(Tokyo, Japan)"Even to Them that Believe on His Name"
It snowed a little in Tokyo yesterday, though it was a little rain in my place, as I wish Tokyo people to eat more leeks, since the vegetable prevents the primates from taking a cold.
SECTION I: Abraham Lincoln (in office: March 4, 1861 – April 15, 1865)
Abraham Lincoln is all-time No.1 rated president in any public research in the United States. But, what would he have achieved unless he had been born to meet the era of the Civil War?
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There were few people who strongly or directly influenced Lincoln’s moral and intellectual development and perspectives. There was no teacher, mentor, church leader, community leader, or peer that Lincoln would credit in later years as a strong influence on his intellectual development. Lacking a formal education, Lincoln’s personal philosophy was shaped by "an amazingly retentive memory and a passion for reading and learning." It was Lincoln’s reading, rather than his relationships, that were most influential in shaping his personal beliefs...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln#Major_presidential_acts
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Such a self-made politician has a common demerit usually: international issues.
The Civil War was fought on the issue of a split of the United States of America for whatever reasons.
There just happened to be an issue of slavery, if allowed to state so from a certain cynical point of view.
But Abraham Lincoln was a genius like Karl Marx who leveraged his talent in economics to challenge the Christian European-Civilization.
President Abraham Lincoln succeeded in foreclosing the U.K. and other European powers from interfering in the Civil War. For this purpose, President Lincoln leveraged Christian morals against slavery. Lincoln excellently stressed the justice and righteousness on his side trying to give freedom to the 19th century’s American slaves in bondage of sinful people imitating lives of rich Europeans.
President Abraham Lincoln did not request Negro States to be free states but consistently claimed that no more Negro States must be admitted in the United States.
His largest meritorious deed is the prevention of the split of the United States rather than realization of emancipation, since the split might have happened due to international interference.
It is ordinary, free American citizens who found their sin in the 19th century’s American slavery system that actually promoted the emancipation since the system was very anti-Christ, thus leading to a state of religious war to whatever extent.
Indeed, when Abraham Lincoln met Harriet Beecher Stowe (June 14, 1811 – July 1, 1896), "it is claimed that he said, ‘So you're the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war!'"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harriet_Beecher_Stowe
As President Abraham Lincoln seems not to have been well prepared for the Civil War, he in fact failed to secure many lives who otherwise might have enjoyed the Gilded Age, since the death toll was 620,000.
Conversely, the concept of the Civil War must have been what was originally beyond his paradigm, though it might have been closer to the one of Harriet Beecher Stowe; God only knows.
I really want to know what Mr. Powell and Ms. Rice think about it. If they praise and respect Abraham Lincoln more than any American heroes, I will also praise and respect Abraham Lincoln more than any American heroes.
SECTION II: Global Business Model
Last year, in the Davos Forum, Mr. George Solos presented an idea that a sheriff or a global financial supervisor of authority should be appointed to monitor doubtful transactions that would gravely damage the world financial system and hence deliver early warnings to governments and financial sectors.
His idea was flatly rejected by participants in that session of the Forum. Instead, they were almost shouting, "Money! Money! Big Money! China!" in their mind, while some were anxiously discussing the emerging subprime loan crisis.
My proposal is to set up a global financial supervising committee consisting of representatives of the six major religions of the world: Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Japanese Spiritualism.
Only religion can in theory deal with any scale of huge money so coolly.
One from the American Judaist community, one from the Vatican, one from Mecca, one from India, one from Tibet, and one from Japan should form a committee to provide any religiously mandatory advice to peoples of good faith all over the world if such a crisis as the subprime loan debacle is coming closer.
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That is all for today.
(Next Monday is a Japanese national holiday: the Coming-of-Age Day. If mankind starts to live on the moon, I suppose mankind can live a longer life due to smaller gravity. What do you think about it as an indirect observer? Anyway, the earth has the only one natural satellite - the moon, which is however very unusual in the whole universe.
http://www.menziesera.com/midi/onlyyou.mid
Source: http://www.menziesera.com/singalong/only_you.htm)
Joh 1:10 He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not.
Joh 1:11 He came unto his own, and his own received him not.
Joh 1:12 But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:
Joh 1:13 Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.