Tag: paradox

S: Stonepeace said, ‘One who says many to be evil might be the one most evil.’ (常说人人不好的人可能是最不好的人.) Is the monkey…

The more you learn the Dharma, the harder is it to share the Dharma, as you realise the depth of…

As shortened from Wikipedia: ‘”I Love You, Phillip Morris” is a comedy-drama film based on the real life events of…

A good translator can be both satisfied and unsatisfied: unsatisfied with other translations seen, which urges one to come up…

‘Outrage’ is a recent flick, destined to be another classic, that portrays the convoluted nature of organised crime, of the…

I never really watched ‘Survivor’ until I came across the recent episodes on the tube. I think I finally found…

A Tit for a Tat (163) Tit: Look! Says here – ‘This sentence is false’. Tat: That’s meaningless! Tit: Why?…

From ‘The Mighty Avengers: Secret Invasion Book 1’ by Brian Michael Bendis is this diialogue, Journalist: Doctor, why did the…

To know if a masked vigilante is really who he is supposed to be, he needs to unmask regularly, for…

A scene in Taiwan’s Danshui’s Starbucks: A student’s T-shirt reads, ‘There is no rule without exceptions.’ (E.g. Most but not…

Herd mentality is paradoxically individual mentality based on delusion and/or selfishness. If herds always unite, predators will have no luck…

I came up with 20 multiple-choice questions for a quiz given at the end of a course I give for…

In one of the stories within the movie ‘New York, I Love You’, we see a very old couple bickering…

A Tit for a Tat (78) Tit: Why didn’t you shave yet? Tat: Because the sooner I shave, the sooner…

A Tit for a Tat (66) Tit: I don’t have enough strength or patience! Tat: Why not train your strength…

This is not a love story. This is a story about love. – Movie tagline “This is a story of…

Used to wonder what’s so wonderful about the beach… Till I realised it is the meeting point of many things……

It is time for another more or less bi-weekly dosage of ‘Depeche Dharma’, when I interpret Depeche Mode’s songs with…

Photos: At Citylink & Suntec City We made a ‘grave’ mistake today, of assuming that the last day of the…

From the story ‘The Maggies’ in ‘American Splendor’ by Harvey Pekar – Harvey: (Detecting untruthfulness) When you talk about dishonest…