简单生活

Robber and angel, what is their difference? I have to tell you “no difference”, robber is angel somehow. For example, a group of robbers killed many innocent people, burned out the houses, and grabbed all the property. After that, they become rich, they start to build new house for themselves, they enjoy a very comfortable life, they need more but they change the way to get money. They therefore have many entertainment facilities earning money, such as auction house, kisut, casino, gambling house, hotel, bagnio and so on, even a new city at the ruin they destroyed. They sell the things they robbed, they trade the slave. They say they are saviours of the new world now! Because they have democracy, democracy for themselves. After some years, maybe 150 years, they say they are angels from the heaven!

Some Chinese like gambling, many foreigners know this. But, the gambling is illegal in China mainland. What I mean is that kind of gamble in casino or gambling house, you can’t find them in public place. But, there is a traditional game called Mah-jong in China,  it is very popular, everywhere, it is not gambling, we can call it a kind of  brain sport. Not everyone can play it except you are smart enough.

So, many rich Chinese start going outside of China mainland to look for some easy game or gambling, to where, like  Macao, Hongkong, Las Vegas, south America, even on the the open sea with a big big big boat. It is reported that more than 20% of the customer of Las Vegas casino are Chinese, there must be many Chinese restaurant there. Of course, they go there not just for gambling, also for sightseeing or economy investigation, at lease themselves said this.

Holiday is gone! Back to office.

Temperature -14 °C,  everywhere is white, snow and snow, night is so long, no light, it is getting dark at 3 pm, Christmas is coming, Ha ha, today is Julebord!

Amsterdam is big, compared to Trondheim at lest,  it is quite easy to take the public transportation such as metro, tram, or bus which is going to any corner in the city. Many museums, galleries, canals, modern design buildings,  plazas, …..Party and party day and night. Thousands of tourists come and go everyday.  There is a small China town in the city center, you can find restaurants, bars, snacks, massage there. China town is  near by the famous Amsterdam red street. Beautiful girls stand behind the glass window, different skin color, various tastes.  Maybe, people just go to red street for fun and go to China town for food. Sex and food are so closed here. We only went inside two museums since our busy schedule,  Van Gogh museum and sex museum, art and sex, 12.5 Euro and 3 Euro, no photo and  take as many as possible, quite and chaos! What I can say, this is Amsterdam first time in my mind. By the way, we also visited the world heritage site Kinderdijk, Zaanse Schans, and Giethoom. They are outside of Amsterdam,you can go there by train.

卡弗蒂言论中文翻译：“我不知道中国是否不同了，但我们跟中国的关系肯定是不同了。其一，中 国人对我们的敌意吸引了我们的眼球，其中一个原因是伊拉克战争。他们拿着我们数以千亿计的美元，我们也累积他们数以千亿元计的贸易逆差，因为我们不断输入 他们带铅油漆的垃圾产品和有毒宠物食品，又将工作出口至一些地方，在那些地方你可以给工人一元的月薪，就可以制造我们在沃尔玛买到的东西。所以我觉得，我 们跟中国的关系肯定有改变。我认为，他们基本上同过去50年一样，是一帮暴徒和恶棍。”

Jack Cafferty这段话的原文如下：“Well, I don’t know if China is any different, but our relationship with China is certainly different. We’re in hawk to the Chinese up to our eyeballs because of the war in Iraq, for one thing. They’re holding hundreds of billions of dollars worth of our paper. We also are running hundred of billions of dollars worth of trade deficits with them, as we continue to import their junk with the lead paint on them and the poisoned pet food and export, you know, jobs to places where you can pay workers a dollar a month to turn out the stuff that we’re buying from Wal-Mart. So I think our relationship with China has certainly changed. I think they’re basically the same bunch of goons and thugs they’ve been for the last 50 years”.

By Michael Parenti
I. For Lords and Lamas

Along with the blood drenched landscape of religious conflict there is the experience of inner peace and solace that every religion promises, none more so than Buddhism. Standing in marked contrast to the intolerant savagery of other religions, Buddhism is neither fanatical nor dogmatic–so say its adherents. For many of them Buddhism is less a theology and more a meditative and investigative discipline intended to promote an inner harmony and enlightenment while directing us to a path of right living. Generally, the spiritual focus is not only on oneself but on the welfare of others. One tries to put aside egoistic pursuits and gain a deeper understanding of one’s connection to all people and things. “Socially engaged Buddhism” tries to blend individual liberation with responsible social action in order to build an enlightened society.

A glance at history, however, reveals that not all the many and widely varying forms of Buddhism have been free of doctrinal fanaticism, nor free of the violent and exploitative pursuits so characteristic of other religions. In Sri Lanka there is a legendary and almost sacred recorded history about the triumphant battles waged by Buddhist kings of yore. During the twentieth century, Buddhists clashed violently with each other and with non-Buddhists in Thailand, Burma, Korea, Japan, India, and elsewhere. In Sri Lanka, armed battles between Buddhist Sinhalese and Hindu Tamils have taken many lives on both sides. In 1998 the U.S. State Department listed thirty of the world’s most violent and dangerous extremist groups. Over half of them were religious, specifically Muslim, Jewish, and Buddhist. ¹ Read more…

A: Will you support the Olympic Games?
daLIE: Absolutely~~

A: Will you support the Olympic Games?
daLIE’s super fans: Absolutely not.
A: Why?
daLIE’s super fans: becasue we are daLIE’s super fans!

by Eirik Granqvist, a foreign expert in Shanghai who visited Tibet in 2006

“The western medias announced that China had cut all information and that articles about the riots could not be sent out! I got mad about all the apparently incorrect information and wrote this article and two other similar ones although I am not a journalist but just because I could not stand all the bad things about China that was told. I sent them by e-mail without problems and they arrived well but two newspapers did neither respond neither publish what I had written. The third answered and wanted a shorter version that was published many days later as a normal ‘readers voice’. What Dalai Lama had said was largely published every day together with a real anti-China propaganda. What I had written was apparently too China friendly for the ‘free press’.”

I was very shocked by what I had seen in the television and been reading in China daily about the riots in Lhasa. The most that shocked me was anyhow may be not the cruel events by themselves but how the medias in my country of origin, Finland, reported the events. A friend has scanned and sent me articles and I have checked also myself what can be found at Internet. Read more…