Dear Aboriginals,
We the government of Australia wish to apologize for the wrongs our past leaders have done to your people. We have taken your land from you, stolen the very means of your exsistence. Stolen your land and forced you to move from it, and because of that we the people of Australia and its leaders wish to say sorry. Sorry we have taking away your house, means of food, and property. We are sorry we have taken your children from their homes and forced them into our school. We have stolen everything from you both physicaly and mentally. You came to us with an open mind and we shut ours to your strange world. We called you savage and inhuman because we did not understand your unquie world. For all this and much more we the people of Australia and the government wish to apologize and say sorry.
Not amount of words can every fix the wrongs done to you, we known, but its a step in the right direction. The government of Australia wants to find peace and blance between the two of us. Dear Aboriginals, natives to this great land that is now home to all kinds of man and women, please find it in your hearts to forgive all the horrible things the government has done to you. Live not in the past but rather try and look toward the furtune with us, try and understand the sorrow we fell for our past action, try and understand the feeelings we are now tring to express. If we could we would rewrite history but such a task is impossible, so are least now with this letter and a brave face forward perhaps we the government and you the people would build a new furtune.
Sunday, May 8, 2011
Saturday, May 7, 2011
Living in the moment
Live for the moment not to remember it, this is what i live by. Sure it is all good to take the picture of the amazing things around you but whats the point if your not taking part in the wounder of the world. In Elliott's story "savor the trip don't tweet it" he posses a very reasonable concern for technologies negative effect on the travelers experience. Elliott fear that the traveler has lost the point and meaning behind his travels. Elliott in his story tell how people focus to much on posting and publishing their travels that they forget to actually travel. The trip because about face book and the tweet rather than experiencing something new.
I personally travel for the fun of it, because for me the more i travel the more i learn about about myself. But if someone got to much entangled with their 'tweet" their personality would not be challenge they wouldn't learn but rather their face book would. When traveling i find it best not to evening think about the camera the cell phone and the status update. I simply go about my travels and take in with my own mind and not technologies and experience the trip my way.
Technology is a conveinlent sorce which is avable to help remember a trip, but thats all it should be. Technology should not determine the trip and its meaning rather should just be a failsafe. As Elliott said in his aricle "used in moderation, technology can make your trip go more smoothly," but it should not be the dominate influence on any trip. Though it is fun to go and play video games when im bred at home, while away in the great barrier reef i think ill take swimming and experiencing the great open waters over super mario bros any day.
Thus when we travel, no matter the location boundariers on technology should be made. A limit should be placed on some items and others should be banned completly. Things like cell phones and cameras are souces which are useful but should be restricted some what. While things like gamboys labtops, tec should be banned completly while anyone one travels. The only exspection is the safty of the hotel room, but even then should not be the main focus of the mind.
I personally travel for the fun of it, because for me the more i travel the more i learn about about myself. But if someone got to much entangled with their 'tweet" their personality would not be challenge they wouldn't learn but rather their face book would. When traveling i find it best not to evening think about the camera the cell phone and the status update. I simply go about my travels and take in with my own mind and not technologies and experience the trip my way.
Technology is a conveinlent sorce which is avable to help remember a trip, but thats all it should be. Technology should not determine the trip and its meaning rather should just be a failsafe. As Elliott said in his aricle "used in moderation, technology can make your trip go more smoothly," but it should not be the dominate influence on any trip. Though it is fun to go and play video games when im bred at home, while away in the great barrier reef i think ill take swimming and experiencing the great open waters over super mario bros any day.
Thus when we travel, no matter the location boundariers on technology should be made. A limit should be placed on some items and others should be banned completly. Things like cell phones and cameras are souces which are useful but should be restricted some what. While things like gamboys labtops, tec should be banned completly while anyone one travels. The only exspection is the safty of the hotel room, but even then should not be the main focus of the mind.
Creation Story
Nearly every human culture has its myths and legends, those stories tell of how man became to be, why the world acts as it does, and why humanity is here. Why is it that man is so concerned about his creation? Well that is simple, man is a being of knowledge and curiosity, naturally as humans we such the unknown, thus what's more unknown to us then are own existence. In order to explain the phmoninoms of the natural world humans theorize ideas and make their gods and myths which create and manipulate this world. Every today in modern society people live under the belief of a god and dictate life according to the gods rules. I'm not trying to say that god is a myth but rather just i am just giving a example of how modern beliefs of our creation are so similar to that of the creation stories made by cultures round the world since the start of mankind.
Take the Maori and Australian Aboriginals creation stories for example, just like todays bible the stories focus on the family, struggles within life, and how from nothingness came the world. The Maori stories are mostly about the family and the role each part of the family plays in the creation of the world, like how the mother is god of the night, this shows off how concerned the Maori people must have been about the family and what each person in a family could represent and how each should act.The Australian aborigine stories too foucos on the family, but this time the mother was the god of the sun. Too different stories but both have one main focus and that is family and how the family reacts with itself. Because of this stricking similarity one can conculd that both societies focus on family values and in some ways were very a like in life style. Just like in todays creation stories the family to the aborigines is the most important and main focus of base value.
Now dont get me wrong their are plenty of differences between the two aborigines and todays life but to see the base similarites gives some view into the human mind set. All stroies may focus on the family at some point but this does not mean every story is the same. The Maori people of New Zealand for instants explains how voilence seprated nearly the entire god family, while the Australian aborigine story tells the story of the children of the gods coming together to spilt apart their parents. Both tell the story of the family and even how disagreement can spilt a family but the austalian story has the gods children untied together for a cause as aposed to the New Zealand story has voilence only something that separtes people.Clearly the two cultures share the same values but through this example one can see how one culture thinks differently about the actions of violence as opposed to the other.
Just because the old stories of past cultures may seem compltly ingorant to the new world we now know does not mean they should simply dismissed. As stated before the stories of old are very similar to what some believe now. Just as the two cultures stories say the eternal problems of man is his relationship with his family and his volient nature. Though science can tell us the sky is blue, science can not tell us why the sky exsistence and why humans wish so bad to float in its vastness. A myth however can tell us why we exsistnece why we pretend to have wings. This is the importance of the pass, it gives humans insight on their minds, the old stories can address problems that are impossible to even ask and that is the magic behind the old myths and the new stories of today.
Human life exisit that is simply the truth. No matter which story you choice to believe weither you enbrace science, religion, or both the fact is, we are. I myself do not believe in any one story rather chose to make my own story but just like very other stories of old or new i think of we humanity is here and what vaules are the best. For me as an idvivual to worry about the next life or the life before is simply a waste of time, the past is already done and the furtune is what one makes of it. Thus I live my life by my own creation story and take from every stroy i read to from my own and learn from every experience.
Take the Maori and Australian Aboriginals creation stories for example, just like todays bible the stories focus on the family, struggles within life, and how from nothingness came the world. The Maori stories are mostly about the family and the role each part of the family plays in the creation of the world, like how the mother is god of the night, this shows off how concerned the Maori people must have been about the family and what each person in a family could represent and how each should act.The Australian aborigine stories too foucos on the family, but this time the mother was the god of the sun. Too different stories but both have one main focus and that is family and how the family reacts with itself. Because of this stricking similarity one can conculd that both societies focus on family values and in some ways were very a like in life style. Just like in todays creation stories the family to the aborigines is the most important and main focus of base value.
Now dont get me wrong their are plenty of differences between the two aborigines and todays life but to see the base similarites gives some view into the human mind set. All stroies may focus on the family at some point but this does not mean every story is the same. The Maori people of New Zealand for instants explains how voilence seprated nearly the entire god family, while the Australian aborigine story tells the story of the children of the gods coming together to spilt apart their parents. Both tell the story of the family and even how disagreement can spilt a family but the austalian story has the gods children untied together for a cause as aposed to the New Zealand story has voilence only something that separtes people.Clearly the two cultures share the same values but through this example one can see how one culture thinks differently about the actions of violence as opposed to the other.
Just because the old stories of past cultures may seem compltly ingorant to the new world we now know does not mean they should simply dismissed. As stated before the stories of old are very similar to what some believe now. Just as the two cultures stories say the eternal problems of man is his relationship with his family and his volient nature. Though science can tell us the sky is blue, science can not tell us why the sky exsistence and why humans wish so bad to float in its vastness. A myth however can tell us why we exsistnece why we pretend to have wings. This is the importance of the pass, it gives humans insight on their minds, the old stories can address problems that are impossible to even ask and that is the magic behind the old myths and the new stories of today.
Human life exisit that is simply the truth. No matter which story you choice to believe weither you enbrace science, religion, or both the fact is, we are. I myself do not believe in any one story rather chose to make my own story but just like very other stories of old or new i think of we humanity is here and what vaules are the best. For me as an idvivual to worry about the next life or the life before is simply a waste of time, the past is already done and the furtune is what one makes of it. Thus I live my life by my own creation story and take from every stroy i read to from my own and learn from every experience.
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