The Lord of the Vineyard or The Lord of the Vatican
On Christmas time of every year, everybody must perform ultimate philanthropy.
Transfer all of his wealth to the poor or the public.
Then, from December 25 every year, everybody, including the ex-super rich and the ex-rich, must start from zero.
You can be rich or super rich till December 24, every year, but on December 25, you must be poor.
That is why Christmas Eve is so important for some even in a TV studio or a law firm.
All I want to say is not bother me. Don’t bother me. I am busy following my Ever-Holy Lord.
SECTION I: “WHERE THE RICH LIVE”
According to the blog of Mr. Hiroshi Kumagai, a politician-turned pundit in Japan, The Financial Times presented on December 5, 2008 some interesting information about the rich people.
The number of people with assets of more than one million dollars in each country is as follows:
COUNTRY……………NUMBER of THE RICH……………
USA……………………3,028,000
JAPAN……………1,510,000
GERMANY………………826,000
UK…………………………495,000
CHINA………………415,000
AUSTRALIA………………172,000
RUSSIA……………………136,000
INDIA……………………123,000
KOREA……………………118,000
HONG KONG………………95,000
SINGAPORE………………77,000
TAIWAN……………………71,000
INDONESIA…………………23,000
VIETNAM……………………1,200(??)
http://www.kumagai.ne.jp/column/entry.php?entry_pkey=1021
So, I am telling you that there are 30 million very happy people in the U.S. who account for 10% of the U.S. population.
The ratio is about 12.5% in Japan, since every super-rich person needs at least 10 people around to live in society like a civilized person.
Anyway, historical implication of the contents of the above table is large, if you are luckily not one of such sinful people.
SECTION II: The Philanthropist
Somebody is claiming that it is Chapter 11 but not $34 billion that must apply to the Big Three.
http://blog.thehill.com/2008/12/08/big-three-dont-have-a-monopoly-on-economic-misery-rep-jeb-hensarling/
Indeed, if you build vehicles to sell them, you cannot be another Rockefeller.
Truly, if you build the subprime loan schemes to sell them through securitization, you cannot be another Rockefeller.
But, if you have spirit of philanthropy, you can feel yourself more meaningful and important than a Rockefeller.
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Keeper of a family’s generous flame
By Pamela Ryckman
Published: December 2 2008 02:41 | Last updated: December 2 2008 02:41
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Mr Rockefeller – a rising leader of the Rockefeller dynasty and a renowned advocate for education and the environment – first visited the island at age five and has not missed a summer since. But his family’s history here goes back a century. His late grandfather, John D. Rockefeller Jr, bought large tracts of surrounding land and eventually donated 51 miles of carriage roads and 11,000 acres to help create Acadia National Park…
Mr Rockefeller, now 67, was the first non-Alaskan to join the board of the Alaska Conservation Foundation, founded the Alaska Fund for the Future, and later led the National Park Foundation. He also joined the Pew Oceans Commission and helped write its 2003 report on the health of American waters…
The Rockefeller clan, now 200 strong including spouses, has done a good job combating the “shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves” phenomenon – younger generations squandering inheritances – that plague some wealthy families. “I am proud of how well our family has done in retaining core values and educating oncoming generations,” Mr Rockefeller says…
“I’m a team player, not a loner. I can sail alone, but mostly sailing and boat racing and cruising are very collaborative ventures,” he says as he remembers his afternoon plans: racing his International One Design sailboat with five friends.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/db026b3e-c001-11dd-9222-0000779fd18c,dwp_uuid=d8e9ac2a-30dc-11da-ac1b-00000e2511c8.html?nclick_check=1
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Yet, a Rockefeller cannot be another Obama.
And, an Obama cannot be a GM worker, though he or she is filled with dismay in these days in Detroit.
It is because it is such a worker that has learnt another, or more important, side of the American Dream.
Without that insight, you cannot be a wise man who can even avoid being super rich, since Jesus Christ said that the super rich go to the hell.
SECTION III: WHEN RICH ROMAN BECAME CHRISTIANS
They are all new comers, the Rockefeller clan and the Rothschild clan.
There were many super-rich people in the Roman Empire even after our Ever Holy Lord was mysteriously executed by the Roman troops.
The history of these 2000 years fixed its course when super-rich Romans started to believe in Jesus Christ or at lease call themselves Christians.
The key to these 2000-year history is this religious incident.
After super-rich Romans started to believe in Jesus Christ or at lease call themselves Christians, the history has had almost no decisive make-or-break moment of the same significance.
Christianity’s conquest of the Roman Empire is the most drastic and decisive incident in these 2000 years for mankind except the emergence of our Ever-Holy Jesus Christ as a son of a man.
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The unbrokenness of apostolic succession is also significant because of Jesus Christ's promise that the "gates of hell"[16] would not prevail against the Church, and his promise that he himself would be with the apostles to "the end of the age".[17] According to this interpretation, a complete disruption or end of apostolic succession would mean that these promises were not kept as would happen also with an apostolic succession that, while formally intact, completely abandoned the teachings of the Apostles and their immediate successors, as, for example, if all the bishops of the world agreed to abrogate the Nicene Creed or to repudiate the Bible.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apostolic_Succession#Roman_Catholic_Church
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At the core of the analysis should be the "gates of hell" if you like to understand the Vatican.
When some super rich ancient Romans realized that it was the hell what lay beyond wealth in this world, they must have run to a church.
As they were very material people, they needed some concrete form of the Gospel, namely a written book.
Though Ever-Holy Jesus Christ never authorized creation of the New Testament, early church leaders must found it absolutely necessary to have a book to persuade rich ancient Roman citizens to stick to the faith.
Rich men need a book of the Bible to keep their faith.
Yet, poor men do not need even a book of the Bible to be a follower of Ever-Holy Jesus Christ.
Indeed so, if only they are given power to lock and shut up the gates of the hell.
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That is all for today.
(Merry Christmas, since it is now 16 days to go for December 25th.
http://www.fukuchan.ac/music/xmas/kissmama.html )
Mar 12:6 Having yet therefore one son, his wellbeloved, he sent him also last unto them, saying, They will reverence my son.
Mar 12:7 But those husbandmen said among themselves, This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and the inheritance shall be our's.
Mar 12:8 And they took him, and killed him, and cast him out of the vineyard.
Mar 12:9 What shall therefore the lord of the vineyard do? he will come and destroy the husbandmen, and will give the vineyard unto others.