Will China Rule The World?

Economics is the driver of all change. Right now, the economic powerhouse that is driving the world is China.  China does present a problem though. This is because history has a habit of repeating itself.  

China is not a democracy. A democracy allows dissent. Countries that are ruled by an autocrat or a plutocracy or, as in China’s case, a communist regime that controls freedoms and propagates myths, need to focus on an external enemy for survival. People unite when they have to compete against others. This is the case when it comes to sport. This is also the case when it comes to nationalism.

Unlike Russia, which is ruled by an oligarchic plutocracy under the pretense of being a democratic republic, China has no pretense. China is ruled by an oligarchy of communists that is intent of keeping the reigns of control over the nation firmly in their grip. While embracing capitalism, the government itself also participates in the enterprise and buys up what it can overseas, ostensibly to ensure that there is no disruption to the economic growth that is occurring within China.  True capitalism requires minimal government interference, the government itself does not control state run enterprises.

 The Chinese government is doing two things that indicate we should be alarmed at what the future outcomes could be. One is the state run enterprises involved in purchasing companies and land in foreign countries. The other is the fostering of nationalism by creating the myth that Chairman Moa is the champion of the current economic revival being experienced in China.  

Already there is a "them and us" mentality being fostered within China. With so many children being products of the one child policy, they have a distorted perception of true family life. These "only the lonely" children need a cause to justify their existence, to relieve their frustrations and fulfill their need for belonging. Since there are over 300 million of them, only a small percentage need to believe that China rules, before they fancy taking over the world.

Rio should see China top the medal tally at the thirty-first Olympiad.  When this happens, then expect to see posturing from China on the international stage that befits more the pride of the swastika rather than the humility we have come to associate with the humble  worker.

JESUS IS A CAPITALIST

Jesus is the only man who rose from the dead. As a consequence of this a religion was founded called Christianity. Christianity takes many forms and consists of varied belief systems. However, one thing that seems to stand out is people who advocate communism and socialism tend not to be believers in the resurrection of Jesus.

Jesus is often touted to have preached socialistic values. This is because Jesus appears to have scorned the wealthy. Jesus told stories like that of the rich man who died the very night he decided to retire and live it up after having spent years acquiring possessions and wealth. Jesus told a rich young ruler that he if he were to obtain eternal life, the rich ruler needed to sell all his possessions and give the money to the poor.

Then there is the story of Lazarus and Dives. Dives was a rich man who refused to help Lazarus the beggar out. But while Dives luxuriated in wealth in this world and Lazarus subsisted in misery, after death the tables were turned. Dives experienced suffering, and Lazarus, comfort and luxury.

Jesus was not preaching socialist values; rather Jesus was pointing out that every person has a degree of responsibility for what they have in life. What they do with what they have is the important issue.

The rich retiree died before he could enjoy his wealth. The young rich ruler could have used his wealth to advantage the poor and educate them to do the same. Dives enjoyed his wealth only to realize the consequences for those who lack compassion for the less fortunate.

Jesus speaks of those who do good like the Samaritan, who has compassion on the suffering stranger who has been robbed and beaten. He speaks of those who sell their goods and distributing them to the poor and then doing the will of God receiving a hundred-fold more material than what they had in the beginning. And in the parable of the talents, Jesus praises those who trade and double the capital they were originally trusted with.

Jesus endorsed capitalism. Jesus did not endorse socialism. Socialism is a human concept and not something, that has its origins in the Creator of life. Socialism is a soul-destroying philosophy. It provides no hope. Capitalism, on the other hand, provides hope. Where there is no hope, there is no future; where there is no future there is no incentive to produce anything of value or to increase the value of what one already possesses.

Capital is the very essence of being. Capital is not money as many people like to think. Money of itself is useless. Money only becomes useful when it has true economic value. Economic value is dependent upon people utilizing their own resources to create value and wealth.

Jesus was a capitalist and taught that we all have intrinsic human capital, which needs to be enhanced so we might discover our true worth in life.


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Freedom For Feminists

Freedom for some people is about being able to do what they want to do when they want to do it, regardless of consequences.

You could say that sounds like a good definition of freedom. Yet often the people who claim to be free are not really free at all. There once was a movement that embraced the slogan of free love. The culture was really about free sex. The pill had been made widely available and women's liberation was gaining momentum. At last women have been set free from the threat of having an unwanted child if they wanted to indulge in unrestrained sexual activity. The free love revolution hit the headlines and sex, booze, drugs and rock and roll was the rhythm of the day. So-called sexual license was here to stay.

The woman's liberation movement of the sixties was largely sparked in 1963 by Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique which denigrated the idea that childrearing and homemaking was a woman's role. There was more to sexual expression and women had the right to be as free as men.

Supposedly, men enjoyed a life of sexual license with any woman of their choice and held the power in corporations and politics and anywhere else that mattered.

But what were men free to do? Most men did not live such a life at all. In fact, suburban husbands went to work, came home and were often at the mercy of their wives, because, at home, the wife was the boss. Admittedly, there were many exceptions, but in a majority of cases the loving lady ruled.

Regardless of what certain people might like to claim, freedom is not just a matter of throwing off the shackles of being tied down to a home, or a job, or obtaining a university degree or anything else. Freedom is about being able to enjoy what you have around you regardless of your circumstances.

When freedom was gained for the Negro slaves of the Confederate States of USA, the plantation owners, who had first opposed the idea of setting their slaves free, found that they had a better work force that was cheaper than a slave force. They found that the people were still enslaved to the need for a roof over their head and the need to obtain an income to pay for the roof over their head and the food in their belly and the clothes on their back.

People who belong to the ruling class, who have the wealth to do what they like, are not really free, either. If they over-step the boundaries of what is acceptable they will be bound by the fear of being found out. How often do you see a politician disgraced because he thought he was free to over-step the bounds of social acceptability?

True freedom means that you can do what is right whenever you choose. If you succumb to your desires all the time; if you give in to your lusts; if you find your emotions getting the better of you; or if you find other people can push the buttons that ignite your outbursts of frustration and anger; the truth is you are not free. True freedom is self-control. This way you are able to do what you like, whenever you like, according to what is right.

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RELIV REVIEW

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I take RELIV and I know of many people who take the products who have had spectacular health turnarounds.

The issue about soy is largely unproven, and besides there are many other factors that have to be taken into account when making various claims about a food like soy which is used by many people as part of their staple diet.

People do not understand how their body works and people who are full of toxins and are getting ill are not taking RELIV. Nobody who takes Reliv product correctly suffers from illness.

What happens to many people who take the products is they experience some natural responses by the body as their immune system begins to force out all the toxins.

One man I know suffering from severe rheumatoid arthritis suffered the symptoms of severe influenza for two weeks, until his body was purged.

Six months later the only evidence of him having had rheumatoid arthritis was from tell tale signs of his joints, but he was no longer in pain or agony when moving too quickly.

Unfortunately, for him once he was free of all the pain he decided he no longer needed the products and his body relapsed because his diet did not provide the optimum nutrients and detoxifying herbs that Reliv products provided. Then some doctor told him he had a better treatment and now he is back to being in agony.

I have remarkable evidence in photos and video of how effective the product is in getting the body to heal itself.

Personally, I would love to get a dozen people who had severe rheumatoid arthritis and put them on Reliv NOW or Classic and Arth-Affect and put the product to scrutiny.

Unfortunately, the company prohibits anyone doing this.

The other issue which tarnishes Reliv is when people, who are relatively healthy, join up only with the idea of making money . These people do not appreciate the health benefits and suffer later anyhow.

I take Reliv products and extol their benefits. In fact, I have been taking them for years and am probably older than Dr Mercola, but look a lot younger.

People say that soy is supposed to lower your sex drive. Well that is absolute rubbish.

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If the World Health Organisation were really concerned about helping people, Reliv would have been given to all the people in poor countries years ago, and many of the health problems that exist among the poor would have been eradicated because they would be getting the nutrition every body needs.

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When Will Jesus Christ Return?

There have been a number of predictions of when Jesus Christ will return. One of the most fascinating has to be that of Frank Tipler, Professor of Mathematics at Tulane University. Professor Tipler claims that Jesus will return sometime before AD2057 at the latest. In support of this claim, Professor Tipler writes “Christianity is not a mere religion, but an experimentally testable science.” math.tulane.edu/~tipler/

Jesus said:

Now learn the parable from the fig tree: when its branch has already become tender and puts forth its leaves, you know that summer is near; so, you too, when you see all these things, recognize that He is near, right at the door. Truly I say to you, this generation will not pass away until all these things take place. Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will not pass away.

But of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but the Father alone. For the coming of the Son of Man will be just like the days of Noah. (NASB)

The fig tree in this parable is often thought to be the nation of Israel. Interpreted, this passage above means that when you see the non-existent nation of Israel founded again, know that there will only be one generation and Jesus shall return.

Based on this above passage for centuries people have been predicting that Israel would return as a nation, and contrary to their scoffers have been proven right.

Israel began in to exist in its present day form when in 1917 the Balfour Declaration was made that committed the British Government to establishing a home for the Jewish people in Palestine. In 1947, the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted a resolution to create two separate states in Palestine, one Arab and one Jewish. Israel was to be given independence. This occurred in October of 1948.

In the light of what Jesus said and Israel being recognized as the homeland of the Jews, it appears that Jesus will be returning soon. As for the exact time Jesus will be returning, predicting the exact day is impossible. However, we have a clue as to when the year might be because Jesus said that it shall be as in the days of Noah.

A generation can be anything from 10yrs to 120yrs. Much depends on what is being talked about. A generation can be a lifetime or a predetermined number of years. In the case of Noah, the generation that is referred to is 120yrs.

What this means in the light of what Jesus said about his return is that he will return around 120yrs after the declaration that the Jewish homeland should be created.

This means that Jesus should be returning somewhere around AD2037. Frank Tipler has Jesus returning no later than AD2057 based on information other than interpreting what Jesus may have meant in this parable.

There are other prophecies that have to be fulfilled before Jesus returns, such as the restoration of the temple and the gospel being preached to every tribe on Earth.

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5 Keys to Understanding Yourself

Human being has five aspects to their existence that are essential for understanding themselves. You are not exempt.

For you to understand yourself you need to realize these five keys are a part of your everyday life.

By finding fulfillment in these areas of your life you will find true happiness and true riches.

Key No. 1
You are a spiritual being. To deny this is to deny your own existence and the reality of being born.

The reason you are a spiritual being is that you can conceive the existence of the immaterial or spiritual realm.

If you were not a spiritual being you would not be able to conceive that hidden principles of existence enable the earth to have night and day, the moon to have a monthly cycle and the sun to have a yearly cycle. Moreover, you would not wonder why this is so.

Key No. 2
You are a psychological being.

The reason you are a psychological being is that you have a combination of attitudes and emotions that are formed as a consequence of your interaction within the social environment in which you grow up.

Basically there are only a few primary emotions. These manifest in various ways depending on the attitudes you develop as a result of being conditioned by the environment in which you have been raised.

Key No. 3
You are a social being.

The reason you are a social being is you are not a being that simply survives by consuming energy from plant life without the need to interact with other persons.
You need other people to learn from, to communicate with, and for personal development. Only through relationships with other people are you able to discover more about who you are.

You are designed to have relationships with other people. The truest words ever said are “no person is an island”.

Key No. 4
You are a physiological being.

The reason you are a physiological being is you have a metabolism that requires the processing and transforming of physical elements (i.e. food. water, air, sunlight) to survive.

You also need to physically utilize your bodily systems in order for you to be able to function. This is often referred to as “use it or lose it”.

Key No. 5
You are an economically orientated being.

The reason you have an economic orientation has to do with survival. This is because you live within a naturally hostile environment which has extremes of climatic conditions and the fact that you are a social and spiritual being.

An economy begins when two people decide to trade something. As soon as two people trade roles an economy has begun. Hunting and gathering societies are the primordial form of the more complex economies that constitute the twenty-first century.

For you to understand yourself you need to recognize the existence of these facets or areas of your life and then evaluate where you stand in relation to each one.

Once you know exactly where you stand in relation to each of these facets of your life, you are then able to discover and realize true happiness and the true riches of existence.

God Sanctions Lying

Ask any religious person and they will tell you that lying is wrong. I am not just talking about men lying with other men or a man lying with another man’s wife or a woman lying with a beast or anything like that. I am talking about telling untruths, deceiving people, telling lies.

The book of Proverbs says that telling lies is one of the six things God hates. Jesus said that telling lies defiles a person. Paul the Apostle says that liars cannot enter the kingdom of God. The book of Revelation states liars are to be thrown into the eternal lake of fire, along with the Devil, whom Jesus said was a liar from the beginning.

Yet the prostitute Rahab, who happens to be an ancestor of Jesus Christ mentioned in his family tree in the book of Matthew, chapter one, is sanctioned by James, the brother of Jesus, as a virtuous woman for telling lies. She also is upheld as an example of how to be virtuous in the book of Hebrews.

This contradiction makes it difficult to defend the Bible as a book inspired by God, especially when the ninth commandment of the Decalogue states that to tell lies is a sin.

For instance, Dwight L. Moody, a respected preacher writes concerning the ninth commandment:

We have got nowadays so that we divide lies into white lies and black lies, society lies, business lies, etc. The Word of God knows no such letting-down of the standard. A lie is a lie, no matter what are the circumstances under which it is uttered, or by whom.

The Bible, however, seems to contradict what many people say in and out of the pulpit.

What did Rahab do?

Joshua the son of Nun sent two men secretly from Shittim as spies, saying, “Go, view the land, especially Jericho.” And they went and came into the house of a prostitute whose name was Rahab and lodged there. And it was told to the king of Jericho, “Behold, men of Israel have come here tonight to search out the land.” Then the king of Jericho sent to Rahab, saying, “Bring out the men who have come to you, who entered your house, for they have come to search out all the land.” But the woman had taken the two men and hidden them. And she said, “True, the men came to me, but I did not know where they were from. And when the gate was about to be closed at dark, the men went out. I do not know where the men went. Pursue them quickly, for you will overtake them.” But she had brought them up to the roof and hid them with the stalks of flax that she had laid in order on the roof. So the men pursued after them on the way to the Jordan as far as the fords. And the gate was shut as soon as the pursuers had gone out (Jos. 2:1-7 ESV).

It is quite clear that Rahab lied in order to deceive her countrymen. Yet, according to the writer of Hebrews and the writer of the book of James, in this instance, telling lies was an act of faith.

Hebrews 11:31: By faith Rahab the prostitute did not perish with those who were disobedient, because she had given a friendly welcome to the spies.

James 2:24-25: You see that a person is justified by works and not by faith alone. And in the same way was not also Rahab the prostitute justified by works when she received the messengers and sent them out by another way?

Evidently, telling lies to deceive people is okay if it is an act of faith. Besides, the ninth commandment is not “you shall not lie” rather, “You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor”.

Proverbs 6:16 -19 distinguishes between “a lying tongue” and “a false witness who breathes out lies” as two distinct phenomena out of the six things God hates.

There is a significant difference between lying and bearing false witness against somebody.

To bear false witness against someone means telling a lie to unjustly accuse an innocent person.

To tell a lie that prevents people from suffering unnecessarily, however, is not the same as lying to deceive somebody for personal gain.

While the Bible states that God is not a liar and no lies originate from him, the case of Rahab requires some more thought from those who reject the idea that God would never sanction somebody who tells lies. Evidently, it appears that telling lies and being a liar are two different things, which is largely a matter of the heart.

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