And Shinkansen trains...
(Last Evening around Tokyo; click to enlarge)
As a Witness
(Last night or early this morning, I had a dream in which a very humble woman working in a media company accompanied me in my way back from my workplace in a certain company.
It is better to have a humble wife than a foolish and arrogant one, looking shabby to the public while dressing up.)
SECTION I: Mr. Bush vs. AIDS
This January President Mr. George W. Bush pressed for a new five-year commitment of $30 billion. It was intended to fight against AIDS.
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In Global Battle on AIDS, Bush Creates Legacy
By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG
Published: January 5, 2008
…Mr. Bush was considering devoting billions to combat global AIDS, a public health initiative unparalleled in size and scope. The deliberations had been tightly carried out; even the health secretary was left out early on. If President Bush was going to shock the world — and skeptical Republicans — with a huge expenditure of American cash to send expensive drugs overseas, he wanted it to be well spent.
http://www.uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=67401.0
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There might be more hidden feats of President Mr. Bush.
Two of them might be the appointments of Mr. Powell and Ms. Rice to the Secretary of State, which historians and professors in the 22nd century might define as the most effective contribution to realization of the first African-America Presidency of Mr. Barack Obama.
SECTION II: "I Shall Kill You and Then"
The militarily strongest man on the earth is U.S. President.
So, he is the last man to be intimidated.
But, there is a certain exception, though very remote, found here.
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Paul Krugman on Bush’s SCHIP veto.»
Krugman writes, “So, President Bush says that Democrats are endangering children’s health, by sending him an S-chip bill he won’t sign. Abraham Lincoln had something to say about such arguments in his Cooper Union address:”
That is cool. A highwayman holds a pistol to my ear, and mutters through his teeth, “Stand and deliver, or I shall kill you, and then you will be a murderer!”
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/10/06/
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At the end of WWII, nuclear bombs were used to kill hundreds of thousands of Japanese citizens as well as some soldiers in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, in order to avoid a roughly estimated million casualties of U.S. soldiers in possible deadly battles on the mainland Japan that could be actually avoided in 1945, as a matter of fact.
SECTION III: Canonical Gospels
It is astonishing that everything about the Gospels is unclear, in terms of historical facts, while there are billion copies of the Book circulated on the earth.
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Origin of the canonical Gospels
Main article: Synoptic problem
The dominant view today is that Mark is the first Gospel, with Matthew and Luke borrowing passages both from that Gospel and from at least one other common source, lost to history, termed by scholars 'Q' (from German: Quelle, meaning "source"). This view is known as the "Two-Source Hypothesis". John was written last and shares little with the synoptic gospels.
The general consensus among biblical scholars is that all four canonical Gospels were originally written in Greek, the lingua franca of the Roman Orient.
Dating
Estimates for the dates when the canonical Gospel accounts were written vary significantly; and the evidence for any of the dates is scanty. Because the earliest surviving complete copies of the Gospels date to the 4th century and because only fragments and quotations exist before that, scholars use higher criticism to propose likely ranges of dates for the original gospel autographs. Scholars variously assess the consensus or majority view as follows:
• Mark: c. 68–73,[8] c 65-70[2]
• Matthew: c. 70–100.[8] c 80-85.[2] Some conservative scholars argue for a pre-70 date, particularly those that do not accept Mark as the first gospel written.
• Luke: c. 80–100, with most arguing for somewhere around 85,[8], c 80-85[2]
• John: c 90-100,[2] c. 90–110,[9] The majority view is that it was written in stages, so there was no one date of composition.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gospel
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Only one among 12 Disciples of Jesus Christ succeeded in leaving his own testimony and assertions about words and deeds of his Holy Lord over the history of 2000 years.
Only St. Peter could do it, in my humble theory.
Basically, the descriptions of words and deeds of Jesus Christ in the four canonical Gospels are all from a viewpoint of St. Peter.
St. Peter must have directly told them to “Mark.”
“Matthew” and “Luke” must have heard them from someone like “Mark” who directly heard the story of Jesus Christ from St. Peter.
“John” is more a scholar, dealing with secondary and tertiary information and records.
But, what did other 11 Disciples hear from their Holy, Holy Lord?
Indeed, the Devil might have succeeded in destroying those precious (possible 11) reports, but failed in the last one, St. Peter’s testimony.
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Now, I only expect one in 12 reports I have posted onto The EEE Reporter to be left in the history of, say 2000 years.
That is all for today.
Remember "1 to 11," a holy ratio.
Put clearly, only one among 12 people you meet is religiously supposed to or expected to correctly and conscientiously convey everything about truth on you to others.
Just one among twelve, Sir.
Luk 12:8 Also I say unto you, Whosoever shall confess me before men, him shall the Son of man also confess before the angels of God:
Luk 12:9 But he that denieth me before men shall be denied before the angels of God.