Dear You, We haven’t met yet, or perhaps we have — quietly, without knowing what we might become. In this generation, many no longer believe in first love, in waiting, in forever. I’ve often been told I’m too idealistic, too slow, too serious. But I know whom I’m waiting for: someone who believes, like I do, that love isn’t just a feeling — it’s a covenant. Maybe you’re quiet too. Maybe you write more than you speak, pray more than you post....
This is the second book by C.S. Lewis I’ve read after Mere Christianity. Though short, it took me several days to finish. In heaven, everything is solid and real. The ghosts can’t handle this reality, mainly because of their own mindset. Hell starts from a tiny thought and grows when exposed to heaven’s truth. These thoughts can grow until they take over the soul, making the ghosts unable to bear heaven’s reality, forcing them back to Earth....
The so-called conflict between traditional society and modern society is actually a conflict between Christian society and modern society. What we call modern society’s features were actually commonplace in pre-modern non-Christian societies. Progressive/leftist culture spreads to non-Christian societies with much less resistance than to Christian societies. For example, homosexuality was never an issue in Confucian society, transgender people have existed since ancient times in the Philippines, Thailand and Southeast Asia, liberal marriage and sexual liberation with no-fault divorce was more prevalent in the Roman Empire than in the modern West, and cross-species identification and marriage frequently appeared in African and worldwide primitive tribes....
Because you came late, too late, even past mealtime. The cost of entering someone’s heart doubles with age. At fifteen, a simple glance back can become a lifelong precious memory. At forty, even someone who manages both work and housework is just another part of life’s struggles. As children, playing in the dirt could create lifelong friendships, but as adults, today’s sworn brothers might stab you in the back tomorrow....
While recently working on a website, I grew tired of the system’s default Chinese sans-serif font and wanted to find a new one for reading. I recalled an article by Hehe Wenwang from a long time ago, where I learned about the differences in Chinese character forms across four regions: In printed fonts, Japanese fonts reference the Kangxi Dictionary font, retaining many traditional forms, but they have already diverged from traditional Chinese characters....
After several days of painstaking work, I finally moved from WordPress to Hugo. Due to the fact that my server is very slow, I think I can focus on writing offline and concentrate on content, rather than adjusting features. There are many features that I find unnecessary, such as commentator ranking. The tree map of categories is also not that useful, because it’s hard to maintain the database. After switching to Hugo to manage my posts, I can organize them more easily....
#### HALF OF LIFE HAS NO NAME The opposite of fragile is not robust, half of our life has no name for. PLEASE BEHEAD ME We need to become Hydra, the serpent-like creature, we need some doses of antifragility, otherwise the sword of Damocles will get you. On the Necessity of Naming In the history of human, so many names of colors didn’t created, but this doesn’t mean we cannot discern different colors....
Last night I had a dream that I heard some news about Song Qingling, then my dad fell into a swamp suddenly, the next scene, two girls had a battle in the dirty swimming pool but we can see the bottom of the pool.
Formal education cannot bring discovery and progress, only aggressive risk can. In modern times, so many people avoid fragility through the expences of others. The Antidote to The Black Swan We are very thirsty for order, we should embrace the randomness so that we can become control order. When facing small probabilities, we often fail, so only when understanding it, then we will not fearful. Robust Is Not Robust Enough Mother Nature cannot predictable, though it runs well for 4 billion years....
#### Anatolia and Mesopotamia The agriculture developed, many towns developed, so the JERICHO Around 7000 BCE, they developed stone buildings to defend nomad, it’s a great achievement, and they used the skulls for rituals, also using plaster to restore the skull, and inlaid seashells as eyes. Ain Ghazal They remarked the beginning of monumental sculptures in Mesopotamia. ÇATAL HÖYÜK It developed the depiction of the human body, the shape of the torso, not only the profile....