Wednesday, February 28, 2007

Miss Megumi

When we saw some years ago you asked me to memorise your name, pointing out your name card. I intend to keep on remember your name from now on, though you left our premises today. A little bit miss you honestly speaking, but now it's time to say good bye...

See you again!

Statistics & Antithesis

Statistics & Antithesis
2007.02.27 23:56

Someone raise one example that is directly against my idea. All rules have exceptions. He is merely showing the existence of exceptions.
Someone raise statistics and try to criticise my idea from statistical view point. What is right or wrong doesn't fit the argument of majority or minority.
I can't argue sanely in my informal get-together.

Tuesday, February 27, 2007

Otaku

Re:Speaking of BESM media,(Score:2)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2007.02.27 3:59 (#18156576) (http://www.blogger.com/profile/11854854 Last Journal: 2007.02.27 3:13)
Ok, let me see..
Otaku means originally the polite way of refering to 'home'. It connotes clandestine, introverted male who is only in pursuit of their own realm of interest. Their common image is those who wear a strong near-sighted spectacles with black plastic frame, a slightly upwarded front teeth, thick lips with spotted pink speckles, with a magnifying lense attached camera hinged by long strings from their neck, wearing short wrinkled trousers, their legs are O shaped.
Of course they have neither girlfriends nor have courage to say hello to young girls healthifully. Instead they like to sleep with the photos of idles who wear a particular costumes like those of stewardess, nurse, maid. Their sexual activities are done own their own, or they feel satisfied with peeping, transvestism, fetishism instead of an ordinary act.
Those people are called 'Otaku', negatively, pejoratively, and derisively.
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Exaggeration & Vanity

Exaggeration & Vanity
2007.02.27 3:13

Cram schools, prep schools are just so common in Japan's society. In their advertisement they tend to show off the number of students who passed some of the extremely competitive universities like the University of Tokyo, Kyoto University, Medical schools. One cram school was warned by fair trade committee that the number of the passed be exaggerated. I was lucky to be fired by the very school many years ago.
The power of cram school is so limited, they like to borrow the aura given off by those prestigious schools. Might they show a larger number instead of showing the actual number out of their same feeling that they must have felt in showing those prestigious names of schools?

Anime

Anime
2007.02.27 2:54

In Japanese anime, many women are very pretty -big and clear eyes and long nose, and their bosoms were exaggerated. Their anime is a phenomenon of their unfulfilled wish.

The Commuter Train

The Commuter Train
2007.02.27 2:25

Those compatmentsa are very often packed like a sardine in rush hours, 7-9 and 17-20. This is very common in any big cities in Japan. We mustn't move our hands, body. These acts are regarded molestation.

Hugging

Hugging
2007.02.27 2:07

Hugging is common way of greetings in Western culture. But this way is not common in Japan. If we try to hug a woman before we leave, she will reject strongly. If we do this between men, others will consider we are gay.
I think it's because the land of our country is so narrow so we've learned to keep some distance from each other in natural way from ancient times.
We do instead bow, we tend to keep about one metre from each other and tend to repeat bowing. Westerners might think we are playing see-saw.

Blood Type

Blood Type
2007.02.27 1:32

Because Japanese people are much more homogenised than Americans, we like to categorise our characters by our blood types.
There are four blood types. Type O is characterised by ambitious, energetic, enthusiastic, bold, showing leadership, tolerance, acceptance, summarising, paranoiac, fanatic. Type A is astute, rigoristic, theoretical, analytical, formal, traditional, scholastic, systematic. Type B is liberal, unique, novel, revolutional, creative, artistic. Type AB has two characters that are found in both A and B, so sometimes called schizophrenic, double character. Combination men O and women A, B, AB are much better than men A and women B, men B and women A, AB themselves. Combination women O is only well fit with men O.

2.26

2.26
2007.02.27 0:19

In 1936, on the 26th of February was still very cold, cold enough to have had a snowfall in Tokyo. This very day 2.26 incident occurred. This was an insurgency plotted by one sect within military. At that time military was devided by two main sects, one was moderate and the other ultranationalistic. 2.26 incident was led by the latter, ultranationalistic one.
This day happens to fall on the birthday of my love. 71 years later today it was a hot day in another meaning.

Monday, February 26, 2007

Resource Of Wages

Resource Of Wages
2007.02.26 23:24

I thought it is a price for our labour. But the manager of our premises said it derives from profit we earned.
Strange.
Suppose if our salary were derived from the profit, we can't earn it if no profit was made. On the other hand we can get much more if we can get more profit than expected.
If our salary is a compensation for our labour, we can get our salary regardless of whether our company came up with no profit or much more profit.
Things are our salary ought to be paid regardless how much profit our company generated. Profit has to be reflected in our bonus, incentives, perk, or pay increase.

Priceless

Re:Rational and Good(Score:2)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2007.02.26 1:59 (#18143840) (http://www.blogger.com/profile/11854854 Last Journal: 2007.02.24 1:38)
This is a very important point that I oughtn't to forget. You made me recall the signifcance of reason that has been playing a decisive role in not only Western culture but all humans too. Always I admire, remember my sig --Ancient Greek Philosophers -18c Enlightenment Thinkers -Slashdotters, those who devote themselves to the endless endeavour toward the expansion of reason. That's also one of the main reasons you are my priceless friend.
Thanks.
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Yeah

Re:as others have pointed out(Score:2)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2007.02.26 1:38 (#18143662) (http://www.blogger.com/profile/11854854 Last Journal: 2007.02.24 1:38)
You are correct, speaking more precisely.
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Thanks, Alaysia

Thanks, Alaysia for taking time to post a greeting card for me. Cheers, mercedo

!

Re:dreams(Score:2)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2007.02.26 0:45 (#18143258) (http://www.blogger.com/profile/11854854 Last Journal: 2007.02.24 1:38)
Oh, your dreams are very realistic!
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Saturday, February 24, 2007

Subject TurnsTo Object

Re:Dreams(Score:2)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2007.02.24 3:28 (#18125414) (http://www.blogger.com/profile/11854854 Last Journal: 2007.02.24 1:38)
What amazed me is you have a good memory for the dreams you had even 20 years ago.
My suggestion as to the interpretation of dreams is in dreams everything is opposite to the incident in our real world. Subject turns to object and vice versa. In a dream I am chased and I fly, I am free from the chaser. My interpretation is I chase and chase but never get the prey, instead I fell into the deep mire. This is the situation in reality.
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Interpretation Of Dreams

Interpretation Of Dreams
2007.02.24 1:38

I often have the similar dream which is I am chased by someone or something that is superior to me. Then at some point I can get away with their chase after I was able to fly.
I was struck by the mook that was being displayed in a bookshelf at the entrance of some supermarket. The title of the book was 'The Interpretation Of Dreams' In a cover seven dreams are interpretted as follows.
Dream being chased - you have a complex. Dream being fallen - you are losing your confidence. Dream you fly - you are ambitious. Dream your teeth being pulled out -destruction of your family. Dream you are in labyrinth - struglle between your spirit and body. Dream you have sex - frustration. Dream you have a party -hoping encounter.
Accoding to these interpretations, I have a complex and I am ambitious.

M, MH & I

M, MH & I (Score:2)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2007.02.24 0:46 (#18123054) (http://www.blogger.com/profile/11854854 Last Journal: 2007.02.22 1:33)
I remember I saw this title in Sam's journals, I thought he was writing about 'Me, Marxist Hacker & I'. You adopted his topics as your own, now I can read it perfectly as Me, Marxist Hacker &I
Me, Marxist Hacker & I are three attributes that consist of trinity. I assume you are playing the role of God behind the three masks you wear.
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Friday, February 23, 2007

Pillow

I want to be a pillow.

The Reality Of Word

Re:Root of Irrationality(Score:2)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2007.02.23 2:40 (#18110630) (http://www.blogger.com/profile/11854854 Last Journal: 2007.02.22 1:33)
Word is not an absolute ruler. Suppose when I said in front of my girlfriend that' I love you', all I meant was 'I love her, up till then'. But she thought 'I love her, for the rest of my life'. So when I said good-bye to her after I said I love her, she can't blame me for my saying previously that I love her.
Word is not absolute but just a convenient tool, to back our idea at the moment we utter.
Rational is the term in logics. If it's consistent, we say it's rational. Good or bad is the term to measure a moral value. Rational things ought to be morally good, probably. But the real world we live is very different from this theoretical ideal. I suggest you try to interpret any word in the context. Any same word is used very differently. The word in language is not the same as the sign in mathematics.
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Thursday, February 22, 2007

Dietary

Re:I'm not a buddhist(Score:2)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2007.02.22 3:33 (#18098934) (http://www.blogger.com/profile/11854854 Last Journal: 2007.02.22 1:33)
Japanese people hadn't eaten any meat of animals because of this belief. But fish were OK to have. These dietaries contributed to our mean physique greatly.
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Fly

Fly
2007.02.22 1:33

Fly in February is completely out of the season. Usually in May. Mayfly means 'noisy' in Japanese. One fly entered my room. The one generated owing to unusually warm winter.
In our Buddhist belief, we are not supposed to kill any livings. I tried to get it out, now it has gone outside.
It was really noisy.

Morosoph Cocktail

Re:Root of Irrationality(Score:2)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2007.02.22 1:18 (#18096874) (http://www.blogger.com/profile/11854854 Last Journal: 2007.02.21 3:47)
I've just missed Morosoph cocktail.
We can think things through language, it's counterproductive for us to think what word is proper to refer to what I meant. What I was trying to mean was not what the difinition of words is, but rather something that can be explained by words.
Again 'rational' has nothing to do with moral value -'good'. Please try to think first what my word meant. You are thinking what is the proper word for my idea. If you noticed what I meant by my words, please make a comment on what you think I meant.
So do you know any 'rational' things which are supposed to be 'good'? I was unable to find anything.
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Reality & Religion

Re:None of the above(Score:2)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2007.02.22 0:23 (#18096074) (http://www.blogger.com/profile/11854854 Last Journal: 2007.02.21 3:47)
I understand how you perceive things differently from other ordinary people and you know as well. This is very different from other autistic people. Because often autistic people insist only their world view is correct and that of ordinary people is wrong. As long as you notice your difference you are also a part of ordinary people since ordinary people perceive things differenly among themselves. All perceptions vary depending on each individuals.
Certainly your perception is unique. Just try to adopt similar perception with others, then you can adjust by degrees.
My original question was ' Which do you prefer to live, in reality or in religion? In real world people share common reality with others. So in order to get along with others in reality, you need to share similar reality, not to say exactly the same. That's what we've been doing in our daily life. But in religion you don't have to share similar reality. But you must share only one belief, or faith in other words, that is where religion stands.
If you can share this belief even if you can't share common reality with others, you can succeed in living in religion. So theoretically there's no problem as to your being religious even if you are autistic as long as you have this belief, or faith.
Judging from your original post, you are pessimistic about living both in reality and in religion. Here's your choice. You choose to live in reality by trying to adjust yourself to how other non-autistic people behave, or you choose to live in religious world by accepting only one belief, which no one can verify. Therefore you can believe without hindrance. I have been seeing many renegades who were refused by society in the first place are often accepted warmly in religion later on. But my recommendation for you is that you had better try to promote in your real life first. I think you can succeed. Religion is the last resort for those who lost something in real life.
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Wednesday, February 21, 2007

Thorn

Thorn
2007.02.21 3:47

Poet Rilke was killed by the thorn of rose by which he got injured. Recently I was injured from the fin of fish, part of the fin is deep inside my index finger of my left hand. Was he suffered from leukaemia? Or is the inflammation from the injure the cause of his death? If the thorn were pulled out, the injure would be cured soon. So harsh.

Questions

Re:Irrational? Or misunderstood?(Score:2)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2007.02.21 2:57 (#18084048) (http://www.blogger.com/profile/11854854 Last Journal: 2007.02.21 1:53)
My questions are
Are Shadrach, Meshach, Abednego resurrected? Was Jona saved from the stomach of big fish? Why similar Gospels have to be written three times?
I'm reading books of minor prophets. I read four Gospels at age 15. I will resume reading from Acts soon.
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So

Re:Root of Irrationality(Score:2)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2007.02.21 2:19 (#18083340) (http://www.blogger.com/profile/11854854 Last Journal: 2007.02.21 1:53)
Your assumption is firmly based on human knowledge. It is irrational for us to decide whether creator exists, therefore I said that religion is based on this irrationality. This irrationality has nothing to do with the nonexistence of creator.
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Volunteer

Volunteer
2007.02.21 1:53

Many young people quit their job. Once they deviate from an ordinary course, it's so hard for them to enter the regular workforce again. Instead many are absorbed into dispatched labour force. Their pay is considerably lower than that of the ordinary workforce. I can see some day in the near future many of them are enlisted in regular force. Some of them are willing to take part in the force because of the benefit they will get. Personal poverty will be the storehouse for the military force.

Believing In Nothing

Re:so if they're both irrational(Score:2)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2007.02.21 0:43 (#18082072) (http://www.blogger.com/profile/11854854 Last Journal: 2007.02.20 23:31)
This is a matter of comparison. Nietzsche wrote in his 'genealogy of morals' that people prefer believing in nothing than not believing in anything.
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To Be Autistic

Re:None of the above(Score:2)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2007.02.21 0:37 (#18081974) (http://www.blogger.com/profile/11854854 Last Journal: 2007.02.20 23:31)
Is it the symptom of autism that you can't share the common reality with others? If so, autistic people are secular by birth.
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Tuesday, February 20, 2007

Religion

Religion
2007.02.20 23:31

I didn't like religion until recently, yet I started reading Torah about five years ago. I have often thought religion is irrational.
Religion is irrational, it's true, however our real world is also irrational. Many years ago I thought religion is more irrational than the real world. But now I thought religion is more rational than the real world.
Our real world is an endless result of irrationality. However long we live, we can't oevercome this irrationality. Religion is based on only one irrationality, which is not verifiable by anyone. We don't have to get over this irrationality because religion statrs from this irrationality.
Which do you choose to live in reality or in religion?

Contraceptive

Contraceptive
2007.02.20 1:28

She bought me a contraceptive, but actually a spermicide, a tab for insertion. Effective ingredient is Menfegol, which kills semen inside her vagina.
I used it for the first time. She knew more than me as to sexology. Her body was very warm last night. She said she can tell whether the day falls on her egg-day. Both we are over 45, we don't want kids.

Ganache

Ganache
2007.02.20 1:05

I like ganache chocolate, so I buy it and have it almost everyday. In Japan there's a custom a woman sends a chocolate to a man whom she likes on St Valentine's Day. I got two chocolates. Both two were ganache chocolates.
Ganache chocolate was much more expensive than ordinary plain chocolate and it was hard to buy in a supermarket many years ago -ganaches were able to buy only in a French patisserie. Thanks to the recent technological development, ganache chocolates have been comercialised and many new products are sold in a store. But the ganaches they gave me are the ones bought in a patisserie. I finished had them in two days, feeling how my responsibility over them -two women are heavy.

Saturday, February 17, 2007

Destiny

I have no position, no job. So theoretically I can leave my country. Still my former love who lives in San Jose has been inviting me to live with her. Anyway I feel very weary these days for some reason.
You see I like foreign girls who speak English. Many times in the past my girlfriend was from abroad. However in reality, I happened to have a Japanese girlfriend. Unfortunately that discourages me a lot. If I chose to live together, I would have to give up being a writer. My objective of life is to be an English writer, not Japanese. She's an attractive woman, I admit though, who is unable to understand English at all. Sometimes happiness kills a talent.
Posted by mercedo on Saturday, February 17, 2007 at 1:27 AM

Friday, February 16, 2007

In Other Words

In Other Words
Or I have already met some, I just haven't had a courage to speak to her.

My Ideal Woman

My Ideal Woman
Basically I like a woman of Asian origin and who speak English. I haven't met my ideal woman. Yet.

Hello, Chynadahl

Hello, Chynadahl...Thank you for your acceptance, which encouraged me a lot. I fully enjoyed your site.
Cheers,
Mercedo

Looking Forward

I like it.

Nice Woman

Nice woman in a nice picture with a nice background.

Hello, jameelah

Hello, jameelah...I hadn't noticed that the card was from you judging only from your two hills:)
Now I fully enjoyed watching your site, and I don't forget to send you back a White Day Card since here's Japan.
Always,
Mercedo

Handmade Chocolate

One of our coworkers made us a handmade chocolate. I had a bit of it and it was more delicious than ready made cakes. She's going to turn her 45 years soon. I never regard her as a woman since we are working in a closed area, in such a situation inhibition and harmony work together, but love never gains power.

She was an interim love on one day.

Son Of Men

Re:Ooh! Me! Me! Me!(Score:2)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2007.02.16 0:45 (#18024310) (http://www.blogger.com/profile/11854854 Last Journal: 2007.02.15 23:34)
I think there's still a very long way to go till being called the anti-Christ from just disputing whether his is a son of God. I think he was often called a son of men, because he was born to human parents. When Herod asked him whether he's a son of God, he didn't say yes, instead he says 'as you said so'. This matter only depends on how we think, not how he thought.
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As To Anti-Christ

Re:Probably an issue of context(Score:2)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2007.02.16 0:24 (#18023956) (http://www.blogger.com/profile/11854854 Last Journal: 2007.02.15 23:34)
I guess you understand what I was driving at.
You see if anti-Christ means as the woman told, there might be too many anti-Christ. Those who do not believe Christianity are almost automatically 'anti-Christ'. In Judaist belief they are still waiting for the advent of Christ. Even among Christendom, those who believe trinity won't accept that Christ would be a son of God, but rather a God himself. In short 'anti-Christ' ought have been used in very limited way as the anti-Christ, or an anti-Christ.
Assuming from what you taught me, she would have been talikng about being anti-Christ.
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Thursday, February 15, 2007

Who's Anti-Christ?

Who's Anti-Christ?
2007.02.15 23:34

As long as I know the anti-Christ means those who claim to be Christ in Greek, Messiah in Hebrew, the anointed one in English, anyway a Saviour.
According to some woman, she concluded that the anti-Christ is those who oppose the idea that Jesus is a Saviour and a son of God.

Avalanche

Avalanche
2007.02.15 4:16

Avalanche never occurred in winter. Mostly in April, rarely in March. It usually occurred in the midst of spring. But in February, this winter, it occurred owing to an unusually hot winter. No one anticipated. Two people were dead as a result.

St Valentine's Day

St Valntine's Day
2007.02.15 3:59

So far I have received no chocolate. This is a barometre of popularity in Japan. I will receive at least two?, maybe.

Eureka

Re:as others have pointed out(Score:2)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2007.02.15 3:43 (#18014622) (http://www.blogger.com/profile/11854854 Last Journal: 2007.02.14 4:07)
Pre-Roman times kind of Celtic languages were widely spoken throughout Europe, including those of British isles. Insular Celtic languages known as Gaelic are still spoken long after Continental Celtic languages known as Gaulish extinguished circa 2nd AD. So it was not surprising the language of Brittany resembles Brythons, that is one of the Insular Celtic languages.
Now I was able to find another difference in Gael and Gaul.
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History Of Okinawa

Re:Interesting(Score:2)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2007.02.15 2:44 (#18013880) (http://www.blogger.com/profile/11854854 Last Journal: 2007.02.14 4:07)
You see, he's joking. If so Io-Wa, even Wa-shington has to follow the case. Okinawa was located far beyond the route former Koreans took on the way to Japan.
Okinawans came from the South, similar to the people in Micronesia. Their origin was similar to the early setllers in Japan proper prior to the former Korean's arrival. Later in 1372, Okinawa became a tribute of China. In 1609 it became a tribute of Japan.
It was only after 1879 that Okinawa lost its independence after being annexed by Japanese.
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Backwards

Re:as others have pointed out(Score:2)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2007.02.15 2:15 (#18013504) (http://www.blogger.com/profile/11854854 Last Journal: 2007.02.14 4:07)
Yeah, everything was backwards.
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Nightmare

Re:Actually, according to your linked article:(Score:2)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2007.02.15 2:07 (#18013390) (http://www.blogger.com/profile/11854854 Last Journal: 2007.02.14 4:07)
History of Brittany started circa 5 AD after Saxons deplaced inhabitants in Great Britain to Brittany. I misunderstood the flag was as early as the history of Brittany. The flag was invented after the Stars and Stripes. That explains the strikinig similarities.
My findings once in a century tuned to just a dream, or just a scene in my nightmare.
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Out Of The Question

Re:You've got it backwards(Score:2)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2007.02.15 1:28 (#18012760) (http://www.blogger.com/profile/11854854 Last Journal: 2007.02.14 4:07)
I see. I didn't read till the end. I deliberately didn't because I wanted to write an article as I assumed, which is out of the question. Thanks for letting me know.
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The Day After

Re:Yes but(Score:2)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2007.02.15 1:00 (#18012358) (http://www.blogger.com/profile/11854854 Last Journal: 2007.02.14 4:07)
People who reside in small islands off the peninsula became the first intruders to Japan proper. There were three main tribes -Hayato(Falcon)who resided in southern Kyushu, Kumaso(Bear)who resided in the middle of Kyushu, Emishi(Frog)who resided in the northern part of Japan. Interestingly their names were allotted in animal's names, somehow contemptuous. As you noticed, Emishi(Ainu) was the most powerful tribe. Ainu means humans in Ainu language.
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Wednesday, February 14, 2007

Hello, Alaysia

Feb 14 2007 11:32P Hello, Alaysia...Thank you very much for your sending me a nice comment on Valentine's Day. I feel so appreciate since I'm alone here tonight.

Brittany

Brittany
2007.02.14 4:07

Brittany is a peninsula and one region in France. People who inhabitted here must be the first setller in the Great Britain. They must have named after their homeland when they found much larger island. When Briton moved to America and made independent 13 states, they chose their national flag after the flag of Brittany.

Hidden Truth In History

Hidden Truth In History
2007.02.14 3:37

In 1939 Chinese military personels trained by German advisors were equipped by Czecho made submachinegun ZB26 imported by Germany. I thought it was some mistake in broadcasting. I tried looking it up. Tripartite pact was signed in September, 1940. The Battle of Shagnai was in July 1937. The siege of Nanjin was in December, 1937. So German aid was held before the pact. But their aid continued as long as they was able to camouflage, in German Tarnung even after the pact was in effect.

The Birth Of Japan

The Birth Of Japan
2007.02.14 2:33
Once upon a time in Korean peninsula, many peoples were fighting. One people were extradicted to small islands off the coast. They were called Wa, which means small, because their islands were much smaller than the land in peninsula. They were outnumbered so they started moving to other islands. They found relatively bigger islands. Though they still kept on being called Wa.

Wa is the old name for Japan. This story is not a fiction.

The Fate of Two Strangers

The Fate of Two Strangers
2007.02.14 2:07

Japanese woman Yoshiko Yamaguchi was born in Fushun, China's region Manchuria to Japanese parents in 1920. Later she became famous as Chinese singer known to Li Xianglan. After the war ended, she was caught and interrogated whether she committed the crime of treason, Hanjian, which means Chinese traitor, she was acquitted because she was identified as Japanese.
Aisin Gioro, a woman born in 1907, one of the daughters from the last royal family of Qing dynasty was sent to Japan in her youth, after raised and educated in Japan she was sent back to Shanghai, China and known as Yoshiko Kawashima. This is a Japanese name. She was executed by Kuomintang government in treason or Hanjian in 1948. If she were certified as Japanese, she would be acquitted. She was refused to be identifed as Japanese by Japanese government. She was Manchurian Chinese in linege.
The fate of two stranges was completely opposite. Kawashima vanished in the valley of history. Yamaguchi later became the member of the Upper House and still alive. She's now 86 years old. We are now watching the film of her entire life.

Loosen The Rope

Re:I thought the Kahn(Score:2)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2007.02.14 1:01 (#17997938) (http://www.blogger.com/profile/11854854 Last Journal: 2007.02.12 4:46)
Tonight it's very stormy. When typhoon comes, fishermen lifts the anchor and loosen the rope that connects the ship and land. Their ships are floating in the middle of the bay, but each ship never collide themselves. Thus their ships are safe. This is a basic knowledge for fishermen.
Yes, two times they came here.
It was 1274 when their first invasion took place. 50,000 Mongolians, Chinese, Koreans combined and 700-800 vessels. The number of Japanese counterpart was 130,000. They heard the smaller islands off Japan proper were totally devastated by Mongolians, so they were able to be well-prepared. Mongolians ought to have invaded Japan proper first directly. Just one day after the landing, they retreated to their ships in spite of their initial victory. The battlefield was unknown to them, so they retreated lest they should be attacked by Japanese. The same night they were struck by strong storm. One-third of ships were sunk. They flew away back to Korea.
Second invasion took place in 1281. Their force was 142,000 soldiers and 4,400 ships. This time 80% of all their ships were sunk before landing because of the storm.
They fastened all their vessels, small and big, when they had typhoon in the bay. This was completely opposite to what Japanese did in their ships.
The victory of Japan was basically brought by the lack of knowledge at sea in the people of continent. They were well versed in how to win war in land. They were army, not navy.
--Ancient Greek Philosophers -18c Enlightenment Thinkers -Slashdotters

Monday, February 12, 2007

Reason Of Crime

Reason Of Crime
[#163272 ] 2007.02.12 4:46

For some criminals, this world is a full of wickedness and immorality. Therefore they thought they had to punish those who live in this real world.
Strange, but this is often the reason of crime they committed.

First Invasion From China

China and Japan fought many wars. But China never invaded Japan. Why? China located in the most affluent area, so they didn't have to get out of the land they live. Instead many surrounding peoples often invaded China. Both Mongolian and Manchurian once conquered Han people and established some dynasty in China's long history.

One time there was a time Mongolian Empire had invaded Japan in 1274-1281. Han people came along with their ruler at that time -Mongolians, but they were reluctant to come here. The number of soldiers they sent to Japan was 53000. Aside from this, Japanese always kept on invading China. The first war between two countries occurred in 663. Japan sent 32000 personels. Baegang -one of the three countries in Korea, and Japan, those two countries had formed a kind of united kingdom at that time. Japan lost the War of Baegang. The navy of Tong dynasty was much stronger and bigger than that of Japan.

In 1592 to 1598, Japan again tried to invade China by sending roughly 150000 soldiers in Korea twice. Korean fought the war in alliance with Chinese Ming dynasty. Japan lost.

The last war between China and Japan took place in 1937 to 1945. The first landing place was Shanghai, later they invaded up to Nanjing. The atrocity Japanese army made was only comparable to Soviet-German War from 1941 to 1945.

Recently the sky of my town is foggy. Local meteorologists claim the air from rapidly industrialised area around Shanghai is coming here. This is the first invasion by China from the air. The country whose economy is significantly declining can do nothing for it but to look on this.

Sunday, February 11, 2007

Cheers

Cheers (Score:2)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2007.02.11 0:31 (#17962858) (http://www.blogger.com/profile/11854854 Last Journal: 2007.02.10 1:12)
Cheers to your frontier spirit!
--Ancient Greek Philosophers -18c Enlightenment Thinkers -Slashdotters

Saturday, February 10, 2007

Search Wikipaedia

Search Wikipaedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=&go=Go

Taboo Word

Taboo Word
2007.02.10 1:12

Why they don't like to be told 'sorry' between loves & lovers. If it's truly united one, no need to say so one another.
Sorry is a word for the compensation that ones cannot fulfil their love enough.

Price Of Beauty

Price Of Beauty
2007.02.10 0:03

There is a Japanese famous television programme that has been aired once in a year in which women are introduced before and after they made a cosmetic surgery. I noticed that so so pretty women never become prettier than before. Those who had particulary bad point in their face can be cured completely well.
In today's medical technic, almost all women can be much prettier than before. It takes probably 30-50 thousand dollars. The nutrition of Japanese had been apparently bad mainly because their religion -Buddhism prohibited kiling animals to eat. So fatty eyelid, short nose, big nostils are so common, besides their arangement of teeth, the line of jaw are also bad for some reasons. I think all are related to bad nutrition for a long time.
Now they can obtain a very pretty face if only they spent thirty thousand dollars. But their obtained beauty is not hereditary. Their offsprings will face similar problems. After all their beauty has something to do with their economy. Japanese hadn't had meat for more than millennium. Now they are rushing to pay their debt at once.

Friday, February 09, 2007

Eight-eyed Eel

Re:No, not really(Score:2)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2007.02.09 22:11 (#17946910) (http://www.blogger.com/profile/11854854 Last Journal: 2007.02.09 5:09)
Thank you very much for correcting my journal. I was not sure whether I was right, now I know I had confused. Have you ever heard about eight-eyed eel? Here is the link.
--Ancient Greek Philosophers -18c Enlightenment Thinkers -Slashdotters

My Evolution

Re:How so?(Score:2)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2007.02.09 21:28 (#17946656) (http://www.blogger.com/profile/11854854 Last Journal: 2007.02.09 5:09)
Marxist Hacker, I'm sorry. I made a mistake. I was not supposed to be in a hurry after I got your remark. Apparently you are right. Entire argument here are about evolution( theory). And we are talking about how evolution occurs(method). I raised it's because of natural selection, and natural selection is a method how they evolves. So I have to correct my expression -Their design is not a result of evolution.as 'Their design is not a result of 'adjustment'. Because I was talking about how evolution occurs -by natural selection, adjustment, need or need not, etc.
Thanks for pointing out.
Many years ago I happened to read an article in Japanese in which the author -biologist concluded that we ought to believe evolution occurs not as aresult of adaptation, but natural selection by referring to a similar example as I raised. I felt very questionable, and now I realised the author of the article was wrong. Evolution occurs from various methods including natural selection, adjustment, need or need not, and it's just very silly for us to seek for only one method.
Through our talk, I was able to clarify the puzzle I had caught. That's my evolution.
--Ancient Greek Philosophers -18c Enlightenment Thinkers -Slashdotters

Evolution Or Natural Selection?

Evolution Or Natural Selection?
2007.02.09 5:09

Mackerel has a strange eye-like design in their back. As long as they remain just design, they are just the result of natural selection. If those eye-like pattern back of mackerel turn to real eyes, that is evolution.

Normal Step

Re:Well, maybe.(Score:2)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2007.02.09 4:57 (#17938014) (http://www.blogger.com/profile/11854854 Last Journal: 2007.02.09 4:25)
All children might be autistic somehow, but it's not a disease. This is just a normal step to adulthood.
--Ancient Greek Philosophers -18c Enlightenment Thinkers -Slashdotters

Evolution Or Natural Selection?

Re:How so?(Score:2)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2007.02.09 4:44 (#17937850) (http://www.blogger.com/profile/11854854 Last Journal: 2007.02.09 4:25)
Evolution is a result of adjustment. Natural selection is the result of survial of the fittest. Evolution is a positive result of the living, while natural selection is a negative result of the living. Evolution is biological, natural selection is social. Evolution occurs in a long period often at sudden change of hereditary information -DNA, etc., natural selection occurs in a relatively short period in accordance to the change of environment.
--Ancient Greek Philosophers -18c Enlightenment Thinkers -Slashdotters

First In First Out

First In First Out
2007.02.09 4:25

First in first out is the term used in selling products. We all tend to choose the newest one when we buy something, because the newer the products, the longer we can use. We ought not to supply new products until all older ones are sold out. Consumers tend to choose newer ones, so if they found the newer ones besides older ones, we can't stop their buying newer ones. We are taught to store newer ones behind the older ones in a shell. That's nothing but a deception to consumers.
First in first out is the term used in labour force. Those who were engaged in a job earlier ought not to be fired prior to firing new ones. Labourers are not products to sell. Exactly. But in order for a company to be viable, sometimes first in had better get out first.

Back Design Of Mackerel

Back Design Of Mackerel
2007.02.09 3:42

Back design of mackerel is grotesque, so similar to many eyes. Their design protects them from being had by their natural foes. Only those who had such designs have been able to survive. That's the meaning of natural selection. Their design is not a result of evolution.

Pattern In Floor

Pattern In Floor
2007.02.09 3:11

Small children under age 7 walk on the floor stepping the same colour in some fixed pattern of floor. They are learning how to adjust to society by trying to do this without being notified.

Experimental Market

Re:I live in an interesting area(Score:2)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2007.02.09 2:48 (#17936190) (http://www.blogger.com/profile/11854854 Last Journal: 2007.02.08 7:11)
Here in Japan two cities are chosen, many new products were introduced first in these two cities. If they made success, they are going to sell nationwide. Two cities are Kumamoto, whose population is 600 thousand, and Sapporo, whose population is 2 million.
If seven different regions were chosen taking many different aspects into consideration, the results must be very reliable.
--Ancient Greek Philosophers -18c Enlightenment Thinkers -Slashdotters

Kokkos

Re:Roasted Cacao Beans ALSO have caffine(Score:2)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2007.02.09 2:32 (#17935968) (http://www.blogger.com/profile/11854854 Last Journal: 2007.02.08 7:11)
Cacao, cocoa, chocolate, coffee, coca...all related? I didn't know that, it's very interesting.
I found in my dictionary that Greek word 'kokkos' means 'berry'. The substance that found in these berries must be similar.
--Ancient Greek Philosophers -18c Enlightenment Thinkers -Slashdotters

Caffeine

Re:Caffeine(Score:2)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2007.02.09 1:46 (#17935434) (http://www.blogger.com/profile/11854854 Last Journal: 2007.02.08 7:11)
The coke they made contained caffeine twice as much as American Cokes. They started selling it in such catchphrase. If we took caffeine in moderate quantity, it must have worked well. I believe caffeine neither stimulate nor relieve our nerves excessively. Caffeine just coordinates our body balance well.
I drink a cup of coffee not only after waking up, sometimes before going to sleep. I sleep well.
--Ancient Greek Philosophers -18c Enlightenment Thinkers -Slashdotters

Deez Nuts

Re:Not exactly(Score:2)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2007.02.09 1:24 (#17935134) (http://www.blogger.com/profile/11854854 Last Journal: 2007.02.08 7:11)
Judging from the reference you showed, German troops might have been unable to realise that they were surrounded by the rest of the world including the US after they surrounded the US troops on the spot ie Bastogne. Therefore the word 'deez nuts' made sense -we are bigger &stronger than you.
--Ancient Greek Philosophers -18c Enlightenment Thinkers -Slashdotters

Thursday, February 08, 2007

Feedback

Feedback
2007.02.08 7:11

One domestic company made a coke many years ago. I tried drinking one. I was unable to sleep after drinking it, and after I sleep I had a nightmare. Apparently the quantity of caffein was too strong. No more please.
One domestic company made cocoa recently. I tried having one. I was unable to sleep for a while because that caused rapid palpitation. The quantity of cacao that contains polyphenol must have been too much. Soon I quit having it.
It must take years for producers to come up with some product to finally commercialise, but because they saved such a process, they are making use of a dynamism formed by consumers whether the products get populality. So far few products succeeded. It requires bigger market to conduct such surveys. It is needless to say mulitinational corporations have got more superiority in reflecting consumer's inclinations. What lacks greatly in domestic company is the effective commercialisation reflecting feedback.

Meaning Of Nuts

Re:Not exactly(Score:2)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2007.02.08 6:38 (#17926228) (http://www.blogger.com/profile/11854854 Last Journal: 2007.02.08 5:03)
I remember the scene in a movie that I watched in my youth- before crossing fire Germans sent a herald to an American counterpart demanding a surrender without fighting. The reply was 'Nuts'. Many years ago the language skill of translator was not enough to meet. The superimposed terop had translated very literally something similar to walnuts or pecans. I felt perplexed, as Germans did.
Many year later I found the word nuts means crazy, stupid etc. I thought that's it.
Now I understand the word nuts that was used in Bastogne meant much stronger than crazy, let alone mixed nuts. One word gains more meaning as time goes inside myself.
--Ancient Greek Philosophers -18c Enlightenment Thinkers -Slashdotters

Nuts

Nuts
2007.02.08 5:03

At World War II in European West theatre once German troops surrounded the American army. Germans proposed American counterpart to surrender. The reply Americans sent was just one word 'Nuts'. I am not sure whether Germans understood the meaning of the word.
Last night my girlfriend asked, pointing out the pictures in advertisement of intel and slashdot, what the brain-like objects are, I answered 'it's nuts'. She said 'I see.'
I had no idea why nuts means a fool in English until she points out. Brain made of nuts must be 'nuts'.

The Frenzy Of Love

Re:Layla and Majnun (Score:2)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2007.02.08 3:47 (#17923978) (http://www.blogger.com/profile/11854854 Last Journal: 2007.02.06 20:54)
The frenzy of love sometimes leads to the state similar to madness. If two lovers can't see for a while they always think the other while they are away. It was not just two or three times as if I became mad when the feeling of missing is about to overwhelm my sense.
Then when they are together they always spend all their time, they sometimes lose sight of surroundings. They sometimes concentrate on their love affairs night and day, and night.
For these several months I've been spending our holidays together so similar to such a madness.
--Ancient Greek Philosophers -18c Enlightenment Thinkers -Slashdotters

Tuesday, February 06, 2007

Best Couple

Best Couple
2007.02.06 20:54

Virginie and Paul, Abelard and Heloise, there are many couples who have been thought one of the best couples in the world, though, I wonder who are the best couple.
Best couple is not based on comparison to others. The couples that bear the best results in their life are the best.
I hope I find the best partner first.

Monday, February 05, 2007

Void

Void
2007.02.05 2:29

I deleted 300 emails from her without reading them back, those were sent during 5 months -from July 2006 to November 2006. Only void left. Probably I was not supposed to do so, but I did it because I didn't like to read Japanese.
I'm not certain I am serious enough to keep on our relations. I feel certain limits.

Sunday, February 04, 2007

Hello

Feb 4 2007 3:55A Hello again, Junko...
How have you been lately?

Common Recognition Of History

Re:I love History(Score:2)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2007.02.04 3:45 (#17874900) (http://www.blogger.com/profile/11854854 Last Journal: 2007.02.03 3:10)
Unlike other sciences, history is not based on an objective truth. History can be distorted at its extremity if a deviser of history ignores matters that are unfavourable for him and picks up only favourable events.
All teachers are unavoidably liable to becoming a lier if they had to use only such distorted textbooks. All teachers need to introduce not only one view but also other views aside from what those textbook say as to one historical event. We will be able to form some common recognition of history through exchanging different views as to one event.
James Loewen's book is worth reading, thanks for referring.
--Ancient Greek Philosophers -18c Enlightenment Thinkers -Slashdotters

History

Re:My favorite history quote(Score:2)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2007.02.04 3:17 (#17874696) (http://www.blogger.com/profile/11854854 Last Journal: 2007.02.03 3:10)
History consists of the endless combination of cause and result, so it's not permissable for us to utter the word 'if'. If there hadn't been such events, the world might have changed a lot. et.al..Those sound meaningless in a study of history.
We usually have to assume what really occurred from past records both in bibliographical and archaeological ways. If we only rely on bibliographical study in deciding what really occurred, we might be misled. Because those descriptions are often subjuct to being rewritten later. Archaeological evidence helps us to determine what really occurred. But unfortunately lack of evidence in archaeology does not prove that there were no such events in the past.
We have nothing for it but to construct generally what history is from what really occurred in the past refering to lots of bibliographical study and archaeological evidence. In short, history is neither to condemn nor deny, it is but to understand.
--Ancient Greek Philosophers -18c Enlightenment Thinkers -Slashdotters

Saturday, February 03, 2007

Pretty Woman



mercedo
February 3, 2007 10:42 PM How pretty you are!

Hello

mercedo
Feb 3 2007 10:14P Hello, zHaImE...Thanks for your nice comment.
Cheers,
Mercedo

Communion

Communion
2007.02.03 3:10

Jesus Christ commanded to hold only one ceremony in his whole life to recall the true meaning of his crusification. This ceremony is called Communion or the Eucharist. He said in the Last Supper that the unleavened bread represents his body and wine his blood. The message he wanted to send might be that the today's prosperity was not built in a day but brought under tens of thousands of sacrifices our forerunners made. Communion is held every Sunday in Cathoric. In some sect this ceremony is held annually in the season of Passover as Jesus did just before his compensation.

History

History , 2007.02.03 2:35 (0 comments)
History is a chronology by the strong. It's not a record of what really occurred, but rather a record of what really became how.
Learn not history itself, but something from history.

Stove

Stove , 2007.02.03 2:11 (0 comments)
For the first time in ten years I brought the oil heater out of the warehouse, now I'm using it in a room surrounded by walls and shutters made in wood and paper. We don't have a furnace in our room, let alone chimneys, so it's improper for us to use gas stove or something similar because there's no exchange of air in the room. Because our room is not made of materials enough to protect from coldness and wind, we are vulnerable to coldness. The lowest temperature tomorrow morning will cross the zero centigrade. I'd better take a rest soon.

Strength For The Earthquake

Strength For The Earthquake
2007.02.03 1:36

Japan is prone to the earthquakes, so there's a standard in the strength for the hit of earthquake. If one building can't have enough strength in the event of earthquakes, it won't be permitted to construct. Many buildings including hotels and skyscraper condos had failed to fulfill these criteria. Some are ordered to destruct all and reconstruct after all were constructed. They forged the document thinking their unjust is not likely to reveal.
No one would doubt whether thier buildings were constructed by using proper material before the earthquake and no one would be unable to confirm whether those builings were constructed by using materials strong enough to endure in the event of earthquake after all buildings were destructed by earthquake.
Devisers must have thought they successfully get away with punishment, but they didn't realise there's an earthquake before the real earthquake hit the building.

The End Of Corporation

The End Of Corporation
2007.02.03 0:57

For corporations the most important matter is trust. They have to end their economic activity when they lost trust among their customers.
Recently many reknown companies accused of selling a product or using material whose consumption term is expired. Once such unjusts revealed, the all products of those companies are sure to be out of the market. Sometimes those companies bankrupt at one night.

Friday, February 02, 2007

Writers II

Yeah, I think so.
Everyone has got their lives.
Mine is not the only one that is special.
Writers are bestowed the talent to reveal it.
That's the point that differs greatly from others.

Writers

Yeah, I think so.
Everyone has got their lives.
Mine is not the only one that is special.
Writers are bestowed the talent to reveal it.
It is responsibility and at the same time obligation for the writers to write.
I'm just doing what I ought to do.
As if men breathe.

Bible Education

Re:Daniel was a prophet(Score:2)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2007.02.02 2:18 (#17845564) (http://www.blogger.com/profile/11854854 Last Journal: 2007.02.01 2:09)
I think what lacks in Japan's education is a Bible study. In my younger days I read a lot in humanities. However I had no chances of reading a Bible systematically. Now I'm reading Book of Hosea, I think I need to comprehend what Bible says from various perspectives. I am about to manage to stand at the starting point that Westerners stood in their youth.
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Thursday, February 01, 2007

A Question Of Nebchadnezzar

A Question Of Nebchadnezzar
2007.02.01 2:09

'Tell me what I dreamt at night and interpret it.'- That was King Nebchadnezzar's question. Many wise people asked the king to tell what he dreamt, then they all insist they can interpret what suggested his dream was. But because the king said tell him his dream, no one dared to tell what he dreamt lest it shouldn't be his dream.
Only wise man Daniel was able to tell him what his dream was and interpret it, although king didn't tell his dream. Why he was able to do so? Because King Nebchadnezzar wanted to hear only good interpretation from whatever his dream was. Suppose he told them his dream, there might be interpretted in many ways. In his mind one dream must be interpretted in one way, and that must have been a good sign. Daniel looked through his real intention, he told him what his dream was and interpretted as the king wanted, the dream the king saw was only known to the king, there was no reason for the king to deny what his dream was if he were able to be satisfied with the interpretation someone made.
Normally it's impossible for ordinary people to answer his question, only a voyant can answer it. Daniel was a voyant as such.