My sister, Wang Qingxiu, was busy in the room. Wang Xiaolie sat alone in the yard, looking at the full moon in the sky. The bright moon is bright and clear, as if it has just been washed with water, and it is bright. There are stars in the sky east and west, and a Milky Way is looming.
It has been five years since I came to this world. Is it still the same as before?
Today, I saw the articles submitted by the students, which made Wang Xiaolie deeply touched and unknowingly recalled the past.
People in two lives are definitely different from ordinary people. There are some things that only Wang Xiaolie's experience can truly understand. In his previous life, Wang Xiaolie was a staunch atheist and never believed in the existence of gods and ghosts in the world. After rebirth, this idea will definitely change.
No matter how firm your faith is, when God appears in front of you, how can you still be an atheist?
The ideas passed down from the West have such a characteristic. You have to believe it, and believe it firmly without any doubt. Once you are in doubt, you become an enemy. They always divide the world into two aspects. You have to believe in one aspect and oppose the other. This characteristic has a deep religious overtones. No matter what the doctrine or thought is, this religious color is lingering.
In this life, Wang Xiaolie is no longer an atheist, and certainly not a theist. Whether there is no God or God is not that important in traditional Chinese thought. Neither Lao Zhuang, Mo Han, nor Confucius and Mencius, nor Guan Zi and Liezi were atheists, but except for Mozi, they did not emphasize ghosts and gods. Regarding the answer to this question, Confucius had a good saying. If you don’t know life, how can you know death?
Things involving gods and ghosts are actually not that important. Dealing with human affairs is important. Due to religious traditions, the West has different understandings and attitudes towards this issue. For them, the issue is linked to religious issues, and that is why it becomes important.
Thoughts from Europe, whether social thoughts or natural sciences, are inseparable from religion. In other words, there is always a lingering shadow of God in their thoughts. This is true even in the natural sciences.
In his previous life, Wang Xiaolie would not consider this issue. His thoughts are similar to those of the mainstream of society. Just when you are reincarnated as a human being, many things will naturally change, including your thoughts.
Is natural science what we ordinary people know? Is the future society like what is written in science fiction, where technology is advanced but society remains unchanged? It's safe to say, no. Natural science has not explained the world as we think.
Wang Xiaolie remembered that there was a scientist named Yang Zhenning in his previous life. During the interview, he said that he believed in a Creator, but did not believe that the Creator was in human form. This answer vividly illustrates the attitude of scientists. In fact, this attitude is not only shared by Chen Ning Yang, but also by many scientists.
Why? In fact, it is simple, because European and American science has had the shadow of God from the beginning. When scientists learn and achieve success, they will naturally have such thoughts. Of course, if Yang Zhenning fails to study or gets out early, he will not become an excellent scientist. Because China’s new ideas have not yet had a shadow, everyone is still busy learning from the “masters” who criticized traditional Chinese culture.
Wang Xiaolie's own thoughts have not yet been formed, and his various ideas and remarks are scattered and unsystematic. At this time, it would not be a good thing for students to plunge headlong into Wang Xiaolie's thoughts. Instead, we must grasp the context of Wang Xiaolie's thoughts as soon as possible and come out quickly.
When we study, we must be able to learn it, and then step out and establish our own new ideas. It doesn't matter whether a person can do it or not. As long as you can learn it, you will be a successful person. But for a civilization, it is very important. If you plunge headlong into the ocean of other people's thoughts and fail to get out in time, you must be careful about being drowned in it.
Looking up at the moon in the sky, Wang Xiaolie sighed. The same moon has different perceptions and legends. If the moon is like this, why shouldn't the world be like this? We have been taught since childhood that the laws of the real world are the same and our understanding of the world is the same, so scientific theories must be universal.
The world we live in may be the same world, but we have various understandings. Different understandings may become closer and closer. But that may be something far away and unknown in what era.
If others have chemistry, I can also have chemistry. If others have physics, I can also have physics. If others have mathematics, I can also have mathematics. Even if the knowledge is exactly the same, it does not mean that the understanding of the world must be exactly the same.
When Chinese civilization develops again, even the world's top physicists like Chen Ning Yang will no longer believe that there is a Creator. Whatever he thought there was at that time, it should have emerged from Chinese thought.
Looking at the moon in the sky, Wang Xiaolie whispered, this is how the world is. But there are many different understandings of the world. Is one of the perceptions absolutely correct and the other incorrect? of course not. In fact, all understandings are wrong and different from the true nature of the world. Just to distinguish right from wrong, you have to think that there is an omnipotent and omniscient God, and you have fallen into the pit of European civilization.
Before you came to this world, if you were asked what you would do if you went back to ancient times, I'm afraid you wouldn't be able to answer. Because all theory must have practice. Without practical theory, it is no longer theory.
Some people may say that if we go back to ancient times, we must develop capitalism or even socialism, colonize like the West, discover new continents, and seize resources, and we must do these things before Europeans. Such an answer is actually just a daydream and is simply impossible to achieve.
Wang Xiaolie sometimes thinks, if he doesn't work hard on theory and route issues, what is the most important thing to do? It should be to study science, come up with practical technologies, and improve productivity levels while making money yourself. It’s hard to say what these results will bring to China.
One word can be the law of the world. This kind of achievement can only be thought about for Wang Xiaolie now. Thousands of sails are gone, but the slanting light shines through the water. Looking back on the theories I have learned, every one of them is actually wrong, and they were all carried forward because of the needs of historical reality. There is no theory that is truly naturally correct and can be transplanted.
Is practice the only criterion for testing truth? Wang Xiaolie's answer is no. Moreover, truth is meaningless without the European theological background. In other words, there is a real world, but there is no truth that is always correct.
Once upon a time, Wang Xiaolie's biggest trouble was that he believed that everyone should be equal and the same. Now I finally want to understand, where in the world are they exactly the same? Thinking the same is just an understanding. It is precisely because people are different that we have a rich and colorful society. It is impossible to think that everyone can emulate Shun Yao and improve people's ideological level through education to achieve great social governance. If all people were really the same, society would not exist. If all the particles in the world were exactly the same, the world would not exist.
The world is as it is, and you cannot use your own imagination to understand the world. You cannot construct a theory, think that the theory is absolutely correct, and force the real world to adapt to the theory. It is about fully understanding the world and constructing appropriate theories on the basis of understanding the world.
The world has degrees and no boundaries. It is not difficult to force the real world into a certain theory. There is a saying called cutting the sausage, which is nothing more than cutting the sausage in academic terms, blurring the boundaries, and stuffing it in. Those who do this are definitely not smart, and the theory they use is definitely not the theory of smart people.
Only after understanding this can we understand why Hegel is said to be inferior to Confucius. What Hegel wanted to establish was not a theory to understand the real world, but a theory with the shadow of European theology. Confucius said that if you cannot serve people, how can you serve ghosts? He is ahead of Hegel in terms of realm.
Thinking of this, Wang Xiaolie sighed softly.
It is precisely because I finally realized and accepted that people are not the same, but all kinds of people. It is all kinds of people that make the world rich and colorful. Only then did Wang Xiaolie understand that not everyone was suitable to be an official. The higher the requirements, the fewer people are suitable to be officials. This is normal and the reality of the world. I need to find these people who are suitable to be officials and give them appropriate status.
Only when people who are suitable to be officials do so and those who do not want to be officials do not have their real lives affected by being officials can society be normal.
(I've been sick for the past two days, so there's only one update. And there's a lot of nonsense, so please bear with me. When I get better tomorrow and the day after tomorrow, I'll be back to normal.)
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