(Kasumigaseki Governmental Office District, Japan) Yesterday, it was Culture Day in Japan, which was "first celebrated as a national holiday in 1868, when it was called TenchÅ-setsu (*), a holiday held in honor of the birthday of the reigning emperor—at that time, the Meiji Emperor."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture_Day
When I attended a junior high school here in Japan a long-long time ago, they held a special whole-school event on Culture Day every year.
One year, on that occasion a certain group of pupils and students presented and displayed in a class room various scripts and screenplays used in some TV stations and radio studios nearby, since the middle school was situated on the periphery of a big city.
However, I was not so much impressed with those TV things, though it was a surprise that TV announcers, personalities, and actors and actresses had to learn so many lines and memorize words before going on the air.
Yet, it is still hard to believe that some U.S. presidents in the 20th and 21st centuries can deliver a long address without reading a memo.
(If you want to make a world class of speeches, you would like to refer to EEE Reporter blog postings related to a subject...though I am not good at the art of speeches...)
Anyway, Jesus Christ must not have had a rehearsal before any critical situation.
SECTION I: Power and Wealth
Any pious Christians must admit only power and wealth Jesus Christ admitted.
Any pious Judaists must admit only power and wealth Moses admitted, since he is the last or latest, greatest Israelite Judaism admits.
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Religion and Wealth: The Role of Religious
Affiliation and Participation in Early Adult Asset Accumulation*
LISA A. KEISTER, Ohio State University
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[Click to enlarge.]My analyses provide clear evidence that being raised Jewish and practicing Judaism as an adult are associated with tremendous gains in wealth.
Table 2 reports unadjusted estimates of adult wealth by religious affiliation in childhood.13 Mean 1998 net worth for the full sample was $134,500. For those raised in Jewish families, the mean was $372,300, more than twice the mean for the full sample. Median net worth, a more unbiased estimate of wealth given the skewness of the wealth distribution, was $48,200 for the full sample. For those raised in Jewish families, the median was more than three times larger at $150,890. The proportion of Jews who have ever inherited is also much higher than the proportion in the full sample. Of those raised in Jewish families, .67 had ever received an inheritance compared to .40 in the full sample. Among those who had inherited at some time, the average inheritance for Jews was $4,713, while the average was less than $2,000 for the full sample. The descriptive statistics suggest that asset allocation may, indeed, account for some of this difference.
The table includes estimates of the proportion of families who own homes and stocks. Of those raised in Jewish families, 56% owned stocks in 1998, while only 24% of those in the full sample were stock owners. The difference in homeownership is much less dramatic. Of the Jewish respondents, 73% owned their own homes, while 65% of the full sample were homeowners.14
http://www.soc.duke.edu/~lkeister/religionandwealth.pdf
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The year 1998 is 53 years after the Holocaust.
But, was it all Judaists had achieved in America during the half century?
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It was cold yesterday here around Tokyo.
I could see my breath white.
Yet, very late in the night, I saw La Strada (English: The Road), a (1954) Italian neorealist drama directed by Federico Fellini, over a cable TV channel, since it was Culture Day.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_strada
Anyway, be a world class, or the Obama class or the W class, of players.
Mat 11:3 And said unto him, Art thou he that should come, or do we look for another?
Mat 11:4 Jesus answered and said unto them, Go and shew John again those things which ye do hear and see:
Mat 11:5 The blind receive their sight, and the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have the gospel preached to them.
Mat 11:6 And blessed is he, whosoever shall not be offended in me.