindly trying to help by preparing us for.....
» 6/11/2012 8:00:05 PM <<Geez, there are some weirdos here>> I hope that's the case - better that th.....
» 6/11/2012 7:10:34 PM Dear David F., <<They were forced to leave. They were not forced to come to Israel......
» 6/11/2012 3:27:26 PM <<Civil libertarians argue that young people should not be demonised for having a ‘s.....
» 6/11/2012 1:33:18 PM Dear Poirot, <<I beg to differ, in that a neanderthal would act on his environment .....
» 6/11/2012 1:23:26 PM Dear Houellebecq, <<Just look at the quality of scripts and the more dense themes o.....
» 6/11/2012 7:53:52 AM Dear Jon J., We seem to have a problem of language as the author is confusing and freely .....
» 5/11/2012 3:19:02 PM <<Yes; governments are a balancing force between interested parties.>> How re.....
» 5/11/2012 12:45:11 PM Dear Loudmouth, Facts are facts, but the question is what you do with them. For the gove.....
» 5/11/2012 11:25:01 AM Dear Poirot, I am not defiling my environment more than you are, nor would a neanderthal......
» 5/11/2012 10:46:14 AM Dear John, <<Yet still neanderthals attempt to suppress action>> Are you try.....
» 5/11/2012 9:52:24 AM <<...Anything oversize can be shipped-off through the local PO around the corner: Al.....
» 5/11/2012 9:33:39 AM There is no question about the fact that Sandy was human-induced (as well as by some butte.....
» 4/11/2012 11:44:42 PM Dear David F., <<The state of Israel has exactly the same right to the land of Isra.....
» 4/11/2012 9:45:01 PM That's an excellent argument, David F., I actually love it! But I wonder what you think o.....
» 4/11/2012 4:10:55 PM Dear Jonathan, <<Yuyutsu – in the ideal world I agree: zero (traceable) online iden.....
» 4/11/2012 11:33:29 AM Sorry for the error: "underlining" ==> "undermining".....
» 4/11/2012 11:30:13 AM Perhaps unavoidable, perhaps unpreventable, but calling it "the universal good of eng.....
» 4/11/2012 11:01:16 AM Dear David, <<Based on the current polical view of the current Government in Israel.....
» 2/11/2012 5:55:52 PM <<The best answer he can weave is that we should create multiple identities.>>.....
» 2/11/2012 3:45:56 PM Dear David, <<The west bank was not cursed territory for Jordan between 1940-1967......
» 31/10/2012 7:31:14 PM Amen. Blessings on Prince Hassan's head and his father King Abdullah, may he prosper and .....
» 31/10/2012 5:45:42 PM The article contrasts "self interest" with a "mutually appreciative, consen.....
» 26/10/2012 6:36:44 PM Dear David F., <<We differ on that point.>> I suspect we don't, after all. .....
» 26/10/2012 3:48:54 PM Dear David F., It was good reading about the Rumspringa - thanks, but that wikipedia-entr.....
» 26/10/2012 8:34:21 AM Excellent article, except for the strange title, "States need to intervene in populat.....
» 25/10/2012 3:03:51 PM Dear David F., The less the state interferes in people's lives, the more it is possible t.....
» 24/10/2012 6:09:33 PM Dear David F., I think we have two sources of confusion: One is about the difference bet.....
» 24/10/2012 12:22:35 AM <<In our over-stimulated modern lives very few of us feel any connection to past liv.....
» 23/10/2012 10:22:40 PM Dear David F., No dispute that multiculturalism is better than ethnic control and that se.....
» 23/10/2012 6:35:45 PM Dear David F. I appreciate the good intentions of the Australian constitution. I do sugg.....
» 23/10/2012 1:38:48 PM Dear David F., <<Democracy requires separation of religion and state.>> Wron.....
» 23/10/2012 8:00:08 AM <<Firefox 16.0.1 tells me that it is 'waiting for adserver.adtechus.com'>> I .....
» 23/10/2012 7:34:40 AM Dear DiamondPete, <<Within 200 years I predict we will be writing only within our b.....
» 22/10/2012 2:11:32 PM Does the author truly believe that God is a government employee? - Just pay a fee, receiv.....
» 22/10/2012 1:27:26 PM Hi Yabby, I don't know about Internet-Explorer: I use firefox and it has some nice add-on.....
» 21/10/2012 12:38:31 AM Newspapers are here to stay: There will always be the need to polish shoes, check the oil.....
» 18/10/2012 10:08:14 AM Dear Houellebecq, Thanks for bringing up the connection between paedophilia and terrorism.....
» 17/10/2012 11:06:47 PM Dear Julian, You seem to wish Israel dismantled: while I don't share your desire (but off.....
» 17/10/2012 7:24:46 PM Dear Sonofgloin, <<The compulsion is psychological>> Not every paedophile ha.....
» 17/10/2012 6:34:12 PM Dear Julian, To state a fact is not to express any value judgment. The Jews are clearly .....
» 16/10/2012 8:32:46 PM Dear Paul, <<accessing 'the spring garden guide' is seen as acceptable in society, .....
» 16/10/2012 4:29:30 PM Dear Julian, Just because the truth is inconvenient (abetting antisemitism) doesn't mean .....
» 16/10/2012 1:13:12 PM <<Do you think the government should sack and permanently ban from any school, peopl.....
» 15/10/2012 6:34:16 AM You are right, Pete: She said that "there will be no carbon tax" and indeed the.....
» 12/10/2012 12:21:16 AM Dear Hasbeen, Houses are made of bricks and mortar: no amount of money bills can build a .....
» 11/10/2012 2:57:37 PM Dear Hasbeen, I understand very well that bad habits are difficult and painful to change......
» 11/10/2012 1:44:58 PM Well Philip, you have caught the snake, but it was in its middle, not near its head... Th.....
» 11/10/2012 2:02:15 AM Some are told that they are unworthy, others are told that they are conditionally-worthy, .....
» 9/10/2012 11:02:51 PM As a vegetarian who is repulsed by these practices, I must say this: Do condemn those who.....
» 8/10/2012 10:05:49 PM I support the Greens' pledge to remove welfare conditions. EVERYONE should receive welfar.....
» 5/10/2012 11:44:35 AM Maths, science and reading are obsolete criteria - nowadays children's education success i.....
» 3/10/2012 8:32:35 AM If all that life is about is success in the global economic battlefield, then the Nazi app.....
» 1/10/2012 6:02:17 PM Dear Bazz, "Occam's razor" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occam%27s_razor) state.....
» 1/10/2012 5:05:16 PM Dear Julian, I do hope that you extend the same level of sympathy and justice for Tibet, .....
» 30/09/2012 12:39:41 AM Dear Rehctub, I am also an immigrant and I don't visit centerlink. (that institute shoul.....
» 28/09/2012 3:16:00 PM Dear Ludwig, <<How immoral is it for our government to keep on driving our whole so.....
» 28/09/2012 12:32:55 PM Dear Ludwig, <<So you are saying that we should have completely open borders and th.....
» 28/09/2012 2:22:09 AM Dear Ludwig, <<What’s unfair about it Yuyutsu?>> To begin with, birds and fi.....
» 27/09/2012 9:57:19 PM Dear Kipp, <<Circumcision is on a par with docking a dogs tail, totally unnecessary.....
» 27/09/2012 9:51:09 PM <<Reduce immigration to net zero.>> That's unfair, but what could be done ins.....
» 27/09/2012 5:37:40 PM No state has a duty to protect those who never sought its protection. Assuming neither th.....
» 27/09/2012 5:19:02 PM Just stop the NBN!.....
» 27/09/2012 5:54:01 AM Nice ideas, I really like the potential outcome and I don't like Zionism either. However, .....
» 27/09/2012 4:55:57 AM I believe that genital mutilation is wrong, boys and girls alike - perhaps I'm wrong and S.....
» 25/09/2012 4:40:09 PM Dear Stan, "Intolerable" is an inappropriate adjective: Undesirable, Painful, S.....
» 25/09/2012 1:54:37 AM Dear David, <<National self-determination is based on the idea that a people united.....
» 24/09/2012 8:05:38 PM Dear Therzal, <<Restore the country to how it was before 48 and have a democratic s.....
» 24/09/2012 7:14:21 PM Dear Therzal, <<If you are really interested, you could read...>> Thanks, bu.....
» 23/09/2012 8:31:41 PM Dear Therzal, You are bursting into an open door. I don't know Pappe, so I simply believ.....
» 22/09/2012 11:34:10 PM Ilan Pappe has a point: Judaism does not serve the Israeli people, it is based on a lie an.....
» 8/09/2012 12:55:32 AM Fine with me: Hand the West Bank back to Jordan, let Jordan hold it for a token one day,.....
» 7/09/2012 5:44:06 PM What nonsense to equate free individual agreements with the interests of big business! La.....
» 5/09/2012 4:25:07 AM Yes, selling the farm is a sin! That doesn't mean that it should be illegal - Government .....
» 4/09/2012 6:15:34 AM To point out an inaccuracy, between 1967 and roughly 1975-6, Arabs from the West Bank (not.....
» 3/09/2012 11:21:22 AM Dear Houellebecq, I see no justification for granting men a right to interfere with a wom.....
» 30/08/2012 3:21:01 AM Oh dear, what were you going to do with all that ice?.....
» 30/08/2012 2:18:05 AM Dear Halduell, Suppose the archives were all opened and show the worst-case scenario for .....
» 29/08/2012 9:54:22 PM Dear Halduell, The points you mentioned further strengthen my argument: it seems that th.....
» 29/08/2012 8:39:43 PM Dear R0bert, In answer to your questions: 1) It depends: In the general case, societies .....
» 29/08/2012 1:19:51 PM Dear Geoff, Technically indeed, Israel pre-empted the war in 1967 in order to break the E.....
» 29/08/2012 10:17:29 AM Yes, Jordan is not Palestine, but then Jordan, not Palestine, started a war with Israel in.....
» 28/08/2012 9:42:45 PM Dear Kyles, <<I think all human life is of equal value no matter age, skin colour, .....
» 28/08/2012 4:33:31 PM Dear Kyles, "personhood" is indeed irrelevant since it's all about performance:.....
» 28/08/2012 1:01:49 PM The so-called "carbon" tax should obviously go (it barely pays for administratin.....
» 27/08/2012 11:43:46 PM Dear Peter, Whence that "right to life" that you mentioned? The reason we shou.....
» 23/08/2012 2:28:09 PM Why that word is constantly repeated on this thread - "human", "human".....
» 15/08/2012 6:35:56 PM <<Fact is that the old systems were stuffed and regularly starting fires in places l.....
» 6/08/2012 11:31:49 PM Dear Poirot, Fielden's shocking report does not describe a voluntary situation, freely en.....
» 6/08/2012 11:04:54 PM Dear Individual, Do you have supernatural powers? Because without those I would find it .....
» 6/08/2012 11:56:27 AM Dear Raycom, Thank you for the information - I truly wasn't aware that annulment exists i.....
» 6/08/2012 11:32:53 AM Dear Poirot, Freedom implies the ability to do good or to do bad (and everything in betwe.....
» 5/08/2012 11:09:06 PM Dear Individual, These are excellent questions, thanks! <<Isn't religion all about.....
» 5/08/2012 10:57:51 PM I am very sad to read of the banning of Peter Hume. While I condemn his behaviour and the.....
» 5/08/2012 1:43:44 PM Dear Individual, <<They are the Law makers & the religious.>> The old trick .....
» 4/08/2012 11:23:13 PM Dear Cherful, I wrote: <<Whenever people follow God, the rest falls nicely into pl.....
» 3/08/2012 4:30:22 PM Well said again, Peter! <<You comments are truly odd in the light of modern managem.....
» 3/08/2012 1:05:49 PM Dear Anthonyve, You seem to have misunderstood my response: The CONCEPT OF GOD may indee.....
» 3/08/2012 12:24:29 PM Both narratives are a mixed bag. The first ridiculously places "greed and God" .....
» 3/08/2012 11:59:55 AM Well said, congratulations Peter! <<How important is dignity or self-respect? Every.....
» 1/08/2012 2:28:35 PM Dear Raycom, <<Legally, for a start, marriage fails to be consummated>> It's.....
» 30/07/2012 7:29:21 PM Dear Sonofgloin, <<Yuyutsu, forget about the viability of the business, we should o.....
» 30/07/2012 7:07:20 PM Dear Wearestardust, <<@ yuyutsu: actually, marriage is a legal relationship governe.....
» 30/07/2012 3:51:49 PM The author bursts into an open door: <<I believe there is no reasonable legal or et.....
» 30/07/2012 3:27:07 PM One has to wonder why on earth would a government give money to a business. Any business, .....
» 26/07/2012 6:06:47 PM Dear Arjay, <<The Zionists in Israel have created their own enemies by treating Pal.....
» 26/07/2012 3:37:10 PM Dear David, <<a tiny nation of racist religious zealots>> Tiny - agreed. Not.....
» 24/07/2012 4:17:41 PM <<I think our author is looking at a 3 century's long project.>> But in 3 cen.....
» 23/07/2012 11:27:12 PM Dear Dunc, <<Why has this discussion degenerated into whether God exists or not, wi.....
» 23/07/2012 2:21:47 PM The author may be forgiven for having no clue about religion and what it means, learning a.....
» 23/07/2012 1:20:49 PM <<but any increase in livable territory has to be good>> One cannot speak of .....
» 22/07/2012 2:14:48 PM Dear David, <<Has the rise of China caused folk to retreat to caves and old mines?&.....
» 20/07/2012 5:28:12 PM Ditto, Banjo, except that I actually vote for a minor party, not just as a protest, and gi.....
» 19/07/2012 12:36:09 PM Dear David, It's rather interesting how many human 'minds' can't get around the fact that.....
» 19/07/2012 11:31:31 AM Dear Paul, I am no expert on drugs and the variation you introduced is completely foreign.....
» 19/07/2012 5:23:36 AM Dear Rehctub, You are right of course, but that's too many details. I was referring to a.....
» 18/07/2012 9:46:32 PM Abortions are bad and harmful, but killing animals is no less bad and harmful. In most cas.....
» 18/07/2012 9:27:04 PM So person A needs some job to be done and person B can offer this service, they meet each .....
» 18/07/2012 8:09:45 PM In order to make this discussion meaningful, can you please be more specific, Reg, and tel.....
» 18/07/2012 12:49:06 PM Dear David G. <<The Singer cares not who he offends with his boring stream of lies .....
» 15/07/2012 11:48:33 AM <<The GST pulled Australia out of the $hit>> Is that so? The GST added so mu.....
» 11/07/2012 5:53:03 PM Dear Jon J, You wrote: <<One reason Australians are concerned and fearful is becau.....
» 11/07/2012 12:02:54 AM <<Besides, appendage-less men would be less inclined to wage wars!>> But Davi.....
» 10/07/2012 11:51:11 AM Dear Saltpetre, This article and thread are about the rights or otherwise of the state to.....
» 9/07/2012 11:46:19 PM Dear Lexi, Many today think that mass is bad (perhaps because others don't like their bod.....
» 9/07/2012 10:13:03 PM Dear Bugsy, <<I think many of you illustrate Leyonhjelm's point quite well.>>.....
» 9/07/2012 9:29:35 PM It boils down to one big question: WHOSE CHILD IS IT? One may argue that "the child.....
» 9/07/2012 12:16:12 AM This obsession is yet another form of materialism. A thought for the day: Bosons can't bu.....
» 6/07/2012 4:48:19 PM Dear Runner, <<you could rightly assume that the vast majority of those into organi.....
» 6/07/2012 3:17:06 PM So suppose you are right, David, and organic food IS a religion - then what? Suppose &quo.....
» 6/07/2012 12:27:49 PM Dear Bonmot, Certainly, it is not feasible for most ordinary people to start their own pa.....
» 5/07/2012 10:02:20 PM <<Question for you (and others who have reached this realisation) ... now what?>&.....
» 4/07/2012 7:43:23 PM Dear David G, <<Graham, why don't you get a few Palestinians to write weekly articl.....
» 4/07/2012 2:24:30 PM So much for all the Israelis who voted for their largest political party - Kadima, on the .....
» 4/07/2012 1:37:36 PM Jews would describe this as a "circumcision ceremony" - The little ones are bei.....
» 4/07/2012 1:32:35 PM Dear Belly, In a democracy, no minority can control an upper house: if a government doesn.....
» 3/07/2012 10:59:27 PM Undoubtedly there was much stupidity in the past for which we can only say "good ridd.....
» 3/07/2012 6:43:08 PM <<Two weeks of (Oz) welfare would reimburse their seed capital>> That's of co.....
» 3/07/2012 6:18:15 PM It is my understanding that Clive Palmer never offered to fly or ferry refugees into Austr.....
» 3/07/2012 6:14:49 PM Dear Lexi, I think you were addressing my post, not Bazz's. Even if our views about the .....
» 3/07/2012 3:15:53 PM Dear Belly, Yes, I got the name of our electoral-system wrong. I stand corrected. Howeve.....
» 3/07/2012 12:33:27 AM Dear Hasbeen, <<that would give us, in the lower house, the same sort of garbage th.....
» 2/07/2012 9:09:43 PM The non-democratic nature of upper houses pales in comparison to the non-democratic nature.....
» 2/07/2012 8:50:50 PM Are you working for Qantas, Jurplesman? Now seriously, anyone should be able to fly in (o.....
» 1/07/2012 6:39:17 AM <<any issues that are bothering you - you can take up with your Member of Parliament.....
» 30/06/2012 8:09:31 PM Dear Poirot, <<but you denounce others who derive government support for healthcare.....
» 30/06/2012 6:53:17 PM Dear Lexi, I am not a pensioner and don't get a cent from the government. The government .....
» 29/06/2012 2:45:24 PM Dear Poirot, StG, Lexi, R0bert, I appreciate that people have hopes, dreams, heart aches,.....
» 26/06/2012 6:29:44 PM <<She wants editorial control>> She certainly wants the other share-holders t.....
» 26/06/2012 4:35:12 PM Dear Poirot, <<You're rather strange and insulting>> Strange, perhaps, as I .....
» 26/06/2012 1:26:35 PM It is very nice that StG's fiance, as well as Poirot's daughter and Lexi receive the medic.....
» 26/06/2012 1:01:11 AM Dear R0bert, You are not side-tracking, your post is right on the topic! The problems yo.....
» 25/06/2012 7:15:22 PM Dear StG, <<None of us earn what it costs...>> Generally true - that's why w.....
» 25/06/2012 7:14:44 PM Dear, R0bert, <<We don't live in a country where you can withdraw from paying those.....
» 25/06/2012 12:32:55 PM Dear StG, As I wrote on the case of gay-marriage, relationships and marriage should be no.....
» 22/06/2012 12:24:25 PM I don't think that there is any member of OLO who is against free speech or doubts its mer.....
» 22/06/2012 10:29:07 AM Dear Jayb, <<If I caught anyone molesting my daughter or my granddaughter. ---- The.....
» 22/06/2012 1:06:55 AM Sorry, I clicked on the "Post" button by mistake while these were still my raw, .....
» 22/06/2012 12:06:11 AM Why no death penalty in Australia? If a dog bites a man, then by law it is put to death! .....
» 18/06/2012 2:23:59 PM Dear Laviniam, I just confirmed that Moroccan oil is produced in the town of Maalot, whic.....
» 17/06/2012 6:15:57 PM So, are you voting this time for Tweedledum or for Tweedledee? The one will eat you with .....
» 16/06/2012 10:13:37 PM <<We only have to get rid of this federal government and it will be sweet!>> .....
» 15/06/2012 1:01:06 PM I see no reason why one should be allowed to hunt in public areas. Get your own property,.....
» 13/06/2012 3:07:25 AM As I understand it, or as I read somewhere, there is a special treaty between the USA and .....
» 12/06/2012 6:49:03 PM <<Anyway, if he is taken to Sweden and is found guilty as charged>> Nobody ha.....
» 12/06/2012 6:30:01 PM Dear Newtus, <<Swedish law and proceedures need to be allowed to act without attemp.....
» 11/06/2012 3:16:10 PM <<I don't buy toilet paper there anymore!>> So how do you manage instead? Ste.....
» 11/06/2012 11:47:07 AM Everyone knows that the rape allegations are only a pretext to send Assange to the USA to .....
» 10/06/2012 10:01:41 PM One good reason to choose a small local shop over supermarkets is that in the supermarkets.....
» 8/06/2012 2:21:24 PM Dear Agronomist, <<You have to go to trouble to avoid vaccination>> Why woul.....
» 8/06/2012 12:42:35 PM Dear Poirot, <<we define society as a grouping of beings who congregate together in.....
» 7/06/2012 10:09:55 PM Dear Poirot, <<"Actual living people" - "sentient beings" - com.....
» 7/06/2012 7:10:33 PM Dear Agronomist, <<vaccination is a good thing for societies who don't want to lose.....
» 6/06/2012 9:17:34 PM (...continued) <<what's better than to die for a spiritual cause!...Dying for a spi.....
» 6/06/2012 9:17:28 PM Dear Tony, According to the Mental-Health Act, "A person does not have a mental illn.....
» 6/06/2012 12:43:23 AM Dear Poirot, <<If you're making a choice then you are thinking.>> Thank you .....
» 5/06/2012 10:27:00 PM Thank you StG, I tried "Whereis.com" and it worked beautifully. I noticed that .....
» 5/06/2012 10:15:36 PM Dear Poirot, <<Has it occurred to you that in order to "make a choice" (a.....
» 5/06/2012 2:51:51 PM Dear Martin, As you asked me not to answer your first question, I will not answer it. Yo.....
» 5/06/2012 1:41:41 PM Dear Martin, <<no one chooses their parents>> I can understand that it is qu.....
» 4/06/2012 11:33:35 PM Dear Poirot, <<How can we become closer to God if we are God? If we are God, then .....
» 4/06/2012 6:50:47 PM Dear StG, <<You can search locally via your mobile for anything>> That would.....
» 4/06/2012 12:48:34 PM Dear Martin, <<I look forward to a day when religion is not an excuse for anything .....
» 4/06/2012 3:28:02 AM Dear Martin, The bible's 6th commandment is wrongly translated as "thou shalt not ki.....
» 4/06/2012 1:53:15 AM Dear Tony, If we invent and use vaccines in our capacity as God, then there is no problem.....
» 3/06/2012 10:55:22 PM Dear Martin,but this is a question of religious values and therefore is independent of the.....
» 3/06/2012 2:57:10 AM Dear Martin, <<You really have no grasp on the concept of sarcasm, do you?>> .....
» 3/06/2012 2:41:45 AM Dear Martin, <<If spiritual "purity" is that boring, then I'd rather not .....
» 3/06/2012 1:22:56 AM Dear Tony, <<So who is qualified to assess the spiritual danger of vaccines? How do.....
» 2/06/2012 10:16:40 PM Dear Alan, <<@Chris C, Yuyutsu and individual: No, it is just not true that “Marria.....
» 1/06/2012 5:24:56 PM Dear Martin, In the context of this piece, spirituality and religion are entirely relevan.....
» 1/06/2012 4:58:05 PM Dear Martin, <<Yuyutsu, this article has nothing to do with religion, so why bring .....
» 1/06/2012 3:39:01 PM "Can you prove vaccines are safe?" No, because that depends on the meaning of &.....
» 1/06/2012 10:18:50 AM I second Chris in pointing the logical error - it is impossible to legalise something that.....
» 31/05/2012 10:45:08 AM Dear Lorikeet, I find no basis to your statement as if "anything that is either lega.....
» 31/05/2012 2:38:31 AM Dear Pericles, <<Not necessarily. You would constantly be swapping backwards and fo.....
» 29/05/2012 7:47:02 PM Dear Arjay, How much will it cost you to put a LINE, just one single line in yellow-pages.....
» 29/05/2012 12:16:34 PM Dear Halduell, Many Israelis are driven to Zionism ONLY because of the Palestinian terror.....
» 29/05/2012 9:08:22 AM <<Yellow Online is too expensive for the service they provide>> Oh thanks, I .....
» 29/05/2012 12:55:20 AM The only fair welfare system is where we ALL receive equal welfare, unconditionally. This.....
» 29/05/2012 12:29:18 AM Dear Arjay, I, as a consumer, use yellow-pages because it's the standard and proper way t.....
» 28/05/2012 10:54:47 PM Dear Halduell, <<The Zionists have NEVER shown good-will to the Palestinians.>&g.....
» 28/05/2012 7:20:33 PM Dear David, I take it from your response that you support the launching of rockets into I.....
» 27/05/2012 8:31:30 PM I, for one, use yellow pages when I need a service, and as opposed to shmoogle that takes .....
» 25/05/2012 5:16:27 PM <<No ghosts, demons, deities, spirits, angels or devils exist>> Science may n.....
» 25/05/2012 4:30:01 PM <<There are many religious people who seemingly want nothing else than for me to agr.....
» 25/05/2012 2:56:17 PM <<If we let the teetotallers make the rules regarding alcohol, this drug too would b.....
» 25/05/2012 2:47:39 PM <<The sub-title, which is not mine, is somewhat ambiguous.>> So who the hell .....
» 25/05/2012 10:23:19 AM Dear McReal, Religion got bad reputation because some religious organisations also do thi.....
» 25/05/2012 12:59:52 AM Dear Halduell, <<There are many good reasons to allow the responsible use of recrea.....
» 24/05/2012 2:25:27 PM <<does 'showing love' to people involve giving them equal rights? Because that would.....
» 24/05/2012 10:16:13 AM The debate should not be between pro-drug and anti-drug (myself I am anti-drug, including .....
» 23/05/2012 11:30:33 PM Dear McReal, <<except religion is >50% politics>> This saddens me a lot, .....
» 23/05/2012 10:06:20 PM <<One morning well before time began god awoke>> Already failed: Psalms 121:.....
» 23/05/2012 3:46:17 PM <<However this would mean less control over the legislature for religious groups. Ot.....
» 23/05/2012 1:13:34 PM Just to show the absurdity of involving the state with sanctioning relationships. Get the.....
» 21/05/2012 7:05:33 PM Just wondered, Marie, is anyone stopping you from giving money to those poorest of the poo.....
» 21/05/2012 1:55:17 AM Well Arjay, this alliance doesn't seem to be a good strategy for India - tonight they just.....
» 20/05/2012 2:54:26 PM Dear Steven, There is nothing wrong about feeling shame for what deserves shame. In fact,.....
» 20/05/2012 8:56:48 AM You bastard, Geoff, for clearly you had no experience of family. May your so-called mother.....
» 19/05/2012 9:38:53 PM Thank you Neve for this excellent and balanced article. The law says "...commemorate.....
» 18/05/2012 5:08:41 PM Dear SM, <<The senate is an anachronism whose time has well passed>> I agree.....
» 18/05/2012 4:38:57 PM Dear Poirot, <<What is God?>> The question "What" can only be aske.....
» 18/05/2012 3:48:49 PM Dear Saltpetre, If you are referring to the words of the Jewish scientist which I brought.....
» 18/05/2012 2:18:44 PM Dear Wobbles, If you have no specific view about Lower Chad, or have insufficient informa.....
» 18/05/2012 1:54:25 PM Dear David, <<The is no doubt in my mind that the god-botherers will lead the world.....
» 18/05/2012 12:57:07 PM Dear David, <<If you're worried about your Israeli family, get them out of there in.....
» 18/05/2012 10:58:06 AM Oh happy day, The cat is probably away, We can now screw around, Unlikely to be found!.....
» 17/05/2012 11:19:35 PM <<Why not simply get rid of the senate?>> Because then you are left even more.....
» 17/05/2012 5:33:03 PM <<I would not want to vote on all bills proposed to the parliament. I do not want to.....
» 17/05/2012 2:35:03 AM Dear Trevor, I do not have a passion about Israel, I am passionate about my family who ha.....
» 16/05/2012 11:56:26 PM Dear DreamOn, I am glad you care! I didn't know myself that compulsory vaccination was i.....
» 16/05/2012 10:05:11 AM <<Humans are heading for extinction. It will be no loss!>> I leave the judgme.....
» 16/05/2012 1:41:51 AM Dear Danielle, I don't care whether the Palestinians recognise the state of Israel or not.....
» 16/05/2012 1:05:09 AM Dear Rusty, I find your response violent. <<Our current law acknowledges no greate.....
» 15/05/2012 9:50:34 PM This is getting further and further off-topic, further and further irrelevant. Suppose, j.....
» 15/05/2012 9:06:22 PM Dear Lorikeet, Have you ever played chess? If you think just one step ahead, your oppone.....
» 15/05/2012 8:10:43 PM A bit late, Squeers, but thank you for your great post 3 days ago. Indeed, if having a so.....
» 15/05/2012 3:26:25 PM Dear Saltpetre, <<I would rather see a world without marijuana, opium, heroin, coca.....
» 14/05/2012 2:52:38 PM Time has come for me to cry, For evil Zionist am I, Here I jump into the sea, 1 ... 2 ... .....
» 14/05/2012 11:04:55 AM The point missed by both David's, is that the expanded Israeli government exists at the be.....
» 14/05/2012 9:14:29 AM It's time for all monkeys in zoo to learn some table-manners. They should sit straight, ea.....
» 14/05/2012 7:59:45 AM <<Now by her own actions Juliar has closely associated herself with Thomson and is d.....
» 13/05/2012 1:24:24 PM In other words, SM, business as usual, so why the fuss? It was short-sighted to expose Th.....
» 13/05/2012 12:00:12 AM Deir-Yassin: 1. Deir-Yassin was a small village, then situated at the edge of [Western-]J.....
» 11/05/2012 5:23:37 PM Dear Lorikeet, Personally, I would prefer dying in the streets over being imprisoned (God.....
» 11/05/2012 2:42:22 PM Dear Poirot, Your own doctors tell that there's a difference regarding reasons not to vac.....
» 11/05/2012 12:45:12 AM Dear Mac, I made the necessary enquiries: King David Hotel: 1. The hotel was the headqu.....
» 10/05/2012 10:34:36 PM Dear Josephus, "Are you telling us that those that have pre-existed us have learned .....
» 10/05/2012 10:09:48 PM Dear Poirot, "pathetic argument and pure poppycock" It seems that not only you.....
» 10/05/2012 10:01:08 PM Dear Lorikeet, I was horrified by what you wrote that truck drivers were forced by Coles .....
» 10/05/2012 8:55:24 PM Dear Poirot, <<But they don't learn>> They do, but it takes the time, someti.....
» 10/05/2012 6:42:33 PM Dear Saltpetre, "I just hate seeing what a mess humankind is making of this once-onl.....
» 10/05/2012 6:10:36 PM Dear Poirot, The herd is imperilled by germs and viruses, not by people. One cannot imper.....
» 10/05/2012 5:10:24 PM Dear Lorikeet, The government cannot fix anything - especially if even after and despite .....
» 10/05/2012 5:02:31 PM Dear Mollydukes, Thank you, you have just opened my eyes to understand why such a high pe.....
» 10/05/2012 2:07:41 PM Dear Dug, <<There are some things that we need to do for the safety of society>&.....
» 9/05/2012 10:58:26 PM Dear Poirot, You are making the dangerous assumption as if everyone has (or should have) .....
» 9/05/2012 10:18:19 PM Dear Saltpetre, <<My principal question is why people need to take illicit drugs, a.....
» 9/05/2012 9:36:26 PM Dear Martin, Firstly by clarifying that vaccination is not compulsory in Australia I saw .....
» 9/05/2012 3:15:28 PM Thank you very much for the information, Martin - I am relieved. If someone wishes to rec.....
» 9/05/2012 1:17:44 PM I agree that doctors should have the right to refuse to sign against their conscience. Ho.....
» 9/05/2012 12:32:49 PM Drugs are bad, but the "war on drugs" is even worse. We are paying dearly in th.....
» 9/05/2012 12:10:34 PM Menachem Begin was an exceptional man of honour and integrity. He did mean every word and .....
» 8/05/2012 7:09:03 PM Dear Pericles, Where have I claimed that Buddhism is not a religion? It is! Because ove.....
» 8/05/2012 2:38:22 PM <<Yes it is a problem? So also is forcing people with very different fundamental bel.....
» 7/05/2012 7:01:55 PM Dear Pericles, <<But I guess that doesn't worry you>> Indeed, why should it .....
» 7/05/2012 1:58:41 PM "By how much will the temperature be lower if we reduce our CO2 by the expected amoun.....
» 7/05/2012 12:49:34 PM Dear Pericles, What you are saying in effect, reflecting over Belfast, is that you believ.....
» 7/05/2012 11:21:59 AM <<Buddhism does not lead to God>> Why, even atheism may lead certain people t.....
» 7/05/2012 10:55:42 AM Dear Pericles, Religion cannot be unified, not for the reasons you mentioned, but because.....
» 7/05/2012 10:25:00 AM You can't tell an individual or a private organization not to burn things on their own pro.....
» 7/05/2012 10:00:52 AM The increased numbers of public servants should make Julia very happy - that was in fact t.....
» 4/05/2012 4:22:56 PM I am all for equal marriage rights: The state should very equally withdraw from sanctioni.....
» 4/05/2012 11:59:03 AM <<The government should introduce a "voucher system" where every student i.....
» 4/05/2012 8:30:59 AM <<Is the law sacred>> Shocking that someone could even ask such a question so.....
» 4/05/2012 5:59:51 AM Dear Tony, <<you can dictate how somebody acts but you can't dictate how they think.....
» 3/05/2012 11:19:00 PM An article that makes me want to vomit! The communist author identifies correctly that sc.....
» 3/05/2012 5:42:33 PM Dear Bazz, <<It is just that the Jews and Arabs are slow learners.>> You rea.....
» 3/05/2012 3:24:25 PM For a long time I have been saying that the only way to protect religious freedoms is to p.....
» 3/05/2012 12:57:17 PM Dear Rhrosty, <<Better one should consider tubal ligation and or a vasectomy?>&g.....
» 3/05/2012 12:23:03 PM <<I don't want to simply toss a coin - and I don't know what to advise my niece just.....
» 3/05/2012 11:32:23 AM Dear George, <<I don’t know of a serious Christian scientist who would claim the Bi.....
» 2/05/2012 9:17:14 PM <<I would be interested to read posters views on the topic>> Circumcision is .....
» 2/05/2012 8:57:06 PM <<It is very hard to disagree with any part of this extremely objective article!>.....
» 2/05/2012 8:09:37 PM Dark clouds are on the horizon. The government’s next diabolical step which is covered by.....
» 2/05/2012 3:00:08 PM A step in the right direction toward doing away with the federal government altogether. T.....
» 2/05/2012 10:20:00 AM Dear Luciferase, I invite you to continue paying the carbon tax even after it's revoked: .....
» 1/05/2012 5:43:24 PM Dear Belly, Labor's policies WILL be reversed, there is no question of "if", bu.....
» 1/05/2012 8:50:57 AM Dear Lurchi, Is it moral to blindly follow the dictates of a tyrant? Both humans and chi.....
» 1/05/2012 12:25:39 AM (...continued) Regarding religious techniques, you got me right - any method which brings.....
» 1/05/2012 12:25:36 AM Dear BAC, God is not an idol. Early man believed that his own creations - wood, stone, m.....
» 30/04/2012 4:28:24 PM <<Runner, children are also abused in their "homes">> Just wondered.....
» 30/04/2012 10:56:05 AM Hehe, making government accountable for abuse? "Abuse" is the government's firs.....
» 30/04/2012 12:07:12 AM Dear Atheists, To claim that God is human-made, is a contradiction: suppose man created G.....
» 29/04/2012 8:37:15 PM The following argument ensued after a few beers at the bar: 1. Jesus was a tall and well-.....
» 27/04/2012 5:31:28 PM Dear Tony, "I describe my views as pantheistic. In The God Delusion Dawkins describe.....
» 27/04/2012 2:36:00 PM Morality and ethics are an effective religious technique - they help us acknowledge that w.....
» 26/04/2012 1:47:07 AM Dear David Wilson, "I also believe that I can work with anyone who is open to search.....
» 25/04/2012 11:49:27 PM Dear Hadz, <<tell me what I'm thinking right now...or now...how about now?>> .....
» 25/04/2012 7:00:50 PM Solipsism is defined as "the theory that only the self exists, or can be proved to ex.....
» 25/04/2012 1:51:50 PM Dear David, "I don't think there is such a thing as a spiritual reality." - In.....
» 25/04/2012 3:38:46 AM David Wilson is well-intentioned, but the moment he comes under the bad influence of Ecker.....
» 24/04/2012 5:23:04 PM "With the existing US alliance,Why would Australia bother with nuclear armaments!&quo.....
» 24/04/2012 5:14:45 PM Dear Pericles, On the one hand you claim that: <<Life has no "meaning", e.....
» 23/04/2012 5:49:59 PM Who said we don't have them already? As for the claim that it will take till 2030: First.....
» 19/04/2012 2:31:44 PM Should the Australian Government interfere in this matter - considering that Assange is an.....
» 18/04/2012 4:04:33 PM No surprise - this is as should, just as in world-war II the Americans and the Soviets coo.....
» 18/04/2012 3:03:39 PM Dear Ludwig, I don't have a TV, never felt the need - it just hasn't been part of my life.....
» 18/04/2012 9:57:08 AM Dear Tony, "How do you propose to rebind with something that does not exist?" .....
» 17/04/2012 2:19:27 PM Dear Tony, "or what points you may be trying to make." I was not trying to mak.....
» 17/04/2012 12:39:01 PM Dear Newtus, "If you accept that there can be no evidence of an immaterial god, and .....
» 16/04/2012 6:36:27 PM Dear Peter, You are indeed up to something here: The obsession with questions of existen.....
» 13/04/2012 2:29:36 PM Dear Josephus, Thank you for the clarification and quote from Acts 15: I now understand t.....
» 11/04/2012 1:07:02 PM All this talk of the desirable family structure and which sexual positions are healthy or .....
» 10/04/2012 5:01:53 PM I agree with Ludwig. Very few men today would mind if a woman came in their toilet and us.....
» 4/04/2012 8:33:11 PM Dear Bonmot, Humanism is any doctrine that places the human-race at the center of the uni.....
» 4/04/2012 7:11:25 PM Dear Runner, I can understand that as a Christian you are particularly sensitive to the p.....
» 30/03/2012 12:57:48 AM Dear Tony, I was expecting this comment about the roundness-of-the-earth, but struggling .....
» 29/03/2012 7:51:08 PM Dear Josephus, <<There is physical reality in which the natural sciences are based,.....
» 29/03/2012 6:16:47 PM With such a flood of responses and posting limits, it will take me a while to respond indi.....
» 29/03/2012 12:53:47 AM Dear AJ Philips, All proofs must be scientific and science is only good within the realm .....
» 28/03/2012 7:32:09 PM Dear Joe, Interesting comments, although a bit unrelated to this article. The idea which.....
» 28/03/2012 6:17:04 PM Dear Pericles, <<But a Zeus-worshipper would be fighting on your side, surely.>&.....
» 28/03/2012 7:39:29 AM Dear AJ Philips, Surely one wouldn't expect humanism to describe itself in religious term.....
» 27/03/2012 9:48:54 PM Dear AJ Philips, Indeed many North Koreans hate the Jong's, but most do not because they .....
» 27/03/2012 2:17:48 PM Dear AJ Philips, According to wikipedia: Humanism is an approach in study, philosophy, w.....
» 26/03/2012 10:30:18 PM Atheists are not militant. Why would one be militant about insisting that something does n.....
» 21/03/2012 8:42:40 PM Dear Paul, Helping a little old lady across the road is a good spiritual technique, which.....
» 21/03/2012 7:46:39 AM Dear Paul, As I wrote earlier, there is no precise/mechanical rule as to what act is reli.....
» 21/03/2012 5:57:52 AM Dear Wobbles, "There's not much difference between funding the Arts and funding prof.....
» 21/03/2012 5:31:27 AM Dear Csteele, Any connection with America is completely incidental. I have no sympathy fo.....
» 20/03/2012 9:14:14 AM Spindoc, the South-bound train always arrived 2 minutes after the North-bound train......
» 20/03/2012 9:08:50 AM The government of Tulpania declared Mt. Kunusuma as a nature reserve, totally out of bound.....
» 20/03/2012 7:41:44 AM "Where has the other $1 gone?" You should not add the $2, but subtract it: The.....
» 20/03/2012 6:21:41 AM Dear Paul, If you bothered to read my posts about religion and God on several threads her.....
» 20/03/2012 3:00:05 AM Re, apples and oranges, since ALL the boxes are marked incorrectly, you should reach into .....
» 20/03/2012 1:50:20 AM Dear Lexi, "this doesn't mean that we should stop supporting public funding." .....
» 20/03/2012 1:22:12 AM Dear Csteele, "it reads as if you would have preferred Newcastle didn’t have governm.....
» 20/03/2012 12:01:57 AM Dear Paul, I was quoting Ecclesiastes, not the bible. In my view, Ecclesiastes was the w.....
» 19/03/2012 1:13:14 PM Dear Farfromtheland, It seems from your description that you are called by God to do all .....
» 19/03/2012 4:14:20 AM Dear Csteele, If you are after welfare and occupational therapy, then why not call a spad.....
» 18/03/2012 11:06:06 PM Dear Individual, "I don't think anyone including myself is against art or even some .....
» 18/03/2012 5:09:55 PM Dear Farfromtheland, Does God intervene in human situations? Where someone is being abuse.....
» 18/03/2012 7:53:50 AM Arts should not be funded from the public purse. Period......
» 18/03/2012 7:40:08 AM Dear Farfromtheleand, "The danger is in the culture of following rather than making .....
» 17/03/2012 12:09:43 AM Dear Poirot, "But our whole system is predicated on and nurtured by status anxiety, .....
» 16/03/2012 10:41:39 PM Dear Paul, You asked me some heavy questions which I will not be able to answer fully wit.....
» 16/03/2012 7:52:52 PM Dear Paul, "Religion is all about control." No. Religion, by definition, from .....
» 16/03/2012 8:12:55 AM Dear Paul, The fact that people call themselves "religious" doesn't make them r.....
» 16/03/2012 8:05:02 AM "Of great concern are the pictures of the fridge magnets" The solution is simpl.....
» 16/03/2012 3:39:29 AM OK, OK, so long as I can have a prominent E-record telling those "emergency" peo.....
» 15/03/2012 2:43:46 PM Dear Farfromtheland, I was discussing the rights of individuals to refrain from employing.....
» 15/03/2012 6:04:14 AM Dear Farfromtheland, "The last one would allow political, racial and religious black.....
» 14/03/2012 9:23:14 PM "We don't need no Iran invasion" We also don't need no nuclear attack by Iran o.....
» 14/03/2012 5:40:52 PM Dear Belly, "A persons personal belief, showing them in a not offensive way, should .....
» 14/03/2012 6:57:39 AM Dear Belly, "A law in place as far as I know freedom of religion still exists.".....
» 14/03/2012 6:44:20 AM Dear Arjay, While there are many lunatics in the Israeli government, your description of .....
» 14/03/2012 2:14:44 AM What nonsense, Arjay: Israel has no capability to stop the Iranian nuclear program with co.....
» 13/03/2012 9:16:01 PM Dear Belly, "And in not acting for the human rights of freedom of religion the gover.....
» 13/03/2012 8:43:52 AM Dear Belly, "I have re read it, and it changes nothing." The article does not .....
» 12/03/2012 5:03:22 PM "Christian cross come defend it runner and all those others." I would indeed de.....
» 11/03/2012 6:45:16 PM Dear Suseonline, "Therefore, I fail to see why the British Government should ban peo.....
» 11/03/2012 6:11:08 PM I was shocked too, Belly, so I checked the article: With much relief I found that it is n.....
» 9/03/2012 7:52:12 PM Dear Arjay, "Yuyutsu,Turnbull is a Goldman Sach's boy [... (discussion of American p.....
» 9/03/2012 3:13:42 AM This is very intriguing, Arjay; I am well aware that the Libs are liberal in name only (a.....
» 8/03/2012 6:34:26 PM Dear Landrights4all, First I need to comment about the terms you used: "noblesse obl.....
» 7/03/2012 10:10:12 PM So now nationalism is a valid excuse for pestering the world? If this article, Ali, prove.....
» 7/03/2012 8:50:22 PM Apparently, Landrights4all, as is obvious from the correspondence you brought, the governm.....
» 7/03/2012 12:20:24 AM The problems are well identified, but the solution is not to have two doles - the solution.....
» 23/02/2012 10:17:35 AM Nevermind, the sky will still be blue, and for socialist governments that's just as good a.....
» 22/02/2012 2:25:47 PM Dear Poirot, "This subject rests intrinsically on Catholic precepts and how they are.....
» 22/02/2012 10:45:49 AM Dear Csteele, As for "the Jewish attitude to the joyousness of sex", just as in.....
» 21/02/2012 5:46:43 PM Dear Pelican, "Do you apply that rule to Churches in attempting to influence governm.....
» 21/02/2012 1:44:49 PM Dear Pelican, "Where to draw the line when a religious practice is so morally wrong .....
» 21/02/2012 7:47:31 AM Dear Belly, "We will soon see our self assurance , we know better, turn to mud.".....
» 20/02/2012 5:28:14 PM Dear Poirot, "I've often thought it would be nice if I could "believe" (no.....
» 20/02/2012 1:01:38 PM I wish that when the time comes your dream will come true, to rest under the wattle tree o.....
» 20/02/2012 7:22:47 AM I had a similar experience when traveling to Melbourne, then trying to work my way out of .....
» 20/02/2012 4:37:08 AM Dear Yabby, I already apologized for jumping in - I can read my bible, but I am not a Chr.....
» 19/02/2012 9:16:07 PM "Fact is that the whole Catholic contraception thinggy is built upon the old testamen.....
» 19/02/2012 2:03:46 PM Dear Mishka, The cases you brought are very disturbing. Now there are two lessons to lea.....
» 18/02/2012 10:35:24 PM 579, "I suppose you do not like speed cams; either." Actually indeed, but we a.....
» 17/02/2012 5:43:34 PM "We do have some rules that protect people from themselves." We have a tyrant n.....
» 17/02/2012 5:01:24 PM As an ex-pat myself, I don't feel a need to belong to any country, but unlike NQD I did co.....
» 17/02/2012 4:46:19 PM "we have unlimited rights now." Try riding your bicycle without a helmet... Bu.....
» 17/02/2012 12:49:03 PM "do you think you might throw rocks at an occupying force and the people it send in t.....
» 17/02/2012 9:24:47 AM If the Arabs of Eastern-Jerusalem, currently with permanent-resident status, would have ex.....
» 17/02/2012 8:32:21 AM A step in the right direction, next the federal parliament as well should be elected by th.....
» 17/02/2012 2:03:22 AM Dear Csteele, "Sounds a little Ron Paulian to me but would welcome clarification&quo.....
» 16/02/2012 1:43:19 PM Dear Csteele, "Why should we change?" Because the current system is corrupt, u.....
» 16/02/2012 12:12:45 AM Dear Csteele, First apologies for the typo in your name in my last post. "The alter.....
» 15/02/2012 6:26:36 PM Dear Cesttele, "I personally have no problem with the state paying the reasonable me.....
» 15/02/2012 6:05:30 PM "I would not know how much the medi care tax is now." -Currently medicare-surch.....
» 15/02/2012 1:24:26 PM "Do you mind explaining your comment so we can all understand it" Certainly - w.....
» 15/02/2012 1:14:47 PM Dear Jon, "Arguing for the existence of something for which there is no evidence is .....
» 15/02/2012 1:00:31 PM "Means testing passed the senate this morning." How proud you must now be, 579,.....
» 14/02/2012 11:31:48 PM Dear Individual, "Am I right in assuming that you mean that the Aborigines who call .....
» 14/02/2012 10:28:08 PM Dear Individual, "Are you implying that the invasion of this country hasn't brought .....
» 14/02/2012 8:35:17 PM "does anyone know what Australia was called before it became a nation ?" That's.....
» 14/02/2012 8:21:34 PM I agree that the state should not subsidize the health of the wealthy. Yes, the state nee.....
» 14/02/2012 5:34:12 PM Buddha himself predicted that in 500 years, his teachings will be lost and misunderstood. .....
» 14/02/2012 11:35:24 AM Australians did for 50000 years without a head-of-state, so why this urgent need now? What.....
» 13/02/2012 1:51:30 PM Congratulations Belly for your new connection! Now that you have yours, for which I am ve.....
» 13/02/2012 1:10:29 PM Dear R0bert, "Your choice to believe in a particular concept of god does not make th.....
» 12/02/2012 10:25:07 PM Hey SPQR, If I were an infallible cyclist, I would rather be on the race-course than in p.....
» 12/02/2012 8:03:49 PM Dear Loudmouth, "I shudder to think what you would recommend in place of those rules.....
» 12/02/2012 3:32:25 PM Dear R0bert, "Either a rule/law is necessary or it's not and should never be the sub.....
» 10/02/2012 6:12:21 PM Dear Runner, "It has not always been the case however. Most of the Western Governmen.....
» 10/02/2012 4:55:24 PM Letting the cat guard the cream? The state cannot live with religion because its politica.....
» 9/02/2012 12:48:23 PM "It is disturbing to see federal tax dollars spent on supporting non-science (nonsens.....
» 9/02/2012 7:35:56 AM 579 Wrote: "Runner didn't god make all people equal." - No, He didn't, and ind.....
» 3/02/2012 6:08:43 PM Sowat, If not for the greediness of consumers, the greediness of producers would not be r.....
» 3/02/2012 11:53:55 AM "Not having learned the word in your youth is almost credible, Yuyutsu." - Engl.....
» 3/02/2012 1:47:59 AM For a Prime-Minister to have a baby means that s/he has less time to do us harm. I ask Sa.....
» 2/02/2012 11:09:33 PM "where is our identity? In football?" Have you, or have those who identify with.....
» 2/02/2012 2:11:30 PM I was curious about that 'n' word which Leo claims that this web-engine refuses on grounds.....
» 2/02/2012 9:33:07 AM "The whole thing about human rights is that all humans are entitled." That rais.....
» 1/02/2012 11:26:50 PM Dear Webby, I am not a gambler, those poker machines disgust me and like you I am looking.....
» 1/02/2012 8:04:35 AM Dear Lego, Though I do not possess this specific weakness and folly of nationalism, I do .....
» 31/01/2012 10:59:22 PM Dear Alan, I'm afraid I haven't seen Julia's explanation -has anything changed according .....
» 31/01/2012 9:21:56 PM "both sides made it clear that without a clear majority they could not be expected to.....
» 31/01/2012 8:02:37 PM I would like to congratulate the author for this excellent article, and Runner for his exc.....
» 31/01/2012 6:38:48 PM Dear Aristocrat, "Are we allowed to do anything without shame?" Unlike the Lef.....
» 31/01/2012 12:44:23 PM Dear Lego, What makes you think that the only alternative to nationalism is socialism and.....
» 30/01/2012 11:25:15 PM Dear Cherful, I was not aware of the existence of the aboriginal flag - what a shame, it .....
» 30/01/2012 6:46:17 PM But why, Cherful, would the aboriginals care for this flag or another? They lived without .....
» 30/01/2012 1:28:31 PM We are indeed so fortunate not to have the problems of North Korea, Saudi Arabia, Iran and.....
» 26/01/2012 5:53:59 PM Sticks and stones may break my bones, but bits and bytes will never hurt me!.....
» 26/01/2012 5:23:37 PM Drugging people is the inevitable result of the belief that everything is material, that t.....
» 16/01/2012 9:32:35 PM On the weight of evidence, I am convinced that circumcision is generally unhealthy. I can'.....
» 13/01/2012 10:43:38 AM Dear Blue Cross, "Sorry old boy... you might end up in an airport waiting room for t.....
» 13/01/2012 10:04:05 AM Dear Blue Cross, "The state has every right to impose the national law on all its ci.....
» 13/01/2012 7:41:43 AM Any private person, or private organization (by private I mean, who does not receive any a.....
» 12/01/2012 9:50:43 AM Dear Csteele, The corruption of Newt does not imply that the Palestinians are NOT invente.....
» 12/01/2012 9:35:05 AM Why does the sponge have no brain? - Because it is more successful than man. Men with th.....
» 12/01/2012 3:02:24 AM Dear Kactuz, "And what makes you think that all refugees support freedom and democra.....
» 12/01/2012 1:44:22 AM Any immigration policy that is dictated by the government (no matter which party) is polit.....
» 10/01/2012 5:19:31 PM Dear Imajulianutter, "Why should I bother? I'd be talking to a brick wall." In.....
» 10/01/2012 11:17:02 AM Dear Imajulianutter, I take it that you were unable to do your homework and come back wit.....
» 9/01/2012 7:08:15 PM Dear Imajulianutter, "Judaism is mired in the views you express... do I have to keep.....
» 9/01/2012 11:24:53 AM Dear Imajulianutter, "You are typical of the majority of Israelis" A strange t.....
» 8/01/2012 3:50:13 PM Dear Imajulianutter, "Here again is our point of difference. I don't jhave much inte.....
» 6/01/2012 2:43:50 PM Dear Imajulianutter, Jews, but a few, do not follow Ecclesiastes. If anything, most Jews .....
» 4/01/2012 7:51:32 PM Dear Imajulianutter, "Can you quote me from the Judaen book similar views" But.....
» 4/01/2012 12:29:52 PM Dear Imajulianutter, You are bursting into an open door - I do not make it a secret that .....
» 3/01/2012 1:27:48 PM Thank you, Hasbeen, for showing this "entitlement" thing its right place......
» 3/01/2012 1:18:49 PM First, libertarianism is not the monopoly of the Left. Second, as I consider myself a lib.....
» 2/01/2012 9:41:44 PM Dear Lego, Human beings cannot stop being human beings, but we can, because fortunately w.....
» 2/01/2012 3:11:51 AM Dear Imajulianutter, This is a bit off topic, but I couldn't avoid commenting about some .....
» 2/01/2012 2:47:06 AM Dear Lego, While almost everyone is racist to some extent, the degree varies. I love you.....
» 1/01/2012 12:57:50 PM Dear Lego, You can be as racist as you like - I am not a socialist and in normal circumst.....
» 30/12/2011 7:19:29 PM It takes courage to live. It can be a great virtue if one chooses to live despite all, but.....
» 30/12/2011 7:14:11 PM So suppose, just suppose, that practicing religion was found not to promote health, or per.....
» 30/12/2011 12:36:53 PM Dear Lego, No sane person who is not an Islamic fundamentalist would agree to live as a s.....
» 29/12/2011 12:20:16 PM After Faustino's comment, I should have nothing to add. That is an absolute and correct st.....
» 29/12/2011 10:37:35 AM Imajulianutter, There are many wrong things in Israeli policy and I find it painful, but .....
» 28/12/2011 8:53:25 AM "Christian Palestinians are also victims of Israel's oppression" Since Israel l.....
» 27/12/2011 11:48:19 AM Dear Poirot, $3 billion is a drop in the ocean in the Israeli GDP. Israel is not allowed .....
» 26/12/2011 10:53:35 AM Dear Cheryl, Unlike the eastern states that were created by convicts, South Australians a.....
» 25/12/2011 12:38:56 PM "If Adelaide wants growth and dynamism" NO, THANKS! Adelaide is one of the few.....
» 23/12/2011 5:11:53 PM Dear Mac, Zionism was never a monolithic movement. Certain branches of Zionism, notably t.....
» 23/12/2011 10:37:25 AM "The idea that Palestinians are 'Arabs'" In 1948 they WERE Arabs and preferred .....
» 22/12/2011 7:42:15 PM Dear Lexi, Somehow as usual, the discussion turned away from the original topic to be abo.....
» 22/12/2011 4:36:49 PM "It appears to me that they are racing towards their own disaster" - Aren't we .....
» 22/12/2011 12:39:44 PM This time David Singer is correct! The KGB-invented idea of being "Palestinian".....
» 22/12/2011 12:12:28 AM All you got in your head, Veritas, is economics. You simply cannot understand that there a.....
» 21/12/2011 12:31:20 PM No doubt that entrepreneurial options exist, but why would you want to come and disturb ot.....
» 18/12/2011 6:56:59 PM Yes, Jimmy: IF I were a true servant of God, then I would be superior AND I would have ho.....
» 18/12/2011 5:43:49 PM Dear Skeptic, There is no way to define God. Some churches make an attempt to do so, othe.....
» 18/12/2011 12:17:01 PM Dear Lexi, I couldn't agree more! A church is supposed to be loyal to God alone: a churc.....
» 17/12/2011 9:42:10 PM Dear Skeptic, "Gay marriage is a big issue. It has to do with the intrusion into th.....
» 16/12/2011 6:43:00 PM If grabbing someone by the neck, handcuffing them and throwing them in jail (and shooting .....
» 16/12/2011 5:49:15 PM Splendid, Mishka, In this case, may I assume that you agree with me that it is not a sin .....
» 16/12/2011 4:45:12 PM Dear Hasbeen, "While you want the other states to subsidise your life style, it's no.....
» 16/12/2011 4:18:03 PM Finally we are back on the topic after a full round of abuse (which I am so glad I did not.....
» 16/12/2011 2:33:07 PM And how exactly, Hasbeen, are you suggesting to close the place down? Are you proposing to.....
» 16/12/2011 10:21:24 AM "It is only a mystery if one still perceives the LNP as a 'liberal' party." &quo.....
» 15/12/2011 2:55:16 PM No, I don't welcome warming: Climate-change itself should be no problem and we could mana.....
» 14/12/2011 2:49:56 PM "And as you well know Rehctub more jobs may be created not lost by the NBN." Is.....
» 12/12/2011 11:37:17 PM Dear Pericles, Since you asked and as you guessed, God is not an answer, but the answer t.....
» 12/12/2011 2:47:46 PM I was also using the word "sense", Mishka, which is closer to "faculty".....
» 12/12/2011 1:42:23 PM Actually, SM, Rache is correct on one point - the NBN would provide a return if it is allo.....
» 12/12/2011 12:14:49 AM "rather that this folly of trying to keep it at some arbitrary temperature setting, w.....
» 11/12/2011 11:33:19 PM Indeed the NBN should not be privatized - it should be smashed, torn down, and locked away.....
» 11/12/2011 7:13:30 PM "Then they'll all be put in detention centers." Oh dear, you are so kind and sw.....
» 11/12/2011 12:01:44 AM imajulianutter, I don't know whether or not Israel had anything to do with the explosions.....
» 9/12/2011 7:09:30 PM Well done, Arjay - despite all the quantities of alcohol that you consumed, you still mana.....
» 9/12/2011 6:55:05 PM Dear Pericles, You, the conscious, are unchanging. In the cutlery example, you were ther.....
» 9/12/2011 5:22:35 PM "But by God we've got to do something to slow it down or it will be curtains for civi.....
» 9/12/2011 5:11:01 PM "And I wouldn't have let the technology that could deliver stealth bombs anywhere nea.....
» 9/12/2011 2:28:54 PM Let me put it in other words, Pericles, as simple as I can without metaphors: As the brai.....
» 9/12/2011 12:30:09 PM Normally I don't approve of Santa, but this time I salute him for this brilliant article. .....
» 9/12/2011 9:51:52 AM Dear Pericles, Poirot discussed the human body and brain, she did not mention consciousne.....
» 9/12/2011 8:50:52 AM "I wonder how the idiot Israeli's are feeling this morning...?" Pretty much lik.....
» 9/12/2011 1:43:44 AM Dear Poirot, If a tree falls in a forest with no one to notice - does it matter? Yes, th.....
» 8/12/2011 5:27:29 PM Dear Poirot, "Your brain can conceive the entity of "God" because...".....
» 8/12/2011 8:06:20 AM Dear Saltpetre, From you I would expect something more intelligent than blindly citing th.....
» 7/12/2011 10:45:27 PM (...continued) Had there been an objective test, such as an EEG machine that reads the ch.....
» 7/12/2011 10:45:24 PM Murder is indeed a grave sin, but its severity varies. One factor that you already mention.....
» 7/12/2011 6:42:39 AM David, Your error is in treating the territory in question as an asset, whereas in fact i.....
» 6/12/2011 9:59:52 PM A simple solution - the company should reserve the right to send in an officer to verify t.....
» 6/12/2011 9:45:35 PM Abbas is the winner, he doesn't need to negotiate, he doesn't need to use terror either, a.....
» 6/12/2011 4:53:22 PM Mishka, I am very glad that you believe in God and are not a humanist. Yet strangely, som.....
» 5/12/2011 5:51:35 PM Mishka, You oppose religious persecution -unless it happens to be YOUR religion that pers.....
» 4/12/2011 10:29:18 AM Dear Martin, We have no disagreement. I think I have made it clear already that individua.....
» 4/12/2011 2:00:58 AM (...continued) In summary: When an unbroken family is of a religion, or in general of a .....
» 4/12/2011 2:00:55 AM (...continued) Having expressed your horror at the legitimacy of killing children, let me.....
» 4/12/2011 2:00:49 AM Just because my moral convictions are different than yours, Mishka, does not make them any.....
» 2/12/2011 10:58:38 AM Mishka, I never suggested that it is moral to kill babies (born or unborn) - quite the co.....
» 1/12/2011 10:22:36 PM Infanticide is not fundamentally different then killing an unborn fetus - the severity of .....
» 1/12/2011 4:59:11 PM What a confused article, one in a string of sloppy articles we have here lately with no ba.....
» 1/12/2011 12:10:45 PM Dear Bazz, I wouldn't like to interfere or take sides in the debate on the humane-track o.....
» 30/11/2011 11:53:50 PM R0bert, "I suspect that the bulk of rural Australian's would be somewhat appalled at.....
» 29/11/2011 1:04:23 PM R0bert, "I can't think of any animals on our shores who could break into a locked ho.....
» 29/11/2011 1:04:20 PM (...continued) Formally, I did not arrive as a refugee: I arrived legally, on a plane as .....
» 29/11/2011 1:04:14 PM There is no contradiction, Banjo - there is a choice and everyone should be able to choose.....
» 29/11/2011 1:24:21 AM (...continued) Again, the problem is the GetUp brigade, the greens and the reds, who want.....
» 29/11/2011 1:24:17 AM R0bert, "I'd not like to be a resident (or traveller) in a remote area and have a bu.....
» 28/11/2011 5:12:10 PM I fully agree, Divergence, that Australia's primary obligation is to its own citizens. Wh.....
» 28/11/2011 3:18:48 PM Very true, Diver Dan, Just one comment - Buddhism is not a humanist religion. You mention.....
» 28/11/2011 1:24:26 PM Dear OUG, You certainly have good sense to avoid that evil. My router is programmed to bl.....
» 28/11/2011 12:17:25 PM How dare you, Ross? Are you not aware that so many clerks are dependent on this scheme? .....
» 28/11/2011 11:30:41 AM Misery? What misery?? I am happy, and so are most people I know. Thanks be to God! But i.....
» 27/11/2011 10:17:13 PM Dear Banjo, First the terminology: why would you call people "illegal" but not .....
» 27/11/2011 9:53:08 PM I fully agree with every word of Diver Dan. I am also happy to pay for privacy. I would l.....
» 27/11/2011 7:21:13 PM StG, Sorry, I believe that the source of my confusion was that you mentioned legality in .....
» 27/11/2011 7:04:37 PM Divergence, First let me clarify that I do not propose any more rights for unwanted immig.....
» 27/11/2011 7:01:34 AM "If you take elaborate steps to ACTUALLY be anonymous just so you can avoid prosecuti.....
» 26/11/2011 9:11:29 PM No one can accuse me of liking Julia, but this is the first time that I read something pos.....
» 25/11/2011 10:04:20 AM Please get your proportions right, Arjay - Not every thing that is evil and stupid amounts.....
» 24/11/2011 11:07:25 AM You are still off-topic, Poirot. I can address your points, but that would take us furthe.....
» 24/11/2011 9:10:25 AM So what, Poirot? The topic is Israel, not America. Iran hates Israel because it was best .....
» 23/11/2011 7:01:35 PM So given your answer, James, that "It is very difficult to predict the outcome of hyp.....
» 23/11/2011 6:30:24 PM I have a question for you, James: Were Israel to totally repent today, withdraw from all .....
» 23/11/2011 9:10:42 AM Nonsense. Israel on its own has no military capability of hitting Iran's nuclear program, .....
» 23/11/2011 8:30:39 AM Isaac Asimov wrote about the computer Multivac who could tell the results of elections so .....
» 21/11/2011 2:38:53 PM As bad as American soldiers can be, I prefer them over Chinese soldiers - how much more so.....
» 18/11/2011 4:43:01 PM Thank you for clarifying, Runner. It was not my intention to give an opinion either for o.....
» 18/11/2011 3:28:40 PM Indeed a little bit of compassion wouldn't go astray - after all we’ve boundless plains to.....
» 18/11/2011 1:42:19 PM Dear Runner, "So I take it you believe a 3 year old chimp is worth rescuing more tha.....
» 18/11/2011 12:05:14 PM Runner, A chimpanzee develops mentally at the same rate as a human baby and toddler, up t.....
» 18/11/2011 11:46:05 AM Dear Pericles, "you are restricting your audience to only those people who are able .....
» 18/11/2011 11:20:33 AM Dear AJ Phillips, "your entire concept of God - is a redundancy that lacks any expla.....
» 18/11/2011 10:37:04 AM Dear Runner, You have a point there, but why use the unborn as an example for murder whil.....
» 17/11/2011 10:30:10 PM But why would you want to call ourselves a civilized society? The word "civil" .....
» 17/11/2011 7:25:00 PM Dear Pericles, Not only does your dictionary attempt to define the undefinable, not only .....
» 17/11/2011 7:24:20 PM Dear AJ Phillips, "So if you are of the Eastern religions" I am glad that you .....
» 16/11/2011 11:01:40 PM David Singer, "I do not intend to respond to anything that does not bear on my artic.....
» 15/11/2011 2:11:44 PM imajulianutter, I agree. I also hope that the next you see any of the Arab/Iranian propag.....
» 15/11/2011 8:53:05 AM "Is Israel behaviour the behaviour of Western Liberal Democrats?" Why should it.....
» 14/11/2011 9:43:40 PM "Guess who wrote Bible? The Jews wouldn't have had anything to do with it" Yes,.....
» 14/11/2011 5:52:36 PM "Israel is a completely illegitimate state" - That goes without saying because .....
» 14/11/2011 3:47:31 PM Religion a kitten? Either you have no idea what religion is, Pericles, or you deliberatel.....
» 14/11/2011 11:02:52 AM a "mystical energy field"? your destiny (as if you got one)? What are you babbli.....
» 14/11/2011 8:17:12 AM Legally speaking, David Singer is perfectly right. Nevertheless, it would be in Israel's a.....
» 14/11/2011 1:09:56 AM Dear AJ Philips, I am not here to waste your time, nor, I hope, are you here to waste min.....
» 11/11/2011 7:00:23 PM A.J. Phillips, "they tend to correlate with our increasing knowledge of reality".....
» 11/11/2011 3:45:57 PM Dear Poirot, I have developed a certain sensitivity to notice whether the source of a par.....
» 11/11/2011 2:23:53 PM AJ Phillips, Just as science is constantly being refined, then why not theology? Apples .....
» 10/11/2011 8:56:20 PM It's quite simple: For 21c/egg, I am happy to compromise on nutrition - I am content with.....
» 10/11/2011 3:21:29 PM Thanks, Rizla. From my first glimpse at Berkeley's theory, I can already see one differen.....
» 10/11/2011 12:36:05 PM "you are buying them illegally from an unregisterd trader/seller" No, there is .....
» 10/11/2011 9:13:29 AM Who is Bishop Berkeley, Rizla? Why can't I just think for myself?.....
» 10/11/2011 8:00:44 AM "Nutritionally, the commercial eggs are all the same. I can't understand why people a.....
» 9/11/2011 8:08:40 AM "How can you have love and devotion for something which doesn't exist?" I enjoy.....
» 8/11/2011 4:16:01 PM Dear Hasbeen, It is not a matter of ethnicity - Australian citizens of all races expect a.....
» 8/11/2011 1:46:33 PM "If you didn't first hold the concept, you would be unable to project love and devoti.....
» 8/11/2011 1:35:05 PM Dear Michael, I was not promoting immigration, but merely the importation of aged-care wo.....
» 8/11/2011 1:14:32 PM "perhaps we should concentrate on the concept of God. Things can exist as a concept -.....
» 8/11/2011 9:56:58 AM "The corollary of this is that belief in God does not imply the existence of God.&quo.....
» 8/11/2011 12:06:06 AM Speaking of cults, I find humanism one of the worst. Atheism does not scare me - one can .....
» 7/11/2011 10:27:47 PM "and import ever more cheap workers to wipe their invalid backsides" And how ma.....
» 7/11/2011 10:08:20 PM "The 1 percent control everything" - Really? Can they make the sun purple and r.....
» 3/11/2011 10:55:00 AM Look Justin, The concepts that you presented are too complex, they fly over people's head.....
» 1/11/2011 5:57:34 PM "And when the boss is gay, what happens then Yuyutsu?" - Well, there are still .....
» 1/11/2011 5:48:53 PM What a crude and inefficient method strikes are - if you want results, just kidnap the bos.....
» 1/11/2011 3:27:36 PM "conscription exists in Algeria, Angola, Bolivia, Brazil, Cuba, Ecuador, Egypt, Greec.....
» 31/10/2011 10:00:39 PM You have an interesting point, Imajulianutter, about militarising children to protect stol.....
» 31/10/2011 5:16:29 PM Halduell, "Who was Ahlam Tamimi anyway? We know what she did. Has anyone asked why?&.....
» 30/10/2011 12:21:58 PM Dear Philo, You missed my point. I was not referring specifically to homosexuals, nor am.....
» 30/10/2011 9:11:41 AM Dear Philo, I never heard of a sheep or a monkey who built a nuclear bomb......
» 28/10/2011 12:03:33 PM "So for me, there is nothing more important than doing what I can to ensure that they.....
» 28/10/2011 11:37:49 AM So what? Initially they told us that the sea will rise by 300 meters. That was a cause fo.....
» 28/10/2011 10:53:46 AM John-Ernest, What's that commotion about? Why are you trying to break into an open door? .....
» 27/10/2011 12:21:35 PM What's the brain-or-no-brain argument got to do with it, Yabby? If you find a burglar ins.....
» 27/10/2011 11:15:55 AM McReal, No doubt there are corrupt clergymen of impure motives that promote things other .....
» 27/10/2011 5:26:24 AM This is a conspiracy to corrupt the churches by involving them with the politics of the wo.....
» 24/10/2011 12:43:00 AM "Fundamental principle of democracy is equality of all people in society." Corr.....
» 30/09/2011 3:33:10 AM It is my view that the Bolt case is irrelevant to OLO. Whereas in newspapers the presumpt.....
» 16/09/2011 1:10:59 AM Dear David, Citing biblical rights indicates that you are truly desperate: if my memory d.....
» 25/08/2011 3:19:18 PM Dear Antiseptic, I am glad that you do not consider slaving for the dissemination of gene.....
» 23/08/2011 11:57:16 PM Dear Antiseptic, "Why do you need some overarching purpose other than the disseminat.....
» 22/08/2011 1:23:55 PM Dear Antiseptic, I do not agree with you that it's "all in the chemistry", but .....
» 21/08/2011 2:45:01 PM Dear Poirot, "I don't believe our spiritual dimension is something hermetically seal.....
» 21/08/2011 1:56:39 PM Dear Poirot, The difference is that a spiritual experience is born from the spirit, from .....
» 21/08/2011 3:28:49 AM Dear Houellebecq, Your account of the law regarding vagrants is indeed depressing. Clear.....
» 19/08/2011 1:12:02 AM Dear Divine_msn, I must assume that you posted your last message before reading my reply .....
» 18/08/2011 11:05:53 PM Dear Suzeonline, "But I do know we have one of the highest success rates in the worl.....
» 18/08/2011 10:41:16 PM Dear Philo, "Marriage exists in an ordered society and it is the Governments respons.....
» 18/08/2011 4:40:54 PM Dear Divine_msn, "If you die instead of or as well as the baby - no probs I guess.&q.....
» 18/08/2011 3:21:09 PM Dear Floody, Congratulations for your 28th wedding anniversary and also for demonstrating.....
» 18/08/2011 2:12:49 PM "Some people can't tell the difference between dogs and human being's" But why .....
» 18/08/2011 11:11:39 AM Dear Divine_msn: "I support the right of any healthy mother with no history of probl.....
» 18/08/2011 10:14:38 AM What a storm in a teacup - "bullying of the worst kind": Give us a break. Talki.....
» 16/08/2011 2:25:37 PM The key sentence in this article is: "Who is to blame for these tragedies?" Why.....
» 8/08/2011 5:03:51 PM Dear OUG, I find your posts difficult to read. If you imply that God has parts, then I wi.....
» 7/08/2011 10:19:48 PM Dear OUG, I have no knowledge of the afterlife, so I wish to pass no judgment on your des.....
» 7/08/2011 9:12:46 PM Dear George, "How can you love and worship somebody who does not exist?" Exist.....
» 7/08/2011 4:22:32 PM Dear King Hazza, Firstly, there are ways other than living on a remote mountain to minimi.....
» 7/08/2011 3:54:09 AM Dear George, If we are discussing the CONCEPT of God, then indeed its importance can vary.....
» 7/08/2011 2:38:15 AM Dear Ruth, "This Convoy is a convoy made up of ordinary people from all walks of lif.....
» 5/08/2011 5:52:51 PM "There is nothing more valuable, more powerful and more precious than the will of the.....
» 5/08/2011 2:11:20 PM Dear George, "I - and many others - need the concepts of “supernatural” and “God” wh.....
» 4/08/2011 5:16:33 PM Dear Poirot, You are getting close! So let me just adjust the last screws a bit: Indeed.....
» 4/08/2011 3:22:16 PM Dear George, Re "halves of God", was in reference to you saying that God is bot.....
» 3/08/2011 9:13:31 PM Dear George, Sorry for mixing up your views with those of Penrose. It may prove to be, a.....
» 3/08/2011 3:46:48 PM Dear Bugsy, God was not invented. The most people (myself included) can invent is IDEAS a.....
» 2/08/2011 4:41:33 PM Bugsy, There are probably only a handful of people, religious or otherwise, who are not a.....
» 2/08/2011 1:29:27 PM Dear Bugsy, I know you did not mention "explanation", but I combined my answer .....
» 2/08/2011 10:16:08 AM Dear Bugsy, Let alone why Christianity or other religions were established - we were not .....
» 2/08/2011 7:33:56 AM Dear George, Tillich's book has arrived and I am looking forward to read it soon. It see.....
» 29/07/2011 1:05:36 PM Dear Crabsy, Thank you for pointing me to your beautiful article. The experience of God .....
» 29/07/2011 12:25:40 AM Dear Jon, "D: If God cannot be described positively, God does not exist" No ne.....
» 28/07/2011 8:01:48 PM "Wonderful! Only a theist would try to make a virtue of the fact that they don't know.....
» 28/07/2011 4:10:54 PM Beautiful article, Thank you Peter! Jon J, you asked: "you've 'proclaimed' what he i.....
» 27/07/2011 3:15:25 PM Pip66, I think I already answered your question: the government is not interested in your.....
» 27/07/2011 11:19:13 AM Dear Glen, "Would you also say that if people feel inclined to describe themselves a.....
» 27/07/2011 12:45:00 AM I always tick: "Other - my own". The purpose of this question is to apportion g.....
» 24/07/2011 10:57:53 PM I am off this thread: I cannot see how events of the first half of the last century could .....
» 21/07/2011 1:47:01 AM (...continued) As Israel withdraws within its own borders, it will make it absolutely cle.....
» 21/07/2011 1:46:55 AM Dear David, Now it's my turn to ask whether you are really that naive: The existing tensi.....
» 20/07/2011 4:30:23 PM Dear David, "Jordan may not be interested in returning to the West Bank... then a li.....
» 20/07/2011 3:12:46 PM Dear Spindoc, As I see it, this research is all about how much or otherwise we are willin.....
» 20/07/2011 12:46:07 PM Obviously this law was not meant to handle boycotts against Israel's postal-office, not ev.....
» 20/07/2011 11:45:11 AM Firstly, the letter of the law (my humble translation): 1. Definition: For the purpose of.....
» 19/07/2011 11:37:11 PM Done the survey and recommend it......
» 17/07/2011 1:52:37 PM Dear Poirot, "everything you've uttered is referenced from and predicated on your hu.....
» 17/07/2011 12:06:48 PM Dear Poirot, Why indeed should I bother passing on information to other humans? Perhaps .....
» 17/07/2011 9:28:20 AM Dear Poirot, An old Arab who is unaware of jet planes may claim: "How is it possible.....
» 16/07/2011 11:52:27 PM Thanks George, I ordered "The courage to be", it is now on my reading queue. I.....
» 15/07/2011 4:08:57 PM Dear Poirot, "The spiritual mirrors the material." It seems that you still thi.....
» 15/07/2011 12:28:34 PM Dear Poirot, "So, how about some basic questions? How would either of you define God.....
» 15/07/2011 11:49:25 AM Dear George, You made me interested in Tillich, I would like to read his books, one day. .....
» 15/07/2011 2:29:31 AM Dear David, "The time is fast approaching when negotiations between Jordan and Israe.....
» 15/07/2011 12:57:06 AM Rstuart, Niko's story reminds me of a Jewish joke: --- here goes: --- New immigrants to.....
» 14/07/2011 5:29:01 PM Dear Ammonite, "I see trying to make a point about how religion influences what we s.....
» 14/07/2011 4:12:15 PM Dear Poirot, "As Squeers so eloquently pointed out above, the concept, the recipe an.....
» 14/07/2011 1:49:24 PM Dear Poirot, It is one experience to have a recipe for a cake, knowing that a cake is pos.....
» 14/07/2011 1:11:15 PM Dear Poirot, There is no need to reduce the notion of God to the symbolic because it alre.....
» 14/07/2011 2:51:03 AM "The guy is living in a fantasy land." Yes, but how sweet this dream is! If on.....
» 14/07/2011 2:42:24 AM Dear George, I was happy with your previous post, just had no particular comments to make.....
» 12/07/2011 6:48:26 PM Dear Lexi, Yours is a path of love. I suspect that Ammonite is writing from a place of fe.....
» 12/07/2011 3:04:57 PM Dear Poirot, "If we "are" God, why do we have to work as individuals on ou.....
» 12/07/2011 2:45:49 PM Dear George, Thank you for your kind remarks. As there are so many ways to slice a melon.....
» 12/07/2011 1:47:09 PM "poor schoolkids. Remember the good old days when schools were for education, not ind.....
» 12/07/2011 12:46:02 PM Dear Poirot, "Squeers has a point. For what are we without our immersion in the symb.....
» 12/07/2011 2:49:53 AM Dear Poirot, Good questions indeed! We are in this world not because God placed us here,.....
» 12/07/2011 1:27:49 AM Ever heard about the original sin? Today I learned that our parents have, through their g.....
» 12/07/2011 12:23:23 AM Dear Squeers, "in our system" I was, perhaps wrongly, under the impression tha.....
» 11/07/2011 6:33:17 PM Dear Squeers, There is nothing wrong in being blessed by being born into, or by otherwise.....
» 11/07/2011 1:50:52 PM Dear George, I don't know whether or not there is/are world(s) beyond science's realm of .....
» 10/07/2011 11:55:14 PM "Why do so-called "progressive" organisations all over the world revere a m.....
» 10/07/2011 11:33:16 PM Dear George, Obviously I only related to what I read in your article, since this is the f.....
» 10/07/2011 5:35:45 PM Dear George, Thank you for introducing me to Sagan's Maxim. There are however more than t.....
» 9/07/2011 10:18:42 PM Dear George, I also commend Lexi for her genuine spirituality. "your experience of .....
» 9/07/2011 7:27:27 PM Dear Csteele, "I have no objection to a 'None of the above' box on a ballot paper, e.....
» 8/07/2011 4:46:54 PM Dear Csteele, "Would this measure address your concerns about abused freedoms?".....
» 8/07/2011 3:10:56 PM "Would it have made any practical difference if she'd been found the day after she di.....
» 8/07/2011 1:14:00 PM Dear Csteele, "What this means is those who are under the control of others be they .....
» 8/07/2011 12:07:32 PM Dear Lexi, Religion, the quest to re-unite with God, is the essence of life, in some more.....
» 8/07/2011 10:53:00 AM Dear King Hazza, I agree with what you wrote, but why are you attempting to apologize for.....
» 8/07/2011 10:18:42 AM It was never about science - it's all about politics. Governments (not just the Australian.....
» 8/07/2011 2:48:40 AM Dear Csteele, If one refuses to go the army, they are jailed for 1-2 months, then told to.....
» 7/07/2011 11:49:09 PM Everyone, young and old, deserves to choose freedom from society - but especially the old,.....
» 7/07/2011 5:55:58 PM "If he'd 'chosen' to register as a conshy he'd still be alive" Ah sure, Israel .....
» 7/07/2011 12:14:30 PM Forget about the Palestinian morons and their absurd demands. A UN vote against* them, rec.....
» 7/07/2011 1:23:52 AM "That mindset is shared by a lot of soldiers in the ADF (and the IDF), like Mr Shalit.....
» 5/07/2011 12:13:44 PM Dear Csteele, I certainly agree with you that denying prisoners their right to vote is an.....
» 5/07/2011 12:13:41 PM Dear Grim, “if you don't vote, don't whinge!” Perhaps you only consider it a slogan, but.....
» 5/07/2011 2:41:06 AM Dear Csteele, Any connection with America is completely incidental: these are my independ.....
» 3/07/2011 11:58:12 AM "We could use something like the OLO surveys" Do we have surveys on this site? .....
» 2/07/2011 9:48:00 PM "Therefore, the logical error was...?" All A are B, therefore all B are A A = .....
» 1/07/2011 3:30:59 PM "Only OLOers should vote!" What a logical error: Those who don't care, don't u.....
» 1/07/2011 3:22:53 PM This is indeed a serious moral dilemma, Otokonoko, similar to the "Runaway train".....
» 1/07/2011 1:58:16 PM That's a bit of a reach, don't you think, Otokonoko? That the government must always be on.....
» 1/07/2011 12:24:17 PM Dear Lexi, "Why should a religious few continue to dictate to the majority? Our laws.....
» 1/07/2011 8:56:29 AM Dear Herbert, "It is entirely reasonable that those seeking access to the benefits o.....
» 30/06/2011 4:56:43 PM Dear Csteele, "I have seen fathers grabbing one particular party's how-to-vote cards.....
» 30/06/2011 1:56:43 PM Compulsory <anything> is wrong, including voting. I do not, however, agree with the.....
» 30/06/2011 1:29:24 PM Aquarius, It seems that you made some basic assumptions which do not apply in reality: &.....
» 30/06/2011 1:09:14 PM I understand that the shops in question are privately owned. In that case, unlike in publi.....
» 28/06/2011 1:59:31 AM Good article, David: Since neither the Palestinians nor the UN ask for David Singer's per.....
» 27/06/2011 12:37:37 PM Dear Aquarius, You seem to believe that Israel is invincible. Yes, the Arabs are no big .....
» 26/06/2011 2:43:16 AM Dear Ulis, "Finally Gilad Shalit is a professional soldier" No - Gilad is a co.....
» 26/06/2011 12:16:27 AM Dear stevenlmeyer, You asked a question - I gave you a straightforward answer. It's noth.....
» 25/06/2011 11:45:55 PM No, Stevenlmeyer. A fractured Europe is bad for Israel. Israel at this time needs a stron.....
» 23/06/2011 10:13:51 PM Dear Saltpetre, "To me, the use of the burqa represents neither a truly "free&q.....
» 23/06/2011 5:19:33 PM "and the burqa should therefore be held to be unacceptable and out of place in a trul.....
» 23/06/2011 2:43:56 PM "I am sure that Sascha would be horrified by Nazi women walking down the street weari.....
» 23/06/2011 2:03:31 PM Well said, Sascha: Having experienced oppression for yourself, you had to arrive at the r.....
» 23/06/2011 12:40:17 PM Dear Lexi, It's not the Jewish people (in general), it's not the Jewish culture (in gener.....
» 22/06/2011 11:50:41 PM Aquarius, "As late as the 1950s and 60s in the highlands of New Guinea a tribe was f.....
» 22/06/2011 11:21:07 PM Country Gal, "Yuyutsu, I would have thought that any technology that allows a man to.....
» 22/06/2011 8:24:22 PM Dear Lexi, I did not say that Jewish teachings are a venom - some of which are actually q.....
» 22/06/2011 6:39:49 PM Sonofgloin, I did not mention "culture". I care for individuals, not for cultur.....
» 22/06/2011 2:36:10 PM "Yuyutsu; Why would the woman be ashamed if she revealed her face ?" Because sh.....
» 22/06/2011 12:49:28 PM The lady should not have removed her face-cover in contravention of her belief-system, no .....
» 21/06/2011 11:07:11 PM Dear Lexi, Obviously no one HAS TO follow my recommendation to give up being Jewish: my p.....
» 21/06/2011 6:46:06 PM Dear Jay, I feel sorry that you fell into one of the Rabbis' gravest trap. You claim: &qu.....
» 20/06/2011 5:20:01 PM Hey Jay, You are no better than the Rabbis - they try to instill guilt on people and so a.....
» 20/06/2011 4:50:36 PM Indeed, isn't this yet another heavy price tag that we pay for "the war on drugs".....
» 20/06/2011 2:40:10 PM Thank you Ron, I also stopped being Jewish with the help of Zand's book. The main victim.....
» 16/06/2011 3:34:24 PM Dear Rstuart, "But technically it would be possible for you to drive a horse and car.....
» 16/06/2011 2:59:03 PM Dear Rstuart, So if the problem is only financial and not technical, then can't money sol.....
» 10/06/2011 3:14:09 PM Dear Rstuart, Of course anyone can make calls using VOIP, but as the call has to go throu.....
» 9/06/2011 9:50:48 PM Dear Rstuart, "Your phone is definitely not isolated from the internet. An internet .....
» 9/06/2011 8:27:39 PM Dear Rstuart, "Your phones will be exposed to the internet no less or more than the.....
» 9/06/2011 8:02:37 PM Dear Poirot, "When I speak of transcendence, I'm referring to the psychological act .....
» 9/06/2011 7:57:58 AM Dear Shadow Minister, You mentioned "5% using other existing fixed line networks&quo.....
» 9/06/2011 7:04:22 AM Dear Poirot, Grouping/Socialization is a mammal phenomena, not just a human phenomena. Ma.....
» 9/06/2011 1:29:01 AM Dear Rstuart, There is no need or justification for anyone tyrannizing another, neither a.....
» 9/06/2011 12:28:54 AM Dear Saltpetre, I suggest that the reason that man kills so many of his own species, rela.....
» 8/06/2011 2:39:00 PM Dear Saltpetre, First, thank you for your previous kind remarks. Now I think you have fa.....
» 8/06/2011 11:44:11 AM Dear Rstuart, "The NBN looked to be one of the reasons Labour is still in power. Get.....
» 7/06/2011 11:35:57 AM Dear Rstuart, The analogy of a bulldozed suburb is inappropriate: what stops the copper c.....
» 6/06/2011 11:05:37 PM Dear Rstuart, "what prevents the government from continuing to provide the existing .....
» 6/06/2011 7:05:58 PM Dear Rstuart, "It just dawned on me (sorry for being slow), your concern is you wil.....
» 6/06/2011 12:55:50 AM Dear Rstuart, I see you know a lot about the technical side of the NBN! "They don't.....
» 5/06/2011 12:50:36 PM Thank you so much, Rstuart, As long as there is an "ordinary" analogue port in .....
» 4/06/2011 11:58:39 PM Dear Rstuart, "So you have an ADSL splitter, and only bring the voice side into the .....
» 3/06/2011 5:31:33 PM Dear Rstuart, "They aren't physically separated now on DSL. By that I mean they are .....
» 3/06/2011 4:05:47 PM Dear Rstuart, "Really? Can you tell me what you can do with your copper connection .....
» 3/06/2011 2:04:51 PM Dear Csteele, You missed the main point: Whether you already did, or whether you will in .....
» 3/06/2011 1:06:14 PM Csteele, Good for you, I'm glad that you enjoy it and have what you and your family want,.....
» 1/06/2011 1:08:25 AM Dear Saltpetre, Why are you saying that the concept of Spiritual Atheism is absurd? Would.....
» 26/05/2011 7:24:22 PM Thank you Air for allowing me to breathe you. Thank you Water for flowing in my body. Than.....
» 26/05/2011 3:11:43 PM Dear Trav, What an excellent question: "What would convince you of God’s existence?.....
» 26/05/2011 2:30:51 PM Dear Grim, I did not claim that atheism is impossible. Of course it is. An atheist may in.....
» 25/05/2011 9:55:16 PM AJ Philips, "Most religious people do still make claims regarding the supernatural&q.....
» 24/05/2011 3:43:35 PM "religious claims - which are yet to be supported by any reliable, objective evidence.....
» 22/05/2011 7:07:57 PM Kipp, Are you sure you were addressing me in your last 2 posts? I've just explained that.....
» 22/05/2011 12:00:44 AM Hi Joe, "a clear separation of church/mosque/temple and State, and the recognition o.....
» 21/05/2011 10:41:32 PM "but nothing annoys me more in these discussions, than people who use totally arbitra.....
» 20/05/2011 5:19:49 PM Dear Pelican, The problem is that people tend to identify religion with certain organizat.....
» 19/05/2011 7:36:38 PM Dear Grim, "what sort of a God creates beings with endlessly enquiring minds, and th.....
» 19/05/2011 2:22:27 PM To strengthen your words, Skeptic: "What I find absurd about my need to shorten my p.....
» 18/05/2011 3:49:16 AM (...continued) "God is not a good tool for ensuring peace, man needs to look to hims.....
» 18/05/2011 3:48:51 AM Dear Joe, "provided you abide by the common law of the country"..."unless .....
» 18/05/2011 1:10:39 AM "I can’t imagine who would want to know! I mean, if you find out that you’ve got pre.....
» 17/05/2011 2:25:16 PM Hi Joe, "one can embroider, re-fashion, up-date, fantasise and conjure up whatever o.....
» 17/05/2011 1:15:28 AM Dear Lea, Unlike the former 5 movies, your latest link is gentle, civilized and orderly. .....
» 16/05/2011 6:11:52 PM If the test works then it can be quite useful - if I knew that I'm not going to live that .....
» 16/05/2011 2:36:11 PM Dear Joe, Regarding heaven and hell, I don't believe these are actual places, nor that th.....
» 15/05/2011 11:54:35 PM Oh Pelican, For some indeed, life can be tolerable without a concept of God or without be.....
» 15/05/2011 2:16:53 PM Lea, "Many religions have come and gone" As I just explained, "religions&.....
» 15/05/2011 12:15:52 PM This discrimination can be corrected by giving every arrival the same status as Kiwis. En.....
» 15/05/2011 11:24:05 AM The ones who caused the disruption and suffering are the police, not Fox. Under the guise.....
» 15/05/2011 2:32:24 AM Collin, I agree, but religiosity need not be anti-scientific: Science is there to tell W.....
» 15/05/2011 12:07:22 AM Lea, I am so glad you spared my life! "Religion" is spelled: R-E-L-I-G-I-O-N, .....
» 14/05/2011 8:47:49 PM QuantumLeap, Nobody forces you to be religious in the 21st century other than your inhere.....
» 13/05/2011 1:43:58 PM Dear Sam, There are no two types of energy (science, at least, has not discovered any so .....
» 12/05/2011 10:53:19 PM Dear Sam, Although energy is a bit subtler than "solid" matter, as Einstein sho.....
» 12/05/2011 5:26:29 PM Thank you Sam, I appreciate your article and attempt. I'm not sure whether by "energ.....
» 12/05/2011 10:09:09 AM I'll give you an example of compassion that is uninformed, Grim: You see an old lady stan.....
» 11/05/2011 3:11:06 PM Dear Joe, I was referring to God, not to gods. There aren't any gods in my world anyway a.....
» 11/05/2011 2:07:13 PM Poirot, Of course, God is neither in the Earth nor in the Sky. God has no location -most .....
» 11/05/2011 11:00:57 AM Poirot, Well of course, being instituionalised does not guarantee any relation to the spi.....
» 11/05/2011 8:33:58 AM Indeed, Poirot, much that passed as "religion" in the course of history had noth.....
» 10/05/2011 12:51:43 AM Pelican, I agree that the article is a bit gobbledygook. As for the UN, what most likely .....
» 9/05/2011 3:15:42 PM "The problem is public ownership of rainforests, and the unwillingness of those who c.....
» 9/05/2011 1:38:50 PM In the past, if God had a face, it would have gone red by what people did in His name. Th.....
» 1/05/2011 3:34:01 PM Dear Lego, You should differentiate and draw the line between society and government. Bei.....
» 29/04/2011 12:10:30 PM Dear Lexi, "How dare anybody tell us who we should sleep with, who we are to marry, .....
» 29/04/2011 10:55:57 AM "in a non-religious sense, it is sacred; that is to say, heterosexuality is so import.....
» 21/04/2011 7:15:06 PM Resilience is a relative term - it always has conditions attached. Nature is resilient in.....
» 21/04/2011 2:02:11 AM "I include lunatic Christians,Muslims,Zionists, Buddists,Hindus and callithumpians in.....
» 19/04/2011 12:45:11 PM There was nothing wrong with Israel's 1967 pursuing and beating the Arab armies that attac.....
» 15/04/2011 12:56:48 AM Jayb, I fully agree with what you wrote except for one point: I do care what happens ther.....
» 15/04/2011 12:48:03 AM Dear PaulL, I am unable to even begin answering your questions without resorting to matte.....
» 14/04/2011 3:20:02 PM Libertarians may or may not be able to debate successfully that freedom is good for the ec.....
» 10/04/2011 9:08:10 PM "So is no wonder that a powerful call to reason like yours hits the impenetrable wall.....
» 10/04/2011 8:44:13 PM Blokes can fall off trees, but there is no bloke there! Tim Flannery, if indeed he ever li.....
» 10/04/2011 3:04:41 PM Certainly so, Peter! Everyone has a basic human right to be able to live from the public .....
» 7/04/2011 1:52:29 PM Dear Danielle, Sadly I haven't seen porcupines in Australia - I did see an echidna once i.....
» 3/04/2011 8:10:34 PM Dear Danielle, I like camels, though I'd probably be afraid to come too close and be bitt.....
» 3/04/2011 4:13:12 PM "the corruption of the relationship between the state and its most vulnerable citizen.....
» 3/04/2011 12:59:18 PM At a school-staff AGM: Principal: "Ladies and gentlemen, before embarking on the hea.....
» 3/04/2011 12:53:11 PM Dear Csteele, "I still hold the Jewish culture and its gifts to the world in very hi.....
» 1/04/2011 4:57:53 PM Dear Danielle, Of course, if the strategic situation, based purely on military criteria b.....
» 1/04/2011 3:43:24 PM David, "Can you please quote your source for this amazing revelation?" Sorry I.....
» 1/04/2011 1:27:12 AM Dear Danielle, Resolution 242 also includes the cessation of belligerency, an unrealistic.....
» 31/03/2011 12:21:42 PM David, I am more than familiar with Israel's declaration of independence, but as mentione.....
» 30/03/2011 10:34:08 PM Dear Danielle, Yes, Israel was prepared, and in principle is still prepared, to exchange .....
» 30/03/2011 7:11:13 PM Dear Danielle, I am hoping that a wall will not be necessary, but I am trying to be reali.....
» 30/03/2011 6:42:30 PM David, "Why don't you also join with me in urging Israel and Jordan to enter into di.....
» 30/03/2011 11:07:54 AM As far as I can tell, it is illegal in this country to practice cosmetic surgery without g.....
» 29/03/2011 9:38:22 AM "The percentages will change slightly - about 82% for the Arab state and 18% for the .....
» 29/03/2011 1:43:02 AM (...continued) Well, lawyers live in a world of their own. Everybody could see the border.....
» 29/03/2011 1:42:58 AM David, On one thing we agree: If Israel and Jordan will agree to restore the pre-1967 st.....
» 27/03/2011 7:35:45 PM (...continued) Some contributors in this forum characterize the Palestinians as victims (.....
» 27/03/2011 7:35:43 PM David, If you look at Israeli maps between 1949-1967, the area to the east of Israel has .....
» 26/03/2011 9:57:08 PM David, You must be very proud of yourself for finding this legal loophole (assuming, for .....
» 25/03/2011 11:23:19 AM David, You are a good lawyer and you do your job well. It is true that even the worse cr.....
» 23/03/2011 12:44:23 PM Rexw, The settlers would not shed a tear if the sword fell on Tel-Aviv: Tel-Aviv, for you.....
» 22/03/2011 10:44:18 PM Everyone was so shocked by this gruesome murder - even in heaven, so God made a special di.....
» 20/03/2011 9:37:14 PM "Well I hope when someone breaks into your house and steals something" That is .....
» 20/03/2011 9:15:05 PM Dear Vanna, I think that there are much worse professions than prostitution, for example .....
» 20/03/2011 6:03:22 PM Dear Vanna, Do I understand correctly that you consider it a crime to not have a career? .....
» 20/03/2011 12:24:48 PM "The Greens believe in saving resources" Saving for what? for more babies? for .....
» 18/03/2011 9:48:57 AM "Basically, they are lazy parasites that feed off society while contributing very lit.....
» 18/03/2011 12:56:18 AM Dear Vanna, The topic at hand is not whether prostitution is good or bad, moral or immora.....
» 17/03/2011 5:04:39 PM Even the current diplomatic pressure, slight as it is, begins to produce cracks in the Isr.....
» 17/03/2011 2:50:32 PM Whatever consenting people wish to do between them without hurting others cannot be a crim.....
» 17/03/2011 1:37:17 PM "The Government should not reimberse any candidate or party for their campain expense.....
» 17/03/2011 11:59:15 AM Sorry Juan, I have no such knowledge, drugs are just not part of my life. The topic of thi.....
» 17/03/2011 11:34:50 AM The idea of disallowing or limiting donations to political parties is silly, it also canno.....
» 17/03/2011 8:13:23 AM "The Greens, to their credit, have opposed political donations and espoused public fu.....
» 16/03/2011 6:46:48 PM I think that the only form of political public funding should be by the publication of eac.....
» 16/03/2011 2:54:31 PM Fine, Sarnian, So if I understand you correctly, then it is not right to call monies that.....
» 16/03/2011 1:11:07 PM "I do not see that if any organization wants to spend money on advertising their poin.....
» 16/03/2011 12:21:33 PM I agree. Long overdue! One minor fix: I think that preferences are still a good thing. E.....
» 16/03/2011 10:38:20 AM "Should donations to political parties be banned and all elections publically funded?.....
» 15/03/2011 11:10:51 AM Dear Danielle, "So there appears to be is a population problem within Israel itself .....
» 15/03/2011 1:22:04 AM Dear Oz, The number of Israeli-citizens who lived in Australia (not all necessarily Austr.....
» 14/03/2011 9:03:48 PM Dear Oz, "then where is Group A getting its new support from ?" Breeding! ! ! .....
» 14/03/2011 4:26:14 PM Dear Danielle, Here we go again: "Arabs this, Arabs that". Isn't it about time.....
» 14/03/2011 9:41:48 AM "Hamas handed out candy last night" Be sure that the settlers are dancing too (.....
» 13/03/2011 10:00:01 PM Dear Oz, Please forget for a moment that the passage was taken from the bible. It was nev.....
» 13/03/2011 12:35:21 AM Dear Grim, As for the dole-bludgers, the thing to watch for is whether they are hiding an.....
» 12/03/2011 11:45:09 PM Dear Oz, I am still behind the WEDGE idea: Place a wedge between the Hateful and the Fear.....
» 12/03/2011 10:05:26 PM Hi Grim, ...Just started courses in ancient-mongolian philosophy, advanced numerology and.....
» 11/03/2011 5:01:05 PM Dear Yakabebe, "the alternative was to get beat and annihilated. Sowmehow I think th.....
» 11/03/2011 3:01:14 PM Dear Yakabebe, Perhaps you are right in your estimate of Arabs/Muslims. I hope you are wr.....
» 11/03/2011 11:57:46 AM Arjay, Your post is hardly legible. I hope I understood it corretly: Perhaps one or two .....
» 11/03/2011 11:38:25 AM Dear Thinker 2, I do not drink alcohol, I do not use drugs, I believe that both are bad f.....
» 11/03/2011 10:43:37 AM How could a government, any government, let go of such a precious resource, such a treasur.....
» 11/03/2011 12:53:29 AM Divergence, One important difference between the Speenhamland System and what Rehctub and.....
» 10/03/2011 11:50:01 PM Arjay, It amazes me that you attribute that much intelligence to zionists, as if they are.....
» 10/03/2011 8:05:49 PM As a boy I was told similar stories about the poor bear-cub or rabbit who died because I w.....
» 10/03/2011 6:07:26 PM Dear Oz, I am not that brave - the proposed law has not yet come into effect. It will pro.....
» 10/03/2011 4:25:47 PM "Drugs cost the tax payer. If you want to use drugs, never use rehab, that costs the .....
» 10/03/2011 1:23:59 PM Well, it is unrealistic to expect zionism to die, but it will change form. From its incep.....
» 10/03/2011 11:11:42 AM What else would you expect from a bunch of thugs? That's what the government is. Period. T.....
» 10/03/2011 12:16:52 AM In some instances Peter Coulson happens to arrive at the correct policy, but I'm afraid th.....
» 9/03/2011 10:22:10 AM According to a new proposed Israeli law, which just passed its first reading on Monday and.....
» 9/03/2011 7:26:06 AM Dear Hasbeen, Have you tried using the post instead? Just write your query/request/compl.....
» 8/03/2011 11:24:46 PM Dear Oz, "I think that what Israel needs is , not softer treatment , but more goodwi.....
» 8/03/2011 1:29:28 PM Dear Oz, In yesterday's news, the most likely candidate to head Israel's Labor party, She.....
» 7/03/2011 10:57:58 PM Dear Oz, "Do those people have a plan?" Everyone in Israel has a plan. The pro.....
» 7/03/2011 5:14:56 PM Everyone ought to have some minimum, but what's that got to do with wages? Surely one's e.....
» 7/03/2011 5:04:35 PM Well Vanna, if you cannot afford to raise children, who asked you to make them in the firs.....
» 7/03/2011 4:44:26 PM Hey, that's not the way to refer to a lady! (assuming you are a gentlemen, Shadow Ministe.....
» 7/03/2011 3:49:21 PM Dear Oz, "Drawing another line in the sand" Indeed, this time the line should .....
» 6/03/2011 12:35:25 AM "We can do without professional politicians" We sure do, but they cannot do wit.....
» 5/03/2011 11:07:45 PM Dear Oz, I think we are in perfect agreement. Some boycott of Israel is inevitable, but I.....
» 4/03/2011 3:41:23 PM But it's perfectly natural for a male to expect retribution once the sex is over - even if.....
» 4/03/2011 8:25:37 AM "A woman has a responsibility to take care of herself." Isn't that obvious? We.....
» 3/03/2011 11:53:43 PM Dear Oz, Can you be more specific about the options that you found? You seem to attribut.....
» 3/03/2011 12:41:38 PM Doing nothing is preferable... to whom? To us, ordinary Australians, of course it is, no .....
» 3/03/2011 11:30:49 AM Dear Stezza, It is presumptuous on your part to assume that here is a case of mis-underst.....
» 3/03/2011 12:51:34 AM "Should Christians have their natural children taken away as well to prevent the youn.....
» 3/03/2011 12:38:58 AM "With or without Gene Patents people are going to die" Well said, KAEP, you too.....
» 2/03/2011 8:53:10 PM David, Will you accept Israel at all if it does come back to the straight-and-narrow, if .....
» 2/03/2011 5:34:48 PM Dear Bazz, I only addressed the issue which you raised, not what you were silent about. N.....
» 2/03/2011 5:17:37 PM Thank you for your honesty, David G. Israel started its way on the straight-and-narrow, b.....
» 2/03/2011 2:07:51 PM Dear Oz, Thank you, that's a very good point. I see that you humble yourself, but in rea.....
» 2/03/2011 1:46:28 PM "The reason for avoiding corrupted gene pools is the emotional and physical ordeal in.....
» 1/03/2011 10:20:22 PM Vanna, Sometimes young children are told that babies come to the world through marriage, .....
» 1/03/2011 3:19:45 PM "It's interesting to recall that when most of the world had imposed sanctions on the .....
» 1/03/2011 2:24:40 PM “I am a black South African, and if I were to change the names, the description of what is.....
» 1/03/2011 1:46:38 PM Well, no use complaining "All political parties lie and backflip" - that's what .....
» 28/02/2011 11:44:04 AM "Every time a polygamic marriage is undertaken it is one more man unable to find a wi.....
» 28/02/2011 11:12:29 AM Israel's prime minister (1963-1969), Levy Eshkol, is most known for his saying: "Sur.....
» 28/02/2011 1:11:14 AM Juila is not a lier: The statement 'There will be no carbon tax under a government I lead.....
» 27/02/2011 9:35:42 PM (...continued) Puffing-up plumage has nothing to do with consciousness - it is plain sill.....
» 27/02/2011 9:35:40 PM Dear Squeers, I must go back to Pascal's Wager which you mentioned earlier: it is far bet.....
» 27/02/2011 4:00:59 AM Dear Squeers, Yes, enlightenment goes beyond it all, and in the deepest sense we are inde.....
» 25/02/2011 5:39:07 PM Dear Squeers, When speaking of freedom of choice, I obviously am not referring to some si.....
» 25/02/2011 3:16:55 PM "This is looking like another promise that Juliar will have to back flip on" Ce.....
» 25/02/2011 11:40:08 AM Dear Squeers, Make no mistake - I am not against community as such, only against communit.....
» 24/02/2011 11:27:01 PM Dear Squeers, "what about the poor devils subsisting only on commercial gruel, who m.....
» 24/02/2011 10:53:17 PM Dan Dare, Dougthebear's apology is unwarranted. He should not have to plead with you for .....
» 24/02/2011 3:58:46 PM Dear Squeers, I am also among those who enjoy the ABC, so it is not a question of quality.....
» 24/02/2011 9:51:46 AM Dear Belly, What Rehctub wrote is only half the story. It is not only about money. Of co.....
» 23/02/2011 11:43:15 PM Dear Rusty, Your discrimination in favour of some faith-groups (eg. Greens) and against o.....
» 23/02/2011 11:01:34 PM "It has been more than 12 hours since I suggested that political parties will discrim.....
» 23/02/2011 8:17:55 PM Too early to rejoice, Shadow Minister. They have the police on their side, and so the eas.....
» 23/02/2011 8:03:17 PM Individual, are you listening to the same station? I listen to ABC Classic FM and all it .....
» 23/02/2011 7:53:00 PM "Use of tax payers funds to provide free entertainment and information to a demograph.....
» 23/02/2011 6:25:00 PM Me, an AFP officer? Oh Dear! Me, who disapproves of 90% of Australia's laws and of the go.....
» 22/02/2011 5:52:59 PM Dear Formersnag, Certainly nobody but you and your spouse have a right to decide what you.....
» 22/02/2011 2:18:55 PM Dear Formersnag, Thank you for the most interesting presentation of "The History of .....
» 21/02/2011 4:20:01 AM Dear Tim, Further to your answers, I feel that I need to clarify my questions further: T.....
» 18/02/2011 2:21:33 PM Interesting, Tim: Assuming you represent the Greens, I have a few questions for you: Do .....
» 18/02/2011 2:00:11 PM Dear Mac, "The average Israeli doesn't seem to be much agitated by the injustices th.....
» 18/02/2011 10:57:26 AM "There is a word for that kind of selfish thinking" And how would you behave di.....
» 17/02/2011 10:44:53 PM "Isarel is viewing the unrest in Egypt from a very egocentric view point and cares no.....
» 17/02/2011 3:49:44 PM Clownfish, Mockery and language-righteousness are no substitute for facing the actual iss.....
» 17/02/2011 2:57:25 PM "They do it to advance the elitist, imperial Jewish cause." Some do, sadly, but.....
» 17/02/2011 12:55:44 PM "Put Israel in the U.S. They will all live happily ever after as long as they are kep.....
» 17/02/2011 12:38:41 AM (...continued) 'Qualified' simply means that it has a quality, an attribute, an adjective.....
» 17/02/2011 12:38:39 AM Clownfish, I am not aiming for agreement: all I aim for is respect, which ultimately mean.....
» 16/02/2011 5:50:13 PM Oh please, don't make a party-political issue out of this: Yes Sonofgloin, if what it tak.....
» 16/02/2011 1:50:12 PM "Considering that Israel has the most sophisticated anti missile technology that coul.....
» 16/02/2011 9:36:33 AM Clownfish, Have I ever claimed anywhere that love changes chemistry? All I said, is that.....
» 16/02/2011 8:42:26 AM Israelis are beset with many and terrible problems (Zionism included), but being suicidal .....
» 15/02/2011 5:33:21 PM Bugsy, How can a placebo work on babies or on the elderly or on a sleeping patient who ar.....
» 15/02/2011 3:26:03 PM Dear Akshay, "Homeopathy acts and that is sure. Anyone saying against it will not ma.....
» 15/02/2011 12:57:07 AM "I can't imagine why any Government would spend so much money on working out such a s.....
» 14/02/2011 11:49:39 PM (...continued) Schools will demand that your children do their homework on the computer, .....
» 14/02/2011 11:49:36 PM Dear Belly, I don't believe that anyone thinks that the NBN will be useless. The question.....
» 14/02/2011 1:34:06 PM "Please explain to me how a vial of water that contains not one molecule of the origi.....
» 14/02/2011 11:44:49 AM Belly, you have legitimate concerns about the quality of your line, but note that you live.....
» 13/02/2011 11:03:06 PM Clownfish, Do your messages here in this forum affect anybody? Do they ever cause people .....
» 11/02/2011 5:18:30 PM The overdose experiment is invalid: 1. Taking more of a homeopathic remedy makes no diffe.....
» 10/02/2011 12:33:13 PM Banjo, I am not asking for your compassion. I am not asking you to evacuate me if in trou.....
» 9/02/2011 3:58:21 AM "What advantage is there for Australia to allow dual citizenship?" - What advan.....
» 8/02/2011 11:54:21 AM Why all this undue cruelty? I have dual citizenship. I am Australian now, but I retain m.....
» 6/02/2011 4:01:50 PM If a dual-citizen on an evacuation plane just hears that word "Centrelink", and .....
» 30/01/2011 3:20:16 PM Arjay, I don't know why the Americans do it - but certainly not FOR Israel. Perhaps it is.....
» 30/01/2011 4:19:50 AM The sad point is that Obama would veto the Lebanese resolution even if Netanyahu pleaded h.....
» 25/01/2011 12:18:07 AM Mickey, If the reason that the Christians are leaving is that they are Palestinians who s.....
» 23/01/2011 4:42:01 PM Justice? What kind of justice is it to allow the Christians, or any other good people for.....
» 23/01/2011 2:45:25 AM David, I fail to see how your last post relates in any way to my former comment. The iss.....
» 21/01/2011 8:33:20 PM It all comes down to a simple moral test: As the Titanic was drowning, those in the minor.....
» 21/01/2011 2:22:49 PM Aaron, There is no escape from forsaking old rivalries. Just as Israel should do its part.....
» 21/01/2011 3:28:05 AM I have no presumptions of predicting the future, especially since the inhabitants of the M.....
» 20/01/2011 8:28:22 PM Quite simple, David: I never suggested sending UN forces to Egypt or to Gaza, only to the.....
» 20/01/2011 3:57:59 PM "Do you really believe Abbas would agree to a Latin American force being stationed in.....
» 20/01/2011 6:59:31 AM This is sad indeed, but is Mr. Singer suggesting that Israel should remain in the occupied.....
» 9/01/2011 1:15:30 PM "it's a death struggle between cultures; liberal, Western, democratic Jewish / Christ.....
» 7/01/2011 12:50:03 PM Ho Hum, The ultra-orthodox and the settlers are totally different groups, so the economic.....
» 7/01/2011 4:34:37 AM Dear Terryr, I agree that there are no Palestinian people as such. The Arabs which live i.....
» 5/01/2011 8:50:48 AM "only a negotiation in which all of Jerusalem is placed on the table will suffice&quo.....
» 5/01/2011 8:34:11 AM Too early to rejoice. If they cannot have it voluntarily, they will take it by force, they.....
» 26/12/2010 8:30:54 PM ...continued 9. So you say that the Arabs and/or the security-council, have the right to .....
» 26/12/2010 8:29:17 PM David, To save words, I will refrain from quoting the above 10 points: 1. Stereotyping? .....
» 24/12/2010 7:33:55 PM Danielle, "You cite the definion of religious extremists" Not so, I cite the d.....
» 23/12/2010 8:53:10 PM "Are the hard-core settlers on Gaza's Hamas side?" That's an excellent question.....
» 23/12/2010 8:17:41 AM Danielle, You gave the answer yourself: don't wait 160 years or until the sides agree - l.....
» 22/12/2010 11:29:11 PM Danielle, The same placards were placed all around the Israeli borders from 1949 to 1967 .....
» 22/12/2010 12:08:41 PM Jewely, "What do we have here that USA considers worth defending?" Mainly thei.....
» 22/12/2010 12:08:47 AM Jewely, "The Americans protect us? Who are they protecting us from?" -China ma.....
» 21/12/2010 5:46:48 PM But what can we do? we depend on the Americans for border protection, we cannot defend our.....
» 19/12/2010 3:53:51 PM ""In any case, those who wish to stay are welcome to remain in their homes as Pa.....
» 19/12/2010 10:08:20 AM "If Brazil were to have its way, 500,000 Jews would have to leave their homes, or be .....
» 17/12/2010 3:18:16 PM Dear Watcher, Have I stopped you, or anyone else from discussing other things which you f.....
» 17/12/2010 1:00:24 PM Dear Watcher, Again you are right: why should anyone go about seeking information using t.....
» 17/12/2010 9:42:37 AM Dear Eccles64, "Atheism is the acceptance that there is no credible scientific or fa.....
» 17/12/2010 9:14:42 AM Dear Watcher, At least we are in agreement that God cannot be found in the world, which y.....
» 16/12/2010 9:33:54 PM ...Continued "How do you, or could you, know what he is not?" -Simple logical d.....
» 16/12/2010 9:32:54 PM AJ Phillips, Of course the mind counts: you definitely need it to the extent that you wan.....
» 16/12/2010 1:24:22 PM Philip Tang, I really wonder what you are trying to achieve: "The significance of t.....
» 15/12/2010 9:57:55 PM Thank you, I was not ashamed of my thoughts, but of the fact that I cowardly refrained fr.....
» 15/12/2010 9:41:37 PM AJ Phillips, Your unanswered question: "how do you tell the difference between somet.....
» 15/12/2010 8:22:16 PM We Are Unique, Having read your comments, I feel ashamed for suppressing my reply earlier.....
» 15/12/2010 4:14:13 PM The Blue Cross, "I fear Yuyutsu will blow a gasket if he reads your link" Bori.....
» 15/12/2010 1:31:11 PM Eccles64, The Blue Cross is right - There is no straight-forward relation between those w.....
» 15/12/2010 12:20:30 PM AJ-Phillips, It all depends whether we are speaking in emotional or in philosophical term.....
» 14/12/2010 11:08:04 PM Dear Blue Cross, I suspect you are not going to hear much from the silent majority - for .....
» 14/12/2010 7:12:44 PM Dear Blue Cross, You should know better - just because some people disguise their worst b.....
» 13/12/2010 11:34:12 PM Dear Runner, Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed.....
» 13/12/2010 4:12:54 PM To all lovers of God, Atheism is not an enemy. Just as God Himself does not sit there bi.....
» 2/12/2010 2:47:58 PM The article, as well as quite a few responders, have suggested that the government is stup.....
» 1/12/2010 5:45:01 PM Lilith, George Jetson asked me some questions and I answered him. This has nothing to do .....
» 1/12/2010 1:24:16 PM Lilith, I think you totally misunderstood what I wrote to George, so please read it again .....
» 28/11/2010 7:00:39 PM Dear George, No words can convey God, nor can the mind ever understand Him. Nothing you .....
» 28/11/2010 2:36:24 PM Dear George, I am sad to hear that you cannot recall such an experience where you loved w.....
» 28/11/2010 8:40:21 AM Dear Dan, "You occasionally quote Biblical Scriptures. Should I assume you are a Chr.....
» 27/11/2010 10:44:14 PM Dear Dan, "You think laws on marriage are next to useless" When they come from.....
» 26/11/2010 3:41:37 PM "the government to facilitate and uphold the practice of marriage" - Like a gol.....
» 26/11/2010 10:09:49 AM Dear Dan, "Why should marriage be listed as a category of law?" That is a hypo.....
» 26/11/2010 9:39:23 AM Aren't you afraid for your life, Cliff? Are you not aware that the Proletariat and the Pa.....
» 26/11/2010 9:04:25 AM David, I never said that I believe the Arab claim - I don't. But I believe that the Isra.....
» 26/11/2010 8:16:07 AM Dear Dan, We are fortunate indeed that the issues we face are miniature in comparison wit.....
» 25/11/2010 11:50:33 PM Dear Dan, Perhaps my last paragraph was an exaggeration, so to clear a point, but there a.....
» 25/11/2010 10:32:51 PM "Sleeping man acquitted of drink-driving" - http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2.....
» 25/11/2010 3:15:08 PM Dear Dan, "If so, what is the point or benefit in having same sex unions sanctioned .....
» 25/11/2010 8:27:23 AM Dear Dan, Certainly it is neither for myself nor for the government to either permit poly.....
» 24/11/2010 11:59:45 PM Dear Dan, The bible is very specific, it says "and they shall become one flesh".....
» 24/11/2010 9:41:43 PM McReal, you seem to evade my basic question: would you use coercion or not? "What ab.....
» 24/11/2010 2:25:56 PM Sorry Dan, I see that a few words came missing in the translation: "Therefore a man .....
» 24/11/2010 2:21:17 PM Dear Dan, The correct translation is: "Therefore a man shall leave his father and hi.....
» 24/11/2010 12:26:35 PM Dear Paul, The question arises then, how much is enough to keep evil at bay: should every.....
» 24/11/2010 9:55:47 AM "news is not an optional extra in our individual and collective lives, but a core nec.....
» 24/11/2010 8:51:51 AM Dear Shadow Minister, I don't see how your last message refers to what I wrote, except fo.....
» 23/11/2010 10:59:23 PM Well McReal, now you seem do deny what you said earlier: "Children have a right to b.....
» 23/11/2010 4:14:57 PM Dear Runner, Thank you for your kind reply. A 'conscience vote' is a political term. It .....
» 23/11/2010 3:25:32 PM Thank-you Foyle for the document, which I enjoyed and appreciated. As Blue-Cross mentione.....
» 23/11/2010 12:09:15 AM Congratulations Proxy, that was an excellent point! Dear Runner, Questions such as wheth.....
» 22/11/2010 5:35:59 PM Well McReal, All I can say is that such an attitude is fascistic and paternalistic. It as.....
» 22/11/2010 4:58:24 PM "the benefits are likely to last a lifetime and benefit future partners and offspring.....
» 22/11/2010 4:57:22 PM Sorry, my previous post belongs to another thread ("Ethics should be a course for all.....
» 22/11/2010 4:41:00 PM "the benefits are likely to last a lifetime and benefit future partners and offspring.....
» 22/11/2010 3:58:32 PM Gay or straight, what does it matter? Marriage is a private affair - something to do with.....
» 22/11/2010 1:49:11 PM Dear Blue Cross, "So, I take my children's 'vouchers' and can send my children to an.....
» 22/11/2010 1:16:14 PM "A solution needs to be found and found immediately. But is special ethics education .....
» 22/11/2010 10:41:26 AM Dear George, Did it ever occur to you to help an old lady or a lost kitten without hoping.....
» 21/11/2010 3:26:07 PM "to think is the meaning of life for all" How anthropocentric! For a bat, life.....
» 19/11/2010 4:37:05 PM Pelican, "Human beings are probably still in the process of adapting to the informat.....
» 19/11/2010 2:07:16 PM Lexi, I beg to disagree that turning inward is specific to our times and I'm afraid that .....
» 19/11/2010 12:01:51 PM George, not another revolution, please! We already had several revolutions recently, all .....
» 19/11/2010 8:21:36 AM Dear Richie, I see that Philo has preceded me, thank you for that, but let me put it in m.....
» 19/11/2010 7:36:47 AM Dear Grim, You seem to be mourning the death of our 'classless' society, so I wish to loo.....
» 19/11/2010 12:23:20 AM Spindoc, I think I understood what you said: There are millions who claim to be religious.....
» 18/11/2010 12:18:24 PM This is all very true, Lexi, but how are you going to sustain that angelic attitude in the.....
» 18/11/2010 11:30:56 AM Lexi, "Perhaps happiness requires that we give up a wordly orientation - not wordly .....
» 18/11/2010 9:13:04 AM Sonofgloin, Are you saying that migrants are coming in order to take part in 'social engi.....
» 18/11/2010 12:39:17 AM ALGOREisRICH, your post with the psalm has warmed my heart. Spindoc, I understand your ar.....
» 18/11/2010 12:12:42 AM "A referendum on governance"? Isn't governance a male idea?.....
» 18/11/2010 12:08:54 AM "We’re on the road to nowhere" - Indeed, the source of all our problems are the.....
» 17/11/2010 1:38:13 PM Thank you David for simplifying the situation: If that's what the whole Middle-East confl.....
» 15/11/2010 4:03:09 PM "How does 'live and let live' feed into the social contract which requires 'mutual ob.....
» 3/11/2010 7:25:05 PM There is no inherent value in humans. There is no inherent value in humanity itself. There.....
» 3/11/2010 6:57:05 PM "deaths of lonely people being discovered because of the smell of the corpse... If mo.....
» 3/11/2010 11:11:21 AM If the size of pages remained the same as it was back then, then dialup would suffice, but.....
» 1/11/2010 8:53:21 AM Houellebecq, Very well written, but I see no point in continuing to argue with Peter: he .....
» 1/11/2010 8:07:25 AM Dear Rache, I should have been more explicit: having more of something than we want is ju.....
» 30/10/2010 11:46:01 PM Dear Rache, Happiness is the ratio of what we have over what we want. When we get more, .....
» 29/10/2010 4:52:42 PM Houellebecq, Peter just summed it all up: "See above for a start", referreing t.....
» 29/10/2010 4:04:49 PM "Apart from a bit of an intellectual snob's attitude to entertainment" As the g.....
» 29/10/2010 11:56:52 AM "99,249 => 155,503" Yes, but how much of this volume represents real informa.....
» 29/10/2010 11:30:14 AM "So we want a full cost benefit analysis"? No, all we want is to stop the NBN i.....
» 28/10/2010 8:04:08 PM Dear Belly, If you live in a city or its suburbs, then existing copper technology easily .....
» 28/10/2010 2:34:33 PM "It won't be compolsory to connect" http://www.comparebroadband.com.au/article_.....
» 28/10/2010 1:41:46 PM Wobbles, "Our roads were also able to cope with the number of cars many years ago bu.....
» 28/10/2010 8:24:50 AM Dear Belly, I think you have misunderstood my post: I was not suggesting that the country.....
» 27/10/2010 11:28:56 PM Suzeonline, Sure, why not bring fast networks to regional health centres if it's not ther.....
» 27/10/2010 9:50:18 PM Dear David, "guess you fall into the pattern of many who denigrate a religion that i.....
» 27/10/2010 6:15:42 PM Dear Belly, If you live in the country, then certainly you deserve a better connection - .....
» 27/10/2010 6:10:10 PM The number of internet-users is irrelevant to the issue of individual bandwidth: all it me.....
» 27/10/2010 5:14:22 PM ALGOREisRICH, "Society", "nation" and "state" are 3 differe.....
» 27/10/2010 2:45:54 PM "Unfortunately Christianity got off to a bad start. It divided humanity." Chris.....
» 27/10/2010 2:28:09 PM Most shameful, most disgusting, what else can I say? A well written article, but just two.....
» 27/10/2010 1:26:49 PM Sure it is nice to work from home. I did so since the early 1990's, using the newly-emergi.....
» 25/10/2010 3:37:54 PM From what I've read so far, and hope is true, the NBN termination unit (NTU) will be a spe.....
» 23/10/2010 10:54:04 PM Well, I would like to believe you that it is all just the physical link, but the more I se.....
» 23/10/2010 8:26:53 PM King Hazza, thank you so much for taking the time to explain. Certainly the issue is not .....
» 22/10/2010 5:51:51 PM Well, I have checked a few articles, and there is total confusion, they certainly contradi.....
» 22/10/2010 1:47:48 PM Thank you, I am not surprised you cannot answer #1! So if I understand correctly, those c.....
» 22/10/2010 11:36:48 AM Seriously, can anyone who knows answer my original questions: I tried to ask the same on t.....
» 21/10/2010 3:58:01 PM Well, I wonder why you chose such a complicated name, "Dole Bludgers(DB)", where.....
» 21/10/2010 9:06:21 AM "Yuyutsu: why improvement? don't u see the wrongs? should we just let the wrongs be w.....
» 20/10/2010 2:00:16 PM "We are here, to make our world a better place" Quite the opposite: The world i.....
» 20/10/2010 1:02:24 PM While I agree with your concerns, Shadow Minister, the aim of the government is more sinis.....
» 20/10/2010 8:08:36 AM One more question, King Hazza: You said, "and come to an agreement that they will co.....
» 20/10/2010 1:12:30 AM Some questions are left unclear, does anyone know: 1) No time-frame was mentioned - When .....
» 17/10/2010 3:54:21 PM PaulL, You are right about the Palestinians, and if you are their well-wisher, if you wan.....
» 17/10/2010 10:11:47 AM Dear Danielle, It is very true that the West-Bank was part of Jordan and the Gaza Strip w.....
» 16/10/2010 10:02:30 PM "From the Palestinian perspective, Israel will always exist inside Palestine." .....
» 15/10/2010 8:04:18 AM Mac, Thank you for quoting this beautiful and well-written article. I've had the honour o.....
» 14/10/2010 8:30:52 PM These are excllent questions, PaulL. So what is the value of morality? I rely on spiritu.....
» 14/10/2010 12:40:04 AM PaulL, You made some excellent observations. However, I believe that you are too optimis.....
» 10/10/2010 7:25:02 PM While constantly throwing the the punch-word "zionist", nobody here (not even th.....
» 30/09/2010 1:08:28 PM There is currently a heated debate in Israel over "who is a zionist" and "w.....
» 28/09/2010 6:46:50 AM Was this topic necessary? Was any new information or idea introduced? There is nothing int.....
» 22/09/2010 7:26:58 PM David G., "Nothing could be further from the truth" Sorry, but this is only a .....
» 22/09/2010 1:54:15 PM David G., Like you, I hate what the/xxx/SOME Israeli Jews are doing to the Palestinians: .....
» 22/09/2010 12:58:36 AM David G, "What about Jewish plans for Greater Israel, Singer?" Please don't bl.....
» 21/09/2010 5:25:27 PM David G., No doubt that Palestinians are suffering, the question is just why should they .....
» 21/09/2010 7:41:35 AM David G., "the Palestinians haven't moved on because..." At least in Lebanon, .....
» 20/09/2010 5:44:09 PM Surely BOTH sides in the middle-east believe that "might is right". Surely enoug.....
» 20/09/2010 4:01:25 PM I am sure that natural law is well established and strong enough to defend itself without .....
» 20/09/2010 11:57:53 AM We must remember that the goal of Buddhism is to eliminate suffering, for ourselves and fo.....
» 20/09/2010 11:49:38 AM David, If Jordanians and Palestinians are one and the same as you claim, and given that I.....
» 20/09/2010 10:19:29 AM David G. and his "imperial ambitions", So if they come and tell you, "your.....
» 20/09/2010 4:13:51 AM Nicnoto: "As most may agree, I look around and what I see is destruction, war, murde.....
» 20/09/2010 3:29:47 AM Mikk, I have previously considered your question, and arrived at the conclusion that Judai.....
» 29/08/2010 6:36:55 PM Alcohol and gambling are harmful, but they have one benefit which outweighs their harm: th.....
» 27/08/2010 10:47:03 AM Denying that one has any historical and/or religious right to exist is merely stating an o.....
» 26/08/2010 12:02:42 PM Matilda, I admit my ignorance - but what a failure on behalf of the government to provide.....
» 25/08/2010 11:55:31 PM James, "What was very surprising was the fact that virtually no one commenting actua.....
» 25/08/2010 6:04:33 PM Dear Cornflower, Thank you. The list of abominations is long and painful to live with. I .....
» 25/08/2010 5:38:42 PM Matilda, Yes, we need to clarify the vocabulary we are using. I was under the impression .....
» 25/08/2010 12:32:06 AM Dear Cornflower, First I must clarify that I am not seeking a personal solution (unless g.....
» 24/08/2010 6:29:06 PM The following summarises James Mangisi's view: "Australian men and women have fought.....
» 23/08/2010 4:59:57 PM Interestingly, the title of this article is "The moral debate of our time", so a.....
» 22/08/2010 2:21:56 PM Very well said, Peter Hume: "If a mere majority gives moral authority to take people.....
» 22/08/2010 1:21:44 PM This is the best election-result under the circumstances. Now the big parties will be forc.....
» 20/08/2010 4:11:32 PM "use your vote to ensure that we elect a government tomorrow that cares about people .....
» 20/08/2010 3:28:10 PM "So fellow Australians vote informal! It is the only form of protest against the corr.....
» 20/08/2010 2:53:38 PM Ludwig, you have some good points there, except this one: • thinks that neither of the tw.....
» 20/08/2010 12:52:56 PM Not only will I be paying $5400 for something I don't need, but also lose my telephone lin.....
» 20/08/2010 12:26:49 PM Thank you Houellebecq, I wish I knew about this site earlier, with all the information in.....
» 20/08/2010 10:02:14 AM The worst outcome of the compulsory-voting system is donkey-votes. Compulsory preferences .....
» 18/08/2010 3:16:18 PM Hey Examinator, "By the time telephone go out we'll have screen phones or the like&q.....
» 18/08/2010 2:03:43 PM Dear Examinator, "It is clear that SM and others are more concerned with proselytizi.....
» 17/08/2010 5:49:05 PM For those who ask for more "speed", the speed of the internet is nearly identica.....
» 17/08/2010 2:46:16 PM Mikk summarized this nightmare: "This will transform our society and our lives".....
» 9/08/2010 2:27:18 PM "Where have you been?" I had many better things to attend to, Pericles. As long.....
» 9/08/2010 1:33:16 AM Well, that's good news, Arjay, I was under the, apparently wrong, impression that those si.....
» 8/08/2010 5:40:45 PM Arjay, I wonder how we digressed so far. You still have not answered my questions about y.....
» 8/08/2010 4:33:55 PM "How stupid do you think we are?" "WE" in plural? Are you a member, r.....
» 8/08/2010 10:33:09 AM Ah, so all those tough thugs and intentional murderers are just waiting patiently for the .....
» 8/08/2010 12:56:02 AM Surely you don't want that to happen, Arjay - because once Israel is gone, what are you go.....
» 6/08/2010 10:45:06 AM "if we want to remain a competitive economy" Yes, I think we ought to break tha.....
» 6/08/2010 2:42:12 AM Rache, On the technical side, if indeed the speed of optical-fibre continues to multiply,.....
» 6/08/2010 1:21:59 AM TrashcanMan, You keep amazing me: If it's not the forefront of world-technology, then it.....
» 5/08/2010 2:12:37 PM TrashcanMan, There is so much middle-ground between North-Korea and the U.S.A.: I am not .....
» 5/08/2010 11:56:00 AM "We're talking about keeping up with the rest of the world" I suppose you are, .....
» 5/08/2010 8:22:16 AM Sorry Examinator, I did read your whole post, but didn't have much to say about it, except.....
» 4/08/2010 7:45:46 PM Nairbe, I conscientiously object to using a mobile phone because I don't believe it right.....
» 4/08/2010 12:17:50 PM Briefly Examinator, you mentioned "mum and dad corner stores": Are you aware tha.....
» 4/08/2010 11:34:56 AM Nairbe, It is funny how you call me "old" in a derogatory context. It seems the.....
» 4/08/2010 3:21:21 AM Dear Belly, Nice to know that you are willing to go out of your way to do good for others.....
» 4/08/2010 2:50:09 AM Wobbles, I see that you are very technically knowledgeable: Can you tell us, simpletons, .....
» 3/08/2010 1:23:32 PM Do I understand correctly that in a few years (if Labor is elected) I will no longer be ab.....
» 3/08/2010 9:52:59 AM Dear Belly, Hope you have a safe trip. Please understand that I have no issue with union.....
» 3/08/2010 1:19:01 AM Dear Pelican, Money is not everything. In fact, I accept that earning/gaining money is no.....
» 2/08/2010 6:02:02 PM Dear Belly, Rehctub has the right to present the issue from a particular angle, and while.....
» 2/08/2010 4:39:27 PM Dear Benq, One may do whatever they choose so long as they do not injure others (or place.....
» 2/08/2010 11:44:26 AM Thank you Rehctub for bravely bringing the subject again. I totally support. I could brin.....
» 1/08/2010 8:54:07 PM I would like to congratulate and join-in with the last 3 contributors: Leigh, Stern and At.....
» 29/07/2010 11:45:26 PM I was not aware of this affair prior to this topic. Those who read my other posts would ne.....
» 29/07/2010 11:14:14 PM "My father made your yoke heavy; I will make it even heavier. My father scourged you .....
» 28/07/2010 9:36:28 PM Dear Foxy, Thank you - your wishes are valid, even if they are different than mine. How .....
» 28/07/2010 2:27:01 PM Foxy, politicians are not our representatives and they never listen to us anyway, so whate.....
» 28/07/2010 1:38:04 PM "They work for us" ?? "represent the community" ?? Whatever stories t.....
» 28/07/2010 12:34:36 PM Dear Tapp, There is the famous Western Wall in Jersualem, also known as the "Wailing.....
» 26/07/2010 6:18:32 PM "Yesterday was another of those 'mind body spirit' things where I manned a Christian .....
» 23/07/2010 2:42:39 PM DreamOn, "I am in favour of placing dynamic, indexed ceilings on property prices&quo.....
» 23/07/2010 1:32:42 PM Very interesting, TrashcanMan (sorry for earlier spelling your name wrongly), Pooling all.....
» 23/07/2010 11:52:07 AM Runner, Being generous is a reasonably-good technique for loosening the control of the ge.....
» 23/07/2010 11:15:34 AM Welcome Javan, "Its well known that by nuture human beings are selfish" Actual.....
» 21/07/2010 4:33:33 AM Dear Belly, "why not openly say you think I may have lied?" Because such an id.....
» 21/07/2010 12:00:36 AM Dear Belly, The case you described is disturbing and obviously criminal. It is plain frau.....
» 20/07/2010 11:56:16 AM Belly, "Do most understand some truly hard up low income workers still struggle unde.....
» 19/07/2010 11:41:26 AM Westralis, "Would the Pope have a de-facto say in this country’s affairs via Abbott?.....
» 19/07/2010 1:24:40 AM "I will also consider voting for the leader/party that is least affected by any relig.....
» 18/07/2010 11:24:20 PM Congratulations, Rehctub, I enjoyed reading your comments. We are facing a government tha.....
» 16/07/2010 5:17:31 PM "man was not a worm condemned to crawl in the dust, but nature’s supreme creation cap.....
» 16/07/2010 3:30:44 PM I also was walking alone to school and back every day since the age of 6, via streets, a f.....
» 16/07/2010 1:40:07 PM You know, David, humans WILL become extinct, sooner or later, it is only normal and accord.....
» 15/07/2010 5:25:35 PM It seems that my "holy" superlative was misunderstood. I used it in a sense of &.....
» 15/07/2010 1:57:06 PM Is our addiction to jobs that bad? If so, we can hire thugs to break people's legs, then .....
» 15/07/2010 1:08:50 PM CJ Morgan, I have no concern for this or that "ally", but for the miserable Afg.....
» 15/07/2010 12:21:41 PM It is not what they say - it is what they do! Let JG keep rambling about "national s.....
» 13/07/2010 12:00:42 AM Refugees should not be an election issue. The issue of refugees, along with other issues t.....
» 8/07/2010 7:38:22 PM "Its important to have a self concept that is positive, but realistic." Yet it .....
» 8/07/2010 3:45:49 PM Dannielle, You are so beautiful, so gorgeous, your skin, your figure, your perfect boobs .....
» 8/07/2010 1:18:25 PM Our senses and our brains are geared for survival, not for experiencing the Truth......
» 16/06/2010 8:38:06 PM "You certainly would not have a computer or a car to drive if Europeans had not come......
» 16/06/2010 2:15:58 AM Just wondered: Isn't it racial-discrimination to allow only aboriginals to opt-out of Aus.....
» 16/06/2010 12:02:19 AM Dear Arjay, Very nice of you to want to stop a major conflict in the Middle East. Very ni.....
» 15/06/2010 6:22:43 PM It is your thread, Arjay, and it is clear that you had no intention of discussing Iran in .....
» 13/06/2010 11:58:24 AM Arjay, "No one has addressed the fact of Israel's 200+ nukes" What an under-es.....
» 13/06/2010 11:05:24 AM "We can continue to bomb Afghanistan "back into the stone-age"" For s.....
» 12/06/2010 10:42:36 PM Arjay, "Iranian people live in a quite affluent society... So what is your economic .....
» 12/06/2010 8:21:04 PM Arjay, are you able to set aside Israel and the USA for a moment and look at the well-bein.....
» 12/06/2010 7:52:43 PM What are the signs of victory in Afghanistan? 1. Freedom for women (no male control). 2. .....
» 9/06/2010 11:19:56 AM "Presumably taking money for nothing is also beneath your dignity." I am alread.....
» 8/06/2010 6:12:14 PM "I suppose expecting them to work for a living is racist?" Actually, authority'.....
» 8/06/2010 4:09:00 PM Neve, I hope this event helps you to get over your facebook-addiction. Young students can .....
» 8/06/2010 2:17:54 AM "the absolute disbelief in the Rule of Law" Calling that a problem (or the symp.....
» 4/06/2010 1:50:38 PM Dan, "I ask who, if anyone, made the human race, as I understand that that is one of.....
» 4/06/2010 10:00:46 AM How ingenious, ex-snag: Rape is a survival device (it mixes genes from otherwise unlikely.....
» 4/06/2010 1:55:46 AM Aka wrote: "I am shocked that there were 3 Australians in the Israeli army that boar.....
» 3/06/2010 10:42:40 PM Dan, I was unaware that the question "who (if any) made the human race?" was ev.....
» 3/06/2010 12:03:17 PM Dan S de Merengue Asked: "Did someone make us or do we just happen to be here?".....
» 2/06/2010 3:49:59 PM David f, "We can have objective information about anything that can be detected by o.....
» 2/06/2010 12:56:12 PM Oliver, If you mean to say that we cannot have objective information about God, then I fu.....
» 1/06/2010 9:34:25 PM Dear Oliver, Indeed, you successfully demonstrated that the theory whereby the world was .....
» 31/05/2010 3:02:58 PM The way to demonstrate that "A" and "B" are consistent, is to design a.....
» 31/05/2010 11:59:49 AM Thank you very much Foxy for your beautiful explanation. I thoroughly agree. If I may sug.....
» 31/05/2010 11:11:40 AM Dear Foxy, This was beautiful. Just one point puzzles me, your last one: "The pilg.....
» 31/05/2010 10:20:52 AM Belly, you wrote: "I never intended we talk about the existance of God." It is.....
» 30/05/2010 7:47:56 PM Belly, I am very happy with my lot in life, nothing to complain about, and I thank God fo.....
» 30/05/2010 8:11:51 AM "The thread has run its course" This thread was supposed to be two-sided: ".....
» 28/05/2010 11:10:21 AM Dear ALGOREisRICH, "our divine nature:", "our?" Well, can you imagin.....
» 28/05/2010 7:58:40 AM Dear ALGOREisRICH, "Can we know nothing about 'people'....'personalities' ?" O.....
» 27/05/2010 8:27:51 PM ALGOREisRICH, Women are usually more sensitive than men, which is why they often complain.....
» 27/05/2010 3:01:55 PM Stevenlmeyer, that was confusing. I wrote: "To measure God by the world, such as by.....
» 27/05/2010 1:15:44 PM Stevenlmeyer, "That is precisely what Muslims believe" Thanks, I was not previ.....
» 27/05/2010 11:34:30 AM CJ Morgan, The role of the physiological appendix was recently discovered. It is to be a .....
» 27/05/2010 7:39:41 AM ALGOREisRICH, "Very profound :) and 'welcome to Christian apologetics 101'" Th.....
» 27/05/2010 12:03:33 AM Cast your pearl before swine... Scripture is indeed a great source of culture, but includ.....
» 26/05/2010 11:20:54 PM "I believe in humanity but no God" Before we can have any meaningful and clear .....
» 24/05/2010 3:30:06 PM Yet again, the claim as if "Israel's behaviour has been consistent for 60 years".....
» 24/05/2010 1:50:57 PM Why mention this now, Patrick, rubbing salt into our wounds, I've already run out of tears.....
» 24/05/2010 11:27:44 AM "we need to recognize that whatever we might agree is theoretically best, nothing can.....
» 23/05/2010 9:49:21 PM David G., I don't suspect for a moment that you have such destructive intentions or ever .....
» 23/05/2010 4:39:27 PM Forkes, I do not agree that Israel's behaviour has been consistent for 60 years. While it.....
» 23/05/2010 12:42:37 AM "It all depends on how you look" - But how can you tell how she looks before yo.....
» 23/05/2010 12:19:38 AM "Can any women, or worldly-wise men, explain this conundrum?" In one word, Natu.....
» 23/05/2010 12:13:05 AM Forkes, you wrote: "The reality is that Israel exists but should not be allowed to g.....
» 21/05/2010 10:35:43 AM How refreshing, David: A concerned human-rights advocate who supports Israel retaining it.....
» 21/05/2010 9:37:52 AM So Forkes, what alternative solution do you have in mind for people who happened to born i.....
» 21/05/2010 1:05:41 AM David, I'll need to get back to you on the subject of treatment of West-Bankers by Jordan.....
» 20/05/2010 11:06:37 PM Oh dear. Poor Mikk You have fallen into the trap of believing the bible-stories literally......
» 20/05/2010 2:10:35 PM Mikk, I like your idea of a NO MANS land, but I'm afraid that the Arabs involved would no.....
» 20/05/2010 11:22:40 AM "I guess many don't do that because they don't want to be confronted with their own m.....
» 20/05/2010 3:28:28 AM Just a correction regarding historical facts, I can't see why this should make any differe.....
» 20/05/2010 2:47:43 AM Best thing, just contribute your body to science (organ donation given first priority of c.....
» 19/05/2010 8:12:10 PM Mikk, I am afraid I can only partially agree with you. What you describe is a nice ideal .....
» 19/05/2010 7:39:18 PM David, Jordan always treated the "locals" as 2nd-class citizens. Quite reasonab.....
» 18/05/2010 1:57:13 PM David, Indeed, a legal vacuum was created when Jordan decided to let-go of the West-Bank,.....
» 17/05/2010 6:26:06 PM God save us from Nation Building! It's all politicians for politicians, they've got their.....
» 17/05/2010 12:09:29 AM There should be just ONE official site (probably in the .gov.au domain) where all register.....
» 14/05/2010 12:11:33 PM David, The Jewish National Home has long been established and recognized by the entire wo.....
» 14/05/2010 2:03:59 AM I support Peter Hume - great remarks! What's disturbing is that so many are complaining a.....
» 13/05/2010 10:11:20 PM "Is anyone prepared to discuss my proposal to divide sovereignty of the West Bank bet.....
» 12/05/2010 1:12:28 AM "Natural Family", you are trying to eat the cake and have it too, because: It i.....
» 11/05/2010 5:42:23 PM GrahamY, I was previously unaware of any advertising on OLO, so just because you mentione.....
» 11/05/2010 12:26:59 AM Why does the article pick specifically on sex, of all evils? All advertising is offensive.....
» 10/05/2010 11:45:52 AM David G. Sorry about not mentioning the Jewish extremists: my former post has exactly 350.....
» 10/05/2010 6:51:06 AM If indeed what David Singer writes is true and Obama is not going to impose a solution, th.....
» 18/12/2009 1:44:21 PM Good article - and it is common sense. Those 4 steps (Decouple from the global economy; Re.....
» 8/12/2009 8:26:50 PM Herman wrote, "Not only should the taxpayer not be able to hold welfare recipients a.....
» 6/12/2009 10:10:18 AM The aboriginals did not have to go to school for 10,000s years - why now? Well, you may r.....
» 3/12/2009 12:59:10 PM It's a shame this "Centrelink" thing exists in the first place. These allowance.....
» 27/11/2009 9:32:42 AM Shadow Minister, Obviously controlling and the inability to opt out is an evil, yet it is.....
» 26/11/2009 7:47:28 AM "And so it goes another effort by the Israeli apologist Singer" Please John, Si.....
» 24/11/2009 5:59:05 PM "what area of life do you think government is *not* justified in controlling?" .....
» 22/11/2009 11:36:43 PM Definitely the intrusion of government in Australia is worse than in the rest of the weste.....
» 21/11/2009 10:05:49 PM Dear Csteele, Sorry, I am not familiar with the situation in Serbia, so I never establish.....
» 19/11/2009 11:04:26 PM "Exactly! Why shouldn't the Palestinians be afforded just that right? Why do they hav.....
» 19/11/2009 11:44:39 AM Csteele wrote: "One does get the feeling that the greater population of Israel is qu.....
» 19/11/2009 1:57:14 AM Dear David, So you are a reform-Jew? that's obviously a form of Judaism-lite, trying to s.....
» 18/11/2009 11:44:19 AM Dear David, As I told Keith, blaming a 3rd-party is not an answer. Many Chrisitians actua.....
» 18/11/2009 1:24:32 AM David, I am still searching for that article that I read based on the Rambam's law-of-kin.....
» 17/11/2009 8:51:46 PM Unfortunately, this wall is necessary - but a few modifications are needed: 1. Some secti.....
» 17/11/2009 9:44:32 AM Keith, I haven't seen such naivety in ages: taking Netaniahu at face value? if this was a.....
» 16/11/2009 2:40:36 PM Dear David, Many Beduins and Druze soldiers have also fought and died for Israel, so bei.....
» 15/11/2009 5:11:45 PM David, Perhaps I did not make it clear enough: What I meant by "Jews" and ".....
» 15/11/2009 1:27:35 PM David f. wrote: "Israel cannot be both Jewish and democratic. I once thought it coul.....
» 3/07/2009 1:37:06 PM I can understand you, Beaumonde: if my family wasn't living there I wouldn't care either. .....
» 3/07/2009 12:36:35 PM Look Maximillion, As a child I suffered from those things. It scared me, it startled me, .....
» 5/06/2009 12:28:55 PM Waste not, but hide the water from the government, place it in secret tanks in backyards a.....
» 1/06/2009 2:52:08 PM "If are politicians are given a choice between desalinisation plants and a one child .....
» 1/06/2009 1:41:54 PM Correction is already underway, not always in the most obvious ways. Step I: In order to .....
» 1/06/2009 5:58:20 AM The author contradicts himself: He claims that he wants to prevent assimilation, yet comp.....
» 31/05/2009 12:13:18 PM This article is not just about Jews - it is also a reflection or even an allegory on being.....
» 15/04/2009 3:04:10 PM TRTL, I don't believe it's anybody's right to separate people from their grog, but I don'.....
» 15/04/2009 12:33:54 PM If God (or evolution if you prefer, for that matter) considered it important to have us hu.....
» 3/04/2009 12:30:23 AM W. Wheatley Wrote: "The cause of its spread is engaging in sexual activity outside t.....
» 1/04/2009 6:26:56 PM How disappointing - my brother just built his house in the country 65 metres above sea-lev.....
» 1/04/2009 12:19:24 PM Why ask "Where are we heading", doesn't everyone know the answer, that we are no.....
» 31/03/2009 12:44:39 PM It takes courage to live. It takes even more courage to live while letting others live as .....
» 31/03/2009 11:12:00 AM Oh well, all those legal contradictions just indicate the shaky grounds of the relation be.....
» 18/03/2009 11:19:54 AM Antonios, Unfortunately, society CAN exist without individuals: it may for example consis.....
» 18/03/2009 3:13:40 AM Antonios, Your good intentions are not in doubt. I appreciate that. But the results of go.....
» 16/03/2009 4:27:34 AM In my view, socialism is a broader issue, it is not just about economics, it is about defi.....
» 11/02/2009 12:42:04 PM "I call that a remarkable coincidence" ... "I would be glad to be corrected.....
» 9/02/2009 1:54:25 PM "Religion has them in a bind." Of all things, Oliver? religion? Most of the ci.....
» 9/02/2009 1:07:34 PM “it is difficult to recall a comparable slaughter of civilians in so little time" 1......
» 9/02/2009 6:34:14 AM "Time passes. Human constructs arise and disappear." - and rightly so, but let .....
» 6/02/2009 12:20:23 AM Sharkfin, "There is a saying that the truth will set you free and I try to portray t.....
» 2/02/2009 12:53:40 AM Well, Sharkfin, you seem to know everything already, so why do you ask me? To summarize y.....
» 1/02/2009 8:06:26 AM Sharkfin, we are really diverting from the original topic. There is lots of literature ab.....
» 31/01/2009 12:28:54 AM "Do you think that a coalition of the socialist party and the peace now activists can.....
» 30/01/2009 4:09:49 PM Socratease, I warmly agree with you. Those settlements are disgusting. They should not ha.....
» 29/01/2009 8:31:06 PM Sharkfin, I just wanted to correct some of the facts that you stated, not that I can see .....
» 29/01/2009 5:38:38 PM David, How do they say in Israel... "If Grandma had wheels, she would have surely gi.....
» 29/01/2009 7:13:01 AM David Singer, The facts that you stated are correct facts. What remains is their interpre.....
» 28/01/2009 11:43:51 PM Sharkfin, We had portable-radios for some decades, now we also have portable-TV's, portab.....
» 27/01/2009 6:26:25 AM Anansi, I know more and more Israelis who don't give a damn about history. I can only hop.....
» 26/01/2009 3:54:34 AM Thank you Socratease, A one-state solution is not such a good idea, even as an ideal. Som.....
» 25/01/2009 9:16:16 AM Anansi, I agree with you that the situation is sad. I do not agree, however, that salvat.....
» 25/01/2009 7:16:50 AM Dane, Please allow me to make it very clear: I do not represent the Jewish lobby and the.....
» 24/01/2009 12:26:32 AM Socratease, You say that I have softened, that I learned: I think that taking part in thi.....
» 22/01/2009 10:09:54 PM "there will be a HAMAS Govt in GAZA and the West Bank" Possible, but did I noti.....
» 22/01/2009 9:44:59 PM "Before this discussion gets bogged down in tribalism..." But isn't tribalism t.....
» 22/01/2009 2:33:22 AM EasyTimes, Please check my definition above of a "terrorist". The intention mat.....
» 21/01/2009 5:10:19 PM socratease. Good to find someone that takes pity on Hamas, since they do not take pity on.....
» 21/01/2009 1:32:05 AM It's a deal, Mac: America should leave Israel to fight its own battles... provided that I.....
» 20/01/2009 8:58:58 PM EasyTimes, A terrorist is, as the name suggests, one who intentionally creates a feeling .....
» 20/01/2009 6:11:44 AM Hello Dane, I understand that you don't like Israel: I am not going to change your mind, .....
» 19/01/2009 5:33:23 PM Americans must leave the US immediately because those hurricanes and tornadoes are simply .....
» 18/01/2009 11:44:25 PM Foxy wrote: "The only hope for an end to this carnage lies in global public opinion .....
» 17/01/2009 12:13:20 AM "It seems that the two groups have such contrasting aims that we cannot make one happ.....
» 16/01/2009 5:10:18 PM ""Free will!?" Free for whom or what?" As a member of the Vegetarian .....
» 16/01/2009 5:40:15 AM "Lady's, you will not force the world to agree with you, you will not force us to eat.....
» 16/01/2009 1:01:05 AM Non-violence is not an impossible pie-in-the-sky: one just needs to look at the achievemen.....
» 15/01/2009 8:10:57 PM So many endless posts about history - what happened and "what would have happened if&.....
» 15/01/2009 7:03:46 AM Dear Polycarp, You need not worry about me and those mother-ships: I've been there, done .....
» 14/01/2009 4:43:05 PM Hi Polycarp, I am personally unimpressed by those PETA people. If indeed half of them wen.....
» 14/01/2009 5:23:58 AM Polycarp, Your claim that "vegetarianism is murder" is inaccurate - what you pr.....
» 14/01/2009 12:01:32 AM Why should it matter how you call them? a fish is a fish is a fish, and it is simply wrong.....
» 13/01/2009 8:03:27 PM Hanna O'Connor, Regarding the ideas of Michel Chossudovsky about Gaza's natural gas reser.....
» 12/01/2009 6:49:28 PM I must agree with Gibo here: we don't really have a choice. But why limit the discussion .....
» 12/01/2009 5:52:03 PM Uncle Pete wrote: "Surrender is the best and only option that 'Palestinians' must ta.....
» 14/12/2008 2:06:42 PM Yes, Bushbred there are some excellent theories around, for example: "A dog that bar.....
» 13/12/2008 10:46:03 PM Dear "one under god", you seem to be living in the past: While there are some e.....
» 12/12/2008 7:35:10 PM Bushbred, All you contributed is calling names. I didn't claim that if Iran is nuked the.....
» 12/12/2008 12:08:17 PM Keith, I don't understand why this question out of the blue, and why in particular you as.....
» 12/12/2008 2:22:57 AM Rehctub, What you describe is the current situation where the senate is comprized of near.....
» 11/12/2008 6:57:10 PM How can Obama, or anyone for that matter, end a conflict that does not exist?! The confli.....
» 11/12/2008 6:35:34 PM It is good to have independents in the senate. In fact it is best to have ONLY independent.....
» 9/12/2008 3:58:20 PM David, You still did not answer my question about providing alternate housing to those Je.....
» 8/12/2008 8:55:42 AM Belly, I believe you that you are a good guy. You help your friends and do the right thin.....
» 8/12/2008 12:42:17 AM David, Offering to compensate 70,000 settlers is very cheap because those hard-core settl.....
» 7/12/2008 5:36:01 PM Belly, I think you got the wrong impression: I did not refer to existing unions, or sugge.....
» 7/12/2008 11:09:42 AM David, No doubt that Jewish settlers are allowed to go back to Israel and then... sleep i.....
» 7/12/2008 10:12:00 AM Belly, the situation you describe is of a criminial nature, of two people who steal from t.....
» 5/12/2008 6:08:18 PM Belly, You are suggesting that good people all over the country, that live happily togeth.....
» 5/12/2008 4:39:12 PM OK, back to the thread's subject: Suppose there is a small family business, or perhaps 2-.....
» 4/12/2008 11:26:51 PM Democritus, Even the question "what is the perfect social structure?" would be .....
» 3/12/2008 1:07:10 PM "No one - Jew or Arab - need leave his current house if the West Bank is divided betw.....
» 3/12/2008 11:57:20 AM Please don't save us, Ms. Ross: If with capitalism we will not have the means to survive,.....
» 2/12/2008 6:36:31 PM Celivia, Just because God is not an entity does not make Him a non-entity! Just because G.....
» 2/12/2008 9:11:36 AM Camo, While I strongly support Israel's right to exist, I think that the argument of prev.....
» 1/12/2008 2:04:06 PM Fractelle, The verses that you quoted from Exodus are in fact considered to be a mantra, .....
» 29/11/2008 10:56:31 PM "Peace will only ever become a reality when true justice is delivered to the Palestin.....
» 29/11/2008 9:04:36 PM A comment on the side for "one under god" that mentioned: "forcing us to p.....
» 28/11/2008 1:40:55 AM The wall is a necessity, it stopped many terrorist attacks, it saved many lives and contin.....
» 27/11/2008 5:58:08 PM This article, while speaking in the name of "justice", in fact seeks to punish h.....
» 27/11/2008 4:49:13 PM "Yuyutsu or anybody else – What is the definition of a god? What qualities makes some.....
» 27/11/2008 1:39:06 PM "So you would not have the various scriptures' descriptions of God valid." - Oli.....
» 26/11/2008 10:38:09 PM "By world do you mean universe or this world?" - Oliver. Either way, God's &quo.....
» 26/11/2008 1:14:23 PM Oliver, I fail to see how your discussion of physics, supposedly as a response to what I .....
» 26/11/2008 12:43:05 PM Crazy, or for the benefit of the doubt, simply thoughtless. Like any other place, there a.....
» 26/11/2008 11:59:07 AM Nothing new under the sun - we, the older generations are eagerly sidelined by the newer g.....
» 26/11/2008 11:41:34 AM "whether there exists an entity that could be described as God, the creator of the un.....
» 7/10/2008 12:37:33 PM Of course advertising is offensive - it's intention is to tempt you to give up your hard-e.....
» 6/09/2008 10:58:37 PM IamJoseph, you wrote: "There is no coherence in 'LOVE THY ENEMY' - nor is it possibl.....
» 3/09/2008 4:51:49 PM Dear David, You wrote: "From what I read it was very much a moral issue. Her refusal.....
» 3/09/2008 1:28:41 PM Conscription is pure evil: it is not right to force a child into slavery only because he/s.....
» 1/09/2008 4:25:20 PM "The name of Jesus Christ is used quite often where I work" Yet the guy, even i.....
» 14/08/2008 1:55:15 PM Country Gal, thanks for the advice! I know that my company now have heaps of franking cre.....
» 14/08/2008 10:31:01 AM Well, here is my situation: I have a small company, I worked through it for many years an.....
» 14/08/2008 12:41:29 AM According to the Mahabharata, the great Hindu epic, as the big battle between good and evi.....
» 7/08/2008 1:47:48 AM Getting born in this world is a mistake! But once we do, we are associated with a body, a.....
» 3/08/2008 5:03:09 PM The whole point of allowing China to host the olympics was to encourage it to improve huma.....
» 3/08/2008 3:15:07 AM What missiles? Once Iran has nuclear weapons, it will not use missiles. Missiles take 5 .....
» 29/07/2008 9:09:23 PM What a heart-breaking article. We already know it of course, but reading about it again re.....
» 28/07/2008 4:33:49 PM Youngsteve, You may not be aware of it, but records were discovered showing that your gra.....
» 28/07/2008 2:21:31 PM Thanks for quoting those two bastards, Wobbles: Ben Gurion had no second thoughts about co.....
» 27/07/2008 7:32:23 PM Cuphandle, you noted that: [but if a human being climbs into our house, with evil intent .....
» 27/07/2008 3:45:06 AM So much talking here about "zionists" - just as an attempt to forget that Israel.....
» 25/07/2008 3:28:15 PM David, If an aboriginal was firing rockets into Australian towns, wouldn't Australia use .....
» 25/07/2008 12:49:42 PM Yes, Wobbles, the answer is unequivocal YES to your second question: "If those organ.....
» 24/07/2008 7:03:12 PM Examinator, you wrote: "This problem is not about an event today it is the consequen.....
» 24/07/2008 3:10:26 PM Bushbred, There are two completely differrent issues here: Israel (presumably) acquired n.....
» 23/07/2008 4:09:01 PM Keith, your answer was partial and evading: Yes, you support the right for Israel to exis.....
» 23/07/2008 11:27:27 AM Bushbred, I can only be proud to get 4 out of 10 on a subject I never studied: I'll be hap.....
» 22/07/2008 7:22:46 PM Something is badly missing - and it is not a law, or a set of laws: What is missing is a s.....
» 22/07/2008 2:59:02 PM Keith, thank you for bringing the issue: When survival is at stake, petty matters like le.....
» 22/07/2008 2:53:23 AM Well Bushbred, we were talking life-and-death matters here: how could a petty legal point .....
» 21/07/2008 2:01:00 PM In other words, Bushbred, the Jews are to blame for still being alive: why can't they unde.....
» 21/07/2008 2:46:23 AM Just adding to the important note by PLuralismisavirtue: Zionism has never been univocal .....
» 26/03/2008 2:16:01 PM Listen guys, Previously I could not sleep at night because I was so awefully bothered wit.....
» 25/03/2008 7:46:20 AM Boaz, You are correct in that orthodoxy can have slight variations, but I don't see how i.....
» 24/03/2008 5:21:52 PM Arjay, You whinge about the scarcity of the "lubricating oil" called money, but.....
» 24/03/2008 4:27:02 PM Boaz, You brought up good points: money and/or power and/or sex, with teachings that prom.....
» 24/03/2008 6:54:15 AM Cults have nothing to do with WHAT you teach, but rather with HOW you teach. If you obser.....
» 24/03/2008 6:42:14 AM The obvious answer to: "What, other than bloody-mindedness and their own lack of ima.....
» 24/03/2008 6:20:08 AM I have no idea about the right to work, but you are now 58 and the laws about super change.....
» 2/06/2007 10:59:38 PM One of the main reasons I did not like Howard was his Americo-philia: It seems like the we.....
» 1/06/2007 2:17:46 PM TurnRightThenLeft, Isn't incarceration also a form of violence? To be an effective deter.....
» 1/06/2007 9:04:29 AM To understand what Keith is saying we need a special dictionary: Peace :: laying down one.....
» 1/06/2007 1:41:02 AM I think that criminals that are not dangerous to the public should be given the OPTION of .....
» 31/05/2007 11:46:02 PM I partially agree with Gila: There is place for improvement, for example in the placement.....
» 30/05/2007 9:11:55 AM Well, basic phone services are such an essential need that they should have remained as a .....
» 29/05/2007 11:38:24 AM Sorry for the ignorance, Southerner: By "FTTP" I think you mean fibre-optic lin.....
» 28/05/2007 1:09:33 PM I did not quite understand: are you suggesting, Southerner, that in 5 years or so, due to .....
» 27/05/2007 6:22:11 PM Southerner, I have a landline service simply because I want to have a phone - is this too.....
» 27/05/2007 12:41:49 PM We don't need to wait for a week after the elections - we know the results already: WE WIL.....
» 27/05/2007 12:34:24 PM Actually, historical research indicates that Jesus was born around 4BC: otherwise he could.....
» 27/05/2007 12:13:12 PM Southerner, you wrote: "Now I telling you with Moblie Phones and Internet Phone Servi.....
» 26/03/2007 2:26:45 PM Busbred, To make things clear: Israel must continue to have nuclear weapons, but should n.....
» 25/03/2007 9:24:22 PM Bushbred, Everyone knows this simple fact, especially Mubarek: No nukes --> No Israel......
» 22/03/2007 11:38:59 AM Keith, I know that Israel's government is inconsistent, but it was ELECTED on the basis o.....
» 20/03/2007 8:21:12 AM Vk3auu, Please define "zionist" for us, because if zionists are terrorists, you.....
» 19/03/2007 6:05:24 PM Does Australia have a right to exist? why? Since when does anyone needs permission to exis.....
» 17/03/2007 11:51:57 PM Keith, "you believe in a Palestinian state so long as Israel can re-invade any time .....
» 15/03/2007 3:08:46 PM Keith, I not only accept, but support a sovereign Palestinian state at the 1967 borders. .....
» 13/03/2007 5:56:35 PM Keith, I do not recall being asked this question before: "Do you support an uncondit.....
» 12/03/2007 11:20:09 PM Keith, I accept your apology. I fail to understand why is it so important to determine th.....
» 11/03/2007 3:54:17 PM Keith, the instructions while shooting is to shut one eye - not both. It is the second ti.....
» 11/03/2007 12:19:15 AM First, a factual point: Israel does not rely on American aid. American aid is just a smal.....
» 8/03/2007 11:18:41 PM Keith, I have no idea why you number me among those "occupationists": I do not .....
» 8/03/2007 4:27:08 PM The problem with this article and some of the comments here, is stereotyping "the Isr.....
» 6/02/2007 2:36:52 PM Rob88 - well said! Also StewartGlass: "Libertarians reject both neo-fascism and soci.....
» 6/02/2007 2:18:33 PM It is not possible to fight evil with evil, darkness with darkness. It is not right to per.....
» 28/01/2007 1:15:10 AM Ybgirp, The difference between philosophy and religion is that the former is an intellect.....
» 26/01/2007 2:18:25 PM Ybgirp, There are indeed "weak agnostics" who sit on the fence. There are also .....
» 25/01/2007 6:10:22 PM What Clifton wrote about can be summed in one word: hormones. He watched two youths doing.....
» 25/01/2007 12:41:19 PM Ybgirp, We first need to get the facts right: 1. Just because dogs have ears and Socrate.....
» 24/01/2007 5:15:50 PM Ybgirp - thank you for stating your ideas so boldly. Claiming that religions kill, is lik.....
» 24/01/2007 9:02:19 AM Why are we in Iraq? - because we have no choice! Big Brother commanded us to join him th.....
» 23/01/2007 11:47:02 PM No need to say much because Rhian has already summed up my views on this issue better than.....
» 10/12/2006 7:16:46 AM THE GALILEAN, It is shameful indeed. It is not right! As I understand it, the reasoning .....
» 22/11/2006 2:14:42 PM R0bert, Why do you consider this "off-topic"? The facts are clear, Liam has su.....
» 21/11/2006 11:04:00 AM R0bert, The virtue of being truthful (Satyam) is mentioned in the Yoga Sutras of Patanjal.....
» 21/11/2006 8:20:00 AM Nostradumbass, There is no need for me to know the specifics of the Liam case, because it.....
» 19/11/2006 10:05:08 AM Dear Carnifex, "you can also grow more cynical and mistrusting too" Of course .....
» 19/11/2006 1:37:00 AM No human court can override the laws of nature. This is true for paternity fraud as well .....
» 17/09/2006 3:18:09 AM Conclusion of the investigation about the killing of 4 UN soldiers: There was an error in.....
» 3/09/2006 9:29:52 AM Strewth, I stand corrected for my loose definition that "Jews are a nation": no.....
» 1/09/2006 12:23:18 AM Sganot, there is nothing really for me to add - you stated it all very well. So far Strew.....
» 31/08/2006 10:49:00 AM Sganot, I agree with your comments, it is just that you seem to be a lawyer and I am not,.....
» 30/08/2006 7:17:42 PM Strewth, Apartheid is the segragation and inferior treatment of those who are already res.....
» 30/08/2006 4:04:00 PM Shorbe, Mandatory wearing of seat-belts is indeed a gross violation of human-rights. For.....
» 30/08/2006 9:46:17 AM Scout, If your grandmother was also Jewish, then there is no doubt: you can migrate to Is.....
» 30/08/2006 2:21:34 AM Dear David Boaz, I am glad that you do not wish to kick me out of Australia, because in m.....
» 29/08/2006 8:46:00 AM Strewth, Please note exceptions 1+2 of the Law of Return as noted by Sganot: Person 1 usu.....
» 27/08/2006 7:30:53 PM Epithemeos, Of course not: most Muslims are decent people... but they do not set the tone.....
» 27/08/2006 10:15:54 AM Boaz David, You wrote: "WE HAVE a culture, and if anyone wishes to come here, they .....
» 27/08/2006 9:29:57 AM Kalin, I must agree with you......
» 25/08/2006 4:42:47 PM Strewth, Being ex-Israeli does not guarantee that what you say is true. I looked at this.....
» 25/08/2006 5:17:24 AM Strewth, The only true words in the above are in the last half-sentence: well and good, t.....
» 24/08/2006 3:08:06 PM Kalin, I am afraid that I don't know of any quick fix. If you ever visit the middle-east,.....
» 24/08/2006 1:57:53 AM Keith, In principle I like the Saudi proposal and so does Israel. It will work perfectly .....
» 24/08/2006 1:45:36 AM Kalin, Not all Arabs want Israel destroyed: most do not. But given that a significant per.....
» 23/08/2006 12:28:27 PM Kalin, you were trapped: you gave a good answer to Strewth's bad question! Unless you bot.....
» 23/08/2006 2:46:33 AM For those dreaming about replacing the only Jewish state in the world - it will never happ.....
» 22/08/2006 3:59:54 PM Scout, there is no 'P' in there: the correct spelling is F-E-A-R......
» 22/08/2006 12:11:08 PM Keith, sorry for the delay: Isn't Australia also "a firm regime that can impose disc.....
» 22/08/2006 2:06:09 AM Kekenidika, What relevance do the stories you tell, even if they were true, possibly have.....
» 21/08/2006 5:06:40 PM Kalin, When talking about "absorption of Palestinians into other nations", we m.....
» 21/08/2006 10:29:26 AM Strewth, I did not expect so much irrational nonsense for you. What has this got to do wi.....
» 20/08/2006 12:17:16 PM Strewth, I am not talking of a regime-change: Israel is a democracy, so its regime have c.....
» 20/08/2006 12:15:52 AM Strewth, Kind words are a luxury: better be verbally abused than physically dead. I supp.....
» 18/08/2006 12:10:53 PM Strewth, Israel was under savage attacks since its inception (in fact, even earlier). Hav.....
» 17/08/2006 7:37:08 PM Strewth, I am not a zionist zealot, and indeed as you say, zionist zealots are a dwindling.....
» 17/08/2006 1:44:35 PM Strewth, Neither Ahmadenijad, Nasrallah or Hamas will ever accept your "workable-sol.....
» 17/08/2006 3:25:41 AM Tao, It is not that I care to have a state where all people are the same (quite the contr.....
» 16/08/2006 7:24:45 PM Rache, congratulations: while you were blind, you could not do much. Now that you are awa.....
» 16/08/2006 5:27:31 PM Well Tao, would you like to give those up for a start? Nobody's hungry or wants to deny f.....
» 16/08/2006 3:16:07 PM Keith, regarding Qana: True, the IDF did not know about terrorists in that particular bui.....
» 16/08/2006 2:21:42 AM Tao, Israel and Australia face a similar problem: they cannot be too choosy about their f.....
» 15/08/2006 2:21:49 PM Daniel M, Yes, there is a reason for Israel's large army, actually quite a bizzare one: t.....
» 15/08/2006 12:34:08 PM Empty words: Israel has not acted without regard for the conventions of war. Israel has n.....
» 15/08/2006 11:14:06 AM Spider, I do not agree with your observation as if resentment of Jewish people is on the .....
» 15/08/2006 3:07:17 AM Well Kekenidika, your mind is confused because you cannot distinguish between Israel and .....
» 14/08/2006 11:40:01 PM Very true, kindness and compassion is true religion: Ubi caritas et amor - Deus ibi est! .....
» 14/08/2006 1:48:47 PM Kekenidika, I don't know why I need to reiterate something so simple until you understand.....
» 14/08/2006 2:24:09 AM "Just exchange prisoners" "- Why is the Israeli government ‘democratically’.....
» 13/08/2006 5:23:06 PM I have no idea why Kekenidika so much hates the Syrian people. There is a story: An Ameri.....
» 13/08/2006 2:29:11 PM Fleurette, sorry to get down to your level of unfounded libel against innocent victims of .....
» 13/08/2006 12:28:13 PM Scout, why didn't Israel attack Syria? and why not Bolivia? Neither Bolivia nor Syria at.....
» 11/08/2006 4:21:42 PM Stan1, What does Israel hope to achieve? - removing the Iranian threat from both itself a.....
» 10/08/2006 5:12:57 PM The following article by Lebanese Michael Béhé, fully explains how Israel is Lebanon's bes.....
» 10/08/2006 5:04:04 PM The following article by Lebanese Michael Béhé, explains in detail how Israel is Lebanon's.....
» 10/08/2006 3:57:35 PM Tao, truly important and interesting questions: Technically, Israel got the right to decl.....
» 10/08/2006 1:18:19 AM Daniel06, You asked me: "How is saying that Moslems are taking over Europe and the w.....
» 9/08/2006 3:57:14 PM Scout, This is not "tit for tat" or retaliation - it is a war to the bitter end.....
» 9/08/2006 11:05:04 AM Dear Boaz, Thank you for your point of view. Most Israelis revere the bible and know it .....
» 8/08/2006 10:07:11 PM Saintfletcher, let me tell you a secret: I also hate America and I also would like to see.....
» 8/08/2006 8:47:24 PM Daniel06, On one point I must sadly agree with you: that the Israeli lobby is indeed doin.....
» 8/08/2006 12:15:49 AM Tao, There is a Jewish nation, which has its own culture, its own religion and its own st.....
» 7/08/2006 7:58:25 PM Fundamentalism, Bushbred? Where do you see any fundamentalists on the Israeli side? Israe.....
» 7/08/2006 6:20:42 PM What a waste of such an important topic! The injustice of enforcing authority is a painfu.....
» 7/08/2006 2:35:55 PM Stan1, you are mixing up two totally different wars: The one and only common thing betwee.....
» 5/08/2006 11:59:29 PM Keith, you wrote: "What's the latest on that enquiry into the murders in Qana?".....
» 4/08/2006 1:30:31 AM This article is not ill-intentioned, but totally in-credible. The only place where rippin.....
» 1/08/2006 5:12:12 PM Stewth, You are right, Israel was booted in 2000 by the Hezbullah's ultimate weapon - bab.....
» 30/07/2006 5:55:44 PM First, Leo Braun - thanks for your creative ideas on how to make money and gain power. My .....
» 29/07/2006 11:43:17 PM Initial results of the investigation about the killing of 4 UN observers: Northern-comman.....
» 28/07/2006 3:56:31 AM Kartia, Bombing the UN is indeed a failure of Israel, a big failure. It is currently unde.....
» 27/07/2006 7:26:49 PM Aka, You obviously do not like Israel and Israel has nuclear weapons exactly to defend it.....
» 27/07/2006 1:04:24 AM Kartiya, It is indeed tragic. Two days ago, during heavy fighting, Israeli planes hit by .....
» 26/07/2006 2:25:57 AM Meika, By your logic, surely Australia is also a mistake: after all, its intended purpose.....
» 24/07/2006 10:07:06 PM Billie, Those 5000+ IT professionals, do you suggest it was their fault? - Would those p.....
» 13/07/2006 6:45:21 PM Amel, Yes, I have lived for a couple of years in South Africa when it was still under Apa.....
» 13/07/2006 12:58:56 AM Fester, you wrote: 'I still wonder what part of Australia the immigrants would be free to.....
» 12/07/2006 3:22:23 PM Fester: yes, you got me right this time. Indeed, a situation where immigrants do not have.....
» 7/07/2006 10:50:25 AM Fester, you still got me slightly wrong: Both individuals and their countries may protect.....
» 6/07/2006 7:00:03 PM Diversion, you have gone too far... Our only moral obligation with regard to immigrants i.....
» 6/07/2006 3:28:18 AM Fester, please do not turn my words around: I never claimed that it is our moral duty to .....
» 5/07/2006 1:23:14 PM Eric wrote: "If Australians knew that there were few advantages and many disadvantag.....
» 4/07/2006 4:07:43 PM Enough of this "Sydney", "Sydney", "Sydney" - the point was .....
» 2/07/2006 12:21:46 AM To KAEP: Military force can only be one part of a more comprehensive strategy: if some bi.....
» 30/06/2006 12:13:22 PM Regardless of whether nuclear power is good or bad for Australia, I do not believe that Er.....
» 11/04/2006 5:21:04 PM Strewth, I even have Arab Moslem friends, but we are not talking about individuals here, .....
» 10/04/2006 10:41:33 PM Well Strewth, you must have already anticipated my response: Why don't you pick up drunk .....
» 10/04/2006 3:48:18 PM Fellow Human, good to hear from you again! What makes you think that Israel is the strong.....
» 9/04/2006 10:19:50 AM Sometimes life-saving procedures are necessary and I do not disapprove them. This certainl.....
» 7/04/2006 6:03:36 PM Dear Laurie, In the land of the blind, the one who has one eye is king. We got used to l.....
» 7/04/2006 5:04:39 PM Dear Fellow_Human: Wow, now you are already telling us the sequel... Well true, meeting .....
» 7/04/2006 12:12:43 PM Any attempt to incorporate anti-terrorism into the normal civil-code is inappropriate, bou.....
» 7/04/2006 10:45:40 AM Some of the readers will surely like to kill me today for this, but well hidden behind the.....
» 6/04/2006 9:44:28 PM So it goes that the wolf and the sheep lived in the forest by the same stream. One day th.....
» 6/04/2006 10:40:59 AM Boaz, Thanks for the support, but it is problematic to base Israel's right to exist on th.....
» 5/04/2006 2:45:19 PM Strewth, 1a) With a bit of good-will, problems like refugees can and could be solved long.....
» 4/04/2006 9:11:07 PM Strewth, I don't have all day to dispute each malicious argument you put forth. I think I.....
» 4/04/2006 2:27:33 PM Donna's story indicates that the department of education is controlled by another religiou.....
» 4/04/2006 1:51:45 PM Strewth, Australia is Australia and Israel is Israel, there is nothing wrong with either .....
» 3/04/2006 4:12:41 PM Strewth, I am glad that you enjoy reading my post. Here are some references about ".....
» 2/04/2006 10:37:41 PM Strewth, you ignore one simple fact: Arabs have no interest in living together with Jews,.....
» 2/04/2006 3:46:08 AM Strewth, If you don't like colonizing, you should go back to England (or wherever your an.....
» 27/03/2006 5:03:07 PM Strewth, well here are some pointers, if you insist (too bad this will prevent me from res.....
» 27/03/2006 3:00:46 PM The issue with cooking and processing is not nutritional - it is about our attitudes that .....
» 27/03/2006 2:38:22 PM It is suprising to read, not only from obvious anti-Israel advocates, but even from Benjam.....
» 15/03/2006 4:29:18 PM "But Yuyutsu, laws are for everyone" It is here that I cannot agree with you: s.....
» 13/03/2006 11:13:50 PM Ludwig, The fact that I consider classes - and I did not mean de-facto classes, but rathe.....
» 13/03/2006 12:56:19 PM Hamlet, There is a particular place under my shower, about one meter from the drain, that.....
» 12/03/2006 8:58:39 PM Caspar, well done: your words are music to my ears - not so the grim reality behind them. .....
» 11/12/2005 5:01:18 PM Indeed a great princable, Hannibal: Eliminate anyone related to _____fill_in_the_blank___.....
» 9/12/2005 12:06:48 AM Rossco, you are bursting into an open door! I agree on both: About decriminalising drugs .....
» 8/12/2005 3:54:19 PM MichaelG, Whether God wants anything of us or not is not the issue: the point is that we .....
» 5/12/2005 2:42:05 PM Drugs are evil, regardless whether they are illicit or legally distributed by doctors and .....
» 19/11/2005 11:55:32 PM Terje, First, your quote was out of context from what I wrote, in response to Boaz who wa.....
» 15/11/2005 10:47:25 PM If indeed the government has nothing to hide, why does it not allow the public to view the.....
» 15/11/2005 10:17:22 AM Fellow_Human: Your assumption that the Jews of Palestine were invincible and capable of d.....
» 14/11/2005 7:51:57 PM Boaz, I am afraid that 350 words cannot allow me to fully cover each case, so guidelines .....
» 14/11/2005 3:01:21 PM Fellow_human, I am not sure that I understand your question: Israel DID accept the U.N. p.....
» 13/11/2005 2:27:20 PM Boaz, Don't we all wish for renewed hearts and minds? it is harder though, for those stre.....
» 13/11/2005 12:41:37 AM Fellow_Human: I never previsouly heard such a strange argument equating the Jews with the.....
» 10/11/2005 9:25:31 PM Fellow_Human, Don't worry: unlike the peaceful euphoric times following 1967, since the t.....
» 10/11/2005 6:45:55 PM Sand Between My Toes, Thank you for the very interesting reference! Justice Higgins was .....
» 10/11/2005 3:39:58 PM For those who were not fortunate enough to have a proper caring father in their childhood,.....
» 10/11/2005 2:28:37 PM Fellow_Human: The legal situation is clear: the Geneva convention allows countries to occ.....
» 9/11/2005 2:13:08 PM Fellow_Human, It depends what you call "land grabbing": I already clarified tha.....
» 9/11/2005 11:53:59 AM Fellow_Human: Unlike Egypt, where the president can do almost whatever he wants, Israel i.....
» 9/11/2005 10:53:58 AM T.U.S: If the government is so desperate for funds as you claim, that they cannot do with.....
» 8/11/2005 11:40:15 PM Kartia, 1. that was just an example - want another? suppose I welcome the immigrant in qu.....
» 8/11/2005 11:18:39 AM Fellow_Human, I have no problem answering your questions: Firstly, Ben Gurion was far fro.....
» 7/11/2005 10:43:16 PM Boaz, It is good that you find the courage to express your thoughts and feelings as they .....
» 7/11/2005 3:51:16 PM David, unfortunately for you, I became an Australian citizen in 1991, when the wording of.....
» 7/11/2005 1:32:19 AM Bushbred, one more point that I could not fit in 350 words earlier: France did not help .....
» 7/11/2005 1:01:01 AM This would be great, Philip - but what if the employer and employee do not agree? The nex.....
» 6/11/2005 2:16:59 PM Fellow_human: I am unable to speak for the Jewish settlers or argue with their fanatic re.....
» 6/11/2005 1:34:09 AM Too late, Republicans: You should have thought about it earlier - when I, as all other im.....
» 6/11/2005 1:02:58 AM Bushbred, thank you for correcting me that the Americans supported Israel as early as the .....
» 5/11/2005 11:57:19 PM Philo, you raised a smile on my face: I do not, however, deserve such compliments as I am .....
» 5/11/2005 10:42:59 PM Crusader, Stan1 and Fellow_Human: No doubt that the concept of 'Land for settlers' was la.....
» 4/11/2005 6:15:54 PM So now we place practicalities aside and talk about sentiments: Let not the Left hijack o.....
» 3/11/2005 5:54:10 PM Bushbred, You claim that "Israel's nuclear capacity is part of America's strategic c.....
» 3/11/2005 5:11:55 PM Seether, No doubt that employees need security and to not be forced into jobs with unreas.....
» 3/11/2005 2:14:31 PM George: 1. Although there is oil in the middle east, there is no oil in Israel. 2. If Is.....
» 3/11/2005 12:37:12 PM I mostly agree: Work relations, enterprise and employment, should not be obstructed by th.....
» 1/11/2005 1:07:58 PM What is responsibility? Someone for whom the election results might mean life or death wi.....
» 31/10/2005 9:45:20 PM Why - in the case presented by SHONGA, 75% of the citizens are happily represented: the 25.....
» 30/10/2005 11:13:20 AM This is more a question than a comment: Initially it was mentioned that one of the propos.....
» 30/10/2005 10:45:25 AM What are the elections for? - democracy What is democracy for? - to secure individual's fr.....
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