Hillsong United Concert

Since I can't sleep for awhile, I might post some picture to pass the time. Some of you had known already that I was at the Hillsong United concert tonight. So for the people cannot be there physically, here're the pictures for your enjoyment.

Injustice in Our Society

I remembered talking to this lady, and she mentioned some unbelieveable things happened or still happening in China. I was surprised not of her knowledge, but of my ignorance. Furthermore, I hope one day our people in China would have enough wisdom to understand human dignities and the meaning of existence. We don't exist because of money, and we would never agree to degrade ourselves to take things from poor and dying people. This is just wong, and in no way we can interprete it in a different way. We are angry because we love.



The Blood of Yingzhou District

What History Teaches Us

I remember in grade 10 Social Studies, I had to remember the dates and names of famous battle, cities, indian chief and founding fathers who built our nation. There were wars going on between the Indians and British, British and French, French and the Americans. All these information had gotten lost from my memory. What have I learned then?

Throughout the last two years working, I've learned a few valuable lessons. Lessons that I would never learn from school.

One lesson I learned is people never change. I'm not talking about individual's life. What I meant is that the emotions inside of us are the same since the Romans or even earlier. It's more valuable to learn how to deal with people than any technical skill.

What we should learn from Social Studies is about people. People were driven by greed to gather fur, desire to own property, or any other reasons. The wars and things they did were just the product of their desires, emotions and hopes. I think study of people are more significant than study of dates and places.

Funnies in the Bible

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Example one: John 9:13-34
We know that the Pharisees hate Jesus as much as they hate the sinners. For they would throw out whoever acknowledged Jesus as the Christ.

However, these passages below contains one of the funniest passages in the Bible. The passages tell us that the Pharisees were investigating the healing of a man born blind, and now they summoned the healed blind man the second time...

26 Then they asked him, "What did he do to you? How did he open your eyes?"

27 He answered, "I have told you already and you did not listen. Why do you want to hear it again? Do you want to become his disciples, too?"

Pharisees were the noble class of the Jewish society. They dressed in fine clothes and enjoy VIP treatment everywhere they went. How furious they would be to be disrespected by this poor lower class person!

Then they threw him out at the end.

34 To this they replied, "You were steeped in sin at birth; how dare you lecture us!" And they threw him out.

But the story doesn't end here. For this poor fellow had found God outside of the synagogue! Do you rather be poor or be one of the 'privileged' Pharisees?

35 Jesus heard that they had thrown him out, and when he found him, he said, "Do you believe in the Son of Man?"

36 "Who is he, sir?" the man asked. "Tell me so that I may believe in him."

37 Jesus said, "You have now seen him; in fact, he is the one speaking with you."

38 Then the man said, "Lord, I believe," and he worshiped him.



Then there's another twist at the end. If anyone who's interested, please read till verse 41.