The Last Winner of Generation

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The Last Winner of Generation


In these days, Japan has had many upsetting news reports. I have also felt sorry so often.

But, yesterday we got a nice report:
"A 71-year-old man from Japan has reportedly become the oldest person to climb to the summit of Mount Everest."
(http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6701729.stm)

I don't know how people in the world appreciate this feat. However, it might be telling who and what a hero is.

If you have a rival you really dislike but you cannot defeat, you may want to at least live longer than he or she (of course without any criminal act involved).

You may succeed in it and you may eventually shout to yourself, "Who is the winner? I am!"

But, if you simply admire a work of the Creator which happens to be a great mountain and you can climb it, it is a great blessing. If you have such a mind and strength at age 71, you are more blessed. That must be enough for you as a matter between yourself and the God.

But, if the great mountain is Mount Everest, the highest one in the world, you can be a hero in a worldly sense, too, in your generation globally, which may be however not your concern.

A humble Japanese old man never gets proud and shouts "Who is the winner? I am!"

In his composure, we sense a tradition of 1000-years old samurai spirit, 1500-years old Buddhism practices, 2000-years old racial consciousness, and more than 10,000-years old unique spiritual development in the Japanese Archipelago.
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For example, if your society now consists of 10% of extremely bad people, 20% of very bad people, 30% of bad people, and 40% of not so bad people, you would feel it should be improved.

As a result of following the teachings of Jesus Christ, if you society now consists of 1% of extremely bad people, 10% of very bad people, 20% of bad people, 30% of not so bad people, and 39% of ordinary people, you may feel it is being improved.

Each country in the world can be analyzed this way. For example, I feel that the latter case may apply to Japan.

Then, what about the U.S.? Of course, it may also correspond to the latter case for your great efforts to obey God, Jesus Christ, and Holy Spirits.
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In addition, the winner of the Miss Universe pageant this year is reportedly a Japanese girl. But, there are many good girls in Japan who look as nice as the winner. So, I think we have 10 million "Miss Universes" in Japan nowadays.

However, the title "Miss Universe" sounds like a thin joke. No good-looking women took part in the Gospels in my interpretation. But, somewhere in the Bible, there might be a description that the world got worse when a man began to choose his wife based on how a woman looked. It almost means choosing a beautiful woman as a wife is a sin. If your faith advances, only a mind and heart matters even when you choose a wife, though it may be still a kind of sin to choose a beautiful woman as your wife. A man with a beautiful wife therefore should not be respected, even for this reason only, more than a man with a wife who does not look commercially valuable at all.
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Ok, see you on the summit of Mt. Everest, which is luckily not a volcano but nowadays under an influence of global warming, someday, if the God so wishes.


"And Now A Better Hope Is Provided, Through Which We Come Near To God"