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» 8/08/2005 10:22:02 PM I wasn't going to respond to Aslan's 'flame', but his subsequent outrageous post has promp.....
» 8/08/2005 9:04:46 PM Don't worry Em - you're no more represented by the enlightened and emancipated women on th.....
» 7/08/2005 6:20:44 PM "It is odd how I can posts on other forums regards completely different topics, (eg f.....
» 7/08/2005 3:49:30 PM Actually, R0bert, part of my 'downshifting' involves me forgoing personal income by employ.....
» 7/08/2005 9:24:52 AM I see that the homophobes and religious nutters are in full flight on this thread. A few .....
» 5/08/2005 7:27:07 AM It will be interesting to see how GetUp fares. While I don't think that this is quite what.....
» 3/08/2005 4:01:10 PM It's truly fascinating to witness the birth of a National Front-style white supremacist ce.....
» 3/08/2005 10:06:25 AM As a member of the growing "downshifter" demographic, I agree with Clive Hamilto.....
» 3/08/2005 9:18:35 AM While there have always been ratbags of various persuasions in academia, in more enlighten.....
» 2/08/2005 7:28:40 AM What an appalling story - is there no depth to which the anti-abortion crew will not stoop.....
» 1/08/2005 9:30:26 PM Recent posts in this thread remind me of the unfortunate phenomenon to which anomie refers.....
» 1/08/2005 11:48:35 AM Having been banished for citing Gough Whitlam in my last comment on this thread, I'll ende.....
» 1/08/2005 9:19:19 AM This is a topic that has interested me for some time. Graham raises some interesting and d.....
» 1/08/2005 8:43:23 AM My biggest problem with 'multiculturalism' as State policy is that it imposes a kind of na.....
» 24/07/2005 9:43:38 AM I think that, as far as these forums go, Boaz-o is way out in front of his competitors as .....
» 24/07/2005 9:31:42 AM I think that we need neither an ID card nor a Bill of Rights - indeed, Barns' linking of t.....
» 24/07/2005 8:44:19 AM Aslan's emotive and irrational arguments invite dismissal, if not along the 'screaming car.....
» 22/07/2005 11:11:35 PM Well, I don't care if it rains or freezes Long as I have my plastic Jesus Riding on the da.....
» 21/07/2005 9:02:53 PM Hi Reason, and welcome. Unfortunately this thread has our eponymous redneck and Boaz_o the.....
» 21/07/2005 7:47:26 AM Seems to me that the godbotherers and misogynists are trotting out their same old tired ar.....
» 20/07/2005 7:27:03 AM Thanks JR for pointing us in the direction of the gospel according to Ambrose ;). I think .....
» 19/07/2005 8:19:28 PM Anomie, Sod's brood, be me fear! Sanglorians, save! Arms apeal with larms, appalling. Ki.....
» 19/07/2005 8:06:14 PM Boaz-o, I appreciate and understand that Christianity is ‘your religion’ but I contend tha.....
» 19/07/2005 10:04:07 AM For Philo and Xena :) "Three Rings for the Elven-kings under the sky, Seven for the .....
» 19/07/2005 10:00:13 AM I think that there have been more than enough excerpts from the Koran and the Bible publis.....
» 18/07/2005 11:56:38 AM Thanks Dan - I guess it's my strategy of pointing out the silliness of some of some of the.....
» 18/07/2005 10:43:56 AM Valian Years of Trees: - 1362: Galadriel is born in Valinor - 1500: Galadriel leaves Valin.....
» 18/07/2005 9:16:16 AM "Sing and be glad, all ye children of the West, for your King shall come again, and h.....
» 15/07/2005 9:58:10 PM Unusually, I'm in complete agreement with Arjay on this one :).....
» 15/07/2005 4:14:06 PM Thanks for the positive feedback, especially from R0bert, hutlen and Katsuhiro. Some of th.....
» 15/07/2005 1:16:49 PM One of the reasons that I and millions of other Australians opposed our assumption of the .....
» 15/07/2005 1:04:09 PM Col's response is consistent with his previous posts that identify him as someone with a v.....
» 14/07/2005 11:50:31 PM I admit that I can't imagine what would drive anybody to become a suicide bomber, whether .....
» 13/07/2005 9:23:41 PM Williams' argument boils down to two basic premises: 1. The end justifies the means 2. Mi.....
» 13/07/2005 8:12:02 PM Good idea, Hutlen. It seems to me that some of the more extreme correspondents here confus.....
» 13/07/2005 4:24:05 PM Then Aragorn, being now the Heir of Isildur, was taken with his mother to dwell in the hou.....
» 11/07/2005 11:12:47 AM Thanks Grey - I supposed I asked for that... However, while I'm more of a middle-aged hip.....
» 11/07/2005 7:53:51 AM How surprising it is that only our crusading Christian missionary is thus far in agreement.....
» 10/07/2005 10:01:24 AM It's quite simple really: global poverty is caused by global capitalism. Unfortunately, th.....
» 10/07/2005 9:21:42 AM Actually, I suspect that 'moderate Muslims' would have about as much influence on their lu.....
» 9/07/2005 11:42:18 PM How about this one from the gospel of St Leonard, Di? "Now I've heard there was a se.....
» 9/07/2005 11:32:24 PM Personally, I think that it's pretty obvious why our prisons have such a woeful record wit.....
» 8/07/2005 10:53:34 PM I like Yusuf's message. Hopefully many people will get it. With Di, I reckon that Lennon'.....
» 7/07/2005 9:02:07 PM I'm sure that anybody who's read my posts elsewhere in these forums knows where I stand on.....
» 7/07/2005 7:24:08 AM B-D wrote: "The issue being as it grew, about Christ and the Apostles compared and c.....
» 7/07/2005 7:13:33 AM While the death penalty may indeed be appropriate for those convicted of the most heinous .....
» 6/07/2005 7:10:07 AM Hi Philo - glad you enjoyed my little joke :) Please note that I mean disrespect to neith.....
» 5/07/2005 8:41:42 PM I'm sure that nobody who is familiar with Col's rantings in this forum would be at all sur.....
» 4/07/2005 9:54:18 PM The Ainulindalë (end): "When the Valar entered into Eä they were at first astounded .....
» 4/07/2005 11:56:15 AM The Ainulindalë (cont.) " The Ainur know much of what was, and is, and is to come, a.....
» 4/07/2005 8:58:35 AM Col's line of thought rarely makes sense, except perhaps to those who share his extreme ri.....
» 4/07/2005 8:37:04 AM GIRL, 11, HELD IN GUN SIEGE 04jul05 http://www.couriermail.news.com.au/common/story_page.....
» 2/07/2005 11:14:25 PM The Ainulindalë "There was Eru, the One, who in Arda is called Ilúvatar; and he made.....
» 2/07/2005 10:34:35 PM I gave up responding to Arjay ages ago. IMHO, he and a few fellow travellers get far too m.....
» 2/07/2005 10:05:32 PM No, Philo. If you read Waleed Aly's article, you'll see that the label "Nutbags".....
» 1/07/2005 12:47:02 PM Ro, I should have been more explicit, I suppose, but the context of my comment was the wr.....
» 1/07/2005 10:00:11 AM B-D just doesn't seem to be able to comprehend the simple point that, to those of us who a.....
» 1/07/2005 9:43:53 AM Let's think... off the top of my head: GST WMD Babies overboard Industrial relations Tels.....
» 30/06/2005 7:56:34 AM "Nutbags"... I love it. And I notice that one or two of them have immediately ap.....
» 28/06/2005 7:44:16 AM Fascinating. I make a comment about the differences in the tone and content of posts by Mu.....
» 27/06/2005 7:23:49 AM I guess I should thank B-D for illustrating my point so well. I mean, the sheer arrogance.....
» 25/06/2005 12:09:06 PM Ros: "Sorry, having an AVO/RVO taken out against you, is a very poor indicator of wh.....
» 25/06/2005 10:01:34 AM It's an interesting exercise to compare the tone and content of the posts to these forums .....
» 25/06/2005 9:48:25 AM Thanks Philo. Since those are actually the 'Four Pillars' of the Greens political party, .....
» 24/06/2005 9:35:19 AM While this thread has quickly passed the point of reasoned and reasonable debate, I'll jus.....
» 24/06/2005 9:11:57 AM Philo, no I don't wish to change my mobile phone plan... oh, you're not that kind of drone.....
» 24/06/2005 8:30:32 AM Thanks for your response, Sells. While I disagree with your claims to their continuing sal.....
» 24/06/2005 8:22:45 AM Seems to me, from the outrageously misogynist garbage that he posts here, that Ros is exac.....
» 24/06/2005 8:05:23 AM With the greatest respect, Joli, who would 'choose' to be homosexual in such an overtly ho.....
» 22/06/2005 10:06:38 PM Robert, I know you mean well and undoubtedly have been hardly done by, but I think that y.....
» 22/06/2005 1:23:11 PM I can only speak for myself on this issue, but the only antipathy I feel towards Christian.....
» 22/06/2005 1:04:54 PM The amount of research and reports that actual violence of all kinds (including but not li.....
» 21/06/2005 10:53:56 AM Absolutely, Pericles and lil_e. One of the problems with forums such as these is that the.....
» 21/06/2005 10:31:06 AM Funny that - in my little town the local abbatoir employs several former refugees in the p.....
» 21/06/2005 9:46:10 AM I agree with the recent posts that emphasise the desirability of 'shared parenting' of chi.....
» 19/06/2005 4:28:27 PM Aslan, old boy, for the simple reason that your lot no longer call the shots - in this soc.....
» 19/06/2005 10:27:46 AM It seems to me that Christian zealots have been preaching that homosexuality and heterosex.....
» 18/06/2005 8:19:05 AM That has to be some of the most dangerously warped thinking I've seen expressed here. Thi.....
» 17/06/2005 10:20:11 PM Arjay wrote: "Human genetics is a very imprecise science,and we have to choose not o.....
» 17/06/2005 3:19:37 PM Forgive me for introducing the real world into the fantasies of the 'men as domestic viole.....
» 15/06/2005 8:51:33 PM Just what this thread needed, B-D's own special brand of Christian kindness and compassion.....
» 15/06/2005 11:19:34 AM t.u.s. wrote: "That is the great thing about sport - it is the colour of the jumper,.....
» 15/06/2005 10:43:02 AM Timkins wrote: "all effective propaganda must be limited to a very few points and mu.....
» 15/06/2005 7:35:31 AM I can hear it now Di: "First we take Marrickville Then we take Bellevue Hill...".....
» 13/06/2005 6:24:49 PM You guys have to be joking - how on earth you can somehow try and twist the (obviously hea.....
» 13/06/2005 8:27:56 AM Thanks Graham - you are of course correct. I had always thought that Gough's inclusion in.....
» 12/06/2005 9:36:54 PM Apologies, but this thread brings to mind yet another joke, which quite appropriately invo.....
» 12/06/2005 9:27:09 PM Is it only me who has been constantly bemused at a perceived constituency for this governm.....
» 12/06/2005 7:43:58 PM Despite my better instincts, I have to support Lubs here. It's not possible for anybody w.....
» 12/06/2005 10:16:21 AM Oh come on... all you women who claim to have experienced violence and intimidation at the.....
» 11/06/2005 8:39:40 AM As a gun for hire in the escalating war against what remains of the natural environment, M.....
» 11/06/2005 7:49:56 AM Actually Di, that thought was from 'Gazza', not me. However, I confess to having had the .....
» 8/06/2005 8:32:34 PM I agree. I find the increasing obsession held by many in wealthy Western countries about .....
» 5/06/2005 6:07:57 AM Moning tru olgeta :) Mi tingting dispela Arjay igat waialus long het bilong en! Em tokto.....
» 3/06/2005 7:21:10 AM Arjay seems to have had an overdose of bitter pills. Australia has an official language -.....
» 1/06/2005 10:36:00 PM As a theologian, Aslan makes a rather ordinary mathematician. Pi is simply the ratio of .....
» 1/06/2005 8:49:41 PM Love your contributions here, Di :) The heartless, and now evidently racist, Arjay remind.....
» 1/06/2005 7:54:10 PM I agree Fiona - enaj's posts are always a pleasure to read, as are Sylvia's. Veritable be.....
» 1/06/2005 7:32:02 AM It is said that one shouldn't get into an argument with a fool, because it soon becomes di.....
» 31/05/2005 10:01:28 AM As reflected in these forums, the Corby case literally embodies the malleable nature of Au.....
» 31/05/2005 9:44:35 AM Well there you go. When I last worked at a university, any research involving human ".....
» 30/05/2005 2:01:57 PM Ho hum, yet another Timkins hyperlink to a dodgy website in response to a lucid and reason.....
» 29/05/2005 6:09:13 PM In my admittedly limited experience of the legal profession in two states of Australia, I'.....
» 29/05/2005 9:42:06 AM If we strip all the emotive and ignorant nonsense espoused by the pro and anti Corby mobs .....
» 29/05/2005 9:09:53 AM Trade215's comments give us a glimpse into the opposite end of the ignorant prejudice surr.....
» 28/05/2005 8:00:42 AM I agree Di - I can find something with which I agree in all the posts on this thread. In p.....
» 28/05/2005 7:38:37 AM While Corby is atttractive enough, that's not why I hold a reasonable doubt about her guil.....
» 27/05/2005 10:01:33 PM Philo said: "...atheists believe the mind is a mass of tissue that has random chemic.....
» 24/05/2005 5:52:28 PM Thanks for the civil response, Col. However, given that you have said repeatedly that the.....
» 24/05/2005 3:56:01 PM Timkins, you don't need Ambo or anyone else to stereotype you as a misogynist - you do a b.....
» 23/05/2005 7:31:36 PM Actually, I've noticed that Col's bluster is usually an effort to avoid the issue. I have.....
» 21/05/2005 5:39:48 PM I notice a curious disjuncture between our defender of individual freedoms and responsibil.....
» 21/05/2005 8:04:13 AM I agree with Natasha on this. While I'm certainly no huge Kylie fan, I'm somewhat bemused.....
» 20/05/2005 9:29:12 PM I wonder how Col would feel if his friend Michael had been one of the 'Bali 9'. I also no.....
» 20/05/2005 8:50:13 PM The perfect title for the Timkins movie: "Endless Bummer".....
» 19/05/2005 8:18:02 PM I think, Jane, that he is. Worse still, some people take the twaddle he incessantly posts.....
» 19/05/2005 1:58:27 PM I agree, Rose. Muehlenberg doesn't seem to know what a book review entails, as his variou.....
» 19/05/2005 7:47:05 AM Timkins pines for the repressed sexuality and patriarchal family structures of the 1950s. .....
» 17/05/2005 9:01:09 AM Strangely, I would find myself in agreement with much of what Muehlenberg's review of Venk.....
» 17/05/2005 7:43:10 AM I know this is slightly off-topic, but David's deployment of the marijuana/schizophrenia c.....
» 16/05/2005 11:38:54 AM Without dignifying Boaz's execrable comments by responding to him directly, I suppose that.....
» 16/05/2005 8:45:33 AM People like Charlie are why the Qld government had to declare the Vegetation Management Ac.....
» 14/05/2005 7:52:13 AM I quite like that analogy, Robert. When, as occasionally used to happen, godbotherers of .....
» 13/05/2005 7:55:27 PM I know I'm asking for it here, but I have to say that all the recent dope dramas just rein.....
» 13/05/2005 9:14:38 AM Good grief. As if Timkins' silly misogynist crusade isn't enough, we're now joined by Sil.....
» 11/05/2005 2:22:53 PM I agree enaj, and have made almost exactly the same point in these forums when confronted .....
» 9/05/2005 7:42:19 PM Dear oh dear, "Timkins" is banging on about the evil feminists who spoiled his m.....
» 7/05/2005 9:12:31 AM This is an interesting discussion, and I thank Eric Claus for an intelligent and balanced .....
» 6/05/2005 8:00:34 AM Col likes boundaries - between himself and everybody else, and between his adopted country.....
» 4/05/2005 3:19:01 PM Actually, "al bundy", we're leaving you alone because it's pretty obvious that t.....
» 4/05/2005 3:04:18 PM I agree, a good and thought-provoking article. Also (and somewhat refreshingly) I find my.....
» 4/05/2005 8:32:34 AM Like many other Queenslanders, I was utterly appalled at Beattie's naked appeal to populis.....
» 2/05/2005 12:03:03 PM Indeed, Brazuca. And many of us agree with the perspective enunciated by Pericles, althou.....
» 2/05/2005 11:47:15 AM Yes, it is an interesting topic - however I think that we need to distinguish between sing.....
» 2/05/2005 9:33:22 AM Very good question, Kenny. Collective amnesia perhaps? Blind gullibility mixed with good.....
» 1/05/2005 4:33:16 PM I watched Kubrick's 'Full Metal Jacket' with my 14 y.o. son the other day, and we were bot.....
» 1/05/2005 8:57:30 AM While Ahmed's flawed article is bad enough, "Arjay"'s comment is nothing short o.....
» 1/05/2005 3:16:14 AM Hear, hear, Priscillian. Very well said indeed. Unfortunately our resident 'biblical war.....
» 30/04/2005 8:55:43 AM What a sad and venom-filled piece of invective - is this really the calibre of postgrad jo.....
» 29/04/2005 11:31:13 PM "t.u.s.": "condoms are not saving lives in africa" "t.u.s.".....
» 29/04/2005 8:01:25 AM "one of the most uniformed (sic.), blinkered, narrow minded and historically and cult.....
» 28/04/2005 3:02:53 PM "t.u.s.": I've looked and I can't find any articles in December's 'Lancet' that .....
» 28/04/2005 1:40:17 PM More moral absolutist 'onanism' from Brazuca, who claims objectivity for standards suppose.....
» 26/04/2005 7:54:25 AM "BOAZ-David" may not identify himself as part of the Christian lunatic fringe, b.....
» 25/04/2005 10:13:51 AM Like many 'debates' in these forums, this one has quickly polarised to extreme positions o.....
» 25/04/2005 9:54:54 AM No, "BOAZ-David", they are playing the 'god card' because they realise that a di.....
» 22/04/2005 1:13:56 PM Interestingly, I was chatting this morning with a Catholic priest and nun, neither of whom.....
» 22/04/2005 7:47:28 AM Really? I thought that the idea was for these forums to offer us ordinary mortals a venue.....
» 21/04/2005 8:39:51 PM All Christians (and Muslims, Buddhists, Jews, Hindus, Sikhs etc) believe in gods of their .....
» 19/04/2005 6:58:24 AM I was embarrassed to see our illustrious PM on TV last night, expressing his concern at ro.....
» 18/04/2005 7:25:59 AM Most historians seem to agree that there were something like 5000 Aborigines lived in Tasm.....
» 17/04/2005 1:08:19 PM While there " many tax payer’s (sic) funded university courses run on the subject of .....
» 17/04/2005 10:20:19 AM As a non-historian, I think that this contrived squabble, between a couple of fringe dwell.....
» 16/04/2005 4:05:01 PM Interesting that "BOAZ-David" is so anti-Green. Given that he's let slip in the.....
» 14/04/2005 1:56:30 PM Why is it that some correspondents are so much in denial concerning the fact that violence.....
» 14/04/2005 11:50:10 AM I think that the "Gunns 20" legal action is an example of corporate bullying at .....
» 13/04/2005 2:32:14 PM "Timkins", I didn't call you warped or misogynist... that was you. I was referr.....
» 12/04/2005 11:18:45 PM Thanks for the question, "Seeker". I think that several aspects of our/yours/my.....
» 12/04/2005 12:10:17 PM Being a bloke myself, I have no interest in "maligning males", but this latest p.....
» 11/04/2005 11:27:40 PM While I think it may be argued that 'genocide' is a term whose meaning has been stretched .....
» 11/04/2005 10:54:35 PM Surely the previous two posts display a degree of "venom" with which the late Po.....
» 10/04/2005 8:31:05 PM No, "BOAZ-David", not "evil". Rather it has no place in government. R.....
» 10/04/2005 11:07:39 AM "Davo", I was neither trying to shut down the discussion, nor did I mention raci.....
» 10/04/2005 10:11:24 AM Yes, I'm neither a Catholic nor a Christian, and I must say that I have great difficulty i.....
» 10/04/2005 9:03:07 AM While some men apparently have had experiences in their relationships with women that hav.....
» 9/04/2005 8:09:55 PM I don't think that the number of fundamentalist Christian voters is the problem. Rather, .....
» 9/04/2005 3:20:55 PM I see that this thread is just about exhausted. The xenophobes resort to illogical and un.....
» 8/04/2005 1:20:31 PM I'm a middle-aged man who thinks that Australia's transition to a republic is both inevita.....
» 8/04/2005 12:20:07 PM In reply to 'Brazuca': I think that it is quite right that vilification of any kind is pr.....
» 8/04/2005 12:09:10 PM Yes, this nation was built entirely on the dispossession of our Indigenous peoples. It is.....
» 8/04/2005 11:42:10 AM I agree completely with Miranda on this, and will add one more point: All of us owe the p.....
» 8/04/2005 8:10:14 AM Oh, come on. Australia is bound by international law to allow entry to people who seek as.....
» 7/04/2005 12:20:33 PM No, I don't think that's the reason that Maddox hasn't criticised Islam. This is because:.....
» 7/04/2005 8:31:14 AM "Numbat" makes a valid point that "Boaz" indavertently reinforces in h.....
» 7/04/2005 7:45:24 AM My 14-yo son and I were talking about the Terry Shiavo case the other day, when he turned .....
» 6/04/2005 8:13:24 PM In my life, I've known more than a few men who've beaten their wives (including my father).....
» 6/04/2005 7:22:14 AM Hello. I may be new here, but I've already noticed that "Timkins" and some othe.....
» 6/04/2005 7:10:29 AM How excellent that at least some Indonesian officials prefer to protect the interests of '.....
» 5/04/2005 4:24:05 PM I have little doubt that Andrew's analysis is correct. Up our way, the R to R program was.....

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