U Don't Know How Good Life is...?

Hi,

Thanks for the enlightening & humbling murals. It is not always 'U don't know how good your life is'. It may be 'U don't know how come your life is so good'

If we live a better life compared to those shown, it is because we had a luckier draw and stand on the shoulders and progresses accorded to us by some of the people before us and Science (plagiarised from Newton & others, honesty is the best policy).

Many are too unaware and arrogant to recognise that, and try to escape it by imagining it is blessings from their gods found via their great searches (see, it is all because of their own great discovering abilities)

As Zhou EnLai said of the Americans, they are a great people but they have no sense of history. You want to copy this?

As Isaac Asimov said, what have the church got to contribute to all the human progress we have around us the last few hundred years other than cheap words? (actually, also cheap stakes).

Before the advent of modern science and technology, most of the human race lived under difficult conditions. Except the ones at the top of the power pyramids who had the benefit of exploiting the ones below them.

This included the practice of slavery which was rampant throughout history. And the church said nothing about slavery (not the popes as slaves of god but men as slaves of the popes hor.)

Chinamen should know better, most of their forefathers lived that way up till the 20th century!

You don't find such honesty from the church. Perhaps, it's on an 'only god need to know' basis - like super-paedophile cases. Too big for the minds of god's copy, the Copygods.

Asimov lived in an America of Christ (like Chinamen of the same type, before Columbus 'found' it it was not hor) but the same applies whether you suck up to a mullah, monk or priest. Chinaman monks apply for the mail below - Dao or no Dao.

The Chinese has a saying Sou Zhu Dai Tu meaning to watch a tree to catch a rabbit.

The fable behind it is like this: One day a man saw a rabbit run into a tree and got knocked unconscious. So he took it home and had a good meal out of it. After that day, the stupid man attributed his easy catch to the tree and began to sit at the tree everyday waiting for the next catch.

Hah, sounds like Buddha? That Indian fella was a lucky sob too. He had an empire and could afford to sit at a tree waiting for inspiration. He might not have dead rabbits to contribute but he at least taught the world the concept of cause and effect. That's a few thousand years old history.
The Chinese rabbit fable is a few thousand years old too. And from some sharp Chinaman whose great insight speak of the kind of Chinamen I love to apply the dao to.

You see how accurate, despite its age, it is in describing human behaviour.

Just 4 characters, no need for a copius book n songs of copied hot air. Such economy of wisdom is of course unavailable to fools that has no need to copy from history and Chinamen's enlightenment. They don't need to stand on others' shoulders, only that one big fella's hot air.

Flying in the face of hot air sure beats all the kungfu Chinamen like the ones in Hidden Tiger, Crouching Dragon hor? Or was it Tiger Hide, Dragon Crotch? I don't hold old hot air well lah.

So if you want to bless this world, remember those hot air you suck in no can do.

But to be fair, what else do stupid but lucky Chinamen have to offer anyway, hor? Sou Zhu Dai Tu.

And for those that love to be images of super supremes: if you happen to be a heavenly perfect copy of Sou Zhu Dai Tu, it is just a work of those that preside over your heaven. Not your fault. Live with it, they work in copiously mysterious ways.


I thank the people from history
the great minds who were brave.

Torch bearers of rationality
sharp tearers of knave and rave
for a hand in my non-manifest destiny
for what I have without being a slave.

Ah-great-men, not Ah-men
is how I end my wondrous days
I do the reverse only when
I end my ponder of the foolish in daze...


This is just my simple poetry. Cannot compare to the likes of Rudyard Kipling's 'The White Man's Burden' where he exhorts the Americans to take up the 'challenge' and where Chinamen and likes star as 'half-devil, half-child'.



----- Original Message ----
From: Christopher Leong christopherleong2@yahoo.com.sg
To: Chee Khiaw Cheng cheekhiaw@yahoo.com
Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2007 11:10:17 PM
Subject: U don't know how good your life is..!


If you think you are unhappy, look at them
if you think your job is tough, how about him?
if you think your salary is low, how about her?

If you think you don't have many friends, ask yourself if you have one sincere friend...
you think study is a burden, how about her?

when you feel like giving up, think of this man
if you think you suffer in life, do you suffer as much as he does?
if you complaint about your transport system, how about them?
if your society is unfair to you, how about her?

"That which is beautiful is not always good; but that which is good is always beautiful"

xxx