I’ve just checked the usual way to get onto the webstie. Tt;s fairly clear that DNS propagation has not hit NZ. The very nice people at the webhost told me.

It appears that dns was still resolving to the old server. I have migrated dns to from a2s73 to a2ss3. Please allow up 24 hours for dns propagation to occur

That was Monday, my time.

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Moving away from the joys of moving web sites around, and to this day’s reading. Paul lost his temper. With a slave girl, who, tortured by spirits, was yelling that they were the reasons for salvation. So he ended up being flogged.

For Paul broke one of the commands of this world ‘Thou shalt not destroy a profit centre’. You do that, and there will be payback. The slave masters will try to get you.

Acts 16:16-24

¹⁶One day, as we were going to the place of prayer, we met a slave-girl who had a spirit of divination and brought her owners a great deal of money by fortune-telling. ¹⁷While she followed Paul and us, she would cry out, “These men are slaves of the Most High God, who proclaim to you a way of salvation.” ¹⁸She kept doing this for many days. But Paul, very much annoyed, turned and said to the spirit, “I order you in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her.” And it came out that very hour.

¹⁹But when her owners saw that their hope of making money was gone, they seized Paul and Silas and dragged them into the marketplace before the authorities. ²⁰When they had brought them before the magistrates, they said, “These men are disturbing our city; they are Jews ²¹and are advocating customs that are not lawful for us as Romans to adopt or observe.” ²²The crowd joined in attacking them, and the magistrates had them stripped of their clothing and ordered them to be beaten with rods. ²³After they had given them a severe flogging, they threw them into prison and ordered the jailer to keep them securely. ²⁴Following these instructions, he put them in the innermost cell and fastened their feet in the stocks.

The slavery of this world can be literal or metaphoric. Every now and then, there are cases found of people entrapped in houses for their captors sexual pleasure, or simply to farm benefits. The people who have incarcerated others and enslaved them, quite rightly, get charged with a variety of offenses, and often face extended periods of imprisonment.

The more common form of slavery in this age is ideological . To make this point, I am going to hold my nose and discuss that noxious race baiter, the Al of Sharpton.

Sharpton also called out O’Reilly as an example, playing a clip of the Fox News host saying the root of black crime comes from young black mothers having children out of wedlock.

“Bill O’Reilly last night on his show, he returned to his favorite argument that the real problem in America is the black family,” Sharpton said. “[Right wing hosts] will not deal with the question of inequality. They only want to deal with anything other than the fact that we still have a challenge of racial injustice and profiling in this country.”

{I could say the same about Hone Harawira, but he is unrepentant and thick: there is a chance Al would repent]

Al is talking about inequality, but he does nothing about it. It is much more lucrative to have an underclass that is beholden to him. It is far too difficult to tell people how to change. He’s too afraid of being unpopular, being called an Uncle Tom by other radicals, to do what Bill O’Reilly is trying to do — get the functional family structure of the pre-welfare Negro family back into the modern black culture. I’ve said this before, but growing up in the poorer parts of Auckland, my Mum came home from a Presbyterian Women’s group saying that the local Pacifika women were against the expansion of welfare (which occurred in the early 1970s: I was in primary school) as that woman said it would destroy the culture. She was right.

Sharpton has clients in the inner city who he can wind up whenever he wants more cash and goodies. If those people wise up, choose not to breed until they are with a good woman, practice discernment in their jobs, earn money honestly (which may require doing some fairly hard contract work or running a business) then they will improve not only their life but their children. The Ladies at TC, who I have a lot of time for, are not lacking melanin. It’s one of the reasons they are so outspoken about dress, modesty and chastity. THey have seen the consequences of poor choices in their near relatives.

But that’s hard. It’s much easier to “lead” these people by bleating about inequality while removing from the populace the tools that allow them to move forward. This is at best feudalism. But the oath of fealty went both ways. THe current leftist paradigm flows but one way, butting power and cash with those who call themselves leaders.

But that is the relationship of slave and slave-owner. So Al, you have slaves. Repent, and show it by preaching reformation within the culture, not blame whitey.

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UPDATE

It turns out the problem is at my end, as that the registration DNS is pointing at the wrong web server DNS. This requires some paperwork, but I hope to get it sorted today.

Joys of having a NZ domain name.