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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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... -
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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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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... -
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I wondered if the Middle Persian is also called Farsi?
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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... -
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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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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! -
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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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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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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!
As the girl grew up she became violent and would bash up her mother who had to go to hospital a few times. It was scary & it was hard to know where to get help? -
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 {{;-)
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That’s a big jump from vinegar [vin(wine)+agre(sour) in French] to junk food!!!
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I’m sure Margaret that it’s not too expensive to just start a personal diet by one’s self. My daughter in Perth has found she has allergies to all dairy and now sugar and cinnamon etc so she’s adjusted to drinking almond & coconut milk & using almond meal & oat flour etc in bread & her husband eats gluten free foods. Luckily these new style foods are readily...
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I think we need to investigate the soft spot -the rotten heart of the artichoke! We need to look at fashion trends, body image, and the effect on girls (& boys) of too much junk foods, crap tv shows like the Kardashian rubbish & Big Brother that portrays bad moral attitudes & impossible body images.
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Lynne Salter replied to Neal Baker
I think you hit the soft spot Neal- the rotten heart of the artichoke! We need to look at fashion trends, body image, and the effect on girls (& boys) of junk foods, crap tv shows like the Kardashian rubbish & Big Brother that portrays impossible body images.
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Hi gal. I support all you say. I just like meat & like to get protein that way. I support vegetarianism (not Vegans) & encourage it.
But I donate to a school in the Himalayas where they educate children who have been rescued from Indian brothels! And I hate Putin and support the release of Julian Assange. We are both strong women & want the best for the... -
Thanks Susan. I hate the death of humans as in wars and crimes etc but farmers have raised animals for butchering for millennia it’s an ancient part of society that will take decades to wind down. It starts with each of us & you’re doing your bit. I think till humans stop all wars, slavery, child prostitution, human trafficking, corrupt politicians and...
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Lynne Salter replied to laura B
Thanks Neal. Love the spelling of your name…@NealBaker
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Food and mood can include addictions and overeating. We are learning so much to help understand ore about healthy diets… so good
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I don’t drink alcohol or smoke ciggies. Haven’t since I was 25 when I had my babies, and became a member of the world faith the Baha’is. I don’t like fruit but eat a lot of veges and snack on carrots or avocado. I eat some meat and do Intermittent Fasting all year.
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Lynne Salter replied to laura B
I have been checking the details of my foods too cause lately I have been breaking my fast in the morning with beetroot. I love love love it. So I have it at every meal lately.
But v glad to find it’s-
Packed with essential nutrients, beetroots are a great source of fiber, folate (vitamin B9), manganese, potassium, iron, and vitamin C.
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I live in a small out back town in Western Australia where
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Hey, I’m in my 70s and eat a bit of meat plus a lot of veggies. Do not drink cow’s milk (drink soy milk), got all my teeth & am really healthy but disagree with all those long lists of horror stories about farms. As I said before. Have you lived on a real farm? There’s too many false stories spread by sensation seekers. I think in the future we’ll become...
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Yes I found him on Amazon Au- so England too
‘The Fast 800’ is Moseley’s latest and I found a video on You Tube of Moseley talking about the do’s & don’t’s of fasting intermittently-good luck -
Just wondering- I suppose as a doctor you’re aware of the possibility of cannabis affecting a person’s mental health? My son had mental problems because of it & Was shot dead by police in Sydney while self harming with a knife. You seem so sensible, is it harmless for some people?
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Yes for sure! I used to live in Darwin where it’s so boring. The main exercise they get is the arm muscles- lifting the pop top on a beer can & guzzling the lot in 10 seconds! And they wonder why many of them drop dead at 60
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Hi margaret
I hate the way those idiots- the police rule our lives in Oz. It’s a medicine not a drug.
Look at the Nimbin Hemp Embassy for oil. It’s cool
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I find taking Melatonin really helps me to sleep. I buy it on line cause it’s cheaper
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I feel that these generations are consumed with material things… ie the great number of hoarders needing mental therapy & the lack of spiritual empathy as is obvious in politicians.. The workers of the world do all the hard work and are not recognised. Poor people cannot help it but are looked at with aspersions.
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Yes my son had a mental break down and was so intelligent he tried to hide it but one day the stress burst his brain and he started self harming with a knife in the kitchen. The Sydney police came to our house and mishandled the situation. The police woman in charge ran into my house, shouting Taser but pulled her gun •by mistake and shot my son in the back!...
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Hi Lilly just wondering- How do people get social services in China to help a poor person get $$ support to live a simple life & stop stress? @lilyL
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I am living in a small town in outback Australia and find there is a group of native people who are affected by the memories of the stolen generation & drink & take drugs. It’s a v bad environment that affects their lives & family functioning such that girls drink too much alcohol and the babies are often FASD. Which ruins them for life!
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My son developed a mental disorder in his 30s and was self harming with a knife when a police woman barged into my kitchen shouting Taser, Taser but pulled her gun by mistake & shot my son dead!
I have had PTSD since then and many of my family too.
I have since found out from a family friend’s son that they smoked Marijuana at 16 & it’s now suggested that... -
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I often wondered how those poor Gauls survived the invasion by Caesar’s troops, way back then? How much mental strain was impacted on those societies. Caesar killed over 1 million people and destroyed cities and made a motza when he sold many more to slave traders who enslaved thousands of women & children.
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Lynne Salter replied to Nick Emery
Yes Nick. It’s all part of the game of life. I feel work and going to work should be a thing we like to do - it makes us happy & of course makes money. That IASP definition is mainly a starting point to describe pain. I have recently gotten a sensitive tooth that I am ignoring cause the thought of the cost of the dentist is more painful haha
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Lynne Salter replied to Ishie Stewart
I agree. European colonisation has been and gone. But try telling that to that idiot/mass murderer Poo Poo Putin! @StephenGale
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Have you read work by Dr Michael Moseley. It’s been a great help to me to help e change my crave eating.
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One of the biggest destroyer of a foetus is alcohol. In Australian native women there is a big number of FASD (Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders) children who are mentally dull all their lives. Alcohol is the big problem then sugar drinks and salty snacks. @AndreaBurke
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Hi there gal. It seems you are unhappy about a long list of these horrendously awful things that farmers and growers have done to our food but if you live on a farm as I have you’d see how much hard work these basically wonderfully dedicated human beings put into just getting food to the markets. It’s a 16 hours a day hard slog. There’s a lot of anti farmer...
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I find it difficult to moderate my diet to stop eating sugar and sugary foods so I use Stevia in my cooking, stop drinking cow’s milk and eat less meat and eat more veges. I’m on a SSRI (since my son was wrongly killed by police) & even though I try to wean myself off the antidepressant… I find it difficult to stop completely. I guess my diet and mental health...
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Lynne Salter replied to Kay I
I agree. Who ever is funding the basic research may have an influence but we must have funding and hopefully these institutions are capable of remaining honest and forthright. I just saw a doco on how poisonous Coke drinks are, how destructivethe sugar drinks can be but the people said (after having all their rotten teeth removed) that they couldn’t stop...
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Lynne Salter replied to Nick Emery
Who is Sapolsky when she or he’s not at home Nick? @NickEmery
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Lynne Salter replied to Nick Emery
True Nick. Watching ‘Call the Midwife’ is a real eye opener and an idea of how people really did work hard to survive @NickEmery
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Lynne Salter replied to Margaret St.Leger
What you say is so decidedly true but… we need to be open minded and have a love of humanity. We cannot fix the problems of greed, poverty & all by being negative. I am a member of a world peace organisation -the Baha’is of the world. We work on the basic level of social justice and spiritual sustenance of the heart. We work with youth and children to give...
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Sugar is addictive and in the end acts like a poison in the system.
I saw a US documentary on Coke drinks where they showed children with rotten teeth from drinking Mountain Dew in baby bottles & onwards. The teenagers had their teeth removed but would not stop drinking it. -
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I agree with the 3 Cs!
I just heard a great Billy Connolly joke about compassion
How do we deal with a sticky situation? Before you judge a man
-walk a mile in his shoes-after that who cares?
He’s a mile away & you have a new pair of shoes.
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I live in hope that people can develop a sense of love for their fellow mankind and stop the nasty actions that seem to occur still every day.
But I often wonder what hope is there for humankind when there are examples of people being completely selfish and self interested like Putin and his thuggish ways of ruling Russia, and putting people in their place... -
I agree James. But I often wonder what hope is there for humankind when there are examples of people being completely selfish and self interested like Putin and his thuggish ways of ruling Russia, and putting people in their place like homosexuals etc.
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There’s an organisation that helps save children
Maiti Nepal (Nepali: माइती नेपाल) is a non-profit organization in Nepal dedicated to help rescue children from brothels & the victims of human trafficking. Currently, Maiti operates a rehabilitation home in Kathmandu, as well as transit homes at the Indo-Nepal border towns, preventive homes in the countryside... -
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I am always shocked by the Australian government’s hard line attitude to migrants and boat people!
These people are often hard workers and willing to take jobs that the local Australians wont do.
I know migrants look at Australia & figure there is so much land but actually the middle of Australia is a big inhospitable desert where there’s very few towns.... -
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It seems like a very sad job to keep statistics on the death of migrants. I guess if their country was safe they would not try to take such a dangerous option to escape
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Displacement of migrants is not new.
After WWll the British government lied to thousands of children that their parents were dead and send these innocent kids to Australia where they were put up for fostering homes or placed into organisations that regimented them into often horrible government ’homes’.
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As a member of the Baha’is of Australia (& the World) I feel close to the English translations of the Writings that were originally revealed in Arabic and Farsi (Persian) by Beloved Baha’u’llah and His Majesty the Bab. There are many persecuted Persian Baha’i people that have left Iran and sought to live peacefully in other countries like Australia.
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I have tried to learn other languages so I can travel the world.
But as I get older I am really happy that in most countries the second language spoken in most countries is English!
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I am an Aussie and Australian through and through. I love our nasal sounding strine lingo and am proud to be able to speak it as good as the worst speakers in any part of Australia! Beudy bottler mate! We love a sun burnt country and its peoples too.
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There is also children who are sold to brothels and the not for profit organisation Maiti Nepal rescues children from brothels and I donate to a school to help rehabilitate children. Very worthy cause@JamesSaunders
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I am very proud of Malala’s strength and vision for the promotion of women’s rights to be free to travel around unhindered by male bigotry, express their opinions and to be educated
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I think it’s difficult to make people change their ideals of all human’s rights to exist in a place of harmony and peace.
I donate to a school in Nepal called Maitl Nepal a non profit organisation dedicated to help rescuing children in brothels & the victims of human trafficking.
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The state must be there only to serve its workers, citizens and the country’s interests- NOT the interest of their greedy rapacious over-blown capitalists and politicians
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As it seems all countries feel they can get away with falsifying information on the Internet - even the so called land of the free…USA, it’s quite a shock to them when a person like Julian Assange fights the big fight and releases on the Internet, the truth about all these countries’ wrongs! I am on the side of truth and justice for all, so therefore I am a...
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When two people or countries argue- they are both wrong!
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I think there needs to be a highly moral and basically honest method to measure traditions and traditional cultural processes. We need to evaluate them with a view to honesty, truthfulness, love, friendly assessment of their value to the cultural integrity of a community and how these traditions impact on a community’s ability to allow equality of women and...
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I feel we need to acknowledge a person’s cultural background and allow them to be free to live in another country other than their homeland but we must not try to misuse or take advantage of these other citizens with multi cultural backgrounds. Such as cheap labour or not recognising their overseas educational qualifications. Politicians seem to have a...
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I loved my visit to Cairo and the Pyramids of Giza but it was funny because we are Baha’is & we’re travelling from Haifa to Sydney via Egypt. My husband said to keep our Shekels to spend(change) into Egyptian pounds. Haha what a joke. The Egyptians don’t like Jewish things so we couldn’t change them in Cairo or Sydney. I had to send them back to a friend...
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What is this a guessing game of guess the city? At first I thought it was Vancouver BC because you didn’t say Sydney straight up hehe.
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Hi I agree both cities are very well developed but just wondering-is the connection still as strong since Brexit has been enacted?
