alwyn!
raffles junior college
08 08 '89
leo
star wars fan
Judoka





wishlist :

Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion by David Hume
The Road to Reality by Roger Penrose
The Fabric of Reality by David Deutsch
Matter and Consciousness by Paul Churchland
Consciousness Explained by Daniel Dennett
Full Catastrophe Living by Jon Kabat-Zinn
The Life of the Cosmos by Lee Smolin
Pale Blue Dot by Carl Sagan
The Sacred Balance by David Suzuki
Star Wars Legacy of the Force: Betrayal
Star Wars Legacy of the Force: Bloodlines
Star Wars Legacy of the Force: Sacrifice

Games:
Age of Wonders 2: The Wizard's Throne by Triumph Studios
Age of Wonders: Shadow Magic by Triumph Studios
Robin Hood: The Legend of Sherwood by Spellbound
Myth III: The Wolf Age by MumboJumbo
The Bard's Tale by InXile Entertainment
Dragon Age by Bioware
Neverwinter Nights 2: Storm of Zehir by Obsidian Entertainment
Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II

Places I'd Like to Visit:
Sweden
Switzerland
Italy
France
Thailand
Brazil
South Korea
Japan (again!)
Norway
Costa Rica

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"When I became convinced that the Universe is natural that all the ghosts and gods are myths, there entered into my brain, into my soul, into every drop of my blood, the sense, the feeling, the joy of freedom. The walls of my prison crumbled and fell, the dungeon was flooded with light and all the bolts, and bars, and manacles became dust. I was no longer a servant, a serf, or a slave. There was for me no master in all the wide world, not even in infinite space. I was free.
free to think, to express my thoughts
free to live to my own ideal
free to live for myself and those I loved
free to use all my faculties, all my senses
free to spread imagination's wings
free to investigate, to guess and dream and hope
free to judge and determine for myself
free to reject all ignorant and cruel creeds, all the "inspired" books that savages have produced, and all the barbarous legends of the past
free from popes and priests
free from all the "called" and "set apart"
free from sanctified mistakes and holy lies
free from the fear of eternal pain
free from the winged monsters of night
free from devils, ghosts, and gods
For the first time I was free. There were no prohibited places in all the realms of my thought, no air, no space, where fancy could not spread her painted wings
no chains for my limbs
no lashes for my back
no fires for my flesh
no master's frown or threat
no following another's steps
no need to bow, or cringe, or crawl, or utter lying words.
I was free. I stood erect and fearlessly, joyously, faced all worlds. And then my heart was filled with gratitude, with thankfulness, and went out in love to all the heroes, the thinkers who gave their lives for the liberty of hand and brain for the freedom of labor and thought
to those who fell on the fierce fields of war
to those who died in dungeons bound with chains
to those who proudly mounted scaffold's stairs
to those whose bones were crushed, whose flesh was scarred and torn
to those by fire consumed
to all the wise, the good, the brave of every land, whose thoughts and deeds have given freedom to the sons of men.
And I vowed to grasp the torch that they had held, and hold it high, that light might conquer darkness still."
-Robert G. Ingersoll (1833-1899), "Why Am I An Agnostic?", 1896

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We are part of the universe. Our earth was created from the universe and will one day be reabsorbed into the universe. We are made of the same matter as the universe. We are not in exile here: we are at home. It is here and nowhere else that we can see the divine face to face. If we erect barriers in our imagination - if we believe our real home is not here but in a land that lies beyond death - if we believe that the divine is found only in old books, or old buildings, or inside our head - then we will see this real, vibrant, luminous world as if through a glass darkly. The universe creates us, preserves us, destroys us. We are part of nature. Nature made us and at our death we will be reabsorbed into nature. We are at home in nature and in our bodies. This is where we belong; this is where we must find and make our paradise, not in some spirit world on the other side of the grave. If nature is the only paradise, then separation from nature is the only hell. When we destroy nature, we create hell on earth for other species and for ourselves. Nature is our mother, our home, our security, our peace, our past and our future. Science is inherently materialist. It always seek material explanations. It never accepts as an explanation that some spiritual force was at work - if it did, then science and technology would come to an end. Disease was once thought to be caused by witchcraft. Science gave it a material explanation which allowed us to control it. Magnetism at one time seemed like a spiritual force - Thales of Miletus thought that magnets were full of spirits. But then science provided a material explanation. In the same way scientific pantheism believes that everything that exists is matter or energy in one form or another. Nothing can exist, be perceived, or act on other things if it is not matter or energy. That does not mean that spiritual phenomena or forces cannot exist. It means that, if they do, they must in fact be material. In scientific pantheism, science becomes a part of the religious quest: the pursuit of deeper understanding of the Reality of which we are all part, deeper knowledge about the awe-inspiring cosmos in which we live, deeper knowledge of nature and the environment, so that we can better preserve the earth's wealth of natural diversity. In scientific pantheism, cognitive openness - listening to reality, to new evidence, to all the evidence, to other people's needs and feelings - becomes a sacred duty in all aspects of life from science to politics to domestic life. Of course, we cannot say that science endorses pantheism. Many religions today state their beliefs in ways that no-one can disprove, so they can and do co-exist with science. But scientific pantheism positively thrives on science. scientific discoveries continually underline the wonder and the mystery of Being, the immensity of the universe, and the complexity of nature.

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Thursday, December 30, 2004

richard p. feynman is one hell of a cool guy.
and cool guys are meant to be quoted - but only after their death. (not that it matters since richard feynman's already dead so here goes...)

cool guy quote 1:
We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.

cool guy quote 2:
No government has the right to decide on the truth of scientific principles, nor to prescribe in any way the character of the questions investigated. Neither may a government determine the aesthetic value of artistic creations, nor limit the forms of literacy or artistic expression. Nor should it pronounce on the validity of economic, historic, religious, or philosophical doctrines. Instead it has a duty to its citizens to maintain the freedom, to let those citizens contribute to the further adventure and the development of the human race.

cool guy quote 3:
Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars - mere globs of gas atoms. Nothing is 'mere'. I too can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more? The vastness of the heavens stretches my imagination - stuck on this carousel my little eye can catch one-million-year-old light. A vast pattern - of which I am a part... What is the pattern or the meaning or the why? It does not do harm to the mystery to know a little more about it. For far more marvelous is the truth than any artists of the past imagined it. Why do the poets of the present not speak of it? What men are poets who can speak of Jupiter if he were a man, but if he is an immense spinning sphere of methane and ammonia must be silent.

cool guy quote 4:
People say to me, "Are you looking for the ultimate laws of physics?" No, I'm not... If it turns out there is a simple ultimate law which explains everything, so be it - that would be very nice to discover. If it turns out it's like an onion with millions of layers... then that's the way it is.

cool guy quote 5:
Mathematics is not real, but it feels real. Where is this place?

Also the Feynman Problem-Solving Algorithm, courtesy of Murray Gell-Man:
Step (1) write down the problem;
Step (2) think very hard;
Step (3) write down the answer.

have a nice day!

spacetime rip! by agent quantum , quite possibly at 12/30/2004 09:40:00 pm :)



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Saturday, December 11, 2004

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omg. wtf. lol.

spacetime rip! by agent quantum , quite possibly at 12/11/2004 01:45:00 am :)



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In essence, the conflict that exists today is no more than an old-style struggle for power, once again presented to mankind in semireligious trappings. The difference is that, this time, the development of atomic power has imbued the struggle with a ghostly character; for both parties know and admit that, should the quarrel deteriorate into actual war, mankind is doomed. Despite this knowledge, statesmen in responsible positions on both sides continue to employ the well-known technique of seeking to intimidate and demoralize the opponent by marshaling superior military strength. They do so even though such a policy entails the risk of war and doom. Not one statesman in a position of responsibility has dared to pursue the only course that holds out any promise of peace, the course of supranational security, since for a statesman to follow such a course would be tantamount to political suicide. Political passions, once they have been fanned into flame, exact their victims ... Citater fra...

[Albert Einstein died at this point in time, so i really can't carry on from here...byebye!]

spacetime rip! by agent quantum , quite possibly at 12/11/2004 01:39:00 am :)



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Thursday, December 09, 2004

You have accepted the invitation to start Checkers.

Messenger is unable to start Checkers.

|agentquantum| 0.203secs "could be better" says:
Messenger is unable to start Checkers.
--<<{inonanunenµNuÞ2Z-j}>>--the quick fox jumped over the lazy brown fags. says:
ooh

--<<{inonanunenµNuÞ2Z-j}>>--the quick fox jumped over the lazy brown fags. is inviting you to start Minesweeper Flags. Do you want to Accept (Alt+C) or Decline (Alt+D) the invitation?

You have accepted the invitation to start Minesweeper Flags.

Messenger is unable to start Minesweeper Flags.

--<<{inonanunenµNuÞ2Z-j}>>--the quick fox jumped over the lazy brown fags. says:
...
|agentquantum| 0.203secs "could be better" says:
ooh
--<<{inonanunenµNuÞ2Z-j}>>--the quick fox jumped over the lazy brown fags. says:
ooh

Messenger is unable to start MSN Photo Swap.

--<<{inonanunenµNuÞ2Z-j}>>--the quick fox jumped over the lazy brown fags. says:
gayness
--<<{inonanunenµNuÞ2Z-j}>>--the quick fox jumped over the lazy brown fags. says:
lets play tic tac toe
--<<{inonanunenµNuÞ2Z-j}>>--the quick fox jumped over the lazy brown fags. says:
i start first
--<<{inonanunenµNuÞ2Z-j}>>--the quick fox jumped over the lazy brown fags. says:
X
|agentquantum| 0.203secs "could be better" says:
O
--<<{inonanunenµNuÞ2Z-j}>>--the quick fox jumped over the lazy brown fags. says:
X
|agentquantum| 0.203secs "could be better" says:
O
--<<{inonanunenµNuÞ2Z-j}>>--the quick fox jumped over the lazy brown fags. says:
X
|agentquantum| 0.203secs "could be better" says:
O
|agentquantum| 0.203secs "could be better" says:
i win!
--<<{inonanunenµNuÞ2Z-j}>>--the quick fox jumped over the lazy brown fags. says:
no...!!!!
--<<{inonanunenµNuÞ2Z-j}>>--the quick fox jumped over the lazy brown fags. says:
aiyo...
--<<{inonanunenµNuÞ2Z-j}>>--the quick fox jumped over the lazy brown fags. says:
tictactoe where got 3 step won one
|agentquantum| 0.203secs "could be better" says:
got
|agentquantum| 0.203secs "could be better" says:
i put 3 in a row lor
--<<{inonanunenµNuÞ2Z-j}>>--the quick fox jumped over the lazy brown fags. says:
....
--<<{inonanunenµNuÞ2Z-j}>>--the quick fox jumped over the lazy brown fags. says:
then so u mean i put like
X XO
XO
X O
--<<{inonanunenµNuÞ2Z-j}>>--the quick fox jumped over the lazy brown fags. says:
man...how sadly spastic i am
|agentquantum| 0.203secs "could be better" says:
something liddat
|agentquantum| 0.203secs "could be better" says:
hahahhahahahahah

spacetime rip! by agent quantum , quite possibly at 12/09/2004 01:09:00 pm :)



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Wednesday, December 01, 2004

holidays are t3h boring.

im still playing neopets. i'll play till the end of december cos sec 4 people do not play neopets.

oh but trouble at the national neopian is fun! everyone go play , and look at the hi-scores while you're at it.

madness...their fingers must've been like dancing on the keyboard or sumthing.
oh and matthew reilly is a very good writer.
i'm serious.
people should really start reading more of his books instead of that overhyped and overpriced da vinci code-

oh hell!
i'm bored!
somebody helpch me!

p.s. ---- --- is a naughty naughty girl. eh-eh!

ciao!

spacetime rip! by agent quantum , quite possibly at 12/01/2004 10:23:00 pm :)



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