Jade read it thoroughly and said: "To simply put it, you should just put one phrase in this paper: all lies are true and all truths are false; wait, you should say: 阴阳；no you should say: 一分为二；矛盾；诡辩 . . . "

David said: "if I really only put on one or two words, it will be concise enough and easy to write, but other people would have said that I have been too lazy and did not work enough to earn my paycheck, would they? I can describe every body's life as 'being born and then finally dead'. That would be accurate and concise writing, but that wouldn't get me into the biography business."

"Funny you said everything is true and false at the same time. I wonder what young kids would think if you tell them everything they see is not really what they were seeing." Jade said.

David answered: "Well, that was what we have seen with strictly scientific and objective views. More you want to be scientific about something, more you believe everything is just imaginary. Living in China, we used to hear people complaining about the long history of feudalism that hampered the development of science and technology in the past. But when going through European history, European feudalism is longer and more conservative than that of Chinese. Roman Empire alone existed for more than a thousand year, can any of the Chinese dynasties boast that kind of track record? Christian values peaked and ebbed for this many years and is still going on, how can that be regarded as a catalyst for scientific development.

Many things in the world are actually what they are perceived. People label US as a young country, but looking around the world, it is probably one of the oldest modern countries in the world, modeled after the Treaty of Westphalia, with separation between Church and States, with sovereignty belongs to human not Jesus Christ. Comparatively, People's Republic of China has not celebrated it's hundred's anniversary yet.

So many countries in the world clamor over the idea of democracy, but look at this most politically stable country in the world, the United States. The president by constitution is also the commander in chief of the military. It is a proof that a democratically elected government with undisputed military power, aided with a large middle class 不患寡而患不均, 不患贫而患不安, is the most stable form of government. Wait, is this Roman Empire or what? Will dictators ever be called in duty to arbitrate when times are tough? Phew, it's a good thing US did not come to the point of needing a dictator after 2000 election recount. Thank you Mr. Al Gore, you are a true gentleman.

Trying to separate civilian and military duties for a leader of any country is just asking for turmoils, as have been proven generations after generations. Countries can not achieve the highest level of stability because there were still the doubts about putting military leader in charge ??? what a funny conclusion.

Jade glanced quickly at the end of the her husband's scribble again, and wondered out loud: "what a mess this is!".

David said: "The world is a mass, but on the other hand, it is always fair and square. In Chinese, we say it is almost like a bowl of water that is leveled as evenly as possible 一碗水端平了, and the size of the bowl can grow infinitely until it reaches the size of a lake, an ocean. But this even plain of water is actually always curved.

Jade pointed to the last paragraph of the scribbling and asked: "When I say mass, I wasn't asking the who thing. I was asking what this is".

We all live between 0 and 1, 阴 and 阳, 真 and 假, future and past, truth and lies, empty and full, 虚 and 实. . . but we don't belong anywhere in the reality.

All languages and cultures are merely different methods of communicating the same meaning with logic. Logically, events residing in the future light cone are not visible but can be controlled by present; events residing in the past light cone have been visible but cannot be controlled by present. The reality of the "present" is between future and history, and seemed to have nothing to do with neither, while in the meantime having connection with all of that are in the past and the future.

What about things out of the realm of "logic", the thing we call 兵者诡道也, or double dealing strategies and tactics? Is it the area outside of the logic and light cone that was determining success and failure, survival and extinction? That area was so close to us as in just a split second past, yet so far away that it could never be reached. The mathematics outside of the logical mathematics lies the equation of describing more than what is seen by the human eyes.

In this ever moving moment that we call "present", 乱世出英雄，何曾有过乱了方寸出英雄，英雄是乱世里的一湾静水 表面上看变化无常事实上静入处子，入乡随俗，客随主变，随机应变，蕴藏一颗平静心和宽阔的胸怀, 翻云覆雨运阴阳 见风使舵定乾坤.