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  27. The CCP is guilty of crimes against humanity which is defined as For the purpose of this Statute, ‘crime against humanity’ means any of the following acts when committed as part of a widespread or systematic attack directed against any civilian population, with knowledge of the attack: Murder; Extermination; Enslavement; Deportation or forcible transfer of population; Imprisonment or other severe deprivation of physical liberty in violation of fundamental rules of international law; Torture; Rape, sexual slavery, enforced prostitution, forced pregnancy, enforced sterilization, or any other form of sexual violence of comparable gravity; Persecution against any identifiable group or collectivity on political, racial, national, ethnic, cultural, religious, gender as defined in paragraph 3, or other grounds that are universally recognized as impermissible under international law, in connection with any act referred to in this paragraph or any crime within the jurisdiction of the Court; Enforced disappearance of persons; The crime of apartheid; Other inhumane acts of a similar character intentionally causing great suffering, or serious injury to body or to mental or physical health. For the purpose of paragraph 1: ‘Attack directed against any civilian population’ means a course of conduct involving the multiple commission of acts referred to in paragraph 1 against any civilian population, pursuant to or in furtherance of a State or organizational policy to commit such attack; All of which the CCP and it's goons including members of the HK police have committed. Source of this definition is here. https://www.un.org/en/genocideprevention/crimes-against-humanity.shtml
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  50. I remember when this started my father was in absolute disbelief because he actually lived in California for a time and even loved San Francisco it wasn't until facts about this, thanks to Tucker, were coming out that he actually realized how true it was. To a degree you can still tell that he knows this but he flat out wishes it wasn't true. Kind of like when a cult member finally wakes up and realizes what he got himself into. Now don't misinterpret he is a conservative I am just saying he always had fond memories of California, as did I, he just simply had difficulty accepting that despite their Governor California turned into a third world state so quickly. I honestly can't blame him because back when it was the international trade hub it was an economic powerhouse for the west coast. LA alone was on par with New York as the place to be for international commerce. If you ran a fortune 500 company either California or New York was where you wanted an office. Now it is so far gone I can't help but agree California, and New York, will never recover and if it does it will be because of a major overhaul of the entire state. I only wish I am exaggerating when I say the word, "Major". Surviving Californians still in the state by the time of such an overhaul will probably still be struggling for quite a while before they will feel any kind of relief trickle down to them. Granted they did it to themselves, no argument there, but it does make you pity them. You remember those commercials back in the day about little kids in Africa and so on where, granted some of them were scams, volunteer groups asked for donations to help feed clothe and provide education for them? It's sad to say but I wouldn't be surprised if in the near future we see something like that for Californians.
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  68. When I took Psychology as a required course for my Criminal Justice studies I was actually fascinated when I reached the chapter about Consciousness and Unconsciousness. What fascinated me about it is the fact that you literally can have arguments with yourself and one of the two sides of your mind, keep in mind we are talking about consciousness, can in fact refuse to agree with your conscious mind and it shows up in different ways usually in behaviors you simply do without thinking about them. It's just like when you try to lie and for whatever reason your body does these things, and it's different for different people, for example some will scratch themselves for no reason, or make unnecessary movements and so on, well that's what I am referring to when I mention behaviors your unconcsious mind does when it refuses to agree with your conscious mind. So I honestly think that's a daily struggle atheists constantly have and it shows whenever their idea of religion clearly conflicts with what actually tends to be the reality. For example some atheists I argue with insist Christianity is violent at it's core except this argument immediately comes to an end when I ask them why is it in countries where Christians are a clear minority and no one would blame them for fighting back because that country's government is already guilty of a number of different human rights violations but these very Christians simply don't really do anything really considered violent. China would be a good example of this. Sometimes I throw this in, "For your statement to be true shouldn't these same minorities be doing something that would be violent even if it was just a barfight?" I even reference research groups that study terrorism like the START institute which maintains lists on current terrorist groups and point out that there are barely a handful of Christian groups at any given time meanwhile left wing and jihadist groups dominate these lists in the 100s sometimes 1000s. They literally have no answer for this as if even they don't truly believe their own claim. This is just one example but there are a ton of others with similar results showing that same mental struggle between their conscious minds and their unconscious minds. They just blurt them out as though they do believe them but retreat the second it get's challenged using actual facts they can't refute. I even argued with one who kept repeating the same argument over and over and each time I would bring up that contradictory fact and they just kept retreating and it wouldn't be until the 3rd or 4th time I used the same contradictory fact that they either gave some half @$$ed rant posing as a credible response in which case I just threw another irrufutable fact at them and then they finally went away realizing they weren't getting away from this, whatever it was, or they just refused to answer and simply changed to a different argument.
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  83. I think another area of frustration for the CCP in its undermining of the US is whats called the Madison doctrine. Formulated by one of our presidents and architect of the US Constitution. The predicament James Madison argued was for a democracy but he knew from social experiments by Rome and Greece in Democracy that there were two extremes which had to be avoided. One was of course tyranny or authoritarianism the other was mob rule. He didn't propose a middle ground but rather a balance between the central government and citizens democratic rights this is why our government is set up the way it is with 2 bodies of legislation a seperate judicial system and an executive branch. That was part of the Madison doctrine another crucial part to create that stable balance and what Madison thought was important was the rights of the states to have autonomy. The federal government passes laws but a lot of times they are done in a way so that states can take these laws and decide how best to implement them. As long as the implementation does not conflict with the greater constitution then there are no problems. Now if you are a 50 cent goon you are probably wondering " ok I get that" maybe even " that's we are undermining so why is this such a problem" Remember in the previous post where I said the citizenry can say no well that ability is built into the Madison doctrine namely the first amendment. The first amendment makes the other amendments possible because it allows the citizenry to challenge the constitutionality of a particular government law or policy. That's why Brandon couldn't pass his mask mandates or any of his laws even with the support of the legislative branch and remember what I said about States having autonomy? That means they too can challenge the central government. So in a way you do have a revolution or civil war of sorts but it's just one where the Madison doctrine shows it's true ability for the people rather then for the government. That's why your people in Washington can say they are going to rewrite government as many times as they want the Madison doctrine makes that impossible and that was done deliberately to prevent the government from assuming the kind of authority the CCP values. In a sense the constitution is our Great Wall in the sense it protects our constitutional rights and prevents your meddling and undermining.
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  92. 9 mins even though we were taught over the years the exact opposite, typically along the lines of there is no better country in the world, I have lived in Thailand for 6 years and really I never felt my freedoms restricted at all. As long as I respected the monarchy in that country and I didn't become a general nuisance then I was never even bothered by anyone really. Now I have experienced where I do have to watch what I say and do but that was whenever I had to go to Laos for a visa renewel but that was only because Laos is a communist country so it's going to be the exact opposite especially if you are a white foreigner then you are generally treated with suspicion. Thailand was very good to me I had a job the food was great and the people, my students especially, were awesome. I was treated mostly as a curiosity in most rural places rather than someone they didn't trust. Even the fact I was Christian was a curiosity for many of them since they were mostly Buddhist with a small, yet growing, Christian population. Many of the foreigners who come to thailand come for the beer and woman when they encountered me it wouldn't take them long to figure out I didn't come there for that and I was really just not that kind of foreigner. Point is living overseas isn't that difficult you just have to be willing to adapt and have a skill or acquire a skill that gives you a niche. For me it was teaching but I have met other foreigners who opened up restaurants, worked in international law, some have even been Private Investigators and travel agents. My best advice is where ever you choose to go make sure you know and understand everything there is to know from that country, find your niche to make a living, make sure you know and understand the laws of that country so you know the boundaries of course so you don't do anything stupid, and I can't stress this enough be adaptive. Sometimes keeping your mouth shut and just observing is the best way to adapt because it's the easiest way to figure out the norms and that will help you adapt to the culture. Well that's just my 2 cents if that's what you want to do. Only thing left to say is good luck.
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  96.  @Twodime4032  now you are generalizing us history big mistake. See I am history geek and here is what you conveniently left out about the conquest of the Native Americans, btw I happen to be descended of native Americans but moving on. See you are referring to manifest destiny and the Indian removal act which unfortunately for you involves a Cold civil War between pro liberal, pro slave and pro conquest democrats started by Andrew Jackson why do I word it this way because their opponents, the republicans, from the very beginning starting with Thomas Jefferson were the exact opposite and were against the conquest and forcible removal of native Americans. If this were not true then there would not be anything like the words of men like congressman David Crockett who spoke out against the democrat party’s policies towards native Americans. Point being to say USA conquered anyone as if we were unanimous in the decision, when in the halls of government there was a fight between those who believed in the ideals of the revolutionary war and the resulting constitution and those who opposed those ideals, might as well be an admission you have no idea about anything. And that’s just one example of something not so black and white. China cannot say the same not by a long shot since every ruler practiced state terror and absolute authority. You are not being ridiculed you are being tried in the court of public opinion and found guilty of crimes against humanity. The only regret of this court is I can’t sentence you. Which is a pity but that doesn’t mean a day won’t come when it all comes back to haunt you. When that will be? Who knows. By whom knowing your country’s history I would say the traditional answer would be your own people since that seems to be the inescapable cycle. You get unified by some charismatic leader, you have your honeymoon period, then either that same ruler or some idiot that takes his place and probably should never be given power to begin with but he starts passing laws and creating policies that just pisses off your own people until they have had enough and your country cracks to pieces like an egg until somebody else takes over and the whole thing starts again. And given what the idiots in your government have done in the past decade alone I would say your people are at their limit including those people I mentioned earlier who were conquered.
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  101. I always find it interesting that those who attack Christianity keep insisting Christians are a dangerous group, some will even accuse us of terrorism or engaging in it citing groups that did in fact exist and did associate themselves with Christianity. However, the second you confront them with a list of known terrorist, or just violent and dangerous groups in general and the START institute and the Institute for Global and Global Affairs in the Hague Netherlands does maintain such a list going as far back as the first historically accepted Terrorist group, and such groups are organized according to their affiliations you will find that the lists are dominated by left wing groups, like the Red Army Faction, the Black Hand, and Naradnaya Volya. Islam really dominates especially in the post 9/11 world but Christianity typically will have less than a handful of groups at any given time and for the most part they tend to be fringe groups. Even in countries where you wouldn't blame them for fighting back, like North Korea, it's almost unheard of. So it really raises the question where this accusation really comes from and why are they getting their information from them rather than doing the research themselves and seeing what is really the truth about it? Even their justifications for it are really from a stereotype about Christians but they still don't pay any attention to this fact when it should be making it crystal clear they overlooked something. Some of their justifications are in fact biblical but in 100% of times it's only half the story. As though they have no problem with reading the violent parts of the bible but hesitate when it comes to looking up the why behind that particular part and it shows whenever it turns out that particular Christian being asked the question responds with a more informed response and it turns out they in fact know the other half of the story then the attacker retorts by challenging the authenticity which becomes even more ironic because if they are skeptical of the back story which is part of scripture then why aren't they skeptical of the violent parts of the bible which is also in there? So they practice a double standard and it really just comes down to the fact they fear because they really don't know and they get their facts from people who only want to encourage that same fear rather than letting them know what the truth of it is. Before anyone challenges me on that answer one question In regards to anything you were told about Christianity from where ever it was you got it did you actually fact check it and got the whole story or did you just take their word for it? Yes, even if they have a Phd in whatever like Dawkins or Hitchens and even they got a ton of stuff wrong according to their own colleagues. Hitchens even admitted to being wrong in a debate with John Lennox. If the answer is yes you did fact check and you think this is true then how did the above fact escape your research? If the answer is no then at least you are being honest.
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  133. So according to you culture and living by virtue is worthless? So then why is it the United States, whom at that very time you were talking about, not only fought back but actually beat the Japanese? Not only beat them but also showed mercy after they had surrendered, after all they had already surrendered so what point was there in punishing them further when they already realized their foolishness, they had retained their own traditions and self-respect. See to you they are superstitions which show weakness and stupidity, but it doesn't change the fact that it brings out those virtues which all people recognize. That Thomas Aquinas calls the 4 cardinal virtues of Justice, Fortitude, Prudence, and Temperance. Or as CS Lewis writes it, Straight Dealing, Love of Kindred, Pity, and Shame. Doesn't strike you as odd that regardless of ideology, religion, and as you put it superstition everyone without exception recognizes Justice? And everyone in that war fought based on this one virtue. So, if superstitions bring about weakness and stupidity then explain this phenomenon that is most associated with religion? Why, is it that according to you the whole world shouldn't have cared what Japan was doing but based on what you call superstitions they acted in the name of Justice following a tradition going back to the Old Testament that is based on this one virtue? Perhaps you want to see it as weakness because it makes it easy to attack the virtuous and the traditional but regardless if it wasn't for these specific traditions that every culture recognizes the Chinese People would most likely be extinct you included.
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  140.  @mariloucainap5635  I wouldn't think of it in those terms. More like I learned to make peace with it. Which has to come first. It would be easier if there was a way to forget it all unfortunately it doesn't work that way. You can try but it's going to be something that just makes you remember it all. My wife is actually still around and helps when she needs to. Ultimately you have to develop a mindset that helps you through it. Not easy to do because ultimately that's what is required to turn that pain into strength. It is scary I won't deny it because it means changing certain things about yourself. How you look at what happened and how to keep it from happening again. What made it work for me was that I needed to develop this attitude where the accusations were challenges. Everytime someone says you are this that and some other thing go ok let's see about that. It kept me from being a cheater so it worked. To solve how the sadness interrupts your life you have to develop what Goggins refers to as a warrior mindset. He doesn't mean that as in you need to be a soldier or something more like rather than letting your sadness keep you in this state of wanting to disappear, wanting to die, instead you do what warriors naturally do when faced with dispair which is to do the exact opposite. Keeping yourself busy, working on yourself understanding your situation and how to overcome it. Which is not going to happen overnight. Like everything else it takes time. Do I still hurt, yes, does it do anything to the memories? In a way yes it makes me keep moving keep getting better. It took me 15 years to learn that and I forgave her friends, family, and her. I miss her still but it's a strength now it's a reason to be a better husband now and a reason to keep moving forward.
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  160. To comment on Fry’s last point no wonder we look at atheists as not being in touch with reality? Now I can’t speak for every Christian, I wish I could in this instance because it depends how well studied he is about the Bible and what church he follows since in my experience no 2 churches are alike. They can share many views up until it crosses into anything uniquely taught there, SDA’s and the sabbath or the kosher diet being 2 examples of this. Anyway, ideally the monk would have responded, “well why would that matter?” And the reason I say ideally is because when you study the relationship between Jesus and his disciples you come across an interesting conversation in Matthew 18:1-4, “At that time the disciples came to Jesus and asked, “Who, then, is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?” He called a little child to him, and placed the child among them. And he said: “Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.” And what’s interesting about this is these disciples asked this expecting Jesus to say Peter or James or whatever but Jesus instead points to the children, because you ask them about such things they simply act like it’s a game of some kind because of course their innocence makes them see the world in such a way. In another conversation Jesus is asked by a wealthy man what can he do to become great in heaven and he said sell everything you have and give everything to the poor. And of course he runs away crying because he worked his whole life for it. The point of both messages is that Christians ideally are discouraged to think in such ways because generally we should be content with what is given to us even if it’s very little. When a Christian does the exact opposite, which I am afraid happens probably more often then not we deviate from that ideal. Should we work hard or please God of course but we do so knowing our reward is in heaven and if god blesses us on earth then praise god but it’s the reward in heaven which carries more because anything we are given on earth, our promotions good luck and so on is only here on Earth but we can’t take it with us. Imagine all those kings, east and west, who spent so much for these lavish tombs to put all their belongings in, some included their wives and concubines, and then they get to heaven or hell and find out it’s just them and nothing else? That is what Jesus was getting at and what I mean by that ideal. It’s that understanding that everything on Earth we cannot take with us our rewards in heaven are there waiting for us.
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  176. I might be reading too much into it, which I am willing to accept, but one thing I learned from history course especially the past 100 years is that the youth easily manipulated into some pretty messed up things. CRT is one example but in my opinion is one the "Nicer" examples. I say that for a very good reason because when you look up very extreme examples you notice that youth are impressionable and do get themselves involved in very dangerous political groups mainly because they tend to be the most naive and at times sheltered. These extreme examples would be groups like the Khmer Rouge who were involved in the killing fields, for those who watched the movie Blood Diamond with Leonardo DiCaprio then the RUF and their use of child soldiers being another. So, it emphases what I keep saying in these comment sections about a reform in our education systems. Because the democrats are taking advantage of our youth, marxists and socialists especially and because they are learning all the wrong things they don't know any better. We want this manipulation to stop then we need to change our schools starting with our High Schools where the demand is most needed and bring back classes like Critical Thinking, ethics, and Civics. Give them the true history of our country and ideologies like Marxism, and I mean what they were really about not this manufactured pro socialist garbage. They need to know about the Cultural Revolution in China, the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia the real truth about these sad events in history. Amateur writers can get in on this too by focusing on writing thought provoking literature that is about faith, family, and traditional virtues. To help get our youth reading the right kind of books that encourage critical thinking and culture. We are already taking those first steps we need to go further and make it an all hands on deck kind of thing where anyone who can contribute to this reform can make a contribution to it.
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  184. The CCP is guilty of crimes against humanity which is defined as For the purpose of this Statute, ‘crime against humanity’ means any of the following acts when committed as part of a widespread or systematic attack directed against any civilian population, with knowledge of the attack: Murder; Extermination; Enslavement; Deportation or forcible transfer of population; Imprisonment or other severe deprivation of physical liberty in violation of fundamental rules of international law; Torture; Rape, sexual slavery, enforced prostitution, forced pregnancy, enforced sterilization, or any other form of sexual violence of comparable gravity; Persecution against any identifiable group or collectivity on political, racial, national, ethnic, cultural, religious, gender as defined in paragraph 3, or other grounds that are universally recognized as impermissible under international law, in connection with any act referred to in this paragraph or any crime within the jurisdiction of the Court; Enforced disappearance of persons; The crime of apartheid; Other inhumane acts of a similar character intentionally causing great suffering, or serious injury to body or to mental or physical health. For the purpose of paragraph 1: ‘Attack directed against any civilian population’ means a course of conduct involving the multiple commission of acts referred to in paragraph 1 against any civilian population, pursuant to or in furtherance of a State or organizational policy to commit such attack; All of which the CCP and it's goons including members of the HK police have committed. Source of this definition is here. https://www.un.org/en/genocideprevention/crimes-against-humanity.shtml
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  198.  @Twodime4032  is it different so then why was the crackdown in HK necessary or in wuhan or Shanghai even?? See you are telling me the party was evil but that’s the pot calling the kettle black. Because if your statement contained any truth these events would not happen the same with forced organ harvesting which I know happened because I lived in Asia for 8 years I have even met Chinese refugees who escaped china and reclaimed their lives that the party denied them. As to your statement about being a wealthy family and so on that just tells me you are run of the slave masters in china and I am willing to bet a party member. So you might as well have just admitted you are soulless. Abraham Lincoln actually defined slavery this way “you toil you reap you make bread and I eat it.” His meaning the workers bust their butts while those in charge reap the fruits of their labor. Where is your workers wealth? Where are their businesses? Where are their mansions? It’s yours because the state decided it. And saying your father was farmer might as well have been an admission that he was a murderer because that would place him as being part of the Great Leap Forward where 90 million people died through forced labor and starvation. There are even survivors who live here in the US as American citizens who talked about the people your father and grandfather most likely came from which were the internment guards who forced the people to work and decided who ate and who didn’t. Much like a slave plantation. So you are still robbed of your soul and the very fact you tried to boast of your status in the state proves it. Would you like to know who my family was? Probably no one you ever heard but that’s what makes the US the better alternative we don’t have to be to get ahead all we have to do is invest our hard work and time.
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  211.  @tl2245  Really you want to go that route? Ok just remember you asked for it. So you are saying a country who an idiot (Mao) into power who actually thought it would be a good idea to send the entire population into the fields, most of whom didn’t even know how to use a hoe, not even thinking about needed fertilizer and machines to make the job easier to grow crops that weren’t even going to their own people but to Russia and in doing so starved 90 million of his own people? Oh and it get’s even better, next this same moron you idiots put in power decided to implement the 1 child policy which now created a population crises any yahoo with a degree in economics could have predicted and now your government has to beg your own people to start families to fix the problem because right now if you were to go to war and it went south, and it likely will, you would be unable to replace anyone killed in action. Next, you want to go toe to toe with battle tested countries like the US and Australia who for the past 20 years fought 2 wars together and when was the last time China went to war with anyone? Historically speaking that has never worked out very well for any country rattling sabres. Why? Well if you actually looked up what the difference battle tested armies and untested you would learn that means we have people that actually know how to stand their ground in battle, and most of your officers actually bought their commissions and known for being incompetent. So see how that 1 child policy was actually a really stupid idea? I can go on and that was just while idiot Mao was in charge I got plenty more than that including Xi’s dumb@$$ ideas which all backfired epically. Saying your country is better then the US is like pitting a crippled rabbit against a Grizzly Bear and actually betting on the rabbit.
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  219.  @kynchan3332  And that changes the fact that for a good portion of Chinese History people fought and defended their homes according to their traditions and did it quite well how exactly? I am in fact referring to Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Warring States Period, I can go on. Traditional Chinese values served the people quite well. What failed for China which led to WW2 had nothing to do with traditions, that's what communism raped your mind into believing. This is clear by virtue of the fact you clearly ignored the fact China still exists because the US answered in the name of Justice. I assume because that is an inconvenient truth you prefer to avoid but avoiding it doesn't make it less true. Speaking of tribal societies are you aware that tribal socieities like the Navajo, and the Cherokee actually fought in the name of Justice as well? Yes, you can even look that up it's not a state secret but cultural fact. Really you never got Justice from Japan. So then explain the Tokyo trials that did result in Japanese officers and ministers getting hung? Yeah that did happen. So, I think it's more accurate to say that what you think or expect to be justice isn't at all justice but revenge very different. Even in the west their is a reason why we rely courts to decide the fate of the Guilty and as far as our understanding of Justice is concerned Japan served it's sentence. It is highly unlikely that Japan from WW2 would ever rise again due to the fact that Japanese today are regularly reminded of those mistakes. Japanese chose the bloody path? Which Japanese? Because the Japanese you are referring to died or are dying if there are any still alive and they too paid their dues. So, you would commit genecide just for something a bunch of dead people did? You would commit the same crimes that were done to you? Ok so what about all the nations China conquered? According to your understanding of Justice they deserve their pound of flesh too don't they? Where would you like me to start? Perhaps with the invasion of Tibet and the atrocities committed there? Oh no let's go much more recent how about the Muslim Uygher or the Falun Gong maybe even the Christians? According to your interpretation of Justice they have every right to take your head after all you supported state crimes committed against them didn't you? Or perhaps more towards the past keep it around WW2 like the crimes committed by Mao's Army against the Chinese Nationalists which included even burying people alive and theft rape and murder? If a Taiwanese knocked on your door and said it's time to face justice and demanded you be buried alive for something you weren't even responsible for? I can go as far back as Shi Huang Di I am well versed in Chinese history I know a great deal about Crimes Chinese rulers regularly committed since the beginning. Or perhaps your since of justice really isn't justice but something that the CCP brainwashed you into believing. It's not justice by any stretch of the imagination. And Justice was served, and their penance was given.
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  255.  @TheJayJayYoung  Jonah was never a prophet in his own region. He was a prophet chosen for a distant country called Ninevah which is in modern day Iraq. In fact, that was why he was punished in the first place because he didn't want to sermonize to foreigners but God basically said to him, "Yes, you are." That was how he ended up thrown into the sea and swallowed by a whale for 3 days until he finally gave in and said he was going. Did you even read the bible? I can clearly tell you never read the story of Jesus from any of the gospels because if you did you would have noticed Jesus says no such thing anywhere in his gospels. In fact John 3:16 states "For God so loved the world..." he does not say Israel, the Middle East, East west, Egypt, he say's the world, ".....that he gave his one and only son that whosoever shall believe in him shall not perish but have everlasting life." and in Matthew 28:19-20 Jesus commands, "Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.” Notice he never says go find some dude from that country have him do this job he commanded ALL to do so as in it's every follower's job regardless of origin. Seriously, you never read the bible did you? How did I draw my conclusions? Well for one thing I ACTUALLY READ THE BIBLE how is that for starters. In fact I am on the 9th reading and I don't mean a scripture here and there I mean cover to cover. I don't just read it I study it. Didn't you happen to notice in all my rebuttles I wasn't giving opinion I was backing it up with what scripture actually said? Your only acceptable excuse for not noticing is if your blind as a bat.
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  256.  @TheJayJayYoung  I didn't ask nor do I care. Why? Because even basic logic tells you that if you don't know something you read about it or else you risk looking like a dumb@$$ talking about something you know nothing about. Which you now have just found yourself as. Being Chinese descent, as if that was supposed to score you any points which it didn't because I too am Chinese descent as well as Native American, Viking, and Celtic. So bloodlines have absolutely nothing to do with truth statements. That's why I study Criminal Justice because Law doesn't care about opinions nor what other people think evidence should be. Law has it's own standard of evidence and if you don't like it then you have no business arguing about truth. In my Native American Culture it is considered rude and disrespectful to not barge in and be recognized. In fact the host is never supposed to recognize until the guest speaks. Same in Viking. This is where the custom of knocking and waiting really comes from in the west. For someone who tries to use culture as a shield for ignorance you should have practiced what you preached and became less concerned about your culture and more concerned about your own ignorance. And being Chinese is no excuse for ignorance because it was out of ignorance you let a group of genetic defects enslave your own people. You say you are Chinese which one? I did in fact study Chinese history and China is actually a collection of conquered kingdoms and nations. You are just a descendent of only 1 of these Kingdoms. Which at this point means we are way beyond cultural excuses. Furthermore Christianity being an extension of Judaism makes it far older than China because now you have to take into consideration the Prophets, Kings, and even Father Abraham who is historically placed around 2100BC making Judeo-Christianity, as academics call it, a little over 4100 years old. By Comparison China was even called China until the arrival of the Portuguese in the 16th Century. Until then it was just a series of interchanging Empires and Dynasties from the Song Dynasty and even past the 16th century to the Manchu Dynasty. Even in Romance of the Three Kingdoms the writer doesn't even call China except in the english translation and that was just for purposes of narration the writer instead called it the Han Empire. In fact according to your own history China was never a stable country. The closest your country ever saw stability was under the Qing Empire and even that didn't last long. So sorry but I see more historical lessons in the consequences of ignorance in your history so many in fact that you have absolutely no excuse whatsoever for being as ignorant as you are. I could care less what else you decide to hide behind.
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  307. For your statement to be true society, which tends to desire religion, would have to be in constant conflict with authority constantly and universally and nothing is further from the truth. The answer why can be found in Psychology. All healthy respect for authority is dependent upon a healthy relationship at childhood with one's father. Dad establishes healthy respect for authority by being an authority over the household mom establishes healthy relationships between just people in general. In other words, it's a scientically proven fact that if you can't establish a healthy relationship even with friends or you cannot respect authority it's a good indicator something went wrong during childhood between mom and dad and you. What does this have to do with religion, or Christianity for that matter? Easy exodus 20:12 honor your father and mother. In fact the 10 commandments even Exodus through Deuteronomy establishes healthy relationship between people, society, family, law, and authority. So if religion is in constant conflict with authority then what's this doing in the Bible? Let me propose an alternative it's the opposite that's true in the case of China. It's authority creating conflict with religion? Why? What's the motive? Because Christianity is not a religion the CCP can control and it has this really bad habit, I suppose you can say, of creating perfectly content people who are arguably more moral due to a diety that is beyond the party's sphere of influence. And that is something the CCP chooses not to allow and is threatened by.
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  329. Same can be said for….. wait I will put it this way it’s probably better said this way. If you are a leftist then there are at least 5 academic disciplines you should never study unless you like being in positions where end up questioning your beliefs. LH pointed out 1 which is economics the second would be history or anything based on history such as archeology. Why, because leftists prefer their narrative of history over actual history which couldn’t care less about what you prefer. If the evidence based history counters your narrative then that’s your problem, 3 would be anything having to do with Criminal justice. Why? Because anything in this field sooner or later covers what’s considered evidence and why and what’s not considered evidence and why. Leftists prefer to think evidence is whatever doesn’t hurt their feelings and real evidence and how it’s accepted analyzed and interpreted is realities way of saying eat my shorts. 4 is anything that has to do with literature because that’s critical thinking skills your ability to reason and analyze highly complex ideas. Let’s face I think this one goes without saying. If a lefty took anything requiring critical thinking with a professor worth his salt without a dozen bottles of advil I think it’s fair to say their heads would explode, anybody ever watch Scanners? 5 this one is psychology let’s face it it also goes without saying. We’ve seen Jordan Peterson face off with leftists we know how that one will end. God have mercy on any leftists soul that decides to study psychology if he so chooses to do so.
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  375.  @HiDefHDMusic  Have you even looked at capitalistic countries? It has it's flaws but it's not coincidental that capitalistic countries flourish and Communistic countries failed. To start, Abraham Lincoln in a speech he gave defined slavery this way he said, "You make toil, you plant the fields, and you make bread and I will eat it." The relevance of that statement is that the benefit of a capitalist system is that you reap the fruit of your own labor this also means it encourages and even provides means of entrepreneurship which allows a given craft, let's say food production for example, to be perfected. Why? Because the laborer is reaping whatever he puts in. If he puts in everything he gets everything he puts in nothing he gets nothing. Communist systems want to be the entrepreneur not the laborer. Proof of this? Who is it that lives in the big houses, rides in limos, enjoys the high class status and so on? It certainly isn't the laborer. In fact the Chinese laborers biggest complaint is being overworked with barely enough pay to get by in China's current economy. And how many have actually been credited for some discovery, or innovation, or even making better a particular craft that isn't a party member? I sure as heck can't find 1 and why would they when there is no incentive for them to do so. They are just happy to have a job and a roof over their heads. Who is reaping the fruits of their labor? The State is. According to Abraham Lincoln who fought a war to end slavery and passed the 13th amendment to abolish slavery that is the very definition of slavery. Is Capitalism perfect? Of course not but then again no manmade thing ever is but compared to communism and fascism it gives the best incentive for ones labor.
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  399. Yeah this might be bad for hong Kongers but in a way I think it's a good thing. Not good as in Beijing scored a win more like HK scored a win. Allow me to explain the CCP would not resort to such a policy unless the protesters presented a real problem they never prepared for. What they probably expected was that HK's sense of nationalism that reunited them with China would have made things difficult for any form of opposition to present any real resistance what they did not realize though was that the one country 2 systems deal created an us and them type of autonomy. It was either subconsciously or it's consciously there. In any case the existence of this got the CCP to realize they just stirred a hornet's nest just like what would happen if they decided to pull this stunt on a foreign city. No free citizen is ever going to allow a foreign dictator to push them around. It doesn't matter what their association is. This happened in colonial America, this happened in british Ireland. It even happened in indo-China. So now of course the protests are going to continue because they just turned this into siege warfare which is essentially all about attrition. Think of siege warfare as being kind of like a tug of war where it continues until someone either gives up or someone's strength breaks. It all depends on what the participants are willing to put in and what they are willing to give up but the goal is to be more trouble than you are worth. To be, as Chris Hemsworth put it in " Red Dawn" " Be the meanest tick they ever dealt with." Keep in mind he was talking about groups like the mujahedeen that actually beat the odds and overcame a superior enemy. Even the American colonies and their fight against Britain is a good description of General Washington and Dan Morgan and their tactics. We can also include Michael collins and his Irish Republican Army. All of these guys put together even going back to Julius Ceasar shows HK in fact is winning the battle. The fact the CCP turned up the heat a little is proof of this. All HK has to do is basically keep telling Beijing to go F### themselves by continuing to defy them. Yeah they are imprisoning them but here is the problem with that idea you can only fit so many people inside a prison and you have to feed them and clothe them and killing them off all those people might solve some of the problems but kill enough of them and that's going to piss alot of countries off emboldening HK'S cause making it even harder to convince the world they are terrorists. It's kinda hard to convince someone another person is a terrorist when he is already convinced he is a freedom fighter. This is that tug of war thing I mentioned. You don't have to take my word for it look up any armed revolt and see how the other country lost and see for yourself. Beijing isn't winning if you think they are then you really need to study history because it's about to repeat itself. There is a reason the saying exists " those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it." Learn what happened following the boston Massacre or the Easter Uprising if you want to scoff at this comment and see for yourself.
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  406.  @陆莹-e4m  whether you did or not is irrelevant if you are using an ad hominem attack and your language is neither relevant to the topic nor is it in anyway truthful then essentially that is what you are doing. If that is not your intention then save your " you must be listening to ..... whoever " speech for someone wanting to talk about western and non western media. I am not interested in what you think is propaganda nor am I interested in what you think I listen to. I am only interested in Hong Kong and that's it end of list. I blame the CCP because the bill should have been withdrawn weeks ago when it was blatantly obvious that hongkongers were not going to let Beijing have it's way no matter what. Now because they decided to try to use intimidation, bullying, and where I come from is called street thug tactics ( hiring tongs to do their dirty work for instance) they turned a very simple problem into a quagmire. That's not even good politics that's a joke with a punchline already in it. 2) Good because if you are offended by it then you will do something about it. If you do something then other people will listen and see that something is definitely wrong with China in which case other Chinese will see that they are slaves and may respond. So you being offended I think is a good thing not a bad thing. It's progress. 4) the riots are lasting for months because of the 1 country 2 systems agreement. Essentially what it is is that before UK decided to hand over Hongkong to China now at the time if China had sent in the troops yeah there could have been resistance but it wouldn't have created problems later. Keep in mind this was before social media which is beyond the CCP'S control. In fact, they probably weren't thinking at the time that 30 years later this was going to create complications when it came to policies like the extradition bill. Jump 30 years later to post internet and social media Hong Kong not only enjoyed western democratic freedoms but also open internet and open social media platforms. Making control over Hongkong people that much harder to govern under Communist control. To make a long story short you have long rioting because the negotiators with the UK and the CCP 30 years ago were morons who weren't thinking that far ahead. In fact the interactions now between Hong kong people and police plus the mainlanders, plus overseas Chinese and hongkongers overseas are proof positive that the CCP is engaged in state slavery. Tiananmen square is in fact proof of this because if this were not true then that whole incident would not have been handled by sending in the Army. Why would the Army or even intimidation by the Army even be needed if Chinese citizens were truly free? In fact even George Orwell in his book 1984 showed how this form of "keeping people in line" revealed a slave and master relationship due to the fact that the only thing that interests the people in power is power. Which also means anyone speaking against or holding a worldview that I anyway threatens that position of power has to be stamped out. It's like leaving a cult. Cult members don't want people leaving because it results in less control over it's members. That's why typically we often see scare tactics and even intimidation. Yes, I did compare the CCP to a cult. You gotta problem with it fine but keep in mind all your government is doing is reinforcing that belief not resolving it. And if you are offended by that then , as I said before, great then it's progress.
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  407.  @陆莹-e4m  Ever heard of a thing called a book? Or maybe a thing called the internet? Do you even know what a class on Chinese history is for? Yes I did do all three that's how I know about it. And your defense is actually a fallacy called a tu quo que fallacy https://www.fallacyfiles.org/tuquoque.html whether I was there or not has no bearing whatsoever on what happened and whether or not you believe a few people or a few hundred people died and whether or not you believe there is no proof equally has no bearing on truth. Why because regardless of what you think happened it is not for you to decide what happened and what didn't happened. 2) how stupid do I think chinese people are, you tell me? You seem to overlook the fact that recently chinese authorities go after anyone who shares a view the CCP doesn't approve of, Christianity, prodemocracy, anti CCP criticism and so on is very Orwellian because regardless of how far ahead you think China is Orwell still predicted it and even refers to it as thought crime. I even know for a fact this does happen because many Chinese refugees openly speak about it. Then there is the facial recognition technology which is also in 1984. I can go on? Even the use of propaganda, such as getting their own people to hate Japanese and Americans, through the use of state approved information, is very 1984. I can go on. How did Orwell know this because during the Spanish Civil War he fought with the socialists. Which put him in a position to properly study socialism and communism and conclude it's end result. Oh really, you are aware that pulling the race card over a fact is a fallacy called an appeal to ignorance right? https://www.fallacyfiles.org/igno especially considering the fact that racism is a belief that ones own race, not nationality, is superior to another which is never mentioned. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/racism if what you say was true then i suppose you must be racist for trying to say no one was killed at Tiananmen square. Note how arbitrary that statement is even though you didn't once mention race. You got any more rather ignorant statements or are you done speaking out of your ass just because you don't like being on the defensive? 4) I honestly don't give a crap what government Chinese people choose. They could choose a wacky system of government where circus animals decide policy as long as it is their choice it came from their own conclusions that is what I mean by progress. Their choice not Xi's not the CCP's, not Trump, not even the entire western hemisphere, their choice. And if you are offended by that notion then you must be racist for thinking that the Chinese people are not smart enough to decide for themselves.
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  433. JoeJoe your statement has several problems with it. To best explain these problems I will draw a parallel to an existing court case that happened in 1983 involving Ron Williamson, a washed up Baseball player who became an alcoholic with mental issues. He was brought to trial for a murder rape and was convicted and sentenced to death. 5 days before he was scheduled to be executed he received a stay of execution, that means it was postponed, because the appeals court noticed how his case was mishandled, there are two many to list it's fair to say the whole affair was one huge miscarriage of justice from start to finish. I will however give a couple of examples though 1 the only reason he went to trial was because of a DREAM he had of himself raping and killing the victim yeah you read that correctly a dream, and 2 he was not given adequate representation by a lawyer. Not long after his stay of execution, I should state btw this whole ordeal drove him more mentally ill, a DNA test was given proving he was nowhere near the crime scene and it was actually one of the eyewitnesses who had a history of violence towards women that was the apartment on the night of the murder. So what does this have to do with Christianity in Japan? Well for one thing it shows how easily a prejudice can lead to not just a miscarriage of justice but a miscarriage of truth. Take your whole historical account for example. First of all by your own admission this account wasn't by a westerner but a Japanese official and you clearly left out the fact that it was only after he had tortured the accused. Why does that matter? For the same reason law enforcement was ordered through court cases to stop. It tends to create false confessions. There is even a case from 2002 where a suspected Al Qaeda operative was captured and tortured by the SAS and MI6 and stated that there were WMDs in Iraq. Of course now we know this was false. When this man was asked why he said that he said he just wanted it to stop and would have said anything even though he knew nothing. See where I am going with this? And we know for a fact torture was implimented in Japan at that time because we even such writings even detailing what was used and how. So a Jesuit priest giving a false confession is not only not unheard of but when it's all coming from a single source that makes it suspicious and has to be taken with a grain of salt but let's say it was true. If it was coming from the Spanish or Portuguese then why not France or Britain well as the inquisition demonstrated that's because these countries were known for using religion as politics in other words it maybe a church doing this but if not every church was used in this manner then that begs the question of why and in Spanish and Portuguese politics religion and politics went hand in hand. In other words of such an operation was being conducted it wasn't by a united Church but it was by a particular ruler for his own reasons. We can clearly see an example of this by King Philip of Spain when he tried to invade England and used catholicism as a sort of weapon to get his own agents into England and gain support for overthrowing Queen Elizabeth. So you can see that Spain was known for such tactics around that very time but not too many other countries. Queen Elizabeth for one chose not to use the church in this manner citing the barbarity of the inquisition as her reasons. Making your example very one sided and based solely on the modus operandi of A country and the testimony of a man who was tortured and could have given a false confession.
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  462. Because that's the compromise for love and mercy to be possible or rather free will to be possible. This has always been the reason the moral argument never amounted to much of a damning argument because you are essentially calling upon a moral standard to attack itself. It violates what in logic is called the Law of Noncontradiction, which can best be explained as you can't use standards to attack themselves because it negates the argument. Now you can try to attack the argument of compromises for free will in order to maintain a moral argument except you run into an entirely different problem, an entire science in fact, called Criminology because Criminology studies the relationship between free will societies and legal systems and many criminologists including 14th Century Criminologist Cesare Beccaria concluded that for a people to truly exercise any degree of free will there has to be a compromise between the law abiding, those who are for love and mercy, and the law breaking, those for misery, torment and suffering. In other words, a compromise for free will isn't at all an absurd argument because if you live in a free society then the proof of its truthfulness is everywhere and at every level of whatever Criminal Justice system you are under. Thus, proving the point that if it is an absurd argument then why are these free societies choosing to legislate as if it was the best way to run a society? Now you may hate that as a counter argument but it is a valid point and the fact that it is true you see the proof of it in every free society just makes it that much more valid.
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  469.  @TheJayJayYoung  I should also point out that by pointing out Noah's flood there was an entire layer of God's core teaching you definitely left out and Jordan Peterson actually gave an interesting talk about this in an interview with Bill Mahr that stunned even him because Bill Mahr was expecting that Peterson as a Psychologist wouldn't dive this far into the narratives of Sodom and Gomorroh the flood story as well as the story of Jonah and they are all interconnected because they tell the same message. The message is that those that know there is evil and wickedness being practiced then they have an obligation to speak but what happens if no one speaks no matter how much they know themselves they need to say something. Like let's put God himself off to the side for a moment and look at this as a moral obligation. Well according to law that makes you an accomplice and even worse complacent absolutely no different then if you did the crime yourself, whatever it was. So of course when the flood comes, or the fire brimestone, or let's just say the disaster in general even if we are just talking about your day in court, well of course it's going to come for you just as it is going to come for the guilty. Even our Criminal Justice system follows this concept and calls it Aiding and Abetting. It doesn't matter what you think Aiding and Abetting means the law has it's own definition and it's by that definition and no other you are guilty by. That's just the way Justice is. And when you take that reality and plug it into the Flood story you mentioned you do find yourself asking the question. Surely Noah wasn't the only one who saw what was wrong so why isn't anyone telling these people, "Stop what you are doing." Let's assume there were plenty of people who had enough conscience to see that. Well, according to the narrative none of them were speaking and that was the problem. Noah and his family were the only ones who not only saw what was wrong but was speaking against it. Now can we relate that to China? Well let's face it Romance of the Three Kingdoms alone along with every other narrative which described China's woes the answer is definite yes. Since the beginning of China's history China has been plagued by horrible Emperors, corrupt officials, and cruel tyrants all of which took over subjugated and even enslaved a series of former independent kingdoms and nations we now refer to as China. I only need a history book to prove this. Even the book of Odes, one of the 5 confucian Classics, contains poems which describes their plight. So the necessity of a foreign missionary teaching a better way was in fact a very wise way to approach China.
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  470.  @TheJayJayYoung  Well then you are not talking about either one then. God treating all the same has nothing to do with him being omnipresent nor omnipotent. Omnipresence just means not limited by time and space. That's it what you are thinking of is God's grace which is entirely different. Well if you are going the favoritism route then you run into a huge problem which is found in Acts 15 which clearly shows God giving his favor to the gentile. We know this is the interpretation because Peter's fellow teachers or cohorts whatever you want to call them recognized it as such. So if to God it was all about favoritism then what is going on here? See that only makes sense if favoritism doesn't even scratch the surface. What does scripture say Israel was? Or I shoud say what does scripture tell us Israel was intended as? I word it this way because you have to keep always in mind the human element in the equation. It's just like with my own son. I can intend a nice house and all these good things for him but it's up to him in terms of what is he going to do with it. Well scripture doesn't make that a theological secret or anything it directly tells us in Isaiah 42:6, "I the LORD have called unto you in righteousness, and have taken hold of your hand, and submitted you as the people's covenant, as a light unto the nations" in other words God didn't single out Israel for anything what God was really doing was making Israel much like a lighthouse for other nations. Nations were supposed to come to God through Israel not the other way around, and when you study the ancient world that's not an unusual idea. Greater nations in the ancient world like Rome figured out that outside powers tended to gravitate in different ways, trade being the most well-known example of this, because of that gravitation it makes that one power much more stronger. It makes it what today we would call a superpower. Now you can try to insist that favoritism was the case but then your stuck with scriptures like Isaiah and Acts where you have very clear ulterior motive that has nothing to do with favoritism.
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  539. You know I actually studied Chinese History for a time, and I noticed something about the History of China that, if a given government or even society is not careful, can be replicated elsewhere. What would happen with the different dynasties is that you get this charismatic leader who takes charge, then a honeymoon period occurs, and it tends to very depend on the government. Then the same leader, in most cases it's one of his successors, takes charge and he should never have been given power to begin with, kind of like Biden or Pelosi type person obviously there are others, but I don't want to get ahead of myself. Anyway, so they start passing policies that made the people of China a lot like the People of our country are right now but a little more authoritarian and the people are getting more and more poor and pissed off. To make a long story short the Bidens of Chinese history pissed off their own people to the point where they could not take it anymore. This then creates a civil war, a warring states period to be exact, opening the door for another charismatic leader to set things right and the whole process repeats itself. Can this happen to our own country, well that's why we study history because obviously we don't. Depending on how this cold Civil War between Libs and Conservatives ends it can turn into a hot war from there it is possible it could end like the last one did or we can end in the same repeatable cycle for as long as the United States or whatever replaces the United States exists just like in China it all depends. Personally I think the libs constantly getting exposed is making them more and more desperate. It wouldn't surprise me if they try to do another J6 except this is to deliberately turn the cold civil war into a hot civil war. I hope I am wrong about that because I am sure we are prepared for the worst but I would like to think none of us want to fight a war with our own countrymen.
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  551. Atheists and even the CCP want everyone to believe Christianity is full of violent extremist groups. So then how come it isn't that common to see violent Christians in countries where no one would blame them for fighting back? Just so I am clear I am not talking about western countries I mean any country where they are a minority and have every reason to fight back? For the past 100 years Marxism resorted to violence and even terrorism with groups like the Tamil Tigers and the Red Army Faction. Christianity doesn't seem to have that many violent groups in fact at present there are no more than a handful of such groups and typically they follow doctrines only a few church groups follow out of 1000s. So, for your statement to be true the very opposite would have to be going on and fact is if we look at just terrorist groups alone associated with Marxist Leninist groups, we find a whole list and if we look under Islam there are just as many but Christianity there is hardly any so what gives? And if Christianity is as violent as you say then how come we don't see any 1st century accounts from Rome about Christians taking up arms against Ceasar like so many other groups Rome subjugated? And don't try to kid yourself every single roman controlled territory had some group trying to overthrow the Romans or just give them the boot but what do we see when we look up the Roman historians' comments about Christians from the 1st to 3rd centuries? That their biggest annoyance about the group was that they were nonviolent and preached even when they were being condemned to the cross defeating the whole purpose of execution. So, what gives it seems to me the facts are not adding up to your conclusions.
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  570. To Fomo For your statement to be true society, which tends to desire religion, would have to be in constant conflict with authority constantly and universally and nothing is further from the truth. The answer why can be found in Psychology. All healthy respect for authority is dependent upon a healthy relationship at childhood with one's father. Dad establishes healthy respect for authority by being an authority over the household mom establishes healthy relationships between just people in general. In other words, it's a scientically proven fact that if you can't establish a healthy relationship even with friends or you cannot respect authority it's a good indicator something went wrong during childhood between mom and dad and you. What does this have to do with religion, or Christianity for that matter? Easy exodus 20:12 honor your father and mother. In fact the 10 commandments even Exodus through Deuteronomy establishes healthy relationship between people, society, family, law, and authority. So if religion is in constant conflict with authority then what's this doing in the Bible? Let me propose an alternative it's the opposite that's true in the case of China. It's authority creating conflict with religion? Why? What's the motive? Because Christianity is not a religion the CCP can control and it has this really bad habit, I suppose you can say, of creating perfectly content people who are arguably more moral due to a diety that is beyond the party's sphere of influence. And that is something the CCP chooses not to allow and is threatened by.
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  578. " Worship the soldier" --- Ok what if the soldier is in fact corrupt or a coward or a coward in his heart. How about this one what if he is a war criminal? At least with God being the supreme judge he bases everything on justice. A soldier, the same can be said for a police officer since corrupt police do in fact exist, can be infallible he is just a person capable of faults. " We have been given free effective covid tests" ---- Ok so then why are there still record numbers of COVID related deaths. How about this one why is the CCP so afraid of it they feel the need to lock down an entire city like, I don't know, Shanghai? Since I mentioned the city keep fighting Shanghai and don't let those CCP goons off for one second. " We only celebrate Chinese New Year" ---- So what's wrong with mothers day or fathers day. You hate your parents or something. I thought part of your culture was that family comes first. If it does then don't you think Mom and Dad deserve their own day since they went through the trouble of making you and raising you? You know I have a point with that one. " We don't celebrate Christmas"--- Why what's wrong with gift giving what's wrong with foreign holidays? I celebrate St. Patricks day and I am not Irish, Irish descent but not Irish Btw don't even bother pulling a race card I am ethnically mixed to the point where technically I don't really have a race, and I am American. "Both my parents and Grandparents use Huawei phones"--- And I bet they wish they had a little bit more freedom to say how they really feel about the Criminals who run your country. "I will not regret being a Chinese and I will be a Chinese in the afterlife"---- So you don't regret being a slave under a foreign occupier who inherited your lands from another occupier or the one before him or the one before him or the one before him? Just to prove my point answer one question for me, well 3 actually. What province are you from and were they always part of China or were you at one time your own country and how long ago was that? now if you are full blooded Han good for you so why is your country called China and not Han? See my point when I say you are a slave? Now lets say you are Chinese even in the afterlife. Why would that matter? Let me put it to you this way just so we are all on the same page suppose you decided to immigrate to a country where nationalities have no real meaning there is the countries name but citizens and immigrants are just called people why would you being Chinese really matter? Wouldn't heaven have to be that same way? " We will only sing the national anthem of China?"---- So you are saying you are severely lacking in musical talent? How can that be when Chinese traditional music has some of the best and most soothing music. I am not saying it's better than everyone else's I am just saying it's really darn good. What a shame I find that to be a contradiction and complete waste of talent. " We have the best poems from Jin Yang?" ---- So what about Luo Guanzhong? Oh wait that's not China that's Wei Shu and Wu but wait a minute you pull up a map and that is China. Huh I guess I am going to have to call BS on that one too. " I am the Successor of Communism."---- Really? Would that be the people who just didn't die from Communism or the people who were doing the killing? Either you are a successor of survivors, which is never something to be proud of, or you are the successor of murderers. " Always follow the CCP"--- Yeah like the mice to the pied piper. We all know what happened to the mice don't we?
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  608.  @ambarvalia9757  An interesting historical fact about Christianity is that it was this very fact that started incidents like the inquisition. Atheists like to throw around the belief that it was because the Church only wanted their version of religion except when you go to what actually happened nothing was further from the truth. Catholicism was of the opinion that the monopoly on knowledge of the bible belonged only to the Clergy. The reason why they harped on it so much was because a few centuries earlier Martin Luther strongly disagreed believing that every believer should be free to study and learn from it in any way and in any language. This is what started what later became Protestantism. Sounds like very good idea except Catholics felt uncomfortable with the idea, I think because it's like sharing the keys to your car or house with a friend. Even if you trust your friend depending on how well you know that person you would probably feel uneasy about it. Martin Luther and many converts from Catholicism seemed to share the same opinion. Long story short Roman Catholic priests seemed to get off on the power involved and thought descending opinions were heresy by virtue of the fact they simply disagreed. So, the truth about the conflict between Christians is that they had more to do with the issue of politics involving the clergy and less to do with Christian belief. Imagine a married couple divorcing and fighting over who got the kids, the house and so on. It was that level of pettiness making religion only an excuse to fight each other and nothing more. I think Paul knew this was the inevitable conclusion of division and infighting within the Church which was why he spoke against it. The wars between Catholics and Protestants simply proved his point thus the new testament spoke the truth.
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  707. You know I couldn't help but notice the comments cheering the ccp for their efforts against the church but can't really say anything when asked to justify their comment. Except one I have to credit to who gave it a try. It was really a good conversation but the only flaw in his argument was that he ran into what logic refers to as the law of noncontradiction which refers to using standards to attack a standard in his case he was trying to virtue signal by saying that in the Bible God ordered the conquest of certain countries, in doing so calling upon justice upon God. Except he did so without reading everything about that conquest namely what prompted it. According to scripture the canaanites were guilty of sexual immorality, which is further clarified by Greek historian Herodatus and what the Bible is talking about is what could be best described as ritualistic rape, incest and prostitution which extended even to children, they were also guilty of child murder, Herodutus again clarifies that the canaanites worshipped an idol named Moloch which had these huge hands over a fire and on these hands would be placed babies some no older than 2. While these kids would be literally cooked alive there would drums that would be beaten so the kids parents couldn't hear their own child's painful screams as it's roasted alive. So essentially God was placing judgment on a nation of rapists, child molesters, and child murderers whom in most criminal justice systems today would receive the death penalty. So essentially we both agreed that there was a need for justice when someone commits such crimes but where we disagreed on was was God an offender or was he acting justly. If we take both scripture and history into account God's actions were justified. My opponent didn't want to agree to this for what seemed to be 2 reasons. 1. To take this into account exonerates God and 2. He preferred a black and white view of justice when justice in actual practice is hardly black and white. Look up the differences between justifiable homicide, murder and manslaughter to see what I mean. Yes they all involve killing but each one has very specific differences. This example shows why we need the full story including the reasons before giving a fair judgment otherwise any judgment you make is entirely arbitrary and a miscarriage of justice.
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  729.  @12345as-k  Let me put that same slave analogy another way. One of the biggest reasons to justify persecuting Christians is foreign influence. How many foreigners do you think the arrested Christians personally know? I actually spent 6 years in Asia and I have visited Christian communities where they never even seen a foreigner before. These are often small villages in the middle of nowhere that can only be accessed by roads you wouldn't dare drive on in anything that wasn't built for off roading. Now maybe in the larger cities you can put a generous percentage on how many actually knew a foreigner but all of them? Really?? Then there is this accusation that they are engaged in Terrorism? Really?? And I suppose I am suppose to ignore the fact that this is coming from an ideology that arguably has had more terrorist groups attached to their name then even Jihadist groups in the past 100 years. In fact I would bet that if you spoke to a Chinese Christian you will find that they are more Chinese then the CCP wants even you to believe. In fact historically speaking whenever a political decision was made to use Christians as cannon fodder in wars, much to the states annoyance, they turned out to be 100x more loyal to the defence of their state then any radicalized citizen can ever become. You don't have to take my word for it look it up yourself any country that ever tried to get rid of Christianity that way bet you anything it turned into a surprising lesson in Christian sub culture time and time again. You can start with the Romans under Marcus Aurelius. Even Stalin tried it in WW2 he had to quietly exterminate them after it turned out that many of them were willing to fight and die for Russia despite what Stalin put them all through and knowing Stalin wasn't to be trusted.
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  734. Oh really ok let's put your logic to the test. So essentially what you are saying is that any degree of disagreement equals racism ok let's start small. If a husband has a disagreement with his wife is the husband being racist? According to your logic he must be but if so then why marry her in the first place? Do you see something wrong with that logic? Let's go a little bit bigger. Let's say mom and dad and the kids are having a fight over video games. Are the kids being racist towards their parents or the reverse? If parents are being racist towards their children then why have them? If the kids are being racist towards their parents then why stay in the house? Obviously such disagreements have nothing to do with race but differences in viewpoints. Just to make sure my point is clear let's go even bigger but just shy of a city sense I am just challenging your logic. Suppose their was a school or company where half the people are having a disagreement over unfair business practices. Suppose favoritism was going on. Are the people calling out teachers or managers being racist? If so then why point out how someone with more money got a promotion or better grades then the other guy who worked way harder then the other. Obviously, such people just want to be treated fairly. So if none of these examples would be adequate examples of racism then how is a city calling out the CCP'S attempt at undermining their right's considered racism? Obviously, citing disagreements isn't enough and anyone can wave a flag and it wouldn't be considered racism. If I wished I could fly an Irish flag but it doesn't make me a white supremacist. Likewise I could wave the Chinese flag and it wouldn't make me someone who hates my own race. So you will have to justify that statement a little better.
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  747.  @davidkavanagh9551  well now I know for a fact your history is fraudulent. To understand what was going on in the Italian courts, the church included, requires an understanding of Machiavelli. Why? Because at the time everyone ruled based on the methods he describes and to Machiavelli it is better to be feared than loved that is a rule of all courts and a warning to anyone having any dealings with the court scientists included. How do we know this to be a fact because Galileo’s contemporary, Capernicus, received the exact opposite treatment he was elevated to the court philosopher under the Medicis. How did he accomplish this feet in a time where if what you say is accurate then he should have met the same fate? Simple he presented his findings in a manner thag honored the Medicis sense Jupiter was the sigil of the Medicis which gave Capernicus a window to present his findings. So he elevated the entire court to the heavens giving his findings credibility without giving offense. Galileo however didn’t follow Capernicus’s example and ignored Machiavelli’s warning by presenting his findings as a dialogue between church leadership and scholars with the church leadership being the losers. In short Galileo may have been a Brilliant scientist but when it came the court he was an absolute moron and paid the price for his stupidity. Truth is always in the details and if you truly understood that period of Italian history you would have realized the story of Galileo leaves a lot of historical facts out. Facts which if you had known you would have seen right through the claim as being fraudulent. You don’t have to take my word for it look up Machiavelli and Capernicus as a court philosopher and see for yourself. And appealing to outrage is always a fallacy what I just described is an example of why. Anyone can be outraged or generate outrage about anything it doesn’t disprove it as truth. Real history geeks know this for a fact because history is full of examples of events like this one where you have to literally dissect the event in question to see it wasn’t as black and white as is popularly believed.
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  770.  @Indiancommunist019  And how many different translations of say Romance of the Three Kingdoms or the 5 Confucian Classics, are there? And that's just for scholarship purposes but the point is clear translating a book even a religious one doesn't prove corruption. In Law we have what is called Chain of Custody which is the paper trail from the current paperwork on whatever it is to the original. Now if your brain is working as it should be then your question should be why is this relevant. Well it's simple, translations especially over time can be used to compare each other. Just like what we do in a Chain of Custody because what it allows us to do is to compare and look for deviations in the narrative. Now if you pushed language to the side, for one thing no one speaks King James English and that wasn't the very first bible not by a long shot, and just focused on this question is there any deviation in anyone book of the bible? See why Chain of Custody is relevant? Furthermore unlike religions like Islam Christianity doesn't have a sacred language. You can look that up you will not find any pastor saying this language or that is how the Bible should be read in fact Martin Luther started Lutheranism because the Catholic Church tried to push for things like the Latin Bible to only be taught. There were others but the punchline was Martin Luther recognized that the Catholic Church was trying to make it so that only the clergy were allowed to read and interpret the Bible and Martin Luther strongly disagreed with this position and today he is regarded as an apologist who is widely read even by Catholics. So if you thought the bible was supposed to be read in one translation I am sorry but you got your religions confused because that's not a Christian teaching. In fact only a handful of churches out of 20,000 completely different Churches actually push the King James Bible while all the others use whatever translations they have which have very little if any differences. I happen to know this because I have read through the Bible 8 times and each time with a different bible. So try again.
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  777. I have done that while living in Thailand. You would be surprised how far a dollar can last but there are certain rules, I guess you can call them to get the full benefit. 1) whatever it is you love if it's US born and bred give it up you just adopted whatever it is the locals eat everyday. 2) those shopping malls with the clothes you like, give those up too you are shopping at a market from now on for your clothes. 3) this applies if you are working as a teacher of some kind, lower your standard of living and settle for whatever your school gives you. If it's a shack that's barely livable flex those carpenter skills and make it livable. 4) learn the language, if you can't get a local gf or just friends who are local they come in handy in an emergency. 5) take advantage of bus systems it's not greyhound or airline travel but it will get you to wherever you want to go. Long story short it is humbling living under a 1$ budget while giving up what you are use to but it does change your perspective on things and gives you a better understanding how people in those countries really feel about it. This episode makes it sound like it's intolerable but actually it's quite the opposite when you consider the fact to a lot of folks around the globe that's just normal life and they smile everyday. I have even visited countries like Philippines where even if they are doctors or lawyers they will voluntarily live that way not because it comes natural but because the way they see it it means more money for their children and their future. It's an odd way of thinking for us in countries like the US but it does highlight how we tend to take everything for granted. Are we the best country in the world because of this? Depends what is meant by best, if you mean our standard of living the fact we don't have to live that way despite it's plusses then sure you can draw that conclusion. If you mean best by can we be content knowing we take so much for granted arguably not. It's one of those questions where it depends on how you look at it and compared to what.
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  833. Flashbacks- frequently sometimes good memories other times bad Low self esteem- very frequent most of the time I hide it with stoicism. I do have emotional outbursts often when I can't take it. Eating disorders not really Sleeping disorder- on occasion Heavy heart- if I had to put a number on it I would say on average 4 out of 7 days out of a given week. Time alone- yeah which is both a curse I find inconvenient. I had the worst kind of break up anyone can go through 20 years ago. Yup it still affects me and it was that bad. Short version is my exgf friends hated me to the point they convinced her I was cheating when I never did. They even added pressure on her just to make sure she dumped me. Nothing I said or did convinced her of my innocence, of course this was before I understood evidence and that I had a fighting chance for a while but once she cut off all contact with me there was nothing I could do. Yeah, it sometimes effects my current family. My wife often thinks she is cleaning another person's mess. At least she tries to help even though it is frustrating for her. One day we actually had a fight because of how melancholy I was and she seriously wanted to dump me on my exgf door and tell her, "your mess you clean it up." It seriously gets that bad. Point is, if anyone reading this has a similar wound, man or woman, you are among friends. I still feel it but I guess because of age I learned to make peace with it. It's a scar I live with but it's one I am content with now. So, it does get better with time. It's not easy but like all painful things it never is but it does make you wiser and stronger. I hope my 2 cents on this helps.
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  851. First of all, I love all Chinese I have yet to meet one I didn't like in some way shape or form. Now the story, I walked into this one Chinese restaurant one time not sure what I really wanted, and I had never been to this place before but I smelled good food and thought about giving it a chance. So, I go in ask for a menu to see what they had any of my favorites on there and I hear the host, yes I was learning Chinese shortly before this, talking to one of the servers and both of them were middle aged gawdy dressed Chinese women. One of them said to the other, "Watch I bet 50 dollars....." yes, she seriously said 50 Dollars, " he is just going to look at the menu and leave." LOL I couldn't help myself I decided to stay just to make her look dumb and when I did, she had the most embarrassed look on her face that I had ever seen in my life. Talk about being caught with her foot in her mouth and it turned out she was my waitress. I didn't smile or anything like that I already knew she lost face in front of her friend, so I ordered my food in English, it was a good meal, and I was cordial and polite. I waited until the very end when I started speaking Chinese to her which not only shocked her but now she knew I overheard her talking to her friend. She retreated back into the kitchen after that and sent someone else to collect the tip. Like I said I have yet to meet one I didn't like and I am sure she learned a lesson about people after that but I definitely enjoyed surprising her like that.
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  864.  @yiwu9968  Wrong wrong wrong and wrong. Actually leadership has very little do with it because that is the purpose of the Bible, which Actually encourages us to always beware of false prophets and to always put the leadership to the test using the Bible. Our scripture teaches us to love our enemies and pray for our persecutors any deviation from this and the leadership fails the test. In other words any fault of the leadership is entirely on them not the religion nor its teachings. This also means Christianity shares the view that truth is singular and objective not subjective. Truth is not one size fits all. For example if I was to claim the sun is purple because that's the color I see with my naked eyes. Obviously this isn't truth because everyone, unless you are colorblind like this person in my example, sees a yellow sun. So it's not both are true one is true and the other is false, even if it's a perceived truth. When I asked what acts of violence have they actually committed i meant exactly that. List their actual deeds showing that they have contradicted scripture. Are there exceptions to this teaching? Depends but those are matters of Justice which is another objective truth in Christianity. God didn't destroy Canaan for no reason they were guilty of several crimes that would warrant the death penalty even by today's standards of law among those crimes being child sacrifice. I also asked what has the leadership actually done and I mean it precisely in this same context have they done anything contrary to scripture. If the answer is yes then what was the action and what was it in response to. When I say violence, in case you want to play some sort of word play, I mean it in the legal sense not as you worded it. Which means I am referring to this specific legal definition https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/16 and no other. Also if you are of the belief all religions are the same then why are you using a derogatory term, cult, in reference to a particular church?
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  870.  @yiwu9968  cults according to whom? See Paul and Jesus made it clear. Jesus said Judge not lest you be judged. For the same standard you use to judge others will be used against you. Mathew 7:1-3 and what that means is if you are not an authority nor given authority to judge, as in terms if law, then it's not your place to judge. Are there churches that judge who is a cult and who isn't of course and those are the ones who forget what Paul says in 1 Corinthians 1:10-17 " 10 I urge you, my brothers and sisters, for the sake of the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to agree to live in unity with one another[j] and put to rest any division that attempts to tear you apart.[k] Be restored[l] as one united body living in perfect harmony. Form a consistent choreography among yourselves, having a common perspective with shared values. 11 My dear brothers and sisters, I have a serious concern I need to bring up with you,[m] for I have been informed by those of Chloe’s house church[n] that you have been destructively arguing among yourselves. 12 And I need to bring this up because each of you is claiming loyalty to different preachers. Some are saying, “I am a disciple of Paul,” or, “I follow Apollos,” or, “I am a disciple of Peter the Rock,”[o] and some, “I belong only to Christ.” 13 But let me ask you, is Christ divided up into groups? Did I die on the cross for you? At your baptism did you pledge yourselves to follow Paul?[p] 14 Thank God I only baptized two from Corinth—Crispus and Gaius![q] 15 So now no one can say that in my name I baptized others.[r] 16 (Yes, I also baptized Stephanus and his family. Other than that, I don’t remember baptizing anyone else.) 17 For the Anointed One has sent me on a mission, not to see how many I could baptize,[s] but to proclaim the good news. And I declare this message stripped of all philosophical arguments that empty the cross of its true power. For I trust in the all-sufficient cross of Christ alone." What that means is that there are no cults that tie themselves to Christianity there is simply the church. The groups that you are trying to associate as cults and what I refer to as cults, which would be Jim Jones are nowhere close to being the same. What you want to call a cult is the part of the body of Christ just as Paul describes. So yes you are banning Christianity and hiding it behind semantics like a snake hiding in a bush. The cults, like Jones's church were declared cults because they failed, manipulated and even deviated from scripture. See what I mean when I said we use scripture to test for false prophets? And this isn't judgementalness. This is what it looks like,, really looks like,, when scripture makes the judgement.
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  872.  @yiwu9968  ok you want to judge. Let's put that logic to the test. let's say you have a coworker who is a nobody and doesn't care what anyone says. In fact in your mind he is the worst of the worst even though you know next to nothing about him or his private life. To you he is simply someone you think doesn't deserve your respect nor your gratitude. One day you walk home and you find him giving money to some homeless people. You will probably write that off as being him trying to make someone like him. Then you find him going shopping buying food for himself for what looks like a month of food but later you find out he gave the majority of the food he bought to a homeless shelter and kept only an 8th for himself which might be some rice and maybe a few days of vegetables. The punchline is you find out he has this saintly double life that he keeps entirely to himself and shows no one he knows. In fact he does his best not to draw attention to himself. He cares little for appearances only that he does these actions and wants nothing in return. How do you really judge such a person when you committed your mind to believing the very worst about him? Perhaps whatever deserved him that judgement was just a mask to hide his true nature. See that's why we are taught never to judge. We are also taught to do good deeds in secret and ask Nothing in return. In God's eyes the people you think are good do so because they like being seen in that light. Jesus said they have their reward in full. A person like the one I described their reward is waiting for them in heaven. It's not just this example I have even come across folks who committed crimes but their motive wasn't necessarily criminal. In other words they only got convicted because whatever it was they had to do was illegal. In my studies in criminal justice ethics is a big topic and among those are moral dilemmas where an officer arrests a their trying to steal medicine for a dying daughter and he can't afford medicine any other way. It was an actual case but is used in criminal justice study to show the reality of many cases law enforcement deals with. You speak of reality as if the world is black and white my study and experience has taught that is the biggest lie you were ever taught. Nothing is black and white when you really look at something. You encounter this everyday.
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  888. and how well has that exactly worked out for you? Just the past 2 years alone is filled with examples showing the exact opposite of what you just said. With the recent school shooting, and the 2020 summer of insanity being just the cherry on top. And if these kinds of books causes harm then how come those raised on them tend to be 1000 times better then well anyone who refuses to even read such a book and are more productive as well. Care to explain such a paradox? And let me guess your response before you write it, Christians have been violent terrorists, or persecuted such and such people, yeah I have heard quite a number of these accusations so I will just save you some comment space and respond to that one anyway. So if Christians are such a way then how come just in countries where no one would blame them for leading a violent upraising, like China or Burma yes they are in such countries, how come they don't act as violent as that accusations states? Plenty of other countries with Muslim minorities leading all kinds of trouble but barely anything from Christian minorities in these same countries that can be verified from the START institute in Maryland and the Institute for Global Affairs and Security in the Hague who both maintain up to date lists on terrorist groups. You will find Christianity is barely a blip on that whole list with only a handful of such groups at any given time while Islam and left wing Marxist Socialist groups literally dominate the whole list. Care to explain that contradiction?
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