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  • A reply on Conversation: Are you satisfied with your life? Do you think its fair?

    Nov 11 2012: oh wow
    wait.. you published books?
    ok that is really interesting read
    about all that DNA stuff
    yea.. I kind of agree to that.. well MOSTLY agree to the parts I actually understood
    Yes, as from watching a couple Ted talks and studying
    I believe we are born... with these innate personality that makes everyone different however we are also affected by past events (inherited dna information) as well as ON going ... (external influences) which chooses the path for our future development

    so the equation is
    BORN + PAST + ON GOING = Future

    well, since its like this
    wait I don't seem to see where I'm trying to take this or where YOU are trying to take this

    I forgot what you previously said... like about my question
    yes you are satisfied?!?!?!

    or something..
    but yea I dont think that this is a great support for the fact that you are trying to say that there is nothing wrong with our world because obviously if the only purpose is to keep our DNA alive...

    (and from the video... forgot which one.. but apparently we all came from a genetic adam and eve..) everyone in this world is from the same pair of genes

    anyone who lives would supposedly be able to pass our genetic info to the next generation
    BUT .. what if what we are doing right now (the external ongoing influences) are harming us and
    with our thousands of years of ... "Natural DNA" is getting disrupted and altered and.. maybe even going to become destroyed by our.. modern social thoughts.. etc

    I SEE a problem with our world

    are you saying that YOU DONT? and that all the things happening is.. normal? "necessary evil?"

    If that is so... i guess I would have to try hard to convince that the "evils" right now is not necessary and that our enemy is not ourselves but is instead nature and how to keep our race from getting wiped out...
    which we've done a "great job" at ...

    funny... how people are always concerned about shootings and stuff while no one cares much about how many people are dieing from "revenge of nature"
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    Nov 10 2012: Thank you for convincing me
    Yes, I dont have much faith in myself, because I dont know what should I beleive in...
    I grew up in a world that doesnt have much for me to believe in as since.. so far since I was a kid, everything I ever believed in seems to have fallen apart.. shattered
    my "innocence" was shattered pretty long time ago, but i kept on with our system
    i lived in the system
    i chose to ignore rather than to think about our problems
    i viewed the worlds problems as granted
    the famous words.. "THERES NOTHING WE CAN DO ABOUT IT"
    yea... i used to think that way as well, but... since a month ago, I completely changed my mind
    I feel like we HAVE to do something about it

    let me tell you a story
    Last week was my miterms.. at 7pm
    so at 6pm i went to buy dinner and... as usual.. i like to sit at an ourdoor seat... thats more "lonely" and quiet....

    as i started to eat.. the "last table" filled with mainland students left... who were sitting at a table across from my table

    shortly after they left... a girl walked over
    then she sat down at the table the mainland students left

    I was like HUH? WTF??????
    first of all.. girls dont sit alone
    secondly... the table is not cleared

    at first I thought she was waiting for someone...
    then she took a microwave box out from her backpack which held 2 steam buns..
    then she took out a spoon and started to eat the left overs on the table... along with the steam buns

    OH MY GOOODODDDDDDDD
    OH MY GOD

    WHY!>!?!?!??!?

    I am studying in .. the second best college in HONG KONG... and
    THIS IS WHAT I SEE?????
    On one side. people never finish their food and stuff
    AND ON THE OTHER SIDE.... someone is eating THIS??!??!? LEFT OVERS?!!!???!

    WHAT IS WRONG WITH OUR WORLD

    she turned her head and saw me and quickly turned back
    T.T
    I almost cried ... (something i literally never do....)

    Like seriously? How come? WHY? Why in .... the world... are people on one end not trying and having everything.. while people who try have NOTHING...
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    Nov 10 2012: Dear Collen
    thank you very much
    I agree with the ripple effect, the butterfly effect, however, when you look at it this way, the butter fly is that "In chaos theory, the butterfly effect is the sensitive dependence on initial conditions, where a small change at one place in a deterministic nonlinear system can result in large differences to a later state."
    however, human beings with their wonderful minds have made our world into a LINEAR system which the butterfly effect has NO effect upon.
    what do i mean?
    theres is an input and there is an output
    it doesnt matter how you manipulate the input ... because there WILL be an output that is "linear.."
    x+1=y
    you keep changing x y will keep going up

    how is this our world?

    of course, HUMAN, animals, Biological world is SUPPOSED to be a NON linear system, but we have "mechanized ourselves"
    we have transformed and made ourselves into this society where people are PART of the system..
    since when? Not sure, but definitely before the "industrial revolution"

    Maybe you can say ever since agricultural revolution? division of labor? or not? I am not sure where the "source" of the problem stands, but all I can say, is that
    there is a big problem and we need to fix it

    and what I am personally going to chase in my life is to FIND out the problem and PROMOTE people to believe in the fact that we CAN solve the PROBLEM and that there is hope in this world it isn't that bad after all

    other than the fact that we might need to flip the world around to solve it

    People are going to unhappy
    people are going to be angry
    people are going to fear

    but...

    you shouldnt be afraid

    because... ok this sounds so.... pop culturized but
    "im not afraid.. to take a step"

    and therefore... if I can try,, you can try
    i know your trying
    but..
    try harder
    what ever doesnt kill you simply makes you stronger and i believe together we will all become more than what we are right now,

    human beings strongest weapon... its not language.. its will.. our will
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    Nov 10 2012: Thank you W Ying

    but could you expand on your thoughts please?
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    Nov 10 2012: I am not trying to blame this but at least for now, I do see it as the "fault"
    the reason that public isnt focusing much on the "IMPORTANT science and its discovery, research etc" is that THERE IS NO MONETARY INCENTIVE!!!!"
    when you don't see worthy to invest in something... people don't want to do it.
    The only reason you see these "major scientific discoveries" is that SOMEONE out there with money thinks that it is worth investing because "it sounds reasonable" and also that "the returns are high... under the circumstance of HIGH risk.. but not under [ABSOLUTE RISK]"

    if you want to convince people to discover greater and deeper into the fields of science, then please, I ask you to support me and "fight" with me, against this world where
    knowledge is unimportant if it does not generate $$$

    you go to school and learn things to get $$$$
    you get a job to $$$
    you get $$$ to buy more "things" to make you look like you have a lot of $$$$
    any thing that does not have to do with $$$ doesnt matter

    when you see a person in need of help .... you give him/ her $$$$
    because $$$ SOLVES EVERYTHING

    well... obviously scientifically... $$$ is not a solution to anything at all, but apparently, our world right now is BRAINWASHED into thinking $$$ = solution

    solve (X+Y+Z+O) = ABC^D for D
    D = $$$

    ok... yea.. maybe that doesnt make sense at all
    but...

    i respect you that you have found the mystical universe and discoveries amusing
    I feel that way as well

    just that ... we are unable to find things that EXPLAINS more of who we are what we are doing why we are doing what we are doing etc...

    if we do not break this BARRIER

    $$$ is a BARRIER TO OUR FRIGGIN evolution...
    unless people $$$ is more evolved that those with less $$$
    then wow
    i am wordless

    even if I am wordless
    I would like to PROVE THAT $$$ IS NOT EVERYTHING
    but i need to REINVENT THE SYSTEM and CONVINCE PEOPLE TO ACCEPT THE NEW SYSTEM
    BECAUSE IT WORKS AND I BELIEVE IT

    I truly... WISH HOPE DREAM that YOU BELIEVE as well!
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    Nov 9 2012: Dear fritzie
    Yes I do understand that most of the topics that I am covering are rather popular aims
    But as I see
    Most of the so called popular aims are seperated and not exactly cooperating together as a whole
    Think of this as a human being think of society as a living organism
    It won't survive if you only take care of one organ system
    A brain on its own is usesless a heart a lung an eye an arm is useless
    But when acted together
    They become a being
    What I am trying to find our is how to unite these concepts
    Pretty much like
    I am trying to be the skin of a person
    I want to wrap up every singe system and hold them together
    As I see this is exactly the only way to lead out world out of the present problems
    As I previously kept on mentioning
    I can live the x number of years of my life and not need to give a damn about this world
    But
    I believe that "after a personal experience"
    Life is not just about yourself
    It's not about the individual
    For example a person in Africa in Mexico in Canada in Chiba I. Tibet in Alaska
    All have one thing in common which is to make the people their love happy by protection
    But what these individuals don't seem tossed is our world is no longer a small society world
    We are global used in a rather scary way
    Every single action made influences the whole world
    This is my idea of modern society evolution
    If we do not act as a whole and keep on letting and following a small group of elites
    We will soon be extinct
    As individually all we can think about I'd to make money to get through the day
    Think about tomorrow when it gets there
    I think the main thing that separates us from animals is the ability to see in the past and predict the future
    Which is also how we can "disrupts " natural selection
    Because as I see
    We are the only being capable of learning from the past and using the past to percent problems in the future
    Humans now are educated through s flawed system theat focuses on the present
    Which is not really what we need
  • A reply on Conversation: Are you satisfied with your life? Do you think its fair?

    Nov 8 2012: Thank you Fritzie
    Yes I understand my concept is a bit TOO ... "liquid, it has no substance as of yet, and I am trying to SEEK substance to apply to my concept"

    What i mean is.. like a chinese proverb "you are curing the stem but not the root" for example you cut a grass... and it will grow back later

    I understand the problems with poverty, hardship, infant mortality, illiterac

    OK, let me give you an example...

    Do you think it is true "charity" to be feeding the poor people in Africa?
    I will leave this as an open ended question.. but let me address this point
    If you keep feeding people, they will become dependent on you
    Is... "trash recycling" a true "JOB?"
    "WHY cant they grow their own food?"
    "WHY is their country in such beat up shape? ... are they BORN to be like that?"

    Other than this... I would like to share what I have concluded.. or not concluded but reached an analysis on...

    a big problem with our world... once again "THE DOUBLE EDGE BLADE"

    one word

    DEBT

    Though I'm not christian but if everyone in the world was in the same faith then
    "What is prohibited in Deuteronomy 15:1-7 and Deuteronomy 23 is interest on any loan, in any form, that has been extended to a poor brother in the faith. It is perfectly all right to lend at interest to someone not in the faith."

    "The Mosaic law prohibited interest on a narrow class of loans: charitable loans "

    Ok, no more talking about the bible and for some modern day concepts,
    PEOPLE LIVE ON DEBT and that is a fact, people depend on it, our world wouldn't work without it

    But, as i read somewhere, the only place without interest payment loans is in native cultures?

    Ok, if that is so.... just CONCEPTUALLY

    is it possible to
    1st UNITE OUR WORLD
    2nd "REDISTRIBUTE LAND" (i will talk about this further in the future)
    3rd MAKE "SMALL tribes... SOCIAL tribes..."
    4th.. I DONT KNOW
    THIS is where I am stuck at

    of course i would like to support the "Green movement" I would like to go against "child labor"
    MORE EDUCATION
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    Nov 8 2012: Thank you once again Roy
    Yes, I am trying hard well.. and will be for the next two years (until i graduate) to THINK of... to contact as many people as I can, to make a new concept.. of "utopia" just that its not as utopic as it seems... but never the less, a goal that we could look forward to

    Presently, I find that people now a days are too concerned about their (AT THE MOMENT) things. Of course its important to get things done and look at the present, but I feel people are FORCED to look at the present and ignore the future, especially when their future is more or less LEAD by their "money".... its like the metaphor that life is like a river... it flows.. but now i think its more like life is a river of CASH FLOWS and you go where ever that paper goes... or coin..

    It is not the "sheep" dont care anymore, I think its more like the "sheep" is being hypnotized by "magic mushroom pasture..." and that "the wolf is no longer eating the sheep but is instead farming the sheep so that they could sheer the fur for exchange of more food..."
    "the sheep is the same sheep.." just that the "wolf has evolved" into something much nastier than the wolf... and yet.. "the evolved wolf is smarter and can abuse the sheep/ exploit it to its own good, it lost its ability to KILL the sheep by itself, so... the wolf is STUCK in the position of having to farm sheep for food... because it doesnt know how to kill"

    Address the goat part.. I feel like they are just the "laggards in a movement"

    and Yes, God has no gender, or any "physical form"... its a representation, an idea, a belief the divine being, and I believe that. Good and evil is DEFINED by humans, God is objective.. an ETERNAL UNIVERSAL truth

    Humans always wanted to seek out the truth, but what they seek is mostly subjective and misunderstanding it until they found some objective "scientific truth" which they now believe as the divine truth... but before they can apply objective truth in another degree, they will never find it
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    Nov 8 2012: Dear fritzie
    Yes I do believe that most people out there are wanting to push for "reducing suffering" as I don't see why any one would purposefully want another person to suffer
    Which Is also what I believe most If not all of the traditional religious beliefs are all talking about making and finding and teaching the ultimate happiness no matter if its heaven or nirvana or what ever it may be

    But what I am truly getting to is
    Something impossible impractical
    I want yo turn our world over I want people to stop living in the past stop lining in their mistakes and suffering for the mistakes that other people made
    I want our world to move on and everyone to give each other a second chance everyone to give themselv a second chance
    I hope our world can destroy boundaries
    National boundaries
    Cultural boundaries
    Racial boundaries
    Gender boundaries
    And cooperate to live in this country that I know as earth

    I am setting this as my goal in life
    I know it sound dumb and stupid impractical as it obviously looks
    But I believe
    I believe that you. Can believe
    I believe that every single person in this community an believe

    But first
    I need to idemtify the source of problems and the things that people generally view as reasonable
    To me it's not keeping good and kicking bad
    That's too subjective
    I'm looking for something objective
    And in order to do so
    We need to learn to control but not to remove our emotions
    As to me emotions is a double edge blade
    It can make impossible happen in both good and bad ways

    So pretty much in total
    I would like to seek advise or is it advice

    I need help
    I need support
    Indeed criticism
    I need evidence
    I need everything I can fet my hands on but in the end
    It's not about me but about you and the future of our humanity
    Whether we could make it a better place
    I could always choose to just live my own life and ignore this
    But I care for crying out loud
    I are
    I believe
    I trust in that human beings are capable of performing at their best if given a chance
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    Nov 8 2012: Dear Grace
    though I am not sure where you are from and what religion you are
    but yes, I understand... the freedom of women is shown and displayed clearly in the western world but is yet to be spread amongst many other parts of the world (addressing your last point)
    think about this, do you believe that such change could happen? Do you think making something illegal is the best way to do it? People need time to adapt to the most minimal things, and here you talk about a deep rooted religion of an area. What if you could influence and change the religious views and rituals and practices instead of making it illegal? Why not persuade and let them willingly give up instead of enforcing law upon them?

    addressing your political power to an educated population.
    I would like to ask you, what if... we Don't need a political system that tells us what we are supposed to do? What if we live in a society where people know what should be done... because politics tend to be too extreme. Its either A or B, A or B, you either agree or disagree

    You are satisfied with your life, and I believe that you should be and Im happy to hear that, however I do wonder, do you think other people are as lucky as you? Yes, you may say that they could make their life happy the way you did, but what if they cant? at least not quite possible without your support?

    You are not satisfied with the world because people are ignorant... and thus, is there anyway to change that fact? through education? but maybe not the "popular education system" that we have right now which seems to train people to do things more than they think.
    People are ignorant and live in black and white world because they are TOLD that the world is so,

    I believe that we can change that fact, that we are able to make our world into something different, if we truly find out the problem and find a good solution that doesn't involve force but instead involves compromise, explanation, acceptance and true belief.

    thank you~
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