tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33432958049284037952012-01-27T22:59:49.989-05:00Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's? --- NietzscheYun Yihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06311104014692132715noreply@blogger.comBlogger1831100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3343295804928403795.post-23059322038985055362012-01-20T17:06:00.000-05:002012-01-20T17:06:20.982-05:00

Image via Wikipedia "The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift."　---Einsten

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Image via Wikipedia Compassion, is not necessarily measured by how much one can do to humans' misfortune, but how much one feels about it.

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Image via Wikipedia I believe "equality" refers to attitude, not fact. The fact is that differences between people, esp. individuals will always exist regardless how much we dislike them, so, instead of trying to eliminating differences, we could/should embrace them, treat them with equal attitude. Of course, "equal attitude" doesn't mean asking a pregnant woman to lift a giant

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Image via Wikipedia Ignorance is not measured by how little we knows, but how much we falsely think we know. In this case, a doctor (one with Ph.D) who think he/she knows everything is more ignorant than a peasant who admit he/she knows nothing. Ignorance = Amount of knowledge we falsely thinks we have - Actually amount of knowledge we have.

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Image via Wikipedia Christians always talking about God's love by exhibiting God's compassion to those who committed serious crimes, such as violence, murder or even genocide, but not mentioning a word of what God could do for suffering (I am not talking about next life, or in heaven ,but in this life, on this place "God" created by his hands). So, why does God have this over abundant

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Image via Wikipedia Someone claims that God is omnipotently forgiving. One of the evidence of this forgiveness is that a murderer like David was chosen to be King of Israel. No, I do not believe that. I think "God" is just an excuse of humans' behaviors - when we need forgiveness, he "forgives" (otherwise how could we explain David was a King?); when we need to be judgmental, he

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Image via Wikipedia Because truth doesn't need disguise itself, so often it is what really happened looked the fakest.

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Image via Wikipedia Yesterday's the past, tomorrow's the future, but today is a gift. That's why it's called the present. ---Bil Keane

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Image by cheerfulmonk via Flickr To some people, forgiveness means a complete victim-offender reconciliation without offenders' efforts, which gives offenders opportunities to hurt victims again, and victims should no longer whine over the pain (basically a task of Saint!); to some people, forgiveness simply means victims' giving up the ideas of revenge, shifting focus from the past to

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Image by Getty Images via @daylife Offence, to many people means some serious physical or verbal attack, but to some people, it can be a few words that state a difference opinion. Offence =  physical or mental sensitivity / physical or verbal attack or verbal assertion  .

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Image by muffinbasket via Flickr When facing same adversity, persons with less endurance suffer more than those with stronger endurance. Suffering = adversity/endurance

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Image by Jeff Frankenhauser via Flickr It takes much more courage to a person who has vertigo standing on the second floor balcony than to a healthy person climbing a thousand foot high cliff. Courage = Difficulty/Potentiality

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Knowledge is gained by learning, wisdom by insight.

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Image via Wikipedia Tolerance is refer to differences (ideas, life style, etc.), not to offence, abuse or injustice. (The "tolerance" to latter is better to be defined as "forgiveness".) Tolerance to injustice is the best "gift" humans offered to Evil. It does help injustice prevails. A healthy relationship is built on understanding, or accepting/embracing (without understanding)

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"You used God, not another way around." "Light cannot exist without darkness. Each has its purpose. If there is the purpose to my darkness, maybe it is to bring some balance to the world. " Dexter - "a father, a son, a serial killer"  

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Image via Wikipedia I always believe that true harmony is built on embracing the differences, not on conformity. Making "Golden Girls" as example: each of them has distinguishable personality: Dorothy is so wise and sharp that she could throw "judgement" at any moment like "Goddess"; Rose is so naive that she virtually believes everything; Blanche is so incredibly sexy that

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Image via Wikipedia 1, decent physical health; 2, decent income that covers all basic expenses; 3, freedom; 4. love (esp. self-esteem). Everything else is secondary.

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I don't remember when was the first time I watched this sitcom, all I remember is whenever I saw this show on TV, those girls made me laugh! I never felt tired about this show. Why? Not because of "brilliant" story lines, not because of any magnificent philosophy, or psychological stunts, but simply because of vivid "personalities" of those "golden girls": the always wise and sharp Dorothy;

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Image by emdot via Flickr Don't look, see; Don't see, memorize; Don't memorize, understand; Don't understand, just feel good...

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Image via Wikipedia In my previous post I quote Liu Xiaobo's view on "absolute". However, I just realized that based on Einstein's special relativity, all relativity of space and time is based on a single ABSOLUTE: the invariant speed of light. (experts please point out if I am wrong) I always consider myself a skeptic so basically I doubt everything. And at the same time I would keep a

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Image via Wikipedia Since my life got into "middle age" problem, which was a combination of my health decline and career struggle, I found I was also in relationship crisis - my old friends were all estranged from my life, more or less, one by one. I often wonder, what made my friendships faded after all these years (25 plus)? I don't know, but I at least know it happened during my

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I grew up in an artists' family, entered the same art college my parents worked, but I never really knew anything about Guan Zilan - a woman artist who died in 1986 (I was in college at the time ). I seem to remember I heard of her name, but never paid any attention to it. Yesterday during a discussion in a Chinese forum regarding my article about value of art works, one person mentioned her

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Image by whatleydude via Flickr I first heard of TV series Columbo was almost 15 years ago, when I was a student watching the movie "Wings of Desire" in graduate writing class. Professor mentioned that one of actors in the movie - Peter Falk also played Lieutenant Columbo in TV series of Columbo. I did not pay much attention untill 15 years later, when I finally started

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Image via Wikipedia The biggest mistake within all mistakes humans ever made is avoiding making mistakes; the most foolish foolishness within all foolishness of humans is believing in absolutes; the weakest weakness within all weaknesses of humans is establishing power. There is no omnipotent power, not God, not science, not Truth itself. This is the enlightenment that "Reason

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Image via Wikipedia Instead, we are equal before each others. I found, after turning into Christians (or any other religions), many people learned to "tolerate", to tolerate something once made them unbearable, such as family violence, abuse, etc. In other words, after turning into religions, they learned to obey the power, simply because of the promising payback - "justice"

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Image via Wikipedia I've done quite a few essays in Chinese recently and one of them is about the value of art works (ha, I do take break from criticizing Chinese culture sometime). It is a long writing so I have no energy to translate all of them in English. However I am quite happy about the ending of this writing,which I shifted a little from "art works" to "art": I don't

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Image by andyarthur via Flickr Life is not about what we achieve or what we do, but HOW WE FEEL.

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Image via WikipediaIf we define "knowledge" in terms of "epistemology", there have never been knowledge existed in China. "Knowledge" in ancient Chinese intellectuals minds only existed by its pragmatic terms: either for practical productiveness or political power. This tradition, created a "spectacular" phenomenon - that most Chinese intellectuals (Chinese people as well) take it for granted

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is modern belief system designed to "equal" intelligent levels: to lower the higher - the minority of intellectuals, to fit the lower - the majority of dumb middle class.

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Just found out that a Chinese lawyer Zhicheng Gao, who was brave enough to defend vulnerable/ disadvantaged people, was arrested several years ago and possibly dead by now. He was not only put in jail, but was tortured in a unspeakable and inhumane cruelty. Again, I asked myself, how can one be happy when hearing something like this? Again I asked, is this country, my motherland, worth any

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"You need two willing parties for a war, but only one for a genocide." by ranfuchs I think this is a spot on insight. I also like to add: You also need two willing parties for a peace. I believe humans situation is very complicated that cannot be dealt with a single action, either kindness or meanness. Not all the violence is the same, not all the peace is the same. Some peace is not "peace"

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For long time I have not read much Chinese news. Today I went to a Chinese forum which I used to hang out a lot, and encountered a thread which shows video of a little girl being run over by a truck (twice). It is extremely emotional disturbing and doubtless ruined my day! A beautiful girl (about 4 or 5 year-old) was run over by a small truck. The truck stopped for a few second, then started

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Image by dullhunk via FlickrThe measurement of wisdom and ignorance is not set by amount of knowledge, wealth, social status, even (not necessarily) our intelligence level, but by the acknowledge of our limitation: both the limitation of human as a whole, and as individual.

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My answer is: in aspect of "value" - the value of life. I believe we are all different in aspect of intelligence, knowledge, wealth, or social status, but these differences should not alter our value of life. Thus we are all essentially equal (not include those life offenders and destroyers) and we all respect each others. If this is well understood, there would be no arrogance, bigotry, power

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I captured part of "History of World in Two Hours" on history channel and found it very interesting, so I re-watched it online from beginning. It was a very educational documentary, with a big picture that covers the most crucial moments of the whole history of universe, not only the "world". It was just what I needed: brief and important! The documentary not only tells the whole development of

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In my previous post Finding Ultimate Causes, two short paragraphs contain the most important thought I gathered through my life experience. It is not 100% "mature" yet and will be continuously examined by my further observation and reasoning. This thought is such: (human beings') life existences is a mixture of (no more than) two simple elements: our born nature and our life experience. Image

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For long time I consider myself a bad listener (it's also a "complaint" from a few close friends). Now I am doing much better on this, especially when interacting with people. I would conscious the moment that I interrupted others' talking and make apology to let people continuing. However, for lots of stuffs going on TVs, I found I am terrible on catching up what's going one with the world. So,

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"A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. "

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Image by p_valdivieso via FlickrJust read a fellow blogger's blog (PSACHNO's) about animal right (and it was related to my country China!), I had to ask me this question again: is human worse than animals? ... Not necessarily. I think the only difference is that human is fully conscious about his being good and evil, while animals are completely unconscious about it. In this case, both the "idea"

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Image via WikipediaAnother thought jumped into my mind: Great minds share ideas, ordinary minds share information, small minds share gossips.

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Image via WikipediaChild-abuse is always one of central subjects of my thinking during my adulthood, for 2 reasons: 1. I am a victim of child-abuse; 2. it creates the worst damages upon human nature (I literally mean: THE WORST).To recover from this damage, the first step for me is to confront. By saying "confront", I do not mean "revenge", but "finding the ultimate causes" of all self-harming "

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Cover of A Beautiful MindAnother day I saw a popular saying on blogcatalog: "Great people talk about ideas; average people talk about things; small people talk about people." Here comes mine: Great minds look for (different) ideas; average minds look for advices; small minds look for commands.

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I had a glance at Mildred Pierce on HBO a while ago and was attracted by the "look" of this TV show. After seeing Kate Winslet's winning Emmy award this year, I decided to watch this show from beginning to end. After I did it I was totally satisfied! KW did a fantastic job on the rule of Midred Pierce - a hard working woman who put all her love on her daughter yet at the time spoils her

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Image by Toban Black via FlickrSince we are doomed to be different, it's impossible/unnecessary  for us to UNDERSTAND each other completely. However, if we could accept/embrace our difference, this world might be a better place. But it seems to me that even "acceptance" is a "request" that goes beyond human capacity: many people (not sure if it's "majority") can only accept what they UNDERSTAND.

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Image via WikipediaFoods will not bring us to immortality, but we must eat; knowledge will not lead us to absolute truth, but we must know. This is for one reason: to know is like to eat, is our nature which we have no powerful to fight against.

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"Sure, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul;...there is far greater peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink..." ---Plato, Protagoras

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Just got the 3 volume novel War and Peace from Amazon! What at beautiful treasure I ever had! I especially like the "3 volume" part, because when I read Les Miserable it was over 1400 pages in one volume and it felt great inconvenience to hold it, especially for a slow reader like me. It will take me long to finish it, but I expect a good time reading ahead.

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The hardest things for mediocre people (are they majority?) to accept is, 1: the extraordinary of others: the extraordinary talent and the extraordinary tragedy. The reason for the former is jealousy, the latter is selfishness; 2, the ordinary of themselves - the reason is lack of self-confidence.

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Image via Wikipedia Upon the time Liu Xiaobo won his Noble Peace Price last year, I knew nothing about him and his works. Due to my apathy towards politics, I also never had enough interest to get into know him as well, until I read his book Mist of Metaphysics (briefed as “Mist" below). Lu Xun said "It's better to read Chinese books as less as possible. Actually it's better not to read them

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Image by flickr.Marcus via FlickrIn China, a best thing to a truthful intellect to do is either to be courageous inside jail, or stay silent outside of jail, because there is no way for a honest person to open his/her month and being honest at the same time without being persecuted under current (or almost anytime in history Chinese) political and cultural circumstance.

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Image via WikipediaI think there are two different kinds of moral standards: social and humanistic (yet to find a more accurate word). The social moral standards are mostly created by human for establishing social stability. These include laws, religion doctrines and common customs (based on traditional ideology). The humanistic standards are discovered by our conscience, which derives from our

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Image via Wikipedia (From Mist of Metaphysics, Chapter 4: Kant - the Copernicus-like Revolution ) Religionizing Science is the most indiscernible and most dangerous (process?), but religionizing faith is the nature of life. The impact of Kant's idea - God had nothing to do with science - to modern philosophy is to remind us: never to religionize science and knowledge. In modern philosophy,

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Image via WikipediaI love Van Gogh's works from the first time I saw them, but for long time I did not consider him as the "greatest" among "greatests", because I always put "traditional realistic skills" in my art criterion, even though I knew from beginning that technique was just part of art process. However, very recently I changed my mind. I finally freed myself from such conventional

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Image by Mpigapicha via FlickrFirst I must say that this book is not for modern entertainment. It was a book Blixen wrote for herself. Only those who are interested in her "personally", or her unusual life experience, can be patient enough to finish the book. Inside this book, Blixen recalled her life in Africa, when she had a farm at foot of Ngong Hills, Kenya. Very differently from the movie,

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Image by k-ideas via Flickr(From Mist of Metaphysics)If the Crucifixion was the most shocking moment of Christianity, the thoughts of St. Augustine is the most unforgettable thoughts of Dark Age. The misery revealed by these two (persons) has been hunting human being until today. We must admit, this revelation is a brutal braveness, and a cruel awakening. (P116) Discovering mysteries of nature

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Image via WikipediaA few days ago I finished reading "Les Miserables". Finally! Or I should say, I finished reading "Jean Valjean", because I jumped so many passages even the whole chapter of "Waterloo". I blamed my poor English reading skill for feeling difficulty in reading all pages of this book. However after I read instruction of the book I realized the digressions of this book seems to be

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Image by iceman9294 via FlickrRecognizing generality from complexity of a group (people or nature phenomenons) is a result of acute observation, intuition and reasoning; however, applying such generality to every individual of group is an act of prejudice. The reason is simple: while each group of people (or natural matters) has their generality, each individual of group also has its own

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"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."-- Albert Einstein

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When "Andy" plays "Marriage of Figaro", narration by "Red" (Morgan Freeman):"I have no idea to this day what those two Italian ladies were singing about. Truth is, I don't want to know. Some things are best left unsaid. I'd like to think they were singing about something so beautiful, it can't be expressed in words, and makes your heart ache because of it. I tell you, those voices soared higher

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Image via Wikipedia "Who are we? Where do we come from? Where are we going?" After several thousands years of civilization, the question remains as the same as beginning: we still face that mysterious world of UNKNOWN. Probably, the attitudes (driven by different thinking styles) toward this UNKNOWN divide us in different types of people: rational, irrational, superstitious, skeptical, or

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Image via WikipediaIf we agree that being able to be ourselves is the most essential condition of our life happiness, two other conditions will destroy this condition:1: Trying to be someone else other than ourselves. This "ambition" is built on illusion - "someones else" are mistaken for "ourselves". The causes of such illusion are multiple and complicated, but I believe a very important cause

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If people asked me who was my favorite actors or actress, I might not have an immediate answer, but if people asked am who was my favorite comedian, my answer would be straight and simple: Ellen Degeneres.I was so impressed by her early stand up shows (I even ran for a live one in Northampton, Mass). All her early stand up shows were incredibly hilarious and philosophic! Reminding me lot of

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Innocence wears its own crown, Monsieur; it needs no added dignity; it is as sublime in rags as in royal robes. p54...since natures vary, we must agree that all the beauties of human excellence may be fostered by faiths that we do not share. p65What more could he need, this old man whose little leisure was divided between daytime gardening and night-time contemplation? Was not that narrow space

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A friend of mine sent me this video presentation about Buddhist concepts such as Meditation, Knowledge, Energy, Consciousness, Life and Death, etc.Not sure how superstitious you would find, I found it both inspiring and superstitious. Several interesting quotes from video:Sleep is an unconscious meditation; meditation is conscious sleep;Meditation is nothing but a journey of our Consciousness

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It is everywhere true that those at the bottom of the social hierarchy are the majority. ...Why then does the majority remain deprived? The minority at the top may have a near monopoly of force, but force alone is not the answer. A system of social differentiation must be found in which all believe, not just some.---Charles Van Doren: A History of Knowledge

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Cover of The PledgeJack Nicholson has been always one of my favorite actors. After watching three his movies in a raw, now I must say I am a huge fan of his. His acting is superb!"About Schmidt", "The Bucket List" and "Pledge"(2001) are what I have watched recently. I absolutely love everyone of them, however, I would especially mention "Pledge", an unusual mystery directed by Sean Penn. The

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"If I know a song of Africa, of the giraffe and the African new moon lying on her back, of the plows in the fields and the sweaty faces of the coffee pickers, does Africa know a song of me? Will the air over the plain quiver with a color that I have had on, or the children invent a game in which my name is, or the full moon throw a shadow over the gravel of the drive that was like me, or will the

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Image via WikipediaEvidence: the "facts" that support our beliefs. As soon as people's minds are settled with some belief systems, all existing facts become "evidences" to validate/consolidate those beliefs. The facts that disprove their beliefs are either nonexistent or, simply invisible.So, it is almost impossible to change people's mind by presenting "evidences".

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Image via WikipediaCharter Chambers: (My pastor always says) our lives are streams flowing into the same river towards whatever heaven lies in the mist beyond the falls. Find the joy in your life, Edward. My dear friend, close your eyes and let the waters take you home. Edward Cole: Carter and I saw the world together, which is amazing when you think that only three months ago we were complete

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Cover of The Journey of Man: A Genetic OdysseyThe origin of human: where did we come from, is certainly one of the most important/enchanting questions of history. Recently I watched a series of documentary videos and one of them seemed to have unraveled this riddle, at least to a certain extent.It seems to me, that the "theory" of all people on this earth originated from Africa is not a foreign

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Image by frankdasilva via FlickrLong time ago I watched TV news about crop circle hoax. Since then I never bothered again with this "phenomenon". I do not remember details of this news but roughly recall two men were busy working in the field, of course under moonlight. Just recently while watching several videos about history on youtube I accidentally encountered some videos about this subject.

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Freedom is something beautiful and sound, but not "free". It requires independency, a high price that many people are incapable to pay. Sometime it is easier to die codependently than live independently.

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Image via WikipediaDifferences (which factually exist among us) do not necessarily lead to discrimination, but arrogance does. "I am different from you" is not a biased statement, but "I am superior" is.

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Image via WikipediaThere are some people mix up "kindness" and "dumbness", confuse about "intelligence" with "treacherousness", or "guile". The reasons for such idea might be either they are not smart enough to be guileful, or, they are smart but choose to be dishonest in favor of their utilitarian life style.I further believe, that honesty is a choice, intelligence (and smartness) is not. There

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I was not much in TV shows but since my chronic health problems prevented me from more "meaningful" activities, I have to "condescend" myself to watch some and found them very entertaining. One of them is "Harry's Law". Cathy Bates is my all time favorite actress. In this show, she plays the leading role Harriet Korn, a lawyer who is fired and starts her own law firm ("Harry's Law") in a very

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A WikipediaThese couple of days I just heard two important things happened in Chinese art circle: 1, Ai, Weiwei, a famous artist has disappeared, most likely in custody; 2, the new world record of auction sale of Zhang, Xiaogang's painting "Love that lives forever" (my own translation) was sold for over $10 millions.Just a while ago I had some thoughts about the difference between artists and

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Image via WikipediaI finished reading Irvine Stone's Lust for Life within one day like finishing a page turner, but I finished reading Dear Theo - letters of Van Gogh after a long time reading - each time I turned the page, I heard myself saying: slow down, take time, and digest every word slowly, as if the sooner I finished reading, the quicker the joy of being with him would vanish.Van Gogh

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Cover of Whispers and LiesHow am I going to put this? A little strange yet extreme alluring story about a "boring" life of a middle aged woman? No. The first thing I would tell you about this book is: You are not going to believe what you get at the end! Never ever a book shocked me like that! Whispers and Lies (by Joy Fielding) tells a story about a single middle aged nurse Terry Painter, who

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WikipediaIf there is a book that I could read again and again, it is Rebecca, by Daphne du Maurier. I was obsessed with this book over 20 years ago, always wanted to write a review, but never get a chance. Now it's the time.Rebecca is a story about a young lady who by chance marries a wealthy man, Maxim de Winter, the owner of a stately estate known as "Manderley". "Rebecca" is the name of

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Cover of Kill Bill - Volume TwoKill Bill is an action/Kung Fu moive, probably one of bloodiest movies ever made. Not particularly a Kung Fu or action movie fan, I was able to enjoy it from the beginning to the end.The actress of leading role Uma Thurman is extremely charming. She is tall and strong, yet sexy and beautiful. But not only the charm of Uma Thurman, the incredible story of revenge,

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Image by SAND CREATION... BUONA DOMENICA A TUTTI via FlickrThe human's addiction in pursuing absolute truth and unconditionally dependence on dogma is motivated by his (her) feeling unacceptably inadequate in coping with the complication of reality.

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Image by Nick in exsiliovia FlickrDefinition from Wikipedia: Hatred (or hate) is a deep and emotional extreme dislike, directed against a certain object or class of objects.------------------------------------------Like "Love", "hate" is a natural feeling which we all naturally possess. So there is nothing wrong with hatred itself."Love" and "hate" are two sides of one coin. One can love, one can

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Image by Catfunt via FlickrGenerally speaking, being an artist all you need is TALENT. Artistic talent is well respected through most time in history and almost anywhere around the world, because usually creative art does not jeopardize the social stability and people's narrow minds. So being an artist is not much about "courage", or "difficulty", but "capability". Being an individual thinker is

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Image by Peregrino Will Reign via FlickrPassion and reason do not function contradictorily, but complementarily.What contradicts passion is apathy; what contradicts reason is irrationalism.

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Image by Martin Neuhof | martin-neuhof.com via FlickrIntelligence is a capability to know;Wisdom is a capability to be happy.

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Image by Gracey (pogwebsite) via FlickrNowadays the psychological fashion of "being positive" in many cases means simply "ignoring all 'negative" facts, or at least do not mention them at all. By this definition, I do think the best role model of "positive attitude" is news media in China.

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Image via WikipediaThe most expensive treasure on this earth is spiritual freedom. So whoever is spiritually free, whoever is the richest "plutocrat" in the world.

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vImage via Wikipedia(The forgiveness I am trying to analyse below is about serious matters, such as serious personal offense, crimes, and any type of abuses within relationships, it dose not include the tolerance/forgiveness of differences in ideas, wrong doings of general level.)The content of "forgiveness" consists of two parts: 1, a peaceful state of mind that has transcended the painful/

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"Common sense" only works in general. Using common sense judge individual cases inevitably leads to prejudice. Yet this is what most people do.The fact that "common sense" cannot summarize every inch of reality shows a simple truth: the complexity of Nature (or reality) is far beyond our general reasoning.

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This is a short/sweet/a little bitter movie about generation gap within a Chinese family: a father comes to America to visit her daughter who lives in US about 12 years and find he had to confront the "gap" between them. I enjoyed the nice flow of the story line. The conversations jumped around different languages was amusing and how the father communicated with his neighbors and even made friend

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Friendship is the kind of relationship in which we share what's common, embrace what's different (among us). What really damages a friendship is not time, space, shortcomings, or differences of ideas, but judgement. ----------------------------------After finishing writing this note and discussing on BlogCatalog, I realized there are lots of more aspects affect friendships, and the differences of

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Conformity is the easiest way (not necessarily the best way) to avoid "loneliness" - the worst fear of human being. For the sake of "conformity", many people do literally ANYTHING - "love", "passion", hate, violence, even murder. That's why discrimination prevails during peacetime, and how mass murders are committed during wartime.Conformity really is the "weakest link" of human nature, a hidden

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Image by archer10 (Dennis) via FlickrEducation alone does not make people more intelligent, experience itself does not bring us wisdom.

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Image via WikipediaHardship is not necessarily a prerequisite for wisdom, but a wise mind can certainly benefit from hardship, just like it benefits from any kind of life experiences.Any experience has its limitation. Experience itself does not bring wisdom. What makes wisdom is a capability of transcending experience, i.e. when facing hardship, one is able to keep hope and tranquil spirit hence

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San Francisco is my dream place on this earth. Maybe it would not be so perfect as I dream if I really lived there, but still, the place seems to be unbelievable romantic, cultural rich and full of beautiful scenery. This is a picture taken by my dear friend Helen who just finished visiting USA from UK. And it proves my dream: peaceful ocean breeze, giant looking bridge, clear sky and tranquil

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Image via WikipediaThe time we start embracing our enemies, is the time we start winning the games.

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Image via Wikipedia"Maturity", sometime is marked not by age, but the growth of prejudice.

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Image by hawkexpress via FlickrWhen people failed to comprehend some plain facts, it is not that these facts were too complicated to human brains, nor these facts were not sufficiently described, but people's IDEAS restricted their basic capability of understanding.

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Image via WikipediaRevised by Anji SandageFrom a philosophical point of view, materialism represents some of the most negative aspects of our human nature, such as greed, selfishness, and inhumanity. It would be unjustified to put the label of “materialism” on any single ethnic group. However, being Chinese, I find it hard to ignore the excessive materialism in modern China, where money seems

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Image via WikipediaRecently a famous Chinese pianist Lang Lang played a "red" song "My Motherland" during his performance in White House. This song was a theme song in a movie about a battle in Korean War during 50s. Because of this "political" or historical context, so in many Chinese people's eye, this is "anti- America" song, and Lang Lang's performance consequently stirred a huge discussion

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