Proof of God’s Existence

Update: By Popular Demand, the local number for the Pizza Hut on Taipa Island (Macau SAR China) is 853-2884-3133

You know you have those times in your life when your walk of faith faulters – then something miraculous happens that strengthens your resolve. I have just had such a momentous experience.

Tired of eating rice and noodles, ox tail and being tricked yesterday into eating chicken feet here in China – I have decided it’s time to make a stand.

To my great exhuberent joy I have discovered a Pizza Hut around the corner that delivers to my apartment here in China. Proof positive that heavenly hosts are looking out for me…

And yes, it tastes pretty close to pizza back home. Just have to make sure you order the tomato sauce base instead of the Thousand Island dressing base. (Gross, but true…)

China and Dalai Lama

Received this question on a forum:

The Dali Lama has been speaking in Seattle for the past week about compassion, while attempting to avoid politics, but the Tibetan situation has pervaded the events despite any efforts.

How is the Tibetan situation regarded over there? –I assume that most of the Chinese don’t advocate their political liberation, but what have you witnessed regarding Tibet’s cultural freedom –if anything at all?

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22 Apothegms of Enlightenment

22 Apothegms of Enlightenment
by Clavinicus the Apollonian
Spring Equinox 2008

These are the Apothegms of Enlightenment–the “clear sayings”, without ambiguity or uncertainty, that lead to intellectual liberation and a life fulfilled. Yet nothing here is new. Great men and women of Philosophy, Science, and Wisdom have proclaimed these truths to every generation down through the centuries. Here again they are given to you–freely, openly, and truthfully, and with the hope that such wisdom will be heard by all. For ours is a trouble world, suffused with apathy, hatred, bigotry, ignorance, greed, selfishness, and violence. Such things are in our nature, it cannot be denied. But let Reason, Love, and Compassion prevail and all such hindrances will from your thoughts dispel. For a mind so liberated, Enlightenment is assured.

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Jazz Improvisation Changes Brain Functions

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Here’s something I never thought of: Put a jazz piano player in a brain scan tube with a plastic keyboard and compare his bran scans when he plays pre-determined music and when he improvises freely to a track.

That’s exactly what Dr. Charles Limb and Dr. Allen Braun at the National Institutes of Health did. And their findings are…..brain tickling.

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