Sun and Sea.

Under the Sun.

Sailing the Sea.

Your strong body beautiful.

Your vibrant Life free.


Fear not the shadows.

The  ghosts of the night.

The devils of darkness.

Have been put to flight.


Carry the Water.

Give Love for your part.

The Hope of the Future.

Lives in your Heart.


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The Philosophy of Economics.

                            

Economics has spawned the idea that making conditions better for business by deregulation, cutting taxes, cutting red-tape, opposing unions, ignoring corruption, subsidizing corporations, discrediting climate change, and dehumanizing the workplace encourages people to go into business and therefore creates jobs and raises the living standards of everyone.

This may at first seem like the great white hope of Western civilization but there are major flaws in the logic.

It fails to take into account the brutality of the business corporations who now own everything.

The Boards of Directors will say that they are only serving the interests of the shareholders.

But this is a cop-out.

When unregulated by governments the rapacious greed of corporate businessmen will make them try to force wages down and remove benefits and conditions from workers which cost them money.

So the living standards of the young in particular in fact go down.

This creates a two tier system in which the rich get richer and the poor get poorer.

The so-called "trickle down effect" is a lie created by the rich to appease angry workers.

Our governments have betrayed us.

They are captives of the corporate plutocrats.

And I can only surmise that they have corrupted themselves.

So when they trot out glib generalizations you would do well to question them.

They may not be as true as they seem.

Australians now work the longest hours in the developed world and have the highest house prices in the world.

The government has cut weekend penalty rates.

And they are subsidizing a huge coal mine which will destroy the Great Barrier Reef forever.

The disparity between rich and poor in our world is at the highest level ever.

And Americans have elected a billionaire as President.
 
Economic Rationalism has gone too far.

The time has come to create some checks and balances which will halt our declining ethics.

But what politician will stand up to the corporate plutocrats?

They own the media and control public opinion.

Good Luck!


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Fear.

                                                  

Because fear is at the root of the greed which drives our corporate masters any threat that triggers their fears will result in violence.

As Jesus discovered.

All violence is driven by fear.

So merely threatening to remove people from power will only result in violence.

We must look beneath the surface, beneath the tough-guy exterior, to find the fear, probably from childhood, which drives their greed.

I have an aunt who grew up during the Great Depression.
She has millions of dollars but says she never feels that she has enough.

This is the fear that drives corporate greed.

It is thinly disguised as working for the shareholders.

So pray for our corporate masters to overcome their fear and provide for the community as God provides.


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No Satan.

There is no devil in reality.

The devil is a conception based on a dualistic view of the universe.

But Dualism is by no means certain.

Not everything comes in twos.

For example the number five is sometimes called the human number because we have five fingers, five toes, five limbs, and five senses.

There are trinities, decimal systems, duodecimal systems, even infinities.....

So why should something as big as God be dual?

There is only one God.

And God is holistic - everything and more.

There is no devil.


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What?

                            

"The devil is everything you want."

"Everyone wants a taste of the dark side."

"I'm no angel."

"Pure evil."

These are things I have heard Generation X say.

They may deny it.

But they "dance with the devil" and "take the devil's advice".

This Satanic evil persists to this day.

And Generation X is responsible.


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Democratic Domination.

                            

We may congratulate ourselves on our enlightened democracies but our freedoms and privileges are maintained by domination.

Huge armies and arsenals of weapons, including nuclear weapons, ensures that the West stays on top.

Anyone who threatens this supremacy is bombed or invaded.

We exploit weaker countries economically.

And we oppress minorities.

But all of this is hidden beneath a veneer of democratic liberalism which admits no fault.

We are like a psychopath who buries his crimes in his unconscious and presents a facade of goodness to the world.

But as the Age of Aquarius dawns we will become more aware of our global responsibilities and many of these issues will have to be addressed.

It is my prayer that this awakening will take place without violence or war. 


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The Biggest Loser.

                                      

If you are alone, rejected, isolated, unsuccessful, or unattractive people will call you a loser.

They will shun you and tell you to "get a life".

But God is with the rejected, the isolated, the marginalized.
He is a friend to the friendless and a father to the fatherless.

In fact God Himself is the biggest loser.


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