Archangels

Re:Zarathustra - Original Prophet of Monotheism(Score:2)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2007.05.01 4:19 (#18931609) (http://www2.blogger....00096157591312337186 Last Journal: 2007.05.01 3:07)
Christianity is needless to say a monotheistic religion. There's one God who is almighty. But indeed as a matter of fact this religion includes many aspects from religions in the past prior to them. One of main themes in Zoroasterism is the struggle between good and evil, and this theme was embraced in Christianity later. Besides I believe the existence of many spiritual beings as Michael, Gabriel, Raphael, Seraphim, Cherubim, Ophanim, etc. are an evidence that the monotheism was developed from the tradition of polytheism in the past. In fact, description of archangels abruptly started appearing after the exile in Babylon. At that time monotheism was not common in Babylon.
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Watch

Re:Not a good translation(Score:2)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2007.04.29 20:53 (#18917817) (http://www2.blogger....00096157591312337186 Last Journal: 2007.04.29 5:03)
There are some private school that were found by Christian missionaries. I understand the trinity is the main teaching regardless of whether we are Catholic, Protestant, or Orthodox, so whatever the denominations those Christian missionaries were based on, students who were taught in those schools might take it for granted there's a divinity in Jesus. Since no major Christian denominations do preaching work, there's no chance for the general public to know the teaching of trinity unless they learned it in those schools. So the general public who encountered Jehovah's Witnesses in their house to house preaching work are highly likely to believe they are the 'true' Christian as they insisted.
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Jesuit

Re:Not to mention...(Score:2)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2007.04.22 5:13 (#18825965) (http://www.blogger.com/profile/11854854 Last Journal: 2007.04.21 6:10)
This incident reminds us assassination attempt seventeen years ago in January 1990, then-mayor of this city was shot. He was miraculously survived. He was a Jesuit descendant and always wearing a cross in his left chest, which prevented the bullet from penetrating his heart.
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Gematria

Re:That's not Gnosticism(Score:2)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2007.04.22 3:09 (#18825275) (http://www.blogger.com/profile/11854854 Last Journal: 2007.04.21 6:10)
Yeah, gnosticism means much more than what I stated here. As you mentioned, gematria is the right choice of word.
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Well-said

Re:Victim disarmament(Score:2)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2007.04.22 2:11 (#18824825) (http://www.blogger.com/profile/11854854 Last Journal: 2007.04.21 6:10)
Well-said, indeed.
I'm neither a pacifist, nor belligerent. But I believe you are the only one who protect yourself. It is very true that God helps those who help themselves.
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Wake

Re:after the Tomb of Jesus documentary(Score:2)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2007.04.19 3:54 (#18786325) (http://www.blogger.com/profile/11854854 Last Journal: 2007.04.18 2:38)
Resurrection in spiritual body is acceptable in the country that has a custom of cremating the dead body, however, it's hard to imagine as to the resurrection in physical body.
Besides in ancient times still the boundary of life and death was very ambiguous. Wake is a tradition for attendants to anticipate the possibility of the dead standing up again during the whole one night. The ambiguous dead within a few days in buried ones might have been resurrected again those days.
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On Divorce

Re:How has the reading been going?(Score:2)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2007.04.19 3:33 (#18786043) (http://www.blogger.com/profile/11854854 Last Journal: 2007.04.18 2:38)
Divorce is not forbidden. Paul recommended eary church members to marry within their members. even if a husband is Christian and a wife is not, simply he didn't recommend a husband to divorce his wife. But if she is opposeed to his attending Church, he recommended him to divorce her and remarry a Christian woman in church. -first Corinthians 7: 10 -15.
If adultery really becomes a reason to divorce, marriage means nothing. We ought to keep marital relations in the face of adultery. I think that's the meaning of marriage.
If there are two standpoints to back someone's idea on divorce whether it is forbidden in any circumstances, or permissable in case of adultery, after all Bible was just made use of it.
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Translation

Re:Alliteration(Score:2)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2007.04.19 2:54 (#18785309) (http://www.blogger.com/profile/11854854 Last Journal: 2007.04.18 2:38)
I confirmed your comment is literally speaking, very beautiful, and artistic.
I'm not afraid of reading translations, good or bad doesn't matter.
Today's all English translations or translations in any other modern languages are translated from Hebrew, Aramaic or Greek. But the authors of Bible who used such human languages translated from the word of God that is in essence not easily intangible in human knowledge. Bible was originally written in human languages, so what we ought to do is try to know the true meaning behind those verval expressions. Many translations were a natural result out of our endless effort to knowing the truth behind it.
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Really

Re:How has the reading been going?(Score:2)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2007.04.18 4:24 (#18771749) (http://www.blogger.com/profile/11854854 Last Journal: 2007.04.18 2:38)
Thank you for many useful informations. I need to take a look at different versions when someone refers to the verses according to the translation they use to back his idea. Unless doing so I can't catch up what he insists.
I read New International Version, and somehow I'm amazed to see how different the meaning of verses when I referred to other versions.
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Again

Re:Alliteration(Score:2)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2007.04.18 3:59 (#18771365) (http://www.blogger.com/profile/11854854 Last Journal: 2007.04.18 2:38)
Oh, sorry..I was supposed to write it completely.
I posted 'Those who rule the Internet rule the world' in the main page article, you were some of them who sent me for and against the idea.
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Later

Re:Alliteration(Score:2)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2007.04.18 3:24 (#18770715) (http://www.blogger.com/profile/11854854 Last Journal: 2007.04.18 2:38)
Thank you very much for sending me the first comment in my journal. Remember you sent me a comment in my post - Those who rules the Internet...., you were opposed to the idea, weren't you? And you were also well-known in Marxist Hacker's journal entries. Here in my country, it's 3:25, now I need to take a rest. I will make a substantial comment tomorrow.
Thanks..
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Yeah

Re:How has the reading been going?(Score:2)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2007.04.18 3:03 (#18770337) (http://www.blogger.com/profile/11854854 Last Journal: 2007.04.18 2:38)
I'm reading Galatians...
Which translation do you recommend most?
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Cut the Gordian Knot

Cut the Gordian Knot(Score:2)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2007.04.14 3:22 (#18721933) (http://www.blogger.com/profile/11854854 Last Journal: 2007.04.14 2:00)
I simply recalled the axiom of the Gordian knot.
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Sunshine

It Makes Us (Score:2)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2007.04.14 3:16 (#18721775) (http://www.blogger.com/profile/11854854 Last Journal: 2007.04.14 2:00)
The sunshine at sunset is too hot. The sunshine of afternoon is too strong. The sunshine in the early morning makes us happier and healthier. It is just warm and moderate.
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Wicked

Re:Most criminals are not sociopaths(Score:2)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2007.04.14 3:00 (#18721417) (http://www.blogger.com/profile/11854854 Last Journal: 2007.04.14 2:00)
I am sometimes in association with very religious people. They are fine but I feel very chilly when I hear they say telling a lie, stealing, fornicatin, etc. are bad, usually we take it for granted that those are categorically deniable, so I always wonder why they have to express so purposefully? Those are something that we normally exclude from what we do, those are the things we don't have to be told not to do particulary. We are not a child. Most crimonals might not be sociopaths, but few might be so wearing a cloth of intricate hypocrisy.
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?

Re:it's nothing personal(Score:2)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2007.04.14 2:25 (#18720789) (http://www.blogger.com/profile/11854854 Last Journal: 2007.04.14 2:00)
I have never mind who's my fan's list. My fan's list is used to read a journal of my fans exclusively. Please do not hesitate to do what you want to do. I understand you meant nothing personal for it. But it means nothing to me, either. Don't worry!
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Seven

Re:I don't know but I care(Score:2)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2007.04.14 1:46 (#18720151) (http://www.blogger.com/profile/11854854 Last Journal: 2007.04.14 0:26)
Ok, I am not familiar with this anime though I try to explain as much as I can.
1) What was the "Summer of Love?"
In Japanese or Chinese term for 'summer', it originally means the summit or pinnacle of something. I believe the term summer of love directly means acme in sexual excitement.
2) What is the Seven Swell?
Seven means 'perfect', seven swell means perfect erection, which is a yearning for all men.
3) Is Anemone a Corallian?
Anemone turns to coral after tens of thousands of years. This is a phenomenon Japanese are eager to get a fossil fuel.
4) What is the "Despair sickness?"
Søren Kierkegaard referred to despair as a disease that leads to death. Every Japanese have tanatus, because they know they never catch up with Westerners very high criteria.
5) What exactly is the Compac Drive?
That's what Japanese feel they are good at.
6) What is the political structure and history of their world? The Council of Sages, the Voderac, the wars they keep refering to, etc. They have this army, but no apparent enemy nation.
It's just veyr silly for us to seek for profound meaning in these settings. They all were set at random without seriously thinking about its factual background. All were made out of strange combination of their arbitrary choice of words and immature knowledge.
7) What they heck was humanity doing for 10,000 years after they left Earth?
Such settings are common in Japan's anime.
In current world Japanese know they always meet their match, so after 10,000 years they think they might be able to win.
8) An explanation of the last scene of the series. What is the final resolution?
Final resolution simply means 'annihilation' of all species. This fear is so common among all Japanese. Their raison d'eta has been always questioned since the end of World War II.
(I understand that Japanese anime producers count on Otaku buying and reading all the source books associated with a series, so that they don't have to cover everything during their limited air time).
Otaku(Nerd) culture has been much more flourished overseas than here in Japan, I believe.
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Elite

Re:One question for oneself at the ballot box(Score:2)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2007.04.11 1:52 (#18677721) (http://www.blogger.com/profile/11854854 Last Journal: 2007.04.09 1:54)
Thinking about elite, I started feeling very sleepy. Elite is uninteresting.
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Adam's Family

Adam's Family(Score:2)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2007.04.05 0:59 (#18606595) (http://www.blogger.com/profile/11854854 Last Journal: 2007.04.02 5:03)
Throughout the history of current human beings, Adam is undoubtedly the most noticeable figure.
He started thinking who created him - the idea nobody never thought of before. He noticed he as well as his wife Eve were naked and started wearing a leaf of fig to hide - he was the first person who felt embarrassed in nakedness. He started eating unknown fruits nobody never ate before. He started moving to unknown land that is the first expendition to seek for a better life. He recognised men ought to die. Before him the concept of death was never introduced in their consciousness.
All are related to the birth of self consciousness. Before him nobody was aware of who they are. In a sense we all are sufferers of the Adam's family syndrome. If autistic people have a slightly different view from the Adam's family syndrome, they are certainly under the Addam's family syndrome. I expect another possibility to the development of new consciousness in it.
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Blonde

Re:I never thought of that(Score:2)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2007.04.04 1:53 (#18589849) (http://www.blogger.com/profile/11854854 Last Journal: 2007.04.02 5:03)
The flower of Forsythia is as blonde as the hair of young pretty girls. I prefer blonde rather than brunette, but I'm not sure a blonde likes a guy with black eyes. That is the question.
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Peace & Security

Re:Evolution in action(Score:2)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2007.04.02 17:18 (#18571203) (http://www.blogger.com/profile/11854854 Last Journal: 2007.04.02 5:03)
In 12 century warrior had to wear a very heavy armour and helmet. Thus they need to shave hair in their head. Male pattern boldness was thought to be a sign of bravery and kept on being an objective of admiration. But now I dare not to say it's fashionable.
This is another reason I hope peace and security.
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German & Japanese

Re:German.Japanese(Score:2)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2007.04.02 16:52 (#18571143) (http://www.blogger.com/profile/11854854 Last Journal: 2007.04.02 5:03)
Yes, in many German sentences verbs are often located at the end of them, giving them an impression of a superficial similarlity to Japanese sentences. Yes, for example English and Chinese are structurally speaking very similar, though their origin and development differs greatly.
It's intereting to know that the German learned to speak Japanese fairly fluently. He must have made the most of its similality between two very different languages. How wise!
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The Name Of Germs

Re:Glad you're OK now(Score:2)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2007.04.01 17:14 (#18564825) (http://www.blogger.com/profile/11854854 Last Journal: 2007.03.31 0:40)
When I first saw a doctor, he told me that my thumb might be infected by tetanus and possibly by tuberculosis and he took some pus from my oedema and sent it to laboratory.
I was still waiting for the result of test when I wrote this journal on the 30rd of March and yesterday I received the result which said no such serious bacteria were found. Of course I was really relieved greatly and thought it necessary to correct my description anyway.
The bacteria instead that found in my pus were beta-haemolytic Streptococcus and Morganella morganii, some common germs found almost everywhere.
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