Quote from Forum Archives on December 20, 2015, 11:03 pm

Posted by: 1stsamuel1224 <1stsamuel1224@...>

using Gmail and it shows perfectly Ric! My friend and I also share some Cherokee syllabary ᏣᎳᎩ and it works with no extra plug-ins on Gmail as well 🙂

On Sun, Dec 20, 2015 at 6:29 PM, Rik Osborne <rdo@mister-rik.com> wrote:

This probably isn't going to work, textually, because I guess that most of you don't have your computers set up to display Japanese text. But I'll try. Just one character:

谷

For those of you who can't see it, the character is a very simple drawing of a house. With two small, curved lines above it.

That single character represents the family name of my Japanese friend, Tetsuko. I met Tetsuko back in 1984 - she was a foreign exchange student at my high school. On a whim, a couple months ago, I decided to take advantage of Facebook and see if I could reconnect with the exchange students I befriended 30 years ago.

Japan, Argentina, Belgium, Germany.

My Japanese friend was the only one to respond. So she and I have been chatting for a couple months, and she knows that I'm a Christian, and I know that she was raised as a Bhuddist.

Yesterday, she finally showed me how her name is written, and I was flabbergasted when I saw the character that represents her family name. It hit me like a ton of bricks.

A house, with the wings of an angel hovering above.

I sent her this:

Thank you for sharing with me the kanji for your family name. Speaking as a Christian, that kanji looks like a picture of a house, with an angel spreading his wings over the house for protection. That tells me that your family is blessed by God, and that you are under His protection.

I hope I can follow it up from there.

I know that Bhuddism is more of a "philosophy" than anything, and doesn't actually have a "god". (No Bhudda is not "god", even within that religion). Tetsuko even admitted that, despite being raised Bhuddist, her family is not "practicing". Japan is a very secular country. The Japanese are mostly Shinto and/or Bhuddist, but they mostly play "lip service".

But, WOW, when I saw the character that is her family name, I couldn't help myself. I saw God hugging my friend.

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is a statistical monstrosity.

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