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昨天晚饭后睡得还可以，十一点过了才醒。摸会儿鱼，十二点进书房，一开始想写总结，不过虽然时间实际上很多，但感受到压力就懒得写了，转而弹弹琴刷刷题什么的。今天的比赛还可以，于是提前点了烧烤外卖，另一个目的是把剩下的啤酒干掉，都没气了。烧烤不到两点就到了，不过没啥问题，因为我想起来烤炉有两档，低的那档可以用来把冷掉的烧烤热一热。看会儿书，比赛快开始了就出去把烤炉搬到灶台上，拿一点烧烤热着，然后倒杯啤酒等比赛开始。这家烧烤价格还挺便宜的，一百块买了一大堆，让我嘴巴不停吃到上半场结束。当然也有小串很多的缘故，吃起来会更花时间一些。最后当然是吃得有点撑。比赛结束后本来准备跑步的，还是感觉撑就滚回床上躺着了。过早基本没吃，不过好像也不打睡得着。九点进书房睡地上才睡着了。中午起来也就吃了一点点，然后继续回书房睡觉。睡醒感觉睡得挺爽的，一看还不到两点。刚好前天买的乌龙茶可乐什么的到了，拿回来摸会儿鱼，三点钟磨磨蹭蹭开始，先练下口语，然后写历史研究总结。写完顺手把流水账记了，等下弹下琴就准备吃晚饭睡觉了。

Inanimate factors like race or environment are hard to change by human forces. Therefore, people can claim that their superiority is hard to change as well, if they attribute their accomplishment to such factors. But the fallacy also resides in the deterministic nature of such theories. We can find places similar in physical factors, while the cultures vary. So we don't believe, that the factor we are looking for is something inanimate. At least, one factor is not enough since such theory will be deterministic. A theory abount interaction between multiple factors, which must include animate ones, seems more promising. Now, let's turn to mythology. There is a repeated plot in great myths, namely, an encounter between two superhuman personalities. Examples include encounters between Yahweh and the Serpent in the Book of Genesis and the New Testament, an encounter between the Lord and Mephistopheles in Faust, an encounter between Gods and Demons in the Scandinavian Voluspa and an encounter between Artemis and Aphrodite in Hippolytus. Such encounters have two general features: it's a rare and sometimes a unique event; its consequences are tremendous. They also have a similar beginning, a perfect state of Yin. But the encounter instills distress or discontent or fear or antipathy, which stimulates the Yin and makes it pass over into the Yang. One may remember that, a logical contradiction about God is, if God's universe is perfect, then there will be no Devil; if there is a Devil, then the universe and God is not perfect. In such claims, two limitations of God are taken for granted: once what He created becomes perfect, He cannot create something again; only when the Devil chanllenges Him, He has the opportunity for fresh creation and He cannot refuse it. If God is bound to take the oppotunity, is He also bound to win over the Devil? In Hippolytus, God, which is played by Artemis, is fordoomed to defeat, which results in not creation but destruction. So the result is not deterministic. However, the Devil's intervention, whether it succeeds or fails, evokes the transition from Yin to Yang. In short, creation is the outcome of an encounter, and genesis is a product of interaction. We could expect, that with all the racial, environmental and other data can be formulated sicentifically, we are still unable to predict the outcome, because we miss the most influential factor: the reaction of the actors in the encounter. After the close of the Ice Age, Afrasian ares was desiccating. Facing this chanllenge, those that refused to change their habitat or the way of life became extinct. Those who transformed themselves from hunters into shepherds became the nomads of the Afrasian Steppe. There were also communities which changed not only their habitats but also their way of life. Such actions created the Egyptiac and Sumeric Civilizations. The residents lived in the lower valley of the Yellow River faced the chanllenges of marsh, bush, flood and seasonally changed temperature. They didn't differ in race from the people from the south and the south-west, who were culturally sterile. The explanation might be, the creativeness of the fathers of Sinic Civilization was evoked by the presentation of a chanllenge, rather than the race. For Mayan Civilization, the chanllenge was the luxuriance of the tropical forest, while for Andean Civilization, the chanllenge was a bleak climate and a grudging soil. The Minoan Civilization was a little special, they need to overcome the chanllenge brought by the sea. The archaeologic evidence shows. the first human beings in the Aegean Archipelago came from the Afrasian grasslands, rather than Greece and Anatolia, which were much closer. For the affilicated civilizations, they might face a physical chanllenge as well, but the main chanllenge was obviously from human. Such chanllenges were implicit in the relation of parent-child, which began with a differentiation and culminated in a secession. The dominant minority, which could no longer lead the old society, always ruled with increacing oppressiveness. At the same time, a proletariat responded this chanllenge by awaring its own soul and making up its mind to save it. Through such actions, the change from Yin to Yang was brought abount and thus the 'affilicated' civilization was born.

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