Comments on: 兩週一聚﹕假如我是一本書 http://www.horace.org/blog/2009/08/30/%e5%85%a9%e9%80%b1%e4%b8%80%e8%81%9a%ef%b9%95%e5%81%87%e5%a6%82%e6%88%91%e6%98%af%e4%b8%80%e6%9c%ac%e6%9b%b8/ Serious about the frivolous, frivolous about the serious Thu, 02 Feb 2012 00:57:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: hevangel http://www.horace.org/blog/2009/08/30/%e5%85%a9%e9%80%b1%e4%b8%80%e8%81%9a%ef%b9%95%e5%81%87%e5%a6%82%e6%88%91%e6%98%af%e4%b8%80%e6%9c%ac%e6%9b%b8/#comment-72140 hevangel Thu, 10 Sep 2009 16:09:56 +0000 http://www.horace.org/blog/2009/08/30/%e5%85%a9%e9%80%b1%e4%b8%80%e8%81%9a%ef%b9%95%e5%81%87%e5%a6%82%e6%88%91%e6%98%af%e4%b8%80%e6%9c%ac%e6%9b%b8/#comment-72140 兩週一聚每月逢十五和三十日發文。 下期的題目的“重頭一次” 兩週一聚每月逢十五和三十日發文。
下期的題目的“重頭一次”

]]> By: Holing http://www.horace.org/blog/2009/08/30/%e5%85%a9%e9%80%b1%e4%b8%80%e8%81%9a%ef%b9%95%e5%81%87%e5%a6%82%e6%88%91%e6%98%af%e4%b8%80%e6%9c%ac%e6%9b%b8/#comment-72139 Holing Thu, 10 Sep 2009 12:28:51 +0000 http://www.horace.org/blog/2009/08/30/%e5%85%a9%e9%80%b1%e4%b8%80%e8%81%9a%ef%b9%95%e5%81%87%e5%a6%82%e6%88%91%e6%98%af%e4%b8%80%e6%9c%ac%e6%9b%b8/#comment-72139 之前我也寫過類似的題目，叫《假如我們是一本書》，和你們的題目很接近。我的文章在這：http://linglingholing.mysinablog.com/index.php?op=ViewArticle&articleId=1143487 下次你們有兩周一聚可否讓我一起加入？到時麻煩你告訴我題目，如果有時間寫的話，我也想寫寫。 之前我也寫過類似的題目，叫《假如我們是一本書》，和你們的題目很接近。我的文章在這：http://linglingholing.mysinablog.com/index.php?op=ViewArticle&articleId=1143487

下次你們有兩周一聚可否讓我一起加入？到時麻煩你告訴我題目，如果有時間寫的話，我也想寫寫。

]]> By: hevangel http://www.horace.org/blog/2009/08/30/%e5%85%a9%e9%80%b1%e4%b8%80%e8%81%9a%ef%b9%95%e5%81%87%e5%a6%82%e6%88%91%e6%98%af%e4%b8%80%e6%9c%ac%e6%9b%b8/#comment-72128 hevangel Tue, 01 Sep 2009 07:07:44 +0000 http://www.horace.org/blog/2009/08/30/%e5%85%a9%e9%80%b1%e4%b8%80%e8%81%9a%ef%b9%95%e5%81%87%e5%a6%82%e6%88%91%e6%98%af%e4%b8%80%e6%9c%ac%e6%9b%b8/#comment-72128 I have the little red book at home, but the content is quite disappointing, just some brainless slogans. People during Cultural Revolution are crazy for Mao's charisma, not really his stupid ideas. His idea is quite laughable in today's standard. Technically, E=mc2 is a scientific paper, not a book. Einstein's discover change the world, but it doesn't change how people think. Unlike Darwin, it does not shape people's mind. Nuclear bomb is just a very very powerful bomb and relativity is too abstract for ordinary people. If those religion cults are not evil, then they must be plain stupid. I have read most of those stupid books, or at least flip through the pages. Maybe I will write something to criticize those evil religions some other time. If other do not agree with me, they are welcome come forth for an argument. I am happy to enlighten them why they are wrong. I am a believer of John Stuart Mills. I don't like censoring in general. We should defeat those inappropriate books through intellectual power, not take the easy way out to ban them. I have the little red book at home, but the content is quite disappointing, just some brainless slogans. People during Cultural Revolution are crazy for Mao’s charisma, not really his stupid ideas. His idea is quite laughable in today’s standard.

Technically, E=mc2 is a scientific paper, not a book. Einstein’s discover change the world, but it doesn’t change how people think. Unlike Darwin, it does not shape people’s mind. Nuclear bomb is just a very very powerful bomb and relativity is too abstract for ordinary people.

If those religion cults are not evil, then they must be plain stupid. I have read most of those stupid books, or at least flip through the pages. Maybe I will write something to criticize those evil religions some other time. If other do not agree with me, they are welcome come forth for an argument. I am happy to enlighten them why they are wrong.

I am a believer of John Stuart Mills. I don’t like censoring in general. We should defeat those inappropriate books through intellectual power, not take the easy way out to ban them.

]]> By: haricot http://www.horace.org/blog/2009/08/30/%e5%85%a9%e9%80%b1%e4%b8%80%e8%81%9a%ef%b9%95%e5%81%87%e5%a6%82%e6%88%91%e6%98%af%e4%b8%80%e6%9c%ac%e6%9b%b8/#comment-72127 haricot Tue, 01 Sep 2009 03:55:16 +0000 http://www.horace.org/blog/2009/08/30/%e5%85%a9%e9%80%b1%e4%b8%80%e8%81%9a%ef%b9%95%e5%81%87%e5%a6%82%e6%88%91%e6%98%af%e4%b8%80%e6%9c%ac%e6%9b%b8/#comment-72127 Here are my comments on your "Book of all Books": 1. During the Cultural Revolution, almost one-fourth of the world population was reading "Quotations from Chairman Mao 毛主席語錄", the Little Red Book that shaped the political scenes in both China and other parts of the globe for almost two decades. I would think it should be included. 2. The fact that thermo nuclear bombs kill doesn't imply that Einstein and his discovery of E=mc2 are both "bad". Similarly, it is not Darwin's fault that his science book was used by Hitler to justify the latter's atrocity. 3. There is a line in the Dream of the Red Chamber 紅楼夢: 『雜書可以移情乩性 Bad books could contaminate minds and change behaviours.』 My question is: How does one define "bad books 雜書"? While I respect your opinion on your definition of "Bibles of the Evil Sects 邪教的經書", and you have listed a few, I would submit that others might not share your view. 4. I do not pretend I have an answer to what should or should not be sanctioned / censored at the institutional or state levels. I guess it all depends on the value system of a society. Here in Canada, there are legal lines drawn with respect to hate-crimes, violence, kiddy-porns, and other materials deemed inappropriate or harmful to the society. Again, I find your article most interesting and appreciate having the opportunity to make comments. Here are my comments on your “Book of all Books”:

1. During the Cultural Revolution, almost one-fourth of the world population was reading “Quotations from Chairman Mao 毛主席語錄”, the Little Red Book that shaped the political scenes in both China and other parts of the globe for almost two decades. I would think it should be included.

2. The fact that thermo nuclear bombs kill doesn’t imply that Einstein and his discovery of E=mc2 are both “bad”. Similarly, it is not Darwin’s fault that his science book was used by Hitler to justify the latter’s atrocity.

3. There is a line in the Dream of the Red Chamber 紅楼夢: 『雜書可以移情乩性 Bad books could contaminate minds and change behaviours.』 My question is: How does one define “bad books 雜書”? While I respect your opinion on your definition of “Bibles of the Evil Sects 邪教的經書”, and you have listed a few, I would submit that others might not share your view.

4. I do not pretend I have an answer to what should or should not be sanctioned / censored at the institutional or state levels. I guess it all depends on the value system of a society. Here in Canada, there are legal lines drawn with respect to hate-crimes, violence, kiddy-porns, and other materials deemed inappropriate or harmful to the society.

Again, I find your article most interesting and appreciate having the opportunity to make comments.

]]> By: hevangel http://www.horace.org/blog/2009/08/30/%e5%85%a9%e9%80%b1%e4%b8%80%e8%81%9a%ef%b9%95%e5%81%87%e5%a6%82%e6%88%91%e6%98%af%e4%b8%80%e6%9c%ac%e6%9b%b8/#comment-72126 hevangel Mon, 31 Aug 2009 22:26:54 +0000 http://www.horace.org/blog/2009/08/30/%e5%85%a9%e9%80%b1%e4%b8%80%e8%81%9a%ef%b9%95%e5%81%87%e5%a6%82%e6%88%91%e6%98%af%e4%b8%80%e6%9c%ac%e6%9b%b8/#comment-72126 練功還練功﹐唔好練葵花寶典就得。 練功還練功﹐唔好練葵花寶典就得。

]]> By: 火羽 http://www.horace.org/blog/2009/08/30/%e5%85%a9%e9%80%b1%e4%b8%80%e8%81%9a%ef%b9%95%e5%81%87%e5%a6%82%e6%88%91%e6%98%af%e4%b8%80%e6%9c%ac%e6%9b%b8/#comment-72125 火羽 Mon, 31 Aug 2009 21:10:00 +0000 http://www.horace.org/blog/2009/08/30/%e5%85%a9%e9%80%b1%e4%b8%80%e8%81%9a%ef%b9%95%e5%81%87%e5%a6%82%e6%88%91%e6%98%af%e4%b8%80%e6%9c%ac%e6%9b%b8/#comment-72125 聖經唔好玩, 叫自己做《洗髓經》嘛~ 可以練埋功先一舉兩得. 而且因為聖經而打既交都唔好睇, no good!! 天下武林大會至好玩!! 聖經唔好玩, 叫自己做《洗髓經》嘛~ 可以練埋功先一舉兩得.
而且因為聖經而打既交都唔好睇, no good!! 天下武林大會至好玩!!

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