Forum Discussions - Philip Copeman2024-03-29T06:14:43Zhttp://philipcopeman.ning.com/forum?feed=yes&xn_auth=noRacilaClassification of Africanstag:philipcopeman.ning.com,2017-07-10:2353269:Topic:198022017-07-10T14:52:32.397ZPhilip Copemanhttp://philipcopeman.ning.com/profile/philipdc
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">I recently was asked if I was white. Here was my answer:</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">I am African. My name is Philip Donald van der Riet Copeman. However my own choosing of identity as African, black or white has about as much relevance as Andile Mngxitama of The BLF, who while calling himself black, clearly by his physical appearance alone, has white ancestors. It is in fact Andile's Ancestors that stole the land. Most…</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">I recently was asked if I was white. Here was my answer:</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">I am African. My name is Philip Donald van der Riet Copeman. However my own choosing of identity as African, black or white has about as much relevance as Andile Mngxitama of The BLF, who while calling himself black, clearly by his physical appearance alone, has white ancestors. It is in fact Andile's Ancestors that stole the land. Most of mine weren't even here yet!</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Racially what we wanna be and what we are are often not the same.</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Genetics is an interesting subject. Like most South Africans including most probably yourself and Paseko I am of mixed race. My paternal side consists of 19<sup>th</sup> century British settlers that mixed with Afrikaner and Cape Africans. My maternal side consists of German Jewish 19<sup>th</sup> century settlers that in a attempt to hide their Semitic origins mixed with the Eastern Cape population. I estimate that like me, more than 90% of South Africans have both black and white ancestors (my own estimate not a scientific report). This would certainly be the case in the coastal regions where racial contact has been going on for hundreds of years.</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">I have children from two women. I am married to a woman whose parents are both first generation British immigrants. I use sun cream a lot less than my children.</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">The majority of my family have emigrated to Australia, UK and Canada, where they continue to spread their African genes.</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Don't get confused by the 19<sup>th</sup> century racial classifications of Caucasian, Negroid, Mogoloid and Australoids. Australian Aborigines are genetically closer to Swedes than Xhosas are to Tswanas! Sometimes the remnants of this historical classification stick to those of us who were subject to Apartheid legacy of arbitrary classification. For those with a tendency to think in these racist terms, the pencil test is as good as any for racial classification.</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Even in-landers should not believe that they are free of the “cream brush”. Remember that while we officially denote 25% of Africans as "white", in fact the majority of the Northern Africans are of mixed race. These northern whites have been trawling Africa as slave traders, with a predilection for sampling the merchandise from long before 1652 and their genes have long since permeated almost all elements of the population, yourself and Paseko most likely included. You can't think of mixing races like mixing liquid. The transfer mechanism is measured through mutation rates of Mitocondrial DNA and X Chromosomes. Think of it rather in terms of the US definitions of slave material in reverse. “It takes just one drop to be white”.</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">For those of that get confused by science and evolution, I simply refer to the case of John Dunne a visitor and advisor to the court of Shaka Zulu. Dunne had 135 Zulu Wives, which means that approximately 10,000 modern Zulus,believing themselves to be black are actually descendants of this one whiteman. Dunne was one of hundreds of thousands of sexually active colonial single men visiting the area – you do the numbers.</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">I don't produce these arguments not out of any intention to be sexist or misogynistic, but it is a well know historical fact that the sexual composition of the Slave traders and the Colonial Settlers was skewed towards males. These men marauding through Africa for the last 2000 years, spread their genses. This means that most “whites” in South Africa will trace their genes back to “black” mothers, and most “blacks” will trace their heritage back to “white” fathers</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">If you want to push the bankrupt argument that internal Africans are more “indigenous” that coastal Africans , you should first deal with the fact that south coast Africans were far more reluctant to sell their children to slavers than Northern Africans and you should consider that while you may look down on us for having white colonial ancestors that is not as bad as having slave traders as your ancestors- weird isn't it?</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">When I explained this inconvenient truth to an young African nationalist who believed himself to be “indigenous” and myself not, he broke into a blithering banter of “Rape is not a means to pass on genetics”. He simply ignores the obvious fact that most people of all races find opposites of other races attractive. While social pressure may discourage this interaction, it takes as little as a 1% rate of transfer before a population is indistinguishably racially mixed with another. In seven generations, the rate for a 1% mix for a generation is around 1-2-5-11-23-47-boom. You have only to look at Brazil to see where South Africa's population will be shortly. (We are 20 years out of Apartheid they are less than 200 years out of Apartheid). However when my “indigineous” comrade cools down he can explain that to his own chromosomes.</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">South Africans get so hit up by their misplaced desire for racial identity. They should rather embrace the humorous approach of the Nigerians. When confronted by the arrogance of Jamaicans, who contend that they are a superior strain of African descendants by way of the fact that only the strongest survived the boat crossing Nigerians retort, “only the dumb ones got onto the boat”.</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">I cover these concepts in detail in my book Gods First Fishermen.</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><a href="http://philipcopeman.ning.com/forum/topics/gods-first-fishermen">http://philipcopeman.ning.com/forum/topics/gods-first-fishermen</a></p> The Blue Fairy Interviewtag:philipcopeman.ning.com,2015-01-09:2353269:Topic:148082015-01-09T19:36:12.386ZPhilip Copemanhttp://philipcopeman.ning.com/profile/philipdc
<p>Philip Copeman, The Blue Fairy Interview with Atheist Alive Magazine</p>
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<p>AA: <strong>Philip, Welcome to Athiests Alive and thank you for your time. A lot of our readers are eager to know why it is that you are not atheist?</strong></p>
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<p>PC: I believe in the Blue Fairy, blessed be her name. <a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/99018834?profile=original" target="_self"><img class="align-right" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/99018834?profile=original" width="194"></img></a></p>
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<p>AA: <strong>Why do you believe in the blue…</strong></p>
<p>Philip Copeman, The Blue Fairy Interview with Atheist Alive Magazine</p>
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<p>AA: <strong>Philip, Welcome to Athiests Alive and thank you for your time. A lot of our readers are eager to know why it is that you are not atheist?</strong></p>
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<p>PC: I believe in the Blue Fairy, blessed be her name. <a target="_self" href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/99018834?profile=original"><img class="align-right" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/99018834?profile=original" width="194"/></a></p>
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<p>AA: <strong>Why do you believe in the blue fairy?</strong></p>
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<p>PC: Its obvious the sky is Blue, she created the sky in her own image. In the mornings, when I look up, I can often see her bathing. She loves the sky, I love the sky and when I see her beauty of the world, I know that she loves me.</p>
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<p>AA: <strong>Hold on, Issac Newton proved in 1650 that the sky is blue because of the diffraction of light.</strong></p>
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<p>PC: That is absolute codswallop. Do you think that something as beautiful as the sky could just exist on its own by the bending of light? What about the clouds and the wind, do you think that just came about all on its own? The sky is blue because it is the garden of the Blue Fairy.</p>
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<p>AA: <strong>But nobody has seen the blue fairy.</strong></p>
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<p>PC: Speak for yourself. Anyway she chooses to whom she decides to reveal herself. The Blue Fairy, blessed be her name, often flies naked through the sky. Is it a surprise that She would only wnagt to share her privacy with the faithful? Would you want her to reveal herself in full nakedness to everyone? Please, she is the most beautiful creature alive why should she want to do that?</p>
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<p>AA: <strong>You mean all I have to do to see the blue fairy is look up in the sky in the morning?</strong></p>
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<p>PC: No that is strictly forbidden. Only the faithful are allowed to look up. All non believers are infidel and must walk with their heads bowed. It is the duty of every believer to stone any infidel caught compromising the Blue Fairy, blessed be her name. We are a tolerant religion, we are happy to live in peace with others, we ask only that you bow your head when walking in the morning sun. Anyone who is prepared to give up 10% of his revenue to the church, open his heart and learn our ways can embrace the love of the Blue Fairy, blessed be her name. Even women can enjoy the afternoon sun. It is a small thing to ask that no women, even wives of believers are allowed out of the house until 12.00. I am sure that you can understand this.</p>
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<p>AA: <strong>Is this not the act of a jealous misogynist God?<a target="_self" href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/99018861?profile=original"><img width="200" class="align-right" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/99018861?profile=RESIZE_320x320" width="200"/></a></strong></p>
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<p>PC: The Blue Fairy, blessed be her name, is a God but she is also a woman. What woman would want to share herself openly with everyone? Our Women are happy enough to wear long blue dresses. They feel better about it, for what woman would want to compete with the Blue Fairy. So its a win win all round. The Blue Fairy, blessed be her name, is more than generous. She gives us all the land, the land is green and brown right. She asks only for the sky which she made blue, and even then her generosity is such as to allow women to walk around in the afternoons.</p>
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<p>AA: <strong>The recent attacks that have been occurring at shops selling denim are these carried out by your priests?</strong></p>
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<p>PC: We take no responsibility for these, but you must concede that these people have been warned. These are the actions of young zealots. We teach our children compassion and love for their fellow Blues. Any person who embraces our faith will share the full benefits of our security. Non believers can choose any color of clothing that they like. We ask the small thing that blue is reserved fro the believers. Why do these heathen choose to make blue denim when we have made it abundantly clear to them that blue is the only color which the Blue Fairy covets. They have the whole rainbow to themselves and they choose to attack and insult the Blue Fairy, blessed be her name.</p>
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<p>AA: <strong>Philip how can you not allow us to wear blue, is that not unreasonable?</strong></p>
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<p>PC: The worlds is divided into two types of people. Those that live on the dirty ground and those that live in the clean blue the sky created by the blue fairy. This is not my opinion, this is the decree of the Blue Fairy, blessed be her name. My opinion doesn't count. The only opinion that counts is the Blue Fairy, blessed be her name, and she has spoken by creating the sky.</p>
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<p>AA: <strong>We have already established that the blue sky is caused by diffraction</strong></p>
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<p>PC: Have you no shame? How can you sit there an insult me? I have tolerated your ignorance and blasphemy for as long as I can. This interview is over.</p> Will noone rid me of this meddlesome priest?tag:philipcopeman.ning.com,2012-05-28:2353269:Topic:109092012-05-28T12:16:45.110ZPhilip Copemanhttp://philipcopeman.ning.com/profile/philipdc
<p> Discussion forum for the blog article</p>
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<p><a href="http://philipcopeman.ning.com/profiles/blogs/jacob-zuma-enoch-mthembu-brett-murray-and-the-right-of-satire" target="_self">Will noone rid me of this meddlesome priest?</a></p>
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<p> Discussion forum for the blog article</p>
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<p><a href="http://philipcopeman.ning.com/profiles/blogs/jacob-zuma-enoch-mthembu-brett-murray-and-the-right-of-satire" target="_self">Will noone rid me of this meddlesome priest?</a></p>
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This is the one I have to keep pinching myself to keep in my mind because it is so foreign to our life experience.<br></br> <br></br>
Because of gravity and the observation that everything we see falls<br></br>
towards the centre of the earth, it is easy to think in pre-Copernican<br></br>
thinking that the earth is stationary at the Centre of the universe. In<br></br>
this thinking, the Sun apparently revolves around the earth, once per<br></br>
day. Because of the…
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This is the one I have to keep pinching myself to keep in my mind because it is so foreign to our life experience.<br/> <br/>
Because of gravity and the observation that everything we see falls<br/>
towards the centre of the earth, it is easy to think in pre-Copernican<br/>
thinking that the earth is stationary at the Centre of the universe. In<br/>
this thinking, the Sun apparently revolves around the earth, once per<br/>
day. Because of the distances involved, at a casual glance it seems to<br/>
be near stationary.<br/>
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In reality, the Earth is spinning rapidly and we are on in. Now at the<br/>
equator, obviously a little bit less at 30 degrees south, where Cape<br/>
Town is, the circumference of the Earth is <span class="normal">40,076 Kms</span>.<br/>
The Earth spins towards the East, which is why the sun rises in the<br/>
East and sets in the West. Now once per day we spin in an Easterly<br/>
direction and in 24 hours we cover 40 076 Kms or approximately 1800 Kms<br/>
per hour, twice as fast as a Boing. This circular momentum should<br/>
fling us off into space. It is only gravity that holds us in place.<br/>
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Now see if you can imagine this reality. Face Eastwards (I guess this<br/>
is where the Muslims get if from) Imagine that you are on some kind of<br/>
Hyper Congo Queen rushing forward at 1800 Km per hour - don't bump your<br/>
head. In the time that it has taken you to read this test, you have move eastwards approximately 50Kms.. <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">I guess this is why the Catholics hounded Copernicus into</span><br style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"/><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">obscurity in his lifetime, it was just too much for them to comprehend.</span> God and God'sFirst Fishermentag:philipcopeman.ning.com,2010-01-08:2353269:Topic:10332010-01-08T08:46:10.000ZPhilip Copemanhttp://philipcopeman.ning.com/profile/philipdc
A colleague of mine, Wynand Louw wrote this on God's First Fishermen:<br />
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I have just had a look at the intro, - Interesting approach that could stir a few and upset some. I have learned through the years, that freedom of speech is one thing, taking responsibility for what you speech is something totally different. That is where the problem lies.<br />
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There is a saying: Talk is cheap but money buys the whiskey.<br />
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It seems that you give yourselves out as an atheist. That is your choice as much as it is…
A colleague of mine, Wynand Louw wrote this on God's First Fishermen:<br />
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I have just had a look at the intro, - Interesting approach that could stir a few and upset some. I have learned through the years, that freedom of speech is one thing, taking responsibility for what you speech is something totally different. That is where the problem lies.<br />
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There is a saying: Talk is cheap but money buys the whiskey.<br />
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It seems that you give yourselves out as an atheist. That is your choice as much as it is my choice to believe what ever I want. That is what distinguishes us from animals. The WILL to make a choice.<br />
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Two things about God though:<br />
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a. God gives you the freedom of choice, freedom of will – be god yourselves if you want to, BUT take the responsibility and carry the consequences.<br />
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b. God is not understood by things, it is about things that the eye can not see, way beyond the mind, and the brain. For anyone to know God , he /she must first believe that God exists, and that God is the rewarder of those who believe.<br />
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Many people believe they have to defend God, Proof God exist, or do not exist. That is irrelevant. God is who he is, and does not need my defence, my reason, my proof.<br />
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3. Whether you believe or not is your personal choice and responsibility. You will carry the consequences of what you believe or not. Even in trying to proof God does not exist, you actually believe and have faith, that what you believe is true. God is not a rewarder of the person, but of faith principals. People made “GOD” complicated, made church a circus. Not God. People abused it for their own benefit, and they will pay the price for it and take responsibility for what they have done with the knowledge, wisdom and understanding they have been given.<br />
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4. Try and read the Bible without prejudice. Take of the glasses of hurt, disappointment, and frustration. Relax and just lend. Fall in the arms of God and you might just be surprised of what might happen.<br />
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5. I believe our paths have crossed for a reason. Whatever that might be, nothing just happens by chance. It happens with a purpose. I believe that God will align the universe to benefit his TRUE children. But first we need to believe! Not see with the natural eyes and natural mind, but spiritual.<br />
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6. Each one of us have a spiritual need, even so-called atheists. They also believe, just not exactly the same, but they do believe. They have faith just in something different. One God through His Holy Spirit can open your eyes when you get to the point where you can no longer rely on your natural ability, natural senses. When you get to the point where you can say: God in you I trust!.<br />
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Well in this fashion I will write you a book instead of giving you a short answer. God gives us the CHOICE! YOU choose today, who you want to serve! You choose what you want to believe. There is always a choice, from Genesis to Revelation. SHOAHtag:philipcopeman.ning.com,2009-09-28:2353269:Topic:7032009-09-28T07:42:58.000ZPhilip Copemanhttp://philipcopeman.ning.com/profile/philipdc
I shouldn't even get started on my real passions, it will freak you out about betting your financial future on me. Oh well too late...<br />
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SHOAH<br />
<i>The biblical word Shoah (שואה) (also spelled Sho'ah and Shoa), meaning "calamity<br />
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It also means <b>Southern Hemisphere Oceanic Annexation (for Humanity) - SHOA(H)</b><br />
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<p>Learn from the example of the State of Isreal, where…</p>
I shouldn't even get started on my real passions, it will freak you out about betting your financial future on me. Oh well too late...<br />
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SHOAH<br />
<i>The biblical word Shoah (שואה) (also spelled Sho'ah and Shoa), meaning "calamity<br />
," became the standard Hebrew term for the Holocaust as early as the 1940s. ...<br />
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It also means <b>Southern Hemisphere Oceanic Annexation (for Humanity) - SHOA(H)</b><br />
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<p>Learn from the example of the State of Isreal, where you have to admire their resolve to fight back against all odds. Effectively what we have in the world today is that 5.8 Bn live above the Tropic of Capricorn and only 200M, less than 5%, live below it. What causes the SHOAH is that the North is "eating" the South. It is a Holocaust of species. <br/> <br/> With a self righteousness based only on strength, the North comes, unimpeded, into the Southern Hemisphere and simply rapes our resources. Can you imagine if we went up there and put a drag line, 2 Km wide and 50Km deep across Canada or Russia and simply ripped out everything, taking what we wanted and tossing 80%, the "waste" back as dead garbage. Allowing this SHOAH to continue only exacerbates the problem. If there are 5.8 Billion now and we continue to allow them to eat us, there will be 6.8 Billion soon, this imbalance creates a self fulling destruction. <br/>
The time for debate is over. There can be no more discussion. We need an Alliance between Chile, Argentina, SA, Australia and NZ and possibly one Northern Hemisphere non fishing partner like France to supplement the weaponry. Then with the support of a diaspora in the Northern Hempishere that will understand our cause - we move. We put a blanket ban on fishing below 23 degrees South and any human traffic below the 50 degrees. Northern scientists are expelled or coopted into Southern controlled projects. Military patrols are setup overnight and extreme force is used against anyone breaking these rules. We have to lead by example and close our own fishing industries. Fishermen are turned into Ocean Police. A few exclusion zones to allow controlled fish farming, but thats it.<br />
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<p>You may say that the odds are stacked against us, but the reality of Israel is that their cause was also against overwhelming odds they are still there 60 years later. Take the example and courage of the Jews of 1949 - move unilaterally, move now.</p> Time Travel Discussiontag:philipcopeman.ning.com,2009-05-11:2353269:Topic:2812009-05-11T09:42:32.000ZPhilip Copemanhttp://philipcopeman.ning.com/profile/philipdc
Prerequisite to this discussion is to read the founding document on Time Travel downloadable in PDF :<br />
<a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/99018639?profile=original">TimeTravel.pdf</a>
Prerequisite to this discussion is to read the founding document on Time Travel downloadable in PDF :<br />
<a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/99018639?profile=original">TimeTravel.pdf</a> Blasphemy and Profanity are rights of freedomtag:philipcopeman.ning.com,2009-02-25:2353269:Topic:2212009-02-25T07:46:36.000ZPhilip Copemanhttp://philipcopeman.ning.com/profile/philipdc
As an atheist and citizen of Cape Town, I was most disappointed to see the acquiescing of Pic and Pay to the rampant attacks handed out by Gods self appointed agent – Pastor Errol Naidoo. This week Pic and Pay pulled the UCT Rag magazine from it shelves as a result of an email campaign orchestrated by Naidoo on behalf of “Cape Towns Christian Community”. It was particularly distressing to see the Rector of a world class University, Thandabantu Nhlapo apologising to Naidoo for granting his…
As an atheist and citizen of Cape Town, I was most disappointed to see the acquiescing of Pic and Pay to the rampant attacks handed out by Gods self appointed agent – Pastor Errol Naidoo. This week Pic and Pay pulled the UCT Rag magazine from it shelves as a result of an email campaign orchestrated by Naidoo on behalf of “Cape Towns Christian Community”. It was particularly distressing to see the Rector of a world class University, Thandabantu Nhlapo apologising to Naidoo for granting his students the right to free speech<br />
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Now I do understand, that Pic an Pay is foremost a business and must satisfy its customers first, but Errol Naidoo and his flock are not the only customers and they are not the guardians of our rights to speech. Their opinion of content is simply another of the many diverse views held by South Africans. Their God, or the means of describing him or debating his merits, holds no sway in the minds of the rational.<br />
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I have not read the contents of the offending SAX magazine, having now had the rights to purchase it removed from me, however the content is not relevant to freedom of speech. Unless it is publishing child pornography, inciting violence or producing hate speech, Errol Naidoo's opinion is of little lawful relevance and his actions are merely an encroachment on the rights of other Pic and Pay customers. Clearly any editorial in the magazine is not the opinion of Pic and Pay or its directors, any more than the selling of easter eggs is a commitment by Pic n Pay to the teachings of Jesus.<br />
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We live in a country of diverse cultural views. Alternative views are never comfortable, but granting another citizen the right to free speech, even accompanied by profanity, is a cornerstone of our freedom. No matter how important Naidoo's God is to him, it is simply an offensive fairy tale to me. It may come as a shock to Naidoo that selling easter Eggs or Hot Cross Buns in Pic and Pay is as offensive to me as blasphemy is to him. However I grant his flock the right to express their cultural religion, and sometimes even buy a bun myself.<br />
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I don't go running off to Jonathan Ackerman telling him to move the Matzos back off the shelf. Steelers face God in the NFLtag:philipcopeman.ning.com,2009-01-30:2353269:Topic:1422009-01-30T08:37:00.000ZPhilip Copemanhttp://philipcopeman.ning.com/profile/philipdc
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So Kurt Warner, Arizona Cardinals Quarterback thanks God for winning the NFC Championship game. “If you ever want to do a story about who I am, then God has got to be at the center of it.” Someone forgot to tell him that his Center is the guy snapping him the ball. In making this claim, Warner in turns his back on a time honored tradition of football that any winning quarterback first thanks the Defense for giving him the ball and then then thanks his…
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So Kurt Warner, Arizona Cardinals Quarterback thanks God for winning the NFC Championship game. “If you ever want to do a story about who I am, then God has got to be at the center of it.” Someone forgot to tell him that his Center is the guy snapping him the ball. In making this claim, Warner in turns his back on a time honored tradition of football that any winning quarterback first thanks the Defense for giving him the ball and then then thanks his Offensive line for creating the canvas on which he can dance.<br />
Well Kurt let it be noted that it was you that brought God into this dirty game of football. Personally I think you and the old man are going to get your arses kicked this weekend. Normally I would be a supporter of Arizona, not only because the State produces some of the greatest scientists in paleoanthropology, but simply because I would support any team playing against the Steelers. However with your new theological dynamic of using intelligent design to plan your offense, you make atheists like myself rise to the cause of proving yet again that God simply isn't interested in Football. I only feel sorry for those intelligent people of Arizona with atheist leanings, who are left with the dichotomy of seeing the Lords work undone in their own back yard.<br />
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This blog however is not about football it is about raising the voices of Atheist around the world that allow people like Kurt Warner to parade their ill conceived ideology at our expense. Bertrand Russell said “There would be more atheists if men did not protect their incomes”. It is a shame on us that on our watch we have allowed the forces of Abraham to reassert themselves on the world. Through our own indifference or fear of conflict we have soiled the traditions begun by Galileo, Hume, Darwin, Mill and Einstein.<br />
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I am not suggesting that we invade a foreign country or blow up a hotel, but I am suggesting that we fight rigorously against any incursions on the secular State. For too long now we have allowed the Abramists free reign to spread their word unfettered. Somehow we have seen fit to allow “freedom of thinking” and not rigorously put forward out case. While the Abramists offer eternal salvation, we offer obscure, stifled debate. “While Good men remain silent, evil thrives” The resulting perversion of truth is now apparent for all to see.<br />
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Steelers by 15. The Color of the Rainbow Nationtag:philipcopeman.ning.com,2008-12-29:2353269:Topic:1232008-12-29T07:35:01.000ZPhilip Copemanhttp://philipcopeman.ning.com/profile/philipdc
David Bullard, was fired from his column for racist remarks. Consequently, I can think of no better place to start than defining the race of South Africans. The message comes from the scientific world of population genetics. Get ready to rearrange the way that you think about your South African ancestry.<br />
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There have been revelations in population genetics over the last ten years. The South African Genome is certainly more complex than the rest of the world, but that is logical - it is the…
David Bullard, was fired from his column for racist remarks. Consequently, I can think of no better place to start than defining the race of South Africans. The message comes from the scientific world of population genetics. Get ready to rearrange the way that you think about your South African ancestry.<br />
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There have been revelations in population genetics over the last ten years. The South African Genome is certainly more complex than the rest of the world, but that is logical - it is the oldest. We are going to need the most sophisticated multivariate techniques to unravel it.<br />
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There are three basic racial groupings in South Africa:<br />
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Khoisan- Bantu Mix - 70%<br />
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Khoisan- European Mix - 20%<br />
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Immigrants -Eurasian and West African - 10%<br />
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There is little difference between the Eurasians - Indians, Jews, Germans, Brits, Chinese. This is all covered by extensive studies on mitochondrial and y chromosome DNA. All people originating outside of Africa carry the M168 marker and none within Africa carry this marker. Inside Africa there is a much bigger diversity and West Africans show a deep split with the Khoisan.<br />
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The Khoisan-European Mix comprises the San, Coloreds and Afrikaners. There are few, if any, pure San left, they have effectively been crossbred into the European and Bantu populations. The "Afrikaners" as a separate white race, was invented over a Brandy and Coke sometime in the 1940s. From under a genetic microscope, Coloreds and Afrikaners are the same race. Some Afrikaners may wish to believe that their ancestors come from the gutters of Europe, and deny their Khoisan heritage as the Royalty of Africa, but the underlying genetics will tell you otherwise.<br />
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The Bantu, is a name for the West African tribes that, on the back of cattle herding and agriculture, spread rapidly out of the Cameroon three thousand years ago. As they moved Southward, they pushed the Khoisan back all the way from present day Kenya. Their superior technology meant that they won all the confrontations with the hunter gatherers. The prize was women and children. Using the advantage of agriculture, the Bantu pushed forward until they got to the Fish River. Here their agricultural advantage was negated by the change to winter rainfall. Some Black South Africans would like to think of themselves as West African, rather than Khoisan, which is a nice idea, but the reality is that Black, Afrikaner and Colored South Africans, rather than being different, share a common African, Khoisan heritage.<br />
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For the Eurasians and West Africans immigrants, less than 10% of the population, we choose to be in South Africa, because we simply find this lifestyle and cultural mix most suitable. Get born here or live here for a few years and you become overwhelmed by the sense of being African. Stay here for a few generations and your children quickly transform into mixed Khoisan race.<br />
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An over simplification illustrates clearly just how rapidly mixing populations spread their genes. In a simplified model - two races meet and 1% mix per generation. After 1 generation, 1% is mixed. After 2 generations, another 1% plus the first 1% mix, so 3% is mixed. After 3 generations another 1% plus the 3% mix so 7% is mixed. After 4 generations 15% is mixed and after 5 generations 31% is mixed. Can you see where this is going? South African Khoisan have been mixing with Eurasians for 14 generations. They have been mixing with Bantu for over 30 generations. I tell ya, we ain't no Rainbow Nation. We are a mixed nation of Coloreds.<br />
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Why is this understanding important?<br />
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Scratch the surface of almost any member of the Republic and you will not find someone who thinks of themselves first as South African and then as a member of the World, but rather you will find someone who thinks of themselves first and foremost as a member of their tribe and how they react with the world is how their tribe reacts with the world.<br />
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The Khoisan have been in retreat for 3000 years, first from the Bantu and then from the Dutch. While the have been happy to marry and breed with the obviously attractive physical nature of the Khoisan, the invaders have forced their culture on the mixed children, to the point where the click languages are almost extinct, the religious culture of the Khoisan is long gone.<br />
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Do not confuse the fact that Black and White South Africans look so different. In genetics , human looks do not reflect the nature of the genes. Studies prove that over 85% of variation in humans comes within a race and not between a races. For example there is less genetic difference between an Australian Aboriginal and a Swede, genetically of the same race, than there is between a Nigerian and a Xhosa, genetically of different races.<br />
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The underlying genetics of the Khoisan are strongly represented in the genes of 90% of South Africans. It is time for us to let go of the concept of the Rainbow Nation and to replace this with a joint Khoisan nationalism that is our true endemic tribal ancestry. There are genes found jointly in Afrikaners and Zulus, that are found nowhere else in the world.<br />
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Philip Copeman is the Author of God's First Fishermen, the Story of how a humble tribe of Beachwalkers conquered the world. - <a href="http://www.philipcopeman.com">www.philipcopeman.com</a><br />
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