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Sin

2005-10-11T12:22:00.000-07:00

For those religious people, they would wish they are sinless, hoping that they can go to heaven or such. However, as a matter of fact, human is just bound to commit sin. This might sound very arguably absurd as people say that newly-born child is just pure.

Just have a look at the world we are living in. If you just observe, you just would notice a certain flow or order or pattern, that has always been the same up till now. By following this pattern, human would always be sinful. Yet, this pattern is like 'Guide Book' which is used by most people, despite knowing or not knowing the the genuine truth behind truth.

The key word is business. The very basic concept of business is exchanging some things. People buy people sell. People offer something people pay. There has to be an echanging of some things to be called business. However, trading alone is not enough. What is essential for a businessman is whether he earn profit or loss. Obviously, most of them do business for the sake of earning profits.

How do you earn profit ? A simple question with a simple answer. The price of an item you sell should be more expensive than the price of the same item you buy. By doing so, you will definitely earn profit. Nevertheless, it is actually cheating. You cheat on business in order to earn profit. Of course, you could not be blamed for that. If not for the profit, how would you actually earn money to feed yourself or your family. You actually lie about how much the item you sell should cost and telling a lie is actually a sin.

Based on this fact, human is bound to commit sin.

A Simple Thought Of Life

2005-08-01T10:20:00.000-07:00

Yesterday is the past, today is the present, tomorrow is another mystery. The past would be your memories, the present would be what you're doing currently, the future is another mystery yet to be discovered.

Life is full of mysteries. You would not know what might happen ahead in your future. You can predict but still you cannot be sure of the outcome, of what lies ahead.

Life is full of suprises. Before you could be sure of what happen, you might be struck by suprises. It is one of God's way to add some touches in our lives. One way to make life interesting.

However, suprises could be either happy or sad. This, we have no power to change. It just happens like a flash. Before we could realise, we were already 'drowned' and forced to follow the flow.

Whatever happens, you should always try to enjoy life to the fully. What's the point of living if you can't enjoy your own life ? Life with purposes is good but have a lively life is even better. Don't plan your life as by not doing so you would encounter suprises which would add spices to your life. These are just some simple thoughts of life you should know. I wish you all happy, fascinating, enjoyable and lively lives. =)

Beautiful Mind

2005-08-01T09:50:00.000-07:00

One of the most complex thing to understand is how human mind works. Ironically, the more complex it is, the more beauty it reflects. Up till now, there is no one who could explain how human mind works. Human could not possibly comprehend it for that is beyond their understanding and knowledge. Instead, what they know is 'that's just the way human mind works, miraculously, unfathomable, could not be possibly deciphered by us, mortals'.

I'm sure all of you have watched at least one sad movie, touching movie with very sad story. Try to remember the reason why u feel sad or touched. For those who cry, have you ever wondered what makes u cry ? Is it because you have a very sensitive and kind heart ? Or is it simply because the expression on the actresses are so good that when they are crying, you also feel like crying. Sometimes, your actions and behaviours might be triggered by other people's actions and behaviours. Thus, they are not reflecting your true feelings. Instead you are showing an empathy where you could absorb other people's feelings and put yourself in their positions and finally show your true feelings.

When you feel angry about something, is it because of your unique personality or is it because you would feel angry if some particular tragedy happen to you ? This is just one example of the question whose answer could not be understood for even if there are reasons for actions, some actions do not need any reasons.

Ask yourself, when you help other people in need, do you actually need reasons ? You could say that you want other people to help you when you are in need as well, you could say that doing good deeds would do you good. However, there would time when you would actually do something without any reasons.

Let's say a tragedy occur to you. Maybe your company suffered a loss and went bankrupt. Even if this kind of state, if you see people struck with tsunami disaster, you could feel wanting to donate some money to them, despite the fact that your life is difficult now. You just feel that you should do so and by doing so, you might feel your heart at ease. There is no actual reason to do so yet you just feel so right to do so. This is just one scenario among many others.

What are we but simple human beings to understand such complexity. We could do nothing but wonder about it. We are confused yet awed at such miraculously unfathomable complexity. Still again, the more complex it is, the more beauty it projected. The more we wonder, the more we are amazed and struck in awe.

Joke

2005-07-12T12:14:00.000-07:00

There was once a pastor who lives in a small village in the rural area. His name was Peter. Pastor Peter was a very devoted Christian. He had very much faith in God. The people in the village respect him a lot.

One day, a disaster struck the village. The village was almost completely swallowed by the tsunami. Every single souls in the village flee from the village except Pastor Peter. He believed that if he believed in God, he will be saved from this disaster.

One person came to him and said, 'Pastor, come with me or you would not be saved'. But Pastor Peter replied calmly, 'Don't worry about me and save yourself. I believe in God and thus I would be saved'. So, the person flee without Pastor Peter.

Second person came to him and said, 'Pastor, what are you doing ? Follow me and you would be saved'. Again Pastor Peter replied calmly with the same answer. 'Don't worry about me and save yourself. I believe in God and thus I would be saved', said Pastor Peter. Again, the second person left.

Third person came to him and said, 'Quick pastor. There's not much time left. Come with me !' Yet again our stubborn pastor here replied with the same boring answer. 'Don't worry about me and save yourself. I believe in God and thus I would be saved', said Pastor Peter. Again, a good offer was refuse by Pastor Peter.

Hence, in the end Pastor Peter died and went to heaven. In heaven, he met God and so he curiously asked God, 'God, why didn't You save me ? After all, I believe in You. I have so much faith in You'. God replied casually, 'I did send three people to rescue you, didn't I ?'

I hope those who read this won't be offended or insulted in anyway. After all, it's just a joke to help brighten up the day.

True or not ?

2005-07-11T02:57:00.000-07:00

Some people say that 'Nothing is impossible'. Some people say that 'If there is a will, there is a way'. Should I ask you which one of these two sounds more true that the other, can you decide ? I doubt so. Definitely, it is indeed difficult and tricky to choose. If you try to combine these two statements, you would get 'Nothing is impossible if you have a will'. Am I not right ? These two are actually sophisticatedly related.

Nothing is impossible. Just use one example and this claim might be wrong. Can you be a God ? Taking into consideration that the question is asked to 5 people, a Catholic, Christian, Muslim, Hindu and Buddhist. Except if I am very much mistaken, there should be none who says 'Yes'. Even if Buddha was a mortal and people worship him and regard him as a God, we don't really know whether he is a God now or not. It's beyond human knowledge to know. Thus, Some things are just impossible to do. If there is a will there is way. Even if you have one hell of will and determination to be a God, is there a way ? I doubt so. there are no ways for some things no matter how your will or determination is.

Back to my question, which one of these two sounds more true that the other ? Personally, I would say 'None'. I have elaborated my reason. In sum all up, 'Some things are just impossible no matter how your will or determination is'. Hence, you should not listen to the two claims. Still it is my opinion and I am a human who might make a mistake. Again, I might not be true.

Smart or Wise ?

2005-06-28T09:45:00.000-07:00

Smart or Wise ? 99.9% would say Wise. The reason ? They might not know it. Maybe because it is definitely sounds better than smart, because being Wise is usually good or etc. Of course, I myself also choose Wise.

My reason is very simple. Being Smart means you are Smart enough to know too much, sometimes even some things which you should not know while being Wise means you are Wise enough to know just what you need to know.

You can see Smart people discussing about many topics such as politics, education, business, etc, use the 'big', intellectual words, like to share their knowledge, etc.
However, when you see Wise people, they almost never discuss anything, politics is one of the topics they always keep distance from, most of the times quiet, keep everything to themselves, use as short and simple yet meaningful and useful sentences to advise, just know what they need to know and what they don't need to know, etc.

In this world, some things are just not meant for you to know. While being Smart would make people search for knowledge, being Wise would again make you know just what you need to know and what you don't have to know, search for knowledge that you need to know only.

Thus, Be Wise =)

Corruption

2005-06-28T09:35:00.000-07:00

There is not a single country in this world that is free from corruption. It's fine if you don't believe as you might be blinded by something called 'conspiracy'. As the word 'conspiracy' suggests, you might not have the slightest idea about what is actually happening in a country, you might not even know when and where it happens and who is actually the mastermind behind all of it.

It is impossible to completely cast away corruption from this world. Nevertheless, corruption could be reduced. You might have your mind filled with questions and doubts, wondering why it is so, whether it is true or not, what are the reasons behind my statements. Rest assured that I have my reasons and I will let you know shortly.

'Why ?' or 'How come ?' and 'Are you sure ?'. These are some of the questions people most frequently ask. To answer the first question, I would like you to ask yourself what do you understand from the word 'corruption', how would you define 'corruption', what is it actually. From my point of view, corruption is simply an evolution of human's nature.

Human would never get satisfied. Do you agree with this statement ? I know that you do as it is just like a universal code. Everyone knows it, except maybe for babies, young children, small kids and immature people. Naturally, human could not resist one sin, 'Greed'. Don't you agree that the reason why human would never get satisfied is just because they are greedy ?

As human are greedy, subconsiously, they might try to earn more, in this case I'm referring to 'money'. At first, they might not want to do corruption, however, when there is an opportunity arised, a simple yet wicked thought struck them. 'Maybe I should try to do it, I would earn more money', 'Since nobody notices anything, maybe I can try my luck'. Such thoughts might prove to be irresistible to some people. You know what happen next. Corruption.

To summarise everything, a country consists of citizens. Citizens are human. Human are greedy. Hence, how could a country actually be free of corruption ? Although there is one sole country in my mind that could just force me to change my statement to 'Only few countries in this world are free from corruption'. The country is Tibet, a country filled with mostly monks, regarded as one of the holiest group of people in the world. Nonetheless, you would not know. Some people just cannot resist the tempation of Greed.

Story - Cowboy Bebop

2005-06-14T12:04:00.000-07:00

Do you know a story that goes like this ?

There once was a tiger-striped cat
This cat died a million deaths
and was reborn a million times
and was owned by various people
who he didn't care for
The cat wasn't afraid to die ...

One day,
The cat was a free cat,
A stray cat.
He met a white female cat,
and the two cats spent their days happily together

Years passed by,
and the white cat died of old age
The tiger-stripped cat cried a million times,
and then died.
It never came back to life ...

Money ...

2005-06-10T13:44:00.000-07:00

If someone asks you what is the greatest and the worst misfortunes that happen to mankind, what will your answer be ? Well, apart from Adam eating the apple in the Eden Garden, the answer would be MONEY. When money was invented, it is when the greatest and the worst misfortunes happen to mankind. Don't you agree ?

Money turns the world upside down. It is even worse now as one person might want to kill another person just for the sake of money. Of course, in this case, you might want to cast aside what the money will be used for as it can be used for many things. Maybe the person has no money to even feed the stomach, maybe he or she needs it for operations, for paying debts, etc.

You can say money rules the world. Nowadays, without money, what can u do ? Of course you can still breathe, enjoy the sunlight and all those stuff. If you are alone in this world without any money, can u have food ? You CAN'T. Well, except if you are lucky enough to get people who are warm and kind to give you food or feed you well.

In the primitives age, where those primitives human-beings were alive, I don't think there's such thing as money. Instead if I am not mistaken, they use barter system which I believe is still the same as money. What I'm trying to emphasise here is that the MONEY I am referring are those things which are used as money or have functions like money does.

Obviously people may argue about how useful money is, the benefits that it brings. But think of the disasters that it brought. It definitely brings more disasters than benefits.

If so far you have thought that MONEY is indeed the cause, you are very much WRONG. I am sorry if I somehow manage to trick you into believing that MONEY is the root of the evil. It's just for testing how well you actually use your brain. The root of all evil is none other than mankind, more precisely mankind's bad point of never get satisfied. Since mankind will never get satisfied, they will think of ways to get more things. How they to get more ? By having more money. How to get more money ? By having monopoly of something, steal, rob, etc. When you get more money what would you do ? Earn even more and more. Lastly what made it possible for you to think about these things ? Mankind's WICKED heart.

Why do we have that kind of heart ? Ask God why He created our hearts in such way that we can be either good or bad or sometimes good sometimes bad for I do not have the answer to that particular question. Maybe He thinks that it would be boring if all people in the world are kind and good as it would mean that the world is PERFECT but then PERFECT means nothing SPECIAL and again nothing SPECIAL means BORING. It might be interesting for Him to see what happen in the world when you have such hearts.

To apologise might be hard but ...

2005-06-10T13:26:00.000-07:00

In our lives, we are constantly making mistakes. In fact if you never make mistakes at all in your life, something is definitely wrong with you. It is good to realise you mistakes and ask for apologies for them. To some people who are maybe prideful and arrogant and also have the tendency to refuse to admit their mistakes, you should know that you should. It might be hard for you to ask for apology, however bear in your mind that it is even harder to forgive.

Asking for apology is definitely simple to most people. You can use the universal language, 'Sorry' and that's it ... congratulations ... you have just apologised. It's just simple and fast. Nonetheless, it is hard for people to actually forgive people. Thus, when you apologise, you should be sincere and really mean it. If you don't believe what I said, I'll give you a simple example.

Let's say one's family was killed by this person and in the end the person realised that it was very wrong and was really sorry. Even if the person ask for apology with sincereness, can you really forgive him or her ? To most people, they can't.

Okay, here's a simpler example without going to the extreme. Let's say you are queuing to order food in Burger King or somewhere and all of a sudden, the person in front of you accidentally and not purposely splashed his or her drink and now your clothes are wet. In front of many eyes starring at you, you might just forgive him or her after he or she apologises. However, in your heart I am very sure that you would just say 'Damn it ... look what happen to my shirt or pants or whatever'. Again, this is the case for most people. Some people just have the kind and big heart to let go of everything that happen to them.

Hence, you should apologise sincerely for every mistakes you have committed since it is hard to actually forgive.

Life ... Exciting as it may seems yet ...

2005-06-10T13:11:00.000-07:00

Life is exciting, enjoyable, memorable however, life is also sad. You can have your family healty and wealthy with no problems in life, you can have all the people in the world as your friends. However, as there is time when you meet these people you know, there is also time when you will part with these people, be it someone dearest to you or someone u detest the most.

As time goes by, you would unconsiously gradually forget the people from your past and get to know more new people. Of couse you can say you still keep in touch with them, you still remember them now. Nevertheless, you might not be able to meet some of them in person, chat with them through phone. In short, you might just lose contact with some of the people you have known since life goes on. Life goes on, you proceed with your own life, your own 'journey', sooner or later leaving some people from your past and getting to know the new ones.

If you would just give yourself time to think about this, it is sad don't you think ? In the end, what you might have are just reminiscence of the memorable memories, memorable times with those people. It is just sad to learn that you might not be able to meet those people from the old days since you have your own life and they have theirs.

And I don't have the slightest idea of why God created such life. In the end, you will be alone, well maybe except with God. It's just like God giving you the opportunity to enjoy your life doing everything you want while you can cause in the end you might be alone again with Him.

Since I haven't been in Heaven or Hell, this is what I conclude, my personal opinion to be precise. Feel free to read and believe if you want for this is not what God say but rather an opinion from a mere ordinary mortal.

Relationship

2004-05-28T08:20:00.000-07:00

I believe most of people in this world have their own patners while some maybe don't even have ... I myself don't even have a patner in life ... However, some of the people claim that they really understand love and some of them do say that they understand their patners well even though i believe there are countless quarrels between couples ...

Men who say that they understand their women well are most likely to lie as "WOMEN" are very hard to understand no matter how understanding some men can be. However, if some women say that they understand their men, it maybe true but think again, sometimes women do forget to think like the way men think and it tends to cause quarrels between couples.

Let me tell you something ... This is to those who say that they understand love ... Sometimes in relationships, you will have to let the persons go if you want them to be happy. You would feel happy if the persons are happy and you will feel sad if the persons are sad.

If you only think of consoling her and not feeling as sad as he or she is then you might not love him or her. It's just like One-sided Love ... When the person you love actually love someone else and he or she is happy when he or she is with the other person then you should actually let him or her go. This is because loving someone is not about being possesive. Sometimes you just have to let them go if you really love them.

So don't always think of being possesive means you love them so which is actually not really true ...

School

2004-05-27T08:03:00.000-07:00

How many of you people who actually schooling is a good thing ? Well, it is good to a certain extent. But in my opinion, school actually teaches us rubbish and nonsense. Some of the subjects are useful which i believe. Do you think that history, geography, homeecon and some other subjects useful ?
Let's take an example for history. My history teacher used to say that we learn the history to remind us to the greatness of some people in the past. Since i'm from indonesia, frankly say, studying history is just like reminding us of "How Suharto as the president of Indonesia corrupt for approximately 36 years". This is nonsense. We don't even need an A1 in history to get a good job except if you want to be a history teacher or you really have interest in the history. To tell you the truth, i actually love history. I love the history itself but i hate to memorise it. I just love to read something about history, about the past.
Geography, the subject i hate the most. Do you think A1 in Geography will get you anywhere ? NO! Except if you want to be a Geography teacher or want to be a specialist in Geography.
Homeecon. For those who wish to be a cook or a chef, I'm so sorry. No offence. Maybe you're into it. However, some of the people don't really like cooking and guess what, some teachers are actually scolding the students who can't cook properly just because they are really not into it and completely have no talent.
If i am to take examples, some of the big bosses don't really go to school and some of them don't even finish their schooling until University. Wanna example ?
Bill Gates doesn't even finish his study until Universtity. But guess what, he's now the richest man in the world with the Microsoft.
The owner of Genting Highland didn't go to school but now, Genting is superb. He got the business talent, perfect timing and luck.
So, actually schooling is not SO GOOD. However there're still good things about school. In school, you would have lots of activities, make lots of friends, or maybe have girlfriends or boyfriends, enjoy the lifestyles while you can because believe it or not, those adults who are working are actually complaining everyday about their works. The bad things are you mix with the wrong people, you make more enemies and some people even get bullied.
Let me remind you again ... this is just an opinion of mine and so ... this might not be true at all.
AMEN

Balance

2004-05-25T19:52:00.000-07:00

For every single thing in this world there is a balance ... For example ... there is male there is female ... some people are bad some people are good ... there is good and evil ...

Because of this, there is also nothing in the world that is really pure or one-sided ... Every single thing in this world has two-sided characteristic ...
For example ... helping friends is good but what if i help my friends cheat during the exam time ... is it good ?

Now ... most of the people or maybe everybody will think that it's not good but in my opinion it's not true ... It's still a good thing to do because after all i'm helping my friends ... But it's wrong in terms that the way i help him is wrong ...
So remember ... "What we do is never wrong but our way of doing it maybe wrong" ...

Another example ... Let's say your friend is infected by HIV virus or AIDS ... So, it's like he or she is just waiting for his or her death ... Let's say you want to ease his or her pain ... You get a gun and kill her or him instantly ... Some of them might be glad because they don't have to wait anymore ... You're actually helping them to ease the pain ... But your way of doing it is wrong ...

However, do remember that this is not a real fact ... This is just an opinion ... So, don't assume that this is right or wrong ... Just think with your logic or common sense because every people has different point of views ... By doing so, you will know which one is right or wrong based on your logic or common sense ...

Life

2004-05-20T03:50:00.000-07:00

Anybody who feel that life is not meaningful is a dumbass beause when you die you are left with nothing. Life is actually fun and enjoyable. The problem is that somebody just don't know how to enjoy life or really from the beginning has miserable life. I hope that kind of people do try to improve their lives.
Anyway sorry for the harsh words ... im a vulgar person ... please tolerate ...
There sure are lots of different kinds of people. As for me, i'm considered lucky as i don't really have much problems and i'm also a happy-go-lucky type of person. I don't really care about something that i think are useless.
Treasure everything you have while you're alive because they might just leave you anytime. For those who wants to kill themselves because their lives have been miserable, please change your mind. Amen