Users

Users Are More Important(Score:2)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2007.07.01 2:04 (#19700279) (http://www.blogger.c...00096157591312337186 Last Journal: 2007.06.27 3:09)
I have an account under the same user name not only in Multuply but also in MySpace, Lastfm, etc. Let's not talk about what is Slashdot, what is Multiply, but talk about how is the main character of the users in them. The opinions of users won't change whatever the site they are.
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Apocrypha

Re:Language(Score:2)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2007.07.01 1:00 (#19699877) (http://www.blogger.c...00096157591312337186 Last Journal: 2007.06.27 3:09)
I undestand all Apocrypha left were written in Koine, probably many of those were written firstly in Hebrew, but those left were only Greek translations. Those circumstances suggest one of the reasons why Apocrypha were excluded from Canon. God must direct humans to write down his words in Hebrew, but it was human who translated them into another tongue.
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God's words

Re:In general(Score:2)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2007.06.25 2:39 (#19628775) (http://www.blogger.c...00096157591312337186 Last Journal: 2007.06.23 16:34)
Bible has been believed to be the words of God. I think the meaning of the words of God is the books reflect the real historical events. So the Book of Judith regarded as religious novel had to be excluded from the Protestant canon. How about other cases? In short other apocryphal books must be written in Hebrew first but we are uable to find the original texts. All those that must have been translated from the original Hebrew but unable to find the original ones were excluded from the Protestant canon. Personally I feel those transactions were a bit strict, but considering the importance of the meaning of the word the Bible is the words of God, the words of God must have been unable to be just the presentation of translation at least from Luther's eyes.
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Root

Re:Try Credo, the board game(Score:2)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2007.06.23 2:01 (#19610305) (http://www.blogger.c...00096157591312337186 Last Journal: 2007.06.22 2:02)
Thanks for the link. This is an interesting game. Christian doctrines were so devided because they were not originated from themselves but were rooted in a Jewish monotheism. Firstly adopted by Greeks, then Romans. After long period of time, those were adopted by various cultures. Many translations gave rise to many interpretations as well.
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Reformation

Re:Close(Score:2)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2007.06.23 1:32 (#19609865) (http://www.blogger.c...00096157591312337186 Last Journal: 2007.06.22 2:02)
I examined each cases as closely as possible. There were many cases but generally those apocryphal scriptures have common characters, that are not included in Hebrew canonical scriptures, but included in Septuagint, Vulgate, many were written in 2nd to 1st BC. Generally Roman Catholic and Greek Orthodox use those apocryphal Bible and Jews and Protestant don't. In short Protestant Reformation was an attempt to restore the Jewish tradition in Christianity.
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Homo sapiens spiritus

Re:Creation AND Evolution(Score:2)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2007.06.19 3:46 (#19554593) (http://www.blogger.c...00096157591312337186 Last Journal: 2007.06.17 22:13)
You are absolutely right. Probably we are subspecies and distinctive from humans before Adam.
If we were able to be a being that is free from the restraint of physical boundary, we would be rightly called 'evolved'. Homo sapiens spiritus will be the next new species. It will need another Biblical day -one billion years though.
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Unit Alteration

Unit Alteration (Score:2)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2007.06.18 2:24 (#19542015) (http://www.blogger.c...00096157591312337186 Last Journal: 2007.06.17 22:13)
We learned we ought not to take the figures in Genesis as they are, some include exaggeration like the earth was created in 'one' day or Methusela lived up to nearly '1000' years old. We need to interpret them as one day is equal to one billion year for example and 1000 years old was 100 years old, etc.
In the same manner it's just fine for us all to interpret young earth creationist's claim like the Earth was created 10000 years ago as one year is equal to 457 thousand years. Then mathematically their claim will be in accordance with the result of current archaeological achievement.
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Difference

Difference(Score:2)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2007.06.18 0:51 (#19541331) (http://www.blogger.c...00096157591312337186 Last Journal: 2007.06.17 22:13)
Those who got bachelor's degree think whether it was necessary. Those who didn't go to college think it was necessary.
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Re:Genetic, not economic(Score:2)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2007.06.14 0:17 (#19491633) (http://www.blogger.c...00096157591312337186 Last Journal: 2007.06.12 2:40)
Taboo is not originally taboo, it came to be taboo as a result of practicing too many times and resulting in some inconvenience that cannot be evaded unless we stop doing or prohibitting as a form of taboo. I think incest falls on this category.
Current humans firstly appeared in some part of Africa 200,000 years ago and it was only 10,000 years ago that humans started building a civilised society, which means 190,000 years long humans had experienced a dark age. My assumption is humans must have had an incest-prone breedings during this period. As a result of this, humans had been unable to reproduce any more decent offsprings unless they had to seek for their mate outside their family. This is the background what I think why incest came to be taboo. So rare examples of incest in a limited lineage or enclosed area might have been correct to consider they are few examples of atavism. I observe those birth defects are both the result of incest and a cause of prohibition.
As to how humans conceive the notion of time and space, I think humans had been too long neither aware of sequence of time nor noticing they are occupying in a certain space. My assumption is their consciousness to time and space must have been much more ambiguous than now, that's what I proposed in my previous JE -Adam, etc.
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Lot

Re:Genetic, not economic(Score:2)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2007.06.13 3:25 (#19480695) (http://www.blogger.c...00096157591312337186 Last Journal: 2007.06.12 2:40)
As a matter of fact, incest was held as a way of insemination in the case of the lack of offsprings who inherit the fortune of their parents, see Bible example. I think it was Lot who was obliged to have affairs with his two daughters for insemination purpose only. Those acts were held out of the purpose, it has nothing to do with birth defects.
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Adam's Findings

Re:Spacetime(Score:2)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2007.06.13 3:10 (#19480475) (http://www.blogger.c...00096157591312337186 Last Journal: 2007.06.12 2:40)
My argument here is it was Adam who noticed for the first time human's mortality or when he was born and he ought to die in the end. Before him, no one noticed humans are to die. This is related to the rise of self-consiousness. Because no one was unable to reach the point of self-consiousness Adam was able to reach, humans used to repeat their daily lives without intension to expand their economy. So before Adam, humans stayed in a primitive barter based society for 190000 years. Current development of mankind is the direct result of Adam's findings of the concept of time and space. This concept is defined in subjective perception Adam acquired first time among humans.
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Suppose

Re:Genetic, not economic(Score:2)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2007.06.13 2:50 (#19480243) (http://www.blogger.c...00096157591312337186 Last Journal: 2007.06.12 2:40)
Suppose those who got a gene defect got married to those who got the same problem in their genes, the kids they had are more likely to got a gene defect.
I believe that incest itself has no significant meaning here, it is simply a sexual act between family members. And family members of those who happened to have got a gene defect. Incest ought to be regarded as just a symptom of those people, not a cause of those birth defects.
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Economic

Re:Genetic, not economic(Score:2)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2007.06.12 3:28 (#19468159) (http://www.blogger.c...00096157591312337186 Last Journal: 2007.06.12 2:40)
I hardly believe so.
Before civilisation, limited number of humans inhibited in a limited place for a long time, where repetitious incest must have done. Judging from the expansion of human population and later development of human civilisation, I must say incest had nothing to do with genetics, but only that mattered economically. Economy kept on being in a closed circle that prevented them from acquiring wealth other than theirs.
I think the first civilisation started only after they abandoned the habit of incest.
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Return to nature

Re:Even if it were legal(Score:2)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2007.06.12 0:38 (#19466053) (http://www.blogger.c...00096157591312337186 Last Journal: 2007.06.09 22:29)
The development of civilisation hasn't contributed to promoting our happiness. Return to nature is now to be called.
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??

Re:So...(Score:2)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2007.06.11 2:49 (#19459075) (http://www.blogger.c...00096157591312337186 Last Journal: 2007.06.09 22:29)
It's hard to say so explicitly though in my eyes, both prostitution and marriage are based on the same principle that is both beneficial to others. I think prostitution exists outside of our ordinary economic system. Prostitution itself ought not to be considered bad, but we observe that the excessive amount of prostitution is not just productive from social viewpoint.
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Re:Even if it were legal(Score:2)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2007.06.11 2:21 (#19458921) (http://www.blogger.c...00096157591312337186 Last Journal: 2007.06.09 22:29)
If prostitution were legalised, human economy would be less active than now. Obviously thanks to the surge of supply side, the price will fall significantly. People don't intend to work as hard as now. I think prostitution forms a fundamental of our society. This rule is based on 'give and give' relations, so no one will be hurt if that works.
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Brown Rice

Re:No, the problem is POLISHED rice.(Score:2)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2007.06.02 3:42 (#19355413) (http://www2.blogger.com/profile/00096157591312337186 Last Journal: 2007.06.02 2:16)
I don't know where you live, but here in Japan more than 99% people eat white rice. Brown rice is only eaten by old people or people who are sick for health reason.
I'm allergic to wheat. -Drinkypoo
That's too bad, some people show allergy in wheat, egg, peanuts, milk, broad bean. If you can't have bread, for health reason I recommend brown rice, though we never had it doesn't matter.
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Polished Rice

No people prefer to eat rice with skin although such a way exists. Usually we eat polished rice. I think now we eat it enriched with vitamn B. Personally I'd like to have bread more in our diet.

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Re:In Communist Cuba...(Score:2)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2007.06.02 0:19 (#19352143) (http://www2.blogger....00096157591312337186 Last Journal: 2007.06.01 3:19)
In Capitalist world, some can allow to exercise their right to the extent that they might leave their lives. In Cuba people can keep on living without spending medical cost. I guess you are eager to insist there's no choice for Cubans whether to see a doctor because doctors are allotted. But you also mention the doctors left their homeland to see patients overseas for free. I don't think we can deduce some conclusions here.
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