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Secret of Islam, Japan, and Coptic Egypt
It is said that first stars in this universe were formed 200 million or 300 million years after the Big Bang.
We live now 13.7 billion years after the Big Bang. So, the ratio of the years is about 55.
Indeed, once in Japan it was said that life is just 50 years long. Roughly speaking, it is worth referring to astronomy sometimes. Yet, Christ Jesus reportedly died in His middle 30's and the founder of Islam at 63. So, Islam might be more humane or natural for some people.
Anyway, there is no such a thing in this universe as 1 trillion years, at least yet, to our disappointment of some sort.
Now, what does not exist in this universe? Your love to poor people?
CHAPTER I: When Islam Emerged
Before Islam rose in the 7th century, Persians blocked the conventional trade route or the Silk Road linking the Mediterranean regions to India and East Asia.
Accordingly, a detour was taken by merchants who traveled between the West and the East. So, Mecca situated on the Red Sea became a center of the intermediary trade to thrive. Many Arab merchants and their tribes living around the city came to be rich and prosperous. However, the then prevailing religions, Judaism and Christianity, did not fit in with their pride supported by newly acquired wealth. Arabs needed their own tribal saint or prophet who could be authorized by God, since they became so rich as Persians and successors of the Romans and ancient Greeks.
So, without Sessanian Persia and the East Roman Empire, Islam should not have emerged.
And, to our surprise, Islam penetrated into, and prevailed in, most of regions under the reign of Sessanian Persia and the East Roman Empire eventually.
Yet, in its heyday, Muslim legions could not occupy Rome to succeed the Roman Empire. The Islam Empire could however superseded the glory of Alexander the Great.
From a historical point of view, it is a manifestation of the will of the God and Allah that the West and the Middle East must be separated. Europeans should not govern the Arab and the Persian worlds as well as India and East Asia; Arabs and Persians in addition to Hindus, Chinese, and Mongolians should not govern Europe. The parallel establishment of Christianity and Islam has implied this will of the God and Allah. Taking further into consideration Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism, and Shintoism, religions have this function to separate peoples according to geographical and climate conditions. As a natural conclusion, Europeans should not have been allowed to colonize the Islamic regions, India, and East Asia, though they violated this rule set by the God and Allah. Inevitably, after WWII, European powers lost all of their colonies in Asia, directly due to the rise of the Empire of Japan in the early 20th century.
The significance of Japan lies in this historical context, since the God and Allah assigned this great role to Japanese.
CHAPTER II: China Teaches Lies in Schools
Some Chinese Japanese, who of course love Japan more than any other countries in this world, wrote that the Chinese Communist Government teaches children in China something so stupid.
Teachers in China tell pupils that Japan got rich because Japanese stole wealth, gold, money, and treasure from China for so many years in the 20th century till the end of WWII. They teach that Japanese success is based on wealth and riches stolen from China.
But, as I once discussed, truth is that today's Chinese success owes to 30-year long Japanese economic and technological aid to China, while even today China violates and infringes $100 billion-worth Japanese patent rights and copy-rights every year. I rather suppose that 40% of China's GDP is what has been transfered from Japan in these years for some complicated reasons.
Anyway, when Japan opened the nation in latte 1800's after 250 year-long national isolation under saumurai regime (though trade was carried out with China and the Netherlands), Japan had a great amount of gold and silver.
To explain it (how much Japan had gold before its modernization or in the samurai era), I would here take up an article I wrote on October 29, 2010:
SECTION I: Give Me $1; Give You $1.6
If somebody calls you, saying, "Give me first one dollar, and then I will give you 1.6 dollars," you will laugh and hang up the phone.
But, in 1736, samurai king of Japan Tokugawa Yoshimune proclaimed so with 150 tons of gold prepared in his Edo (Tokyo) castle or any necessary amount for exchange with circulated gold coins.
In the early 18th century, Edo with one million residents was the largest city in the world. However, those who lived in villages and farming areas accounted for 90% of the then 30 million population of Japan. Farmers were obliged to deliver rice to samurai lords as tax, since rice farming had been the main industry in Japan for 2000 years. After receiving rice bales, samurai lords including a shogun sold them at big market in Edo or Osaka for money.
Yoshimune happened to be the eighth shogun or samurai king from the Tokugawa clan, since he was a relative of his predecessor, though so remote. So he assumed the shogunate in 1716 to come to Edo from Kisyu (Wakayama Prefecture). Subsequently, he stayed in power as the head of the Tokugawa clan and the top leader of all the samurais in Japan till 1745, six years before his death.
In 1714 before Yoshimune came to Edo, the Tokugawa shogunate issued 8,280,000 gold coins of which unit is "Ryou," though a coin is generically called "Koban." Each coin or one ryou koban weighs 17.85 grams including gold in a ratio of 86.8%. The shogunate used 128.29 tons of gold to provide about 8.3 million coins or ryou.
However, when Yoshimune succeeded the shogunate, he had to cope with a kind of deflation. Prices of goods and especially rice were declining, while the Tokugawa government collected rice as tax from framers. It meant a revenue fall for the shogunate.
Shogun Yoshimune decided to increase an amount of circulated coins. So, in 1736, he ordered to lower purity of gold to 65.7%. He also lessened the weight of the gold coin to 13.125 grams. Then Ysohimune proclaimed that anybody that gave back 1 ryo koban to the shogunate would receive 1.6 ryo kobans, since the shogunate monopolized mintage.
In this scheme of 1736, new gold coins were issued in a quantity of 17,435,711, each with a weight of 13.125 grams at a gold purity of 65.7%. The shogunate used 150.35 tons of gold, including retrieved old gold coins, to provide about 17.4 million coins or ryou.
(http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%B0%8F%E5%88%A4)/(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koban_(coin))
Yoshimune's monetary policy succeeded. Prices of goods and especially rice got stabilized, while the Tokugawa government collected rice as tax from framers.
Before modernization of Japan in the late 19th century and during the samurai era, there was no central bank in Japan. But, the samurai government issued coins. This Yoshimune's measures is however regarded as provision of government notes of today.
No matter how difficult it was to finance the shogun government budget with sales of rice in the market, the Tokugawa shogunate continued for further 130 years.
Following suit, the Japanese Government of today can issue government notes worth 50 trillion yen or $625 billion.
http://eereporter.blogspot.com/2010/10/are-not-two-sparrows.html
So, when the samurai regime fell and modern Japan started to open the door to the world, it had gold and silver enough to trade with European nations and the U.S.
For example, in the Japanese-Russo War in 1904, the Empire of Japan used some warships it had purchased from the U.K. to operate them in its fleets. However, after the victory against the Russian Empire, the Empire of Japan started to build all the naval ships by itself using crude oil and iron imported from, say, the U.S.
China, namely at the time the Ching Dynasty of Manchuria origin, could not effectively use its gold and silver to turn it to industrial wealth. Their gold and silver were simply wasted but not stolen by the Empire of Japan.
CHAPTER III: Jesus in Egypt Again
From the beginning, why did Christ Jesus have to leave in history a legend that He traveled to Egypt with His parents when He was a baby?
http://www.esvstudybible.org/sb/objects/map-40-02.html
Is it for the 2011 Egyptian upheaval or the Gaza hardship to be focused on by the so-called Christians in the world?
The path the Holy Family treaded must be the same one as Abraham, Moses, Alexander the Great, and Caesar had. But, why Egypt?
Nag Hammadi library
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The Nag Hammadi library [1] is a collection of early Christian Gnostic texts discovered near the Upper Egyptian town of Nag Hammadi in 1945.
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The contents of the codices were written in Coptic language, though the works were probably all translations from Greek[4]. The best-known of these works is probably the Gospel of Thomas, of which the Nag Hammadi codices contain the only complete text...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nag_Hammadi_library
THE GNOSTIC SOCIETY LIBRARY
The Nag Hammadi Library
The Sophia of Jesus Christ
Translated by Douglas M. Parrott
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Matthew said to him: "Lord, no one can find the truth except through you. Therefore teach us the truth."
The Savior said: "He Who Is is ineffable. No principle knew him, no authority, no subjection, nor any creature from the foundation of the world until now, except he alone, and anyone to whom he wants to make revelation through him who is from First Light. From now on, I am the Great Savior. For he is immortal and eternal. Now he is eternal, having no birth; for everyone who has birth will perish. He is unbegotten, having no beginning; for everyone who has a beginning has an end. Since no one rules over him, he has no name; for whoever has a name is the creation of another."
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http://www.gnosis.org/naghamm/sjc.html
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A year ago or so, the Japanese Sumo Association fired a Russian sumo wrestler for his possession of a drug.
Now, the Association is forced to cancel its planned grand sumo tournament due to exposure of fixed matches by some sumo wrestlers who are associated with gangsters called Bouryoku-dan.
As the Sumo Association is under the supervision of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, it has become a big problem in the society.
So, there are many problems in Japan even among those who are close to nationalists or traditional and closed communities. I think they have to be humble, understanding their position in the society.
Yet, a Japanese can be sometimes threatening even to ordinary Japanese if he is closely associated with nationalists or traditional and closed communities of Japan.
Luk 2:14 Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.
Luk 2:15 And it came to pass, as the angels were gone away from them into heaven, the shepherds said one to another, Let us now go even unto Bethlehem, and see this thing which is come to pass, which the Lord hath made known unto us.