In New Zealand it’s the massively embarrassing haka, an aggressive war dance trotted out at every opportunity. Now following suit, major sporting fixtures in Australia are preceded by a platitudinous speech by a part aboriginal, accompanied by an appalling drone from the world’s least musical instrument, the bloody didgeridoo.
This woke tokenism is spreading rapidly in Australia. Consider this.
Recently work on an $18.7billion gas project, in a remote northern location, scheduled to power 8.5 million homes over the next 30 years, was stopped by the Federal Court. Why?
Because a part aboriginal women with that fine old aboriginal name of Raelene Cooper, complained that the drilling would upset so called Spirit Whales, these being mythical creatures according to indigenous legend.
Raelene gave evidence that according to fable, the spirit whales tell fish what to eat, when to mate and so on, and upsetting them would cause marine chaos.
The idiotic judge, while neither confirming or denying that spirit whales exist, ruled that Woodside, the huge mining corporation involved, must stop work and consider the “cultural harm” of proceeding. We in New Zealand know how that will be resolved, namely by money which will apparently appease the spirit whales.
But in laughing at this crap, we must remember that western society is equally guilty of exactly the same silliness, in our case of fictitious religious mythology, notably Christianity.
While its impact is fast diminishing, it still inhibits our lives in numerous ways with restraints on Sunday activities and so on. In short, for all the amazing technological advances of modern society, humanity is still bound up in primitive mythology that defies any rational explanation.
Sir Bob Jones is a renowned author, columnist , property investor, and former politician, who blogs at No Punches Pulled HERE - where this article was sourced.
Because a part aboriginal women with that fine old aboriginal name of Raelene Cooper, complained that the drilling would upset so called Spirit Whales, these being mythical creatures according to indigenous legend.
Raelene gave evidence that according to fable, the spirit whales tell fish what to eat, when to mate and so on, and upsetting them would cause marine chaos.
The idiotic judge, while neither confirming or denying that spirit whales exist, ruled that Woodside, the huge mining corporation involved, must stop work and consider the “cultural harm” of proceeding. We in New Zealand know how that will be resolved, namely by money which will apparently appease the spirit whales.
But in laughing at this crap, we must remember that western society is equally guilty of exactly the same silliness, in our case of fictitious religious mythology, notably Christianity.
While its impact is fast diminishing, it still inhibits our lives in numerous ways with restraints on Sunday activities and so on. In short, for all the amazing technological advances of modern society, humanity is still bound up in primitive mythology that defies any rational explanation.
Sir Bob Jones is a renowned author, columnist , property investor, and former politician, who blogs at No Punches Pulled HERE - where this article was sourced.
17 comments:
And let's lump in the scientists who insist that something can actually come from nothing ... almost as good as the whale story.
Actually, it's the religious who believe that something came from nothing when their Superspook waved a magic wand to bring everything about. They even have a Latin phrase for it - 'ex nihilo'.
It's a word game defining 'nothing' - even empty space is 'something' if loci within that space can be defined using coordinates.
A question - when NZ Land Transport (NZTA) decide to "throw money at a Council, to bribe them to create cycle pathways, in the most impossibly places within a City"- can I ?? invoke "a Mythological Being/ Spirit/ thing-a-me" (fantasy - could go nuts here)- to ensure that the intended work is -
- either delayed
- subject to Court Legal issues
- made a subject of irritation for all
- then "filed in the 2 hard basket".
Yes what we could learn from Raelene Cooper.
So money does indeed talk..... fact not fiction !
PS But there is the result of The Voice referendum which records the political will of the people. For the moment, this protects Australians from legal idiocy.
The Taniwha that was blocking the construction of the Waikato Expressway was lured away by waving several million dollars of $100 notes.
In a similar way the bad karma from mixing waters was alleviated by NZ Steel using million dollar notes when they started discharging Waikato water into the Manukau Harbour.
Don't forget the whole acknowledgement thing in Aus.
And don't forget the non women boxers ( whatever they are) in the women's events in the Olympic Games. Regrettable if there are a few genetic/ woke alphabet people who pay the price if they are excluded, but the alternate is approx half the human race.
Maybe we should check in with a taniwha or a spirit whale.
But pleeease ...not the haka.
From the goo to you by way of the zoo am I right, Barend?
It's beneath me to comment on puerile comments like that. You stick to your intellectual level and I'll stick to mine.
Would be an interesting project to see the correlation between the haka and family violence
A Haka party performed under the Eiffel Tower during the Games = to showprivileged status.
Move over world - Iwi is in charge ( on the NZ pax payer dollar).
How apathetic can the average NZ get?
Bob you were completely right about idiotic mythology in Maori culture and aboriginal culture but you are completely wrong about Christianity. Anyone with an open mind looking at the creative world can see that it’s designed. Anyone who denies that is a fool . As the Bible says “a fool says in his heart there is no God.“ it’s pretty straight up isn’t it.
>"Bob you were completely right about idiotic mythology in Maori culture and aboriginal culture but you are completely wrong about Christianity."
That should read "Bob you were completely right about idiotic mythology in Maori culture and aboriginal culture but you are completely wrong about idiotic Middle Eastern Bronze Age mythology in Christian culture because that's what I was told about as a child."
Yeah, right.
Bobby-baby, sometimes you make such sense, but now, not so much.
I never expected to agree with The Naenae Kid, and am therefore especially glad to find we are in agreement about the stupid ritual of haka.
I lodge my contempt for his attitude to the religion on which our civilisation is based.
That's a first class example of a tautology in your last sentence Bob. Idiot mythology exists because there is no logical explanation for some things. Mythology attempts to explain the unexplainable and fails so more mythology is created to explain the mythology - and fails - so more mythology is created - so it goes...
Well said, the Bible was written in or about the 10 century. Thanks Rome.
Many prophets have come and gone .
Next time you go to the blue mountains, ,pop down to some of the caves and take a minute to appreciate aboriginal art dated approximately 45,00 years ago.
And their God was.,?
Newsboy should enrol in a Religious Studies 100 class. The words "the Bible was written" give the game away early on as we are dealing with a compendium of writings that stretch across many centuries and were compiled into a volume with annotations such as authorships (absent in the originals a lot of the time - and not many originals were primary sources anyway) by committees in the 4th century and at other times, hence the number of books varies from 73 to over 80 (and then down to 66 for the 'Protestant Bible' much, much later).
The question about the Aboriginals having a capital-G 'God' is question-begging. In reality, primitive peoples were animists - they attributed natural phenomena to a plethora of 'nature spirits' or 'small-g gods'. They were also henotheists - they acknowledged the existence of the gods of other tribes. In some instances they even tried to curry favour with those 'other gods' because of anticipated benefits. This explains why Christianity and Islam were snapped up by so many primitive peoples - they did not abandon their own gods but took a new one on board because it was obviously a very powerful one.
I do not speak from any partisan viewpoint as I am not a religious believer, but I do think it's important to get these things right. Call me an academic puritan if you like.........
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