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Forums > Food & Drink > soy sauce and other condiments without msg

Science is about a constant open-ended rational advancement in the pursuit of logically consistent Truth. Constant revision goes on and is necessary to account for new information, & there is a constant attempt to establish greater comprehensiveness for theories. Science is a tool, and a very good one, but the equation Science (and only science) = (the only) Truth, is ridiculous. Those who think otherwise often take Science as a kind of religion, although they think they are replacing it. Unfortunately, some scientists themselves seem to have this belief, though not the best ones.

Science makes certain philosophical assumptions that have a quicksand consistency when they're taken to be absolute. It's a tool, used for logical investigations, but you can't paint a picture with a box end wrench.

@Tonyoad: Please don't take this as a pitch for 'religion', although I think there's more to be said for religion than what you seem to think. The point is, science is NOT religion and religion is NOT science, and every time they get mixed up with each other they indeed get all mixed up with themselves.

Ahem - I have spoken.

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Forums > Living in Kunming > How does one meet nice Chinese women?

@Blobbles: YOur point #5: what makes you say that "China has always been fairly equal"?

General comment: As far as I'm concerned, those who see life in terms of winners and losers automatically put themselves in the latter category.

Winners and losers make sense only in the context of games.

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True about how Laos has little credit, but it seems you're comparing Lao-Chinese national relations with those of brothers, and I think that kind of metaphor is a bit overused - national ruling classes, who make or break agreements and devise policies etc. in the name of 'nations', have interests, not friends, as has been famously stated by...who was that guy? Sometimes these interests coincide, at least for a while, but there is usually a dominant partner/class group.

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A little confused, not sure how to think about this - seems to me that both Chinese and Lao interests will benefit from the RR - so why should Laos have to pay for ALL of it?

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Sounds okay so far, near as one can tell - but an open question: who benefits most, in terms of money and/or power (or, or that matter, anything else), from the creation of such tourist spaces and cultures, and where do they live? Is it all win-win? And how might it be calculated?

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Went there once and found it interesting just to wander around the surrounding area on my own - plenty of interesting limestone outside the designated area, & people you meet are neither tourists nor people trying to sell you tourist experiences. And of course it's free.

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Not quite what you'd call a jumping place, but not bad at all for rather standard US-type meals, not overly expensive, and with a really good salad bar that's cheap, or free with most dinner dishes after 5:30PM. You can get a bottle of beer or even wine if you really want to, but I've never seen anybody do it - maybe that's just to take out. Chinese Christian run, and they hire people with physical disadvantages, who are pleasant and helpful. Frequented by foreign (mostly North American) Christians and Chinese Christians - was started by a Canadian couple associated with Bless China (previously, Project Grace), who are no longer here, but no religious pressure or any of that. Steaks are nothing special, and I avoid the Korean dishes, which I've had a few times but which did not impress me.

As a shop and bakery, it's very good bread at reasonable prices, of various kinds (Y18 for a good multigrain loaf that certainly weighs well over a pound. Other stuff too, like granola and oatmeal that is local, as well as imported things, including American cornflakes and so forth, which some people seem to require.

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Large portions, seriously so with the pizza, which is Brooklyn/American style, I guess. Convivial, conversational, good place to drink with good folks on both sides of the bar, especially after about 9PM.

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Really good pizza and steaks. The wine machine fuddles me when I'm a bit fuddled, & seems unnecessary. Good folks on both sides of the bar.