on beliefs and purpose

I ran into Alvins blog. and found something worth thinking.

"Wednesday, October 19, 2005

If you are not seeking the Lord, the Devil is seeking you...

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great words.

however i have a totally different appreciation for it, not in the theological/religious sense, rather in a philosophical realization.

u c, i strongly believe that people need to believe in some kind of higher power, or purpose in it's life. the most common form is religion, where people believe there's god/gods up there somewhere, and that gives them their purpose of life. the other form may well be in science or some other cult, or being involved in patriotism, or just money-worship. losing all sense of purpose generally lead u to one or all of the two conclusions: madness (due to constant searching of beliefs and purpose), and suicide (in some cases however that stems in the belief of an afterlife, because u can 'start over').

Being brought up as a chinese-buddhist-with-strong-cultural-heritage-and-taoism-confuism-influence person, plus being a malaysian (hence the brushes with islam, hinduism, chirtianity) and also being in a modern world (free-thinker-ism and Darwinsim) and a man-of-science (thanks to my engineering experiences and national geography readings), its hard to immerse oneself into any form of believe. (pretty sad huh?)

u might think: well i maybe can grab a hold on science as a belief. NO i don't. remember the previous post, even science may only be a relative truth, believing totally in science almost certainly will drive u into the 'mad-obsessed-scientist-that-believe-there's-no-bloody-ghost' category.

...to be continued...(need to catch up on work)

Replacing Reserve Battery on a DELL D610

hope this helps.

Reserve Battery

Dell™ Latitude™ D600 Service Manual

CAUTION: Before working inside your Dell™ computer, read the safety instructions in your System Information Guide.

CAUTION: To prevent static damage to components inside your computer, discharge static electricity from your body before you touch any of your computer's electronic components. You can do so by touching an unpainted metal surface.

1. Follow the instructions in "Preparing to Work Inside the Computer."
   
   
2. Remove the battery.
   
   
3. Depress the battery latch and rotate it out to remove the reserve battery cover.
   
   

It all comes around

Funny how the same thing seems to be happening to european people with chinese tattoo.

I saw a gal with a tattoo saying 'bitch' in chinese.

Try asking ourselves these questions

Is there absolute truth?

Is our knowledge of truth absolute? Or is it only relatively true?

Is there truth?

Are we really alone? Is there a guiding being? May there be a companion? Even an enemy?

does the candle feel sadness, when it burns to its last inch. There are greater fear than disappearing all alone, the greater fear is what's after.