[SamuelBRoberts]

(01-13-2019 10:16 AM)TigerMandingo Wrote:  

What I want to know is how do so many immigrants in the US get papers without speaking a word of English? Is the language requirement totally ignored?

Paid lawyers who fill out the forums for them. Sometimes via charity, sometimes just paid for by them or somebody they know. They likely know a ton of people who came to the US already (relatives, etc.) who can help guide them through the process.

The American immigration system is a mess. Last time I was in Japan I was approached by the head of a small talent agency who was having a terrible time getting an American visa. She wanted to bring over one of her actors for a while and have them practice with American company for a bit. The visa process was so bewildering and expensive that she couldn't figure it out, and it was harming the poor actress's career. (Girl was pretty cute, too. I felt bad.)

You'd think it would be great to have an immigration system so complex that nobody can figure it out, but it just means that all the slots go to the people with the right lawyers (Or those who are willing to just jump the line altogether and come here illegally), not the people we actually want in this country. It's a screwed up system, like everything else about the US.

(01-13-2019 07:18 AM)BaatumMania Wrote:  

They now have Aircraft carriers bigger than the ones they had in WW2 and can laucnh F-35s.

Their standing army is also bigger than Ukraine and most countries - even though Japan isn't in a middle of a war nor can anyone threaten them with an invasion.

Japanese are slowly bidding their time until they create another Empire.

Stupidest thing I've read all week. Can you tell me, exactly, how you see this scenario playing out? Will they be invading China, or perhaps Korea?

[BaatumMania]

(01-13-2019 12:03 PM)SamuelBRoberts Wrote:  

Stupidest thing I've read all week. Can you tell me, exactly, how you see this scenario playing out? Will they be invading China, or perhaps Korea?

China in their history was always dysfunctional. A big Empire that will last for decades or centuries and then breakup into warlord factions. Japan is obviously eyeing into that.

Then other places to expand (or turn into puppets / spheres): Pacific Islands, Philippines and possibly even Africa.

Korea and Taiwan can't be taken over by anyone because both places are way too militarized at the moment.

If US pulls out of Australia then China / Japan will have to woo Australia to their sphere.

[SamuelBRoberts]

(01-13-2019 12:11 PM)BaatumMania Wrote:  

China in their history was always dysfunctional. A big Empire that will last for decades or centuries and then breakup into warlord factions. Japan is obviously eyeing into that.
Then other places to expand (or turn into puppets / spheres): Pacific Islands, Philippines and possibly even Africa.
Korea and Taiwan can't be taken over by anyone because both places are way too militarized at the moment.
If US pulls out of Australia then China / Japan will have to woo Australia to their sphere.

Japan is waiting for China's government to collapse, and then the whole country to go back to Romance of the Three Kingdoms style warlords, at which point it will sweep in with its army and start taking over. But it can't take over Taiwan, because Taiwan is too militarized.

Is that right?

[BaatumMania]

(01-13-2019 12:26 PM)SamuelBRoberts Wrote:  

(01-13-2019 12:11 PM)BaatumMania Wrote:  

China in their history was always dysfunctional. A big Empire that will last for decades or centuries and then breakup into warlord factions. Japan is obviously eyeing into that.
Then other places to expand (or turn into puppets / spheres): Pacific Islands, Philippines and possibly even Africa.
Korea and Taiwan can't be taken over by anyone because both places are way too militarized at the moment.
If US pulls out of Australia then China / Japan will have to woo Australia to their sphere.

Japan is waiting for China's government to collapse, and then the whole country to go back to Romance of the Three Kingdoms style warlords, at which point it will sweep in with its army and start taking over. But it can't take over Taiwan, because Taiwan is too militarized.

Is that right?

Yes it is. Taiwan military has anticipated amphibious invasion for decades and can mobilize 3 million men to fight any invader. That's compared to the West that only faced 250,000 Germans in the Battle of Normandy and many were 2nd rate troops (like Ostlegionen).

Whereas if China goes into shit hit the fan mode then nobody will be waiting on the beach for an amphibious invasion.

[SamuelBRoberts]

No, no I don't think that's going to happen.

I think that's a little silly.

[Sherman]

The world may have been better off if Japan had won the war. A Japanese Empire would have spread Buddhism and peace around the world. Buddhism being an Indo-European religion very compatible with European thought. During that era, the Japanese philosopher Kitaro Nishida studied German philosophy and integrated it with Zen Buddhism, creating a religous synthesis that the Empire could export to Europe. Japan is going to rearm and get nuclear weapons. They have no choice because of the China threat. A reconstructed Imperial Japan may be the solution to the degeneration of the West.

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Nishida-Kitaro

"Christianity, which is personalistic, places the fountainhead of religion in man's fall in an extremely acute way. Original sin is transmitted to the descendants of Adam, who rebelled against God, the creator. Man is a sinner from birth. Therefore there is no way to escape sin from the side of man. The only escape is through the sacrifice of the son of God, who is sent into the world of man by God because of his love. We are saved by believing in the revelation of Christ.

That man is a sinner from birth may be thought to he an extremely irrational idea as an ethical doctrine. But we cannot help saying that the idea of man's fallen nature as the essence of man is an extremely deep religious view of man. As I have already said, it must actually express a fundamental fact of human life. The human is established by the absolute self-negation of God; and in his very essence, man is fated to be thrown into the eternal flames of helL

In the true Pure Land sect (!ado Shinshu) as well, man is seen as intrinsicallv sinful. It speaks of sentient beings who are "deeply wicked and possess fiery evil passions." It says that man
is saved only by relying on Amida Buddha."

Kitaro Nishida - Last Writings: Nothingness and the Religious Worldview

[SamuelBRoberts]

Wow, that's even sillier.

[911]

(01-12-2019 09:38 AM)RIslander Wrote:  

It's no major mystery why Japan is able to protect their culture...

)))Japan(((

The talmudists did actually infiltrate south Korea and Taiwanese cultures, mostly through (((evangelicals))). Especially in SK, where the zio-brainwashing has been extremely virulent:

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Talmud Study Now Mandatory in South Korea

Close to 50 million people live in South Korea, and everyone learns Gemara in school. “We tried to understand why the Jews are geniuses, and we came to the conclusion that it is because they study Talmud,” said the Korean ambassador to Israel. And this is how “Rav Papa” became a well known scholar in Korea like in Israel.

Ynet reports: It is doubtful if the Amoraic scholars Abbaye and Rava imagined their discussions of Jewish law in the Beit Midrash in Babylon would be taught hundreds of years later in East Asia. Yet it turns out that the laws of an “egg born on a holiday” (“ביצה שנולדה ביום טוב”) is actually very interesting to the South Koreans who have required that Talmud study be part of their compulsory school curriculum.

Almost every home in South Korea now contains a Korean-translated Talmud. But unlike in Israel, the Korean mothers teach the Talmud to their children. In a country of close to 49 million people who believe in Buddhism and Christianity, there are more people who read the Talmud – or at least own their own copy at home – more than in the Jewish state. Much more.

http://matzav.com/talmud-study-now-manda...uth-korea/



That kind of explains the hostility between Israel/US neocons and North Korea, and why NK arrested Jewish spy Otto Warmbier, who came into the country posing as a Christian tourist.

Japan has been run by local masons who are affiliated to globalists. Very much like in Italy, where the globalists also used the national mafia (Yakuza) to control the country, that's why the Yakuza is allowed to fester in Japan.

China has had a strong globalist influence, Mao was a Skull and Bones tool financed by the Rothschilds, but the country has been slowly weening itself from that influence. You can see that in the way the country is cracking down on baizuo and western cultural faggotry, while Taiwan becomes ever more infected with that cultural rot.

[CynicalContrarian]

(01-13-2019 04:37 PM)911 Wrote:  

Um, whut?


Things I never expected to see for 700 Alex...

[Sherman]

Now that they admit Otto was Jewish, they say the reason it was kept secret was to not embarass North Korea. Another obvious bullshit story. They just make up whatever serves them. South Korea was screwed up by Christian missionaries. There are numerous examples of Korean Christians attacking Buddhists. The fact that Japan has mostly kept its own religious beliefs despite being occupied, is proof of the superiority of Japanese culture. Kim Jong Un needs to keep his nuclear weapons.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/otto-warmb...m-hostage/

[SamuelBRoberts]

(01-13-2019 05:29 PM)Sherman Wrote:  

The fact that Japan has mostly kept its own religious beliefs despite being occupied, is proof of the superiority of Japanese culture. Kim Jong Un needs to keep his nuclear weapons.

Also wrong.

[911]

(01-13-2019 05:29 PM)Sherman Wrote:  

Now that they admit Otto was Jewish, they say the reason it was kept secret was to not embarass North Korea. Another obvious bullshit story. They just make up whatever serves them. South Korea was screwed up by Christian missionaries. There are numerous examples of Korean Christians attacking Buddhists. The fact that Japan has mostly kept its own religious beliefs despite being occupied, is proof of the superiority of Japanese culture. Kim Jong Un needs to keep his nuclear weapons.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/otto-warmb...m-hostage/

You have to distinguish between Catholic missionaries, who have been active across east Asia for centuries and have done some great work, and the post-war Schofield evangelicals and modern megachurch cults, who were sponsored by globalists.

Up to the globalist-sponsored massacres in 1960s Indonesia, the biggest massacre of Christians in Asia was by the USAF in Hiroshima and especially Nagasaki, those cities being the largest and oldest Christian communities outside of the Philippines. Nagasaki being a Christian city might have been the main reason it was nuked.

[infowarrior1]

(01-13-2019 09:23 PM)911 Wrote:  

(01-13-2019 05:29 PM)Sherman Wrote:  

Now that they admit Otto was Jewish, they say the reason it was kept secret was to not embarass North Korea. Another obvious bullshit story. They just make up whatever serves them. South Korea was screwed up by Christian missionaries. There are numerous examples of Korean Christians attacking Buddhists. The fact that Japan has mostly kept its own religious beliefs despite being occupied, is proof of the superiority of Japanese culture. Kim Jong Un needs to keep his nuclear weapons.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/otto-warmb...m-hostage/

You have to distinguish between Catholic missionaries, who have been active across east Asia for centuries and have done some great work, and the post-war Schofield evangelicals and modern megachurch cults, who were sponsored by globalists

Up to the globalist-sponsored massacres in 1960s Indonesia, the biggest massacre of Christians in Asia was by the USAF in Hiroshima and especially Nagasaki, those cities being the largest and oldest Christian communities outside of the Philippines. Nagasaki being a Christian city might have been the main reason it was nuked.

Weeds among Wheat always.

The Schofield Reference Bible did a lot of damage. Is there any way of putting an end to this error?

[Sherman]

Japan is a superior culture. That is the whole point of this thread. They reject the virus of uncontrolled immigration for the same reason they reject the virus of a foreign religion. You can't have one without the other.

[911]

(01-14-2019 12:17 AM)Sherman Wrote:  

Japan is a superior culture. That is the whole point of this thread. They reject the virus of uncontrolled immigration for the same reason they reject the virus of a foreign religion. You can't have one without the other.

The virus of a foreign religion is what we've been exposed to in the West with the import and active promotion by globoziohomo deep state of pagan eastern religions like buddhism (a foreign religion started by a deadbeat dad) in order to destroy what were vibrant, healthy traditional Christian cultures.

Quote:

The world may have been better off if Japan had won the war. A Japanese Empire would have spread Buddhism and peace around the world.

Yeah they sure pacified Nanjing. I know history is written by the victors and a lot of it is propaganda, but the Japs were not out in Asia-Pacific to spread peace and goodwill.

[SamuelBRoberts]

(01-14-2019 12:17 AM)Sherman Wrote:  

Japan is a superior culture. That is the whole point of this thread. They reject the virus of uncontrolled immigration for the same reason they reject the virus of a foreign religion. You can't have one without the other.

You don't know the slightest thing about Japanese culture or religion.
Christ, you think they're BUDDHIST.

[Caduceus]

Sherman and 911 talking a lot of sense in this thread, despite their diverging viewpoints.

SamuelBRoberts offering nothing here except throwaway one line contrarian rebuttals, without any backup or reasonable counter arguments.
It's very clear who's the person who doesn't know anything about Japanese culture or religion.

[BlueMark]

One of the striking patterns I've noticed about Japan is how smoothly many problems are solved and technology is adopted without all the fuss, politics, and complaints that you would see in America

Example 1: vending machines in many restaurants will let you order without a waiter. More fancy places have tablets. Meanwhile in the USA, cost of living increases have made life difficult for waiters in expensive cities like SF and NYC, leading to resentment toward the tech and financial industries, while restaurants have been slow to automate their waiter service. Service quality in the USA is far behind that of Japan even with a 20% tip.

Example 2: world's first high speed train, with a 100% passenger safety record after 50+ years. In the USA there is the HSR in California, which is just getting started, and there is no telling what kind of delays and cost overruns it will encounter.

Example 3: Japan has a dead simple zoning law that is also very flexible. You can build residential buildings in a commercial zone, just not the other way around. This system has enabled a lot of new construction in Tokyo in the past two decades. Today, rents in Tokyo are lower than in SF or NYC. Meanwhile the shortage of housing in the face of economic booms in SF and NYC, well, see example 1.
http://urbankchoze.blogspot.com/2014/04/...oning.html

[SamuelBRoberts]

(01-14-2019 02:43 AM)Caduceus Wrote:  

SamuelBRoberts offering nothing here except throwaway one line contrarian rebuttals, without any backup or reasonable counter arguments.
It's very clear who's the person who doesn't know anything about Japanese culture or religion.

Well, okay, since you asked...

(01-13-2019 03:17 PM)Sherman Wrote:  

The world may have been better off if Japan had won the war.

Absolutely not. The Japanese were brutal monsters to the people they colonized. The Rape of Nanking was already pointed out, but there's a giant stack of similar atrocities that took place all across Asia. Here's one. Here's another in Singapore. My personal favorite was a naval general named Kakuta Kakuji, whose last message to command during the battle of Tinian before he died was "老人婦女子を爆薬にて処決せん" ("I'm going to use explosives to deal with the women, children, and old people.")

Quote:

A Japanese Empire would have spread Buddhism and peace around the world.

A Japanese Empire most certainly would not have spread Buddhism around the world, for the simple reason that the Japanese Empire was nativist Shinto, not Buddhist. (The official word for it is 国家神道, or "State Shinto".) They didn't even like Buddhism. One of the very first things the modern government did when it came to power was tear down all the buddhist temples.

The government derived its entire legitimacy from the supposedly divine persona of the Emperor, which was the core of State Shinto. The first article of the Japanese constitution reads "大日本帝国ハ万世一系ノ天皇之ヲ統治ス". "The Empire of Japan is ruled by the Emperor, whose lineage is eternal." Abandoning Shinto to spread Buddhistm would've meant undermining the legitimacy of their entire system. It would be like expecting the Saudi royal house to convert to Christianity.

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Buddhism being an Indo-European religion very compatible with European thought.

Buddhism isn't remotely compatible with European thought. That's why there are no Buddhists in Europe. Hell, there are barely any buddhists (In the sense that they actually believe the buddhist worldview, not "go to the local temple for funerals and pray at it once in a while") in Japan.

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During that era, the Japanese philosopher Kitaro Nishida studied German philosophy and integrated it with Zen Buddhism, creating a religous synthesis that the Empire could export to Europe.

'cause if there's one thing that the European masses are crying out for, it's a syncretic fusion of zen buddhism and German philosophy. The Europeans couldn't be persuaded to follow Christianity, which can be explained in something like two paragraphs and has been an integral part of their culture for something like two millennia. The idea that they'd start believing some complicated religion from another side of the planet is silly. It's cool that you can name a guy from a book you read, though.

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A reconstructed Imperial Japan may be the solution to the degeneration of the West.

There will be no reconstructed Imperial Japan. The age of colonialism is over. Even the Japanese far-right isn't calling for a restoration of an expansionistic Japanese Empire. They've put out tons of books justifying the war, with titles like 大東亜戦争肯定論 (A justification for the Great East Asian War) and 大東亜戦争の大義 (The Righteous Cause Behind the Great Asian War), but all of them simply attempt to justify the war from an anti-colonialist perspective, and none of them are calling for a restoration of the Greater East-Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere. (A buddy of mine who's a member of the Japanese far right once said to me, "All you westerners had colonies, how come Japan is the only who gets blamed for trying to have colonies of its own?" Guy honestly had a point. He's in no mood to bring back a Japanese empire either, for what it's worth.)

Japan has been, for 99.9% of its existence, tremendously inward focused. Getting them to even admit there's a world outside of their island chain is sometimes almost impossible. It's one of the least expansionistic countries on the planet. It was only a freakish series of coincidences that lead to it trying to take over Asia and fight the US. Shintaro Ishihara, in his book それでも「NO(ノー)」と言える日本 (The Japan that Can Still Say No) chalks it up to a single line in the Meiji Era constitution which accidentally gave the military far more power than anybody at the time realized. Take that away, or change the outcome of the 2-26 Incident and history might have proceeded very differently.

No Japanese people want to bring back military rule. Nobody wants to invade Korea. Nobody is signed up to go take Philippine oil fields. It's not going to happen.

This whole thread is very silly.

[TigerMandingo]

Good post SamB.

The other thing is Japan is a vassal state. It is, for all intents and purposes, America's bitch. So I don't see how you can square their imperialistic ambitions and this fact. They've been completely pacified since WW2 (like Germany).

[Bury Zenek]

(01-10-2019 06:37 AM)ilostabet Wrote:  

Men and women don't want to fuck, much less create families.

Maybe if Japanese chicks lost their wacky pubes more men would be inclined to fuck them. We look for sophisticated reasons buy maybe it was pubes all along. XD

[Sherman]

(01-14-2019 12:30 AM)911 Wrote:  

(01-14-2019 12:17 AM)Sherman Wrote:  

Japan is a superior culture. That is the whole point of this thread. They reject the virus of uncontrolled immigration for the same reason they reject the virus of a foreign religion. You can't have one without the other.

The virus of a foreign religion is what we've been exposed to in the West with the import and active promotion by globoziohomo deep state of pagan eastern religions like buddhism (a foreign religion started by a deadbeat dad) in order to destroy what were vibrant, healthy traditional Christian cultures.

Most of what you here about Buddhism in the West is not Buddhism. Western Buddhism was created by 60s hippies (mostly Jewish) who distorted the religion beyond recognition. It is actually an Indo-European religion. Hinduism and Buddhism are the only surviving Indo-European religions, since European paganism was exterminated by the Christians.

Julius Evola did a correct analysis of Budddhism proving that it is within the traditionalist framework.

https://www.amazon.com/Doctrine-Awakenin...a+buddhism

[SamuelBRoberts]

(01-14-2019 11:48 AM)Sherman Wrote:  

Japan is a superior culture. That is the whole point of this thread. They reject the virus of uncontrolled immigration for the same reason they reject the virus of a foreign religion. You can't have one without the other.

The virus of a foreign religion is what we've been exposed to in the West with the import and active promotion by globoziohomo deep state of pagan eastern religions like buddhism (a foreign religion started by a deadbeat dad) in order to destroy what were vibrant, healthy traditional Christian cultures.

Most of what you here about Buddhism in the West is not Buddhism. Western Buddhism was created by 60s hippies (mostly Jewish) who distorted the religion beyond recognition. It is actually an Indo-European religion. Hinduism and Buddhism are the only surviving Indo-European religions, since European paganism was exterminated by the Christians.

Julius Evola did a correct analysis of Budddhism proving that it is within the traditionalist framework.

https://www.amazon.com/Doctrine-Awakenin...a+buddhism

Japan distorted the Buddhist religion even more than the hippies. One of the primary reasons that Japan is areligious is that for a long time the dominant version of the religion was Shinran-style pure-land buddhism, which was hugely influential. Shinran was essentially the Martin Luther of Buddhism, taking a wife, eating meat, and promulgating a doctrine of salvation based on faith rather than works.
Shinran's doctrine centered the Bodhisattva Amida, who was a man of such incomparable virtue that he swore to lead anyone who asked to the pure land (Heaven, essentially.)
If you wanted to go to paradise, all you had to do was ask him by saying the magic words. (If any of you are interested in going to paradise, the magic words are "namu amida butsu", pronounced Nah-Moo Ah-Me-Dah Boo-tsu", with that last tsu sounding kind of like a "two" with an "s" in it.)
You could spend your entire life violating every single Buddhist commandment, punching dogs, raping nuns, even the stuff like murdering your parents that's supposed to get you sent to the ultra-super-bad version of hell (Infinite Hell, or 無間地獄) but as long as you said the magic words, Amida would be there to help you out. He's like a rich uncle who's always willing to bail you out of jail; he's got an infinite supply of good karma and nothing you can do can even make a dent in it.

After a couple hundred years of a religious doctrine that consists of "Say the magic words one time and you're saved", the Japanese ended up not really caring much about religion, and now it's mostly done for formality's sake. Nobody cares about it, or believes in it.

Japanese Buddhism, as it is practiced by the vast majority of Japanese people, has no place within anything even remotely resembling a "traditionalist framework". You simply do not know what you're talking about.

[etwsake]

(01-14-2019 01:50 PM)SamuelBRoberts Wrote:  

the Japanese ended up not really caring much about religion, and now it's mostly done for formality's sake. Nobody cares about it, or believes in it.

Japanese Buddhism, as it is practiced by the vast majority of Japanese people, has no place within anything even remotely resembling a "traditionalist framework". You simply do not know what you're talking about.

Everything SamuelRoberts said is 100% accurate. He could not be closer to the truth. Anyone who thinks Japanese people are anything other than atheists that visit a temple once or twice a year and bow their heads clearly has never visited Japan.

[Kaligula]

Japan is very unlike the West, except technics. It is a closed hierarchical society, with closed ways of social advance, resulting in very high rate of suicide and withdrawal, and non-functioning legal system making your place in society set for ever. No hope for change in Japan, just ask those Japanese in the West who do not want to go back why they do not want to do it. It is a cruel society for many, but this cruelty is hidden behind the facade of cuteness, smiling politeness, and manga. It is a kind of medieval feudal society with trappings of high-tech. Westerners who are attracted to Japan seem to be of protestant, calvinist, cleanliness-loving kind, being on the opposite side of rebellious Westerners, who prefer the dirt, the magic, and the shamanism of Near East and Africa.
The world ruled by Japan would be like the world out of Gene Wolfe "The Book of the New Sun" cycle, ruled by the Autarch/Emperor, with islands of high-tech among everyday medievalism, and full of ritual, low-level, contained wars much like the wars among Japanese feudal lords.

There is a very good critical book about Japan, "The Enigma of Japanese Power" written by a Dutch author Karel van Wolferen, so critical that for a time it was banned in Japan. I think it is a good recommendation. Read it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Enigma...nese_Power

As a curiosity: it happened to me to stand 4 meters away from the Japanese Emperor Akihito and his Consort during the Imperial Majesty visit to Poland in 2002. There were something like 30 Japanese journalists for 4 Polish ones, even though the visit was purely ceremonial one. Now you could see that the Emperor is still a very important person in Japan.
As I was standing so close to him, and later even exchanged a few words with him, I can assure you: he is not a divine being. But a very polite, considerate guy, a man for himself type, not really "man of the people", rather a bit withdrawn like Ratzinger aka Pope Benedict XVI. Akihito loves animals, maybe more than people; he made a show of this love in Poland.