Friday, November 16, 2007

Sociology of wearing leggins

Wearing leggins series the third article.

Wearing leggins related to the influence of global warming and current economic recession.

These days winters are not so cold than ten or twenty years ago. Therefore women keep on wearing a mini skirt till late autumn, even in the midst of winter we have much warmer days than before when it's sunny, therefore women doesn't like to buy a long skirt in order for them to just endure a couple of colder days in winter.

So women came upon an idea that they can still wear a mini skirt by wearing leggins in it to spend a little bit colder days in winter.

They don't have to buy a long skirt, it's not useful to buy one since no extra money for it. 

Monday, November 12, 2007

What was the language Jesus spoke in his preachings?

They say it was mainly Aramaic, sometimes Hebrew. But I want to think it Koine. Here's my article based on my mere assumptions.

I think Jesus was able to speak, use, understand workable Koine, not to say standard Greek.

I admit his native tongue was Aramaic, though, he must have understood Hebrew, at least what is written in Scriptures.

The reason he had to establish new religion somehow must have been related to his native tongue. He must have felt alienated from Hebrew dominated Pharisee society and Koine dominated Levant world.

That said, however, I assume his entire preachings were basically held in Koine.

What he wanted must be preaching as many people as possible.

His choice of universal language must have been the reason his teachings had dominated in Levant world, and his teaching itself matches the universality of its language.  

Thursday, November 8, 2007

God and the name of him

Hello ***,
 
I was confused myself...  Read especially Acts 2:21 more carefully. Both Acts and Joel 2:32 says ' the name of Jehovah'. I have to check the grammar of 'of' in original language, but it seems not 'the name' is 'Jehovah' and it's more likely that means 'Jehovah's name'  
 
If his name is Jehovah, these passages ought to be written as 'Jehovah, the name of God'.
It seems Jehovah simply means God in these passages. I can read these passages as 'the name of God is unknown but call him in our mind'.
 
Probably more in passages at Joel, Jehovah is used like a proper noun. Basically Jehovah is the name of God in Hebrew scriptures.  I can't believe Jesus used the term Jehovah in early Christianity.  Jesus might not have used the term Jehovah because we can imagine that he wanted to establish a different religion from Judaism in his teachings.  
 
Please examine more on this. Because we've been discussed it many times.
 
 
                                                              Mer

Tuesday, November 6, 2007

Cause of his death

Pilate asked Jesus only whether he was a son of God. Jesus didn't deny and said as he said so. Virtually he admitted that he was a son of God. At that time a title son of God was only used for Caesar or more specifically for Epiphanes. Pilate must have known Jesus was guilty for high treason judging from the way he replied.

Saturday, November 3, 2007

Marriage -its ideal & reality

Many years ago I thought I'd better marry not so pretty woman because I don't have to worry about her being another's love after we married.

Many years later I realised I can't divorce her. If I did so, she would have no another husband. Certainly she has not loved by many guys, but also from now on she will not be loved by others but me. I would divorce a woman if she were very pretty. I wouldn't have married a pretty woman and I would divorce a pretty woman. It was really a right decision to get married to not so pretty woman in many aspects.

Ghost mansion

I went to the university festival near my house. I entered the ghost house by myself. It was a spot so popular that many young couples were waiting for the room. It was very well devised and completely dark. It was a very good place to confirm the love between couples. They must have spent too much money for making a house. The place was one of the main attractions in their school festival.

Devisers know how to nourish love more than how to accumulate their knowledge.

Some university today became certainly a ghost mansion of knowledge.

Divine wind

Many university students were enlisted just before the end of the Pacific war in 1945. Almost all were dead in a desperate attack. One commander of them sent them saying that he surely come after their death. Just too many youngsters around age 21 were dead before the end of war, but the commander survived.

He kept his promise at age 95 long after he made a promise

Automatisation of death penalty

Many inmates are waiting behind the death row, but their penalty has not been carried out yet. It's necessary to have the permission of the Minister of Justice to carry out the execution in each cases.

Also the Minister of Justice Kunio Hatoyama declared that there oughtn't to be any waiting for the permission of the Minister of Justice to carry out the execution.

He said death penalty automatically be carried out.

I think this is insightful.

Friend's friend?

Japan's Minister of Justice! Kunio Hatoyama confessed that his friend's friend is a member of al-Qaeda.
What he wanted to point out was 'probably' that terrorists hide themselves beside us as he clarified today in his constituency, so be careful. But believe me...it's too difficult to interpret so. Just too many people interpreted that he -Minister of Justice Kunio Hatoyama himself is a friend of terrorist group.

Theoretically speaking, neither enemy's enemy nor friend's friend means anything. He was not wrong. Just he should have needed to make allowances for the gap between his intelligent level and that of the general public.

He should have rightly confessed that his enemy's friend is a member of al-Qaeda since many people tend to get an impression that friend's friend must be a friend.