Thursday, December 20, 2007

Does love have room for discussion?

I would like to know what is the meaning of love?
Does the meaning of love share the value between religion A from religion B?

Is there such thing as graded-love?

What kind of love does Jesus have?

The reason you believe in Jesus is because of God, or because of love?

Does God have love?

The reason you have the feeling of love.. is because of God? or your experience?

Saturday, December 15, 2007

Where technology meets religion, a Islamic car?

http://autos.canada.com/news/story.html?id=0f53cc2c-aa48-489f-a45c-63817a0805ad

Very funny...
Quote:
..Malaysia's Proton chief executive, Syed Zainal Abidin Syed Mohamed Tahir, said in November the three countries would develop the car with Islamic features such as a compass to determine the direction of Mecca.....

For Muslims...
Why don't they try:
Skin implant with reminder or timer components of praying 5 times a day.
Skin implant with the campass component that pointing to Mecca...
Heart implant with molecular-based-Quran-written component...
The best one, why dont propose a genetic engineer modification of their offspring?
Introduce or modify certain genes (immunoglobunlin) that will automatically detect and reject pork. Pork's antigen meets Muslim's antibody.. that is very interesting.. ^_^

When technology drives religion, you will observe interesing human behavior.
When religion drives technology, you will observe illogical human behavior.




Thursday, December 13, 2007

What is the ultimate value of human life? my questions to Karen Armstrong

Theory of religious fundamentalism

Armstrong has advanced a counter-intuitive theory of religious fundamentalism[citation needed], key to understanding the movements as they emerged in the late fifteenth and twentieth centuries:

Central to her reading of history is the notion that premodern cultures possessed two complementary and indispensable ways of thinking, speaking and knowing: mythos and logos. Mythos was concerned with meaning; it "provided people with a context that made sense of their day-to-day lives; it directed their attention to the eternal and the universal" [5]. Logos, on the other hand, dealt with practical matters. It forged ahead, elaborating on old insights, mastering the environment, and creating fresh and new things. Armstrong argues that modern Western society has lost the sense of mythos and enshrined logos as its foundation. Mythical narratives and the rituals and meanings attached to them have ceded authority to that which is rational, pragmatic and scientific - but which does not assuage human pain or sorrow, and cannot answer questions about the ultimate value of human life. However, far from embarking on a wholesale rejection of the modern emphasis in favour of the old balance, the author contends, religious fundamentalists unwittingly turn the mythos of their faith into logos. Fundamentalism is a child of modernity, and fundamentalists are fundamentally modern.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_Armstrong
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Human pain and sorrow are the antagonist of ultimate value of human life?
Nowadays, is it called depression or stress?

I think as a human, you have to learn to accept the consequence of your responsibility before attempting to act on it.

a life can be painful if you think it is a pailful one. no one can make you happy but yourself...

For example,
life is not fair, accept it and move on with your day-to-day lives..
life has many joys and sorrows, please enjoy both...
life can be ugly and beautiful, please accept it.
life will be meaningless if you make an attempt to compare yours to someone.
life can be exciting or boring, if you believe in faith.. your life will be boring...(my opinion.)
life serves no practical value if you don't contribute your life to the human society.
life can be simple if you refuse to take anything from human society.
life can be complicated if you think it is complicated.
life can be interacting if you give to and take from the society.
life is short as if a form of battery. you can run out the energy... *_*
life cannot be recycle.
life needs luck to make bad and good decision.
life takes sustenance
life takes brain
life takes religion?
life takes science.
life needs goodness. the goodness is from evolution (time + trials = Y), not from creation (X created Y)
life takes human potential.... ^_^

So much about life.. yet I dont see it pailful rather hopeful..
Religion is not the drug for the ultimate value of human life.. yet I see it as a product of primitive human activity....

So much about religion, so much about Quixotic... ^_^

Abnormal behavior as a physical disease, .it is not some kinds of demonic possession.


Freud’s structure of the mind


Freudian Theory of the Structure and Function of the Mind
The Structure of the Mind

-Id (pleasure principle; illogical, emotional, irrational)
-Ego (reality principle; logical and rational)
-Superego (moral principles; keeps Id and Ego in balance)

Defense Mechanisms: When the Ego Loses the Battle with the Id and Superego
-Displacement & denial
-Rationalization & reaction formation
-Projection, repression, and sublimation

Psychosexual Stages of Development
-Oral, anal, phallic, latency, and genital stages


Use of religious method for abnormal behavior:
supernatural tradition
Deviant behavior as a Battle of "Good" vs. "Evil"
-Deviant behavior was believed to be caused by demonic possession, witchcarft, sorcery
-Treatment included exorcism, torture, beatings, and crude surgeries like trepanation.
-paracelsus and lunacy (The moon and the starts)

*source:
Abnormal Psychology: An Integrative Approach, 4th Edition, David H.Barlow.

Wednesday, December 12, 2007

Poor girl....Atefah Sahaaleh

Atefeh Rajabi Sahaaleh (1988 - August 15, 2004) was a 16-year-old schoolgirl who was executed in Iran after being sentenced to death by an Iranian religious judge, Haji Rezai, for having committed "acts incompatible with chastity" according to Sharia law. The execution is controversial because of judicial error [1], where the age of the girl was reported in court documents to be 22 years, while it was in fact 16. It was her fourth conviction, but despite these aggravating circumstances, it is believed that she would not been eligible for execution at the age of 16.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ateqeh_Rajabi

What can we learn from this story?
We would care less, because she was not a Christian?
We would care less, because she was not American?
We would care less, because she was a femal?
or perhaps,
We would care less, because she deserves to die...

Is she a human? a kid? an innocent? Why would X let this happen again?
Well.. maybe there is not such thing as X...
Want to share this with believer and nonbeliever to think about it...

Chinese version:
在2004年8月15日,一名16岁女孩被绞死在伊朗小工业城镇Neka公共广场. 她以不贞洁罪被判死刑. 她的名字是Atefah Sahaaleh. 唯一的证据是法庭对Atefah本人的逼供. Atefah抱怨法院的法官不公平,但这是她的宿命. 法官Rezai哈吉,他也是当地的毛拉、检察官兼市政府官员、他从伊朗最高法庭获准处死她,她被悬挂在起重机吊臂上, 然后被套上绞索直到死去. 影片运用卧底、目击者和戏剧性重演的方式, 这部影片的故事告诉了在伊朗的毛拉制下,一个普通少女的悲剧.
Source http://www.verycd.com/topics/4933/




Wednesday, November 28, 2007

Finally.

I have to stop my practice of critical thinking because I have to prepare for my final exam...
No more questions to ask....
Happy discussion...

I have to give credit to X for my practice, I finally have learned something from nothing. ^_^

thank you for everyone... ^_^

Learning by making big mistake, so big that it isn't even a mistake anymore.

Well, if you can quantify or to grade human mistake from the past, I would like to solve those mistakes by scientific method. Imagine the same mistakes have been done so many times. It does fit in testable events for scientific method. I would spontaneously think the mistakes can be solve by scientific method, yet, I think I am wrong about it. Because human learning cannot be graded due to such ignorant behavior.

If people really interested in world peace, people should make more "new" mistakes, not such "old" mistakes which have been reported in media >100000 times since X's son were born. The news isn't new anymore. The mistake isn't mistake anymore... Why? perhaps we are numb, or perhaps people are more interested in Briney Spear's personal life, someone's virginity, and X's story. How can a moribund person or soporific mind thinks of world peace?

Human makes mistake so that human can learn from the mistake. Not a big deal, it is just one of the survival skills. It is a gift from nature (If you want to think it as a "meaning").

What mistake could be so big that we as human beings cannot fix it or learn from it? Religion? Interesting.. look around the world, I beg you, dare not to face those big mistakes even it is in front of you...

A person makes single mistake which can cause everyone suffers from his/her action. Is it a big mistake? or just a mistake? is the mistake subjective or objective?

If your idea is to cause most people suffer mentally (such as SIN) from you, will it be a subjective mistake? or objective mistake? Big or small mistake?

Perhaps, the idea of yours is just a make-belief. A true belief of 50% chance to be right. How significant can it be if you can't distinguish the big mistake from the small mistake? does it really matter in your belief. Perhaps, all big mistake and small mistakes do not really matter to you, what matter to you, is how to be saved and how to get to the heaven as a believer.

After all, does it really a big mistake as a believer?

It will be a very interesting to experience it if I can understand such big mistake as just a negligible mistake in nature. Too bad, I am not a believer.

Comparison the methods of science and pseudoscience.

This is just a summary of comparison between scientific method and pseudoscientifc method.

Tuesday, November 27, 2007

Nature and human

Human are able to survive in nature, it is because of nature selection.
We are selected by nature. The survival abilities of human are the proof for nature selection.
The reason that you are able to read this blog is because you are healthy and vital. For people who are not presented in nature (unborn/fetal with fatal mutated genes) were being selected by nature. It is simply because those people did not have the survival abilities if they were born in nature. They would not be able to gain biological function and learn as a normal human being.

Should we blame nature for having such crude process? No, we cannot blame nature, in fact, nature does not even care about human being. If you really want to know what nature care about, it will only be the driving forces. The intrinsic energy of nature.

You have to learn and understand how does nature work, so that you can work with nature.
In fact, you have to work with it if you want to survive. There is really no option for human to escape this. Once human beings have been selected by nature in nature, what are left and up to human to decide is human potential.

Human potentials have such abilities like
1. Learning
2. Thinking
3. Memorizing
4. Questioning
5. Studying
6. Feeling
7. Understanding and etc...

Of course, the reason I said "potential" because as a human, we are able to do more than what we do now. In the future, we might able to discover more exciting human potential from studying the human brain.

(people will say.. this potential can be used to make aware of the existent of "X".. damn.. I have nothing to say if you really want to think that way. At least, you are thinking right now, which is a good thing. If you really think that way, you should study it with your human potential. So that you can share with people about your discovery, and please dont just use "belief" as a proof for existent of X, if there is just a belief, it will not be qualified as human potential. I hope you know why.)

About the purpose of life....
It is the people who want the meaning for the existent of human beings from nature, therefore an omnipotent supernatural being existed...*_*
You can suggest that, but it is not the only suggestions....
Seriously, please look at the sky and think.
When does supernatural being care for human being?
For example: 2004 Tsunami disaster, 2005 Hurrican Katrina

In my opinion and experience, nature does not have the meaning for the existent of human. Nature only have natural driving forces. It is those force created life. We are the product of nature. If you want the meaning or purpose, it is because we are human. Perhaps, we want the reasons (life, death, "why we are here") so desperately from nature, yet nature is dispassionate about our existent and death. Perhaps, our unconscious mind finds reason to convince our conscious mind to believe it in dealing with the death and the existence of human being, and our desire is much stronger than our reason. In my sincere opinion, I don't think this solution solves those questions.

Last but not least, why don't you focus on what is left in you and do the best for human race in the future? So that, everyone is happy. ^_^

Believer, can you find this word in your bible? Theistic evolution

We no longer believe just because of what you said; now we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this man really is the Savior of the world. (John 4:42)

I just came across some blog and I found it very interesting. I would like to share this quote with non-believer and believer.

1. My first question, what does it suggest, form objective view to subjective view?

2. Does it sound like a statement after having profound experience?

3. What is a profound experience?

4. Is profound experience real?

5. Have you questioned your profound experience?

6. Does profound experience must have to be X?

7. What about other possibility, besides X?

8. How significant of your profound experience to change your life?

9. How many profound experience do you need to link to X?

It is very important to understand your profound experience. (It is quite oxymoron, people would ask me how do you understand an experience which is profound. ^_^)

I don't know how to define profound experience, people may suggest it is a personal feeling. I do have profound experience, such as reading people blog, having sex, study science, dreaming, sleeping and unexplained stuff (such as why this., why that..) and etc....

But I don't think these profound experience suggest that these as the result of X's creations....

Is profound experience created by your curiosity?
I do have curiosity for your information. but my curiosity is not ended at X.

Please share with me.... Thanks ^_^





Monday, November 26, 2007

Critical thinking: Is God a scientific question? (A big surprised)

Science produces human knowledge. Do you agree or not?
If you agree with me, then is God a scientific question? Yes or no?
If not, why does it affect a person ability to solve a scientific problem?

If you believe in God, then your ability to understand science will be compromised because of the faith in God. Do you agree with me?

God said This, Science suggests that. Therefore, the dispute between science and faith in God are obvious. Aren't religion and science irreconcilable?

For example:
Medical research: embryonic stem cell research (Big "No" from religious people)
Basic biology- evolution (Big No from religious people)
Religious people are constantly stealing scientist's result for their explanation of X's product. (That is a fact)
Religious people like to infer scientist's belief to God. (They always do that)
Quantum physic Vs. ID people

Therefore, God is a scientific question, It does not merely belong to religion's question.

What should we do?
I suggest we should use scientific method to solve this question.

In realm of science:
Theory that cannot be disproved in nature, it will not be existed in nature.
Therefore god does not exist if religious people insisted on linking science to god.

(In this case, I have to use the word "god" so that people can vote it)



Sunday, November 25, 2007

THE KYRIOS DIALOGUE: A modern application of the Socratic Method

The story is quite long.. if you are interested .. please go to the following page

http://www.socraticmethod.net/page1.htm

Sorry for the previous post.

THE KYRIOS DIALOGUE: A modern application of the Socratic Method

Very interesting method... Human activity and Religion.....Please let me know if you have any inputs.... Love to share stuff..

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The Kyrios dialogue has three characters. Paul and John are two conservative Christian men who believe they have authority over their wives. The Gadfly character is the Socratic questioner. The dialogue will focus on the nature of authority.

Paul: The preacher’s sermon was excellent today. It was an inspiring message right out of the word of God.

Gadfly: It sounds like I missed something good. What was the message?

Paul: He talked about an issue that is very important to the health of families. The sermon was about the proper role of men in the home. The preacher said that husbands have a God given authority over their families and that wives should be submissive to their husband’s authority. He encouraged husbands to start exercising this authority over their wives. In this way God’s divine order and purpose for the family can be fulfilled.

Gadfly: Having a proper order and purpose in life is a very exciting idea, especially if it is from God.

John: I don’t think my wife liked the sermon very much. I do not believe she will let me exercise my authority, even if it is from God.

Paul: A lot of families are like this and it is a cause of great spiritual harm. In my home, I am in charge. I can testify that when a man exercises his God given authority, things are much better in the home. As Christ is over the man, so man is over woman. John, you should just start walking in that spirit. God wants you to be the head of your family, it is His will. He will guide you and be with you. Just take the first steps of faith and be obedient to Him.

John: I understand and believe. It’s just hard to convince my wife. I do believe that a husband’s headship is vital not only to the health and well being of families, but to the whole nation. Part of the reason that things are as bad as they are is that the natural order has been forsaken. What you said, Paul is true. The Bible does teach that the head of man is Christ and the head of woman is man. A husband has a God-given role of leadership over his wife.

Gadfly: Are you going to try to implement this principle in your families’ life?

John: Yes, if I am going to be obedient to God, I should try.

Gadfly: If this is really a gift from God we should embrace it. But I do not know what this gift is, or how it is to be employed.

John: It is a very clear Biblical teaching.

Gadfly: I have been talking to a number Christian men lately, and they seem less than clear.

John: What are you talking about? Many Christians understand it. I understand it very well, even if I’m not acting on that understanding right now.

Gadfly: Then I'm lucky today. Before you, I have never talked to anyone who could explain the nature of a man’s authority over his wife. May I ask a few questions? I would like to understand it. And you seem to be the person to teach it to me.

John: Of course, go ahead.

Gadfly: You believe that men should express leadership over their wives. Correct?

John: Yes.

Gadfly: And all leadership carries some kind of authority?

John: Absolutely. The Bible says that wives should submit to their husbands. This most clearly shows that men have authority; and God gives this authority. It has also been the view of the Christian church for millennia.

Gadfly: For the moment I will be content just to know your view. In regard to authority, is it not true that all authority carries the power to make decisions? For example, a ship's captain has authority. But if the first mate had the final say in all decisions pertaining to the ship, what would become of the captain's authority?

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What do you think?

Critical thinking,- False assumption.


It is a very good example of critical thinking:
I hope you enjoy it.
Source:
http://www.richarddawkins.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=26256&p=451184&hilit=critical+thinking+critical+thinking+#p451184

Critical thinking-False assumption.


I really think this is one of the sample of critical thinking.

logic of the illogic.

People who believe in X must have their logic to accept X.

I don't have such logic I guess. Perhaps this is the limitations of my logic.

Then, my question to believer is:

If accepting X is part of a human logic, then WHAT is their logic of illogic.

Of course, my I have found my illogic.

Learning and understanding part II

In order to know the purpose of life, you need know the difference between nothing and something in your life.

In order to understand something, you have to ask questions.
The more you understand something, the more questions you will have. It is human nature.

In order to learn a subject, you have to be sincere, impartial and sensitive to the complex nature.
You can make assumptions, but question your assumption first.

In order to memorize something, you have to practice it.
Just share with people.

Learning and understanding. II

In order to know the purpose of life, you need know the difference between nothing and something in your life.

In order to understand something, you have to ask questions.
The more you understand something, the more questions you will have. It is human nature.

In order to learn a subject, you have to be sincere, impartial and sensitive to the complex nature.
You can make assumptions, but question your assumption first.

In order to memorize something, you have to practice it.
Just share with people.

Saturday, November 24, 2007

Learning and understanding.

How long it takes you to understand 1+1 =2 ?
How long it takes you to learn about life?
How long it takes you to make important questions?
How long it takes you to free your mind?
How long it takes you to question your belief?
How long it takes you to have a profound feeling?
How long it takes you to develop an individual experience?
How long it takes you to stop asking questions?
How long it takes you to wonder about earth and universe?
How long it takes you to love something or someone?
How long it takes you to understand human potential?
How long it takes you to believe something or nothing?

There are so many questions that I really want to know.
It is all about understanding, is it?

If you look back, human history is just an microscopic history comparing to the universe.
Now, the question you should think is the future.
The future is always filled with exciting and interesting if
You have the answers from those question that I asked.

Happy future days, enjoy living with human potential.
Never stop asking questions even thought you have found your X.

Cheers,
Wulin

Learning and understanding.

How long it takes you to understand 1+1 =2 ?
How long it takes you to learn about life?
How long it takes you to make important questions?
How long it takes you to free your mind?
How long it takes you to question your belief?
How long it takes you to have a profound feeling?
How long it takes you to develop an individual experience?
How long it takes you to stop asking questions?
How long it takes you to wonder about earth and universe?
How long it takes you to love something or someone?
How long it takes you to understand human potential?
How long it takes you to believe something or nothing?

There are so many questions that I really want to know.
It is all about understanding, is it?

If you look back, human history is just an microscopic history comparing to the universe.
Now, the question you should think is the future.
The future is always filled with exciting and interesting if
You have the answers from those question that I asked.

Happy future days, enjoy living with human potential.
Never stop asking questions even thought you have found your X.

Cheers,
Wulin

Neurons' questions

The questions to neurons:

1. As a cell, how does it link/connect to human mind?

2. Do neurons contain information? human thinking, learning, understanding and solving abilities.

3. How does neurons store information?

4. The function of neurons is just like cell?

5. What are missing between neurons and human mind?

6. Does human mind takes neurons?

7. Each activity of a neuron, what does it infer to human mind?

8. Can one stopping learning create/change neuron's properties?

Searching for truth and wisdom.

What is truth? What is wisdom?

X said, truth is X. What does it suggest?
I have no idea how you can extract truth and wisdom from this sentence?

If you believe in X, does it infer to obtaining wisdom from X? What make you think so?

Wisdom is not about belief. It is not about faith. (tell me if I am wrong)
Wisdom is to make you think critically, learn incisively, ask sincerely, and process logically.
Am I wrong about wisdom?

Religion is not about learning. it is about faith and belief.
I sincerely believe that if you are looking for wisdom as a human being, you should not join religion or believe in X.

You will not find wisdom in this domain,
Instead, you will find which is just about doctrine or dogma. Can these give you wisdom? I do not know and I don't understand. Perhaps, you can share with me about your wisdom.