"judgment must begin at the house of God" - Meta-Religion, a Final Solution

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Meta-Religion, a Final Solution

The basic idea on how people are divided in terms of the hell and Heaven can be expressed in the following figure:

Does it cause any serious trouble if you say to Christians that you don't believe in Christianity? Or if you say to Muslims that you don't believe in Islam?  Or otherwise, if you say to Judaists that you don't believe in Judaism?  Unless you live in a community governed solely by Christians, Muslims, or Judaists, it doesn't pose any threat to you.

In this context, it is good to achieve and maintain globalization of the whole human community.  Then, Christians, Muslims, Judaists, and other believers of God will realize that they belong to Meta-Religion.

But, without this sense and understanding, it can be very dangerous, for example, for Judaists living richly in a community where most of residents are not rich while being instilled an extreme doctrine of biased Christianity in.  That must be why Judaiasts were put into the Holocaust in WWII.

The German-Jewish Kulturkampf in the Weimar Republic
January 23, 2012 — 65 Comments
Peter Stuyvesant

The gymnasium was the ‘nursery’ for the German cultural and political elite. Around 1900 it was dominated by the Christian and nationalistic German culture of the day, the total opposite of the cosmopolitan and pacifist ideas which are prevalent nowadays. This did not mean that this culture was unopposed, not least because the gymnasia were not a pure German Christian affair. In both the 1880s and 1900s more than 30% of the pupils in the Breslau gymnasia were Jewish (Till van Rahden, Jews and other Germans, p. 126). A further illustration of Jewish overrepresentation in higher education is the census of 1879 which showed that of every 10,000 Protestant inhabitants of Berlin, 81 had obtained secondary education; the rate among Catholics was 22 and among Jews 350. In Upper-Silesia, the region adjacent to Breslau, the rate was 81 Protestants, 19 Catholics and 423 Jews (A. Prinz, Juden im deutschen Wirtschaftsleben, p. 89).

At this time Jews represented 5% of the Breslau population and were a tight-knit group with a low rate of intermarriage with Christians (Till van Rahden, Juden und andere Breslauer, p. 150–152). Jews were not only a separate religious-ethnic community, but also put their electoral weight behind the local liberal party (Till van Rahden, p. 248). The Prussian system of representation based on census gave the Jewish vote a higher weight than they would have on the basis of actual numbers, because Jews were overrepresented in professions that yielded a high income (Till van Rahden, p. 248–249). This Jewish political influence was felt in the field of education as the Jews tried to breach the Christian dominance in education by proposing to appoint Jewish teachers. These efforts resulted in complaints that “Jews were unfit to raise Christian children into German Christian men and women” (Till van Rahden, p. 235). There was no official ban on Jewish teachers, but Jews were in practice widely rejected as teachers and professors in Imperial Germany. Here we can see the working mechanism of ethnic-cultural self-protection against a highly collective ethnic minority.
http://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/2012/01/the-german-jewish-kulturkampf-in-the-weimar-republic/

This is a very dangerous situation for Judaists in Germany before WWII when no Met-Religion was practiced.

The final solution is adoption of Meta-Religion.




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1Pe 4:15 But let none of you suffer as a murderer, or as a thief, or as an evildoer, or as a busybody in other men's matters.
1Pe 4:16 Yet if any man suffer as a Christian, let him not be ashamed; but let him glorify God on this behalf.
1Pe 4:17 For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God?

"he came to Nazareth" - Two Conflicting Religions

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Two Conflicting Religions

The Holocaust is one of the most important incidents in the human history.

It was apparently triggered by a religious conflict between Christianity and Judaism, since Judaists never admitted that Christ Jesus was God, which was the most critical basis for Christianity.  But first of all, Judaists did not think even that Christ Jesus was a messiah or a holy savior.

Judaism generally views Jesus as one of a number of false messiahs who have appeared throughout history.[1] Jesus is viewed as having been the most influential, and consequently the most damaging, of all false messiahs.[2] However, since the mainstream Jewish belief is that the Messiah has not yet come and that the Messianic Age is not yet present, the total rejection of Jesus as either messiah or deity in Judaism has never been a central issue for Judaism. At the heart of Judaism are the Torah, its commandments, the Tanakh, and ethical monotheism such as in the Shema — all of which predated Jesus.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judaism%27s_view_of_Jesus

Judaists were telling as a matter of fact to Christians that Christians were fools to regard a man who could not be even a messiah as God.  It was a big insult to Christians.  So, Christians and the Vatican before WWII had a motivation to attack Judaists as they had had it even before the rise of Hitler for the preceding 1900 years.

The conception of God in Judaism is strictly monotheistic. God is an absolute one, indivisible and incomparable being who is the ultimate cause of all existence. Jewish tradition teaches that the true aspect of God is incomprehensible and unknowable, and that it is only God's revealed aspect that brought the universe into existence, and interacts with mankind and the world. In Judaism, the one God of Israel is the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, who is the guide of the world, delivered Israel from slavery in Egypt, and gave them the 613 Mitzvot at Mount Sinai as described in the Torah.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_in_Judaism

Put extremely, it is impossible for a Christian, a Christian priest, or a Pope to live with a Judaist as a neighbor.  If they live as neighbors while trying to show superiority against another, they will all the time discuss divine nature of Christ Jesus.  And they will never accept a view of the other party.

However this relationship is not equal.  The Christian must be hurt more than the Judaist.  The God for the Christian is called a mere man by the Judaist, while the God of  the Judaist is regarded as God for the Christian in another form.  It is not fair at all for the Christian.  It is like a stone a Judaist throws away is treated as a jewel by a Christian.  It is a big insult to the Christian.

If Christians followed its theory that Christ Jesus is God and whoever does not believe will be punished, they would drive Judaists out of their community.  So, in a community where Christians are majority and hold power, Judaists would not loudly express their religious view.  And as long as Judaists do not provoke powerful Christians around them, they would be safe.  But even if Judaists kept very low-key attitudes, they could face a danger of being attacked by Christians who consider this matter in a very strict manner or in an extreme way.  Hitler and Nazis brought about this extreme and dangerous situation to Judaists in Germany and other parts of Europe in and before WWII.  

Hitler, the Christian 

Hitler not only got brought up as a Catholic Christian, but he expressed his Christian views into adulthood, including his period as Chancellor of the German Third Reich. One only need read Mein Kampf to see the extent of his Biblical beliefs. The German populace knew well about Hitler's book and it became a best-seller second only to the Bible. Furthermore, Hitler expressed his Christian feelings even more intensely in his speeches and proclamations throughout his power reign.
Although Hitler did not attend church regularly and later criticized the Church for their rejection of his reformation of a unified German Church, at no time did Hitler criticize God or Jesus. He always maintained an honor and belief in Jesus. This alone put him as a Christian believer. But Hitler went beyond just belief in Jesus; he devoted his entire political life to deeds aimed at creating a race of people in the pure image of God.

Some claim that Hitler lied when promoting religion, for political reasons (without citing a shred of evidence), but nothing in the historical record indicates this, nor would there appear any reason for him to do so. Even if he lied in Mein Kampf, why would he continue to consider himself a Christian after he held absolute German power? Why spend so much valuable resources to rid Germany of Jews if not from some profound justification? Hate of Jews alone cannot explain it. The hate must stem from some source and the historical record shows that anti-Judaism had long lived in the minds of Christians ever since Paul separated his community of believers from the law and people of Judaism. 

Just as revealingly, not only did Hitler present his religious beliefs in his speeches, but his own private notes reveal the influence of the Bible, long before he came into power. In one of his notes, he describes the Bible as the monumental history of mankind and used the old testament race laws as the foundation for his views against the Jews, which later turned into the Nazi Nuremberg race laws [Maser, p.282]

Hitler must have found that he could claim that Judaists despised and insulted Christians by calling the God of Christians as a mere man.  The supreme existence for Christians, Christ Jesus, was just a fellow man among Judaists.  So, Christians were put under all the Judaiasts, Hitler must have thought.   Accordingly Hitler hated Judaists as enemies of his religion he believed to be true Christianity or something like that.

So, the core of the Holocaust is why Judaists did not reasonably understand the danger of living surrounded by Christians.  The two conflicting religions should not be exercised in one community where religion is respected so much, no matter how large the community is like Germany before WWII.

But, as so many Judaists are now living peacefully and richly in the US, Christianity and Judaism in the US might not be the two conflicting religions any more there.



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Luk 4:16 And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up: and, as his custom was, he went into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and stood up for to read.

"they conferred among themselves" - Shroud Wrapped round the Body

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Shroud Wrapped round the Body

One important point about the Holy Shroud of Turin is that the image of the person is too fairly displayed without a distortion or a warp.

If the shroud had been placed on the person closely touching his skin all around, his image must look deformed when the shroud was opened, extended and placed flatly on the ground or a table.

If you wrap your face in a cloth and your face is copied onto the cloth, you would see a deformed face on the cloth as it is opened and placed on a table flatly.

To take the image of the person under the shroud as it is, the shroud must have been placed above his body like a long and hard mirror stretching his head to the toe.  There must not be flexure on the shroud.  To get such a photo-like image of the body, the shroud must be just like a tight canvas without touching or wrapping his body softly along the curve of his body.    

A following test image is of a small statue heated and placed on a sheet of paper:

 http://shroudofturinwithoutallthehype.wordpress.com/2013/11/14/a-challenging-scorch-assignment-that-i-had-been-putting-off-and-off-and-off/

If the sheet of paper was wrapped around the statute, you could not get the images in the above figure without distortion and deflection.  Even the side portions of the body must be printed there.

So, the image of the person must have bee imprinted when somebody pulled the shroud to horizontally tighten it above and in parallel with the body so that the body under is printed to the shroud like an image taken to a film.  Indeed a film in a camera is set and tighten without distortion and deflection.

This thinking leads to inference on how the image was taken onto the shroud.

When the shroud was wrapped round the body of the person, there was no printing effect. But some blood must be taken onto the shroud from the body.  Then somebody got into the tomb where the dead body was placed.  He held the end of the shroud to pull upward and tighten it  above and in parallel with the body.  Then the air in the tomb entered the space between the dead body and the shroud.  Probably, heat was accumulating around the dead body as the person was in the process of resurrection.  Power of life was returning to him, generating heat.

This heat simply resided in the space around his dead body under the shroud till the mysterious man came to the tomb on the third day after the crucifixion.  Then the man lifted a little and tightened horizontally the shroud to make a gap between the body and the shroud.  Cool air flew into the space between the body generating heat and the shroud being heated but not taking a picture of the body yet.  Heat cooled the body and the shroud, but the body was still generating heat.  Then some effect occurred to imprint the figure of the body on the surface of the shroud being stretched and heated again.

Probably the time it took for this imprinting must have been very short.  When the body was still covered, the heat must be just above his body and on the appressed shroud along with the shape of his body.  It must be like a close envelope.  However, as the image on the shroud is not deformed as we see today, the image was not yet imprinted on the surface of the shroud.

But when they touched the cool air flowing in between the body and the shroud that were being taken apart a little, the heat whose intensity followed the shape of the body imprinted itself on the shroud without deformation.  Then the shape of the body appeared on the shroud.

So, the issue is that what temperature and what ingredients in the space between the body and shroud before the influx of the cool environmental air are needed to transfer the image of the body or the source of the heat to the shroud after the shroud is cooled and heated again.  The body of Christ Jesus must have discharged some special chemical ingredients to the space around it before the shroud was uplifted and stretched above the body.  And, science might find some candidate chemicals.

 http://www.llanoestacado.org/freeinquiry/skeptic/shroud/articles/freeman_shroud_edessa_misguided_journey/

http://www.zazzle.com/shroud+of+turin+posters


In addition, if radiation had been emitted from the inside of the body, it must have been output vertically from his skin.  It must have radiated vertically along the curve of the body.  It could not constitute a clear body shape on the shroud if it had directly contributed to the formation of the shape on the shroud.

But energy from the body must have been out of his body to stay around it in the form of heat around the body and on the internal surface of the shroud reflecting his body shape.  But the image of the body was not yet imprinted on the shroud while the shroud wrapped the body along its curve.  However, when someone pulled and stretched the shroud, it postured as a mirror to the body generating heat.  And at the time, the image was imprinted along with cool air coming in between the body and the shroud.

The back side of the body must be also under the same effect of the coming cool air.  But the portion of shroud directly above the floor must have not been warped but have been rather straight and planer.  The imprinting must have been done easily without a warp when the cool air also filled the narrow space to cool the shroud and then the shroud was heated again by the body generating heat    


(1)
   Shroud Warped and Heated
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   Body Generating Heat

(2)
   Shroud Stretched and Cooled
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   Cool Air Coming in
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   Body Generating Heat

(3)
   Shroud Tightened and Heated again and Image Imprinted
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   Air Heated
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   Body Generating Heat



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Act 4:13 Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and perceived that they were unlearned and ignorant men, they marvelled; and they took knowledge of them, that they had been with Jesus.
Act 4:14 And beholding the man which was healed standing with them, they could say nothing against it.
Act 4:15 But when they had commanded them to go aside out of the council, they conferred among themselves,
Act 4:16 Saying, What shall we do to these men? for that indeed a notable miracle hath been done by them is manifest to all them that dwell in Jerusalem; and we cannot deny it.

"beyond Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles" - Social Progress Index

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Social Progress Index

The world is now at risk of being adversely led by some countries that have mighty military power but poor social merit.

But those countries, such as the US, China, and Russia, are not necessarily advanced in terms of social progress though they have a lot of wealthy people who control their domestic politics.

For example, China ranked the 90th is behaving like a leader in Asia while the degree of its social progress is worse than Mongolia.  China should develop its society rather than intimidating other countries around the East China Sea and the South China Sea.  Russia at the 80th is intimidating Ukraine evaluated as the 62nd.  Russia should improve its society rather than trying to invade Ukraine.

The Social Progress Index measures the extent to which countries provide for the social and environmental needs of their citizens. Fifty-two indicators in the areas of basic human needs, foundations of wellbeing, and opportunity show the relative performance of nations. The index is published by the nonprofit Social Progress Imperative, and is based on the writings of Amartya Sen, Douglass North, and Joseph Stiglitz.

Countries by Social Progress Index - Ranking

 New Zealand 1 

 Switzerland 2 

Iceland      3 

Netherlands 4 

Norway 5 

Sweden 6   

Canada 7   

Finland    8   

Denmark 9   

Australia 10   

Austria       11   

Germany       12

United Kingdom 13 

Japan 14

Ireland  15   

United States 16   

Belgium         17

...
France 20
...
Poland 27 

South Korea 28  

Italy         29
...
Greece 35
...
Israel 39
...
Malaysia         45 

Brazil 46
...
Mexico 54 

Peru         55

Philippines  56
...
Thailand    59 

... 

Ukraine         62
...
Turkey 64 

Saudi Arabia 65
...
South Africa 69
...
Russia 80
...
Egypt 84 

Sri Lanka         85
...
Indonesia         88 

Mongolia         89  

China 90

...
Iran                   94
...
Bangladesh 99 

Cambodia         100 

Nepal 101 

India         102
...
Rwanda 105
...
Iraq           118 

...

Pakistan     124 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Progress_Index

It might be also shocking to see that Israel (39) and Saudi Arabia (65) are placed lower than Greece (35) that triggered the euro crisis.  One the worst Christina countries is better than the leader of Islamic nations and the sole Judaist nation.

The World Cup Soccer Games do not seem to improve much society of South Africa (69) and Brazil (46) as they are judged lower than Malaysia (45) that has triggered a mysterious air incident very recently.

And as is seen in most of this kind of statistics, small European countries around major ones, such as Germany and France, are ranked higher.  They are protected by NATO; they don't have to spend much in independent national security and energy development, while they ca easily have access to advanced industrial and social/cultural infrastructures of other members of the EU.

But it is interesting that New Zealand has the highest score.  This Anglo-Saxon-based nation in the South Hemisphere has no enemy countries that are situated close and threatening with military superiority.  But how much can New Zealand contribute to development of the world?

What is more important is Contribution to Global Social Progress than social progress of its own for any country.  





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Mat 4:13 And leaving Nazareth, he came and dwelt in Capernaum, which is upon the sea coast, in the borders of Zabulon and Nephthalim:
Mat 4:14 That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Esaias the prophet, saying,
Mat 4:15 The land of Zabulon, and the land of Nephthalim, by the way of the sea, beyond Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles;
Mat 4:16 The people which sat in darkness saw great light; and to them which sat in the region and shadow of death light is sprung up.

"Whosoever drinketh of this water"

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Joh 4:13 Jesus answered and said unto her, Whosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst again:
Joh 4:14 But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.

"Now when Jesus had heard" - What is Abenomics?

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What is Abenomics?

Whatever it is, it has increased financial assets of wealthy Japanese and foreign investors as the following figure on the trend of Nikkei Index of the Tokyo Stock Exchange tells.

This rise of the Tokyo Stock index by Abenomics has been a direct consequence of the drastic fall of the value of the yen against the US dollar.  As the Bank of Japan started to supply abundant yen to the financial market through purchase of government bonds circulated there in March 2013, the yen became weaker so suddenly from 85 yen to 100 yen per dollar.

So, Abenomics is not yet fully backed by an economic boom in Japan.  It is a result of monetary operation by the central bank of Japan.  Due to increase in financial assets of businesses, some major businesses have started to increase wages.

But, the policy focus of the Abe Administration is on ending 15-year-long deflation.  It means an increase in prices.  However, if financial assets have been multiplied and prices of goods have risen, Japanese consumers and taxpayers will not be satisfied without a sufficient increase in wages and incomes.

The yen has become weaker; stock prices have risen; prices are in the upward trend accelerated by a consumption-tax rate increase from 5% to 8%, but we will see if Japanese workers can enjoy a pay hike, which means ending of deflation for them in 2014.



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Mat 4:11 Then the devil leaveth him, and, behold, angels came and ministered unto him.
Mat 4:12 Now when Jesus had heard that John was cast into prison, he departed into Galilee;
Mat 4:13 And leaving Nazareth, he came and dwelt in Capernaum, which is upon the sea coast, in the borders of Zabulon and Nephthalim:
Mat 4:14 That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Esaias the prophet, saying,
Mat 4:15 The land of Zabulon, and the land of Nephthalim, by the way of the sea, beyond Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles;
Mat 4:16 The people which sat in darkness saw great light; and to them which sat in the region and shadow of death light is sprung up.

"the mystery of the kingdom of God" - Reality of Decontamination Work in Fukushima

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Reality of Decontamination Work in Fukushima

Decontamination around the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant is going on.

It is unbelievably exhausting work by human hands.  The central government of Japan decided to carry out all-out decontamination work in roads, public facilities, agricultural facilities and fields, drainage structure, individual houses and affixed gardens, etc. around the Plant.  The Ministry of Environment issued a guideline for this work. (http://www.env.go.jp/jishin/rmp/attach/josen-gl-full_ver2.pdf)

The central government has been directly in charge of decontamination in 11 hard-hit cities, towns, and villages close to the Plant.  The Fukushima Prefectural office has taken responsibility in conducting or supervising decontamination projects in other 36 autonomous bodies.

They totally cover 235,208 houses, 5,335 km roads, 24,067 hectares of agricultural fields, and 4,085 hectares of forests and woods near residential areas or industrial areas.

Each decontamination task for a house, a field, or a section of a road is ordered to a vendor.  A vendor hires workers who are expected to carry out manual decontamination work using some tools.

In the guidance document, locations and corners in a house to be focused on in decontamination work are specified as below.

According to a rule the Government specified, each worker should record a dosage he has received in each work from radioactive materials.  The allowable limit of a dosage per man per year is 50 mSv.  In five years, the maximum limit is 100 mSv.  As an ordinary person is allowed to be exposed to radiation up to 1 mSv per year, decontamination workers take a big risk on their health.

But as a contractor uses a subcontractor that might also hire other companies, it is not expected that this rule is strictly applied.  What is worse, there is no legal penalty to violation of the request to correctly and honestly keep a record of an amount of exposure to radiation per worker.  If a vendor has come into a situation where all the workers it employs have exceeded the allowable exposure amount, it cannot contract to do contamination work.  Vendors would naturally put lower figures in their report to regulatory agencies.  

The total amount estimated for this large-scale decontamination work is about $50 billion.  Each worker is reportedly paid a day wage of $100 to $150.

In three years, many houses have been decontaminated or applied decontamination work to.  And some towns have started to lift a ban on living for their residences.  But, as a whole, decontamination in the Prefecture is delayed for various and practical reasons.  It is expected that the work will be completed around 2017.  Nonetheless, a decontaminated house does not show a state of decreased radiation at a level of a house, for example, in Tokyo.　

As an example, a house in Naraha Town marked 0.85 uSv before decontamination but showed a decrease to 0.44 uSv after decontamination (while Tokyo records less than 0.1 uSv nowadays).  They say that the work has lowered the dosage level by almost 48% in Naraha.  

So, some evacuees are starting to return to their old houses located 20 km or more from the Fukushima Daiichi Plant as radiation dosage has decreased to some extent.  But still there are 130,000 evacuees from their homes in Fukushima Prefecture due to the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Accident which was set off on March 11, 2011.



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Mar 4:11 And he said unto them, Unto you it is given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God: but unto them that are without, all these things are done in parables:

"He shall give his angels charge over thee" - Apocalyptic Prophecy and Wealth Distribution

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Apocalyptic Prophecy and Wealth Distribution  

In this money-controlled world, we can easily see how much and where wealth is exchanged and generated by focusing on major security exchanges in the world.

Each column of a stack exchange in the above figure shows an amount of transaction for each year between 1998 and 2013.  The right blue bar for each exchange indicates an amount for 2013.

Specifically, as of October 2013, the total of the market value in all the stock exchanges in the world reached $63 trillion.

Indeed, those who live on $1.25 per day accounted for 22% of the global population in 2008.  It corresponded to one billion 290 million, but the number of the poor in the world was one billion 940 million in 1981.  In 1981, a half of population in developing countries was poor.

This must be the reason why mankind can still survive on the earth.  Wealth has been distributed into more wider regions.  But detailed data tells that most of those who have escaped poverty are Chinese.

In this context, the US and China are the two most responsible nations in terms of responsibility of one who occupies a majority of wealth in the world, at least financial assets, and another who has been rising out of poverty.

As for Japan, it is also responsible, since it has been the key nation to economic development of China.  China has succeeded in development of its industries by importing and introducing technologies and funds from Japan legally and illegally.  It is apparent that without help from Japan in these decades China could not achieve that scale of economic success.
 
The US is the most Christian nation among the three at issue.  Its failure means also a failure of Christianity.  China is a country whose society was unified through adoption of the communist ideology and socialist systems that were both first formulated in Europe.  Chinese failure will mean that of those European-born philosophies.  In contrast, Japan has balanced itself on traditional Japanese spiritualism and American-style democracy introduced after WWII.  

However, it is impossible for only one strong nation or one block of nations survives in the 21st century.  The globalization economy has made all the nations share the same fate.  We have to take into consideration the global economy and politics from one level above that where we are used to observing the world so far.

The apocalyptic prophecy is concerned with the whole world.




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Luk 4:10 For it is written, He shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee:
Luk 4:11 And in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone.
Luk 4:12 And Jesus answering said unto him, It is said, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.

"All these things will I give thee" - American Religion

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American Religion

It is said that the Italian Mafia in the US had a wider ethnic support base but Jewish gangs did not have.

Rather the Jewish community in the US has had made a reasonable effort to stop bad influences of Jewish gangsters on the general Jewish community.

Of course Italian Americans must have a special feeling to the Vatican while Jewish Americans have a specific pride in their status in the human history.  Their views of the US society must be very different if the both group of people have a common sense of being not a main-stream group in the US.  But they have accepted the American way of living and social structure.  They have eventually adapted themselves to the society of American democracy and American Dream through unique ways, respectively.

According to the word of Christ Jesus, a new religion is needed in a new world.  So, Protestants have been given chances enough to fully expand their religious activities and thoughts in America since the era of Columbus.  The reason why the US has achieved great success in history consists in it.  The great freedom in religion assures great chances for academic and business success.

But for the US to have become a super-power in the world, it must have achieved a great degree of religious tolerance, tolerating Catholicism and Judaism, as well as elimination of racism.  This movement finally fuse together those religions and various denominations together into the American Religion, so to speak.    

Now under the American Religion, Protestantism, Catholicism, and Judaism are still active as critical elements of the society.  They all use the magic term God to show their spiritual ties.

But America must also take Islam into their society as a legitimate element of the American Religion.  It is the religious conclusion of the War on Terror that was triggered by the 9/11 Terror.  And, in future, it would need to take Taoism, Hinduism, and Buddhism if it should allow Chinese, Indians, and East or Southeast Asians to become fair members of the American society.

The last group of people in the world to be included in the American society with their own religious root must be Japanese.  Japanese Spiritualism is only meaningful in Japan.  In this context, there is a possibility that in the end in this world there will only remain the American Religion and Japanese Spiritualism.

But what is the Japanese Spiritualism?  Probably it is a religion that has significance of existence especially against the American Religion.



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Mat 4:8 Again, the devil taketh him up into an exceeding high mountain, and sheweth him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them;
Mat 4:9 And saith unto him, All these things will I give thee, if thou wilt fall down and worship me.
Mat 4:10 Then saith Jesus unto him, Get thee hence, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.

"some thirty, and some sixty, and some an hundred" - Japanese Invented Flash Memory

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 Japanese Invented Flash Memory

In 1980s, Japan became the number-one semiconductor country, though Intel was leading the microprocessor field.

However, today Japan cannot enjoy the status as it did before.  Major Japanese semiconductor manufacturers are also large electronics companies that deliver various electronic products for consumers and industry users, including TVs, refrigerators, and nuclear plant equipment.  They did not put the highest priority in semiconductors.  Those Japanese makers were also contaminated by red-tape management and bureaucratic processes.  They had almost nothing to do with the venture spirit.  Accordingly, some Japanese engineers in major companies, their subsidiary companies, or even their vendors became frustrated.

Accordingly, Chinese, Taiwanese, and South Korean businesses never turned a blind eye to this situation in the Japanese industry.  These Asian makers tried everything to gain access to Japanese advanced technologies, virtually stealing key technical information.

March 13, 2014 6:39 pm JST
Man arrested for allegedly giving Toshiba data to South Korean company

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Tokyo police on Thursday arrested a man suspected of illegally providing a South Korean company with Toshiba Corp. research data from on flash memory.
     Yoshitaka Sugita, 52, from Fukuoka Prefecture in southwestern Japan, was an engineer at SanDisk Corp., a semiconductor maker that had formed an alliance with Toshiba in flash memory production, and was able to obtain research data, according to the police.
     It is rare for a technology leak to a foreign company to result in a criminal case.
     Toshiba said later in the day that it had filed a damages suit with the Tokyo District Court against SK Hynix Inc., the predecessor of which allegedly obtained the data from the suspect, asserting that the South Korean company wrongfully acquired and used its proprietary technical information.
http://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Comp     

The shares of world makers in sales of NAND-type flash memory in 2012 are as follows:

No. 1  Samsung (South Korea)...........37%

No. 2  Toshiba (JAPAN)........................31%

No. 3  Micron Technology (US)..........14%

No. 4  SK Hynix (S. Korea)...................11%

Others..............................................................7%


Truly the flash memory was invented by a Japanese engineer of Toshiba, named Fujio Masuoka.

Fujio Masuoka: Inventor of Flash Memory
BY RD BENTLEY ON AUGUST 26, 2011 IN TECHNOLOGY 

Flash memory is a term that applies to two types of chips — the NAND and the NOR. The NAND is used in: memory cards, USB flash drives, solid-state drives, and more. Both NOR and NAND types were invented by Dr. Fujio Masuoka around 1980. 

Examples of both types of flash memory include: personal computers, PDAs, digital audio players, digital cameras, mobile phones, synthesizers, video games, scientific instrumentation, industrial robotics, and medical electronics. 

Flash memory turned out to be one of the greatest inventions of the 1980's. According to a Forbes report, approximately $76 billion of these chips were sold in 2001 alone. According to BusinessWeek, flash memory sales hit around $25 billion in 2006 alone. While these figures may not be totally accurate, it gives us a good idea how important this invention was. 

Toshiba and Samsung have been two of the world's top flash memory producers.
At the time Fujio Masuoka had discovered flash memory, he was working for Toshiba. However, because he lived in Japan and worked for a powerful company, he didn't get the full credit that was due. 

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Masuoka had been working on DRAM when he came across his discovery in the early 1980's. It was the year of 1984 when he would announce his invention, during an IEEE meeting in San Francisco, California. 

Dr. Masuoka eventually got promoted to the head of a department, but he would leave Toshiba in 1994. Masuoka later became a professor at Tohoku University in Sendai, Japan.  
http://thecyberdaily.com/2011/08/fujio-masuoka-inventor-of-flash-memory/

It is said Mr. Masuoka volunteered for sales business in the US when he was a young engineer of Toshiba.  It is because no matter high quality memory he designed in Toshiba office in Japan, sales of advanced memory products were low.  So, he wanted to promote sales in the US for himself.  But his business performance in the US was so poor, and thus soon Masuoka was called back to Japan to settle in his old R&D department.  But Masuoka learnt that US customers wanted inexpensive products with the minimum necessary functionality.  This experience led to his future invention of the flash memory.  A kind of technical rationalization was a key to the invention.  

However, Toshiba did not give more opportunities for research and development to Mr. Masuoka.  Later he became the deputy director of a research center of Toshiba but was not given resources enough to drive his own study on semiconductor.  So, he eventually left Toshiba, one of the best manufacturer in Japan to take a position in a university.    

Put simply, foolishness, arrogance, and even evil in the Japanese industrial community have triggered a large scale technology transfer, legally or illegally, or overtly or covertly, to Samsung and other South Korean countries as well as Chinese and other makers.





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Mar 4:8 And other fell on good ground, and did yield fruit that sprang up and increased; and brought forth, some thirty, and some sixty, and some an hundred.

"shalt thou not be accepted?" - Whale Flesh or Beef

Around Tokyo

Whale Flesh or Beef

The most important areas of human activities are related to foods (agriculture, fishing, etc.), medical care, housing, clothing, education, religious activities, and so on.

But the Gospels most impressively depict Jesus eating or being related to foods.

U.S. Places 21st in Ranking of World Food Systems 

BY JAMES ANDREWS | JANUARY 15, 2014 

Despite affordable prices and high food quality, the United States tied with Japan for 21st place in a ranking of the world’s food systems, according to the international advocacy confederation Oxfam. 

The report, released Tuesday evening, judged the food systems of 125 countries according to four major metrics: food quality, abundance of food, affordability of food and eating habits of citizens. 

High diabetes and obesity rates in the U.S. brought down the nation's score, ranking it just behind 20 European countries and Australia. 

The top 25 overall scores are listed below: 

1. Netherlands 

2. France and Switzerland (two-way tie) 

4. Denmark, Sweden, Austria and Belgium (four-way tie) 

8. Ireland, Italy, Portugal, Luxembourg and Australia (five-way tie) 

13. Spain, Greece, Germany, United Kingdom, Norway, Finland, Cyprus and Iceland (eight-way tie) 

21. United States and Japan (two-way tie) 

23. New Zealand and Israel (two-way tie) 

25. Canada, Brazil, Estonia, Slovakia and Hungary (five-way tie) 

http://www.foodsafetynews.com/2014/01/u-s-places-21st-in-ranking-of-world-food-systems/#.U0LAKvl_suc

Though the US and Japan are ranked the same, the ratio of food self-sufficiency is so different between them.

USA - 130%

JAPAN - 40%

That is why Japanese have to eat whale flesh, if it has become too poor to buy and import beef from the US.
 
Whale for Japanese are originally the same as cows for Americans.




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Gen 4:4 And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof. And the LORD had respect unto Abel and to his offering:
Gen 4:5 But unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect. And Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell.
Gen 4:6 And the LORD said unto Cain, Why art thou wroth? and why is thy countenance fallen?
Gen 4:7 If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door. And unto thee shall be his desire, and thou shalt rule over him.
Gen 4:8 And Cain talked with Abel his brother: and it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him.
Gen 4:9 And the LORD said unto Cain, Where is Abel thy brother? And he said, I know not: Am I my brother's keeper?

"the time of my departure is at hand" - Dying People in Japanese Immigration Center

Mt. Fuji and Shinkansen Super-Express Lines

Dying People in  Japanese Immigration Center

People died over the Indian Ocean.

People died in Kiev.

People died in Chile.

People died in Afghanistan.

Some soldiers were killed in the US.

People are being killed in Syria.

But recently two people died in Higashi Nihon Immigration Center of Japan around the end of March.  They were a male Cameroonian in his 40's and a male Iranian in his 30's.

The Cameroonian man was applying for asylum, but he was most likely to be sent back to his home country.  Since he came to Japan in the last fall, he was detained in the Center while he was diabetic.  However the concerned Japanese authority did not allow him to fully receive medical care, though the Immigration Center is not a prison.  He evidently died of deterioration of the disease.

The Iranian man died as he choked in his food.  Officials of the Center carried him to a hospital, but it was too late.  The authority said that no criminal act was involved and no delinquency was found on the management of the Center.

Now there are 300 foreigners kept under restraint in the Immigration Center; they can freely communicate with the outside but cannot freely move around.

Higashi Nihon Immigration Center (East Japan Immigration Center aka. Ushiku Shuyojo, Ushiku Detention Center) http://www.bekkoame.ne.jp/~pyonpyon/fjc/visit/0401.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higashi_Nihon_Immigration_Center


Of course there are some volunteer groups or NGOs/NPOs in Japan that help asylum seekers:

Japan Association for Refugees

Toll-free service for refugees/asylum seekers
0120-477-472 (toll-free; refugees/asylum seekers only.)
(if the toll-free number is not available, call 03-5379-6003)
Open: 10AM- 6PM Weekdays. 

ATTENTION: Regarding the organization called "International Association for Refugees (Kokusai Nanmin Shien Kyokai)" 

Japan Association for Refugees(Nanmin Shien Kyokai) is a non-profit organization that is officially registered in the Tokyo Metropolitan Government. We do not have any relationship with an organization called "International Association for Refugees (Kokusai Nanmin Shien Kyokai)". We never ask asylum seekers any payment for legal or social assistances we provide.

For lawyers and other legal personnel at law firms
About pro bono opportunities
We at Japan Association for Refugees (JAR) provide pro bono opportunities to lawyers and other legal personnel at law firms where they are able to utilize their professional and specific skills. 

Details
Refugees and JAR
Did you know
- there are refugees and asylum-seekers in Japan?
- very few people are recognized as refugees in Japan?
- there is no time framework set forth for the administrative procedures of refugee recognition, and there was such a case as taking 9 years (!) to reach a final decision?
- while the application for refugee status is processed, the status of an illegal stayer will not be regularized and hence she or he will not be subject to public social services?
Who is a refugee?
http://www.refugee.or.jp/en/#04

Though the Japanese Government plans to increase the number of foreign laborers, workers, and professionals in Japan, its policy on asylum seekers is not friendly and permissive at all.  While the population of Japan is decreasing, industries need more workers for various projects, including recovery work from the 2011 Great Tsunami and Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Accident and construction projects related to the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.  But, humanity must come first in dealing with foreigners.

Jesus said to be kind to foreigners, since ancestors of Israelites, such as Abraham, had been once foreigners in Egypt.





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2Ti 4:6 For I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my departure is at hand.
2Ti 4:7 I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith:
2Ti 4:8 Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing.

"I saw four and twenty elders sitting" - Japan as a Big Importer

Shinjuku Ward, Tokyo

Japan as a Big Importer

Due to the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Accident of 2011, Japan had to change composition of its energy sources for electricity generation.  Their ratios in the whole energy sources changed as follows:

In Fiscal 2010
Natural Gas..................29.3%
Nuclear Energy............28.6%
Coal................................25.0%
Crude Oil........................7.5%
Hydro-Energy...............8.5%
Renewable.....................1.1%

In Fiscal 2012
Natural Gas..................42.5%  
Coal................................27.6%
Crude Oil......................18.3%
Hydro-Energy..............8.4%
Nuclear Energy............1.7%
Renewable.....................1.6%

In FY2012, a few nuclear power plants were operated, though in FY2013 all of them were halted after periodic inspection.

It is apparent that Japan urgently increased use of natural gas and crude oil for electricity generation to compensate a loss of outputs from nuclear power plants.  But, as Japan has to import almost all of natural gas and crude oil it consumes, balance of trade suddenly turned to be red.  Compared with import statistics before 2011, the amount Japan paid for natural gas and crude oil in 2013 increased by $30 billion.

However the increased import of gas and oil is not the only major factor for Japan's deficit in trade.  Due to a drastic change in industrial environments triggered by the 2011 Great Tsunami and Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Accident, Japanese export decreased.  Further, with a policy change of the Bank of Japan, a huge amount of supplied yen caused a sharp drop of the value of yen against the US dollar, leading to an increase in imports.  Now the amount of a trade deficit in Japan reached $100 billion.

The following figure shows the trend of the balance of trade of Japan since 1980.  It shows that in 2011 Japan experienced the first trade deficit since 1980 when the second oil shock occurred due to political situations in the Middle East.

Trade Balance of Japan (Unit: trillion yen)
http://www.nikkei.com/article/DGXNASFS2400G_U3A120C1000000/

So, the 2011 Great Tsunami and Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Accident really changed the economic landscape of Japan.  When industries of Japan were recovering steadily from the 2008 Global Financial Crisis, it was again hard hit by the great natural disaster and the half-man-made nuclear accident.  One of the most decisive factors is that Japanese manufacturers moved production to their factories and plants in foreign countries due to difficult domestic conditions.

Generally, the weak yen is favorable to promotion of export from Japan.  But, it doesn't seem to work in the current conditions.  Japan might be really turning to a big importer like the US.




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Rev 4:4 And round about the throne were four and twenty seats: and upon the seats I saw four and twenty elders sitting, clothed in white raiment; and they had on their heads crowns of gold.
Rev 4:5 And out of the throne proceeded lightnings and thunderings and voices: and there were seven lamps of fire burning before the throne, which are the seven Spirits of God.
Rev 4:6 And before the throne there was a sea of glass like unto crystal: and in the midst of the throne, and round about the throne, were four beasts full of eyes before and behind.
Rev 4:7 And the first beast was like a lion, and the second beast like a calf, and the third beast had a face as a man, and the fourth beast was like a flying eagle.
Rev 4:8 And the four beasts had each of them six wings about him; and they were full of eyes within: and they rest not day and night, saying, Holy, holy, holy, LORD God Almighty, which was, and is, and is to come.

"He left Judaea" - Fighters from Libya

Tokyo Scenes

Fighters from Libya

Recently 14 young Libyans decided to join the civil war in Syria.

However when they arrived at Syria, one of them started to do sightseeing casually.  So, they began to argue among themselves about their motivation and aspiration.  Then three of them returned to Libya.

Remaining eleven Libyans were engaged in battles as members of a nameless insurgent group.  They were fed by anti-government Syrian families.  There were also other foreign fighters from Tunisia, Egypt, etc.  Their group consisted of 60 members with mixed nationalities.  They decoyed soldiers of Syrian regular forces and attacked them.  But they ran away quickly before support arms of enemy forces came or their military planes started air raids.  The most well equipped group on the insurgent side was that associated with AlQaeda.  However, these Syrian fighters did not join AlQaeda as their religious code of conduct  looked so rigorous.

Among the 14 Libyans, three were killed in battles.  But they were relatively lucky, since another Libyan group consisting of 15 or so members was captured by Libyan Government troops to be executed.  Somebody betrayed them for money.

One of the Libyan fighters happened to be able to make a phone call to his home in Libya while he was stationed near the border to Turkey.  So, he decided to go back home.

This story was reported in a Japanese newspaper.  

  



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Joh 4:3 He left Judaea, and departed again into Galilee.
Joh 4:4 And he must needs go through Samaria.
Joh 4:5 Then cometh he to a city of Samaria, which is called Sychar, near to the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph.
Joh 4:6 Now Jacob's well was there. Jesus therefore, being wearied with his journey, sat thus on the well: and it was about the sixth hour.
Joh 4:7 There cometh a woman of Samaria to draw water: Jesus saith unto her, Give me to drink.

"he taught them many things by parables"

Around Tokyo Station








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Mar 4:2 And he taught them many things by parables, and said unto them in his doctrine,
Mar 4:3 Hearken; Behold, there went out a sower to sow:
Mar 4:4 And it came to pass, as he sowed, some fell by the way side, and the fowls of the air came and devoured it up.
Mar 4:5 And some fell on stony ground, where it had not much earth; and immediately it sprang up, because it had no depth of earth:
Mar 4:6 But when the sun was up, it was scorched; and because it had no root, it withered away.

"Then was Jesus led up of the spirit into the wilderness" - What Japanese Utilities Plan

What Japanese Utilities Plan

As all the nuclear reactors, roughly 50, are stopped in Japan in the wake of the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Accident, major utilities in Japan have decided to introduce more thermal electric power plants.

Specifically, Tohoku Electric Power Co. plans to build a 1.2 million kWh plant; Chubu Electric Power Co. 1 million kWh plant; Kansai Electric Power Co. 1.5 million kWh; and Kyushu Electric Power Co. 1 million kWh.  As one nuclear reactor outputs 1 million kWh, each of these regional major utilities is to add a capacity of power production from a thermal plant which is equivalent to one nuclear reactor.  They will totally cover about 5 halted nuclear reactors.

As for Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO), the owner of Fukushima Daiichi, it is going to introduce thermal plants that can totally deliver 6 million kWh.  So, TEPCO alone can compensate a loss of six halted nuclear reactors, making the grand total 11 of covered nuclear reactors.

So, the Japanese industry is expected to be busy, receiving orders for construction of new power generation plants from the utilities.

But what if the US with 100 nuclear reactors running for electricity generation has decided to stop use of nuclear energy for supply of electricity to the public?

Can US stop using nuclear power?
9:51 PM, Mar. 18, 2011  

According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, nuclear energy accounted for 806,968,000 megawatt hours of electricity in the U.S. in 2010. That was about 19.6 percent of the total. Natural gas account­ed for 23.8 percent, and coal was the 800-pound gorilla at 44.9 per­cent. All other sources totaled about 11.7 percent.

Simply put, we just can't dam enough rivers or generate enough renewable energy sources to make up such a gap for any number of years. Yes, we have dramatically im­proved our use of renewable en­ergy, at an annual average rate of 7.6 percent since 2000. Even so, at that rate, it would take until 2032 to generate the same amount of electricity, with all non-hydroelectric renewable sources, as nuclear did last year.

Who knows what our energy demands will be in a couple of decades? If our population in­creases the way it has for the past 20 years, I imagine we will consume more energy as op­posed to less.

As a result, you don't have to have an advanced degree from M.I.T. to come to the conclusion that to wean ourselves off nu­clear, we would have to con­sume more coal and natural gas for some time. The only prob­lem is there currently isn't enough domestic supply of ei­ther.

Sure, there is a lot of coal un­der the ground in the United States, as well as a lot of natural gas. However, we actually run a sizable trade deficit in natural gas, with Canada supplying most of our shortfall. As for coal, we are a net exporter of the stuff, but nowhere near large enough to accommodate such a spike in domestic de­mand. It would be years before we could get enough mines and rigs up to full production, as well as jump through all the necessary environmental hoops and red tape to make it happen.

In the meantime, what do you think would happen to the price of coal and natural gas? Yeah, they would go up, a lot, meaning the cost of generating electricity would go up a lot as well. Guess who gets to eat a chunk of those cost increases?

If every nuclear facility went off-line tomorrow, existing ca­pacity at other facilities could accommodate a good amount of the shortfall, but not quite all of it. As a result, utilities across the country would have to put up a number of new generators, and that requires a lot of time, red tape and money. Guess who gets to bear the brunt of those costs as well?

In the end, yes, we eventually could wean ourselves off nucle­ar power and not ever have to worry about what is happening in Japan happening here. How­ever, there would be repercus­sions, both environmental and in cost to the consumer, poten­tially significant ones.

As it stands right now, few politicians want to make those hard decisions.
http://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/article/20110319/BUSINESS/103190304/Can-US-stop-using-nuclear-power-    

However, they should have second thought about their future in terms of safety and soundness of men and environments not only economic efficiency and profits.




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Mat 4:1 Then was Jesus led up of the spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil.
Mat 4:2 And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungred.
Mat 4:3 And when the tempter came to him, he said, If thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread.
Mat 4:4 But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.