Trip of Thessaloniki for osc 2013

As many people mentioned, openSUSE conference 2013 was held on July 18 to July 22 in Thessaloniki, Greece. After 20hrs in the air and waiting in the airport( for transfer), I arrived in the city of Thessaloniki about 3:00 PM on July 17. Then I went to the sea side by buy No.78. It was really nice view there. Then I took a taxi to hotel for another 12 hrs sleep;-) I visited to the white tower and Aristotle square. The great Philosopher Aristotle was born in the place where near by the city of Thessaloniki. I thought Aristotle was visit the city but I haven't find the related information yet.

It was really nice to be there. Local people are so relaxing. Much relaxer than I feel in Beijing. I love this place, I do. I met many interesting guys here, including security guys and non-security guys. Some people I met in Thessaloniki, we all love beer/sec/gaming/system of a down/ramstein/Nirvana/etc....even the background music of main conference room was Nirvana songs. Man, can you believe it? I never see it happened in China. They guys are really awesome. I also met some sec guys there. They are very skilled and talented dudes. I think I learned not less from them in few days.

This trip makes me feel my way back home. Most people doesn't like what I like in BJ. I think the whole fucking society just can't accept the type of person like me. I don't wanna change.

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 - I love punk rock and metal, am I wrong?
 - I love Philosophy/Theology/History, am I fucking wrong?
 - I love Tri-A title computer/video games, am I fucking wrong?
 - I don't care how much money I earn( I can still feed my family, you piece of shit-_-), am I wrong? 
 - I hate the type of guys in suit who are just dead inside( walk) with their fucking boring day job, am I fucking wrong?
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I don't think I'm a weirdo guy. But most Chinese people I met in BJ just think that way. Don't give me wrong...I have some very awesome friends. They are Chinese dudes/ladies. But we are minorities....Greenday is always supporting us: "I wanna be the minority... I don't need your authorirty...Down with moral majority"...aha, I really love this song;-)

btw: The food in the city of Thessaloniki are really awesome, especially the seafood. And, I as a newbie had a presentation "Introduction to GNU/Linux hardening" in osc 2013.

Nice view, ha?

old good port

White Tower, or maybe we should call it "The Greece Tower"

I hadn't find the ASSOS yet;-)

 Little dude, you got a gun?

 Olympic Museum, this is the place for osc2013

  Gecko money is not a bad idea, isn't it?

 Sometime, RMS is wrong. Free speech is as free beer;-)

 July 23, people are gone

 I love this shit!@#$%^&*()

 Istanbul - In the map of Civilization IV, ring the bell?

 Awesome architecture...........

Great minds think alike

I came to BJ on May 8th 2012 and I went to a hostel as my temporary live. I was very busy on job interviews in the 1st week. The result was not really good. Some very famous companies in the industry are not pretty as I thought. Almost of them are caring about hiring cheap labors but nothing concerns truely hacking spirit. It's ok. I will not disclosure you montherfuckers here-_- I began to vist friends/communities in the 2nd week. There were so much interesting stuffs I've been experience in the next 2 months. Of course, I'm going to share these disclosure-able part.

Firstly, I was start the io-wargame, which is a learning platform that you can learn and practice your security skills on GNU/Linux. In the 1st 10 days, I was get used to playing with io-wargame on the daylight. When I passed the lvl5, it was beings a little bit of harder. So I need help from irc and I have to follow these experienced hacker's daily online schedule. The midnight( in BJ) is a good start for them. Then I changed my hacking time. Finally, I spent 1 month to passed the lvl10. I will keep on it if I have time in the future. If you ask me about pw( please go asking in irc channel), I will give you my mid-finger. The spoiler is intolerable in smashthestack community.

I went to Open Party Beijing in May. A bunch of speakers gave us wide topics in the seminar, including history, math, startup ideas and other stuff. After the seminar, I went with a other-stuff's speaker for dinner. His name is Philip McMaster. He was a speaker on TEDx Beijing 2011. We discussed a few very serious issues that normal people seems don't care about. How are the banksters robing people's wealth? How is the Protestant ethic evolving to Hacker ethic in the background of information age? How can a normal people find their really needs( correct value) today? How can a young man/woman spend a whole afternoon for shopping the stuff they never really need? How can you say looking for the truth/pupose of ur life is important and you are still willing to spend more than 10 years salary to buy a apartment? Aha, our society is fucking sick. After I introduced the relationship between hacker ethic and information age, Philip was start to using my terminology to keep the conversation continue. Well, I just wanna say, as a old man, He has a open mind and he definitely is a fucking hacker.

I went to BLUG's meeting in June. Jose gave us a free speech about a open hardware project: open-drone. It's very like a quadricopter. I was picturing in my mind( when Jose was talking), add a camera and a wifi device onto the drone. It can fly close to a highrise building and taking photo, or flying around your home and cracking every wifi you searched. And, I met a female security hobbyist who are using BT5, which is the main OS on my laptop. She's name is Kendra. She is a web designer and a artist hacker. It was my honor to met the Lady Back-Track-_-

Another interesting experience was to hangout with a friend. He worked for Qi-hardware. He has been very busy on digging the bitcoins and keeping find the better ways if possible. Bitcoins is the creation of people who are holding the Anarchist-like philosophical ideas. I like the concept of decentralization. Bitcoin is the electronical cash that you can exchange it with others by peer-to-peer ways. How to get bitcoins? You can ask google about it. My answer is simple: Machine's calculations. At the period of beginning of the bitcoin's digging, hacker/people were using CPU. Then they figured out some kind of technique issues to make CPU inefficiency on digging work. Use GPU instead of CPU is a better choice. The matter right now is GPU cost the power too much and FPGA is the way that can fit their needs. See my list below then you will understand:

1000USD's PC with CPU mining: 5Mhash/s
1000USD's PC with GPU mining: 300--400Mhash/s, GPU-part: 100-200W
500USD's FPGA device: 400Mhash/s, only 20-30W

Do the math-_- The qi-hardware shared everything about their experience. If you have interest to be a miner of information version, hack it for urself! I went out with friends/backpackers for watching the soccer match at 11:00 PM. We saw lights from a few highrise buildings when we walked back on the street at 4:20 PM. A guy told us a story: "If you can see there are still lights in the office building after midnight, which mean the monkey coders are OT there. They actually don't work. They are just sitting on their butt until the manager go get to the bitches. They will watch the Japanses pornie movie and begin masturbating...you know the monkey coder's dick is so small that they even can't find their dick very preciesly. The question is why their dick is so small? Becuase they don't write low-level code, which could be healthy for programmer's soul.". Well, this is a fascinating story from underground. Please, keep the secret for me and don't tell it to others-_- I think that differs hacker and monkey coder. I need to transform myself from the monkey-coder to the hacker. It would be a kind of paradigm shift, big ones!

 I got my new job. It's my honor to work for a community-based company. I'll be busting my ass on new hacking in the future. I've already shared the disclosure-able part of my experience of the past 2 months above. I think the 2-month is my vaction for the 7-year hacking of Theo/Philo/Math/Engi models. Praise the L0rd!

May L0rd's hacking spirit guide us!

 btw: Neo didn't kill agent Smith. He just decompiled him and split the code into the fucking random area. That's the point!

before I left home:


Lady Back-Track:
 

Backpackers left their photos on the wall:


LongQuan Buddhism temple in BJ:
 

what a delicious food made by friends
 

I like NetEase. Because they provided servers for Open Course and TED.

 

 EURO CUP 2012. When England VS French began, a french guy sung the national song:

 

 AMD and Intel are so "close"...WTH
 
Don't look at that girl. Keep your eyes on the GNU logo, please...


TsingHua University. This is the only place I like.
 

I bet the combination of cheap x86 hardware and GNU/Linux will beat the other platform in networking device field. Atom 4/5xx with 1.8Ghz dual core machine only cost about 1, 400 RMB:


We went out to bar to watch German VS Greece:
 

Remeber that monkey-coder's story?


By the community, and for the community!

thanksgiving in 2010

I have to say something to thank to those who are deserved to gratitude!

to Lord Christ:
主啊,感谢您创造了这个充满奇妙的宇宙,感谢您赐予这个宇宙无限的可能性,每一个人所经历的每一件事情都是在粒子随机碰撞的偶然性中的必然性的结果,不论试炼,苦难,得胜--都是您赐予人类的宝贵礼物.主啊,感谢您是爱的本体,这样的属性让您作出了伟大的救赎.对您的感恩太多太多,Shawn想即使是使用希伯来文也很难精准的表达,向您把kavanah和两希范式赐予一个原本粗劣的亚洲人而献上感恩.

to Snake:
Snake,Shawn必须感谢你像亲兄弟一般的不断提醒着Shawn对形而上重构的必要性,虽然你也曾让Shawn陷入极端怀疑论的地步,但这或许是主的美意之一.感谢你在过去7年当中的帮助.

to Charles:
Charles,您是Shawn见过的第一个如天使一般人,当时(2004)已经70岁的你却不断鼓励Shawn"keep your dream,S*".感谢您,Shawn亲爱的弟兄!您对Shawn的影响是决定性的.

to Ev:
亲爱的Evin,谢谢你过去的3年里跟Shawn一起度过了很多美好时光,对你的感谢就不在这里多讲了.

to 老爸老妈:
老爸老妈,谢谢你们在物质上养育了Shawn近21年,虽然这是你们应当尽的责任,但Shawn还是感谢你们在这些年的辛苦,同时也感谢你们对Shawn关于道德律方面的教导,在这个酱缸的环境下你们还是给足了Shawn自由成长的空间.

to Chris G and Leah:
Chris,您可能是过去7年当中对Shawn影响最重要的人,您是Shawn人生当中除了上帝之外唯一的一位哲学导师,感谢你在那两年中耐性的教导关于圣经和Tolkien神话学的内容,成长于日尔曼社区的您恐怕当时教导愚蠢的Shawn真是一件痛苦的事情,在你的身上Shawn第一次看到了中国先秦哲学的伟大,从此作为中国人不敢再轻视中国先秦哲学,当然也因为这种认知的缘故让Shawn更加的痛恨酱缸教,也感谢您的妻子Leah所提供的美好食物,这让Shawn更加的热爱牛肉,也感谢上帝让Shawn从你们的婚姻当中看到了圣经的诚实.如果当时遇到的不是你而是之后遇到的大多数基督徒的话,让Shawn变得痛恨基督教也可能成为现实,感谢上帝的完美设计.

to Scott:
Scott,在第一次去基督徒团契时,Shawn认为那里应该有很多像Shawn一样深受自由文化运动感染的有趣家伙,但坚持去了几次后发现除了无聊还是无聊,直到遇到你的那一天,感谢你和Shawn一起讨论punk rock所花的时间,你也是少数的对文化使命有责任感的基督徒,感谢上帝设计的我们有趣的相识过程.

to Jim L:
Jim,感谢上帝在Shawn还处于最愚昧的状态时遇到了你,也感谢你慷慨的给予了Shawn和你单独交流的时间,你让Shawn看到了所谓的conspiracy theory里的真实的一面,但也让Shawn明白了在错综复杂的博弈当中仍然可以看到上帝的荣耀,只是这荣耀需要具备破解隐喻之能力才能明白.从见到你直到今天,Shawn再也没有face to face见过来自有机系统的家伙了,或许那次见面是上帝的特别设计吧,再次感谢您的真诚和智慧的人生!

to 老梁:
老梁,你是Shawn见过的最为循规蹈矩的家伙,但你对信仰的坚持是Shawn在很少的基督徒身上能看到的,感谢你让Shawn看到了从对上帝敬虔动机的世界观.

to Spring:
老姐啊,Shawn到现在也记得你说即使是面对一个名义上的基督徒我们仍然应该去尝试爱他,因为你坚信上帝是爱他的,但老实讲,Shawn现在也做不到,在你的生命中Shawn看到了上帝之爱的影子,谢谢您,这是Shawn最需要的属性之一.

to Hommer:
Hommer,感谢您和Shawn在大学期间度过了无数个论道之夜,记得在那些迷人的夜晚在某个小房间里Shawn一根接着一根的smoking跟您谈着科普物理,而您则慢慢的讲述着某个数学流派的哲学观,感谢您帮助Shawn从最纯粹的数学的视角看到了那么一点点数学的本质.

to Sarah:
Sarah,即使到今天Shawn仍然极端的认为您把基督徒的beautiful inside推进到了一个极端的地步,这给Shawn很多的震撼和思考,你对小朋友的耐心,你对NGO的坚持,你对生命的热爱...这些都是Shawn很难reach到的领域,感谢您教会了Shawn很多在互联网上所无法获得的东东---这个东东不是来自知识,而是有机生命.谢谢您,亲爱的姐妹.

to Jared:
Jared,感谢您的音乐,特别是那首Kindron of Valley简直是您在以色列旅行的完美之作,还有好几次的concert您都说那首写于九寨沟的This life is beautiful是为Shawn来演奏,真是让Shawn激动不已,您的音乐就是您有机生命的一部分,感谢您,好弟兄.

to Larry D:
Larry,感谢您完成了Shawn孩提时代的梦想之一,也感谢您的耐性解答Shawn关于西点的疑问.

to 老江:
老江,您对德国古典哲学,现代数学,巴洛克到浪漫主义时代音乐的基础的确是最棒的,没错,是最棒的,感谢您愿意花时间在过去的几年中无数的超过7小时的长谈.

to 老猪:
老猪,感谢您让Shawn最落魄的时候在你那里睡地板,也感谢从您那里见识了杂乱无章的哲学观居然有奏效的时候.

to 老刚:
老刚,战友---这应该是对你最为恰当的描述,与战士同行是Shawn的荣耀!

to ginrut,小猫:
记得我们4个人第一次见面就进行了超过9个小时的长谈,那时你们都不是基督徒,Shawn也不打算给你们传教,但我们就方法论本身的问题进行了超过1年的讨论,感谢你们对真理的坚定追求超过了许多有宗教信仰的人,感谢上帝你们现在居然都信主了,这或许是上帝最奇妙的安排之一吧.

to others:
其实最近几年还有无数的人都给予了Shawn极其大的帮助,还有那些Shawn从未某面的hacker们,你们都是在这个特定的时代性背景下有可能会触及永恒的人,不管你们是否是基督徒,Shawn在你们的有机生命中的确看到了上帝的荣耀.

summary-2009

Jan 5th,2009
送走了老婆,和另外一位好兄弟也是Neo-Calvinist---Mr.F踏上了去武汉的火车,此行的目的只有一个---找洪峰老师论道,此行的兴奋真是可以从当时的blog看出,但由于后来发现与事实不符,所以那次的blog被Shawn删掉了,这也是Shawn写blog到此删除的第一篇blog.即使有些article上有"5毛党"和pornie spam的情况Shawn也没有删除文章.武汉回来后,一直在处理公司的一些繁杂的事情.

Feb 10th,2009
一个月的沉闷的日子里,几乎只干两件事情---读神哲学和处理公司杂事.在之后一些的时间里开始关注事物本体与永恒性之间的关系.到了三月份,Shawn开始增加了一些hacks,比如开始阅读How to Designed Program和尝试安装了那个鼎鼎大名的GNU/Linux distro---gentoo.

April xx,2009
经过了几个月的持久战后,公司一个后遗症项目最终完成........之后去了HongKong,这是一座神奇的城市,100多年以前贫穷落后,那时的白人对亚洲人的确不太像对待一个人,感谢上帝的是,在包括圣公会在内的基督教归正宗派也进入了这个城市,他们跟那些商人,政客不太一样,他们积极的参与社会改善,为今天的HK奠定了基础,到20世纪70年代,廉政公署的成立和那一代居住在HK的基督徒对村屋社区的改造,包括在物质上帮助他们和传耶酥基督的福音给他们.之后的HK成为了亚洲之星......但今天HK的基督徒不知道还有多少人在持守上帝的道?

June 20th,2009
在武汉的待了刚好70天,其实一直在想到底是否写关于个人对黑客道和洪峰老师的评论,迟迟没有写,因为这个问题不是几句话能描述的清楚的,对于那段时间的经历Shawn只能作两点总结:
1,洪峰老师的方法论的确非常棒,让Shawn至少在这一块节省了3年的时间,但这些方法论经过Shawn和朋友们的研讨会讨论,的确不是全部出自洪峰老师原创,有部分是的确在MIT的资源上是可以找到的,而黑客道对于哲学部分的描述比较狭义,只是参照了中国先秦的哲学,不可否认先秦哲学是优秀的,但造出计算机和各种复杂设计的却是犹太-基督教式的神哲学方法论.
2,从道德层面上看,Shawn作为基督徒,同时也是加尔文主义,实在是无法接受洪峰老师关于厚黑学的人生哲学,或许他有难处.

July xx,2009
去了RTS的归正神学研讨会,关于圣经的伦理,伦理这块虽然只是归正神学的一个小分支,但几乎涵盖了所有的领域.

Aug xx,2009
继续神哲学的学习,常常和小猫湖边论道.

Sep xx,2009
hiking......进入自然,很不错的体验~一路上送"思想的结果"给沿途的驴友

Oct xx,2009
终于从归正神学,存在主义,lambda演算的神哲学模型当中退出来,开始学习Linux设备驱动和嵌入式开发相关的东东...之后也去见了fsf和GNU project的发起人RMS,他是个伟大的战士,但犹太式的隐喻让Shawn实在不爽...

Nov xx,2009
ben_nanonote是个好东东,open hardware和free software的接合

Dec xx,2009
深圳,跟ginrut谈了许久,无数的问题和无数的讨论,我们都很年轻,我们都很浮躁,我们都受这个该死的世界的影响...我们找到了lambda Calculus和OS的神哲学模型,接下来的问题是:拼死找神哲学模型到底有什么用?光有这2个用处不大,但是犹太人是碰撞出了无数个aha之后才这么厉害的,或许你是做金融的,他是做法律的,我是做艺术的,但我们都有一个共通的目标去搞清楚2个问题:1,我的工作的领域的本质是什么? 2,这个本质跟我的人生意义是什么?....所有人都在尝试把自己做的回归到神哲学模型,而这个过程就体现了Martin BUrber所谈到的"I and thou"和"religion and religiosity"的关系,因为我的存在(I),所以我(I)敬畏你(thou),因为你(thou)是耶和华,是智慧,战士,公义,慈爱,创造本体的上帝.你给予了我们一切的可能性(possiblity),所以外在的宗教(religion)是会腐朽的,但是唯有对你(thou)的敬虔(religiosity)可以持续的给外在注入新的动力,就如一棵树要生长在溪水旁...当这个爱智慧的过程中,分享给周围的人,周围的人也分享给你,aha就在这个时候诞生,而无数个aha的融合就构成了一个强大的团体,一个没有aha的民族是没有未来的民族.这种方法论已经在老牌的4大财团中接受了考验---犹太,WASP,日尔曼,斯拉夫...就连最近些年正在崛起的日本财团也融合了中国先秦和犹太-基督教的方法论,可惜我们只看到了日本的大东京文化...

之后讨论到了第3世界国家的开放教育问题,Shawn很欣赏印度模式,不像中国这么浮躁,很少有仇富心态,治安也很不错.在bangalore那些破的只能在墨西哥看到的小酒吧里印度的年轻人成群的聚在哪里搞研讨会,话题包括了世界政治,科技,哲学,艺术,etc....仿佛MIT的年轻人跑到了墨西哥的小酒吧一样...相信经济发展能解决一切问题的家伙不是脑袋浸水就是缺了哪根神经,中国沿海的人均收入远远高于印度和拉美各国,但印度人发起了openRisc,连拉丁美洲的家伙也搞了很多意想不到的hacks,中国人还在喊"GDP还不够,我们没有他们富裕....

当然也谈到了自由软件社区的问题,Linus是个对公众不太负责的人,这点跟RMS根本不一样,Linux的kernel到未来很有可能封闭作为商业使用,如果不是GNU工具链的支撑Linux kernel早会投向专利的怀抱,大众今天只知道Linux,却很少知道GNU,但其实GNU才是重点,如果没有了linux kernel,还可以有其他的kernel选择,但如果没有了GNU那简直不敢想像,就如圣经所言,世界大部分人都是愚民...Shawn计划1-2年后开始转向其他的kernel,GNU/HURD之类的吧...Linux kernel如果真的封闭,Google应该是他们最强大的对手,谁都知道G的kernel和GNU工具链的定制是一流的,现在搞的CHrome和Go语言只是开始吧........不过好消息是G code上的project已经有50%决定新的版本转向GPLv3,这可能是今年最值得乐观的一个消息吧

这里还是把今年在solidot上提交的文章罗列出来:
NGO的爱心小学帮助计划
http://society.solidot.org/article.pl?sid=09/05/19/061205
GM通用的悍马品牌卖给了中国公司
http://solidot.org/articles/09/06/03/014225.shtml
google已死,中国LAN当立
http://solidot.org/internet/09/06/24/1444228.shtml
为什么科学家中有这么多犹太人?
http://science.solidot.org/science/09/07/06/0845205.shtml
SICP王者归来
http://developers.solidot.org/article.pl?sid=09/12/16/0714203

道德经,stoa,计算主义,解构主义,存在主义,圣经伦理,归正神学,加尔文500年诞辰,计算的本质,古犹太教,自由软件,数学哲学...2009年太多的aha.上帝赐予Shawn的超过了Shawn的所求所想,但认识真理越多就越痛苦,灵性的无助是以前从来没有认识到的问题,神哲学给Shawn带来的大多是aha式的痛苦,那这是本质,是对现象的支撑.2010年将是暗黑年代的开始.......

marrige registry

my baby has already prison break.Congratulations!

He looks like my grandpa~hope God could allow his eternal life's ticket

photograph by a Russian

Hackable1 is one of my favorite distros in openmoko.

biking...



btw:I got a sony-S736F that it's really amazing for punk rock and gothic(low-mid frequency).I have test songs like "New Divid","Eternal Autum","Only hope","going under".It's get closer to status of "perfection".Hope One day,I can use open hardware music player device to listen music.

The Epistemology before start writing book's review

由于一些原因Shawn决定未来的一些时候开始认真地写书评,也阅读了很多书籍,涵盖了各个领域,从神学到哲学,艺术,音乐,历史,自由软件,社会伦理,科普读物,etc.种类繁多,阅读了这些书籍的内容之后大概有几种情况:

1.很快遗忘

2.选择性遗忘,记住了一些,顶多当扩充了知识面

3.掌握了"不可忘记"的知识,进入个人方法论和认识论的知识结构

4.融入生命

Shawn大部分属于前3种情况,而如果是一本书对你的意义属于第3和第4,那Shawn认为有必要认真地思考后把思想的结果记录和分享.最近苦修式的生活给Shawn很多思考的时间,在这里感觉整个时间停顿下来了,可以放胆去思想以前"来不及"和"不愿坦诚面对"的问题,虽然这种生活不会持续很长的时间,但Shawn还是真切的赞美那三位一体的上帝.Shawn这次是真实的认识和体会到了:知识不能改变生命,惟有谦卑在基督面前,祈求基督进入你的生命并且作你的救主和掌管你生命的主,你的生命才可能得到改变,知识如果没有受到真理之光的光照会变得黯然无色.Shawn也认识到了上帝的爱的属性是何等的重要,在这一点上Shawn必须向上帝忏悔,Shawn应该更多的去接受弟兄姐妹(其他基督徒),而不是以自我认识的那一点点圣经知识作为衡量标准,即使弟兄姐妹真地不那么可爱,Shawn还是应该爱他们,如果Shawn只爱符合Shawn人生哲学的家伙们,那Shawn岂不是与大部分非信徒一样了.还有太多的思考过程暂时不在这里分享,这一思想过程的结果之一就是让Shawn决定要开始写书评,而在写review之前关于认识论的问题必须作出一些说明,可能术语有些枯燥,但相信一定对人生意义是有益处的.

ok,首先来谈谈知识的构造方法,不同的哲学体系和不同的世界观都造就了不同的构造知识的方法,一些存在主义者提倡以存在意义作为思考的基本模式进行建立新的事物的认知的方法,而更多的经验主义者只是以不同的角度作为"体会"经验"从而获得了对新事物的认知,认识论是一个很复杂的系统,在这里Shawn主要提供2种最基本的思考范式从而尽量简洁的描述这一问题:

1,柏拉图式的思考,即关注本质,从本体论的角度来进行分析问题.

2,亚里士多德式的思考,即关注方法本身,以逻辑为基础来解决问题.

柏拉图曾经讲过"academic只有2样财产:1,亚里士多德的头脑;2,其他学生的身体".亚里士多德对柏拉图那种探讨形而上和理念实在论的思辨方式大为不满,所以他讲"我爱我的老师,但我更爱真理".所以之后在亚里士多德的哲学观中,以逻辑学为基础的认识论是主要的探索问题的方式.这里提到的柏拉图式和亚里士多德式是广义的讲法,并不是指这2位先哲的方法论本身,而是作为一个延伸.eg:讨论勇敢的行为是亚里士多德式的探讨,而讨论勇气则是柏拉图式的.讨论人生意义是什么是柏拉图式,而关注怎么样去解决实现人生意义中所遇到的问题是亚里士多德式.

希腊哲学史非常的伟大,但遗憾的是从毕达哥拉斯对自然建立认知过程的思辨,到普罗泰戈拉以早期存在主义式的探讨都没有把主要精力花在认知事物的基础上,直到值得尊敬的苏格拉底讲"一个人认知世界的基础是认知自己."后打破了原有的模式,之后进入了希腊三圣的时期,柏拉图和
亚里士多德都以不同的方式诠释着认识论,但始终有一个问题希腊人无法解决:怎么样来认知自己?.上帝的安排非常的奇妙,希腊三圣时期时遗留下来的这一个极其困难的问题困扰着人们,其中一些人选择了怀疑论者,另外一些人选择了不可知论者,也有一些人直接忽略掉这个令人烦恼的问题,直到公元前180年左右,由于两希(希腊和希伯来)文化的碰撞,希腊人发现希伯来人和旧约圣经中的叙述性的世界观和哲学超越了希腊哲学无法解决的问题,所以一些希腊人接受犹太人方法论的同时也接受了犹太人的信仰,即信仰旧约中的那位上帝耶和华,他们就是这次文化碰撞所产生的Hasidim派,也就是新约圣经中所提到的"敬虔一派",这一次文化的碰撞造就了今天犹太人在很多领域非常厉害的原因.此后的部分犹太人吸收了希腊人哲学思辨的特点,加上他们原有的神学反证的传统---圣经作为绝对标准来衡量一切事物包括知识,智慧,哲学,社会,etc.犹太人变得很强大,圣经以外的作品提到犹太人时通常只有赞扬,但请记住耶稣基督对有深厚神哲学功底的法例赛人讲"你们这些假冒伪善的人",这意味着其他民族对以色列人的赞美并不代表他们符合上帝的标准.

现在已经对这段历史作了简要介绍,为什么Shawn要把这段历史放到认识论中的探讨呢?因为这里有一个非常简单但又是大部分人会忽略的地方:当我们在认知的过程中,提前已经有了一个假设,即绝对标准.而这个前设绝对的影响了整个认知的过程,但这个前设本身又是人类有限的理性无法了解的,而犹太人把这种绝对标准的前设定义为按照他们理解方式的希伯来旧约圣经,但在现实中要行出绝对标准所定义的生命又是何等的困难,需要能够"切实可行"的方法,这就是希腊哲学的意义所在.这段历史可以给我们一幅图画:犹太人是神学反证式的(柏拉图式),而希腊人则是哲学式的(亚里士多德式).从人本的看待,这是犹太文化超越中国先秦哲学的分水岭,这个问题有机会Shawn更愿意face to face的交流.

关于讲解前设的神学作品除了圣经以外可以参阅圣奥古斯丁的(忏悔录)和(上帝之城),约翰加尔文的(基督教要义).哲学领域西方哲学Shawn暂不作推荐,但作为中国人先秦时期的作品是应该认真阅读的,这里Shawn也简要的介绍一下先秦哲学的核心:道.中国先秦哲学里蕴涵着丰富的哲学思辨,先秦哲学的核心就是"论道",道是无形的,道看似无为,而又无所不为.(老子)以玄学的方式在解释着(易经),这里顺便解释一下"玄"这个字,在古字中,这个字的意思是"元",英文meta,请注意metaphysical是形而上的意思;在古希腊哲学中,"logos"代表信息的本源,也是人类有限理性无法触及的领地,也就是"道"的意思,而"logy"则代由"logos"派生出来的实际可以由我们的理性明白的事物,比psychology(心理学),geology(地质学),biology(生物学),etc,其实中文不应该翻译成"心理学","生物学",而应该翻译成"心理道","生物道",(老子)的开篇就是"道,可道.非,常,道","道,可道"就是logy,而"非,常,道"是logos.关于对先秦哲学(易经)的描述可以参考Shawn以前的笔记.

讲了一大堆基础的关于Shawn的个人认识论(知识论),应该可以开始写书评了,估计一段时间后吧,Shawn很懒,其实很羡慕苏格拉底都不用写什么东西就已经哲学思想表达的很清晰了,请不要把主耶稣基督跟苏格拉底对比,根本没有可比性,基督的那句对尼哥底姆讲的话就已经道出了基督跟

所有的哲学家不在一个层面上的实在.最后Shawn再次重申"知识不能改变生命,惟有耶稣基督可以改变你的生命"

temp kitchen frenk'in sucks

even living in this place,I cant forget that paint a graffti on wall "Free GNU Software".looks urgly but feeling great!

I was sleeping on this bed in past 2 months..ANd..still sleeping on it in next a few weeks....This bed remind me 2 things:

1,GOD love me,because I still got a bed.

2,Navy SEAL told me "Only the easy was yesterday.pain is weakness leaving the body!"

:-)

trip of HongKong

感謝主,此次HK之行的目標都已達到,見到了唐牧師,還有機會跟他交流了一刻鐘,他對待年輕人還是非常的嚴格,跟歸正信仰有衝突的地方他依然是一針見血地指出,不會給你留任何面子.Shawn從心底敬佩這樣的人,為了真理可以不順從這個世界的標準,Shawn或許也注定是這樣的命運.唐牧師每週二在HK尖 沙咀浸信會堂講約翰福音查經,雖然已經看他的video接近2年,這次算是face to face來聽他講道,在講解一些例子的時候可以看出唐牧師引用丹麥神學家和存在主義大哲學家Soren Kierkegarrd的方法論的同時,也不斷地用聖經的經文來進行反證,畢竟Kierkegarrd再厲害也只是人本的思考.

這次也買到了Wild at heart(我心狂野)這本好書,當然還有聖經的研讀版本(採用了歸正宗神學的解釋,美中不足是採用的新譯本).在這裡夠買神學和哲學的書籍倒是很多.去 旺角的那家基督教書店買書,那裡空氣簡直太痛苦了,鼻敏感又來了,看到地鐵站標了當時的空氣指數:93.由於計算方法跟中國大陸和國際衛生組織的都不一 樣,反正就是93已經算很高了,差不多10um以內的微粒都有180ug/m3.HK畢竟跟大部分亞洲城市(bangalore除外)一樣,很物質化,這是Shawn不喜歡的,Shawn對這裡的FOSS community(HK LUG)也很失望,比起北京(BLUG)差距太遠,交通(地鐵幾乎可以到大部分地區)和購物(到處都是商店,品質大部分還不錯)雖然不錯,但相信生活在這 個城市的hacker應該不會太多,真不知道這裡有多少人在思考人生意義(lifeview,worldview).大部分HK人應該已經忘記了聖公會, 就像大部分上海人忘記了天主教一樣.Shawn真的希望亞洲多一些加爾文主義,那怕只是一些在對人生進行嚴肅思考的傢伙也好.

Stephen Tong gave us a free speech here.(free speech but not as free beer)

Shawn,Stephen Tong(thousands of theology phd has been created in USA,but just a few people that could called "the hero of kingdom of God".I think Tong is one of them.),my wife

to HK Central中環

Victoria Harbour

i hate air pollution

在任何大城市的中心地段都有回教的建築,這值得我們思考

the night view of HK from the Peak

Lantau Island ( on Cable car)

hacking on the beach is a good idea,isnt it?



Next stop:悟道2009.I will stick to looking for Tao from The Holy Bible.(also Tao Te Ching)