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How come it wasn't called a gay particle?
Instead of blocking straight passers-by mass and ask them 'do you have a moment to support gay rights', OBGYN advocates should put out a big sign, converting this god particle to gay particle. It makes perfect sense, isn't it?

A gay particle walks into the church,
The priest says 'I'm sorry but we don't recognize your existence'.
The gay spirit replies 'Well, you can't have mass without me.'

5 Jul 2012 (updated 6 Jul 2012 at 03:22 UTC) »

光啟三年(887年),畢師鐸出屯高郵,聯合諸將攻揚州,高駢派人向楊行密求救,未至,城陷,高駢被囚,不久被秦彥、畢師鐸所殺,楊行密得知後,命令全軍將士為高駢穿孝,大慟三日,後發兵殺秦、畢二人。高駢能作詩,《唐诗纪事》称他的诗“雅有奇藻”。羅隱曾寫詩諷刺高駢好神仙之術。

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theresa_May

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edogawa_Rampo

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rikkyo_University

3 Jul 2012 (updated 3 Jul 2012 at 13:11 UTC) »

I'm translating 'Occidental Eschatology' (English translation done by David Ratmoko) into Chinese. Can't believe a 23-year-old wrote the book in 1947 in Zurich. I wonder how Jacob Taube had his 'irreparable' break with Gershom Scholem. What was that about? which reminds me to read Gershom Scholem's 'major trends in Jewish Mysticism' (1941).

If Western History is tragedy of Freedom as stated by young Jacob Taube, my impression is that civilization of the East is the tragedy of Family/Tribal conformism.

Taube stated 'The question is How does finite freedom, which is an element of time, relate to absolute freedom, an element of eternity? This relationship can be determined in theistic-transcendental, pantheistic-immanent, and atheistic-materialistic terms.' For my Gnostic inclination, how to determine/comprehend the essence of history through 'Latin, Greek, classic Chinese' terms or 'Arab, Hindi and Hebrew' terms?

29 Jun 2012 (updated 29 Jun 2012 at 17:01 UTC) »

ipv6 LINKY 'TO-READ':

http://www.ruwenzori.net/ipv6/Jims_LAN_IPv6_global_connectivity_howto.html

Journey to the West 华裔学者俞国藩的英文名 Anthony C. Yu

I hope raph is behind this knowledge graph launch as well.

Another interesting discovery today is this debate between a linguistic ex-missionary field worker vs. towering intellectual giant on their long stretched battle about recursion & culture-language connection and universal grammar of happiness. I'll give a re-write when I sip through my own factual findings and faith initiatives.

darn! how come I don't have 'come and work among us', like this man and his bosses's tacit understanding ? I wonder if he ever regretted leaving Europe and die in Princeton hospital. I would if I were him. Imagine their treatment of his brain! I bet that wouldn't have happened if he died in a hospital in old Europe.

I can only think of a better design than Chuck's push-down stacks is my poor memory bank striving to replay steps I took on the game board against my imaginary adversaries. I wonder if any master can replay 1000 steps on any normal day against any worthy opponents. It usually won't take more than 200 steps to finish 19x19 game. I've seen teachers play against a dozen students.

Jacob Taubes' take on Paul is fascinating to say the least.

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