The original sentence from Manyoshu where the naming of new era, "令和", was quoted: 于時初春"令"月 氣淑風"和"梅披鏡前之粉
It says: Under the spring moon, the wind is calm, and the plum blossoms bloom as if they are the white face powder that a beautiful woman in front of a mirror puts on, and the orchids smell like an incense that stays around her robe.
Actually I was thinking of creating a similar thread entirely in English. I once wrote in the reading thread that reading requires practice. Similarly, I think writing also requires practice.
When I was thinking of creating a similar thread I was thinking of a thread where people can post their monologues, and also sometimes they can chat with other participants. I thought posting something one is interested in might be interesting to other people. In this thread it has "diary" in its title and the concept is similar to the one I was thinking of in this regard.
I've once searched for this kind of subreddit on Reddit, but couldn't find it. I thought the system, or the platform, of Reddit is not suitable for this kind of thread because Reddit is a topic based website and people create a thread every time they want to say something.
If it's possible to have this kind of thread on Reddit, it might be possible that we move to Reddit. I personally want to move to Reddit, or any other English platform, where there are native speakers or non-Japanese English speakers. I couldn't find any of this kind on the Internet when I searched for it several years ago. I thought this kind of chat thread was unique to Japanese people and Western people preferred topic based platforms.
We have only about 250 posts per day here on this board. I hope we have more people in this thread in the future.
One thing I don't like posting on 5ch is that I can't delete my posts when I accidentally write something I didn't intend to. On other platforms such as Reddit or any other chan, you can delete your own posts.
When we categorize animals, we look into thier physical traits to see which one is which kind. The most famous classification is Animal Kingdom, which first divides animals into two types, one of which is vertebrates. And then, vertebrates are classified into 5 sub-groups--Amphibians, Fish, Birds, Mammals and Reptiles. This sophisticated categorization is all credited to the scientific progress that have been made since 18th centuries. We take this for granted. In other words, there's a consensus view that everyone understands how we group the animals by their physical aspects. In ancient China, however, the way people understand the world is totally different. Take the animal classification for example, ancient Chinese people categorize animals like this: Noisy Animals Smelly Animals Useful Animals Animals that we can consume as food
Imagine you try to convince people back then that how they understand the world is wrong. You could easily imagine that nobody takes it seriously. Likewise, If our descendants from a very distant future somehow managed to arrive our modern world, it is not surprising they would do the same as we would do to those ancient people.
Today many people are learning English in Japan. I wonder how many of them actually reach a certain level where they want to start writing in English online. We don't see many of them here on this board. I wonder where they are.
When we categorize animals, we look at thier physical traits to see which one goes to which group. The most famous classification is the Animal Kingdom, which first divides animals into two types, one of which is vertebrates. And then, vertebrates go on to be classified into 5 sub-groups--Amphibians, Fish, Birds, Mammals and Reptiles. This sophisticated categorization is all credited to the scientific progress that has been made since 18th century. We take this for granted. In other words, there's a consensus view that everyone understands how we group the animals by their physical characteristics. In ancient China, however, the way people understand the world is totally different. Take the animal classification for example, ancient Chinese people categorize animals like this: Noisy Animals Smelly Animals Useful Animals Animals that we can consume as food So cats with different attitudes go into different categories 😂 Imagine yourself trying to convince people back then that their understanding of the world is wrong. You could easily imagine that nobody takes you seriously. Likewise, If our descendants from a very distant future somehow managed to arrive in our modern world, it is not a surprise if they would do the same as we would towards those ancient civilizations.
I want to follow on Twitter fellow Japanese who decided to post in English, but it's extremely difficult to find such people as there are no common words they use. On the other hand, finding Japanese who are self-proclaimed English professionals is easy. But I have no interest in such people.
Though new thread could so easily open by everybody, many threads of 5 channel’s English board are neglected soon.
I think the person who opened this thread has a responsibility by writing everyday in English, provide some interesting topics, and call many writing responses, and not leave void. But most of thread bearer tend to be fall to a irresponsible attitude, such as luck of maintenance, would invite a state of anarchy in English board. I shocked many threads are left void only but a few writing. It is a great pity.
Let try to bury this goddamn thread in the past storehouse by flooding 1000 writing as soon as possible!
Everyday, I try to write in English as a means to improve my English writing skill. Today’s topic is the “Senkaku” islands.
China is almost controlling over the “Senkaku” islands. She has claim that the “Senkaku” islands are her own territory, to get out Japanese fishing boat, threatening use of her coast guard ship’s weapons if needed. The Japanese government is nothing to do to confront China’s offence. The Japanese Constitution ban the use of force to solve international dispute,even self-defense. What is able to do? Nothing!
Now the time come, U.S. paralyze now, please to do as you like, Mr Shi.
For ordinary Japanese citizen, there is no chance to use English in their daily life, no opportunity to improve our English skill.
Some say that English is no use for 90% Japanese; mandatory English education is completely waste of a time, effort and money. In Japan, English means only as an intellectual accessory, for the selection of university exam in which most of student’s English ability attain its highest-point.
Let abandon compulsory English education programs in Japan.
I killed a roach yesterday night in the kitchen. He or She’s very big, black, swift moving son of a bitch. I scared and sprayed ‘Mama Killer’ on the roach. Instantly the roach ascended to heaven Oh I killed the roach, not mama. ‘Mama Killer’ is another Japanese English!
Single and plural, tense, position of verb・・,I frequently mistake, but I don’t care about it, because I am a tyro. The important thing is to keep writing English every day. I expect finally end up as a good English writer. Get in, folks!
Crossing a field with milk vetch blooming in profusion, Waving a parasol, then a black locomotive blows a whistle. By a tree of a walnut, a lunch time of us two alone. You are in good mood tasting my hand-made cookies.
Flingging on a yellow cardigan, I'm a butterfly fluttering in wind. And, you are sure to be a honeybee, penetrating my heart with a knife of love. Yes. I am wating, closing my eyes. You're dozing on my knee as a pillow, with your hair soft, like a child. Something has been changing, like tearing an old book. I am changing to me I haven't known myself. And, a yellow cardigan. I put it softly over your chest while you're sleeping. I haven't had such tenderness before as getting at a loss wondering how I had become. Yes. You are the only prince for me.
Something has been changing, like tearing an old book. I am changing to myself I haven't known before.
Love is always an awful fairly tale, hiding a poisoned apple. But, the ending is a HAPPY END, necessary with a curtain coming down with a HAPPY END. Yes. You are the only prince for me.
I used to read English book silently, sometimes read aloud about an hour. I think it is very effective way to improve my English reading skill, though several opinions deny read aloud method.
One day South Korean student asked Polish student. “Which was the country most suffered in World WarU.”
“I think Poland was most.”Polish reply as a matter of fact. Hearing this answer, South Korean student got fury, making his face red, and said. “No! it’s wrong. Most suffered country was Korea!”
“Don’t you know the world history?” ask Polish student. “I know the World History. Imperial Japan had invade Korea, and rounded up 200 thousand Korean women to sex slave. Korean men also were forced to hard labor in the coal mine.” said South Korean student with full of confidence.
Polish student surprised this outrageous comment, and thought he was crazy or brainwashed maniac.
Computers are getting smarter in proportion to the condensation of transistors which grows accordingly with the Moore's law. You see, it's very hard to predict the future where machines will remove all the language barriers we face everyday in the age of globalization. NLP which stands for Natural Language Processing is a technique in computer science, with which machines will be able to learn and handle the language at some degree. However, this technique is still under development and currently machines are only predicting what comes next from the statistical approach. They need both a humongous amount of computation and feeding data to be fine-tuned. Experts predict that machines will be truly capable of understanding and crafting sentences exactly the way we do. At this stage, with a help of AI assistance, we will no longer need to learn a foreign language.
If and only if machines understand our language, they will then be able to learn other realm of knowledge such as physics, mathematics and even social norms. Then, it can learn more about this world and might even create new things that are beyond our imagination. Pichai, a CEO of Google, has said that AI is our last invention because it can invent for us thereafter. Ray kerzweil, who is a notable scientist as well as a futurologist, confidently claims that by 2029, computers will be smarter than any humans on the planet and will outperform them in every tasks we are capable of.
What is the advantages of living in a country side? Come to think of it, they all boil down to two reasons. One reason is economical. You pay less for everything. Whereas in the cities, goods are more expensive and popular products are often sold out. Another reason is associated with stress in everyday life. You can commute with a car facing less traffic. On the other hand, you are forced to use very crowded transportations in a city like Tokyo.
What is the fundamental difference between human and other animals? There are many contributing factors either which affected directly or indirectly, such as technologies that enabled us to recreate the Earth, or our brains that made it possible to invent tools or systems in which we live in. But the most notable one is our intellectual attribute with which we magnificently make believe something that has not actually existed in a real sense. In other words, we have made up the system that came into being by our power of collective imagination, which in turn made it possible for humans to work in tandem in such a large margin other wild animals simply couldn't afford.
To name a few, religious, money and organizations including nations and companies exemplify this. They are all just a figmentation of our imagination, meaning they don't actually exist in this world. In stead, we, or a society as a whole believe them as if they are unquestionable rules or creeds that have long been sitting on the chair of human history, so to speak.
What is the fundamental difference between human and other animals? There are many contributing factors which affected either directly or indirectly, such as technologies that enabled us to recreate the Earth, or our brains that made it possible to invent tools or systems in which we live in. But the most notable one is our intellectual attribute with which we magnificently make believe something is there that has not actually existed in a real sense. In other words, we have made up the system that came into being by our power of collective imagination, which in turn made it possible for humans to work in tandem in such a large margin other wild animals simply couldn't afford. To name a few, religious, money and organizations including nations and companies exemplify this. They are all just a figmentation of our imagination, meaning they don't actually exist in this world. In stead, we and a society as a whole believe them as if they are unquestionable rules or creeds that have long been *sitting on the chair of human history, so to speak.
Let's get back to the examples. We will examine one by one, each provided with historical backgrounds. First, religious is probably the oldest and most controversial concept in the history of human being. It can go back as early as stone age where our ancestors live as hunter-gatherers. Many evidence suggest that they indeed worshiped some form of supernatural that had back then believed to bring about fortune or luck, particularly of their well-being. In this context, well-being should be defined as the quality of their lives in terms of health and surrounding environment that provided their food and places to rest for a day. Markings and drawings on caves in Australia, which experts identified as the scene of their religious ritual, are well-preserved because of the calm in-land climate.
> > Let's get back to the examples. We will examine one by one, each provided with historical backgrounds. > First, religious is probably the oldest and most controversial concept in the history of human being. It can go back as early as *Stone Age* where our ancestors live as hunter-gatherers. > Many evidence suggest that they indeed worshiped some form of supernatural that had back then believed to bring about fortune or luck, particularly of their well-being. > In this context, well-being should be defined as the quality of their lives in terms of health and surrounding environment that provided their food and places to rest for a day. > Markings and drawings on caves in Australia, which experts identified *them* as the *scenes* of their religious ritual, are well-preserved because of the calm *inland* climate.
Next up is a monetary system. Although the banknotes are made of paper or rigid data, the piece of this material and digital data are by no means worthy of what they can buy. They are approved by yet another imagination called 'authorities' under which we exchange material goods and services. Money is vertically a most powerful driving force of our economy, without which we cannot afford the standard of living today, and the good economy supports the purchasing powers which drives the economy further, allowing us to issue bonds to increase our capacity of businesses around town.
> Money is vertically a most powerful driving force of our economy, without which we cannot afford the standard of living today, and the good economy supports the purchasing powers which *drive* the economy further, allowing us to issue bonds to increase our capacity of businesses around town.
South Korean activists try to set so-called comfort-women’s bronze statue in the street of Berlin, German’s capital city. They claim the so-called comfort women’s statue is the symbol of Japanese army’s cruel atrocity in the World WarU. Japanese rounded up 200 thousands Korean women and forced to military sex slaves.
It is lie. It is very funny. Why they cling to such old issue now? Reason is very clear. Comfort women’s movement is their business; as a mean of make a living, and make a profiting. They collect huge donation under the pretext of doing charity of ex-so-called comfort women; then embezzle donation to their personal use. South Korean leader of this movement recently was indicted for fraud and embezzlement by South Korean prosecutor’s office. It very rousy.
So-called comfort women’s statues now changed to the symbol of ugly shameless money fraud.
>>32 Everything has two aspects; merit and demerit. I prefer a town life to a country life.
If you live in somewhere in the 23 wards of Tokyo, you can access any subway station within a few minute. You can go anywhere by train or subway. It’s very convenient. Although they said Tokyo is a concrete jungle; people are indifferent to others, isolated and very lonely in a crowd, everybody is stranger, but because of that exactly, Tokyo is a comfortable place to live.
Person who got tired of living in the city, longing for the countryside life, moved to the sticks, usually was betrayed by reality. Local community reject new comer. I hate this nondescript provincialisms.
>>43 That sounds like some stereotypical story from a TV show. But yes, I partly agree with you. It seems that, as soon as they noticed that your accent doesn't belong to their local or that you don't speak their dialect, they possibly give you the cold shoulder.
Dualism is a simple way to understand the world. I am sometimes a Dualist. I divide the world affairs into two elements. For example, life and death, good and evil, beauty and ugly, mean and gentle, etc. Antonym is very important.
My computer is watching my life. The computer analyze all my activity on it; my browsing histories of netsurfing, writing of homepage, twitter and bulletin board, such a vast data enable to guess my desire, tendency , liking correctly.
Such cyberspace watching limited on commercial base in the western world. But totalitarian state like China, already established total control system over cyberspace. China boast by naming it “ the sky net system.” I fear, someday computer takes over human control, like a movie ‘Terminater.’
China coast guard ships have entered in the Japanese territorial waters around Senkaku isles successive 280 days. It seems China virtually get control over the isles .
“Are there any countermeasure to protect our territory?” the reporter asked Chief Cabinet Secretary Suga. ”We are just looking carefully .” Suga responded according to routine. After that, so-called ‘Regret cannon’ bombardment successively continued . Now Suga is Prime minister. Shit !
The science fiction film "Terminator" is quite brilliant, particularly Part One and Two. Those decades-old pieces are still a lot more fantastic than many films released today. They are literally SF classics. I lost an interest from Part Three on...and haven't seen the newest one. How is it ?
I would be negative about such "I-need-your-clothes-your-boots-and-your-motorcycle" thing turing into reality in the future no matter how sophisticated science technology will be. Machines are programs. They cannot do anything more than programs direct or order. If they should attack humans, it means programmers design them to work that way.
I don’t know what means DOUBLE SPEAK.. You write it all caps, so, I wonder at first it is a book’s title or movie’ name. I refer wiki. I see it, Doublespeak. Yes, there is doublespeak flooding.
Luck of vocabulary, luck of my English writing ability, it is very difficult for me to write clearly such complex and abstract matters. But this is a practice, I try.
>>51 We are surrounded many modern civilization’s products. These products have it’s origin all in a human brain. To say short, once human brain think something, it is within a reach of realization in this world, sooner or later, I think.
Human brain’s activity is a reflection of real world, a reflection of material circumstances and intellectual inheritance knowledge. Contradiction, collision, anxiety, desire, greed, power, etc, all these elements mingled in this world. Human brain keenly sensed these elements, and from that he reflect, think, image, sublimate something. Science and skill helps to realize such human brain’s ideas.
If there are certain possibilities exist in this world, wrong or right, human certainly will sense it. So, I am afraid Movie the Terminator’s world someday become real world.
Why China name her total cyber control system ‘The Sky Net System,’ same name as movie ‘Terminator.’ ?
Lamenting of my lost love which vanished like a dream, I was living alone for years since then. It was April 4 , I walked under shadow of trees, looking lively green weeds on the tile-roofed mud wall. It was so beautiful.
Today’s my topic of 1000 writing marathon is large-scale tax cheats.
China origin Corona-virus is spreading all over Japan. Patients increase daily. People stop to go out for fear contaminate. Business like restaurants , tourist industry, retailers, etc, suffered sharp sales decline from people’s self-control to go out.
Government decided to help the business by supplying the subsidy to them. It is emergency situation. It needed quick and simple procedure to receive the benefit. Everybody can receive the subsidy only attach copies of tax reports.
As a result, many youngsters who received the benefit, by counterfeiting tax documents, appears one after another. The theory of good human nature wasn't current.
There are more than 6,000 young people who received government subsidy, consult their voluntary disclosure of their tax cheats, want to evade criminal charges. Too late!It has to be severe punishment for them.
In Japan, when you lost your purse on the road, most are report to the police box within an hour. It is said that Japanese are such good-will people. This is a myth.
Some person is complaining that the moral of the Japanese decline. I don't think so. I think 20 percent of Japanese are drop out originally. They easily commit bad thing. They didn’t remorse their wrongdoing without punishment.
It is said that the pressure to follow suit with others is strong in Japan. So, some people feel it cramped to live here. And, police look like punishing people who don't behave like others.
It is said that the pressure to follow suit with others is strong in Japan. So, some people feel it cramped to live here. And, police look like punishing people who don't behave like others.
This expression is very cool and very interesting ! ‘Terminator’ has progressed from mere violence action movie to more intellectual future suggestive apocalyptic movie, I think. So, I recommend you to see‘TerminatorV&W.’
You may surprize that at last cyber-robot become to have consciousness and emotion. We can’t distinguish cyber-robot and human being. ‘TerminatorV&W’cast us the profound question what is the human being?
Murakami is a popular novelist not only Japan but foreign country. His books translated into many languages. They talked that he was nominated for the Nobel Prize of literature several times. His books are always best seller.
This time ,I introduce one of his books to you. It is ‘1Q84.’ As a matter of fact, 1Q84 is conscious the title of George Orwell’s ‘1984.’ His other books titles sometimes borrow from other famous work or writer. It aimed sensationalism. (next follow)
I don’t agree your opinion. I suppose you mistake China for Japan.
It is said that the pressure to follow government is strong in Chaina. So, some people feel it cramped to live there. And, police arrest people who don't obey government order
" ・・ police are proceeding investigation, presuming that the large-scale fraud group which contains men repeated an unfair unlawful actions. Police arrested an unemployed man ( 23 ), and the 20 year-old college boy who lives in Oosaka city , and Korean nationality bar executive ( 24 ) who lives in Oosaka - Ikuno Ward. Three applied for the lie that the undergraduate runs the restaurant business of takeout this year in June according to the police and that they fooled out of 1 million yen of lasting benefit.” (according to yesterday’s news )
MANY months had passed in lamenting the World,1�more shadowy than a dream. Already the tenth day of the Deutzia month was over. A deeper shade lay under the trees and the grass on the embankment was greener.2�These changes, unnoticed by any, seemed beautiful to her, and while musing upon them a man stepped lightly along behind the hedge. She was idly curious, but when he came towards her she recognized the page of the late prince.3He came at a sorrowful moment, so she said, "Is your coming not long delayed? To talk over the past was inclined." "Would it not have been presuming?Forgive meIn mountain temples have been worshipping. To be without ties is sad, so wishing to take service again I went to Prince Sochi-no-miya."
Do you know the book which Iris Chang’ wrote, it titled “The Rape of Nanking.” Iris Chang had suffered a nervous breakdown after publishing this book, and killed herself by gun in the backseat of her car. She had mentioned, more than 300thousands mass killing occurred after the Battle of Nanking capture, in 1937.
How…by rifle, bayonet, hand- grenade, machinegun, gasoline, tank. When…after the fall of Nanking, six weeks. How many…300,000. Whom…Chinese citizens, Chang Kai-Shek’s army soldiers. Where …Nanking, capital city of China Republic. What …by imperial Japanese army’s order. Why …Revenge, enjoy killing.
To tell the long story to short, if you believe this book, you are very naïve person.
Today’s subject is difficult to write for me. But I try 1000 writing marathon!
I visited Shoshazan Engyoji Temple in Okayama prefecture a few years ago. Engyoji Temple was located in mountain top. I got on the ropeway to go there. Through the gate, there were lined up billboards one-side of the pass; each billboard depicted main event of Izumishikibu’s life,with pictures and comments, in chronological order. . I read carefully these billboards, and interested in Izumishikibu since then.
Izumishikibu was a daughter of governor of Hukui prefecture, one of the excellent poet in the Heian Period. She had served as imperial household court lady. She wrote many excellent Japanese style poetry, and praised master of poetry. She was passionate woman, having been involved with many royal princes. “She was love machine!” Murasakishikibu blamed on her.
NHK radio 2 broadcasting will start new lecture program “ to read Izumi- Shikibu’s diary” from tomorrow evening to next march. I recommend to listen the new lecture. To prepare to tomorrows lecture, I have read Izumi- Shikibu’s diary since last week. And I incline to try translate as a practice.
>>70 It is really interesting that in Shoshazan Engyoji in Okayama there were billboards drawing pictures of a female noble lady, as into the mountain of the temple only male people were allowed to enter. And, it is interesting as well that the name of the mountain is Shoshazan, as the name of the mountain in Himeji, where Benkei was said to have studied, is the same.
>>72 Thank you for your comment and advice. But I have enough income to live on. If you wrote in English, it would be more welcome.
>>75 Did you do? I don't want to be bother with the unnecessary thing. Self practice can do at any time, I think it is the best way to improve my English writing.
>>73 Thank you for your comment. Engyoji Temple is famous as a location for films. The chief priest is a man of enterprise; he speak very good English ,and guide foreign tourists by himself.
>>74 What is your problem? Everyone has their ups and downs. Try to see the funny side of life. Please take it easy.
People in the modern world, one way or the other, cooperate with each other to maintain the high standards of living. Where some produces crops and other provides processed food in a specialized manner that every job is neatly coordinated together in order to make a high productivity. However, when it comes to work, people are constantly exposed to stressful situations under which they perform their tasks. Just because you happen to face those awkward moments doesn't necessarily mean that they can stress you out. Please read the article below 😁
>>81 添削バージョン Where some *produce crops and *others *provide processed food in a specialized manner *so that every job is neatly coordinated together in order to make a high productivity.
Don’t overrate a native speaker of English who live in Japan. They are almost dropout of mother-countries. They can’t show you clear and sharp aesthetic English. They can correct some words spelling and some basic grammatical mistakes at the most. But wrong composition is wrong. Crows are never the whiter for washing themselves.
Good teacher is able to rewrite your awkward English composition, keeping essence of your outlook and intention, and could show you the example of clear and sharp aesthetic English sentences, like reconstruct the wrong design building.
Most effective way to improve English writing is practice. Next is reading great numbers of English books.
Not having seen me before around the age of 20, you might have spent a different life. I should not have called out to barefoot you and asked your name in the white summer. Lucky guy and unlucky one Mens are always either type Shy girl. I feel sorry for you, you living in a barren hut. No more than happiness No more than happiness. Oh, you follow me.
The back of childish you are seen frightened by a knock demanding to pay the rent of our room. WIth kitchen work, you suffer frostbite. It would have been better if we could not find a room to live together. Thorny rose and Chinese milk vetch. Women are either type. Shy girl. Look for a cleverer man of a good birth. No more than happiness No more than happiness. Oh, you're crying over my shoulder.
Those who have a spot or those obscure. We are either type. Shy girl. Though you like good-looking guys, why did you choose me not popular with girls? No less than happiness, no less than happiness. Oh, we are set up to look for happiness together.
>>24 I thought you quoted that poem from somewhere else because I haven't had the slightest idea that this was actually "your original poem". Speechless lol
On November 15th, 1835, Sakamoto Ryoma was born. On November 15th, 1867, his birth day evening, he was assassinated by unknown attackers at Oumi- hotel in Kyoto.
At first newly selected security police of Kyoto city, popular name ”Sinsen-group” were supposed to be assailants. The truth was later revealed. Attackers were less known another security police “Mimawari-group”. Today is the anniversary of Sakamoto Ryouma’s death. Do you like Sakamoto Ryouma?
When we write sentences, we need conscious of the person who will read our sentences. No matter how brief sentences we write, we never stop on the way, and should finish with clear epilogue. Compact and clear-cut sentences are best.
In the morning at a slope with the a geranium smelling sweet, you asked me bending the stem of the flower, whether you can be alive without me. I replied as I'm OK pouting my lips. Im bad at telling a lie. I really love you. You are bad at seeing it through. I can see your tears behind your laugh. Oh, while there are as much as 100 lies between couples, the whisper "I love you" was the truth.
At the light blue hill with geranium having changed its color, Hearing you murmuring, "You are not good at kiss," with some hunch, I pressed you for an answer: "Do you have another person whom you compare with me?"
You said, "Oh, it has come out!" and showed the tip of your tongue. You are bad at telling a lie. You have a secret in your mind. I am a very sensitive person. In your face, I can read that I will become unhappy. Oh, while there are as much as 100 lies between couples, You are truly honest. I believed it.
Time having passed without any sound, geranium is about to fall. You say that we cannot meet until finishing his graduation thesis. Both of us are bad at telling a lie, you saving faces at the time of separation. Left is only turning back for us behind the border tears draw. Oh, while there are as much as 100 lies between couples, the word I say to you is Good bye. I cannot tell even a lie other than that word.
When Virginia Woolf was bereaved by the death of her beloved mother, she was 13 years old. When she was 15 years old, she lost elder sister- in- law. When she was 22 years old, she lost her father. When she was 24 years, she lost her elder brother- in- law. Then Britain plunged to the First World War. Britain lost great number of people in the war. She also lost her many friends.
Death is unreasonable. Bereavement is most sad. Departed person still remain in a memory of our mind. We could remember their smiling. We could even remember their whispering. We could remember their warmth. But we have no means to tell them in this real world. It is very sad. When Virginia Woolf' had start to write her novel, "To the light" house, these sorrow feeling surely prevailed in her mind.
On the bases of her individual experiences, and she combined it with total lost and nostalgia feeling which pervaded through British society after the World WarT, Woolf wrote "To the Light House." I love this book.
Such a noisy sound of the sea fell silent abruptly behind you. I cannot move an inch while you gazing at me. Though like at the time of screaming out in a dream I can move my lips, words I utter is lost in the wind. I love you, but... Maybe, surely....
Though walking while diverting my attention, my mind is left behind. I am left out from yesterday. Unseeable finger tips of time turning pages of waves. Though with little cofidence, I love you, but maybe surely.
Still early sunshine steps back. On the bottom of the water transparent broken piece of grass flashes. So, please take care of it. I love you but maybe surely.
Like crying in a dream, I can move my lips. But, the word I utter turns to be a wind. I love you but maybe surely
Have you heard of Play Station 5? It's one of Sony's gaming consoles, which has just came out earlier this month. You don't see any of them in stock if you are looking at Japanese websites because of popularity and their marketing strategy for Japan. I mean they intentionally provide much less than the actual demand because it makes people feel more special about the product, further driving the local purchasing power. This only works in certain markets like Japan where they dominate the market like a monopoly. They know how to sell things! But the problem is there are many PS5s on sale at double the original price! These resellers are Sony's business partners.
Despite the fact that a term, technological singularity is much thrown around these days, I found out surprisingly that many people actually refer it without knowing of what it precisely means.
Technological singularity is a point in time at which technological growth becomes uncontrollable and irreversible, transforming human civilization as a whole in unprecedented and unimaginable way that we can't predict even a bit.
So why is this happening? First of all, history tells us that the rate at which new inventions are made is accelerating at an exponential rate. See the paragraph below. You can see what I mean by the acceleration. This is mainly because new technology usually born from conventional technologies that are combined to apply in a totally different way.
Years ago/The year gap in-between/Invention 1,800,000 800,000 Simple handcrafted tools 1,000,000 700,000 Spoken language 25,000 15,000 Drawing, Premitive City 10,000 5,000 Agriculture 5,000 2,490 Writing, Wheel 2,510 1,960 City-state 550 325 Printing, Scientific method 225 95 Industrial revolution 130 65 Telephone, Electricity, Radio 65 38 Computer 27 14 Personal Computer
Future Last invention Human-like Artificial Intelligence
Technology can bring a change about our society as it did in the past and it will. Take Internet for example, it has change our lifestyle. We arrange our daily schedule to squeeze out as much free time just to spend more time on it. It made everyone accessible to all the information they needed and even provides opportunities with them to the free education. As for yet-to-be-seen future technologies, it is undeniable that they will follow this trend.
The U.S. has been the most important partner for Japan economically, politically and culturally since the end of WWll. But it is on the cusp of losing its grip on world supremacy, seeing the rise of China. As a matter of fact, China is attempting shaking up the current system the U.S. established to ensure its global dominance such as a partnership with its neighbors, international currency system driven by U.S. dollar and presence of overwhelming military power. There are three reasons to support the idea.
Firstly, the most important foundation work to be a superpower is to establish partnership with neighboring countries. This association among allies forms a front line of defense. This then endows the country with a great defense capability against any harmful attempts from the opposing force including invasion, securing the opportunities for its economy and culture to be full-fledged.
In my work place, some people are witched abnormally. On earth, a person who has been a president since this April is a person who has done hurtful things to me. He has an abnormal history of getting married with his seminar student after seeing each other in his seminar. And, just before I started to work as his colleague, an old person had been forced to quit the workplace as he had met his retiring age. But, the old man insisted that he should continue to be hirered as he had been promised it by the former president. The next president who had been in that position one year before I started to work had ignored that promise by the former president of his, and had forced the old person’s to quit the job. Actually, that president was a seminar teacher in an graduate course, of the abnormally wicked person with whom I started this story. And, the abnormal person recommended his teacher as a would be president in the workplace and that person won that position as a new president then.
And that president had attended the wedding of the abnormal person. And I heard from that president that the reason he had forced the old person to quit was to avoid a young person to be pressured by the old person.He rejected saying the name of the young person he mentioned, but it is not a mistake to think that the person is his seminar student of him, the person who had gotten married with his seminar student.
people who appeared till now. 1 abnormally witched person, who married with his seminar student, and became a new president eight months ago. 2 an president who had been a president, who had been a seminar teacher of the abnormally witched person. 3 an old person with promise to be hired continually after his retiring age from the former president, but actually was forced to quit in his retiring age by the president of 2.
If you are unemployed, you can seek advice from someone who's been through the same struggles. You are doing your absolute best to make as much money as possible and secure a living.
If you are facing unavoidable death by cancer, there is nobody in the world who could give you down-to-earth advice. Your dreams of future suddenly shut down and your attention turn to the inside, away from the materialistic world.
I'm not talking of religion but you will need to embrace the reality of death that up until now has been so farfetched to imagine.
FYI, a lot of cancer patients regret the very same thing. They wish they had known more about religious things.
This is not their fault, just a part of human nature. We're only conscious of the present and our own immediate future imaginable.
People do not have the ability to recognize or confirm everything as real things. Or rather, we recognize only little things as reality, and the range is limited to your own watching, smelling, and touching. Besides these, everything is nothing but the “plausible reality”, which is virtually built in the virtual world of words and just connected with the reality we recognize.
It is not because we are lacking of susceptibility, much less psychopathy that we don't cry in a miserable scene over our monitor, and few seconds later, zapp the channel, laughing out loud.
Only when we developed artificial instruments for communication such as letter and signal technologies, we were able to know the incidents that happen some kilometers away. It is the very recent event that has happened over the last 5000 years or so. Human traits are incapable of adapting and changing in such a short time.
The further away from us are things, the more not being "reality" are these, which are actually not "reality" in our own subjective reality. If we heard of a tragic story and so on from somewhere far away in the universe, would it be a "real" event? It is only "Distance" or "a sense of distance" that rules what is "reality", or we might say "a sense of reality" is the fear of threatening our own suvival itself.
>>108 Our peace depends on incapablity of adapting to the accumulation of information that remains inflated. If we recognized all of "reality" expanded by the rising of various media and signal technologies, as the same experience which we actually watched by own eyes and heard by own ears, we would break down cring everytime a tragic event happen, and our daily life will collapse. In the end, insensitivity is none other than the feature for our surviving.
I like walking over to the strange-colored buildings in the distance and touching them. To make the distant mirage a reality, to make it my reality.