The Gospel according to progressives ; Saved by Change Alone

Is that "whats new is better" and whats old at best is immaterial . The leading progressives are largely determinists in sheep's clothing . They offer the future - a convenient,  unprovable and in practice vain hope ( if you look at what they have achieved in last 30 years )
The power of the word "new" explains why adherents fall over themselves to bring us " new ' research .For most of us who have witnessed this mistaken focus -  the destruction of the old schools that created scientists in Australia this sill shallow talk is neither interesting or new . Just religious rubbish worship . you can wait as long as you like for innovation but if you kill the real breeding ground ( eg by trying to pick winners ) - your hope for megastars will be in vain.

It happened in the last 24 hrs in reports around the Climate council and their concerns about the Coast . If the ABC employed a few more scientists they would NOT make fools of themselves by reporting such rubbish .Their level of credibility among st people who know,  wouldn't be so low.
In a week when Utopia has been provided the best reality therapy ever ,  some dumb woman appears on 774 saying "We need a new Integrated planning authority" ( you mean like they have in Utopia) --- to deal with what ?  Purely religiuos people are a giveaway ---  they can't see the reasons their first love has warts on it . 

The issue : Rising sea levels . And she was serious

You see , even if the sea level is rising , you don't turn on the first fix button that comes into your panic stricken head .An old button but a highly polished button : 

But then you must realize why the common sense filter is not operating . ABCchurch is in full swing the spokesman is only doing what decades of ignorant advisers have been doing ; saying that " Sure -government is always the solution "  ; 


Its Gospel in the church of Saved by Change Alone receiving the highest honor yet again from the ageing and ineffective fanatical Fabians still on the drip feed in Labor and media. "Government is always the solution-  it has  been the one and only Savior for all of them who can't fund their passions elsewhere"
Lateline runs the same Worry brigade item on the basis of " new research " ( Adjective "new"should be a reason to bin it  but the worshipful brigade see it as symbol of the Gospel )

All about Eve

EVE .....who thought she had a right to know everything ;
Jennifer Byrne is write about one thing.  Books can provide relief . Beyond that thought she fails to see the point . That there is no good in writing if there is no good and no evil--  only the endless flight into fantasy
Thus her careless play with the seven deadly sins leaves her in a snake pit  with all the asps spitting their venom against good at us .The snake smiled rememember as he said " you know better than most" ---- and nothing really good to say about why Hamlet is a really good play and most of her facsinations and gibes at those who love good , empty and facile.  
Sloth she thinks must have its good side  especially cause you are not actually commissioning anything - shes been to church;  she thinks ommission is deep theology but like many who have been,  its innoculated her at really understanding why sin is such an exciting and powerful subject .( because we best avoid it and repent of it - none of that at the ABCTV - we're positivists and determined to recolour the image pink and smile while we do what the rest of the world does; justify own indifference to others and the deep hurts  .
Suffice to say that she misses the point it trying to be positive and light about sin .

The deadly disease of indifference ( amongst its many synonymns ) is not menationed by her or any of her guests , Its ok not to care ; just to sit around and solve the worlds problems on the TV without ever going anywhere. ,
Rationalism would make a much better faith if God didn't actually restrict what we see .

Why is the creative arm of our ABC so often depressing

ABCTV in particular . So what do you think ? maybe we should listen to one outsider who reported and wrote very well about his own industries fanaticism .


“We were anti-industry, anti-capitalism, anti-advertising, anti-selling, anti-profit, anti-patriotism, anti-monarchy, anti-Empire, anti-police, anti-armed forces, anti-bomb, anti-authority. Almost anything that made the world a freer, safer and more prosperous place, you name it, we were anti it.” Antony Jay Author of " Yes Minister" talking about the atmosphere in the BBC thirty years ago .
The big question for participants and observers and the ABC board in particular . is whether there is any progress or recognition of this stale old highly reactionary position.

How to get out of the hole? - the only way is to go back out,, the way those affected came in. Will the board allow them to keep digging or give someone who doesn't go to the same church, a decent go ?

Keep the heretics out of church

RE Qanda tonight
To Tony Jones 's credit,  he let the man speak .( Brendan O'Neill)  And not before time

1. The left has thought it has the territory of righteousness to itself 
2. The State has no answer to save people who are labelled bad -- and is getting more and more fanatical in denial of its impotence . 
3. The Left is not credible to just call its household members "good ".Left is totally missing he point of the law and its workability ( need a moral sense so it has momentum) . 
4. The Hope of the Left ( The State) is a false hope . The State, as Brendan said,  is our new enemy and the new god of the left and the Greens.Its powerless doesn't stop the dummies spending all out taxes chasing the illusive keys to no new kingdom. 
5. The divorce between the left and the greens has not yet happened because neither of them have left the chapel. "Whats natural is good' being universally adopted rubbish is the same idea |which gives even the right the right to do what they like.  
6. The left   should only be embarrased that its leaders( who claim to represent lots of christains ) don't even know that Easter is about (esp Bob Carr) ; Justice ( and how the concept can possibly be valid in the universe ) , How can West continue if it ditches THIS  dichotomy thats worked to prevent bitching and badmouthing  in reasonable balance for just a few millenia? Oh yeah it worked the Labor party wouldn't need government funds to promote its dying empty facade of a a working philosophy ( get real boys - Brendan is at least thinking !) 
7. The left should be embarrassed that Tonys collection of them are so divided and ignorant of ideas other than those claimed in their manifesto ("logic is god" and my logic about how it works  beats yours)( science is NOT their trade -- just a value word to most of them - not something they practice-- science has far more complex form of logic  and allows for revision! There concept allows for no such division . 
8. The left don't even know the implications and dangers of holding a  simple view of libertarianism .See Radio Nationals ABC white paper !!!!
   A bit of thinking outside the square might help them see why they think so much like the Libs and The Greens---- who they assume they despise . Bedfellows and they don't even know it .The danger is if politics too as Brendan implied is widely dogged by misanthropy the whole place is probably in denial about it . Not my church thanks ! We have as Tony so often says "moved on "from that ! So should you.

How rich are we really ?

RE Didn't Tony Jones have a lovely time in church in Shanghai last night ?

According to leading spokesman on ABCTV   ( Tony Jones , Alan Kohler ) we are very rich . Not only that we are want the world to have more of our wealth .Here" have democracy" Tony says  .We will help you conduct elections (pity we couldn't care less in full practice whether it will do any good)  As Kaplan says in his interesting book on substance, rhetoric, real drivers and dumb ideas ,The West often  ignores the claims of more discerning thinking; Congregation on qanda proclaimed in church this monday " the rest of the world will one day evolve into the best way ( our way )"
Bracken too warns of our ignorance and arrogance as nationalism in others is only increased by our own weakness of will and intellect .Like Chamberlain before him ,Jones proclaims the the new peace in our time by ignoring the crime . They want what we have,  but never paid for ( or forefathers did )or will they ever ? Can't bear watching the dummies on TV offer their simple version of democracy and watching the mature Chinese members of the panel so clearly reject it .It may not look like imperialism to Tony but its a t least close to patronising nonsense from the pulpit -- they sort of said so .
As Laplan says we persist in the wromg things  ; we continue to pretend that 'where they are ' is "in a retrograde past that our idea of economic and socail progress moves us beyond" ; the inspirational idea that we are evolving to a better future has always been in history a myth that makes for war .

Best to ditch the word evolve and talk of reform - drop the appealing idealogical drivel that makes us feel better today , but drives the shock of tommorrow . 

We are not rich if our kids aren't getting what we had , If what I just said is true, the risk of denial and fanaticism  in church is real
Our children are not being educated and not going to get careers like we did as a result of our parents foresight into bigger picture ecomia  ; They had, and rightl  celebrated, determination and focus( they saved rather than celebrated how much there homes were worth)
What do we celebrate?   Do we not celebrate  dissipation ,careless talk of democracy( Tony was warned several times by the Chinese who are rightly sick of the West's shallow preoccupation with their idea of numbers and mere talking( =democracy?  how dumb! -
We can't wait to talk of how we are selling more wheat and beef even though we still don't pay our farmers enough to pass the lifestyle onto their children . We glory in the value of our houses , the wonder of our wines, the better margin we extracted out of the poor , but the walls of our fortresses are not straight . Mere money won't support buildings whose foundations that are only skin deep; whose riches are no longer the rights and responsibility of everybody in the household. We maybe personally rich , but what is that when we could still be commonwealth rich?

The world is not waiting for democracy, it is waiting for strong leadership. The abcchurch doctrine of democracy is rejected outside of church. Its a shallow concept of democracy where every one has a say but only dinasaur driven consensus must "evolve" the way with niceness (" aren't we a friendly country "Q&A last night ) the theme .Oh dear !Aussies are the innocents - anyone looking outside in will tell you that !

The Parties are so dumb, ignorant, careless and hypocritical on this that they all talk of jobs - not careers. Anyone watching would think we we were on a  treadmill .

The proverb says it well ( Prov. 4:7 ) Pay the price for real wisdom - it's worth everything . It's what makes one really rich......Commonwealth rich.

ABC comedy? --they just don't get it do they ?

ABCTV church's biggest need is to find some real comedy.

I have quoted Ustinov on this page before so I won't bore you with the same same old stuff.

The ABC are certainly trying - Wednesday nights and the comedy festival - a budget to kill for .
They clearly need to take a different approach.  And no quick fix - a paradigm shift no less.
What's seems to preventing them  finding  the light is they don't believe in the light . As traditional reactionaries it has to be dark . T heir predictable doctrines of " how to do things " is under threat and they don't wanna give it up.  they like to pull things down . Cut off the tall poppies ;forget any reason and rely on the body . They could be serious for a change but that would involve pulling the head out and looking around.
It could be that their faith in mere progress is failing and  they can't be serious because  they simply  haven't been into that - its been  a no go area for decades . The war is on everything - and especially the past .
Thankfully some young people are sick of the dark side of everything and some oldies  in the audience recognise the fanaticism in their current approach .
The unhumourable church leaders  can't see why the glass isn't half full any more and why the hyped up optimism of giving "everyone a break" ( from persnal challenge unless they aren't close to you )  isn't working outside the church.
The people need some light relief - traditional trained  view is that you find it by being honest and truthful - esp with your self . Make a start

The modern disconnect - Talking and Action

The tragic death of a nurse in London this week cannot be attributed solely  to coincidence. We haven't been thinking clearly about others and we have ignored some principles that were once more clearly observed in our code and society .Maybe we are all to blame for not sitting on careless talk ?

60's reactionaries have managed to convince themselves that they are progressive. Despite all the flags flown with " morality is bunk" when they were young , they don't really reject morality, they just see themeselves as "improving" on it .The high price of the imprcatical is the price they pay for their new religion.
The evidence for this they still go to church and they still defend those who go to that church . Rules are important  to them . The rules of AbcCHURCH - PROGRESSIVE
The question then that both conservatives and radicals might ask is " where is the evidence that you really have improved or progressed the moral order "?  . Progressives pulpit sermons talk about increasing tolerance and humor in religion and the high tea sessions are filled with conversations about that very subject  .Having a laugh at others expense has been a good part of Aussie humour. No place for raps over the knuckles when humour is in such short supply ( see Ustinov's  wise framing concept below) tempting thought .
Progressive religion in ABCTV      --- Chasers lead the way 
The war on everything , rather than resisting temptation , is the legacy of the libertarians;  but is it progress? The eight commandment condemns the sacrifice of a persons reputation and our laws support the principal.
We can't broadcast everything we hear in the real world,   but some in the ABC think they can be cause its no longer heresy to say so . Its fun doing what none else does . Like filming people nude and them doing and saying embarrassing things . Very height of humor for some,  to bring down others
The previous principles 
You can't even record something that some one doesn't agree for you to record so that's how important our recent history made it .
The death of a nurse in London this week cannot be attributed just  to coincidence .Thinking people can pick the danger while others chose to ignore it . Sense of shame/ pedantry in the chair and the press/ desire to care turned upside down / rule of law is more right than rule of faith .  Thinking people have been telling the ABC that , while they may not be breaking the law they are trying to  make  new law. Being in the ABC seems to mean at times that are the law and maybe even above the law ;Chasers haven't had  to defend their position to millions of people who teach their children not to just blirt out whatever they think is funny or ridiculous.
Category errors commonplace   Worshipers at the shrine of technofix think just labelleing the new fix will solve the problem . If its guns or alcohol - just ban them  they say . ( partial solution maybe)  Trouble is such simple stupidity doesn't work and worse , sends the problem underground ( se next post on truth and open truth )  . Its simple stupid because some our thinking forefathers were smart enough not to box the problem up in a technology- to be happy with just a box . The car. the TV the Inernet are not wrong in themsleves ( its HOW they are used ) .
You and I were made to be free , Its not eating fruit that's wrong its eating the fruit of the wrong tree that's wrong . Its not technology that creates evil , but how you/ we / men  use it that creates evil .To deny this is to lie to ourselves  and project the problem to a place where it may not fit .( sin is "missing the mark" )   Its not wrong to " have a go" at someone  but it maybe be wrong if you choose to have ago at the wrong person at the wrong time for the wrong reason ( HOW we use technology ) - very few clear boxes in the best kind of free world.

This aussie humor thing
Making fun of each other can be OK.  its an Aussie thing but anyone in media and position of power must THINK even more than we outta 121  about what they are doing . Under old principles the law is no protection. Neither is talking ever disconnected from action . The use of the word " word " is powerful right through our intellectual and faith history .
No excuses - we are all adults here 
"I did nothing wrong "the sheep bleet each week.( Do they like the Pharisees of old  think the Law is their protection ? )  In the old tradition the service always begins with confession . Who can see his faults excepet to listen to the careless tongue fires of others . What's old can become new again --That would be real  progress.

We just don't listen to the ABC much anymore

Whether its Jon Feine, Epstein, ABC TV predictable non comedy , Twitter and by line cut brigade ( esp on weekends ), Q&A ,news cuts on Israel ( we get bombs OUT  but not bombs IN) or any number of ABC program s we just switch off and talk to each other , look up something else  or use Iview.  Take ABCenvironment ---reactionary and out of control.Some programs are fine --however.

Typical government service of our day - slow lumbering , self referencing and insensitive.  Busy trying to sound like they are doing what they are increasingly not doing ( representing thinking people- representing leaders and the real innovators and prophets ); The ABC are increasingly NOT representing thinking people properly , those  who can see the increasing fanaticism and patronising nonsense of some of Australia's  most important minorities ( farmers , deep thinkers , true entrepreneurs and innovators,scientists who spent their critical decades studying- not talking to the media)
If  the ABC continues to appeal to the common denominator and the quick fix,  it will just get lost in the common mass - with not enough direct accountability (as with commercial media) to keep it totally honest ( truly representing and not editorializing   ( even Neil Mitchell can do a better job on something Feine thinks he knows something about  )
Part of the Government is dead risk that rightly featured in the recent USA elections?

ABC Judge and Jury

Heard the strangest thing yesterday . The ABC was provided with a specific document justifying the stand of the Catholic church as if it was the adjudicator of a debate our forefathers would clearly say that should be left to the Royal Commission and the courts .
Subtle,  but serious problem of perspective .
Sure its Ok to provide perspective but really the real issue is this . The church dares to try and look after children noone else does, so they  can never  meet the expectations of the standards brigade at ABCchurch. I won't listen to their pontifications till they do a four corners on the subject and put it in context .  
If we really think children's interest are important they should not be left to the quick fix of TV and media angst  .
 Just how mi focused this attempt to trap the devil could be in highlighted by the naive and misguided false expectation that a ,or any,  Royal Commissions  will , by their  very nature , solve the problem of child abuse . Nearly as dumb as thinking churches are the only ones trying to pick up the pieces of o mum or dad .
I mean like the RC will solve the problems of the department of human services in each State -
How Much DHS would give for the TV solution - if it worked !

Junior school ABC

To be fair the congregation is a mixed one and they are unified in believing the truth is being told . When the whole truth and nothing but the truth is not being told some just wouldn't know .
Some of those older leaders whose only audience would ever be at the ABC need to either leave or let some one else lead . For many of them leading has turned into preaching - a kind of fanaticism from the front.
Take the endless repeats of false idols and imagery on ABCTV todayhttp://meredescription.blogspot.com.au/2012/08/abctvs-reputation-on-downhill-slide.html

The real trouble with religion

is when it has no sense of humor .Even when the mood is humorless ,the pewsitters seem to remain loyal following around the leader who can and would change the world. " why doesn't anyone believe the redhead? " they say.
 The growing fanaticism of the leaders seems to go unnoticed by the INSIDERS as they attempt to prove that their god can do the impossible . the leaders constantly talk up the impossible; 'the changing of culture; the brilliance of her economic policy '. god deniers are said to be  relentless negative when much of what the public and they are doing is rejecting the god assumptions in the highly promoted doctrines of salvation.and damnation   .

Qanda tonight broke free of the shackels and had some great humor .Schmidt set the scene by saying what every mental scientist knows - every serious scientist has faith .
 . The new religions  could do with a dose of free thinking. Emma asked the redhead  if her attitude appeared a little smug( promoting eco policy in particular)  .Right on
You can't criticize someone you worship can you Mr Hildebrandt.  As mr Schmidt said "you gotta choose who you would put your faith in because god holes are part of the mind framing business" .


Ustinov ( and i think Schmidt ) would know why humor broke out in  the crowd on qanda . Its time the pew sitters did

De ja vu

Some ABC Journos might get a bit worried this week --when their own wisdom reflects the reactionary and finally island like logic of Margaret Mead this week See here quickfiz.blogspot.com


One thing many Journos refuse to believe about themselves is that they are religious. They see themselves as anything but. The tell us what scientists say - well what do psych scientists say about the universality of faith systems ? Does it take one to know one? If you ignore reality ,does the unreality come back to haunt you ?There is none so blind as one who  'sees ' the problem in another, but not see it in themselves . Alternatively , maybe there is something in the water out there ?

This  perspective does not come from those journos call  "religious"  but those who study the human condition .

The old foggies at qanda want to watch out for those prepared to question

qanda tonight .

Did you notice the young geek who dared to speak heresy in church last night - couldn't close him down even with an angry boy. (" don't look at me" the blessed saint of ABC gen Y said)
The Heretic used that word Liberal, and without hestitation qualification or cynicism  - and the congregation's mouths dropped - how dare he !  The point is,  he wasn't advocating one party over another , just truth telling and seeking proper scientific discussions - something  that ABCTV will go into history celebrating kindergarten level engagement on. If you are not a scientist stop telling us what we think or alternatively, "what poor scientists we must be ". What would U know really ? 

Guilt,Original Sin, Denial and Redemption are back

Careless theologians might celebrate that , at last , the ABC has brought Guilt, Original Sin and Denial aback into  the conversation . Perhaps not so much the word "guilt "( still forbotten ) , but certainly the feeling of it.  The PM qanda and Broadcasters  preach righteousness with an urgency unheard of in their youth .  The feeling is clearly that "we are all sinners and carry a burden of guilt"  ..... it is  in the headlines and the words of our leaders ; " its the right thing to do " the word "should ".  They want to change the word but keep the sense of it - how plagerisiic and non like author like they are

BUT ,Like the worst kind of church ,  its the kind of sermon where the sinners are outside and the righteous are inside . The righteous being absolved by riding bikes and recycling rubbish. The members inside claim those outside are in denial of the truth ..... but who knows . The real truth maybe not said or said openly ( why do churches have a box for confession )- it may until dealt with remain denied or hidden.  It could be that the insiders are higher up some righteous ladder,  but who would know ? Who cares and why ?

But , no reason for complacency or ignoring the facts -  penance is no substitute for proper payment .  The big theological question is not how much I sin compared to how much you sin ( typical cheap grace scenario)  but whether by breathing or farting, we all sin.   The key question is how to take it and deal with it .
The reality is,  if carbon dioxide is the worry they say it is , we are all in the shit as it were .Original Sin is back - with a vengeance.  And the return of OS is  making people nervous about all sorts of things they weren't previously worried about - like eating meat and killing animals. If footprint is the issue , then we all share the blame . As for guilt ,you don't hear the word ,but you smell it in the wind .Powerful if not directional .( the reactionaries  biggest problem is they can't nail the future  )
The popularity of the carbon tax is understandable in this moral context . But is the CT a substitute tax , a token  tax or a proper payment or purchase or redeeming tax?
 One thing is clear ; there is a lot of tokenism in the temple taxes,  and not much true reconciliation- of who pays. This is the dumb debilitating nature of the discussion so far - it doesn't take "meeting the mark" to its logical conclusion PERSONAL responsibility accountability and effectiveness. No other way ! Also if you go into the cul de sac one way there is no option but to back out (rep ere)
Whatever happened to the Liberals love , not of temple tax,  but "user pays" - its much more truly liberal in philosophy , substance and sustainability than their dumb worship of the market.
Good theology would for clarity sake say,  clearly  that , "while original sin exists , the only way to tackle sin productively is to target particular sins and pay the full cost price for each of them  ( only suspect economists advertisers and polys would say otherwise .....but they appear to have their sway)  . A CT will not pay full price - its a token tax , and worse still it doesn't target the real sinners - only big sinners will  pay ( whatever that means - biggest thing in town will be environment court) . And while maid Julia's men will rob everyone,  good people will receive a handout and .....bless the pope . ( So like dream,  its not really funny ....is it? )  do ( predictably it is going to build the god of government ) but which more prerogative and focused taxes like full taxes have been doing ( and should still do )
The real test of a good tax is whether it works to give both  effective use of taxes and yields an acceptable level of reconciliation- but without the high and irrational cost of penance .  The CT is trying to do lots of things ----including plain tokenism and irrational guilt mediation .
More people are going to church but are they leaving with a blessing!
Sound doctrine can do what its always done - set a workable framework  for thinking about life and its challenges.

At Qandary its always the same old worry warriors

Come together they did for the population sermon on ABCTV  . It wasn't exactly said , but the problem wasn't us and our use of resources , but others outside the church who were creating this huge problem of resource use.
Whatever you think of John Elliot, he was right about 1 thing - the way to  reduced abuse of resources is still through economic growth - and reducing wasteful reactionary experimentation.
Too of the high priests called Bob and Tim haven't studied  economics , so the ABC just didn't go there.
Amazing how much easier it is for the ABC to find something to debate when the pathetic prejudices of people come to light at election time . As always , Qandary started and ended in one.

The Vicars of Dismay

Jennifer Byrne was in some dismay the other day. She invited Hitchens to the lectern , only to find he's preaching heresy . The shock jocks get a real shock - now there's novelty ! Well , according to her anyway he was being heretical ;  she called him racist  .
For many switched off ABC watchers of the past , the lack of encouragement to celebrate life, in purely secular books,  is very noticable.
Hitchens , it seems to me, is honest to his worldview . Jennifer on the other hand , while she's not alone in living in the past ' is holding onto doctrines that just don't stand up to the historical evidence  - specifically - the failure of the modern women's movement to liberate women,  and its partner - secularism and reactionaries failure to inspire anyone but the Stoics .
One only has to look at the very popular but highly reactionary Vicar of Dibley ( and other very popular reality cum fantasy cum comedy  shows) to see how reactionaries, like marxists,  build their case and maintain their momentum ( shock value) by using someone else foundations .
The long term problem for the reactionary position is that doesn't have any sustainability on its own - its somewhat parasitic ( guess why the ABC are not running "The war on Everything Anymore? read my predictions for  ABC's Rage ) . Dawn French cannot keep up the pretence of being so available without dragging the story down. And  the dumb and stupid people in church  never alone keep one going . The constant tearing down of the foundations leaves little to keep building on .
If you think this careless tearing down of the tough stuff is not happening in the West , observe the failure of secularism to inspire women  and the unconscious way the issue of motivation is now going to be a  key Australian election issue for our culture ( education , migration, influence  and leadership)  In other words, its not just people that threaten us but the very power of their ideas  . Clearly like the Trotskyites  of old,  the target is misplaced.
The biggest mistake the atheistic led reaction to religion make today , is not to confess that,  there is a danger and we all share that danger ; we are all religious . If religion is dangerous we are all  in danger from our own ideas . While many secularist appear to me to be  in denial about this the failure of their world-view to provide powerful value frameworks will only become more evident;  projecting this lack onto those that have strong doctrine  will be finally just noise and ineffective .
Strong doctrine is needed . Only by targeting the doctrines of a religious position will anyone be effective in resisting the dangers . Young western people will continue to become Islamic and Buddhist because the target of the reactionaries is too broad . The only solution offered by reactionaries is to follow their parents into a cul de sac.
After all "All you need is Love"  means all things to all men . It's " true" and quite "religious"  but it means nothing to say it  . Might as well say is "All you need is  dopamine or testosterone " .Like so many facts its without context =  a loose and private collection of mere facts .  Targets are either empty or highly destructive  if they don't identify the bullsh and prejudice that went into holding them up

Women should leave this church

The more I think about this picture on the wall of the church, the more it makes me sad.
The ABC have been promoting it for ages like it says something significant about good ART .Its rather symbolises the doldrums and cul de sacs in ART .
After all, the men seem to get "the fantasy "bit , while the women get "the heaps of regrets "; and our kids are still stuck in this bad dream in a bigger way than we were.
Tell me I am wrong . If its true, its a crime, and its not fiction .If its true , many men are hypocritical  and are afraid to tell the whole truth .

Too many broken hearts - too many avoidable mistakes. If there was absolution in this church,  they wouldn't have to keep playing this depresssing lament every time we go to worship .
Outside of it , Love can still change everything even when you have failed . Ask the toughest men you have ever met (eg Martin Luther King, Mandella and Ghandi)

All men are not liars, but their little brains don't need much information to present it as an excuse to get what they want (esp the new tricks like contraceptives ,drugs,danger, good times, quickfix ).
Men are not simply two faced about sex and love, they just hide some of their feelings when an nice shape comes along and... they share the same dilemma as most human beings - they don't quite know what they want and how to get it, so when 5 minutes of fun turns up they are tempted to take it.

The important BOTTOM LINE HERE is this FACT:   There isn't a male on the planet who wants to marry a women who gives herself away. If you want you or your daughters to have long relationships you need to face those facts and talk about it more openly - come out!
Whatever happened to the passion of women for their own? You don't have to be a wowser - just clear and ' yes I've changed my mind or,  no its being strong like we need to be " . I used to enjoy the passion of "The coming out show" even though I sensed it was too reactionary and not well targeted enough to drive good practice with the failed sharing practice in many marriages . Of course you can leave , and yes it will make you a better person.
So, men are not by nature the problem . The problem was the sexual freedom argument was too simple, too smart and too much suited our tendency to blame the other person; a simple excuse attractive to rebellious teenagers with more hormone than experience and good sense in their veins.
Time, I say to dig a bit deeper and sing a different chorus. Time to, in practice, structure and place of worship, recognise that men and women are different .Their genes and bodies say so . Time to recognise that we like it that way, so how do we respect each other differences and support each others strengths and weaknesses?
Time for truth and confession in church
If we care about each other, we will know that some kids have no role models in these matters, but they desperately need them . Seeing adults deal with and admit their wrong choices can really help them.
So what if women tend to BE fickle and men to tend to fail to see beyond the logic of the little brain. Women are often more emotional, men more objective . How can we , all so different, build courage and conviction for our children to grow comfortable in old age together.
 We've been watching . "THE GOOD LIFE" , that great old BBC drama, built around lifestyle choices, but whose real strength is in the way 4 very different people learn to live together and stay together to enjoy the next round of potentially life exploding tension . Pamper yourself, enjoy watching a bit of fair fighting. Afterwards,  don't just sit their in the pews  listening to long but very incomplete and same old same old excuses for a good sermon that leaves at least half the congregation without any absolution .

Schooling us in the secular

In recent times we hear the doctrine from the left that there is no room for religion. If they are right ,that just leaves The State - the place where all good lefties now go for succour? No wonder they want us to support their church. Beats tithing !
But with the bureau as your bulwark , perhaps the high ideal of rational thinking would have a more honest scent if it didn't come so strongly now at the taxpayers expense? Why can longer "ideas on their own" be the driving force of change and testing before the people? Why compromise clarity with hype, spin, succour and schooling in the dull class of mere description? Not exactly a home for survival of the fittest??

Similiarly, If Ruse is right, the left may well be wrong to try and make secular the state schools of our countries.
The point is, whatever your worldview , the historic separation of church and state, in power and office terms, seems to work practically in both areas interests. Keeping them both "honest"? Nothing worse for the west, and rational led debate, than mixing such grand metaphors????

The new left wants to assert in some innovative new wave of singularly brilliant category control,but just like the emperors of old, that the only gods are man gods .
Everything good, or perhaps nothing good, will come from going beyond our ultimate faith in ourselves . We made this country it is ours . We must trust ourselves . "We are secular to the core-infact we were meant to be secular to the core"- we are being told .
Standing back , The core of a school is the ideas they present and how convincing those ideas are.

yet we have the credibility of the new left on education NOW completely at stake over their misplaced concreteness in education policy; confusing buildings with building; The education revolution has focused on structure and buildings ; the students on SBS ( maybe SBS could be religious diversity station?) reminded all Australia recently that that sort of talk and priority is unconvincing. If the shell is the substance , abcchurch leaders are clearly missing something. MCluhan wouldn't be confused - neither should any rational person about the dangers of letting the media run the religious campaigns.

The left want to assert the secular nature of education, and they have spent a lot of money to try and make it more so. Trouble is, even their own are not sending their children to secular schools.
So much for the power of ideas, and its place in modern fabian education?

The left once lived on the indipendant means of its own supporters and their ideas . I wonder how long it would survive today if the left didn't have the taxpayers support to tell us what's important, what to do , where to be and where to go to-and NOW to learn.
Maybe there is only one way to learn - do what you are told ? Do what the State says is important !

Lots of questions, assurances . but no answers

This weeks sermon - all part of the doctrinal durge on hot air .
Aware that they need a new tack for the same old same old scare over hot air, the ABC call for the highest authority - a book and an overseas expert .( so much for their respect for our own scientists)
Naturally the new bod is as "coola s acucmber" because the audience are now ( because of the incompetent media meddling of the wannabe scaries) wary of hot air talk by hot air talkers .
Lea Sales questions to the latest guru on hot air were very good, but point is - there were no real answers, because there is no real commitment to cut on the edge , (TOO much ABC head led CA's , unlike SBS , where the audience talk freely) .
Nothings changed - only more "trust us".( we chose the bloke and we think when confidence is low - read a book?? Sorry read both the book AND the journal AND the workplace )
The problem is of course bigger than the ABC . The degradation of science for science sake to science for politics sake means many of those who don't play the pipers tune are out of the loop now and in no talk mode . ( they are usually also too busy working too, unlike some roman toga tories )
Lea 's energies would be better spent addressing the cutting edge issue under this sore. the politicization(especially result focused) of science in austaralis . The low % of scientists who can cite stuff on these new gas and wind studies is quite understandable. Carries no weight with those of us who don't limit our knowledge base to the years we spent at University. That would be dumb!
the 2 augurs -

Fear Not

FEAR YES For I bring you bad tidings of great worry which shall infect the whole 774 listenership.
I worry about those who worry , and I worry about those who worry others with their worries - esp if they are unwarranted fears based on ignorance and arrogance -noise to keep us attentive to whats happening in the pulpit

Faine is at it again .This time he's worried about water.
"May has had its lowest rainfall for oh oh so long ' Brumby is coming in after 9 to solve this problem "
Next month, when it rains, it will be "landslides in the catchments" --one presumes . now there is the worry .For your information, the only time to review water restrictions ( seeing Faine doesn't know) in Victoria is in November .