Do you know leap year? There are 366 days in leap year. And when is leap year? Every 4 years, there is a leap year, this was what I learnt from school. And counting leap year, just divide current year by 4, right?

If so, then is 1900 a leap year? NO…

To get even closer to the actual number, every 100 years is not a leap year, but every 400 years is a leap year. Putting all of these rules together, you can see that a year is a leap year not only if it is divisible by 4 – it also has to be divisible by 400 if it is a centurial year. So 1700, 1800 and 1900 were not leap years, but 2000 was. That brings the average length of the year to 365.2425 days, which is even closer to the actual number.
(From: http://people.howstuffworks.com/time.htm/printable)

I am conservative. But I think this is important for Catholics to know, especially male teenagers and adults. I suggest to read the whole article (link).

The whole article is quite important. It is about a common mortal sin. But I like the following quote:

Holy Communion is a very private thing - and no one should ever feel compelled to receive Holy Communion: no matter what the circumstance. It is most inappropriate to ask another “why did he not receive communion?”
(From: http://www.newjerusalem.com/bepure.htm)

I like this chinese idiom: 流水不腐, which means “flowing water does not rot”.

This is a basic phenomenon. If the water can flow, the water sure be clean. This idiom can be applied to many circumstances.

The drain need to be unobstructed, so that the water can flow, and the drain will be clean.
We need to allow the air of the room circulate so that we have enough oxygen.
We need to go to toilet, so that the our organs will be clean, and we will not sick.

There are several reasons that I create blog. First reason is just because sometimes I feel boring. So, why don’t I write something?

Another reason is about a learning theory: Social constructivism. I don’t know how to describe the whole theory. But the concept of social constructivism gave me a great impression. That is, we construct knowledge through interaction, and the language is the medium of interaction.

Why I was impressed? This is related to my spiritual life. We know that Son of God is the Word of God. Therefore, we interact with God the Father through the Son. Even in this world, we also interact with each other through language, and then construct knowledge. How wonderful it is.

Some people believe that everything happened by chance according to the probability. Some people believe that everything is happened by fate. What do you believe?

If this world is only worked in probability, that means because by chance, “Big Bang” happened then the world is born.
If this world is only worked in probability, that means my parents were met by chance.
If this world is only worked in probability, that means because by chance, I was born.
If this world is only worked in probability, that means my mind existed because of chance, and all my life on earth is only happened because of probability.

This is just my imagination: the mind without brain.

Some people may think that there is no soul. And the mind is the brain. So when a man died, then his mind will disappear, just like sleep without dream. Therefore, they can do whatever they like, because after they died, there is no more pleasure.

Some people, may believe the existence of soul. But if the mind is not part of the soul, they can still do whatever they like, because after they died, there is no more pleasure, feeling and else.

Recently read the news about Dalai Lama, then I searched something about reincarnation.

As a Catholic, I do not believe about “reincarnation”. However, we might hear people claim that they have the past memories from the previous life. Is this really heapen? If you are a Catholic, how do you explain this? The memories may be fake, but how if it is really correct?

So, this is only my own opinion. We know that, the material world is worked in cycle. A man died, then the body decomposed, and become part of the soil. Then the plants get the nutrients from the soil, and plants are eaten by herbivores. And the herbivores become part of the food chain. Human beings eat the food, and the nutrients become part of the human body. Then, human beings give birth for the new lives. In my opinion, this is the reincarnation of the body.