Was the god young or old, did he/she/it sit on a golden throne surrounded by angels? Far as I am concerned this deity ca
Moan A cousin keeps on publishing itsy bitsy Christian stuff and its sending me bonkers... the latest was something about Xmas greetings and God is welcome in her house at Xmas. Let god into your home. Is that the one with the Asian features, African skin or was it the one with white features. Did the god have a bible, a koran or what in his hand? Did he/she/it have any sexual preferences? Was the god young or old, did he/she/it sit on a golden throne surrounded by angels? Far as I am concerned this deity can piss off. Useless deity that he/she/it is. Years of prayers, fasting, self abuse, tears and glorious art have, to all intents and purposes, achieved nothing. The world is clearly headed to some sort of crisis again (not that the aforementioned deity gives a rats), war, catastrophe, pain, hurt, hatred and on and on. In Australia the country is now (apparently) run by Chinese overlords who, with no obvious controls can drive housing costs in this country to a level that precludes most Australians from home ownership. It is clear that the money these overlords have is earned by spurious means at best and probably cruel use of the massive population of China (so much for the benevolent all loving all caring welcome to my house god!). The streets of Melbourne and Sydney are now festooned by large top end cars driven by the Asian overlords, family and followers. I heard that Australians need to become used to the idea that we are following the Hong Kong model, get used to living in apartments in a crowded fraught society. And become, it seems the willing servants of Chinese Overlords and make them even more money. Our government approves, welcome the Free Trade Agreement, should make a huge difference to the bottom lines of many a Chinese businesses. A 116 story block of apartments has made the news in Melbourne, built by a Singaporean, purchased in the main by Chinese, the payments thus far... 25 million for a penthouse and 1 billion dollars already spent by Chinese purchasers. Now you tell me, is this money laundering or what? Profits, back to Singapore, occupancy rate on the 116 stories, probably less than a third and the cost of supporting, maintaining, power, water, waste, local. I am also told that South Yarra and Toorak are becoming targets for young upwardly mobile movers and shakers, someone forgot to teach them to cook... ovens are never used! Its all work work work, drink drink drink and a place to sleep. Not how I ever imagined life would be. My world at the moment is filled with self possessed, often fraught, frequently testy people. I am accused on a daily basis of being angry, yep I am angry. I don't like the way the world is. It sucks. I find myself being jealous of (another) cousin who has moved to the sub tropics and is awed by much of what he sees. I did that many years ago, could be getting around to time to do it again. Try quite hard to understand the dynamics of what is going, but mostly just fail, or at best fall short. Find myself reminiscing about the way it was, no mobiles, no internet and yet, time to enjoy life and indeed live it to the full. Why is it that every aspect of life now is so out of control. We rush endlessly, weekends are never allowed to be quiet times with a book under a tree, they have to be go go and go. Squeeze as much in as if it is the last weekend ever. Clearly I've had it, life is starting to crowd me out... I loved my city, loved every bit of it, now, I simply don't understand it, not even at all. Its fast, rapacious, unfriendly, dirty and filled with people who don't seem to have any love for this place, but use it to their advantage. It has not lost its edge, its still a great city, but its no longer my city, it's struggling to identify who it is. Now I am sounding like what I have always railed against, an ostrich with my head in the sand. But I am not enjoying this.