The Present........ again

Just in case somebody is actually reading this I hope you not to bored. Times like today I wonder if I should bother with all this. The old site died a slow death for much the same reason. Am tired today, think I will go vegitate in front of the tv. Cya later

And a big hello to August, and for the first time in years I have actually been sick. Not depressed or with a migraine but sick. Flu sick. I have for the first time realized how sickening it is. I do not recall being sick before, I know I have been but that was as a child. I've had the odd sniffle but nothing like this. I have been of work for a week and a half now, and I don't like it. I extend my sympathy to those that are sick regularly. {August 17 '99}

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The Universal Golden Rule: A common law through many philosophies, perhaps indicating a common root for them all.

Brahmanism
This is the sum of duty: do naught unto others which would cause you pain if done to you.
Mahabhartata

Buddhism
Hurt not others in ways that you yourself would find hurtful.
Udana-Varga

Christianity
There fore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you,
do ye even so to them: for this is the of the prophets.
Matthew

Confusianism
Surely it is the maxim of loving-kindness: Do not unto others that you
would not have them do unto you.
Analects

Islam
No one of you is a believer until he desires for his brother
that which he desires for himself.
Sunnah

Judaism
What is hateful to you, do not to your fellowmen.
That is the entire Law; All the rest is commentary.
Talmud Shabbat

Taoism
Regard your neighbor's gains as your own gains and your neighbor's
loss as your own loss.
T'ai Shang Kan Ying P'ien

Zoroastrianism
That nature alone is good which refrains from doing unto another
whatsoever is not good for itself.
Dadistan-i-dinik

Any energy you send out will come back threefold.
The Law of Three

And I do believe what you wish for others does find its way back to you. {August 19, '99}

July 99

And the new financial year starts, hope you all have your tax returns organized. Mine is done, all I have to do is send it in. Aren't we a mercenary lot though, we should be letting the poor government have our money without asking for any back. God knows they need all they can get, not that we do of course, not with the politicians taking care of us the way they do. Ha bloody ha!!

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God, Religion, Afterlife..... I have been getting a few strange ideas lately. As I have said I like the idea of reincarnation but I think I am beginning to believe it. I remember many years ago watching tv, I was meant to be at school. There was a show on ABC tv, an educational show on music. They were showing instruments dating back many centuries, and played music from that time. It could have been early baroque, the sort of thing I would imagine would have been played in the village green, flutes, pipes and drums. I felt that I remembered this music , not that I had just heard it before but had been personally involved in it. It was a very strange feeling. I feel that if reincarnation is true I had, at one time, been there listening or even playing. Weird huh!
Religion I personally have no time for. It can play no part in my life, I would feel no better being a part of what I consider to be little more than a sham. I can't help but think that we would have been better of without religion or at least a far more enlightened version. Man has been held back from what he could have been. (by the way, all references to man, mankind or he are meant to be nongeneric and could be equally applied to womenkind, women or she.) Looking back though history you can see wars fought in the name of God, torture, murder and mass destruction, much instigated by popes and priests. Things we now take for granted once held to be heretical, the earth was never the center of the universe much less insignificant Man.
And my belief in God?? I am an agnostic, whether God exist or not is something I don't think we will ever know. Besides God is a question of faith and wouldn't proof of God be in itself a contradiction? And if He doesn't exist how do you prove that? I mean how do you prove something doesn't exist if it doesn't exist? Either way I feel that if God does exist then it will be in a way completely different than what is now believed. I don't think that we have been made in his image (assuming that He does exist), and that it is a very egocentric idea. We have made Him in our image, merely to bolster our own insecurities. I would see Him as being a far more basic creature, far more tune with nature, perhaps being a fundamental part of nature itself. Or perhaps God is just a creature that has evolved far longer than we have. Think of how far we have come in the past few millennia, now think of a race that has millions of years of civilized development. How far could they have gone?? Could they have evolved into a race of being so far in advance of ours that they would be godlike, or maybe a gestalt of a billion individual personalities combining in a form of scope and power beyond our understanding. It's not such a strange idea. We are not that far done our own evolutionary path that we can say what is and what isn't. I don't think that we have truly reached any real form of civilization yet. At the moment we can dimly see what can be and are blindly reaching out for that vision, but we have a long way to go. We have learnt to crawl and have taken a few tentative steps but have yet to wipe the evolutionary slime from behind our ears. {July 17, '99}

Wat back in June 99

Thursday the 10th of June. Yes, time really is flying. You may be interested to know that I have been to the bank to see if I can have a home loan. Indeed I can! All I need is a $10,000 deposit. So time to tighten the old belt and save. Should have by the end of the year, which is something to look forward to. To counter balance that I may be out of a job next year. Telstra looks to be pushing almost everything to private contractors. I have heard repeatedly from all sorts of people that they don't want that to happen, just as they don't want government department sold off. It has been proven not to work overseas time and time again. It seems the government want to prove that it doesn't work here either.
I am not a political sort of person, I don't like any of them to be honest. I a bit of an anarchist, in a perfect world people would know what has to done and it would be done. But then I suspect in a perfect world people would not exist in the first place. I read recently that humanity is a rogue species. I think that could well be true. We are the only creature on earth that would improve the place by its absence. {June 10 '99}

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Well, it's been a seems to have been a long time since I have been here. I have managed to keep on an even keel, more or less. I have been visiting Chat City quite a lot lately, talking mainly privately to one particular couple in Brisbane, hi Sis and Tom. I had heard how people can make good friends though chat rooms and now I have proved it. Perhaps the fact that you don't actually meet people takes the stress away, enabling you to relax more and be yourself. I think it is safe to assume that meeting people face to face sets up automatic preconceived ideas, even if you are not aware of it.