關於 mire meaning ，我們在網路上蒐集到這些相關的討論、資訊與評價

“For if, after they have escaped the defilement of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in it and overcome, the last state has become worse for them than the first. For it would be better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after knowing it, to turn back from the holy commandment delivered to them. But it has happened to them according to the true proverb, “The dog turns to his own vomit again,” and “the sow that has washed to wallowing in the mire.”” (2 Peter‬ ‭2:20-22‬ ‭WEB‬‬)

The passage above doesn’t mean that a born-again believer can lose his salvation by sinning and failing to keep the Ten Commandments.
Unfortunately, that is what is taught in some churches and they use the passage above to justify that.
Learn the true meaning of the passage when you read it in the context of the whole chapter!

Read more: https://ko-fi.com/post/Does-Escaped-the-Defilement-of-the-World-Mean-Sa-H2H71PE08

#Devotional #Salvation

[Is There Such a Thing As Founder Syndrome?: Testing a New Idea for Entrepreneurship]

As a lover of language, I often will obsess and delight in a phrase or a word that I think offers unique insight into humanity or experience.

Language can sometimes open up doors into understanding, not simply because a definition is precise, or taken literally. Used in an inventive way, you can see the world differently and perhaps understand something for its unique traits.

I find this to be the case with understanding and learning about founders. Founders tend to break the mold, as we say, but we tend to see them -- I say "we" meaning the general VC and startups ecosystem -- through a really traditional business lens, contrary to how unique they are.

In fact, I am not so sure you can see a founder's traits through a business lens, because what founders do is much different than simply running a business. I think you have to creatively see them in a new way.

This idea struck me deeply while I was in Japan, where I was relaxing with a memoir about the late neurologist Dr. Oliver Sacks, while my colleagues skied and snowboarded on a cloud-covered mountain in the snow. Sacks died in 2015, but spent a career curing neurological diseases by taking a unique approach.

I came across the word "syndrome."

It has a nice ring to it, but first, the context.

First of all, Sacks is famous for a medical experiment that "unlocked" patients who were frozen in a kind of living coma situation. You may have seen this in a movie called "Awakenings."

These patients would be frozen in a state of hibernation, awake, but not able to move. Sacks came up with the idea of dosing them with a chemical called L-DOPA, and the results were extraordinary. Almost overnight, these "vegetables," as he empathetically described him in his memoir, awakened. In one case, Sacks took a red ball he kept in his pocket and threw it at a seemingly unmovable patient, who immediately snapped to and caught the ball, threw it back, and then resumed his catatonic state.

Sacks was also something of an eccentric, who was notorious for doing things that probably a normal sane person would never do.

For example, as a medical intern in California, he once drank a vial of blood, washing it down with a glass of milk, simply because he felt compelled to understand what it tasted like. A lover of motorcycles, he quite recklessly "stepped off," as he put it, his bike traveling at 80mph, just to see what would happen. What happened? A few bruises and a torn leather jacket and pants. But nothing horrible.

In certain circles, he is still considered to be notorious and misunderstood. But his view of diagnoses centered on finding the "syndrome," and treating the syndrome as a kind of identity.

And here is our word of the day!

I am not suggesting that founders are sick people. I am saying that they are different, because they present a type of syndrome that other humans do not possess.

Syndrome, in the Greek etymology, means "a running together."

Often we look at disease as this kind of failure of the system. Something has invaded. Something has harmed the corpus of the human. But Sacks looked at syndrome issues quite literally as a grouping of things that made the patient unique.

Instead of instantly diagnosing and medicating neurological patients, he would sit and talk to them for hours, trying to understand the unique syndrome of their identity.

In one instance, he talked for four hours to a raving manic dementia patient, later concluding that there was something "inherently human about that identity in there."

Can the same be done with founders? Do they present a syndrome of entrepreneurship?

What are the characteristics of this founder syndrome?

I won't spend this whole post describing my idea, but I think a central and core attribute of a Founder Syndrome is that the discomfort that founders experience with reality is also the impetus and the catalyst that moves them to "solve" reality with their own attributes.

This syndrome manifests itself in an overarching belief that they can change the world. They are somewhat delusional and even maniacal in their approach to reality solutions. The world doesn't work for them, and rather than mire themselves in depression and disappointment in it, their syndrome rather creatively enables them to, in an expansive way, impact the lives of other people, and create things that shift reality.

Steve Jobs once said that you can only understand your journey by looking backwards, and connecting the dots after you have completed them. This is quite symptomatic of a founder syndrome.

There are no dots to connect, until you make them. A consciousness that sees the world for what it can be can seem to some like crazy talk. Just look at Elon Musk. For how long has he heard that his ideas are stupid, crazy, not worth the paper they are printed on?

Or Nikola Tesla, who died in poverty, not being believed?

Or Marie Curie, who obsessively hunted down invisible radioactivity, which killed her, but without whom we would not be able to treat cancer, or plausibly have nuclear energy?

All of these people have something of the Founder Syndrome, an ability to see what is not seen by others, and to manifest it into reality, creating incredulity until the new reality is undeniable.

Are you suffering from a syndrome, friend? If you would like to be part of our accelerator and invent what has not existed before, and if you would like to be around other unique people like you, track our application process at https://appworks.tw/accelerator

Our next cohort will start in the summer.

We would be glad to take your application when they launch later in the year. We will be accepting founders working in AI and Blockchain.

Doug Crets
Communications Master, AppWorks

Photo by Franck V. on Unsplash

【相煎何太急】(English writing below)

「90%以上的風水師都把基本原理搞錯了！」

那天看到某個剛出道的本地年輕人，在其網站上如此寫著。

我第一個感想就是：有必要為了錢，就這樣踩人和騙人嗎？

全世界的風水師，你都見證過他們的功夫嗎？

遠的不說，就說說新加坡吧！全職、兼職、玩票性質的都算的話，我想可能有幾千幾百位風水師。有的是拜師學藝或祖傳的，有的是在外上課程，然後就自己出來看。

這些你全部都已摸清他們的底細，來下此結論嗎？還是是道聽途說？

如果沒有真實查證，那就是在唬人，故意讓看過其他師父的客人，內心生起不安而來找你。

很大的口氣，很不道德的行銷法，來博名利雙收。

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幾年前，有位女風水師寫貼文抹黑我。我的一位風水講座的出席者好心為我打抱不平，安慰我之餘，告訴我她的朋友認識那位風水師，而她的性傾向是......

我沒給她說完，便切斷她的話：「我們再講下去，就是在聊是非了。這不是我的作風。」

抹黑我和她喜歡誰是兩碼事。

抹黑我，來贏得臉書上的讚，是她人品的問題。我如果取笑她的性傾向，那就是我人格的問題。己所不欲，勿施於人，我沒有想要在背後傷害她，何必同流合污呢？

再說，喜歡誰，不影響我們的專業能力和志向。

只是說，一個會製造假象的風水師，客人是否還可以把自己和家人的命運交到她手中？

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某位女讀者告訴我，她家人和馬國一位有名風水師的經歷。說著說著，她提到這位風水師不會說華文。字裡行間彷彿帶著取笑的味道。

我回她說，我不討論別人的是是非非。

這風水師能把中華玄學帶到全世界，讓洋人對我們華人文化刮目相看，也是美事一樁。再說，他的崛起也讓年輕的華人再度重視中華玄學。我們為何要去挑他的不足來興論一番？有何意義呢？口袋不會多一點錢，造了口業，自己的福報還會被扣給他，不值得。

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我們風水命理師都必須精通八卦學，為的是去利益眾生，而不是把自己變成「八卦新聞台」，去娛樂大家。

套我大師姐以前常跟我說的一句話：「不要自己的餅乾做不好，而變成一個“笑餅”。」

外面已經有很多人看不起我們，不相信我們，甚至取笑我們是「無知識」、「搞神通」、「騙人錢」的江湖術士。如果我們風水師都在那兒，又是屠龍刀又是倚天劍又是降龍十八掌的自相殘殺，人家只是看笑話而已。不但贏不到客人，我們還終歸是最大的輸家。

無論是什麼學派的風水，追溯到底的話，大家『本是同根生』。

各位英雄豪傑，何不把精力用在教育大眾，以身試範如何做個上等人，以配得起一個上等命呢？

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"More than 90% Feng Shui practitioners are doing the basics wrong!"

I saw this from website of a young Feng Shui entrepreneur, who just started to ply his trade.

My first thought was: is it necessary to trample over others and deceive others, for the sake of money?

Have you witnessed the abilities of all Feng Shui Masters from all over the world?

Let's not go too far, and just take Singapore for instance. If we include all the full-timers, part-timers and hobbyists, I think there are easily several hundreds, if not thousands, Feng Shui practitioners. Some of them studied under a Master for years, while some acquire the knowledge from their ancestors. And there are those who become consultants, after attending external courses.

Did you do a very thorough check on their skills, before drawing this conclusion? Or did you base your statement on hearsay?

If there is no verifiable truth and authentic checks, then you are just trying to bluff your way through. You deliberately stir up emotions of insecurity in people who have consulted other masters, so as to lure them to you.

What big words. What unethical way of marketing just to make yourself some money.

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Few years ago, a lady Feng Shui practitioner wrote untruths about me on her FB. One workshop participant of mine felt unjust for me, and as she offered words of consolation to me, she mentioned that a friend of hers knew that Feng Shui practitioner whose sexual orientation was actually...

I did not let her finish her words, "If we continue talking about this, we would be engaging in gossip. That is not my style."

Smearing my name and who she likes are two different matters.

To defame me so as to win more FB Likes is a problem in her character. If I laugh at her sexual orientation with others so as to feel better, that becomes my morality problem. Do not do unto others what you do not wish for others to do to you. I have no intention to hurt her behind her back, so why should I wallow in the mire together?

Moreover, whoever we like does not have any influence on our professional capability and aspiration.

The only thing that matters: Is a Feng Shui practitioner who deliberately creates falsehoods deserving of clients' trust, for them to place their destinies and families in her hands?

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One female reader told me about her family's experience with a well-known Feng Shui master. As the conversation progressed, she mentioned how this master was unable to speak Mandarin. There seemed to be a hidden veil of mockery in her words.

My reply to her: I do not gossip about others.

This Feng Shui Master brought Chinese Metaphysics to the whole world, allowing the Westerners to sit up and take notice of our Chinese culture. That is a good thing after all. Secondly, his emergence inspired the younger generation of Chinese to pay attention to Chinese Metaphysics once again. Why should we focus on his weak point and make a hooha about it? What meaning is there? Not like we will have more money in our pockets. Also when we commit sins in our speech by gossiping about him, we will cede our good fortune to him.

No way is it worth it.

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As Chinese Metaphysics practitioners, we have to study the Bagua very well to be able to benefit sentient beings. Not study gossip and become an entertainment news station for the amusement of the masses.

There are already many outsiders who look down on us, disbelieve us and even laugh at us as conmen who are ignorant, promoting supernatural stuff and cheat others of money. If we continue to cut at one another's throats, these people will just be eating popcorn as they watch us.

Instead of winning over more clients, we will turn out to be the biggest losers.

No matter what school of Feng Shui we are from, if we trace all the way back to the origins, we are all born from the same root.

To all fellow heroes and comrades, why don't we focus our efforts in educating the masses? Lead by example and demonstrate to them how to be a first-class human worthy of a premium Destiny.