(Around the Diet Bldg. to Supreme Court and Old Socialist Party Bldg., Tokyo)Homework for the Summer Vacation
There must be students in various countries who view, read, and study EEE Reporter.
Different from those viewers who have already built their careers in society, those young people have a great chance to have a right mind set and find a right direction so as to avoid future temptation to sins.
The choice is to pursue wealth with a mean disposition or to pursue truth in awe of God.
In other word, it is how to respond to a fact that one cannot be rich at all without doing something bad and sinful behind other's back. Indeed, you have to be also a bad guy to be liked and trusted by a bad and rich boss. But, it is so absurd for you to cry in your mind, "I will be as bad as necessary to be rich like my bad boss!"
However, before accepting this principle of education and discipline, you have to recognize the power of God so manifested in history through His interference with disappointing tribes, races, and civilizations.
Now some historical questions are as follows:
Q1. What were Sumerians?
Q2. What is the relationship between Hebrews and Sumerians, though the Mesopotamia Civilization could influence the Indus Civilization, the Persian Culture, the Arab Culture, and the Greek Civilization?
Q3. Why could not Egypt, with ability to build pyramids, occupy the whole Mediterranean regions and Rome and further Europe and Asia?
Q4. Why could only Greek civilization develop science in the ancient world?
Q5. Why did not Christianity prevail in the Middle East after the first century?
Q6. Why did not Christianity prevail in Asia and Africa after the first century?
Q7. Why have not Popes tried to go back to Jerusalem with his churches instead of simply sending Crusaders, though Islam occupied it, after the fall of the Roman Empire?
These questions might help you believe:
- God chose Sumerians but not Egyptians as ancestor of Hebrews, since the Egyptian religion did not please Him; on the other hand, Sumerians could not meet God's expectation to directly lead the world eventually.
- Hence, God allowed Greeks to develop their civilization based on the Mesopotamia Civilization, though Greeks could not meet God's expectation to directly lead the world eventually.
- Hence, God allowed Romans to succeed Greeks.
- Yet, God secured direct descendants of Sumerians in the form of Hebrews, so that He expected Israelis to unify the Egyptian culture and the Greek culture and then to cope with the Roman Empire and guide Roman citizens, Arabs (and Africans), and Persians (and Asians) into a right religion, which Israelis could not carry out.
- Accordingly, God allowed Christians to emerge from Israelis and prevail in the Roman Empire and thus guide at least Roman citizens into a right religion.
- God created Islam as the Vatican was no more holy enough to administer Jerusalem.
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Economics is important to understand how money is circulating in the society, being influenced by interest rates (I) and exchange rates (E).
But, economics must contribute to a decrease in unemployment (U) and a national budget deficit (N).
Free market may grow but break with various indicators (M), reflecting a sense of happiness or unhappiness of a majority of voters in a democratic society which can be translated into an approval rate of a president or a ruling party (A).
Now, you have to specify or describe A as functions of I, E, U, N, M, and Others (O):
A = F(I, E, U, N, M, O) + s
or you may assume there is a linear relationship:
A = xI + yE + zU + wN + vM + tO + s
or you may think of a possibility of occurrence of a revolutionary incident (R):
R = f(A, I, E, U, N, M, O, s) + s2
It will take at least a decade of study to define and confirm these formulae. But, you might be able to find what economists are saying about this kind of formulas even during your humble summer holidays.
Please note that s and s2 are super-sub-functions that can totally change the right-hand side of the equations or a whole paradigm of the equations depending on specific conditions.
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Yesterday, I saw a report on a symposium held this July in the main auditorium, which ancestors of Ms. Yoko Ono presented in 1925, of the The University of Tokyo through a cable TV channel.
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The University of Tokyo and the Yomiuri Shinbun collaborated for a special symposium on Global Leadership Studies on June 3, 2009 with H.E. Dr. Kofi Annan, Former Secretary-General of the United Nations and Mrs. Sadako Ogata, President of JICA and Former United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, as the keynote speakers. The African Diplomatic Corps (ADC) in Japan was among the invitees who attended the seminar and the reception.
http://www.adc-japan.org/en/view.php?vid=49
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Mr. Kofi Annan told that the most difficult decision he had made in his assignment in the United Nations was what had been related to the Iraqi War then U.S. President Mr. George W. Bush had launched.
But, what made me focus on the session is Japanese students delivering questions in English to Mr. Kofi Annan and Ms. Sadako Ogata.
Their Englsih, though with some spread in fluency, was rather not the so called "Japan-glish" ordinary English-speaking Japanese have spoken with a Japanese tempo in these decades.
Rather, an attending professor of the University spoke English with a clear trace of old "Japan-glish."
So, I reckon most of those questioning students had some experiences of having learnt or lived in the United States. They must be able to think in English in their brains.
Yet, there is a very dangerous aspect in thinking in English for Japanese students, even if they are groundlessly extremely proud students of the University of Tokyo.
Thinking in English in your mind is sometimes very efficient, but it makes your mind poor and simple. English was born in a poor natural environment. Original English speaking tribe had no rich culture and traditions. Their community and domain were barren and monotonous.
So, too much thinking in English in your mind would make you psychologically poor or simple even if you were born in a far more blessed and rich environment like Japan.
Accordingly, this is what I like to advise on all the students worldwide learning global issues while English is not their mother tongue. Do not think too much in English!
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(To be continued...)
Heb 8:10 For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people:
Heb 8:11 And they shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest.
Heb 8:12 For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more.
Heb 8:13 In that he saith, A new covenant, he hath made the first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish away.