Indicative of the changes in the Chinese economy, the 'Singles Day' sales have just been held and Alibaba, the web based, Chinese marketing company made record sales in one day.
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The World's Biggest Shopping Day
by fulltimestudent inindicative of the changes in the chinese economy, the 'singles day' sales have just been held and alibaba, the web based, chinese marketing company made record sales in one day.. http://www.news.com.au/finance/business/retail/inside-the-worlds-biggest-shopping-event/news-story/ddf8e2794db542d33018002747ac70ae.
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Does Mr Trump have his own 'hotline' to Russia's President Putin?
by fulltimestudent inaccording to australian newspaper, the canberra times (for aussies, its a fairfax publication) trump is able to contact putin and the conversations cannot be tapped.
(an interesting claim).. quote 1:.
"a former senior western intelligence operative, a specialist in russian counterintelligence deemed credible in washington, has provided the fbi with evidence that trump 'and his inner circle have accepted a regular flow of intelligence from the kremlin, including on clinton, since russian intelligence had compromised trump during his visits to moscow – so that he could be blackmailed'.
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Looks like some really interesting changes ahead -
Australia's Sydney Morning Herald reports today:
"Mr Trump used his first interviews since winning the election to indicate that he will withdraw support for rebels in Syria and thanked Vladimir Putin for sending him a "beautiful" letter.
Mr Trump said he will instead join forces with Russia and focus on defeating Islamic State (IS). He has previously said it would be "nice" if the US and Russia could work together to "knock the hell out of" IS."
Reference: http://www.smh.com.au/world/us-election/donald-trumpvladimir-putin-alliance-sparks-diplomatic-crisis-20161112-gso1oi.html -
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The Q Gospel
by schnell inso, i'm reading "the lost gospel: the book of q and christian origins" on scribd.
check it out: https://www.scribd.com/book/163624254.
if you're not aware (i'm just learning about this), the q is a term for an early "sayings gospel" of yeshua, a document that recorded his sayings rather than his supposed life story.
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Reading the bible carefully exposes much of the futility of reading it:
Take Luke 1:1 -
"Many have undertaken to draw up an account of the things that have been fulfilled[a] among us, 2 just as they were handed down to us by those who from the first were eyewitnesses and servants of the word."
Luke says there were already many accounts by the time he set out to write his 'history.'
When was that? The wikipedia entry on Luke notes:
"The most probable date for its composition is around 80–100 AD, and there is evidence that it was still being revised well into the 2nd century." (reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gospel_of_Luke)
Clearly, most of those accounts did not survive., but Luke was relying mostly on second hand eye-witness accounts or earlier documents.
We will likely never know for sure.
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Is this another Trump backflip?
by fulltimestudent inwe've seen one backflip.
crooked hillary became a hard-working woman who deserves the nations praise (in his victory speech);.
now according to a uk newspaper:.
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We've seen one backflip. Crooked Hillary became a hard-working woman who deserves the nations praise (in his victory speech);
Now according to a UK newspaper:
Donald Trump statement calling for ban on all Muslims entering US DISAPPEARS from his website day after election
If true, have all his supporters just been conned ???
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The two powers in heaven
by Steel inlately i have been watching a video series by a bible scholar named michael heiser explaining the idea of there being a plurality to god in the old testament.
the seen god and the unseen god and reading the bible though first century jewish eyes.
of course being a somewhat of an unbeliever i checked out some bart erham videos on the subject and he basically says what this christian scholar said.. basically christ is thought to be the manifestion of god that was seen and dealt with in the old testament.
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If anyone is not familiar with Zoroastrianism, this YT video of a lecture on the topic may be helpful:
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Is there a biblical basis for separation or divorce?
by Conias inis there a biblical basis for separation or divorce?.
in the event that one of the spouses is being psychologically mistreated in a very serious manner where his health is severely damaged and even his own life is in danger.
is there a biblical basis for jehovah's witnesses for separation or divorce?.
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Posted: Why did Jesus put the blame on Moses? The was part of the Law that GOD gave Moses. I have not researched this, yet, but it seems to me something is amiss here.
It was the the gospel writer that constructed the sense of the text, not necessarily Jesus.
Who really believes that after 20+ years anyone recalled precisely the words Jesus may have uttered. Our memories do not work that way (i.e. They are not tape recorders).
As the early church spread outside the Jewish homeland, they had to reconcile dogma with other customs and laws. You could give consideration to the possibility that your looking at one of the earliest "new light" moments.
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The two powers in heaven
by Steel inlately i have been watching a video series by a bible scholar named michael heiser explaining the idea of there being a plurality to god in the old testament.
the seen god and the unseen god and reading the bible though first century jewish eyes.
of course being a somewhat of an unbeliever i checked out some bart erham videos on the subject and he basically says what this christian scholar said.. basically christ is thought to be the manifestion of god that was seen and dealt with in the old testament.
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The concept of two spiritual powers is far older than Second Temple Judaism and its Christian offshoot.
The concept's roots are believed to have derived from Zoroastrianism ...
Zoroastrianism,[n 1] or more natively Mazdayasna,[1] is one of the world's oldest religions, "combining a cosmogonicdualism and eschatological monotheism in a manner unique […] among the major religions of the world."[2] Ascribed to the teachings of the Iranian prophet Zoroaster (or Zarathustra),[3] he exalted their deity of wisdom, Ahura Mazda (Wise Lord), as its Supreme Being.[4] Leading characteristics, such as messianism, heaven and hell, and free will are said to have influenced other religious systems, including Second Temple Judaism, Gnosticism, Christianity, and Islam.[5] With possible roots dating back to the second millennium BCE, Zoroastrianism enters recorded history in the 5th-century BCE,[4] and including a Mithraic Median prototype and Zurvanist Sassanid successor it served as the state religion of the pre-Islamic Iranian empires from around 600 BCE to 650 CE. Zoroastrianism was suppressed from the 7th century onwards following the Muslim conquest of Persia.[6] ... In Zoroastrianism, the creator Ahura Mazda, through the Spenta Mainyu (Good Spirit, "Bounteous Immortals")[11] is an all-good "father" of Asha (Truth, “order, justice,")[12][13] in opposition to Druj(“falsehood, deceit”)[14][15] and no evil originates from "him".[16] "He" and his works are evident to humanity through the six primary Amesha Spentas[17] and the host of other Yazatas, through whom worship of Mazda is ultimately directed.
Reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZoroastrianismSometimes this concept is referred to as 'dualism,' and is noticeable in the Dead Sea Scrolls.
It is believed that the Jewish elite came into contact with Zoroastrian concepts while in exile in Babylon (lots of time on their hands to speculate) especially after Cyrus the Iranian conquered Babylon.
The spiritual idea of light and darkness is another Zoroastrian belief that was effectively copied by the Christian offshoot we know as Manicheanism
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Hillary Clinton Winning total vote count but loses the Election
by RubaDub indo those of you outside the usa find it odd that in a presidential election, the total number of people casting votes means nothing?
there is a method we use here called the electoral college based on each state rather than the total votes cast by actual people.. this is, i believe the 5th time in america's history that the person with the most votes lost the election (the last was in 2000 when al gore beat george w. bush by about 400,000 votes but lost the election).. so hillary (at the moment i last checked) had overall about 200,000 more votes nationwide but lost.. i'm sure a lot of people in other countries scratch their heads when they see this happening.. rub a dub.
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Similar things occur in Australia, due to the preferential voting system that's used.
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Is there a biblical basis for separation or divorce?
by Conias inis there a biblical basis for separation or divorce?.
in the event that one of the spouses is being psychologically mistreated in a very serious manner where his health is severely damaged and even his own life is in danger.
is there a biblical basis for jehovah's witnesses for separation or divorce?.
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Is there a biblical basis for separation or divorce?
This is what the Jewish law originally stated:
When a man takes a wife and is intimate with her, and it happens that she does not find favor in his eyes because he discovers in her an unseemly matter, and he writes for her a document of severance, gives it into her hand, and sends her away from his house. She leaves his house and goes and marries another man -- Deuteronomy 24:1-2.
This is supposed to have been changed by the words placed in Jesus' mouth in Matthew's gospel (Matt. 19:3-9).
3 Some Pharisees came to him to test him. They asked, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any and every reason?”
4 “Haven’t you read,” he replied, “that at the beginning the Creator ‘made them male and female,’[a] 5 and said, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh’[b]? 6 So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.”
7 “Why then,” they asked, “did Moses command that a man give his wife a certificate of divorce and send her away?”
8 Jesus replied, “Moses permitted you to divorce your wives because your hearts were hard. But it was not this way from the beginning. 9 I tell you that anyone who divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another woman commits adultery.”As I'm sure everyone appreciates, the written gospels were authored a couple of decades after Jesus' death. How much do you remember from someone's speeches given 20 years ago?
So why the change?
Do you think it may have had something to do with the changes to Roman divorce law made by the Emperor Augustus?
Quote: Marriage in ancient Rome was a strictly monogamous institution: a Roman citizen by law could have only one spouse at a time. The practice of monogamy distinguished the Greeks and Romans from other ancient civilizations, in which elite males typically had multiple wives. ... It is one aspect of ancient Roman culture that was embraced by early Christianity, which in turn perpetuated it as an ideal in later Western culture. (Reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marriage_in_ancient_Rome
If Matthew 19 reflects Roman law rather than Jewish law, we may conclude that the "divinity' behind the change was not YHWH. or even that secondary divinity JESUS, but the ROMAN DIVINITY, Caesar Augustus!
It also tells us something of the processes that produced the NT.
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A CHANGING WORLD-Q: Is the USA a Post-Christian Nation? A: At 45% white Christians are a minority.
by fulltimestudent inthat is a proposition that a video in the atlantic magazine argues.
i think there is a major flaw in the argument, as its possible to imagine that there is a large segment of non-white christians, that may mean that the usa is still a "christian" (whatever that means) nation.
however, for supporters of christianity, the trend is in the wrong direction.. http://www.theatlantic.com/video/index/504065/america-post-christianity/?utm_source=fbb.
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smiddy: I`m not quite sure I understand the white christian designation .Are coloured christians of no consequence ?
This question ,the way its put sounds very racist , but I dont believe that was your intent FTS ,can you clarify it ?Hi Smiddy, since we are both non-American, I guess we should background the Atlantic magazine. Its over 100 years old and is usually seen as - (I quote Wikipedia),
" a literary and cultural commentary magazine, it has grown to achieve a national reputation as a high-quality review organ with a liberal worldview ... The periodical has won more National Magazine Awards than any other monthly magazine. ... Focusing on "foreign affairs, politics, and the economy [as well as] cultural trends", it is now primarily aimed at a target audience of serious national readers and "thought leaders"."
I quoted the article in the light of a fairly general anti-Christian viewpoint on this web-site, the loss of influence of the rabid rightwing Christian viewpoint that was once seen as dominant in the USA is significant, and that seems to be the the author's point. He sees the older "white Christian" segment of the USA's population (once dominant) as fast losing that dominance. Of course, if you add the Hispanic American segment (now around 40 million strong), of the American population, (probably strongly Catholic) to the 'White Christian" segment, you might grow the "Christian" element of the USA to around 70%.
Of course, the author's article is sociological in intent and he sees the 'white Christian' segment of the US population as fast losing its former dominance, which may underline the belief (of some) that the 'core' of Trump's support is formed by the 'angry old white men,' of the USA.
Does that make sense?