Comments on: Why do I wanna change the world?

By: What’s Stopping You? | EHON CHAN

What’s Stopping You? | EHON CHAN — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 00:37:41 +0000

[...] jump? What’s stopping us from being the best that we can be and do what we love doing? After Ryan’s death, I told myself that I won’t let anyone or anything stop me from being the best that I can be, [...]

By: So many reasons to be thankful « EHON CHAN

So many reasons to be thankful « EHON CHAN — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 06:30:35 +0000

[...] not that I grew up in luxury, but I have never really thought about how much I have. But since Ryan’s death, I’ve started to do a lot more reflections at the end of each year, and make sure I thank, [...]

By: Anon

Anon — Tue, 11 May 2010 02:47:55 +0000

For what may we hope? Kant put this question in the first-person singular along with two others – what can I know? And what ought I do? – that he thought essentially marked the human condition. With two centuries of philosophical reflection, it seems that these questions are best transposed to the first-person plural.
It makes one yearn for radical hope – hope directed toward a future goodness that transcends the current ability to understand what it is. It anticipates a good for which those who have the hope as yet lack the appropriate concepts with which to understand it.
An great Aborigine warrior Durmugam once lamented the loss of a generation where secularisation was far-reaching and corrosive, psychically and socially. Where a young person might remark “if I live, I live; if I die, I die”. To him this was monstrous. To him, how a man lived and what he lived for were of first importance.
how a man lived and what he lived for were of first importance. For the thought “what would it be for such radical hope to be justified?”, it would be that those who harbour, hold and project such hope must be serious! Hope founded on mere optimism is not series, and a serious person is not readily gulled into hope, especially not by his or her own wishful thinking. A serious person or people are only limited by whatever fund of determination they have built up and consolidated over time.

By: zmm

zmm — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 07:05:27 +0000

eHon, I always said, if my girls end up being as sensible as you at such a young age, I would be very thankful.
Then again, actually, I'm thankful for them just being them.. :)