Hey Loggy, bet you and Julia woul make wonderful things together,
thats what they would be (things , isn't it??)
Remember she is on charge
More cards
PLEASE
Cisco spend some time in the kimberlies mate...
All of a sudden those poor, saved, helpless souls come into their own and make you look like a fool. They are aware and connected to the land in ways you have never experienced before. In Western words it's kinda like their land is a member of the family.
Oh,Oh,Oh!!!
You have all slashed me to pieces and cut me to the quick and now I am bleeding all over the place.
No I did not read "Guns, Germs and Steel" but did watch the whole program on the choobe as well as a couple of other related.
"Why has white fella got more cargo than me?" rings a bell.
Positive aspect of this thread is that I've just green thumbed the doctor for being spot on.
Cisco,
I reckon that you probably would have been one of those that hunted Aboriginal people down like dogs.....your ignorance astounds me.
There were over 300 language groups when the colonizers came along and far from a culture in decline, people adapted to some very extreme environments, i.e. the arid regions - pretty amazing if you ask me...you'd last a day...
there are reliable C14 dates for a number of sites in many arid to semi arid areas.
as an archaelogist with 20 years experience, I have personally excavated a number of sites that have dated to more than 30 kya + .
There are a large number of dates for the Pleistocene occupation of Australia and from a scientific point of view, its pretty much agreed, and has been for some time, that Aboriginal people have been here for quite some time.
Its convenient to believe that Aboriginal cultures were in decline at the arrival of the colonizers as it makes it easier to dismiss them as irrelevant and to make the colonizers sound like saviors.....the many massacres and mistreatment belie this.
From what I know, (which isn't much,)
The native australians only got sick after white man came over with all these ailments and diseases that the native man had no immunity to, (from the common cold to .....)
I remember that quite alot of cooks men were killed by natives, and vise versa,
So they were neither weak nor poor, (In context)
I would say they were rich in culture,and lived in harmony with their surroundings, to be at one with nature, so to speak ( A concept most people can't grasp) or spend half their life trying to achieve.
This is how we have to become again now to survive the decay of our country planet,solar system, galaxy, ...
We talk of carbon tax,.... blah blahhh, (while we gobble more and more energy) eating through our resources like there an endless supply. SELLING THE REST OF TO FORIEGN INTEREST.
Get back in touch with mother nature,
I could spend hours pulling crap of the internet to argue this point either direction,
But I just rolled a nice spliff, and that's looking more and more like it needs company
I put my 2 bobs worth in, but it ended up nearly a dollar !! (damn taxes)
Bloody gillard!
