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  Churches (and other religious buildings) in China - Picture story

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  i'm busy organising my trip to china, ticket purchased.

  the cheapest ticket was on australian airline qantas, whose fallen on hard times.

  my ex-qantas friends warned me not to fly qantas - they predict disaster.

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  I never realized that there were so many Christian churches in China

  Grin - we've only started, GT. I wondered whether I should start this thread, as it could go on for pages, But it does tell an interesting story. For example that last post, the Tianjin Catholic church - there's a tragic story there, that get's written up as Christian persecution, but when you know the whole story you can see a much more nuanced incident. I'll post that next.

  I'm glad that you are finally getting to go on your long awaited trip to China. I certainly hope Qantas holds it together for you! Please bring back lots of photos and share them with us, will you?

  Yeah! Who would've thought a decade ago that travelling Qantas would be a concern? That is, unless you know some Qantas staff who seem to have a hate relationship with their employer.

  And yes, I'll try to bring back some good piks.
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  Churches (and other religious buildings) in China - Picture story

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  i'm busy organising my trip to china, ticket purchased.

  the cheapest ticket was on australian airline qantas, whose fallen on hard times.

  my ex-qantas friends warned me not to fly qantas - they predict disaster.

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  In Tianjin there is this church

  

  Xikai Catholic Church

  Located at the west end of Binjiang Street in Tianjin, the Xikai Catholic Church is the biggest Catholic Church in the city. It is also called the "French Church" because it was first built by the French. With a height of 45 meters and an area of 1,585 square meters, it is a typical French Romanesque building that is open to the public.

  Tianjin was another Chinese city taken over by the Brits (and others) after the Opium wars. And, it was also the point of entry for the so-called 'allied' intervention in the Boxer (also, so-called) Rebellion. Which wasn't a rebellion, but a native resistance to western penetration (a polite alternative to the F word), mbut the western allies saw it as a rebellion against their "right" to do what they wanted in China.

  It took 14 days for the "allies" to march to Beijing. In modern China, a very fast train will take you there in a half hour
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  Authority in the Witnesses

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  now that pastor russell is persona non grata, i was wondering how this movement ever started.

  i always find it surprising that educated people refuse to read the bible.

  they will just follow someone.

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  In other words, the audience for his work already existed.

  And, I would venture, Russell had been and continued to be, part of the 'audience.'
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  IF THERE WAS NO FIRST HUMAN.....

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  ...and new species of "humans" have appeared gradually, do we have "x-men" amoung us??

  so many people are willing to automatically discount abilities that cannot, as of yet, be explained by our current scientific knowledge.

  is it too frightening to entertain the idea that there are new and possibly better "humans" in our ranks?

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  Can we really say with absolute certainty that abilities like, .... telepathy, ect, do NOT exist.

  In OZ, a former higher-upper (by name of Ron Walters) used to think (privately) that in the new system we would regain the ability to communicate by telepathy.

  Such an idea though, has some troublesome aspects. Can everyone else read your thoughts? Would you really like that?
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  Forbidden ( in some places) Political Jokes

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  first from the former east germany.

  (i know its old, but i hadn't heard it before - so maybe you have not either).

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8vdqaayaqg.

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  BTW, there must be some good GB jokes, surely? Or, are we still too angry with our former wannabe "kings of the earth' ?
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  Forbidden ( in some places) Political Jokes

  by fulltimestudent in

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  first from the former east germany.

  (i know its old, but i hadn't heard it before - so maybe you have not either).

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8vdqaayaqg.

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  And this one has North Korea as a setting ... (its from Leonid Petrov's FB page)

  
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  Forbidden ( in some places) Political Jokes

  by fulltimestudent in

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  first from the former east germany.

  (i know its old, but i hadn't heard it before - so maybe you have not either).

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8vdqaayaqg.

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  First from the former East Germany. (I know its old, but I hadn't heard it before - so maybe you have not either)

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8vDQaAYaQg
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  Churches (and other religious buildings) in China - Picture story

  by fulltimestudent in

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  i'm busy organising my trip to china, ticket purchased.

  the cheapest ticket was on australian airline qantas, whose fallen on hard times.

  my ex-qantas friends warned me not to fly qantas - they predict disaster.

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  And finally (for the moment)

  

  This is the Sacred Heart Cathedral of Harbin. Its official name is Sacred Heart of Jesus Diocesan Cathedral of Harbin, the main Catholic church in Harbin. The Chinese name is Harbin Shengxin Tianzhu Jiaotang and if you ever want to visit, the address is 211 Dongdazhi Street, Nangang district, Harbin.

  If you wonder why so many churches in Harbin, its simply because North China has (and also in the past) a strong Russian influence.
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  Churches (and other religious buildings) in China - Picture story

  by fulltimestudent in

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  i'm busy organising my trip to china, ticket purchased.

  the cheapest ticket was on australian airline qantas, whose fallen on hard times.

  my ex-qantas friends warned me not to fly qantas - they predict disaster.

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  LoisLane:

  Nice.

  I am glad China did not destroy the old churches.

  Well, many religious buildings were destroyed or damaged by the Red Guards, during the Cultural Revolution.

  I think we have to view this from the perspective of what was happening. The CPC gets the blame in western, Cold War propaganda, but that's rather unfair. The Red Guards that caused the trouble were let loose by Mao in his effort to hang on to power and establish a fully socialist economy in China. They could be described as something like the people in the 'occupy wall street movement,' if you can imagine those people taking over and attempting to run a country.

  After a few years of the Red Guards on the loose, even Mao had had enough.
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  Churches (and other religious buildings) in China - Picture story

  by fulltimestudent in

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  i'm busy organising my trip to china, ticket purchased.

  the cheapest ticket was on australian airline qantas, whose fallen on hard times.

  my ex-qantas friends warned me not to fly qantas - they predict disaster.

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  Another Orthodox church in Harbin, maybe a Ukrainian Orthodox church, is the The Church of the Protection of the Mother of God.

  

  Located in the "church street", it faces Sacred Heart Cathedral of Harbin. Chinese name: Harbin Shengmu Pingmeng Jiaotang. Its address is: 268, Dongdazhi Street, Nangang district, Harbin