tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7687269.post115839443410644536..comments2023-11-03T21:32:33.270+08:00Comments on On the Shoulders of Giants: Reason and irrationalityDavid BC Tanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16102898507435707042noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7687269.post-1162548918192101682006-11-03T18:15:00.000+08:002006-11-03T18:15:00.000+08:00Great stuffs, again, David! Faith is beyond reason...Great stuffs, again, David! <BR/><BR/>Faith is beyond reason, but not irrational. It seems to me that rationality is rooted in the eternal character and mind of God himself, therefore it is not something 'external' that He conforms to... and it is also not something He 'arbitrarily' chooses.Davehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12945010948044311994noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7687269.post-1158542555356148042006-09-18T09:22:00.000+08:002006-09-18T09:22:00.000+08:00Thank you for those links, I'll be looking them up...Thank you for those links, I'll be looking them up.<BR/><BR/>My husband is Chinese-Malaysian. He was in KL at the time.<BR/><BR/>Some years ago I came across The Death of a Democracy, written by John Slimming, an Observer journalist, who was in KL at that time. It was very sobering reading and affected me greatly, as has my husband's account of those days.<BR/><BR/>thanks for your response, I'll be visiting again.aineliviahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11318733030672186420noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7687269.post-1158482628799075332006-09-17T16:43:00.000+08:002006-09-17T16:43:00.000+08:00Hi and thanks for visiting.About May 13, it's a bl...Hi and thanks for visiting.<BR/>About May 13, it's a blot in our history and it still has a mention in our history books. There was an issue recently when a textbook on etnic relationships presented a somewhat slanted view of history causing opposition parlimentarians to denounce it. (See http://blog.limkitsiang.com/?p=604)<BR/>You may also want to visit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_13_Incident<BR/>to get a better picture of the riots back in 1969.<BR/><BR/>"Anywhere else it would be called bullying" <BR/><BR/>I like the way you've put it! Every now and then some politicians in UMNO (primarily muslim malays belonging to the dominant component party in the govt) hope to score points with their constituencies by reminding the rest of us of May 13 - as if similar chaos would recur if they don't get their way. In 2004, during the UMNO general assembly, its deputy permanent chairman Badruddin Amiruldin, waved a book on May 13 during his speech and warned: "No other race has the right to question our privileges, our religion and our leader". Doing so would be tantamount to "stirring up a hornet's nest".<BR/>That sounds like a threat to me, and as you say, it's bullying.David BC Tanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16102898507435707042noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7687269.post-1158408997240242662006-09-16T20:16:00.000+08:002006-09-16T20:16:00.000+08:00a balanced post David, thanks. Just wondering if ...a balanced post David, thanks. <BR/><BR/>Just wondering if the so-called 13th May Incident (1969) actually exists in current Malaysian history or has it been rewritten?<BR/><BR/>It went something like this if I recall, if you don't win the election, declare a Jihad, create chaos, kill some people and get your own way, my analysis entirely.<BR/><BR/>History repeats itself, the more things change, the more they remain the same. Take the words totally out of contest, threaten conflagration and get an apology. Anywhere else it would be called bullying.<BR/><BR/>Personally, I have great difficulty understanding those who threaten violence every time they dislike other people's opinions. But then that's just me.aineliviahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11318733030672186420noreply@blogger.com