I lived in china for 12 years, what I saw was the great majority are dirt poor peasants, well aware of their position, well aware of exactly what the ruling class is.
They have a major issue there, being the tenure and ownership of land. All those massive buildings, that are 'worth' billions, are on land owned by, and leased from, those peasants, displaced for that purpose, and given peanuts in exchange.
They can see just what the value is now and those 'leases' are all 70 year duration, which is coming due for re-negotiation right about now.
The ruling class - the military - have a dilemma. Claim ownership and spark an uprising of the great majority of the people, or make a huge payout to the actual owners?
What I saw, was that the peasants are very angry, and very ready, to reclaim their country.
I saw this in village uprisings against the local representatives of the 'govt', occurring each week.
Even among the 'middle' classes, minor disagreements with local 'govt' crooks quickly escalated into violence, regardless of the well known consequences.
In my opinion, it won't take much of a spark to set that place alight.
Jezzzus ... I read deeper and the tyranny is bonkers.
I have a weird idea that an EM-pulse nuclear attack is the very last thing our self appointed gods want to happen. Unplugging everyone for a few weeks might restore sanity to the plebs, then where would the rulers of this world be?
Good point. Slave uprisings have always been a deep seated fear of the “rulers”. The roman senators were terrified of the slightest dissent. They razed the entire land of Israel rather than let the people go.
Not a single slave/peasant revolt has ever succeeded for longer than a year or two. The elite was vulnerable only when it had some infighting or its forces were spread out too much, as in the case of Spartacus. Still, certain principles must prevail even at the price of one's life:
Yes the roman attack on the Jewish/Christian culture in the latter decades of the first 100 years was a direct result of the ideas being spread by Messianic Christians of all stripes after Yeshua s execution by Pilot. The philosophy of freedom and everyone is subject to the ultimate law of god was inciting rebellion and Rome shut them all down brutally.
It depends on whom one is asking. The Romans considered the Jewish and the Christian approach a direct assault on their culture and an insult to the Emperor, which couldn't go unpunished.
Pilate only did what the good folks of Jerusalem demanded (cf. Josephus Flavius); the charge against Joshua was that he wanted to have his own kingdom, but he was not exactly the kind of Messiah from the Torah, so he had to go. In 70 AD, Zealots were convinced that the time was ripe for independence, and that didn't work out so well, either.
I think, if I remember correctly, that the archeological evidence of Masada is lacking. The siege of Jerusalem makes it into the Koran as well with a character change of course. I'm not sure of the archeological evidence for that.
I tend to think that the Romans created Christianity.
There are quite a few American black people that are Christian. I have trouble wrapping my mind around that, given they might well have been brought here as slaves, and ended up adopting the religion of their enslavers. Same for Native Americans who practice Christianity, the disconnect is quite confusing to me. The book Stringing Rosaries by Lajidmodiere is a good book on American Indian Christian boarding school survivors.
The problem with Christianity is that Rome took it for themselves and imposed ridged military structure of command - control on it, then declared most of the Christian cults wrong thinking heretics, burned their philosophy’s and heritage. And persecuted and killed them. The early church was very brutal against other “so called” Christians that did not believe in the tight church control and censorship.
Just how "early" can Christianity be? It became the official religion of the Roman Empire only in 325, which turned into a state ideology, whose main function was to maintain law and order. By 385, Paganism was banned.
At the same time, I would be cautious of esoteric versions of Christianity, especially because in my experience, its critics are often quite ignorant of history, untrained in logic and philosophy, but are always ready to cash in on their romantic views... Blaming Christianity for wrongdoings is like blaming a gun that has been used to shoot someone. Moreover, not everyone who is shot is innocent...
For more about the way civilizations always structure themselves in the same manner:
Trying to fit in is a powerful form of motivation. It's well worth remembering that liberated blacks also owned slaves and that slavery didn't start with them. Blacks owned and still own slaves in Africa and American Indians had owned slaves well before the colonists arrived.
Interesting Ray. In the 50's mainland simplified the characters but Taiwan retained the complex original. Japan is closer to Taiwan's usage. Mandarin is hard because of the pronunciation and gobs of words that sound similar but the grammar isn't so hard. Japanese is easier to pronounce, grammar has some twists but after getting a dozen rules down its not so bad, but they also have gobs of words used in specific situations, 2-3 levels of politeness that can get a bit dazzling, and use 2 auxiliary written syllabaries that take some time to get used to. Proton Magic & Co has recently sent China a Christine Massey FOI on the proof of a virus there, their reply probably wont be hard to read because it will be just as blank as the package inserts for the shots.
Actually China implemented few decades ago Putonghua, the simplified Chinese speaking and the simplified Chinese writing, mandatory in schools and public venues. They do not use ideograms but pictograms. Linguists ate the one who know most of them, regular people are interested only in communication. China is not CCP and CCP is not China.
the pictogram aspect is not so easy to see as the shapes are abstracted to fit into a small space.
Japanese use of Chinese characters are closer to the complex characters but are also a bit simplified. They also have separate phonetic syllabarys that mix with the characters.
Interesting. Didn't know about Taiwan. Mandarin also has its intonational variations, which reminds me of Vietnamese in which the same "maaa" can have six different meanings, depending on the pitch and tonal inflection applied. Japanese fascinates me because of its scriptal adaptability and its traditional deductive approach to linguistic denotation. When I set up my cognitive system of AI using natural languages, I found it most fascinating how the collocationality of language elements align with the conceptual distribution of the human experience in various problem-solving structures... (Apologies for being a bit too technical, but I am side-tracking, anyway.)
Apparently, I am recovering from having been indisposed, considering I am now re-appearing and I can talk a lot of nonsense like this. :) (The next few days will be crucial, and I'll report back on this, once it's settled and all the cards are on the table.)
Still, it doesn't look like my condition has set me back a whole lot. There have been a few minor discoveries that, nevertheless, smoothly fit into the frame in which I have been drawing up the whole picture in the last three and a half years.
At this point, fiddling with "the virus" is more like an entertainment project, because the results are sooo predictable. Still, it's not a complete waste of time, because it reveals the lies over and over. That, however, keeps reminding me that people cannot do a darn thing about it. After all, they have been told there are too many of them and will be culled. It's happening, and literally nothing is done about it. Prohibiting 5G and higher would be a good start, along with eliminating wind and solar generators, but what can be done, if both ends of the stick is held by the same globalist thugs?
There's a lot of similarities in the stories of early Islam (6th/7th CE) and Judaism at the time. And the stories are similar, maybe the same stories in fact. And Judaism took its stories from the Greeks. In there somewhere, likely on the Islam side, are the Persians.
Interesting read Ray. I know nothing of China. But Melbourne, where I am now, is very Chinese especially in the CBD where it's probably about 80-90% Chinese.
I remember visiting my sister in Toronto in the early 90s. Entering Chinatown felt like moving from a color movie into a B/W one. A supermarket reported a few hundred dollars of income there; everything was in cash.
Chinese customers (in fact SE Asians as well) are more likely to pay cash in our little operation than Euro Australian ones are. Some of the local businesses are pushing to card only. You can understand for a retailer the appeal as the cash register is often seen as 'one for you and one for me' by staff.
But realistically they have not caught on that it's not just cash sales that can be stolen by staff these days. It is also trivial for them to steal your card sales.
I lived in china for 12 years, what I saw was the great majority are dirt poor peasants, well aware of their position, well aware of exactly what the ruling class is.
They have a major issue there, being the tenure and ownership of land. All those massive buildings, that are 'worth' billions, are on land owned by, and leased from, those peasants, displaced for that purpose, and given peanuts in exchange.
They can see just what the value is now and those 'leases' are all 70 year duration, which is coming due for re-negotiation right about now.
The ruling class - the military - have a dilemma. Claim ownership and spark an uprising of the great majority of the people, or make a huge payout to the actual owners?
What I saw, was that the peasants are very angry, and very ready, to reclaim their country.
I saw this in village uprisings against the local representatives of the 'govt', occurring each week.
Even among the 'middle' classes, minor disagreements with local 'govt' crooks quickly escalated into violence, regardless of the well known consequences.
In my opinion, it won't take much of a spark to set that place alight.
Very malicious and incorrect.
what is incorrect, and how is any of it malicious?
Exactly:
https://rayhorvaththesource.substack.com/p/how-can-you-id-trolls-and-ai
And how?
Wow, this alone explains the reason for the upcoming culling in China...
Thanks Ray!
Who gives two craps what schwab says?
Jezzzus ... I read deeper and the tyranny is bonkers.
I have a weird idea that an EM-pulse nuclear attack is the very last thing our self appointed gods want to happen. Unplugging everyone for a few weeks might restore sanity to the plebs, then where would the rulers of this world be?
Unless certain areas/regions are marked for total annihilation... The rulers don't live in this country.
Good point. Slave uprisings have always been a deep seated fear of the “rulers”. The roman senators were terrified of the slightest dissent. They razed the entire land of Israel rather than let the people go.
Not a single slave/peasant revolt has ever succeeded for longer than a year or two. The elite was vulnerable only when it had some infighting or its forces were spread out too much, as in the case of Spartacus. Still, certain principles must prevail even at the price of one's life:
https://rayhorvaththesource.substack.com/p/the-final-encounter-with-the-enemy
Yes the roman attack on the Jewish/Christian culture in the latter decades of the first 100 years was a direct result of the ideas being spread by Messianic Christians of all stripes after Yeshua s execution by Pilot. The philosophy of freedom and everyone is subject to the ultimate law of god was inciting rebellion and Rome shut them all down brutally.
It depends on whom one is asking. The Romans considered the Jewish and the Christian approach a direct assault on their culture and an insult to the Emperor, which couldn't go unpunished.
Pilate only did what the good folks of Jerusalem demanded (cf. Josephus Flavius); the charge against Joshua was that he wanted to have his own kingdom, but he was not exactly the kind of Messiah from the Torah, so he had to go. In 70 AD, Zealots were convinced that the time was ripe for independence, and that didn't work out so well, either.
I think, if I remember correctly, that the archeological evidence of Masada is lacking. The siege of Jerusalem makes it into the Koran as well with a character change of course. I'm not sure of the archeological evidence for that.
I tend to think that the Romans created Christianity.
There are quite a few American black people that are Christian. I have trouble wrapping my mind around that, given they might well have been brought here as slaves, and ended up adopting the religion of their enslavers. Same for Native Americans who practice Christianity, the disconnect is quite confusing to me. The book Stringing Rosaries by Lajidmodiere is a good book on American Indian Christian boarding school survivors.
The problem with Christianity is that Rome took it for themselves and imposed ridged military structure of command - control on it, then declared most of the Christian cults wrong thinking heretics, burned their philosophy’s and heritage. And persecuted and killed them. The early church was very brutal against other “so called” Christians that did not believe in the tight church control and censorship.
Elaine Pagels, “The Gnostic Gospels”
Catherine Nixey, “The Darkening Age”
Just how "early" can Christianity be? It became the official religion of the Roman Empire only in 325, which turned into a state ideology, whose main function was to maintain law and order. By 385, Paganism was banned.
At the same time, I would be cautious of esoteric versions of Christianity, especially because in my experience, its critics are often quite ignorant of history, untrained in logic and philosophy, but are always ready to cash in on their romantic views... Blaming Christianity for wrongdoings is like blaming a gun that has been used to shoot someone. Moreover, not everyone who is shot is innocent...
For more about the way civilizations always structure themselves in the same manner:
https://rayhorvaththesource.substack.com/p/apocalypse-now
Trying to fit in is a powerful form of motivation. It's well worth remembering that liberated blacks also owned slaves and that slavery didn't start with them. Blacks owned and still own slaves in Africa and American Indians had owned slaves well before the colonists arrived.
For a detailed and drastic summary, please, read
https://christiansfortruth.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/They-Were-White-And-They-Were-Slaves.pdf
I think I will take a print of that link to my pizza place and leave it there after I read it!
I'll post a brief one on this in four hours.
Interesting Ray. In the 50's mainland simplified the characters but Taiwan retained the complex original. Japan is closer to Taiwan's usage. Mandarin is hard because of the pronunciation and gobs of words that sound similar but the grammar isn't so hard. Japanese is easier to pronounce, grammar has some twists but after getting a dozen rules down its not so bad, but they also have gobs of words used in specific situations, 2-3 levels of politeness that can get a bit dazzling, and use 2 auxiliary written syllabaries that take some time to get used to. Proton Magic & Co has recently sent China a Christine Massey FOI on the proof of a virus there, their reply probably wont be hard to read because it will be just as blank as the package inserts for the shots.
Actually China implemented few decades ago Putonghua, the simplified Chinese speaking and the simplified Chinese writing, mandatory in schools and public venues. They do not use ideograms but pictograms. Linguists ate the one who know most of them, regular people are interested only in communication. China is not CCP and CCP is not China.
You are largely correct. The simplified characters themselves are called juanhuazi and the complex traditional ones called fantizi.
https://www.hanyucidian.org/jianhuazi-fantizi-yitizi-duizhao-zidian
Putonghua contains the simple characters but in every day discussion this largely refers to the spoken dialect.
Some characters do have some phonetic components
https://studycli.org/learn-chinese/putonghua/
the pictogram aspect is not so easy to see as the shapes are abstracted to fit into a small space.
Japanese use of Chinese characters are closer to the complex characters but are also a bit simplified. They also have separate phonetic syllabarys that mix with the characters.
Thank you for the details.
Good riddance.
Interesting. Didn't know about Taiwan. Mandarin also has its intonational variations, which reminds me of Vietnamese in which the same "maaa" can have six different meanings, depending on the pitch and tonal inflection applied. Japanese fascinates me because of its scriptal adaptability and its traditional deductive approach to linguistic denotation. When I set up my cognitive system of AI using natural languages, I found it most fascinating how the collocationality of language elements align with the conceptual distribution of the human experience in various problem-solving structures... (Apologies for being a bit too technical, but I am side-tracking, anyway.)
Apparently, I am recovering from having been indisposed, considering I am now re-appearing and I can talk a lot of nonsense like this. :) (The next few days will be crucial, and I'll report back on this, once it's settled and all the cards are on the table.)
Still, it doesn't look like my condition has set me back a whole lot. There have been a few minor discoveries that, nevertheless, smoothly fit into the frame in which I have been drawing up the whole picture in the last three and a half years.
At this point, fiddling with "the virus" is more like an entertainment project, because the results are sooo predictable. Still, it's not a complete waste of time, because it reveals the lies over and over. That, however, keeps reminding me that people cannot do a darn thing about it. After all, they have been told there are too many of them and will be culled. It's happening, and literally nothing is done about it. Prohibiting 5G and higher would be a good start, along with eliminating wind and solar generators, but what can be done, if both ends of the stick is held by the same globalist thugs?
There's a lot of similarities in the stories of early Islam (6th/7th CE) and Judaism at the time. And the stories are similar, maybe the same stories in fact. And Judaism took its stories from the Greeks. In there somewhere, likely on the Islam side, are the Persians.
Interesting read Ray. I know nothing of China. But Melbourne, where I am now, is very Chinese especially in the CBD where it's probably about 80-90% Chinese.
I remember visiting my sister in Toronto in the early 90s. Entering Chinatown felt like moving from a color movie into a B/W one. A supermarket reported a few hundred dollars of income there; everything was in cash.
Chinese customers (in fact SE Asians as well) are more likely to pay cash in our little operation than Euro Australian ones are. Some of the local businesses are pushing to card only. You can understand for a retailer the appeal as the cash register is often seen as 'one for you and one for me' by staff.
But realistically they have not caught on that it's not just cash sales that can be stolen by staff these days. It is also trivial for them to steal your card sales.