li cheng's blog at the arctic

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Monday, June 30, 2008

Do you believe in Reincarnation?

Ever had a vivid dream that you can remember very well? Did you dream of a stranger whom you thought you have known for a very long time? If so, you could be dreaming of your past life. Many superstitious people believe that the dreams that we all have everyday are actually parts of our past memory.

A good example would be the dalai lama, when a dalai lama dies, a new dalai lama is selected by a very special ritual. Laid before a newborn child is some items, among them, items used by the past dalai lama, if the child picks the item that dalai lama used, this child is considered to be the
Reincarnation of dalai lama.

So, do you beleive in Reincarnation?

Sunday, June 29, 2008

My personal reflection about cloning technology (correct my spelling if i am wrong)

Well, to me cloning technology is not really that bad, if we feel lonely we can clone a person just like us to talk to us, and also to share our sadness(since we are the same person i guess...........) with our clone.The advantages to cloning is that we can finally consider the possibility of immortality.Once we die our clone will replace us and we will "live on forever".This will spare us from the pain of losing our loved ones......

However, the is also a bad side to cloning ,who knows whether the clones are harmless or not?Many fear that our clones may murder us and take over our identity( very creepy indeed).Some also fear that our clones may replace the human population in the end.As a human dies, he or she is replaced by a clone which takes over the host's life, this clone may gain access to everything the host owns.

So can we really trust clones?My personal opinion is that the idea of clones is not really safe, why make more of us when there is already enough of us?

My favourite author

The best book i have read so far would be harry potter and the deathly hallows written by J.K Rowling .I am a avid fan of harry potter series and the seventh installment was simply a masterpiece. My reflection after reading her books was that the whole story was written in a highly descriptive manner, the author used used a lot of words to describes a scene, words such as " icy","cold" and "raging" are used.When i am reading this book, i feel as though as if i am in the story itself, the story is so full of suspense , thrill and even a sense of mystery.The best part of the story is the end whereby the shocking truth is finally revealed.If we are all able to learn from the way J.K Rowling writes we will surely attain high scores for our english exams.I will strongly recommend this final book to all my friends.(although it is obvious that i do not need to do so)