scientology?

Okay, the first time I’ve ever heard the term of scientology was when one of my closest friend has brought up the subject simply by swapping fun facts about My Name is Earl. I have to admit the idea behind the sitcom is pretty amazing, but rumours told the series is only a mere of scientology propaganda. Well I didn’t just hear and nod along, of course, until I googled and found some interesting facts about scientology.

What is it actually?
It’s a newfound religion, founder L. Ron Hubbard (1911-1986), a well-known writer yet a controversial public figure. He started it all by writing his science fictions, and introduced Dianetics, a self-improvement technique in 1949. Hubbard introduced the concept of “auditing,” a two-person question-and-answer therapy that focused on painful memories. According to Hubbard, dianetic auditing could eliminate emotional problems, cure physical illnesses, and increase intelligence. (source, Wikipedia). 

The religion itself was born circa 1952, when he moved to Phoenix. Some documentation written by Hubbard declared Scientology is business, not religion. His scientific approach in dealing with stress believed has given chances for his followers to deal present issues with an access to the past. By using a device called ‘Hubbard Electropsychometer’ or E-Meter, the followers should be able to audit themselves in the past, and moving forward to a better present.

Scientology defines that the beliefs in God or gods is something personal with no specific dogma. Currently, many Holywood celebrities such as the famous couple Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes, John Travolta, Jason Lee, has been registered as Scientologist.

More about Scientology. 

Cons
The cons about Scientology is also being accused as a cult, which has brought a lot of controversial issues amongst the good-old-regular religion believers, in fact some says that Scientology has attracted so many celebrities because the exercises has proven useful for actors/actresses in their daily professional routines as public figures. A quote that I’ve found has defined the cultism says,

Scientology is, without a doubt, a cult. Its teachings are taken from science fiction and eastern mythologies; it promotes man as the ultimate power in the universe—he just hasn’t realized it yet; salvation comes through an extremely expensive process of mind games; and it categorically denies the existence of the God of the Bible, heaven, and hell. To a Scientologist, Jesus Christ was just another nice guy who unfortunately was wrongfully put to death and whose story ends at that death.

Interesting video on YouTube about Scientology cult in London.

For me, Scientology is something that I should probably known about only, since some of its teachings are somehow really hard for me to accept.

What about you?

friends

This is a poem that I made specially for my friends.. You will never know who your real friends are, until some great ordeal has bestowed you, and they are the ones who won’t leave your side no matter what.

 

My past has told me that
You can not rely on your friends
Lookit, they are only need you for the stuff
So why bother a lot?

Then I met them, my new ones
At first I don’t know how they are
Days go by without any surprise
Suddenly, I realize that I am being attacked

Without any doubts
They have protected me
Sticking together, side by side
And unequivocally supporting my pride

My heart filled with warmth
It has been a strange feeling, without any warns
Suddenly then I realize
They are my friends, people I care aboout

Thank you my friends
I believe our struggle will somehow prevail
If someday anything happened with you, knock on wood hope not
Don’t you worry it’s only time for me to stand up

 

Dedicated to my fellow Tianshi Watch Team Member:
masak_0007
coekrix
jackisgames
charlin
music_healing
imoromi
rhoel
mitsuichan
flyandaway
lockondate
cozyground
the_institute
mengawan
silent31
cronus666
water&air
lonelyandsadkid
farizkurniawan
mr. sarmento
sedapmalam
miky lau su 

May our friendship lasts forever… CHEERS friends.. 

stop anarchism!

Anarchism from the word anarchy, originally from Greek language, meaning without archons, without rulers, often described as opposition to all forms of authority (Wikipedia), a word that has come to action a lot lately in this beloved country Indonesia. Another unfortunate event has happened last month, a student has died from a demonstration that ended with chaotic attack from the authority.

I never really support this kind of mass picketing, since I do believe in the power of open discussion and media exploitation on some important matters. Anarchism and incidents are almost impossible to avoid. Emotional and angry mass often conflicted and leeched by provocators from some irresponsible parties. And who’s to blame in this matter? To find clues and log chronological events from a peaceful picketing to chaos is somehow hard, because the number of people involved and lacks of proof on the scene. In the end, the parties that has casualties has to reap the consequences, for lives taken.

I would like to ask you to think about your idealism, and be more perspective about this matter. Can we all think about a system that will work, without any collaterals? Is it worth the live of a fellow student? Will our voice be heard by the government?

Stop anarchism right now! 

mlm atau konvensional?

Merchant of Deception

“The difficulty is that a counterfeit initially looks so good and feels so good that one rarely suspects something is wrong. Only when the counterfeit is examined and compared with the real thing does the counterfeit become apparent. 

By then it’s often too late…” * 

By: John Ankerberg and John Weldon 

Indonesia sedang marak dengan praktik bisnis MLM. Produk yang d tawarkan juga berupa-rupa, mulai dari aksesoris wanita sampai dengan alat pijat elektronik. MLM d Indonesia mempunyai sebuah wadah bernama APLI (Asosiasi Penjualan Langsung Indonesia). Konsep MLM berbentuk direct selling, jaman dahulu kasar na sih, sales keliling.

Sekarang praktik MLM semakin berkembang dalam konsep bisnis na. Berbagai macam jenis support system d kembang-biakkan, hal ini bertujuan untuk menarik calon member dan memperluas jaringan. Sial na, banyak orang yang telah sadar akan ketidak-stabilan sistem MLM. Reputasi MLM yang sedemikian buruk d mata banyak orang membuat para praktisi MLM mengembangkan trik-trik lain demi menarik orang supaya mau bergabung.

Sekali lagi saya tekankan d sini bahwa saya bukan praktisi MLM, atau seorang ahli keuangan yang mampu memecah dan menganalisa sistem sedemikian rinci. Saya hanya orang awam yang punya prinsip kuat bahwa dengan kerja keras dan praktisi ilmu, kesuksesan dan impian-impian dapat tercapai, sesulit apapun, pasti bisa tercapai.

Dan sebagai orang awam pula saya sering mendapat tawaran dan ajakan dari berbagai MLM. Karena ketertarikan akan sebuah produk, akhir na sayapun menjadi member, dengan tujuan supaya dapat membeli produk tersebut dengan harga lebih murah. Memang, saya kemudian d tawari untuk ikut mengembangkan jaringan, cuma manusia kuper seperti saya tentu mempunyai kesulitan dalam menjaring downline ya, hehehe. Saat ini produk tersebut sudah saya hentikan pemakaian na, karena harga na sangat mahal. Saya pikir, lebih baik saya mengkonsumsi produk generik saja, atau mempersehat diri dengan cara alamiah saja.

OK, enough chit chat, yang saya ingin ungkapkan d sini adalah cara mengenali trik-trik awal dari ajakan bergabung sebuah MLM, juga berbagai sanggahan dan kontradiksi yang mungkin dapat mempengaruhi pikiran Anda.

Kawan lama, yang sudah sekian waktu tidak pernah ada kontak tiba-tiba menghubungi Anda dan mengajak bertemu untuk membicarakan masalah bisnis. Atau tiba-tiba email Anda d kunjungi oleh spam tawaran kerjasama bisnis dari orang yang tidak Anda kenal. Anda salah klik link dari sebuah website atau email, dan secara tidak sengaja menemukan website ajakan bisnis spektakuler. Begitu banyak intrik-intrik yang d lakukan oleh praktisi bisnis sehingga kadang kita kurang menyadari bahwa sebenar na kita sudah tertarik k dalam pusaran bisnis tersebut. Cara-cara tersebut yang paling umum d lakukan oleh para praktisi MLM.

Salahkah praktik MLM?
Setiap bisnis mempunyai kelemahan dan keuntungan. Usaha konvensional tentu juga mempunyai berbagai flaw (kekurangan) dalam praktik na. Perhatikan d sini, bahwa terkadang jalan pikiran praktisi MLM mudah menyama-ratakan jenis bisnis konvensional, direct selling, bahkan menutupi kenyataan bahwa praktik MLM sudah condong k arah skema piramida (pyramid scheme). Lucu, banyak juga praktisi MLM yang menyanggah bahwa keberadaan MLM sama saja seperti keberadaan perusahaan-perusahaan besar berantai (chain industry), padahal sudah jelas perusahaan-perusahaan tersebut memiliki struktur organisasi yang jelas, mulai dari pemimpin perusahaan sampai dengan buruh/bawahan.

IMO, perusahaan MLM tidak salah apabila tetap mengikuti jalur kode etik yang telah d terapkan dan d setujui dari awal. Beberapa d antara na yaitu lebih mengutamakan distribusi produk, bukan perekrutan manusia. Jadi apabila ada perusahaan MLM yang berusaha mendekati Anda, pintar-pintarlah memilah, mana yang modus operandi na adalah menekankan penjaringan downline atau pemasaran produk.

Memilih jenis usaha, baik konvensional atau MLM sama-sama mempunyai kelebihan dan kekurangan masing-masing. Buka hati dan pikiran lebar-lebar, jangan mudah termakan mimpi atau janji belaka. Karena akhir-akhir banyak terjadi d depan mata saya, begitu banyak orang-orang yang menginginkan pendapatan tinggi dan lalu dengan mudah na terjebak k dalam sebuah usaha yang sebenar na semu. Jangan tunggu sampai kata ‘menyesal’ datang dalam hati Anda.

foetus in foetu

Today is probably the most bizzare day in my life. First, I’ve got this pretty shocking news about the death of one of my family, and the other one is about a sever year old boy in Kazakhstan who ‘gave birth’ to his twin. How bizzare is that??

It is actually happened in 2003 (well I just found it out today, and I decided to share this amazing phenomenon with you), a boy name Alamjan one day found out that his belly is pretty much swollen. Then the teacher in his school got him into the hospital. The doctors scanned his belly, decided that it was a vast cyst and decided to operate on him. They’ve found a huge mass, and it was a difficult surgery because the mass was covered with blood vessels and connected to his arteries.

The surgeons was intrigued to find out what was in the mass, so they decided to cut it out. And (I don’t ever want to imagine this) they’ve found arms, hair, toenails, genital even a head with approximation of a face! A Vancouver-based paediatric pathologist, Dr. Virginia Baldwin, claimed that this condition is called foetus in foetu, a rare condition in which twins are conceived from one egg but the twinning is unequal, and at an early stage of development the incomplete twin is enveloped by the normal one, living off it as a parasite.

According to Dr. Baldwin to Times Online, “When twins are conceived there can be competition for resources and only one may survive,” she says. “Depending on the anatomy and physiology of the placenta shared by the twins, a situation may develop which favours one or the other. If there is an imbalance in the blood flow, you have a hazardous situation.”

Wow.. Anyway, the kid’s just told that he has eaten a bad fruit, some white lies the docs told him so he wouldn’t be depressed or psychologically injured.

Even so, this is completely bizzare for me..