The Kanto Plain stretching 100 km from Tokyo Bay
(Click to enlarge.)Journées de l'insurrection
Through its history, Egypt has relied on only one natural resource: the River Nile.
Egypt has useful grounds only in the Nile river basin that stretches 1,000 km and more from the south to the north. The rest of the land is deserts and wilderness.
So, I think that ancient Egyptians should have built a big channel to have water flow into the desert from the Nile. It was not great pyramids but a great channel from the Nile which could create a big inland sea in the desert that was really needed.
If King Khufu had built such a big water channel 4550 years ago to, say, the Bahariya Oasis, Egypt must have a big lake in the desert now. Then, Egypt must be able to produce a great amount of agricultural products.
This might be one of the reasons why Christ Jesus never praised the Great Pyramid built by King Khufu.
SECTION I: Egyptian GDP in the US Dollar
From late 1980's to the middle of 200's, the GDP of Egypt had not been boosted.
It looks worse than Japan's lost decade or two decades. However, the economy of Egypt is now in an upward trend. As I wrote yesterday, Egypt might be experiencing a similar situation to that of Thailand. The Mubarak regime might not be suitable for the era of economic expansion in Egypt.
To make sure, the Chinese Communist Government does not allow the Chinese media to publicly report situations in Tunisia and Egypt. They are afraid of a possible revolution to happen in China, since 100,000 clashes occurred between poor farmers and workers and the police in China last year.
Also note that the largest exporter to Egypt is the U.S. followed by the U.K., France, and Germany; the largest importer from Egypt is the U.S. followed by Italy, Spain, and India in order.
SECTION II: Religious Shift in Egypt before Islam
It is very disadvantageous that Egyptians today cannot be proud of their ancestors who built great pyramids, since their religion of today is different from that of their ancestors.
It is also very disadvantageous that Egyptians today cannot be proud of their ancestors who lived the glorious era of Christ Jesus and the Roman Empire, since their religion of today is different from that of their ancestors.
The ancient religion of Egypt put up surprisingly little resistance to the spread of Christianity. Possibly its long history of collaboration with the Greek and Roman rulers of Egypt had robbed its religious leaders of authority. Alternatively, the life-affirming native religion may have begun to lose its appeal among the lower classes as a burden of taxation and liturgic services instituted by the Roman emperors reduced the quality of life. In a religious system which views earthly life as eternal, when earthly life becomes strained and miserable, the desire for such an everlasting life loses its appeal. Thus, the focus on poverty and meekness found a vacuum among the Egyptian population. In addition, many Christian tenets such as the concept of the trinity, a resurrection of deity and union with the deity after death had close similarities with the native religion of ancient Egypt[citation needed]. Or it may simply have been because branches of the native religion and Christianity had converged to a point where their similarities made the change a minor one.
By 200 it is clear that Alexandria was one of the great Christian centres. The Christian apologists Clement of Alexandria and Origen both lived part or all of their lives in that city, where they wrote, taught, and debated.
With the Edict of Milan in 312, Constantine I ended the persecution of Christians. Over the course of the 4th century, paganism was suppressed and lost its following, as the poet Palladius bitterly noted. It lingered underground for many decades: the final edict against paganism was issued in 390, but graffiti at Philae in Upper Egypt proves worship of Isis persisted at its temples into the 5th century. Many Egyptian Jews also became Christians, but many others refused to do so, leaving them as the only sizable religious minority in a Christian country.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Egypt#Christian_Egypt
If you look at the great pyramids but think that they were built by heathen so that they have no value, the great legacy of the nation and the Egyptian people would not much contribute to boosting the moral of Egyptians today.
Otherwise, something greater than the great pyramids should have been built in Egypt when Christianity came to prevail in the country.
In Europe, especially in the north of the Alps, every great thing was built after diffusion of Christianity. So, Europeans did not experience a dilemma between their respect for the current religion, Christianity, and the ancient glory and legacy their ancestors left for them.
But, Egyptians have to face the fact that their great legacy was not built by their ancestors who followed Christ Jesus or Allah. This situation is not advantageous for boosting the moral of Egyptians today. Pride of the nation is not greatly supported by the great pyramids.
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There is a Japanese conductor working with the orchestra of Kosovo.
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8USGP480&show_article=1
His activities in music in the Balkan Peninsula were reported in Japan on TV to be highly praised.
The Kosovo tragedy is what drew strongly my attention in late 1990's.
So, it can be regraded as a kind of miracles that a Japanese conductor is now working with some Kosovo musicians who must have been forced to walk a long way from their hometowns to some shelter as so televised around Tokyo.
Have you ever heard music called "Lotta Pace?"
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPbSYJ1LNl0&feature=related
There must be many reasons for any uprising...)
Luk 2:3 And all went to be taxed, every one into his own city.
Luk 2:4 And Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth, into Judaea, unto the city of David, which is called Bethlehem; (because he was of the house and lineage of David:)
Luk 2:5 To be taxed with Mary his espoused wife, being great with child.