Here's a bit of current wisdom, Richard. Exhibited by the Fair Work Commission - who would have expected it?
Melbourne street cleaner Shaun Turner has successfully challenged his sacking by Darebin City Council, after he was dismissed for questioning the use of an Acknowledgment to Country at a weekly toolbox meeting.
Turner objected when the council introduced the ritual into meetings for the street cleaning team, saying he believed Australia’s servicemen and women should be thanked instead.
"It is now being done at the opening of a postage stamp,” Turner told council managers. “I don’t need to be welcomed into my own country.”
For me it is a tricky concept, but you are helping to unwind it.
Appreciation of beauty is part of what might be understood as Lewis’ suggestion as being the critical basis of a relationship with a god, a maker, a founder. Whatever it is that brought or found us here. Call it what you will, recognise it as you will. We are after all here, something made that happen.
Lewis seems to be suggesting that unless we are able to see the beauty of any portion of life - which includes anything which is alive, souls available to anything living, not just us - we might fail to have sufficient coherence to either remain alive, or move ahead to the next stage. That’s an interesting if worrying concept.
Here's a bit of current wisdom, Richard. Exhibited by the Fair Work Commission - who would have expected it?
Melbourne street cleaner Shaun Turner has successfully challenged his sacking by Darebin City Council, after he was dismissed for questioning the use of an Acknowledgment to Country at a weekly toolbox meeting.
Turner objected when the council introduced the ritual into meetings for the street cleaning team, saying he believed Australia’s servicemen and women should be thanked instead.
"It is now being done at the opening of a postage stamp,” Turner told council managers. “I don’t need to be welcomed into my own country.”
https://www.rebelnews.com/worker_wins_unfair_dismissal_case_against_woke_council
CS Lewis. The abolition. Thanks.
For me it is a tricky concept, but you are helping to unwind it.
Appreciation of beauty is part of what might be understood as Lewis’ suggestion as being the critical basis of a relationship with a god, a maker, a founder. Whatever it is that brought or found us here. Call it what you will, recognise it as you will. We are after all here, something made that happen.
Lewis seems to be suggesting that unless we are able to see the beauty of any portion of life - which includes anything which is alive, souls available to anything living, not just us - we might fail to have sufficient coherence to either remain alive, or move ahead to the next stage. That’s an interesting if worrying concept.
So far he seems to have nailed it.