(Tokyo, truly)Predestination
(Prédestination)
SECTION I: Thomas Edison
A unique and notable Japanese critic, Mr. Naoki Komuro, wrote that the reason why Thomas Edison could invent so many useful things lies in the predestination Edison must have believed in.
( http://diamond.jp/series/komuro/10002/?page=2 )
Edison said that one percent genius and 99% efforts are all you need for success.
But, to sustain the "99% efforts" in any business must be very difficult without a strong support from your talent and genius.
To sustain such a life needs a kind of belief.
And, the predestination or the pre-determinism can be the most effective belief for sustaining one's effort being carried out based on 1% talent and 99% efforts.
Edison's unusual concentration on activities for invention can be explained, Mr. Komuro wrote, by his belief in the predestination, since with such a belief you could avoid worry, anxiety, and any other psychological state that would hinder your concentration on a subject.
SECTION II: University vs. The Vatican
A unique and notable Japanese critic, Mr. Naoki Komuro, wrote on difference in universities between Japan and Europe. In his writing, what is interesting is as follows:
It was in the change from 12th to 13th centuries that the universities appeared in Europe, and it is not that there was no higher education institutes in Europe prior to this period. and there were some such schools here and there with fine teaching facilities and volumes of books available. However, it should be noted that these schools were all under conditions, and they were protected by power as long as they follow such conditions.
To be more concrete, these schools were made by churches and/or three powers. Therefore, it could be said that these schools were intended to train church leaders and officials of the King. Upon entering the 13th century from the 12th, there appeared some who were not satisfied with those educations, followed by the trend of pursuing learning, as free from power as ever. It is by the Crusade against Islam that this trend was motivated.
At that time, Islam enjoyed learning which was far more developed and improved than in the European countries, with more emphasis placed on studies of ancient Greece or Rome, and this is when the Europeans visiting Islam were so much intellectually stimulated by the Crusade that they came to think that they should improve the level of learning in Europe.
http://www.iond-univ.org/hawaii/komuro.html
Therefore, universities in the world might be basically regarded as a kind of enemies of the Vatican but a kind of friends of Islam.
SECTION III: Christianity and Islam
In my understanding, there were some critical defects in Christianity in and around the era when Islam emerged.
For mankind not to be harmed by those defects, I suppose that God or Allah vouchsafed Islam to mankind.
Indeed, with Islam, people in the Middle East 500 years ago could prevent invasion by Europeans, forcing Columbus to sail westward.
Truly, with Islam, people in the Middle East and other regions have been able to uphold the dignity of themselves, their families, their clans, their tribes, their societies, their nations, and their races against the violent power, for example, of the dollar and Euro even today.
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The relationship between Christianity and Islam is critical in judging the future of the world and mankind.
Therefore, how the champion of Christianity of today, the U.S., is dealing with Muslims will decide the future.
If the framework of the human history was determined by the God when He created this universe, we should be allowed to exercise of freedom of our will at a higher level of the history which must be however intangible.
In the case, one percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration should be effective, though inventing something invisible, such as harmony between Christians and Muslims in the American society, must be more instrumental and valuable for mankind today than inventing something visible, such as a stock market or a skyscraper.
(Indeed, we had better believe in one percent visible things and 99% invisible things.
Truly, it must be a key to understanding relationships among people and things in this society.
Now, good girls, how much could you believe in your destiny the God or Allah ordained, on the premise that we are all invisible?
Anyway, beauty of the heart and the mind should prevail more than that of physical appearance no matter if you are in Christianity, Islam, Judaism, or Buddhism, or otherwise in India or China.)
"RIGHT WITH GOD"
(FRIEDE MIT GOTT)