adversary, opposition, exclusion, hatred and love, this is australia… by david jarvis

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Imagine that we have two parties. Party one is a genuine person wanting to grow their sport. Party two is a genuine and rich person. Party two has worked hard for their money, position and status and they feel justified in protecting their wealth and status, indeed they want even more wealth, status and power, just like party one somewhat does too.

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The fortress of exclusion and the ivory tower. Photo by Виктория on Pexels.com

Along comes party one, with a genuine interest in getting something done. They love their sport and want to grow their sport. In their heart they actually just want fair pay for fair time spent and to give their clients a fair deal.
Party two has most of the power in their sport and they are disinclined to share their power and wealth, so they just ignore party one. Party two feels justified, after all, who is this party one to be so enthusiastic about their sport, and claiming they need help straight away, they should do it all themselves. That is what Party two feels, that they had to do it all themselves, so party one should have to do it all themselves too!

Party one keeps going, they do all the normal business type stuff, they advertise, they engage with community, they work, work and work some more. They spend money frugally upon the equipment they need for their service provision, they upskill themselves in their knowledge and experience.

And that does work for party one somewhat, but somethings or someones is getting in the way, or the community doesn’t like them, or doesn’t want the growth of that sport, or party one just isn’t very effective. Party one discovers they are in hardship. So they say.

Hey party two, I really need help please, can you help me?

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Help me please : Photo by MART PRODUCTION on Pexels.com


Party two goes, nope, we aren’t even obliged to help you because such n such. (fundamentally party two just does not care particularly much about party one). Party one is outside of the walled zone of the boys club that exists in that particular industry/field.
Party one points out that party two has the means to help and its constitution expresses it should help the wider sporting community. Party one is factual but blunt, party one is super keen and passionate and that is actually right in the face of party two.

Party two remains uncaring and ambivalent. Party two does not trust party one and never did! Party two wants to protect their established interests, maximise their service provision towards their existing client base whilst minimising costs everywhere else.

Party two continues to ignore party one, not even returning phone calls, non replying to emails, and misinforms party one about party twos constitutional requirements. Maybe party two does the old “we have a massive project on elsewhere and thus cannot assist you at this time. maybe later.”
Mean while party one continues working, but discovers that their resources are thin and getting thinner. Party one has plenty of time and motivation, but no one else is helping substaintly, i.e. the offered help is trivially tiny or actually just creates even more costly obstructions. Party one is going broke literally, not manufacturing that outcome, but actually going financially broke, eventually they’re losing motivation and the community around them are seeing that happen.

Party one = Hi, I really need help, please can anyone help me? I’ve put in hoards of effort, Ive made some headway, but have run up against some obstructive attitudes and everything has stalled. What can I do please?

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I’m dying here, please help. Photo by Anna Shvets on Pexels.com


Party two, continues to ignore party one.
Party one, hey, really, things totally suck here, I am struggling, I can’t pay the bills, my advertising is being removed or I can’t even get advertising up at all!
Party two, silence.
Party one, look I am making a complaint about party two, your own documents say that you’re supposed to be helping stakeholders in our sport widely, and engaging with them, but no matter what I do, you won’t even meet with me and work together.
Party two, I am not required to even notice you, not required to answer your calls, not required to reply email. You have been too enthusiastic, you’ve asked me questions I do not want to answer. I am not available for the foreseeable future.

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Stonewall : Photo by eberhard grossgasteiger on Pexels.com


Party one, yes you are required to reply to me, that is in your own expressions of constitutional requirements.
Party two, fascinating, perhaps you should read these other documents about the really cool stuff we are doing over there!
Party one, hey they are really cool things you’re doing, but none of them help me right now, and your existing documents reveal that you are supposed to engage with the wider community and be inclusive, transparent and caring with all stakeholders in our great sport.
silence… birds chirping.

Party one, I raise a complaint about party two, party two aren’t meeting their own documented and advertised standards, please work with me.
Party two, silence. (i do not even acknowledge your complaints, party one are clearly manufacturing this situation in an effort to dictate terms to me and thus force or coerce me to provide a service which we are disinclined to provide at this time.) We have lots of friends, cough, we have lots of other stakeholders in the industry and are assisting them at this time and thus cannot assist yourself.

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Boys exclusionary club : Photo by Maria Lindsey Content Creator on Pexels.com


Party one, fair crack, i tried to engage with you right from the beginning and I have been obstructed for over a dozen years, by other parties, and now you are doing it too!
Party two, nah mate, i wasn’t even employed in this role a dozen years ago, that’s not my issue. I just don’t like you, go away, you have too much energy and passion and I am ashamed that you are more passionate than myself, and secretly glad that you are failing. So I am really happy that your failure is now nice and public. I maybe, might, if so inclined, swoop in at some time, when you are totally broke and then I will give the dog, that you are, a bone and then maybe, just maybe you will have learned your place and that we are the top dog in the whole country and you have to obey everything we say, or risk not even getting a bone from us.

Party one, look, i didn’t create this situation. I engaged with yourself at every stage, meet all your requirements, worked both with party two and the local community here and within the existing schemes, please help us out, I love our sport lets move forward.
Party 2, we have other things going on right now, I don’t have the time to meet with you. I am glad you love our sport, you should keep loving our sport and keep working without our help (or here is some tiny little bit of help from our very stretched resources)


Party 1. You are required to engage with the wider community, that is in your own published documents.
silence, birds chirping.

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the dog eat dog world of the adversarial system which industry, business and sport has created, the uncaring attitude of people who want their stuff for as cheap as possible and are quite content to let other people do all the work, whilst themselves reap the benefits at some later date.

It is called, oversight and government. I know the business tactic is simply this, make the client pay for all the costs or you will go broke, that is just normal business strategy, a fact of life.

Just like if you want to pay your employee $30, then you’ll need to make them provide $60 of revenue or the owner of the business gets not particularly much.

So that is why the volunteer industry uses volunteers, because that industry doesn’t have to pay the volunteers!

So that’s what brands and value adding does, it facilitates the “clients” falling in love with the brand, and then just uses them for wealth creation. Standard business strategy.

Some businesses actually care enough to set fair profit margins, others simply want to totally maximise profit but make it look like they aren’t just all about profit – because looking like one is all about profit, is not good for profit. Others of course go bust, and of course other stuff happens to, like those whom manage to provide a quality service at a fair price/profit and thus develop longevity and good will reputation.

If “we” give the dog a bone, they will guard the yard the bone is in for a lifetime.

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The Lazy Dog, overfed and not hungry for improvement. Photo by Creative Workshop on Pexels.com

Some hold that, just don’t over feed the dog, or they’ll get lazy and disinclined to guard the trivial bone we gave them.

the volunteer industry is fundamentally about using people to the fullest most maximal capacity to maximise the wages of the staff employed by the “non-profit” organisation. That is known, that non for profit organisations actually pay even higher wages than more normal businesses and industry.

After all volunteers cost sweet naff all, which leaves even more money for the employed staff.

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Waffling on squash and the silence of medical negligence claims compensation in Australia

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G’day, in the video presented here you will discover my enthusiasm for squash competition within the squash sa local home and away series in south australia, my home land. I also present educative information about the way that medical negligence compensation payouts also bind the victim to longer term suffering by silencing their freedom to discuss the matter. When it is proven in a court of law that medical service providers have been negligent and the court orders a payout, or the service providers insurer makes offer of compensation for the harms done by the medical service provider, one of the terms of the situation is to bind the victim to eternal silence about the negligence of the service provider.

Thus the victim discovers they can’t even discuss the matter with friends and family or they may be litigated for breaching the terms of the compensatory payout. Just think about that, the victim gets hurt, they must prove their suffering, they do prove it – extensively in years of legal argument, investigation and stressful cross examinations – and then when they finally win their case and receive a payout, they aren’t even permitted to discuss the matter ever again.

It is like punching someone in the face, and then being bound to silence about the assault. Silence breeds violence. Speak up, rise up, stand up and utterly refuse to be silent about these issues, we are utterly unstoppable, and I am still here speaking the words of truth.

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Let us talk about intuition by Caspian Helm,

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This blog post does not constitute as medical advise, instead is an opinion of an intelligent individual.

Readers can reach the author Dr. Traditional Chinese Medicine Caspian Helm BaHSc (Acupuncture) through his facebook profile linked in his name >>> Caspian Helm <<<

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Is your light switched on?

Let us talk about intuition.

Your gut instinct, or belly brain.

How does it guide one through every day life?

Have I felt, sometimes directly preceding a transformational experience, a feeling inside my body, seemingly trying to get my attention?

It could be labeled, to try and better understand it as fear, apprehension, thrill.

Or it could be felt as; queasiness, butterflies, pulling, tugging or tightening,

Or heard as rumbling, grumbling, moaning and gurgling.

This is your body, your animal, or corporeal self, trying to send your rational self a message that something is not right, that you need to pay heed, now.

The old maxim ‘the body never lies may hold a grain of truth.’

Sometimes as academically ‘unqualified’ individuals or lay people (as termed by the scientific community) we look outwards, giving our power away to ‘experts’.

Of course, there is a need to listen to emerging and current science to become more informed and change or eliminate certain time-honoured traditions and beliefs, practices and habits. Behind current and emerging science are researchers who have spent a lot of time studying various phenomena, testing and retesting hypotheses and drawing conclusions. This painstaking and lengthy process has contributed to the western medical practice that we know today.

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Anatomy and Physiology, and the gut instinct!

Yet, the body is immensely and mind-bogglingly complex, and it mirrors the universe in this respect. To begin to understand or predict the myriad possible effects from any given medical intervention (cause) and its repercussions (effects) on the functioning of the body is very difficult indeed. That is why medical treatments are trialed over long periods of time and a wide epidemiological spectrum to fully understand their mechanism of action, short and long-term effects. Even so, some variables are missed and the effects can be far-reaching and sometimes disastrous for the individual.

Medical science has helped a great many and has saved countless lives, yet it has also hindered a great many and killed or caused long-term harm. It is not a perfect and benevolent God, without fault, but rather a constantly changing, evolving, well… science.

Science and medicine is constantly marching on, in its tireless battle against the minuscule, the agents that are deemed to cause our body disease; bacteria, fungus, and viruses. Yet there are other ways than waging war against the enemy. We have to learn to live and coexist with these things as there are many, many, viruses and bacteria living within us, on us and around us.

Without reflecting inwards, facing towards the feelings, thoughts, and knowing, which comprise our experience in this world and therefore our inner truth, we cannot know the best course of action, or inaction. We cannot being to know the root cause and the manifesting effect.

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Reflecting mirror of your own humanity

And therefore calamity, ill health or suffering which may have been averted, is amplified in our experience sometimes as warning signs we are not on the right bus.

Without trusting ourselves, we are very easily led, in a blind and hopeful daze, to conclusions and statements that are not our own, but someone else’s, those with possible obscured agendas that are not in our best interests at all. This can often be the mainstream narrative. And as it is a narrative, it can be rewritten and rewoven by hands that have touched the soil in caring toil, hearts that have lived and loved through experience and grown wiser and stronger, minds that have been sharpened with the flint of suffering, and observable experience, and lastly a soul that is untempered and tranquil by the fires of modern trends and fear.

Like the external science, the internal science, of our intuition and beliefs are constantly being updated and change moment to moment.

By paying heed to these feelings and voices within we begin to collect the clues as part of an ongoing detective hunt. The only requirements and qualifications for this detective hunt, Is being a thinking, feeling human being, living on this big boulder, hurtling through the vacuum of space we call Earth.

This uncovering of the dross and noise to reach the best truth, likely a more realistic term than the absolute truth, which I am sure no one can agree upon.

As we look around society and observe what is happening, in society, the outer and inner science we start to piece these clues together, building a more complete picture, which begins to resemble the best truth.

We CAN re-assess our beliefs, our thoughts, as our brains are malleable and constantly changing.

This requires a delicate touch of humility, wisdom, a ‘beginner’s mind’ as termed in the eastern science.

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We may now pay heed to our intuition, and when something doesn’t feel right, it probably isn’t right. Our belly has a queer feeling, it starts to gurgle and growl ‘Listen there young jedi’ (or, whatever term you would like to be addressed by your second brain)

‘You have to pay attention to what’s around you, because you are in danger, your partner, your family is in danger, your brothers and sisters and sons and daughters. Your kith and kin is at great risk!’

Your inner world as well needs to be assessed and held in balance against your observation of the external or outer world.

Are we being hunted by lions or tigers or bears? For the majority, not usually.
Should we label these tiny disease-causing agents enemies? Should we be waging war with them? Trying to kill them by rubbing lotions on our hands at every minute? Or blasting antibiotics into our systems at the merest sniffle? Muzzling ourselves with masks so that we can not breathe or speak freely? Trying to run and hide from them, in darkness and confusion and isolation? Injecting experimental gene therapy technology into our blood streams?

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Or are our enemies those that wear suit and tie, In plain view, putting profit before the safety of the people? We hear their empty words, and we watch to see if they hold their words and promises in honour, often times they do not.

This is direct observational experience and we understand that we are deceived, yet do nothing.

All of the things that help us to become stronger so that these microorganisms won’t plague us with such ferocity have been slowly ridiculed as pseudoscience and been cast aside.

The ‘experts’, ‘professionals’, those who have the ‘knowing’, that ‘know best’, ‘know’ what is in our best interest. Are laughing behind closed doors at us all.

We are not children.

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Access to sunlight, community, even exercise, our right to work and earn wage and find purpose in this world. Our right to move freely and connect with the land and by extension mother nature around us have been taken away or threatened to unless we succumb to the authorities.

The above medicines have been proven without a doubt by science to help us, to strengthen us, so that these micro armies will not cause as much harm to us.

We cannot run from these tiny creatures, we cannot hide from them, they are everywhere, living in the air, on our skin, in our hair, and in our bellies. They are a part of us. They are our micro biome and they equal and may even outnumber our own human cells.

We can also overcome them not by war, but by making ourselves stronger, feeding our mind good thoughts, our bellies good food and drink, our beliefs, an equal measure of curiosity and trust. And soon we will be living in symbiosis with them.

We need to trust ourselves.

We cannot trust the suit and tie, whom have repeatedly lied to us. We need to trust ourselves, our own breath and pumping heart. The radio says ‘we cannot trust ourselves; we need to trust the experts, We need to do what the experts say, or else.’

Well that be damned!

Of course there is a place for Western medicine, it is an invaluable aid to infections, injuries, and life threatening conditions, but we need to proceed with caution, there is more medicine than just antibiotics, and they all have their place here on earth, and the choice should always remain with us, with you. We are the experts of our reality, we stand in our truth and we have a body to care for. If we care for this body, strengthen our minds, trust our intuition and are informed by the external science and evidence we are helping to the most vulnerable amongst us, and that is the mark of a rapidly evolving civilisation.

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