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Top Document: soc.culture.japan FAQ [Monthly Posting] [1/3] Previous Document: (3.5.2) Is "Gaijin" a derogatory term? Next Document: (4.0) Bibliography See reader questions & answers on this topic! - Help others by sharing your knowledge Last update: 11/95 From: Michiaki Masuda (masuda@ncifcrf.gov) Some netters visit SCJ expecting that they may be able to find a number of Japanese netters to communicate with. However, they usually find that their expectation is rather betrayed. It would be safe to say that Japanese netters have never been a majority in this group despite its name. In 1991, when I started to read this group, there were only a couple of Japanese netters who post articles once in a while. Even though the number of Japanese SCJers has apparently increased since then, their number would be still too small for the group to live up to some netters' expectation. Since SCJ appears to have been initiated by some netters in the US as a mailing list for them to exchange information on Japan, its existence might not be known to many Japanese at first. However, this should no longer be the case. Today, a significantly large number of Japanese have USENET access, and quite a few of them are said to read SCJ. A number of Japanese are also actively communicating with each other in Japanese domestic groups, such as those under the "fj" hierarchy. There are probably three major reasons why they are not interested in actively speaking up in SCJ. [1] English problem Most of Japanese netters, like other netters, are under the impression that they have to use English in SCJ although there is no such restriction. In general, Japanese feel uncomfortable when they have to express themselves in English whether their English skills are actually passable or not. [2] Uninteresting topics Some of the topics often discussed in SCJ are not major interests or concerns of the Japanese netters, especially those living in Japan. They can find somewhere else to go to (e.g., fj groups) to talk about current issues more closely related to their life. It seems also true that some netters use SCJ to deliver their anti-Japan(ense) sentiment in a rather revealing manner. Whether those pieces of message are to the point or not, many Japanese may feel like staying away from them as a natural response. [3] Different argument styles Due to the larger number of American or European netters, it appears that the Western style of debate or argument is accepted as a general standard in SCJ. Although the Western style has its own virtue and merits, it may come out as something too straightforward, too explicit, too aggressive, or even too impolite to the eyes of Japanese netters. Obvioulsy, not many Japanese netters are willing to adapt themselves to a different standard. Since we cannot really hear from those Japanese netters who decide not to speak up in SCJ, we can only speculate about the reasons. However, those listed above seem to give us the most plausible explanation. Whether SCJ should encourage more Japanese netters to participate or not may be a controversial issue. If it should, however, netters -- both Japanese and non-Japanse -- may want to keep these factors in mind when they post an article or respond to others. User Contributions:Comment about this article, ask questions, or add new information about this topic:Top Document: soc.culture.japan FAQ [Monthly Posting] [1/3] Previous Document: (3.5.2) Is "Gaijin" a derogatory term? Next Document: (4.0) Bibliography Part1 - Part2 - Part3 - Single Page [ Usenet FAQs | Web FAQs | Documents | RFC Index ] Send corrections/additions to the FAQ Maintainer: shimpei@gol.com (Shimpei Yamashita)
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Throughout history, we can see how we have been strategically conditioned to come to this point where we are on the verge of a cashless society. Did you know that the Bible foretold of this event almost 2,000 years ago?
In the last book of the Bible, Revelation 13:16-18, it states,
"He (the false prophet who deceives many by his miracles--Revelation 19:20) causes all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hand or on their foreheads, and that no one may buy or sell except one who has the mark or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
Here is wisdom. Let him who has understanding calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man: His number is 666."
Referring to the last generation, this could only be speaking of a cashless society. Why? Revelation 13:17 states that we cannot buy or sell unless we receive the mark of the beast. If physical money was still in use, we could buy or sell with one another without receiving the mark. This would contradict scripture that states we need the mark to buy or sell!
These verses could not be referring to something purely spiritual as scripture references two physical locations (our right hand or forehead) stating the mark will be on one "OR" the other. If this mark was purely spiritual, it would indicate both places, or one--not one OR the other!
This is where it really starts to come together. It is incredible how accurate the Bible is concerning the implantable RFID microchip. This is information from a man named Carl Sanders who worked with a team of engineers to help develop this RFID chip:
"Carl Sanders sat in seventeen New World Order meetings with heads-of-state officials such as Henry Kissinger and Bob Gates of the C.I.A. to discuss plans on how to bring about this one-world system. The government commissioned Carl Sanders to design a microchip for identifying and controlling the peoples of the world—a microchip that could be inserted under the skin with a hypodermic needle (a quick, convenient method that would be gradually accepted by society).
Carl Sanders, with a team of engineers behind him, with U.S. grant monies supplied by tax dollars, took on this project and designed a microchip that is powered by a lithium battery, rechargeable through the temperature changes in our skin. Without the knowledge of the Bible (Brother Sanders was not a Christian at the time), these engineers spent one-and-a-half-million dollars doing research on the best and most convenient place to have the microchip inserted.
Guess what? These researchers found that the forehead and the back of the hand (the two places the Bible says the mark will go) are not just the most convenient places, but are also the only viable places for rapid, consistent temperature changes in the skin to recharge the lithium battery. The microchip is approximately seven millimeters in length, .75 millimeters in diameter, about the size of a grain of rice. It is capable of storing pages upon pages of information about you. All your general history, work history, criminal record, health history, and financial data can be stored on this chip.
Brother Sanders believes that this microchip, which he regretfully helped design, is the “mark” spoken about in Revelation 13:16–18. The original Greek word for “mark” is “charagma,” which means a “scratch or etching.” It is also interesting to note that the number 666 is actually a word in the original Greek. The word is “chi xi stigma,” with the last part, “stigma,” also meaning “to stick or prick.” Carl believes this is referring to a hypodermic needle when they poke into the skin to inject the microchip."
Mr. Sanders asked a doctor what would happen if the lithium contained within the RFID microchip leaked into the b (...)