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文藝復興時期，深受人文主義思想薰陶，例如耶穌會，一個由一群熱切愛主的傳教士所組成的宗教團體，便是個中典型。
耶穌會入會條件如下：

試申論下列主張之哲學思維：
"我承認自己能力不強，也沒有刻意低眼看人，但我相信我和他理解到的東西不一樣。"  
答：

I say SHOEI is the best helmet in the world!
But Rossi and Biaggi do not agree with me. 
They are the best bike racers in the world.
I am an ass hole in the ring.
Which one do you believe?

Honestly to say, there would be totally different views on a single event, and there would be nothing good and bad --- if there were not a criterion in mind to tell them. We judge things by the criterions we conceived, which may be acquired in our childhood, through subconsciousness, even late when adolescence, or still later when we are old. These standards of our values stand for our thinking and preference. Most times they stand relatively for our cognition to the whole world, that is, our beliefs toward the sensational receptions.  
Strangely to say, why are people mostly so sure and self-confident to claim their faith to something to be true and thus they feel so cozy in their own grooves they created for themselves without examining their motivations and the logical inductiveness of the faith itself? They don't even check, or, let me put it this way, reconsider other aspects from others before they decisively "found out" the "truth". Is it the real truth or is it just the information that would less rub against their disobedient mane? The reasons may be as followed:  
First, people don’t have much time to ponder such stuffs. They are quite occupied by the routines of chores they daily meet to feed themselves from being starved. To survive is the very first thing human behave instinctively. Many people have problems making the both ends meet. Obviously they will not in such mood to immerge themselves into the seemingly “breadless” issues.  

Why do many students hate books?
Because when the tiny spring shoot busts up into a fresh new life, eager to have a taste of a sweet morning dwe, the arrogant gardener just pours it with a pail of cold water blended with abundent of chemicals and fertilizers, hoping to make it grow faster. Yet the weak green leaf is choked to death due to absorbing too much uncessary watering and nourishment. That is, it is in too well a condition to live. This is exactly what most parents and teachers have been doing to the next generations. They gave birth to their younsters, good. They raise them, not bad. They nourish them well, of course. They give them hope, very good. However, sadly to say, instead of enlighening, they command, for they think they have the right to manipulate what they create or what they "invest" onto. They show no respects to lives, whether those lives are from themselves or not. Grown-ups are taught to accept knowledge, so they do so to their descendants.  Therefore they began to stuff, cram their youths with a lot of knowledge they regard as useful. Shit! That's what I've been told to do once for a short while, since I was then at the "Cram" school. To see how those old schools use the word to define their sons and daughters is to know how they would treat their children, the posterity. LOL, pretty funny, right?
So, why do many students hate books?
Not because they hate books, but they hate the way they are treated via books. As far as I have experienced, I never met a person who was not curious about anything surrounding them. Once he or she was curious about something, there aroused them the urge to KNOW. And that's where the knowledge comes from. Knowledge is everywhere, and knowledge is being born at every moment. What is a book? A book is simply a comlilation of knowledge within a specific catagory. One of a major function book can offer is to help us accumulate the information we are curious about at a relatively much faster speed. Given this, we thus don't have any reason to hate books unless we are no more curious about the world we are living in. At least, we should many times have asked ourselves who we are, why we were born (Please don't refer to the stupid consequence of your parents' wrongly fore play...^^), or where we should go. Yes. It turns out that we are still beings with active thinking, and we don't want to get closer to knowledge to open those pathetique books, as our folks always mock us about. The intense emotional collision explodes in our hearts, which hurts very much, and few can come up with an idea to alleviate such pain.
Eventually I find out why many students hate books.
Because they haven't known "THE BOOK" yet, which can slove ALL THE PROBLEMS  and contains THE ACCESS TO ALL KNOWLEDGE in the world as well as relieve ALL THE SORROWS we may have, or have had.
Wow! What is the book then?
Well, this is my future calling to let as many students know this book as I could. But so far I only know the first chapter begins with an APPLE story...^o^

It was a time when the Civil War was keen; the general commander of North,
A. Lincoln used to pray before God all the time.
One day, Lincoln walked out as usual from his room after praying. There 
came an officer who said to him emotionally, "Sir, may God be with us North!"
Having learned about this,  Lincoln told him slowly,
 "He is not only Lord of North, but of South too.
It is not a matter of whether He is by our side or theirs,
rather which side is by Him."
                                      Retold from a famous anecdote...

Oh yeah! I found the machenism of interaction between God and me, and I think that will be also availible between you and Him. All my friends should read this.
As rpgs is being taken on with passion, I hurt my knee back to back. Having nothing to do but stretch myself out lazily on the sofas, I wonder the hidden incentive for this coincedence till I found this sentence from Paul about Paul's words in Romans 8:25, "But if we hope for what we do not yet have, we wait for it patiently." Sometimes the environment asks me if  I really want something, well, as for what is really "real", you may go to Patrick Chen to see what has happened to him and how he reacted in response, then you will find what is "real wanting"; but I doubt this will last long if he names himself to be the commander of life, well, I sincerelly hope he won't.
In God's version, He reveals His opinion about how or what  we did or will do in a more gentle way. He lets us know what we really want slowly, step by step, if we do ask Him of that. Pay attention here; when I say "if we do ask Him", I mean it! He will only reveal us His order if we do ask Him of this. He allows us to suspect, to err, to try, to be compliant to ourselves' wills rather than obeying His, or to turn around to Him and ask for a second chance. He is the real captain of our lives. It would be totally reliable and secure to pass Him the sovereignty of your life. Let Him be your captain, and He will show you the way home. If a voyage of a fisherman comes back with full capturing, then there couldn't be two captains on his ship. You couldn't listen to the captain and listen to you at the same time.

Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might.

此抄將為吾首次以中文於無名小站發表，節錄自生平最愛小說【基度山恩仇記】最末章【十月五日】中男主角所撰最後書信。初為文，以古體行，迴避吾中文打字之拙陋，蓋字數較少矣，非有欲以聱牙詰舌，媚示於外者；但能以此旨著墨，幸甚。
本書中文全譯本出自李牧華先生於民國六十一年手稿，以全譯本發行，已著實不易；既謂全譯，一字一格，屢屢道來，不畏艱辛，洋洋灑灑少則百萬言；況譯文流暢典雅，詞藻秀麗。大方而不失細緻，精密而不泥鑽營。譯者處處師慧獨運，以中文襯托法文柔夢之美，淋漓盡致，真逸品也。三十年後亦未見後賢，得有以伯仲相稱者，堪稱眾譯本之翹楚，實至名歸。

From this day on,
I am not only Chris;
For I will have another name;
Hopefully soon, but later is not worse,
Clark, an earthly act,
But never an earthly calling,
It is rather unevitable fact,
Transformers thus will be coming.
Leap as they march,
Hulk as they smash.
Titan as they gloat,
Fountain as they devote.
Curiously may you wonder,
The special days we are together.
For what gushes the purpose?
La Companha de Jesus! 

It is Teacher's Day today, a "typhoonful" day, which granted me generously a class-free break; I like to write something closely related to teachers, and I don't think there would be anything which is closer to teachers than blackboards at classrooms.
As far as we know, the first teacher who wrote on classroom walls was the Reverend Samuel Reed Hall (1795~1877), an innovative educator and minister who is said to have first written on a peice of dark paper when teaching a mathematics lesson in Rumford, Maine, in 1816. Later Hall moved to Concord, Vermaont, where, it is believed, he had the plaster in his classroom painted black. Soon, many other teachers, following Hall's example, painted plaster walls or plain boards black to create a visual teaching aid. By the second quarter of the nineteenth century, enameled walls and then slate boards dominated American classrooms. Hall, who is also credited by American historians with inventing the blackboard eraser and with intrducing many other educational innovations, has been honored by the state of Vermont with a memorial in Concord bearing the inscription including the words "pioneer in the use of the blackboard as a schoolroom appliance".

What is a language? Many professionals have dedicated years, even generations, to exploring the interesting question which is with incredable vastness. Nowadays, language science evolves and improves, in which field we are amazed at how wonderful and complicated what we are using as a tool to mommunicate one another every day really is. And that's the reason why I have come to love linguistic, which also gives me a new aspect to know a language, especially English, in a relatively more logical and panoramic way.
As an American writer, Gertrude Stein, once stated, "I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences." Indeed, using languages is artistic and interesting, and so is analysing them. In diagramming sentences, we might see certain clues that how God manipulated the oringinal source of languages to confuse people at the Tower of Babel thousands of years ago. Or at least, we could know how confusing it has come to be, an artistic somehow a little humorous way of divinity.
However, most linguistic textbooks are tough to read for there are so many terms and closed and strict descriptive definitions, which are not easily comprehensible to normal people who are not expertised in related fields. Here I would like to recommand a best buy as well as the best elixir for biginners longing to get closer to linguistic knowledge but easily becoming fretful about its Phariseean style. In addition, this book has also won highly approval and identification by Dr. Chris Ledt Lin, who was once also favored by this book:

If you own an antique vase from Q'in Dynasty, will you cherish it?
A four-year-old boy once reached his little hand into an expensive vase but got stuck in it, anxiously not knowing what to do. His mom tried all her best to "undo" what the child "did", such as lubricating with soap water, all eventually in vain. She could have crashed the vase only for fear that this vase might be her husband's treasurous family heirloom. Mom told her son with a somehow discouraged voice: "Dad will soon be home. Don't worry; let him help us with this later."
Soon Dad went back and noticed the situation of emergency; he stared at the vase a little while, beholding his panic son and helpless wife, and broke the vase with a hammer determinedly. The vase scattered into pieces after a big bang, only to see nothing but a fist, seemingly holding something firmly there.
"Have you always been keeping this way right after you reached your hand into it?", asked the father gently. The son nodded sobbingly. It turned out that there was a coin in the child's palm, and he just didn't let it go. If he had loosed his hand, his father would have not needed to hammer the vase out.
It sometimes costs parents a precious family treasure to save a child who would keep a penny in his hand. Likewise, it might cost God His priceless heirloom to save His innocent people who could never pay attention to Him but focus on those trifles.
How valuable is God's heirloom? Or, let me put it this way: how important are you? Well...
The life of His only son, Jesus.

From now on, sensationally, is a brand new English creative column coming to us: "A Challenge to The Cherubims". It is a special area authorized by Dr. Chris Lin, PhD. in English literature and reproductive organic satires, where we can learn English through interest and liveliness under Dr. Lin's descriptive expressions of diversities. There will be including many funny articles under many catagories: pure lit, social values, natural science, deductive, business,...and so on. And I'm so honored to have the privilege to publish his very first one in the series.
The following is the fantastic debut which appeared in the editorial section of a newsmagazine.
"Some states are creating new laws that restrict the use of
of handheld cell phones by drivers of automobiles. Such
legislation, however, is sheer folly. Although some people
with cell phones undoubtedly cause problems on the road,
including serious accidents, the majority do not. Besides,
problems are also caused by drivers who are distracted by
any number of other activities, from listening to
the radio to disciplining children. Since there is no
need to pass legislation restricting these and other
such activities, it follows that there is no need to
restrict people's freedom to use a device that they find
convenient—or helpful in emergencies."
Q1. Try to weaken the statement of this argument. There may be unlogical points of views. Find them out and explain why in the reply section of this column.
The answer of Q1 along with the whole passage translation are seen in the reply section of the article beneath. The rest can be seen on his personal blog in Wretch: clarkchris.
Good luck!