CHINESE WISDOM ~TEGEL.FIL~ 'He who will cherish old knowledge and constantly gathers new, may become the teacher of others' Confucius .. article by Slimer .. ----------------------------------------------------------- !! 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 ----------------------------------------------------------- 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~