JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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To be healthy, live in the big city
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Why do Japanese change their attitude when they communicate with foreigners?
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From carnivores to herbivores: how men are defined in Japan
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Japan's nuclear safety standards flawed, says commission chief
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Teacher nabbed for using miror to peek up girl's skirt
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Lowly
But intelligence is a tool of life. it is not life itself. The things that make us people is the heart. I mean desire. I want this I want that, how do I get it. I want to do this/ that, how can I do it? How can I do it better? How can I do it better than that guy?
All animals have those drives and intelligence is one of the things that helps us accomplish them, but not the main one. Machines are still inanimate objects, not much different than a calculator. Sure, it can calculate faster than me, but to what end? It just sits there until someone wants to use it. So I don't think we have to worry for awhile. It's the people (with desires and goals) who get control of the machines who you have to fear. Because the machines are more powerful these days they can be used by the top few to slowly enslave.
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Lowly
What does usaronin want to say? I can't understand it.
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Lowly
Worksharing means the workers are sharing the work with each other. like instead of half of them getting fired and half of them staying on at full hrs/ wages. So Toyota said this is howmany cars we'll make we need 70 full time people and the workers say we'll share that work among 100 people. Apparently it's a natnl system in Holland inc. pulblic sector like police and school teachers, and works well with very high employment rates for the country.
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Lowly
One woman's tragic end, sad story.
As usual half the JT commentors have not lost the chance to put down the country/ its people/ men/ whatever is on the menu today.
I can't agree. I know plenty of well-balanced, kind Japanese men. Perhaps more so than back home. But I suppose there's nothing like picking on anonymous faceless crowds of people you don't know and can't understand to make yrself feel superior.
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Lowly
Do you mean for fun or if you were homeless? I think it's pretty hard to live that way. Homeless in a city have access to menial jobs to earn cash for food/ other necessities, thrown-out but un-rotten food from store garbage and lots of other things like water/ soap for getting clean. Sentos for an occasional hot bath. Also often roofs (where I live a majority of the homeless live under the bridges of the rivers which greatly eases the worry of a leaky roof). In the forest if you don't know how to hunt, you're really stuck. Nuts are only in season certain seasons, you need knowledge of wild veggies or you're likely to poison yourself. If you're not washing and homeless for like more than a month (I think, more?) you will get so stinky, wild animal stench, it can't be washed off even after many washings. A problem for a sudden job interview.
Posted in: 'Homeless' hone their rough-living skills
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@tkoind2
Are they tarento? I thought they were junior reporters with an undesirable assignment. Everything you say about the homeless in your 1st post is true, but I don't get why that means this is a bad project (having only read the English story about the jpns story.)
Nothing wrong with showing nuts and bolts reality of getting fed and camping to modern 21 century urban people who've never seen the real countryside (never mind camped) and can't imagine how to get water and warm without a modern house. These weeklies do sensational journalism to sell copies, but they also do a lot of investigative reporting that big papers don't touch and often catch breaking stories first. This could be a decent food for thought read.
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Betzee said
I don't know what that means. The point is, either in a science fiction sense of a 300ft monster roaming about or a real disaster or some personal other difficulty are you ready to make the hard choices needed to solve the situation, do what's necessary to get the other party to face hard facts, etc. and stick it out, or are you going to do what others think is "right" so you can prove you are a "good" person by saying nothing but nice things, and make a laughable charade of "love"or furthermore, run with your tail between your legs and make a lie of "love".
Family in this kind of situation is not usually helpful. For one thing they are most often the "confirmers" of a false image of "goodness/rightness" and therefore unrelated to anything real in a situation. For another as a self-respecting adult I want to take care of myself, and anyone depending on me, not whine to mommy and daddy.
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This is of course nonsense. First off, what is wrong with affairs? As ms zaichik shows, it could be and often enough the gate to real happiness. Even if you never marry the person, it could be the gateway to real happiness. As another couple of people showed, they may be in relationships with extenuating circumstances, (lesbian/ disabled etc. but doesn't have to be so extreme) and looking for their happiness. They could be just the people who could give you what you need.
But, if you want real love, you have to learn that it is not hand holding, tingly feelings and kind words. It is pain. You have to be able to accept risk and pain for the sake of the other person, and for no profit for yourself, in order to find real love. That includes being serious abut a prostitute who may have diseases (or any non-prostitue who may have diseases), a wealthy older man who may have children, and any other number of possibilities. I don't mean you should get yourself all scarred up by giving your all to any abusive or selfish partner who you meet, with no strength and no sense of self. But you should be willing to take the risk to get all scarred up for that special person you want to be with. Otherwise they aren't special, they are just convienient, and you are selfish.
The easiest concrete example I can think of is the stray cat I leave food out for on my balcony. Of course, I am a monster weighing easily 50x the cat's weight, and I am standing less than 1/2 m (less than 2 ft) away. I imagine I have the power to crush the cat with one hand, but it doesn't back down from me, it hisses and and glares and swats with claws and never runs away. (It even does this when I am giving it food!) It does this because she is a mother and has kittens nearby, and she is going to protect them no matter how big a monster comes. She is right there, inches away, I could kill her, but she has a look in her eye to defeat any k-1 ring fighter. It's easy to understand that risk when it's your own children, but you have to have about that much courage when you are choosing a mate, especially one you think you might want to make children with. That is what true love is. Anybody can hold my hand and tell me I'm handsome or kiss me on the cheek. What will they do when the cards are down? And what will I do? Are you really not the type to run when a monster 50x your size is staring you down?
The woman writing this article doesn't seem to be interested in love, but in an image. Marriage, happiness according to what society says is happiness and truth according to society, not deep truth from her own soul. I don't know whether she will find it on the internet or not, but I must admit she is consistent. She knows what she wants and keeps searching for it. But I tend to doubt the image will turn out to be real happiness in the end. Will she become the lonely dissatisfied house wife getting turned down by a younger naive "serious" marriage-minded guy?
Methinks it worthwhile to learn to live like the cat, and be able to put my whole body and life into each minute and each difficulty that confronts me. Maybe if I do so I can be worthy of true love.
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