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  I'm bemused - Vladimir Putin as a Christian Warrior - Do Russians see him as a fighter for Jesus?

  by fulltimestudent in

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  i accidentally came across this youtube video, "why the west fears putin.

  " curious, i watched it.

  you may find it interesting also.

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  kaik: FTS and many other Russian apologists think that it is OK, because everyone has done that.

  Really? You think what I said makes me an apologist?

  kaik: Putin is destroying Russia, but they do not care. They love him and adore him. And orthodox Christianity supports this status position.

  So you agree that Putin has mass public support within Russia?

  Kaik: Your FTS fascination that China and Russia would control the world and master of West and USA belongs to fairy tales.

  Again, I don't ever think I've claimed that China + Russia wants to/will control the world. I can't/dont want to comment on Russia by itself. Looking at Russia, after the collapse of the old Soviet union and the demise of Yeltsin, Russia only seems to get involved in quarrels when there are populations with a Russian majority involved (Georgia and Ukraine) More, in fact, i think I've specifically said that China has a long way to go before it equals the wealth of the USA. And, there is also, a long way to go before all Chinese have a reasonable share of prosperity. I've also said that I see nothing in contemporary China that makes me think they want to take over other countries, like ( to illustrate what I mean) the Japanese attempted to make Korea a province of Japan between 1910 and 1945. And, if we get down to the nitty-gritty, perhaps the USA has more to fear from Japan than China. Why? For this reason, the USA humiliated the Japanese elite in WW2, but allowed them to continue ruling Japan. I think that they (the elite) may work with the USA, but may never forgive the USA for their defeat. If I was Uncle Sam, I'd walk with eyes in the back of my head.

  Anyway back to the point, what I believe I do see in connection with Chinese foreign affairs, is an attempt to build prosperity in bordering nations, in the belief that prosperous people have less reason to want to wage wars. China has one of the longest borders in the world, with more unstable neighbours than anyone else (hence the reason they think they need a large army). The modern silkroad policy is an attempt to stabilise their neighbours by sharing some prosperity. Is that good?

  
  
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  I'm bemused - Vladimir Putin as a Christian Warrior - Do Russians see him as a fighter for Jesus?

  by fulltimestudent in

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  i accidentally came across this youtube video, "why the west fears putin.

  " curious, i watched it.

  you may find it interesting also.

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  Interesting cross section of opinions, thank you all for your thoughts. My questions are these:

  My questions are these:

  1.What does the average Russian think of Putin?

  2. Is the Russian Orthodox church supporting Putin? If yes!, then why?

  Like Edmond Dantes, I neither admire or necessarily like Russia. But I would like to understand Russia, honestly and objectively, and not just succumb to undemonstrated assertions.

  Two years ago, I enrolled in a study of the Byzantine empire, and the former convenor of the study unit (a Dr. Ken Parry) challenged us (his students) to attempt to understand how the Eastern Roman Empire's intellectual principles had survived in Eastern Europe and Russia. The messianic west believes its ideals are universal truths. But that's only the west's understanding. The rest of the word does not speak English or related latin/germanic based languages

  Kaik thinks that, Russia "is driven by messianic complex to subject everyone. Dear me, couldn't such a statement equally describe the colonising powers of the nineteenth century, which includes the USA.

  Kaik, also thinks that the Russian economy is about to collapse. It may, but I have my doubts, the sheer size of the energy contract between China and Russia could indicate the opposite. The very Fast Train line to be built between Beijing and Moscow will add another strand of connectivity between China and Europe, and it will likely be the nucleus of another belt of prosperity that China seems intent on building out from their borders. Will the Chinese succeed? We will have to wait and see.

  Village Idiot thinks that he has heard Putin is the richest man in the world. Hmmm! I've heard it said (before) that the former Chinese premier, Wen Jiaobao was the richest man? Both statements are unverifiable.

  However, it does seem that George Washington, was not only the richest man in the English colonies, but that he gained immeasurable additional wealth as a result of American Independence. (See Howard Zinn's," A People's History of the United States.") Does that item of information affect the American view of Washington?
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  Theocratic Warfare - Is it in writing?

  by cappytan in

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  i'm just wondering if the theocratic warfare doctrine is anywhere in writing or if it's a word-of-mouth kind of thing where it's mentioned at elder's school, but not put in writing.. anyone?.

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  There was a WT in the 1950;s that named it as a useful strategy when faced with "unlawful" (as defined by Divine law-grin) opposition
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  Challenging concepts- Are you reproduction-oriented? (Global Times Metropolitan section Two Cents page).

  by fulltimestudent in

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  i guess the idea behind this term is not really knew.

  after all, the western term, "dinks, (double income, no kids" must be at least 30 years old.

  but what really surprised me was this paragraph:.

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  I guess the idea behind this term is not really knew. After all, the western term, "dinks, (double income, no kids" must be at least 30 years old. But what really surprised me was this paragraph:

  "These days, there are more and more online services to match men and women who want children, but not to have a relationship or to get married. People on these websites sign a contract with each other, stating whether they want to co-parent or raise the child on their own."

  In the west, its more likely that people in that situation (in Australia, anyway) will use an invitro method to re-produce, however I guess passing a vial of semen is also an often used method. Anyway here's the article, and the link is: http://services.globaltimes.cn/epaper/2015-03-23/MB03.htm?l=0

  Recently, a new term has become popular on China's microblogs and social media feeds:"reproduction-oriented."

  
  As in, the next time you're mocked by the hetero-normative mainstream for being a "leftover woman" or a diaosi ("loser") or a lesbian or a queer, you can turn the tables by ridiculing your would-be persecutor by telling them that they are merely reproduction-oriented.

  Indeed, the term reveals the pathetic logic behind why and how most people in China are pressured into conforming to hetero-normative relationships. It's in order to have children, to placate one's parents.
  The reason it's common for gay people in China to get married is so they can have a child to fulfill the sacred duty of reproduction.
  For straight people, it is a similar story, with many agreeing to loveless marriages for the sole purpose of rearing a child for their parents' sake. In China, whether you claim to be heterosexual or homosexual or bisexual, most of us are in fact, reproduction-oriented.
  As a bitter spinster of many years, I can finally blame my depression and miseries on the reproduction-oriented society. It all makes sense now.
  While it's true that China has come a long way since the days of arranged marriages, many people are still forced by social pressure to get married even when they don't want to.
  Underlying this is the pressure for young people to reproduce for their elders. It is for this reason that the nuclear family remains the norm in society.
  I despise the kind of people who insist that I need to be married before I'm 30 years old. Like most people in their 20s, I find the idea of getting married purely in order to have children to be repugnant and ridiculous.

  
  But after reading up about our society being reproduction-oriented, I've gradually realized that the influence of this kind of thinking is so ubiquitous that there's no way I can fight it.

  
  I can't help but feel the pressure coming from my friends and my cousins, when I see them happily raising their own chubby little devils. Whenever I turn on the television, there is a constant stream of advertisements telling "leftover women" to join a dating site of some sort, and to get married as soon as possible, in order to fulfill their sick grandmother's dying wish.

  
  Some of my friends, who used to tell me that they would rather die alone than marry men they aren't into, are now married with men they aren't into. I can feel them looking down on singletons like me as if we were weirdos.
  The reproduction-oriented rule the world. Rebellious, young and naive people like me can't help but be sucked into its vortex.
  People in the country are not even trying to hide the fact that it is a reproduction-oriented society anymore.
  These days, there are more and more online services to match men and women who want children, but not to have a relationship or to get married. People on these websites sign a contract with each other, stating whether they want to co-parent or raise the child on their own.

  
  
  It's interesting that there are such options outside of marriage.
  But I can't help but feel that being reproduction-oriented is a virus that will take all of us down in the end.

  
  This article was published on the Global Times Metropolitan section Two Cents page, a space for reader submissions, including opinion, humor and satire. The ideas expressed are those of the author alone, and do not represent the position of the Global Times.
  Posted in: Twocents-Opinion

  
  
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  Lee Kuan Yew, the founder of independent Singapore died this morning, aged 91.

  by fulltimestudent in

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  overview of his life, from china central tv america:.

  http://www.cctv-america.com/2015/03/22/singapores-founding-pm-lee-kuan-yew-dies-at-91.

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  I chose cctv-america for the irony.

  Some argue that the Brits 'parachuted' LKY into Singapore to help them (the Brits) in their military struggle with Malaysian communists. (known as the Malaya emergency), it is now an almost forgotten sector of the cold war.

  

  Australian Avro Lincoln bomber dropping 500lb bombs on

  communist rebels in the Malayan jungle (c. 1950)

  Whether that is true or not true, LKY jailed lots of left wingers in his first years in office. It didn't stop the insurrection though,

  The Wikipedia entry comments:

  The Malayan Emergency (Malay: Darurat) was a Malayan guerrilla war fought betweenCommonwealth armed forces and the Malayan National Liberation Army (MNLA), the military arm of the Malayan Communist Party (MCP), from 1948–60.
  The Malayan Emergency was the colonial government's term for the conflict. The MNLA termed it the Anti-British National Liberation War.[2] The rubber plantations and tin mining industries had pushed for the use of the term "emergency" since their losses would not have been covered by Lloyd's insurers if it had been termed a "war".[3]
  Despite the communists' defeat in 1960, communist leader Chin Peng renewed the insurgency in 1967; it lasted until 1989, and became known as the Communist Insurgency War (Second Malayan Emergency). Although Australian and British armed forces had fully withdrawn from Malaya (by then known as Peninsular Malaysia) years earlier, the insurgency still failed.

  So where's the irony? Simply that LKY's People's Action Party and its program for building Singapore to its present prosperity became a model for Deng Xiaoping's program in The People's Republic of China, once the Communist Party of China rejected Mao Zedong's socialist policies.

  Lee's PAP and Deng's CPC are like peas in a pod.
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  Lee Kuan Yew, the founder of independent Singapore died this morning, aged 91.

  by fulltimestudent in

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  overview of his life, from china central tv america:.

  http://www.cctv-america.com/2015/03/22/singapores-founding-pm-lee-kuan-yew-dies-at-91.

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  Overview of his life, from China Central TV America:

  http://www.cctv-america.com/2015/03/22/singapores-founding-pm-lee-kuan-yew-dies-at-91
  
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  Filigree artistry - retaining ancient skills in China

  by fulltimestudent in

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  filigree inlay, one of the eight traditional arts and crafts of beijing, includes complex techniques.

  in 2008, the state council of china officially designated filigree inlay art as an intangible cultural heritage of china.. yao yingchun, a representative (skill) inheritor has devoted himself to this traditional art since he was 17. for the past 50 years, he has spent most of his time on the craft.

  yao still works full time in a filigree museum teaching new artists and young apprentices.

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  prologos: is there a video of work in progress?

  I've found this,

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dqt15TAxauo

  and, this.

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEeTeeGQaxc
  
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  Filigree artistry - retaining ancient skills in China

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  filigree inlay, one of the eight traditional arts and crafts of beijing, includes complex techniques.

  in 2008, the state council of china officially designated filigree inlay art as an intangible cultural heritage of china.. yao yingchun, a representative (skill) inheritor has devoted himself to this traditional art since he was 17. for the past 50 years, he has spent most of his time on the craft.

  yao still works full time in a filigree museum teaching new artists and young apprentices.

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  The image below shows master craftsmanYao Yingchun, with the biggest filigree inlay artwork in the world, now held at a museum in Guangdong province. This example of their artistic skill piece is 5.2 meters long and 2 meters high. Its decorated with more than 30,000 pieces of jade and gems and combines 7 craft techniques.

  The images appeared in the China Daily on March 10, 2015.All Photographs by Xinhua
  

  Link: http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/culture/art/2015-03/10/content_19764478.htm

  
  
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  Filigree artistry - retaining ancient skills in China

  by fulltimestudent in

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  filigree inlay, one of the eight traditional arts and crafts of beijing, includes complex techniques.

  in 2008, the state council of china officially designated filigree inlay art as an intangible cultural heritage of china.. yao yingchun, a representative (skill) inheritor has devoted himself to this traditional art since he was 17. for the past 50 years, he has spent most of his time on the craft.

  yao still works full time in a filigree museum teaching new artists and young apprentices.

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  Apprentices must make sure every detail of a filigree inlay artwork is perfect. [Photo by Xinhua]

  
  
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  Filigree artistry - retaining ancient skills in China

  by fulltimestudent in

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  filigree inlay, one of the eight traditional arts and crafts of beijing, includes complex techniques.

  in 2008, the state council of china officially designated filigree inlay art as an intangible cultural heritage of china.. yao yingchun, a representative (skill) inheritor has devoted himself to this traditional art since he was 17. for the past 50 years, he has spent most of his time on the craft.

  yao still works full time in a filigree museum teaching new artists and young apprentices.

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  An apprentice works on an item of filigree: