AssassinsMace
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The first day you're hungry but once you get past that, you lose the hunger. Interesting that once I started eating again, my energy level went back to normal nearly immediately.
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The first day you're hungry but once you get past that, you lose the hunger. Interesting that once I started eating again, my energy level went back to normal nearly immediately.
solarz
Brigadier
It's interesting that you think Japan, an island nation with a strong navy, needs to worry more about "defense" than South Korea, a nation that is still technically at war with a belligerent, nuclear armed neighbor.
In reality, Japan's move toward militarization is simply an attempt to recapture its faded glory days. It's a sad truism that when a nation's economic state starts to decline, it will often attempt to regain its prestige by expanding its military. It didn't work too well for North Korea, and I don't see it working out for Japan either.
solarz
Brigadier
I don't think that would work for me, but you've piqued my curiosity. I just might give it a try, lol.
AssassinsMace
Lieutenant General
I don't think that would work for me, but you've piqued my curiosity. I just might give it a try, lol.
Yeah I'm thinking of fasting every other day to see what it does to me. I sort of do it many times now where I only eat dinner. Waiting until the next day won't be that hard for me. I've been reading there may be health benefits to fasting. I sort of try new diets just to see if they do what is advertised. A recent diet is the paleo diet or caveman diet. I tried it and I don't know if this diet was the cause but I had a kidney stone for the first time. I checked up what foods to avoid to prevent kidney stones. Guess what? Nearly all the foods they tell you to eat on the paleo diet have the chemical in foods that cause kidney stones to form.
Blackstone
Brigadier
Asia was never big enough for both China and Japan, and the latter is lucky it's across a wide sea channel. Korea, on the other hand, has lived under relatively benign Chinese hegemony for thousands of years, and had no choice but learn to live with big and powerful Chinese dynasties.
Japan's militarization and the ending of pacifism is due to fears that future US national interests might favor good relations with China over protecting Japan. Abe is pushing to rearm because he knows what's coming, but he all his other alternatives are worse. And you know what, he's right.
solarz
Brigadier
And what exactly is coming? You seem to be under the impression that Japan faces some kind of existential threat from China unless it can arm itself.
In the entire 1500 history of China-Japan relations, the only time China attempted an invasion of Japan was under the Yuan Mongols, who were attempting to conquer the entire known world. *All* other conflicts were initiated by Japanese aggression.
Blackstone
Brigadier
China isn't going to give up on Diaoyu and Japan increasingly isn't convinced the US will protect it if it a war somehow happens, that's the existential threat to Japan. China could promise peaceful coexistence all it wants, Japan will not buy it.
AssassinsMace
Lieutenant General
A lot of articles on China's corruption sweep and Xi's visit to South Korea signifying closer relations. Ironically both stories have negative tones when that's what critics have been whining about for China to do. The number one benefactor of corruption around the world are Western luxury brands. South Korea's closer economic relations with China will stall Obama's containment policy and assure SK will surpass export-dependent Japan. It's just laughable to believe a Japanese/ North Korean alliance is in the making. I can see why an alliance would be needed but it's a last chance out of desperation move. All of this just because they can't get the Japanese to pipe down on its nationalistic rhetoric. They instead take the long route with less chance of success.
SamuraiBlue
Captain
Three points;
One, Japan is not seeking an alliance with NK. Hell Japan doesn't even recognize NK as a nation with no official diplomatic relationship. That is why NK does not have an embassy in Japan and visa versa.
Second, SK still depends heavily on Japan for industrial parts to manufacture their finished products. Japanese trade houses also subrogate most of SK's international trades like importing natural resources and food items as well as export acting as their agents for international trade in various heavy electric products like trains and power plants. So just because SK ties stronger relationship with PRC does not automatically mean that relationship with Japan will relatively weaken to the same extent.
Third, Ms. Park is becoming a lame political duck like most of her predecessors with recent flip flops by her leading and general social disparity in distribution of wealth which the government hand not laid a finger on to counter the situation even though it was her first mission she pledged during her presidential campaign.
More than a hundred years ago Fukuzawa Yukichi put forward advocating to leave the old Asian way of authority, hierarchy leading to corruption and stagnation and kindle the new western way of diplomacy and democracy, his emphasis was on the leaving part but I guess some nation will never learn.
airsuperiority
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That's pretty good. Well I've been told when we don't eat properly, the body starts to take energy from our muscles, so it's possible that's why your energy level restored quick. But a question I have is, how do you go about to go through those 2 days and a half? Do you try and get a lot of sleep and sleep it through? Or might you even have exercised?
Regardless, that's actually pretty interesting. Now if only we imagine how Algerian players went about to play their games that day..
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