Sunday, December 14, 2008

Re:minimum rage (Score:1)
by Mer_panacea (1381133) on 2008.12.14 4:50 (#26105089) Homepage Journal
>we need wealth producing industries.
You are right. Tax ought to be used to creat a new job which will produce more wealth.
--Ancient Greek Philosophers -18c Enlightenment Thinkers -Slashdotters
Pascal's law (Score:1)
by Mer_panacea (1381133) on 2008.12.14 3:00 (#26104259) Homepage Journal
I hope trickle down theory would be the application of Pascal's law in a society.
In a boom, all currencies tend to reach the stable standard. We start talking about the trade in one currency. But in economic recession the balance tends to fluctuate incessantly. People start to think it's better to use their own currency instead of using a world currency as euro, dollar. Metro money appears in line with this idea.
Is it good? Bolocked economy, protectionism worsen the economy furthermore. Pascal's law tells us the majority will be quenched more equally if the very rich put up with a little bit.
--Ancient Greek Philosophers -18c Enlightenment Thinkers -Slashdotters
mercedo said...
Non violence is the basis of democracy.
December 13, 2008 8:06 AM
From: [nickname]mercedo[/nickname]Date: Sunday 14 December at 00:10Subject:: ChristianTo: [nickname]mustanropinnddrivin[/nickname]
Very strange, but I can't post a comment in my blog. Security code doesn't work.
[quote=mustanropinnddrivin]even if u do not believe in God...does itmean He(or She) doesnt exist... or is it that His ?Her love is not in your heart...yet?[/quote]
Thank you very much. My God is always in my mind. I'd like to be a good Christian eventually.

Friday, December 12, 2008

Blog / Background of a dream
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For a short term -a couple of months, I was teaching English and other subjects as a private tutor to then high school student when I was at college. She was 16 and she was the youngest of the three sisters. She was very pretty. It was always very hard for me to keep sane and suppress my desire when we only two are in her study, but anyway I taught earnestly. I heard she has two elder sisters. Eldest sister once took me to my lodgings by car. Though my student was pretty, her eldest was just an ordinary woman. I just heard her other sister studies in some college living separately. More than ten years later at my age 33 or 4, I met my current wife. My wife introduced her best friend to me in our wedding ceremony fourteen years ago, and her best friend was the older sister of my student. Her best friend resembled a bit to my student and we just wondered what a small world we live! Since her family and ours happened to live closely, my wife and I sometimes pay a visit to her best friend and her husband and also we often came across in a supermarket. Her best friend and I often talk together a while when we happened to meet. In this case we- her best friend and I never develop love feeling. It is morally wrong for us to sleep with a female friend of our wife and I've never even imagined to sleep with her. But my dream tells me my completely hidden desire. The reason I remain to be loyal to my wife is simple. She has been telling me she would separate from me if I had a relationship with someone. I don't like to lose my loveliest woman. That's it.
Re:Testosterone (Score:1)
by Mer_panacea (1381133) on 2008.12.12 22:45 (#26089297) Homepage Journal
Her family and ours happen to live closely.
My wife and I sometimes pay a visit to her best friend and her husband and also we often came across in a supermarket. Her best friend and I often talk together a while when we happened to meet. In this case we- her best friend and I never develop love feeling. It is morally questionable for us to sleep with a female friend of our wife and I've never even imagined to do so. But my dream tells me my completely hidden desire.
The reason I remain to be loyal to my wife is simple. She has been telling me she would separate from me if I had a relationship with someone. I don't like to lose my loveliest woman. Although her best friend is much prettier than my wife.
--Ancient Greek Philosophers -18c Enlightenment Thinkers -Slashdotters

Thursday, December 11, 2008

~mercedo Posted!
It's my pleasure.--Ancient Greek Philosophers - 18c Enlightenment Thinkers - deviantART Users
~mercedo 0 seconds ago
Is there a question mark on your head? Or are you saying 'How about this?'--Ancient Greek Philosophers - 18c Enlightenment Thinkers - deviantART Users

Tuesday, December 09, 2008

United (Score:1)
by Mer_panacea (1381133) on 2008.12.09 22:54 (#26045787) Homepage Journal
Some might think UN is a part of US organisations. Some people can't tell the difference. United States is unique in that it consists of 50 interdependent states.
--Ancient Greek Philosophers -18c Enlightenment Thinkers -Slashdotters
In the US (Score:1)
by Mer_panacea (1381133) on 2008.12.09 21:00 (#26045229) Homepage Journal
I think in the US, Roe v Wade is more famous than Rousseau's social contract.
To my mind, "Law," and "Right," are different concepts.
Different, but sometimes played a similar role.
I don't know that I want to use my Right of Liberty to modify my Right of Life by inventing a new Right to abortion, prenatal or postnatal.
Interesting use of word.
--Ancient Greek Philosophers -18c Enlightenment Thinkers -Slashdotters

Monday, December 08, 2008

Mer Cedo (1 second ago)
I got a driving licence at age 31. Before that I called myself a living fossil. The reason was I was living but my movement was very slow.
Re:Bail out plan (Score:1)
by Mer_panacea (1381133) on 2008.12.08 21:41 (#26031093) Homepage Journal
The aim of tax was supposed to be helping the poor by the money collected from the rich. A company ought to survive under the rule of free competition. It is against the rule of nature to save the failure in private business by public fund. Government ought to strive for a creation of new employment. The structure of industry has been drastically changing. We all need to adjust to new reality.
--Ancient Greek Philosophers -18c Enlightenment Thinkers -Slashdotters
Transplant (Score:1)
by Mer_panacea (1381133) on 2008.12.08 21:27 (#26031031) Homepage Journal
Limited humans will live much longer than others by repeating transplant of either living or artificial organs.
--Ancient Greek Philosophers -18c Enlightenment Thinkers -Slashdotters
Interpretation of a dream
2008.12.08 21:10

I am on very good terms with my wife.Last night I had a dream of sleping with her best friend. She is very pretty. We have been in good friendly relationship through my wife.I have been very royal to my wife. Is it my hidden desire to have intimate relation with her. I felt shocked!
Why our granpas were a teacher
2008.12.08 20:56

In our ordinary conversation.. what were your grandpas doing? He was a principal, etc.. Oh, my granpa was also a principal...
Between late 19c to several decades of early 20c this country had a lot of wars with foreign countries.There are many cases the job of our grandpa was a teacher and sometimes a doctor. Because teachers were not conscripted, let alone a doctor. As a result they survived in homeland. That's why their offsprings flourished in current country.

Sunday, December 07, 2008

Post a Comment On: Outside The Asylum
"Purpose and Hello"
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mercedo said...
I feel much more humanity from this blog.
December 6, 2008 7:51 PM
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"Catholicism"
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mercedo said...
I attended Catholic Mass three times each in different places -the Philippines and Japan. Their liturgy was exactly the same.
December 6, 2008 7:42 PM
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mercedo said...
I recall the Essenes community.
December 6, 2008 7:15 PM
Re:If he was famous or a politician... (Score:1)
by Mer_panacea (1381133) on 2008.12.07 0:46 (#26013247) Homepage Journal
American sociologist Hannah Arendt wrote a book 'The Origins of Totalitarianism', in which she describes both fascism and stalinism as 'totalitarianism', but I think fascism is different from socialism.
--Ancient Greek Philosophers -18c Enlightenment Thinkers -Slashdotters

Saturday, December 06, 2008

Bail out plan (Score:1)
by Mer_panacea (1381133) on 2008.12.06 23:19 (#26012777) Homepage Journal
The collapse of securities company as Lehman's case is not saved because investing in a stock is regarded as highly speculative and prerogatives for the rich. The case of life insurance and banks is saved because the collapse of them affect tens of ordinary people there. How about car industry? Is there substantial difference in losing their jobs between by major restructuring which is being required for taxpayer's money and in bankruptcy in the case of not rescued? I really wonder rescues for whom?
--Ancient Greek Philosophers -18c Enlightenment Thinkers -Slashdotters

The job of guard

I met a difficult situation when I was working as a nightwatch. A young girl who are working in a room at the building asked me to help because she was kicked out of the room by her male supervisor. It took two or three hours to solve the situation and she was able to get her belongings successfully and she got home. She asked me to keep secret because it was a shame for both her and her boss. And I kept secret completely. I didn't report to the building owner. Because of the incident I couldn't patrol two times in this hour I am supposed to do. I was fired for not patroling properly. I am still proud of my not reporting to a building ower. I was fired because I was royal to my job that was really what I should do. And I had just done it.

Thursday, December 04, 2008

Real crime

Takeshi Koizumi 46 is as old as I am. He reported himself to the police that he killed two Mr an Mrs former top official of the Ministory of Health. He keeps on insisting that his murder was the revenge of the killing of his pet dog 34 years ago by health authority.
His motif is very strange and he will be sent to a hospital to judge his mental ability, though, his real crime was to occupy certain hours in prime time TV. All main political and economical issues that's what we want to discuss were disappeared for a few days.
Gun free zones (Score:1)
by Mer_panacea (1381133) on 2008.12.04 21:57 (#25987593) Homepage Journal
It is questionable to creat gun free zones in a country where basically gun ownership is admitted. Anyone can enter the hospital 24 hours so patients are much safer to protect themselves by guns to lessen the threat not only from their disease. Students at school would feel much more secured if they carry a concealed gun in order to read a book alone deep in a library till late at night.
--Ancient Greek Philosophers -18c Enlightenment Thinkers -Slashdotters
The meaning of holiday has become obscure since we've got lots of chores -washing uniform, cleaning the room, etc.
After one day off we go to work again.
Misunderstanding
2008.12.04 18:46

I had thought that the law rules the world when I was young probably in my teens. Now I am amazed to find that the law doesn't work well in the real world.
I learned the world through reading a book and now I learnd it was a typical misunderstanding. Law is merely a reflection of the real world and the law doesn't reflect the real world well.
The meaning of 'law and order' is law and synonymous word order, but now I see 'law and command' instead.
Unpleasant news of mass dismissal continues. -Honda 490, Isuzu 1400, and Canon 1117.

Wednesday, December 03, 2008

Historically (Score:1)
by Mer_panacea (1381133) on 2008.12.03 21:55 (#25973925) Homepage Journal
In the Middle Ages, people came here from somewhere by boat lived in the first place in their boat. They couldn't land successfully because first settlers didn't like them or just descriminated them, but gradually they landed and started setlling down in a land.
Living in a boat was the very first form for newcomers here in Japan.
--Ancient Greek Philosophers -18c Enlightenment Thinkers -Slashdotters
It is very easy for us to say that something will occur sometime in the future. The most notable one is 'Repent, the end is nigh'. We are sure time will lasts forever and the prosperity of humans will end sometime in the future. It will end sometime after ten years, ten thousand years or ten million lightyear.

Nigh is merely a relative expression.

We often hear that why precaustions were not taken seriously after some terror occurred. I think we've got many precaustions including just a trick. We don't know whether the threat was real untill terrors actually occurred.

Repent, the end is nigh. But repentance never occurs beforehands.

On the other hand, it requires scholastic precision to determine what occurred in the past.
I can't post a comment in a guestbook. – Am I blocked again in this site?

Also, I can't post a reply in someone's blog message.
[quote=kona_yuki_jp]hello,... :) [blush]attempted again on Nihonggo,... desperately needed a comment on my translation [dohh]
don\'t you think i should have used \"scream\" instead of \"shout\" on the second line?
thanks for coming :)[/quote]

Japanese term \'sakebu\' contains more emotional and fearful feeling -80 % than just making a loud voice -20 %, so if I were you I would choose \' scream\'

But this is of course based on personal preference. Shout is obviously acceptable.
I can't post a reply in my blog message.

Even though I filled a security code five times, six times, seven times... Here is a reply for a comment of a journal marriage rings. Sorry for your inconvenience.
[quote=kona_yuki_jp][thumbsup] :D [wow] [lol] [doh]check on ring size again,... [dohh]the English system is so confusing [evileyes]please keep on posting [hug][/quote]
17 inches? I see it ought to be millimetre. Big one can be used in a small size, but this one is too big for a finger. Probably I had imagined a tiara for a head.
My raison d'etre is to write. Of course I keep on posting here.

Tuesday, December 02, 2008

Reflections of a month

Reflections of a month
Dec 2, '08 6:55 PMfor everyone
Mistake2008.11.22 21:14
We need to make an environment that allows those who made a mistake. Because if mistake is not allowed, someone who made a mistake starts blaming or being attribute to other one who actually hadn't make a mistake.We often see this in rigid organisation.

Group psychology 2008.11.22 21:03
Group psychology has some reason since they think majority is right.

Small world2008.11.22 20:59
One of the risks we live in a small world is we tend to be particular about small things.

Allowance2008.11.12 5:26
Our government decides to pay a fixed allowance to each national. Ordinary adults get paid $120 and age more than 65 and less than 18 get paid $200, so average household get received $640.We need money so simply I'm glad that. But what really we need is a steady job, pay increase, a regular bonus, tax cuts. Our government left all these problems and gives us just allowance. I feel sorry but we need to call ourselves a beggar at last.

The meaning of civilian control 2008.11.09 15:20
94 member of air self defence force submitted theses to private thesis competition. Total number of people who submitted was 235. A head of air self defence force got the first prize and $300,000. His theme was 'Japan was not an invader nation'. 9 out of ten people would say no to his idea. But it's just ok to have various opinions, however..it is questionable if it were an opinion of current head of armed forces. The meaning of civilian control is it is civilian that decides the use of force. A head of armed forces ought not to express their idea while they are in charge. It is very natural for government to insist the return of retired money from former head of armed forces. He was fired but received the money of $600,000. I'm not sure whether he returns but I hope anyone who is a head of armed forces keep silent, especially when it comes to political opinions. Please make sure that.

Wind from China2008.11.09 15:00
They say Japan is an industrialised nation. As a matter of fact there are many factories located off the coast. We have been sometimes suffered from polluted air, especially from the one called 'photochemical smog'. We used to have a severe state in that. Now the contents of smoke is very regulated and said to be safer than those of in many years ago. But still we have smog problems. We started claiming that the polluted air is arriving from newly industrialised coastal China since few years ago. Japanese people are good at attributing to next nations when it comes to something unpleasant. Japanese local government regulates the quantity of smoke emission by the degree of polluted air. If the harmful material exceeds the standard, factories have to stop or decrease the production to meet the criteria. Japanese factories increase production again after it was restricted, insisting that because it is owing to Chinese factories to exceed the level of pollution. The gross of polluted material, that matters, no matter who comes up the pollution.

Not yet understanding 2008.11.09 13:08
Her former husband went to mountain to pick out the cloud. I added detergent to the well to try to sanitise the water in it. I really couldn't understand where saliva is from when I didn't take any water. I had thought the car direction indicator was lit automatically. I had thought the antenna is automatically directed to the broadcasting centre. I really couldn't understand the meaning of 'World heritage' because heritage meant all left money at that time for me. I thought all people speak Japanese because all film stars talk in Japanese.
Only later I realised they are interpreted.

Jack of all trades2008.11.09 12:43
Fuji film starts selling cosmetics. Kanebo was established as a yarn company and later it started selling cosmetics. Toyota was first making a weaving machine. Sharp improved a mechanical pencil first and later it went to electronics industry. Sony started making a solid-state radio and now selling a life insurance, too.

Soup in noodles 2008.11.06 23:14
17 year ago I had a Filipina girlfriend. She made me noodles one day and she insisted I drink all the soup of noodles because it's healthy.At that time we had no custom to drink up all the soup. We just left it and throw away.Time has passed. Our company asked us at lunch we are supposed to drink it up all the soup because it's insanitary to throw away into a sink.I now drink up all the soup because I don't like to waste nutrition.We are becoming stingy whatever the reason.

Aim2008.11.06 22:53
Hideyoshi changed his job 30 times before he started serving in samurai under Nobunaga. His aim was to rule the world, not merely serve in one job.I changed my job 15 or 16 times. My aim is to be a good writer.Still long way ahead.

What they seek for 2008.11.06 22:36
Wives and kids seek for stability, security, and reliability. They seek for manly man, not a sissy boy. A wife with her kids who were told from their hubby or dad who came out that he is gay hid themselves.The guy or gay consulted one famous gay that he wants to see them. No way.We need only one woman in a house. We don't need another woman in the same household.

Illusion of smokers2008.11.06 22:05
We entered a Spanish restaurant at 13:40. It was non-smoking hours from 11 to 14.5 minutes past 14, two old women started smoking beside us. Of course I left there.You cannot smoke from 11 to 14 doesn't mean you can smoke except 11 to 14, but means you ought not to smoke throughout all business hours but especially you mustn't smoke from 11 to 14 or lunch time.Smokers don't understand the meaning because they smoke.

The mystery of working hours2008.11.05 21:56
We usually believe we can get more money working in 8 hours than in 6 hours. If we can earn $80 in 8 hours we tend to feel it's natural to earn $60 in 6 hours.That's strange.We can get two extra hours for taking a rest or pleasure in case of working just 6 hours. How can we spend this 2 hours in less paid money. We have to spend extra money in this extra hours. We need a compensation for this 2 hours if we had to work only 6 hours instead of 8 hours in a day.We need to get paid $80 x 4/3 or $107 for working 6 hours. We sell time and buy money in working hours. We sell money and buy time in pleasure hours.

Failure in China2008.11.05 21:07
Famous musician Tetsuya Komuro was arrested for his involvement in deception. He proposed to sell his 806 songs copyrights in 1 billion dollars to a wealthy investor. He had gotten 500 million dollars, but he didn't give them away. He had a debt of 1 billion dollars.He used to earn 2 billion dollars in a year.He had lost 7 billion dollars in Hongkong. He started his investment in Hongkong in Dec. 1996 just one year before the return to China.Yaohan collapsed after its headquarters moved to Shanghai.We people from a small country get overwhelmed by a sea of people in China. China is not simply a country, but a continent just the same as Europe, America. We never understand that.

Mrs Marquise de Sade2008.11.03 11:04
This is a play written by Mishima.Mishima once wrote he can describe more things better in plays rather than in novels.Jean Genet started writing novels first then later he wrote plays.Shakespeare was a playwright.I just once tried writing a play. Just once.This play was performed just once in some local theatre. I noticed after the play was performed. I thought I went to see the play if I noticed it before.Some popular drama has been performed two or three times in a day and lasts for six months, would be watched by many. Mrs Marquise de Sade is not watched by many but few, but the few would go to see the theatre without fail.

The feeling of falling in love2008.11.03 9:09
About more than a year ago I encountered a woman in a local town. I fell in love at first sight. It was actually hard for me to explain the feeling of it in a word. She seemed ideal and perfect to me. I just talked to her a couple of word near her office. Her office and mine happened to be very close and she happened to live near my house though I didn't seek to know exactly where.She started wearing a ring in her left hand sometime after I talked to her. I tried to forget her ignore her though the effort was in vain. All the more I felt affectionate with her the more I tried to forget her.She disappeared from my sight sometime around March this year.It is enigmatic and inexplicable to hold the feeling of falling in love, but it is true that I fall in love with her. I don't know her name, many things on her. It is hard to get over the feeling of it, still I have no way to ease it.

Marriage rings2008.11.02 22:11
We went out to buy a marriage ring. My size is 17 inches and hers is 7. I had many options but she had scarce or just one option. I didn't like the shape of the ring so we didn't buy it.First rings I bought were made in platinum, Acquascutum. 500 bucks each. The second ring I bought for pleasure was made in silver 925. 22 bucks. The third ones will be... not sure yet.We had many options in kinds of precious metals recently. Fine steel, silver coated by platinum, silver with 5% platinum included. But I like a ring made by only silver. I recall Biblical times in Old Testament whenever I see silver rings. Silver is warmer and softer.

Cars 2008.11.02 20:50
I rode several cars in the past. First car I rode was March, Nissan. The second one I rode was not mine but my my girlfriend's that was Benz. Basically she rode it but sometimes I did.The third one was Cultus, Suzuki. This was the only car that I operated the gear in manual shift. I liked this car most. This car was arranged exclusively for my job by my company those days. I appreciated that much.The fourth one was Pulsar, Nissan. I had this car collided several times and had engine trouble after I sent it to a regular car inspection. I had this car scraped after riding only several years.Now the fifth one I ride is Tiida, Nissan.I normally use neither a car nor a bicycle. On foot basically.I have a gold licence holder, which means 'excellent'.

A spoonful of sea water2008.10.24 23:32
Events around me is likely to be events around the world.Events that occurred around me are simultaneously and spontaneously occurring around the world.

Very common remark2008.10.23 22:12
What was your worst job ever?It was being a husband.What was your best job ever?It was being a father. -From the cinema 'Dawn of the dead'

Metaphychology of being cheated2008.10.22 23:51
Everyone is subject to being cheated. Why? Because everyone is subject to telling lies.We want others to believe in what we said, and we know we told lies before. So we are eager for others to believe in in spite of the fact that we told lies.This phychology becomes the energy of being cheated reversely.Others must believe in what we said that includes lies. What others said must have included lies, but it's our turn to believe in them.

Ship house2008.10.21 20:34
We went to see her parent in her home town.There some people live in a small ship called 'ship house' off the island.Back in our house I heard from her that her mother owns house but not land.They lived in a very rural fisherman's village. Her late husband left the message in the way of their ownership in house and land.She lives in a latter-day ship house, and that is what her late husband wanted her to do.

I like nothing2008.10.21 19:12
The pressure of billion dollars made my breath often hard and irregular. I find sometimes stop breathing while I'm asleep.I like nothing instead of millions. I can bear the pressure of nothing but couldn't millions.I am happy to be born with a little.

Linear motor car 2008.10.21 18:57
By 2025 the linear motor car will connect between Osaka and Tokyo in 50 to 60 hours with 500 per kilometre while we were glad to hear Kogoshima and Hakata will connect in traditional bullet train in a few years.Never will the rural people catch up with the city residents.

What makes me deluded? 2008.10.21 18:25
Poisonous chemical substances floating in the sky of Kokura. Monotonous and dismal job life. Happy and exclusive life with my partner. I think I am somebody but not well evaluated.

After the delirium2008.10.21 17:37 ..
Who's cheated? 2008.10.21 17:09 People who tell lies tend to be cheated.
Happiness & Money 2008.10.21 17:07 Happiness can make money, but money can't make happiness.
My world 2008.10.20 23:44 Everybody lives in 'my' world.

Monday, December 01, 2008

Doubt and lie

It's not a bad thing or just a natural thing for people to tell lies.But it's a bad thing for people to not trust someone or doubt about someone's word.Unfortunately our any candid word can contain misinformation or misunderstanding for others. We tend to be inevitably lyer for others out of simply because of the nature of words themselves hold. We ought not to blame others for any misunderstanding including lying. Misunderstanding is also a kind of understanding.Doubt and lie are synonymous. Those who don't tell lies never know doubt.
Hi, Br Hiro..

Thank you for confessing your candid experience. I myself went to the US in 1986 and I observed how sever the race feeling among people there. Jehovah's Witnesses are one of the good examples the harmony of all peoples are well kept.

Today I went to the meeting and your brother was kindly beside me and honestly speaking I was encouraged by the presence of Mr and Ms Takesaka your brother.

As was always the case with me I was completely absorbed in the meeting.
and I was notified the Tuesday meeting will be integrated into Thursday meeting as of next January.

My return will be next March or April I hope. I will keep on attending the meeting two times in a month till then.

I hope our Bible study shall resume sometime next year and it will be dug deeper into the core than ever.

Mer

Friday, November 28, 2008

I can't post a reply to your comment for unknown reasons. I posted it in my newest journal instead. Here's my reply. Please make a further comment if you have in my recent journal so that everyone can share the idea. Sorry for your convenience.
[quote=mustanropinnddrivin]They seek solace or a cure..Their hearts are aching. They want to believe in "a caring" creator but they have in their own heart what they would like to "get out of the relationship." Not a "thy will be done attitude and i would be remiss if i did not say that with out that..one may never get God to listen.. my examples are the prophets...and apostles(though theystubbed their toes too) imagine... as in baseball.. the count is 0 n 2.., back to the wall(hee hee back to the dugout) and u must close ur eyes and let someone tell u when and where to swing...[/quote]

Thank you for your posting for this rather difficult theme. It took two or three days to hold some notion for your comment.
One of the churchgoer I met about two years ago told me the intial motive to start coming to church was the death of her mother. She as well as her sister started attending the church with holding the hope of resurrection Bible promised in it.
The death of closed family member may bring a strange feeling.. The dead didn't exist in the visible world anymore but still exists in the heart of living people. The faith - they believe in God even if they don't see God must be playing an important role to make up for the loss of feeling they felt in the event of the death of their close family.
The motive of people whose member is fatal sick is different. They started coming to church in the hope their family member get recovered from the illness. They stopped coming because they realised it an illusion.
The reason people come to church varies in each case. But one certain thing is they come to seek for peace in mind.

Monday, November 24, 2008

It's rainy today, but a public holiday, so I'm staying at home.

Word and language are imperfect tools. What we are driving at by means of language cannot be categorically expressed well, so we are essentially all lying. Before we stop trusting someone, we need to stop overly trusting the role of language first. It's much better and constructive to give up our putting too much trust in language than to lose our mutual friendship. We sometimes might have told someone a lie, but that is just a part out of many true stories we have told each other. Forgive ourselves.
Let me check! Good job!!
mercedo
3:13pm It's rainy today, but a public holiday. My wife had to work a while but now she got home.

As I sent you earlier, word and language are imperfect tools. What we are driving at by means of language cannot be categorically expressed well, so we are essentially all lying. Before you stop trusting him, you need to stop overly trusting the role of language first. It's much better and constructive. It's much better to give up your putting too much trust in language than to lose your friendship with him. He sometimes might have told you and your former friend a lie, but that is just a part out of many true stories he has told you. Forgive him.


Nov 17, 1:09am

Word is an imperfect tool. He mightn't have meant to tell a lie. The same word can mean always both positive and negative. I would try to take his word affirmatively if I were you.
mercedo (1 second ago)
- mustanropinnddrivin:5k x 5 k 25 mil? let me check.. hmmm good guess

I know a guy who can multiply two large numbers as 3746 x 9852 etc. immediately. He said he can see different shapes or waves and colours in each number, then each number merged into another different shape and colour. He can then tell the number. This is not a magic, it's just because he can conceptualise very big numbers as we ordinary people do in relatively small numbers as 1 to 9.
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Thanks for making a comment .Are you 16? I hope you keep on writing and taking a photo.--Ancient Greek Philosophers - 18c Enlightenment Thinkers - deviantART Users
- mustanropinnddrivin: I could call my self Christian..but not be Christ like. I think we all have a universal instinct that tells us "Christian values" are godly(notice the lack of capitalization). But without God in your heart, there is not faith..thus the values are just words...

Thank you very much. I wanted to hear what Christians think about my opinion and I'm glad to be able to hear that. I don't believe in God. Of course not a Christian. But I feel Christian values are very worthy. I'd like to just keep on learning the importance of it as you Christians do.

Sunday, November 23, 2008

~mercedo 1 second ago Very natural photo, I love it.--Ancient Greek Philosophers - 18c Enlightenment Thinkers - deviantART Users
The whiteness of her undies and the wall makes her beauty more conspicuous. This photo must have taken from one of her ordinary life. All the more it's worthy.
clueless by ~amaury68

Thinking woman

She was writing about something serious.

Pyrotechnics

In Mojiko retro area these pyrotechnics display is held every weekend, I think, because we went there only last Saturday.

Over the strait

We took on a ferry and crossed the strait. Here was the restaurant there.

Picture of Mt Oil

Mt Oil

Momoe







Thanks so much Br Hiro...it was a great day today. I think I was welcomed more than before.

I feel very secured since you took seated beside me. I was able to ask questions after the meeting naturally, too.

I am able to follow the meeting without preparation, or I must say I'm already familiar with the contents of the meeting because I learned a lot about faith before. I thought about it thoroughly so I'm sure I have already fully prepared. Please understand!!

As to translation..since New World translation is virtually a work by one man with four associates. He hadn't gotten a formal Hebrew education. On the other hands, other major translations are the work of more than 100 scholars. One of my very close friend who majored Greek even says there's a lot of misinterpretations in NWT version Greek scripture.

The problem is those misinterpretations made the word of God unnecessarily difficult to understand. I think Bible is much easier than NWT. I feel some expressions are sircumlocution. I make it a rule to refer to 5 or 6 different versions in search of what God really wanted to says.

That's what I think honestly, but that does not mean to undermine the great effort Jehovah's Witnesses have made. I like Witnesses people. Let's try to make progress together. I think we have to keep on changing to a better direction to be a better Christian.

Keep in touch..

Mer
kona_yuki_jp:I agree with what you think. I wish you could write something about "omoiyari", it's one thing i like in most Japanese.

Thank you very much for your comment. I really appreciate that! One of the troublesome problems Japanese terms have is they have to express their idea in a few limited sounds. The term 'omoi-yari' could mean 'a heavy spear' although I know it means 'consideration' The same thing might say when I saw the term 'omote-nashi' in TV commercial. It must have meant ' hospitality' but I thought it ' without face' , so scary!! Do you think we have considerations in this real world? We are surrounded by just too many ignorance. Really nasty age indeed, but I find an oasis when I correspond with a friend.