Forums > Living in Kunming > Petition to Change Kunming's Weather @nnoble: Excellent! Also for small groups - it has no right to rain on Sunday afternoons in the area of the DT Bar.
Anthem: "Who'll Stop the Rain?" - Creedance Clearwater Revival, about 1969
Ian, tune your guitar.
Forums > Living in Kunming > Petition to Change Kunming's Weather @lemon lover: Sorry, this is a dialectical process, nothing goes backwards for long. Quote from Karl Marx: 'Who will educate the educators?', replace 'educators' with 'weathermen' - new age, new slogans.
Forums > Living in Kunming > Petition to Change Kunming's Weather @Colin: I'm with you! We might contemplate a publication around which to organize - a title like 'Weather Resistance', front page breaking news about damp clothes on the backs of popular comrades, then with complicated theoretical arguments that no one reads on the inside in attempts to finger the culprits, with 'J'accuse'-type editorials aimed at God, Trump, friends with more than one umbrella who don't share, pleas to the monsoon god, people who boil their food rather than fry it, attacks on the regular press ('All the news that fits, we print') - get the trancedance people out there in the suburbs to choreograph rain dances, treatises on human rights, get Nevada to write new songs - the possibilities are endless and entertaining! I've been waiting for this opportunity since about 1968.
Forums > Living in Kunming > Petition to Change Kunming's Weather Wonder if we could get Donald Trump to sign up? But then of course it may not have anything to do with human activity. At least not yet. Maybe.
Xi Jinping would, I think, be more receptive.
Forums > Living in Kunming > PAINTBALL PLACES IN KUNMING? @Haali: I've got nothing against paintball shooting, have been interested in the idea of playing for a long time. However, as to when video games became a way of describing 'real life' (I too am becoming a bit confused about this term, and I don't play video games), I kind of think it's been influencing brains quite a bit for quite awhile - most of it seems to be focused on zap the enemy - yeah, okay, but when that's all that's going on, I think it becomes a bit too easy a a way to conceive of human relations.
On the other hand, how is it different from the cowboys & Indians that were pretty popular with 6-year-olds, at least among Americans, for - what - a century? I'm sure kids do something similar almost everywhere.
No, I'm not sure what this means, but it's worth thinking about, and why it's the case.
Committee proposes renaming Kunming's Dongfeng Square
发布者I kind of liked the atmosphere around the old Workers' Cultural Palace, and I'm not seduced by the identification of tall buildings with 'progress'. As for the name - "what's in a name"? Perhaps the state might ease off a bit about presenting us all with the identities that they would like us to have.
Celebrating a Miao Christmas in Yunnan
发布者@ Tiger: as you say, for many societies. But the issue of wealth and power often seems to play a part in differing levels of religious attachment among different classes and subgroups within a 'people' as well, as well as in differing types and degrees of attachment.
Celebrating a Miao Christmas in Yunnan
发布者Religions from 'abroad' have been accepted all over the place for a long time - e.g., the acceptance of forms of Christianity by Germans, Ethiopians, Mexicans, etc. at different times in history. The idea of climate change is different, unless you want to categorize scientific methodology itself as a religious doctrine, which can lead to an interesting philosophical argument, but I don't think we ought to go into it here.
Getting Away: Descent into a giant Guizhou sinkhole
发布者Looks like some pretty challenging climbing - congratulations for having a go at it.
Celebrating a Miao Christmas in Yunnan
发布者@ octobersky: OK, but the fact is that religious beliefs change over time anyway, at least partially as a function of changes in material circumstances - e.g., rain gods are just not going to remain as important to people who, in their daily lives, are decreasingly reliant on rainfall. So I don't think it can all be seen as a simple matter of native-religion-appropriate/religion-from-outside bad - it's not simply some matter of 'brainwashing' imposed from the outside, since a real 'brainwash' would require complete control over local minds etc., which is always an impossibility, even with a lot more information control than any bunch of missionaries ever had.