i read a thread recently that spoke of the wt ceasing to print watchtower and awake mags in india.
does anyone know if there is any substance/documentation to that claim?
I should have stated at the outset, that because of the way that Christians acted in the 19th century, that there is a deep suspicion of Christianity in China. Most churches are controlled by a 'local' organisation which will have a government representative is some form.
Cant see the WTS/GB agreeing to that anytime soon. Further, the JW attitude to military service would be a major problem in China, as it is in Singapore, where the witnesses are also banned.
i read a thread recently that spoke of the wt ceasing to print watchtower and awake mags in india.
does anyone know if there is any substance/documentation to that claim?
jookbeard: seems to be a big let down this great prospect of the WT reaching India and China, ... ( and with) well over a billion people and just 30k jw's China is has a bigger population and far fewer jw's.
i read a thread recently that spoke of the wt ceasing to print watchtower and awake mags in india.
does anyone know if there is any substance/documentation to that claim?
RubaDub: I would take my own toilet paper if I went to India. And poop is probably yellow with all the curry spice you eat there.
Grin, you'd better hire a portaloo and take that too, as 70 % of Indians shit in the open. That's partly because of a Hindu concepts of shit, but mostly because there are no toilets.
the usa is undoubtedly the strongest military power in the world, and has often been willing to use that power against other nations, some historians count 187 foreign wars in 200 years, and this youtube video lists the wars the us has fought in the twentieth century, most of which, (in the earliest part of the 20th c) it can be argued, were won by the usa.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q51nfakme-g. this is not an argument about the rightness or wrongness of any war.
the argument is why the mightiest ever military power, a political power that controls overwhelming destructive forces, a power that claims to stand on the side of its god, does not win wars?
have you thought about this question?
Simon: To occupy and transform a country and introduce your culture and values you need to be there for a long time so a generation grows up accepting them as the nom. That means doing all the boring stuff - run bureaucracies and infrastructure.
That's the lesson history teaches us, so I agree with that conclusion. When Alexander the Great conquered the Iranian (Persian) Achaemenid Empire, Hellenism (Greek influence) gradually became the norm, albeit with local characterisitics as in hellenised Bactria (Afghanistan) and hellenised Judaism in Palestine.
in contrast the Mongolian empire did not endure long enough to have a great and lasting influence, except possibly in some regions now part of modern Russia.
these tigers are known as siberian tigers, and have been considered endangered.. http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2015-12/10/c_134903867.htm.
there are 10 good piks on the link..
Sometimes its just the preservation of a staging area for a species, as seen with this population of black-necked cranes who migrate in winter.
and for these swans who in their migration pattern have long used this location at Rongcheng in E.China.
these tigers are known as siberian tigers, and have been considered endangered.. http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2015-12/10/c_134903867.htm.
there are 10 good piks on the link..
Conservation of other species.
Snow Leopards are another rare (Endangered???) species. A lot is being done to ensure their survival. Again there is a clash between human activity and the foraging activities of the snow leopards. Its claimed that there are about 6000 of the species surviving in the wilder, less densely populated parts of China and in Mongolia.
Here's a couple of articles on what's happening in the field.
From the snow leopard trust:
http://www.snowleopard.org/snow-leopard-presence-confirmed-in-western-sichuan
Western sichuan is very mountainous country and borders Tibet. The interests of humans and the leopards do not clash so much in this wild (primitive) part of the world.
And from the UK Telegraph: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/earth/wildlife/8207266/The-snow-leopard-ghost-of-the-mountains.html
The WWF is a legal NGO in China and does some good work;
these tigers are known as siberian tigers, and have been considered endangered.. http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2015-12/10/c_134903867.htm.
there are 10 good piks on the link..
LoveUniHateExams : Thanks for the link, Fulltimestudent.
There are some great photos! ... I certainly hope that the wild stock is replenished.
Tigers are such beautiful, majestic creatures. They have the explosive power, speed and strength to kill a human in less than a minute. I suppose large felids killed our ancestors. *shudder*
(Wry smile) and that's part of the problem I guess. In both India and China, wild tigers can be responsible for human deaths. Cant really blame the tigers (anymore than we can blame sharks for attacking humans) to them we are just another source of protein. Its not so bad across the border in Russia, where there is a much smaller population of humans. But, it has been noted, tigers from the Russian side of the border do cross into the Chinese side.
these tigers are known as siberian tigers, and have been considered endangered.. http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2015-12/10/c_134903867.htm.
there are 10 good piks on the link..
Witness 007 China's river dolphins are extinct. Sad.
"In the 1950s, the population was estimated at 6,000 animals,[24] but declined rapidly over the subsequent five decades. Only a few hundred were left by 1970. Then the number dropped down to 400 by the 1980s and then to 13 in 1997 when a full-fledged search was conducted. Now the most endangered cetacean in the world, according to the Guinness Book of World Records, the baiji was last sighted in August 2004, though there was a possible sighting in 2007.[9] It is listed as an endangered species by the U.S. government under the Endangered Species Act. It is now thought to be extinct."
these tigers are known as siberian tigers, and have been considered endangered.. http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2015-12/10/c_134903867.htm.
there are 10 good piks on the link..
These tigers are known as Siberian tigers, and have been considered endangered.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2015-12/10/c_134903867.htm
there are 10 good piks on the link.
the usa is undoubtedly the strongest military power in the world, and has often been willing to use that power against other nations, some historians count 187 foreign wars in 200 years, and this youtube video lists the wars the us has fought in the twentieth century, most of which, (in the earliest part of the 20th c) it can be argued, were won by the usa.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q51nfakme-g. this is not an argument about the rightness or wrongness of any war.
the argument is why the mightiest ever military power, a political power that controls overwhelming destructive forces, a power that claims to stand on the side of its god, does not win wars?
have you thought about this question?
Simple
Smile. fmf your another cynic
