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  • Beauty - 美麗 (updated)

    Activision-Blizzard - From the Economist August 2009Beauty and Success: To those that have, shall be given - From the Economist 12/2007 regarding beauty, intelligence and success.Of Music, Murder, and Shopping: From the …

  • Extemporaneous Verse

    ...---...Out of Chaos: OrderOut of Noise: SignalA thousand-million-synapses made Quanta of electrons in saltatory sway Across the beaches of Ranvier's Nodes of meaning displayedA thousand-hundred connections ma…

  • 地平線

    小夫妻 - 歐得洋／蔡淳佳 曲︰方文良 詞︰BENNY C 編︰許恒瑞 女︰在SUPERMARKET逛了好大一圈 想你愛咖哩或是意大利麵 幸福的食譜再惡補幾遍 我的優點要你百嚐不厭 男︰在下班路上租了幾支影片 有你在沙發就是浪漫劇院 辛苦的時候想著你的臉 沒有蠻牛活力也會出現 ＊合︰喔　小夫妻　我…

  • All or Nothing at All

    Valentine's Day is upon us, and finds me single for the 3rd year running. I write this without bitterness nor remorse, for it is not much more than a mark on the wheel of time, that passes with stoic regularity. A lot …

  • Prison of Knowledge

    Before I begin in earnest, I want to preface that it used to bother me that the wording of the NIV for the verse states: The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge. Why not wisdom? It doesn't any longer... wh…

  • Obligations and EmotionI had a conversation the other day about the nature of obligation and its importance in motivation. Obligation is, to some, a dirty word. Zeal and passion (in the vernacular sense) is more appeal…

  • Striving

    ἀρετή - Virtue; to be the best that you can be.http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~dee/GLOSSARY/ARETE.HTMOne of the wonderful things about being chinese is that you have 2 New Years to reflect through. My one particular thought is…

  • On Control...Humans oft long for control -- and within any sphere that they conceive of. The thought of control is seductive, no doubt; to be able to "get what one wants" from "whoever they want it from". A Machiavelli…

  • 1421 Guns, Germs, and Steel After finishing these books recently, I've had a lot to think about with regards to human history and the course of "social Darwinism". There's certainly a lot to reflect upon... but I want…

  • Interdependence and IndependenceNote this post was copied from a reply to a comment section from wendl922's page.Alas, there are no programs or strategies that take care or loneliness or "dys"fellowship. Just old fashio…

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