Hawkings, Nietzsche and a Buffoon. Madras Lane, KL.

Whimsical Musings.

Wet Market in Chinatown's Madras Lane

Waking up upon Saturdays have been never easy, especially for a sloth similar to me who similar to my ass good done. Saturday mornings will see me frying my good endowed, gorgeous posterior in bed, wrapped in a comforter, air conditioning set upon full blast. To safeguard which my inexhaustible posterior is good finished upon both sides, we will spin upon my sides as good as lay prosaic in next to proportion of time, as good as a timer is set to hum during 11:00 am with inexhaustible allowances for snoozing.

One morning, a good meaning as good as dear friend invited me for breakfast during Madras Lane, Chinatown during an ungodly hour of 9:00am. She is what Harold Ross, a founder of New Yorker magazine would report as a "duodenum scarred veteran of many years of guerrilla service in a Hydrochloric war". Years of working in a stressful environment has finished her stomach suffer from unbalanced acidity. A true talker upon a verge of being blunt, she has not endeared herself to those who need to be pandered as good as praised constantly but for those who love basic yes as good as nos, she is a godsend.

I managed to drag my large buns out of bed during 7:00 as good as finished it to Chinatown by 7:45am. Quite an bid for which we was amply rewarded, since a sight, a sounds, a colours as good as a smell which greeted me was simply amazing. we have never been to Chinatown in a morning. My nightly sojourns was never impressive. It was noisy, filled with shouting from a vendors piling their wares. The fluorescent lights as good as darkness of a night seemed to make louder it's squalor as good as filth. The beady as good as sleek eyed criminal artists filled a streets already choking with exhaust smoke as good as smoke complemented a backdrop of a stage from a triad film set in Hong Kong.

Flower Market during Chinatown

In a early mornings, a transformation was breathtaking. The air was fresh, as good as a pace was slow, with geriatrics plying a sidewalk as good as sitting in coffee shops chatting as good as idling as they solemnly bite in a morning. There was a very splendid as good as colourful flower market. The psychedelic colours were amazingly abounding as good as varied. The sun brought a lot of life to Chinatown, all a small nook as good as crannies was brought to life, plentiful with activities. To my surprise, there was a colourful wet market right in a centre of Chinatown, hidden in a back alleys as good as begging to be explored.

Flower market during Chinatown

You would have beheld which a cinema in this blog has been scaled down to 640 x 480. we usually entrance my blog from home, regulating a 24 inch monitor. Since we am upon holiday, we am regulating a 19 incher as good as a photos looks freakishly as good as mutantly huge! we guess we should have been some-more empathic as good as as a result a saner sizes.

Those who follow Malaysian Insider regularly would have beheld a dismal square of op ed entitled "No Place For God?" by a sure Thomas Lee Seng Hock. we have not review such a square of drivel in a prolonged time. Written in his usual showy character written with a help of a thesaurus as good as peppering a square with a many problematic as good as influenced difference in a English denunciation hoping to make himself receptive to advice some-more authoritative. Ineluctable... Who uses difference similar to this nowadays? It is viewable which he had been tainted by a little fundamentalist fright mongering hick, who is perplexed when evolutionists explain which humans have been desce! ndants f rom primates but have no qualms whatsoever when a book of Genesis claims which humans have been finished from dust. The same molecule which sticks to a bottom of my feet, as good as a same molecule which dog poo upon a roadside becomes when it degrades.

Chinese Temple during Chinatown

I do not think which his essay in TMI warrants a line by line rebuttal. Just a little irritating things he brought up. The chronicle about Paul Gentuso can be found here. we consternation if Dr. Paul (currently putting in service in Nashville) shares a same consternation as good as awe when he delivers a baby with examphalos, with no skin covering a abdomen as good as a viscera have been all hanging out as good as is contingent wholly upon modern medical science to survive?

He goes upon to contend which but God as a creator, afterwards we have no unique value as good as no morality. Irregardless of either we developed or either a larger being created us, i do not think which there is any fundamental shift to who we have been or what we become. Communist countries have been not reduction moral which theistic countries. In fact, people have been some-more as good as some-more wakeful about ethics as good as probity in this increasingly unbelieving world compared to a past where a belief of God as good as Creationism was drawn out together with slavery, subjugation of women to horrific taste as good as capital punishment was meted out in matters per personal faith.

Hindu Temple during Chinatown

Mr. Thomas has obviously misunderstood Nietzsche, as good as a nuances of his philosophical aphorisms. we am doubtful if he had review Nietzsche before. Nietzsche's Sledgehammer was not to hit down morality, but a approach o! f notici ng morality. we do not instruct to gimlet we guys with Nietzsche, but for those who have been interested, this is a good place to start finding out what a "Beyond" in this brilliant thinker's book Beyond Good as good as Evil means. It is a talk since by Fred Ulfers from European Graduate School.

This is substantially not a place to disagree about evidence for as good as against a life of God, which can be found in any customary text of Philosophy. we am only miffed which a same courtesy is not lengthened to Atheists, Agnostics or Pantheists which is since to people of alternative faiths in open arena. we do find which rather exasperating, as if Atheists, Agnostics as good as Pantheists have not suspicion about since they hold what they believe. We positively do behave improved as good as will not acknowledgement an unholy war or tie a explosve as good as detonate ourselves in a church. We know what fundamentalist Christians contend about alternative faiths in their churches, except which they do not voice it out. we have review a Bible, nonetheless we am not a Bible Scholar as good as instruct which Mr. Thomas had finished a same with Hawkings as good as Nietzsche prior to writing an article.

Garlands for sale in front of Hindu Temple

The Bible, if not taken literally, does not contradict science. It is when it is taken for it's verbatim meaning, but considering a culture as good as a milleu it was written in which religion runs in to problems. The Spirit which led Luther's nailing of a 95 theses during Wittenburg which sparked of a reformation as good as a life of protestant churches if stiffled by a enterprise of peremptory fundamentalists who wants to dictate how a Bible must be interpreted right down to which chronicle of a Bible is not evil. How paradoxical.

It is apropos a Modern chronicle of Quixote, but instead of fighting ! windmill s, they have been demonizing science as a monster. It would be unhappy if fundamentalists, similar to Quixote, finally recovers a single day in to reason as good as when a law finally sets in, they comprehend too late which they should be fighting against a real enemies of humanity. Bigotry, Ignorance, Injustice as good as Cruelty. The believe of either we developed or was created, nor a Age of a Earth only satisfied my curiosity upon a sequence of things. But it never did renovate me in to a improved or a some-more only person. The discovery of Humanism did.

Curry noodles

Back to a food during Madras Lane. The Curry Noodles were very thick, but unfortunately bland as good as served with Pork Skin. we am naturally antithetic to that, as good as did not finish a noodles.

Chee Cheong Fun
My Dining companion's Chee Cheong Fun fared somewhat improved as good as was silky well-spoken in consistency. Even if a food was not exceptional, a association as good as a experience of upon foot in Chinatown so early in a sunrise was. Even though we call myself an atheist, low down we competence not be one. we only haven't found anything which could appease my curiosity as good as questions. we welcome all forms of civilized discuss but a bid of ruin as good as brimstones.

I am not perplexing to show off my library, but only to share with we a little books which have cordial me as good as substantially would be utilitarian prior to tackling Hawkings. Probably a good place to start would be Spinoza's Ethics. Spinoza's comment of a materialistic world as good as his Pantheism (or Panentheism) ! is a goo d change upon Einstein as good as Hawkings, as good as "God" to both of them does not meant a personal God who is keeping tab of how many times we wash your crippled after defaecating, but a creator being.

Next upon a list will be Kant's Critique of Pure Reason. we am sorry, we cannot suggest a translated chronicle since Paul Guyer's is a torture, Meikeljohn is even worse. If there a readable translation it would have to be a Norman Kemp-Smith. we can't start to report how critical this book is, from epistemology, to a problems of space as good as time, metaphysics as good as theories for a life of God as good as ultimately a rejecting of reason for conviction when it comes to God.

A follow up to this would be Schopenhauer's depressive philosophy as good as a Two seminal functions by Nietzsche, Also Sprach Zarathustra as good as Beyond Good as good as Evil. (These final three endorsed for Thomas). Kaufmann's pleasant as good as mostly humorous critique is an essential review for those who have been meddlesome in a Christian Faith as good as Philosophy.


The some-more "technical" intro would be Roger Penrose's Voluminous Road to Reality, which starts with 16 chapters of essential Mathematics for a bargain of Physics which competence be a small bit daunting since it includes Clifford as good as Grassman Algebras as good as Geodesics. Those who conduct to smash into by will be rewarded with a smashing chapter upon Quantum Mechanics as good as a pleasing Final Chapter upon a integration of Quantum with Relativity, Klein Gordon Equation as good as a factoring in to Dirac as good as anti Dirac equations. A peek in to Hawkings' God Created Integers would be a utilitarian authority prior to Penrose.
Einstein's Biography is illuminating as good as Michio Kaku's made easy chronicle of Cosmology will say your seductiveness prior to attempting some-more Hawkings.

I am upon vacation as good as so far, my blackberryless days have been smashing as good as filled with poetic meals with friends who share a usual seductiveness in articulate rots as good as deliberating things which have been substantially insignificant. we will be relocating upon to a place where a internet connectors have been some-more sketchy as good as unreliable. we have scheduled a little updates (food related, we guarantee as good as no some-more boring stuff similar to this) as good as have infirm comments since we do not forsee which we could reply them. Take care, all.

Happy Malaysia Day.