(Around the Tokyo Bay)Executive Summary
My recent discussion on history of Japan is as follows:
Shanghai's prosperity in 1920's and 1930's, though under a quasi-state of colonization, was protected by some Western police and soldiers (including U.S. Marines) stationed in the foreign settlement districts and some Imperial Naval ships and Marines of Japan stationed around the city. But, Chinese irregular and regular troops recklessly tried to occupy and govern whole Shanghai to launch military invasion of Shanghai, resulting in fierce battles with Westerners and Japanese. Yet, finally the city so prosperous in the era of the Great Depression was defended by Imperial troops dispatched from mainland Japan over the East China Sea, while the Imperial Government in Tokyo was so reluctant to authorize requests from the Imperial Military for sending more divisions to Shanghai. This is the situation till 1937, when Chinese political leaders and generals launched decisive offence onto Shanghai defenders. However, I do not support the act of colonization of Shanghai by Westerners and Japanese.
My recent claims concerning economics and history of Christianity are as follows:
SECTION I: Dream Economics
People must be respected and allowed to exercises their rights to enjoy life with goods and services.
But who provide goods and services? Yes, corporations and businesses.
They must be from the beginning allowed to exist and function so as to fulfil their duty to supply goods and services for people.
As you see, money is not necessarily needed as means to realize salary and expense payment.
Indeed, people can use "numbers," that is, simply numeric figures, instead of money.
A company pays 10,000 to a worker instead of $10,000, for, for example, work in a car factory. A worker pays 10,000 to a company instead of $10,000, for, for example, provision of a car by the company.
It does, since it is just a number and not money. There is no value in 10,000 unlike $10,000. The value is in goods and services as well as in people's rights to receive goods and services.
Mankind should start to use "10,000" instead of "$10,000" as a step toward non-money economy.
Anyway, it is not in banks or governmental agencies that create goods and services which are the base of value for human material life.
Without rectifying current warped relationships between corporations and workers, economy cannot be truly improved.
SECTION II: Pompeii
A great volcano erupted in the first century 230 Km or 140 miles south of Rome.
There is a report on this volcanic disaster that destroyed city Pompeii and took life of 10,000 to 25,000 people.
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Pliny the Younger, was a lawyer, author, and magistrate of Ancient Rome. Pliny's uncle, Pliny the Elder, helped raise and educate him and they were both witnesses to the eruption of Vesuvius on 24 August 79 AD, the day of the elder's death...
The largest body of Pliny's work which survives is his Epistulae (Letters), a series of personal missives directed to his friends and associates. These letters are a unique testimony of Roman administrative history and everyday life in the 1st century AD...
Especially noteworthy among the letters are two in which he describes the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in August 79 during which his uncle Pliny the Elder died (Epistulae VI.16, VI.20), and one in which he asks the Emperor for instructions regarding official policy concerning Christians (Epistulae X.96). Pliny's attention to detail in the letters about Vesuvius is so keen that modern vulcanologists describe that type of eruption as Plinian.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pliny_the_Younger
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Pliny the Younger as governor of a Roman territory was in charge of handling religious matters.
In those days, Christians were suspected by Roman authorities to be members of an evil religion or cult. If identified as a Christian or an ex-Christian, people were executed to death.
But, Pliny the Younger wrote a letter to the Roman Emperor that he wanted to apply a rule that execution would not be exercised on ex-Christians. Even against those accused of being a Christian, Pliny the Younger wanted to first ask whether the accused was truly a Christian while informing him that a Christian would be subject to capital punishment.
Emperor Trajan accepted the policy Pliny the Younger put forward.
It is not clear what influence the eruption of Mount Vesuvius had on the mind of Pliny the Younger. But, as he lost his great uncle in the great natural tragedy around Pompeii, Pliny the Younger must have come to more think of the God of Christians.
Mount Vesuvius took life of 10,000 to 25,000 people but it could be regarded as saving more Christians through Pliny the Younger.
The recent volcanic eruption of Mt. Eyjafjallajoekull harassed million travellers, but it has probably served as a key factor for promotion of the faith in Christ or the fall of the Vatican.
The Toyota's car name Prius means "prior to" in Latin. Indeed, the Toyota problem happened prior to the recent volcanic eruption in Iceland.
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A man can easily and correctly see, hear, or feel a subtle change in a very quiet environment without missing it.
A man can easily and correctly see, hear, or feel a huge change in a very wild environment without being overwhelmed.
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Where dp is the differential change in perception, dS is the differential increase in the stimulus and S is the stimulus at the instant. A constant factor k is to be determined experimentally.
dp =k*ds/s
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weber%E2%80%93Fechner_law
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If k = 1, ds = 10, and s = 100: dp = 1*10/100 = 10/100 = 1/10
If k = 1, ds = 10,000,000, and s = 100,000,000: dp = 1*10,000,000/100,000,000 = 10/100 = 1/10
It means: if you have $100 and wins $10 more, you can be as happy as someone that has $100 million and wins $10 million more.
Otherwise: if you have 100-point merit and win 10 points more, you will look as remarkable as someone who has $100 million-point merit and wins $10 million points more.
In theory, a poor husband finds grace more often in his wife than a rich husband in his wife, contrary to a popular belief.
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Mar 4:25 For he that hath, to him shall be given: and he that hath not, from him shall be taken even that which he hath.
Mar 4:26 And he said, So is the kingdom of God, as if a man should cast seed into the ground;
Mar 4:27 And should sleep, and rise night and day, and the seed should spring and grow up, he knoweth not how.