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Professor : You are a Christian, aren’t you, son ?
Student : Yes, sir.
Professor: So, you believe in GOD ?
Student : Absolutely, sir.
Professor : Is GOD good ?
Student : Sure.
Professor: Is GOD all powerful ?
Student : Yes.
Professor: My brother died of cancer even though he prayed to GOD to heal him. Most of us would attempt to help others who are ill. But GOD didn’t. How is this GOD good then? Hmm?
(Student was silent.)
Professor: You can’t answer, can you ? Let’s start again, young fella. Is GOD good?
Student : Yes.
Professor: Is satan good ?
Student : No.
Professor: Where does satan come from ?
Student : From … GOD …
Professor: That’s right. Tell me son, is there evil in this world?
Student : Yes.
Professor: Evil is everywhere, isn’t it ? And GOD did make everything. Correct?
Student : Yes.
Professor: So who created evil ?
(Student did not answer.)
Professor: Is there sickness? Immorality? Hatred? Ugliness? All these terrible things exist in the world, don’t they?
Student : Yes, sir.
Professor: So, who created them ?
(Student had no answer.)
Professor: Science says you have 5 Senses you use to identify and observe the world around you. Tell me, son, have you ever seen GOD?
Student : No, sir.
Professor: Tell us if you have ever heard your GOD?
Student : No , sir.
Professor: Have you ever felt your GOD, tasted your GOD, smelt your GOD? Have you ever had any sensory perception of GOD for that matter?
Student : No, sir. I’m afraid I haven’t.
Professor: Yet you still believe in Him?
Student : Yes.
Professor : According to Empirical, Testable, Demonstrable Protocol, Science says your GOD doesn’t exist. What do you say to that, son?
Student : Nothing. I only have my faith.
Professor: Yes, faith. And that is the problem Science has.
Student : Professor, is there such a thing as heat?
Professor: Yes.
Student : And is there such a thing as cold?
Professor: Yes.
Student : No, sir. There isn’t.
(The lecture theater became very quiet with this turn of events.)
Student : Sir, you can have lots of heat, even more heat, superheat, mega heat, white heat, a little heat or no heat. But we don’t have anything called cold. We can hit 458 degrees below zero which is no heat, but we can’t go any further after that. There is no such thing as cold. Cold is only a word we use to describe the absence of heat. We cannot measure cold. Heat is energy. Cold is not the opposite of heat, sir, just the absence of it.
(There was pin-drop silence in the lecture theater.)
Student : What about darkness, Professor? Is there such a thing as darkness?
Professor: Yes. What is night if there isn’t darkness?
Student : You’re wrong again, sir. Darkness is the absence of something. You can have low light, normal light, bright light, flashing light. But if you have no light constantly, you have nothing and its called darkness, isn’t it? In reality, darkness isn’t. If it is, well you would be able to make darkness darker, wouldn’t you?
Professor: So what is the point you are making, young man ?
Student : Sir, my point is your philosophical premise is flawed.
Professor: Flawed ? Can you explain how?
Student : Sir, you are working on the premise of duality. You argue there is life and then there is death, a good GOD and a bad GOD. You are viewing the concept of GOD as something finite, something we can measure. Sir, Science can’t even explain a thought. It uses electricity and magnetism, but has never seen, much less fully understood either one. To view death as the opposite of life is to be ignorant of the fact that death cannot exist as a substantive thing.
Death is not the opposite of life: just the absence of it. Now tell me, Professor, do you teach your students that they evolved from a monkey?
Professor: If you are referring to the natural evolutionary process, yes, of course, I do.
Student : Have you ever observed evolution with your own eyes, sir?
(The Professor shook his head with a smile, beginning to realize where the argument was going.)
Student : Since no one has ever observed the process of evolution at work and cannot even prove that this process is an on-going endeavor. Are you not teaching your opinion, sir? Are you not a scientist but a preacher?
(The class was in uproar.)
Student : Is there anyone in the class who has ever seen the Professor’s brain?
(The class broke out into laughter. )
Student : Is there anyone here who has ever heard the Professor’s brain, felt it, touched or smelt it? No one appears to have done so. So, according to the established Rules of Empirical, Stable, Demonstrable Protocol, Science says that you have no brain, sir. With all due respect, sir, how do we then trust your lectures, sir?
(The room was silent. The Professor stared at the student, his face unfathomable.)
Professor: I guess you’ll have to take them on faith, son.
Student : That is it sir … Exactly ! The link between man & GOD is FAITH. That is all that keeps things alive and moving.
P.S.
I believe you have enjoyed the conversation. And if so, you’ll probably want your friends / colleagues to enjoy the same, won’t you?
Forward this to increase their knowledge … or FAITH.
By the way, that student was EINSTEIN.
And the old one I had is Bose AE2i
This is my first time trying out a noise cancelling headphone
At first I was not used to the hizz sound made by active noise cancelling
but it only lasted a day, plus, if you listen to music, you won't be able to hear that sound at all (unless you turn it to very low)
The battery will run around 10+hours, I am a pretty aggressive music listener
and it can last around 3 days withou charging it again
The other good part of having a built in battery is, it doesn't drain my iPhone's battery when playing music
but drawback is once the battery power is out in the headphone, it will no longer function until I recharge it
Let's talk about the most important part that caused me to buy it
when putting it on, it immediately cancels around 75% of the noises
sometimes when I try to sleep in the school's library I like to just put it on for a better sleep quality
and when I am on a bus or somewhere with loud noises, I noticed I have 20% less volume than using my old headphone
(you know when you're in a noisy place, you need to turn the volume up to hear clearer sound)
what I like about my old is the surface that covers my ear
I wear glasses, while the beats headphone does pretty good job on confortness than most other on-ear headphone
my old bose headphone was even better
Lastly, since I always have this on my neck, I can feel a lot of sights of people looking at me
(those who know me in personal know that this has became my symbol, I have been having an on-ear headphone around my neck wherever I go for more than two years now)
Recently I tried with flash, but failed
If I ever gonna go about changing the homepage, it will be responsive (meaning it will support tablets and smartphones)
However, since there are limitations using our own framework, the homepage may (yes, may or may not) use a completely different stand alone page
while the rest of the site remain unchanged
Speaking of our own framework, I will try apply it to our music system once I have time, not sure about how it will go since the setup structure is so different (but, trying is better than not trying)
The other issue we have is, the current home-page size is too big
Although we have tab content for you to switch around views, but the content that was hidden are loaded when the page is loaded
this slows down the overall speed
to change this, I am thinking about using AJAX technology, which will display a type of block similar to what we have right now
but all the other tabs except the main one will not load all at once, instead, it will only load when you click on it
this, picks up the load speed dramatically
P.S I have two jobs this summer, and now getting my third job, so busy XD
Story ★★★★☆
Heart touching story, watched with my mom and she just cried through
I dislike the way of showing when they found the dogs in the film but other than that, it's pretty decent movie
Special effect ★★★☆☆
They did have some special effect for the earthquake and dog falling etc
Not bad, and not good, unlike most hollywood movies, this is story based film, so yeah... doesn't really matter a lot
Music ★★★★☆
In my opinion, it has one good bgm and ending song
Plot
First of all, the reviews and ratings are based on my personal opinion
you may have a different view, so please don't throw up and break something if you disagree lol
All the reviews have delays, because i like to wait until Anime finished airing and then watch them all at once
(unless it's One Piece, I know, it's great, bought the manga's too)
Basically I watch Animes of one season earlier than Japan's playback time (sometimes more)
it's just a headache to keep track of whole bunch single episodes every week isn't it? well, not if you have a lot of free time
Comments are welcome
General ★★★★☆
Super love soap anime (makes me itch sometimes..
Story ★★★★☆
every 4 episodes feature one main character
the last two feature a hidden char and his sister (if you don't know what I'm talking about maybe because I only watched the blue ray version I can imagine they are not included in the TV version
CG ★★★★★
Detailed, the light effect is very nicely done
Design ★★★★★
Excellent cloth, and character designs
for example, Rihoko who likes to eat and always wants to lose weight
if you compare her deign to the others, you see she is little fatter but still as cute as (or more than) others
Music ★★★★☆
Both OPs sung by azusa are very good
I personally favor the second one "君のままで" over the 1st one
The EDs are sung by the characters (one for each)
and since they are CVs not music artists, the songs ain't good (for both singing part and making part)
Can't recall any BGM in the Anime
Plot
this is delayed entry, been busy for the past few days, and will continue to be in the near future
Green tea frappe
saw a dragon ball soft drink for the 1st time in the super market
Calbee chips, pretty popular brand in HongKong (at least it was when i was there)
some manga, magazines and light novel
gift from the magazine, so cute > <
Btw went to play pool and KTV with friends couple days ago
found some good amount of Japanese songs in the KTV box, pretty happy with it, although still not a lot (been there before didn't find any probably are updated)
General ★★★★★
Re-watching this anime in the past few days, pretty old but very good anime
btw im trying to purchase the complete manga series of this anime
Story ★★★★★
This is neither a romantic nor hot-blooded story
but rather slow pace and bit fair tale that calms your heart
I love the final ending scene when Akari stares and smiles at Ai while she took a bit of breakfast when Ai first started working in Aria company
and Arishia did the same exact thing to Akari back then when she first came.
It indicates how things go around and achieve its mature states and around in a circle back to the new generation
Graphic ★★★★★
Might not comparable to today's graphic but back then it's very good
it also improved a lot in later season
btw the landscapes are a plus point
Design ★★★★☆
I like their uniforms
and the design of the city
Music ★★★★☆
Nothing to say about BGM but
the opening song and insert song of the first season have magnificent enchantments to the Anime
Undine & Symphony - both by Makino Yui
Especially the OP song plays while showing landscapes of AQUA or scenes of people getting ready to work
It has other good songs as well (why i gave it 4 stars? because this is for general music rating)
Warm your heart ★★★★★
CV ★★★★☆
Plot
Originally from a manga
バクマン。
the title literally means gambler
General ★★★★★
Even though I've already read the manga, the Anime still keeps me excited
That's how good it is
Just like the manga, every episode ends at exciting point
Story ★★★★★
Both main characters had their heroines in the start
The effort they put into the their work alone the way attracted many other female characters
and they never changed their heart
The psychological descriptions of characters are nice (the story writer really put a lot of effort into this)
As for the main Story
those who never watch/read this Anime might think there isn't much to tell in drawing manga story
That's not true, every difficulty they have overcome, another one soon pops up
I'm not gonna discuss about the difficulties they have overcame, You will know what I mean once you watch/read it
CG ★★★★☆
One small negative thing I have to say is, the Anime production is too focused on speed
Environment and Character expression are not detail enough(exp: light/dark effect)
The manga does much better performance on this part
Altho it's two different platform, hard to compare
Other than that, the anime quality is good
Design ★★★★★
You might be familiar with this drawing style
yes, the art is done by the same artist of Death note, Hikaru no go etc
and like all his works, story is done by someone else
As for bakuman, it is the same writer who wrote death note
Music ★★★★☆
No noticeable BGM, but I really like the OP and 1st ED
Especially the OP lyric uses strive, dream as theme, really nice
See you again on season 3
Plot
Due Defect unit of my previous setup, decided to pull the trigger on this upgrade (also small treat for myself for the new job)
Here are just some day one impressions
When talk about tube amps, people generally say they are warm and smooth, it gives me an impression that it is best for midrange frequency
You know me, I like Japanese music and Anime, it is full of female vocals
they are very rich in the high frequency spectrum, to the point sometimes even piercing trebles
For that reason I was hesitating for not picking a solid state amp, after hear numerous good things about Schiit products I decided to give it a try
The Valhalla is not tubey at all, neutral, it preserves the brightness of my HD800
Of course early input means it hasn't completely burn-in yet, but as of now it suits me very well and I don't need any tube rolling
As for the Bifrost, there is not much to talk about other than delivers cristal clear details, very good sense of sound stage
note that this setup has high amount of output, and it is designed specifically for high impedance headphone like my HD800 (600 ohm)
And I forgot to mention the DAC and AMP are all made in USA while the headphone is hand made in Germany
I got a call few days ago from one of the bookstores I usually go to
said they will be closing down the store so all manga are on sale now (hard to do business these days hey
btw the sale is 30% off everything
So today after exam I went to buy a camera that I wanted for a while and the bookstore (they import Taiwanese edition manga)
new Camera test
Bakuman 1~16
Sakura Hime Kaden 1~5,7 missing 6 (added to my missing list lol)
Also asked them to keep the One Piece complete volumes (up until now), probably gonna go grab them tomorrow and maybe something else too
I will post an update tomorrow
this is my current bookshelf (two layered books)
Story ★★☆☆☆
The plot is bit childish, and boring, the hero goes out save everyone and punish all bad guys type
Every time when I done with an episode there wasn't any desire to make me want to continue
that's why this Anime took me so long to finished
Not to mention the "cursed tools" are too buggy
BTW I talking about the Anime only, haven't read the light novel so it might be different
Music ★★★☆☆
It did a good job on having two theme songs for a one season Anime, the songs are not bad either
but, the BGM is where points are taken off
by the time I done with the Anime, I can't recall any background music melodies
Pantsu ★★★★★
A recommend for Pantsu-cons
Graphic ★★★★☆
The graphic for most part is ok, but they did do lazy jobs on some parts
for example, boob shakes and doll moves etc...
Design ★★★★☆
A plus point, character designs are more toward Loli-cons
CV ★★★★☆
Plot
General ★★★★☆
The battle against god might seem cool but the battle character setting itself is basically retelling the ancient stories of gods (mostly Greek gods)
and this probably can amazes the first time listeners
but I already know majority of the stuff from Philosophy and Global literature classes
Story ★★★☆☆
The golden sword is really a buggy setting
and I personally hate the plot of the 2nd and 3rd followers who hesitate and keep feeling shame for a kiss
especially when it relates to the lives of them and the world
(due to the condition of use of the sword, the main char needs information about the enemy, however, our main char of course doesn't have knowledge of every detail of them so someone has to tell him, but the info amount is huge for telling by mouth or read, thanks to the usability of 'magic' they can be sent instantly, and since Campione resists to magic they have to do it by kiss/internal)
CG ★★★★☆
Battle scenes are good, the power of golden sword just reminds me of Gilgamesh from Fate stay night
and a lot fan-services
Design ★★★★☆
Above average costumes including underwear
Music ★★★☆☆
The first couple listen to the OP may not be noticeable but the melody is pretty good
Plot
I think there is a second season coming up?
The game was marked as shipped today midnight
and by the time I got home from college it already arrived! (only took half day with free 2 day shipping)
My battletag is Eudemon#1739
if you wanna add me and play together
So today is the first day of classes of fall
Looking back to the things I have done in the summer, hmm
Basically: work, website, dentist and some game time
(You may wonder how dentist can consume that much time, the answer is, I got two root canals and bunch other treatments
which cost me like 15+ visits to the dentist, and still haven't finished yet, sob sob)
Follow by the school start now I have to be a full time student with two part time jobs
Which is going to be pretty hard for me, hmm
Recent purchases? It's been a while since my last update, of course I have bought bunch stuff but they all scattered with my other collections, can't find them lol
Below are images of the new car that my parents bought: Toyota RAV4 XLE 2013
and here is their old car, which eventually become mine now: Toyota Corolla (I think it's a 2000 build, old hey)
変ゼミ
Originally from a manga
also known as Abnormal Physiology Seminar
General ★★☆☆☆
The length of the TV anime is only half of regular anime
The OVA tend to get better in over-all quality, but in general, I won't recommend this to anyone
It almost made me quit watching it, but after a long time I finally finished it
Story ★★☆☆☆
Not a story type series, instead focus on short length pervert activities
You can still follow up even you don't watch the episodes in order
Hentai ★★★★★
Well, if you favorite this type of topic, there you go
Music ★☆☆☆☆
No BGM (or none I can recall)
OP/ED no good, I think the maker spent too much energy to show off CV moe points
Design ★★☆☆☆
Drawing style trend to a bit fatty (not that I'm racist, this style is definitely not my favor)
Plot
星を追う子ども
Title in English is translated "Children who chase lost voices"
General ★★★★★
was debating between 4 and 5, maybe i should make a 4.5 lol
while i was reading the staff list in the end, i noticed Makoto Shinkai (Director) pop up in multiple sections
hard worker hey, his works are really decent and meaningful
Story ★★★★★
The story is pushed by the nostalgia of living people to those who passed away
Character&Creature Design ★★★☆☆
For characters, I guess it is more toward public(the masses), people who used to watch Anime may feel it's not detail enough
For creatures, well, fair..
CG ★★★★★
Just like any other makoto's work, the CG is incredibly good
Easy to follow through, pretty well done for the length of a movie
Music ★★★★☆
BGM good, but not incredibly noticeable
The ending song is pretty decent as well - "Hello Goodbye & Hello" by Anri Kumaki
The lyrics of the song is also pretty matching the story
Plot
General ★★★★☆
Typical Missy and agent (housekeeper+bodyguard), more suitable for female audiences
Story ★★★☆☆
Day to day scenes, very few fighting (even though the setting of Maison de Ayakashi and half ayakashi half human gives you a good battle sense)
You may also learn some basic info about Japanese ghosts
Btw, the main character said in the beginning that she always says something against her will, in other words, tsundere
Although it's popular among some people, I really hate this type of personality (don't hit me
CG ★★★★☆
Graphic is good and detailed
Design ★★★★☆
Has some sets of outfit, the drawing style is cute as well
Music ★★★★☆
I personally don't like the OP and EDs
but the BGM especially the one plays when she changes form is very good
Plot
Legend Proof and deck list plus win-rate against all class graph: http://imgur.com/a/VYC90 (all games are recorded in ranked)
According to the record, it took me total 300+ games to reach legend (-_-)/~~~ピシー!ピシー!
Just to clarify, I did not make the deck myself
Warrior deck credit to Sjow's original deck
Druid deck credit to neviilz2 made that post just couple days ago
So why only showing 29 cards?
Yes, I find most people post complete decks
I think this can create a completed figure for the players trying out new deck and they maybe scared to modify them
guides on how to mulligan is all over the internet so I'm not going to talk about them
but I'm going to show you card choices based on current meta due to time shift
that's why I leave 1 slot for you to adjust, and it is easy to understand
but when to tech cards in/out?
I switch cards base on the opponents I see at the time when I play
for example, I play 8 games in the afternoon, 5+ of them are aggro face rush, I will tech in aggro counter cards
and then at night, I find 5+ of them are control style, then I will tech in e.g black knight
the key is find the right card that can help you beat most decks you see at the time when you play, not try to win all of them
to find out which one is the right card to swap, see below
Let's start with warrior (got me from all the way to rank 2): deck / win-rate
when facing a lot mech heavy decks e.g mech mage, mech druid - add mind control tech or second brawl
to better understand the card choice, let's look at their objective, in this case is to flood the board with minions that are not cheap enough to be removable by whirlwinds
when facing a lot hunters / zoo / paladin / most aggro deck - add whirlwind
creepers, muster for battles, imps, all the 2/1s, snakes
when facing a lot warrior / handlock - add second big game hunter
eh... kind of obvious
when facing a lot control-ish / midrange decks / especially druid - add black knight, considerable swap iron juggernaut with sylvanas
black knight chop chop (゚Д゚)ノ
bad match ups: priest, mech mage
Now let's talk about druid (got me from rank 2 to legend): deck / win-rate
when facing a lot of mech heavy decks / paladin / zoo / hunter / shaman - add second mind control tech
the nature of this deck is taunt up and have your opponent to do the trading instead of pointing your face
these flood the board type of deck is basically free minion for you to grab
plus it is not bad against others as well, I find a lot of people overlooked the second one (*´ω`)
when facing a lot warrior / handlock - same
the rest - add black knight
since now a lot of people carry it due to rise of druid
even it is not druid, belcher is more than good enough, and chopping a giant is the dream \(゜ロ\)(/ロ゜)/
this card is also very important when playing against
you always want to drop your cheaper cost taunt first to bait out black knight to save your ancient of war
why no dr.boom in this deck?
this card is certainly a very popular choice nowadays for most decks, therefore the increased number of big game hunters
if you look back at this deck, we have no card that is above 7 damage, so screw bgh haha, jk
back match ups: freeze mage, handlock, the summon a lot of copy mage from echo and duplicate (don't know the exact name, it is not really miling tho)
again, I encourage you to modify your deck to better adapt to the environment
there are numerous tools that can help you track your games, the one I'm using the hearthstone deck tracker
you can look back at the record to see what kinds of decks you're facing the most to adjust your cards
My stream: http://www.twitch.tv/eudemon
I don't have webcam right now, but I plan to adding one in the future
for now you may enjoy my play and my anime music collection (*'ω'*)
Good luck on the climb!