Nungali

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  1. Don't worry be happy?

    I will try to help here ... he is saying 'truth' ( alone ) is syncategorematic . :)
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    Some how this chair got into my Chiropractors treatment room as a 'waiting for her' chair . You wait in the waiting room, then its your turn , you get to the treatment room and then you have to wait there ???? Most chairs have the cross pieces for the back rest , flat side facing your back . Not this one , it had the edges sticking out and the pieces attached as if they were shelves ... totally the opposite of every chair I have ever sat on, The edges dug into your spine and the gaps between vertebrae . I asked where it came from and she said they were spare chairs from her house ... so, they were non indigenous migrants to he treatment room . I explained my dislike of them and the reasons and ... fer gawds sake ! ... in a chiro treatment room of all places ! She said I was the only one that seems to think that . WTF ? after a few other incidents like that , I stopped going . Now go to an osteopath ... he has sensible chairs in the waiting room ... when you do get to go into the treatment room , thats when the treatment starts ( not have to wait there as well ) Why ... wait here ... now come in.. but wait there ? What ?
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    Down here in Oz we have certain unique dynamics that can assure 'indigenous ' , like, it is pretty certain now and backed up by a lot of research that the indigenous Australian Aboriginal can be certainly termed indigenous as they were the first people here . That's a rare (supported ) claim . The confusion rises with the idea of modern indigenous ; what is accepted as indigenous here : It relies on 3 things ; Proved descent, self identification and community recognition . problematic ; due to lost and stolen generations , some may look obviously Aboriginal but not know ancestry . There is also the issue of % of ancestry ... it doesnt apply ! One ancestor ( going back to whenever ) is sufficient to claim indigeneity. Self identification ... curious , I just need to declare I think I am . It also means no one can say you are , if you dont agree . And community battles or fights or rival claims can make the leaders of a community 'not recognize' (or not issue a certificate of recognition ) to others . So, with myself as an example ; I cant prove descent * , I did not in the past, but am moving towards identifying as indigenous ( due to above * and also the following ) many times Indigenous community have insisted I am Aboriginal , BUT they were not the people that I might have descended from and with the other group, that generation of elders has gone now ( that insisted I was Aboriginal ) and the new people cant seem to recognize it or even are aware of my past work with the old elders . * as far as I can track ; paternal Grandfather came out from England expecting promised land of milk and honey ... not so . Ended up as a cane cutter in Queensland , then went out west to do remote mining . Somehow ended up with some woman and 3 kids ( not sure if they all had the same mother ) . Looking at history .... what were women doing out there ? A great shortage of women for the miners . Chances are she was indigenous . But that was all covered up . Grandfather came to Sydney with three kids and a relative of his had an in law that felt sorry fo them and stepped in to help . This was the woman I thought was my paternal grandmother (until I was in my 30s ! ) It would be funny if it turned out she came from .... https://www.victoriadaly.nt.gov.au/timber-creek/#:~:text=The first inhabitants were the Ngaliwurra and,of whom still live in Timber Creek. [ I did not know of these people when I chose this name ,,,, its a pun in local language about a goanna lizard (gungali ) and the main myth of this valley (Nungli ) ] I still have trouble with it as I still 'visually identify ' people ... nowadays this is a big no-no ; In Australia , there is no "blood quantum" or minimum percentage required to be recognized as Indigenous. The legal and community standard does not measure "how much" descent you have (e.g., 1/4 or 1/16); rather, it focuses on the fact of descent from the inhabitants of Australia prior to European settlement Which means some dude white as snow might be considered , but some guy 'black as' that could not get the records or community acceptance might not be One reason I dont pursue the claim ; all sorts of people are doing it to get special benefits reserved for the indigenous . I have never had to suffer any thing or need that as the system never assumed I was indigenous . The other reason is .... 'special' types of Aboriginals instantly recognize me as 'one' . The ones that do not .... seem to have lost something ( by that I mean they seem more 'westernized' and less 'magical' ) .
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    It will not become an indigenous chair of the office until it has eliminated every other chair that was there before it . Then the new office chair can make an edict to forbid any other chair that is different from a dining room chair .... I mean ... an office chair ... coming into the room ;
  5. Malo - The Octopus God .

    Gee thanks Cobie, its always good to get some intellectual feedback on such detailed and insightful discoveries ! ... those are 'air rings' in water ('bubbles' some call them ) .... they just blacked out the water to enhance the visual motions involved and I used to be able to do them when I was a dolphin , so there If you want some more lols ... watch the video and you will see a volcano blowing smoke rings .
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    What do you mean 'what is going on with them ' ??? They are a bunch of islands in the Torres Straight . between Cape York and New Guinea , the Islanders are the inhabitants . They constituent one of two groups of indigenous Australians . perhaps one thing 'going on with them' is ; Like the mainland indigenous they showed, at around a similar time , a unique solution to a social problem , perhaps the only historical account we have of a people causing nation wide social change and implementing a new system , not because of disaster , conquest or invasion , but by intelligent insight . what has Lemuria got to do with it ? One 'Lumeria' was a postulated land bridge supposed to exist between Madagascar and Africa , the other is the submerged parts around Sri Lanka ; Shiva's Brdge or 'Ram Setu' .
  7. Image for Fire Horse Year

    I am wondering where the horse got them cool sneakers for his front feet from .
  8. Image for Fire Horse Year

    Dont you mean 'I am going to edit out all my posts ' ?
  9. Image for Fire Horse Year

    Well lets make it all yangy then with headbutting swans .... or I suggest daobums show the year of the fire horse by pitting an aardvark up there , better still, this little guy ;
  10. Image for Fire Horse Year

    I prefer the ones that don't look like a panicked and combusting horse trying to cross a field of lava
  11. Image for Fire Horse Year

    Dude ! Do not feel up my horsie either ! .
  12. Image for Fire Horse Year

    We got one of them down here ! (Well, had one of them, maybe she is dead by now ? Its important to give yourself a cosmic sounding eastern like name ; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jasmuheen ... except her name is Ellen . '' Jasmuheen has stated that she has lived on approximately 300 calories per day for the past fourteen years, maintaining full health through supplementing a fluid intake with "cosmic particles" or "micro-food", which she describes as prana. '' Except ..... '' Regarding her intake of food, Jasmuheen said:[5] "Generally not much at all. Maybe a few cups of tea and a glass of water, but now and then if I feel a bit bored and I want some flavour, then I will have a mouthful of whatever it is I'm wanting the flavour of. So it might be a piece of chocolate or it might be a mouthful of a cheesecake or something like that." In the aftermath of the 60 Minutes broadcast, Kathy Marks noted in The Independent, "Visitors to her large villa in the prosperous Chapel Hill area of Brisbane invariably find her refrigerator generously stocked with food ... '' If you went to one of her seminars ; Ambassador Training Retreats: For in-person intensive events, such as those held in locations like Mexico, the "investment" can be approximately US$1,200 for the training itself, plus accommodation and ....... wait for it ...... food costs. Total packages have been listed at roughly US$1,999 to US$2,222.
  13. Image for Fire Horse Year

    Dont you dare try coaxing my horsie into your 'Everything is Breath Cult '!
  14. I was laughing at this bit . Not at the rest . Please dont go ! ( Thats what men say to women after they have been an idiot to them )