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Rolf took that pic of me sitting on the throne in Sweden in 2002. A few minutes before an attendant in another room had scolded Rolf, who is a royalist for taking a photo. I asked Rolf about the chair & he said that it for the king to sit on at special events. So I stepped over the cord & sat on it.
Rolf & I met in Kimbe, on the island of West New Britain in 1975. He was working for the UN & I was a teacher. Our wives also became firm friends & we have kept in touch ever since. Their sons have been to visit us in Australia & Rolf & Barbro came to stay with us last year.
I have, since I wrote this piece opened up a site on myspace & have written a couple of blurbs called 'divine rights.' |
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Posted by jlindsaysmith39 on 2007-07-11 23:49:39 | Rating: | Views: 91
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Sitting on the throne in Australia is colloquial for sitting on the toilet.
Years ago I wrote -"Law is a public convenience where upon earnest dignitaries preside fettering the free outpouring."
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Posted by jlindsaysmith39
on 2007-07-13 16:11:47
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The Egyptians believed in an afterlife & built the pyramids. The Chinese emperors were buried in elaborate tombs with their stuff too. Now centuries later we look at their artifacts in museums & wonder. Many ancient peoples have left wonderful religious monuments celebrating their beliefs.
Do Christians have a handle on the truth & Nuiginians who dance all night around their totems don't? Christians show up once a week to eat their god & their priests drink his blood, put some money in the collection box & they're out the door in a flash. Are they just covering all the bases in case the church really does know the word of god?
Our current crop of political leaders in the west are all professing Christians & must believe in an afterlife when Jesus will judge their performances on earth. Maybe they won't even get to see Jesus when they die & will fry for what they have been doing on earth. Pretty lousy bunch of stewards I'd say.
I wonder what Jesus if he is really a god thinks of the almighty mess the 'coalition of the willing' under Christian leadership has made in Iraq. I wonder what Jesus thinks about the grab for oil & that Iraq has been transformed from a nation into a failed state.
I wonder what Jesus would say about the dropping of depleted uranium materials in Iraq & the fact that millions of people are displaced, some of them Christians too. And in the paper today an item about a soldier who got someone to shoot him in the leg so he wouldn't have to go back to fight in Iraq.
And why should the Christian religion, a product of the Roman Empire have a big grab on the truth? Just because Catholics are sitting on a huge pile of great European arts works & make a lot of money from tourists? Does being filthy rich which the Catholic Church is mean they know whether there is an afterlife anyhow? Or is it a big con & they're doing very out of it all, thankyou very much!
Lately the pope announced that his church is the one & only true church & all the rest are heretics. The Roman Church supressed & tortured many people who didn't believe their version of Christian dogma. Many great scientists & artists were ripped off by the church in the past. Many people leave their estate to the church in the hope that they will have paid for their sins & get into heaven by supporting the church on earth.
A Roman Emperor has a dream that he'd win a battle if he carried Christian emblems on his armour & he did & won. Then he legalised Christianity. Don't believe me - go & ask google...So like Islam Christianity is a religion born of conquest. Didn't you learn the song in Sunday School, "ONWARD CHRISTIAN SOLDIERS" & fight the good fight... what arrogant rubbish.
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Posted by jlindsaysmith39
on 2007-07-17 21:25:44
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The Egyptians believed in an afterlife & built the pyramids. The Chinese emperors were buried in elaborate tombs with their stuff too. Now centuries later we look at their artifacts in museums & wonder. Many ancient peoples have left wonderful religious monuments celebrating their beliefs.
Do Christians have a handle on the truth & Nuiginians who dance all night around their totems don't? Christians show up once a week to eat their god & their priests drink his blood, put some money in the collection box & they're out the door in a flash. Are they just covering all the bases in case the church really does know the word of god?
Our current crop of political leaders in the west are all professing Christians & must believe in an afterlife when Jesus will judge their performances on earth. Maybe they won't even get to see Jesus when they die & will fry for what they have been doing on earth. Pretty lousy bunch of stewards I'd say.
I wonder what Jesus if he is really a god thinks of the almighty mess the 'coalition of the willing' under Christian leadership has made in Iraq. I wonder what Jesus thinks about the grab for oil & that Iraq has been transformed from a nation into a failed state.
I wonder what Jesus would say about the dropping of depleted uranium materials in Iraq & the fact that millions of people are displaced, some of them Christians too. And in the paper today an item about a soldier who got someone to shoot him in the leg so he wouldn't have to go back to fight in Iraq.
And why should the Christian religion, a product of the Roman Empire have a big grab on the truth? Just because Catholics are sitting on a huge pile of great European arts works & make a lot of money from tourists? Does being filthy rich which the Catholic Church is mean they know whether there is an afterlife anyhow? Or is it a big con & they're doing very out of it all, thankyou very much!
Lately the pope announced that his church is the one & only true church & all the rest are heretics. The Roman Church supressed & tortured many people who didn't believe their version of Christian dogma. Many great scientists & artists were ripped off by the church in the past. Many people leave their estate to the church in the hope that they will have paid for their sins & get into heaven by supporting the church on earth.
A Roman Emperor has a dream that he'd win a battle if he carried Christian emblems on his armour & he did & won. Then he legalised Christianity. Don't believe me - go & ask google...So like Islam Christianity is a religion born of conquest. Didn't you learn the song in Sunday School, "ONWARD CHRISTIAN SOLDIERS" & fight the good fight... what arrogant rubbish.
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Posted by jlindsaysmith39
on 2007-07-17 21:26:18
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