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海遠論《琵琶行》

2010-06-25T02:15:00.000-07:00

李察先生寫了兩篇文章評論 [琵琶行]. 海遠有不同的觀點. 在討論之前, 海遠先下載 [維基百科] 版本的 [琵琶行] 以供參考.(有很多錯字).

琵琶行并序白居易
元和十年，予左遷九江郡司馬。明年秋，送客湓浦口。聞舟船中夜彈琵琶者，聽其音，錚錚然，有京都聲。問其人，本長安倡女，嘗學琵琶於穆曹二善才。年長色衰，委身為賈人婦。遂命酒，使快彈數曲。曲罷，憫然自敘少小時歡樂事；今漂淪憔悴，轉徙於江湖間。余出官二年，恬然自安，感斯人言，是夕始學有遷謫意，因為長句，歌以贈之。凡六百一十六言，命曰：「琵琶行。」
潯陽江頭夜送客，楓葉荻花秋瑟瑟。主人下馬客在船，舉酒欲飲無管絃；醉不成歡慘將別，別時茫茫江浸月。
忽聞水上琵琶聲，主人忘歸客不發。尋聲闇問彈者誰？琵琶聲停欲語遲。移船相近邀相見，添酒迴燈重開宴。千呼萬喚始出來，猶抱琵琶半遮面。轉軸撥絃三兩聲，未成曲調先有情：絃絃掩抑聲聲思，似訴平生不得志。低眉信手續續彈，說盡心中無限事，輕攏慢撚抹復挑，初為霓裳後綠腰。大絃嘈嘈如急雨，小絃切切如私語，嘈嘈切切錯雜彈，大珠小珠落玉盤。間關鶯語花底滑，幽咽泉流戈下灘；水泉冷澀絃凝絕，凝結不通聲暫歇。別有幽愁闇恨生，此時無聲勝有聲。銀瓶乍破水漿迸，鐵騎突出刀槍鳴。曲終收撥當心畫，四絃一聲如裂帛。東船西舫悄無言，唯見江人秋月白。
沈吟放撥插絃中，整頓衣裳起斂容。自言：「本是京城女，家在蝦蟆陵下住，十三學得琵琶成，名屬教坊第一部。曲罷曾教善才伏，妝成每被秋娘妒；五陵年少爭纏頭，一曲紅綃不知數；鈿頭雲篦擊節碎，血色羅裙翻酒污。今年歡笑復明年，秋月春風等閒度。弟走從軍阿姨死，暮去朝來顏色故。門前冷落車馬稀，老大嫁作商人婦！商人重利輕離別，前月浮梁買茶去；去來江口守空船，遶船月明江水寒。夜深忽夢少年事，夢啼妝淚紅闌干。」
我聞琵琶已歎息，又聞此語重唧唧！同是天涯淪落人，相逢何必曾相識！我從去年辭帝京，謫居臥病潯陽城；潯陽地僻無音樂，終歲不聞絲竹聲。住近湓江地低溼，黃蘆苦竹繞宅生；其間旦暮聞何物？鵑啼血猿哀鳴杜。春江花朝秋月夜，往往取酒還獨傾。豈無山砍與村笛？嘔啞嘲哳難為聽。
今夜聞君琵琶語，如聽仙樂耳暫明。莫辭更坐彈一曲，為君翻作琵琶行。感我此言良久立，卻坐促絃絃轉急；淒淒不似向前聲，滿座重聞皆掩泣。座中泣下誰最多？江州司馬青衫溼

海遠的論點如下 :

(1) 李察先生一下筆就把女主角定性為 [歌妓], 海遠覺得, 女主角更近似日本的 [歌舞伎], 可能賣藝不賣身.
(2) 縱使賣身, 也賣得極高價錢, 客人還要排隊呢 . [五陵少年爭纏頭，一曲紅綃不知數]
(3) [鈿頭雲篦擊節碎，血色羅裙翻酒污], 這可能是少年輕狂瘋狂派對的行為, 未必是痛苦的經歷. [今年歡笑復明年，秋月春風等閒度]。
(4) 白居易與女主角在 [潯陽江] 相遇, 是萍水相逢. 女主角演奏一曲琵琶, 是報 [知音之遇], 似乎不涉金錢利益的交換. [今夜聞君琵琶語，如聽仙樂耳暫明。莫辭更坐彈一曲，為君翻作琵琶行].
(5) [同是天涯淪落人], 只是文人誇大. 白居易由京官貶為地方官. 女主角由大明星轉為住家婦. 兩人並非山窮水盡, 只是緬懷昔日風光. [夜深忽夢少年事，夢啼妝淚紅闌干] ; [座中泣下誰最多？江州司馬青衫溼]
(6) 白居易是文字工作者, 女主角是音樂工作者, +/-性工作者. 前者未必一定[高貴] 過後者. 畢竟, 每年的科舉考試, 都會出產幾十個 [高官], 但能擠身 [名屬教坊第一部] 的才女, 能有幾人? 唐朝, 不愧是中國最有自信的年代.
海遠

it should not be called "education" at all.

2010-03-27T20:38:00.000-07:00

2010.3.28

Dear William,

Thanks for your ideas. And you had reminded me of a long forgotten ideal of
Labrary, which is a mixture of library and laboratory.

You said that:"Confucians believe that education should be available to all, and education content should be made to fit into everyone need, not into any model we have developed on the basis of any abstract ideas..... " are not correct.

"Education should be available to all" is a lie. Since the teaching materials and exam concents are determined by the ruling elite, then there was no freedom in education. The total aim of Confucius was not to promote knowledge, but to setup the mind for a better ruling, with this special way of treating people, it should not be called "education" at all.

with regards,

Leechard.

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Leechard,

Your article on the education of Chinese and Western culture in Hong kong, and your fan article on that topic is very interesting. I think you are quite right to point out that the centre of gravity of our modern education follows the Western one, that we emphasised more on Western ideas, and less on Chinese one( or you may have it, the other culture one, when we are talking in different countries culture other than Western one.) The Western idea dominance in education, of course, has been criticised by many, including Gandhi, and 林語堂, our famous Chinese writer. They both argue that ignoring the local culture system in education could greatly restrict, and even close, the access of local culture to local students. Consequently, these local students lost 6 most precarious year in their life in learning the Western system and not the local one, and the human material of these students could be wasted. A hundred year has passed since these great gentleman has pointed out these problem, and yet the progress of solving it has not advanced a single step, in my judgement. I wish that more people could pay attention to this problem, which, as you have pointe out, is the core of all problems in our society.

I here wish to make my suggestion to solve this problem. The 9-year secondary schooling, which you are now supporting, is a good idea. We can learn deeper and broader in every fields which are interesting, and very useful to us. Medicine( not the do operation of course), Cookery, Chinese poems, Astronomy. But i am doubtful whether it can solve all problems in education. Some of you may complain that the length of education is too long, and that they should complete education earlier. Some of you, however, have found that there are too much to be learned, and they need more time, more than the proposed 9 year, to have a basic understanding of Chinese and Western culture. Therefore, to suit these party needs, i propose that the education term should be made flexible, subject to the students ability to learn. This is very important, even Confucians believe that education should be available to all, and education content should be made to fit into everyone need, not into any model we have developed on the basis of any abstract ideas. We should allow the abolition of boundary between primary, secondary and tertiary education. This could greatly enhance the flow of ideas throughout the three layer of students in existing system by teaching, discussion and other means. We should allow also a liberation of students curriculum. The existing one has writted away the tree of creativity and tree of good taste, and planted the tree of bad tastes in the society. We must allow them to have more choices of courses, based on their desire, not on availability of places. We should let them to see the highest in the mountain, and deepest in the sea, to train them to be best citizen of our places.

Only when our education is flexible can we begin our project of labrary, your proposal of merging laboratory and library. I am a full supporter of this proposal, and i really wish to see this idea to be carried out by the society. It is the idea that inspire me, and i think, to many people in this blog.

I am looking forward to hearing from you.

Best wishes,
William

Harry potter and 西遊記

2010-03-13T21:26:00.000-08:00

Subject: Harry potter and 西遊記 2
Date: Sun, 14 Mar 2010 08:55:40 +0800

Leechard,

I enjoy reading your analysis on Harry potter and 西遊記, and i am sure many of your supporters, fans and readers could find it interesting to read this piece of writing now appeared on blog. I wish therefore to thank you for making a good use of the idea set by me, the similarities between Harry potter and 西遊記, which, to the best of my knowledge, is the first comprehensive and inspiring one ever came in public eye. This is a still world open to us, and a treasure waiting for us to find. I am looking forward to reading this too.

Indeed, there is another similarities between Harry potter and 西遊記, which i think you should appreciate. In the final book of Harry potter, Hermione, Ronald and Harry went on for a journey to hunt down the death eaters and destroy horcruxes. In that journey, they had many disagreements on the way they view the world and settle the matters, improved the skills for combating in war against the Dark force at that time, and furthermore developed a better relationship between each other. On top of these the romance between Ronald and Hermione, (or you may have it, Harry and Ginny) is the brightest attraction to many fans( including me), and even many who have not heard of Harry potter story. The story of西遊記, of course is very similar. There is of course no romance between these men in sexual chemistry, and no Dark load dreaming to and working to dominate the whole world 西遊記 story is set. But, in this journey, 孫悟空, 豬八戒, 沙僧, 唐僧 all had disagreement over the way to be taken in finishing the tasks of the journey, and over the views of treating bad guys in the circumstance they had to face. They had used each and every methods available to them, ever the forbidden ones, to solve the crisis, which孫悟空had made the greatest contribution among all four of his team. They had nonetheless developed a team spirit in the end, just like what Harry team did, but in my judgment , Harry’s team has a higher team spirit than孫悟空’s team.

It is not hard to understand why it is the case. Excluding the power of romance taking part in Harry’s team( of which Ronald and Hermione, Harry and Ginny are largely responsible), many can see there is a sense of determination and good faith prevailing in his team. No body could even challenge what Harry was fighting for, They did not fight for the immortal glory in being the first group of people in beating down Voldemort. They did not fight for the amazing romance in shedding blood and treasure in a struggle against the Dark. They fought to restore the world they all loved to a original position, after tainted dramatically by the Darkest force at their world. They wish to preserve the fundamental values of their world, peace, love, and justice, and they understand that to achieve this, they have to offer blood, tears, toil and sweat until the victory is won( To coin a famous Churchill phase). In 孫悟空’s team, they have never got a united commitment, nor do most of them understand true spirit of humanity( except of course孫悟空). With their bias towards the world and imperfect knowledge about the world, they are always cheated by dark guys, and could do some silly things harmful to their own interests, as well as the interests of their friends and those they care for. I can say, with perfect openness, had powerful 孫悟空 been weaker than what he was portrayed in the story, had the merciful God turned his back to this team and refused to offer a single hand to them, had the dark guys made less errors or even blunders in their plan and action, the 孫悟空’s team had, as I can see, many opportunity of being defeated, and even doomed by a opponent both stronger than , equal to and even weaker than them in strength in every tasks they face in this journey. It is true that Harry potter team had a similar fate, but one can hardly see the defeat in孫悟空’s team scale in Harry potter team. When they were carrying out tasks for their world, they have a good understanding on what should be done, and what should not be done, and they did not lose their heart or even beg for a shameful settlement for peace with the Dark who happened to be in the power. They could rather die for the cause they truly believe in, die for the people they loved, than submitting themselves to bad faith and hatred in their world. In西遊記 ‘s world, a majority of people had no spirit of fighting against power that infringe their rights and properties, but to submit themselves wholeheartedly in powers that rule over them. This, I think, is the key difference between the two cultures, Chinese and Western, in their reactions against the power happened to be infringing their rights and properties.

It will be my pleasure if you can allow the two articles I wrote for Harry potter and 西遊記 to be posted on your Thinktank, where good articles are posted there. I am sure that it will be a very interesting topic for many your fans and readers to read and reflect on.

Do you think these two articles are right? I wish to hear your comment on that one.

Best wishes,
William

Dostoyevsky and Byron and Shelley

2010-03-06T08:43:00.000-08:00

Leechard,

I am very glad to read your article on the great Russian writer, Dostoyevsky. It has drawn me into a deep insight into the Russian literature, a world so familiar to me, and to the nature of genius in the world. Very often genius in this time is described as people getting over 160 in a IQ test, and get a membership at four years old from a well-known Club dedicated to the intelligent people only. I think you are right, genius is not defined by any membership he get from any club, or any marks he get in a iq test, but the work he produced in making the Earth a better place to live in through his extraordinary intelligence, skills and courage. I am very glad to follow your advice to read the literature work of Dostoyevsky, and I am very pleased to invite my friends who have deep interests in story of genius, Russian literature, and the human nature, to have a interesting study of your article published yesterday. I think they will learn many from this article, just as what I have got.

In addition, I wish also you may consider publishing the article of Byron on your blog. A English noble, Byron is the great English writer in the turn of 19th century. His work influenced not only the English philosophizers, but also the European and American philosophizers, including Dostoyevsky. It was him and Shelley, who as two of the great leaders of Romanism school, brought to the eye of Europe many liberal ideas, equality, fraternity, liberty. Byron was a keen supporter of French revolution, and shown great affliction towards American democracy, whom he saw as the best government system at that time. He also attacked, like Beethoven did in his time, the French Emperor Napoleon, whom they both agreed that greedy had corrupted the great man soul. I am sure you will find it interesting, as you did on Dostoyevsky, to study the biography of Byron, and his great partner, Shelley. They are the star of their times, and with them, a new English culture, with liberalism as its core, was born, which at the Queen Victoria time, became one of the brightest icon you have ever seen in world history book, and bring tremendous change to human society since then.

I really cannot hesitate to read your analysis of Byron and Shelley, and I think many my friends cannot hesitate too. To facilitate your study on these great men, I have now attached in this file a copy of these men biographies.

Thank you very much in advance.

I welcome any idea or enquiries from you on this topic.

Best wishes,
William

Dear William,

Thanks for your good idea. I am now reading the biograpies you had sent to me.

Leechard

on Khrushchev

2009-08-26T10:02:00.000-07:00

Leechard,

I really like your article on Khrushchev, one of the important leader of Russia in 20th century, and one of the most controversial figure in that age. I think you have sound knowledge on this gentleman life and how it affected the world. You are right to point out what several important policies and decisions taken by him in both domestic and diplomatic fronts are , and how they changed the world scene at that time, and had laid down the foundation stone for liberalisation of Russia under another great leader, Gorbachev in later 1980s. It really expands my horizon in understanding Russian and world history at that period of time, and i shall be grateful for effort paid by you to study this gentleman biography and write an article on him. I shall be very delighted to introduce my friends to read that article.

I may also like to add a point on this article, which you and your readers shall find it useful. It is his support to Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn, the Russian writer and Nobel Laureate in Literature. In 1956, after the Khrushchev Secret Speech, he was freed from imprisonment in Kazakhstan, where he was close to death because the hard work in labor camp deterioated his health. He would then return to his hometown to produce his great literature works.

In 1962, Khrushchev explicitly supported the Noviy Mir magazine to publish One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich in Politburo presidium hearing. He said there is a Stalinist in each of you, there is even a Stalinist in me. We must root out this evil. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich caused sensation not only in Soviet Union but also the West, like Harry Potter series in 2000s, due to both its theme and background of author. Being a novel attacking the Soviet system of prison labour, it was a work produced with themes other than politics, and by a non-party member who had been sent to prison for libelous speech about the leader. It was so popular at that time that it was sold out instantly everywhere, and Alexander gained the worldwide recognition of being a spokesman of Russian liberials at that time.

During his office tenure, Khrushchev allowed the Russian schools to study One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich and three other short novels of Alexander, including the Matryona’s Home, the last work Alexander published in Soviet union before its demise. Only after the fall of Khrushchev did Alexander period of writing in Soviet Russia come to an end quietly. His other work, The Cancer Ward, did not get the Russian authorities permission to publish in public, even though he managed to do so. The Secret police in Russia seized his works, and later he was forced to be in exile.

From this story of Khrushchev and Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn you can see how he supported the healthy growth of Russian literature, just like Gorbachev later did. Alexander was free to publish his literature works critical of Russian authorities and Russian systems, and Russians were granted the right to access to his work when Khrushchev was in office. It was him who saw the value of Alexander in Russian literature and world literature, while his party colleagues, strictly following the principles and rules laid down by Stalin and Lenin, failed to do so. With this understanding on the power of Alexander writings and thought, he is more important than any Russian leaders in Soviet Era, including Gorbachev, who was widely seen as a successor of him following strictly every footstep taken by Khrushchev in office.( Except liberation of East European nations, it was purely Gorbachev initiative to push for the end of Russian military presence at that region since the End of Second World War and brought freedom to these region people)

Khrushchev is a very complicated figure, in every point of view. He was both a liberal and hawk, depending on angles adopted to study his career path spinning from Imperial Russia to Soviet Russia. But one thing is sure, he is a man placeing interests of Russian nation, not his personal interests at his heart. He determined to attempt every means he thought suitable to take Russia into a path to a strong and noble nation in the World stage, with status not inferior to the Strongest nation at that time, the United States of America. However, the system of Soviet Union and the thought of people at that time, and his ignorance of the downward trend of 20th century thinking, provided a great hindrance for him to push through his policies and programs, and made him a thousand miles away from success he fought for.

I think you may like this article on Khrushev and Alexander, and you may find Alexander information from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solzhenitsyn#cite_note-22. I wish you may write to me on this subject. I am looking forward to hearing from you soon.

Best wishes,
William

On Lincoln and Churchill eloquence in their speech presentation

2009-06-17T06:52:00.001-07:00

On Lincoln and Churchill eloquence in their speech presentation

Leechard,

I like your article on Hitler way of speech presentation very much. It has not only served as a guide to study the eloquence of Hitler, but also to study the cause of the bad energy which has been dominating one in 20th century, the century of downward thinking.

Indeed, besides Hitler, Winston Churchill, the great British prime minister in the war with Hitlerism, is also a great orator as well. His speech on 10th May, 1940, when he accepted King’s commission to form the all-party Government to lead the British nation and its Commonwealth and colonies in Second World War, when Germany launched its attack upon France, Netherland, and Belgium, is still electrifying and amazed by many readers and fans. There are so many famous lines in his speech, for example,” I have nothing to offer but blood,toil, tears and sweat”, when he warned his countrymen that they must prepare for a great scarifies in the war, Let us go forward with our united strength, when he asked for the unity of British in the war against that formidable foe. It is his speech which, not only lighten the hope of British, but also the hope of people living in occupied territories, that Britain could and would bring the war with the defeat of aggressors. The spirit of British, after hearing his encouraging words, rose up to a very high level, higher than it had ever achieved at any time when the appeasement policy was carried and the notorious Munich Agreement was signed. I think, using the time-honored word of American journalist, he mobilized the British language and send it into battle.

Apart from Churchill, Lincoln, US President in the Civil War, was also a great orator as well. Do you still remember the Gettysburg Address? In this address, he proclaimed one great idea: Government of the people, for the people, with the people, shall never be perished from the Earth This is one of the most memorable line in his speech, and I think it is the power of this speech that has not only given the energy to the people fighting for the Union Cause in the war, but also given the energy to many other great nationalists after Lincoln.

Here I am very glad to introduce two YouTube video on the great speech of two orators, and indeed politicians in Western World. Winston Churchill speech-Blood, Toil, Tears, and Sweat is http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVg7rnRheK8&feature=related. Winston Churchill speech “It was their finest Hour” is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkTw3_PmKtc. Winston Churchill speech:” Address to Joint Session of Congress” in December 1941 is http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiVIpZikl-Y&feature=related. Abraham Lincoln Gettysburg Address is : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvA0J_2ZpIQ. I think these YouTube videos and audios could been a good source for your information. You may also ask bookstores, DVD and tape shops to have other versions of these speeches.

I hope, as a way to inspire all gentleman and ladies in your blogs, you could consider writing an article or a series of article, introducing the eloquence of these great gentleman, who have rendered service not only to their nation, but to the achievement of the human being. In this way could we regain the power, the power which has driven us to the age of Romanticism in 19th Century, that could make our living planet the better place to live in.

I wish I could hear your comments made on this subject.

Best wishes,
William

problem of the rats

2009-05-17T00:39:00.000-07:00

Leechard,

I cannot agree more with your prophetic words in the article:蟑螂打噴嚏了，怎麼辦？ It has been said long time ago by many experts that the dirtiness of the drainage shall make the drainage an ideal habitat for the cockroaches to live and transform themselves into a super cockroaches with resistance against the insecticide we are now using. However, these words went unheeded by majority of people in many quarters of world, and that it really is the problem for human being nowadays.

As the guardian reports today(15 may 2009), rats in parts of Hampshire, Berkshire, Oxfordshire, Swindon and Bristol,were found to undergo mutation that make itself immune to poison towards rodents we used towards them. According to health authorities reports there, 700000 infestations were found in the last year, and an increasing trend to deal with infestation was found. It is very likely, as the authorities there predict that after swine flu, we will soon have to deal with the diseases brought by the rats.

We should not forget that we are presently unprepared towards the threat of these rats diseases. We possess no means to cure patients who get these diseases, and no means to control the rats population in our living places. At present, all our resources is spent on the war with swine flu, which i cannot tell when it will end. But one thing is certain that if this rats threat were to come upon us now, it will, along with swine flu, strike the human beings and its civilization with severest blow. Have you heard of the story of black death in European Middle Ages? High death rate, little economic activities present. It is the time sometimes referred by many later generations as the worst time of the Dark age.

I regard the problem of rat as the very serious one in present time, which i think all the governmental and voluntary bodies should now address and take immediate courses of action towards it. We have to think of new ways to deal with rats, not just killing it with rat killing drugs. This is, i think, the last opportunity to solve rat problem without bringing damages towards our lives and living environment, just like the Munich conference in 1930s to stop the Nazis to conquer the Europe.

I wish i could hear your comments on this.

Best wishes,
william

quick-to-recharge battery

2009-03-21T03:31:00.000-07:00

Leechard,

Welcome to the new phase in the time of quick-to-recharge battery.

For a long time, we have discussed in theory and tried in experiment to actualise the concept of "quick-to-discharge" battery. A lot of power storage products, for instance, the lithium battery,have been developed. Now a discovery of new kind of lithium battery shall mark one of the turning point in the history of battery. On 10th March, A quick-to-recharge battery has been developed by the researchers of MIT's Laboratory for Electromagnetic and Electronic Systems (LEES). Being made of Lithium iron phosphate, this battery would undertake the task of charging and discharging in a very short time,for instance, 5 minutes. The short-time of charging and recharging is mainly attributed to a modification in structure of lithium iron phosphate in the battery. With a glassy surface coated on the tunnels of the lattice of lithium iron phosphate, more ions are found to be transported on and out of cathode, so the speed of recharging a battery has been greatly enhanced, and much faster than any rechargeable battery we are now using.

I am glad, and i am sure you and your friends will be glad, to witness the latest phase of electirical science development. Modified Lithium Iron phosphate battery shall remove one of the barrier of using a hybrid-energy car, the energy storage problem, and thus making us a step closer to the day of hubrid-energy car. Very soon we are to have hybrid-energy car to be massively produced and used in highways, roads in every quarter of the world, which would reduce much of the pollutant gas emissions so generated from the vehicles we now are using. It would also make many electric appliances, the TV, the radio, the mobile phone, to be more popular in the world becuase the power source of these applicances would be recharged quickly. So, i can prophesy that the battery now developed would be a dorminant player in the battery market in a very short time, with the fading away of all battery used in present time. To sum up, the discovery of new battery has been a strong propenent that give us the momentum to move in an unpredecented fast speed, approaching far closer to the world of electricity, where electiricity will take more active role than it does in the present time to influence every aspect of the our life.

I think that i shall let you see the attached article on that topic yourself. I am looking forward to receiving your reply.

Best wishes,
william

ref:
http://www.gizmag.com/lithium-ion-battery-breakthrough-mit/11244/

Dishonest explanation of American economic system problems

2009-03-11T06:03:00.001-07:00

Leechard,

Obama, once seen by many as the saviour of the world, the Second Lincoln in American history, now did something in contrary to what many have believed. In his first address to the Congress, he condemned the policies of his predecessor, Clinton, Bush, and others, on economic, education, energy field was the cause of present problem, the financial crisis.

Though very amazing, Obama's explanation to the economic difficulties experienced by many, including the United States, is not relevant. As the American writer points out, and we are now bearing the witness of, that at the very center of our economic near-depression is a credit bubble, a housing collapse and a systemic failure of the banking industry. The only feasible and effective solution is to clear these bubbles away, and help the banks to reestablish its asset and its image.

However, what Obama presently plan is in the opposite direction. He is preparing to nationalize the health care, education, and energy system in America, the commanding height of post-industrial society. This is something the investors fear most, and is the cause of the recent market precipitous decline, as shown in the recent rapid fall of New york stock market indexes. Apart from investor, the economists surely cannot accept his policy. The greater bureaucratic control over various system of nation, health, education, energy, is not a cure to structural problem in the financial sector of a highly capitalistic society as America. The greater is the government power over the system, the lesser the effectiveness of the system it is. Very soon all systems, which his administration takes over, shall collapse like a falling building. I do not know why Obama and his economic team members, with immense knowledge in American economics, shall think of, and implement such kind of actions. Were Lincoln to be here to make the decision for America now, he may avoid the mistakes made by Obama.

Perhaps Charles article, appeared on March 6 Washington Post, can give you a deep insight into the implication of Obama's first address to the congress.

The Great Non Sequitur
The Sleight of Hand Behind Obama's Agenda

By Charles Krauthammer
Friday, March 6, 2009; A15

You may follow this link: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/05/AR2009030502951_pf.html to get the online version of this article. I wish to hear from you the comments made on this subject.

Best wishes,
william

Dear William

Thanks for your outline of the Washington post Article on the
US economic matters.

I would not use the word "dishonest" to comment the US policy on
economics. He might be wrong, and he might be "non squitur", but if you say
he is not honest, then you will have to prove it. And what you mention about "nationalization" of the American Education system may not be the actual thoughts of the President, though I had not read his address to the Congress.

your outline is in the 思想資料庫

Leechard

天主教是否和進化論衝突？

2009-02-14T22:00:00.000-08:00

Leechard,

Here comes a present to Darwin, who has his 200th birthday on 12. The presenter, however, is an organization influencing millions of people worldwide, the Vatican. According to 11 February Times report, the Church has admitted that Charles Darwin was on the right track when he claimed that Man descended from apes. The Evolution theory is compatible with the Christian faith and could be traced to St Auguste and St Thomas Aquinas, the leading official said on 10.

Were Charles Darwin to be alive now, he shall be glad to bear the witness of the scene that Catholic Church announced that they accept his thinking on evolution. Since the publication of Origin of Species, there are many debates on whether we should adopt Darwin's Evolution theory or Creationist theory to answer this question :where the organisms come from? Seeing that evolution appeared to be in conflict with Catholic teaching, creationist, at Darwin's time, was very hostile towards Darwin and his fellows. But all these have gone. In recent 50 years, there are increasing number of biological facts, such as the study of DNA between ape and human, the fossil of early man ancestors, that serves as evidence to support Darwin's theory. At the same time the Church slowly changed its attitude. First, it tried to study origin of man in Darwin's perspective in 1950. In 1996, it was Pope John II to proclaim, in his speech, that evolution theory was "more than a hypothesis" In 2009, Catholic Church, under Pope Benedict XIV, prepares to go a step further, that formally recognizes the excellent work of Darwin in evolution, and to agree that what Origin of Species said is in parallel with the first Chapter of Genesis.

The significance of this event, i think, should not be underestimated. It is the second time, in recent years, that the Church attempts to resolves hundred years long dispute between science and Religion, followed by the Galileo's event. Galileo, like Darwin, was condemned by many and the Church as anti-Christian, while he was advocating a theory that Earth was not a centre of univense. But, with many scientific evidences proving Galileo's theory, he is now accepted by the Church. Now Church is prepared to do the same for the father of evolution, Darwin, which should be welcomed and commenced by all. It is a historic, landmark moment in the present time, in World History, and in Catholic’s history that Church agrees that Darwin and Galileo's theory can be linked with Bible teaching. In other words, Science and Religion are not, as many people believed, in antagonism with each other. They are telling us the same things, but in different angles, on what has happened in universe, and where we come from. So, from now onwards, the time for conflict between science and religion arising on matters related on universe and our origin has ended. The time of communication and cooperation between Science and Religion has begun. People can concentrate their effort in understanding the world deeper and broader in scientific and religion context. Scientists would appreciate the value of love in the society, while religion believers would adopt a scientific way to learn the world. To me, and to many worldwide men concerning on human future, it is a good start for rebuilding the strong world culture since divided, fragmented in years long conflict between science and religion, Only when we are united in our thinking can we begin our planning and execute our plan of rebuilding the world culture. In this sense, it is a good present by Church to all of us in year 2009.

We wish to see more and more such kind of events to take place in Church in the present time.

Here attached is Times report which can serve as your reference.

I am looking forward to hear from you.

Best wishes,
William

Dear William,

來信收到，刊在思想資料庫，請參閱。

　關於進化論的問題，天主教和基督教的理解，完全不同。請參看以下
路透社的一篇文章。作者是Philip Pullella

http://www.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUSLG62672220080916?pageNumber=1&virtualBrandChannel=0

部份激進的基督教會，至今堅持「創造論」，以為上帝在
數天之內創造了世界。

　但天主教認為，創世紀並非一部歷史書。宗教故事，許多
時候都以寓言方式啟示世人。

　所以，創世紀是一個寓言(allegory). 而耶穌也在新約
中多次講過，他的每一句，都是比喻。

　因此，天主教是反對聖經直譯主義的。（Biblical literalism)

那麼，問題何在？

　問題是：進化論寫成以後，有人把達爾文沒有說過的話，
強加於他。達爾文不反對宗教，但

一：有人「根據」進化論說世上沒有神。

二：更有人「根據」進化論而強調物質。以為
物質比心靈更重要。

三：還有人以為，弱肉強食才是真理。
所以，生存在世上要有竸爭心，因此，愛是多餘的。

來信提到的意見很好。但請注意：宗教和科學，並不是
像部份傳媒的意見那樣「混合」的。更不是天主教接納
了無神論。

李察謹上
二零零九年二月十五日

Could Lincoln replace Churchill and Roosewelt?

2009-01-27T03:49:00.000-08:00

Leechard,

Churchill, and Roosewelt, both leaders of UK and US, are, in many historians' and general public's view, praised for their excellent performance in World War II. Chruchill, at the fall of Netherland and Belgium, and the surrender of Britain, made many speeches encouraging his countrymen and the Nazi-occupied region people to fight against Germany and Italy, In battle of Britain, when most of British cities were under the heavy fire of German airplanes, it was Churchill who proclaimed"We can take it', and encouraged British to fight. Later his words in this war was being considered to mobilise the English language and send it into battle. Roosewelt, not merely prepared US into war with Axis power, but also tried many means to restore world peace and prosperity. Together with Churchill, Roosewelt had many conference with many ally nations, China, Soviet Union, and Turkey, to discuss a plan to settle all problems in their regions before the war. Atlantic Charter, made after Churchill and Roosewelt, was a draft of United Nation Charter, which gave birth to Unitef Nations organisation. Bretton Woods meeting, attended by economists around the world, defined the structure of world economic system after world war II, the current one, i mean. Their achievements in military, social, economic and political one would be very great in their times.

However, i do not think that they are best people suitable to head the national government in world war 2. It has been well said of Churchill and Roosewelt mistakes in World War 2. Churchill delayed the invansion of France for 2 years(1942-1944) because not only North Africa was in Axis power, but he and his generals were worried of the WW1 trench warfare likely to be happened in France. So, in 1944, while Allies landed at Normandy and moved eastwards, Soviet Union also moved westward, and in a year time, occupied much of Eastern European countries territories, Poland, Czechsolavkia, Hungary, Romania. It was Roosewelt who agreed to give a huge sum of US money in an aid to Soviet Union in the Yalta meeting. Soviet Union then had more resource to develop their military strength and the power to spread communism in every quarter of globe. By making these mistakes during World War 2, Churchill and Roosewelt turned the world onto a path to cold war, which is a dark page in history.

I may want to ask : if Lincoln was in charge of the war, instead of Roosewelt, Churchill, would the world be better? Lincoln may be well-aware of the nature of Soviet government and Stalin, Soviet leader, and could male a better policy towards Soviet Russia, making it strong enough to defeat Germany but not to threaten the world peace. Lincoln may attack France earlier to allow the war to end in the soonest time possible and avoid to use Nuclear bomb in Japan, to prevent bloodshed and death of civilians there.

I think many historians have asked this before, but still no one can get a satisfactory answer for that. Could you answer this for me?

I welcome any comment made on this topic.

Best wishes,
william

Enjoy the year of Ox

Dear William

This is a imaginative question but not a proper question.
Because every one in history has his own position: i.e., his own thinking network and could not be replaced by another imaginated character.

Lincoln is respected by many, but, he is Lincoln in the contest of history, not
in the contest of creativity.

Leechard

Has president Bush achieved his education goal

2009-01-24T21:43:00.001-08:00

Has president Bush achieved his education goal

Leechard,

In your yesterday article, you have asked this: Has president Bush achieved his education goal set in his 2001 inguaration speech? George Bush has, in this speech, pledged to reclaim America's schools, before ignorance and apathy claim more young lives. Yes, he was right in pointing out the root of the problem: Americans lost their control over their schools. Losing the control over school is a root of many problems. Americans hated each other more, resulting in many serious campus murder cases, leaving many bloodshed and death of young people. American education deteriorated very rapidly that mathematics level rated farr behind those Asian and European countries. This line of speech showed that Bush and his colleagues, the Republicans, were well aware of the issue.

However, during his tenure at office, Mr Bush failed to launch a comprehensive reform to restore American education system. We can see many terrible violence events in schools, most notably the one in Virginia University, where a Korean immigrant student killed many his classmates there two years ago. American youth mathematical, scientific, and linguistic skills deteriorated. A recent study showed that among those aged between 18 and 24, 40% would never read a book, and two-third of them would know nothing of the Iraq location in world map. These are signs of the failures in American education system. Despite Bush and Clinton policies to restore it to normal, education system still has many faults, urgently needed for a repair......

William

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Amadeus 莫札特傳

2008-09-06T03:48:00.000-07:00

曾問現代史上誰獲最多人紀念
每五十年的生忌和死忌, 即一百年有四次, 其家鄉薩爾斯堡, 整個奧地利, 全歐洲甚至全球亦為他紀念

Amadeus 莫札特傳http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086879/

由另一音樂家 Salieri 帶出 Mozart 一生
由震驚, 欣賞, 嫉妒, 憤恨, 問天何生亮 (電影橋段, Salieri 真人倒不是這樣)
神童, 對我來說不是形容詞, 是名詞, 神的兒童...
三歲露才能, 六歲便寫曲, 十一歲歌劇
對比現今彈琴彈得叻便稱作神童, sorry, 也許彈琴匠較貼切

李察兄, 你認為還會有新的古典音樂面世麼? 還是只能繼續反覆彈奏蕭邦舒伯特等古人作品? :<

說回電影, 片中描繪莫札特為人鹹濕瘋狂無視權貴, 我可沒意見, 也許天才便該不受人世規範, 但"大細超"就好怪了...
當中喜愛有一幕少年莫札特於宴會上表演高超琴技, 蒙眼反手差在未用脚來彈, 眾人皆只懂讚嘆 (全Ｏ嘴也), 唯獨不遠處有一白頭曲髮豆皮臉小童對他微笑, 猶如一位誤墮塵世天使問 :"原來... 你都是跌下來..."
另一小場面小情節, 於奧地利皇宮遇到尚未為法國皇后的 Marie Antoinette 公主, 輕輕帶過己足夠, 大人物的小事件
關於這位皇后的名言 "沒有麵包吃, 何不吃蛋糕", 要為她澄清一下, 歷史上並非她所說
說這話倒真有其人, 在遠東的晉惠帝 "何不食肉糜?"
古代拉至現代亦有, 電視上"一百萬窮人的故事" 中女星問 "生日點解沒有生日蛋糕?" 古今中外皆如此

此電影最後說到莫札特的死亡, 最後的晨光猶如神的召喚, "天使, 係時候了"
很多人惋惜早逝, "如果"有其徒弟 Beethoven 般長命一點, 世界也許不同
我倒覺其一生要走的路已走過, 這才是他, 短的蠟燭卻有射至月球的光芒, 蠟燭已徹底溶掉昇華至空氣中

儲錢到其家鄉走走去 :>
下回說另一套電影

狐狸

A Response to the Guardian Article by Khaled Diab

2008-07-31T04:49:00.000-07:00

Here we have a Hong Kong response to the Guardian Article by

Khaled Diab
guardian.co.uk,
Friday July 25 2008

Title:

Back to basics on climate change

Here are the main points from that article:

★mainstream thinking has focused on the idea that a low-carb Kyoto energy diet will save our obese societies.

★ I don't believe that our oil-based economies are sustainable and I think that switching to renewable energy is essential to our future.

★ According to a 1999 estimate by the American Petroleum Institute, the world's oil supplies would be depleted between 2062 and 2094.

★This was based on estimated proven reserves of 1.4 to 2 trillion barrels and consumption at 80 million barrels per day.

★in 2005, daily oil consumption already passed the 83.5 million barrel per day mark.

★Coal at current production levels is likely to run out within 150 years. If it is used as an oil substitute, many decades would be knocked off this projection.

★At the current rate of deforestation, all tropical forests in the world might disappear by 2090.

★more than half of Papua New Guinea's rain forest – the third largest in the world – could disappear by 2021.

★we will be facing a global food and wood shortage pretty soon, as well as the collapse of the farming land that will replace the forests, due to soil erosion and depletion.

★Droughts and desertification are also threatening millions of people. The Sahara desert is growing at a rate of up to 30 miles a year;

★Within a couple of generations, the global economy will have outgrown the globe.

★There is a desperate need to rethink our attitudes to consumerism, the disposable culture, overpopulation and the economic growth orthodoxy

This article was first published on guardian.co.uk on Friday July 25 2008. It was last updated at 19:00 on July 25 2008.

The Response from a Hong Kong based observer:

Dear leechard,

The article about the environmental problems of earth that people now face is nothing of interest to me. It has been talked round the clock in many media sites. What interests me more, is a comment to this article. To let you have a picture on it, I have attached these two documents which both of them are in doc form.

This article is really interesting, as this gentleman has found a special way to view the modern society problem. I consider this writing as the representative of all essays telling us that the present environmental deterioration is not as serious as what we think, monetary methods can solve all crisis, just like The film made by Channel 4 in UK( I will talk about that later). I would not agree with much of the points given in this article, and I shall explain it one by one.

The first mistake, I think, is his belief that money is so powerful that could help us to solve any energy problem, water problem, and metal shortage problem. That is what he said: “The more expensive they are, the more we will find.”,” Wealth insulates us from the worst” I cannot deny that, in a short time, man, driven by the strong monetary power behind the discovery of new resource, shall use their ability to the hilt to find these resources. Also, man, being motivated by large monetary reward, shall try to modify what he did to minimize the waste generated and maximize the volume of output. But if it were successfully solving all the problems of the world, why, according to the result revealed by the research, the resource that we now have is more scarce, compared with that we had 20 years ago? I think he would not answer it using his logic. He may have mistaken the focus that problem of scarcity we now have, which is the demand for that product, has outstripped the supply of that resources and the situation is going to get worse nowadays. Where can people find another source of resources so that the supply of resource can still be consistent with the demand? Apart from known source which their produce is decreasing rapidly, the unknown sources, claiming themselves to be rich of oil and food, shall find it hard to be able to produce enough resources for human in long term if the present trend of consumption continues. They would soon run off one day. It is just like the son of a wealthy man spent all his money one day and finds that he is now in heavy debt and finds it difficult to maintain the basic standard of life.

The monetary forces, or the inevitable hand (in Adam’s view), is of no use in solving the problem but to make the problem more severe. Only those tycoons would still have the power to buy these resources for their own uses and the poverty people can find no means to survive. If such situation appears, I do not think that it is a society that man can still live, and it is the biggest threat that human would face soon. And I believe that even money can buy all the guarding apparatus for themselves, they can never buy a thousand, and even, hundred years of safety. You and many philosophers said, Money is just a tool for exchange

The second mistake is his negligence of the impact of environment when trees in developing world are cut. His words are “The West has more (trees) than ever “and “the Developed World we have more forest than we did in 1900. What is the difference?” when answering the wood shortage problem I am very sad to hear so, as the trees there shall help to regulate the climate of the world by controlling carbon dioxide content in atmosphere. If there were no trees, these places shall become a desert and the people living there shall move, which creates, in turn, the immigration pressure on developed world. He is also in doubt with the rate of deforestation in Panama forest, but I think it is highly likely the present trend shall continue. As he has pointed out earlier, if man understands that cutting all forest in his country shall bring him good fortunate, he shall be happy to cut all of them out, and, it would take a long time to let trees to grow into a forest again in these regions . I consider that his saying” If wood is worth something it is worth planting.” the most astonishing one I have seen. Were he on the right side, then all government and the green organizations’effort to plant the trees is surely a waste of time. Is that the case? Woods are not only the climate regulator, it is the habitat of many animals, the source of so many things necessary for human. From these,I think he should not deny the importance of these wood.

The third mistake is found in this statement: “Or more likely it is just a natural cycle of no interest. Notice that no one much suffered much less died” which is his perspective towards the matter mentioned in these lines in the essay: “:Even in more temperate Europe, droughts have dramatically increased over the past three decades – the areas affected have gone up by a fifth between 1976 and 2006. The 2003 drought affected about 100 million Europeans and southern Spain might become desert in the coming decades. I have seen so many expressions saying there is no link between global warming and the drastic climate change, and this one is the typical one, but I, you and many loving the Earth, shall find it impossible to support this, as we know that the Earth has deteriorated, and at a rate that is out of the expectation of these people. I shall not dwell at that point as I think I have talked a lot on it.

The only good point I found is” We have our intelligences which make the resources we have more and more valuable all the time. So we can increase economic growth simply by using the same amount of resources but more intelligently.” I have a strong conviction that we are so intelligent in solving many problems of the world, but I am still doubtful whether economic growth shall occur if we have faced a severe shortage of resources, and there is still a heavily dependent on the traditional methods that would waste a large amount of them, in industries and any daily practice by man. He should bear in mind that the intelligent way of using resource is not simply the modification of the techniques, but to change the way that people think in production, and more important, the world. As far as I know, most people are not prepared to do so though the time remaining for us to adapt the new condition of world is very little before any disaster occur.

If he were allowed to read your blog, he could understand the biggest problem that human now face is, and could understand what the problem of his article is. He could also learn that the best solution is to create a society with new network of thinking and I hope he could support it.

I wish that you would like this article. I have no objection to make this article in public. I welcome any comment if you have.

Best regards,
william

無用的樹

2008-04-20T02:12:00.000-07:00

李察兄好

本來想用一條問題來帶出電影
"哪位人士得到世人最多紀念? 耶穌除外"

見無用的樹故事, 忍不住要講兩句先

故事內容可作些少修改

強樹壯樹直樹因為對人有用, 起屋造船乘凉,
人便覺"有用"

怪樹雖弱, 又曲, 也許一碰便斷, 沒人來砍來理而得以長壽
但這長壽並不是"有用"的理由

以上最關鍵字眼是"人"

人覺用得到謂之"有用", 用不到謂之"無用"

但主宰(叫大自然, 大生命也可) 眼光可不是人般短淺,
壯樹可讓老鷹鵬鳥鳳凰等大志之士站腳,
怪樹亦可讓小麻雀等小輩作息, 毛蟲成長, 於壯樹漂白水殺蟲水充斥環境下活不下去的害蟲(人的觀點), 扒糞蟲, 不見光之菇菌齊齊有個歇腳地

沒有食物鏈底層, 上層如何活下去?
壯樹不因能服待大鳥而自誇, 做其本份而己, 也不小看其他小樹怪樹
怪樹亦不因只討好小毛蟲而自悲, 更應能有機會做其本份而自傲, 卻不是以不用辛苦服待大鳥而暗暗偷笑

儍怪樹正以自己不被砍而偷笑, 卻不知一場山火把全個樹林燒清光, 大家最後君體也相同只剩下炭灰, 歸入泥土成養份為下一波幼苗出力

大蠟燭請自覺盡所能燃燒為世放大光, 卻不應以自己是最長最粗最久最乜最物入史冊成紀錄, 為保自我保紀錄保生命而吹熄蠋火, 才為真正"無用"

不在乎長壽短壽, 直曲強弱, 大國小國, 人多人少, 活著便有用, 也許不用活著, 只要存在便已有用了.
(唔... 那不存在, 虛空又有無用呢, 這個要想想 :>)

小燭
狐

p.s. 剛有穩定國家報告, 梵蒂岡聖馬利諾列支敦斯登荷蘭等小國列前茅, 只要燃燒得宜, 何需追求高大威

李察回應：
真莊子並非討論樹的有用無用。
真莊子也不是提出大和小的對立。
真莊子的目的，只是提出一種境界。

如果落進了大小或有用無用的辯論中去，
就會忽略了「境界」這意念了。

海遠論岳飛

2008-02-13T03:48:00.000-08:00

海遠論岳飛

岳飛是一個悲劇英雄.

當他接到十二道金牌之後,他已知道必死無疑.但他沒有選擇的餘地.

一: 投降金國 ?

二. 落草為寇 ?

三. 回臨安受死 ?

全部都是死路.頭兩條路,他或許會多活幾年,但歷史會記他為[賊]. 第三條路,歷史會記他為[忠]. 迫不得已,他選擇了回杭州受死. 無奈的心情,有詞為証.

小重山 (岳飛)

昨夜寒蛩不住鳴。驚回千里夢，已三更。起來獨自繞階行。人悄悄，簾外月朧明。白首為功名。舊山松竹老，阻歸程。欲將心事付瑤琴。
知音少，弦斷有誰聽 .

可注意的有三句:

一: 驚回千里夢 : 千里夢迴,人之常情. 但他加了個[驚]字.

二: 舊山松竹老，阻歸程 : : [有家歸不得]

三: 欲將心事付瑤琴。知音少，弦斷有誰聽 : [有怨無路訴.]

李察能為岳飛想到更好的選擇嗎?

海遠

Dear Dear 海遠：

今天剛剛寫完那句：「自己不也是神功戲裡的一個小配角嗎？
為甚麼還要把這一場無良鬧劇演下去？」立即就看到了你的問題。
真好像是五雷轟頂。是的，誰也不能為岳飛想到更好的選擇。

自然，「低層次」的答案，是早己有了的。許多人說，不能
離開歷史背景，「逼」歷史人物接受現代人的觀點。不同網絡，
判斷不同，云云。如果岳飛能夠看穿這是一場歷史的騙局，他
早己乘坐時光飛車，飛來今日中國，與我們一起看煙花共享太平了。

但這是低層次。

上一層看，我們也許會看到，我們和岳飛之間相同的地方。

是的，「弦斷有誰聽」？當你的手指拼盡全力，力透kewboard
，你的手指斷了，Blog 中文字，有誰看？

　　而我們是幸運的。因為，我們有了全新的莊子和現代網絡的
各種知識。我們知道，「弦斷了，我們全都在聽。」而世界上的
知音，是有很多的。知音都是超時代的。且讓我們再聆一次，岳穆武的
《滿江紅》，還有他的《小重山》。我們都在聽哪，天堂上的岳飛爺爺，
你知道嗎？當然，他是知道的。

　寒冷的遠山上，忽然驚起了一聲悽厲的鴉鳴。小動物們，會忽然受
驚，噤若寒蟬嗎？或者會的。不過，幾秒鐘之後，又千音和唱了。

　Dear 海遠，是的，還沒有回答你的問題呢。

　你問：李察能為岳飛想到更好的選擇嗎?

　當然可以的。李察能為岳飛，或者任何一現代人，想到更好的選擇。

或者，你也曾看過李察所寫「野雞學飛」的故事。那是在「莊子原理」裡面的。
雞本來是沒有出路的。雞本來是不會飛的。雞的出路，只是nowhere。雞唯一
只會受宰。但是，當我們靜下來，看穿了這一種網絡的限制，看到了人的
「自由」，看到了岳飛不能忘記的「功名」)(白首為功名)(三十功名塵與土)，
都是真的塵與土，那就可能看到，野雞的出路，有一條。

唯有真正自由的人，能夠找到自己的出路。那時，毅力也來了，創意也來了，
付出生命，就能夠得到生命。而我們大約不會忘記，發揮自己的長處，就是
「出路」。雞的長處是飛。岳飛的長處，亦是飛。可惜，絕大多數的雞們，
都無法看見自己的長處。

親愛的海遠，相信你是必定同感的。

　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　李察謹上
　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　2008. 2.13

"如何向老闆請求减人工"

2008-01-30T18:05:00.000-08:00

李察兄哈囉
猜想上封韓信為題電郵沒有寄失吧
今次講講這先前說過的題目 (本狐太懶, 望沒 outdated)

此題可從幾個層面看, 哲學, 經濟學, 心理學上探討也可以

...
經常聽長輩說當年如何如何
當年一亳子一碗麵呀, 細路!
斗零一份報紙呀
我個陣得五十蚊一個月人工呀, 你現在幾千蚊仲嫌三嫌四
一千蚊一間屋之類之類

本狐剛成功向老闆爭取加少少人工, 心喜了一陣卻發現身邊乜都加價,
其實結果都一樣...

此世界也許就這般步入通脹惡性循環, 低額硬幣受淘汰, 低額紙幣轉
成高額硬幣, 又或帶一箱紙幣只夠買一條香蕉, 最後都指向將鈔票
'冥通化'-面額越整越大
好像沒有哪國家地區逃得這漩渦, 如何是好? 如何解决通漲? 不是
解决過熱, 而是如何追求成為零通漲? 十年前, 一百年前, 一千年
前的一百蚊到今天還是一百蚊...
嘻, 你解决得到的話也許李察兄有諾貝爾經濟學獎啊!

"如何不收多一分錢", 啓發了一些思為......

大學時上過一課通識課, 基本經濟科, Introduction of Economy ECON 1000 之類
最基本的 Supply and Demand, 供求關係
麵粉供應少, 加價, 市場决定無話可說
但大量存貨時亦應相應减價, 簡單道理
市場渴求作家, 人工自然高
太多人爭做畫家自然少人工
為公司進修課程公司獲益好該加我人工, 好了, 垓心問題來到......
我能力下降了, 如有病, 年老, 失憶, 又或"懶散咗", (又或是我
沒改變, 但身邊人, 全世界人都大進步時, 比較上來我便大落後)
"如何向老闆請求减人工", 其他人不加人工亦可保持社會上優勢,
世界得以平衡, 不致膨脹, 當所有人"不收多一分錢", 甚至自動
減收, 能力高人的一百蚊還是一百蚊, 但買到能力低人更多產品服務
而不是惡性循環

零和, 也許蘋果價錢天天, 秒秒都不同以反映實際值
所有價值將會浮動, 世界變得極其麻煩, 也許人類做不來

那主宰應有所有數據, 步入資料室即時得到最新價值, 超越金錢,
便得到客觀公平評價了如何

狐 :>

李察回應

為免你真的向老闆申請自動減人工，請參考附後之文章：

為甚麼不可多拿一文錢？
(問到底 No.6928 2008 0201 Friday)

(親愛的狐，這篇小文，是為你而寫的。)

這問題，本來就是很容易引起誤會的。如果有個
小店老闆，終日為多收了顧客的一文錢而惴惴不安，
那笑話就不好笑了。

茲引述幾句《莊子原理》(第二部，第五章)上的
話：

「誰能一分錢都不多拿？誰能拒絕名和利的終極
誘惑？誰能永遠葆持人生目標？誰就真正掌握金
錢。」

　「只有把金錢徹底絕緣，明確規定了金錢的正面
工具用途，絕對不讓金錢變成為目的，這樣，金錢的
陰影就可以消失，就可以一往無前的大賺。」

　　「金錢永遠是你的奴隸，是你的工具，不是你的
主人。你可以努力賺錢，你可以擁有很多奴隸。但你
自己，絕對不是奴隸。因為，你的奴隸是要來用的：
你的奴隸是屬於你的，是屬於你認為有意義的「意義」
的，是屬於宇宙主宰的。一文錢也不多取，就是這意
思。」

　　這問題本來就是一個哲學問題。

　問題之一：到底心是物的主人，還是物是心的主
人？

　　問題之二：人生的目的，是不是絕對的？多拿一
點錢，把人生目的淡化一些，有何不可？

　　問題之三：人生除了基本動力之外，尚有輔助動
力。如果基本動力不足，可不可以用輔助動力補救？
如果我的生命目標不那麼明確，我希望多賺一些錢，
可不可以？

以上問題，如果全部否定，那麼，這人世界就不
再是人世界了。因為，人類世界已經變為天堂。當然，
任何人如果想多拿一文錢，也不算是甚麼罪惡。雖然
大貪是罪，但小便宜是不可以放過的。是不是？

在心和物之間，有很寬闊的中間地帶，也有很多
人自願作金錢的奴隸。而當一個人的基本動力不足，
一點額外的輔助動力，也會使他好過得多。

問題只是，這樣的人，很容易失去平衡。就算小貪
沒有變為大貪，人生目的也是十分遙遠的。中宵自問，
會發覺生命似乎沒有甚麼意思。如果稍為遇到挫折，
也不容易應付。

　　所以，「一文錢不多取」，不是為小市民而設的，
也不是叫你自動減薪。這句話，只是希望少數有志之
士，能夠經常警惕自己，使生命的目標更加明確，不
要誤落塵俗的圈套，僅此而己。而正確的金錢觀念，
也肯定會使我們的社會更加健康，進步更快一些。

Every Thing Comes in Parables

The mystery of the kingdom of God has been given
to you. But for those outside, everything comes
in parables, so that the more they see, they don't
perceive; the more they hear, they don't
understand; otherwise they would be converted and
pardoned.

To save the earth

2008-01-12T03:18:00.000-08:00

Dear Leechard,

I sent you the article about mixing of Japanese and Indian culture, written by Tao kit (issued on 7-1-2008), and a letter arguing whether it is possible for Chinese to alter their thinking in order to search for a solution to all problems ahead, namely diseases, the energy deficiency, at the same time. Why I do so is that I want you to think in a different perspective to the current problems on Earth.

We all agree that the Earth is facing a problem never happened before: The severe effect of global warming, indicated by the significant rise in temperature of places around the world. The pollution on environment, like the water, the air, has caused disastrous damages to all parts of the world, particularly in developed world. The cause of this problem should be the expansion of the consumption of natural resources in human activities driven by strong human desire in the past century, as you and many philosophers have pointed out. The Western people, and Indian, Japanese people, who are alarmed by these adverse effects of the world, has done a lot to conserve the environment. While Chinese, along with other greedy people, has done nothing significant to save the earth. Many Chinese, as many observers said, are more concerned about their money and what they can enjoy during their life time. They have a common fear that contribution to conserve the environment would erode their interests. This is why the conservation policies adopted in China and other places would be much difficult to implement due to the strong resistance of such people.

I realize that these people, love money more than anything in the world, would not listen to philosophical advice to save the world, just like yours. This is a sad thing but we must admit it. There are many easier and quicker paths that we can choose if we have to save the earth. I think introducing your idea to India and Japan would certainly be a good method. Many intellectuals there, wishing to save the earth immediately, would be willing to hear your advice and carry out them effectively. This is the idea I got from Tao Kit’s articles about Japan and India cultural exchange. If this idea could be adopted by you, the danger of doomsday would be slower to come than expected. I do not meant to abandon these greed Chinese, but these people now, still have difficulties in understanding you and many philosopher’s idea on how to live peaceful and effectively on earth. I think we should put less effort on them at this moment, and hold the discussion for them when these people are prepared.

Yours sincerely,
William

(PS. I think that the people that would take part in discussion shall not be Indians and Japanese, but people from all races with a common morale: they love the world and would do as much as they can to save the world.)

屠殺者之心理

2008-01-03T04:31:00.000-08:00

李察兄好

廢話少講, 直入正題 - 研究屠殺者之心理

歷史事件細節大可從課本找到, 討論其心理可更為有意義
適逢南京屠殺七十年, 社會有很多討論, 不細說
十幾年前鄰近地區那場也不說, 免得累你被拉人封網

先說冷門一點的來比較
秦將白起與楚將項羽
戰國時長平之役秦軍俘虜趙國四十萬降卒, 秦將白起害怕叛變一夜間殺盡四十萬趙兵, 也許受此心理震撼, 他臨終前對其當天屠殺還心存歉疚
秦末巨鹿之戰項羽大破黑衣秦軍, 俘虜二十萬, 識英雄重英雄厚待主將章邯, 但視普通兵卒如螻蟻, 不夠糧食作理由便一夜坑殺二十萬秦降兵. 事後卻沒什麼反應, 也許認為對付眼前秦皇/劉邦/韓信才緊要, 戰爭中踐踏(大量)生命為必然, 犧牲小你完成大我, (可惜往往犧牲大你也做就不了小我)
這個心態與邱吉爾差不多, 收到珍珠港將被偷襲的情報, 為激起美國反應而視若無睹, 相信他到地獄面對那批美兵也後不歉疚
講起希特勒屠殺, 為何用毒氣而不其他
那一 "one meeting, six million lives"討論
用刀太慢, 亦浪費氣力, 身為軍人, 槍殺婦人兒童, 會嚴重打擊士氣, 毒藥令人發紫面黑, 炸藥珍貴不可亂用
最後决定用一氧化碳, 理由是死後會面色紅潤 (?!)
開次準備用大批大貨車排放廢氣, 但效果大慢
建立沖涼為名毒氣為實, 一小時可殺幾千人, 將領雙眼發光立時拍板, 比殺螻蟻還要爽快
另一超級屠殺, 由歐洲殖民美洲開始, 為黃金與白銀而展開, 西班牙的天花與軍隊消滅了阿玆克與印加- 手上只拿石頭木棍對抗的二千萬人口

問題在哪
敵人的定義在哪
又如何可避免

辦法在於如何將"自己"的範圍擴大
不以家族, 階級, 宗教, 部落, 民族, 國家, 人種, 文明作為统冶者心中"自己人"的單位
將"自己人"的圈畫大一些, 君可有見過有人左手恨右手至要斬下來的地步
十幾年前那單問題在於统冶者想同國不是自己人, 同階級才算
有比我更偉大的論者連豬隻都畫入自己人圈內就更值得敬重 (哎, 覺得自尋遺臭萬年實在可憐)
那莊子就更大, 不只地球人畫進圈內, 所有地球生物, 甚至火星人, 死物, 全世界也畫入"自己人"圈內, 這圈可無限大

越講越興奮, 好像說得太grand了

:>
狐

讀者提供的剪報資料: 評《奇異恩典》

2007-11-12T00:26:00.000-08:00

Dear leechard,
┴

I have read an article in appledaily (http://appledaily.atnext.com/template/apple_sub/art_main.cfm?&iss_id=20071108&sec_id=38167&subsec_id=38173&art_id=10390948&cat_id=3530509&coln_id=3530511),

The main theme of this article is very similiar to those in your essay, it talks about the the freedom of speech in Britain as exemplified by the movement banning slaverrity and that in china when Qing emperor and his government was trying to supress the freedom of speech,

Here is the article:

歷史的佳釀

《奇異恩典》的背景，是十八世紀末，這個
年代，像佳釀的年份，法國大革命爆發，震
撼歐洲，一水之隔的英國，眼看法蘭西由
王國變成共和，不久之前，華盛頓又領導美
國脫離英國殖民地管治而獨立，英國人覺得
國際潮流大變，衝擊皇室的君主立憲制，覺
得很緊張。

英國一方面派兵渡海，與荷蘭和普魯士組成
盟軍，營救被囚的法國國王，但在國內，順
應國際潮流的巨變，才有了像《奇異恩典》
的故事 ─ ─ 一個獨立議員，大聲疾呼：世界
不一樣了，人權的平等思想，在歐洲和美洲
已經抬頭了，英國如果不改革，就反動而落
後了，與全世界潮流對抗，是很笨的。

率先廢除販賣黑奴，是英國人順應潮流的第
一步。當初，這不是英國的國策，但民間
出現了一個孤獨的戰士，他視維護黑奴的人
權為終身事業，在街上印發傳單，在酒吧
用歌聲宣揚他的進步思想。

英國的皇室、地主、黑奴主和貴族，對這
位人權戰士都不很感冒，但他們沒有派特
務把他綁架，沒有用暴力封上他的嘴巴，
而是讓他在議院暢所欲言 ─ ─ 遊戲規則是
這樣的，大家都遵守 ─ ─ 讓他提交法案，
一年一年投票。最後，大家越來越覺得
他說得有道理，順從了他的主張。

英國歷史學家湯恩比的名言：文明是什
麼？文明就是挑戰，以及對挑戰的回應。
美國獨立、法國大革命，對保守的英國提
出了巨大的挑戰，人權思想，也傳來等級
森嚴的這個小島。有一個叫斑恩（ Thomas
Paire ）的英國旅行家，參加了法國革命，
渡海回國，訴說歐洲大陸發生的巨變，
並鼓吹英國也跟著這樣做，英國的皇室貴
族，聽了心中有氣，但對於這位神經質
的異見份子，還是容忍，對於議會廢
除黑奴的那位孤獨的議員，也容忍。

對於異見，英語有一句很強的俗話，叫
做 Convince me ─ ─ Convince me ，就是「令我
信服你的主張」：拿出證據來，提出清
晰的邏輯，發揮你的口才，讓我服你。
Convince me ，是辯論的挑戰令，我不同意
你的立場，但你儘管說吧，我會靜靜聆
聽，你的口才好，理據有力，我會認輸，
而且口服心服。

《奇異恩典》的英國時代，同期的中國，
正處於乾隆末年，乾隆掀起「文字獄」，把
中國知識份子的嘴巴下了封條，但今天
的中國人，還陶醉在他們認為的那個「乾
隆盛世」，好笑吧？且強忍笑，讓他們
陶醉下去好了。

因為《奇異恩典》的英國，才是人類文
明的盛世，在這部戲，沒有辮子，沒有
太監，沒有「喳」的一聲怪叫，跪倒殿
前的場面，不，這齣戲沒有你期待的
「國民教育」，但有普世的文明教育，
看了這齣戲，你會明白猩猩、奴隸和
人的分別。

陶傑

I hope you would like it.

Yours sincerly,
william

海遠論衆生之苦

2007-11-12T00:20:00.000-08:00

以下是海遠一些不成熟的想法.

釋伽何以在菩提樹下悟道?

釋伽的生平故事說,他是印度淨飯國的太子,卻不
願留在宮廷中享樂,反而去思考人間[生老病死]
的惱人問題.他真是個傻子.他請教過很多名師
大哲,都得不到滿意的解答.最後,他在菩提樹下
靜坐默思了七年,終於想通了一些道理.他究竟看
到甚麽?想到甚麼?其實沒有人知道.

海遠猜想,在樹林內,在池塘邊,用了七年時間靜
靜的觀察,釋伽其實是看到一個又一個的[生態
系統](eco-system ),一條又一條的[食物鏈]
(food-chain),一次又一次的生命跳躍.由此
而想到生命的本質.

在這些微形宇宙(生態系統)之內,生命都是短促
而痛苦的.這些微宇宙,其實又與人間大宇宙相連.
釋伽把印度教中原有的[種姓輪迴]的人生觀點,
引伸到包括各種生命的新宗教(佛教)觀.因此,
佛教認為[衆生平等],[衆生皆苦],[衆生輪迴]
等,而[衆生]包括人類以外的各種生命.要真正
的解脱,就要[跳出輪迴].但在[衆生]之中,只
有[人生]才有選擇[行善/作惡]的業力,其他生
命,都是[身不由己],只能應作[一劫].因此,有
智慧的人,就要珍惜著[人生]的機會,行善積福,
免墜輪迴.若果[作惡多端],就要[萬劫不復].

佛教是一個[無神論]的宗教,並沒有一個[神]
來審判你一生所做的好事壞事,一切以[因果業
力輪迴]來解釋.香港電影界也有一句名言:[萬
般帶不走,惟有業隨身].最好的業報,是[跳出
輪迴],最差的業報,是[永墮輪迴,萬劫不復].
每一次輪迴,都是[一劫],前題正是,[衆生皆
苦].

佛教雖然[無神],但有一個[因果業力輪廻]的
[自動評審,自動對盤]的賞罰機制.這個論點,
已不是哲學,而是一個[信念]的問題,因此仍
是[宗教].

再次聲明:以上只是海遠個人對佛教的理解,
並沒有得到任何佛學大師的指正.海遠可能
是個[邪魔外道].

人類將在2050年能與機械人結婚？？？

2007-10-20T04:43:00.000-07:00

dear leechard,

Here is the news i read from wanhoi.com.

人類將在2050年能與機械人結婚

０７年１０月１５日消息﹕

機械人早就進入人類的生活，並給人類提供了很多幫助；隨著科技進步，機械人也在不斷向智能化邁進。但是，或許你從來沒有想過人類會和機械人結婚！英國一位人工智能研究者日前大膽預測說，未來的某一天，人類將和機械人結婚！而且可能就在2050年。

拋出上述驚人而又有趣結論的是英國人萊維，他是荷蘭馬斯特裡赫特大學的博士研究生，主攻人工智能領域的研究。

最近，萊維剛剛完成他關於人與機械人關係的博士論文《與人工夥伴的親密關係》。他在論文中認為，機械人在外表、功能和性格上將越來越像人類，所以將來很多人可能會愛上機械人、和機械人發生性關係、甚至跟機械人結婚。

萊維說，他在研究心理學、社會學、機械人技術、人工智能以及人機交流等方面的450多份出版物基礎上完成了自己的論文。

對於自己的結論，萊維具體解釋說，心理學家已經基本弄明白人類為什麼會互相產生愛慕，包括大致12個基本原因，而這些原因也幾乎同樣適用於人類和機械人之間的關係。

I am doubetful why people would consider that having marriage and love with robort is an acceptable behavoiur as in my persepective, this has totally defeated the sense of love, which i find it totally unacceptable.

I sincerely hope that,as a experienced scholar in thinking the "love" of human, you would give me some advice on that problem.

Yous sincerely,

william

李察回應：

Dear William

The point is whether we can make a soul.
the so called 12 basic reasons for loving each other might be
a very simple model for human relations but it can never be a
soul.

If he can make a robot with a soul, then, 我服了他

腦控電腦 ----- 有甚麼用？

2007-10-06T23:10:00.000-07:00

在腦控電腦大行其道的未來, 腦控電腦會成為人類的第六感覺器官.

舉個例子, 未來的人去行山, 見到一棵夾竹桃. 這植物是有毒的, 只可惜這個人的自然常識不足, 竟想採搞夾竹桃. 此時大腦板層的視覺區域會把影像傳到腦控電腦, 電腦會在google中搜尋到夾竹桃的資料, 得知原來夾竹桃是有毒的, 於是腦控電腦立即向身體發出警告, 避免中毒.

腦控電腦成為了人的一個器官! 一個由金屬組成, 且可以上網的器官. 屆時我們即使不懂得什麼莊子原理, 也可以隨時隨地和"天地"連線了. 那將會是一個不需要街燈的年代, 因腦控電腦已和google map連接, "盲人們"會在google map詳細的指示下, "感覺"到一條回家的路. 腦控電腦並會探測路面的情況, 令他們避開障礙物.

我現在向大家推介一個終極的系統, 一個令全人類廿四小時都上網的超級好辦法, 一個被modified的生命感受, 一個被modified的"大自然"!

後記: 純粹想象, 希望不會成為事實.

李察回應

你知道「潛移默化」嗎？這就是「人控人腦」，比「腦控電腦」更好用。
而且，成本輕微。
有人開設「讀經班」，讓兒童背誦孔儒經典。日後，兒童碰到問題，
會「自動化」按照儒家行為模式反應......

禮運大同

2007-09-29T22:21:00.000-07:00

Blog 49 – 禮運大同

大同與小康禮記禮運

昔者，仲尼與於蠟賓，事畢，出遊於觀之上，喟然而嘆。仲尼之嘆，蓋嘆魯也。言偃在側，曰：[ 君子何嘆？]
孔子曰：大道之行也，與三代之英，丘未之逮也，而有志焉。大道之行也，天下為公：選賢與能，講信修睦。故人不獨親其親，不獨子其子；使老有所終，壯有所用，幼有所長，矜寡孤獨廢疾者皆有所養。男有分，女有歸。貨惡其棄於地也，不必藏於己；力惡其不出於身也，不必為己。是故謀閉而不興，盜竊亂賊而不作；故外戶而不閉。是謂『大同』。
今大道既隱，天下為　家，各親其親，各子其子。貨力為己，大人世及以為禮。域郭溝池以為固，禮義以為紀。
以正君臣，以篤父子，以睦兄弟，以和夫婦，以設制度，以立田裏，以賢勇知，以功為己。故謀用是作，而兵由此起。禹、湯、文、武、成王、周公，由此其選也。此六君子者，未有不謹於禮者也。以著其義，以考其信，著有過，刑仁講讓，示民有常。如有不由此者，在埶者去，眾以為殃。是謂『小康』。

大同與小康 --禮記

這篇文章,是海遠唸中學時在[中國語文]課本中謮過的,早已忘記得七七八八了.只記得,孫中山先生的口號:[天下為公],是從這篇文章而來.說到儒家,海遠想起此文,於是從[互聯網]下載,以供参考,再作討論.

何謂[小康] by 海遠

2007-09-29T22:20:00.000-07:00

Blog 50 – 何謂[小康]

海遠不知道[大同篇]是誰人所寫,何時所寫.但這是一篇重要的古代政治宣言.也可以說是[儒家]的真正理念.

這篇文章開宗明義的推崇遠古時代帝堯帝舜時的[禪讓政治].認為這時是[天下為公]的大同境界.

然而,自大禹把帝位傳給兒子[啓]之後,子又傳子,就開始了[家天下]的制度,也就是說,大禹家族把天下[私有化]了.上行而下效,上位者既有私心,下人亦必有私心.人人為巳,就失去[天下為公]的大同大道. 此後,所有帝皇都只箸眼[家天下],大同隱沒,大道沉淪.以後,即使是最好的君主亦只能做到 [小康之治].

可以說,[大同]篇是中國(或全世界)最早的一篇[無政府主義宣言],是對[君皇統治]的最大反諷. 文章認為,一切[法律道德,典章制度]等,都是在[人有私心]底下的產物.在大同世界裏,這些規範都沒有須耍.

[三代之英]的大同社會,是否真有其事?這點不必深究. 人人都沒有私心? 這是違反常理的事,基本上是不可能的事.可以說,[三代之英]的傳說,只是後人對[理想]的投射,這段歷史的描述,是虛擬的,甚至是虛假的.我們不要用[追尋歷史真相]的心態看這篇文章.因為這文章是一篇[政治宣言],主題是批判[家天下]的思想.作者的論點是,在[家天下]的框框內,最好的統治者都只能達到[小康],其他的帝皇,只能把天下搞成[爛場]. 作者是用一個美麗的大同理想,襯托出一個醜惡的小康建制.

可以嘗試把[大同]—[小康]兩境界作一比較:

大道之行,天下為公 – 大道既隱,天下為家.

選賢與能 – 大人世及以為禮.

講信修睦 – 禮義以為紀.

謀閉不興 – 謀用是作

外户不閉 - 城郭溝池以為固.

盜竊亂賊而不作 – 兵由此起.

三代之英 - 六君子

且看文章如何描述[小康]: 今大道既隱,天下為家….禮義以為紀….故謀用是作,而兵由此起….(六君子)由此(謀,兵)其選也…是謂[小康].

今大道既隱，天下為　家，各親其親，各子其子。貨力為己，大人世及以為禮。域郭溝池以為固，禮義以為紀。
以正君臣，以篤父子，以睦兄弟，以和夫婦，以設制度，以立田裏，以賢勇知，以功為己。故謀用是作，而兵由此起。禹、湯、文、武、成王、周公，由此其選也。此六君子者，未有不謹於禮者也。以著其義，以考其信，著有過，刑仁講讓，示民有常。如有不由此者，在埶者去，眾以為殃。是謂『小康』。

整篇文章中,最有趣的是這幾句:[故謀用是作,而兵由此起.禹,湯,文,武,成王,周公,由此其選也.] 此[六君子],都是中國歷史教科書上的賢君.但海遠從這幾句的上文下理卻解釋為:[六君子]都是用[兵,謀]奪取天下,而且把天下據為一家一姓所有.他們都是竊國的大賊.歷史書上的治水英雄大禹,是[六君子]之首.他是第一個把帝位傳給兒子,子又傳子,把天下[私有化],遺害中國幾千年. 而[六君子]已是賊中較有道理者,其他的帝皇,是更殘暴的大賊. [六君子]所講求的[禮義—以正君臣…以功為己],都是為了維持家天下的制度….

海遠認為,[禮運大同]是一篇[反建制,反皇權,反家天下]的論文.但幾千年來,中國人都是生活在皇權底下.這些[反動]的觀點,只能用隱誨曖昧的文字表達出來. 而且為了突顯現實[建制]的荒謬,也只好塑造出一段完美無瑕的[三代之英.大同境界]的神話歷史.就像陶淵明的[世外桃源]故事一樣,幾千年來,[大同境界]成為了中國人文的精神支柱.

作為[現代中國人],我們不必再從一篇古文來找尋[反建制]的論點.我們大可借鍳西方的歷史,例如法國的[啓蒙思相],英國的[君主立憲],美國的[獨立運動],蘇俄的[馬列主義]等,取得形形式式的[理論根據]. 畢竟,[堯舜],[炎黄]等人物的歷史依據是非常的脆弱.據說,炎帝和黃帝之間,還打過一場大戰.

但,無論如何,[禮運大同]作為一篇流傳了幾千年的[反建制]文章,可見中國古代人物的思想是如何的[先進].

捨本逐末? 捨末逐本?

2007-09-25T20:02:00.000-07:00

回應一篇幾星期前文章, 不是要抽後腿, 只是當中有一句到今天還耿耿於懷
-'捨本逐末'

小學的小狐羨慕同學有超級筆盒, 按此有間尺彈出, 按那有擦膠, 十個按鈕十件秘密武器
中學的中狐有把瑞士萬用小刀, 幻想若有把乜工具也集於一刀上 (100 in 1), 流落荒島便不用怕
大學大狐學人做小手工, 一套 108 個不同螺絲頭必不可少

前幾篇曾寫過兩句帝國主義, 想到就只有英帝國有此日不落理想
情報網遍佈全球每角落, 沒有"無用"的資訊
別人的文化歷史, 都放進自家博物館去
太平洋海底有何物, 亞馬遜內有何人, 花崗岩成份為何, 表面上有用無用有利無利都要知道, 放進自家百科全書, 先算

硬件齊全了, doctor-know-it-all, 逐末至無他人他國能及...... 有軟件運行嗎?

那麼中國人的看法呢? 捨末逐本乎?
吃乜乜中藥可以醫這病, 點解呀? 有冇科學解釋呢? 唔知喎, 總之前人經驗係得, 最緊要醫得好就得啦
先在乎天子所在帝都, 再看看王畿, 外面的東夷南蠻西戎北狄如何過活? 才不管那麼多囉
夷蠻戎狄之外世界如何? 想都不去想

其實"大中百科全書"也曾存在過, 李察兄該知道我說什麼, 包括神話傳說文化風俗天文地理生物都有的 -山海經-, 從此門孔窺看當天時空, 有趣

何解後無來者, 張衡生於錯誤土地上麽? 祖沖之算出的π, 有誰人來欣賞? 鄭和究竟希望走多遠?

捨本逐末? 捨末逐本?
還是逐本又逐末? 捨本又捨末?

狐

腦控電腦 by a.s.

2007-09-19T23:10:00.000-07:00

李察:

腦控電腦可以將數據直接傳送到大腦皮層的視覺區, 我想, 其他的感覺是否也可以化為數據, 傳送到大腦的其他區域.

例如身在遠方的兒子考試不及格, 可否把他的心情化為數據, 再傳送到雙親的大腦皮層, 去感受兒子的無助感呢?

當然, 這只是開玩笑而已, 他們的真正目的也不是要發明一部"心心相印機"!(這名字有點兒作嘔呢!!!)

而他們也從來沒有放棄一個夢想, 他們要控制世界上所有物質和能量. 用他們的說法是: 創造一套全新的函數系統, 把世上的一切納入這套系統中.

在本世紀初, 金錢就是一切. 但我相信金錢(包括股票市場等)只是一套舊系統, 待新系統出現之後, 金錢就會失去意義, 而衡量世上一切事物的"新法碼", 可能就是赤棵棵的能量. 以住人們會問, 這件東西值多少錢, 新世紀的人無寧會問: 這東西值多少能量.

可以想像: 未來地球上會鋪滿運送蛋白質和葡萄糖的有機管道. 這些管道和地球上所有植物連接, 地球上所有生命體都要為這個系統服務. 我不知道這個系統的真正目的和意義是什麼, 也不知道新世紀的人類的生存方式會是什麼.

但對於他們來說, 發明這系統是他們必然的命運, 也是西方文化最合理的終結.

(不知道你有沒有聽過一個叫Michio Kaku 的美籍日本物理學家, 他寫了一本叫<<平行世界>>的書. 他在youtube 中的一段說話發了我寫了以上的一切.

他說: 文明的分三級. 第一級: 是能夠控制一個行星上的所有能量. 第二級: 是能夠控制一個恆星的能量. 第三級: 是可以控制一個銀河的能量. 而他說現在我們人類是連第一級都不如的文明呢! 因為我們不能隨心所欲地控制地球上所有能源. 包括火山爆發的能源和地震的能源.

有興趣的話請到youtube search "The Future of Civilization", 第一段太約八分鐘的影片就是該位仁兄的傑作.)

李察:

對不起, 上一篇文章愈寫愈離題, 到最後根本和量子電腦沒有關係了. 但我深信這就是量子電腦和其他一切類似的發明的最後意義: 讓所有人都在單一的系統中思考, 讓所有人的思維甚至生活模式都走不出這個系統.

我們中國不是有一套類似而又十分成功的系統嗎? 難怪中國人玩起電腦來都有一種莫名奇妙的得心應手!

Grammar is important

2007-09-19T23:09:00.001-07:00

I think the point is how do you arouse the interest of a learner, how you learn it becomes the second important issue. Give the learners a rationale behind the learning, make up one if you need.

Grammar is important, especially in learning a foreign language, as you are not exposed to it in your daily life, you have to learn it from the classroom, that is really the short-cut if you want to grasp grammar efficiently and effectively, of course it is monotonous and boring, but without this painful process, you can hardly be uplifted.

The interest behind is the driving force to overcome the difficulty. Grammar is the foundation, all foundation work is no fun. Grammar to a certain extent makes your message precise. I come across no one who can write well and whose grammar is bad, yet I have seen too many people who write poorly and their grammar is bad. You may not think this is a corelation.

Skipping grammar is only realistic when the language is the learner's mother tongue, and when he lives in that language environment, eg international school or country of that language, where there are always opportunities to read, speak and write.

I would agree to pinpoint OUT OF PROPORTION on grammar creates evitable stress and neglects the most important essence of language - communicating.

I do not object to some reciting of some classical texts, meaningful texts, when it is of a reasonable magnitude. Works of our precursors are invaluable. Is it right to build up yr database by copying first, then create, correct me if it is not.

The rationale behind learning, and the reasonableness and appropriateness behing the learning process are the keys.

The old-fashioned

中國文化的出路　　　by a.s.

2007-09-05T03:24:00.000-07:00

中國文化的出路, 到了現在已經十分明朗了.

由中國的古籍中尋找出中國的原始精神. 這可能是
比較"戇居"的. 因為中國古籍中的原始精神大部份已經扭
曲變形了. 對與不對沒有"客觀"的標準.但至少由你整理
的修正版莊子可以看得古中國人本是對宇宙的起源十分有興
趣的,至少莊子本人是有興趣的.

世界的起源

這個世界的起源究竟是什麼呢? 這世界是由"無"而來;
還是由"有"而來?

莊子的天地與我並生, 而萬物與我為一的思想. 跟古希
臘的哲學之父泰勒斯(Thales) 的"一切就是一"的觀點其實
十分相似.

什麼是生成? 什麼是毀滅? 古希腦的阿那克西曼德
(Anaximander)說: 一切存在的東西都是有罪的, 是注定要
毀滅的,而他們的毀滅正是一種贖罪! 這跟莊子的:其分也，
成也；其成也，毀也. 又如何比較呢?

還有, 莊子認為事物在宇宙中, 除了"成" 和"毀" 兩種
狀態以外. 還有第三種狀態. 這是: 凡物無"成"與"毀"的狀
態. 而在這種第三狀態, 萬物都可復通為一.

這是何等的氣魄, 才有能力說出這樣的說話!!!!!!!!!

走精面

或者有人說:莊子是一門走精面的哲學: 不能把"成"與
"毀"相連, 強行創作一個物無成與毀的永恆狀態. 但文化
精神去到這一個地步, 已不是正確(right)與錯誤(wrong)
的問題; 而是淺薄(shallow)和深刻(profound)的問題.

正確的理論可以十分淺薄. 而一個錯誤的理論也可以十
分深刻.

莊子的學說, 是一首交響樂. 交響樂是沒有對與錯的.
只有深刻或者淺薄.

The supreme vice is shallowness. 這是一個
"錯誤"的人深刻的見解!

我的靈魂

我的直靈魂告訴我: 莊子是文化後期的人, 儘管他沒
有交代自己師承何處.但莊子畢竟難以自外於自己的文化,
再獨自創造. 字宙起源的問題, 相信自莊子之前已有一番
激烈的討論, 莊子應該是他那個時代的歸結者.

莊子本人當然重要, 莊子的時代背景, 莊子背後那個
文化的靈魂卻更加重要.

只可惜我們對那個孔前的文化春天的遍地開花的時代
是何等的無知!

　而唯今之計, 我們只有把西方文化, 阿拉伯文化,
古希臘文化為一個副"文化模形". 再用這個模形去導出
古中國的文化面貌.

但無論如何, 現在中國的文化已不是古中國的文化.
而從前五四分子沒有資格也不懂得去宣告的, 我現在正
要隆重的宣佈了: 中國人已有一個新的靈魂了!

儘管這靈魂是和古中國的那個不同, 但卻有緊密的
關係: 一種前世和後世的關係:

中國魂靈投胎成功了!!!!!!!!!

更正

李察:
>
> 那個profound應為deep!
>
> ass這個字在伊索寓言不是笨蛋, 也不是屁股. 小驢是也.
>
> 是的, 或者我們都只是一隻小驢, 拼命的追前面那條永遠都吃不到的葫蘿蔔.
>
> 小驢上.

寧人負我？有何問題？

2007-08-28T03:26:00.000-07:00

孔子和其他中國思想體系，多以道德為主體；因一個國家的文化
發展，必要有一中心思想作發展。

很不幸，除了科學，所有思想的生命，都有终結的一天；換句話，
终與時代脫節。

以外交為例，中國領導人一再強調"中國是愛好和平的民族"；
待人當以"寧人負我"為道德主線；這是絕不科學的，因和平是
互動的，敵人拿著更先進的武器装备，你只能拚命發展更好的；
中國近代外交不斷失利，皆有此原因；例:二戰中國不罰日本，
反被日本反口不認侵略中國；越南在越戰后反目等...

孔子的思想，不科學的待人思維，一定要徹頭徹尾除去。

by Albert Wu

<<西方的未落>>有什麼好看?--------by a.s.

2007-08-22T23:58:00.000-07:00

<<西方的未落>>有什麼好看?

上世紀二, 三十年代的第一流中國心靈問的問題會是: 為何西方的文藝復興, 工業
革命等不會在中國發生.

他們用當代的時間去為中國和西方強作比較, 更有甚者直把"五四運動"來比作中國
的"文藝復興", 殊不知西方文藝復興的真正意義, 根本是藉古典希臘的風格, 去抵抗年
輕的哥德靈魂.

文化是一隻動物, 和人類一樣, 也有她的,孩提, 少年, 壯年和老年時期. 今日西
方所發生的一切, 全是一個文化入者年時期的現象.

理性的萬能, 無神論, 實用主義等等, 相對於中國文化而言, 只會在戰國事期發生
. 可以說今日的西方, 就是中國時的戰國, ,不論文化上而或者國際形上都是一樣.

Stock of memory

古代中國文化的創造時期事實上已一去不復返, 出現在唐, 宋年年間那些動人的人
的詩詞歌賦, 誠如斯賓格所言, 只是一種對已逝文化靈魂的懷緬, 追憶. 只是中國文化
的記憶貯存(Stock of memory)而已. 跟巴洛克時期偉大的風格相比, 後者是文化靈魂
活生生的創造, 後者只是死去的靈魂在陰間的黃樑一夢而已.

靈魂日記

<<西方的未落>>究竟有什麼好看? 她是一本靈魂日記: 一個活生的靈魂, 在文化的
後期, 總結自己的這一生. 這是一本活生生的靈魂由誕生, 成長, 以至老去的種種階段
的記錄.

我不是說: 每一個文化靈魂, 都一定會有和其他靈魂一模一樣的"巴洛克"時期. 只
是, 透過<<西方的未落>>這本靈魂的成長日記, 我們可以知道今日的金錢至上, 無限消
費的世界究竟是如何形成的, 究竟對人類, 至少是西方人有什麼意義.

而對中國人來說, 這本書至少今我們推理出了在文化靈魂尚未逝去的孔前時期, 我
們的生命感受會是如何. 我們也可能像猶太人一樣虔誠過, 也可能像西方人一樣如此崇
拜機器, 也可能像拉丁人一樣如些的熱愛生命.

雖然, 這不是我們首要的工作. 但從<<西方的未落>>中, 可以看到, 古典文化(古
希臘), 馬日文化(阿拉伯), 西方文化, 是世代交替的由於她們之間的距離是那麼接近
, 每一文化, 成為了下一個文化的偽形. 每一個文化的靈魂, 都活生生影響下個文化的
靈魂. 靈魂之間不愁寂寞, 文化與文化之間的互動是中國和印度所意想不到的.

中國式的"淡化"

中國文化之所以這麼與別不同, 是因為中國文化被天然環境的長期隔離. 西面有廣
闊無垠的沙漠, 於是唯有向東南面發展, 一切發展到廣東甚至越南, 又面對無邊無際的
太平洋. 中國文化所面對的, 從來不是另一個文化的威脅, 而是中國靈魂, 離開了文化
母----黃河之後, 被廣大的土地無情的淡化.

淡化, 從來是中國靈魂最的敵人!

投胎
本來, 中國靈魂有兩次投胎的機會, 一是隋唐,二是明. 但每次投胎, 都只會令中
國人對原始的靈魂更加疏離, 生命的感受更加薄弱. 而這本不是問題, 投胎本應就是要
渾然忘我的,只是由於沒有其他靈魂的介入, 變成中國靈魂的純種傾向.

千世情劫

沒有新的文化元素加入(其實是有的, 例如佛教就是新元素, 只是佛教不是被活生
生的注入中國.). 沒有被文化靈魂活生生的, 記住! 是活生生地影響........而我們的
文化靈魂在漢朝已降早已在中華大地上發揮了的最大潛能. 緊接下來的第二世, 第三世
, 就像豬八誡經歷千世情勢一樣: 同一個故事劇本, 同一堆人物素材, 同一個無可奈可
的生離別, 同個不得已的世俗伽鎖, 同一個死而後已的結局.

三世英靈的輪迴

二十一世紀, 中國人得到第三個投胎的機會. 而面前的消費主義, 享樂主義和理性
主義,將是新煮成的孟婆湯.

下一世的生活會是如何, 我不知道..........真正的未來永遠都是未知數. 至少
, 我們在這漫長的歲月學" 精"了.......我們知道以知代心的害處, 碧海青天的寂寞,
小舟從此逝, 江湖兩相亡"
的不長進".

天河

有一天, 看到有人祭孔, 駐足望, 心裏有說不出的不自在. 但已沒有玉石俱焚的義
憤, 也沒有"被吃"的感覺. 他, 孔子, 只是一位遠古的人物, 可能有一點嘮叨, 但畢竟
只是老伕的嘮叨.

他語重心詳的勸你不要橫渡天河: 你不會有被捆的感覺. 也不會賭氣似的一躍入
江. 你用一種奇異的眼神望著他, 這眼神是他從來未見過的, 這是耶穌望著彼拉多的眼
神, 他也似乎明白了什麼似的, 目送你的身影在地平線上慢慢失.

孔子是理性主義者嗎?

2007-08-17T05:24:00.000-07:00

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.

閱讀史賓格勒著：《西方的末落》的小文摘

“理性主義” rationalism的意義, 便是只相信由批判的理解(推理)所得的基據, 其他一概不輕置信. 在文化的春天, 人們可以申言:” 絕對的信仰”, 因為他們確信可以了解的事象, 與不能夠了解的事象, 同為構成這個世界的元素.

但如今, 一種秘密的嫉妒之感, 滋生了一種概念, 認為凡不可了解的事物, 即是 ”非理性的”, 因而毫無價值. 故此, 公開譏之為迷信, 或秘密視之為玄學.

而只有那些經批判而設定的理解系統(數學等), 才具有價值, 而神秘變為只是無知的表現. 此等新興的, 排斥秘密(secretless)的”宗教”, 其最高境界, 稱為
”智慧” (wisdom), 其僧侶即是哲學, 而其信徒, 便是”受過教育”(The educated)* 的人們. 例如, 按照亞里士多德的說法, 古老的宗教, 只有未受過教育的人, 才會需要.

(*這就是王爾德說的overeducated. – 打字者註.)

此一觀點, 也為孔子, 佛陀, 箂亨, 與伏爾泰等人所共有. 理性主義時代的系統, 都是由現象為出發點, 所編織而成的, 但其實終極看來, 這也不過是以”力” (萬有引力, 電磁力等) 來取代了”上帝”, 以”能量守恆”之類的定律, 來取代了聖經上的”永恆真理”

理性主義時代, 受過教育的人, 其最偉大的理想無非是”哲人”(Sage)*

哲人是持”中庸之道”(Golden mean)的人, 他的貢獻, 在於明智的貶抑世界, 以享受沉思的樂趣. 啓蒙時代智慧, 絕對不與享樂發生衝突.

“道德”(文化春天時的) 及其背後的”神話” , 永遠表現為一種犠牲, 一種崇拜, 推其極端, 甚至是苦行, 死亡.

可是美德(virtue), 及其所由來的智慧, 卻是一種神秘的享受, 一種精微的心智上利己主義.
(學而時習之, 不亦說乎. 真是古中國理性時代的一大”美德”! 用夸父追日這個”道德”和她相比, 兩者都是求知的態度, 但後者真真差了幾皮!---------打字者註.)

(*可以這樣說, 孔子認為人的最高的境界: 聖人, 並不是葬身火刑架上的宗教式的聖人,而是和以上一樣的的”哲人”(sage). 當然, 偉大的孔子也會認為, 人也可以為周禮而送命的, 而中國歷上也不缺乏這類型人物---- 打字者註.)

(後記: 周禮, 就是古中國的理性時代的結晶. 就像今日的西方現代物理學一樣. 只不過現代物理學的驅動能源為”力”(force) (包括重力, 電磁力等), 而周禮的驅動能源為: 血緣. ---------打字者.)

上文除打字者註之外一概出自<<西方的未落>>, 所以說<<西方的未落>>何止是西方的未落.

(註: 打字者為一虔誠的孔子信徒, 絕無對孔子不敬的意思)

by a.s.

同時觀看正面與背面 how?????

2007-04-04T02:14:00.000-07:00

哈囉李察兄

無聊的狐狸還在想像如何製作相機
叮！
想得到了, 有可以同時觀看正面與背面的辦法了 :>

觀察大自然原來是這麼有趣的樂事
先用人的角度看, 雙眼向前聚焦一點得知遠近, 為最佳配合? 未必
當刻意鬥雞/射喱眼時可得到不同映像, 大腦會得到一幅(奇怪的?)照片
鷹能從數公里外 lock on 田鼠白兔海魚, 人類想不想要這眼睛?
金魚每邊一隻, 就是 360 度相機雛型, 環顧四周有否危險, 金魚腦內(?)的照片便是由
極端射喱眼接收回來, 兩幅南轅北轍照片重疊而成
360 的相反又如何? 極度鬥雞眼, 如何我眼望我眼??
是可能, 也實際存在
答案就是蝸牛, 眼睛位於觸角上, 置事物於蝸牛兩眼之間, 蝸牛腦內(?)不就同時有前
面與後面的映像囉！
(也許真的憨居了 :>)

關於光速, 又讓小狐胡思亂想
適逢十五, 明月皎潔, 星光閃爍, 但想到眼前此星光也許走過兆京光年才到達地球, 此
刻此星已不再存在... 眼前映像是虛幻的??
眼前電腦 monitor 的映像也經過一瞬 (BUT! 絕對不等於零！！) 狐眼才接收到
...
那麼接近零能否 ignore 掉, 當係等於零罷?!

那"如果"能夠讓光速慢十倍會有什?影響? 沒有? 百倍千倍萬倍呢?
到處有殘像? 看得到始祖鳥?
穴居人會撞大板?
世界有何地還會是無殘像的處女地?
也許好有趣

至於一人孤獨? 從不會
世界所有與你與我與他她牠它同行
牽一髮而動全球
也許沒人信, 但我想自己於三秒後決定只伸出右手的食指, 與只伸出右手的尾指, 已經
是兩個不同世界了
如何影響今後世界, 都在自己手上

狐

Leechard's feedback

My computer failed to produce Chinese
that means, even a machine cannot see the other side simutanxxxxly

who can?

yes

you can.

cos you are human, and the human brain can do everything.......

you can see inside and outside, front and back , past and present

but not..... the future!

and why?????

光速有多快?

2007-03-23T05:48:00.000-07:00

光速有多快?

在維基百科上的對光速的描述,
當兩飛船以90%光速的速度（對第三者來說）迎面飛行
時，船上的人不會感覺對方的飛船以90% + 90% =
180%光速速度迎面飛來，而只是以稍
低於99.5%的光速速度行駛。結果可從愛因斯坦計算速度的算式得出：

其中v和w是對第三者來說飛船的速度，u是感受的速度，c是光速。

那光速究竟有多快?

若果有幸使用<<星空奇偶記>>內的粒子傳送器,
將自己化為光子,被傳送到另一個星球
, 在旅程途中, 我是看不到任何東西的. 一來我的身體已化為光子,
表示我的眼睛已暫時不存在了.

我也不能夠感受到光有多快, 一來我的神經已不復在.
二來就算我在光壁中完整無缺, 因光在真空中飛行, 那裏沒有空氣,
以至重力也不存在了, 我不可能感受到任何粒子撞擊.

但一把聲音,就是那個countertenor的聲音，　
竟追得上光(小提琴)的速度，這是什麼回事.

身在光璧中的我, 聽到的這歌聲, 究竟來自光璧內, 還是來自光璧外?

唯一的解釋是, 我不是在真空中以光速飛行; 光穿過了介質, 形成了聲音.

問題是我們穿過了什麼介質: 玻璃? 光纖? 人體?

人體可以透光嗎?

by 夏康舞曲內的一幅圖畫.

李察回應

這問題，能否請巴哈本人來回答？
請問問他。他會很高興地告訴你的。

【天何言哉！】

2007-03-22T04:40:00.000-07:00

沉默的人渴望溝通的機會

多言的人害怕面對沉默的空間

等待

久遠

沉默終於等到了發言的時候

卻欲語還休

多言的在一息間

歸回寧靜。

【天何言哉！】

by shunwah

題目： " 一 " (佳作一首)

2007-03-18T22:38:00.000-07:00

複制

全是複制

全全部部全體複制

東西

不分東西

上上下下

左右左右

你我

不分你我

前前後後

男男女女

複制

居所

婚禮

學位

聲音

容貌

智慧

。

shunwah

宇宙意識

2007-03-18T05:20:00.000-07:00

一點心

兩點雙連成線

三點成一平面

四點而立體。

一點心、要持久、難；

兩心連線、要持久、難；

...........

時代似乎由武力與物質連線

三點、四點、甚至八點?

這形成的立體之間的線

長短不一、點的大小也不一、

這個立體由不平衡的重力結合。

一個美麗的立體

由一顆美麗的心開始

一點一線整體充滿愛......

在這裡。

p.s.

倘若以建築作譬喻

建立宇宙意識的Buckminster Fuller (Geodesic dome)

說

【我們大家都是宇宙船（地球號）的乘坐者。】

shunwah

(李察回應：
dear shunwah,
上文有幾個字不清楚，可否補上？)

(再者，己改好了。)

動態最大世界地圖

2007-03-16T03:46:00.001-07:00

shunwah has left a new comment on your post "如何繪製一張完美的世界地圖?(憨居對談)":

動態最大世界地圖(Dymaxion World Map)1943
by Buckminster Fuller,1895-1983
方振寧也有製品。

shunwah[humorhuman]

吾心、吾腦、鑽石球

2007-03-14T02:43:00.000-07:00

桌上的電腦是1998Macpowerbook
發覺它的思想
發現它的情感
記得睡在像鑽石球的情趣嗎？
一點、一線、一一平面、
都源自立體、多維空間、
吾心、吾腦
停留、關閉在那？

shunwah[humorhuman

李察回應

這是一首很好的詩
詩就是立體思維的一種了

如何繪製一張完美的世界地圖?(憨居對談)

2007-03-13T03:54:00.000-07:00

李察兄好

小狐還在想實際如何製造ver 1.0 相機，卻突然驚覺原來已有很多人嘗試過。。。

ver 0.1 好像最受歡迎與普及，但每人（國）都以自我（國）為中心，做就不同版本。。。 ver 0.1a, ver 0.1b......
ver 0.2 能夠大體一點，切開幾塊西瓜皮，放在桌子上，但對於旅行者來說，坐船或坐車會到盡頭? 還是不夠好

濃縮問題一點

如何繪製一張完美的世界地圖?

狐

李察回應：

親愛的小狐呵，
上次你寄來的文章
「360度環迴環境的鏡頭....反向思考」
令我足足失眠了三百小時。想了許久，居然(噢，這個居字很刺耳）想到了另一個道理：

人類的思維，本來不是平面的。
但不知是那個笨蛋，發明了在岩石上繪畫的玩意。以為，思想可以落在一張平面上。
據說，遠古的穴居人(註一)是很有智慧的，其實不然。

平面繪圖，本來，只是人的其中一個思維工具。如果只有這一個工具，人類可能
永遠不能進化了。幸虧後來有了一個不太憨居的蒼頡先生。他居然想到了，利用
鳥獸的足跡來思考！他看到了地上密密麻麻的足跡，沒有想到這是豐富的免費晚
餐來了，卻想到：可能這是思考的工具！

所以，雷神震怒，馬上下起了傾盤大雨，想把足跡洗掉。幸運是蒼頡先生有最現
代化的數碼相機，他早己把足跡收在大腦皮層裡了。那裡面，有四萬京的儲存空
間呢。

於是，我們有了文字。亦有了超越平面的思維工具！

小狐啊，

你知道甚麼是version ２號嗎？

這就是你正在使用的 blog 啦!

(寄語各位不憨居的朋友：如想聰明些，早日把數碼相機扔掉。把日本漫畫扔掉。不要再做叮噹。
請多利用鍵盤，利用文字！)

怎樣繪畫一張完美的世界地圖？
怎樣了解宇宙人生？

你需要的，第一是文字，此外，才是其他種類的語言：包括了平面語言，音樂語言，數學語言，
身體語言，等等，等等。

..................................
(註一: 穴居人可能是憨居人的始祖)

Quixotic

2007-03-12T06:26:00.000-07:00

Quixotic

hey
those were great video's thanks for the links

regards
bhole

Carl Sagan Cosmic Calendar

2007-03-10T21:53:00.000-08:00

Carl Sagan Cosmic Calendar

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2qezQzfgIY

Carl Sagan - speaks about 4 billion years of evolution

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMHNnhAEDN4

在地球活一躺真美，相信人類是珍惜的！！
[humorhuman]

posted by shunwah

李察回應：
上面的兩段短片，各只有數分鐘。是己故的Carl Sagan 介紹進化論的作品。值得一看。
high light了，剪下來貼在網址欄便可看到。請打開喇叭。

Sounds From Silence

2007-03-09T04:28:00.000-08:00

為何(古時)中國音樂比起西方音樂少用 fa 與 ti?"

(資料提供)

Sounds From Silence:Recent Discoveries in Ancient Near Eastern Music by Anne Kilmer,Richard Crocker and Robert Brown in 1976 by Bit Enki Publications and Records(BTHK 101).

search in Google have a result with Greek Music.interesting.
But still have no faith listen to the songs mentioned above!
[humorhuman]

the Lyceum--- 360 度迴環

2007-03-09T04:25:00.000-08:00

Aristotle's famous school at Athens,the Lyceum,was in the grounds of the Lycian Apollo's temple just outside the Athens Gate of Diochares.The name"Lyceum" comes from the Lycian Apollo,which is the Wolfish Apollo-is jackalish.
[ Le Renard pále by Griaule Marcel]&
[Sirius Mystery by Robert Temple]

cheers
shunwah(humanhuman)

360度環迴環境的鏡頭....反向思考

2007-03-07T20:35:00.000-08:00

李察兄好, 恭喜發財, 利是??來

小狐今天心情極好, 因想到同時獲得諾貝爾和平獎與諾貝爾物理學獎的方法,
先透露一點, 是關於一部"相機"便可, 容後再說

首先回應三億億億億水分子人兄, (以本狐愛自吹自擂性格, 不叫三億億億億,
也不叫三兆兆, 該叫三京, 詳見於雜錦拙作
http://www.geocities.com/crxmugen2000/mathunit.html)
引申到一怪問題,

若此三億億億億水分子不停在世生生不息循環而平均回到地球(甚至宇宙)每個角落,
那本狐不就飲過李察兄的口水尾?? 而李察兄也飲過本狐的漱口水?
?... 嘔心唷... 為免引起公眾恐慌, 已用漱口水作例而不用......

但想到曾得亞里士多德與萊布尼茲的滋潤讓我頭腦清醒,
關羽岳飛所飲過的那壺酒其中一粒水分子在我血液中流動, 當堂正氣了不少.
還有始祖鳥與三葉蟲的歷史在身上找到, 感受到萬物為我而生, 我亦為萬物而生,
欣賞每粒水分子盡忠職守安其本分而致敬. /+.+
至於我為出生前已過世的亞里士多德而生說得通嗎? 不清楚又想不通.

空氣也該差不多同理吧...

至於如何獲諾貝爾獎, 要造一部類似以自己為中心拍360度環迴環境的鏡頭.
但要反向思考, 以一球體為中心, 鏡頭一次過拍得到球體的每一表面,
並放於一相片上. 不是只用上下左右前後六個角度拍出六面, 而是用無限角度對準圓心
1 take 過.
到時觀賞者便不再有不同的"觀點與角度", 月球再也沒有背面, 世界只有光沒有影,
世事只有一條與唯一一條答案, 不再有紛爭, 天下太平囉！！

為免被說癡人說夢, 實際上想一想此"相機"該如何運作吧...

球體(其實任何物件事件也可, 只求'全'面, 就以地球為例) 置於正中,
大氣層是可伸縮 lens, 隨意加厚?薄聚焦, 大氣層外有一球型菲林完全包圍.
又或將眼睛幻化此鏡頭, 被觀賞事物置於眼球正中, 視網膜上有球型晶狀體,
環迴看每件事與物, 我想到的就大概如此...

此"相機" 為 version 1.0, 猜想李察兄已想到改良型號 version 2.0 將會有何許功能

是啊, version 2.0 "相機" 可以同時拍到'外面'與'內面', 放於同一照片上

實際上如何內與外一起? 想不出來...
若當有人真的製作出此 version 2.0 "相機" (其實並沒有說一定要由人創造),
心也可讀之時, 將不只得 Nobel Prize 般小兒科囉.
而是會獲神接見 (其實不太妥當, 沒有宗教意味, 叫天, 大生命, 冥冥主宰,
玉皇大帝什麼也好), 差遣作為神的眼睛了.

還有戇居問題數條, 下回再說

狐

李察附語：

其實，這是兩條極嚴肅的大問題。

一：物我同一，是如何發生的。

二：內外同一，是如何看見的。

兩條問題都是有得解的。但如果用 version 一號，拍成科幻電影，則會有趣得多！

(相信，現在罵人憨居的人，己在考慮再修讀一科「修辭學」，才重新出山，再戰江湖也。)

新口味

2007-03-06T04:46:00.000-08:00

李察常提及的音樂「聲」是一個例。不同的指揮轉遞個別的基因流，
接收的就出現不同的口味度。

假若智人是從Four Great Apes演化而來，那麼第一個智人【阿當】
很可能是接收到某種非遺傳得來的基因，他開始了與猿長類不同的
新口味。

而這所謂口味—在物種發展過程中，有三個程度：保持不變、向上、向下。

shunwah

水平基因轉移 ..... 「口味」的來源？

2007-03-05T16:47:00.000-08:00

HGT-Horizontal gene transfer
水平基因轉移。

個体將遺傳物質傳遞到其他非身後代個体的過程。
這種機制使遺傳物質得以在無直系關係的個体之間
產生『基因流』。

光、風、聲、無處不在地【教育】的口味。

shunwah

李察附語：
這可能是很重要的觀點。您能否多解釋一點嗎？

喝進了3億億億億個分子

2007-03-01T23:53:00.000-08:00

300毫升的水灌進肚裏，其實喝進了3億億億億個分子，相等於一個宇宙。
宇宙大約有100，000，000，000星系。味覺和習慣終有一天會消失或
可說作為統一。

shunwah

給狐的話：四億年前的故事、、、

2007-03-01T03:34:00.000-08:00

四億年前的古生代志留紀，物種都在海洋裡，陸上生物後來出現，
基因遇上複雜的變化與結合，今日出現的只是故事的一小部份，
正如一隻蝴蝶就是一根頭髮！

shunwah

李察附語：

其實，這是一個有待解決的大問題。就正如你問，
為甚麼有的人喜歡喝茶，有的人只喝水。是甚麼
因素決定的？

狐的問題

2007-02-24T21:03:00.000-08:00

狐來信問：

貓不懂游泳, 應該不會在江河中捉魚吧. 何以喜歡吃魚?

李察的附語：

這一類問題，識得問的人有福了。很多有地位的專家學者，每當遇見這類問題，
只會回答一個字：「嗤」......你知道甚麼是「嗤」嗎？嗤就是「啍」也不如
的意思。因為，啍是用口的，而嗤是用鼻孔的。所謂「嗤之以鼻」是也。

但這兩種聲音，卻是非常有地位的。沒有博士學位，是不會說「啍」的。至於「嗤」
是絕對非有院士頭函頭，不會發音的。

因為，他們學問不足，說完啍和嗤，就沒有第三個字了。
因為，他們絕對不知道，為甚麼貓喜歡吃魚的。

所以，創意的一個重大原則是：

　　不要啍，也不要嗤，而是要「想」，要「看」，要「問」！

如果無人能夠回答.........
(請注意，這是某種非常境界，意味著，人類知識的臨界點，或者就
　　　在此處！！！）

所以，如果您碰到了一個無人能夠回答的問題，小心了！

可能是因為您有特殊慧根，請準備用三十年的時間，親自研究吧！

　「啊，（　　）！」　空格裡的字，是「嗤」字，幸好沒有說出來，

因此，他換了一個字「啊，你真 (憨居)!」

(唉，能說這「憨居」二字，雖然不及博士和院士，但己經很了不
起了。因為，他己經夠資格拿香港身份証了，是個典型的香港人了。
就憑這兩個字，香港移民局就不會再懷疑他的資格了。）

...............

閒話休提，問題是：

　貓不懂游泳, 應該不會在江河中捉魚吧. 何以喜歡吃魚?

　　親愛的小狐啊，您為甚麼要這樣問呢？難道身為狐，
也想嚐嚐魚的滋味嗎？

　　讓李察叔叔告訴您，那是很腥的哦。

還是吃你的雞算了。

或者，請給李察叔叔一點時間，想一想？也很久沒有用腦了。

拜拜

他們在迫自己思考.

2007-02-23T03:21:00.000-08:00

我思故我在

.
.
作者：張焯尉

.
.

有人說我思故我在. 其實要這樣解釋.

我們在思考的時候, 永遠都不知道自己在思考的.

只是思考完畢, 才會猛煞醒覺: 啊! 原來我正在”思考”.

這可能就是所謂的忘我境界了.

我思故我在, “我”是在投入思考後, 再突然走出來, 才存在的.

但有好些人, 包括以前的我, 是”我”在故我思的.

他們就像一班被老師罰作文的學生一樣, 迫自己思考.

他們腦海中, 除了”思考” 兩個字之外. 就是一片空白.

以後要思考一個問題, 不論是歷史題也好, 數學題也好,

到郊外走一轉吧; 也可以走上一從未乘搭過的巴士路線, 到海邊一遊.

若果你是一個討厭喧鬧的人, 請立即走入一個人擠人的地方;

如果你是一個品味高尚的紳士, 請到廟街走一趟.

總之要為自己製造一種”身不由己”或者”格格不入”的感覺.

Of course, it's my advice. Please pass it on!

甚麼電腦最受歡迎？

2007-02-16T22:40:00.000-08:00

甚麼電腦最受歡迎？

問題是，世界上有絕對安全的電腦嗎？

如果有人發明了保証絕對安全的電腦，所有的
私人心思，保証不會被洩....

有甚麼好處？

一：製造者就會成為下一位 Bill Gates
二：文化發展，因為擺脫了人為的阻礙，而飛速前進。
三：新聞真正自由。科技真正自由。學術真正自由。
四：但最重要的是：銀行真正自由。
五：經濟全速前進。國家不用發行紙幣。
六：全世界通用的是網上錢幣。
七：全球化可能在擺脫了襲斷企業的前提下實施。
八：我阿媽製作的芝麻湯圓，....
九：....可以用網上錢幣，賣去美國。
十：.........(不能盡錄)

方法：

一，不用數碼，擺脫二進制。

問題：

如何不用數碼？

答案：

a. 用基因排列的方式傳輸訊息。
b. 用音波代替數碼
c. 如果我知道，就會告訴你。

(如果你能造出這一部電腦、、、、)
(請記著，要把賺來的錢，最少捐一半給非洲朋友。)

甚麼是「氣」？

2007-02-10T02:17:00.000-08:00

作者：張焯尉

中國人有什麼氣?

作為一個中國人, 我認為有氣存在, 也感受到氣的存在. 當然,
這只是我的個人觀感而已.

中國人常會聽到的怒氣, 浩然之氣, 正氣, 怨氣, 喜氣, 長氣, 福氣, 義氣,
無你咁好氣!

但有沒有聽到愛氣?

或者中國人不慣談情說愛.

正所謂孔日成仁, 孟日取義. 我們常聽到的, 只有義氣. 為何沒有仁氣?

只有解決以上問題, 中國人才能重新運氣.

<<如何運氣>>

或者我們還未有資格去問這問題!

現在急切要知道的, 反而是: 哪裏能找到氣?

以唱歌為例, 其實無論唱哪一首歌都好, 只要是有誠意的話, 都要用氣!

但某些歌比較難唱, 要有特別的運氣方法, 才會唱得好.

貝多芬第九交響曲尾段的和唱. 需要的, 正是一種特別的氣.

一種人類被感動時, 產生的氣. 一種讚美天地時的氣.

李察的問題：

一、問題是，「氣」可能是真的。就好像「電」那樣的真。只是，到今天
為止，仍未有人成功研究出來。

二、而「生物電」和「氣」之間，又有何關係？

三、天地之正氣，跟人體中的真氣，有何干係？

四、、、、

五、、、、

而我們「非專業」人仕，只能盡量提出問題，或者，有人願意投身三十年
去研究的。而非專業人仕的責任，是製造氣氛。討論愈熱烈，成功愈速。
而收穫者，肯定是人類自己。

One day when there is no human on earth

2007-02-07T03:34:00.000-08:00

thinking out loud

we are all astronauts

Lightful houses -Geodesic Domes with elephant grass(Miscanthus
giganteus)

plus Yew Choong Chan 's popeye spinach......

Amazon is the Heart

What human can do is artificial surgery,,,

only natural has its own power to cure,

if human set Amazon free,

leave it alone.

One day when there is no human on earth

trees will all come back!

shunwah

為什麼要和昏迷病人溝通?

2007-02-06T23:20:00.000-08:00

因為他們的動力無可取代, 也不容”浪費”

一個病重的人, 唯有靠他自己醫好自己.

一個可以和外界溝的昏迷的人,

可以自行上網, 時時刻刻和專家商討對策.

也可以自行登入大學的網頁尋找最新的醫學報告.

最重要是病人之間可以溝通.

他們可以成立一個昏迷人仕的forum.

將來可能有人在昏迷狀態下將經歷寫出.

成為一位作家, 這足以令很多正常人慚愧.

昏迷的人可照樣為大機構打工,

賺錢照顧自己, 為自己僱個好醫生.

昏迷了的CEO 仍是CEO,

隨時為公司作出重要決策.

這會是很大的商機, 很大的市場.

(以下是筆者的幻想:
五十年後的今日. 此科技正式面世, 拉開“大無聊”的序幕, 世上一半人口躺着生活.
真正因意外而昏迷的人一些成了輔導員, 一些成了社工. 更有一些成為了神職人員. 去安慰那些同時被外在物理世界和內在心靈世界”放棄”的人.)

李察回話：
各位朋友，若來信時可以隔行書寫，或每行不多於二十字(用txt file)，篇幅可能美觀些啦。

<<身體鍵盤>>

2007-02-04T20:51:00.000-08:00

身體正常的人會認為這是無聊的發明

可對於四肢癱瘓病人,會是不錯的構思.

電視上經常出現因意外或疾病癱瘓的人.

他們的四肢通常不能活動, 且不能說話

要他們和外界溝通是有點兒困難.

但他們能聽能看,

身體內還有其他肌肉可以自由活動.

只要在這些隨意肌上, 那怕是嘴角那一

小吋肌肉, 加上比較sensitive 的感應器.

再將這些連接到身體不同肌肉的感應器分類,

不同的感應器代表不同的字母的輸出:

例如英文字母: A, B, C, D.

又或者倉頡字碼: 日, 月, 金, 木, 水, 火, 土.

下一步怎樣, 大家都應該比我清楚.

開發電腦遊戲時常用的正是這種

面部肌肉的感應科技去模擬人類表情

可能是成太昂貴的關係, 才沒有普及起來.

但我認為身體鍵盤只是對一, 兩個訊號的探則.

並不是探則面部表情.

所以其精密不需太高. 只是保養方面要做得好一點.

不同的人其身體上可以控制的隨意肌在數目和位置上

都有所不同. 所以身體鍵盤一定是度身定造的.

對於活動能力不太高的病人, 身上的每一吋肌肉都要用盡.

例如面部肌肉, 眼肌, 口部肌肉, 手指, 腳指,

甚至是肛門的括約肌. 總之, 溝通才是最重要的.

還有下一步我想不到的是,

如何利用儀器和昏迷的人溝通

如果真的成事, 不但會改變世界

人類也會進入新紀元:

石器時代> 青銅器時代> 鐵器時代>

原子能時代>心器時代?

That's too good! I mean it!

A comedian is either knows everything or nothing? Which do you know, Leechard?　

李察回話：

WoW WoW WoW now Dennis is putting money into Your Or Our pocket!
身體鍵盤是極具創意的構思？ Who would like to take it harder! !!!!

人能否跟腦細胞溝通？

2007-02-04T20:48:00.000-08:00

Hi Leechard,

I would like to post my question in your WeAre Thinking website or blogsite as blow:

Can we comminuicate with our own cells, especially our brain cells?

Thanks,
Daisy Wu

P.S. I want to write my question in Chinese, but I don't know how to key them in in Chinese yet (I live in Canada). Can you please translate them into Chinese for me? Thanks!

李察回話：
Daisy 的問題是：　人能否跟腦細胞溝通？

又是極好的問題。前曾看過一些資料。這是所謂的「回饋」feedback 據知是有許多人研究的。
誰有興趣提供多些資料？

為何(古時)中國音樂比起西方音樂少用 fa 與 ti?

2007-02-04T20:47:00.000-08:00

哈囉李察兄
彈琴時想到一問題
為何(古時)中國音樂比起西方音樂少用 fa 與 ti?
是否此原因做就雄壯/悲壯的樂曲?
對中國的哲學又有何影響?
若西方也如此讓馬炮, 難得到神童嘛? (嘻)
望賜教

門外看的門外漢
狐 :>

李察回話：

這問題，極度有趣，我也想知道呢。如果跟印度音樂相比，他們
就是太多的fa 和 ti 了。跟本，是不跟八度音的。是不是？有誰可以
教教我？

如何令自己更好瞓?

2007-01-30T19:04:00.000-08:00

如何令自己更好瞓?
作者：Dennis

我的外祖父說: 人的雙腳只要夠暖, 自然容易入睡.

的確, 以我做了xx年人的經驗, 這是真的. 至少在冬天
這是真的! 所以每當我睡不着的時候, 都會用熱水浸暖
雙腳, 希望能進入夢鄉.

德國的睡眠學專家也證明了一個腳暖的婦女比腳冷的婦女
睡眠質素更好.

但在荒山野嶺何來熱水澆腳呢?

這時唯一的辦法可能是思考.

思考令大腦消耗能量, 從而令身體的血液流加快; 温暖
血由身體其他部份流入雙腳, 令雙腳變暖.

當然並不是萬試萬靈的方法, 否則造安眠葯的公司早就
倒閉了.

還有一個更有趣的現象是, 有一次我成功將左腳用熱水
變暖, 唯獨是右腳用盡方法還是冰冷的. 我靈機一觸,
想起身體的右半身是由主理性邏輯的左腦控制, 於是開
始在腦子裏不斷計算三位數乘三位數的算術題. 一直算
一直算, 結果右腳真的暖起來.

可惜的是: 我仍然睡不着!

但這發現足夠叫我樂上一整晚.

(李察按：下次，李察告訴你，他的經驗。保証(!)你睡得好。)

你想知道嗎？

2007-01-29T20:39:00.000-08:00

甚麼電腦最受歡迎？

(如果你能造出這一部電腦、、、、)

怎樣根治香港腳？

(噢，如果有人能解救我的痛苦、、、)

怎樣制止傷風？

(省事多了！)

怎樣買下阿馬遜森林？

(這是挽救地球的妙著，也是地產商的最高理想呢、、、)

怎樣綠化城市？

(就像住在森林裡一樣、、、)

請稍為等候、、、、、oh, its too long

2007-01-27T19:55:00.000-08:00

請稍為等候，有用的創意，很快和你見面！

（小小問題：創意和希望，有何不同？）
　（更小的問題：創意來自那裡？）
　　　（更加小的超小問題：為甚麼我們需要創意？）

「創意資料庫」----會籍申請及使用方法

2007-01-23T02:03:00.000-08:00

一，請用問題形式。問題只用一句話。
二，內文不超過三百字。(十五行，每行二十字)
三，中英俱可
四，不怕幼稚。因為我們只是探路求知。
五，必具誠意。請用真名字。如有關感情或敏感項目，可附筆名。
六，請寄 academy2008@hotmail.com
七，如須附圖，每次不超過一頁。
八，長篇文章，請放在您自己的網頁上。李察為您推介。
九，

重要秘訣：必須把想法，凝為一句話。化為一個問題。
也可以略加發揮。而發揮不可多於一頁(早期)。至於後期組合，多長都可以。

十，亦可只提出問題，不附加資料。一句話，對於他人，就是啟發。
十一，恭喜您，您己經獲得「創意資料庫」的會籍。