Monday, March 28, 2022

Kebenaran yang membebaskan

Pertama soal rasisme, ada rasis karena merasa rasnya superior ada rasis karena merasa rasnya inferior. Kalau merasa inferior segala penyangkalan dipakai, ras itu tidak adil begini ras itu tidak adil begitu, ras saya korban dari ras itu sehingga ras saya berhak ras itu tidak berhak. Kalau superior ketidak adilannya jelas, memperlakukan ras lain dengan buruk seperti sampah yang tidak berharga. 

Batas yang digunakan untuk memisahkan rasis dan tidak rasis itu adalah keadilan, apakah kita menutupi akses orang lain kepada kesejahteraan karena rasnya atau tidak? 

Lalu ada lagi rasisme yang adil atau kalau pakai bahasanya Andrew Schulz rasial bukan rasis, misalnya karena kompetisi umumnya yang jadi pesepakbola adalah orang bule dan orang hitam, begitu lihat orang asia main bola lawan orang bule, sudah prediksi akan kalah... adil. Tapi menjadi tidak adil kalau tim asianya dilarang berkompetisi. 

Sekarang menjadi tidak nyaman ketika masuk ke dunia kerja, kapan rasis menjadi tidak adil? Ketika orang - orang harus berkompetisi dan penghidupannya dipertaruhkan, apakah adil menolak berpartner kerja dengan orang lain berdasarkan ras? Inilah uniknya monopoli, ketika suatu pihak telah mencapai monopoli, menolak bertransaksi dengan ras tertentu sudah pasti rasis. Tapi ketika tidak monopoli, ada ruang dimana itu tidak rasis. Contoh, dalam hal menerima pegawai / pekerja, selama ini pekerja kulit biru selalu sukses membawa penghasilan dibanding kulit hijau walaupun awal-awalnya mereka kelihatannya sama pintarnya. Demi kelangsungan bisnis dan keterbatasan waktu / personel, bisnis memilih berdasarkan warna kulit. Kalau mau jujur, tidak bisa langsung dibilang rasis menurut saya (walaupun mungkin saja rasis). 

Tapi dalam segala kondisi selalu saja ada sudut dimana sesuatu yang seharusnya tidak rasis menjadi rasis, sesuatu yang rasis menjadi tidak rasis. Bagaimana menghilangkan rasisme? atau genderisme? atau diskriminasi, keminderan yang ganas, atau kesombongan? Semua masalah itu timbul dari kepercayaan bahwa kebenaran itu bukanlah hal yang paling besar, paling penting, dan paling kompleks melebihi segala kemampuan siapapun dan berapapun jumlah orang digabung menjadi satu. 

Kalau orang menyadari kenyataan bahwa kebenaran atau kenyataan itu tidak bisa dikungkung maka semua sudut pandang setiap orang yang berbeda, asal itu jujur, baik anak kecil maupun orang cacat, asal itu jujur, selalu pekat, selalu kompleks dan simpel, selalu berharga, selalu penting. Kalau tidak berarti kita sendiri yang kurang pintar. 

Jadi apapun ras orang tersebut atau dari manapun asal mereka selama mereka bisa jujur, maka mereka jauh lebih penting daripada orang orang terhebat dari keluarga kita yang tidak mau jujur dengan kita atau suka membohongi kita. 

Dari sini kelihatan sekali orang-orang yang bermasalah, entah minder atau sombong, mereka hanya mau adil sama kita kalau suatu syarat terjadi. Misalnya kita mengadopsi gaya orang hebat dari rasnya / geng nya (ini minder), kita diam dan tidak berkarakter (ini sombong), kita berpacaran dengan orang dari rasnya (ini minder), intinya selalu satu sudut pandang atau cara yang dikedepankan. Maka selalu dari segala sudut, segala cara, atau segala kondisi, akan ada saja sesuatu yang tidak adil / diskriminasi yang akan dilakukan. 

Jadi kuncinya hanya itu, kalau seseorang tidak menghargai kebenaran dengan harga yang pantas, yaitu yang terberharga di dunia, dia akan jadi tidak adil (dengan manifestasi yang bermacam macam). Kalau orang orang tersebut ngumpul jadi satu, maka ketidak adilan itu akan sistematis sifatnya.

Destined cake eaters

Proverb 10:22 (https://www.blueletterbible.org/kjv/pro/10/1/s_638001, blueletterbible.org accessed 28'th of March 2022)

The blessing of the LORD, it maketh rich, and he addeth no sorrow with it

Friday, February 18, 2022

Search me O God

 In Psalm 139, King David said:

"Search me O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts"

This is a personality to obtain, an achievement of training and wisdom. Scrutiny might seem like a deadly murderer, audit a killer. But those who live comfortable in scrutiny are themselves and those who prosper in fear of scrutiny keeps on running away from being themselves. 

Sunday, January 30, 2022

Pendapat tentang Sermon of the Mount

Beberapa waktu yang lalu, dengar podcast Joe Rogan dengan Jordan Peterson dan Jordan Peterson memberi semacam assurance tentang arti dari "Biarlah kesusahan sehari untuk sehari". Berdasarkan pengertianku dia mencoba mengoreksi orang orang yang mengartikan hal itu sebagai Tuhan Yesus menasehatkan kecerobohan padahal maksudnya adalah ada hal yang dari Tuhan untuk hari itu, itu saja yang kita lakukan tidak usah tamba tambai kekhawatiran kita segala. 

Ok daripada semakin salah lagi seperti permainan kereta bisik bisik, langsung saja saya berbicara tentang kesimpulan saya pribadi:

Lakukanlah apa yang benar pada hari itu, kalau kekhawatiran menyulitkan kita untuk melakukan hal itu, untuk apa kita khawatir? 

Jadi maksudnya kalau menabung atau berinvestasi adalah hal yang baik untuk dilakukan pada hari itu, ya lakukanlah itu juga. Kalau menolong orang, berterimakasih, belanja, adalah hal yang benar untuk dilakukan pada hari itu, ya kenapa tidak. Besok akan ada hal yang benarnya sendiri, yang penting kita selesaikan hal yang benar untuk dilakukan hari ini maka kita akan berada pada jalur yang benar. 

Nah apakah khawatir bisa membantu kita menemukan apa yang benar? Disinilah kita bisa menemukan alasan dari adanya kekhawatiran dalam diri kita. Apakah kekhawatiran malah lebih mencondongkan kita untuk tidak melakukan hal yang benar? Itulah yang dibicarakan dalam Sermont of The Mount... kalau saya interpretasikan dari pembicaraan di podcast itu. 

Wednesday, January 26, 2022

Drawing in Hate v.02

The Game that I play often is War of The Visions - Final Fantasy Brave Exvius, it is a mobile game, a Gacha and also a turn based strategy game derived officially from Final Fantasy Tactics. Within the game there's this status effect "Hate" which draw enemies to attack the character. This status currently is used only to one's self or ally, probably it could be interesting to increase hate on the enemy but let's not go there for now. The use of drawing in hate on your character is so that the enemies' attacks wouldn't be directed towards other characters. The character that got Hate up usually are bulky and would be fine taking a few hits. 

Such concept also exist in other games, to tank, or to kite. Now how's that related to Christianity? One thing that I overlooked about the death of Christ is that ever since the beginning, Christ knew that He was about to endure "injustice". He didn't manipulate the world so that all of those injustice would be directed to Him, but like one's action would have the opposite reaction, everytime you set yourself to be ethical and good and Just, there's always resistance in one way or the other - from yourself or from other people or from nature.  

If we looked at what happened during the crucifixion we could see that some of the people who wanted Him dead ended up feeling bad about it, the soldier who was supposed to be an enemy ended up giving Jesus something to drink. After the crucifixion, Jesus ended up being resurrected, obtained corporeal body, and even more amazing access to the miracles of life. Jesus also was rewarded by The Father with properties in Heaven. My point is when you knew the injustice is coming and you converted those injustice into something that's actually or Truthfully good for you, then the injustice would became Justice. 

A note from 12 Rules for Life by Dr. Jordan Peterson:

"Treat yourself like someone you're responsible for helping"

Reward yourself after injustice, (at least) and then reward others. If you could, plan ahead how the sure thing that's going to come could be used for good. Be aggressive, abuse it, and hopefully this is the angle where net injustice could Truthfully go down permanently in reality. 

Thursday, November 25, 2021

Ecclesiastes, Gacha Games, and Property

I was thinking about Ecclesiastes while watching pastors and religious people on youtube talked about it. Then some thoughts lined up in my mind. Ecclesiastes are talking about how maxing an aspect of life wouldn't be the answer to all of our problems. Maxing wisdom wouldn't always translate to pleasure and health, maxing pleasure wouldn't translate to wisdom or a fulfilled life and relationships (I took a bit from the songs of solomon here), maxing wealth wouldn't translate to lasting values. 

There's always going to be needs, different people different problems.
Beyond every solutions lies further problems
So what should be the goal of my life?

Walk with God

Psalm has the answer right? 

Put the highest value to God's commandments and the fear of the lord, that's the lifestyle of one who would always live with problems... wisdom (although the pursuit and the achievements of wisdom wouldn't complete your life all the way).

Notice that the commandments of God were passed down in the form of restriction. Yes there were instructions like "Go to Canaan", but the law was the 10 commandments and they were all restrictions. Don't do this, don't do that, well honoring your parents is an instruction yes I was wrong about that sorry. The point that I'm trying to make remains though, that the law is about sin what is sinful what is bad what is not to do. 

Why is the law the answer to setting up the goal of life? In my opinion it's because beyond restrictions there are freedom because after you've observed the law you'd be free to be and to do the rest of life. The law speaks God's bestowment of Authority over one's self, so that we are not being under the authority of another person or other people, only God and the law. That's freedom, that's property, that's the perimeter set for the sake of our room to own.  

As a Christian I'll refer to Jesus' saying "The Truth will set you free". This is another nuance to the notion, which is the fact that laws that don't connect with the Truth would become obselete. So you would always want to refer to the Truth and not just the wordings of the law, the relationship between the current and the order. 

It's amazing how gacha games of now really capture this archetype well. Collecting a type of resources won't guarantee one's access to everything that's being offered by the game, even when exchanges were available there were still rates and they might not be fair. I think about this parallel and consider how the advancements of technologies led to mathematical machines, computers, and the internet. How such technologies are the collection of knowledge, compact manifestation of ingenuities and many many laws of nature, wisdom. So products made on top of them would also carry the wisdom of history in them. As much as the popularity of the low estimation of the people towards games and online entertainments, hidden within them are treasures of Atlantis.


Wednesday, November 24, 2021

Further into the Spirit of Truth v.03

This post is actually a consideration rather than a conclusion,

If spirits are inclinations then "The Spirit of Truth" is the inclination of the Truth

We know that we are here now, and we could rely on the fact that the world wouldn't just end *snap just like that without reasonable sequences. There is a force of preservation that prevails, the truth inclines to preserve itself. 

Sustainability is another word for Goodness, and such is the meaning of Loveliness

So that would make the description of God in the bible makes more sense. The Spirit of Truth wants to throw away be done away with parts of the truth that's not sustainable and create the Truth that's good, Lovely. 

The whole truth at this point in time, is it actually not "The Spirit of Truth"?

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Edit: Sorry for the mistake

Gremlin Mentality v.02

"I dont have to perform, all I got to do is to be a part of a gang" "When the gang expected me to perform, all I got to do is...