Sheree

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Urgent Letter to God

November 13th 2009 22:00
Dear God,

I want to talk to you about a rather serious matter.

Over the years of my life I have noticed a pattern and have drawn a conclusion that neither you nor me have ever wanted to reach let alone acknowledge as valid but the time for pretending that there is no elephant gallivanting around the room is over. The time has come God, for us to address this rather serious problem we have on our hands.

Look, I recognise that the quality of the male population in the universe is a diluted shade of shitty and you have very little quality to work with here - I´ll give you that much. But if only you could just use a sieve device or some kind of discerning blender, to purify that organic pile of shit that we call the ignorant and useless other Half of Humanity-slash-Opposite sex, life would just be that much easier, people would walk out and smell roses everywhere, roses growing out of tarmac and flying from the sky.

Furthermore you would be saving me and many other Eve descendants from having to sort them out ourselves into the towering pile full of morons to be avoided at all costs, instead of simply and carefully placing them within the boundaries of the scantily clad non-moron pile which is so threadbare there are balls of hay rolling around the place and crickets chirping and some gay men telling us our outfits don´t match, adding insult to injury.

It´s not pretty God. You don´t take pride in your job any more. You just make this clay ball and call it Adam, forget to add the Cerebral cortex in the head region and the rest of us have to go on dates and stomp on genitals with high heels to make up for where you went wrong. Genital stomping is a difficult thing! Well I wouldn´t know see, I haven´t tried but just one more sexually inappropriate comment on the street and there´s no telling in which direction my super high fly kicks will go. Does anyone really want to stick around to find out?

It´s not right. How many Chinese take away boxes suffer the throes of the bitter and heartbroken female? How many tubs of icecream? I have three words for you. Television series DVDS. At least I think that´s three words, I´m not entirely sure, could be more. But THAT is what we have been reduced to, God. Think of the environment. No one ever thinks of the environment. Except the Greens and women everywhere. Global warming is man´s fault, so the headlines read. Not surprising at all. Lack of brain functioning activity can do that to a planet. Yes I know you gave us Obama and we´ve given him awards to acknowledge that he is different, no pun intended. But is it enough? And anyway Michelle Lady Obama has fantastic dress sense, you simply can´t give it all to the one woman! WHAT WOULD JESUS THINK?!?!?! Oh that´s right, we´ll never know because you went and killed the only good guy in the world!! NICE ONE.

Sorry God I didn´t mean all that. Please don´t strike me with lightening.

Sincerely yours and cowering in fear at your feet,

Shazza

ps. locusts don´t sit well with me either. If you have to plague me, do so with raining chocolate. Lindt perhaps? Just a suggestion. Not looking forward to this delicious plague. Oh alright, I´m pretty excited now.
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'ZOOM IN! ZOOM IN DAMMIT! WHY WON'T YOU ZOOM!??!'
I’m not usually a fence sitter. It’s uncomfortable, and eventually, one side is always going to look more tempting. In this case, I’ve pitched a tent with the anti-world youth day folk. However at night I’ll jump to the other side and party with the best of the pilgrims (not really, but work with the metaphor here).

A lot of my indecision stems from being raised Catholic and then spending a lot of my adolescence hanging around Maronite youth. At high school it was cool to be Catholic. But my all-girls-private-school-Cath olic-upbringing led me to believe that being Catholic was the right way. This way we got the best of both worlds. In touch with the world and reality, our Catholicism was one of social justice. Our founder was a woman who defied the church and was excommunicated as a result. Our Catholicism was wholly feminist and radical. Senior girls handed out Communion to their fellow students. Students read out homilies. Students organised liturgy. In the classrooms we studied women in the Church and women in other religions.

We studied the Bible differently, interpreted things differently so that it made sense to young people today. I watched the most disbelieving come to some sort of compromise in those classrooms. Religion wasn’t mocked or discriminated against. Cynics existed but they debated rationally and there was always room for more debate and questioning. No one had all the answers but that was okay because the overall answer was this hybrid spirituality that embraced other religions and embraced reality.

Enter university. Suddenly, no one gives a toss about your ideologies and beliefs. One professor gives a convincing lecture and the next thing I know I’m telling my radical Christian boyfriend that I’m an Atheist. The shock horror on his face leads me to change this statement to a declaration of Agnosticism.

Three years later. World Youth Day is upon us and I have 20 years of religion behind me. I have lists and lists of friends on Facebook who are excited and eager to meet an old man who is trying to connect with them. I’ve met some foreign pilgrims that I really loved hanging out with. I want to vent my true feelings about why World Youth Day feels like a farce but I can’t bring myself to do so. There are all these people I don’t want to let down, there’s the past gnawing at my conscience and there’s the fact that my ex boyfriend sounded so happy on the phone just now. I could hear people screaming with joy and elation. I told him to have fun.

Not going is my protest and it’s a pretty loud statement too. No one has asked me why I’m not going which is a relief, but I keep expecting someone to pick up on it. Sheree – the greatest defender of religious freedom and practise?

But what I loved most about my Catholic upbringing was the social awareness. Years have passed and little has changed on the social justice front. Condoms and the Catholic Church. Aids in Africa. Women’s rights. Abuse in the Catholic Church. Censorship. These are all important issues that we can’t ignore. The money being poured into World Youth Day could have been used to perform a few Jesus like miracles in the Middle East or in developing nations in Africa and South America. The affluent can celebrate, but who benefits in the long run?

Maybe we’re looking at this the wrong way however. What if World Youth Day was the turning point? Isn’t it plausible that things could change? The trick is not to stop the Catholics embracing their faith. It’s to let them be festive and merry in the hope that such fervour will spread and change old mentalities. If the youth can’t do it, then who can?

A girl raised her hand in class and asked my favourite teacher that if things are so bad with the Catholic Church then why don’t we just leave?
My favourite teacher responded ‘but then who will remain to fix the Catholic Church? If you believe strongly in something, it is better to stay and fight’.

I guess it’s time to swallow my pride, put my cynical hat on the rack, get off the fence and admit that maybe World Youth Day isn’t such a bad thing after all.
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Sorry I've been slack in the blogging world this past year. I will try to do better dear readers who still happen upon this blog in my extended absence. Meanwhile, just to fill in the awkward silence, I will post a preview to an article I'm writing.

Cheers my dears!

Sheree




A Thousand Ears that won’t listen

I arrive at the pearly white gates of the New South Wales Parliament House, although come to think of it, the gates may have been more of a golden shade.

I imagine that St Peter or Moses had come to greet me in the form of two security men from the New South Wales Anti-Terror Squad, there to allocate me to either eternal damnation or eternal salvation, depending on which way you look at it.

‘Which party are you here for?’ one asks, the scrawnier of the two.
I respond with,
‘I’m not sure. I guess the one commemorating the Nakba’
I am greeted by blank faces.
The signs on either side are not helpful, although the one marked ‘Jubilee’ has a sense of joy attached to it.

It’s also significant to mention that the Jubilee sign is to the left-hand side of an important political institution.

The two men continue to discern which direction to send me before finally asking in mild exasperation,
‘Are you here for Israel or the other one?’
Palestine. Is what they should have said.
I reply curtly that I am with Palestine and veer to the left, but not without first commenting amicably that separate entries is a taking it a bit too far, with remnants of the apartheid echoing silently, to which they replied with ‘But this is Australia!’
The irony is lost on them.

My name is Sheree and I am here to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the Nakba (‘Catastrophe’), the dispossession and expulsion of the Palestinians from their homeland. I walk in with trepidation but what greets me is a reassurance that I took the right, (Left), path.

TBC.

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Extremists R Us

March 8th 2008 00:32
One of the chant leaders was Eitamar Ben-Gvir, a prominent right-wing activist from Hebron.

"The Government doesn't care about us. They take out Jews from their homes and give them to Arabs," he said. "America is helping the Arabs kill Jews. If America wasn't pressuring us to be gentle, we would kill them all
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I write this with trepidation.


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One woman was knocked to the ground as the media pack hurriedly followed Mr Howard as he faced questions over industrial relations, education and this week's interest rate hike.

It is not known whether the women was knocked over physically or by the sheer nerve of John Howard's policies


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Flip Flops Are More Than Just Thongs

November 3rd 2007 02:10
All this talk of flip flopping in the election makes me think of a pair of thongs.

I'm not entirely sure why


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It was in the 1997 film 'Paradise Road'

I watched it back when I was too young to appreciate her but I fell in love all the same with her heartfelt and strong performance. Then over the years my respect for her increased somewhat when I noticed that out of all the celebrities on the red carpet, she was the one who stood out with classic garments and a flawless appearance excuding grace, elegance and beauty


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Taking One for the Team

October 16th 2007 03:44
SO WE HAVE AN ELECTION DATE.

Not only will I delay my trip to London to make sure I am in the country for this MONUMENTOUS OCCASION *touch wood!* but I will dance naked on the streets of Bennelong if and when John Howard is unseated by the lovely Maxine and Labor comes back into power


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Recent Comments

Comment by Sheree
on The Gripes of Wrath – World Youth Day

July 15th 2008 05:18
Well I tried asking wiki ask, but no one seems to know? Funny thing that.

I guess you could do a google search. But it's when the Pope comes to town and the pilgrims follow. Oh and it's for young people!

I would like to know how this makes him a bigot?

but then, I guess that's why I'm the journalist and he (Israeli Ambassador) is the puppet zionist propaganda machine. Best to stick to our defined roles.

Comment by Sheree
on It's a Holocaust, After All

April 26th 2008 02:56
Israel's onslaught to date can be considered worse than the original crimes which perpetuated the need for a Jewish state.

I say that entirely with no hint of exaggeration. Israel should not be recognised as a legal state.

Comment by Sheree
on Extremists R Us

March 17th 2008 00:45
That's very true Raven. I wish people would stop blaming religion for these conflicts. It's so blatantly about profit and land and it always has been.

The extremist nutjobs wouldn't have a religious bone in them.

Damo - the story of Palestine is a great story about revenge tragedy. I hope it ends soon.

Comment by Sheree
on Long Limbed Goddess Unseats The Devil's Eyebrows

November 30th 2007 02:00
Well I don't know.

He is a war criminal, I suppose he should be tried accordingly.

Being fired from the job and booted out by a woman doesn't seem so bad in comparison to what he deserves!

Comment by Sheree
on Long Limbed Goddess Unseats The Devil's Eyebrows

November 26th 2007 07:48
Lilla,
I hope there's no official time limit on when we should stop partying and get serious and critical again. Because if it's okay with everyone in the world, I'd like to go on partying until NYE (btw, the general consensus on saturday was that election night is WAY more exciting than NYE).

hahaha where they bennelong! good one!

Stanley: she is articulate, charismatic, educated and driven. You cannot get a better person to hit the final nail in the coffin of the Liberal party. Let's worship her together!

Comment by Sheree
on Long Limbed Goddess Unseats The Devil's Eyebrows

November 26th 2007 07:44
Damo,

Now now. Mr JW Howard was quite the looker in his time.



.......



*pukes blood*

I could only hold that face for so long.

Comment by Sheree
on Long Limbed Goddess Unseats The Devil's Eyebrows

November 26th 2007 07:42
Optomistic Opportunism,

Do you mean fanatical? Ohhh shucks to them, let us be fanatics together. She is sublime, a goddess on so many levels, a female journalist from the ABC has done the inevitable. It's like a segment from a dream where we don't have to wake up.....*sigh*

Comment by Sheree
on Starting to not care if he wins or Loses.

November 24th 2007 00:08
Ahh foggy. I wish I had the time to respond in full to your post.

There's a great analogy in response to your first point.

In a burning house, do you ask the people inside to go out the front door, if there's a serious chance that they risk their lives to exit in the conventional manner?

or do you forgive them if they choose to jump out the window?
queue jumpers are not necessarily criminals.

We cannot paint all refugees and asylum seekers with the same brush, without knowing the situation and the political context from which they flee. Not everyone who reaches our shores should do so with fear of incarceration.

I agree with everything else you said but warn you that the terrorists we should be wary of are not coming here in boats. They're being supported by the current government.

Comment by Sheree
on Starting to not care if he wins or Loses.

November 23rd 2007 23:44
I'm giddy with excitement. FIRST TIME VOTER, LONG TIME POLITICAL COMMENTATOR/ PROVOCATIVE JOURNALIST/ARM CHAIR POLITICAL EXPERT/AGITATED BANTER WITH CLASSMATES/ MISCHIEVOUS TROUBLE MAKER IN ONLINE FORUMS/BLOG/and wherever else I can make my voice heard.

Finally I can make it count.

Today's the day comrades!!!

I don't buy their crap Damo. A racist pamphlet is a racist pamphlet. Their true views have been uncovered.
time's up. Let's vote those bastards out.