Just as a cautious businessman avoids tying up all his capital in one
concern, so, perhaps, worldly wisdom will advise us not to look for the
whole of our satisfaction from a single aspiration. -Sigmund Freud,
neurologist, founder of psychoanalysis (1856-1939)
Hi Folks, It’s time we saw you again, eh! The Penguin and Gladys Knight (in from Cranbrook) are coming over bridge on Sat, June 28 5pm to (post) celebrate mom’s 90th!! We will be hosting this special bridge and bbq event and we would like to request your presence if you are around town then. Charlie
Hi I love the pictures , looks like you are having fun! I will tell Ron greetings have been sent ! I will call you on Thursday after. 8:3o pm. I hope all my flights are on time. Arrivederchi
Wayne Sutherland On the plane In Toronto on our way home from Mexico. Back to reality tomorrow.
Ryan Sutherland Glad you made the flight with only seconds to spare.
Joe Meikle We're in Dallas waiting.
Wayne Sutherland Good luck.
Sylvia Sutherland What a fun week and beautiful wedding. See you next year for the next wedding
Melanie Orr For us Haligonians it's back to reality and cold. Brrrrr.
Don't know how you handle it. Must say though that you certainly make an effort for your friends! I kind of miss Barriere in that aspect as here I don't know everyone on the street. In Barriere it was an hour's outing to walk to the post office 1/2 a block away. Here it is an unusual event to see someone I know. Wally is a little better off as he worked here three years and has all these unattached male friends and fellow retirees that he 'coffees ' with once a week.
I imagine the wedding was fun in its tropical clime. Bet you didn't suffer from dehydration but I can't imagine you biking through the sand dunes.
Hi Brenda Louise! Trust all goes well! Trust no more vehicle breakdowns! Kids today! They really don't appreciate their parents until they become parents themselves!!! Fondestos from Cora Lee to you and your "boys", Wally and Picasso! All the best. Cheers, Patrizzio!
Marvin Angelo Mercado What great 10 days in Mexico!! Now back to Vancouver to see my kitty
The Judgment of Solomon
Fresco in Pilgrimage church of Frauenberg, Austria
From Japan: A Short History by Mikiso Hane. When
Confucianism made its way to Japan from China in the fifth and sixth
centuries C.E., it helped the Japanese aristocracy maintain
a strictly heirarchical society and keep "inferior" people in their
place:
"The economy of Japan until the nineteenth century remained essentially
agrarian. Rice culture was introduced to the islands around 100 B.C.E.
and the peasants struggled to eke out a living, tilling the sparse land
areas, growing rice in tiny paddies in the
flat land and carving out terraces on the hillsides to grow other
cereals and vegetables. Tea and silkworm cultivation also became an
important source of income for the villagers. Eventually arts and crafts
came to flourish with the introduction of the crafts
from Korea and China from the fifth century on. The land worked by the
peasants provided the ruling class with its material necessities.
"Thus the power struggle by the clan and tribal chieftains was a
struggle to control the farm land and keep the peasants working it. ...
"There was from the outset a hierarchy of the wielders of power and
those subjected to serve them in various capacities. With the
introduction of Confucian concepts in the fifth to sixth centuries the
case for maintaining
a hierarchical social order was strengthened. Hence the Confucian
emphasis on preserving the hierarchical order between the 'superior' and
'inferior' persons and the maintenance of proper relationships to
ensure social harmony (which meant compelling the 'inferior'
persons to behave in accordance with his or her station in the family
and society) came to be staunchly embedded in Japanese mores.
This
social imperative was reinforced by the emergence of the samurai as the
dominant force in the late twelfth century. They
reinforced the sense of hierarchy by the edge of the sword. The
Tokugawa shogunate instituted a legal class-order of samurai, peas ants,
artisans, and merchants (based on the Confucian hierarchy of
scholars, peasants, artisans, and merchants). Outside this
classification were the so-called 'unclean' class, the outcastes. What
this meant was the samurai caste at the top and the others below.
Even after the end of Tokugawa hegemony and the advent of the modern
Meiji era, class distinctions were retained with people in registries
identified as shizoku (former samurai class), and commoners. The special
status of the old aristocracy was preserved
with their classification as kazoku (nobility). The discrimination of
the outcaste group was also sustained with the classification: new
commoners. After the end of the Second World War legal class
distinctions were eliminated though social discrimination
persisted.
Samson in the Treadmill
Art: Carl Heinrich Bloch
"This evolving sense of status
distinctions came to influence the place of women in Japanese society
also. There is evidence that early Japan was a matriarchal society, or
at least a matrilineal society. The acceptance
of the Confucian social philosophy, and the ascendancy of the samurai
class resulted in a steady decline in the social standing of women. In
the Tokugawa era gender discrimination came to be enforced most
stringently among the samurai class but relationships
between men and women among the townspeople remained less rigid."
Japan: A Short History, (Short Histories), Mikiso Hane, Oneworld Publications, 2000
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The Judgment of Solomon
Fresco in Pilgrimage church of Frauenberg, Austria |
From Japan: A Short History by Mikiso Hane. When Confucianism made its way to Japan from China in the fifth and sixth centuries C.E., it helped the Japanese aristocracy maintain a strictly heirarchical society and keep "inferior" people in their place:
"The economy of Japan until the nineteenth century remained essentially agrarian. Rice culture was introduced to the islands around 100 B.C.E. and the peasants struggled to eke out a living, tilling the sparse land areas, growing rice in tiny paddies in the flat land and carving out terraces on the hillsides to grow other cereals and vegetables. Tea and silkworm cultivation also became an important source of income for the villagers. Eventually arts and crafts came to flourish with the introduction of the crafts from Korea and China from the fifth century on. The land worked by the peasants provided the ruling class with its material necessities.
"There was from the outset a hierarchy of the wielders of power and those subjected to serve them in various capacities. With the introduction of Confucian concepts in the fifth to sixth centuries the case for maintaining a hierarchical social order was strengthened. Hence the Confucian emphasis on preserving the hierarchical order between the 'superior' and 'inferior' persons and the maintenance of proper relationships to ensure social harmony (which meant compelling the 'inferior' persons to behave in accordance with his or her station in the family and society) came to be staunchly embedded in Japanese mores.
|
Samson in the Treadmill
Art: Carl Heinrich Bloch |
"This evolving sense of status
distinctions came to influence the place of women in Japanese society
also. There is evidence that early Japan was a matriarchal society, or
at least a matrilineal society. The acceptance
of the Confucian social philosophy, and the ascendancy of the samurai
class resulted in a steady decline in the social standing of women. In
the Tokugawa era gender discrimination came to be enforced most
stringently among the samurai class but relationships
between men and women among the townspeople remained less rigid."
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