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Suy nghĩ một hồi, nhớ ra anh Rufus.

I’m going to a town that has already been burned down
I’m going to a place that is already been disgraced

Có khi em sắp ra Hà Nội.

Tell me do you really think you go to hell for having loved?

Tell me and not for thinking every thing that you’ve done is good

Going to a town – Rufus Wainwright

I’m going to a town that has already been burned down
I’m going to a place that is already been disgraced
I’m gonna see some folks who have already been let down.
I’m so tired of America

I’m gonna make it up for all of the Sunday Times
I’m gonna make it up for all of the nursery rhymes
They never really seem to want to tell the truth
I’m so tired of you America

Making my own way home
Ain’t gonna be alone
I got a life to lead America
I got a life to lead

Tell me do you really think you go to hell for having loved?
Tell me and not for thinking every thing that you’ve done is good
(I really need to know)
After soaking the body of Jesus Christ in blood

I’m so tired of America
(I really need to know)

I may just never see you again or might as well
You took advantage of a world that loved you well
I’m going to a town that has already been burned down
I’m so tired of you America

Making my own way home
Ain’t gonna be alone
I got a life to lead America
I got a life to lead
I got a soul to feed
I got a dream to heed
And that’s all I need

Making my own way home
Ain’t gonna be alone
I’m going to a town that has already been burned down

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– Anyone can cook (even me) :-D

Letter from a former professor of philosophy. God, I have never learned decently any kind of philosophy.

I’m curious what Vietnamese think about “evil”. Do you have such a word or concept parallel to our western concept?

The roots of our word/concept in western languages lie in our Christian tradition. So it’s not clear to me whether and what it might mean in the absence of that tradition.

We tend to apply evil to the “intentions” of actions as opposed to the disadvantageous (bad) consequences that may or may not result from certain choices. So for instance, the concept of evil evolved in the Christian tradition around the time we started thinking and talking about the “will” and the “inner” springs of human action and behavior. Traditionally, an early Christian differentiated him or herself from their Jewish (or pagan) brethren in that it was sufficient for the latter to obey the laws in order to be pious whereas a Christian must do more … he or she must also “want” or “will” to do good in order to truly fulfill the law.

The Greek and Roman tradition (pagan) had no concept of the “will”. Actions were determined by “reason” vying against the passions; and a bad outcome was attributable to an irrational “calculation” of the costs/benefits of the consequences. No separate “inner” or mental faculty of the will. Which is why tragedy as a literary form was born and thrived in Greece (and died under the intellectual conditions of Christianity) because actions, no matter how rationally chosen and ordered, could still inevitably lead to bad consequences because what matters is not the inner intention of the actor but the external unpredictability of making choices in a pluralistic world involving other free agents capable and liable to react. There could be no concept of a “good man” in the Christian sense in Greece (good totally apart from his efficacy in the world); nor could there be a concept of a tragic hero in the Christian era.

The Jewish commandment not to commit adultery is replaced in the Christian tradition by not “coveting” thy neighbor’s wife. A Jew is pious simply by restraining himself and obeying the commandments of his faith regardless or even against his inner impulses; a Christian is only truly pious and “good” if he is pure in his will “inside” as well. According to Jesus, this was a radicalization of the Jewish law … “I come not to break the law but to fulfill it.”

It was only once this “inner realm” of the “will” was opened up for inspection (by St. Augustine) that the idea of evil emerges in our tradition. It was applied to the will and the inner intentions of man not simply to the “bad” outcome of his choices. Without the whole metaphysical and theological apparatus of Christianity behind it, I’m wondering if it’s possible (natural from an anthropological point of view) to still have a concept of evil?

The most articulate and intriguing answer in the west to this question is Nietzsche. Generally a pretty inaccessible writer because he wrote in aphorisms and assumes a significant degree of familiarity with the entire western tradition of philosophy and theology in order to read. (He also was clinically insane most of his active life). But two of his most easily readable books address this issue: “Beyond Good and Evil” and The Genealogy of Morals”. Have these or any other of his works been translated into Vietnamese? Arendt’s “banality of evil” lies squarely in this Nietzschean tradition and its attack on Christian values.

Does Vietnamese have anything like the concept of a tragic hero?

– tôi đang rất bất bình với yahoo

– bạn bất bình vì sao

– tôi đặt quảng cáo trên yahoo messenger. bạn biết cái insider nhảy ra khi bạn log in không và có 1 cái banner to loăng quăng ở trên đó?

– à, có, và tôi có nhớ có một số quảng cáo của VN ở đấy

– tôi hỏi mua quảng cáo. Agency gửi cho tôi 1 cái hợp đồng. Trong hợp đồng ngoài các thứ blahblah thì có 1 điều khoản: nếu tôi huỷ hợp đồng, tôi bị phạt 100% tiền. Nếu yahoo huỷ hoặc không cung cấp đủ tần suất xuất hiện theo đúng thời gian hợp đồng, yahoo chẳng trả lại gì mà sẽ chạy tiếp phần quảng cáo còn thiếu vào một dịp khác. Tôi bảo hợp đồng thế không được, toàn bộ risk là phía tôi. nếu Yahoo không làm đúng hợp đồng thì Yahoo chả mất gì cả, thế là thế nào?

agency bảo: nếu Yahoo không chạy đủ quảng cáo, nó sẽ dành phần thiếu cho chương trình tiếp theo của tôi. Tôi bảo chương trình của tôi vào thời điểm X , tôi làm mọi cái vào thời điểm X. Giờ Yahoo không chạy quảng cáo vào thời điểm X mà bảo hãy chọn vào thời điểm Y đi. Thế là thế nào? Tôi cũng chấp nhận việc sẽ không trả lại tiền, nhưng nếu Yahoo không chạy đúng hạn 1 triệu lần xuất hiện thì phải đền tôi 2 triệu. Vì tôi mất 100% tiền cơ mà. Agency bảo nó sẽ đi thương lượng với Yahoo, và vừa gửi trả lời tôi cái mail thế này:

1. If client cancel, client has to pay penalty (100% amount of contract value) because client books and agency cant buy any advertiser more and they lost money for the position you book.

2. If yahoo cancel, agency has to keep this amount and position for next campaign, but not subject to 100% penalties of the impressions they have not delivered if they under-delivered impression and not refund or pay any amount for impression they have not delivered.

The reason is that 60% clients usually cancel after signing but 0% Yahoo cancel or under-deliver (if client doesn’t want to extend the day of campaign) because Yahoo wants to get money/revenue and co-operate with client for a long time, they don’t want to loose client and their prestige. So they always try their best on their quality.

That’s why Yahoo no need to commit pay any amount if they cancel or subject 100% penalties of the impression they not delivered.

That’s way Yahoo work, they are international site, they know how to work and serve.

Okay, I will think during the weekend and take a look on google ad. Yahoo sucks and what you wanna say by the mail is you have not any respect to people which are paying you.

9:30 PM, in the office, Peperonis, headache.

Tomorrow, wake up at 7:00.

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