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#1
Greetings
Hi all,

My name is Colton, or as you can see my user name 'Kulthenius', which is the Latinized version of my birth name that I chose when I became a man. Actually I was reading a book about a boy that became a man and changed his name and was so inspired that I decided to do it myself, and then the nickname stuck.

I grew up in Idaho, USA, but live in Southern China where I teach and write. I used to feel quite comfortable here, almost a 'freedom from religion', but that has changed as secret missionary teachers have flooded the Middle Kingdom with on the cusp preaching, but that however, will probably best be placed in another thread.

Happy to be here, hope I can learn something.
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(January 3, 2015 at 9:33 pm)Kulthenius Wrote: but that has changed as secret missionary teachers have flooded the Middle Kingdom with on the cusp preaching, but that however, will probably best be placed in another thread.

Hope, they get arrested. Welcome.
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#3
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Quote:but that has changed as secret missionary teachers have flooded the Middle Kingdom with on the cusp preaching,

Yes. Contact the authorities. Chinese citizens have enough trouble without a bunch of jesus freak morons running around loose.

Welcome aboard, friend.
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(January 3, 2015 at 9:38 pm)abaris Wrote: Hope, they get arrested. Welcome.

As do I

(January 3, 2015 at 9:40 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Yes. Contact the authorities. Chinese citizens have enough trouble without a bunch of jesus freak morons running around loose.

Unfortunately the bureaucracy here is assblowingly assblowing, and most authorities wouldn't recognize a full-boar Jesus freak from a pedophile, though as I write this I realize how similar they could look.
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Welcome
"The Universe is run by the complex interweaving of three elements: energy, matter, and enlightened self-interest." G'Kar-B5
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#6
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Welcome
Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you

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#7
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Welcome

What made you move to China to teach? Interesting.
"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great

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(January 3, 2015 at 11:43 pm)SteelCurtain Wrote: What made you move to China to teach? Interesting.

A friend asked me to come here to accompany/bodyguard her daughter for 4 months in a volunteer program. That ended, the daughter went back to the states, and I stayed and ten years went by quickly.
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#9
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Welcome

I would love to read about your experiences in and opinions about China.
All I get here is media misinformation and Phyllis Shafly(sp?) paranoia.
Sometimes I like bureaucracies ability to keep the temporary help (elected officials) from doing something hasty and stupid while they are in office.
What's it like there?
So how, exactly, does God know that She's NOT a brain in a vat? Huh
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#10
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Welocme, nice to have you here! Big Grin
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