(Away from Tokyo...20 miles to 100 miles)War, Religion, Economy, and Miracles
The last Sunday (11/29) morning and night witnessed miracles around me.
I heard the terrible news that a big rain fell and big floods occurred around Mecca.
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2009/11/2009112974923490434.html
I happened to view "The Lost Tomb of Jesus" on the Discovery Channel over a cable TV service.
http://dsc.discovery.com/convergence/tomb/explore/explore.html
It might be related to my recent writing about Dubai, praising Allah, and my recent celebrating the coming season of Xmas in this blog.
Of course, a big miracle is that the global economy has been sustained over this year despite that scale of the debacle on Wall Street, though Japanese banks are estimated to suffer one billion-dollar defaults in Dubai.
Yet, people in the world are expecting some miracle in the process of the Obama Administration's operation on Afghanistan, since it was in Afghanistan that Mr. Osama bin Laden and his terror fighters started to launch attacks on New York City and Washington D.C. eight years ago.
SECTION I: ECONOMY AND RELIGION
I am not a critic who receives big money from a TV station by contributing to their sinful programs.
Neither am I a teacher in economics or social science who loves higher status society offers in exchange for contribution to upkeep of its regime without any desire for holy betterment.
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THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF ISLAMIC ECONOMY
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According to Holton (1992, 54-69) the basic principles of economics of liberalism as outlined here, represents an amalgam of ideas derived and adopted from a range of sources. These include the 18th century economist Adam Smith, the neo- classical school of economics and more recent post-war economists such as Milton Friedman. The basic principles of this tradition include the following:
- Private Property Rights,
- Individual Sovereignty,
- Self-interest,
- Rationality,
- Self- Regulating Market.
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From Islamic view, as in other traditional civilizations, economics was never considered as a separate discipline or distinct domain of activity. Consequently, there is no even a word for economics in classical Arabic. The term of Iqtisad (economic) being a fair recent translation of the modern term "economics" in Arabic and having a very different meaning in classical Arabic. Where it means primarily moderation and keeping to the golden mean as witnessed by the famous book Ihya Ulum-id-Din, Gazzali. (1971,265).
According to Sadr (1994,51-55), the Islamic economy is composed of three basic components, according to which its theoretical content is defined. Thus it is distinguished from other economic theories in terms of the broad lines of these components, which are:
- The principle of multi-faceted ownership;
- The principle of economic freedom within a defined limit;
- The principle of social justice.
The principle of multi-faceted ownership
Islam differs essentially from capitalism and socialism in the nature of the principle of ownership, which it acknowledges.
Capitalist society believes in the private individual form of ownership, i.e. private ownership. It allows individuals private ownership of different kinds of wealth in the country according to their activities and circumstances. It only recognizes public ownership when required by social necessity and when experience demonstrated the need for nationalization of this or that utility.
Socialism society is completely contrary to that. So common ownership is the general principal, which it is applied to every kind of wealth.
However, the basic characteristic of both societies are not applicable to Islamic society because Islamic society does not agree with capitalism in the doctrine that private ownership is the principle, or with socialism in its view that common ownership is a general principle. Rather it acknowledges different forms of ownership at the same time. Thus it lays down the principle of multi-faceted ownership. That means from Islamic viewpoint ownership is accepted in a variety of forms-instead of the principle of only one kind of ownership, such as, private ownership, public ownership and state ownership.
http://www.accountancy.com.pk/articles.asp?id=100
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Ownership is meaningless for believers, since they admit that all the gold and silver on the earth belong to the God.
Yet, money could remain as an instrument for proving a right to utilize goods and services.
In this context, the last war for mankind should erupt between those who love money and those who hate money.
After the war, each government might simply start to print service tickets, goods coupons, and food stamps while forbidding use of the terms "money" and "interest."
SECTION II: AFTER GREAT WAR
I do really think that the war between troops from Rome led by Augustus and forces led by Antoninus and Cleopatra had a grave influence on psychology on Israelites of the era in terms of security and economy. And then, 30 years or so later Jesus Christ was born.
It was 1970's that history reached 30 years after WWII. If another Jesus Christ had been born in 1970's, he must have already started his another mission, since it is 2009 this year:
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How did World War 2 affect the US economy?
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- The U.S. was in large part lifted out of the great depression by selling strategic goods and materials like tools, machinery, petroleum, metals, and grain to both sides since we were neutral at first. Once we were sucked in by the bombing of Pearl Harbor, the economy shifted into overdrive and measures had to be taken to keep inflation from soaring out of control. After the war was over, the seeds of our modern "Consumer based" economy had been sown and grew like wildfire. Technology had taken great leaps forward. Before the war women rarely worked outside the home and only in limited professions. Afterwards the women who had worked to support the war and replace men in the Services liked the money and independence their own jobs gave them and they stayed in the workforce. Finally, we shifted in a massive way from mostly farming to mostly manufacturing jobs and services. Europe was devastated by the war but the U.S. emerged more militarily and economically powerful than ever.
- Economists of the Keynesian school propagated this idea that World War 2 was good for the US economy. In particular, a government economist who did central planning and price fixing during the war named Paul Samuelson wrote economics textbooks that became widely used in schools. Most modern economists these days are not Keynesian. Destruction is never productive. War does not boost an economy. The benefits are short-lived and shallow. Many economists believed that FDR prolonged the depression for many years with his "New Deal" policies and therefore the depression lasted into World War 2. The war did not end the depression. The end of the war ended the depression.
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_did_World_War_2_affect_the_US_economy
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WWII changed American views on the world.
Yet, the Korean War and the Vietnam War helped Japan launch its economy eventually into the orbit of the world No.2 scale.
And, the end of the Cold War freed some American people so that they could fully get involved in the commercial stage of competition as executed on Wall Street.
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People happy in war, religion, or economy still, I have to conclude, do not need the God.
Rain in Mecca, the Jesus' tomb discovered even if other Jesus', and Japanese miracle economy do not change this holy teaching of Jesus Christ, either.
Luk 11:30 For as Jonas was a sign unto the Ninevites, so shall also the Son of man be to this generation.
Luk 11:31 The queen of the south shall rise up in the judgment with the men of this generation, and condemn them: for she came from the utmost parts of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and, behold, a greater than Solomon is here.