Would you be surprised to hear that the human race is slowly becoming dumber, and dumber? Despite our advancements over the last tens or even hundreds of years, some ‘experts’ believe that humans are losing cognitive capabilities and becoming more emotionally unstable. One Stanford University researcher and geneticist, Dr. Gerald Crabtree, believes that our intellectual decline as a race has much to do with adverse genetic mutations. But human intelligence is suffering for other reasons as well.
There's chemicals in the water and in our food; it's difficult, extremely difficult to keep 7 billion people well-fed (we don't do that though, do we?). Perhaps this is an invalid excuse for why we have all these terrible pesticides and what not. But it goes so much farther than that.
We're lazier. Machines do everything for us, our food is pre-cooked, we have calculators, auto-tune, blah blah blah. We don't really need to use our brains for anything because everything is a button away. Literally.
There were actually tons of secret societies in Taiwan, the most famous being the Society of Heaven and Earth or Tiandihui. They began a rebellion in Taiwan in 1787 against the Qing Dynasty. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiandihui
These societies were created because of Taiwan's very societal makeup up until the late 18th century. There were hardly any women and consequently, families were scarce (your mum is back in the Mainland, your sister, only the rich guy gets a wife, unable to reproduce) and so there were congregations built to replace the family nucleus. Zhangzhou, Quangzhou and Hakka usually stuck together (as in, Hakka with Hakka) and later these societies were built as an extension of that.
"Eventually, the government sent sufficient force to restore order; Lin Shuangwen was executed and the Heaven and Earth Society was dispersed to mainland China or sent into hiding, but there was no way to eliminate ill-will between Zhangzhou, Quanzhou, and Hakka networks."
"The White Lotus sect may have been one of the main ancestors of the Chinese organizations known as the Triads. The Triads were originally members and soldiers of the Tiandihui or "Heaven and Earth Society" during the period of the war between the Ming and Qing dynasties. The Triads' formation was not for criminal purposes, but to overthrow the Qing and restore the Ming to power. The White Lotus Society may have been one of five branches of the Heaven Earth Society which formed at the Shaolin Monastery from Ming loyalists. The Five branches, known by some as the "Five Ancestors", were the Black, Red, White, Yellow and Green Lodges. After there was no longer any need for the triads on the battlefield, some high-level military leaders resorted to criminal activity in order to find means of survival."
"They are supposed to be relations of the Siamese and Burmese, and possibly the Hakkas belong to the same race; these foreigners are said to have immigrated into the two Kwangs apparently at the time of the Mongol dynasty of Kiangsu or Shantung, in 1205-1368."
= in fact, chiaos/hakka are descendants of jewish&chinese ancestors
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"The field was founded on the claim that human intelligence "can be so precisely described that a machine can be made to simulate it."
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_intelligence
2.
the act or process of pretending; feigning.
There's chemicals in the water and in our food; it's difficult, extremely difficult to keep 7 billion people well-fed (we don't do that though, do we?). Perhaps this is an invalid excuse for why we have all these terrible pesticides and what not. But it goes so much farther than that.
We're lazier. Machines do everything for us, our food is pre-cooked, we have calculators, auto-tune, blah blah blah. We don't really need to use our brains for anything because everything is a button away. Literally.
Industrialism is king.
Literally. And anyone who does is ridiculed.
So tell me... what is this "common sense" you speak of?
They began a rebellion in Taiwan in 1787 against the Qing Dynasty.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiandihui
These societies were created because of Taiwan's very societal makeup up until the late 18th century. There were hardly any women and consequently, families were scarce (your mum is back in the Mainland, your sister, only the rich guy gets a wife, unable to reproduce) and so there were congregations built to replace the family nucleus.
Zhangzhou, Quangzhou and Hakka usually stuck together (as in, Hakka with Hakka) and later these societies were built as an extension of that.
"White Lotus Rebellion[edit]
The White Lotus Rebellion (1796–1804) was an anti-Qing uprising that occurred during the Qing dynasty."
https://books.google.ro/books?id=Qo0Y-rj9Sv0C&pg=PR27&lpg=PR27&dq=Lin+Shuangwen+White+Lotus&source=bl&ots=qX1WNUSNOs&sig=xl6T7HXJIFTIFzYR1pMp4KKBsHA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjen8Tm-YLQAhVHvxQKHXcdCAEQ6AEIMTAE#v=onepage&q=Lin Shuangwen White Lotus&f=false