RELI?gion

Okay, breaks to the floor, before I begin, don't worry, this isn't like my usual posts; to those of you who actually follow my posts. This is a bit more of a logic and reasoning kind of post (I mean, come on, can't be all passionate posts now can it?)

Now,

Quite recently I had a talk with one of my acquaintance regarding morality. Now, to the general public, morality is often entangled with religion; just like peanut butter, or bacon and my tummy. It's melded together. But we have a different opinion (not really our opinion, more like Richard Dawkin's).

So let's talk about morality, what constitutes morality? Love? Honor? Pride? Loyalty to our one true God? Well, the holy water sprinklers of the Christian faith believe that morality is derived heavily from religion. In their mind, without religion, we will be lawless animals and anarchy will loom over the face of the Earth. Well, who could possibly object that? I mean, if people started looting and raping and killing babies, it's pretty darn obvious the world will be quite literally fucked. Which religion would say anything against that? Nope, they won't.

But is that what will really happen if religion is thrown out of the window? The answer is, most probably not. Why you ask?
Well, first, to cynically assume that the entire human race will be plunged into immoral actions the minute the order of religion collapses just goes to show that religious leaders don't even have faith in their own species, so to begin with, we are already equally screwed if our leaders already dismiss us as fashionable baboons.

Second, as Richard Dawkins wrote in his book, The God Delusion (and I am vaguely para-phrasing here), morality is just a by product of human evolution. It helps us pro-create and also maintain our dominance. Feelings such as guilt and love for our fellow beings for example, enables us to learn from mistakes and feel empathy towards our own kind. Thus, it doesn't take religion to regulate morality. (on another note, religion is a by product of our evolutionary process, but let's leave that for next time).

Third, as I've mentioned, if an individual is so cheap as to go haywire the minute his belief system is thrown out the window, then to begin with he is just living a lie. True, some people are like that, but if that is the case, we are just acting good to please God. Now, if God really does exist, do you really think he/she/it is such a sucker to fall for that? So, the idea of religion and morality being melded together to create order out of chaos just collapses upon itself. If religious organizations requires the world to follow a religion in order to uphold moral values; since cynically, we are all just barbarians that love to sin, and if said moral values are being judged by an almighty god, the conclusion would be we are just living a big fat lie.

Now, I realised my logic may be flawed at some point, but the point I am trying to get across is that morality does not necessarily derives from religion. True, religion maybe an outlet to regulate our deep emotional turmoil, but that just means we are not strong enough to face our true self and that we are faking our lives. Besides, if we truly stick to the Holy Book, the book itself already collapses upon itself because of all the 18++ content in there namely *cough* rape, looting *cough* baby killing *cough*.

Definitely NSFW folks.

Deck the halls!

BOOM! I am back baby!

Ahhhh, been awhile since I blogged. Felt voided of every reason to blog due to my previous blog's poorly choosen design scheme. Oh welp, that is what happens when you become a lazy bum who is too lazy to even write a simple CSS and HTML script.

Now, moving along, it has been my third semester in university and I've pretty much adapted to the life; just another way to say I am practically used to the lifeless lifestyle of an IT student har har har. But I digress...

Moving on!

I have been exposed to sooooo much awesome stuff this year. Lets not mention CF cause I will just burst in my RAWR RAWR mode due to overjoy. Now, stuff like Star Trek: Voyager just makes me go all (≧∇≦)/. I SWEAR, 2012 IS A GOOD YEAR FOR SCIENCE.

I mean, the elusive Higgs Boson has been found (RAWRRRRRRR) and the Mars Rover made in to Mars (RAWRRRRRRRR). Oh science (Ｔ▽Ｔ).

Now, BOOKS I'VE READ (or reading):

Cosmos - Carl Sagan (RAWRRRRRR)

The God Delusion - Richard Dawkins

The Pale Blue Dot - Carl Sagan (RAWRRRRRR)

Physics Of The Future - Michio Kaku

Physics Of the Impossible - Michio Kaku

Billions and Billions - Carl Sagan (RAWRRRRR)

Oh lord, I love me some good book.

As for CF, just one thing need to be said; IMMA GONNA TRY TO COS AGAIN NEXT YEAR.

Money Makes The World Go Round

Yes, believe it or not people, money is the essence of life. It is what enables us to buy our daily needs, enables us to afford luxurious item, and where necessary, enables us to engage on services. Without money, we are better off living the life of a baboon. Now, by money I do not mean hard cold cash; money can be interpreted as a form of currency such as bartering. Regardless, the concept of currency is materialism. Materialism. That word sounds immoral or even makes one look like a cheap individual. But no, materialism is good. Considerate materialism.

Think about it, one way or another, we have to sacrifice something in order to obtain something of equivalent value. Money for a television, work for money, energy for work, etc etc. It's a cycle of life, and quoted from FMA, it's the principle of "equivalent exchange".

So, to conclude, our live revolves around the presumption of this law of  "equivalent exchange" right? Wrong. Fact is, we do not know the true value of anything. Hell, we don't even know the true value of ourselves, yet we dare place a price tag on an object? So, how are taxes calculated? How are resources divided and sold? Well, let's just say a wise guy from the past made up an entire system for this and hence we just treat it like an additional limb after thousand of years of ignorance.

However, my beef is not with the "true value" of an item, no. It is the misuse of said item that pisses me off. Here in Malaysia, we are a religious bunch, and I am fine by that if it weren't for all the damned misuse of fortune. Lets face it, our government is a run by a bunch of monkeys claiming that know what's best for the citizen of this country. And what is worst than a country being run by monkeys? a country run by religious monkeys. Granted that most of them are muslim, and this is an islamic country by paper, some of their "decisions" are plain absurd. Case in point, mosque. Now don't get me wrong, what you wanna do within the confines of your sacred rendezvous point is up to you, but seriously, do you REALLY need to blow BILLIONS of dollars to erect said confines? How paranoid are you? What? if the walls are made out of diamonds it'd be a better antennae to relay your wishes to your God? How absurd. That money is better spent feeding the poor of this country. It's fine to have a grand community hall where you can compare clothes, brag about your kids and pretend to uphold a sense of righteousness, but please, one is enough. We don't need two white elephants sitting still waiting for Hari Raya to come, we have better use for the tax money we pay you know.

They say poverty is not an issue that can be resolved overnight. I say it is. If politicians learn to stop being corrupt and actually making right, smart decisions every once in awhile, we wouldn't have people living in the streets. I have always been against spending shitload of money for building excessive religious centres; not only for the muslims, but even for the taoist, buddhist, christian, and so on. There is just no practical need for them, why not give that money to people who really need it?
Why not allocate them to science and human progress?
Why confine our mind to those of the early 14th century and live in a lie?
Why be deluded?
What is the practical use?
Think about it the next time you "donate" to a church/mosque/temple/wat/etc

SPOILERS

GODDAMN SPOILERS.

There, I said it.

Seriously people, I know you are all hyped up over a certain video/song/issue, but damn, keep it down will you? You might think it's fun and fine to give out spoilers like it's nobody's business, but think about it, what if it were YOU in the receiving end of the spoilers? How would you feel? Exactly, that is how I am feeling right now.

I've been a fan of the How I Met Your Mother series for quite some time now; but I took a short break to let the series catch up and instead I focused my attention elsewhere. I EXPECTED discretion and isolation from the series. But nope. It hit me square in the face.

9Gag. The source of all thing unholy.

A post. Seem innocent enough, but noooooooooo. The minute I read that cursed post my eyes bled. They spoiled the season finale for me. THE SEASON.FINALE. That is cruel. Downright cruel. Seriously? You can't find a better idea for a post and had to plagiarize on a series??? Goddamn this people are annoying.

Well, rage aside, life is pretty good. Tiring, but good. I mean, it's university after all, so meh, I'll live. Till next time folks.

Haters gonna hate

Now, as the title suggest, I've been dealing with quite a number of bullshit about my blog. Namely by creationists which, not surprising, consists of Christians. I won't stoop so low as to mention their name, cause' it'd just be a waste of space and time.

To begin with, I honestly do not know what the problem is. I mean, have I truly wrote posts that act as a demeaning or condescending statement towards people's belief? All I've done is just express my thoughts on what I believe things appear to be. Is it not true that the Christian faith is very vague and very conflicting in terms of their 'conduct'? The pope for instance, with all his 'grace', 'good will' and 'charity', demands millions of dollars for an appearance in Mexico. What happened to spreading the faith for the sake of spreading the faith? You wanna preach? Go ahead, preach all you want, as if I give two fucks what you're preaching, just keep out of my wallet. I guess now all the pope needs is a group of groupies; oh wait! he do! they are called nuns. Now, it might be just a rumor started off by a troller, but hey, you ever thought what mister popey could do if he sold that big ass gold staff of his? man, he could feed an entire town or perhaps even an entire district in Africa for months! But no, he needs that staff to 'bless' people. Did I also mention that Christians believe that the earth is not more than 6000 years old?? Apparently, a talking snake and a woman made out of the rib of a man is more believable than millions of years of evolution.

Now do you understand why I think that, nay, I see that religion, Christianity in particular is very questionable and vague? It just begs to be questioned and made fun of, it really does. Now, do not pleasure yourself by thinking I wrote this blog specifically for you, I am just taking the opportunity to show YOU the real TRUTH; and to make fun of your little story book, as usual.

cheerio, and 'god bless'.

Thin Ice

This past 2 weeks has been a turmoil to my very being. The load of assignments and lack of sleep I can cope, but I don't think I've ever been so in conflict with myself.

I am a very easy-going person, I try not to get too caught up with the madness of life and try to live it through my own pace. But, I am still a human being deep down, and it is normal for human beings to be drawn towards problem. It's a law of nature, when there isn't a problem, humanity will create one. On the same token, I think I might've very well just created a problem for myself. A problem that can't be solved through conventional methods. Something only I can verify and solve myself. I've lost sleep, appetite, focus and even rationality to this confusion. It's a fairly simple problem, but I couldn't control it's coming, nor it's progressiveness. All I could do is just hope the solution is not as crazy as I deem it to be.

The clock is ticking.

End of The World?

Man, what a hectic day this has been. Problems seem to be flying around left and right trolling everybody. Seems like somebody set Life's difficulty level to 'Chuck Norris'.

As some of you may heard, the city of Acheh has once again been struck by earthquake, and an impending tsunami disaster. Now, if we take a look back in time, 2007 seems to be the turn of a tide [quite literally] for our world. Since 2007, there has been numerous reports of natural disaster, all the way from hurricanes to earthquakes. Now, I am not saying that back in the olden days there weren't any, but they sure weren't blown up as big as today's disaster.

That really begs the question, are we REALLY just overreacting? or are we really looking at the end of the world? Now see, there's two side to this, just like everything in life. To say that back in the olden days disasters were less serious, that is quite an understatement. In the 90's itself, there has been repeated earthquakes ranging from America to Taiwan and Japan. Sure, the news did went international, but did they receive all the attention as today's news? This now leads us to the improvement in technology. Thanks to networking sites like Facebook and Twitter, news travel at a faster speed and in massive quantities as opposed to the backwards technology of radio/print press/television. People back in the days might take about 1-2 days to even get a clue of what is going on, whereas now, almost instantly we get the information. Case in point, my blog. I just got this news merely hours ago and just decided to sit down and write this post.

So, what is this about the end of the world and shit? The most accepted theory is that it is just another 'bubble', akin to the Y2K bubble. Just rumors, and when the rumors reach to a point where it conflicts against one another, that is when the bubble pops. A trend really, when it gets too mainstream, it just ends. If our argument premise is that this past decade natural disasters had been hitting us hard and constantly and thus legit to say the end of the world is coming, based on that same premise we can say that the end of the world should have came long ago. I don't have hard facts to give now, go wikipedia the information and I personally can guarantee that the amount of natural disasters in the past is the same as today's disasters if not more.

With that said, regardless of severity or location, a natural disaster is still a tragedy. Thousands of people, sometimes even tens of thousands, lose their life just because they happened to be at the wrong place at the wrong time. It is a tragedy, and to say we empathize them, we can never understand how it feels to lose a loved one to such a tragic disaster, unless we ourselves have experienced it. Some put their faith in God to help the poor souls, some actually help in means of shelter, food, and basic necessities. I personally feel helpless for not being able to contribute, and offering a prayer seems a bit too petty and easy to pass off as helping. Regardless, My condolences to the people of Acheh, and may you recover as quickly as possible. Masato signing off.

Facts? Or Bullshit?

Now, ignorant, arrogant and self-righteous people, AKA; fakers. We see lots of them in today's world. All from the entertainment industry to our neighbors. They are the kind of people who show an alternate 'good' side of themselves to society, just to score points in live, when virtual of the fact, they are as corrupted and vile as any sane (insane in some cases) person could be. They are the type of people who will act like they actually give two fucks about yourself, when really, no fucks are given whatsoever. Now, this isn't necessarily a bad thing, humanity in itself is a dysfunctional ecosystem that thrive on the weak and the dying; basically a parasite. So, isn't it pretty normal for a parasite to show the 'good' quality for first impression's sake? Nope.

Case in point, the entertainment business. Don't get me started. It's always the same, sex scandal one day, uncalled charity the other. It's the same cycle that just goes on and on and on and on. Few years back, when 'pop' culture reference was mainly the Jonas Brothers and whatnot, it was all about purity and faith in God(not to mention the freaking Disney orientated wedding one of the brothers actually had, that must've cost a BOMB!). Today, it's all about 'hey you! lose your virginity quick, or you ain't cool!'. Seriously, look at music video these days. "you're a hoe- nicki minaj", seriously? that is what passes for a decent MV these days? I know 60 year old aunties that can sing better than that. It ain't any better in the movie department neither. Twilight, come on man, I mean, good God. And people say that Twilight was just misunderstood and has deep affectionate meaning. You know what has deep affectionate meaning? The depths of my bowels. There's no good value I can derive from Twilight, and people (girls that just got their periods) say that it has resemblance to Romeo and Juliet. Bitches please, have you actually READ Romeo and Juliet?? It's a tragedy, and a damn good one at that too. Twilight is just a tragedy, period, and if even if it does resemble Romeo and Juliet, That just makes Stephanie Myer a copy cat doesn't it?

In the arena of religion, this is where the bullshit hits the fan. I just can't stand people who CLAIM they are religious but they do exactly the opposite of what they preach. What? as long as it's out of the Bible/Quran/Sutra/etc it is legit?? Look, I have no beef against anybody that wishes to believe what they want to believe, but actually PRACTICE what you believe in. I have more respect for a believer who actually follows their holy book word by word than those who just expel air from their mouth. Don't wanna be labeled as a robot? Then THINK. We are the smartest known species to date in our history. We have the capability to think and reason, yet we do not maximize it's potential. Question authority, question conspiracy, question everything about life. Don't just receive input and take them as information. Process them, cross reference, do what a smart being would do. When you do reach a point where your thinking path is conflicting with your belief, argue. Test both sides of the argument. Which seems legit? Choose that one. It's very simple, live life critically and enjoy it. Think about it, if you're confined to certain 'laws' of life, what is the point of life then? The beauty of life is our ability to choose. Some of it maybe immoral, and for that we deserve punishment, but as long as it does not cross the boundaries of the norm, it should be fine, right? Why spend time hating one another for reasons from ages ago? Set aside differences and see the world for what it truly is, a world where everyone is born equally.

Some people claim it as facts, I tend to label them as bullshit first. That's the first step of arguments. Be it formal or informal, religion or science, be skeptical. We have the privilege of possessing such a skill, use it. You think you are right? Think again.

Back From The Dead

I think it is becoming a trend for me to blog and stop after a period of time. I can't even count the days since I last blogged. 2 months? 3? Hell, I am so disorientated. Anyways, confusion aside, it's the 2nd of April, year 2012. I am currently in college, living the life, or so I hope. The speed here is epic though, Internet speed that is.

Well, college life isn't all what I expected it to be, but still, it's pretty wicked. Just got back from RAGE in Melaka, tons of fun and trolling there, more of the latter. I think I will be updating my blog more regularly from now on... hopefully