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Royal news today ---

The trade deal was for gumboots with Maori patterns on them. The newest word in chic for muddy farmers.

Christian take -- gumboots are usually black because they get mud on them. The red bands are so they don't get lost in the dark. I am not sure if Maori designs on them make them any more effective, but thats what they're trying to sell ....(they are made in China)
When Jesus said shake the dust off your feet and did foot washing, it was in Israel where mud is unheard of.
I think as long as the gumboots don't have holes in them (unlike crocs) so the water and mud don't get in, they should be ok. While Maori designs look ok as a cultural identifier, it won't really help the NZ economy if they are made in China.

Former English rugby player Mike Tindall, married to daughter of Princess Anne, Zara nee Phillips, father of 3 children, apparently made some jokes about his Royal in-law family while attending a Welsh Literary Festival at Harry's expense. 'Back when Harry was fun' he said.
He also said some things about Andrew.

---:rolleyes:

My christian take on this is....People say things in jest which is not really looked an as Godly behaviour. I suppose it depends on the spirit whether it is mocking or just gentle humour.


I will try and post the news articles that were in the NZ Herald because thats where I get my news from.
 
Bunnings is Australian owned.

Come on - at least have them available in Mitre 10. Australia will take all your profits. Spare a thought for your own country and the people who need work here. I am not sure that I would buy them. I have imitation pink crocs that were $8 from Cheap4 U made in China. Where the real crocs are made anyway.
My gumboots are skellerup, made in NZ (not sure if they still there, but they've lasted me ages, and have an silver fern transfer on them. Maori used silver ferns to light the path through the forest at night time, the silver fern has a silvery underside. Also the silver fern is the emblem of the All Blacks.
(the silver fern on the gumboots is actually white)

I mean props to the Maori 21 year old for starting a business, but I have a few misgivings.
 
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Royal news today ---

The trade deal was for gumboots with Maori patterns on them. The newest word in chic for muddy farmers.

Christian take -- gumboots are usually black because they get mud on them. The red bands are so they don't get lost in the dark. I am not sure if Maori designs on them make them any more effective, but thats what they're trying to sell ....(they are made in China)
When Jesus said shake the dust off your feet and did foot washing, it was in Israel where mud is unheard of.
I think as long as the gumboots don't have holes in them (unlike crocs) so the water and mud don't get in, they should be ok. While Maori designs look ok as a cultural identifier, it won't really help the NZ economy if they are made in China.

Former English rugby player Mike Tindall, married to daughter of Princess Anne, Zara nee Phillips, father of 3 children, apparently made some jokes about his Royal in-law family while attending a Welsh Literary Festival at Harry's expense. 'Back when Harry was fun' he said.
He also said some things about Andrew.

---:rolleyes:

My christian take on this is....People say things in jest which is not really looked an as Godly behaviour. I suppose it depends on the spirit whether it is mocking or just gentle humour.


I will try and post the news articles that were in the NZ Herald because thats where I get my news from.
Why is it ok for Harry to make comments about members of his family but it's not ok for Mike Tindall to do so ? 🤷
 
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Nobody said it wasn't ok, it's just news, some reporters will report anything the Royals do - the good, the bad or ugly.

Some of the Royals like to joke around. Andrew was the biggest joker of them all apparently. King Charles likes to joke too.
I don't know, some people don't always get jokes.
 
I think it was Queen Victoria who famously said 'We are not amused'
Meaning she didn't find it funny. I don't know when she said it though or who she was referring to. The Royals liked to be entertained, but they are also entertainment for a lot of people themselves, just by being Royal.

Anyway watching Judi Dench play Queen Victoria in the movie Victoria & Abdul was entertaining, and if she was anything like the real Queen Victoria I would say she had a sense of humour, and didn't mind poking fun at herself or others.
 
Things the royals are teased for

Harry - ginger hair
William - baldness
Charles - big ears
Anne - obsessed with horses
Andrew - he was called 'Randy Andy'
Edward - made the terrible flop tv show called 'It's a royal knockout' which had the royals engaging in some kind of survivor reality show but with jousting

Queen - obsession with corgis
Prince Phillip - he made racist jokes about the people from almost every 'foreign' country he went to.
 
Some other news, think it was in the Independent --- you could follow the royals around everyday online if you wanted to, someone will report on what they are up to...

King Charles went to a Shakespeare play in Stratford -upon-Avon. It was a production of the Tempest. He sat in a seat, had a cup of tea, and touched the costumes. I think he clapped too.
There is a photo of him in the audience, looking amused.
Apparently he is a patron, well of course, Shakespeare wrote plays based on his family ancestors after all.

According to the BBC - Prince William praised his wife. The articles were saying that, something about her being amazing for going to Italy after she recovered from cancer. And he mentioned he ate scones with cream first, instead of jam first, then cream.

I don't think Harry did anything. No reporters are following him around, he probably likes it that way. He's probably got his feet up while his wife Meghan hosts another party on Netflix.
 
You may think it is OK for him to share his story, and no doubt Christians think this because as Jesus said "I have done nothing in secret". But the royal family is part of a secret order and the rules are very strict about not speaking the things that are secret. King Charles is a 33 degree Mason, you don't get to that level without doing some very despicable things. Some claim that Diana was a sacrifice to that God. I have no evidence one way or the other, but what I do know is that human sacrifice and killing people is part of the requirements to get to a 33rd Mason.

Yes, Harry is telling us his story but if he is going up against the Masons they will do everything to destroy him, destroy his credibility.
Some people think Freemasonry is not bad and have no part of the end time antichrist.

But they are bad and part of it.

The Bible warns the saints of the end time deception of people accepting a false interpretation of the Bible based on the occult.

And the time will come that people will not want to hear the truth of the Bible but according to their own lusts.

Which they will come out at the latter times the new age christianity.

Which Alice Bailey who was a fundamental Christian received an occult interpretation of the Bible from a Tibetan Monk and believed that.

Becoming the biggest prophet of the new age.

She said there is an inner and outer circle of the occult and the inner circle is the true church.

She was married to a Freemason who agreed with her teachings.

So there is an inner circle of Freemasonry which is of the occult.

King Charles may claim 33rd degree but he is part of the inner circle.

The inner circle, secret societies, would be of the same cloth wanting to change the world over to the occult that exalts people which they follow Lucifer.

lucistrust.org website of Alice Bailey's books.

The new age is the religion of the Antichrist.

Esoteric meaning of Lucifer.
There are comments on the World Wide Web claiming that the Lucis Trust was once called the Lucifer Trust. Such was never the case. However, for a brief period of two or three years in the early 1920’s, when Alice and Foster Bailey were beginning to publish the books published under her name, they named their fledgling publishing company “Lucifer Publishing Company”. By 1925 the name was changed to Lucis Publishing Company and has remained so ever since.Both “Lucifer” and “Lucis” come from the same word root, lucis being the Latin generative case meaning of light. The Baileys' reasons for choosing the original name are not known to us, but we can only surmise that they, like the great teacher H.P. Blavatsky, for whom they had enormous respect, sought to elicit a deeper understanding of the sacrifice made by Lucifer. Alice and Foster Bailey were serious students and teachers of Theosophy, a spiritual tradition which views Lucifer as one of the solar Angels, those advanced Beings Who Theosophy says descended (thus “the fall”) from Venus to our planet eons ago to bring the principle of mind to what was then animal-man. In the theosophical perspective, the descent of these solar Angels was not a fall into sin or disgrace but rather an act of great sacrifice, as is suggested in the name “Lucifer” which means light-bearer.

So this is what King Charles would be about and the inner circle of Freemasonry.

The outer circle is to get people to believe that all religions are compatible which the antichrist will want to unite the religions by the new age christianity.

Saying he is the next world teacher after Jesus who is an ascended master and part of the new age which the Christ consciousness departed from him and will come upon the New Age Christ.
 
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Oh actually I did its a popular new age theory, but I don't know if he really believes it.

There's certainly not one kind of Christianity - there's been so many splits and schisms. Anyway, you don't need to speculate, just ask him and see what he says.

King Charles, are you a member of the Freemasons and do you believe in their silly beliefs? Do you care to know about a lady called Alice Bailey, who is now deceased, saying stuff about how she is a prophet and all the Bible must be interpreted through her and a random Tibetan monk???

I mean, do you? Do you let Jehovahs Witnesses, or Mormons, or New Age hippies or Hare Krishnas who you don't know from a bar of soap, come to your door to try and convert you? Cos I don't. I pretend I'm not home.
 
I once stepped foot in a Freemasons club thing. They were using it as a venue for a book sale. All I saw was pictures of men wearing fancy robes. Maybe they go there at night and do these strange rituals I don't know. But if they really were sacrificing chickens or what not, wouldn't you know about it by hearing the headless chooks running round their backyards?

I mean most temples are great big chopping blocks and slaughterhouses because you don't get a bbq chicken, steak, or lamb kebab without one. Wasn't Isaac going to be sacrificed on an altar as a burnt offering before the Angel stopped Abraham from slitting his son's throat?
 
There's a long list of people who were honored on the Kings Birthday honors list, ie they are knighted, and can be now known as Sir ...or Dame.....


I don't really know anybody on the list though.
This is how you nominate someone. I've never nominated anyone, but I suppose younger people don't get nominated that often as they haven't been in service long enough. I think you have to be shown to be reliable and faithful to whatever field you are in, and of course, you can't nominate yourself.


Most men will proclaim everyone their own goodness, but a faithful man, who can find? Proverbs 20:6
 
Harry's uncle Andrew made the front page of the papers today with his misdemeanours that are now published in the latest edition of the muckraking book. 'Entitled: The rise and fall of the House of York'

His cover is blown, but those close to him already knew this about him anyway. You really have to arrest people to stop them doing something they don't know how to stop, that's hurting/harming others.

I think this news is not really new, but the NZ Herald published anyway probably cos they didn't have much other news to report today.

Headline --couldn't find the exact article online--was
'Teddy bear trip one of 'entitled' royal's orders'

Ok that's not so bad, even laughable/entertaining. But um, yea the rich live in a different world. If you leave your favourite teddy bear behind in another country, you are going to order your servants to go fetch it for you. It doesn't matter how old you are, a royal Prince that will never be King will always be a man-child.
 
In the paper today - Something about Mr Andrew Windsor, the former Duke of York and his financial affairs.
The gist of it is he is surviving on the income from his sublet properties....there was an audit.

Of course this will only interest those who pay taxes in the UK to fund the Royal Family, so it was kinda not front page news. They have a lot of inherited property, but I think to maintain it all they need cashflow.

Anyway, he's not in jail or destitute or living on the streets. But you can now kinda understand why he was attracted to hanging out with the likes of Jeffrey Epstein, who had a lot of money to spend and homes he could stay in as a guest. Not sure how Epstein made his dough, but assume it has to do with stockmarket or something on Wall Street.

Are royals allowed to gamble or buy shares? Not sure. They aren't allowed to have 'normal' jobs. They have public duties as 'working royals' but if they don't want to do that not many options are open to them. In the armed forces they may be promoted but they can't stay in there for too long. According to this book I read about Prince Andrew, his mother tried to set him up so he could make a living being the second son who wouldn't be King, but am not sure she succeeded in the end. By the time he grew up he was acting like a spoiled brat and it was too late. He served in the Navy as a helicopter pilot.

His military career meant he was away a lot to the detriment of his marriage. Fergie didn't like being left alone for too long. Anyway not my problem, and he has to face the music - do you think there is any way he can be redeemed?

Harry's been in trouble with the charities he's on the board of. Apparently theres been some human rights abuses that he's overlooked. They can all deny they have any knowledge of this and state 'categorically' and 'emphatically' this or that, or feign ignorance, but come on...now you KNOW what are you going to do about it???
 
The Royals of Monaco operate casinos..that's how they keep afloat. But I don't know what the Brit Royals can do aside from opening their homes/palaces as tourist destinations....??
 
headline was Disgraced royal sublet houses while paying 'peppercorn rent' - UK auditor
 
The Royals of Monaco operate casinos..that's how they keep afloat. But I don't know what the Brit Royals can do aside from opening their homes/palaces as tourist destinations....??
The Brit royals have been supported by the UK for years and years. Millions and millions each year. After a couple years you are talking about real money. I do believe however that a few years the UK turned off the money tap. Citizens there consider the royals to be parasites.