Our "ke po" culture also leads us to gossiping a lot, and I admit I'm guilty of this too but when it reaches a point where it will not only harm yourself (regardless of in a physical, emotional or spiritual way), but others as well, you know you've gone overboard.
OK, I'm gona openly criticize some actions by Chinese people and I know I'm endangering myself here because I do live in a state that is heavily populated by Chinese people but what the heck, our ancestors didn't fight for freedom of speech just to be silenced by fear.
Anyway, I don't know at what festival or occasion but a lot of times, Chinese people will bring these gold papers and burn them. And during I don't know what "pray the dead people or ghost" or something festival, they will even burn these fake houses and everything.
One thing you should take note of is, I really care for the environment. Especially when you're talking about polluting the air that I breathe or dirtying the roads that I pass by. And when I say they burn these papers I don't mean as in one family burn 3 pieces but as in one person burns a whole mountain of them. What's worse, these rich people with chicken eggs for brain decided to do open fire in the MIDDLE of the road AND THEN leave the mess they made right there without bothering to pick it up. I know some friends have told me you have to wait a while or something before you can tidy up the mess but by that time, 99% of the ash would have been blown away and in many occasions, blown into MY house or the compound. I can live with the mess I make but I'm not that generous or forgiving when I have to live in the mess others make. I mean don't these people have the courtesy to at least cover the mess up with a big cloth or something so it won't get blown away?!
And remember the time when there was this very terrible haze in Penang and the authorities called for the people to refrain from burning things? Guess what the chicken eggs do? BINGO! They burn those huge-ass dragon joss sticks! OK, they just got demoted. Now, they're lizard eggs.
I don't get it. How can we live in such a modern society where we can actually go through all layers of the atmosphere and still believe that if you burn those gold paper, fake Beemers or Rolex-s, these things will actually reach those people living in heaven. Call me a sceptic but I call it a bunch of bull. Fine fine, let's all be merry and believe that heaven does exist in another dimension so we can't see it and our space shuttles can just pass through it without knocking their Menara KL down and that whatever we burn can actually reach them. Does that mean when we burn plastic and all those toxic stuffs, the poisons are reaching their "land" too? Talk about pollution.
Logically speaking, if they can enjoy our Mercedes and iPods just like us, their world must be very similar to ours meaning they have all those factories and stuff too. So, not only do they have to suffer the filth THEY produce, they actually have to tolerate the toxins we're producing too? That is waaaay cool *rolls eyes*.
Oh, the freedom of speech being limited by fear is kinda true now because if I wasm't afraid of those terrorist in Lebanon shooting "precision missiles" at me, I would have a lot to say about their beliefs as well, especially the part where they say go kill a million innocent people as you die and you will be awarded with 99 virgins in heaven. Wait, I'm not sure if those Lebanese are the same people who crashed did the London bombings and everything else... OK, let's just call these brainless people (they don't even get to be frog eggs) terrorist and let's all forget about their religion or origin.
Here goes nothing. Hopefully they won't be able to locate my house using whatever "Crapper Tracking Device" they have.
First off, if you get 99 virgins for everyone who commits acts of terrorism, how many virgins exists in this world because let's face it, Islam is a really widely spread religion and to be able to supply so many virgins, they must have factories that provide labour for a cheaper price than those Chinese people are currently offering.
Secondly, if one person gets 99 virgins in heaven, that would mean one dead person would ammount to 100 people in heaven, and if you do the maths, 100 people who die by commiting that "al-xxx (I don't know the name)" thing would mean 10,000 people popping up in heaven. Keep on going and I wonder how big this heaven actually is.
Thirdly, what happened to monogamy? And if you say "Then don't get married lah!", what happened to NO PREMARITAL SEX?
I also read in times about if this guy dies by commiting that "al-xxx" thing, he can nominate i don't know how many people to heaven as well. So umm, just wondering, why don't the villages just select a few people by a fair draw and make them promise to write the names of all the villagers in the list of nominees?
And last but not least, IF their religion teaches that commiting these acts of terrorism will send you to heaven with 99 virgins at your disposal (sorry, I still can't get over the 99 virgin fact), why don't these so-called fake as hell "spiritual leaders" or what ever you call people like Osama just go bomb some place and quickly go receive his reward?
I'm not being racist or religious-sist here. Seriously, I'm not. But like my useless but I-don't-know-why very smart brother said, "Stupidity knows no bounderies". In following his footsteps, I can continue crapping about how useless, brainless and cowardly the Burmese people are and how corrupted some governments can be but my mom is going to kill me if I don't finish showering in another half hour.
So enjoy the post and just relax lah~.
PS: I don't think Islam promotes terrorism, I believe brainless people who by pure coincidence happen to be Muslims promote terrorism.
8 comments:
babe.. i still believe in burning houses n cars.. it's custom. customs dun reli need logic do they? wheda they receive it anot is another thing.. it's juz a mark of respect.
O.o i like dat phrase. stupidity noes no boundaries. heheheee...
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come on la if the babarians continued their custom of killing ppl then we wudnt need to get migraines over how to proceed with the "Operation Population Control(OPC)", wud we? customs were created by the primitive minds of our ancestors and as we bcome more inteligent, so shud our actions. if the doctors still give us treatment acording to their "custom" ways a lot of us wudnt be here now.
PS: will blog bout OPC some other time.
Errr... i'm that really smart brother that she looks up to (n feverishly worships).
If we hold to these customs my sis was ramblin about, especially the burning part, it also indirectly implies that our ancestors our inconsiderate or self-centred. I mean if i was dead n i 'm in that heaven place (tho most likely i'd end up in Hell if it exists due to all my blasphemy) n i still LOVE my descendents, i'd wish them to MOVE ON, if they wanna show me respect just say thanks, donate to some wildlife fund, go nurture a tree, stop eatin shark's fin or some other useful thing.
I'm not so sadistic that i get my kicks watchin my descendants poison the Earth n all its merry (sarcasm) inhabitants with greenhouse gases n dioxins, just so that i can drive a paper Merc or live in a paper house.
We are not at a point wher we can manufacture clean air, magically wish away the pollutants in our air or even sew our Ozone Layer shut so why add acid to the wound? Keep this up n we'l need water-proof joss-sticks so we can continue this lovely custom after our polar caps melt.
About terrorists, i don't wanna start cos it'l b a long comment if i did.
Anyways, i know it's very temptin to b stupid but please refrain urself. we'r priding ourselves s the most intelligent species on earth, let's try living up to that xpectation.
Btw, that quote from me is, "There is no racial, gender, age, religion or upbringing requirement for stupidity. Every1 is equally capable of it."
not bad.
well this stupidity thing is very subjective. like if u dont believe in burning stuffs for the dead, THOSE who believed it can simply call u stupid [because they REALLY REALLY believe that there's a heaven over there]. u know, it's like.. no one's right and no one's wrong. maybe some day the NASA pumped up their spaceship and lost contact half way, who knows, maybe 3 days later those astronuts [hhah] called back and say they found this similiar place as heaven? it might be proven scientifically that heaven do exist in another dimension [as well as hell MUAHAHAHAHAH, though i would love to believe that hell is taking over current world now. you can see how things change, how evil took over human mindset and so on].
But frankly i do strongly agree on the pollution part.
ok, now i'm getting confused. so heaven's suppose to be a very sacred place w/o pollution w/o lust w/o desire. and hell is a place w/ pollution w/ hot chicks in tight leather suits holding a whip in a sexy pose [OMFG~ ^^] and w/ lust and desire. so the human world is suppose to be a place whr evil and good mixed together? APPARENTLY, besides some environmental lovers, we dun have anytihng good anymore. and in few centuries time, we'll have everytihng bad and nothing good. =)
or maybe heaven and hell doesnt really exists. it was create by human hoping that their dead loved ones will get to live in a place so serene and nice and so on. and it gets passed down by mouth and soon it became a ... belief. so in reality, it's just the downfall of the world due to smartness and brains. =D
first of all, the only reason i look up to Lin is cz he's taller than me and NO! I DONT FREAKING WORSHIP HIS LAZY ASS!
as for the 2nd comment which im assuming came from Mae.. i really like and agree wv ur last point. i wud realy love to believe that there wud be just reward waiting for me at the end of my life if I spend my entire life doing good and everything but i say the probability of heaven existing is 0.0000001. but this doesnt change the fact that it's a nice thought.
and again, Mae, i really think if pollution doesnt destroy humanity first, our world wud become the hell u love so much in a few more decades.
cool ramblings there...but u can go on whining on things like that, things aren't gonna change. Stupid people will continue to live in their stupid culture...jz dun care lar, live on ur own life, dun care abt the idiots...
believe me, one day u'll either get tired of whining, or u'll end up with DAP...either way, nothing changes.
to me, heaven or hell is jz a state of mind.
like how ur bro always says, 'ignorance is bliss'
woh, that "I" or "l" guy knows my bro..
anyway, i guess whining won't change anything but hopefully the kids reading this will actually stop and think about their foolish actions and stop it when they grow older. i've already accepted that we can no longer change the mindsets of the grown ups, they're too stubborn.
ok, we seriously have to stop quoting Lin before he becomes stuck up. oh wait, he already is....(=.=)
he's always stuck up
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