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Saturday, November 29, 2025

How Social Class Formed in New Zealand

 In pre - European times the Māori lived off the land.  They farmed crops and were a hunter gatherer society.  The first European Immigrants arrived as farmers, traders and merchants. Many moved here to escape the feudal authorities where the Lords owned everything in Britain. Land was purchased from the Māori and turned into farmland and towns and cities.

After the civil wars between the Māori and Europeans more land was confiscated.  Much of the confiscated land was turned into farmland and leased to European farmers. Many Māori were dispersed from the land and forced to live in the cities and towns.   They lost their way of life and were forced to work for the Europeans.

This is how the ruling class and the working class developed in New Zealand.  It still exists today.  This theory came from Marx.

Saturday, November 8, 2025

Gay Gene and Rainbow Culture

 Theories from biologists like Wilson from the 20th century like the gay gene have since been proven untrue with advanced DNA testing.  No common genes have been discovered amongst homosexuals in the 21st century.   There is still speculation that it may be a combination of undetectable genetic factors or hormones in the womb but nothing like that can be proven with modern testing.

The factor that causes people to be gay is rainbow culture not genetics.  The aspects of rainbow culture like beliefs and norms are what causes homosexuality.   Foreign cultures have brought homosexuality to New Zealand.  Rainbow culture never came here from Britain it came from Europe.   The European Union was responsible for homosexual law reforms in Britain which flowed down to New Zealand.

Because Rainbow culture is responsible for homosexuality and not genetics it means they can help it and it can be changed.  They don't   have to behave that way and they can repent and change.

Tuesday, November 4, 2025

Cults In New Zealand

 New Zealand is Christian country, and we have England to thank for it.  What I object to is foreign cultures brings their beliefs here and influencing us with them.  Most of these cults in New Zealand come from the United States, India and Africa, and Korea.

A cult is anything that goes against Catholic and Protestant mainstream beliefs.  These foreign cults in New Zealand include:  Seventh Day Adventists, Mormons, Jehovah's Witnesses, Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhism, the rainbow community and Muslims to name a few.  I won't go into what they believe but they are trying to influence our society and change our beliefs. 

New Zealand has religious freedom and always will have.  These foreign cults are trying to infiltrate our society, and they need to be engaged with.  We need to know the bible and be prepared to engage these cults in New Zealand when they approach us.  It is important to give these foreign cults religious freedom, but it is also important not to believe them.

Thursday, October 30, 2025

Winston Churchill and His Early Years.

 I've been reading a 2-part biography about Winston Churchill called The Last Lion.  I have just finished the first part which covers his birth through to Winston Churchills involvement in World War 1.  He was responsible for much and lead an amazing life. 

Winston Churchill had an American mother, and his father was a British Lord.  He was sent to boarding school and rarely saw his parents during his school years.  Once he graduated from school he went into a Military Academy. 

Winston Churchill entered military service and fought in the Boer wars, both as a soldier and as a newspaper correspondent.  He was captured and escaped.  His father was in politics and Winston Churchill soon followed in his footsteps.

Upon the death of his father of syphilis his mother was running out of money and had to retire his beloved nanny while he was still at school.  Winston Churchill was partially responsible for the introduction of welfare benefits.  I those days everyone worked for the Lords or didn't survive, so welfare was introduced to help ease the social class system.

When Briton declared war on Germany at the beginning of World War 1, Winston Churchill became Lord of the Admiralty and was in charge of the British Navy.  When Turkey entered the war they guarded a straight of water called the Dardanelles with forts along it.  They Started sinking all the ships that used the straight.   

Briton needed the Dardanelles to get aid from Russia, so Winston Churchill devised a plan to sent Warships to it to destroy the Forts.  The Turks laid sea mines, which the mine sweepers missed, and the allied navy lost several ships and had to abandon the plan.  Briton came up with a plan for a land invasion of Turkey, which also failed.

Winston Churchill lost his Job because of this and asked for a position in the Army. He got a commission as an officer and was sent to the front.  After the war he got back into politics and continued with his journalism and art.

Sunday, October 26, 2025

Cultural Imperialism in New Zealand

 I was thinking today about the theory of Cultural Imperialism and its effect on New Zealand.  Cultural Imperialism is where a dominant culture influences another culture.  Cultural Imperialism first occurred with the arrival of the British to New Zealand.  They brought Christianity and British Law with them and influenced the Māori. 

The influence of Cultural Imperialism was the movement away from things like cannibalism and slavery amongst the Māori and also Christian beliefs.   Many Māori resisted this, and the land wars occurred.  Many Māori also accepted the Pakeha way.

Cultural Imperialism has also occurred in New Zealand and had further influence from the United States.  This is in the Form of the negative influence the Black have had on the Māori. Cultural Imperialism has further occurred on the Māori from the form of the Gang movement in New Zealand.  Gangs like the Black Power, the King Cobras and the street gangs have come from Cultural Imperialism from the United States.  Some are the same gangs as in the United States and others have sprung up from the American Civil Rights movement.

Cultural Imperialism in New Zealand has arrived through Media.   Literature in the early days of the Countries founding and later from movies and music also. 

Thursday, October 23, 2025

Influences on Te Pati Māori and the Gang Movement

New Zealand's democracy is under threat from some of the Māori and Polynesians.  They support a political party called Te Pati Māori, who are trying to stop New Zealand from becoming one Nation for all.  The culture of their movement, along with the gang movement in New Zealand originated from the Black Panther movement in the United States.  In New Zealand, it is not about civil rights.  It's about them having more rights than the rest of us.

Don't get me wrong.  I'm not a White Supremacist.   I'm all for immigration and foreign cultures coming to New Zealand for us to enjoy and have an influence on us.  What I am not for is the damage that the American Black Panther Culture has done here.   Two gangs have been formed from it, and it has created a system where people have rights and privileged based on their race.

That movement in New Zealand is a threat to the country and our democracy.  The people they represent are not a majority here.  The previous government introduced Co Governance and put them in charge and gave them preferential treatment.  The current Government has gotten tough on their gangs and stopped giving then a free ride.  Their political wing, Te Pati Māori, is interrupting Parliament by acting aggressively and being rude.  They are also burning Acts of Parliament they don't agree with.  They  are also sharing pictures of and quoting African dictators who have got ex colonies back from the white settlers and mistreated them.

Tuesday, May 12, 2020

Periods of Old Testament History

1.     Anti-Divilian Period.
        4004 - 2348 BC = 1656 years. From creation to flood.

2.     Post-Divilian Period.
        2348 - 1921 BC = 427 years.  Flood to the call of Abraham.

3.     Patriarchal Period.
        1921 - 1706 BC = 215 years.   Call of Abraham to migration to Egypt.

4.      Egyptian Bondage.  
         1706 - 1441 BC = 215 years.  Migration to Egypt to the Exodus.

5.      Wilderness Wanderings.
          1491 - 1451 BC = 40 years.  The exodus to the crossing of the Jordon river.

6.       Conquest of Canaan.
          1451 - 1400 BC = 51 years.  Crossing the Jordon to the death of Joshua.

7.       Period of the Judges.
          1400 = 1095 BC = 305 years.   Death of Joshua the Anointing of Saul.

8.       The United Kingdom.
          1095 -  975 BC = 120 years.   Anointing of Saul to the death of Solomon.

9.       The Divided Kingdom.
           975 - 722 BC = 253 years.  Death of Solomon to the fall of Israel.

10.     Kingdom of Judah Alone.
          722 = 586 BC = 136 years.  Fall of Israel to the Fall of Jerusalem.

11.     Babylonian captivity.  
          586 = 536 BC = 50 years.   Fall of Jerusalem to the rebuilding of the temple.

12.    Restoration of the Jews.
         536 - 400 BC = 136 years.  Rebuilding of the Templde to the close of the Old Testament.