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"Morality is impossible without Religious Devotion To Duty"
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John Kavenaugh wrote this intriguing article for that left-wing Catholic magazine America. In it, he states that the real problem with moral relativism is that you end up demanding that Other people follow rules that you won't follow yourself- and that the Philosopher Kant argues against this, while arguing for freedom.I find this fascinating, because I myself have a basic philosophical problem with freedom: Political and Religious Freedom contains the Freedom to Do Good, but it also contains the Freedom to Do Evil.Immanuel Kant counters this with the idea that if you're going to hold to a principle, you should hold it yourself as a religious duty to the greater good. After all, what good is having a rule if you won't follow it yourself?This, to me, is the core of morality- to do what is right in the service of the greater good. It's also the core of just about every major religion on the planet, save Protestantism, which has the concept of being saved by Faith Alone (despite the Biblical pronouncement against this in the book of James- which claims we are saved NOT by faith alone, but by good works).September 2008 taught us that free markets, in the absence of strict ethics and moral code, will fail- that freedom contains the freedom to do evil. Only by adhering to a duty to do good, can we overcome this.
posted by Ted Seeber at 12:22 PM on Apr 20, 2009

Eiko Onoda said...
>Political and Religious Freedom contains the Freedom to Do Good, but it also contains the Freedom to Do Evil.Yes, but we mustn't do evil, because it restricts itself -the freedom to do evil. As long as we do good, we keep on having two freedoms -freedom to do good or evil. Therefore we need to do good. >which claims we are saved NOT by faith alone, but by good works). Paul once said a guy who doesn't work is worse than the guy who doesn't have faith. Spiritual civilisation stands on the firm material civilisation.
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Mercelius
Friday, 24 October 2008

A spoonful of sea water2008.10.24 23:32Events around me is likely to be events around the world.Events that occurred around me are simultaneously and spontaneously occurring around the world.
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Wednesday, 22 October 2008

Mer_panacea
Tuesday, October 21, 2008What makes me deluded?2008.10.21 18:25Poisonous chemical substances floating in the sky of Kokura.Monotonous and dismal job life.Happy and exclusive life with my partner.I think I am somebody but not well evaluated.After the delirium2008.10.21 17:37..Who's cheated?2008.10.21 17:09People who tell lies tend to be cheated.Happiness & Money2008.10.21 17:07Happiness can make money, but money can't make happiness.My world2008.10.20 23:44Everybody lives in 'my' world.¶ 2:33 AM 0 Comments Monday, October 20, 2008 by Mer_panacea (1381133) on Tuesday October 21, @03:19AM (#25444095) JournalIs SARS the acronym of Star Wars?¶ 11:20 AM 0 Comments My worldMy worldMonday October 20, @11:44PMEverybody lives in 'my' world.
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Thursday, 6 November 2008

Re:Out of curiosisty... (Score:1)by Mer_panacea (1381133) on 2008.11.06 20:18 (#25658949) Homepage JournalI'm mercedo. On the 3rd of October I was posting a new journal entry as usual. On the fourth consecutive one, abruptly my posting was blocked. I asked Slashdot authority what the cause of it, but they said they have no idea. After several attempts finally I quit. I made a new account.I keep on writing till the end of time.--Ancient Greek Philosophers -18c Enlightenment Thinkers -Slashdotters
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Wednesday, 5 November 2008

Re:New Deal in F.D. Roosevelt (Score:1)by Mer_panacea (1381133) on 2008.11.05 23:16 (#25640131) Homepage JournalHe started his presidency just after the Great Depression in 1933. The situation is similar. America has a great potential in arranging infrastructure. He will plan public enterprises as making bridge and dam, road, etc. and create employment. Albeit I hope he will not start the war after nine years.--Ancient Greek Philosophers -18c Enlightenment Thinkers -Slashdotters
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The mystery of working hours2008.11.05 21:56We usually believe we can get more money working in 8 hours than in 6 hours. If we can earn $80 in 8 hours we tend to feel it's natural to earn $60 in 6 hours.That's strange.We can get two extra hours for taking a rest or pleasure in case of working just 6 hours. How can we spend this 2 hours in less paid money. We have to spend extra money in this extra hours. We need a compensation for this 2 hours if we had to work only 6 hours instead of 8 hours in a day.We need to get paid $80 x 4/3 or $107 for working 6 hours. We sell time and buy money in working hours. We sell money and buy time in pleasure hours.
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Failure in China2008.11.05 21:07Famous musician Naoki Komuro was arrested for his involvement in deception. He proposed to sell his 806 songs copyrights in 1 billion dollars to a wealthy investor. He had gotten 500 million dollars, but he didn't give them away. He had a bebt of 1 billion dollars.He used to earn 2 billion dollars in a year.He had lost 7 billion dollars in Hongkong. He started his investment in Hongkong in Dec. 1996 just one year before the return to China.Yaohan collapsed after its headquarters moved to Shanghai.We people from a small country get overwhelmed by a sea of people in China. China is not simply a country, but a continent just the same as Europe, America. We never understand that.
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Tuesday, 4 November 2008


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Voting is a right, not an obligation. It ought to be completely free whether we exercise this right or not. If we were gaoled for not voting, this is nothing but a persecution. I cannot go to vote even if I want to!
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Monday, 3 November 2008

Exactly (Score:1)by Mer_panacea (1381133) on 2008.11.04 0:05 (#25612141) JournalI have the same idea.In some country people are obliged to vote or have to pay fine. Voting ought to be a result of free choice.Voting is just one form of democracy, there are many other way to realise democracy. Not voting is one of options.
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Sunday, 2 November 2008

Mrs Marquise de Sade2008.11.03 11:04This is a play written by Mishima.Mishima once wrote he can describe more things better in plays rather than in novels.Jean Genet started writing novels first then later he wrote plays.Shakespeare was a playwright.I just once tried writing a play. Just once.This play was performed just once in some local theatre. I noticed after the play was performed. I thought I went to see the play if I noticed it before.Some popular drama has been performed two or three times in a day and lasts for six months, would be watched by many. Mrs Marquise de Sade is not watched by many but few, but the few would go to see the theatre without fail.
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The feeling of falling in love2008.11.03 9:09About more than a year ago I encountered a woman in a local town. I fell in love at first sight. It was actually hard for me to explain the feeling of it in a word. She seemed ideal and perfect to me. I just talked to her a couple of word near her office. Her office and mine happened to be very close and she happened to live near my house though I didn't seek to know exactly where.She started wearing a ring in her left hand sometime after I talked to her. I tried to forget her ignore her though the effort was in vain. All the more I felt affectionate with her the more I tried to forget her.She disappeared from my sight sometime around March this year.It is enigmatic and inexplicable to hold the feeling of falling in love, but it is true that I fall in love with her. I don't know her name, many things on her. It is hard to get over the feeling of it, still I have no way to ease it.
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Optimism (Score:1)by Mer_panacea (1381133) on 2008.11.03 1:55 (#25603261) Journal>they encourage more abortion, they encourage more death, they encourage more materialism over human life.It is not a good idea to hold illusions in politics though, I think politics has a possibility to enhance our goodness more in future.
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Indirect democracy (Score:1)by Mer_panacea (1381133) on 2008.11.03 1:25 (#25603061) JournalI don't know many, but there must have been a historical basis in an electorate system. Remains to be an indirect democracy? Is it a last citadel against politics by the fanatical masses?
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New Deal in F.D. Roosevelt (Score:1)by Mer_panacea (1381133) on 2008.11.03 0:16 (#25602611) JournalThe reason recent financial crisis works well for Obama is because people are expecting him to proceed a New Deal type of social policy in the next presidency.
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Way to freedom (Score:1)by Mer_panacea (1381133) on 2008.11.02 23:55 (#25602481) JournalWe are hampered in everywhere. Our effort will be made to enhance liberty.
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History is a story (Score:1)by Mer_panacea (1381133) on 2008.11.02 23:22 (#25602325) JournalHistory is his story, or winner's story. History reflects a part of archaeological or documentary fact, but not entirely. History changes as times go by. We just need to be very skeptical about how history textbooks tell us.
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Moderate is a voter's view
It is only voters that can decide who's moderate by voting itself. Those who elected will be regarded as moderate as a result of the election, which decides the criterion of it, that is who's moderate or not.
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Marriage rings2008.11.02 22:11We went out to buy a marriage ring. My size is 17 inches and hers is 7. I had many options but she had scarce or just one option. I didn't like the shape of the ring so we didn't buy it.First rings I bought were made in plutinum, Acquascutum. 500 bucks each. The second ring I bought for pleasure was made in silver 925. 22 bucks. The third ones will be... not sure yet.We had many options in kinds of precious metals recently. Fine steel, silver coated by platinum, silver with 5% plutinum included. But I like a ring made by only silver. I recall Biblical times in Old Testament whenever I see silver rings. Silver is warmer and softer.
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Cars
I rode several cars in the past. First car I rode was March, Nissan. The second one I rode was not mine but my my girlfriend's that was Benz. Basically she rode it but sometimes I did.The third one was Cultus, Suzuki. This was the only car that I operated the gear in manual shift. I liked this car most. This car was arranged exclusively for my job by my company those days. I appreciated that much.The fouth one was Pulsar, Nissan. I had this car colided several times and had engine trouble after I sent it to a regular car inspection. I had this car scraped after riding only several years.Now the fifth one I ride is Tiida, Nissan.I normaly use neither a car nor a bicycle. On foot basically.I have a gold lisence holder, which means 'excellent'.
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Allowance
2008.11.12 5:26

Our government decides to pay a fixed allowance to each natinal. Ordinary adults get paid $120 and age more than 65 and less than 18 get paid $200, so average household get received $640.
We need money so simply I'm glad that. But what really we need is a steady job, pay increase, a regular bonus, tax cuts. Our government left all these problems and gives us just allowance. I feel sorry but we need to call ourselves a beggar at last.

Re:New Deal (Score:1)
by Mer_panacea (1381133) on 2008.11.12 3:57 (#25724179) Homepage Journal
>I believe in individual freedoms and tend to think people should be left alone to decide social policy for themselves.
It's interesting to see from right to left in the US this attitude is unchanging.It's also intersting to observe how Asian's nationality is much more group-oriented.People are willing to deny an individual freedom and have learned from their childhood how to make sacrifices for the sake of society and are wanting a unified social policy to follow. They are reluctant to choose whatever they want. They like to be given, not tend to seek for something better for themselves.
I like American type democracy, but there's a way in each country. I can't help but leave it to them.
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Re:Generally speaking.. (Score:1)
by Mer_panacea (1381133) on 2008.11.12 3:33 (#25723811) Homepage Journal
Yes. It seems very interesting question to me.You know I'm Japanese. Asian people in general like to be more controlled by a good politics or leader than Americans. They are reluctant to make up their mind whatever. They like to follow a good leadership.This is a distinct difference in nationality. Asians are more group-oriented. Americans are more individualistic.
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Generally speaking.. (Score:1)
by Mer_panacea (1381133) on 2008.11.11 0:08 (#25704063) Homepage Journal
I understand Americans don't like to be controlled.
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New Deal (Score:1)
by Mer_panacea (1381133) on 2008.11.10 23:19 (#25703247) Homepage Journal
I expect him to start public enterprises to arrange infrastructure and create employment. I just wonder how he can manage under the free economy. Recession and depression are the fate of exceeded capitalism. People need social policy, he will do it.
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The meaning of civilian control
2008.11.09 15:20

94 member of air self defence force submitted theses to private thesis competition. Total number of people who submitted was 235. A head of air self defence force got the first prize and $300,000. His theme was 'Japan was not an invader nation'. 9 out of ten people would say no to his idea. But it's just ok to have various opinions, however..it is questionable if it were an opinion of current head of armed forces. The meaning of civilian control is it is civilian that decides the use of force. A head of armed forces ought not to express their idea while they are in charge. It is very natural for government to insist the return of retired money from former head of armed forces. He was fired but received the money of $600,000. I'm not sure whether he returns but I hope anyone who is a head of armed forces keep silent, especially when it comes to political opinions. Please make sure that.

Wind from China
2008.11.09 15:00

They say Japan is an industrialised nation. As a matter of fact there are many factories located off the coast. We have been sometimes sufferred from polluted air, especially from the one called 'photochemical smog'. We used to have a severe state in that. Now the contents of smoke is very regulated and said to be safer than those of in many years ago. But still we have smog problems. We started claiming that the polluted air is arriving from newly industrialised coastal China since few years ago. Japanese people are good at attributing to next nations when it comes to something unpleasant. Japanese local government regulates the quantity of smoke emission by the degree of polluted air. If the harmful matterial exceeds the standard, factories have to stop or decrease the production to meet the criteria. Japanese factories increase production again after it was restricted, insisting that because it is owing to Chinese factories to exceed the level of pollution. The gross of polluted material, that matters, no matter who comes up the pollution.

Not yet understanding
2008.11.09 13:08

Her former husband went to mountain to pick out the cloud. I added detergent to the well to try to sanitise the water in it. I really couldn't understand where saliva is from when I didn't take any water. I had thought the car direction indicator was lit automatically. I had thought the antenna is automatically directed to the broadcasting centre. I really couldn't understand the meaning of 'World heritage' because heritage meant all left money at that time for me. I thought all people speak Japanese because all filmstars talk in Japanese. Only later I realised they are interpretted.

Jack of all trades
2008.11.09 12:43

Fuji film starts selling cosmetics. Kanebo was established as a yarn company and later it started selling cosmetics. Toyota was first making a weaving machine. Sharp improved a mechanical pencil first and later it went to electronics industry. Sony started making a solid-state radio and now selling a life insurrance, too.

Soup in noodles
2008.11.06 23:14

17 year ago I had a Filipina girlfriend. She made me noodles one day and she insisted I drink all the soup of noodles because it's healthy.At that time we had no custom to drink up all the soup. We just left it and throw away.Time has passed. Our company asked us at lunch we are supposed to drink it up all the soup because it's insanitary to throw away into a sink.I now drink up all the soup because I don't like to waste nutrition.We are becoming stingy whatever the reason.

Aim
2008.11.06 22:53

Hideyoshi changed his job 30 times before he started serving in samurai under Nobunaga. His aim was to rule the world, not merely serve in one job.I changed my job 15 or 16 times. My aim is to be a good writer.Still long way ahead.

What they seek for
2008.11.06 22:36

Wives and kids seek for stability, security, and reliability. They seek for manly man, not a sissy boy. A wife with her kids who were told from their hubby or dad who came out that he is gay hid themselves.The guy or gay consulted one famous gay that he wants to see them. No way.We need only one woman in a house. We don't need another woman in the same household.

Illusion of smokers
2008.11.06 22:05

We entered a Spanish restaurant at 13:40. It was non-smoking hours from 11 to 14.5 minutes past 14, two old women started smoking beside us. Of course I left there.You cannot smoke from 11 to 14 doesn't mean you can smoke except 11 to 14, but means you ought not to smoke throughout all business hours but especially you mustn't smoke from 11 to 14 or lunch time.Smokers don't understand the meaning because they smoke.

Sunday, 2 November 2008

Moderate is a voter's view
It is only voters that can decide who's moderate by voting itself. Those who elected will be regarded as moderate as a result of the election, which decides the criterion of it, that is who's moderate or not.
Posted by Mercelius at 05:52 0 comments

Marriage rings2008.11.02 22:11We went out to buy a marriage ring. My size is 17 inches and hers is 7. I had many options but she had scarce or just one option. I didn't like the shape of the ring so we didn't buy it.First rings I bought were made in plutinum, Acquascutum. 500 bucks each. The second ring I bought for pleasure was made in silver 925. 22 bucks. The third ones will be... not sure yet.We had many options in kinds of precious metals recently. Fine steel, silver coated by platinum, silver with 5% plutinum included. But I like a ring made by only silver. I recall Biblical times in Old Testament whenever I see silver rings. Silver is warmer and softer.
Posted by Mercelius at 05:11 0 comments

Cars
I rode several cars in the past. First car I rode was March, Nissan. The second one I rode was not mine but my my girlfriend's that was Benz. Basically she rode it but sometimes I did.The third one was Cultus, Suzuki. This was the only car that I operated the gear in manual shift. I liked this car most. This car was arranged exclusively for my job by my company those days. I appreciated that much.The fouth one was Pulsar, Nissan. I had this car colided several times and had engine trouble after I sent it to a regular car inspection. I had this car scraped after riding only several years.Now the fifth one I ride is Tiida, Nissan.I normaly use neither a car nor a bicycle. On foot basically.I have a gold lisence holder, which means 'excellent'.
Posted by Mercelius at 03:50 0 comments
Friday, 24 October 2008

A spoonful of sea water2008.10.24 23:32Events around me is likely to be events around the world.Events that occurred around me are simultaneously and spontaneously occurring around the world.
Posted by Mercelius at 07:34 0 comments
Wednesday, 22 October 2008

Mer_panacea
Tuesday, October 21, 2008What makes me deluded?2008.10.21 18:25Poisonous chemical substances floating in the sky of Kokura.Monotonous and dismal job life.Happy and exclusive life with my partner.I think I am somebody but not well evaluated.After the delirium2008.10.21 17:37..Who's cheated?2008.10.21 17:09People who tell lies tend to be cheated.Happiness & Money2008.10.21 17:07Happiness can make money, but money can't make happiness.My world2008.10.20 23:44Everybody lives in 'my' world.¶ 2:33 AM 0 Comments Monday, October 20, 2008 by Mer_panacea (1381133) on Tuesday October 21, @03:19AM (#25444095) JournalIs SARS the acronym of Star Wars?¶ 11:20 AM 0 Comments My worldMy worldMonday October 20, @11:44PMEverybody lives in 'my' world.
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, 2 November 2008

Mrs Marquise de Sade2008.11.03 11:04This is a play written by Mishima.Mishima once wrote he can describe more things better in plays rather than in novels.Jean Genet started writing novels first then later he wrote plays.Shakespeare was a playwright.I just once tried writing a play. Just once.This play was performed just once in some local theatre. I noticed after the play was performed. I thought I went to see the play if I noticed it before.Some popular drama has been performed two or three times in a day and lasts for six months, would be watched by many. Mrs Marquise de Sade is not watched by many but few, but the few would go to see the theatre without fail.
Posted by Mercelius at 16:45 0 comments

The feeling of falling in love2008.11.03 9:09About more than a year ago I encountered a woman in a local town. I fell in love at first sight. It was actually hard for me to explain the feeling of it in a word. She seemed ideal and perfect to me. I just talked to her a couple of word near her office. Her office and mine happened to be very close and she happened to live near my house though I didn't seek to know exactly where.She started wearing a ring in her left hand sometime after I talked to her. I tried to forget her ignore her though the effort was in vain. All the more I felt affectionate with her the more I tried to forget her.She disappeared from my sight sometime around March this year.It is enigmatic and inexplicable to hold the feeling of falling in love, but it is true that I fall in love with her. I don't know her name, many things on her. It is hard to get over the feeling of it, still I have no way to ease it.
Posted by Mercelius at 16:10 0 comments

Optimism (Score:1)by Mer_panacea (1381133) on 2008.11.03 1:55 (#25603261) Journal>they encourage more abortion, they encourage more death, they encourage more materialism over human life.It is not a good idea to hold illusions in politics though, I think politics has a possibility to enhance our goodness more in future.
Posted by Mercelius at 08:48 0 comments

Indirect democracy (Score:1)by Mer_panacea (1381133) on 2008.11.03 1:25 (#25603061) JournalI don't know many, but there must have been a historical basis in an electorate system. Remains to be an indirect democracy? Is it a last citadel against politics by the fanatical masses?
Posted by Mercelius at 08:25 0 comments

New Deal in F.D. Roosevelt (Score:1)by Mer_panacea (1381133) on 2008.11.03 0:16 (#25602611) JournalThe reason recent financial crisis works well for Obama is because people are expecting him to proceed a New Deal type of social policy in the next presidency.
Posted by Mercelius at 07:16 0 comments

Way to freedom (Score:1)by Mer_panacea (1381133) on 2008.11.02 23:55 (#25602481) JournalWe are hampered in everywhere. Our effort will be made to enhance liberty.
Posted by Mercelius at 06:55 0 comments

History is a story (Score:1)by Mer_panacea (1381133) on 2008.11.02 23:22 (#25602325) JournalHistory is his story, or winner's story. History reflects a part of archaeological or documentary fact, but not entirely. History changes as times go by. We just need to be very skeptical about how history textbooks tell us.
Posted by Mercelius at 06:23 0 comments

Thursday, 6 November 2008

Re:Out of curiosisty... (Score:1)by Mer_panacea (1381133) on 2008.11.06 20:18 (#25658949) Homepage JournalI'm mercedo. On the 3rd of October I was posting a new journal entry as usual. On the fourth consecutive one, abruptly my posting was blocked. I asked Slashdot authority what the cause of it, but they said they have no idea. After several attempts finally I quit. I made a new account.I keep on writing till the end of time.--Ancient Greek Philosophers -18c Enlightenment Thinkers -Slashdotters
Posted by Mercelius at 03:19 0 comments
Wednesday, 5 November 2008

Re:New Deal in F.D. Roosevelt (Score:1)by Mer_panacea (1381133) on 2008.11.05 23:16 (#25640131) Homepage JournalHe started his presidency just after the Great Depression in 1933. The situation is similar. America has a great potential in arranging infrastructure. He will plan public enterprises as making bridge and dam, road, etc. and create employment. Albeit I hope he will not start the war after nine years.--Ancient Greek Philosophers -18c Enlightenment Thinkers -Slashdotters
Posted by Mercelius at 06:17 0 comments

The mystery of working hours2008.11.05 21:56We usually believe we can get more money working in 8 hours than in 6 hours. If we can earn $80 in 8 hours we tend to feel it's natural to earn $60 in 6 hours.That's strange.We can get two extra hours for taking a rest or pleasure in case of working just 6 hours. How can we spend this 2 hours in less paid money. We have to spend extra money in this extra hours. We need a compensation for this 2 hours if we had to work only 6 hours instead of 8 hours in a day.We need to get paid $80 x 4/3 or $107 for working 6 hours. We sell time and buy money in working hours. We sell money and buy time in pleasure hours.
Posted by Mercelius at 04:56 0 comments

Failure in China2008.11.05 21:07Famous musician Naoki Komuro was arrested for his involvement in deception. He proposed to sell his 806 songs copyrights in 1 billion dollars to a wealthy investor. He had gotten 500 million dollars, but he didn't give them away. He had a bebt of 1 billion dollars.He used to earn 2 billion dollars in a year.He had lost 7 billion dollars in Hongkong. He started his investment in Hongkong in Dec. 1996 just one year before the return to China.Yaohan collapsed after its headquarters moved to Shanghai.We people from a small country get overwhelmed by a sea of people in China. China is not simply a country, but a continent just the same as Europe, America. We never understand that.
Posted by Mercelius at 04:09 0 comments
Tuesday, 4 November 2008


Posted by Mercelius at 03:06 0 comments

Voting is a right, not an obligation. It ought to be completely free whether we exercise this right or not. If we were gaoled for not voting, this is nothing but a persecution. I cannot go to vote even if I want to!
Posted by Mercelius at 01:57 0 comments
Monday, 3 November 2008

Exactly (Score:1)by Mer_panacea (1381133) on 2008.11.04 0:05 (#25612141) JournalI have the same idea.In some country people are obliged to vote or have to pay fine. Voting ought to be a result of free choice.Voting is just one form of democracy, there are many other way to realise democracy. Not voting is one of options.
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They numbered about 4,000 members. Admission required two to three years of preparation, and new candidates took an oath of piety, justice, and truthfulness.Two to three years, it's long.

What was so shocking to the scholars who examined the ancient documents was that there was a community of people practicing Christianity, or something very close to it, for at least 200 years before the time of Christ. Both the practice of baptism and of the sharing of the wine are recorded as part of their practices long before Jesus and John the Baptist popularized them.

Nothing comes out of nothing. Christianity was not the exception.

Aristo

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One Light Year

Light can travel 7.5 times around the globe in a second.
One year is 365 days. 365 times 24, which is 8760 hours.
8760 hours times 60, which is 525600 minutes.
525600 minutes times 60, which is 31536000 seconds.
So One light year can travel 40000 km times 7.5 times 31536000,
which is 126144 times 7.5 times 10000000, which is 946080 times 10000000, which is 9,460,800,000,000 km.


Answer. about 9.4 trillion km (9.4 cho km)

Eight Horns

Chinese Proposal to blend their old traditional medicine with modern western medicine
mercedo
Sat, 09 Dec 2006 05:39:07 PST
The effective ingredients of Tamiflu was found from Chinese traditional medicine 'eight horns' -I wrote it before. Chinese people usually don't extract effective ingredients from natural materials, in this case it's a horn. They use it as it is. They grind it and make powder. They take it through mouth.
In the first place they observed the phenomenon of nature closely and learned through empirical rules, probably they might have eyewitnessed that some animal took it and got recovered from the illness, etc.
Western culture take more positive way. They synthesise the chemical material, and try giving it to some animals. When they were able to certify the effectiveness of medicine, finally they conduct a clinical trial. Chinese empirical method will give them a hint which material to research.

Tamiflu

Tamiflu Revised Contraindications
mercedo
Fri, 08 Dec 2006 09:02:21 PST
Two cases had been reported in television program. It concluded that it is so hard whether the deliriumn was just the symptom of influenza or the one caused by the side effect of taking Tamiflu. The cause and result relationship between Tamiflu and delirium is indeed very hard to prove.

Nullity

Division by Zero
mercedo
Fri, 08 Dec 2006 08:34:31 PST
Mathematics is made on the rules and regulations. Those premises were destroyed when he introduced the new number 'nullity', therefore his theory was nullified.

Theophilline

Theophilline
mercedo
Fri, 08 Dec 2006 08:04:14 -0800
Chemistry
Danger of theophilline in case it were used in infants for prevention of asthma
The medicine theophilline is generally used for asthma patients, but if it were prescribed in infants, especially for preventative objectives, that could be subject to causing spasm. If it lasts long hours like 2.5 hours, it is subject to causing acute encephalitis.
Be careful.

Anti-Aging

Staying Sharp as you Age-get the Blood Pumping
mercedo
Fri, 08 Dec 2006 07:50:59 PST
This mistake is interesting. Apparently he wanted to spell 'our', but the y input between o and r makes us imagine the word might have spelled as 'your'. By this mistake, he was insisting that the aging he was talking about has nothing to do with him. In short he is eager to free from aging.

Mediterranean Lake

Ancient Tsunami hit the Mediterranean Basin Hard
mercedo
Fri, 08 Dec 2006 07:22:31 PST
If eruption was a little bit weaker, Mediterranean Sea might have been called as Mediterranean Lake.

The Beginning Of New Age

I started posting a comment in Technocrat.net. After effect was so severe.

The End Of One Era

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Old?
2006.01.30 9:04

Does someone tell me why 'old.' Technocrat.net?

Biggest Investment Ever
2006.01.30 7:09

If I bought gold or silver, the value of these metal would never change as time passes, therefore it's precious. Knowledge is, on the other hands, once acquired, these turn to wisdom after some time.
My largest investment went into acquiring knowledge from a book in my early twenties. I invested millions of time doing so, now it's time I got reward from them. I'm sure I will.
Personally speaking, I like silver though. I like the touch of it and its eternity. When I was reading Bible, I often encountered the description of silver, I used to watch my marriage ring again and again then imagined if part of my ring come from the same silver in biblical times.

Coin In Use
2006.01.29 8:12
I don't like to use coins for speculation, and gamble, but only for investment. I didn't flip a coin.

In Search Of New Energy
2006.01.29 8:11
I think there's a very different history, background behind what power plant we favour in Japan or Europe and USA. As was the same in the situations of other countries, Japanese government twenty years ago were very enthusiatic about building new nuclear power plants one after another. As a result of this policy, many new plants were built and planned. You see Japan is very populated in this tiny island, people were afraid of nuclear disaster as Chernobyl, and Three Miles Island. As we anticipated, a number of incidents occurred, fortunately none of them was as serious as Chernobyl, but some workers died and nuclear agency had to spend millions of tax to compensate them and clean the nuclear contamination as well.
Now governemnt as well as people are just fed up with building new facilities. That doesn't pay. Many new plans have been abandoned so far for these fifteen years.
Nuclear power was based on a revolutionary idea but nuclear power plant was based on an obsolete idea. The true nuclear power can be generated in a small chamber, not a factory. The key is 'E=MC2', one of good examples of utilising new energy is the recent development of fusion battery. We have to concentrate our wisdom on the issue.

Homo Belligerence
2006.01.29 8:08

It has been thought to be a riddle for humans to be unable to find relatives of ourselves. In the case of many other animals, there are many kins around them. So some scientists tried to explain this mystery by assuming a missing link from humans to apes. -There must be a primate that hasn't found yet.
I am not particularly a proponent of this theory, though, I support a huge chasm in genetics between humans and apes. My supposition is that humans were so belligerent that they killed almost all kins genetically closer to humans. We were indeed homo belligerence.

Unmanned Weaponry
2006.01.29 8:05

This news reminds me the deployment of unmanned battle vehicle [ubergizmo.com] in Iraq one year ago. It was experimental, so the number of the machines were few.

Prelude?

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Prelude?
2006.01.25 8:56

Related to Old Glaciers On Mars
the researchers have concluded it was snow blowing in from the poles that caused the ice buildup previously.-zogger
I felt chilly. Japan was hit this winter by unprecedented quantity of snowfall, and they say the snow was directly from the North Pole.
I hope this is not a prelude to Mars now.

Transfiguration
2006.01.25 7:20

When Era of Tsin Dynasty, scholars from Europe demonstrated that the very complicated Chinese writing system (about 5000 ideograms) can be transliterated in the combination of only 26 characters. Chinese ruler at that time was just amazed to see them.
Technically speaking, transliteration from very complicated ideograms into simplified phonetic characters is possible, but because of the habit, custom, bad? tradition, we are still using that very clumsy writing system.
Again technically, English writing system can be transfigured into the combination of 0 and 1 as in computer. Morse signal is also based on this idea.
As to the logics of language, both English and Chinese are very logical language. That's why both find so many users.

Money Game
2006.01.25 7:15

Under the current system in the Internet, if you have $10, you can buy up to $100 worthy of shares. If the stock you bought rose up to $2000, that is 20 times as much as you invested, you can get $2000. As opposed to this success example, if you lost $100, you would end up owing $100 in debt.
He succeeded this money game. He came to be very rich through making the most of this strange system. This speculative game might have produced millions of fortunes, only in figure. Still many business people believe figure is everything. Probably figure (flow economy) reflects part of the truth but not all. What percent? Depending on who you are.
After Mr Horie was arrested, the share of his company is skydiving. He's never returned any part of his huge profit to his 20,000 shareholders, mostly individual ones who dreamed a high return. The heart of the investers were broken twice.
Trust is more important than money.

No Elixir
2006.01.25 7:01

Aspirin is a very common drug, and more and more the drug turns out to be one of the most applicable drugs to many other diseases. However, always careful clinical trials by patients as many as possible is required, since there's no elixir in our world.

Geography
2006.01.25 6:59

They are asking how we pronounce the word 'tomato'. I guess many Americans pronounce like toe may toe. In my country toe mah toe. Main pronounciation differs according to the region we live, so geography in title.

Oxygen With Comments

O2
2006.01.18 17:55

Related to this article.
I have heard the story once that O2 is highly toxic to life if it were taken too much or in highly densely form, but because it exist with a combination of nitrogen in the rate of 1:4, it is beneficial to life.

True! (Score:2)
by AB3A ({ab3a} {at} {comcast.net}) on 2006.01.18 18:17 (#10543) User #2283 Info http://technocrat.net/ Last Journal: 2005.10.07 11:17
Actually what's really toxic is the partial pressure of O2. This is the reason why divers can't dive below 85 feet (If I recall correctly) on Nitrox II. It's also the reason why pilots need pressure suits and full face masks even if they're breathing pure oxygen above Flight Level 350 or so. If you can't get the ambient air to a pressure of at least 20 percent of an atmosphere, then you'll slowly go hypoxic as your body attempts to breath in sufficient oxygen.
Look Ma! No Brains!
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Re:True! (Score:1)
by mercedo on 2006.01.18 18:44 (#10544) User #2554 Info http://mercedo-the-eve.blogspot.com/ Last Journal: 2006.01.20 9:58
Thank you for finding my comment. I wanted to make a comment this directly to the article, though, I felt it slightly off topic, so I posted here. Seemed nobody's reading my journal, your comment encourages me much.--
Ancient Greek Philosophers -18c Enlightenment Thinkers -Technocrat.net Users
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No Paradigm

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Some Paradigms Are Unnecessary
2006.01.20 9:58
Mike, go home. Mike goes home. Since there are two meanings here, we need to define verbs, one is for order, and the other is for ordinary.
But how about these, -He goes home, since 'he' is used as the third person, we don't have to use -es to define as ordinary sentence. He go home/He goes home both means the same.
We use "isn't/ aren't/ don't/ doesn't/ hasn't/ haven't" according to the subject we used, but "ain't" can replace all these negations, is "ain't" enough to use instead? If you think "ain't" is a bad word, just 'not' will be replaced for this.
You see the most logical word order might be like 'He not go to the zoo.', the negation word 'not' has to be placed before verb so like 'I not have written journals for two days since I was busy.'

Revolutionary Idea
2006.01.20 9:54
Poison to poison, chaos to oscillating movement. Nono world is ruled by completely different physics -as quantum theory tells - as if it were both wave and molecule, it is such a hard thing to grasp the notion there in nano world.
The same applied to macrocosm. Space where lightyear rules, completely different physics -they say theory of relativism - works.
Oscillating movements lead to taming chaos is a revolutionary idea, I hope it does work.

Direction Of Wind
2006.01.20 9:51
I don't think he's particularly violating laws, he's a master of conducting legal deed through loopholes of law, which is yet to be arranged in current circumstances of the Internet society.
His misdeed was he hasn't shared part of his huge profit with shareholders. As if he forgot that his success was supported by millions of individual investors.
He has to not only read between the lines of stockmarket, but direction of wind in a society. Only when he lost support and popularity among people as well as thousands shareholders, he would have to think over his direction again.

Single Dominant vs Diversified Scarce
2006.01.20 9:45
Remember the role of bacteria is different from that of plants and animals. Main role of bacteria is to decompose corpse of those lives, so in order to decompose as quickly as possible, they don't need to diversify the kinds of their species, but they need a semi-single large quantity of bacteria. So in an area like the Amazon, single dominant species tend to flourish.
In an area like desert, the plants and animals are so adjusting to particular environment specifically, and their corpses are so hard to be decomposed under such severe circumstances. The kinds of bacteria tend to diversify according to the particular body they work, but the number of bacteria remains to be tremendously lower.
Rememer they are talking about the number of the kinds, not the entire quantity. Obviously the number of bacteria is by far exceeding in the Amazon than in desert. Whether it's relevant to talking about pH is questionable. I'm afraid that's a result, not a cause.

Cancer Is A Natural Result
2006.01.19 10:16

Cancer is formed from the consistent accumulation of carcinogen in parts of their body. Any carcinogen is so toxic to humans, unless it is formed later as cancer, it might directly cause their immediate death. Instead of their instant death, they will be formed to cancer and kill them whichever.
Cancer is a natural result of maximum resistance of their body to accumulate and concentrate venoms in parts of their body.

Human Map
2006.01.19 9:15
We thought about the cases of fauna of plants, animals and bacteria in both the Amazon and deserts. We can assume similar conclusion on human fauna here.
Chinese, Americans are semi-single dominant language group or people in the world, occupying large plain in the continent, which is suitable for living by a large number of people.
Geographically complex areas like Caucasus, Balkan, Central Asia and a rim of Russia are occupied by many peoples with small population each.
In talking about language group, the distinction is more apparent. Indo-European and Chinese are two major language groups with huge population, there are so many other languages with as many peoples.

Human Map

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Human Map
2006.01.19 9:15
We thought about the cases of fauna of plants, animals and bacteria in both the Amazon and deserts. We can assume similar conclusion on human fauna here.
Chinese, Americans are semi-single dominant language group or people in the world, occupying large plain in the continent, which is suitable for living by a large number of people.
Geographically complex areas like Caucasus, Balkan, Central Asia and a rim of Russia are occupied by many peoples with small population each.
In talking about language group, the distinction is more apparent. Indo-European and Chinese are two major language groups with huge population, there are so many other languages with as many peoples.

Oxygen

http://technocrat.net/article.pl?sid=06/01/07/0041244&mode=nested

Related to this article, I have heard the story once that O2 is highly toxic to life if it were taken too much or in highly densely form, but because it exist with a combination of nitrogen in the rate of 1:4, it is beneficial to life.

Noah's Ark

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Noah's Ark
2006.01.14 19:12

This will be the Noah's Ark in our times. Noah had to keep all female & male animals and plants in a form as they are in his ark. Thanks to the recent biochemical achievement, the portion will be reduced greatly, but remember however developed our technology is, we would be unable to store all the spieces in a storehouse.
The most important thing is to keep our planet as our Noah's Ark. We ought to make an every possible effort to evade such catastrophy instead.

Nihilism Of Europe

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Nihilism Of Europe
2006.01.13 8:49

'Those who rule Europe will rule the world. It is undoubted, but I don't think Hitler is trying to do so. ' -Stalin
As a matter of fact, two world wars were fought along with the border of Europe, at that time everybody had admitted that Europe was the centre of the world. But after the World War II, the Cold War, USA emerged as the No.1 country in the world. Now USA is the only Super Power. It is not a matter of hegemony, though, as long as USA keeps on exporting freedom and democracy, the liberation of knowledge will continue to be spread every nook and cranny. People in other region will try to develop another search engine inevitably.
Hitler was trying to prevail nihilism in Europe. The attempt was completely failed, though, the tradition of nihilism still remains strongly everywhere in Europe, they will show another alternative especially when they overcome its nihilism in the near future.
USA is superior to any other country in many respects, but not everything, USA is not the same as the world, and vice versa. There are many countries and regions other than USA. We ourselves have to form common knowledge not just from USA, EU, or any other region. The world doesn't need a centre of something. The world ought to be from unilateral image to multilateral one.

Fitontid
2006.01.13 8:46
Trees have powers called 'fitontid'. This is a combination of alkaloid, multiple lactose, organic acid and tannin, usually found in the form of evaporation in the woods and existing in the air of woods one out of a hundred million to one billion, however according to the estimate some scholar made, all quantity on the earth is 175 million tons, that is 6 times as large as all exhaust gas and smoke from cars &factories. This material helps make us all minus-ionised (a little bit mystic though). Russian scholar Dr Kieton, professor at the University of St. Petersburg named it. Here is the link [wakando.jp] that I was able to find only in Japanese.

A Memory Of Monosodium Glutamate
2006.01.13 8:43

When I was a kid, I used to lick monosodium glutamate every time I saw the small container since we were told that monosodium glutamate makes us smart. Now I knew glutamate works as a neurotransmittant, so in part the theory was confirmed.
I thougt too much, I read too many, I wrote tens of scribles when I was a minor, so I don't have to worry about having glutamate excessively since all taken were completely consumed.

My Advice

My Advice(Score:1)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2006.01.12 2:45 (#14446877) (http://mercedo-the-eve.blogspot.com/ Last Journal: 2006.01.10 2:07)
Please don't be impatient. And read as many books as you can.
By the way thanks for befriending me.
--Ancient Greek Philosophers -18c Enlightenment Thinkers -Slashdotters

One Viewpoint

From One Viewpoint(Score:1)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2006.01.12 2:29 (#14446761) (http://mercedo-the-eve.blogspot.com/ Last Journal: 2006.01.10 2:07)
Interesting aricle. I enjoyed it.
--Ancient Greek Philosophers -18c Enlightenment Thinkers -Slashdotters

Novel Initiative

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Novel Initiative
2006.01.11 9:06

Spending too many hours on the screen and wrinting nothing. All contributions are going to be a part of my novel initiative. Write something productive.

Wolf In Front, Tiger In Rear

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Wolf In Front, Tiger In Rear
2006.01.08 23:42

For the writers, intrusion is the biggest enemy.
When I chose to write it at night, I might not be interupted by any sound, but by drowsiness, fatigue. When I chose to write it in a day, I find some hawkers on the street shouting meaningless chants.
Whichever I chose, the life of writers are not easy.

Serious Crime, No Punishment

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Serious Crime, No Punishment
2006.01.08 22:50

We've got tens of serious crimes out there and it was strange to find that the serious crime pays and less serious crime doesn't pay.

If criminals had a piece of conscience, he would be likely to be caught much more than the cases determined criminals who committed serious crimes with no feeling of regret, remorse, mercy. As a matter of fact, criminals who were caught were much more the ones those who committed it accidentally, with no particular intentions to do it, without convictions to do it, etc. By and large the criminals who were caught are the ones thought to be the offenders of less serious crimes.

The crimals who had a slightest of conscience are likely to be caught and punishable by very strict crimal codes as opposed to the criminals who didn't have the slightest of conscience, who had a full of malicious intent. As long as they are at large, they might be laughing behind the scenes or are they suffering from the pain of conscience for good?

'Atchan Bouy'

'People prefer believe in nothing rather than not to believe.' - From 'The Genealogy Of Morals', Nietszche.

'Blackjack' is a backstreet surgeon who has not qualified as a doctor and demands tens of millions of dollars for him to ask surgery, he is a well known character created by Osamu Tezuka, anime writer, who was also a medical doctor himself.

He(Blackjack) lives with a girl whose name I can't recall, I must confirm that he is not a paedophile, he just chose to live a girl with whom he is unable to have relations in the first place.

Her cliche is 'Atchan Bouy'. Bouy might be 'V'. In Japanese sounds, 'V' and 'Bouy' doesn't make difference, anyway, that doesn't change in essence the phrase is meaningless. She says many times this phrase instead of saying something meaninful. -Atchan Bouy!

Not only this anime but also others as well along with other cases of comedians, cliche is often used to call for laughing. I recall Nietszche's remark on the essence of religion I raised above. In the age of nihilism after the World War II, we all were caught by an apathy of something, these kinds of repetition of phrases might be the largest resistance general publics were able to make in public.

The Sponsor

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The Sponsor
2006.01.08 18:53

When I started posting journals and comments on Technocrat.net in December, last year, I was unable to find an advertisement at the upper part of the site. Soon after when I found the advertisement, I still remember I was glad to see it.
I have no idea how much cost it takes to maintain the site like this - non-profit and based on a benevolence and conscience with the aim of spreading knowledge and enlightening, it takes money to mantain it but nobody's willing to pay for because of only the reason this site is such a nice site.
There must be several ways to bring money to the site. Subscription, Fundraising, Advertisement. We can't expect too much on subscription. We want to use it without paying basically, besides sharing knowledge, interest, hobby ought to be run in an exchangeable base - I was able to know it through your journals, comments, submissions and I will contribute them in exchange, thus both sides are beneficial.
Wikipedia- type fundraising is one of the best ways to collect fund from unspecified users and it is completely based on freewill of the users, it's not compulsory, it is based on voluntary, but still very motivated from the user's intention -Eager to maintain the site, but it's a little bit difficult to demand such campaign in such a small community like this. Fundraising campaign would only invite similar to semi-compulsory subscription. -If you can't contribute some fund, you would not be allowed to use the site any more. - That's opposite to the spirit of the liberation of knowlegde firstly aimed at at the beginning of the foundation of the site.
In the end, we end up resorting to the help of sponsors who're willing to pay and show their advertisement and expecting to gain more profit and advantage by paying money and showing their advertisement at the site.
The most successful example is of course 'Slashdot', since this site attracts tens of millions of users, it can find more and more sponsors who are willing to pay for it. The solution for us to find more sponsors is to try to make this site more and more attractive by contributing lots of interesting journals, comments, submissions.
Simple but it's difficult, that is the question.

No Safe Haven

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No Safe Haven
2006.01.07 6:57

Were the Norwegian sending spams in India? And were Norwegian authorities able to arrest their nationals like him living in India and put him under the custody of Norwegian embasy in India because of the violation of criminal code in Norway? Was he taken into custody while he was in Norwegian Embasy? It might be illegal to send spams in Norway but is it illegal in India? Police must be local Indian police and is it possible for them to force Norwegian nationals to obey Norwegian law in India or in Norwegian Embasy?
There ought not to be a national border in criminal case. All the more when it comes to the Internet activities where virtually no national borders exist. Spamming is like pouring poison in the international river.
It was good to be able to arrest him beyond the limit of nations.