Maintaining good relations with Muslims

IMO The biggest reason the East hates the West is because most of the unbelievers in the West don't even  know what they believe. And that unbelief is undermining the family and society. 
Westerners who say they don't need a religion are losing  their influence in their own families.  

I say this because, while there are plenty of other motivations to hate ( envy , revenge and projection for starters ) , I believe most humans are hard wired to judge each other , most powerfully, on the basis of some moral order in the universe; Their worldview or religion .
Let me give you an example that even Christian's understand . 
Let me suggest that most Muslims and most Christians hate the fact that the post modern parents (PMP) in the West let their daughters ( in particular ) roam the streets,
Tell me , if you disagree, where PMP's have any real reasons to stop their children from experimentally with sex. What if PMP's children get married ( for whatever reason ) and then don't like it , do they do and say to encourage ( key motivator) or at least convince their children to stay married ? 
Tell me just in what doctrine , those whose only worldview/god is Nature, have a convincing reason to stop children from enjoying themselves sexually and selfishly   

Where is the logic to not just do what you like in the West now? 
Who apart from religious people is really interested in teaching children to learn self discipline and  learning about the big picture of life?    Sure there are many who believe in Education so  their children can progress and make money, but without personal discipline , and family first culture, learning too may just be very limited. 

Children who are taught that way ( "obey your feelings" ) are a menace to themselves and to their society. 
Marriage and monogamy is hard work , The reasons Christians have reasons to do it is not only because it works for them , but because their God promises to bless them through it , and through practicing their faith , they find that it is true--- this is how love grows . Same with discipline of the mind and body and facing hard work . We need reasons to behave not just instincts.
The error of thinking you don't need a faith to achieve bigger learning is that you have no reason to draw yourself and others to something higher than yourself. The current epidemic of Narcissism in the West is evidence to all people of faith of the aforementioned truth.                                                                          
Other motivation problems the West has, that the East can see more easily. 
PMP's have trouble convincing their children to love work - did I say they were woke in that way both motivation and effort wise.
Do we have to work for things or will the government give us what we need to make us good? 
We can do a lot to ease our present fears of others with strong views by simply being stronger in our own faith
and rejecting the idea that we do not punish failure. ref Sowell 

The biggest reason the East hates the West is because we don't know what we believe .
The biggest evidence for that is that the West teaches its children to just do what they think is important -- that idea is valueless, Good parents reject this failure to set value boundaries, good people of all faiths.The kids run amok when the Wests leaders reflect that worldview which says this.  

I have my own faith that to me is very powerful but I feel for my Aussie friends who have no faith to speak of and who are clearly vulnerable.
Let's get 2 things clear ,
-What we really believe ( live by ( and
-what other see as failure points in our current Western culture.

To face our fears effectively we have to face the truth
Jung says we all have a religion and to not face that fact is not good for facing the future.
Many times amongst all groups  the faith is as simple as"  me my own god" 

Western young people ( who are the most vulnerable to radicalization ) are the worst off because many of their parents  preach an old form of desperate cynicism ." That any  religion is poison"-- a half truth at best  . people who preach this simplicity are only preaching from the emptiness of their bicky barrel. 

Jung,  like all thinking people,  will say that your religion is the most dangerous thing you own and therefore the cap must be worn by all , Test the dangers of each and especially which stupid and heretical ideas get excused by being misinterpreted by individuals who hide behind their particular faith badge, Religion is where good ideas  half bad and very bad ideas hide. 
The West is at risk ,as it always was by half truths and the distortions of good intentions by individuals and the propagation of them by movements ,
eg
-Arianism in the Christian religion .etc 
-That freedom is obtained by doing what you like ( modern paganism) 

   

How to address worry

 We are all born into places where there is deficiency. 
We will , as members of communities , all experience inequality of supply.

We all have reason to worry, but should we?

This blast from the past BBC reminds us that worry about lack of supply is nothing new,
 so the worry is not new

SO Let's ditch the worry and keep proving that by working together and thinking with less fear and greed and more understanding we will have a lot less reasons to worry or be worried by fearmongers.



We can all live well if we share and know how to share.
Despite what our antecedents thought, we don't need a commanding position over land, but a commanding position over education. You heard it first at Easter 2026 


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I would love to talk more about dealing with abundance but No time here to talk about abundance 

As Jung said though the problem of supply is not more abundance but for man himself to deal with distribution. 

The best intentions are not enough

 If you know this and practice to manage this, you can become effective, not just ambitious.
If you don't resist the temptation to justify your actions by your good intentions you can be your worst enemy and your neighbors worst enemy, Your mother,  if you are lucky reminded you of this.  
 
The greatest evil is done in the name of the best intention. 
This post is about one of the worst evils of our era - the best intentions of those who would parent us but who are not our parents
People paid to care in Government.

This evil takes a truly heart breaking form in 2025 when government employees are not trained to respect those who manage our land let alone  be those who are trained to really understand agri-ecosystems.

I will finish this post later 
Sorry  meanwhile consider the intent and the result 


 

If in doubt about what you are doing, pause and look around you

 As you know, like you, I am openminded; I think , Maybe, thinking about what i just wrote , I don't really think, therefore I lie. so many liars in one house and not an ounce of confession.  
Best I keep moving or I might realize I am on the wrong track  ..... and need to go back .. at least a step or two. 
Like you, I am probably too busy to really think , and as old as I am,  am not only stuck in my ways , but you refuse to budge. 
Well same here . which why,  nearly legless myself,   I suggest you just pause and look around around you. Read something that you have never read because the label really annoys you. 







You are not getting too old for this ( glory be to them's that coined that expressio) but No 
 YOU were meant for this ( at any age but particularly in old age when you have time for it )   Confession will do all of us good .


I really hope this note i posted TODAY makes your day Know love: How to jump back into the idea of Marriage

   

If you knew a way to make the world a much better place , would you do it?

 I truly hope so. If you are young, I pray you will seek both the wisdom to find and follow that path. 
Let me suggest that most of us have at least three reasons why we might not do this 

1. We don't actually know the identity let alone HOW to achieve that goal
2. Even if we know the goal, we can be expected to be easily discouraged by the profound application difficulty and dedication required to reach that goal. There are easier things to do for yourself and defining public good goals that can be achieved takes great wisdom. 
3. We are most likely to be presently doing something else at the moment. 
   
   There will be other discouragements like- the goal may look small compared to some,  but let's just ignore them because I believe self-satisfaction is the best kind of reward any of us can expect and one achievement can be expected to drive the desire for more.(cf the lack of rewards in self-serving ) 
   
   Lots of questions . I hope, in subsequent posts to describe how we can keep in touch with a sound goal in our own patch (cause that is the only way to see and achieve that goal) 
   
   
   Let me list one goal ( listing contraints may take the focus off the objective here and start the not so critical reality that there will be discouragements ) 
   
   WORTHY and achievable GOAL 
    1, To pay to farmers the margin required to make food production profitable and their use and investment in
   the land more sustainable, Some background Some background  to the present realities in the West 

Whatever you do , do it and do it well

 My generation of Australians are confused . They aim naturally , like most human and their families ,  to find economic security, but find themselves with two houses and their children with none . 

It's a form of madness ( denial?) to focus on the obvious  yet thats all the wannabes ever seem to do ; that  house prices are unaffordable; that's mere economics and we can fix that if we want to . As Sorell reminds us, its only when we accept there are only tradeoffs and not solutions  on the housing issue , we can find a way through there . Its predictable machinery . 

Not so with good work - envisioning that takes wisdom - and not the trite nonsense that says being a lawyer will bring you home . This is is more of the bread that never satisfies.  

Its a form of denial to get distracted and name call when the problem is in the too hard basket for all the rabbits assembled in parliament .
The problem is not housing but homing and the deeper problem is the lack of community commitment to careers . Even teachers talk carelessly for decades about having  3 jobs is a lifetime as if that is the reality or the  desirable outcome.
The fear ridden rabbits are afraid to even mention the word career  when it's blatantly obvious we need doctors and people to help them manage the huge work load.

Something is still wrong when we now in 2024 are no longer producing credible doctors of the environment credible doctors of the environment .
When instead of offering solutions our leaders are offering fear  fear 


I will finish here for now cause while the need for doctors is my thing , we let our kids fall into a deep pit by NOT talking and finding out worthwhile work and NOT getting them ready for the variety by teaching them how to anticipate it ---- and cope with it when it comes along .

As one who has also  spent decades dealing with poor attitudes to any work by tens of young people in my care, I will leave the next chapter  of my  "Do whatever you do and do it well" talk      because it is the most inspiring one of all.
None of us will be happy with just a house or three, but a job well done CAN really help everyone of us find home.   find home.  

You know even rabbits are adaptable .Why aren't we?
These rabbits don't need a warren. There mobile home is under the cars at our depot  ,They have more exists and entries than an earth warren and no preditor can touch them . provided they dont go deaf and blind they won't get rained on , flooded or dug out, 


Why are so many of us living in the richest country in the world BUT without a home   Copyright EA 

  

Anger can be a real killer

We need to be far wiser in responding to angry people. 
To do that well, we need to recognize that we get angry too. 
Infact all parties involved need to think through why many new ideas in this area are NOT WORKING - see below. 

Let's start by reviewing the history of ideas and what i am saying is common neglect of what works.

In the West we know , or used to know, the power of good words . Verbal assault carries similiar import in our culture to physical assault , yet nowadays an aside or a putdown , gas lighting , cancelling or a taunt , is seen as" no big deal" ( even though it s against several of the 10 commandments)

its true  that unless we can FIND a positive ,we will all go down in the negative . But short circuiting life to avoiding negative means we restrict ourselves to non resolution with reality ; we don't face reality and then move,  on as we need to .
Holding onto anger is a curse  and we need to show young people how NOT to do that.  

 The common counter accusations about whose loving and whose hating ,mean we are confused and confusing each other ; most people are not thinking or acting deeply here . 

We have an effective centuries old answer to preventing wrath .We just have to use it .The miracle is that with anger , being strong and direct with it YOURSELF can diffuse it on both sides.

If you practice dissipating it ( Its natural not naughty -by talking before the sun goes down) you can LEARN that its not good for YOU THEM or anyone to hold onto it ---- Is not this the big deal . hanging on to it!

Don't be harder , be smarter. For everyone's benefit. 

Young people  have a particular problem, because real life can seem too hard.  Do what you do well son and you will find the way to progress for yourself  .

BUT Some with some age still have lots to learn 

Take some who would try to control our media and wannabes in government . 
Some of the more assertive think , quite wrongly, they can change the attitude of others by lecturing us about how bad we are and where we should treat each other better .

Such a technique simply doesn't work ( try it at home-- the angry wife is right but she won't control him by swapping chairs) and because it doesn't work, those using it in power, push word control and group "racism "even harder .
We must resist those who force such ineffective tyranny.

In real life there is always conflict
Free speech is the way to prevent all out warfare and many reactive controls imposed by fanatics to control it are wrong .

The reactionary position which just says anger is a sin are wrong. Anger can be a natural response ( adrenalin and nor adrenalin) and we need our worldview to help us manage it.

Many families will struggle to teach their children about how to deal with anger when 80% of marriages in Australia break up-often over it . 



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