Excerpt from Romance of Three Kingdoms 三国演义: 舌战群儒

Romance of Three Kingdoms (ZhugeLiang/KongMing)

严畯:孔明所言,皆强词夺理,不是正论,诸公不必与其计较。请问孔明先生,制何经典?

亮:我从不做那种寻章摘句,引经据典的学问,那是迂腐书呆子们的事情,与兴邦立业豪无关系。自古以来的大贤们,也末必冶什么经典?商汤的宰相伊尹,当初不过是个耕地的奴隶。兴周 的姜子牙曾作渭水之渔夫,至于后世张良、陈平等辈,皆有匡扶宇宙之才。也没听说他们冶什么经典呀!可如今书生们张口经典闭口古训,整日忙碌于笔砚之间,我 看这些人恐怕只会数黑论黄,舞文弄墨而已

程秉:听公之言口气甚大,末必真有实学。恐天下儒者所笑耳!

亮: 既然说起儒者,可知道儒者有君子小人之别么?君子之儒,忠君爱国,守公正斥缺恶,既能恩泽于当世,又可流芳于后世。而小人之儒则不同,专攻笔墨文章,只会 雕虫小技;可谓青春作赋,皓首穷经,笔下虽有千言,而胸中实无一策。试看扬雄,才华横溢,修辞作赋名盖一时。然而奸臣王莽篡权,他不顾廉耻,屈膝投降,最 后落得个跳楼自杀的下场!此等小人之儒,就是日赋万言,又有什么可取之处呢?亮知德枢兄乃汝南大儒,也拜读过兄长《周易摘抄》之大作。但愿兄长能做君子大 儒,忠君爱国。切莫仿效杨雄等小人之儒,留下千秋万代之骂名。

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Art of War

罗贯中的诸葛亮: 兵者有可见之兵,有不可见之兵。可见之兵荷戟执戈,肉身之士;不可见之兵,日月星辰、风云水火、山川之灵气,如此万物万象均可为兵。[@more@]

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Christian Actors

I once stumbled upon a question on whether any film actors would be saved? Because their whole lives and works have been full of temptations and you just don't see some survive from that.

After coming across Kirk's website http://www.wayofthemaster.com/watchwitnessing.shtml#  (honestly showing in the last clip where many other christian organizations would have cut out) and his sister's http://www.candacecameronbure.net/testimony.php I realized more clearly how truly unconditional God's salvation is.

Nevertheless, due to the temptations of the world of hollywood, it is impossible for one to discern between entertainment and joy. And many who seemed to have come to know Christ, failed. A few would try to find ways to compensate their situations by incorporating less obvious forms of entertainment into their ministries.

Last but not least, Kirk's and Candace's cases reminded me to truly pray for God's everylasting grace for them. That they fear not the burden of bitterness and losses.

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An Unexamined Life is not Worth Living - Socrates

故天将降大任于是人也,必先苦其心志,劳其筋骨,饿其体肤,空乏其身,行拂乱其所为,所以动心忍性,曾益其所不能。 (Mengzhi) 孟子

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Carpeted Floor

From my experience, I really don't like carpeted floor. Too much dust. If I am lazy to vacuum, I would rather use that time for some thing more profitable. I would rather sweep the floor, a more healthy excercise. Moreover, I could have partial carpeted area for the sake of comfort.[@more@]

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Problems in Any Organization

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Joe Beam

Marriage should be honored by all.

And the part where the marriage bed to be kept pure just doesn't quite seem to be taken seriously by many christians, married and singles alike.

Joe Beam needs to take serving God more seriously.

After long time of struggles, I've come to some notes about the charismatic movements. Besides emphasizing on secondary matters, superficial idolatry, using Biblical terms to mean something else...They like to find a way to bring in their "risky" or "perverted" philosophical ideas vaguely, so that when accused, they could pretend to turn those ideas off innocently, the smarter ones would keep arguing and eventually, say "I answer to God alone, what I do I am responsible before God".

I...I...I...as if one can add this to the Bible. The Bible never teaches us about "God, I do this, I do that, I do it therefore it is your will because I do it for you" when our christian attitude is mingled with matters of the world, desires, self-pride, equality, we could risk depriving the very salvation we thought we'd gain. 

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Plog System Upgrade

Due to comments attack...upgrading from

Plog version 1.0.1 to LifeType 1.1 

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Plog was changed to LifeType due to copyright issue with Amazon. Name has changed, but not much for the codes.

However, LifeType has one of the worst documented site. Hence, one would have to waste his time searching for basic answers, despite some elegant designs and inovations. The time wasted is just not worth it for someone who just wants to post journals on his own server. 

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Discipline

I realized when I found something of interest, mainly literature, I would be so joyful that I would stall...filling my time with something else...and then eventually, never quite get to keep that interest.

Psychologically, this is perhaps a form of escape from the labor of working on the subject with a very good excuse of "celebration", assuming the labor will be done after the "celebration", or to wait for a better and more suitable time to use. Consequently, the subliminal timeout notion is ignored with an unconscious motive.

So, I must not be tempted by this again.

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Self-Esteem

One's self-esteem is very important. It is how one values himself. Not proud, not over humble.

Romans 12:3 For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith.

我凭著所赐我的恩对你们各人说:不要看自己过於所当看的,要照著神所分给各人信心的大小,看得合乎中道。

When we do not think at all, we're not humble, we're actually being rebellious against God. When one think of himself more highly...it is a sin too.

Hence, it has to be just right, according to the measure of our individual faith. Some are smarter than others, some are more capable of certain things, some are stronger, but I should value myself not according to others' selves, but my own, individual self.

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