for whom the bells tolls – John Donne

No man is an island,
Entire of itself.
Each is a piece of the continent,
A part of the main.
If a clod be washed away by the sea,
Europe is the less.
As well as if a promontory were.
As well as if a manor of thine own
Or of thine friend’s were.
Each man’s death diminishes me,
For I am involved in mankind.
Therefore, send not to know
For whom the bell tolls,
It tolls for thee.

just thought of this when heard the Boston disaster

John Donne
Meditation 17
Devotions upon Emergent Occasions

the empathy bonds us deeply in the shared humanity. the experience, perception, education, and the interpretation in terms of these… have created lots of barriers betwixt us and separate us from one another, but the emotions that still travel through us can still be shared… we are all humans and we are all linked.

uplifted by the music I enjoyed

uplifted by the music I enjoyed during the lunch time. it was responding to my mind and also emotions, but unfortunately not to my senses. my senses become dull because they are over stimulated. my emotions dull too because of the over practise of the sharpness of the mind in the commercial world. it was possible to be happy through being intelligent, but it is not. to neglect any makes us an.incomplete humans, fine music and good books build good and complete humanity, it was possible in Victorian era, it is not.possible in our era. we are cut off from our divine souls, and dragged down to earth. when the pressure increases, and the wholeness or balance loses, the depression or hysteria appears, then we continue seek to stimulate our senses after work through Hollywood movies and strong music.

we have not made any progress as far as the humanity is concerned. now back to work.. Jun

the relationship(s)

I don’t understand. we all deal with the relationships, betwixt man(woman) and the external world(natural sciences, engineering, with an accurate language(logic), and betwixt one another(pr, management, power, authority, psychology, ethics) with an less accurate language. and betwixt man and the internal world(religion, psychology, aethetics…), when we can grabs the rules in the external world and recreate them to benefit from it(natural sciences study the rules, engineering and technology recreate them), the corporation units people to work jointly. people deal lots of relationship stuffs betwixt one and another because they can not interact with the external world, but have to control more resources for their security and dominance to get the thing done through others or through the rules of the humanity/relationship(opportunism), this makes the relationship hypothetical, it makes people skeptical. the one nearby you might be a backstabber. they have to protect their esteem and security including job security. the more interactive a culture is with the external world, the simpler things are.

the fact is the more rules from the external world we grab and recreat, the more we can build a knowledge society. in some special cultural civilisation, people spend too much time and energy on the relationship betwixt one another, it certainly doesn’t make things simpler, nor does it productive or creative for the common good- it is beneficial for themselves. when humans can not benefit from the interaction with the external world, they will have to control more resources, this also means you build your dream by making others’ nightmares. if the USA had a population of 1300000000, but with no industries and less agriculture, they would be very hard on each other. Japan is of a big population density but they are creative. they don’t need to grab from each other. we all need to benefit from the external resources but the population shouldn’t be big.

looking internally, that’s always necessary to understand oneself…

waiting for my underground train

if you try to step into the an underground train and suddenly find it not your destination, you try to turn around – and find yourself standing in the way of everybody – the collective stream.. when people hold the same values collectively, you probably have to follow and try to be similar – to believe something different make you stand in the way of most people ;-p people need t have diversity of the options of the values. otherwise people are all the same – and mostly they do not know other truths or even the other sides of the same truth. Jun Wang (add me at FB if you like to exchange with me ;-p)

Judging (J) vs. Perceiving (P)

typelogy, a photo by Jung Wang on Flickr.

Are the ways we implement our decisions or execution. Judging (J) people are well structured in developing and keeping to plans. They like to keep things clear and orderly. They focus on their schedule and act according to it, and apply to the lives of others and are sometimes hard on others, keeping their plans in order and methodical ways.

Perceiving (P) people casual flexible and spontaneous rathe than planful scheduling/judging type. They like adventures and plan nothing but respond to situations they never encountered and they quite fancy it whilst scheduling people feel depressed in this case. They usually do not have a schedule, deadline or to-do lists, but are flexible in the situations which are not clear or structured.

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