I understand why they have sympathy for women going over to Syria IF it's because of women who wear the hijab being attacked much more. I mean, the women who wear the hijab might be thinking why should they stay and be attacked when they can live in Syria amongst others who follow the same religion? I'm guessing it'll not be what they're expecting though when they get over there. The idiots who are attacking them are just giving IS exactly what they want. Honestly, there's some right thickos out there.

Who kill more innocent people in USA and take their money and property with support of US media?

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 What Falun Gong Really Teaches

Samuel Luo

San Francisco, California

Abstract

In the West Falun Gong, founded by Li Hongzhi, has successfully marketed itself as an innocent victim of the Chinese government's repression. However, if one examines Falun Gong's teachings and practices closely, one finds that its image of being a spiritual exercise masks the centrality of its founder's god-like status and the cult-like use of deceptive and manipulative techniques to increase membership.

Ever since Falun Gong was banned by the Chinese government in July 1999, it has gained support and sympathy from human rights groups. By focusing just on its status as a victim of an oppressive regime, Falun Gong has also gained uncritical support from the media. As a result of all the favorable media attention, Falun Gong has been able to spread throughout the U.S., not only in the Chinese community but in the non-Chinese community as well. But what is the Falun Gong really about?

When Falun Gong was introduced to my parents in early 1999 in San Francisco, it was presented as an exercise that promised to improve health. I can’t describe how shocked I was when I heard my mother start talking about the aliens who live among us and saying that human society is bad, the end of world is coming, and Li Hongzhi, the founder of Falun Gong, is offering the last chance to save mankind. How did an exercise become a world-saving religion?

Since immigrating to the United States in 1998, master Li has promoted his Falun Gong as a Tai Chi like exercise ([1]) However Falun Gong (exercise of the Dharma wheel) is just the exercise component of Falun Dafa (great law of the Dharma wheel); both terms refer to a unique system of belief and exercises that were created by Li Hongzhi and first introduced in China in 1992. The free Falun Gong exercises work as a lure to recruit people into a system of belief that Li has described as “the highest principle of the universe.” In fact, Li has made it very clear to his followers that “those who only do the exercise but do not study the Dafa they are not disciples of Falun Dafa whatsoever” ([2]).

Li’s Falun Dafa is usually taught to newcomers after they feel comfortable with the exercises. In it you learn that only Falun Gong practitioners can detect the highest moral principles of the universe ([3]), the existence of mixed races is a serious problem ([4]), modern science is destroying mankind ([5]), and homosexuality is not the standard of being human ([6]). Yet to Li the worst thing that mankind can do is think negatively towards his Dafa (great truth): “Let me tell you, when this Fa-rectification [Li’s judgment day] matter is over, humankind will enter the next stage, and those people and beings who in their minds think that the Great Fa of the cosmos isn’t good will be the first weeded out” ([7]). The enlightened master also repeatedly warns his disciples that: “A Dafa disciple who fails to achieve the effect of the safeguarding and upholding Dafa has no way of reaching Consummation (Falun Dafa paradise)” ([8]).

While heavily borrowing Buddhist terms for his Dafa, Li portrays himself as a supernatural being whose teachings are superior to those of Sakyamuni (Buddha) and Jesus ([9]). Although Li has continually denied that Falun Gong is a religion, these denials are difficult to reconcile with his repeated claims that he is providing the only hope for mankind in this “Dharma-ending period” ([10]). In Zhuan Falun, the Bible of the group, he states simply: “If I cannot save you, nobody else can do it” ([11]).

But when the press interviews Li, he tends to hide his importance. In one interview he said: “Every time I see practitioners I tell them sitting before you is just a normal person. Don’t make me into a god” ([12]). This statement contradicts what he teaches his practitioners: “If you are a genuine practitioner, our Falun [the law wheel Li installs in his practitioners’ abdomens] will safeguard you,” he writes in Zhuan Falun. “I am rooted in the universe. If anyone could harm you, he would be able to harm me. To make it plainly, he would be able to harm the universe” ([13]).

Oddly enough, since the Chinese Government’s crackdown of the group in July 1999, Li has offered the least support of all to his practitioners. While he urges his practitioners to fight for him regardless of their own life ([14]), he is enjoying a safe and presumably luxurious life in the United States. It’s painful to see innocent people putting themselves at risk and getting hurt while chasing a delusion.

A group leader claiming that he is the only one who knows the truth of the universe or that he is the only savior of the world, a group using deception to recruit new members and not allowing room for questions or alternative viewpoints—these are some of the characteristics of a cult. Cults also use mind control techniques to manipulate their followers. This manipulation is designed to disrupt a person’s authentic identity and replace it with a new identity. Individuals are deceptively and aggressively recruited, and through socialization new members learn to follow what other members do; slowly, they are influenced to think as the others do. Dependence, conformity, and obedience to the leader’s absolute authority are encouraged constantly. Looking at Falun Gong from the outside, one might think these practitioners have made their own choice. But would anyone join the Falun Gong if they knew that they were going to be taught that Li is the personal savior of the world? No, they all think that they are just joining a healthy exercise group.

One of the most important and common methods that cults use to control their followers can be called “exclusion of the outside world.” Cult members are taught not to trust people outside of the group, including family members. This component of mind control is definitely found in the Falun Gong teachings. Falun Gong practitioners are made to distrust the moral thinking of non-practitioners who are called “ordinary people.” This is done intentionally by master Li, who repeatedly teaches: “As a practitioner you cannot act according to the ordinary people’s standards” ([15]). This manipulation technique not only isolates practitioners from non-practitioners, including family members and friends, but also creates a system where practitioners only share information with other practitioners. As a result, practitioners mutually reinforce each other’s belief in the teachings, thereby eliminating any conflicting or alternative views.

By reading Cults in Our Midst, written by the leading cult expert Dr. Margaret Singer, I came to recognize that all these mind control techniques have been used on my parents. Since the beginning of 1999, they have practiced the exercises two hours a day and studied Li’s books every day. They have hung Li’s portrait in our living room, and have gotten rid of all religion and exercise books except those of Falun Gong. After the crackdown on the group, my mother not only donated money to the Falun Gong, but was also asked by the organization to distribute flyers and other materials on the streets and protest in front of the Chinese embassy. I estimate that she spent at least nine hours a day, almost seven days a week, doing Falun-Gong-related activities until January 2002, when her husband had a stroke. Falun Gong has become her life. This is also true for other devoted Falun Gong practitioners.

What worries me the most is that ever since my parents became Falun Gong practitioners they have abandoned seeking medical treatment when needed. In Zhuan Falun, Li claims that his practitioners’ illnesses will be cured directly by him ([16]). Since illness and suffering are considered opportunities to repay the debt of karma, seeking medical help denies a practitioner this opportunity. He writes: “taking medication during practice implies that you do not believe in the disease curing effects of the practice. If you believed in it, why would you take medication?” ([17]) Due to this teaching my stepfather suffered unnecessarily during previous attacks of gout and flu.

Worrying about my parent’s health and trying to protect them from this cult, I started to question Li’s teachings long before my stepfather’s stroke. In so doing, I sadly discovered how greatly their world view had changed. In stating their belief that Li has supernatural power, that the world is coming to an end, that sickness is caused by bad deeds, and that demons are everywhere, I realized that they had been brainwashed. Our discussion soon turned into debate and then argument. To my shock my mother called me evil.

After our second argument I moved out. Living at home with my parents had become painful and uneasy. It hurts me to see them hurting themselves and I can’t do a thing about it. I have even started to feel anxiety, anger, and sadness.

When my stepfather had a stroke in January; my mother, sister and I were traveling in China. He went without medical treatment for approximately five days. While he was alone in the house two friends came to visit him and offered to take him to the hospital. Although the right side of his body was paralyzed he was able to open the door for his friends. He could have gone to the hospital at that time, but he refused due to his belief in Li’s teachings. Days later my sister returned home and found him sick. She had to beg and cry for him to go to the hospital. When he finally got to the hospital, the doctor pointed out that he could have died if he hadn’t been treated for another two days. He was in the hospital for a month.

Today, Falun Gong practitioners can be seen everywhere. They have set up at least fifty permanent exercise sites throughout the Bay area, seven of them in San Francisco, one in front of City Hall. Throughout the U.S., they have hundreds of practice sites, about seventy web sites, radio shows, TV broadcasts, and their own newspaper. The Falun Gong group has perhaps become the fastest growing quasi-religious cult in the U.S.

Beneath Li’s superficial teachings of “truthfulness, compassion and forbearance” are teachings that are intolerant of dissent and homophobic, that discourage sick people from seeking needed medical treatment and that manipulate followers to blindly follow Li’s absolute authority. Unfortunately while the media has focused only on the human rights issues in China, it has failed to educate Americans about how deceptive and harmful the Falun Gong can be in our own country.
Endnotes



[1] . Li Hongzhi, “Eye of the Storm” Interview in New York Times Magazine (August 8, 1999), p.19. Excerpts from the interview:

Question: Is Falun Gong a religion? Does it require faith?

Li: It is a practice that can remove illnesses, keep people fit and make one live longer. Like Tai Chi, it’s a morning exercise. People practicing Falun Gong are expected to follow the principles of truthfulness, compassion and forbearance.

Question: Falun Gong has been described as a cult. Is that description fair?

Li: A cult advocates end-of-the world theories and leads people to do many bad things. I am only teaching people the practice for healing and fitness.


[2] Li Hongzhi, “What is Cultivation Practice?” (September 6, 1996) Essentials for Further Advancement, English Version


[3] See: Zhuan Falun, 2nd editio n, p. 27: "An ordinary person cannot detect the existence of the characteristic of Zhen-Shan-Ren [Zhen-Shan-Ren is the sole Criterion to Judge Good and Bad People] in the universe because all ordinary people are at the same level. When you reach beyond the level of ordinary people, you will be able to detect its existence."


[4] See: Falun Dafa Lecture (Sydney, Australia), p.29. "The races in the world are not allowed to be mixed up. Now, the races are mixed up and it has brought about an extraordinarily serious problem . . . Mixed races have lost their roots, as if nobody in the paradise will take care of them. They belong to nowhere."


[5] See: “Interview with Li Hongzhi” Time Magazine Asia (May 10, 1999). "I know that modern science is destroying mankind. Aliens have already constructed a layer of cells in human beings. The development of computers dictates this layer of body cells to control human culture and spirituality and in the end to replace human beings."


[6] See: Falun Dafa Lecture (Sydney, Australia), p. 14.


[7] Li Hongzhi, Teaching the Fa at the Great Lakes Fa Conference in North America (December 9, 2000, Ann Arbor, Michigan). Falun Dafa web site under “Guiding the Voyage” (www.falundafa.org/eng/books.ht.), p.5.


[8] Li Hongzhi, “Fa-Rectification Period Dafa Disciples,” Essentials for Further Advancement II, Falun Dafa web site under “The Falun Dafa Books/Other Writings of Mr. Li Hongzhi” (www.falundafa.org/eng/books.htm), item #40. Actually, consummation has different meanings in Li’s teachings. It can mean enlightenment in this world as well as ascension beyond this world to another realm. As used here, it’s the second meaning. In this teaching Li goes on to tell his disciples: “As you consummate your own paradises you are, at the same time, eliminating your last karma, gradually getting rid of your human thoughts, and truly stepping forward from humanness. . . .So this isn’t a matter of reaching Consummation in ordinary realms, nor is it achievable in ordinary Consummation.” In item # 8 of Essentials for Further Advancement II, Li’s idea of consummation seems to parallel the Christian idea of the rapture: “When the day of Consummation arrives, the great disclosure of the truth will leave the world in amazement.”


[9] Li Hongzhi, Falun Dafa Lecture at the First Conference in North America (March 29-30, 1998, New York City), Falun Dafa website under “Books by the Master” (www.falundafa.com.hk/eng/engdefault.htm), Internet Version, March 2000, p. 14. The full quote is: “In the past, many came to teach Fa, such as Buddha, the Western God Jesus Christ, and even Jehovah. All of them gathered people together, fearing that otherwise people wouldn’t study it well or would drop down. So people were assembled to practice cultivation together. Sakyamuni required his disciples to have their heads shaved and put on kasayas. The disciples of Jesus entered monasteries. I’m telling you that the reason they did that was because the Fa they preached was lesser. They couldn’t save people without such requirements. In contrast, today we have such an enormous Fa that we certainly dare to open things up and leave everything to you.”


[10] Li Hongzhi, Zhuan Falun, 2nd edition, p.101 and elsewhere. The full quote is: “I am the only person in the world who is teaching orthodox Fa in public. I have done something nobody did in the past and opened such a large door in the Dharma-ending time.”


[11] Li Hongzhi, Zhuan Falun, 2nd edition, p. 317.


[12] J. S. Greenberg, “A ‘Passive’ Recipient: Falun Gong Leader Seems Modest – And in Control” Special to ABCNEWS.com. (August 20, 1999), p.2.


[13] Li Hongzhi, Zhuan Falun, p.44.


[14] Li Hongzhi, Essentials for further advancement ii in Eliminate your last attachment(s) he stated:

Since you are qualified, true cultivators who have met the standard, you cannot be threatened by loss of money or material interests; what is more, these cultivators can even let go of life and death: how could they fear the threat of death?. . . It is in fact time to let go of your last attachments. As cultivators, you already know that you should, and in your action you have, let go of all worldly attachments (including the attachment to the human body) and have made it through the process of letting go of life and death.. . . So as for your last attachment, you must be sure to let go of it. I know all of the suffering of my disciples. The truth is, I treasure you more than you treasure your self!

Since the crackdown, Li has repeatedly warned his practitioners that if they don’t do a good enough job in “standing up for the Dafa” in China they may suffer serious consequences, including jeopardizing their chances to reach Falun Gong paradise In Teaching the Fa at the Great Lakes Fa Conference in North America (Ann Arbor, December 9, 200) he stated:

Most students have, in various ways, stepped forward to validate the Dafa . . .On the other hand, those who haven’t stepped forward, have hidden themselves, and have sided in their understanding with the evil beings – how could they still be Dafa disciples? . . . For example, some students were arrested and imprisoned. When they couldn't endure the severe torture, they wrote repentance statements . . .But this is unacceptable.


[15] Li Hongzhi, Zhuan Falun (English Version) 2nd Edition (Hong Kong: April, 1998), Lecture Four, p. 165.


[16] Li Hongzhi, Zhuan Falun, English Version, second edition (Hong Kong: Falun Fo Publishing Company, 1998), p. 126. The full quote is: “Your illnesses will be cured directly by me. Those who practice at the exercise sites will have my Fashen to cure their illnesses.”


[17] Li Hongzhi, Falun Gong, English Version, revised edition, Falun Dafa website under “Books by the Master” www.falundafa.com.hk/eng/engdefault.htm), p. 82.


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I understand your point of view, but to me it simply indicates that Islam is a flawed belief system.  Note, believers think it is a "perfect" system, but then their vision of Perfect varies wildly between sects.  That is why I view it as algorithmically flawed, unless the various interpretations gravitate somehow toward a common central goal.

Falungong cult murderer sentenced to death
www.chinaview.cn 2003-12-31 19:26:40

    HANGZHOU, Dec. 31 (Xinhuanet) -- A Falungong cult follower who poisoned and killed 15 innocent people was given death penalty by a court in east China's Zhejiang province Tuesday afternoon.

    Chen Fuzhao, an assistant clinician in a small hospital in Cangnan county, was found to have poisoned 15 vagrant beggars and trash pickers by giving them beverages mixed with rat poison from May 25 to June 27, 2003.......

Its not quite the same in Venezuela, no.

The oil revenue goes towards funding decent social housing.

Whereas the revenue in Saudi goes towards this :-



- its so the young Saudi/Kuwait/Qatar "in crowd" can come to London to avoid the hot summers in their homelands. The streets are full of em in London - racing up and down like they fuckin own the place, apparently.



So no - its not quite the same.

"For the first time, the US is attacking oil delivery trucks."  Accompanied by shots with the Cyrillic lettering. Seems legit.


So, now they're stealing official video, which was published russian ministry of defence, and trying to present it as the result of their airstrikes. Lol, what a shame.

I don't know who "owns" the oil on paper - but I know who owns it in practice, and in the realpolitik world of shareholder dividends and corporate executive payouts and bonuses.

Listen - suppose Mrs. Practical Dreamer and myself only get to see each other for 10 minutes a day. This is around 8 am when she kindly prepares for me my breakfast (porridge (made with water - and no syrup BTW) - so nothing to write home about). For the other 23 hours 50 minutes a day she is busy round at Spendulus's house being his whore (and he's been known to have a penchant for S+M - so its not pretty) and baking him all manner of expensive cuisine - do you think I can still rightfully call Mrs. Dreamer my wife ?

I mean, we still have the marriage certificate, we haven't been divorced.

But still...

Well, it could be effective in furthering a Zionist objective.  Europe seems to be less inclined to support the type of ethnic cleansing required to achieve a 'greater Israel' than we here in the U.S. for some reason.  Pumping Europe full of criminals and associating their crimes with Islam probably would create an equivalence between what the masses want/need to do in Europe and what the Zionist wish to do in the Middle East.  An equivalence in the 'herd mind' at least, that that is all-important.

I'm certainly not saying that this is happening.  All I am doing is mulling over some of the 'motive' parts of a 'means, motive, opportunity' equation.  It is up to those who are more interested to uncover positive or negative information about the other components.  I'll look at any evidence brought to the table with an open mind.

Don't tell me - the West is "facilitating" the development of underdeveloped nations. We are saving them from themselves. LOL

Listen man, I have neither the time nor inclination to educate you - but for an ABC intro to international relations you might want to look perhaps at Dependency Theory.

  Its a little outdated now - but in essence still holds a lot of water. In particular, look into how, in the Metropolis- Satellite relationship, TPTB have a tendency to patronise ,or otherwise install, a well rewarded regime (I'm looking at you House of Saud) that whilst furthering the interests of (themselves and) TPTB have absolutely no qualms about fucking their own people up the arse, so to speak.





As a side note - its interesting, looking at the Politics/Society section of BCTalk, that at the moment at least (immediate aftermath of Paris attacks) there seems to be some recognition of the underlying issues re. the Middle East.
   Yes, you have the "all guns blazing crowd" - and the market is paramount crowd - but overall its quite encouraging.

ps. I nearly forgot the thick as pigshit lunatic crowd, who are always well represented herein.

to Americans: can you please try explain to me why you completely fucked up Middle East and left Europe and Russia to deal with consequences?

TRUMP SURVEILLANCE STATE WILL COMBAT ISLAM

...
He was then asked if heightened surveillance would require the registration of Muslims in a database and mandate special identification.
“We’re going to have to—we’re going to have to look at a lot of things very closely. We’re going to have to look at the mosques. We’re going to have to look very, very carefully.”

...
The program had the characteristics of an advanced police state—mapping of Muslim communities, photo and video surveillance, police informants, police “rakers” (ethnic cops who blended in Muslim communities), the widespread tracking of individuals and intelligence databases of the sort Trump endorsed.

Muslims sued the NYPD over the program. In October the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals found the Muslim plaintiffs raised sufficient allegations of equal-protection violations and reversed a decision made last year by a judge to dismiss the case.
Others have gone further than Trump in calling for draconian measures aimed at Muslims. For instance, David Bowers, a Democrat mayor in Virginia.

“I’m reminded that President Franklin D. Roosevelt felt compelled to sequester Japanese foreign nationals after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, and it appears that the threat of harm to America from ISIS now is just as real and serious as that from our enemies then,” Bowers said.

...http://www.infowars.com/trump-surveillance-state-will-combat-islam/

Its simple. Because the European countries are controlled by Zionist Jews and Freemasons. Thats why.

During Chinas unprecedented recent economic development they too were in need (are in need) of the black gold. They too looked towards Venezeula - a country with the 2nd largest reserves of crude on the planet. They too noted that the reserves were in the hands of the nation of Venezeula, via the Petróleos de Venezuela, S.A.
  Do a bit of reading and compare and contrast the approaches of China vs. the US, with regards their respective foreign policy re. Venezeula - cos I think there might be an important lesson to learn here.




The Execs in Houston would be laughing at one of us and it wouldn't be me. They know the score as well as I do - as does the oil baron family of the Bushes who were responsible for invading Iraq in the first place.

before the US and friends liberated iraq, saddam was owning the oil-wells. who do you think owns them now?
did you hear about the "food for oil" programm?

also not only oil-producers like Exxon made a killing (pun intended) over there in iraq - look at security and constructions companies.
you will see a lot (it is really a lot) of them have connections to bush senior and junior in one or another way.

there should be enough articles @theguardian about it. (i will edit them tommorow - too lazy now)

I need some time to format tags. I have find them, and i think they are here OK.
I will lost them not, and google bots are fapping harder and harder on this topic.

I have discovered, that "illegal organization Falun Gong - 法輪功" will post here their shit again and again, making this post "free UP".
Those victims of brainwashing are so useful for my SEO research.
But ...
fucking Yandex.com and Baidu.com seems ignore this forum.

This is not racist at all. This is a result of the fear that has been instilled in the general population by decades of MUSLIM terrorists blowing up planes, killing infidels, suicide bombing crowded places, beheading people, etc. Instead of making an ignorant statement like, "If that person doesn't feel safe, let them take the bus" perhaps these Arabic speakers should denounce the atrocities their Muslim brothers and sisters have been committing against the world. And if they, as they say, are American citizens, then why not speak English on a flight within the United States? It seems it is so much easier to throw out words like "racist" and "inbred morons" instead of stating the obvious like "we have a worldwide problem called 'Islamic terrorism' which needs to be addressed.

Last economics studies explain that we'll benefit from 0.2 to 0.6% of growth from immigration.

And maybe you're right. But if there aren't reliable studies to back it up all you are doing is speculating. You are speculating the refugees will behave that way in the new countries. That they are hostile as you posted above. That they will not integrate in the new society. Nor their descendents. And that they will only be a burden and a danger to society. Maybe someone else can speculate that for example a good amount of syrian refugees are normal people with skills who were productive in their society. And if given the chance will be in the new country too. Maybe someone else can make the case that most countries where refugees come from are dictatorships or failed states. Countries where moderate and progressive forces are killed or persecuted. So taking broad conclusions from all refugees is problematic. Without evidence, I don't know what the reality is. But I know that many are running for their lives. I don't believe what is being done is all that is necessary to solve the problem. But I have nothing against helping them as much as possible for now. Then a long term solution will need to stabilize the middle east. Not bombing it without pause. And destroying countries everywhere.

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