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02 Feb 2021, 7:43 pm

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Conflict that lead to massacre

The massacre of approximately 30 Wirrayaraay people at Myall Creek on 10 June 1838, the subsequent court cases and the hanging of seven settlers for their role in the massacre were pivotal in the history of the relationship between settlers and Aboriginal people. The Myall Creek massacre was the first and only time the colonial administration intervened to ensure the laws of the colony were applied equally to Aboriginal people and settlers involved in frontier violence, and the first time Europeans were executed for the massacre of Aboriginal people.

Despite instructions from the British Colonial Office to treat Aboriginal people with goodwill and kindness, competition for land and resources invariably resulted in frontier violence.

In response to the intensifying conflict the colonial administration ordered settlers to defend themselves and ordered Aboriginal people to stay away from European settlements. Aboriginal people were increasingly viewed as a serious threat to settlers and it wasn't long before settlers took things into their own hands.

The massacre at Myall Creek was the culmination of a series of conflicts between settlers and Aboriginal people in the Liverpool Plains region. The twelve men responsible for the massacre included freed men and assigned convicts that had spent a day unsuccessfully pursuing Aboriginal people. When they came to Myall Creek station they discovered a group of Wirrayaraay who they rounded up and tied together. A few minutes later they were led off and massacred. Two days later the men returned to the scene of the crime to burn their victims’ remains.


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03 Feb 2021, 2:40 am

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The Ugly History Of The Native American Genocide That You Didn’t Learn In School.

Among other things, the colonists and the U.S. government perpetrated warfare, mass killings, destruction of cultural practices, and separation of children from parents. Clearly, many of the actions taken against the Native Americans by the United States settlers and government were genocidal.

Not only did the United States commit genocide against Native Americans, but they did it over a period of hundreds of years. Ward Churchill, a professor of ethnic studies at the University of Colorado calls it a “vast genocide… the most sustained on record.”

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03 Feb 2021, 2:57 am

Yeah.
What can we do now?
I guess acknowledging it, to all its painful extent, could be a good start.
Without it, chances for learning and doing better are tiny.


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03 Feb 2021, 12:35 pm



"'He' And or 'HeR' Went to An Only Place Folks

Don't 'Believe'; Perhaps, An Only Place Folks Will See"

Yep, Providence of 'Words' Still Now;
Written Collectibles, Killable Intelligence,

Human Clothes/CuLTuRaL Tools; A New

Hobby of Dressing Up the Rest of Nature;

Attempting to Own it Like a DEAD THING With

No Free

Breath

Imposing Our

Will On the Rest of

Free Nature Breath;

Where Taking Replaces

Giving; Hoarding Replaces Sharing;

And Yes, Indeed, the Pathogen, the Pandemic

Of Human Suffocating Clothes Imposed By Will

On The Rest of Nature, Including Disease We Spread

to Cultures Of Humanity, Yet to Be Introduced to a New

Way of Destroying More of Nature Giving Over Taking, Hoarding Over Sharing

Humanity

The Only

Species 'Smart'

Enough to CuLTuRaLLY Transform Themselves

So, So Far Away From Small Groups of Naked

Tree Dwelling Even Altruistic Loving Apes

In Balance; Friendly With The Rest of Nature;

Yet Morphing

Into Words;

Other Tools

Of Clothes; Finally

Housing A Real Potential

of Nuclear Bombs to Erase

Ourselves forever from This

Rare Potential Sliver of Heaven, This Earth Now

Coming More in Truth of Dreams to Give And
Share Naked More than Lies of Nightmares Housed
in all the Clothes Humans Wear from Words to Nuclear Bombs

To Genocide

Our Whole

Species Far Beyond

All the Millions of American

Native Indians, 'Pilgrims White'

Erased From the Lands Here; Stalin

Same; And Hitler In Their Genocidal Human

CuLTuRaL Pandemics; Yes, True, General CuLTuRaL

Similar Conditions...

Anyway, if We Are
Successful In Erasing

Our Taking And Hoarding

From this Earth Not a Trace of
Us Left; Nothing 'Left Behind' in 300
MiLLioN Years as the Earth Takes a Trip Back

to the 'Virgin
Island'

Before

'THE

SiN'

'SoiLeD By
HuMaN Viral CuLTuRES'...

Taking Hoarding Greed SiGNaTuRE

Of A Species Far Out of Balance Nature Will Eventually

Regurgitate; Cleansing Back, After Another Enema of Existence....

Is There Another Way;

Yes, Many Other

Ways As Many

As TrutH and Lies continue to Wear...

Human, The Only Animal That Lies And Makes Nightmares Come Real...

Indeed, THere is as an Original Sin of Nightmares oF LieS; And Truth

Ascending, Transcending to Dreams Come True (THiS HEaVeNoW)

Yet No

Other Animal

On the Planet

Is Fallen This Way Except Human;

Strange PaNDeMiC This Condition to

See and Breathe

For Real....

In Nightmares
Yes And Dreams For Real...

What's Left to Do, Dance And Sing

Like Heaven In Hell As LonG As This
Peace; This Sliver of Heaven or Hell We Co/Create Lasts...

Don't Worry

About the

Rest; Nature

The Real Karma

Is in Charge; Or Do

Change And Survive....

Even

Thrive

Like me

In Heaven Now...

To Each Her And or HiS OWN Reaps...

-"Master Chief Aghogday"-

i'm Real You May

Even Google me

With Quotes Hehe...

23andme Says i originate

Partly From Nigeria and South
Asia; Additionally As Family Legend Has it From

An Indian Princess As That is Originally

Just Another Princess

Myth...

Yet

Again

i Am Real....

And As All the Empirical

Evidence Reveals Clearly Thriving

in Heaven Now....

Naked

And Free

At Best

We aRE ALL

Indigenous

Natives Whole

Not Separate

From All of Existence
Then at Least Individually

We may Ascend, Transcend;

Remove All the Lies of CuLTuRaL

Clothes And Dance As Sun Reflects Moon We BREaTHE NoW;

Yes, Best to Be
A Free

'Moon

Child'

Feral
Wild
Savage

Loving Indian Again

With WingS ONly Holding

Spirit of what We Feel and Sense Real Most Life....

This

Breath

THiS oNLY Gift NoW...

Unity Free Providence Peace
LoVE iN Sanity Now For All Or All Exclusions
PRiSoN Realities War iN HaTE iNsanity... Conditions

Always Revealing

Now....

For

Real

Other than That
'The Spirit in the Sky'

Breathes Within for Real Alive;

Yet Only For Those Who Find A Real Meal And Feast;
A Never Ending Celebration of Heaven Within Eternally Now;

Yet, Still

Wait for
Nothing

If one
Likes

And Or

Loves Nothing Much

Many Surely Do Still Now....

Always Waiting For 'GodOT' to Appear
Somewhere Over A Rainbow of Life Into Death...

Funny

And

Sad

Beyond

Words

How

Different

Folks View

A Metaphor of 'GOlD'...


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04 Feb 2021, 3:10 am

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05 Feb 2021, 5:53 pm

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The Katyn massacre[a] was a series of mass executions of nearly 22,000 Polish military officers and intelligentsia carried out by the Soviet Union, specifically the NKVD ("People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs", the Soviet secret police) in April and May 1940. Though the killings also occurred in the Kalinin and Kharkiv prisons and elsewhere, the massacre is named after the Katyn Forest, where some of the mass graves were first discovered.




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05 Feb 2021, 6:11 pm

The history of early mankind is full of violence.
From caveman times, to Vikings/Celts/Native American Indians, Inca's, you name them, very few cultures were completely peaceful and free of war.

I still believe that violence is an animal trait, or at the least, lower minded trait.
If people were honest, fair, decent, and didn't exhibit destructive emotions,
perhaps the world could do without violence.

Unfortunately the human race is plagued with destructive emotions
and it is these destructive emotions that cause us to act.

If eventually the human race were to learn to control their own minds
then perhaps then, we could divorce our violent primitive natures.

This would take considerable implementation on a global scale, training children from
an early stage to control their mind, and then all through life, people would need to continue to
practice such self (mind) control.

But this will likely never happen, due to the present war of religious philosophy that exists in the world.
Thus we shall be doomed to live in chaos forever



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05 Feb 2021, 6:15 pm

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Chinese Torture Atrocities: Beheadings Death by a 1000 Cuts. Note: Mao's Wife Demands the president of China be tortured to "death by 1000 cuts."


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25 Feb 2021, 1:31 am

madbutnotmad wrote:
The history of early mankind is full of violence.
From caveman times, to Vikings/Celts/Native American Indians, Inca's, you name them, very few cultures were completely peaceful and free of war.

I still believe that violence is an animal trait, or at the least, lower minded trait.
If people were honest, fair, decent, and didn't exhibit destructive emotions,
perhaps the world could do without violence.


In what universe? 8O

madbutnotmad wrote:
Unfortunately the human race is plagued with destructive emotions
and it is these destructive emotions that cause us to act.


The evolution process.

madbutnotmad wrote:
If eventually the human race were to learn to control their own minds
then perhaps then, we could divorce our violent primitive natures.


Not in our lifetime.

madbutnotmad wrote:
This would take considerable implementation on a global scale, training children from
an early stage to control their mind, and then all through life, people would need to continue to
practice such self (mind) control.


Never going to happen.
Evolution needs to start from scratch. ;)

madbutnotmad wrote:
But this will likely never happen, due to the present war of religious philosophy that exists in the world.
Thus we shall be doomed to live in chaos forever


I wouldn't say it would never happen, but it is a world of genetic manipulation I don't want any part of. 8O



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25 Feb 2021, 1:40 am

Blood Meridian or The Evening Redness in the West is an insightful read if you have the stomach for it.