let angels guide you
Just finished my angels and demons. Not bad actually. Though a bit alike to da vinci code. Also not in a good position to judge which is a better book. But readable i guess. Both of them. Should i go on with this author?? Maybe. Below is a part i felt interesting and thought provoking....
"Science may have alleviated the miseries of disease and drudgery and provided an array of gadgetry for our entertainment and convenience, but it has left us in a world without wonde. Our sunsets have been reduced to wavelengths and frequencies. The complexities of the universe have been shredded into mathematical equations. Even our self-worth as human beings has been destroyed. Science proclaims that planet Earth and its inhabitants are a meaningless speck in the grand scheme. A cosmic accident."
"Even the technology that promises to unite us, divides us. Each of us is now electronically connected to the globe, and yet we feel utterly alone. We are bombarded with violence, division, fracture and betrayal. Skepticism has become a virtue. Cynicism and demand for proof has become enlightened thought. Is it any wonder that humans now feel even more depressed and defeated than they have at any point in human history? Science looks for answers by probing our unborn fetuses. It shatters God's world into smaller and smaller pieces in quest of meaning... and all it finds is more questions."
"But who is more ignorant? The man who cannot define lightning, or the man who does not respect its awesome power? "... "Show me proof there is a God, you say. I say use your telescopes to look to the heavens, and tell me how there could not be a God! You proclaim that even the slightest change in the force of gravity or the weight of an atom would have rendered our universe a lifeless mist rather than our magnificent sea of heavenly bodies, and yet you fail to see God's hand in this? Is it really so much easier to believe that we simply chose the right card from a deck of billions? Have we become so spiritually bankrupt that we would rather believe in mathematical impossibility than in a power greater than us?"
Not bad. Good practice for a two-finger typist. Next up... another book. Havn't decided yet. Need to make a trip to the second-hand bookstore to check it out..check it out.
And it's time to relax again....
A blonde reports for her university final exam which consists of mainly true and false questions. She takes her seat in the examination hall, stares at the question paper for five minutes, and then in a fit of inspiration takes her purse out, removes a coin and starts tossing the coin and marking the answer sheet: true for heads and false for tails. Within thirty minutes she is all done, whereas the rest of the class is still working furiously.
During the last few minutes, she is seen desperately throwing the coin, swearing and sweating. The moderator, alarmed, approaches her and asks what is happening.
"I finished the exam in a half hour," she replies. "Now I'm rechecking my answers."
"Science may have alleviated the miseries of disease and drudgery and provided an array of gadgetry for our entertainment and convenience, but it has left us in a world without wonde. Our sunsets have been reduced to wavelengths and frequencies. The complexities of the universe have been shredded into mathematical equations. Even our self-worth as human beings has been destroyed. Science proclaims that planet Earth and its inhabitants are a meaningless speck in the grand scheme. A cosmic accident."
"Even the technology that promises to unite us, divides us. Each of us is now electronically connected to the globe, and yet we feel utterly alone. We are bombarded with violence, division, fracture and betrayal. Skepticism has become a virtue. Cynicism and demand for proof has become enlightened thought. Is it any wonder that humans now feel even more depressed and defeated than they have at any point in human history? Science looks for answers by probing our unborn fetuses. It shatters God's world into smaller and smaller pieces in quest of meaning... and all it finds is more questions."
"But who is more ignorant? The man who cannot define lightning, or the man who does not respect its awesome power? "... "Show me proof there is a God, you say. I say use your telescopes to look to the heavens, and tell me how there could not be a God! You proclaim that even the slightest change in the force of gravity or the weight of an atom would have rendered our universe a lifeless mist rather than our magnificent sea of heavenly bodies, and yet you fail to see God's hand in this? Is it really so much easier to believe that we simply chose the right card from a deck of billions? Have we become so spiritually bankrupt that we would rather believe in mathematical impossibility than in a power greater than us?"
Not bad. Good practice for a two-finger typist. Next up... another book. Havn't decided yet. Need to make a trip to the second-hand bookstore to check it out..check it out.
And it's time to relax again....
A blonde reports for her university final exam which consists of mainly true and false questions. She takes her seat in the examination hall, stares at the question paper for five minutes, and then in a fit of inspiration takes her purse out, removes a coin and starts tossing the coin and marking the answer sheet: true for heads and false for tails. Within thirty minutes she is all done, whereas the rest of the class is still working furiously.
During the last few minutes, she is seen desperately throwing the coin, swearing and sweating. The moderator, alarmed, approaches her and asks what is happening.
"I finished the exam in a half hour," she replies. "Now I'm rechecking my answers."
ChRiS delivered @ 1:38 AM
1 Comments:
i suggest ah kang ah, next time ah, u just write an entry on yr blog ah. yr comment seems longer thna chris's blog. oh anyway, i think lk is trying to start a blog war man....haha. lets get one started!
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