I wanted to express my feelings on this very important time in the history of the world.
The Voice is so much more than a handshake. It is an opportunity to acknowledge the sacrifices and courage it has taken for our First People to reclaim their culture and teachings and to then share them with us, the descendants of the invaders and others.
It is this that has lifted the ignorance and helped us understand the deeper nature of life, listening to our inner voices and living a simpler, gentler life respecting the sacredness of the land. In awakening to this truth and learning to understand these teachings we receive a sustaining, eternal gift, whereby we too then have a responsibility to share it, like ripples in the ocean.
It is our deep gratitude for this that needs to be expressed by all of us. All of Earth’s wisdom keepers’ teachings are what can save humanity from its mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual destruction if we listen to their voices. Ironic, isn’t it?
Perhaps, in the bigger scheme of things it is our oldest people who hold the key to uniting humanity… boy oh boy, what a destiny.
This is how it feels to me! We need to honour their voices from the depth of our hearts.
I want to vote ‘Yes’ in the hope it is this awareness that is the eventual outcome.
Humbling, isn’t it?
Nope. No one is stopping them learning their language and culture, in fact they can get govt grants for such things. Perpetuating the ‘noble savage’ myth, however, is a special type of dehumanisation.
Maybe no-one is stopping them now, but…..
It was stated government policy & the stated aims of every “christian” missionary to eliminate languages & culture.
So many language & culture groups have been lost & eliminated by these practices.
I can’t see where anyone is perpetuating your claimed myths. It’s a bit rich when you’re a serial antagonist determined to have a usually irrelevant opinionated say on everything & are claiming Julie’s letter is “dehumanising” while constantly denigrating the whole Voice proposal.
You simply do not wish to understand. This is what has been harming Aboriginals.
Y E S!
I feel so humbled Julie, so humbled I will have to vote NO.
Recognizing, and so respecting. the sacredness of the land – indeed, of the whole cosmos – isn’t possible for anyone steeped in the mainstream paradigmatic mechanistic materialism currently destroying this planet.
i.e. they won’t listen because they can’t hear. A blinkered horse walks only in one direction.
Yes it is. Live in a remote community for a while. We have a foot in both worlds, which allows us to evaluate them against each other in an honest way. Then we are ignored by concrete treading hippies with heads full of utopian idealisms.
You’re not too steeped. Congratulations.
Realism and adaptability are hallmarks of survival in the desert.
Good point
God what a lot of hypocritical comments here from these oppressed white men.probably call themselves christian but with comments like this I don’t know what faith. Just bullish.. comments, nothing positive or offering of solutions just vitriol.