Yes it does and yes there are! Something for all of us to ponder, absorb and hopefully learn from.
Shopping is always a chore, not always fun but mostly entertaining, I have noticed more and more, these last couple of weeks, the goings on or should I say the behaviour of people at the local malls and shopping centres, not always good but for the most part entertaining or at the very least informative. Like many older people in recent years I have mourned the loss or lack of good old fashioned manners and common courtesy in our young but in recent times I have been made aware of the appalling lack of these in members of the older generation as well, “so that’s where they get it from”.
I am constantly amused by most of the young some very young and some not so young girls, young women and some not so young women that seem to struggle with the fashions of today. Young girls of today are being constantly encouraged to wear as little as is possible. Living in a beach side suburb this is not out of character but so do their older sisters and in some cases their mothers. A very common sight is their constant pulling down on hems or the hoiking up or adjustment of plunging necklines, Girls and women that are wearing the skimpiest of tops or the shortest of dresses, skirts or shorts are constantly adjusting these garments in an effort at modesty or at least in an effort to not afford passers-by, namely males, any free glimpse of their overly exposed flesh. I have been glared at by mothers and daughters for stepping onto an escalator behind females wearing as little as is possible in regards common decency as if I am the one in the wrong here. I make no judgement of them wearing these ridiculous fashions – if that is their choice, then so be it, but don’t be expecting me to feel somehow guilty about being there or being male and noticing that they are so scantily clad.
Oscar Wilde once made the observation upon being asked about his ‘fashion of clothing’ that his was not fashion but style, his observation on ‘fashion’ was along the lines of “fashion is such a hideous concept that they have to change it every six months”. Not much has changed dear Oscar it would seem.
Girls, you cannot have it both ways, you can’t, as they say, have it all. I fear the same can be said of the commonly held belief that somehow because we live in the modern enlightened world that we can ‘have it all’. I feel that to ‘have it all’ as with everything, there is a price that must be paid. Suffice to say I do not prescribe to the notion that anyone can ‘have it all’, not without having to pay a hefty price for the so called privilege. Again I think that our ‘New World Way’ is sending the wrong messages to our young. I will never believe anyone was meant to ‘have it all’ …life is about having to make choices based on not wants but needs, real life is about growing to know what it is that is important, that which we need to fulfil our life with true spiritual and physical enrichment, not about wanting and having it all. Enough said on that.
I read with interest the other day that the UN has once again poked its unwanted nose into our personal business, that is to say that they do not think that we are capable of raising our own children in our own way. Sadly it is true that some misguided individuals are not equipped or deserving of having and raising their own children but they are not the mainstream, these are the ones that the department needs to address not the rest of us, the interference came, as it often does, in the guise of making our world a better place, ..i.e. We should all vote for and support legislation to make it punishable by law if you smack your kids, in other words taking yet more responsibility and therefore control away from us. I have said before and will keep on saying as long as I have breath and as long as these loony, lefty, socialists keep trying to take control of our lives away from us, that we can only bring about a better world by educating and freeing people not with yet more rules and restrictions and regulations. The sceptic in me is suspicious of their motives, more rules, more control, more restrictions, less freedom, more regulations and more obedience. More regulations, of course, means you need more regulators, more bureaucracy, more bureaucrats, more government, maybe that what the ‘Greens’ and Labor really mean when they say that going with the UN’s global plan will bring more jobs, i.e. the energy industry or ‘Green’ industry. The price to pay for having a ‘Perfect’ world, of course, is our personal freedom.
I will resist with all my might any attempt to enslave me and yes I will give up my life if I have to defend, truly, our rights and liberties, this was the oath sworn at Eureka. Something the loony To be strong is to be feared, to be strong in character is to be respected. No one is respected for being weak or bowing to any others unless out of respect. The way forward in our region is to be strong, be strong of character and doggedly determined in our resolve.
If ‘Get Up’ and their ilk want to be any real use to humanity, as they so often proclaim they are, then I challenge them to take on a more formidable foe than that of local shop keepers, a permanent siege/sit in outside any and all embassies of governments that are guilty of the abuse of human rights and I mean the real abuses, ..i.e. the slaughter of innocents throughout Africa. Some of our Oriental neighbours/allies would have to be included in any such list or is that just too hard for the professional agitator, is just too easy to play it safe and just protest about the Governments stand on border protection, which I hasten to add just may be saving real lives at sea and curtailing an illegal, immoral trade in human cargo.
Anyway enough of my meanderings and musings over this year past, we cast our eyes forward to see the future not backwards. For behind us is only the past. We, singly, may not be able to change the world’s wrongs but change ourselves and we do indeed change everything.
I am at peace with my God; I hope you are with yours. Always your friend and brother, Angry.
Left Labor socialists seem to have comfortably forgotten. It irks me to see so called Australians wearing that symbol, the Southern Cross, while defending and supporting a political party that is determined to follow the ‘One World Order’ ideology of stripping us of our rights and liberties. That symbol of freedom does not belong to any political party it belongs to the Australian people. I will fight against all and any that I perceive to be a threat or danger to the freedoms of the Australian people.
There has been much hooh-hah in the press of recent times about our standing with our closest neighbours, we will never have any respect from our Oriental neighbours/allies if it can be perceived that we are incapable of defending or upholding our own Australian