Posted in Personal on February 27, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Hi everyone.
Buddha Warrior has not been so active in the last week and it is due to the new semester of university. It’s my last semester as an undergraduate and I’m doing five courses, so already I have a presentation to prepare for as well as many other assessment pieces that are looming on the [...]
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Posted in Fun or Humour on February 22, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Sincerity is the only worthwhile form of charm - other charms are but illusions, but sincerity is grounded in true charisma, power of personality, and purpose-infused drive.
The true charismatic fuses sincerity with a commonsense, rational wisdom with a deep, emotional sincerity that makes men loyal friends and women adoring allies. At least in theory, for [...]
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Posted in Religion on February 16, 2008 | No Comments »
Reason and faith tends to be significantly more dynamically in tension within theistic religions because it has tended to be a historical conflict. In theistic history there is much said conflict, but a lot of us don’t realize many quite decent theistic philosophers, like Aquinas, al-Kindi or Maimonides, have tended to be overlooked when people [...]
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Posted in Self-Improvement on February 13, 2008 | 9 Comments »
I watched the majority of Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd’s formal apology to the native Aboriginals this morning. Although his speech was not stunning, it was articulate, eloquent and sincere. And while compensation remains an issue, I’ve always said that compensation is far more complex on so many levels than a simple speech of apology [...]
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Posted in Personal, Self-Improvement on February 12, 2008 | 7 Comments »
I know yesterday I promised to quote from a book, but I reread it this morning and decided it offered not enough new info for me to bring it over to uni, so I decided to leave it. Sorry if I killed the anticipation. But at least today I came prepared with something to write.
Yesterday [...]
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Posted in Fun or Humour, Personal on February 11, 2008 | 1 Comment »
But I forgot to bring the damn book.
See, since December, my house hasn’t had internet connection, so nearly everyday I’ve been coming to my university to use the computers to check my email and enter a post on my blog. Last night I read a very interesting thing concerned with religious experience that coincided with [...]
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Posted in Fun or Humour on February 7, 2008 | No Comments »
GUNG HEI FAAT CHOY!
HOK YEEP JUN BO!
SUN TEI GEEN HONG!
LONG MA ZING SUN!
SIU HAU SEUNG HOI!
BO BO GO SING!
CHING CHUN SEUNG JU!
Happy Chinese New Year. Celebrate with family, or if not, then with friends!
(feel free to add to the list if I’ve missed any out)
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Posted in Fun or Humour, Personal on February 5, 2008 | No Comments »
This post is inspired by reading a friend’s Xanga blog. Here’s my chronology of a brat’s attitude from junior high up till my current attitude in university…
Yrs 7 - 8: A bit of an arrogant prick, loved Linkin Park, was rather spoilt through no one else’s fault but my own… was still trying to forge [...]
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I don’t get competitive sports, and most of all, I don’t get competitive sportsmen who see whatever they do as the ‘test’ or benchmark of manhood or being ‘good at sports’. For example, I am not that good at most ball sports. Because most of the guys who play ball sports do not actually [...]
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