Artist’s rendition of the September 11 Memorial and Museum, the two squares are the former foundations and basements of the North and South Towers.
A group of alumni, highly established in their careers, got together to visit their old university lecturer. Conversation soon turned into complaints about stress in work and life.
Offering his guests coffee, the lecturer went to the kitchen and returned with a large pot of coffee and an assortment of cups: porcelain, plastic, glass, some plain-looking and some expensive and exquisite, telling them to help themselves to hot coffee.
When all the students had a cup of coffee in hand, the lecturer said: “If you noticed, all the nice-looking, expensive cups were taken up, leaving behind the plain and cheap ones. While it is normal for you to want only the best for yourselves, that is the source of your problems and stress. What all of you really wanted was coffee, not the cup, but you consciously went for the better cups and are eyeing each other’s cups.”
“Now, if Life is coffee, then the jobs, money and position in society are the cups. They are just tools to hold and contain Life, but the quality of Life doesn’t change. Sometimes, by concentrating only on the cup, we fail to enjoy the coffee in it.”
So please, don’t let the cups drive you…enjoy the coffee instead.
just a Q (Submitted by Cameron)
I am just wondering what your stance as the youth democrats of Australia, on issues such as same sex marriage and rights within family and contractual law etc.
btw. You guys are doing great keep going :)
Cameron, our stance on said subjects most definitely aligns with the policies of the Australian Democrats. They can be found here http://www.democrats.org.au/policies/.
This nation, so caught up and comfortable with the normal two choices it has seen itself presented with over the past 109 years, now, more than ever, needs another. We see opinion polls telling us that more Australians are turning to the Greens because of their severe dissatisfaction with Labor and the Liberals. But the best choice for Australia, the best choice for tomorrow, the best choice to light this nation’s path into the darkness and uncertainty that is the future, is the Australian Democrats.
We are the middle ground in Australian politics. We are the voice of the people. We represent the accumulated, modern advancement of humanity. With a political landscape dominated by the old, ignorant, unwieldy juggernauts that are Labor and the Liberals, we represent the future.
This party, so doubted and downtrodden and forgotten by the dissenters and the ignorant, is the embodiment of that most noble of all Australian ideologies: the fair go. We represent the future. We represent equal rights. We represent humanity and this planet we call home.
Intemporaliter Questio Parilitas;
Eternally Seeking Equality.
Australia: Nanny State
http://www.theage.com.au/travel/travel-news/life-ruined-by-customs-porn-confiscation-20100602-wymn.html
A Melbourne man says his life has been ruined after Customs officers took his hard drive from him because it contained pornography.
Customs has recently started asking incoming travellers if they are carrying pornography in a bid to block illegal pornographic material entering the country.
Ross Mansfield had his hard drive confiscated a fortnight ago when he was coming home from a holiday in the Philippines.
“They said I had some suspicious material on there.
“I said ‘I forgot to remove any porn because my friends in the Philippines, they download it, they’re mutual friends’.”
Mr Mansfield says despite the suspicious film was nothing more than standard porn.
“They (Customs) are violating my rights,” he told AAP.
The Gaza issue; update
The NSW Young Australian Democrats would like to clarify their position in light of recent evidence indicating:
- Both IDF personnel and protestors acted violently and in a matter inconclusive to the cause of peace;
- The Israeli government offered to disembark aid and transfer it under the supervision of the protestors as early as a month ago; and
- Israeli troops boarded after repeated warnings and did not carry live ammunition in their original embarkation
It has been long-standing Democrats policy to call for the United Nations to take a strong and principled stand in an effort to stop one of the greatest conflicts of our generation. The Young Australian Democrats reaffirm this commitment and their belief that peace can only be achieved in the region with the intervention of the United Nations. The Young Australian Democrats therefore call on the UN to initiate an immediate peace-keeping force in order to protect both Israeli security and to ensure that all Palestinians can live free of intimidation and restrictions.
The Young Australian Democrats wish to express their heartfelt sadness at the loss of life and call for an Independent Investigation to be conducted and all parties to abide by the decisions of this investigation.
Hyperbole, accusations and conflicting information makes this situation impossible to resolve without the intervention of the United Nations, and the Young Australian Democrats call on all nations to ensure that such intervention happens in a timely and reasonable manner.
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