User Comments - Joachim
Joachim
Posted on: The Final Show
January 11, 2009 at 5:47 PM哎哟，what are you up to, then? Leaving for other shores, too? Who'll do those grammar mind maps at spanishpod??
Posted on: The Final Show
January 11, 2009 at 4:19 PMamber: Do you twitter? Would keep us updated. Best of luck. Maybe, you'll do some "Dear Amber - the insider's guide to NYC" - in Chinese of course!
Posted on: Food Oddities and Eye Exercises
January 7, 2009 at 9:52 PMpearltowerpeter: The "straw dogs" title is in reference to Daoism. Gray actually quotes Laozi:
"Heaven and earth are ruthless, and treat the myriad creatures as straw dogs."
This seems to be in Chinese:
"天地不仁，以万物为刍狗"
(tiān dì bù rén, yǐ wàn wùwèi chúgǒu.)
The Chinese doesn't sound that cruel to me.
Posted on: Food Oddities and Eye Exercises
January 5, 2009 at 2:40 PMpearltowerpeter:
Why is it sad that it's doomsday only for humanity?It's unfair enough that a lot of species are vanishing because of or with humanity. (Although, I am not so sure about our good friends the cockroaches. Those poor fellas never had it so good before we had built our dwellings.)
Nevertheless, humanity will probably wither away like most other species, too. (There are not that many species around from when dinosaurs roamed the earth.)
If you like reading about earth without humanity, you'll probably enjoy "The World Without Us - Alan Weisman".
If you're not feeling bad enough about life, the universe and everything, then I'd recommend John Gray: Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals.
That said: I am quite confident that animals have feelings - at least the ugly primate here in front of the computer typing this comment.
Btw: Darwin Day is on 12th February 2009! Celebrate!
http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoID=954585645
P.P.S.: The sun will explode in appr. 5 billion years and will strip planet earth of it's atmosphere etc. ;-)
Posted on: Chinese Hospitality and Finding Vegetarian Food
December 26, 2008 at 11:23 PMAmber 再见了! Best wishes for whatever you'll be up to!
Posted on: The Person Component
December 21, 2008 at 12:26 AMMaybe some support from Spanishpod will help. I really enjoy "La Clave" and "Cooking with Tabasco".
Posted on: Surviving Winter and Singles Scene for Expat Girls
December 14, 2008 at 9:18 PMAh, yeah! Fodder, protection and procreation, those basic needs of creatures on this minor planet circling around an average sun ...
Posted on: 普通人的慈善
December 10, 2008 at 5:28 AMMaybe this is a bit off-topic, but who are some of the most important current (i.e. still alive!) philosophers in China?
Posted on: More Chinese lessons, and now EnglishPod!
November 21, 2008 at 8:11 AMSlightly off-topic: I'd like to suggest a "reply directly" button to posts so that people don't have to introduce things like @someoneelse or "Someoneelse: Re your post on zenmezenme ... I want to answer blablabla".
Of course, this means discussions will have a number of branches.
Posted on: Will you Marry Me?
January 11, 2009 at 8:18 PMNotice to all German speaking Cpoddies.
Für die Mildessas und alle anderen gibt's die Lektion auch auf Deutsch im Chinesisch-lernen-blog:
http://blogs.chinesepod.com/de/2009/01/11/intermediate-willst-du-mich-heiraten/
Vielleicht hilft's :-)