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CHINESE WISDOM
~TEGEL.FIL~
'He who will cherish old knowledge and
constantly gathers new, may become
the teacher of others'
Confucius
.. article by Slimer ..
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!! C H I N E S E W I S D O M !!
warning: don't take everything in this article serious
warning: don't take the previous sentence serious
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Many of todays diskmagazines open their articles with a few
words of wisdom. They also try to soak their articles in a
soup of pseudo-intellectual-journalism resulting in
articles like this one. D.B.A. may stay behind in the race
about 'who is the most intellectual diskmag' on the scene,
because we try to keep our articles readable and our
English slightly bend.
The question; does he mean all this must surely passed your
thoughts by now ! Read on and find out ...
Not everybody has a high degree in English and reads tons
of literature written in this language. Many people seem to
have problems with the writing 'evolution' in diskmag land
and don't bother reading most of the articles anymore. The
problem is, if you keep the article to simple you are
likely not to be taken seriously by for instance non
electronic magazines. If you take the contents to a more
higher more intellectual standard, you are likely to lose
many readers. Personally I think that we must take the so
called middle course in this minidrama. One thought may
comfort you, I'm no intellectual and not even pseudo-
intellectual !
I'm also very pleased that ST-News has changed it's course
in the Multi-Media direction and loses more of it's
fictitious side. The interest in fiction is never that big
as the demand for news on computers, music, movies and
that sort of (pleasant) stuff.
People who are reading this are probably wondering what the
title and the opening sentence of this article has to do
with all my misty blabbering about pseudo-journalism and
fiction... Well, I was actually planning on opening my
articles with wise Chinese sayings from now on. A little in
the style of ST-News and Maggie (who ripped the idea also
from ST-News) but with a somewhat other approach. I will
pick sayings from one particular 'poet' for each issue out
of my book of wisdom.
For this issue it will be 'Confucius' owner of a chain of
Chinese/Turkish restaurants and Babi Pangang specialist.
He came up with many of his sayings while nuking living
chickens in a cheap Samsung microwave-oven.
'Bettel one chicken on the light
wave-length than ten with mushlooms'
Confucius
Lets face it, have you ever encountered an owner of a chain
of Chinese/Turkish restaurants ? I know, I didn't !
I don't know that much about this character so I gave him a
background to make him a bit more interesting. Actually the
guy is from a sort of lost generation of clever and wise
men who are all extincted at approx. the same time as the
dinosaur did. Leaving us with the inheritance of a couple
of hundred politicians without wisdom or brains for that
matter !
Seriously though, the Chinese were the first people that
actually used poetry and astrology on a big scale. On this
level the Chinese were miles ahead on the rest of the world,
so you might say that the roots of all wisdom have sprouted
in China ! That's why our magazine uses true wisdom (which
is ofcourse bollocks)coming from the roots. So, side by
side with true color and truesound, we have true wisdom !
Leaving you with your brain tangled in thoughts of
Confucius,
'He who doesn't know the power of
the word can't know people'
Confucius
(Does the editor of this magazine actually belong in a
mental-hospital for the criminal insane or is he just
silly ?)
~RED.PAL~