Devil's not that great afterall

Who says that devil is smart? Who says that satan is intelligent? Well..the answer really does depend on what you considered to be "smart" i think. If what you considered smart is rich in knowledge, almost all-knowing, perhaps the answer would be yes, satan is far more intelligent than us human beings. But here i've come up with some ideas that shows that satan's actually not that great! I really don't know what's happening but the issue is interesting to be raised.
My first evidence supporting my argument is that satan is indeed a fool because he rebels against God! One might argue that it is because of his rebellious nature, and jealousy drives his actions, but doesn't he understand the basic underlying principle that the Creator is definitely greater than any creation? That Creator will always be far more powerful than any creation? Take human and robots for example, well, this might not be a perfect analogy as you might argue that robots can perform calculations faster than humans, but we, humans are definitely more advanced and complicated than any possibly invented computers! A biologist might support my argument. Till today, no one knows exactly how does the neural network inside our brain works, compared to, say, a microchip inside our computers. We're definitely more "powerful" in that sense. Though there might be some future predictions that computers will somehow gain "consciousness" by the next century, still, we are more powerful, and superior to computers. Just plug of their battery source and they will die off. Similarly, going back to the argument, devil will not win from rebelling against God! Just as a computer can't win from human beings.
Next thing..this has really confused me, but the devil seems, in some way, bound to God's authority. They are afraid of God! How do i think so? It's because the devil does nothing in refuting God's revelation. What i mean is, God's revelation inside te Bible said that Jesus is the only truth. This statement excludes all other possibilities. But the devil does not do anything to at least, make this unclear. We've come across many examples through films. If someone says "I am John", and the other identical person says "No, I am John", than that would create a confusion isn't it? But in the scenario the devil seems to keep quiet, while we know that he has got the power to, say, create a religion and inside it's "holy scriptures" written another person who says that he's the only truth. That would certainly create a confusion! What i see is this.. I suspect that there has been an "invisible battle" between God and the devil, and what we're seeing now is the outcome. The fact that there's only one scripture, that is the Bible, in which it is stated clearly that Jesus is the only way of truth, is the outcome of that invisible battle, which means that the devil is losing. Well, perhaps the battle has started long ago. The devil wanted to create a confusion by the similarity of the live of the ancient God Osiris-Dionysus compared to those of Jesus Christ. But as we know today, the more you want to "censor" something, the more clue that you have to say "it is there". The presence of the fakes indeed proves that the real one is actually present. Pirated cd's would mean that there's an original version of that cd. Moreover, to speak in a more general way, the presence of many religions in this world doesnt prove that there's no absolute truth! Indeed, all of them reflects the presence of that one absolute!
Then why would be the devil so stupid? Not stupid, just "far less intelligent" than God. We, as human beings, are not able to see the "invisible battles", the real scenarion that was happening. But all of these just strengthen my proof! The belief to supranatural beings, ghosts, by those who does not actually hold truth in their hearts, is another proof! Those who have strong faith is unlikely to believe in those, let alone encounter them. Those cheap tricks are, i suspect, to divert the attention to those who are not aware of the presence of truth, or make them believe in some other things other than truth. While to us believers, presence of devil means presence of God, and we are not afraid to satan anymore since we are blessed with the Holy Spirit within us.
To conclude, devil is not that great, and we humans are not supposed to be afraid of the devil. Be open minded, and perhaps you'll be able to see the big picture. What the devil try is just to create confusion, and nothing more, and if we hold fast to truth, we will be able to see them clearly.

What according to me is beautiful in this world?

What's beautiful in this world? Generally, people would say things such as friendships, love, flowers, their childhood lives, panoramas, nature, etc.. I'll bet that no one would suggest unhappy things such as tsunamis. Not wrong, but here i'd like to express my own opinions and thoughts. Honestly, if anyone were to pose to me this question, say two years ago, i'd most probably give the same answer as most people. But lastly i've been thinking and searching for the answer, and somehow my perceptions towards all things have changed since then, on which i'll illustrate below. First of all, let's start with an analogy. Perhaps many of you have been too a painting museum where famous and "beautiful" paintings of all times were displayed. Browsing through all the paintings, we notice that not all the paintings express happy times. Some may depict a sad and gloomy situation, perhaps a village ruined by a hurricane, or victims of disasters. Why is that so? Why do they classify them as "beautiful"? This has given me the idea. Perhaps, most of us think in a different point of view. While most people think as they were those people in the paintings who experience those disasters, I tend to think the other way, as the person who sees the painting as a whole. For me, i'd say that all things are indeed beautiful, including the disasters, and everything. In fact, life is beautiful. Perhaps some of you would say "nonsense! you're not the one who experience those mishaps" But really, i'd now tend to see things as if i were another person viewing the painting, even if i'm suffering from any miseries right now. Well..if i were asked what makes that beautiful, i'd have no answer. For me, it's simply life itself which is beautiful. The constant flow of time..we can imagine our lives to be a film which is being played, and we're simply following the flow. Some of us would be having a tragedy, a comedy, but all were just a drama of life. Some of us were in the "climax", some in the "anticlimax" of it. And how beautiful it is to observe and enjoy the "films". Unexpected things might happen, but it will only happen once, the film can't be rewinded. And the fact that there's a definite time in which we live in this world makes it even more beautiful. To quote what achilles said in "the troy" : he mentioned that even the gods are envious of us, mortals. Yeah, that makes some sense to me. More than what i've told u above, I also think that, it's not actually "life" that's beautiful. It's not the painting that's beautiful, but a beautiful painting talks more about the painter. Similarly, it's not our life that's beautiful. I'm not saying that it's not, but my point is, that the Designer of our llives are beautiful! God is beautiful! Now, if anyone of us would say that something is beautiful, say a particular song is beautiful, or anything, picture yourself as a character in a painting, saying that some object in the painting is beautiful. Here it becomes clear. You're actually praising not the object in the painting, but the painter. It's the heart of the painter that creates everything. His emotions are the starting point of everything, and we're here to enjoy everything, and just following the flow....

Science vs Religion : End of the debate.

At first glance, science and religion may seem to be in contradiction with one another. While science has been produced systematically through facts and experiments, religion on the other hand simply based on faith. Today, the gap between science and religion has become much more wider. More people are starting to depend themselves fully on human achievements, and they ignored religion. Theories are developed by great thinkers to explain "alternative" ways in explaining the "unexplainable", such as "how does universe started at the very beginning?" or "where do humans came from?". The purpose of this article is to clear this confusions for those who asked themselves "which one to choose?"
Ecclesiastes 1:13-15 :
'I devoted myself to study and explore by wisdom all that is done under heaven. What a heavy burden God has laid on men! I have seen all the things that are done under the sun; all of them are meaningless, a chasing after the wind. What is twisted cannot be straightened; what is lacking cannot be counted.'
Now, compare the above quote from the Bible with our situation right now. Many scientists are struggling with the "unification" of sciences, that is, to unify the 4 forces and therefore reveal the truth, the origin of universe itself. Superstring theory that has been claimed can unify quantum mechanics and relativity has been established, despite no one so far has been able to prove it due to the complexity of the calculations, and the lack to obtain physical evidences to the theory. The theory also predicts that the unification of all forces occurs at the Planck energy, or 10E19 billion electron volts, in which there is not enough money on earth from all countries combined together to generate this astronomical power. Conclusion? A dead-end.
Some people also rely themselves on the Big Bang theory that they think may explain the creation of the universe. Well, for this particular issue, they too, have made a fatal mistake. They predicted that there is no God since Big Bang theory explains everything, but they failed to realise how do "organisms" started to exists, in which the answer can be found on religion. An attempt to think that the Big Bang occurs by itself is also a false way of thinking, since no one can explain what happened before the Big Bang. About the existence of organisms, scientists has now been working on the field called abiogenesis. ( http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/abioprob/abioprob.html#Globule ) Even if they succeeded (suppose), what is there to explain the creation? Remember that long long ago when first organisms were "created", all the chemistry involved would be by chance, not by specifically controlled reaction in labs such as we would have today, and the probability of such specific reactions to take place would be diminished until it vanishes. Maybe humans can make bacteria one day, but whatever it is, there's no way they can make a multilevel organisms, particularly humans, which is required if they were to disprove religion. If they claim they can make bacteria and they say that religion has been disproved, then perhaps the mistake is in their own understandings. The Bible only says that God first created organisms, but doesn't say that we, people, can't create simple organisms. Maybe the Creationists might want to think this way. Finally, whatever the outcome, there's certainly no way for us , still, to create multilevel organisms, especially human. Here is another dead-end.
The celebrated Darwin's theory of evolution which has been thought to explain the origin of humans also encounters a dead end, in which there is still a "missing link" that no fossil of intermediate stage between human and apes has been found. Again, another dead-end.
So far, perhaps the existence of science is only to prove the Bible right, that all scientific attempts are meaningless. If you were saying that you refuse religion as there's no proof, then why don't you rather say that you believe it since you can't disprove it? Actually, there's proof to religion. What we see today in fact is the proof. Another proof, perhaps, unlike science, is an unseen one, and lies inside the religion itself. It's simply psychological, emotional, you know it by yourself. All in all, arrogant people are those who think that they know everything when they doesn't.
Here's a useful analogy :
Imagine we were once transported to an unknown place, that seems like a maze in which we don't understand anything about that particular place. We has been living there for so long, and do our own "experiments" in exploring the place. However, so far we had not found our way out of the maze. With us, we were given a book, a book that explains everything, and even the way out from the maze, but we refused to believe it as we had been so familiar as we have explored all the possible ways out of the maze. But still, we can't disprove the book yet since what the book says about truth is different from ours. Then, would we simply ignore the book given to us? The only way is to "read and try" it, am i right?

Ghosts

Ever heard claims that some people can actually see the supranatural? For those who can't see, well, you may treat this issue in 2 ways. You may say "I don't believe, there's no evidence" or "I believe". However, both are assumptions and may or may not be true, in which we never know the answer. Whichever the truth, one side may hold knowledge, while the other may just cause a waste of time of considering the useless information. For those who can really see, you might want to help me in my investigation, as personally i can't see those kind of things.
Based on my thoughts, what those people see as "ghosts" can be interpreted as 2 beings. First, souls of the dead. Second, the devil in disguise. Whichever the case, both gives us advantages. If it was really souls of the dead, then what we see is actually not fantastic anymore. It's part of nature, and it may be explained by science investigations. Sadly, scientists had rare encounters regarding such events and there's hardly a clue. However, then we can infer that not all dead people would become ghosts, as if it is the case, then those people who can really see the dead would see these spirits flocking the streets, as people who already dead are numerous. Ghosts they saw, therefore, must have a link, similar backgrounds on why they actually became ghosts that we see. You might want to investigate.
Personally, I think that the second case might be the truth. The devil itself disguises as spirits. The Bible reveals that spirits of the dead were already "transported" to heaven or hell. Will there be an error? a not yet "transported" spirit? From my point of view, it's certainly the devil. Those people who wanted to obtain supranatural powers, they respect the dead. They bow to their grave. Then they can perform supranatural powers which also, amazingly, came in physical contact! If the dead were to be the culprits, they surely creates havoc since they already have access to the physical world! (This might caught the interests of physicists, as it violates the conservation of energy theorem. If we move a thing, chemical energy is converted to mechanical. What about supranaturals? Energy created out of nothing? Could it be the clue to dark energy, that dark energy comes from higher dimensions?) The devil, in other way, promises power to those who bows to them, who consider them as "God".
Investigating the occult, if it leads to the conclusion that the devil is the culprit, may also reveals about religion. However, we may not assume that devils can't disguise. They can disguise into "Gods" or supranatural beings, or devils in human fantasies, other religions etc thereby distorting our conclusions about religion.
This is just a story, and it's trueness you might want to question. But one person whom I know, claimed that she can see "ghosts", and after she goes to church, and became a Christian, she no longer have that ability. Here, I tend to think that if what she said was true, then the "ghosts" appeared in people visions are actually "devil" as devil has something to do with religion, for certain.
Another vague piece of evidence, I thought. We know that modern people seemed to have less belief in such things, simply because they have less encounter of such events. Why does it so? I think it's because spirits were actually "afraid" that truth about higher dimensions might be revealed as it may bring a clue to religion. If people believe in religion, then they would bow to God, not the devil.
Conclusion? Well, that the truth is still a question mark (good job by the devil for keeping the secrets until today, but i won't give up)
(For we who can't see ghosts, are we supposed to be afraid that someday we will encounter the supranatural? No, why? Fear of the supranatural is somewhat similar to fear of death. Before the death itself, in this case, before the encounter itself, the fear becomes meaningless, it haunts us when actually the truth is still unquestionable)

The Theory of Assumptions

The reason why I write this article is because I had noticed that many people have developed wrong concepts, where they confused themselves between facts and assumptions. Well, at first glance, this seems an easy task, but in reality, many people had failed in distinguishing the two.
This is my philosophy, which is derived from my own thoughts, that we must first learn about how notice assumptions before we conclude upon anything. The assumptions we had noticed, however, should be valid. It is particularly useful in investigations of anything. Simply by noticing assumptions, we may end up to a true conclusion. Take the ancient theory which claims that earth is flat for example. Ancient people's thoughts that time were simply based on assumptions. Assumptions on what? Assumption that if world is round, then the water will "pour down" and eventually no water is left? Assumption that there is no gravity? Assumption that there cannot be such a conceivably huge sphere? Assumption that what they think is right? -> the common assumption people have till today They have no facts that can support their arguments. Perhaps those who can think out of the box by noticing assumptions were those who succeeded in proving that earth is round. Those are people who return to fundamental concepts, assessing them thoroughly and questioning basic ideas that had seeped in other people's thoughts as facts and no longer an assumption.
First, let's discuss about the source of assumptions. The most common source of assumptions are opinions, be it made by us or by people around us. Opinions are rather unconvincing, its true value can't be determined and unlike facts, which is 100% true. To distinguish between opinions and facts is unquestionably an easy task, but when it goes to assumptions, what happened is that there is tendency for us to think that something goes this way, or that way. Our psychology is affected by the overflow of "wrong" ideas in our society that blinds our concepts. Here, I provide magic acts for example. Do you believe that a magic is based on "tricks" or is it by "supranatural"? Some people say tricks. Perhaps they had seen some simple magic that uses tricks, and the trick was made known to them. Here, they made an assumption, called inductive assumption, that since 1 magic they know was performed by trick, then all magics should have their tricks. Well, I'm not saying that all magic does not have a trick, it's just that, well, who knows, that magicians who performed unusual tricks actually can manipulate the supranatural powers, or perform tricks in the hyperspace. How do people who not yet went and study in a magic school, have any idea about an oath that magicians can't tell the secrets that there are actually magic that uses supranatural powers?We have simply no idea.
The theory of assumptions, as i suggested, is not a theory based on something technical. It's something that have to do with philosophy, the way we think. My idea was to combine science and history. We use science to investigate things, and how we come up to a conclusion, we may look to historical examples. In other words, questions that we have to answer are like "How are we supposed to think such that, in we live in the ancient times, we belonged to those who think that the earth may not be flat?" "How are we supposed to think that earth is not the centre of the universe?" . If we made such careful steps, I believe, the controversies in science can be solved, such as the contradiction between the quantum mechanics and special relativity. Perhaps we may question the theories we had earlier. Something basic, that everyone may not think that it actually holds the answer to the everything, and was the last piece of evidence to complete the whole puzzle.
Perhaps 2 last advices from me, remember that probability of something can't be neglected. Any assumptions were possible to a certain probability until a fact is established. Second, if what you do follows right logical steps, trust yourself. As in a chess game, dont assume you must be falling into a trap when you see what looks like a good move.
(Extra) Some common assumptions :
-God is created by men, there's no God
-All religions are only to teach us to be good
-There's no such thing as hyperspace
-(In magic) There's no way he can do this

Critics of "The Bible Code"

"The Bible Code" is a book that says that there are encryptions contained in The Bible. It's dealing with the Bible in its original Greek language as an object of cryptology. The encryptions may be in the form of hidden words or sentences, and is read by either reading the Greek alphabets by leaving uniform spaces, like reading "abcdefg" as "aceg" (1 spacing) or "abcdefghij" as "adgj" (2 spacings), or by reading the alphabets either vertically or diagonally (like in crossword puzzle) in the context. The informations said to be contained in The Bible by reading those encryptions are said to be "shocking", as the informations contain historical records in it. The name "Newton", is found, by encryption, adjacent to the word "gravity". The name "Einstein", is found, near the word "relativity". There are so many shocking evidences! The World Trace Center 9/11 event and the case of murder of John F Kennedy are also said to be mentioned in the Bible. Well, the question is, is it a coincidence? The author may insist that it is not a coincidence, as the probability of finding such things, if it is not a coincindence, is extremely small! However, there are some things that still baffled me and thus I still say that it is a coincidence and I don't believe that the Bible contain such things. Here are my points :
First, how do you assume that The Bible contain such things? Because it is the "Book of Truth"? because it is the "Revelation of God" itself? Actually, you've made a fatal mistake! Yes, what if it is the "Revelation of God"? So far, i've learnt that the authors of The Bible is inspired by God, but God does not have it ready word-by-word for the authors to copy! For it to contain encrypted messages, it's choices of vocabulary must be specific. Hence, since the words are not really from God, the encrypted messages are merely gibberish!
Secondly, about the locations of where such encrypted messages are found, are simply at random. It does not show any regular pattern. And how do we know that it is not a coincidence when we found a certain name or word in it? The Bible is a very long text, and we know that the longer a text is, the higher is the probablity to find "coincidental" encrypted messages.
Thirdly, i know that the author is definitely wrong when he says that there contains an encryption saying that the world ends in 2006, when a war will occur. He adds on that we should therefore prevent this from happening by things like prevent military agression, reduce political conflicts, etc. What is this anyway? If it's a destiny, who can prevent it from happening? If we can prevent it by our actions, it's certainly not a destiny (Refer to posted message "About Horoscopes and Prophecies"). Here, it shows that the author contradicts himself and was inconsistent.

Living as a Hedonist

Hedonists are people who seeks pleasure as their priorities in life. However, is this kind of living actually acceptable? Is it rewarding? Yes from their own perception, but actually it doesn't! Why do i say so? I'll elaborate below.
Firstly, we should know our own positions. We can't deny the fact that we are here, on earth today, is not because of our own efforts! We can't deny that this life was a gift, and we have certainly no right towards our own lives! Because we understood nothing! And we do nothing, not even struggle at the start to get our lives! This may seem absurd as it contradicts the recognised basic human rights, such as right to live, right to voice opinions, etc. Well, for me, there's no such thing as the so-called human rights. What was there is that we have NO right to end other's life, NO right to restrict others from voicing there opinions, etc. We simply doesn't have any right! As an analogy, imagine that we are all beggars, and one day a person came and give us lots of money. Are we then have the right to spend that money? Practically yes, but what if the person managed to take back all the money before we even spend it? We have actually no right to insist that it is ours right? Thus, from the beginning, it's clear that we have actually no right upon that money as a gift.
If you're a religious person, then this analogy would alter a bit. You believe that God, the Creator, exist. Hence, you would not spend that money to do things not acceptable by the person who give that money to you. Thus, you would not spend your life doing things that are not acceptable according to God. This is how we should actually spend our lives on earth!
Next, let's talk about hedonism. Why do people live as hedonists? They do so to maximise their lives. There are some who "live to the fullest, since we live only once". Actually, for non-religious people who live their lives this way, you're just searching for a meaning out of the meaningless. For these people, yes, you may think that you live only once, so what? after live you'll die eternally anyway (you think). All of us are people who live in the present, and by the time, say, you were 80 years old, would you mind whether you have satisfy all your pleasures in life? I don't think so. This is like asking "Would you mind that yesterday you suffered or you were happy?"No because it was in the past! Hence, by the time you face death, it doesn't differ much! Time flies, and for these people, life's just like a dream, that it ends after a while. So would u mind that tonight you had a bad dream or a sweet dream? For me, i don't! Anyway, so far you have not even take into consideration about "What if God really exists and the religious people were actually right?"
Well, I may not know about all religions, but people from different religions must have known their consequences. In Christianity, based on the book called "Purpose Driven Life", life on earth was given a "test", a "temporary assignment" or "trust" as analogies. Life on earth is just a very small part, as we humans were made to live for eternity.

About Horoscopes and Prophecies

Many of us would believe in horoscopes or even go to prophets or soothsayers in order to see their future or determine their so called "destinies". However, think again, is it logical? are these predictions reliable? The answer is no! I have a quite strong proof to say that it is wrong.
First, let's talk about horoscopes. This thing about horoscope had caught my attention few months ago. So I started looking on articles explaining the idea behind it, and how do one obtain such predictions. Horoscopes are based on astrology. It takes account the position of planets, the moon and the sun relative to the earth. To determine one's horoscope, an astrologer must obtain information about the positions of the planets, moon and sun relative to the earth during the time he was born. Then this is drawn in a complicated, circular graph, with the earth at the centre. Then, to see that person's horoscope in a particular time, the astrologer must obtain another information, about the positions of planets, moon and the sun on that particular time. Not to mention any detailed process, people who "make" horoscopes are certainly making something based on the ancient theory that was proven false! That earth was the centre of universe! Now, how can, anything, that was based on something false, turned out to be true or even reliable? This is illogical! It's like doing arithmetic when our basic of 1+1=3, which is impossible! Another point is that, horoscopes that we see like on weekly bulletin are not accurate since it made generalisations. How is it possible that, say, all people of the same zodiacs in the world would experience the same thing like said in the horoscope. Probability-wise, this is very very very risky.

Now, about prophecies. I've heard people going to prophets to see when will they attain success in life, when will they die, and so on. Before we proceed, notice that we have made an assumption, that we believe in destiny, and there is only one destiny for a person, and this can't be changed! Thus, what the prophet say is true and will happen no matter what, otherwise, what point is it to come to the prophet if our actions could itself determine our own destinies?
Now, you may say that "yeah, I believe in 1 destiny that can't be changed, and that the prophet can tell me my destiny, and everything he said is right and can't be avoided no matter what". Okay, but consider one case : suppose the prophet tells you about the time, place of your death. This means you can't die before and after that time, and must die in the destined place. But now since we know, we can make the predictions wrong, isn't it right? Suppose the prophet says that a certain person would die 15 years from then. However, that person may commit suicide (well, it's actually practicable, but not practical of course) to prove that the prophet is wrong. The person may also go to another place so far away to avoid the destined place. There's a contradiction in here. Thus, this proofs that prophecy is, like horoscopes, unreliable. To add on, our destinies that encompasses our actions can't actually be told. Example is like if we're told beforehand that we're gonna eat or do something this evening. If we're told, then practically we are still able to change our "destinies". What is called destiny, is what can't be changed, such as the fact that we live in this earth, or the judgement day. That's destiny!