Is the Oriental better or the oxidental civillazaition?

Post questions or suggestions here.
Post Reply
MrRemarkable
Posts: 20
Joined: Sat Jul 22, 2006 9:29 pm
Contact:

Is the Oriental better or the oxidental civillazaition?

Post by MrRemarkable » Sat Jul 22, 2006 9:54 pm

Oriental : The Oriental civillazation flourished in Four major areas around the globe. The middle east around the fertile crescent (Jerusalem, home of islam, Jews and Christianity) and Hindu civillazation along Indus and Ganges river(birth place of Hinduism and Budhism great religious concept of outer universe and smaller, interior universe) ,
the East Asian civillization forming kingdoms in China, Mongol, Korea, Japan... (Japanese shogun martial society, Koryo and Chosun dynasty in Korea, Confucius and the great wall in China) , And the fusion of Hindu and Southern Chinese culutre in South east asia (for an example, the Angkwar temple)
Oxidental : THe human civillazition in Europe started with Cromagnon in Galius, France. They spread to Germany (Germans), eastern Europe and Latin southern europe. But the Oxidental civillazition started much slower than oriental and only flourished around the Greek and North African coast untill Roman empire came up unifying the mediterranean world.
The western civillization adopted Christianity and thus came the middle age , ending the age of ancient Greek religion and phillosphy replaced by feudal society and Christianity becoming pilars under Renassaince on top. Ever since the Renaissiance, the West improved dramatically on science, medical , inventions , warfare and economy. After the age of industrial revolution and age of discovery, thus came the age of imperialism. Now the west dominated the East and the new continents. But too much competition without world peace, the Western European empires implored and after the lethal and deadly WW2, the world craved for peace and harmony for all human civillization. Nowadays, the west is better in many areas but the East catched up with warfare and economy especially among those "Rising 4 tigers of the East; Japan, China, South Korea and Taiwan". After reaching 21st century tackling the rumor of the end of the world or Y2K crisis, the world became even more closer with globallization. India and China are improving dramatically and will be forces to be reckon with in next 10~20 years...
revive socialism!

MrRemarkable
Posts: 20
Joined: Sat Jul 22, 2006 9:29 pm
Contact:

Phillosphical differneces between west and the east

Post by MrRemarkable » Sat Jul 22, 2006 10:11 pm

The western view of the world started in Greek and Roman civillazation. The West were the first to question humanity over hierachy of society and religious dogmas. They asked what is it to be humane and nowadays the west is famous for social recognization of privacy and humanity over multiplity and social expectations about family and Confucius phillosophy.
The West linked to the superior god in hierachial way but viewed the rest of the world as equal subjects to us and must be conquered for the betterments of humanity. Science and medical matters flourished in the West because the West always tried to find answers from objective and scientific views. For an example, while the East tirbuted to god in temples to escape flood, femine and warfares, the West found out that lightning is caused by the electricity in the clouds, not by the anger of god. Even in medical areas, the Weat are more scientific and objective. The West were the first to disect corpse and observe human organs. The West were the first to study chemistry and create chemical pills even to phycollogical pills such as Olazapine and Risperdal.
On the other hand, the East espeically the Chinese were experts of finding natural herbs and acupunctures to treat patients. The East thought that humans belong to small partg of the nature and the hidden universe. THe nature is run by unseen providence and the scholars found the nature quite amusing and mystical. Ginseng, liver of Bear, Bones and balms from tiger, horns of deer were used to strengthen inner body system of patients. The West rely much of procedures by cutting the body open or creating chemical pills that fight aginst virus and disease. While the east looked for natural answers that would strengthen the inner body so the patients can fight off diseases from outside such as cold or cancer.
THe Acupuncture and concept of Qui(physically, mentally thriving energy inside body) was from China.
Now the doctors try to combine Eastern and Western ways to heal humans from disease and malfunctioning.
revive socialism!

Post Reply