Political Solutions
I also have a web site with a lobby group and many suggestions that aim to help overcome some of the country's problems. It is at advantagein.com/politics. Some of the solutions include fair wealth sharing, lower costs, more good regulation and less bad regulation. There are Christian values, and a more efficient and fair system using the best available methods. Solutions to help small business are included. The webpage contains ideas that many people do not think of.
Personal
I live in Tolga, which is a small rural town in North Queensland, Australia. I was born in Atherton. It is a pleasant safe area on the Atherton Tablelands near Cairns. There is more information on another website of mine at tolga.info . Since losing my leg I have been living with my parents. I have three sisters and one brother. I am 36 years old and have never been married. However I would like to be in a relationship with a girl at some stage. In some ways it would be nice to get married. I am seeking committed Christians for friendship and I would like to have a close relationship with God. I have some strong views but I am willing to change them if I learn something different. I believe that we need to keep an open mind, be honest and seek the truth. I spend a lot of time on the computer answering emails and writing. I also continue to work on many different inventions.
History
At school I was interested in pursuing a Science career. I had an obsession to get high marks and to try and excel. As a result of the pressure of the education system I didn't continue past Grade 12, despite getting a very high TE score. Some of the maths and physics that the majority were not interested in, I found very useful. I became an inventor afterwards, where I used many of the applications. I had an interest in statistics and enjoyed practical mathematical problems even after I left school. I got on well with most of the teachers and I still like to talk to them.
Although I used many of the things that I learned at school, the majority of things learned were impractical and added to the pressure. If we had been taught more practical things it would have been more enjoyable and challenging. There are much better options than the mainstream education system where everyone would enjoy their work and learn only what is useful for them. This would enable people to be positive and interested in what they are learning.
After school I attempted to get a local job in an office and to become a salesman. I tried visiting the local businesses, but no suitable positions were available. I then tried to get into network marketing. It sounded good but after some time I realized that there were too many people working for it to be viable, and like almost all small businesses, there was no clear profit. I then thought that I could personally discover a more accurate way to forecast the weather. Many times I was right and predicted more accurately than the Bureau of Meteorology. It was very time consuming to go through and find similar patterns. I was also selling some carnivorous and indoor plants. Then I became very interested in bush walking and climbed most of the highest mountains in far North Queensland, Australia near to where I was born in Atherton. I would take the opportunities when perfect weather arrived to climb in many of the mountains, which are only clear and out of cloud a few times a year. Around 1991 I did most of my walks. The weather was very good and I took some terrific photographs on days that you would be lucky to see in many years. I also kept a detailed written account of the terrain and routes taken.
Then I shifted away from home and developed and patented many inventions listed above. I read that only one out of a thousand inventors succeeded to make a living from their inventions. However, I thought that my inventions were better than most others that I had seen. My designs were an improvement on existing products, so I thought that I could make a decent living by selling them directly to shops and the public. Many other inventors, tried large companies who were either not interested or took their ideas. Inventing took many years of hard work. I sometimes worked all through the night and day. Also it was many thousands of dollars spent on materials, postage, labour and patents (which I wrote myself). First I thought it would be easy to invent something commercially viable. Reality proved otherwise and the tasks took much longer than expected. Like other inventors, it took dozens of prototypes to come up with the best most improved model, fit for commercial production. It is nothing like this if inventions are made for non-commercial purposes to save yourself and friends time and money. There is still hope that someone will manufacture and market my inventions. If so they would benefit a large number of people.
In February 1998 I had a major car accident, which resulted in my right leg being amputated above the knee. I had a head on collision when another car veered on to the wrong side of the road. Afterwards I bought a computer to market my inventions over the Internet. Designing and promoting web pages occupied most of my time. The hype of the Internet promised great things commercially, and this deluded many people including myself. Initially I tried to use the web to make money by not only selling my inventions but also joining associate programs. With these programs I could make a commission after my web site directed people to their site to buy their product. Then I realized after reading many statistics from reliable resources, that only approximately 5% of businesses were making a profit on the Internet. Small businesses not operating on the Internet had similar success. Please see advantagein.com/statistics.htm for details.
In the past making money was one of my motivating factors. However, I now realize that people are usually better off if they volunteer and share. Many people focus overly on money and as a result lose more that they make. This leads to many problems in society. I developed other websites with information on how a better life and system could be developed. The websites also included warnings that people need to be aware of, along with solutions.
I was motivated to do this after realizing that many people, including myself, were not making a profit despite working hard. The most honest hard working people were often the poorest. As a result many people were not benefited. Some became a burden on others instead. I tried seeking better ways to do things instead. I read and studied statistics that indicated that approximately only one out of every thousand inventors made a living from their invention, and that approximately 95% of small businesses made a loss. Many did not remain in business for very long. There is a problem with the way that things are currently done, as most people in small businesses spend most of their time trying to gain money. Instead they can end up worse as a result. Things would need to be done differently to overcome the problem.
I have now come up with many ideas and solutions so that people will be better off. There are plenty of solutions to the world's problems, so I thought that if I could get enough people interested, it could help others and perhaps the country as a whole. It could make a difference, even if only one or two quality members of parliament were elected with the balance of power (that is if they implemented some good solutions). The page that I created for a planned lobby group states the solutions, but the problem is the lack of interest, money and publicity. There are too many groups trying to solve the problem in different ways and they are not working together. I think that what we need is to do a survey to see what people want. Many groups are promoting many good things. However, they also make statements that give the public a bad perception of them. There are better ways that they could do it, and many solutions that are not promoted. That is why public feedback is important. I have drafted a survey that could be shared. It would help different lobby groups and political candidates to gain policies which would encourage people to vote for them. Please see advantagein.com/politics for more information.
I have been brought up to believe in Christianity and the Bible. However, a lot of things remained unanswered. So I developed a Christian website asking a number of questions on a forum. I uploaded people’s answers to the Internet if they wanted me to. I believe we need to seek the truth and be willing to change our views if reality proves otherwise. I became concerned that many people believed that they are saved when in fact they were not. So I was motivated to find and share the truth through the website. I read the Bible and the examples of the apostles. What they did and how they were led by God was very different to the church today. I feel that this is because the church today focuses too much on money and worldly things. The apostles did not seek money for themselves, but volunteered and shared instead. I am also concerned that supernatural miracles are very rare today. Perhaps this is because we are not obeying God in many ways. I would like to be able to find those who are obviously led and helped by God.
True Christianity has the solutions
I am inviting Christians to come to work with us so that we can pray for and minister to people who need help. I also have some other practical projects in mind. If you know of anyone who can help, please let me know.
The Bible says that believers will experience trials, problems, and persecution, but the end result should work out for the best and be positive and purposeful because Rom 8:28 says: "And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to [his] purpose." Therefore, many frustrating problems will be overcome if we can find a genuine relationship with God. Then we would be able to do God's work more efficiently and have much more time to achieve this.
For the righteous God promises blessings, answered prayer and help with their needs. He promises the opposite for those who disobey. Therefore, there should be a dramatic and measurable difference between what happens to those who obey Him and what happens to those who disobey Him. I am concerned because I do not see this difference in anyone that I know. Some of my Christian friends and I are yet to meet anyone that can produce evidence that God answers prayer or supernaturally guides and helps in the ways asked of in my questions on the website. So I began asking people the following questions. Who do you know that:
1. God helps to make the correct decisions and find what they need, so there is no doubt that it is God and not a natural coincidence?
2. God helps and answers their prayers so that they have a lower percentage of frustrating problems and a higher percentage of desirable outcomes than any unbelievers?
3. prays for people so that they receive any of the following? 1. Supernatural healings. 2. More frequent healings than could naturally happen. 3. The breaking of curses? 4. The casting out of demons which should set an ill and possessed person free of what is binding and hindering them.
If we associated with such people, it would help us find or walk with God so that we can do His ministry more efficiently. Then we would be more easily able to encourage people to walk with God and form Christian groups. If you know the contacts of any committed Christians or Christian groups who could help in ways described please let me know.
My concern is that God is not obviously helping those that we know as explained above. Instead our lives consist of chaos and relentless frustrating problems without an obvious positive purpose. I feel that God is angry with myself and other people that I know because what God promises the righteous is not occurring in our lives. I know that we should not blame God and that it is the devils fault or our fault. However, I find it hard to be righteous and as a result I often feel angry with God and feel that He does not love me or the others that I know. This is especially so when things go wrong. I feel that I need some people who are obviously led and helped by God for fellowship so that they can pray for me. This would hopefully help me overcome psychological problems and find a close relationship with God. Like those that I know, I have experienced so many disappointments. I have had ideas that could help people. However, frustrating problems consistently set me back. As a result what I plan to do is taking too long to achieve, and I am running out of time. Things mostly take longer than I hope, and work out to be more complicated than I hope. I have not gotten enough people interested so far.
I feel that if only I had a close relationship with God and if He was helping me, I would be so much better off. The main problems are finding what or whom I need, and making the correct decisions. God could help us in these ways. Hopefully this will change soon and I do have some ideas so that things will improve.
The Bible states that there will be widespread deception and a falling away in the last days, where few will be saved. Many people imagine that they have a relationship with God when in fact they don’t. This is obvious because people are led into error and disagreement when they claim to be led by God. Therefore they cannot be led by God. I am concerned that if the status quo prevails that none of us may be saved. I feel that we need to warn people of this possibility so that they will seek the truth and not become complacent. As an act of caring, It is important to warn people of any danger even if it is not certain that it will occur. However, we should also offer a solution and hope as described below.
The Christians in the Bible were very strong outspoken characters who cared about people. As a result they had much hope and many friends and followers. The Apostles in the Bible who followed Jesus, did things God's way and everyone was well off. They all worked hard for God's purpose. Those with money and possessions distributed their wealth to help spread the gospel and provide for those financially in need. They did not compete against each other but served each other. They also did not have to work with unbelievers or for a corrupt system but worked together for God. This is a terrifically fair system, which the church sadly does not practice today. If the church did do this there may be less problems and the church could have more impact and a closer relationship with God as the Apostles did.
God's system is not a system of serious competition where people are taking and disadvantaging other people. Instead it is a rightfully regulated fair go for everyone.
Many people including myself believe in the first steps to salvation explained in this paragraph. This is to accept the Lord Jesus Christ who is the Son of God. He sacrificed himself so that we could be saved. It is God's will that we worship his son, the Lord Jesus. If people repent and obey God, He will forgive and cleanse them of their past sins and will transfer his righteousness to the one forgiven.
My concern is that scriptures indicate that there are more steps involved than this. However, many people do not believe this or consider those scriptures which state that salvation is conditional to obeying God. Even the basic scriptures like John 3:16 could indicate this, as the term “believe” can also mean to believe what God stands for. It could not simply mean to believe that God exists, as in the previous paragraph. Scriptures state that even the demons believe that God exists. Please see more information about this and how the scriptures suggest we should obey God on my site at truechristianity.com .
The scriptures are clear in many ways on what we should do to obey. However, there are controversial doctrines and beliefs that we are not sure of. If we can find those who are obviously led and helped by God, it is likely that they would be on the correct path and could show us any other truths that we need to know. If we could find them, the benefits would be enormous as they would be able to pray for us and their prayers should noticeably help us unlike the prayers of those that we know. If we could find some committed believers who are obviously led and helped by God they would:
1. encourage us so that we can serve and obey God better.
2. pray for us so that God would help us with our daily needs.
3. Work with us so that we could find what we need, make the correct decisions and achieve more.
4. Teach us the truth.
I have letters, articles and advertisements to help us to do this. It is just a matter of working out the best way to promote them. It could be done by people sharing emails with people that they know who are interested. Recently I have developed an ad that is suitable for newspapers. However, this can be expensive. Please let me know of anyone who may be able to help me share the information. Also, please let me know of any committed believers who are definitely led by God or who are interested in sharing the message at
http://www.truechristianity.com/ .
I know that we need to seek God first. However, the Bible states that it is important to have people to encourage and pray for us. The sick and possessed people in the Bible were mostly set free or healed by Godly people coming to visit and pray for them. Generally the prayers of the unsaved were not enough to receive healing or enable them to find God. The problem is that people who disengage from others and seek God by themselves often end up in error. Getting someone to show you who has done it successfully would be a great help. Otherwise it would be like someone trying to land an airplane by only reading about it without ever having been shown. It is psychologically difficult to seek and obey God when you do not know of anyone who has succeeded to the degree that the Bible states.
