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Our Aussie P.M. addressed us this morning -seems most of the casualties were Aussies. (We're rather partial to holidays across the ditch). Bur, regardless of where they're from, many families will sit down to a sad Christmas this year.....

Re porn and erotica....... My introduction to porn was when my then boyfriend took me to the local drive-in to see a porn movie. (Yes, it was a very long time ago!) Even then, the sex wasn't very titillating - all male heaving and thrusting the poor women against walls, trees, etc. The hero was...

It was interesting when we were shown this image at theological college..... on the one hand I accepted that this was far more realistic than the European image I had in my own mind. But, truth be told, I "wanted" Jesus to look more like the familiar Jesus that is portrayed in European/...

As a 1st century Jewish man from the Middle East this is more likely how Jesus looked. Er, if this is androgynous - the strident feminists are doing well!

My condolences to George, Rita and families....... Our mother is our first love.

Interesting article....... It's refreshing to have a feminist critique of mainstream Christianity. Once Christianity became part of the Roman Empire under Constantine, it became part of the way of governing people under a defined structure based on power. Those that had power were men -and...

Much of the interior has sparse vegetation or desert. The far north is tropical. I worked in Darwin for two very hot years and the climate was divided into the Wet and the Dry. For approx. six months it rained just about every day -and for approx. six months we didn't have any rain. The Wet was...

Cockroaches will outlast EVERYTHING!

The land owns us -contrast that with how "advanced" cultures have used the land for our own purposes and brought about man-made climate change........

http://www.aboriginalculture.com.au/religion.html Check out this site on Aboriginal religion...... All religion is best studied in context. Many religions have a creation story -a story based on not knowing, but wondering why and how. Personally, I'm rather drawn to the aboriginal concept of...

When I was in California earlier this year they did!

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-11-17/nsw-bushfires-nearly-500-homes-destroyed-since-start-of-season/11711898 Some more info on the bushfires.....

Except no Aussie would call them "shrimps" - we call them prawns.... (When Paul Hogan did a commercial to get more North Americans to visit us as tourists he said "shrimps" because we know that's what Americans say!)......

https://www.bushheritage.org.au/what-we-do/landscape-management/fire Information on how aboriginals managed/manage fire in Australia....

Yes, of course he'll be charged - some folks lost their homes. The penalties are severe for lighting fires when there is a prohibition on lighting any fires - no barbecues, nothing!