Ant, by the same token, how does the practice of secular humanism inform or influence NBC’s coverage?
I live in Canberra. There is a US Embassy, there is a Chinese Red Army Embassy. There are lots of national Embassies, High Commissions, Consulates, foreign language schools and international friendship societies... but of all these only the Red Army Embassy has a continuing protest at its driveway. Sometimes the Tibetans join in. Sometimes it is one person, sometimes it is five, on weekends it is more. They know they are being video taped.
I have lived here 12 years now and first photographed the protesters in about 2009, and still it goes on.
I have been there and chatted to see what “the longest protest ever” has to say. OMG. The smuggled documents and photos of victims of organ harvesting and the forced labour camps/gulags... it is inhuman, it is as evil and vile. And its the same for Christians under the Red Army. Yet we walk into big box stores like Walmart and Lowes etc and buy MIC products by the millions.
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Falun is the word for their quasi-buddhist symbol, referencing balance and reincarnation and it appears to be a swastiker. Uh huh. When they talk about Tradition they are talking very old Chinese traditions. Kharma and caste; if you are a slave, serf or other untouchable and join in a war on behalf on the Emperor-God and prosperous priesthood caste, you will likely “return” in a higher caste. I think the Pharaohs and Sultans also maintained power for centuries using the reincarnation promise.
And I also think a leader who believes in reincarnation (and btw that babes who are cleanest in kharma terms will “return to the Godhead” when they are sacrificed)(which was still going on in Tantric Hinduism very late in the twentieth century) will be the one most likely to start a nuclear war to end all wars.
If Falun Gung is ever victorious in Red Army China... that’s 1400 million people we are talking about -1.4 billion at the moment. Just saying.