The Mystery of Jesus Christ. (Page 77) Zanjan: Comandante - I suggested you think BECAUSE yours was a NULL question. Nations that are backwards now might be near the head of the line in future. Which scale do you want to use - Standard of Living, Environmental Protection, World Monetary fund contributions, Federal debt, Human rights and freedoms, Scientific achievements etc? Average of the collective categories? How does your country tick off all those boxes right now? Here, let me get you started on one catagory: Econmic Freedom: - China ranks 107 from the top ( mostly unfree); Argentina ranks 148 from the top ( mostly unfree). (Edited by Zanjan)  WHlSKY: The topic was not on economy but on political power wasn’t it. To my knowledge, my country do not have mines in Africa. That’s how to keep rising no? Canada has quit a bit and raking in a lot. WHlSKY: You know if you read something typed you can respond below as normal instead of editing it in to make it seem that you have addressed it. Countries that can separate power and money are ahead? Idk if you might want to edit again to seem clearer. Zanjan: "The topic was not on economy but on political power wasn’t it." No, it was about power. Politics is a different subject (here today, gone tomorrow). Ghost suggested one man had power over all the people in China. Nonsense. When China followed Mayo Tse Tung ( a militant religious movement), the country was way more backward than it is now. Everyone was forcefully indoctrinated into its manifesto. However, they complied for appearances sake - there was a large underground of opposers with people on the cutting edge who were anxiously waiting for him to die. Since then, China has stepped out into the world as a sensible industrial partner, albeit people still flee the country for a better life. When I type in live time, I edit so my sentences don't look as if I've only had third grade. Nevertheless, some people will misread. (Edited by Zanjan)  ghostgeek: The orders have been sudden, dramatic and often baffling. Last week, “American Idol”-style competitions and shows featuring men deemed too effeminate were banned by Chinese authorities. Days earlier, one of China’s wealthiest actresses, Zhao Wei, had her movies, television series and news mentions scrubbed from the Internet as if she had never existed. Over the summer, China’s multibillion-dollar private education industry was decimated overnight by a ban on for-profit tutoring, while new regulations wiped more than $1 trillion from Chinese tech stocks since a peak in February. As China’s tech moguls compete to donate more to President Xi Jinping’s campaign against inequality, “Xi Jinping Thought” is taught in elementary schools, and foreign games and apps like Animal Crossing and Duolingo have been pulled from stores. A dizzying regulatory crackdown unleashed by China’s government has spared almost no sector over the past few months. This sprawling “rectification” campaign — with such disparate targets as ride-hailing services, insurance, education and even the amount of time children can spend playing video games — is redrawing the boundaries of business and society in China as Xi prepares to take on a controversial third term in 2022. [ https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/china-crackdown-tech-celebrities-xi/2021/09/09/b4c2409c-0c66-11ec-a7c8-61bb7b3bf628_story.html?utm_source=pocket-newtab-global-en-GB ] ghostgeek: “It’s striking and significant. This is clearly not a sector-by-sector rectification; this is an entire economic, industry and structural rectification,” said Jude Blanchette, who holds the Freeman Chair in China Studies at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. At China’s national congress next fall, Xi is expected to retain his title as general secretary of the ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP), a move that would upset a decades-old system of term limits and leadership succession. To build momentum, he is pushing an agenda of tackling income inequality under the banner of “common prosperity,” a campaign that gives officials and companies rallying around the cause opportunity to show their loyalty before the reshuffle of party personnel. According to authorities, restricting the private tutoring industry is meant to level the playing field in China’s highly competitive schools and lessen the financial burden on families. China’s biggest tech companies have been brought to heel in the name of protecting competition and consumer data. Yet other recent regulations targeting the country’s youth appear aimed at asserting control over popular culture, measures that critics say limit the public’s few outlets for debate and expression. [ https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/china-crackdown-tech-celebrities-xi/2021/09/09/b4c2409c-0c66-11ec-a7c8-61bb7b3bf628_story.html?utm_source=pocket-newtab-global-en-GB ] ghostgeek: If Xi Jinping hasn't got everyone in China by the short and curlies, that's not through want of trying. Zanjan: Well, Chinese families can now have TWO children. In a Communist system, there was never supposed to be the ultra rich, while others were ultra poor. Steps have been taken to eliminate extremes. One step forward, another back. China will eventually maneuver itself towards the natural average mean, allowing for a small contingent of extremes at both ends, just like nature does. There comes a time when one of those extremes is temporarily needed to re-balance a tipping scale. Having entered the industrial era, followed by the high tech era, now is the time to work on its air quality, which it can more easily see from its own space station up there. (Edited by Zanjan) ghostgeek: Zanjan, do these steps the Chinese have taken to eliminate extremes include the palaces the leadership lives in? Zanjan: Well, most world leaders love their creature comforts, don't they? What about the White House? On the news, they only show the front door of #10 Downing street - looks lame on the outside but inside, its a whole 'nother world with 100 palatial rooms, trimmed with gold. Meanwhile, the back yard is conservative with a garden on only half an acre. In Canada, 24 Sussex Drive is the official residence of our Prime Minister; it's a modest crumbling old mansion so leaders don't want to visit, much less live there. So, he lives at Rideau Cottage, which looks like a normal, comfortable home. The front door is really nice. ghostgeek: There's no doubting that national leaders like to live lavishly but not all of them are touting a policy of eliminating extremes. Zanjan: We have a lot of ridiculously wealthy who are philanthropists. However, they don't pay the taxes they should be paying. It should be a proportionate amount and that's where the government needs to step up to make it a fairer system. Citizens are asking for that but, naturally, not the rich people. If China does that, they can be a role model of right conduct. ghostgeek: Seems China is more interested in gunboat diplomacy than right conduct so don't hold your breath waiting for it to be a role model you'd wish to emulate. WHlSKY: Who is a role model these days. China is doing the same moves as the other superpowers. Only difference is, they’re doing it to everybody, not just the less influential countries. And they’re not into the covert methods.  GeraldtheGnome: Grammatical errors were made on this forum. There never was a Jesus Christ that existed. The name Jesus was not used during The Iron Age. To Zanjan. You used the word saying the wrong way. No one has literally said anything on this text based forum. ghostgeek: Now, whatever name the lad went under, there's a reasonable chance that a bloke the world now calls Jesus Christ did in fact exist. Of course, our earliest source makes no mention of healing powers, miracles or a carpenter's shop in Galilee but he does tell us Jesus was crucified. ghostgeek: So you take one crucified man, add lashings of gobshite and you get the Jesus Christ of history. Then you sit back and watch the money roll in. | Religion Chat Room 31 People Chatting Similar Conversations |
