zhong guo loosely translated as the middle kingdom
zhong essentially being the centre, or middle
i'd like zhong de fries
zhong also forming an essential component of the word important
to consider this
middleness
the middle country
the middle country people
the people of middleness
the reasonable
the moderate
the moderation
the common sense that accompanies being middlest
for 5000 years
that's an awful long time to be the middlest
and to watch the leftist rightests
but to always know
you are the middle kingdom
of what could only be
harmonious expansion
because the middlests rise
will be the most moderate
and by default the most harmonious
the war on terror is over.
thank you
because there's no new threat that hasn't been there for the last 5000 years.
so imagine how funny it all looks
the western circo arts drama
the war on terror
changed your lives in one way
only
now the police have unequivacol rights
where they were previously constrained by the justice system in your country, in the USA, in the UK, in Australia (a curious band of teamsters)
this is the middlest way
because the police exist to uphold the law
whether an officer has a warrant or not and various other western legal framework, restrictions, fine print loops holes, inhibits the ability of a police officer to keep the peace.
now in the west we have an issue
can the officer come into our house?
yes no?
discrepancies?
fine print
a culture of fine print
and fine print gets nooone anywhere fast when a crime is, has been or is about to be commited
what gets you somewhere
is middleness
loosening the legal restrictions
so that commonsense can prevail
this is the middleway
of the middle country people
where the logic of oral
pisses allover the policies of written
the nation that brought us manned kites
at around the same time as our greatest hero brought us love and forgiveness
waited patiently
for 2000 years
for some poor jewish scientist to figure out how we could get humans to the moon
and then
they
decided to join in
having been largely remarkably restrained
as they watched the eurpeans take north america
south america
australia
new zealand
Africa
the pacific
using guns
using contracts
using threats
and legal precedant
and rape
and being the middlest
they simply watched
since the renaissance
watching
long time to watch
and i guess attempting to get the middle kingdom hooked on opium wasn't gonna speed up that process
and so they watched our people
rape kill, and strong arm possession of all this territory
for about 5 hundy years
then they watched our people turn around and protest the taking of tibet
and the leader of the 5000 year old nation asks to be shielded from our 200 year old nation's embarrassing faux pas
and in the true middlest way
the comedians are paid
for being humorous
the middleway
prevails
as an observation.
the essential philosophy of the middle way is this
if it works it works
if it doesn't
we leave it
it doesn't go be fore a select commitee
because
it doesn't work
artists can polish shit
governers should have more of a gameplan you'd hope.
encumbering legislation leads away from the middle way
establishing dicates for reasonable force on youngsters
is the opposite direction the middleway
the opposite direction of commonsense
the middle way
commonsense
as referred to by the old um what is it justice minister annette king
she understands the middle way
way=dao
the TAO
as it's called
the way
the middle way
you can hear the tao on george harrisons's 'the inner light'
without even opening your door
you can know everything on earth
and....
so the internet is the middleway
all things are good in moderation
be they cigarettes or chocolates
in moderation
is the middleway
filesharing
is the middleway
the realisation that progress not competition is the object
is the middleway
the understanding that if you've got no clue
you just sit and watch and learn until you do
is the middleway
the
quote
"that those who can, do.
those who can't, coach the allblacks."
is the middleway
changing a flag is not so middle
lowering a flag is honorable.
being with no flag
as citizens of the new world
is the middleway
with no cross
is the middleway
with no
intention
just
meandering
as a small stream
to an ocean
is the middle way
1510 terrorist arrests
a seachange
towards the middleway
hope that made sense
maybe overused 'middle'
but to put it in terms...
banning lena O and then unbanning lena O is the 'middle'way
banning jesuscrux forever is good
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I am not at all convinced I
I am not at all convinced I would wish the Communist Party of China to be the ruling elite.
in fact, I can think of very few juntas/regimes I'd consider worse.
I also fail to see how in any way the can be described as moderates/middle.
china, middle country
china,
middle country
no I don't feel they
no I don't feel they represent adequately or justly or that they are in any way a role model for other countries or people.
I think they are a pretty much a bunch of killers
and it disgusts me that this country chooses a trade agreement with them
Chinese complaining?
of course, they are free to do so
like they are to go to Church or form a Political Party
Safe Streets
people have different levels of priority
I admire the civility
I admire the nurturing, time and cohesiveness of family
but you already know this
just as you know I hate the "Anti" terror bullshit
the people of middle earth
the people of middle earth didn't replace your regime for u to start using fireworks to celebrate a failure to replace a regime.
the people of middle earth discovered gun powder
and almost every other major landmass on earth
well before us
and instead of using this knowledge to mcDonaldize this world
they let the europeans commit mass genocide on five continents and one ocean
and that's the legacy on which our existance and culture is built
"pretty much a bunch of killers"
which is why i'm dead right now
history positively screams louder than than that pin dropping.
it's time to review where you're coming from with these kind of missives foal
do you feel miffed that Rudd is afilitated with 'the regime'
OZ ratifying the kyoto protocol
and pulling troops out of iraq
is moderate
and a sure sign of how compassionately the regimes are shifted under the middle way
you are democratic
Hong Kong is too
they just give you better options
for getting a life
this regime was established by 1 r/pm
not a treaty
not sure how many countries have revolutions at some time or another
but the stats must be quite high.
new zealand will graduate from franchise status in it's own unique way
historically
culturally
and in terms of identity
and Albi is here to guide
less words
more talk
who is Albi? I don't have
who is Albi?
I don't have you tube
NZ is becoming more of a franchise
not less
and FTA with China will not help in the slightest
China is OK when it follows our (West) economic rules. we can ignore any crime that is in submission to our interests.
This does not make the CCP either moderate or, in any way, acceptable.
not sure about the revolutions bit.
but does Mao arrive in power via the popular vote?
I will not pretend he did not replace killers, killers subservient to foreign $
but he had his chance
and he was a butcher
and a fraud to that book "he wrote" and to the book of Marx.
Rudd speaks Mandarin and was a diplomat
clearly this may be more beneficial than being what his predecessor was, a Lawyer.
but
the charge I offer is this
it is not enough to vote the criminals removal
it's a whitewash
Blair , Bush, and Howard must be tried for crimes against humanity
if our high minded principles of justice
are to equally applied to us, as say they may be to Iran.
"killers"
why deal to an apologist?
there is no doubt you serve a purpose
invented gunpowder
now there is something to proud of
like the rack
or the hydrogen bomb
or asbestos
or McDonald's
comparative crimes on an international scale of the two regimes/styles
unquestionable who is the more culpable
we may not say this in a hundred years though
I realize there is a lot of catching up to do
but if the ruling council of the CCP wish, as they appear to do, to go the distance with Western Business interests then a most unsettling time is due, soonish looking at the short credit market, the concept of Peak Oil, the access to living space and the demands of fresh water.
look I not view China any better than the US or by definition US
but cheer leading one over the other can run the risk of ignoring "our crimes"
the task for those wishing justice is a rejection and dissembling of these power edifices
that act with impunity, barbarism, and an overriding obsession with profit and self-interest.
I have a hard time
I have a hard time reconciling the present Chinese administration with anything even remotely appearing as middle way.
middle way is by your account fine and dandy
but by judging systems by their real life results
it looks like an advocation of a system or regime that fails Humanity
so if the Chinese belief system is somehow remote form the Governance of the Chinese nation then I stand corrected, but it don't look the best path to me, at all.
what have I got against money and/or profit?
possibly that sometime ago it became the measuring stick of our worth
it became our only means of freedom
and I loathe that greatly.
despite having lots of money, plenty of options, comfort and security, and relatively high freedom.
i'm not sure about your
i'm not sure about your obsession with the Chinese administration either this one or the last or the one before that
or who's really counting
noone's trying to be hardman
your country is tibet
you are the chinese
and so your criticisms without statistics, examples or data
of the CCP
which yes is the dictatorship
of the country
who's language i was talking about
for that
you are welcome to provide examples of their sins against the middle way
to chastise
and i'm sure i'll agree with you on most
heck
hang them out to dry
but the way
is still there
those corpses
sagging from the pegs
as the way passes them by like a nanny goat.
so why should any other nation or culture be judged so harshly on it's government who never did you any harm
i'm talknig to you about a culture
say you were telling me about your culture
and i'm trying to discredit your country's culture by way of discrediting your government
boy you kiwis suck because of the supression of terrorism act
don't wanna hear any of your ideas
because your government supports the wa?
leave us be peter jackson you war mongerer
your movies are but the stuff of supression of terrorism
nuanced.
sseriously dude
the middle way
you must know what i'm talking about
like having a choice not to wear bike helmets.
never did you no
never did you no harm
really?
fundamental rethink for the planet of the apes
yes
Democracy shamed over the Iraq carve up
yes, and it shows deep flaws in the assumption that freedom will somehow sooth the crimes
as you state, as if some trial will fix anything when we profit form the crimes and then gladly allow the replacements the same leniency to take.
as for judging people by their administration
if their is a middle way as you describe then the manifestation of it as you laid out can in no way be attributed to the ruling Party of the Peoples Republic of China. It's akin to calling Helen Clark a Socialist. it's wrong on so many levels. So, either the people are suppressed, compliant, or this middle way is a crock of shit.
I'll go with the first option
at what point to is culture separated form Government
the architecture of Stalin
always so function able
we should hold people responsible for their governance
you seemed to be agreeing with this elsewhere
we should be judged by the Laws enacted in our name
maybe we will be shamed into doing something
by all means boycott Peter Jackson
but on any sliding scale of crimes remember just who is your keeper.
who is my keeper?
who is my keeper?
more accurate than our
more accurate than our British import
almost certainly although obviously I lack the personal experience. but I think I agree with you on what I think I know.
the 4th paragraph is a good one
but I think there should be very strict governance of food safety
"eat this and you'll fucking die"
I could tell some stories, I've been in the trade for years.
maybe nationalism before war
certainly I think war is over resources
I include WWII in this
so access to good living may need to be staple before we can expect compliance on non-violence
which nicely ties in with my Christian/Socialist overview.
My brother
is my keeper
at least that is what o read
and I try
so not peter shilton?
so not peter shilton?
Ahhhhhhhhhh, What the hell
Ahhhhhhhhhh,
What the hell ?!? Does anybody know what they're talking about because man I'm so seriously lost on this one ! Dude ! Look you're really starting to sound like those wacked out bat shit crazy conspiracists that help out at uncensored magazine and those people pay me in porn !!! Now I don't have trendy girly girly christian/socialist overviews on things, I'm more of lapsed catholic with agnostic worldwide views. What I think is what's wrong with America, what's wrong with China, is what wrong with the World. That things aren't hidden from you, its that they are everywhere and that's why there is nothing you can do to ever fully fucking stop it. Okay ? Let's put it in one more way, if this new war with Iraq is all about oil ( and it is ) then your driver liscense is the real reason why there war in Iraq. We are all resonsible so stop bitching about how it all is and start bringing up ideas about how to change it to something new, something way better than what we're already got. It's like what I say to those nutters, it's not that the world is run by dozen people, all they are doing saying that is personifying real concern, that our world is still runs on a couple dozen of ideas and if anything is gonna save us its new idea ! All this protesting, screaming, talking, telling it like it is won't change nothing. Thinking will, learn from it...
it's not real, words on a
it's not real, words on a page robsta, words on a page
Sorry Dude ?!? Um who is
Sorry Dude ?!?
Um who is this ? Cos I'm not just gonna say if this is some random guy leading me on, making out he's someone I should know when he's not even one the guys that work there !!! Think of me as one of those overachievers you get in life that uses all these different names to hide the fact that they're responsible for so many things you've seen before !!! It is starting to get just a little embrassing that I've already manage to do so much in such short moment of time, it must be luck...
Johnny Ray
ok
ok
thanks God (perhaps) i don't
thanks God (perhaps)
i don't see any conspiracy johnny ray
before we each started building our own bonfires to sing around.
we sang around the same fire
sharing is natural
filesharers the world over have been voting for communism for the past 10 years+
in their 100s of millions.
or more specifically voting against imperialism
with megabytes.
seeing the war against communism being lost
the US reverted to enemy number 2.
The western governments used this war against number 2 as an excuse
too implement and introduce the 21st Century lynch mob on you guys,
taking a page from the governments of number 1
it's no conspiracy.
there's no strings
your post johnny ray is evidence of why it's so easy to take your rights away:
you speak up, not to engage but to dismiss, and strangely in this case, to tell me to stop exercising my right to free speech.
which doesn't quite fit
because i have nothing to bitch about. because i don't live in it.
but yes
i am concerned. about the neofacism in new zealand
and i'm not one to use the term lightly
in fact it's my first time to use it.
i don't claim to invent it.
just like the sound of it.
i truly enjoy the sloganism and hysteria of good old government propaganda.
and kind of like to write my own.
anti.
it's that simple
i'm not embarrassed
i'm not hiding.
i write
why would you presuppose anyone would attempt to change all this Robsta?
after eons of civilization.
it's like belittling me for trying to fly, in an internet forum.
it's decadent
it's illusory
and it's wrong
made all the wronger by your admission that you just don't get it.
the war in iraq is not about oil.
it's about spreading democracy
knocking down the fleemarket and erecting a huge WalMart.
if the world were changed jonny by words alone,
then what the would i write about to clear my head?
poetry?
no way.
i'd have to take up some kind of exercise.
not my style.
agnostic is a term for the weakminded
the world is binary
you either believe in a God or you don't
if you're not sure
it means you don't
agnostic sounds like you're saying something
jonny ray
but it paints a picture of an imagination lacking seasoning.
i don't hide. i just don't keep track which login i'm using
most people who read this could probably name me.
if you can't decide whether you beleive in a God or not
then i can understand a worldview that guesstimates oil as the sole cause of a war.
if a naughty country like the US invades a country, then introduces a 'supression of terrorist act'
a sure way to implicate your own country as an accomplice is to introduce the very same act.
in the main
to your posts above foal
to be clear
i'm talking about philosophy
if we were talking about kava, would you feel the need to continually refer to the Fijian administration or lack of?
the connection is tenuous.
coup or no coup.
i hope this is clear foal
if you wanna talk about the administration we can...
you start the thread.
but to be honest to argue against certain philosophies on the merits of the way they are managed by an organization is not enlivened chattering
if you were to talk about Plato, for me to discredit his work on the grounds of the Iraq war, would be to miss the point entirely.
your brothers foal
come in all shapes and colours
with all ideas under the sun
and your sisters; similar, but with more shapes.
where you say:
"what have I got against money and/or profit?
possibly that sometime ago it became the measuring stick of our worth
it became our only means of freedom"
now your statement strongly hints that we as humans need to measure worth.
there is a heirachy
just as there is in most species
identifying that our worth must be measured
provides us with incentice to find a stick to measure our worth with.
should we measure someone's worth based on:
skin colour?
looks?
intelligence?
qualifications?
rhythm?
Risk win/loss ratios?
passport?
and when citing money as your only means of freedom, i'd have to point to your passport.
it's a case of how about we just print some paper and level the playing field flat.
and that's money.
for a society that must measure worth
that's a fairly non-bigoted means of measuring it.
imho.
there's no concept of sell out in this middle language.
it naturally coincides with a less cynical and more enthusiastic attitude among the people.
to come to terms with that
enables one to come to terms with how wacky us westerners are.
i don't bring you new idea jonny
because it's the oldest ideas that are invariably the best.
christianity as a Filosophy is succeeding well in terms of 'forgive one another'
but failing, in terms of 'love one another'
why did your church invade Afghanistan?
foal, i don't think they did.
i see it as a political act used by a third party in the name of your God.
against the grain of society.
respect.
OK I'm not big on
OK
I'm not big on philosophy
maybe worth is measurable is Human need
I don't think about it
nothing listed is worthy
except maybe rhythm
but I'd suggest you knew I would say that.
Drum stick perhaps
yes worth equates security of value, breeding violence and domination
Police, Banking, Hired Guns
emerging economies now bailing out Western Capitalism
so who again is emerging?
the Press has named the multi-millionaire Rapist/child molester
funny how he had suppression for so long
yet others, are named in 5 minutes
if i may quote "A student
if i may quote
"A student masturbated in changing rooms in Kmart because he was under exam stress, a Palmerston North court heard yesterday.
But a judge said he doubted this was the whole story because he had a report that suggested the 24-year- old was sexually aroused by trying on new trousers.
However, Judge Gregory Ross in the end decided not to convict the masturbator, who admitted offensive behaviour in the store, and banned publication of his name. He ordered a $100 payment toward the cost of prosecution
It happened in the middle of the day on December 5, Sergeant Chris Whitmore told the hushed court.
The student went into the changing rooms with two pairs of trousers, pulled down his own trousers, sat on the floor of one of the rooms, and began his venture into onanism.
But there was a metre gap between door and floor and two people saw what he was doing.
The police were called and the man confessed, Mr Whitmore said.
Defence lawyer Steve De Vorms said stress before his client's final exams was the most likely explanation for what he did, which came "completely out of the blue".
But Judge Ross then said there was a suggestion in a report he had that it might also have come about through the defendant trying on new trousers.
"This was a private act in a public place." he said.
Mr De Vorms said the masturbation was an aberration, something his client wasn't proud of.
A conviction could have "very, very far-reaching effects" on him as he sought work, he said.
For this reason he asked for a discharge without conviction, with the defendant making a contribution towards prosecution costs.
Judge Ross said the defendant's offending was at the lower end of the scale.
People could see him, but he couldn't see them.
A conviction would be "out of all proportion" to the seriousness of the offence, especially with the defendant seeking a job at a district health board, he said.
Judge Ross told the man publication of his name would also have had "huge consequences", and discharged him without conviction."
http://stuff.co.nz/4331070a4560.html
hushed........
you see foal,
it wasn't about the exam stress
it was about the new trousers
shouldn't the $100 go towards new trousers for the guy?
is this not insane?
a guy who gets turned on by new trousers, being sent back into the community without new trousers?
isn't that just an accident waiting to happen?
a timebomb?
name supression well spent
came completely out of the
came completely out of the blue
but the coup de grace is
wanting to work for the DHB
fucking classic
I wonder if they were dancing trousers
"he put them on backwards"
"thank heavens they were not inside out!"
no, I think name suppression laws are a joke and no names should be published full stop
now on a CONVICTION things may change
but no one says
he was acquitted
it is always he got off/away with it
"no, I think name
"no, I think name suppression laws are a joke and no names should be published full stop
now on a CONVICTION things may change"
great idea.
it's how things used to be
it's how things used to be done
and is done in more educated nations
take the obvious one, sex crimes
who knows about guilt
so your left with the conviction
hence no coverage at all, until Guilty
the accused is in trouble either way currently
and thats not being a liberal
thats "Justice"
"wod ya get up to in the
"wod ya get up to in the holidays mate?"
"AHH, went to KMART, hung out, tried on some new pants, hung out a bit more..."
ha. dude you're on
ha. dude you're on form
NZCricket needs you.
but I'm not a legend, like
but I'm not a legend, like say Dipak Patel, John Morrison and Simon Doull.
speaking of
speaking of legends
interesting watching the current circus, in which NZ organizes a christian funeral for the man quoted as saying he prefers buddhism to christianity.
what a highjack.
helen clark
what a grandstander