Here is an article that might help your health/stress/panics.
VERY worth reafing or listening to.
https://www.discoverhealthfmc.com/podcast/stress-and-the-adrenal-glands
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VERY worth reafing or listening to.
https://www.discoverhealthfmc.com/podcast/stress-and-the-adrenal-glands
Rights....a protection racket.
Many good points, but, as much as I've tended to like his other posts you've posted here, I think he's engaging in some straw-men red herrings from time to time: exaggerating certain things to make his points. Rush Limbaugh was tremendously more articulate about the confusion about rights, and without creating any new bogeyman. Rights don't have to be God-given to be legitimate; it's all about whether they are specifically enumerated in whatever general contract we all share within a country, a county, or even a family. That many fools call things they want that they see other people wielding "rights" doesn't make them truly entitled to those things or those privileges. Our Declaration of Independence only says that life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness (which, in the original version was pursuit of property) are rights. Obviously, if our life ends at another person's hands, we're not going to be able to sue to get our life back, and liberty means, generally speaking, being free to do what one wants as long as it doesn't restrict the freedom of others. And as long as we limit it to a right to pursue happiness, there's no entitlement to actually being happy. The Bill of Rights articulates some more that we collectively agreed upon way back when, so, for example, I'm permitted to have a gun, but that also means I have to accept the fact that you're permitted to have guns as well.
Government tends toward corruption, though, so corrupt politicians have rewarded fools for thinking everything from cell phones to libraries to perfect-temperature coffee are all 'rights,' because the fools then keep voting the corrupt back into power.
I have almost no faith in any government and am actually daily amazed that everything hasn't gone to hell in a handbasket already. That's why I don't put my energy into demanding what's coming to me but instead read the tea leaves and prepare for all our 'rights' to be taken away.
Nope. The Declaration did not limit rights by enumerating only three of them. The original text says that these three rights are just three of other unalienable rights.
The Declaration and the subsequent Constitution enumerate existing rights or natural rights and neither document grants a right. To think that a piece of paper is the source of your rights is to say that crumpling up that piece of paper can also revoke or obviate those rights.
Government is not the source of human rights. But people are the source of government authority. Governments trample on the rights of the people at their own peril and dictators time and again have died violent deaths at the hands of those they oppressed. And rightfully so.
Poorly worded. I should have said that those are the only specific three that were mentioned as rights.
China’s population could halve within the next 45 years, new study warns
Stephen Chen in Beijing
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Published: 11:15pm, 30 Sep, 2021
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China’s population decline may be much faster than expected, with the number of people in the country halving within the next 45 years, a new study has warned.
The projection was based on the official birth rate of 1.3 children per woman last year – well below the figure of 2 needed to keep the number stable – and forecast a
much more dramatic decline
than previous estimates.
China’s
current population is over 1.4 billion
and in 2019 the United Nations projected that China would still have around 1.3 billion people by 2065.
China’s three-child policy fails to allay concerns over childcare
22 Aug 2021
Another estimate published in
The Lancet
by researchers
with the University of Washington last year suggested the Chinese population would halve by 2100.
But the new research, from Professor Jiang Quanbao and colleagues with the institute for population and development studies at Xian Jiaotong University, warned that the country’s population decline may have been severely underestimated.
Advertisement
The UN’s projection, for instance, was based on the assumption that
China’s fertility rate would remain at above 1.7 children
per woman.
China had 12 million newborns last year
, 25 per cent lower than the UN’s estimate.
02:04
China expands two-child policy to three
China expands two-child policy to three
The Chinese authorities “need to pay close attention to the potential negative inertia of population growth and make a plan with countermeasures in advance,” wrote Jiang in the study published in the Journal of Xian University of Finance and Economics.
The new birth rate, though unexpectedly low, was based on
data from the latest census
, which is believed to be the most accurate yet because it was collected entirely with the aid of digital devices for the first time and cross-checked with other government data sets.
Though the census findings have only partially been disclosed to the public, the limited information already shed a new light on changes and future development trends in the Chinese population, according to the researchers.
‘Forcing people to get pregnant?’ Backlash against China’s new abortion policy
1 Oct 2021
The pandemic may have had an impact on childbirth last year – but Jiang and his colleagues said the chances that the birth rate would rebound were low. They said it was more likely that the total population would soon start a rapid decline due to the drop in the number of women of child-bearing age.
Read more
‘Forcing people to get pregnant?’ Backlash against China’s new abortion policy
Read more
Births in China’s Anhui province are ‘falling off a cliff’, new data shows
“If the fertility rate drops to 1, in 29 years the population in our country will fall by half,” they said.
According to the new census data, children make up about 17 per cent of the population, while the proportion of over-60s rose to over 18 per cent.
Families are now allowed to have three children, but researchers say they need more incentives and support. Photo: AP
The researchers said it was the first time that
China had more seniors than young people
.
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“People dare not to have children due to increasing economic pressure,” they wrote. “There are also severe shortages in supporting services for childbearing and care.”
While the government has loosened its population policy earlier this year,
allowing all families to have three children
, numerous studies have pointed out that
economic factors
such as high property prices are a major force driving down the birth rate.
10:42
China 2020 census records slowest population growth in decades
China 2020 census records slowest population growth in decades
In some countries such as the United States, rising property prices can help raise the birth rate because they make people wealthier, but in China the opposite applies.
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A study published this month by the Chinese Academy of Sciences found that in the Yangtze River Delta, one of the most developed regions in the country, rapidly increasing housing prices have caused the area to have one of the lowest birth rates in the country.
Inside the dying Chinese village where almost everyone is aged over 40
20 Apr 2018
Another study in August suggested that in China, each 1,000 yuan (US$155) per square metre increase in property prices reduces the likelihood of having one child by 2 per cent, and that of having two children by 5 per cent.
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The Chinese government has recently launched a series of campaigns to control property prices, reduce the cost of education and increase the number of kindergartens, but the study said further measures are needed.
03:49
How much does it cost to raise a child in China?
How much does it cost to raise a child in China?
Professor Chen Gong, director of the Peking University Institute of Population Research, forecast in a recent article on the website of the National Bureau of Statistics that the Chinese population would start to decline from 2025.
Advertisement
He said that while the shrinking,
ageing population would increase the burden on the social welfare system
there was some good news.
China’s one-child policy and the millions of ‘missing girls’
8 Aug 2021
For example, the number of citizen with higher education qualifications had nearly doubled over the past decade and now stood at 15 per cent of population – something that Chen said could boost the country’s development.
“It is expected that the quality of the Chinese population will increase rapidly and become a driving force for high quality economic development,” Chen said. “It will also reduce pressure on natural resources and the environment.”
This article appeared in the South China Morning Post print edition as: Population projected to halve in 45 years
- Researchers say previous estimates may have severely underestimated the pace of demographic decline
- Census data says the birth rate was 1.3 children for each woman last year – well below the level needed to stop the population from falling
Stephen Chen in Beijing
+ FOLLOW
Published: 11:15pm, 30 Sep, 2021
Why you can trust SCMP
583
154
China’s population decline may be much faster than expected, with the number of people in the country halving within the next 45 years, a new study has warned.
The projection was based on the official birth rate of 1.3 children per woman last year – well below the figure of 2 needed to keep the number stable – and forecast a
much more dramatic decline
than previous estimates.
China’s
current population is over 1.4 billion
and in 2019 the United Nations projected that China would still have around 1.3 billion people by 2065.
China’s three-child policy fails to allay concerns over childcare
22 Aug 2021
Another estimate published in
The Lancet
by researchers
with the University of Washington last year suggested the Chinese population would halve by 2100.
But the new research, from Professor Jiang Quanbao and colleagues with the institute for population and development studies at Xian Jiaotong University, warned that the country’s population decline may have been severely underestimated.
Advertisement
The UN’s projection, for instance, was based on the assumption that
China’s fertility rate would remain at above 1.7 children
per woman.
China had 12 million newborns last year
, 25 per cent lower than the UN’s estimate.
02:04
China expands two-child policy to three
China expands two-child policy to three
The Chinese authorities “need to pay close attention to the potential negative inertia of population growth and make a plan with countermeasures in advance,” wrote Jiang in the study published in the Journal of Xian University of Finance and Economics.
The new birth rate, though unexpectedly low, was based on
data from the latest census
, which is believed to be the most accurate yet because it was collected entirely with the aid of digital devices for the first time and cross-checked with other government data sets.
Though the census findings have only partially been disclosed to the public, the limited information already shed a new light on changes and future development trends in the Chinese population, according to the researchers.
‘Forcing people to get pregnant?’ Backlash against China’s new abortion policy
1 Oct 2021
The pandemic may have had an impact on childbirth last year – but Jiang and his colleagues said the chances that the birth rate would rebound were low. They said it was more likely that the total population would soon start a rapid decline due to the drop in the number of women of child-bearing age.
Read more
‘Forcing people to get pregnant?’ Backlash against China’s new abortion policy
Read more
Births in China’s Anhui province are ‘falling off a cliff’, new data shows
“If the fertility rate drops to 1, in 29 years the population in our country will fall by half,” they said.
According to the new census data, children make up about 17 per cent of the population, while the proportion of over-60s rose to over 18 per cent.
Families are now allowed to have three children, but researchers say they need more incentives and support. Photo: AP
The researchers said it was the first time that
China had more seniors than young people
.
Advertisement
“People dare not to have children due to increasing economic pressure,” they wrote. “There are also severe shortages in supporting services for childbearing and care.”
While the government has loosened its population policy earlier this year,
allowing all families to have three children
, numerous studies have pointed out that
economic factors
such as high property prices are a major force driving down the birth rate.
10:42
China 2020 census records slowest population growth in decades
China 2020 census records slowest population growth in decades
In some countries such as the United States, rising property prices can help raise the birth rate because they make people wealthier, but in China the opposite applies.
Advertisement
A study published this month by the Chinese Academy of Sciences found that in the Yangtze River Delta, one of the most developed regions in the country, rapidly increasing housing prices have caused the area to have one of the lowest birth rates in the country.
Inside the dying Chinese village where almost everyone is aged over 40
20 Apr 2018
Another study in August suggested that in China, each 1,000 yuan (US$155) per square metre increase in property prices reduces the likelihood of having one child by 2 per cent, and that of having two children by 5 per cent.
Advertisement
The Chinese government has recently launched a series of campaigns to control property prices, reduce the cost of education and increase the number of kindergartens, but the study said further measures are needed.
03:49
How much does it cost to raise a child in China?
How much does it cost to raise a child in China?
Professor Chen Gong, director of the Peking University Institute of Population Research, forecast in a recent article on the website of the National Bureau of Statistics that the Chinese population would start to decline from 2025.
Advertisement
He said that while the shrinking,
ageing population would increase the burden on the social welfare system
there was some good news.
China’s one-child policy and the millions of ‘missing girls’
8 Aug 2021
For example, the number of citizen with higher education qualifications had nearly doubled over the past decade and now stood at 15 per cent of population – something that Chen said could boost the country’s development.
“It is expected that the quality of the Chinese population will increase rapidly and become a driving force for high quality economic development,” Chen said. “It will also reduce pressure on natural resources and the environment.”
This article appeared in the South China Morning Post print edition as: Population projected to halve in 45 years
The things that people claim to be a sin are so numerous and ridiculous. Over the last couple of days I've heard that staying up late at night is a sin, and saying that your kids are really pushing your buttons today is a sin, amongst others. And this is from friends, people I know.
I've yet to read the law in the bible that says that staying up late at night is a sin and all must get an early night.
It takes away from what sin really is, when we say that the most random of things that we happen to think are not the best way to conduct ourselves are sins. There are enough laws as there is.
I've yet to read the law in the bible that says that staying up late at night is a sin and all must get an early night.
It takes away from what sin really is, when we say that the most random of things that we happen to think are not the best way to conduct ourselves are sins. There are enough laws as there is.
I can relate to this so much.
I have an aunt who thinks drinking wine is a sin, but I am pretty sure it's not (as long as you don't get so drunk that you start making bad decisions). I even heard of someone who thinks interactional marriage is a sin, which really annoys me because I love to put interactional marriages in my stories.
The problem is that some people forget the definition of sin, so they start making up what is sin.
Amen, sister!
Hallelujah!
Soon after God saved me I was told drinking wine or alcoholic beverage is a sin, and interracial marriage is sin. But I soon saw the error of those things. Jesus and His disciples drank wine - and He ate meat - so we know it isn't a sin to do those things. And we know from the scriptures that God blessed relationships between different racial couples so it obviously isn't a sin. But the best way to know what is sin and what it not is to know what God commands and how that applies to your life.
I was having a discussion with a man one time and he told me that all God's commandments applied to us. I asked him, if God gave a command to a righteous man does that command apply to all righteous men? He said, Yes! I showed him that Noah was a righteous man and God commanded him to build an Ark. I asked the man to please show me the Ark he had built in obedience to God's command.
Exactly.
Shalom
Where does it say that Jesus drunk wine? I'm curious because I've heard the statement that the bible never actually says that Jesus drunk wine. He did offer it to his disciples to drink which means it's ok, but apparently if we're trying to be like Jesus then we shouldn't.
In Matthew 11:19 Jesus said, "The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, ‘Look, a glutton and a winebibber, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’ But wisdom is justified by her children."
The drinking is a reference to being "a winebibber" or a wine-drinker. Jesus ate and drank and He was falsely accused of being "a glutton and a winebibber". Paul told Timothy to drink a little wine for its medicinal benefits (1 Tim. 5:23), so it can't be a sin to drink wine. God tells us that His blessings include wine for His people and it makes the heart of man glad (cf. Psalm 104:15).
There is a video on YouTube that has a lot of useful information.
What the Bible REALLY Says About Alcohol - YouTube
The drinking is a reference to being "a winebibber" or a wine-drinker. Jesus ate and drank and He was falsely accused of being "a glutton and a winebibber". Paul told Timothy to drink a little wine for its medicinal benefits (1 Tim. 5:23), so it can't be a sin to drink wine. God tells us that His blessings include wine for His people and it makes the heart of man glad (cf. Psalm 104:15).
There is a video on YouTube that has a lot of useful information.
What the Bible REALLY Says About Alcohol - YouTube
Great video, and I was pleased that the first place he went in Scripture was Deuteronomy 14:26, because the literal interpretation of the Hebrew is that, for these jubilee celebrations, they were being encouraged to indulge themselves by purchasing what their hearts desired, including, literally, intoxicants, as well as already mentioning wine.
And Yeshua was not represented in Scripture as an ascetic.
And, the apostles, filled with the Spirit, in the early morning in the Temple during Shavuot are criticized, not for being drunk, but for doing so that early in the morning.. of course, it was the Ruach, the Spirit, but the circumstances tell us a bit about the attitude towards strong drink at that time.
Bias thwarted at least once recently:
https://www.zerohedge.com/political...l-case-questions-prosecutors-credibility-over
https://www.zerohedge.com/political...l-case-questions-prosecutors-credibility-over
