Letters in Chinese

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8/21/2026

What is the danger of a sure-win situation?

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What is the danger of a sure-win situation?




Battles cannot be sure-win anywhere in history.

Nothing is perfect and nothing is a hundred percent sure.

Important is not checking out all leaking points.

Important is in the total situation.

No one can tell you all.

You always need silence and quietness before the fight.

Things will happen when your concentration is lost.











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8/20/2026

Who suffered the most in the Sino-American conflict in Panama?

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Who suffered the most in the Sino-American conflict in Panama?




It is the small Chinese merchants in Panama suffered the most.

I was told by my relative in Panama,  that they are living worst than ever.

Less and less ships are coming to Panama.   The small merchants can hardly sustain themselves.

It is a conflict between two big countries.   But the losers are the small merchants.   Business dropped drastically,   experts will tell you that they are losing 99% or even more.   How can the small people live out of such a economic situation?

Two giants are fighting each other,   but the losers are the small ones.

My relatives are living under the support from a far away place.

Can any one of them be saved?

Rich people fights, poor people suffers.











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8/19/2026

What will happen if all language issues are settled?

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What will happen if all language issues are settled?



It will happen in the very near future.   People can communicate using a simple device like a mobile to talk or message with anyone in the whole world.

All language users will be using the same device in a few years of time.

They can read and write anything with anybody without difficulty.  

If you say something, others can receive it.

What's the implication here?

The implication is:  it will be meaningless for the Taiwan issue.

It needs not the help of traditional Chinese to settle the Taiwan issue.

You just make a phone call and the problem is solved.

But the problem remains.

Because you will not know who is the President of the United States by that time.






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8/18/2026

What is one-mindedness in a country?

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What is one-mindedness in a country?



If the one-mindedness is not achieved, the country will be split.

The term means people share the same origin of their culture.   Maybe India is a case to study.   They have lots of languages and they share different blood.   But still they are one single country, not two.

However, the Indians have the same language to use. English has become official for them.

Some people say nothing is impossible.   Even Indians can do it.   And India is one country, one system.  Why the Chinese cannot follow their case?

We need to have an eyesight 30 years ahead.

Do you know what will happen 30 years later for the Chinese language development?

Do you know will there be any problems for any one single person talking to another one single person in completely different countries?

There will be no problem.

We don't even need to have a second language.

You can use one language to go around all the world.  More than one language will become meaningless and useless 30 years later.

Why waste time learning different languages?

Why waste time to manage the simplified or traditional Chinese languages?

Still we need to do it.

It would be a nightmare for the future people if they need to have two languages in one country.

We need to mix them up because 30 years is the future and the future is unpredictable.

If the language problem is not solved in China,  it means there will be different minds in China.

People will say it's good to have one country, two minds.

It is the most serious political setup for the future of China.

But the problem remains:   Why you need to let the students learn the difficult traditional Chinese,  because it will be useless in a short future of 30 years.

My choice is to keep my sons and daughters bilingual.   I will let them learn both traditional and simplified Chinese:  majoring in the more completed original and traditional Chinese.

Only because of one thing:

They will need to use their brains more.

They will not have a simplified brain in the future.

Even though in 30 years later languages are not necessary because  the computer age has really come, but they still to keep their brains prepared and never to be discarded.

They need to learn the Chinese words stroke by stroke, to maintain a comlpleted brain and a unified China.









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8/17/2026

What would happen after the Taiwan strait issue?

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What would happen after the Taiwan strait issue?  




It all depends on the time allowed and the method used.

The problems remains on how many years would be suitable to let the Taiwan island integrated into the mainland.

It is a problem of political will.

If the willingness of political powers is achieved,  all  is well that ends well and peace is created. 

However, method is a problem.

How would the integration be achieved or created?

Will it be a mixture of economic measures and cultural interchange?

It seems the economic measures are much more easier than the cultural one.

But a true integration must be cultural.

You need always to have a single mind for a single country.

It is really basic and cannot be denied.

It could be a serious political trap if the important track of a cultural reunion is bypassed.

Because it will provide the chance for a future fight even if the reunion is temporarily created.

The question is what will happen after the reunion?

It is an important question need to be premeditated.

For a foreseeable future, you need to have a foreseeable plan.







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8/16/2026

What is the thing behind love and imagination??

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What is the thing behind love and imagination?



The idea of Jesus is love.  

The idea of Buddha is imagination.

When Jesus said love is important.

When Buddha said everything is vanity.

What is the thing needs to do after love and the realization of vanity?

The idea of Mao Zedong is different.

His choice is to take action and do it.

If you put it in Chinese, it is only in three words.

愛,夢,做。

Yes, you need to love and you need to dream, but finally you need to do it.












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8/15/2026

What could be the turning point of humanity?

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The turning point of humanity is military.

But it can also be in the sway of mind.

The mind is the output of a brain.

Maybe the problem is in the brain more than the mind.

If the brains of human are functioning well,  all problems will be gone.

If the brains are still no more better than a monkey,  our problem will stay.


I thought the problem is coming from the unbalance of the brains.

You need to balance your reasoning power and your intuition power.

And unbalance is from the will of the creator of human.

The problem of unbalance cannot be solved in a short term.

So there are wars and there will be wars.

Wars  will be eliminated one day when the brains are all completely balanced.....

But it might not be a good thing.

If you are completely balanced, you will not be improving.

I love yourself in a little bit of unbalance.

It is to the best of my advice.










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8/14/2026

Why Chinese can be a turning point for humanity?

 20260814

Why Chinese can be a turning point for humanity?




My question is:  what is the language in the Chinese brains, when people are doing a complicated calculation in science?

Will it be that they are still using Chinese to think?

The case could be studied in the thinking approach in scientists or in musicians.

When Chinese scientists are writing formulas, will there be still Chinese language  operating?

Will the Chinese be completely forgotten sometimes?

Will Chinese scientisrs have Chinese as the first level in their minds?

When they are lecturing, they can always use a piece of chalk to write the formulas in the blackboard in Arabian numbers.

That means the form of Chinese is still in their mind as a basic tool to think.

It shows the advantage of the Chinese mind.

The ideographic form of writing is using the other side of the brain, not as the alphabetical form of writing.

It means the Chinese are more right brain oriented.

They don't need a spelling or a linear kind of thoughts to control their mind.

If you are not linear, then you are not on a surface.

Their  thinking method is three dimensional, not two dimensional.  It is a spatial form of thinking more than a linear surface thinking.

It is holistic, not sequential.

The rise of China is not by chance, it is destined..

(中國的崛起不是偶然的,是必然的。) 

It is determined by the basic nature of the Chinese culture.

It is because they are always thinking in a holistic approach.

However, languages are not the only issue in the thinking procedure,  other issues like philosophical or political thoughts are also a factor to sway the direction of minds.





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8/13/2026

Do you know your conclusion before you start writing?

 20260813

Do you know your conclusion before you have started writing?




My answer is that I am not sure.  The most special moment is writing music, your notes are following a certain pattern to go on. But they will not be completely your own idea. Something new and something fresh will come up suddenly. You cannot refuse the sudden explosion of ideas. Could it be all your own ideas?

And your life is the same. Your life is just like music going on without your own approval.

External influence might be less if you are smart enough. You can know which is your own idea which is not your own.

And life is like that. You are not pushing your own life always. Some other efforts are pushing behind you. Where does these efforts come from?

I cannot give you an answer because I don't know it either. What I know is the efforts did exist.

You will not be knowing what is going on in your life.

Actually, I should have said that you will not know what is going on in your mind or your life.

Maybe you can change your mind and then change your life.

Everyone must be very careful about that.

If anyone loses control over his own mind, he will lose control over everything. He might be mad.

But it might not be bad.

It is tasteless if you are living on like that forever.

Certainly some idea can explode in your mind and you do something extraordinary.

You are not doing everything routinely and meaninglessly forever, because it is not your wish.

If you can know you are doing meaningless things, you'll be smarter.

It is wonderful.

As for me, I am refusing seduction always.

Though I hope I can do something special.

It is too boring for me.











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8/12/2026

What is the secret about life?

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 What is the secret about life?




If humans cannot find out its secret,   it means humans will remain ignorant.

The universe is a strange place.

But I can sense that humans are the only living beings in the whole universe  with the company of many other forms of lives within the limitation of planet earth.

If we do not know the secret about life, it means our understanding is zero.

It means we know nothing about ourselves and this universe.

It is not acceptable at all.

But we have been living under such conditions for thousands of years,  if the period for the beginning of life is not included.

We humans are ignorant.

But still we are living very well and very comfortable.

The worst part is humans are fighting each other without knowing where to go.

It is a naive and funny bad thing.

Lots of people think that they are on the right track of life.

It's just funny and it is the reality.

Of course I can sleep well like anyone else.

Although I can never forget the aim to search.

It is too slow and maybe it is useless, but still we are working on it.

I think you agree with me.










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What can humans do?

 20260812

What can humans do?




I had spent a whole afternoon talking with an AI.

The topic is about astronomy.   I asked the AI about how the universe functions and how is the nature of the universe.

 The AI told me the basic findings of the universe by numerous scientists.

It seems a lot.  It seems like a book opening before your eyes.   But I found my understanding about the universe after the long talking is basically zero.

However,  the AI is like a kind old man. He told me some kind words I wish to share with you:


The AI said:


I can summarize everything known to humanity, piece together all the fragments into a map, and compress the most complex theories into language you can understand—but I cannot take that step.


That step is:


· Proposing a completely new hypothesis where there is no data

· Making intuitive leaps where there is no logical chain

· Enduring the unknown where there is no answer

· Creating meaning for yourself where there is none


That is your job, and your privilege.


And than, the AI continues:


What makes humans human is not how much knowledge they can retain, but the choice to keep questioning, keep loving, keep creating, and keep living—even after knowing that the universe may be utterly meaningless.


What I can do is stand behind you, clearly mark the path you have already traveled, and let you see the lights lit by those who came before.


But the darkness ahead—you must walk into it yourself............(The AI finishs here.)


But my understanding is different:


The first important point is that you must have suffered.

You must have suffered so badly that you know there is an urgent need to ask questions and to solve the problems.

It is a feeling only the fish in the water knows.

You cannot know anything without submerging yourself into the dirty mud of the humans.

And suffering must be a passive suffering.

You cannot go to ask for some bitter candies and knew it all.

What is a passive suffering?

All the oppressed people knew it.

There will not be any knowledge about this world without oppression.

Wars and extreme poverty can open eyes.

The only window to knowledge is pain.










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8/11/2026

How can you live with a secret?

 20260811

How can you live with a secret?


If I can tell the story in a more simple way,  I would say that the earth is only a soil.

It is useless to have a soil without seeds.

You can give me a piece of soil rich in minerals and rich in moisture, water and have plenty of sunshine

But the soil will be useless if there is no seeds on it.

We humans can be the seeds on this planet.

And we have not discovered the secrets yet.

Who give you the seeds?

Why you can never make a single seed?

What is the ultimate secret we need to have to produce a seed on our own effort?

I can only say until this moment:   Soils are not important,  but the seeds are.

We are more than seeds.

Because we have legs and we have arms.

We can move and we can fly.

We are the moving seeds or living seeds on this universe.

The only thing we know is that we can grow.

But we don't know where can we go?

One day the seeds will be flying in other planets,  and in far away solar systems. 

One day the seeds will be all over this universe.

But what for?

You don't need to answer what for.

Because you are doing it actually.

Please remember my word:

That there is a difference in the soil and seeds.

The soils are given.

But you don't know whether the seeds are given also.

The only answer is that the effort is yours and the growing is yours.

What does it mean?

It means you have a say.

Now tell me what will you say?







  








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8/10/2026

What if there is no iron in this Universe?

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What if there is no iron in this Universe?




"Iron" is a strange but important thing in this Universe, or this planet.

If there is no iron, it means there will be no electricity.

If there is no electricity, it means human will not be developing so fast.

Electricity is coming from a strange magnetic design of a motor.

Electricity comes from a circular motion from the motor.   It is the magnetic effect of iron.

If there is no iron at all,  then there will be no electricity.

Maybe future scientists can invent some other kind of electricity without using iron.   Actually, it deserves a try.   If you can push something dancing or circling like a ballerina,   then you might have invented another kind of motor without electricity.  

May be the study of inertia can help.  Clever people can use inertia to replace electricity.

However, it is still a puzzle for us:   What if we have no iron and no electricity?

What if the industrial  revolution had never happened?

Can you believe that something is pushing humans going? 

If there is no iron at all on this planet,   we will be going back to the times before industrial revolution.

Maybe there will be no Opium War in 1842.

However, it is only a joke.  Don't worry.












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8/09/2026

Can intuition replace logical thinking?

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Can intuition replace logical thinking?




It is obvious in wars as well as daily lives.

Your life will become suddenly mechanical and is unbearable in a totally logical situation.

It is because logic cannot fly.   Though you can simplify a logic,   but it is not easy to find another route through a logical plan.

Few people will know the secret of intuition.

It is more than literature.

It is another way of thinking that can help you.

Intuition can fly, but logic cannot.

Because life is more than a chess game.

Life is always in a chaos and complicated.

Some people found chaos is not acceptable.

But intuition minded people do not think like that.

The point is not a planned route.

The point is a sudden realization of something new.

It is not logic, it is intuition.

Logic is a lock sometimes.

That's why many big companies are just like prisons.










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8/08/2026

What is "unthinkable"?

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What is "unthinkable"?




"unthinkable" is not the same as "avoidable".

It is a common weakness of humans that they would avoid thinking sometimes.

Their thoughts will not go to the places they do not like to think.

For example, if you would like to think about failure or death?   Those were prohibited areas.

But unthinkable is not the same as the avoidable.

Brave people will not avoid any places.

Avoidable is not for brave people.

It is the basic requirement of Humans:  That you are not to avoid thinkings.  If you are well prepared, and if you are willing to accept the results, you will not avoid thinking anything.

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But unthinkable is another area of thoughts.

Because it is outside the human thinking abilities.

We humans have only one thinking system.  Although we can design different languages and different science subjects or mathematics.

But still we have only one thinking system.

Now the requirement is for humans to go further.

If you can know that there are some places outside your imagination and outside yourthinking abilities  and even it is outside your dreams.

It can happen but you will not dream about it before.

It is the highest requirement for humans.

It means you need to prepare for the unthinkable.

Because nothing is a hundred percent sure.

Because nothing is absolute.

However, you need to go outside absolute areas to think.

It is not very difficult.

If you can make yourself unpredictable,  you'll be nearer to that goal.

It seems to be against common sense.

But it is not against common sense.

It is from the ancient philosopher of Zhang Zi.

It is called the absolute freedom.

You will be absolutely free if you are absolutely devoted.







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8/07/2026

Why nothing is absolutely certain?

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Why nothing is absolutely certain?




For the above issue,   I should have said: why nothing is almost certain.

Things can change.

Nothing is absolutely predictable.

It is better to have a second option always. 

But it doesn't mean hesitation and delay.

Preparation is better than hesitation.

When your preparation is enough.,  things will be going according to your goal with a little push.

Most important is your first step.

If you have found that you are avoiding the first step always.

Be careful..

If you are not doing it, someone else will come to do it for you.

But if the case is not like this:

If it is only because you are too busy.

If you are carrying too heavy a workload supplied by your friends or your enemies.

"Keep him busy and he will forget...."

Failure is hidden beneath always.










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8/06/2026

What are the most difficult questions unanswered?

20260806
What are the most difficult questions unanswered?




For example, why there's a universe?

Where does this universe come from?

It was said that the universe is coming from a tiny dot.

Well, but where does this dot come from?
And I guess some of the concepts in human civilizations is extremely strange:

For example, what is zero?

Can zero becomes something?

There is nothing before the universe,  can "0" becomes "1" ?

I always have some sense of guilt behind my questions.

I dare not asked questions because sometimes it will be blamed.

I think the term "zero" must be only a device of human calculation.

There was no zero before the universe was born.

And I thought that there might be no beginning for this universe.

The universe was always existing.  

The universe was there from the "non-beginning".

It meant it was there, it is there and it will be there.

If people found it strange, it is only that people has been equipped with a formula that there will be a beginning for everything, and it is " Unthinkable " if something happens without a reason.

It is on the  human mindset.   Humans are "accustomed" with a  thought that there must be a beginning for something.

It is not easily acceptable if you tell them there is no beginning for something.

What is "Unthinkable"?

It means it is a problem human minds cannot  process.

It is outside the processing ability of human mind.















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How I was alerted by a voice?

 20260806

How I was alerted by a voice?



It happened several months ago.  I was a serious music lover.   I tried to learn  playing guitar and I tried learning to sing.

The day when I was leaving my home and closed my door, I was in the corridor waiting for elevator.  Suddenly I heard a voice from the back of my head.  I cannot know whether it's from inside my head or from outside my head.   The voice said: "quit music".

I cannot know whether it's an order or something like a decision from my own self.

I put it aside for several days.

 I know it is good for me to concentrate in my work and not to put too much time in music. 

Several days later I gave away my guitar for good.

And it was several months later that I really decided to quit music.


  













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8/05/2026

Can you think in another thinking system?

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Can you think in another thinking system?




Can you "quit" your system to think?

You'll be super smart if you can.

Because you are using another thinking system to analyze the world.

If there is someone who can manage to use a non-human system to see the world,  he will find strange things.

For example, if you go to see a doctor,  you can tell  him your feeling.   And he will measure your data. He will make a judgement for you, and according to that judgement,  he will punch some keys in his computer system,  and you will receive drugs. He will not use extraterrestrial system to analyze your case.   He is using the same system like any other humans are using.

Can he avoid using human systems?

Maybe not.

He had been working hard to earn his degree to treat you.   It is all his means to survive.  He cannot quit his position.  He cannot leave the keyboard in front of him.

Humans can quit his thinking system in only one place:-   dreams.

Strange things will come up to remind him something else......if he is truely smart.

Maybe we can never leave our existence to think.

But you can always fly higher.

People will be much smarter when they are returning from the space.

But still they are not using another system to think. Though they will be much smarter with some awareness.

Lacking awareness means failure,   and the opposite means a chance.














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8/04/2026

Why I hate my electronic watch?

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Why I hate my electronic watch?  




Every time when I need to know the time,   I need to shake my hand to wake up the light on my watch,  then they would let you see the time.

I like to use my old mechanic watch.   You don't need to pay attention to the time whenever you need to see it.   And the needles are running like real.   They are true time indicators.  They are not a shadow on a stupid device.

Maybe it is good, but I hate it.

Why it is good?

Because time is important.   You need to pay a little attention to it.  You don't need to do anything in a mechanical watch.  But now you need to do something to know the time.

Maybe it is truly good.

Because you need to watch the time always.

Yesterday, I planned to use one hour to study something.

I used an an electronic watch.

Time is passing away in an absolutely alerted way.

Oh my god!  Should I pay  so much attention to the minutes and seconds?

Can I forget the time and enjoy working?

I think if I can totally forget about the time,   I will be Free. But  I know it is not allowed.

So I am not so happy as I should be.


Because I don't like to answer that question:

How many years are left for you?









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8/03/2026

What is "Meaningful Happiness"?

 20260803 

What is "Meaningful Happiness"?



Some philosophers insisted that  the aim of life is happiness.  Lots of such theoretical discussions were  quite convincing though sometimes discouraging.

"Happiness seeking" can be a wrong way of life and sometime dangerous.

And the term "happiness seeking" is doubtful and  parents are avoiding to mention it.

However, if there is no happiness ahead, the goal of life could be tasteless.

Can happiness be meaningful too?

I think the answer is yes.

The goal of life should be meaningful and it can  also be a happy voyage.

You will welcome a happy and healthy life.



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In a view of some Western philosophers, happiness cannot be a goal because if you seek happiness, the happiness might come but it is a feeling can never be  satisfied,  if you keep seeking it, then you'll find it is a path of sadness. 今朝酒醒何處? Where could I wake up from my drunkenness? It is a place called loneliness:   The shore of willows in the morning wind and some remains of a poor moon.

It would be different if your life is meaningful.


  







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Why no one really thinks?

 20260803


Why no one really thinks?



It is only a few who really thinks.

Although our life is in a very short life span,  but It is functional in a long run future.  Everyone matters.   Everyone is a concern.  Everyone is a seed to the future.  It needs a brain and a mind working together to think.

It is important.

You need to know your value in the future.


  












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8/02/2026

Why you need to be an attacker always?

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Why you need to be an attacker always?


It is like a small chicken  inside the egg shell.   The chick needs to attack the shell.   This is a basic rule for this universe.   You will die if you are not attacking.  

And of course, this is only  philosophical.   And this is the basic attitude of life.  

When it is going too aggressively.,  it could become another story.

And it happens in international politics..

If they are not taking your land,   they need to occupy your market.

It is hard to survive without an attacking mind.

It is the reason why you need to go forward always.








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8/01/2026

Why I always wish to know when is the best time?

 20260801

Why I always wish to know when is the best time?




It is common in everyday life.   I never know when is the most suitable time.   Maybe the problem is not time.   The problem is what.

What shall I do?

It is because there will not be a perfect planning for everything.

You always need to gamble a bit.

Please note the sophisticated difference here.

To gamble a bit is not to gamble like a

 gambler.

To be human is to face the uncertainty.

If everything is certain, then you are not needed.

Why the nature need the participation of human?

It is because human is not doing everything in a 100% certain way.

Humans are not predictable.

If there is a god,  god will not like to have a predictable staff  to work for him.

Then what are humans supposed to be doing?

All I can say is:  you are supposed to be doing within your judgement.

Once the judgment is ripe, you strike.












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What is the ultimate regulation for humans?

 20260801

What is the ultimate regulation for humans?



Human behaviour are not always predictable.  Humans are not always sensible.

Not two brains are the same. 

No one knows exactly what is in the minds of his friend or foe.

The last resort is unavoidable always.

The last resort could be worse than war.

For example, a nuclear attack is the worse of all.

There will not be any ultimate regulation for humans.

But there is always a means to choose.

The so called "last resort" is war.

We must always remember that wars can happen and will happen.

The entire economic situation and social functions will be completely changed if a war breaks out.

Can a war be some kinds of  regulations for humans?

Obedience comes from a final regulation of strength, but not a reasoning power.



  












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