All Greek To Me

Re:My understanding(Score:2)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2007.01.31 23:22 (#17827016) (http://www.blogger.com/profile/11854854 Last Journal: 2007.01.29 1:30)
Two days ago I noticed your reply, and read it roughly. I was unable to conceive some idea on your comment. Last night I noticed Marxist Hacker kindly explain the difference. I was able to have some idea on the difference between alpha and beta stages in the development of software.
Greek letters are used in something very novel and revolutionary, so those letters are used in radiation particles, also fashionable so three combination of these are found in fraternity or sorority, so beta stage must be very novel, revolutionary and fashionable, though those features don't explain what beta is.
One thing is certain. Still all Greek to me.
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The Classics

Re:I don't know if it would be considered a classi(Score:2)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2007.01.28 2:23 (#17783942) (http://www.blogger.com/profile/11854854 Last Journal: 2007.01.26 22:49)
I read a part of his description in the Gallic Wars at age 17 and still I remember well. He was known to us first as a general in army, then later a reputable politician, but also he was a historian, and of course fairly a good writer. I think now I can easily get access to his work, the Gallic Wars in English through the Internet. I'd like to read his masterpiece by all means.
I've been reading the Old Testament little by little, this morning I finished reading the Book of Daniel. I'm sure I read the anecdote of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego at age 14 but I had completely forgotten it till recently. When I encountered the keyword 'resurrection' few days ago, I suddenly recall the names of these people. I appreciated reading the Book of Daniel greatly.
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Re:Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego

Re:Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego(Score:2)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2007.01.24 4:08 (#17727050) (http://www.blogger.com/profile/11854854 Last Journal: 2007.01.24 3:50)
Thanks for the reply. Probably the impression was so strong for a boy at age 14, so I might put the story into the depth of memory.
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Britain, Japan, America

Re:Thanks.(Score:2)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2007.01.23 2:38 (#17712484) (http://www.blogger.com/profile/11854854 Last Journal: 2007.01.22 2:05)
Oh, I see.
Both Britain and Japan are an island country and Britain and America share a common ancestry, but apparently they all have different characteristics.
Japanese people think they are a part of the world. English think the world is a part of them. Americans think the world is America, America is the world.
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National Characteristic

Re:Thanks.(Score:2)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2007.01.21 0:41 (#17694698) (http://www.blogger.com/profile/11854854 Last Journal: 2007.01.20 1:07)
This is interesting because these examples reflect somehow their national characteristic. Germans are straight, they don't hide their real intention. Some Filipina are very wise while others are needed help truly. Italians are good-natured, they know they need to do something to acquire the reward for it. You know what characteristic Americans have, because not to mention you are American.
Certainly one person was smarter than any other people. I think I have needed to exclude one example, that was apparently not a beggar.
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Confident

Re:agreed(Score:2)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2007.01.20 0:27 (#17681198) (http://www.blogger.com/profile/11854854 Last Journal: 2007.01.19 3:05)
Many Japanese women were not confident in their looks. Small long eyes with fatty eyelids. Since there's no distinctive lines in eyelids, many women undergo cosmetic surgery in their eyelids to make the line in them.
Their nose is short, so they undergo the surgery to make it long and straight.
Generally many Japanese feel less confident of their looking, that resulted in overall mean performance in their behaviour. Their communication skill is more worse than their appearances, despite those facts, they ought to try to make themselves understood in their candid natural way. That's the first thing for them to step forward, I'm afraid.
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Re:On the other side of the ocean

Re:On the other side of the ocean(Score:2)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2007.01.18 0:48 (#17647016) (http://www.blogger.com/profile/11854854 Last Journal: 2007.01.16 5:26)
In television report I was able to watch the scene of California where frost harmed citruses. The sum of damage in citrus is said to be surpassed 1000 million dollars.
5 days ago we just heard that the climate in America was much warmer than usual, then this time it was hit by recordbreaking cold.
Because of the el nino, global warming? We are surrounded by many wonders.
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Replies To Bunch Of Replies

Replies To Bunch of Replies(Score:2)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2007.01.14 6:32 (#17595480) (http://www.blogger.com/profile/11854854 Last Journal: 2007.01.14 2:09)
1. Economics is not a zero sum game: Not unless you have infinite supplies of resources to go along with that infinitely big ego it isn't. You eventually run out of stuff. True, it might take until your bank account equals the number of atoms in the universe, but that isn't an infinite number either; just an unimaginably large one. -Marxist Hacker 42
Economics ought not to be a zero sum game. But resourses we can use are so limited, so we need to develop new resourses constantly or sustainably just slightly more than enough to back your theory.
2. Protectionism: I believe in local economics first- that you should support the neighbor you know over the third world slave you don't. This is for two reasons- the first is that you're more likely to be willing to pay $500 for a DVD player if you actually know the family of the guy who put it together, and the second is that without providing for that job you're creating local poverty which is a bad idea for YOUR real estate value.
I understand where you put your value and I'd like to think highly of it.
3. There's a correlation between angry people and who the business owner chooses to lay off: Damned straight there's a correlation. But statistical correlations are notoriously bad at showing cause and effect. Sometimes there is no link between numbers that have a correlation. In this case, I think there is, but the cause and effect is backwards: being laid off will cause any human being to become paranoid and angry to the point of being illogical- because the "logic" of economics is directly opposed to their personal experience. Since observed behavior is a superior judgement of reality to stupid theories, the theory of economics should bow to the reality of being laid off.
Forgive and forget. I was fired and laid off just numerous times. They were designed to see only trees but never able to see woods. They were destined to do so. It was not their fault.
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In Dance & Bed

Re:brilliant(Score:2)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2007.01.14 1:56 (#17592094) (http://www.blogger.com/profile/11854854 Last Journal: 2007.01.13 3:07)
When I was seventeen I saw my objective of admiration - a woman whom my journal is dedicated to - in front of the disco called 'The Thousand Queens'. This was my first encounter to disco, but I had to wait another thirteen years actually to pay a visit to real 'club' -small disco that offers soft drink and we can dance with someone in a club. Throughout my twenties I'd never been to such clubs.
At age 30 as if I were an astronaut who came back from the moon. I called on one of the old friends in Tokyo, but I knew he was married. He was the same age as I. I visited her company and one of her colleages told me that she had quit the job two years ago. I dropped by a parent's home of the woman. Her mother told me that she had already got married to a guy two years before and had a kid.
At age 30 I found I had lost many things and friends.
I was just wandering around the downtown without knowing how to find a friend, then abruptly I found the place many people were waiting to enter. I entered the place as if I were absorbed in the charm the place has. The name of the place was 'The Big Apple'. It was a club with a small disco style.
I kept on visiting the place every night and day for 9 months, as if I tried to fill the vacancy once that woman occupied. I had a couple of flings with a woman I found there. But first it was a dance that I started relationship with any of them. In dance we confirm whether the partner is suitable to us. In physically and in feeling, then we go forward to the next step. There I learned in dance we can do almost everything that I can do in other's presense. Then after we confirmed we were able to go to the next step, in bed we can do almost everything that we can't do in someone's presense.
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Illusion

Re:Cosmic Consciousness is an Illusion(Score:2)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2007.01.07 0:21 (#17487774) (http://www.blogger.com/profile/11854854 Last Journal: 2007.01.06 5:16)
I see. That's why autism was called auto(self)+ism. You can stay away from this illusion. You can place yourself outside the realm of the general public who believe this illusion is the true figure of reality. They don't notice this is merely an illusion.
You can be individual, you can be independent. I feel great respect.
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Same

Re:Disagreement...(Score:2)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2007.01.06 1:28 (#17474802) (http://www.blogger.com/profile/11854854 Last Journal: 2007.01.06 1:09)
You agree that men will die physically, thus I have the same opinion as yours. In Genesis there's an account that says God is words. Our words, achievements are a concrete figure of soul. If our achivement in our life was morally good, our soul will last forever in heaven.
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Collision

Re:I wish more people understood that(Score:2)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2007.01.04 4:51 (#17448886) (http://www.blogger.com/profile/11854854 Last Journal: 2007.01.03 2:56)
Germany and Britain fought over the hegemony of Europe and the world. Both countries were an advocate of two similar but different cultures. Germany and Russian fought over the hegemony of East Europe, two represent two very different cultures from the same European civilisation. China and Japan fought over the supremacy in East Asia. Both are of course very similar but different cultures.
The Pacific War between America and Japan is a conflict between two very different cultures from the completely different civilisations.
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Secular World

Re:My favorite Emperor quote(Score:2)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2007.01.04 4:31 (#17448540) (http://www.blogger.com/profile/11854854 Last Journal: 2007.01.03 2:56)
Buddhism entered Japan in 538 and in the beginning the advocate of this religion was rejected severely, but till around 710 Buddhism became the national religion. Buddhism and Shintoism were completely different religion though both faiths kept on being present throughout Japan's history since then. So naturally there was a phenomenon called 'the intermixture of Shintoism and Buddhism' though in most cases two remains to exist differently.
This type of intermixture of religion occurred in Western -European and American countries. Halloween, Christmas are both Nordic origin, and people celebrate these regadless of their origin. It became just hard to distinguish domestic religion and foreign one after the arrival and adoption of Christianity. Here this intermixture deepens even more. Many people celebrate Christmas, New year's Eve, New Year, St Valentine's Day. People are just indifferent to what religious background they have, and these kinds of intermixture can be found all over the world thoughout the history. American value lies in an introduction of secularism and commercialism despite the fact that almost all people attend church every Sunday.
Of course as you pointed out in the case of America, here also there's a fixed family Buddhist sect in each house. But now we rarely know to what sect we belong, and the difference in sect doesn't affect how to hold a funeral ceremony any more. Always a funeral house accepts all religions, which doesn't matter whether it's Christianity or Buddhism, let alnoe what sect in Buddhism.
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The Origin Of Religious Tolerance

Re:My favorite Emperor quote(Score:2)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2007.01.03 22:01 (#17442858) (http://www.blogger.com/profile/11854854 Last Journal: 2007.01.03 2:56)
This view might have been introduced in Western world, but it kept on clandestine in domestic scene. Despite his remarks, Buddhism was targetted by not only fanatic nationalists but the general public and anti-Buddhism iconoclasm occurred sponteneously all over Japan in Meiji era (1868 -1911). This movement hit particularly new born Buddhism, I think traditional Buddhism sects and temples survived.
Back in 1549, Christianity was accepted at first and started prevailing all over Japan. It was 1614 when Shogun Ieyasu implemented Christianty Prohibition Decree, following a severe persecution afterward.
Today in Japan, people hold wedding ceremony at Christian church, at the end of the year they hear the 108 sounds of bell from Buddhist Temples, at the beginning of the year they pay a visit to Shintoism shrines, then funeral ceremony was almost all cases held under Buddhism tradition. But these intermixture of religion had never appeared before the authentic introduction of American value since 1945.
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In Vague

Re:As For Me(Score:2)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2007.01.02 21:37 (#17430658) (http://www.blogger.com/profile/11854854 Last Journal: 2007.01.02 4:01)
Yes, I'm Japanese. But this expression is used in a sense 'You are Texan, He is Dakotan.' The distinctive feature of national boundary has been in vague more and more.
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One Is Enough, Two Is Too Many

One Is Enough(Score:2)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2007.01.01 22:48 (#17421642) (http://www.blogger.com/profile/11854854 Last Journal: 2007.01.01 21:45)
May your year be blessed with peace and joy, and more love than you can handle! -johndiii
More love than I can handle? Ah, I hope I can just handle with one love.
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As For Me

As For Me(Score:2)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2007.01.01 22:26 (#17421548) (http://www.blogger.com/profile/11854854 Last Journal: 2007.01.01 21:45)
What a strange bit of tech-culture this is. Having stumbled upon it, I feel compelled to investigate the more obscure aspects. This "journal", for instance. Who writes these? Who reads them? I see links in comments, but I think that there ought to be more structure than that. -WilliamGoldman
Nice to meet you. I am writing journals here.
Since all my surroundings are non-English speaking area, here is a nice place for me to publicise my idea in English. I started writing journals in English two years ago and for a while I was unable to notice someone had been reading my journals. Actually many people are reading our journals, not only posters of comments obviously. I often write journals here, sometimes read other's journals. Rarely I make a comment in other's journals.
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