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INDIA AND JAPAN, A COMPARISON

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India  and Japan have a long relationship. During the 6th century itself Indian culture had filtered into Japan through Buddhism. In the modern era, after the world war, India and Japan had entered into a peace treaty in 1952. The current population of Japan is 126 million which makes 1.6% of the world population. The present population of India is 1.39 billion which constitute 27.7% of world population.Over 28 thousand Indians are now living in Japan. Most of them are in Kobe. The land area of India is more than 9 times that of Japan. However the per capita land holding of Japan is little more than India. While India rank 195th in the world in per capita land holding, Japan ranks 190th. In rain fall Japan ranks 46th while India is 83rd. Japan receive 54% more rains than India. India has 23% more agricultural growth than Japan While India is 53rd in world agricultural ranking Japan holds 154th rank. India has 160 million hectares arable land, Japan's holding is 4.36 mil...
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SHALL WE EVER HAVE PEACE?

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Before answering the question, 'shall we ever have peace?', we must know what is peace. The outcome of our efforts yield us contentment. When we are fully contented with our efforts we become happy. When this happiness mount we become peaceful. Peace is a state of mind that most of us have not enjoyed. We do not get peace because we are always pushed away from acquiring it by our fellow men and the materials around. We are normally more concerned about unearned things than those earned by us. We set our targets to things that are away from us. We keep endeavouring to acquire those. In most cases we do not get contented with these efforts and get despaired. In fact when we have more things we get less peace and when we have less things we have more peace. Finally when we have nothing we become peaceful. This must be the reason that we do not have peace. Above all peace is the one that we can carry from this world when we return. Peace is the one that we can buy too. ...
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WORLD RELIGIONS GROWTH PROJECTION, 2010-2050

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Estimated  religious growth in the world during the period 2010-2050 as per the findings of Pew Research Center, USA,  gives an insight to researchers of growth of religions the world over. The important findings are: * The number of Muslims will equal the number of Christians around the world. *The Hindu and Jewish population will become larger while the Buddhist population remain the same  * India will retain a Hindu majority while the Muslims will become the largest of any country in the world, surpassing Indonesia. * In USA Christians will decline from more than three quarters of the population of 2010 to two thirds in 2050. *Muslims will be more numerous in US than people who identify as Jewish on the basis of religion. * Four out of every 10 Christians in the world will live in Sub-Saharan Africa. The projected change from  2010 to 2050 Christian - 2.17 to 2.92 billion Muslims - 1.6 to 2.76 billion Hindus - 1.03 to 1.38 billion In percentage Christi...
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OUR POSSESSIONS ON EARTH

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Many of us possess land, building, pool, trees etc on this earth. All these are unequivocally belong to us. We hold sufficient documents to confirm these belongings. All those around accept and admit our ownership. Here comes a question whether these ownership rights and claims are real or imaginary. The simple answer is none of these belong to any of us. The sole owner of all these including the 'You and I' bodies too are owned, nurtured, managed, converted and reconverted by Mother Earth. All have come from her, fed by her and shall return to her. The Mother is taking the help and protection of other great bodies of this universe. Nothing on this earth belongs to man. Each one of us may ask himself as to what is the most precious possession for him for the time being. It is neither land, building, metal, automobiles nor any such things we imagine are our valuable possession. Our most valuable possession for the time being is nothing but the air in our lungs. If it...
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WE ARE MERE VISITORS TO THIS WORLD KNOWING NOTHING!

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We  all have come to this world as mere visitors from somewhere. We do not know where we have come from and where we have to go back. Most of us do something here. Some of us cultivate various food items and distribute among others. Some teach what to do and what not. Some make dresses and some houses.  Some give commands to others. Some try to heal the sick. Some travel across the world. While some try to adjourn the happiness and peace of others some others pray the imaginary Supreme One for happiness and peace of others. There are a good lot of those who do not do anything physically for others but keep telling what they may do for others during the coming days; but such days may never come. And it goes on and on! There are many who make some people who make some scribblings on the paper and hand over some other paper pieces to others and then proclaim that some surface area of the earth belongs to them. After sometime such ones disappear and leave a motionless ...
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ONE OF THE GREATEST ROBBERIES

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              Diamond jewelry      One  of the biggest robberies in history took place on the night of February 14-15,.2003 in Antwerp, Belgium. Diamond, gold, silver and other jewelry worth over $100 million was stolen. The stolen materials were stored in a vault two floors below the main floor of the building. The location was protected with all modern safety mechanism like seismic sensor, Doppler radar, a magnetic field, infra-red heat detectors and a multi combination locking system. Above all the  building was heavily guarded by private security force. The theft was conducted by a five-men team led by a skilled social manipulator who had rented a well furnished office in the diamond district for $700 a month. He visited the diamond house frequently and secretly installed camera in the vault area.  From time to time  he continued the visit and made all possible tampering with the security system a...
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REMISSION OF SINS IN CHRISTIANITY

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"And now God found that earth was full of men's iniquities, and that the whole frame of their thought was set continually on evil; and he repented of having made men on the earth at all." (Genesis 6:5-6) God repented for men's iniquities and for having made men on the earth. God the Father being the Supreme Judge took the responsibility of the iniquities of man on Himself and repented for those. And that repentance of God ended at Golgotha in the form of sacrifice of Jesus Christ. That is the only remission of sins for human as shown by Jesus Christ. The forgiveness of sins is well explained in Matthew 26:28. "Drink, all of you, of this, for this is my blood, of the new testament, shed for many, to the remission of sins." Jesus Christ says here with absolute clarity. Jesus says: 'In contrast to the old testament, wherein you were offering your blood or blood of other life beings, for the forgiveness of your sins, which had not accepted by God...
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