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Painting: Calling for Justice
2005-02-14This painting depicts a daily scene in front of Chinese embassies and consulates around the world. The elderly women in this painting practise Falun Gong’s meditation in serenity in front of the Chinese Embassy in Washington, D.C. and call for the world’s help to bring Jiang Zemin to justice for his genocide against Falun Gong practitioners. -
Painting: Flower
2005-02-13 -
Ancient Cultivation Story: Guang Chengzi, an Ancient Cultivator
2005-02-12Guang Chengzi answered: "The supreme Dao was originally a state of nothingness and profound. Its highest attainment was tranquil and indistinct. One can only experience it with rapt attention in a tranquil state. Once you achieve this, your body and spirit will naturally be upright and you will enter into a realm of peace and enlightenment... -
A Big Rip, But Not the End of the World
2005-02-12Scientists in Spain have proposed, after years of research, that in 22 billion years, the universe will be torn to pieces in a so-called "Big Rip," as a result of the ongoing expansion of the universe. However, the Big Rip does not necessary bring the world to its very end. This is in sharp contrast to the suggestion brought out by an American scientist in early 2003, that the Big Rip is tantamount to the end of the world. -
Discovery of New "Arm" Requires Map of Milky Way to be Redrawn
2005-02-11A New Scientist article on May 9th, 2004, reported that astronomers, "made their discovery while mapping the distribution of hydrogen gas within the Milky Way... The structure consists of an arc of hydrogen gas 77,000 light years long and a few thousand light years thick running along the galaxy's outermost edge," and that it "sweeps around outside the other arms." -
The Golden Frog
2005-02-11In ancient China, a pharmacist would typically dig a pit in the ground so that the medical pot could be easily balanced. While the servant was digging in the ground, a frog suddenly leaped out of the dirt. It had golden skin and a red Chinese character, “Wu”, on its back. The servant dared not hide this strange incident from the Emperor, so he told the Emperor what he had seen. -
Painting: Banner
2005-02-10The young woman is sewing a banner with the words “Falun Dafa (or Falun Gong) is Good”. Countless practitioners of Falun Gong have been subjected to illegal detention, torture, slave labour, rape, sodomy, forced abortion, and many other appalling types of torture and even death because they speak or write “Falun Dafa is good” in defiance of the efforts of Chinese authorities to tell them otherwise. -
New Star! A Halo Expanding a Thousand Times Faster Than the Speed of Light
2005-02-09We all know that expansion cannot be unlimited. Explosion will occur at a certain level of expansion. It is easy to see how balloons and tires expand and then explode. However, it isn't easy to discover expansion of a ring in the universe. Astronomers made a wonderful finding that news stars form after expanding rings explode. -
Painting: Messenger
2005-02-08 -
Painting: Evil Chinese Policemen
2005-02-07 -
Painting: Practitioner's Self-Portrait Sending Forth Righteous Thoughts
2005-02-06 -
Epoch Times: Recent Discoveries Raise New Theories on the Origin of Life
2005-02-05Scientists have been tracking the transformations of new galaxies. In late 2004, the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration announced that amidst the ancient galaxies surrounding our Milky Way, dozens of infant galaxies are emerging. These galaxies are about 1 billion light years away from us, but they are 9 billion light years closer to us than any other galaxies. Researchers are thrilled by this observation, since the birth of galaxies was thought to happen only billions of years ago. -
Cartoons: "The Best Period of Human Rights in China" and "Chinese Police Are Executing the Law"
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New Year Greeting Card - 2005
2005-02-04 -
Music: “The Silver Moonlight Shone on My Chinese Zither While We Played Music on the Mountain”
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