It's easier to prove that homosexuality is genetic than to prove that religion is real. Religion has the potential to be as real as any suffering we go through, but if religion chooses not to be genuine in the name of truth by refusing to feel the pain within us, all doctrine lose their power and religion becomes an imaginary "lifestyle choice".

The Houses That Live In Us

The Houses That Live In Us

If you lay yourself in bed and close your eyes
And allow yourself to walk into the darkness in your mind,
You will find, dimly lit,
Spaces that stage you dreams -
And if you try to light that up
You will find in these rooms you used to live in.

If you allow your mind to take control of that space
And move furniture into existence
Arranging them once
And then again
Reversing how you rearranged the room as you would reverse time
You find yourself
Clearing outwards by your sheer will, a space of time -
Your childhood room, your new house, your boarding school -
You will find the spaces that house your memories
Well and alive.

If you allow yourself to sit in one of these spaces
And soak in your surroundings
You will smell the same smells and hear the same sounds and feel the same warmth
Welling up in you -
You connect with your past and realize
What treasures you have stored up,
Safely locked away,
In the heavens of the darkness
Of a night alone in bed -
You will be cradled in the warmth of those who have crossed paths with you
And fall asleep, excited about tomorrow,
As they call out to you in whispers
See you tomorrow, goodnight.

Science

Religion and Passion are always more seductive than Science because science fails us in two areas: its processes and its practitioners.

Science fails us because it does not consider inspiration to be part of its processes - science is based on data, and the data we collect is limited by our ability to imagine. If you can't measure it, it doesn't exist - and throughout the times we have depended on visionaries who think up new ways to measure the world around us, or accidents in science that lead people do discover the same. There is still so much of the world out there that doesn't exist in the eyes of science. Religion and culture always stand by us to assure us that we need to keep on believing, until science catches up with reality.

Science fails us because scientists always promise the ideal but reality delivers the sustainable. Scientists are very exact people - and that goes into the perception of their responsibility to the world. If an economic pressure prevents a scientific discovery from benefitting society, scientists don't own up to the failure. If a scientific theory is difficult, it is always the layman's fault that he doesn't find science accessible. I remember it was promised that music distributed on cd will be cheaper than music distributed on cassettes but that never happened. Climate scientists try so hard to prove climate change, but the fight is political. Activists on the other hand know how to connect facts to reality.

Scientists owe the world as much as the world owe scientists. The failure of science isn't the failure of the institution of science. It is a witness to how we work best together because we're all different in different ways.


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我认为无所谓人生的目地，只有你本身的目地。生存不是人生的目地，因为生存就是人生。还句话说，重要的，是你为了谁活着，为了做什么活着。思考人生＂目地＂的，是creationist 的paradigm.

Right and wrong in a society is never established by science but by
norms and ideals. Norms change and so do laws. Slavery was abolished but it's not based on scientific proof, but because someone challenged the norm. Courts don't exist to uphold "the truth" - that is not as importance as its calling, which is to dispense justice. Law is not about truth but about justice.

Religion is a free choice too. If you want to believe in a mixed religion you can form a new religion or denomination. It not common but it happens. And people do live in mixed environments where the the father is one race and religion and the mother is a different race and religion. In Japan, people go to the temple during new year and get married in churches. That is the norm in Japan.

I think when it comes to education students should be taught everything. Including both science and religion and politics. They should be taught both evolution and religious beliefs and sort it out for themselves. If science is self explanatory you should have faith that they will choose whatever works for them.


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Science

You seem to think that if you add all the circuits together you can get an iPhone. That's not true. The iPhone is an invention, not a scientific one but a cultural, a social one. You need all the science to put it together, but if nobody dreamed it up, no amount of research can create an iPhone.

Science can lead to discoveries but discoveries cannot change peoples lives unless someone dreams about using science to do so.

Science is a method of finding answers. It is inspiration that asks the questions.

Sometimes questions are answered by other fields, such as Maths. Maths knowledge is created by mathematicians who imagine mathematical hypothesis and proof them using mathematical logic, many of which can only be proven using even more mathematics. There is no science (experiments) here.

Another is in the field of literature. For example, the Korean Hangul alphabet was created with the inspiration of ying and yang. Without the Korean alphabet, Korea would not have a distinctly Korean identity and language which created the basis for Korean communication and literature.



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Reason

In an ideal world, reason would be unnecessary. You would be happy just because. Logic is just another basis for legitimacy, built to enable negotiations between peoples who did not previously share a common cultural language for communication.

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The next-next-next big thing : Big (Data) Brother 2.0 (Computational Legal Intelligence).

 Imagine: You are unhappy with how you got treated at work. Legal Intelligence will give you the laws you can quote to help your company "understand" your problem.

Imagine: What your vendor did seems questionable. Legal Intelligence will give you the laws to quote to help your vendor come to terms with their legal responsibility.

Imagine : Entering your scenario into a website, and it will tell you all the relevant laws and policies, past judgements, and gray areas, and give you a sample approach how you can use the law to win your case. This is the rule of law, by the people, for the people.

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Next big thing : ubiquitous purpose-specific computing ("upc")

Imagine : direct mail flyers in your mailbox that interact with your mails to give you ads that genuinely interest you, without privacy leak.

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The next big thing : wearable robotics?

Imagine : Typing gloves that let you type on an imagined keyboard with full-keyboard touch when you type.

Imagine : programmable nanorobotic underwear that guides you in martial arts and dance

Imagine : smart glasses that also respond physically to turn your head to look at what you're searching for.