Find

8.28.19

Find
Refuge
找到避难所
Zhǎodào bìnàn suǒ
避難所を探す
Hinansho o sagasu
ps71

I have taken refuge in my faith.
I look to find reality as the actual case.

Let reality for me act as a guide
to produce a service that will shine as a find.

Let me never be afraid of sensible reason.
Courage uses the light of truth as a beacon. 

Responsibility sets me free from fear of the unseen
to seek help in assimilating what has already been seen
as the mean for what's keen.

There is a context in perception beyond personal vision
that shapes perspective for the service of the versatile given.

Knowledge is solid until it finds a better form.
Assimilation or accommodation are resilient norms.

I know what can be known in the way that was shown,
but the shown has to be owned to be as solid as stone.

Organization for automation builds action for success.
Producing a service for others serves as the real test for what's best.

You were known before you were formed in the womb.
Speech was consecrated by maturity to reach beyond the tomb.

Information for nations requires translation to escape doom.
Knowledge of language is a task to be assumed.

If I speak without love,
I am a loud noise from above.
When I speak with love from above
the word is fulfilled with blessing from the heavenly dove.

Principle is used in the search for truth with knowledge.
Proximity to a word develops thought for college.
False principles are to be avoided, not acknowledged.

Wealth is associated with labor for a nation.
Commerce in the world is a subject for international relations.
Private ownership versus government control is a public policy implication.

The graceful darkness reached out to gain prestige
with a self-criticism that challenged the socialist intrigue.

The hemp on the edge of the pasture
served as a meal for the horse that bordered on rapture.

Let reality for me act as a guide
to produce a service that will shine as a find.

I have taken refuge in my faith.
I look to find reality as the actual case.

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71 In te, Domine, speravi
In you, Sir, trust

1 In you, O Lord, have I taken refuge;
let me never be ashamed.

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I have taken refuge in my faith.
I look to find reality as the actual case.

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2 In your righteousness, deliver me and set me free;
incline your ear to me and save me.
3 Be my strong rock, a castle to keep me safe;
you are my crag and my stronghold.
4 Deliver me, my God, from the hand of the wicked,
from the clutches of the evildoer and the oppressor.
5 For you are my hope, O Lord God,
my confidence since I was young.
6 I have been sustained by you ever since I was born;
from my mother's womb you have been my strength;
my praise shall be always of you.
7 I have become a portent to many;
but you are my refuge and my strength.
8 Let my mouth be full of your praise
and your glory all the day long.
9 Do not cast me off in my old age;
forsake me not when my strength fails.
10 For my enemies are talking against me,
and those who lie in wait for my life take counsel together.
11 They say, "God has forsaken him;
go after him and seize him;
because there is none who will save."
12 O God, be not far from me;
come quickly to help me, O my God.
13 Let those who set themselves against me be put to shame and be disgraced;
let those who seek to do me evil be covered with scorn and reproach.
14 But I shall always wait in patience,
and shall praise you more and more.
15 My mouth shall recount your mighty acts
and saving deeds all day long;
though I cannot know the number of them.
16 I will begin with the mighty works of the Lord God;
I will recall your righteousness, yours alone.
17 O God, you have taught me since I was young,
and to this day I tell of your wonderful works.
18 And now that I am old and gray-headed, O God, do not forsake me,
till I make known your strength to this generation
and your power to all who are to come.
19 Your righteousness, O God, reaches to the heavens;
you have done great things;
who is like you, O God?
20 You have showed me great troubles and adversities,
but you will restore my life
and bring me up again from the deep places of the earth.
21 You strengthen me more and more;
you enfold and comfort me,
22 Therefore I will praise you upon the lyre for your
faithfulness, O my God;
I will sing to you with the harp, O Holy One of Israel.
23 My lips will sing with joy when I play to you,
and so will my soul, which you have redeemed.
24 My tongue will proclaim your righteousness all day long,
for they are ashamed and disgraced who sought to do me harm.

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9.8

Experience

The search for knowledge from the experience of others extends into knowledge beyond personal experience.

John Locke
b. 8.29.1632 Wrington, Somerset, England
d. 10.28.1704 High Laver, Essex, England

John Locke was an English philosopher and physician. He grew up and lived through one of the most extraordinary centuries of English political and intellectual history.

It was a century in which conflicts between the Crown and Parliament overlapped with those between Protestants, Anglicans and Catholics. The conflicts swirled into civil war in the 1640's.

He is considered one of the first of the British empiricists. He is commonly known as the Father of Liberalism. His writings on social contract theory influenced Voltaire, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, many Scottish Enlightenment thinkers and the American revolutionaries.

Locke's theory of mind has been cited as the origin of modern conceptions of identity and the self. These concepts figured prominently in the work of later philosophers such as David Hume, Rousseau and Immanuel Kant.

Locke was the first to define the self through a continuity of consciousness. The mind was a blank slate or tabula rasa at birth. He maintained that we are born without innate ideas. This ran contrary to Cartesian philosophy based on pre-existing concepts. Knowledge was instead determined only by experience derived from sense perception.

He has not only been identified as the founder of British empiricism, he has been thought to be the most influential of Enlightenment thinkers.

Wrington

Wrington is a village in North Somerset, England. It is in the south west corner of the island.
Somerset is  a rural county with rolling hills and large flat expanses of land.

The Church of All Saints has 13th-century foundations. It was remodelled with the addition of a west tower about 1450. There was a restoration in 1859 and further restoration of the tower in 1948.

The church includes stone busts to John Locke and Hannah More on either side of the door dating from the early 19th century.

John Locke

John Locke was born on 29 August 1632, in a small thatched cottage by the church in Wrington, Somerset, about 12 miles from Bristol. He was baptised the same day.

The family moved to the market town of Pensford about 7 miles south of Bristol soon after Locke's birth. He grew up in a rural Tudor house in Belluton.

John Locke was born to Puritan parents of modest means. His mother was Agnes Keene.
His father was a country lawyer who served in a cavalry company on the Puritan side in the early stages of the English Civil War.

His father’s commander, Alexander Popham, became the local MP. It was his patronage which allowed the young John to gain an excellent education. He went to Westminster School in London in 1647.

John went to Christ Church, Oxford from Westminster in the autumn of 1652 at the age of 20. Just as Westminster school was the most important English school, Christ Church was the most important Oxford college.

Locke was awarded a bachelor's degree in February 1656, a master's degree in June 1658 and a bachelor of medicine in February 1675. He studied medicine extensively during his time at Oxford and worked with such noted scientists and thinkers as Robert Boyle and Robert Hooke.

He met Lord Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury in 1666. Cooper had come to Oxford seeking treatment for a liver infection. He was impressed with Locke and persuaded him to become part of his retinue.

Locke had been looking for a career. He moved into Shaftesbury's home at Exeter House in London to serve as Lord Ashley's personal physician in 1667. He resumed his medical studies under the tutelage of Thomas Sydenham in London.

Sydenham had a major effect on Locke's natural philosophical thought. The effect would become evident in An Essay Concerning Human Understanding. Sydenham would eventually come to be called the English Hippocrates.

The essay was one of the principal sources of empiricism in modern philosophy. The first book refuted the rationalist notion of innate ideas. The second set forth the theory of ideas.

A distinction was drawn between simple and complex ideas. Simple qualities such as "red," "sweet," "round," etc were used to build complex abstractions such as numbers, causes and effects, abstract ideas, ideas of substances, identity and diversity.

The primary qualities of bodies like shape, motion and the arrangement of minute particles are distinct from the secondary qualities that produce various sensations like sweetness. Secondary qualities are dependent upon the primary.

Locke considered personal identity or the self to be founded on consciousness by way of memory. It was not the substance of either the soul or the body.

Book III is concerned with language. Book IV describes knowledge in intuition, mathematics, moral philosophy, natural philosophy ("science"), faith and opinion.

Locke's medical knowledge was put to the test when Shaftesbury's life was threatened by the liver infection. Locke coordinated the advice of several physicians.

He was probably instrumental in persuading Shaftesbury to undergo surgery to remove the cyst. Surgery was life-threatening itself. Shaftesbury survived and prospered. He credited Locke with saving his life.

Locke served as Secretary of the Board of Trade and Plantations during this time. He was the Secretary to the Lords Proprietors of Carolina. It helped to shape his ideas on international trade and economics.

Shaftesbury was a founder of the Whig movement, exerted great influence on Locke's political ideas. The Whigs' origin lay in constitutional monarchism and opposition to absolute monarchy. The position against Hobbes as an advocate for absolute monarchy was a straw man fallacy.

The Whigs played a central role in the Glorious Revolution of 1688. They were the standing enemies of the Stuart kings who were Roman Catholic. They supported the slave trade and slavery for the colonies.

Locke became involved in politics when Shaftesbury became Lord Chancellor in 1672. He spent some time traveling across France as tutor and medical attendant to Caleb Banks following Shaftesbury's fall from favor in 1675.

He returned to England in 1679 when Shaftesbury's political fortunes took a brief positive turn. Locke composed the bulk of the Two Treatises of Government around this time most likely at Shaftesbury's recommendation.

The First Treatise attacks patriarchalism in the form of a refutation of Robert Filmer's Patriarcha. The Second Treatise outlines Locke's ideas for a more civilized society based on natural rights and contract theory.

Two Treatises was first published, anonymously, in December 1689. It was translated into French by David Mazzel in 1691. Mazzel was a French Huguenot living in the Netherlands. The translation left out Locke's "Preface," all of the First Treatise and the first chapter of the Second Treatise which summarized Locke's conclusions in the First Treatise.

It was in this form that Locke's work was reprinted during the 18th century in France. Montesquieu, Voltaire and Rousseau were exposed to this translation.

The only American edition from the 18th century was printed in 1773 in Boston. It left out the same sections. There were no other American editions until the 20th century.

The First Treatise is focused on the refutation of the Patriarcha of Sir Robert Filmer. Filmer had argued that civil society was founded on a divinely sanctioned patriarchalism.

Locke proceeded through Filmer's arguments, contested his proofs from Scripture and ridiculed them as senseless. He concluded that no government can be justified by an appeal to the divine right of kings.

Filmer and Locke represented their incarnation of the debate based on the differences of Plato and Aristotle. Plato favored the description of the deity as Absolute, whereas Aristotle concerned himself with universal conditions that explicitly tolerated slavery as an elevation of civilized over primitive society.

The Second Treatise outlined a theory of civil society. Locke began by describing the state of nature with a picture that was more stable than that presented by Thomas Hobbes. Hobbes had described nature without government as a state of "war of every man against every man."

Locke argued that all men are created equal by God in the state of nature. He explained from this the rise of property and civilization. The only legitimate governments are those that have the consent of the people. Any government that rules without the consent can be overthrown as had been the case in the "Glorious Revolution."

While Locke presented an argument that sounded like it was more reasonable, he made some radically liberal statements that are still used to influence foreign and domestic policy in contemporary western society.

The "consent of the people" was a perception that could be manipulated with media expression. Stories could be told to 'inform' the public that other governments did not satisfy the condition of consent.

The claim of the violation of civil or human rights was used to suggest that the government was not civil. If it was not civil, it was tyrannical and warranted rebellion towards the end of regime change.

The media expression was made to 'check' to see if the public would protest taxation to overthrow the foreign power.

This was where the doctrine for destruction became especially devisive.     

The State of War
https://oll.libertyfund.org/pages/john-locke-two-treatises-1689

Locke used an argument against somebody else to implicate Hobbes as an advocate for absolute monarchy.

Louis XIV had used the statement "I am the state" to manage the affairs of France for 72 years. He instituted some changes in his rule that refused to delegate authority in the customary way.

It is probably more appropriate to associate the idea of the absolute with the philosophy of Plato and the universal with that of Aristotle, than with the political philosophy of Hobbes.

It is appropriate to question the particular use of the concepts of absolute or universal authority with respect to human application.

The law against murder is still regarded as an absolute. The prohibition of killing someone else is not absolute or universal insofar as lethal defense against a deadly attack is regarded as an exception to the general prohibition.

Locke documented a number of reasonable provisions with respect for government for the Earl of Shaftesbury. The Whigs were the political forum for the Puritans.

They enacted the English Bill of Rights for their demographic representation. The expression is much too particular for modern standards of legality, but there were advances in legislative initiatives that have come to be be recognized as standard for constitutional government for monarchy or republic.

When Locke wrote about the state of war, he made the statement that he had the right to destroy anyone who had the intent to destroy him.

State of War S.16
Two Treatises on Civil Government: 2d Treatise
"THE state of war is a state of enmity and destruction...I should have a right to destroy that which threatens me with destruction: for, by the fundamental law of nature, man being to be preserved as much as possible, when all cannot be preserved, the safety of the innocent is to be preferred: and one may destroy a man who makes war upon him, or has discovered an enmity to his being..."

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The statement in itself alludes to something that is correct, but the assertion that there is a right to destroy implied a proposal to enslave those who had yet to adopt settlement and private property as manifestations of civil society. The proposal was used in a general application to subject primitive people to slavery with respect for universal law.

The primitive lifestyle was taken to represent a threat to the extension of civilized society into primitive territories. Natives in invaded lands were given the 'choice' to work as slaves, or the suffer indefinite war against any indication of opposition to expansion.

The Whig support for slavery, aristocracy and serfdom was documented in the Carolina Constitutions. The document was co-authored by Locke. The extension of civilized society would not have been as rapid without the provisions, but it would not have been as offensive with respect for the inclusion of primitive people into civilized society.

Locke fled to the Netherlands in 1683. He had time to return to his writing. He spent time re-writing the Essay on Human Understanding and composing the Letter on Toleration. Locke did not return home until after the Glorious Revolution.

King James II of England (VII of Scotland) was overthrown in 1688 by a union of Parliamentarians and the stadtholder of the Dutch Republic William III of Oranje-Nassau (William of Orange).

The decision to retain a monarch a resulted in his ascension to the English throne as William III of England. He ruled jointly with Mary II, as Protestants. Mary was the daughter of James II. She had a strong claim the English Throne.

Locke claimed in the "Preface" to the Two Treatises that its purpose was to justify William III's ascension to the throne.

Locke's close friend Lady Masham invited him to join her at Otes, the Mashams' country house in Essex. His time there was marked by variable health from asthma attacks. He became an intellectual hero of the Whigs nevertheless. He discussed matters with such figures as John Dryden and Isaac Newton during this time.

He died on 28 October 1704 at HIgh Laver in Essex at 72 years of age. He was buried in the churchyard of the village of High Laver, east of Harlow in Essex, where he had lived in the household of Sir Francis Masham since 1691. Locke never married nor had children.

Events that happened during Locke's lifetime include the English Restoration, the Great Plague of London and the Great Fire of London. He did not quite see the Act of Union of 1707, though the thrones of England and Scotland were held in personal union throughout his life. Constitutional monarchy and parliamentary democracy were in their infancy during his time.

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Felons in Sanctuary Cities

Convicted felons who have crossed the border illegally ought to be deported.

The restriction of the purchase of a gun for an illegal immigrant is not secure enough as a measure for law enforcement.

The idea of sanctuary from prosecution extends back to questionable belief in the sanctity of providing sanctuary for the enemy of my enemy. It was allowed for local administration by the Catholic Church, but the notion of universal law was attached by way of overstatement.

Locke expressed an argument for sanctuary that was overextended as well.

He wrote in his Second Treatise "I doubt not but this will seem a very strange doctrine to some men: but before they condemn it, I desire them to resolve me, by what right any prince or state can put to death, or punish an alien, for any crime he commits in their country."
(https://oll.libertyfund.org/pages/john-locke-two-treatises-1689, S.9)

The expression "their country" is ambiguous. It suggests that law enforcement can't even punish a felon seeking sanctuary in their homeland. The felon could commit a crime in his own country, then immigrate to another to escape prosecution where the liberal ethic would protect him from prosecution for further criminal action.

This liberal doctrine has been aggressively promoted by leading Democrats who seek to tax citizens to pay for the prevention of extradition or deportation.

Divine

3.24.19

Olivia Wilde

Divine
Thirst
神圣的渴望 
Shénshèng de kěwàng
神の渇き 
Kami no kawaka
ps63

God provides sustenance and defense.
Divine design is my providence.

You give me my energy
though your nature cannot be seen.

My flesh faints with your distance
like a dry land where water lacks existence.

My soul thirsts for you.
Satisfaction keeps me true.

I look for you in your holy place
that I might behold your power and radiant grace.

Your kindness is the essence of life itself.
My lips praise you for your abundant wealth.

I will bless you as long as I live. 
You are the reason that I give that which I give.

The light changed for the sight of sound.
The picture behind the face of need profound
contrasted with the image in the foreground.

My soul is content as with marrow and fatness.
My heart bears the image of eternal gladness.

When I remember you upon my bed
I recall the grace with which I was fed.

When I meditate upon the breath I watch
I feel the rhythm of life being taught.

You have been my helper.
You helped me build a better shelter.

I rejoice under the shadow of your wings.
You showed me the value of material things.

My soul is the image of you as true.
Truth is revealed in the value due.

Help me to grow in your likeness
that I may reflect the brightness
of your highness.

Waves visible and invisible move the air
in the timeless wavelength of inspired prayer.

Hydrangea May those who seek my life to destroy it
ask for ways that they may employ it.

Let them hear the edge of your instruction
to turn away from the path to destruction.

Do not put Christ to the test.
Self-destruction doesn't make destruction best.

Hate the sin 
that may do you in
but don't celebrate the destruction of the 'sinner'
as though slaughter, massacre or murder made you a winner.

The 'sword of Damocles' was a tool to deter rebellion.
It wasn't a justification for collateral damage as a weapon. 

Let the royal defense of sheltered space
serve the nation with the sanction of grace.

The LORD has delivered us from enslavement
to bring us to a place of wealth in variant valence.

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63 Deus, Deus meus

1 O God, you are my God; eagerly I seek you;
my soul thirsts for you, my flesh faints for you,
as in a barren and dry land where there is no water.
2 Therefore I have gazed upon you in your holy place,
that I might behold your power and your glory.
3 For your loving-kindness is better than life itself;
my lips shall give you praise.
4 So will I bless you as long as I live
and lift up my hands in your Name.
5 My soul is content, as with marrow and fatness,
and my mouth praises you with joyful lips,
6 When I remember you upon my bed,
and meditate on you in the night watches.
7 For you have been my helper,
and under the shadow of your wings I will rejoice.
8 My soul clings to you;
your right hand holds me fast.
(9 May those who seek my life to destroy it
go down into the depths of the earth;
10 Let them fall upon the edge of the sword,
and let them be food for jackals.
11 But the king will rejoice in God;
all those who swear by him will be glad;
for the mouth of those who speak lies shall be stopped.)

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Exodus 3:7-8
Then the LORD said, 'I have observed the misery of my people who are in Egypt; I have heard their cry on account of their taskmasters. Indeed, I know their sufferings, and I have come down to deliver them from the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land to a good and broad land, a land flowing with milk and honey, to the country of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites and the Jebusites.

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The LORD has delivered us from enslavement
to bring us to a place of wealth in variant valence.

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1 Corinthians 10:9
We must not put Christ to the test, as some of them did, and were destroyed by serpents.

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Do not put Christ to the test.
Self-destruction doesn't make destruction best.

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Luke 13: 1-3
There were those who told Jesus about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mingled with their sacrifices. He asked them, 'Do you think that because these suffered in this way they were worse sinners than the other Galileans? No, I tell you; but unless you repent, you will deserve to perish as they did.'

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Hate the sin
that may do you in
but don't celebrate the destruction of the sinner
as though slaughter, massacre or murder made you a winner.

The 'sword of Damocles' was a tool to deter rebellion.
It wasn't a justification for collateral damage as a weapon.

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Work

3.17.19

Gilmore Girls
Kelly Bishop, Lauren Graham, Alexis Bledel

Work
for
Health
为健康而努力
Wèi jiànkāng ér nǔlì
健康のために働く 
Kenkō no tame ni hataraku
ps27

The Lord is my light and salvation.
Faith is the strength for the nation.

Light from Light,
you grant me sight.

Outer to inner,
you make me shimmer.

Truth from Truth,
respect is due
from youth to youth. 

God from God,
you kept me from falling to the odds.

My faith will be held as dear.
I will not fall to my fear.

War was fought for supremacy.
I will put my trust in divine memory.

I have asked for one thing. 
There is one thing I seek to bring.

I wish to dwell in the relevant presence
of the elegance near the essential essence.

I hope to behold fair beauty
in the temple to which my faith drew me.

Protection will keep me safe in the day of strife.
Concealment will hide me in secrecy from sight.

My head has been lifted above my enemies.
It will remain lifted even when the tension of conflict leaves.

I will offer an oblation with great gladness.
I will sing and make music to overcome sadness.

Please listen when I call.
Have mercy with your wherewithal.

You say to my heart, "Seek my face."
I will seek your grace anyplace.

Don't hide from me.
Help the blind to see.

You have been my salvation.
Don't cast me from your relation.

Jesus is my Savior.
My transformation will be savored.

I believed that I would see your goodness.
I believed in your incarnate fullness.

Some of the separated had come to say
your adversary wants to put you away.

Deliver me from the adversity imposed by adversaries.
False witnesses have spoken against your beneficiaries.

Though adverse human relation has shaken me,
your support has sustained my family and community.

Severus raised the soldier's wage too high.
The tax burden became a battle cry.

Leadership for the city became divided.
Support for any one subsided.

Caesars were charged to serve Augustus.
Expansion was viewed as the way to fund thus for us.

Polytheism for Republic was seen as viable 
to organize groups to enslave the tribal.

The newness of respect for Christ
lifted settlement beyond slavery's divisive vice. 

The sound of the flower is a blessing that surrounds
the field that produces grain for the towns.

The procession of the Spirit
allows growth for those who hear it.

Faith in your production
will lead us from the path to destruction.

Show me your way. 
Teach me what to say 
and how to pray.

The communication of ideas is not the only purpose for language.
The experience of reception holds its own vantage.

Language can proclaim good news for faith
or it can be used to warn against doing damage as a trait.

The conjunct force of reason for principle
serves the public in the reform of that which is printable
as legislation inferred from the script that is biblical.

I believed that I would see the goodness of your word.
I believed in your incarnate fullness as a way to overcome the absurd.

Be strong and wait patiently my soul.
The Lord's pleasure will make you whole.

Ur of the Chaldeans = fire of thieves

I was brought out from the fire of thieves
to care for my land with those who believe.

Our citizenship is in heaven
for which this experience is the leaven.

Humiliation will be transformed.
To the body of glory it will conform.

We will use responsibility 
to shape our fertility with civility
for agility in facility.

Humility is not thinking less of yourself.
It is thinking of yourself less for the wealth of your health.

Capital is the ability for stock to generate revenue
from the sale of a product for a perpetually perceptive view. 

There are better things that lie ahead
than the bad that is left behind with dread
for that good which is worth the tread.



27 Dominus illuminatio
1 The Lord is my light and my salvation;
whom then shall I fear?
the Lord is the strength of my life;
of whom then shall I be afraid?

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The Lord is my light and salvation.
Faith is the strength for the nation.

Light from Light,
you grant sight.

Truth from Truth,
your strength is due
from our youth.

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2 When evildoers came upon me to eat up my flesh,
it was they, my foes and my adversaries, who
stumbled and fell.

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God from God,
you kept me from falling to the odds.

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3 Though an army should encamp against me,
yet my heart shall not be afraid;

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My faith will be held as dear.
I will not fall to my fear.

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4 And though war should rise up against me,
yet will I put my trust in him.

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War is fought for supremacy.
I will put my trust in divine memory.

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5 One thing have I asked of the Lord;
one thing I seek;
that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life;

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I have asked for one thing.
There is one thing I seek to bring.
I wish to dwell in the relevant presence
of the elegance near the essential essence.

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6 To behold the fair beauty of the Lord
and to seek him in his temple.

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I hope to behold fair beauty
in the temple to which my faith drew me.

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7 For in the day of trouble he shall keep me safe in his shelter;
he shall hide me in the secrecy of his dwelling
and set me high upon a rock.

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Protection will keep me safe in the day of strife.
Concealment will hide me in secrecy from sight.

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8 Even now he lifts up my head
above my enemies round about me.

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My head has been lifted above my enemies.
It will remain lifted even when the tension leaves.

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9 Therefore I will offer in his dwelling an oblation
with sounds of great gladness;
I will sing and make music to the Lord.

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I will offer an oblation with great gladness.
I will sing and make music to overcome sadness.

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10 Hearken to my voice, O Lord, when I call;
have mercy on me and answer me.

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Please listen when I call.
Have mercy with your wherewithal.

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11 You speak in my heart and say, "Seek my face."
Your face, Lord, will I seek.

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You say to my heart, "Seek my face."
I will seek your face anyplace.

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12 Hide not your face from me,
nor turn away your servant in displeasure.

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Don't hide from me.
Help the blind to see.

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13 You have been my helper;
cast me not away;
do not forsake me, O God of my salvation.

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You have been my salvation.
Don't cast me from your relation.

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14 Though my father and my mother forsake me,
the Lord will sustain me.

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Though adverse human relation has shaken me
your support has sustained my family and community.

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15 Show me your way, O Lord;
lead me on a level path, because of my enemies.

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Show me your way.
Teach me what to say
and how to pray.

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16 Deliver me not into the hand of my adversaries,
for false witnesses have risen up against me,
and also those who speak malice.

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Deliver me from the adversity imposed by my adversaries.
False witnesses have spoken against your beneficiaries.

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17 What if I had not believed
that I should see the goodness of the Lord
in the land of the living!

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I believed that I would see your goodness.
I believed in your incarnate fullness.

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18 O tarry and await the Lord's pleasure;
be strong, and he shall comfort your heart;
wait patiently for the Lord.

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Be strong and wait patiently my soul.
The Lord's pleasure will make you whole.

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Genesis 15:7
Then he said to him, 'I am the LORD who brought you from Ur of the Chaldeans, to give you this land to possess.'

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Ur- fire
Chaldeans- robbers

You were brought out from the fire of thieves
to possess your land with those who believe.

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Phil. 3:20-21
But our citizenship is in heaven, and it is from there that we are expecting a Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ. He will transform the body of our humiliation so that it may be conformed to the body of his glory, by the power that also enables him to make all things subject to himself.

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Our citizenship is in heaven
for which this experience is the leaven.

Humiliation will be transformed
to the body of glory conformed.

We will use responsibility
to shape our fertility with civility
for agility in facility.

Jesus is my savior.
My transformation will be savored.

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Luke 13:31
At that very hour some Pharisees came and said to Jesus, 'Get away from here, for Herod wants to kill you.'

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Pharisees-separated
Jesus- God saves
Herod- hero

Some of the separated had come to say
your adversary wants to put you away.

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Rome had been sacked by the Visigoths as led by their king, Alaric, on 24 August 410 CE. Rome was no longer the capital of the western Roman empire. It had been replaced by Mediolanum (Milan) in 286. Ravenna was made the capital in 402.

The last sack of Rome had occured around 390 BCE by the Gauls. It had been almost 800 years. While the invasion did not destroy the western Roman empire, it was seen as a major step in the direction of the fall.

The Roman polytheists had blamed the calamity on Christian monotheism. Augustine's friend, Marcellinus, had asked him to write a treatise in defense of the religion.

Marcellinus had been sent to Africa by the Emperor Honorius to arrange a settlement of the differences between the Donatists and the Catholics shortly before the fall of Rome. This brought him into contact with Augustine.

He also met Volusian, the proconsul for Africa. While he was not a Christian he had an interest in the faith. Marcellinus asked Augustine to write a persuasion for him to accept Christianity as the true faith.  The City of God was the product of this request.


Aurelius Augustine
City of God
426

“For to this earthly city belong the enemies against whom I have to defend the city of God. Many of them, indeed, being reclaimed from their ungodly error, have become sufficiently creditable citizens of this city; but many are so inflamed with hatred against it, and are so ungrateful to its Redeemer for His signal benefits, as to forget that they would now be unable to utter a single word to its prejudice, had they not found in its sacred places, as they fled from the enemy's steel, that life in which they now boast themselves. Are not those very Romans, who were spared by the barbarians through their respect for Christ, become enemies to the name of Christ?”

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Severus raised the soldier's wage too high.
The tax burden became a battle cry.

Leadership for the city became divided.
Support for any one subsided.

Caesars were charged to serve Augustus.
Expansion was viewed as the way to fund thus for us.

Polytheism for Republic was seen as viable
to organize groups to enslave the tribal.

The newness of respect for Christ
lifted settlement beyond slavery's divisive vice.

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Locke was for slavery.

Locke opposed Hobbe's argument for the claim to absolute power by the monarchy. He rejected the use of absolute power for enslavement.

This was a parliamentarian issue. The English Civil War had amounted to Parliament taking the power to declare war from the monarchy. They then had the authority for taxation, legislation, deportation, colonization and to authorize military action.

The potential to increase profit from the precipitation of war had increased. This included the promotion of revolution as though it were a reform to the constancy of war. The context for perpetual war had increased to a global scale with the competition for colonialism.

The power of the monarchy was made ceremonial and communicative. Foreign monarchs were brought in when the parliament wanted a spokes person and straw man for their decisions.
The power of the monarchy as a symbol for conservative expenditure was enhanced by the large scale changes. Anti-monarchical democracy was also anti-patrician and anti-aristocratic. The liberal element for parliament pressed the case for their authority despite the implication.

Locke owned stock in slave trading companies. He was secretary of the Lords Proprietors of the Carolinas where slavery was constitutionally permitted. He flipped the argument against slavery into a proposal for it with Aristotle's justification of it as an aspect of perpetual war.
He stated that in war he had the right to destroy any who would destroy him.

Two Treatises on Government
Chapter 4 (IV)
Section 24

"This is the perfect condition of slavery, which is nothing else, but the state of war continued, between a lawful conqueror and a captive: for, if once compact enter between them, and make an agreement for a limited power on the one side, and obedience on the other, the state of war and slavery ceases, as long as the compact endures..."

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The implication of his statement is such that the reader is expected to believe that once war has been completed, slavery ceases to exist except as a drudgery. This was said with his knowledge of his support for colonialism as a force to make natives or those tribal people captured by the trade to serve as indebted to the liberal element.

There were two things that indicated that slavery was being instituted. He referred to "the perfect condition of slavery" as the "state of war continued." The global nature of the competition for colonial power was implied as a support for the institution. The slave was seen as capable of agreement to work.

Locke also asserted that the slave could end the slavery by taking his own life.
It needs to be noted that the claim to absolute power was used to justify the existence of the monarchy. It was not used to justify slavery. This type of argument can be inferred as the basis for the ancient Roman rejection of monarchy.

Berkeley's proposal for a seminary school in the Bahamas treated 'slavery' as a term of indentured service for boys to be trained to become clerical evangelists. Learning the language was essential to proclaiming the good news and living as a responsible citizen.

Manumission on completion of the course of studies was an implicit condition in the proposal. It may have been too explicit even for the time given Locke's expression of personal distasted for slavery.
It was nevertheless much less of an institution of forced labor than Locke's argument for slavery as a perfect condition to end perpetual war. Students were expected to work on a plantation while they were engaged in their education for the persuasion of the conversion of native populations.

Berkeley's immaterialism was treated as a joke that lacked sufficient force. It was a civil proposal for the government of civility though. It also looked at the experience of empire and made the least desirable aspect of it a contractually limited enterprise. The sum of his philosophy was for conservative expenditure in public policy.

George Berkeley
Principles of Human Knowledge
1710

Language

“…the communicating of ideas marked by words is not the chief and only end of language, as is commonly supposed. There are other ends, as the raising of some passion, the exciting to or deterring from an action, the putting the mind in some particular disposition--to which the former is in many cases barely subservient, and sometimes entirely omitted, when these can be obtained without it, as I think does not unfrequently happen in the familiar use of language. I entreat the reader to reflect with himself, and see if it doth not often happen, either in hearing or reading a discourse, that the passions of fear, love, hatred, admiration, disdain, and the like, arise immediately in his mind upon the perception of certain words, without any ideas coming between. At first, indeed, the words might have occasioned ideas that were fitting to produce those emotions; but, if I mistake not, it will be found that, when language is once grown familiar, the hearing of the sounds or sight of the characters is oft immediately attended with those passions which at first were wont to be produced by the intervention of ideas that are now quite omitted.”

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The communication of ideas is not the only purpose for language.
The experience of reception holds its own vantage.
Language can proclaim good news for faith
or it can be used to warn against doing damage as a trait.

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Education

Education was gleaned from telling stories in polytheistic culture. Priests told stories about their god or goddess. This helped people to appreciate the difficulty of political leadership.

The leadership was educated by tutors.  Mothers or fathers explained words to their children insofar as they were able. Education that wasn't directed to instruction of the aristocracy was developed by the priesthood for the appreciation of their stories.

Athens and Sparta had public education. Athens prepared students to become citizens. Sparta drilled theirs to become soldiers. Schools of philosophy were developed with the help of Eastern asceticism.

There were early explorations of monotheism by the Egyptian pharaohs. These explorations resulted in monotheistic cults in ancient Persian, Israelite and Judean forms of Middle Eastern culture. China and India developed monotheistic cults as well. These were shared with their satellite kingdoms and possible some tribal societies.

Monotheism was proposed as a simplification of polytheism in Greek philosophy by Xenophanes of Colophon in the 5th century BCE.

Rome took tutors from Greece, but they did not have public education. Their priesthood also developed language learning for the appreciation of their stories. The Church developed instruction to compete with the polytheists after monotheism was adopted by the Roman leadership.

The second Roman empire in Europe developed universities out of colleges. The colleges were likely formed out of the parish level instruction that was developed in relation to royal families.
Education was still largely limited to the aristocracy and the priesthood as clerical intermediaries. Greater advances were initially made in the Byzantine empire. Similar developments were made in Russia.

The Church of Scotland became the official state religion in 1560 during the Protestant Reformation. John Knox was a leader in the reformation that established the Presbyterian  Church. They uphold Baptism and the Eucharist along with 5 other rites. It is a reformed branch that did not reject the monarchy, but did not retain the episcopacy. Church government is led by a board of elders in accord with the teaching of John Calvin.

Scotland had 4 universities (St. Andrews, Glasgow, Edinburgh and Aberdeen) compared to 2 in England by the time of the union in 1707. This was remarkable insofar as England had 5 times the population of Scotland and about 36 times the wealth. The parish system of education prepared youth for participation in the universities.

Contacts with England led to the effort to improve agriculture among the gentry and nobility. The colonization of America made a major change in the market for international trade.
Glasgow benefited from this opportunity for expansion in particular. They supplied the colonies with manufactured goods. Tobacco emerged as a cash crop for trade. It was re-exported to France. Tobacco lords dominated the city for most of the 18th century.

Adam Smith and David Hume followed Francis Hutcheson as leaders in the Scottish enlightenment. Hutcheson was the first to propose that the greatest happiness for the greatest number would become a principle for making decisions for public policy.

This principle was offered as an expression of moral philosophy. Adam Smith was a moral philosopher and the political economist. David Hume was an empiricist, but not a moral philosopher.
Smith proposed that labor was the wealth of nations. The division of labor was the means to produce a product efficiently. He defined capital as "That part of men's stock which he expects to afford him revenue."

Capitalism was an economic system wherein the government allowed capitalists to develop productive capacities in and for society. Large industry developed sponsorship for small businesses as distributors or independent agents for local communities.

Education was a generative value in this economic system. Adam Smith advocated for public education prior to the establishment of it in British society. Education wasn't legislated as mandatory for the public until the 19th century in the United Kingdom. Mississippi was the last state in the union to make education compulsory for the public in 1917.

Adam Smith
Wealth of Nations
1776

Pins and more

“In every other art and manufacture, the effects of the division of labour are similar to what they are in this very trifling one, though, in many of them, the labour can neither be so much subdivided, nor reduced to so great a simplicity of operation. The division of labour, however, so far as it can be introduced, occasions, in every art, a proportionable increase of the productive powers of labour. The separation of different trades and employments from one another, seems to have taken place in consequence of this advantage. This separation, too, is generally carried furthest in those countries which enjoy the highest degree of industry and improvement; what is the work of one man, in a rude state of society, being generally that of several in an improved one. In every improved society, the farmer is generally nothing but a farmer; the manufacturer, nothing but a manufacturer. The labour, too, which is necessary to produce any one complete manufacture, is almost always divided among a great number of hands. How many different trades are employed in each branch of the linen and woollen manufactures, from the growers of the flax and the wool, to the bleachers and smoothers of the linen, or to the dyers and dressers of the cloth! The nature of agriculture, indeed, does not admit of so many subdivisions of labour, nor of so complete a separation of one business from another, as manufactures.”

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Capital is the ability for stock to generate revenue.
The public is the market for the sale of a product or service as a fortitude.

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Bentham was known to associate with revolutionaries. The precipitation of revolution for his profit was an offense to common law.

His contribution to the reform of the legal code is significant, but it is marred by the individually self-perpetuating increase in reward for his control of the benefit derived from the reform as that which was demonstrated by Locke.

It's not that they didn't deserve anything for the risk that they took. There is the question of their taking so much that their contribution ceased to be a value to the people of the state. The same kind of trait is seen in the advocates for liberal expenditure by government. The cost for their war, change or reform is so large that it the benefit to the public suffers damage.

History allows for compensation in the sense that the reform to the legal code that was acceptable insofar as it was beneficial to the public in word can currently be accepted with conservative expenditure by the government as well.

Jeremy Bentham
Principles and Morals in Legislation
Text
1780

“…a body of proposed law, how complete soever, would be comparatively useless and uninstructive, unless explained and justified, and that in every tittle, by a continued accompaniment, a perpetual commentary of reasons: which reasons, that the comparative value of such as point in opposite directions may be estimated, and the conjunct force, of such as point in the same direction may be felt, must be marshalled, and put under subordination to such extensive and leading ones as are termed principles. There must be therefore, not one system only, but two parallel and connected systems, running on together. the one of legislative provisions, the other of political reasons, each affording to the other correction and support.”

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The conjunct force of reason for principle
serves the public in the reform of that which is printable
as legislation inferred from the script that is biblical.

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C.S. Lewis  (1898-1963)

C.S. Lewis was educated in classical literature at Oxford University in England. It is difficult to view his literature as Christian from the Calvinist perspective. Witches were regarded as enemies of the state along with Catholics in British Calvinism.

His contribution to Christianity in the English speaking world was to oppose prejudice against the Wiccan, Catholic and Judaic religions. He saw royalty as a bridge between the classical and contemporary worlds in a way that was similar to that of his collegial associate, J.R. Tolkien.

Puritans had entertained civil war and cruelty in punishment as the means to take the power to declare war from the monarchy. Their ability to profit for their authority by the precipitation of conflict was increased.

Parliament had already acquired legislative authority to write and enact law. It was a key reason for their institution. Taxation was added in time. Parliamentarians were actively engaged in deporting 'dissidents' to the state to populate British colonies overseas by the time the Puritans took over in the latter part of 17th century.

The Act of Royal Supremacy acquired greater significance with the help of the popular literature written by Lewis and Tolkien by the 20th century. The official state religion was not promoted as a means to punish non-Christians. It was a way to encourage social solidarity for the civility of the realm. The kind of thing that Puritans had called corrupt was recast as a public benefit.

The Hobbesian defense from attack was still regarded as a chief heroic and civic virtue. The authors of modern classical literature countered the greatest complaint to the official state religion with their fiction. The popularity of their literary efforts contributed to the transformation of English speaking society with their British style so people could view royalty as a stabilizing social virtue.

"Humility is not thinking less of yourself, but thinking of yourself less."
(Mere Christianity, C.S. Lewis)

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Humility is not thinking less of yourself.
It is thinking of yourself less for the wealth of your health.

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“There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.”
(Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis)

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There are better things that lie ahead
than the bad that is left behind with dread
for that good which is worth the tread.

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Kanon Fukuda 3.12.95 Kawagoe, Saitama, Japan
福田花音
福田凯恩

Kawagoe

Kawagoe is 20 km (12.4 mi.) northwest of the city of Saitama. The city has many historic buildings. It is called "Little Edo." Edo was the old name for Tokyo.

Kawagoe is located near the edge of the Kanto Plain in the Musashino Upland terrain. The Arakawa and Tawagawa rivers run through the city.

It is located about 30 km (25 mi.) from downtown Tokyo. The population was estimated at more than 359,000 in 2016.

Kawagoe Castle was the headquarters for the domain during the Tokugawa shogunate in the Edo period (1603-1808). 

Fukuda Kanon
S/mileage
ANGERME: Dondengaeshi

Fukuda Kanon was born on March 12, 1995 in Kawagoe. Her parents named her after "Pachelbel's Canon."

She began ballet lessons when she was 2 years old. She practiced for about 7 years. She auditioned for Hello! Project Kids in 2002, but failed.

She passed the auditions for Hello Pro Egg with 31 other girls in June 2004. The girls were trained in song and dance to prepare for stage performance. They performed as dancers behind the girl groups during concerts.

Tsunku announced in his blog on April 4, 2009 that a new group named S/mileage would become part of Hello! Project. The members listed were Wada Ayaka, Maeda Yuuka, Ogawa Saki and Fukuda Kanon. The group would produce miles of smiles.

The members of S/mileage graduated from Hello Pro Egg in May 2010 to form the new group.
She produced a number of photobooks, held birthday events and starred in a number of different groups as well.

The name S/mileage was changed to ANGERME in 2015. She announced in May that she would graduate from ANGERME and Hello! Project in the fall to pursue a career as a lyricist. She graduated on November 29 at Nippon Budokan.

Fukuda has already written a number of songs for different groups in Hello! Project. Four of her songs were produced in 2016 and 2017. She also wrote the lyrics for a soundtrack.

Kanon Fukuda 3.12.95 Kawagoe, Saitama, Japan
福田花音
福田凯恩

福 Fu        blessing              福  Fuku   blessing                  Ka           か       カ           Ka    카  car   
田 tian     field                     田  ta         rice field                non         のん ノン          non  논  field   
凯 Kai       victory               花  Ka        flower                    Fu          ふ        フ           Hu    후  after   
恩 en        kindness             音  non     sound                       ku          く          ク          ku    쿠   ku 
                                                                                              da           だ        ダ          da     다   all                                         

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The sound of the flower is a blessing that surrounds
the field that produces grain for the towns.

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Find

Find
Refuge
找到避难所
Zhǎodào bìnàn suǒ
避難所を探す
Hinansho o sagasu
ps71

I have taken refuge in my faith.
I look to find reality as the actual case.

Let reality for me act as a guide
to produce a service that will shine as a find.

Let me never be afraid of sensible reason.
Courage uses the light of truth as a beacon. 

Responsibility sets me free from fear of the unseen
to seek help in assimilating what has already been seen
as the mean for what's keen.

There is a context in perception beyond personal vision
that shapes perspective for the service of the versatile given.

Knowledge is solid until it finds a better form.
Assimilation or accommodation are resilient norms.

I know what can be known in the way that was shown,
but the shown has to be owned to be as solid as stone.

Organization for automation builds action for success.
Producing a service for others serves as the real test for what's best.

You were known before you were formed in the womb.
Speech was consecrated by maturity to reach beyond the tomb.

Information for nations requires translation to escape doom.
Knowledge of language is a task to be assumed.

If I speak without love,
I am a loud noise from above.
When I speak with love from above
the word is fulfilled with blessing from the heavenly dove.

Principle is used in the search for truth with knowledge.
Proximity to a word develops thought for college.
False principles are to be avoided, not acknowledged.

Wealth is associated with labor for a nation.
Commerce in the world is a subject for international relations.
Private ownership versus government control is a public policy implication.

The graceful darkness reached out to gain elegant prestige
with a self-criticism that challenged the socialist intrigue.

The hemp on the edge of the winter pasture
served as a meal for the horse that bordered on rapture.

Let reality for me act as a guide
to produce a service that will shine as a find.

I have taken refuge in my faith.
I look to find reality as the actual case.



71 In te, Domine, speravi

1 In you, O Lord, have I taken refuge;
let me never be ashamed.
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I have taken refuge in my faith.
I look to find reality as the actual case.

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2 In your righteousness, deliver me and set me free;
incline your ear to me and save me.
3 Be my strong rock, a castle to keep me safe;
you are my crag and my stronghold.
4 Deliver me, my God, from the hand of the wicked,
from the clutches of the evildoer and the oppressor.
5 For you are my hope, O Lord God,
my confidence since I was young.
6 I have been sustained by you ever since I was born;
from my mother's womb you have been my strength;
my praise shall be always of you.
7 I have become a portent to many;
but you are my refuge and my strength.
8 Let my mouth be full of your praise
and your glory all the day long.
9 Do not cast me off in my old age;
forsake me not when my strength fails.
10 For my enemies are talking against me,
and those who lie in wait for my life take counsel together.
11 They say, "God has forsaken him;
go after him and seize him;
because there is none who will save."
12 O God, be not far from me;
come quickly to help me, O my God.
13 Let those who set themselves against me be put to shame and be disgraced;
let those who seek to do me evil be covered with scorn and reproach.
14 But I shall always wait in patience,
and shall praise you more and more.
15 My mouth shall recount your mighty acts
and saving deeds all day long;
though I cannot know the number of them.
16 I will begin with the mighty works of the Lord God;
I will recall your righteousness, yours alone.
17 O God, you have taught me since I was young,
and to this day I tell of your wonderful works.
18 And now that I am old and gray-headed, O God, do not forsake me,
till I make known your strength to this generation
and your power to all who are to come.
19 Your righteousness, O God, reaches to the heavens;
you have done great things;
who is like you, O God?
20 You have showed me great troubles and adversities,
but you will restore my life
and bring me up again from the deep places of the earth.
21 You strengthen me more and more;
you enfold and comfort me,
22 Therefore I will praise you upon the lyre for your
faithfulness, O my God;
I will sing to you with the harp, O Holy One of Israel.
23 My lips will sing with joy when I play to you,
and so will my soul, which you have redeemed.
24 My tongue will proclaim your righteousness all day long,
for they are ashamed and disgraced who sought to do me harm.


Jeremiah 1:5
 ‘Before I formed you in the womb I knew you,
and before you were born I consecrated you;
I appointed you a prophet to the nations.’

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You were known before you were formed in the womb.
Speech was consecrated by maturity to reach beyond the tomb.
Information for nations requires translation to escape doom.
Knowledge of language is a task to be assumed.

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1 Corinthians 13:1
If I speak in the tongues of mortals and of angels, but do not have love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.

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If I speak without love,
I am a loud noise from above.

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Luke 4:21
Then he began to say to them, ‘Today this scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing.’

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When I speak with love from above
the word is fulfilled with blessing from the heavenly dove.

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George Berkeley
Principles of Human Knowledge
First Principles
"...there may be some grounds to suspect that those lets and difficulties, which stay and embarrass the mind in its search after truth, do not spring from any darkness and intricacy in the objects, or natural defect in the understanding, so much as from false Principles which have been insisted on, and might have been avoided."

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Principle is used in the search for truth with knowledge.
Proximity to a word develops thought for college.
False principles are to be avoided, not acknowledged.

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Objectivity
Know Yourself
in the World
https://quotes.thefamouspeople.com/images/quotes/adam-smith-521.jpg

Introduction to the Wealth of Nations
1776
Text
"The annual labour of every nation is the fund which originally supplies it with all the necessaries and conveniencies of life which it annually consumes, and which consist always either in the immediate produce of that labour, or in what is purchased with that produce from other nations."

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Wealth is associated with labor for a nation.
Commerce in the world is a subject for international relations.
Private ownership versus government control is a public policy implication.

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The private ownership of business defines success by the impact that the product or service has on the market.

What does the government control of private business do to the strength of that measure for serving the public through the success of the market?

Are monopoly and oligarchy formed with socialism? It's not as though private owners haven't used money and influence to control government control, but who assumes responsibility for decisions that are made by the government to benefit just the wealthy, just labor or a variety of populist platforms?
Doesn't liability without recognition increase the liability?

Insurance is required by law for certain service. Operating a car without auto insurance is punishable offense. It is punished by increased cost or the removal of the service.

The service is required by law to operate a vehicle. Certain insurance agents have stage accidents in order to force the use of the service to drive up the price for the product.

When a customer is paying enough to buy a used car for the protection of the vehicle and the price for the insurance for the next vehicle is increased in order to decrease the likelihood of such an action, then the market is not a measure for a service to the consumer.

The consumer is made to pay for the benefit of the insurance industry. Their lobbies are paying for legislation that protects their service. Government officials take kickbacks for campaigns or personal benefit.

The problem has become one of government corruption, but it is blamed on capitalism because the lobbies paid for the service. It's actually a form of socialism.

Similar analysis can be applied to the health insurance or the electricity industry. Does management in these industries provide sponsorship for small business ventures or are they directed to buying favor from government officials?

Increasing the prices without the extension of benefit with service is a liability. Insurance and power companies claim to extend service, but leave it for the customer to imagine that use of the service is used to increase the price. Are they going to decrease prices to make the product affordable?

What is the labor for insurance if the organization is directed to buying increase in government protection? The labor is for the corruption of official authority.

An Enlarged Fallacy

Objectivity seeks to reduce fallacy to a point for manageability. There is a certain amount of deception involved in public expression. The degree can make the difference between respect for the ability of people to use critical judgment of a product and fraud.

Much of the media expression that passes itself as journalism is really ad hominem followed by strawman fallacy or strawman followed by ad hominem. The fallacy seeks to enlarge itself as though it increases the authority for the argument.

When the process is repeated, it creates an even larger enlarged fallacy. This enlargement of the enlarged fallacy is being used to create the impression that the liberal element in Congress and covert agency has reason to impeach the president. It is subversive argument.

Simone Weil
b. 2.3. 09, Paris, France
d. 8.24.43, Ashford, Kent, England
Paris

How many wars were related to the French Revolution?

The French Revolution took place between 1789 and 1799. There was a republic in France from 1792 to 1804.

A Constitutional monarchy was instituted from 1789 to 1791. The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen was published during the first year. Thomas Jefferson worked with General Lafayette to document principles for governance.

The Civil Constitution of the Clergy turned the clergy into employees for the state on 12 July 1790. Priests and Bishops had to be elected. They were paid a set wage. There were Catholics who objected to the election system because it denied the authority of the pope over the Church in France, but the celebration of the mass was left largely intact.

The First Amendment for the US Constitution and the separation of Church and State prevented any such system from being considered in the new republic in the United States of America.

The National Constituent Assembly was convened to draft a Constitution. It was completed in 1791.
The Reign of Terror is a label used by some historians for French history between 1789 and 1794, The Committee for Public Safety came under the control of Maximilien Robespierre. He was a lawyer associated with the Jacobins.

The Jacobins were a club in Paris. They were a group of men who were anti-royalist radicals for democracy. They were willing to use violent revolution and reports about violence to overthrow the government and to maintain the revolutionary replacement.

Public archives indicate that at least 16,594 people were executed by the guillotine. Concern that the government that overthrew the monarchy would be overthrown by a coalition sympathetic to the monarchy contributed to the sense that the report had to be exaggerated to emphasize intensity in conviction that a Constitutional Republic would be better than monarchy.

There would have to be as many graves with corpses in them as there were reported deaths to verify the accuracy of the report. The guillotine was brutal in finality. Decapitation was the cause of death. It was used in the republic as modern expression for the decapitation of a citizen in Rome as a quick means of death that did not include physical torture.

The greatest error in the terror of the guillotine was that it made class the case for conviction and execution. The general implication was that to be born as an aristocrat was to be born guilty of criminal offense against the state. It place family success in a line of succession into arrears. This put the republic and kingdom into a state of degeneration in the administration of government.

Napoleon declared his goal for a united republic with his relation of independence to public safety.

Independence

Public safety was tagged as the reason to celebrate the expansion of the French Empire.

There was an empire under Napoleon from 1804 until 1815. The Bourbon Restoration of Monarchy lasted from 1815 to 1830 with Louis XVIII and Charles X. The July Monarchy ran from 1830 to 1848 with Louis Philippe d’Orleans.

There was another republic for four years. It ran from 1848 to 1852. Another empire was extended with Napoleon III from 1852-1870. A depression lasted from 1873 to 1890.

The Belle Epoque or the “Beautiful Era” lasted from 1871 until 1914 in France.

The era was named in retrospect when it was contrasted to the horrors of World War I. It is dated from the end of the Franco-Prussian War in 1871 to the outbreak of WW I.

It was part of the Third Republic in France. It was during the apex of the colonial period. The time was characterized by optimism, regional peace, economic prosperity and cultural innovations that were technologically scientific.

When the French people looked back at this period after the devastation and hardship imposed by two world wars, they saw a time that was characterized by prosperity with peace and the joie de vivre (joy of living).

They had lost the war with Prussia. They experienced a depression that lasted nearly two decades, but they were shifting their political and social organization toward economic benefit without the political dependence on military expansion.

The French Republic was being reconstituted toward producing products for the health and well being of people. Domestic products were the chief characteristic for the new state.

The arts flourished during this period, especially in Paris. Fashion was both a graphic and a performance art. The fashion was anti-Edwardian and pro-elitist. It was designed for the peak of luxury for the select few.

Religion for this state of affairs was directed to the majority group. The largest group had become the function for the Republic. The most serious political issue to face the people was the Dreyfus Affair. The affair displayed the difficulty in making religion a function for the state.

Captain Alfred Dreyfus was convicted of treason with evidence that was fabricated by French government officials. Anti-Semitism tolerated by the general French public in everyday society was directed at Dreyfus. Prejudice became the central issue in the controversy and the court trials that followed.

Public debate surrounded the Dreyfus Affair. The scandal lasted from 1894 until it was resolved in 1906. The uproar peaked after a letter sent to newspapers by prominent novelist Émile Zola entitled J'accuse was published in 1898.

The letter condemned government corruption and French anti-Semitism. The Dreyfus Affair consumed the interest of the French for several years. It received heavy newspaper coverage.
Religion cannot promote insurrection, subversion or terrorism  and retain legal status in a free society.

It can't be reduced to a function for the state either. Social development is a key characteristic for a healthy economy. The competitive market is a regulatory agency that the government should not seek to eliminate,

Religion is supposed to promote the belief that a good life can be achieved with the organization to serve self and others. This belief is beneficial to the society and the state that governs it, but it is not dependent upon the state for tax money. Non-profit status allows the religion to develop as a social agency without establishment by the government.

Simone Weil
Patriotism

SW: "Our patriotism comes straight from the Romans. This is why French children are encouraged to seek inspiration for it in Corneille. It is a pagan virtue, if these two words are compatible. The word pagan, when applied to Rome, early possesses the significance charged with horror which the early Christian controversialists gave it. The Romans really were an atheistic and idolatrous people; not idolatrous with regard to images made of stone or bronze, but idolatrous with regard to themselves. It is this idolatry of self which they have bequeathed to us in the form of patriotism." (Prelude to Politics, 1943)

Simone Weil was born in her parents’ apartment in Paris on February 3, 1909. Her father Bernard was a medical doctor. Her mother’s name was Saolomea. They were Alsatian Jews. They had moved to Paris after the annexation of Alsace-Lorraine by Germany.

Simone was healthy for the first six months. She had an attack of appendicitis. She struggled with poor health throughout her life.

She was the second of two children. Her older brother became the famous mathematician, Andre Weil. The two enjoyed a close relationship. Their parents were agnostic and fairly affluent. The children were raised in an attentive and supportive atmosphere.

She learned to translate Ancient Greek by age 12. She later learned to decipher Sanskrit to read the Bhagavad Ghita. She developed an interest in religion in an attempt to understand each tradition as an expression of transcendent wisdom

She studied at the Lycee Henri IV with the tutelage of Emile Chartier to prepare for entrance to the Ecole Normale Superieure (ENS) in Paris.

This was the most selective of the colleges outside the public university system. It had been conceived during the French Revolution. It was intended to provide the Republic with a new body of professors trained in the values of the Enlightenment. The principal goal of ENS is to train professors, researchers and public administrators. ENS students hold the position of paid civil servants.

Her first attempt to enter in June 1927 failed due to low marks in history. She was successful in 1928. She finished first in the exam for the certificate of "General Philosophy and Logic."

She studied philosophy at the institute. She earned her DES (diplome d'etudes superieures) in 1931. The DES is roughly equivalent to an MA. Her thesis was entitled "Science et perfection dans Descartes" (Science and Perfection in Descartes).

Philosophy

Her involvement in political action was an expression of sympathy for the working class. She declared herself to be a Marxist and a pacifist.

She traveled to Germany early August 1932 in order to understand the conditions fostering Nazi Germany better. She wrote to friends upon her return to France.

German trade unions were the single force in Germany able to generate revolution, but they were fully reformist. Long periods of unemployment left many Germans without energy or esteem. She criticized the tendency of social organization to build bureaucracy.

She arranged to have Leon Trotsky stay in her parents' apartment in December 1933 while he was there for secret meetings. She had argued against Trotsky in print and in person. She stated that elite communist bureaucrats could be just as oppressive as the worst capitalist.

Weil applied for a sabbatical from teaching on 20 June 1934. She was determined to spend a year working in Parisian factories to investigate conditions. Her sympathy for labor made the objectivity of her investigation suspect, but factory conditions had a reputation for harsh and unsafe unexpectations by description.

There was more humiliation in her experience than physical suffering. The emotional consequence produced fatigue rather than a desire for rebellion. She described the work as a kind of "slavery" nonetheless.

She went to the Spanish Civil War in 1936 despite her profession of pacifism. She joined the Republican side in the anarchist ranks with Buenaventura Durruti. She took a rifle, but was expelled from the combat unit due to her poor eyesight.

She was a poor shot on the firing range. She ran into a pot of boiling liquid because of her near-sightedness. She received noticeable burns. Her family was contacted to take her away. They took for to Assisi for her recovery. It was reported that her unit was nearly wiped out after her departure. Every woman in the group was killed.

Weil experienced religious ecstasy in the Basilica Santa Maria degli Angeli (St. Mary of the Angels). She was led to pray for the first time in her life.  This was the first of three encounters that would lead her to convert to Christianity.

She revisited her Marxist analysis after the encounter from 1937-38. She argued that there is a contradiction in Marx's thought. He had identified the overthrow of the government as the object for the proletarian revolution, yet the militant state was inherently oppressive. The definition of the state as the military, the police and the bureaucracy made it the object for liberation that would result in another form of oppression. Would it be better with communism?

She visited the Benedictine Abbey of Solesmes from Palm Sunday to the following Tudesday during the week of Easter in 1938. She was suffering from headaches while she listened to Gregorian chant. She found a joy so pure that it gave her the impression that she could live with divine love in the midst of affliction.

She claimed to have an experience of the divine presence while reciting the George Herbert poem called "Love." She stated that Christ took possession of her while she fixed her attention of the poem during a severe headache.

Her writing became more mystical from 1938, but retained the focus on social and political issues. This spiritual emphasis expressed a critical judgement against Marxism, but moved her toward a Hegelian nihilism. It was objective insofar as it was against socialism of any kind, but she was also against government itself and capitalism.

France became the singular object for affection, but French independence from anything but critical judgement against anything not French was the only objective allowed.

She turned to her aesthetic appreciation of religion as a way to compensate. She was attracted to Roman Catholicism. It was still French, but it allowed for a global perspective defined in relation to the pope and Roman custom. She declined baptism to continue to look at things outside of Christianity.

Weil was keenly interested in other religious traditions. The Greek and Egyptian mysteries, Hinduism and Mahayana Buddhism were favored. She believed that all these and other traditions contained elements of genuine revelation for the beauty of the world.

She was opposed to religious syncretism. This allowed for interfaith political organization, but discouraged the formation of a single religion with a common prayer service to make the public into one faith group.

She claimed that syncretism effaced the particularity of the individual traditions. Language and custom effect behavior with belief as an expression of cultural identity. Contrast is necessary for reasonable judgment regarding the formation of policy with position for beneficial relations.

Weil renounced her pacificism after the military alliance of Germany and Italy was formed in 1939. She felt that France was no longer strong enough to remain generous or merely defensive.

Map of Vichy France

She left Paris with her family on the last train in 1940 following the German western offensive. They took residence in Marseilles in Vichy France.

She was introduced to the Dominican priest Joseph-Marie Perrin to discuss the question of baptism. Perrin asked his friend, Gustave Thibon, if he could get Weil a job as an agricultural laborer.

She worked in the grape harvest during the fall of 1941. She worked for eight hours a day like the others, but she stayed in her employer's house. She took a copy of Plato's Symposium with her to the vineyards to teach the text to her fellow workers.

She agreed to leave France in 1942 so her parents could be safe. She also felt that she could do more for France in another country. They traveled to New York via Morocco.

She wrote profusely during her stay in New York, but felt that she would be one step closer to the liberation of France with the Free French movement in London. She was given a small office and wrote day and night for four months. She wrote a total of about 800 printed pages. She resigned from the movement in July.

She died on Tuesday, 24 August 1943. The coroner pronounced her death a suicide. She had been refusing to eat out of sympathy with those who were suffering in occupied France. Malnutrition left her immune system susceptible to disease.

She contracted tuberculosis and died from cardiac arrest. The diagnosis was severe insofar as she had suffered from ill health from the time that she had been a baby. There was less willfullness to die than the inexplicable inability to not eat. The fear of compromising a weak immune system drove her  to 'describe' the fear of food as an ascetic effort.

The teleology of labor in Weil's philosophy corresponded with Hegel and Marx in opposition to the private property proposed by Locke.

While slavery is an offense against natural law, the ownership of private property is not. It can be argued that the key contributions that Locke made to modern law was the proposal for private property and the reduction of cruelty in punishment.

The English Bill of Rights also document the right to bear arms. If it was not limited to English Protestants, it could have been more attributed as a right for citizens in defense against attack.

Simone Weil
S. 西蒙娜威尔
T. 西蒙娜威爾

西 Xi             west               西 nishi   west                        Shi      し          シ           Si      시    city
蒙 meng     to suffer            蒙 mo      darkness                 mo     も-       モ-             mon  몬  mon     
娜 na            elegant            娜  da      graceful                  ne      ね         ネ              Ba      바   bar     
威 Wei         prestige           威  i          prestige                 Vei   ヴぇい  ヴェイ       il       일   work
尔 er             you                 爾  ore     you                           ru      る          ル                 

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The graceful darkness reached out to gain prestige
with a self-criticism that challenged the socialist intrigue.

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2.3.1870
15th Amendment to US Constitution
Vote- Men of Color

The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.

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Race is identified by color in this amendment. The extension of the right to vote to men of color was enacted to reduce racism in election contests and society in general. The right for women to vote was not instituted until the 19th amendment in 1920.

The 15th amendment was ratified on February 3, 1870 as the third and last of the Reconstruction Amendments.

The right to vote is a key feature in the definition of citizenship. The 14th amendment had stipulated that all persons born or naturalized in the US are citizens. Naturalization is the path to citizenship.

Those who refuse to register the date of entry, duration and location of residence are operating without the documentation of intent to obey the law. They are treated as illegal immigrants due to illegal entry or duration in residence.

2.3.1913
16th Amendment
National Income Tax

The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration.

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The 16th amendment allows the federal government for the United States to collect an income tax from all Americans. Taxes on houses or other property are considered “direct” taxes by the Constitution and would have to be divided back among the states. States have levied property and sales tax as a general practice.

Federation had been ruled out as a form of government for the US on the basis that competitive prices between states would prohibit free trade. The states would then be engaged in a high cost competition to claim the power to charge other states more for trade or travel.

The national government was called federal in order to suggest that any national tax would have to be for the benefit of the nation. The idea was that a national tax was a step in the direction of overt centralization for the consolidation of the power for national officials. Conservative policy in taxation was the ideal for the experiment in constitutional republican government.

There are certain features of monarchy that are implicitly conservative. Inheritance is used to conserve national resources with respect for the line of succession.  There was one monarch who didn't run for election at the expense of funding agents and agencies. The ruler had to work with a body of elected and appointed officials in order to discern the "will of the people" insofar as it was for the benefit of national security in relations.

When anti-monarchical democracy became a feature of the renaissance revival of republican ideas, constitutional documentation became necessary to promote a literate society that kept the people informed about proposals for policy. When the British colonies in North America were organizing for self-government based on English practice and French political philosophy, Virginia became a leader in the documentation of a state constitution.

Principles for National Government
Principles

Virginia's constitution included "a declaration of principles such as popular sovereignty, rotation in office, freedom of elections, and an enumeration of the fundamental liberties -moderate bail and humane punishments, a militia instead of a standing army, speedy trials by the law of the land, trial by jury, freedom of the press, of conscience, of the right of a majority to reform or, alter the government, and prohibition of general warrants. Other states considerably enlarged this list to include freedom of speech, of assemblage, of petition, of bearing arms, the right to a writ of habeas corpus, inviolability of domicile, and equal operation of the laws. In addition, all the state constitutions paid allegiance to the theory of executive, legislative, and judiciary branches, each one to be checked and balanced by the others."

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The 16th amendment wasn't ratified until 1913. It was only a year before World War I started. The 14th amendment had defined citizenship as a condition of birth or naturalization within national boundaries. The 15th amendment attributed the right to vote to citizens irrespective of race or former servitude.

The boundaries of the competition with the inherent conservativism of monarchy have been pushed by the liberal element for increased expenditure.  The precipitation of profit for officials has been open ended for advocates of liberal spending policy. The proposal to secure the borders with a wall forms a contrast with precipitation.

The contrast recommends a budget that balances the concerns for national security. Liberals are not only pushing for an increase in expenses, they are promoting a policy that contradicts due process in law with respect for habeus corpus to support the accusation of sexual assault with the defamation of character for the accused. Ad hominem argument has been supported with straw man fallacy and false dichotomy.

The spending policy for national government has become mythically liberal for taxation. Conservative policy is necessary to cap further expansion in costs for a 'service' that refuses to solve the problems that it creates for its own benefit. While socialism has been the de facto economic theory, Marx started the trend of identifying capitalism as the faulty theory.

Maria Makino 2.2.2001, Nishio, Aichi, Japan
牧野真莉愛
马利啊马基诺
Morning Musume
Are You Happy?

马  Ma    horse                      牧 Maki    pasture                          Ma      ま      マ         Ma    마  hemp 
利  li        profit                      野 no         field                             ri          り      リ         li      리  lee   
亚  ya      Asian                      真  Ma       genuine                       a           あ     ア          a       아   ah   
马  Ma    horse                       莉 ri           Arabian jasmine        Ma         ま     マ         Ma    마  hemp 
基  ji        base                        愛 ai          love                             ki          き     キ         ki       키  key   
诺  nuo   promise                                                                         no         の    ノ         no     노  furnace             

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The hemp on the edge of the winter pasture
served as a meal for the horse that bordered on rapture.

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Nishio

Nishio is situated on the northern coast of Mikawa Bay on the Pacific Ocean in southern Aichi Prefecture on Honshu.

It is a regional commercial center and fishing port. It has a mixed economy of light manufacturing and agriculture. Numerous suppliers to the Japanese automotive industry such as Denso and Aishin have production plants in and around Nishio.

It is also the largest producer of powdered green tea in Japan. It is one of the leading producers of Unagi eels.

The city lies on the eastern bank of the Yahagi River. The fertile plains along the Yahagi River have been used for rice-farms. The soil has been used for the production of tea and cotton since ancient times.

Shell mounds dating to the late stone age are found in what is today the town center. The mounds point to fish and seafood as important early local produce.

Nishio is sheltered by Chita and Atsumi Peninsulas. The local climate is mild. There are a number of natural sites to visit. Hirahara Waterfall and nature trail are located in Hirahara-cho. Kira Waikiki Beach has a series of sheltered sandy coves. The beach is open for bathing and water sports from June to September.

Sakushima is a samll inhabited island with many traditional wooden buildings in Mikawa Bay. It can be reached by ferry from Ishiki Harbor. It is popular for fishing trips.

Sangenesan Skyline is a spectacular forested mountain range that overlooks Mikawa Bay. It is used for hiking and bird watching.

Yatsuomote-yama is a hillside park in central Nishio. It offers a good view of the surrounding cities, mountains and waterfront.

Syoboji Kofun is a megalithic tomb. The tomb with the casket is made from large stones. The grounds are key-shaped when viewed from above. Kofun were constructed between the third and sixth centuries CE.

Nishio Castle was built by Ashikaga Yoshiuji around 1221.  Sakai Shigetada rebuilt the castle in 1585 with moats, stone walls, several yagura, gates and a donjon by order of Tokugawa Ieyasu. It was expanded further by Tanaka Yoshimasa, ruler of Sunpu Castle during the reign of Toyotomi Hideyoshi.

The castle was dismantled in 1872 following the Meiji Restoration. The current structures include a large "yagura" and gate. The  reconstruction was complete in 1996 to boost local tourism along with a local history museum.

The castle is the highlight for the sightseeing tour.

The Toba Fire Festival is held on the 2nd Sunday in February. Two teams of local men from Hazu and Kira vie to pull bamboo poles from a huge bonfire. The traditional rite is meant to ensure a good harvest.

The population for Nishio was about 100,000 in 2000.

Marina Makino

Makino Maria was born on February 2, 2001 in Nishio, Aichi, Japan.

Makino auditioned for the Morning Musume 10ki member group in 2011, but did not pass. She tried again the next summer, but failed again.

She joined Hello! Pro Kenshuusei on November 1, 2012. The kenshuusei is the trainee program. It was officially announced that she had joined the group with Kanazawa Tomoko, Kaga Kaede, Wada Sakurako, Ichioka Reina and Kishimoto Yumeno on November 20. The were introduced in the show on December 9.

It was announced during the Morning Musume '14 Concert Tour at Nippon Budokan on September 30, 2014 that Maria had been selected for the 12th generation of Morning Musume along with Ogata Haruna, Nonaka Miki and fellow Hello Pro Kenshuusei member Haga Akane.