The Ministry of Finance Building, Tokyo
President Mr. Barack Obama will reportedly visit Japan on Friday next week, introducing one-day delay into the original schedule due to the spree of killing at the Fort Hood, Texas.
It is said the suspect Major Nidal Malik Hasan was a Muslim born in America to the parents who immigrated from Jerusalem.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8345944.stm
I don't know what difference is there between Hispanic (Catholic) Americans and Muslim Americans when they identify themselves as patriotic Americans devout to American spiritualism, since the mainstream religion of America is a new type of Christianity/Judaism complex which Catholics and Muslims outside the United States cannot fully understand to respect such Americans.
Isn't it time to have the mainstream religion of America evolve into a new type of Christianity-Judaism-Islam complex?
Anyway, a wise man or woman never pulls the trigger to blue forces.
SECTION I: The Bible and Climate Change
I-1: Snow
Snow is sometimes, though not often, mentioned in the Old Testament, but a few in the New Testament related to the era of the Roman Empire.
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Common in Palestine in winter (Psalm 147:16). The snow on the tops of the Lebanon range is almost always within view throughout the whole year. The word is frequently used figuratively by the sacred writers (Job 24:19; Psalm 51:7; 68:14; Isaiah 1:18). It is mentioned only once in the historical books (2 Samuel 23:20). It was "carried to Tyre, Sidon, and Damascus as a luxury, and labourers sweltering in the hot harvest-fields used it for the purpose of cooling the water which they drank (Proverbs 25:13; Jeremiah 18:14). No doubt Herod Antipas, at his feasts in Tiberias, enjoyed also from this very source the modern luxury of ice-water."
http://eastonsbibledictionary.com/snow.htm
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Herod Antipas (20 BC – after 39 AD) was the king of Judea during the lifetime of Jesus Christ.
In the King James Version of the New Testament, there are only the following snow-related sentences:
Matthew 28:3 His countenance was like lightning, and his raiment white as snow:
Mark 9:3 And his raiment became shining, exceeding white as snow; so as no fuller on earth can white them.
I-2: Ice
Only three sentences include the word "ice" all through the Old Testament and the New Testament.
Job 6:16 Which are blackish by reason of the ice, and wherein the snow is hid:
Job 38:29 Out of whose womb came the ice? and the hoary frost of heaven, who hath gendered it?
Psalms 147:17 He casteth forth his ice like morsels: who can stand before his cold?
And the word "frozen" is used only once throughout the Old Testament and the New Testament.
Job 38:30 The waters are hid as with a stone, and the face of the deep is frozen.
So, as expected from the study of the Roman Empire, the eras from the Alexander the Great to the fall of Jerusalem or the compilation of the Gospels throughout the sub-eras of Caesar and Jesus Christ looked like truly warm or even sub-tropical around the Mediterranean.
SECTION II: Scientific Evidences
Indeed, scientists found recently that till the fall of the Roman Empire after the fall of Jerusalem or the compilation of the Gospels the weather was very dry around the east Mediterranean:
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Decline of Roman Empire
Updated on Saturday, December 06, 2008, 00:00 IST
An international team has carried out a study and claims to have found evidence of dry weather from 100 AD to 700 AD that actually coincided with the fall of both Roman and Byzantine rule in the region.
Based on chemical signatures in a piece of calcite from a Soreq Cave from Soreq Cave located in the Stalactite Cave Nature Reserve near Jerusalem, the researchers from Israel and the United States have pieced together a detailed record of the area's climate from 200 BC to 1100 AD to reach the conclusion.
http://www.zeenews.com/from-the-past/2008-12-06/488882news.html
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Indeed, this is the starting point of the modern Europe through the Middle Ages.
Then emerging modern Europe has not been sub-tropical like the decaying Roman Empire, since peoples emerging were used to live surrounded by ice and snow in a freezing environment.
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Between the 5th and 8th centuries, new peoples and powerful individuals filled the political void left by Roman centralized government. Germanic tribes established regional hegemonies within the former boundaries of the Empire, creating divided, decentralized kingdoms like those of the Ostrogoths in Italy, the Visigoths in Hispania, the Franks and Burgundians in Gaul and western Germany, the Angles and the Saxons in Britain, and the Vandals in North Africa.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_Ages#Early_Middle_Ages
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From a historical point view, today's global warming can put an end to today's Europeans' hegemony.
It is so, since they were from snow, ice, and a frozen environment as the history tells.
That must be why Europeans are the most afraid of global warming.
It is so, since with global warming we might return to the glory of the Roman Empire and further to the holy climate of the Jesus Christ's era, leaving cold-heated European races.
Haven't you ever thought this way?
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Anyway, a sudden change of climatic environments around you might disturb you physically or psychologically while you are not aware of disorder deep inside.
Or a certain type of viruses might suffer the similar disorder, resulting in the today's pandemic of the swine influenza.
Anyway, in Japan, they say that only fools do not catch a cold.
A wise man or woman sometimes has a strange or rare chronic illness, since I have some evidences...
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Mat 11:7 And as they departed, Jesus began to say unto the multitudes concerning John, What went ye out into the wilderness to see? A reed shaken with the wind?
Mat 11:8 But what went ye out for to see? A man clothed in soft raiment? behold, they that wear soft clothing are in kings' houses.
Mat 11:9 But what went ye out for to see? A prophet? yea, I say unto you, and more than a prophet.
Mat 11:10 For this is he, of whom it is written, Behold, I send my messenger before thy face, which shall prepare thy way before thee.