Tuesday, May 25, 2010
The Consolations of Philosophy - cont
The philosopher might have offered unflattering explanations of why we fall in love, but there was consolation for rejection - the consolation of knowing that our pain is normal.
What is more, we are not inherently unlovable. There is no need to hate ourselves. One day we will come across someone who can find us wonderful and who will feel exceptionally natural and open with us (because our chin and their chin make a desirable combination from the will-to-life's point of view)
We should in time learn to forgive our rejectors. The break0up was not their choice. In every clumsy attempt by one person to inform another that they need more space or time, that they are reluctant to commit or are afraid of intimacy, the rejector is striving to intellectualize an essentially unconscious negative verdict formulated by the will-to-life.
If they were seduced away by people less intelligent that we are, we should not condemn for shallowness. We should remember, as Schopenhauer explains, that: What is looked for in marriage is not intellectual entertainment, but the procreation of children.
We should draw a consolation from the thought that a lack of love: between a man and a woman is the announcement that what they might produce would only be a badly organized, unhappy being, wanting in harmony in itself. We might have been happy with our beloved, but nature was not - a greater reason to surrender our grip on love.
We must, between periods of digging in the dark, endeavour always to transform our tears into knowledge.
Difficulties - Nietzsche's answer
What if pleasure and displeasure were so tired together that whoever wanted to have as much as possible of one must also have as much as possible of the other...you have the choice: either as little displeasure as possible, painlessness in brief...or as much displeasure as possible as the price for the growth of an abundance of subtle pleasures and joys that have rarely been relished yet? If you decide for the former and desire to diminish and lower the level of human pain, you also have to diminish and lower the level of their capacity for joy.
Friday, May 21, 2010
夜
Tuesday, May 18, 2010
小時候
我們作為座上客,實在希望 (八卦) 看到:
- 一對新人在小時候的胖嘟嘟嬰兒照
- 一本正經或羞怯的証件相
- 初中時候的標準身形得以在運動場上一顯身手,並在頒獎台上揚威。
- 畢業禮的你們排在一行擺出勝利手勢,眼神堅定到令人相信你們前途一定光明如斯。
- 及後二人在自助餐的桌面上狼吞虎嚥,以及因此看出面形/身形都明顯地發福。
- 以致到二人旅行,兩個身體貼得緊緊的,面上還留著尚未融化的雪花。
- 婚紗照,出場了。郎才女貌,十分登對。四目交投,眼裏的濃情蜜意都告訴大家二人愛得不可分割,甜蜜滿瀉,如在面前。
那些發自內心的祝福說話我從來不會吝嗇,真心希望你們幸福,相愛到白頭。
沒有人教我們如何相愛,相愛的路既漫長又遙遠,沿途的荊棘要用心去面對,謹守愛的承諾,才能有相愛到白頭的福氣。
Monday, May 17, 2010
《走過死蔭的樹下》
http://www.cp1897.com.hk/product_info.php?BookId=9789881725042
二零零八年八月二十七日下午,十九歲少女莊頌賢(小貓)首次踏足赤柱大街。突然,一棵百年刺桐倒下,轟然一聲,大樹倒下,把她壓至當場吐血,結束了小貓短暫卻精彩的人生。歇斯底里的胞姐(貓醫生),迎來血流披臉的妹妹,一顆心碎了。此後,一家人如墜死蔭之幽谷。貓醫生的世界,由那一刻而永遠改變。身為精神科醫生的她,卻不為悲哀傷所壓倒,以筆桿療傷,叫小貓復活。「如果可以救回你,要我到地府一千次一萬次我也要拉你回來……往後的路,也不容易走,但我還是會走得絢爛,給你看見,讓你引以為傲。」姊妹情深,天地動容。
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Saturday, May 15, 2010
The Consolations of Philosophy
"A fine introduction to the world of philosophy" - Newsweek
The book covers a total of 6 areas as below:
- Unpopularity
- Not Having Enough Money
- Frustration
- Inadequacy
- A Broken Heart
- Difficulties
Unpopularity - Socrates's answer:
The Philosopher offered us a way out of two powerful delusions: that we should always or never listen to the dictates of public opinion. To follow his example, we will best be rewared if we strive instead to listen always to the dictates of reason.
Not Having Enough Money - Epicurus's response -
Happiness may be difficult to attain. The obstacles are not primarily financial.
Frustration - Seneca's response
Anger - We must reconcile ourselves to the necessary imperfectibility of existence.
Shock - Because we are injured most by what we do not expect, and because we must expect everything ("There is nothing which Forture does not dare'), we must, proposed Seneca, hold the possibility of disaster in mind at all times.
Sense of injustice - But we cannot always explain our destiny by referring to our moral worth; we may be cursed and blessed without justice behind either. Not everything which happens to us occurs with reference to something about us.
Anxiety - To calm us down in noisy streets, we should trust that those making a noise know nothing of us. We should place a fireguard between the noise outside and an internal sense of deserving punishment. We should not import into scenarios where they don't belong pessimistic interpretations of others' motives. Thereafter, noise will never be pleasant, but it will not have to make us furious.
We may be powerless to alter certain events, but we remain free to choose our attitude towards them, and it is in our spontaneous acceptance of necessity that we find our distinctive freedom.
Inadequacy - Montaigne's answer
Many things that i would not care to tell any individual man i tell to the public, and for knowledge of my most secret thoughts, i refer my most loyal friends to a bookseller's stall.
Friday, May 14, 2010
去旅行是否還要買手信?
在我的心中,每次我浪遊異國,我都會想起在香港的朋友,一些在那段時間和我的生活很貼近的人。我會買手信,買手信給我的朋友。
如是者,我去旅行也會想起他。也給他買一點甚麼,他去了旅行也買了我些甚麼給我,彷彿我們之間有了一個手信的約定。
他自旅行歸來,心想那會是一個鎖匙扣嗎? 那我可不要了。
他說預留一些好東西。
他帶來了桂花茶以及檀香扇。
有心就好。
桂花糕我喜歡吃,桂花茶相信也好喝吧。
檀香扇,聽起來很老套,但把扇揚開,也不失典雅。
下一次去旅行我必會想起你。
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謝謝你。
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最近你忙多了,公私兩忙吧?
你淡淡地笑了一下。
祝福你,你人這麼好,一定,一定找到所愛。
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以後我想找你的時候會減少了吧,你準會是那種重色輕友的人。
請以行動告訴我你不是這種人吧。
手信的約定。
記著。
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Thursday, May 13, 2010
Appreciated
thanks for dropping me a quote as below, appreciated.
the best way out is always through. -- robert frost
Wednesday, May 12, 2010
跨界服務
有時候不知怎地總會忘記某組密碼,於是致電要重開,一輪的身份核証,終於可以辦妥。一想到此就感到煩。但有沒有想過萬一,我說的是萬一,撤手塵寰的時候,一些網上的資產如何可以妥善地處理? 又或者我想關閉我的blog, 不再在這塵世留下一些痕跡,又或者我只想把舊有的文章都一一刪去,只留下一句 - "作者已離開人間,來不及話別,魂歸天父懷抱。"
早在幾年前,密歇根一家法庭就處理過一個類似的問題。2005年,一名在伊拉克陣亡的年輕海軍陸戰隊士兵的父母,將雅虎(Yahoo)告上了法庭,要求雅虎允許他們進入自己兒子的電郵賬戶。這對剛剛失去兒子的父母,想用電郵幫助創建一個兒子生活的剪貼簿。雅虎辯稱,它的協議條款不允許電郵賬戶被轉交給親屬。
法庭命令雅虎將電郵賬戶移交給士兵的父母,但這其中涉及的法律問題仍然模糊不清。時至今日,雅虎的協議條款仍然聲明,電郵賬戶不可轉讓,也無法繼承。
My Last Email, if I die, Great Goodbye, Last Wishes, Death Switch, Dead Man's Switch, GoneTo Soon...這些都是提供實用且嚴肅服務,只要會員登記了相關的密碼,加了承繼者的名字,在其離世後,承繼人可拿取死者生前寄存的密碼。
在歐洲,總部位於瑞士的DataInherit於今年2月推出了一項類似的服務,並且已經擁有逾2500名付費用戶。該公司于3月份推出的免費iPhone應用程式,在第一週就吸引了數千名用戶。
美國的Legacy Locker主要是免費的,提供基本服務,如付錢則會提供更優質服務。
據說Google 與 FB 也有相應的政策。
跨界的服務實在造福社群,尤其在現今生活已和密碼緊緊扣上,我們在網上的資產又豈止那一組又組的密碼,還有是網上的資產,以及無形無相但真情實感的情感分享。
你會申請成為會員嗎?
資料來源 -《信報》資訊數碼
Friday, May 07, 2010
算術
早幾天,在一個偶然的機會下發現思考大師在嚴肅的哲學課題下還是寫詩的。發現詩意不缺的李天命還有另外一面,如下:
一個A,一個B
一個A乘一個B
夢遊仙境愛麗斯
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一個0,一個一
一個0除一個一山盟海誓咀甜蜜
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一個得,一個失
一個得減一個失耶穌佛陀追跳虱
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一個傻,一條瓜
一個傻加一條瓜
一條傻傻的傻瓜
後記: 拿起書,唸唸這幾句,有點趣味,借此和同事閒談,也感樂透。
還在這裏看著的你/妳,一同來輕鬆一下吧。
你/妳到底是夢遊仙境的愛麗絲還是傻瓜?
--算術急口令 -《寒武紀》
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