Random thoughts from Jakarta

Pondering whether the Islamic religion in Indonesia promotes violence it occurs to me how schizophrenic Christianity has been, oscillating between old testament-style blood and gore against all perceived enemies with the occasional nod to the teachings of Christ. I’m not making a point. Just noting.

Unrelated, to allow people to annoy you, you have to sort of occupy their body with yourself, to some degree. Withholding such a transfer does everyone a favour.

And only vaguely related, a prophet or a guru that teaches others is using that process as part of their journey, the one that never ends. You just have to be wary of the teacher that is stationary. The best pupils aren’t – they find their own path and teach by accident.

Back to location – Indonesia mean “Hindu Islands”. The religion here used to be mainly Hindu before Islam took over. The word Hindu derives from the Indus river which itself gets its name onomatopoeiacally from the noise made by certain frogs that used to inhabit it’s ancient banks.

And finally, with three million Australian tourists a year, Bali has at any time about 60,000 of the breed present, making it the 26th largest population centre of Australians.

It’s not like Australia doesn’t have tropical beaches or rainforests to visit. The primary attraction of Bali is the mostly harmless and cheap labour source (aka servants), helpfully accessed by cheap air transport.

The retarded development of a nanny state in Indonesia must also be a secondary benefit because it allows unlicensed drink driving on motor scooters; a dark desire of all Australians.

It’s a bogan convict colonial hippy surfie illusion.