08
Jul
2019

Originality: Super Short Story #555

Originality: Super Short Story #555 Her quest to be original that ended up subconsciously mimicking others’ works was truly unoriginal,…

08
Jul
2019

Commitment: Super Short Story #554

Commitment: Super Short Story #554 Lying with fingers crossed, she was as if committing, paradoxically promising to lie, with a…

08
Jul
2019

Thanklessness: Super Short Story #553

Thanklessness: Super Short Story #553 The shopkeeper never thanks his customers, thinking they need his service anyway.  His customers never…

08
Jul
2019

Excitement: Super Short Story #552

Excitement: Super Short Story #552 The puppy seemed excited with anticipating of something exciting. But upon closer look, he was already…

08
Jul
2019

Quest: Super Short Story #551

Quest: Super Short Story #551 Life is a quest to live a most meaningful life in time, and to write…

08
Jul
2019

Book: Super Short Story #550

Book: Super Short Story #550 Holding the pocket dictionary, what left to do was to put its words in the…

08
Jul
2019

Fulfilment: Super Short Story #549

Fulfilment: Super Short Story #549 After finishing the meaningless work, he was finally able feel somewhat fulfilled with the reading…

08
Jul
2019

Needle: Super Short Story #548

Needle: Super Short Story #548 Looking for the meaning of life, he wondered if he was  looking for a needle in…

26
Jun
2019

How Not To Have Stroke 如何不中风

Below is a summary. For fuller details, please see the international bestseller, ‘How Not To Die: Discover The Foods Scientifically…

26
Jun
2019

Razor #10: Ultimate Razor

Ultimate Razor: What does not lead to the True Happiness of all is not worth the attention of all, or…

26
Jun
2019

Razor #9: Rand’s Razor

Rand’s Razor: Prior to philosophising, the philosopher needs to identify their initial, irreducible, primary axioms. Thought: Be as clear as…

26
Jun
2019

Razor #8: Sagan’s Standard

Sagan’s Standard: Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. Thought: Ordinary claims require only ordinary evidence; unless they were mistaken as ordinary….

26
Jun
2019

Razor #7: Popper’s Falsifiability Principle

Popper’s Falsifiability Principle: For a theory to be considered scientific, it must be falsifiable. Thought: Even the scientific are called…

26
Jun
2019

Razor #6: Newton’s Flaming Laser Sword

Newton’s Flaming Laser Sword: If something cannot be settled by experiment or observation, then it is not worthy of debate….

26
Jun
2019

Razor #5: Hitchens’ Razor

Hitchens’ Razor: What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence. Thought: The burden to create faith must…

26
Jun
2019

Razor #4: Hume’s Razor

Hume’s Razor: If the cause, assigned for any effect, be not sufficient to produce it, we must either reject that…

26
Jun
2019

Razor #2: Grice’s Razor

Grice’s Razor: As a principle of parsimony, conversational implications are to be preferred over semantic context for linguistic explanations. Thought:…

26
Jun
2019

Razor #3: Hanlon’s Razor

Hanlon’s Razor: Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity. Thought: Malice arises from stupidity, which…

26
Jun
2019

Razor #1: Occam’s Razor

Occam’s Razor: Simpler explanations are more likely to be correct; avoid unnecessary or improbable assumptions. Thought: Things are often simpler…

17
Jun
2019

Some Dharma Advice #10

Some Dharma Advice #10 [91] Time There is time if you find time. There is no time if you do…