Lalalalalala~

I know it's kind of a little late for this, but what the hell is the Chinese cheng beng and burning things all about?!
Seriously, in this day and age, people who still believe in these kinds of stuff??
OK, let me explain why this is so freaking ridiculous.
IT POLLUTES THE EARTH!
Not enough? Fine. Here's more.
Let's see what happening here. Your ancestors died and went to heaven (hopefully *roll eyes*). He reaches heaven and then what?
In case you guys don't understand here. "Heaven" is supposed to be a place of eternal paradise or whatever crap the believers would like to say it is. No matter what race, religion or ethnic you are, it always comes back to the fact that heaven is a place of endless happiness and hell is a place of unconditional suffering.
But if living humans have to burn offerings to the dead ones to provide all the cars, credit cards, China Dolls (maybe in the future anti HIV medicine to combat the affects those dolls will bring) etc etc, that basically means there's nothing there? Heaven is just this vast field of clouds?
The fact that there's nothing there isn't even the worse point.
It's the fact that even after leaving this material world of pain and death, you eventually (still) have to rely on the mortal beings for your own happiness?!
The idea that burning things produces smoke which moves upwards and hence it moves to heaven is so primitive even Tarzan would have laughed his loincloth off!
If this theory sticks, do you realise that most of our pollution is produced by some form of heat towards a material hence producing chemical fumes that move UPWARDS? Basically we're saying every time the lorry or the bus accelerates and a thick fume of black toxin comes out of the exhaust pipe, it's actually making an offering to the deads?
Lessons we've learnt up till now. One, there's nothing in heaven (even though it's supposed to be a land of eternal happiness). Two, heaven is even more polluted than earth (as if that's possible).
The good side it, it was them who polluted it and it's them who will suffer later. I guess life (or death) is fair after all.
And the other problem here is that these people are burning paper.
PAPER.
Again, main problem, it pollutes the earth!
But let's stop being such environmentalist and just think rationally again.
Are you offering a symbol or are you offering the real deal?
To phrase it better, "are your believes for real?"
Because if all you're doing is offering a symbol then for god's sake PLEASE stop burning and making life miserable for all of us!
But if you're a true believer, why the F are you burning paper stuff?
Are you so unfilial that you want your ancestors to drive around in paper cars, fill petrol at paper pumps, whip out the paper plastics (plastics as in credit cards) to pay for it and then zoom off to have some screws with the paper China Dolls?
And get paper HIV? Plus, since a lot of people die of old age, won't you need to burn some Viagra to?
Is that the kind of life you would want the people who brought you into this life to have?
Is that how you treat the people who nurtured you and fed you? By giving them burnt up paper stuffs in return?
Shame on you!
And the sickest part is, he's gonna be screwing a paper thing!
This is even worse than blow up dolls.