David Isaac

Truly a very sad outcome for the Driver and his pilot. Should never have happened. No doubt his inability to defend himself will undoubtedly mean he is blamed as the cause. That is the worst section of track on that route. Shirley and I were on the XPT on November 6 last year on that same route. I remember that section of track well, I remarked to Shirley how bad that section of was. Disgracefull really, it was a rough ride at the time; it should never be that way. I wonder what excuses they will come up with for the condition of the track.

Social media of all types is what you make of it. If you can master the skill to use it for your convenience as Octave and Dutchy have stated, you win. That is what I do with remote family as well. You don't have to be a social media victim. I use FB for remote family contact and special interest groups and LinkedIn for professional contact special interest groups. I don't accept all invites on either media. To me they have both personal and professional benefits and I use them for that purpose. Don't forget YOU have control; you don't have to let it control you.

My son Brad works with the Arabunna people who are indigenous to the Lake Eyre region in South Australia. He loves them and they love him. They call him "White Arabunna", he has become a part of their community. It is quite hilarious really because Brad has long skinny legs just as if he was aboriginal and they laugh about that (he got those legs from me ... they used to call me 'Lucky legs' as a kid ... lucky they don't snap off ...LOL). Brad admires the Arabunna people because they all hold high work ethics and manage their aboriginal estates very well. He employs quite a few of their young men on his projects and I think that has give him great favour. He is a hard taskmaster but fair and the Aboriginal community Elders like that. I am very proud of Brad's achievements working with these people. I intend to go out there soon to meet these people and see the projects Brad is building for them.

Bloody hell Franco, that is a disgraceful story on that link. We were almost as bad as the Southern USA slave market by the sound of it ... very sad.

Yenn, The problem is a lot more complex than simply locking them up ....

The white supreme race in action; how shameful that some were so embarrassed by their heritage, they thought it necessary to hide the family matriarch. Hopefully we have come a long way from those shameful days ... but have we really ....? It seems a great tragedy and weakness of too many of the white skinned race is to marginalise those who are different be it race, colour, religion, sex, or sexual orientation; it is as if by judgement they think they raise their self worth ... an absolute tragedy.

If life ever degraded to that level of desperation, I would obtain the food by whatever means, but I would not take another life in the process.

Great news Ian, go with it until something you like better comes along; it might turn out to be an extended contract and for the better.

And if you stop paying long enough you will get free 4 star accommodation.

Just what I like Tubz ... a non conventional thinker. I hate what religion has done to the concept of God.

Please explain .... LOL Looks like the whole 19% swing against the liberals went to her. She still pulls some love ... never underestimate a little red head. LOL Whether you support her policies or not, what the Libs did to her was criminal. They may live to regret it.

Ouch buddy ... I hope you were insured.

Ha ha, Worcester, that's where my Grandaddy was born.

Them theeerrs red neck Christians Donny ... LOL

Well done David Mason. Of course he is 100% right aint he Phil Perry ol' son. LOL.

Trying to be a little objective, what happens if you believe the creator theory, but are not a frothing fundamentalist, and don't accept the big bang theory as fact? Try not to pigeon whole everyone, life is too complicated. Why do you assume that all those who think the universe was created think that the creator has any more influence on it? We seem to stuff that influence up and we were left alone to do it. Many of the religious folk have a distorted view on this.

To my beloved forumites, The problem as I see it is that religion narrows perspective and in the cases of cults and extreme thinking, distorts and perverses perspective. I happen to believe there is a superior being, a creator but I hate what religion has done to the concept of a creator. That video is so narrow in perspective it is embarrassing. I hate what Christians do when they form their own little cults and belief systems in their ranks and then actively fight each other on points of doctrine, this whole concept has a life of its own with all the associated bigotry and hypocracy and destruction. I call them Christian gangs. But it is not limited to Christians, it exist in Judaism, Islam, Hinduism etc. In extremes cases they will kill each other in defence of their perverted beliefs. A story of human tragedy and stupidity. None of that changes my overall perspective. But then I am not your typical 'believer'. I abhor what religion has done to people and how religious leaders manipulate and control weak souls, it deeply saddens me. We know innately within our inner being (what some call our spirit) what is right and what is wrong, the choice is always ours unless we allow others to inappropriately influence us. Whether you believe that in the 'beginning' there is a creator or there was energy and matter, both beliefs are based on a faith statement. Faith that in the beginning was God or in the beginning was energy and matter. Either thought is perplexing to our little minds no matter how intelligent we think we are. It is what we do with our personal belief and the interaction with others that is far more important in life. We are here for short time and we can contribute or destroy. That ability is in our own hands.

Yeh ... Sounds like we have started a new belief system. LOL. Why are we here? ..... To procreate of course ... Otherwise we are here no more. Pretty simple.

And then of course we have most of the Christian celebrations based on Pagan ceremony, compliments of attempts in history to integrate Christianity into existing pagan believing society. A real blend of confused origins.

I think we probably generally agree, I am just saying that our laws a very new and so is British law in the scale of history. We were certainly a very Christian based Monarchy and legal structure when our laws were formed. I don't really give a rats ass where they originated from. I am just saying what I was taught and again some of the laws were definitely based on christian views as I mentioned ... BUT ... we are sawing sawdust.

Dutchy, fair has nothing to do with it. When I studied law many years ago I was taught (rightly or wrongly) our laws were based on Judaistic / Christian principles. Our laws certainly uphold many Judaistic Christian principles. The absolute proof of their origin concept can be seen in some of the earlier bigoted laws on buggery, morality and marriage etc. ... they certainly are NOT Islamic in principle.

Agreed Lyle, they exploit our principles of tolerance ... as do all fanatics. Maybe the problem is in the level of Tolerance ... novel thought?

Agree ... that is the Judaistic bit ... only the Christian bit goes back 2K.

Thanks for that Marty, I'll remember that site. Just goes to show you cant believe everything on the Internet ... LOL. Trouble is the link shutdown my Firefox browser. Regardless of who said it, it alines with the the concept of the 'tyranny of tolerance'. What is said is easy to recognize.

Good pick up Marty, of course that is where all the problems begin, for the Jews and for Islam .... Christ and the New Testament. Jokingly one day one of my Muslim friends (yes I know a few) said to me since my name is so bloody Jewish ..." Our religion started because your grandfather raped our grandmother". Obviously referring to Abraham having it off with his Concubine Hagar and the son to them being Ishmael who is alleged to be the beginning of Islam .... See the root of all problems starts with some blokes dick ... LOL