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About Me
A retired scientist lived half of his life in poor rural areas and half in luxurious cities.
- Location:
- United States, Rowland Heights, CA
- Current role:
- Happy validly author
- Gender:
- Male
- Areas of expertise:
- science
- I am:
- Concerned citizen, Environmentalist, Scientist
- Languages:
- English, Chinese
- My website links:
- Skydrive
More About Me
I'm passionate about
(1) Keeping our DNA alive. (2) Be Happy Validly. (3) How to quit INVALID happiness.
An idea worth spreading
(1) Be Happy Validly. (2) Invalid happiness: --- It makes up about 90% of today's happiness. It wastes about 90% of limited resources on the earth. It leads us to self-extinction.
Talk to me about
Be Happy Validly.
People don't know that I'm good at
(1) Be Happy Validly!
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A comment on Conversation: If it were possible to live a perfect but virtual reality instead of actual reality, which would you choose?
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Our life goal is to keep our DNA alive.
"Virtual reality" can't do it.
Happiness is the short-time feeling of things being a-step-better
for keeping our DNA alive
with ultra-high accuracy
"Virtual reality" can't do, either.
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A comment on Conversation: Is it really impossible to eradicate an idea from someone's mind, if it sticks very tight
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We can "eradicate" any "idea from our mind"!
Even from our soul (instinct data and pre-instinct data),
by poly-repetition.
(from Be Happy Validly! p 11 )
A comment on Conversation: Improving Your Life: Step 1 - Relax!
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Yes!
"Relax!"
Relax means to switch our brain (the most powerful computer today)
from small tension-data part to a huge relax-data part,
where we may find the solution easily.
A comment on Conversation: Curbing global warming or adapting to it?
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The only way is to curb it.
Our evolution is too slow to adapt to it.
A comment on Conversation: The Roles of Humans and the Relationship between Humans and Earth
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I think:
"Sinning" is being happy invalidly or out of the valid scope of our instincts formed 10,000 years ago.
A comment on Conversation: patience in teaching Chinese to adults as beginners
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Tell the learners:
(1) A Chinese character is a picture.
Pictures are the basic units of our memory in our brain.
Thus, Chinese is easier to remember than English.
(2) Chinese is more musical than English,
due to 4 different tones.
So, Chinese poem means "song".
(3) Chinese is more accurate than English.
due to few synonyms
Hence, we can read and type it quicker than English.
(4) ...
Wrong?
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A comment on Conversation: How do you turn a dream into reality?
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My answer:
To “turn a dream into reality” is easy,
if we know that human brain is the most powerful “computer” today.
Then, just keep telling your brain (the most powerful “computer” today) to do so.
Wrong?
A comment on Conversation: What is keeping us from the first world to pool our excess resources to finally end poverty in the world?
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My answer:
Money makes greed.
Greed makes invalid (harmful) happiness.
Then, invalid happiness "is keeping us from the first world to pool our excess resources to finally end poverty in the world"!
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Wrong?
A comment on Conversation: how to invest in yourself?
I invest in myself by improving my sensibility to invalid (harmful) happiness,
the root of all evil.
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A comment on Conversation: Can we discuss the economics of abundance? And the possibility of 'free' instead of a guaranteed minimum income?
A society of abundance may not give us happiness.
Happiness is the short-time feeling of things being "a-step-better" for keeping our DNA alive.
(No matter how small a step may be.)
In a abundance society, it is difficult to find the "a-step-better"s.
That is why the poor may not be the unhappy.
Wrong?
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