mercedo wrote today at 8:37 PM
(-_-") Duh Blogs

Sorry but it's cute.

mercedo wrote today at 8:21 PM
briangriffith saidSounds perfectly true to me Thank you very very very much!!! Simply I'm glad. It's so encouraging.

mercedo wrote today at 2:16 AM
That's a good trend I assume. Religion merely regulates how people believe in their inner world. This inner world oughtn't regulate our outer very important social frame, that is marriage in form. But in fact virtually it's very hard to find a believer of any faith in Japan so my Japanese girlfriends were non believers. On the other hands my foreign girlfriends were Christians. Those distinctions had no meaning at all on our love

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crime, god, marriage, war Those terms appeared to be in bold letters in tag section.
Those must be my centre of interest that I haven't noticed.

Marriage & religion
Sep 14, '07 1:04 AMfor everyone
In some religion a believer has to find a spouse in the same believers. That makes easier to find a spouse. But once they got married they have to keep on follow the same way of life according to the religion. If one abandoned the belief, the two has to separate.
It seems true marriage lies in different place than religion.

Son of man
Sep 14, '07 12:06 AMfor everyone
Jesus... he was a son of Josef and Mary so naturally he was a son of man. And he described himself as a son of man many times, he didn't say he is a son of God even one time. If I remember correctly he was asked by Pilate whether he is a son of God, he said just 'as you said so' . This is a form of negation.Christianity was started by people who believed Jesus is a son of God. At that time the title son of God was used to refer to Octavianus, Emperor of Rome.Actually a son of God is as good as the alternate name for king.
But if you think the title son of man is a humble expression, you are misled.
Is any ordinary person claim on purpose he is a son of man?
What Jesus wanted to connote was that he was originally a son of God but he was born from human parents.
Thus a son of man is more glorious than a son of God in meaning.

This journal is dedicated to this woman.

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mercedo wrote today at 9:23 PM
The use of the term 'overwhelming' in monotheistic religion is apparently too far. Probably Judaism is more monotheistic than Christianity since some Christian believe Jesus is God. Many religions are henotheistic -nominally monotheistic but in reality polytheistic.

Concept of figures
Sep 11, '07 3:00 AMfor everyone
One of uncivilised people used to count the number as 1, 2, many. For them three and one hundred didn't make difference. They would have agreed to exchange three silver coins and almost unlimited land.
We ordinary people grasp the numbers of one to nine in each different figures. But one genius can grasp the number in each different shapes, and he can calculate answer by multiplication done by their shapes. So he can automatically calculate like 78623 X 1984778 by forming two figures together.
I assume some might be almighty.
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Mono culture
Sep 11, '07 2:04 AMfor everyone
Monopoly or oligarchy in economy is so common. How about monarchy? United Kingdom & Japan's political system are constitutional monarchy. How about monotheism? Overwhelming people around the world are believers of monotheistic religions. How about monogamy? Monogamy is only allowed form of marriage in Western civilisations. Virtually one party - Liberal Democrats has been ruling Japan's politics for half a century. The influence of one language has been expanding a lot.
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Privilege
Sep 8, '07 2:43 AMfor everyone
Religious people often say 'it's our privilege to serve our God'. So I asked him if the use of the word 'privilege' is strange. After a second he replied, saying ' actually it's not a privilege, because nothing gain from it.
Honest.
Tags: privilege
Religion and tolerance
Sep 8, '07 2:23 AMfor everyone
I think most important teaching in religion is being tolerant.Yet I found religious people are not tolerant. They only accept the world according as they believe in.
They try to exclude other than what they believe.I want religious people to know what the essence of religion is.
Maybe it's possible because they are 'religious'
Tags: religion, tolerance

Between scylla and charybdis
Sep 8, '07 1:20 AMfor everyone
Labour cost in China is much cheaper than Japan. Japan's company has them do many manual jobs. American products are more excellent than Japan's product. More and more people are inclined to start using American products.
Japan as a country has already disappeared. Although it might take some time for people to realise it.
Tags: china, america

Double agent
Sep 5, '07 3:29 AMfor everyone
Nothing more heinous than the crimes committed by those who ought to control crimes. They ought to be punished more severely. Because they not only damaged people or property but directly gained profits from them.
Tags: crime

Privilege and right
Sep 5, '07 3:06 AMfor everyone
To admit somebody's privilege follows the infliction of other's right.
Tags: previlege, right

Psychology of wearing 'leggings'
Sep 5, '07 2:02 AMfor everyone
Today I noticed leg-ins are a part of undies. Probably she's eager to show her undies to attract men, but in reality of course she can't. Instead she makes her desire satisfied by showing her leg-ins, which is a extension of her undies.
Tags: leggings, undies

Death of French cinema
Sep 3, '07 2:45 AMfor everyone
My wife and I went out to watch the movie. We were watching Taxi 4. That's a Luc Besson film. In my understanding he was a good director who is good at making an interesting film. We left the theatre after 45 minutes.
Tags: cinema

Cohabitant Trouble
Sep 3, '07 2:38 AMfor everyone
One of my relatives came to my house and keep on staying for a couple of months, without working. She said she can't work because of illness.
No. You can't work. That's your illness.
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Raison D'etre
Sep 3, '07 2:25 AMfor everyone
Wicked people find their raison d'etre to be wicked, and ordinary people find their raison d'etre to be ordinary.
Therefore they never cross. The wicked keep on doing harm on ordinary citizen.
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Bureaucrats versus ministers
Sep 1, '07 4:14 AMfor everyone
In Japan unfortunately the real power is firmly gripped by bureaucrats. Ministers change, bureaucrats never change.
Tags: bureaucrat, minister

Bible harmonises
Sep 1, '07 3:58 AMfor everyone
Bible harmonises because not harmonised parts were excluded from Bible.Bible harmonises, which is tautology.
Tags: bible, tautology

Baptism by fire
Sep 1, '07 3:49 AMfor everyone
It occurs to me baptism might correspond to destruction by God. Baptism by water corresponds to Deluge and baptism by fire might correspond to Armageddon.
Just the thought.
Tags: baptism, deluge, armageddon

Literal translation
Sep 1, '07 3:37 AMfor everyone
Literal translation doesn't work.
English term 'Good morning' is literally means 'yoi -good, asa -morning'But nobody here understand if someone say 'yoi asa', which literally means 'good morning'
Instead we use the term 'Ohayo' which literally means 'It's early'But nobody in America would understand if one of them said 'It's early' instead of saying 'Good morning'
Translation requires meaning to meaning, not word to word.
I feel it's derisive when someone insist some translation is accurate because it's word to word.
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True Superstition
Sep 1, '07 3:24 AMfor everyone
20 years ago in America.
One very old woman told me someone who opens umbrella in a room will be suffered from unhappiness for three years and it's true.
True superstition?
She must have wanted to say that the superstition is true. Not the contents of the superstition is.
Tags: superstition, umbrella

The truth about Asashoryu
Sep 1, '07 3:01 AMfor everyone
Asashoryu is a Mongolian Sumo wrestler who got a highest title.
He was absent from one trivial series and Sumo association accused him of not attending the series, prohibiting his playing two important series.
He was reported as mentally ill, and this is said to be the absence from the trivial series. This is not true. He is completely sane.What makes him nervous was the decision of Sumo association that prohibited his playing two consecutive series. It was Sumo association that made him sick.
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Angel of light
Sep 1, '07 1:54 AMfor everyone
In two different parts of Japan -Oga peninsula and Yokohama, the scene of unidentified flying object was video-recorded. One recorded in Oga peninsula was like a rolling sphere of light, and the other taken in Yokohama was like a stingray swimming in the sky and the size of the shape changed one to five times bigger. I recall the shape of Seraph's flying.
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Farewell party
Aug 30, '07 11:23 PMfor everyone
Top; Head of the group and his wife
From left to right
up;missionary, missionary, researcher(he's leaving for the Philippines),high school teacher, writer, teacher, teacher
down;I don't know their profession. Sorry.
English circle; 28/Aug/2007

Tags: farewell, party, the philippines, teacher, missionary, researcher, writer

Pleasure Boat
Aug 29, '07 4:02 AMfor everyone
On the last Sunday I went to one university where test for social insurance solicitor took place with a friend who took this teat.We arrived at 8:30 in the morning. She's going to take this test until 16:40, so I needed to kill time until then. I went to the famous Wajiro lagoon near the university. I walked and walked along with the lagoon under the extremely strong sunshine. I was the only who dared to do under such a extreme sunshine. I got tanned very much.I was the only one on the land side, but on the bay there're three pleasure boats that were playing ski on the water. Some of a young girl wearing bikini shouting very loud, which was of course seemed very fun.It takes nothing to walk along with the beach. It takes a lot of money to play on the water. I felt envious, to tell the truth.Back in my home, I learned one of the people who were playing ski on the water accidentally drowned to death. He was drunk and dropped from the pleasure boat accidentally when someone cut the direction sharp.The news report revealing that he was a member of self defence force.
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Re:Or perhaps we should all finally stop demanding(Score:2)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2007.09.10 23:53 (#20538753) (http://mercedo-works.blogspot.com/ Last Journal: 2007.09.05 3:58)
God helps those who help themselves. God abandons those who rely on only others.
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Re:They might not ever cross(Score:2)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2007.09.10 23:34 (#20538441) (http://mercedo-works.blogspot.com/ Last Journal: 2007.09.05 3:58)
Unless we have very strong intention to be right, ordinary people are susceptible to being wicked.
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mercedo wrote today at 11:11 PM
Very well-said!!!

mercedo wrote today at 11:08 PM
ullangoo saidwillingness to accept diversity makes you a bad subject for a monotheistic missionary. This is not necessarily so. There are many fanatic beliefs as well as fanatic people. Monotheistic view is not fanatic. Simply not.

mercedo wrote today at 10:38 PM
ullangoo saidThe intolerant ones are those who think they have the whole truth and nothing but the truth: the monotheists. I'm not sure about the relationship of intolerance with monotheism, but I think people who believe in only one belief are less tolerant to others.

mercedo wrote today at 10:20 PM
Yes, in religion there are two main aspects. One is about things of after-life and the other is about moral issue. Yes, there are many religions which don't emphasise the value of tolerance.

mercedo wrote today at 10:12 PM
The relationship of religion and tolerance is indeed difficult. I'd rather have not opened the door of debate as to this. I don't think Judaism particularly teaches the importance of tolerance, yet in Christianity and Buddhism, tolerance and mercy are taught actually.
I think Christianity taught the importance of tolerance, and Christians think they are tolerant. But I think they tend to think that they are only tolerant and those who do not believe in their God are not tolerant. Therefore they can easily exclude people who don't believe in their religion. As a result they seem to be intolerant. This tendency is stronger among people who have strong faith. So in my eyes, the more they are ernest in their belief, the less they are likely to accept other way of thinking or faith.
In the case of Buddhism, the situations are similar. Mercy is thought to be the highest value in Buddhism. Therefore they tend to conclude those who can' t show mercy deserve death.

Privilege
Sep 8, '07 2:43 AMfor everyone
Religious people often say 'it's our privilege to serve our God'. So I asked him if the use of the word 'privilege' is strange. After a second he replied, saying ' actually it's not a privilege, because nothing gain from it.
Honest.
Tags: privilege

Religion and tolerance
Sep 8, '07 2:23 AMfor everyone
I think most important teaching in religion is being tolerant.Yet I found religious people are not tolerant. They only accept the world according as they believe in.
They try to exclude other than what they believe.I want religious people to know what the essence of religion is.
Maybe it's possible because they are 'religious'
Tags: religion, tolerence

Between scylla and charybdis
Sep 8, '07 1:20 AMfor everyone
Labour cost in China is much cheaper than Japan. Japan's company has them do many manual jobs. American products are more excellent than Japan's product. More and more people are inclined to start using American products.
Japan as a country has already disappeared. Although it might take some time for people to realise it.

Between scylla and charybdis
Sep 8, '07 1:20 AMfor everyone
Labour cost in China is much cheaper than Japan. Japan's company has them do many manual jobs. American products are more excellent than Japan's product. More and more people are inclined to start using American products.
Japan as a country has already disappeared. Although it might take some time for people to realise it.

Between scylla and charybdis

The gap between China and Japan has been expanding in terms of cheap cost in labour. The gap between America and Japan has also been increasing in terms of efficiency in system. Indeed our country is surrounded by big market and universal value.
--Ancient Greek Philosophers -18c Enlightenment Thinkers -Slashdotters

Very sorry...I regret to say 'I regret to say' was the correct expression.I visited Slashdot Japan for the first time in 3 months. Sorry for the late reply, too.Now I am usually in Multiply.Check. :)
--Ancient Greek Philosophers -18c Enlightenment Thinkers -Slashdotters

mercedo wrote today at 1:11 AM
Honestly speaking, I was knocked down by your charm.

mercedo wrote today at 1:05 AM
If I encountered you in the train, I would talk to you beside myself.

mercedo wrote today at 1:02 AM
You are looking at watchers.

mercedo wrote today at 1:00 AM
And Tokyo boy?

mercedo wrote today at 12:57 AM
I'm glad you look so happy. It's very natural for us to be couple with someone.By the way, you are very pretty..Sigh.

mercedo wrote today at 12:47 AM
If you lost your heart, just turn to me.

mercedo wrote today at 12:05 AM
I feel like I have nothing for it but to obey the order done by a person who do good as well as bad at the same time.

mercedo wrote today at 11:10 PM
Privileges ought not to be admitted, yet we tend to just keep on watching the strong exercise their special right.

mercedo wrote today at 10:56 PM
Recently one of our young coworkers came to our office for the first time, wearing this costume. I asked her what the name of her style, immediately she replied, it's 'leggings'. But I didn't confirm how it spelt. I thought it's leg-ins, which turned out to be wrong today. The correct spelling was 'leggings'
Here are images of leggings similar to what I intended to mean. Those are either a pantyhose type leggings or rather a leotard type leggings. Japanese women like to wear leotard or tights rather than pantyhose, so their appearances are far from sexy.
Leotard hides their naked part of legs, but made their hid intention appear, that also instigates our imagination -how the hid part is like.

Double agent
Sep 5, '07 3:29 AMfor everyone
Nothing more heinous than the crimes committed by those who ought to control crimes. They ought to be punished more severely. Because they not only damaged people or property but directly gained profits from them.
Tags: crime

Privilege and right
Sep 5, '07 3:06 AMfor everyone
To admit somebody's privilege follows the infliction of other's right.
Tags: previlege, right

Psychology of wearing leg-ins II
Sep 5, '07 2:02 AMfor everyone
Today I noticed leg-ins are a part of undies. Probably she's eager to show her undies to attract men, but in reality of course she can't. Instead she makes her desire satisfied by showing her leg-ins, which is a extension of her undies.
Tags: leg-ins, undies

Today I noticed leg-ins are a part of undies. Probably she's eager to show her undies, of course she can't. But she's satisfied with showing her leg-ins, which is a extension of her undies.

mercedo wrote today at 12:43 AM
Nice. But it's too far from here, anyway..

Re:You got it(Score:2)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2007.09.04 0:14 (#20451989) (http://mercedo-works.blogspot.com/ Last Journal: 2007.09.03 2:52)
Bureaucracy became power apparatus. It often suffers us rather than serves us.
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Re:You got it(Score:2)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2007.09.04 0:14 (#20451989) (http://mercedo-works.blogspot.com/ Last Journal: 2007.09.03 2:52)
Bureaucracy became power apparatus. It often suffers us rather than serves us.
--Ancient Greek Philosophers -18c Enlightenment Thinkers -Slashdotters

mercedo wrote today at 11:45 PM
You mean Nietzsche was neither wicked nor ordinary people. Few people are extraordinary. It takes time to find a sympathiser.

mercedo wrote today at 11:23 PM
Hermeneutics...the word was new to me.

mercedo wrote today at 11:19 PM
ullangoo said"the days of white bread" It must have been called so because during honey moon both newly weds can be dyed by whatever the colour their spouse hope. Although I lost such illusion already.

mercedo wrote today at 11:04 PM
We don't know what exactly baptism by fire meant, which was mentioned as the word of John the Baptist. Some say it's a renewal of faith and others say that it's a destruction by wrath of God in Armageddon. Anyway, it's an interesting expression.

mercedo wrote today at 10:46 PM
Many years ago people tend to believe bureaucrats or civil servants are 'excellent', smarter than them, because they know almost all civil servants are elites, chosen passed through very competitive test.
Once I had a chance to see a test of civil servants. I was unable to answer any questions at all, all questions were academic, or even pedantic, far from our common knowledge at all, plain description and many questions, superficial, that doesn't require deeper knowledge.
Apparently those who intend to be a civil servant are not required to read many books. All they have to do is to know the name of author, what book they wrote and simple description of the contents of what they wrote.
They are forbidden to think anything deeper. Instead they are required to transact bureaucratically and that's why I am afraid they might be going to mislead us. What they lack is vision and perspective. They are short-sighted.

Many years ago people tend to believe bureaucrats or civil servants are 'excellent', smarter than them, because they know almost all civil servants are elites, chosen passed through very competitive test.

Once I had a chance to see a test of civil servants. I was unable to answer any questions at all, all questions were academic, or even pedantic, far from our common knowledge at all, plain description and many questions, superficial, that doesn't require deeper knowledge.

Apparently those who intend to be a civil servant are not required to read many books. All they have to do is to know the name of author, what book they wrote and simple description of the contents of what they wrote.

They are forbidden to think anything deeper. Instead they are required to transact bureaucratically

ullangoo wrote today at 3:32 AM
Hmm - didn't she want to say that it would really happen, i.e. she honestly believed it? I had an aunt who believed a lot of such things. If you gave away a knife as a e.g. birthday present, you'd cut the friendship. And a wallet given away had to have a coin in it, if not all the money the receiver put in it would get lost. And ten more, at least. I think she even had a variety of your umbrella one. Funny.


mercedo wrote today at 3:53 AM
I understand the more people have superstitions, the less they are civilised.Superstitions are simply untrue, but in less civilised society they have influenced a lot every nook and cranny in life. Superstitions often survive over generation to generation, so those who have the same superstitions can trace back to their common ancestor.

mercedo wrote today at 3:39 AM
I like French red wine. Even cheapest French red wine is more tasty than most expensive other country's red. One valueless movie makes the whole reputation of French movies worse. I hope they make a few but a good movie.

oculushabent wrote today at 2:55 AM
Luc Besson has some more notable directorial work... La Femme Nikita, The Fifth Element, Arthur and the Invisibles...Note that Besson wrote and produced, not directed this one. Gérard Krawczyk directed Taxi 2, 3 and 4. I find that action comedy movies usually don't stand up to that many sequels.


mercedo wrote today at 3:26 AM
I had half a mind that this might be the difference between the work of a genius and an ordinary director.


jawtheshark wrote today at 2:58 AM
We're talking about the "Taxi" series here, man... What exactly did you expect?Taxi 1 was fine, after that it became just plain silly.


mercedo wrote today at 3:28 AM
I need to look into carefully before I choose. We don't often go to the movies.


vanja76 wrote today at 3:27 AM
Dear Friend,French cinema was fail because they are hyperproductive,they go in quantity and not in quality.Something like "Bolivood",India cinema.I look before two years excelent interwiev with legend of French cinema Tcheky Kayro http://www.thelin.net/laurent/cinema/photos/la_cite_de_la_peur/tcheky_karyo.jpgwhen he was guest in Belgrade.He also criticized French movie,because in according with his words -French make 200 cheap and bad movies per years.French imitate Hollywood.They made several movies which are imagined like great hits on world level like rabbish called "Pact with the wolves" or "King Dancing" and so on.Japanese movie has a great perspective.In my country in TV show dedicated to movies called "Shockcoridor" authors of show always remain place for Japanese moviese.The last years on one TV station was a "month of Japanese movie".I was delighted how much Japanese movie is fresh,full of new ideas.Best USA horror movies in the last few years are plagiats of Japanese movies:))And what is big irony though Hollywood invested lot of money in that plagiats ,original Japanese movies are still better.Kind RegardsVanja

liberaltarian wrote today at 2:20 AM
Illusory? As in, there exists no instance of a single excellent bureaucrat? No, I don't agree. Odds are that such a person does exist. Rare? Yeah, that's true. But excellent people are rare in the general population, too, simply because excellence is rare by definition. If an organization - any organization, public or private - does not value, reward, and actively select for excellence, then excellence will be rare in that organization. Government is not very different in this regard than private industry.

mercedo wrote today at 2:10 AM
flolin saidLove doesn´t need an object. It is complete as such.

At least for me love requires an object. Love doesn't finish in itself.

Re:You got it(Score:2)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2007.09.03 2:01 (#20442809) (http://mercedo-works.blogspot.com/ Last Journal: 2007.09.01 4:20)
The bureaucrats are your true rulers.
100 years ago they were much smarter than ordinary citizens. But now we are as a whole smarter than them. Is it OK for us to be led by less smarter people? This is the current problem now we face.
--Ancient Greek Philosophers -18c Enlightenment Thinkers -Slashdotters

Re:Heh heh... who said it was an "angel"?(Score:2)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2007.09.03 1:54 (#20442707) (http://mercedo-works.blogspot.com/ Last Journal: 2007.09.01 4:20)
Heh heh... who said it was an "angel"?
It was I who said it was an 'angel'.
--Ancient Greek Philosophers -18c Enlightenment Thinkers -Slashdotters

flolin wrote on Sep 2
Well, this is a very broad issue - love. I think this depends merely on the spiritual level. People call love what is between a man and a woman when they court each other. For me, this isn´t. This is courting.Love is not something you leave home when you go to work. Or it isn´t something you can do later.Friendship requires likeness and appeal. Love doesn´t.Love is a state. It is much more the one who loves than the one loved. Love doesn´t need an object. It is complete as such.

flolin wrote on Aug 31
mercedo saidNow I understand why I've been needing a clever woman. :-)


mercedo wrote on Sep 1
I was going out with a 5 year older woman when I was 40. One of my best friends advised me that she and I were not suitable because both she and I were 'unstable'. According to his theory a woman has to be stable because I am unstable. As a matter of fact we separated soon.

flolin wrote on Sep 1
Thanks for elaborating. I was thinking you were joking. Sorry for that. I think though that the word clever is negative in describing a woman, should a relationship be serious, that is. And I can understand that Kipling meant just this, a relationship in such combinations is something daring, if not impossible. But I´m convinced that we do grow (mainly!) due to our mistakesI realize, I have to browse more on Kipling. Thanks for the insight.