Lest they should be saved...
(De peur qu'ils ne soient sauvés...)
Mar 4:6 But when the sun was up, it was scorched; and because it had no root, it withered away.
Mar 4:7 And some fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up, and choked it, and it yielded no fruit.
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.
Mar 4:9 And he said unto them, He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.
Mar 4:10 And when he was alone, they that were about him with the twelve asked of him the parable.
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:
Mar 4:12 That seeing they may see, and not perceive; and hearing they may hear, and not understand; lest at any time they should be converted, and their sins should be forgiven them.
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If you are able to read Japanese, I recommend you this Sunday morning the following Web site, since it deals with the most serious transition of internal modality of the spiritual culture among Japanese in the era, more than 100 years ago, that requested the final separation from the samurai paradigm to the modern western paradigm which is, on a negative side, based on the cold-blooded modern materialism and poisonous-looking commercialism, the atheistic pretended socialism, the industrial revolution, the colonialism, the Roman Empire’s militarism, and the Vatican’s irresponsible conducts.
http://www.rui.jp/ruinet.html?i=200&c=400&m=933&pgh=0&t=6
Otherwise, you should refer to the following document, since it shows what would be resulted from the cold-blooded modern materialism and poisonous-looking commercialism, the atheistic pretended socialism, the industrial revolution, the colonialism, the Roman Empire’s militarism, and the Vatican’s irresponsible conducts in the new continent where Europeans’ dreams were fully deployed in the name of American Dream.
http://www.nationalhomeless.org/publications/facts/youth.pdf
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Their most recent study, published in 2002, reported there are an estimated 1,682,900 homeless and runaway youth. This number is equally divided among males and females, and the majority of them are between the ages of 15 and 17 (Molino, 2007)…
In turn, homeless youth are at a greater risk of contracting AIDS or HIV related illnesses. HIV prevalence studies anonymously performed in four cities found a median HIV-positive rate of 2.3% for homeless persons under age 25 (Robertson, 1996). Other studies have found rates ranging from 5.3% in New York to 12.9% in Houston. It has been suggested that the rate of HIV prevalence for homeless youth may be as much as 2 to 10 times higher than the rates reported for other samples of adolescents in the United States (National Network for Youth, 1998)…
In one study, the rates of major depression, conduct disorder, and posttraumatic stress syndrome were found to be 3 times as high among runaway youth as among youth who have not run away (Robertson, 1989)…
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If you think China is a greater country than Japan or the U.S., you should yet refer to the following:
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2007-09/11/content_6095710.htm
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Recent statistics show more than 287,000 people end their own lives every year on the Chinese mainland…
More than 58 percent of suicides by females and 27 percent of attempts in rural areas used pesticides…
A two-year survey by researchers at Peking University found over 20 percent of 140,000 high-school students interviewed said they had considered committing suicide. And 6.5 percent of the students surveyed said they had made plans to kill themselves…
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(Note that Chinese statistics is often intentionally modified when made public by several-times multiplication or division.)
Now poor people in the world must know who they should trust, Japanese, Americans, or Chinese?
You should consult God, Jesus Christ, Allah, or otherwise the Buddha, if you do not trust EEE Reporter now in Japan.