Last time, LittleMaster practiced the red gem on the track, at the cost of blood.

The magic book was recommended by many powerful mages, divided into 11 chapters, written in Elvish language, and it looked pretty impressive.

Once upon a time, there was a young wizard who was born in the Zeiya continent, surrounded by mountains.

The school where the young wizard studied was ranked far behind in the world of magic, and there wasn’t a single powerful mage in the entire school.

By the time the young wizard graduated, they only knew one static spell.

Although this spell was very powerful, it took a long time to cast and required the wizard to stand still.

Until a few days ago, the young wizard suddenly heard about another type of magic in the world that could be cast while moving and chanting. This piqued their curiosity.

After flipping through the latest spell book, they discovered a type of dynamic magic called “Ruby on the Orbit”.

The pronunciation of this magic was strange and mysterious, but as long as it was chanted correctly, it could summon a highly destructive spell in the shortest amount of time.

And then, the wizard accidentally killed themselves with the spell they summoned.

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Every discipline has its own domain of application, and the usefulness of each is relative.

If you have a smooth life and a favorable environment, where you have no need to reflect on things, studying philosophy may not seem very useful.

But if you maintain curiosity and constantly seek knowledge, whether you are in politics, research, or business, you will inevitably encounter philosophical questions.

This is because philosophy is about the fundamental nature of the world.

In the concluding paragraph of the first lecture of the book “Justice: What’s the Right Thing to Do?” by Michael J. Sandel, a political science professor at Harvard University, he offers a very excellent summary:

Reading philosophy books can be an exercise to know oneself.

Philosophy makes the familiar unfamiliar. It does not give us more new information, but offers us another way of looking at things. It has two levels of adventure: the personal level and the political level. The personal level of adventure means that once the familiar becomes strange, it will never be the same as before. Self-awareness is like a lost traveler, no matter how confused or restless, you cannot ignore it anymore. This process is difficult but one must fully engage with it. Moral and political philosophy is like a story; you don’t know where it will take you, but you clearly know that it is your story. The adventure at the political level is that, after reading these books and participating in such discussions, you will become a better and more responsible citizen. You will examine the assumptions in the public political realm, your political judgment will be exercised, and you will be more actively involved in public affairs. However, there may be biases and misconceptions in this process. You must acknowledge that it may make you a worse citizen rather than a good citizen, or at least it may make you a bad citizen before you become a good one. That’s because philosophy is a long-standing thing, and it can be somewhat destructive. Let’s take a look at a dialogue from the time of Socrates. Socrates’ friend Callicles wanted to persuade him to leave philosophy. He said to Socrates, “Philosophy is indeed wonderful, but it is only wonderful when you are moderately involved in it. If you become too obsessed with it, it will destroy you. Listen to me, put down those philosophical arguments, think about what real achievements are in life, don’t waste time with those who waste their time in ambiguous philosophical statements, you should look at those who truly live a good life and have wealth, fame, and other things.” What he meant was, “Dude, be a bit more practical.” But Callicles was correct about one thing: philosophy makes us distant from conventional practices, predefined assumptions, and established concepts.

When faced with these questions, we have a special way of evading them, it’s called skepticism. It means that, like this, we have just started learning and cannot solve those cases or principles we argue about immediately. And if Aristotle, Kant, Locke, and Mill spent so many years without solving these problems, who do we think we are? Can we solve them after just one semester in Sanders Hall? Moreover, it may be just a matter of each person having their own different principles, and there may be nothing worth discussing, and it is unclear why these questions exist at all. This is the way skepticism escapes. Regarding this, I think I can answer in this way: Indeed, these questions have been discussed for a very long time, but precisely because they continue to be discussed, it means that although they are not explainable in a certain sense, on the other hand, they are indispensable. They are indispensable because the answers to these questions lie in our everyday lives. Therefore, skepticism only lets you let go, abandon thinking, and it does not solve any moral or philosophical problems. Kant has a very brilliant description of skepticism. He wrote, “Skepticism is just a resting place in the process of exploration, letting us wander in some dogmas, but it is by no means a place where we can stay forever.” Here, I want to summarize the purpose of this course simply, which is to awaken endless thirst for knowledge and reasoning, and see where it will take us.

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My personal opinion is:

VPS+Domain WordPress and other blogging frameworks. This way, you have control over the website address and backend environment.

If you don’t want to spend money, you can rely on platforms like GAE or SAE.

Another simple option is to host it on Github. Here is a rough process:

1. Create a new Repository on Github, xxx.github.com
2. Use static blog generation tools like Jekyll or Hexo
3. That’s it.

Yes, it’s that simple, and there are plenty of online tutorials available, so I won’t repeat them here.

I personally use Hexo, and it is hosted here.

Compared to Jekyll, I find Hexo to be simpler.

When I was in high school, there was a student in my class. It was the first time in my life that I saw someone with such intellect.

I never saw him studying. I could only see him playing games or reading novels.

There were also some study fanatics, who could approach that level of intellect through hard work.

Unfortunately, the truth is that I wasn’t one of them.

It’s not exactly heart-wrenching, but rather quite speechless.

When it comes to choosing a job after graduation, they want me to take the postgraduate entrance exam.
Just started working, and every phone call is about taking the civil service exam (what should I do in this situation when they constantly say they want to keep in touch?)
During my gap year (without asking my parents for a single penny), they still criticize me every day.

Overall, I feel like I am their personal property, the one they brought into this world. Is it not according to their wishes?
Damn! So once I grow wings and become independent, I am no longer obedient? How much can one tolerate?

2014-01-04 23:39:28
Finally finished

Mac VS Windows Shortcuts

• Title: Mac VS windows shortcuts
• Date: 2013-12-21 17:30:33
• Tags: [macOS]

In the past, in order to be efficient, so many keyboard shortcuts in Windows were destroyed.

Some software is really irreplaceable, and you can only leave me a message if you happen to know a good alternative.

Classmate, do you feel that life is so boring?
Do you numb yourself by playing games every day? Scrolling through Weibo again and again?
Or wonder why you don’t have a girlfriend/boyfriend?

Actually, the world is still full of surprises. Don’t believe it? Take a look: (Continuous updates… I’ll post the links later)

I like to tinker with software, and I have used and experimented with GTD in the following:

• idoit
• any.do
• wunderlist

These three are good tools that support multi-platform synchronization (Mac, iOS, Windows, Android). Each has its own characteristics, and regardless of ranking, you can try them out and choose your favorite.

However, while using these tools, you will find that you still cannot complete your plans. Items that were supposed to be in the “Today” project are still there a week later.

It’s similar to knowing that we have a tendency to procrastinate, and we may get angry at ourselves for it, but we still tend to leave it until the last moment. Seasoned smokers certainly know that smoking is harmful to their health, yet they still smoke after meals.

Therefore, even with the best software, if we don’t reflect on ourselves, we cannot prevent the consumption of time.