100 Life efforts

Today, Olina and myself went to see our common friends Joan and Pauline at Richardson. Pauline gave me a list of 100 life-time efforts for being a nice person. The list is in Chinese. By translating them, I am also learning them carefully.

1. To know your own weakness and to have the will to change it.
2. To cultivate your own role models and to work toward being one of them.
3. To possess the strength and wisdom to control your own desires.
4. To nurture your ability to control and direct your emotions.
5. To live without being pressured by your environment.
6. To be active and thoughtful.
7. To know your own limits.
8. To help others.
9. To be happy with whatever you have already.
10. To know your own mistakes.

11. To forgive others.
12. To appreciate others.
13. To give others enough space.
14. To know the wisdom of the crowd.
15. To be soft and kind.
16. To be rich is to be able to give.
17. To seek the truth and to seek no reward.
18. To eliminate selfishness and work for the common interests.
19. To be poor can be a life-time experience.
20. To leave your property to others.

21. To travell by yourself alone once a while.
22. To know your emotional weakness and not to sell yourself for money.
23. To know the language of subtlty.
24. To be consistent and hard-working.
25. To be confident and to have your own objectives and expectaions.
26. To seek and to remember good advices.
27. To plan your time well.
28. To be reasonable is to be equal to each other.
29. To remember your own mistakes and not to repeat your own mistakes.
30. To be professional in whatever you do.

31. To be kind and truthful.
32. To look forward not backward.
33. To get up early and to work hard.
34. To be industrial and frugal.
35. To be your self.
36. To learn and unlearn.
37. To be neutral.
38. To know when to return.
39. To be flexible.
40. To believe truth.

41. To worry nothing.
42. To be happy.
43. To be professional.
44. To be a generalist.
45. To know the world.
46. To read often.
47. To know when to rest.
48. To have regular life.
49. To exercise regularly.
50. To live a simple life.

51. To have your own quielt time.
52. To think deeply once a while.
53. To nurture your kindness.
54. To help others without seeking rewards.
55. To share with friends.
56. To be self-reflective.
57. To give the best wishes to the unfortunate.
58. To observe very carefully.
59. To respect life.
60. To be frugal.

61. To be self-contained during happy or angry times.
62. To be neutral to yourself and others.
63. To second-guess no one.
64. To be kind.
65. To practice what you preach.
66. To be self-reliance.
67. To change yourself without expecting changes from others.
68. To have good life habits.
69. To be kind is more important than to be inteligent.
70. To expect better future.

71. To create opportunities and not to wait for it.
72. To control your own emotion.
73. To be happy with what you have.
74. To let life continue.
75. To study others carefully.
76. To welcome criticism.
77. To practice your promises.
78. To be kind.
79. To give happiness to others.
80. To attack no one.

81. To sell no one for your own gains.
82. To share your windfall.
83. To take blames.
84. To compare with no one.
85. To be warm and kind.
86. To be peaceful.
87. To respect others.
88. To mitigate problems with good manners.
89. To have good friends.
90. To resolve your own problems by yourself.

91. To work happily.
92. To be thankful.
93. To know the Tao.
94. To know relativity.
95. To be harmonious.
96. To learn from others.
97. To be a kind teacher and a loyal student.
98. To help other is to help yourself.
99. To give responsibilities to the young people.
100. To be kind to your parents.

Translated on April 20, 2006.

Societal Beings

(a privately funded research project)

Basic Theory of Societal Being

A societal being is a pair of independent systems where a high-level system (the societal brain) is completely dependent on the low-level system (the societal body) while the low-level system has no knowledge about the high-level system (the societal brain).

A human being is a societal being. In a human being, the high-level system is the brain. The low-level system is the complicated physical-chemical-biological system or the human body.

A society is also a societal being. In a society, the high-level system is the Internet. The low-level system is the community of individual human beings. It is my vision that the Internet is becoming the societal brain for our society.

Origin of the Universe

The entire world in the time domain and the space domain is continuous. In the space domain, the world is composed of materials ranging from small basic particles like quarks to the ever-expanding galaxies. The physicists are very close to discovering the complete list of basic particles. I believe in the near future the physicists will prove that the entire world is originated from one particle (I call it the “starton”). Its mass will be determined to be equal to the entire mass of the world while it occupies no space. In other words, in the space domain, the world is continuous from the starton to quarks, to atoms, to molecules, to materials, to cells, and to the complex living organisms like us. Everything is originated from the same starton.

In the time domain, the world is continuous and developmental. Just like what I have suggested that the entire world is originated from starton in the space domain, time has a beginning at which the starton was originated. Over the period since the starton was originated, the starton in the time domain has developed continuously to quarks, to atoms, to molecules, to cells, to plants, to animals, and to human beings.

Now the question is whether human beings are the ultimate development of the world. I believe that human beings are the ultimate living organisms. But the format for human beings to be the ultimate living organisms will continue to develop. The eventually developed format for human beings will act as one societal being. The societal being will have the knowledge of the entire world in the time and space domains. In other words, the societal being will have discovered the starton and have the detailed knowledge of the entire universe as well.
In an analogy, a person today can drive a car around the earth along the well-developed highway systems. In the future, the societal being could drive the earth around the universe along appropriate orbits. In other words, the societal being will be able to create an environment suitable for the human beings anywhere in the universe.

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Fishing with George on 3/31/2006

I had many trips with George to a smal pool of water below a unused bridge in the small creek, which originated from somewhere behind my backyard. Many times we were trying to either get some fish out for George. Most time we just fed the fish.

Summer comes. The fish comes back, too. This time, I was determined to get some fish out with Goerge. Fisrt we had to make a tool for fishing. George thought he could get fish by using the net he used to catch fake butterfly coming out of elephant nose (a toy). I told him that would not work at all. However, he believed that would work. Then I told me we both could have different tools. Jie said that it was better both tools were for George in case George got mad if one tool worked better than the other one. George likes to win. He does not feel good if he does not win.

I made a fishing net using a old fruit busket. That busket was a gift from the homebuilder from which we bought our first home in California. The busket has not handle anymore. Jie still uses this busket for fruits. However, after used for fishing, Jie does not want that busket anymore. I guess we can get a new busket for holding fruits from Costco.

I built multiple handles by using a thin but strong rope. It proved very useful in fishing. Since the busket is lighter than water, it floated at the surface of the water. It could not catch fish that way. So I had to used the bamboo pole for holding the busket under water. The bamboo pole is tied to the rope hands very tightly so the busket will not get off the pole when I take the busket out of the water surface. While the busket was under the water surface, George and I was feeding small pieces of tortia to the fish. Fish likes Bagel, bread, and tortia pieces very much. George, Jie and myself had done that last year also. We tried to throw the tortia pieces near the water surface above the busket. When several fish is near and above the busket, I withdrew back the bamboo pole, the busket floated slowly up to the water surface. When the upper edge reached the water surface, I quickly took the busket out of the water with the bamboo pole. We missed several trials. Overall, we succeeded several times, too. When I took the fish at the bridge, George picked up the fish from the busket and put them into a bucket with water. George was very happy for doing that. Since the bucket was too small, George called Jie to bring a bigger bucket. Overall, we got 15 fish out of the small pool of water.

The next question was if we should release the fish back to the pool. George was not happy about doing that. We considered several options. One was to take the fish back home and put them in the sink. We knew that the fish could not survive well. George did not like to see fish to die. Finally, we decided to release the fish in the creek in near our backyard. However, there were too much vegetation, which prevented us from getting next to the creek water. Then George and I took the bucket of fish to the water pool below the bridge supports the McDermott Road. We release all 15 fish in the shallow water. Since the water was so shallow that some larger fish could not swim out in to the deeper water. I broke a piece of tree branch. I gave the branch to George. He pushed each of the flat fish into the deeper water. Each of the 15 fish swimmed a way. We came home after that.

This was the first time for George to see how to get fish out of the water. George was really happy. Jie was happy about the project, too.