Lynne Salter
I'm a Humanist & Baha'i which is a world religion. I paint with acrylics, write literature & poetry. I study History & English. I read SciFi & crime ie M.Connelly. I've a Masters in 2ndry Education
Location Perth WA Australia
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Lynne Salter made a comment
It’s good to know the way to recognise the signs of IPVA
But these abused people need to have a safe way to leave the offender.
I was in the room a few times when my friend’s husband was very rude to her and told her she was stupid. Thankfully he was not bashing her but the son started to talk back to her because of his dad’s attitude. So I talked to her... -
Lynne Salter made a comment
As was said before
Often these victims cannot go out without their abuser’s consent and then they sit there keeping their eyes on the person being interviewed.
We need to have a keen sense of security for those victims of IPVA.
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Lynne Salter replied to Nwosu Uju
Thanks Nwosu When you look at it- that is a lot to put on the shoulders of Social Services. It’s just stressful reading it so being a social worker trying to help these people to survive must be stressful in itself!? Let’s hope one day we have enough trained people to reach everyone.
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Lynne Salter replied to Declan Bevan
Hi Declan. It should be part of the secondary school curriculum because it can help those students who get bullied to find help sooner.
Bullying is-Narcissistic gratification achieved by parasitically cannibalising their victim’s dignity - and all forms of abuse are merely tools to achieve the eventual destruction of the person & should be stopped immediately -
Lynne Salter made a comment
I have had PTSD & trauma since 2009 when my son Adam had a nervous breakdown and started self harming was shot dead by a policewoman in my kitchen in Lakemba NSW. They lied & said he attacked them which was a lie cause he was shot in the back.
I just read a book called ’The Body Keeps the Score’ by Bessel van der Kolk that helps explain how trauma affects the... -
I love the P.G.Wodehouse series of Jeeves with that vacant page Bertie Wooster who keeps trying to avoid those ensnaring females. The series with Steven Fry & Hugh Laurie is particularly brilliant!!
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Lucky duck!
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Lynne Salter replied to Mary Ann Atwood
*There was the famous scientist-Emilie du Chatelet (1706-1749) & was Voltaire’s mistress.
*Aphra Behn (1640-89)author of the novel Oroonoko.
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Lynne Salter made a comment
I found it interesting that in Jane’s time a man took over a wife’s assets on marrying her.
It’s probably after my divorce why I won’t remarry because I have now got 3 houses & a goodly amount in the bank. So I don’t want to lose my independence and I want to leave my savings to my children & grandchildren! -
Lynne Salter replied to Declan Bevan
Good on you Declan. This course is doing its good work by helping social workers like you to be on their toes.
I have a friend whose husband denigrated her in front of me & I spoke to her privately then helped her leave him. It would have gone on for years otherwise.
All best Lynne
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Lynne Salter replied to David Crabbe
It all seems so dystopian & dysfunctional for society to have developed such unhealthy, unhappy and violent groups of people! Children are supposed to be our next generation of scientists and educators but it seems hopelessly unachievable when we study this IPV. Where is the love? I cannot give up hope that things will improve. I’m a member of the Baha’i Faith...
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Lynne Salter made a comment
It’s so interesting that Alex didn’t want to blame his partner when she was attacking him. I have friends with Narcissistic partners who belittle them but they don’t want to talk against them. There’s some mental block.
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Lynne Salter made a comment
I love in the small town of Carnarvon in Western Australia and we have a different problem where many Indigenous parents ignore their children and let them roam the streets night & day. The children roam in gangs & throw bricks through shop windows every week. These people never work & are all getting unemployment money & spend it on drugs and alcohol so the...
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It’s good to hear that there are people who defend the rights of children.
I love in the small town of Carnarvon in Western Australia and we have a different problem where many Indigenous parents ignore their children and let them roam the streets night & day. The children roam in gangs & throw bricks through shop windows every week. These people never work &... -
Lynne Salter replied to Nan Keightley
Good on you Nan. I hope you can build the strength to keep fighting for your freedom, rights & independence. You are really worth the struggle.
Lynne
PS I have a friend in Perth Australia called Nan. It’s not short for Nancy. It’s just the name her Mum & Dad chose!
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Lynne Salter made a comment
It must cost a lot of $$ to run all these agencies but it seems to be working for Susan. It’s good to see she’s got her kids back.
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Lynne Salter made a comment
A friend of mine in Perth Australia has been putting up with her Narcissistic husband’s nasty behaviour for years. She’s from Indonesia and is waiting to get a Permanent Residency here. She’s very well educated and works. So I gave her a cheap room to live in my house so she could leave him finally. Otherwise she would never have had the chance
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Lynne Salter made a comment
Bashing a partner can never become normal. Abuse is abuse and definitely not normal. There is a course run by the Baha’i organisation that introduces concepts of kindness, empathy, compassion, truthfulness, love for fellow humankind- called the Virtues Program with many ideals to live by. It would be great in schools.
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Lynne Salter replied to Simon Tabor
Yes! Abuse is abuse and definitely not normal. There is a course run by the Baha’i organisation that introduces concepts of kindness, empathy, compassion, truthfulness, love for fellow humankind- called the Virtues Program with many ideals to live by. It would be great in schools.
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Yes Jack. We are studying the bad reasons. Often these women get bashed if they go out without their partner’s permission. This is nothing like the love & dedication you & your wife had.
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Lynne Salter replied to Karen Carter
Yes I noticed that.
It might be because of the thing that first attracted them to that person was that they felt happy & loved and they wanted that happiness back.
But if you look at the history of these violent partners they usually stop for a while & it starts again.
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Lynne Salter made a comment
Those actors are very real! It’s scary to watch think they are portraying actual relationships.
That guy hits the wife and then ‘apologised’.
How shallow. Such a coward to bash a powerless woman.
I would retaliate and ask him if it’s now her turn to bash him & see if he likes it.
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Lynne Salter made a comment
I used to live in a suburb of Sydney where lesbians and gays were welcomed. It should have been a happy community but I kept hearing these girls arguing at the local gay cafe cause one of them had smiled at another girl and the partner got jealous. Then I saw the couple leave together but with pouty looks on their faces. It was awkward to watch.
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Lynne Salter made a comment
I have always thought there must be a way to educate these violent males but years ago I had a boyfriend who was kind & sweet (at first). I had my own money so I was independent but he had ‘moods’ that came every few months. I know he had a bad childhood & was never hugged. So I tried to be affectionate. But I couldn’t foresee the gradual character changes....
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There is a pervasive need for playing these violent games with things and people blowing up!
So I suggest that all these violent computer games where it normalises the slaughter of cartoon enemies actually deadens the normal human love of life and being a loving gentle person. Smacking children has been banned at last so it naturally follows that hitting a... -
Also Jack I suggest that all these violent computer games where it normalises the slaughter of cartoon enemies actually deadens the normal human love of life and being a loving gentle person.
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Lynne Salter made a comment
OMG There’s hundreds of these poor suckers! Surely these women were able to at least choose who they married.
Jane was an observer of human character and could see the good and bad in many of them so I only hope this was possible for some of these women to tell if the boyfriend was two timing them!?
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Lynne Salter made a comment
I have seen Sheridan’s “School for Scandal” a few times and it’s truly wonderful to be given the right to laugh out loud at these obnoxious characters!
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Lynne Salter made a comment
I did a FutureLearn course a few years ago called Violence Against Women and children. It was bad then and it is just as bad now! There was a woman who had been punched by her husband for 30 years before she left him! One girl couldn’t buy sox for the kids without his say so. Sounds so ridiculous, when will it end?
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That’s probably the way to get rid of the narcissistic ratbag.
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Yes she was doing things fot that guy but she knew it was wrong and she should have talked to her hairdresser to get a better idea of the correct things in a normal relationship
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The old saying-keep them barefoot & pregnant! Still exists
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Lynne Salter made a comment
There was a husband a few years ago in Queensland Australia who was determined not to let his wife & children leave him. He was Narcissistic and hounded the poor woman to give him access but she had to move to protect herself & the girls. One day he jumped in their car at school & poured petrol on them and lit it!! They all died! So disgusting & unbelievable....
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Lynne Salter replied to Alex Coles
Yes I tried reading a few chapters of Self-Control & found I lost my control quite soon. It’s a bit repetitive and overly moralistic but perhaps a good indicator of the style of novels back then.
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Lynne Salter made a comment
I read a bit of Mary Brunton’s ‘Self-Control’ that Jane Austen was supposed to have read. The story was quite nice and had a bit of moral bungee jumping in it but I found I could never have finished it. I wonder if Jane slogged her way through the lot.
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Lynne Salter made a comment
I have read Madame Bovary, Dr Frankenstein & Pride & Prejudice & enjoyed them. I loved all the reading I had to do for my Uni degrees but now I prefer to read more modern literature.
I just finished an excellent detective novel for my Carnarvon Library Book Group by Michael Robotham - “Good Girl, Bad Girl”. And was surprised how engaging the characters were... -
Hi Connie. To copy an article on a page go to the top right corner of the page and COPY from the list of choices given. Hope this helps
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I had a partner who used to follow me yelling “ you’re stupid you’re ugly you’re nothing, no body!! I had never been treated like that by anyone in my life. He was nice one week then whamo suddenly he was nasty and foul mouthed the next. He wasn’t physically rough but he played stupid games like running off into the night and not coming back till hours later...
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Hello Jack. Such ignorance. It’s important to stop these violent people and help stop that woman’s misery. Surely her life was worth saving so she can find happiness. Hiding behind the Church is ridiculous. That’s how the clergy was behaving with child molestation, keeping it quiet. We must speak out and stop it.
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Lynne Salter made a comment
I think that kind of upperclass immunity from police action is done by “entrepreneurial abusers”. Such as the Clergy. Clergy has brow beaten their followers to believe in their rights to be untouched by law and prosecution. They insist they are untouchable. Which of course they are not. Husbands and clergy are citizens of the city and must obey the laws of the...
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I cannot understand how a man will bash a woman that he’s supposed to love yet he’s nice to everyone else! It’s odd to have a society where wives are miserable and bruised. What kind of life is that for the children or family. Ery odd indeed
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I saw in a Culpepper article that to beat a walnut tree helps it to fruit more, but it was quoted as -a woman, a dog and a walnut tree the more you beat them the better they be. It seemed like a joke but evidently it was taken by males to be true!
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I think Mary Wollstonecraft thought women’s education was normal and how it should always have been, and not just modern but perfectly acceptable at any time in history. An amazingly bright woman- like Emilie du Chatelet. Sadly they both died young in child birth!
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Lynne Salter made a comment
I can only praise Mary Wollstonecraft and say she uses clear, sensible, rational ideals of appreciation for the female sex. If women cannot sound educated or scholarly it’s because the males have barricaded the doorways to stop women from getting an entrance into educational institutions. Shame shame on them. And shame on all such ignorant brick headed...
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Lynne Salter made a comment
I bet Jane Austen was a free thinker who did her best to free up men’s over bearing attitudes to women’s rights.
There’s a lovely series of Regency books by M.C. Beaton called the Six Sisters. Each story is full to the brim with how women coped with living in the 1800s. The first book is called Minerva and the second is The Taming of Annabelle, then Deidre &... -
Lynne Salter made a comment
I am always pleased to find out that a woman in that stitched up, bygone era had the commonsense to stand up for women’s rights and to show how intelligent and determined women can be to be recognised as more than equal to men.
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I live in a small bright 4 room cottage in Carnarvon WA Australia . I love the heat and would freeze in those large castle shaped monstrosities called a “house”. That heavy clumpy architecture is very clunky to me. We Australians have had to suffer the small windows and dark interiors of the early English houses but now we build open plan modern houses that...
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Lynne Salter made a comment
Jane Austen seemed to attract attention & had many popular admirers in all decades since her books were published
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Lynne Salter made a comment
I’m in the town of Carnarvon in northern WA Australia- 10 hours north of the capital Perth. I’m retired but I have 2 uni degrees & love to study
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Lynne Salter made a comment
Didn’t twig to Genital Mutilation for Farimah! But yes it’s a possibility
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Lynne Salter made a comment
I have friends who are victims of a narcissistic partner’s abuse & I have studied Narcissism on Youtube through Dr Ramani, who’s an expert on Gaslighting & covert Narcissists. Verbal abuse is just as prevalent as physical abuse.
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Lynne Salter made a comment
I enjoy to see a well proportioned body like in the ads but I don’t feel the need to starve myself to achieve it!
I heard a man say about that healthy girl- “I could go through her like lightning through a wet dog!”
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Lynne Salter made a comment
As i aged (74yrs now) I have trained myself to get up for the toilet at night (4times) but I can go straight back to sleep
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Lynne Salter made a comment
I think obesity is usually linked to a slow metabolism which is often used as an explanation for overweight persons
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I notice that there is SO MUCH FOOD EVERYWHERE!!
It’s easier these days for most people to buy cheap calorie rich fast foods.
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I have a friend who is Type2 diabetic and obese. Just need to understand how it’s possible for my friend to control her over eating & food impulses
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Lynne Salter made a comment
Sounds interesting. I’m ready to get involved
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Of course I totally agree. It was just you mentioned Freddie Mercury. Also Luke McPharlin who played for the WA Dockers is a Baha’i.
Haha. That’s about it. I am writing a children’s book and looking for a publisher. People have been worn down by these waring religious factions and there is only one God no matter how they argue and disagree. I just love being... -
It’s a real ignorance to be prejudiced against another Christian religion! Especially when Christ preached love your fellow humans and it’s a Christian based faith. Thus no different to God.
In the Baha’i Faith we marry any anyone we love not their religion or family! In South Africa there’s a colour prejudice Black, Chinese, White, Indian must be strong and... -
So true. And his family didn’t give him grief about being homosexual, which was great and v accepting. Might be hard for a Christian or Moslem to come out as gay back then?
BTW Rainn Wilson from The (US) Office who plays Dwight Schrute is a Baha’i and he can be found on YouTube. People from minority religions are everywhere. Thank goodness. Thanks gal... -
Lynne Salter made a comment
Hi here in Carnarvon WA I can buy either organic or supermarket vegetables. And the meat is v fresh & reasonable in price. I try to not eat cakes so I buy ‘sugar free’ sweets.
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Hi Nuha. You said you rely on vegetables and healthy food. Are you a vegetarian?
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For sure. I’ve made a lot of friends on FutureLearn over the 5 years I’ve been studying here. . Good to connect & find common ground thankx x The 3 Wise men were Zoroastrians, which shows how each Prophet wants his followers to acknowledge the next Manifestation & honour Him. It’s the same down through the millennia. Basically-the Prophet’s main reason for...
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Lynne Salter made a comment
These translations are from a text that’s 3000 yrs old. I feel it was written for a simpler less educated person. There’s repetition to instil in the people a strong sense of what is good and bad in life and how to follow His Holiness Zarathustra’s insistence on honesty is best..
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Yes I prefer instead of stingy, the ‘giver of Evil’ or giver of bad actions/gifts. Thanks for a clarification though.
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You’re funny Kathy @KathySutherland
You said you’re kind - you think…?
I posit that you are a good hearted kind person -you don’t harm people or cheat on your tax…
Christianity is 2000 years old so it’s bound to have lost its potency. The same with Islam. The further mankind gets from the original teachings the more weak it becomes. You are just as capable... -
Lynne Salter made a comment
I wondered if the Middle Persian is also called Farsi?
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Lynne Salter made a comment
Many of my friends are Baha’is who left Iran to escape the government’s hate campaigns.
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Ingrid. Are you ok?
You’re doing a course on an ancient religion and society. A movement that has tried to preserve its precepts and beliefs as best it can. The 3 Wise men were Zoroastrians
Think about it… like these people are law abiding and kind hearted.
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I agree. As I have said b4 the Baha’i Faith accepts all religions into the fold. As a Baha’i we do have a new manifestation of God Baha’u’llah- but he taught acceptance and love for all peoples. He taught that the revelations of each new prophet as from Adam to Moses to Zoroaster to Christ etc was God’s plan and that basically each new set of values and...
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Lynne Salter made a comment
It seems a pity that young people often do not marry and thus don’t have the pleasure of children in their lives. As a Baha’i we can marry into all religions so that the ancient history of our close family is remembered and respected and this adds to the fullness of our lives in a world religion like our Baha’i Faith!
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Lynne Salter made a comment
This course has given a great insight into an ancient culture and its religion. I feel we are able to absorb many of the struggles an ancient culture has gone through to progress from early BC to nowadays and the Internet! Such a big journey in time
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Thank you guys for your sincerity. I am a Baha’i in Carnarvon Australia and know many Iranian Baha’is. They are always homesick for their beloved country but may never see it again. Zoroastrians are fantastic people and of course are welcomed into the Baha’i Faith because we believe that it’s God’s spiritual plan for all mankind to help us progress through the...
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Lynne Salter replied to Jamsheed Vesuna
Hi there Jamsheed
I am a Baha’i which I believe is the present step in the process of human spiritual evolution. We Baha’is believe that the revelation of these blessed messengers of God started before even Adam. And that God has always sent messengers to aid mankind. Hence these messengers were able to know the laws that the earlier dispensations gave to... -
Lynne Salter replied to Martin Cutler
Yes thanks Kathy
I live in Carnarvon WA but my sister-in-law Erica Davidson lives on Mt Nelson in Hobart. There are Baha’is in most countries of the world. Thanks best wishes Lynne @KathySutherland -
And not very peaceful or humane which was the main ideal that the blessed messengers of God brought to mankind. I’m sure Zoroaster did not intend there to be competition or blood shed from these opposing groups of tribes people!
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Lynne Salter made a comment
Hi there I am a Baha’i which is the present step in the process of human spiritual evolution. We believe that the revelation of these blessed messengers of God started before even Adam. And that God has always sent messengers to aid mankind. Hence these messengers were able to know the laws that the earlier dispensations gave to mankind and either they kept a...
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Hi there I am a Baha’i which is the present step in the process of human spiritual evolution. We believe that the revelation of these blessed messengers of God started before even Adam. And that God has always sent messengers to aid mankind. Hence these messengers were able to know the laws that the earlier dispensations gave to mankind and either they kept a...
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Lynne Salter made a comment
I am a member of the world religious community the Baha’is & I am accepting of all religions equally. So I am happy to learn a Zoroastrian picture from ancient life.
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Lynne Salter made a comment
It’s good to see coins and other historical memorabilia.
It’s a picture from ancient life.
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I agree. It’s a picture from ancient life.
Has anyone mentioned that the 3 Wise Men were Zoroastrians? A way of connecting the two eras. -
Lynne Salter replied to Tori Lee
Hi I feel that it’s good to learn these religions gained knowledge & absorbed ideas (about love and human kindness) from each other by not staying locked or closed minded because it shows each one was from God. A direct source of a better way to live and show love for each other & spread their faith. @ToriLee
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Lynne Salter replied to Martin Cutler
Yes for sure. I am a Baha’i -an Australian Citizen. It’s sad but the Baha’is in Iran are nowadays being persecuted by the government and also spreading false hatred about them. But I think this was done to Zoroastrians too. For some reason the negative forces seem to dominate history.
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Lynne Salter made a comment
I look forward to getting plenty of information no matter how many eons it covers.
I intend to travel to Istanbul in September and found their history’s full of centuries of death murder mayhem and war.
I’m hoping for a bit of peace and harmony with the Zoroastrians!
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Lynne Salter made a comment
Hello guys
I am a member of the international faith-the Baha’is of the world founded in 1844 in Iran by the Bab & His Blessedness Baha’u’llah.
I am interested in all religions from Adam to nowadays. I was taught that the Three Wise Men were sent by Zoroaster to welcome and bless the Christ Child. A very strong connection to show that each religion should... -
Lynne Salter made a comment
Sounds interesting. Thank you
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Don’t forget pulses too. Lentils, kidney beans etc {;-). Thanks for your inclusive comments Neal. You made this course interesting for me. All best wishes-Lynne in Carnarvon Australia
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My main worry with cooking & eating every meal with family and friends which is great but there a possible tendency for all the women to get stuck with food prep! It takes a great organisational mum & dad to insist that everyone -top to bottom- Young & old, male & female- Help each meal. Good in theory often hard in practice.
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Lynne Salter replied to Pat Cuthbert
Hi Pat I blame all those intense cooking programs shoving recipes from all over the world down our brains & throats! Ohh of course I love Chinese, Indian & Japanese foods but I feel someone like yourself probably needs to keep it simple. A chop with steamed vegetables and fruit salad with yoghurt & maple syrup. In the lockdown people did simple floor exercises...
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Lynne Salter made a comment
Van Leeuwenhoek(1632-1723)
He ground his own lenses and wss one of the first people to observed microbes
Most of the "animalcules" are now referred to as unicellular organisms, although he observed multicellular organisms in pond water. He was also the first to document microscopic observations of muscle fibers, bacteria, spermatozoa, red blood cells,... -
Yess. So true. I’m a Roman history nut & often think how the wealthy Romans were shown as fat arses who were selfish and a bit mentally unstable, probably due to their v rich diets while soldiers and plebs, & slaves ate a basic diet with fibre & plain foods.
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Lynne Salter replied to Louise Huggett
Hi guys
Well I am a Dr Michael Moseley follower & his recommendations say to only have say 3-4 tablespoons of say lentil sprouts or grated carrots etc a day. There’s plenty of things that have fibre that won’t bind you up.
Like cabbage (sauerkraut), bran and oats. Sprouts are yummy & I sprout my own. Good sprouting! -
Lynne Salter made a comment
A few years ago I heard a talk by wonderful Dr Michael Moseley! Taking about gut influences on the brain & how we can stop those voices in our head telling us to buy lollies, cakes and sugary things by eating lots of roughage like lentils and sprouts & pulses- just a few grams a day. So that’s what I do.
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Lynne Salter made a comment
Maybe if people stopped drinking booze, & sugar coke, ate better and flossed and cleaned their teeth regularly there’d be less tooth decay.
Also alcohol abuse. My sister in Darwin is an alcoholic but a ‘functioning’ alcoholic but has no teeth left. She basically eats mush most days.. soft foods- haha. -
Maybe if people stopped drinking booze, & sugar coke, ate better and flossed and cleaned their teeth regularly there’d be less tooth decay.
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Also alcohol abuse. My sister in Darwin is an alcoholic but a ‘functioning’ alcoholic but has no teeth left. She basically eats mush most days.. soft foods- haha. Not sure about Medicare but I’m with Bupa and it’s got Dental provisions. And it’s great but I am a pensioner which may change things? Maybe if people stopped drinking booze, & sugar coke, ate better...
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My eldest son a few years ago had a mental breakdown from stress at his work. And one day he was taken by police to a mental institution. He hated it there and after he was released I got him to come home for a while to see if we could help him. I was shocked to learn that he was so busy at his work that he mainly ate instant noodles!! Now I know how awful...
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Lynne Salter made a comment
I had a friend when my kids were little whose daughter would scream and throw tantrums if she couldn’t eat all day & night. She was just uncontrollably hungry. And fat!
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Lynne Salter replied to Neal Baker
Yes people over fixate for sure! I feel it’s because of our modern instant gratification Syndrome. There are foods I never knew existed in my childhood (like avocados) readily available in all supermarkets in Australia now. My grandkids have avocado on toast with almond milk on muesli etc. Home baked croissants in the school lunch box & sushi for dinner! And...
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And salt too {{;-)
