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What Is Right Or Wrong?

2016-07-17T11:00:00.002+08:00

Does right or wrong exist at the first place? It exists simply because of one's perception. If majorities perceive it is right, then it is right and otherwise. What is right today often being proven wrong in future and this moves on. This has been explained because everything is looping. When everything is looping, the is no right or wrong. What is right is also what is wrong and vice-versa. However, when you do a snapshot of the current state in a system, then you have the right or wrong...

Right or Wrong is a Perceptive Snapshot of the Current State in a System

What Is Emptiness?

2016-03-12T20:03:00.000+08:00

Emptiness is a state of empty which is believed to be a state of "highest level" of enlightenment. However, because of everything is looping, do you really think this level exists? Definitely no, there is no highest level of enlightenment. If there is, you're probably looking at it from a inner system.

Emptiness Is Just Another State Of Enlightenment

Is Timeline Of Religion Important?

2014-12-20T13:59:00.000+08:00

Recently I visited a Jewish Museum in Sydney what interested me the most is I saw a chart basically stating timeline of religion being recorded in the history. After came back from the visit, I tried to Google it to find out which religion comes first. Then I figured out some religions are possibly derived from another. But wait, is that important all?

No, Timeline of Religion is NOT Important

After a while, I figured out it is not important at all. In fact, it is totally irrelevant. Who comes first is not important at all. The reason is basically we're in the looping system - everything is looping. When everything is in looping, whoever comes first is irrelevant. You may appear to come first but in fact you come later. In fact, you can be both!

The next question to ask is which one is the truth? Which religion is closer to the truth? This actually has been answered by my previous post - which religion is right?

Let's assuming there is a ultimate truth, who is closer to the truth is not religion dependent, it is in fact very personal dependent. It depends on the person, not religion. If there is a ranking system to rank how close a person to the ultimate truth, the first place could be a Muslim, the second place could be a Christian and third place could a Buddhist and vice-versa. It doesn't really matter actually.

However, if you're thinking closer to the ultimate truth is religion dependent, then you're probably stuck - maybe most people are? Furthermore, the ultimate truth is NOT out there. :)

Merry Christmas and happy new year!

What is Enlightenment?

2014-06-28T18:27:00.000+08:00

In religion especially for Hinduism and Buddhism, enlightenment basically means you have reached the highest level of awareness or in other word you have gone to a place called "Nirvana". This nirvana is the ultimate place but I have a slightly different opinion than this.

Many people misunderstand the enlightenment is generic but it is not. It is very much very specific to a person depends on how he or she perceives the system that he or she is living in. Let's read this is post: what exactly is the system? to get an idea what system that I mean here.

Let's assume there is an ant living on earth. Does he know that the earth is round and rotating itself? He doesn't know but when he knows one day, it is called enlightenment but is it ultimate? No, because one day he may find out the earth is rotating around the sun and he is enlighten again. In other word, he has gone to a higher level system.

It is very similar to "Nirvana" which is defined or perceived by human. Nirvana to the ant is understanding the earth is round and rotating itself. To human's nirvana, it is something else. To you maybe is another thing. That's why enlightenment is very specific to a person.

To make it slightly confusing, one cannot be considered as enlightenment if he still can't define the milestones in the system where he came from. If he can't, he is not enlightened yet, it also means he has not "fully" understand the system yet. See this previous post: who define the milestones?

So, what is Enlightenment?

Enlightenment is State of Fully Understand a System

What is Ghost? Is Ghost Real?

2013-07-06T13:32:00.000+08:00

Ghost is you after you die. So you die, then you become a ghost. See my following old post which explains that ghost is simply the next milestones that you move to after your death.

What Happen After Death?

Ghost is the next Milestone After Your Death

So, is ghost real? Of course, it is real because it is always there. After you die, you just move on and you don't stop there because that is how the entire universe or system works. Although it is always there, it doesn't mean you can communicate to them. Some who are able to communicate or believe the ghost is there, then ghost is real to them and vice-verse.

The reason why we can't communicate to them is their energies after death are scattered around, they are not concentrated. In other words, they don't move to just one milestones but multiple milestones. This is something new as I haven't explained this multiple milestones concept before. :) In reality, it is always multiple milestones, the single milestone is used to explain thing in a easier way.

If you look at a microscopic world, we all made up by energy (quantum physics). Imagine 100% of energy that makes up who you are and when you die, what will happen to these energies? They just spread out to different forms of energy. For instant, if it spreads to 10 X 10%, then you're hard to be detected after your death. On the other hand, if it spreads to 90% + 10%, the 90% which makes you can be easily detectable as compared to 10 X 10% spread. That's why you see those haunted places are usually due to those unpeaceful death because their energies are concentrated after death.

So now back to the question, is ghost real? I'm making assuming real is something that we can feel or communicate to. Then, I think:

Ghost Is Real If It's Energy Is Not Scattered Around

Hope it does make sense! Do comment if you believe in ghost or not. :)

Is There a Scientific Explanation of Our Origin?

2012-10-29T17:47:00.000+08:00

Where did we come from? A big bang? Where did the "Big Bang" come from? Who created the "Big Bang" at the first place? A super intelligent creator? Well, this video - "The God Within" by Mike Adams is the best summary of all scientific explanations of our origin of universe that I have watched so far. Let's check it out! It is quite a lengthy video...

Unfortunately after you've watched this video, you will still do not get the answer. The origin has been suggested as "Nothing", "Spontaneous Creation", "Dark Matter" or whatever theories that come up with, it still leaves with a very big question mark, where does the origin came from?

However, all those scientific explanations and experiments only tell you one thing which is the answer is from within. It is in fact has been proven scientifically that "no microscopic property is a property until it is is an observed property"! Thus it concludes that you're part of the universe and you can make changes to universe. The reality is our own reflections in other words, our reality is an illusion.

An interesting experiment shows that electrons are particle when they are observed or else they are waves. Huh? Why is this so? Welcome to the Quantum Physics! Let's watch this video if you want to find out more. Yes, another lengthy video but you won't regret to finish it...

The conclusion of all these scientific explanation is you don't need to look externally to search for the origin but rather by understanding or knowing yourself, then you know what is the origin. That why's "the God is within" and this aligns of many meditation concepts and philosophy where focusing on consciousness and enlightenment which is also very similar to Buddhism teaching.

So now back the question, is there a scientific explanation of our origin? Honestly, the answer is

No, Because Explaining Our Origin Is Beyond Our Science

You may ask why is it so? Why our science cannot explain our origin? Well the answer is pretty simple too if you follow this blog closely enough. I'm sorry, it is not God. God is just one of the origins where HE has the origin too. So, the ultimate answer is

The Origin of Universe Does NOT Exist, Because Everything Is Looping.

If everything is at looping, there is no starting and ending points. If there is no starting point, there is no origin. The origin of universe does not exist at all. :) If it doesn't exist, how science can prove it? It is as simple as that. Do you agree?

What is Buddhism?

2012-06-16T15:19:00.000+08:00

In my previous posts, I specifically talked about these 2 facts or maybe I should just call them my opinions:

So, why? Why Buddhism is not a religion? Why ultimate Buddhism is a a free thinking? This is all because the main teaching of Buddhism is about one thing - "realization". Other words, you may call it awareness or enlightenment.You can look at my previous comment here for replying to one of the readers who questioned that isn't that Buddhism a belief too because they believe in Karma? Well, it is not. If you understand Buddhism as a belief, then you understand it wrongly. Let's read again on my previous comment from the link above. :)

It is All from Within

The most important element of Buddhism is about realization and it must be from within and not from external which means that you realize or aware of something by your own but not because of someone tells you something and you just believe in it. For example, a Buddhist teaches you about Karma concept. Is it the truth? No one knows in reality. Buddhism will ask you to figure the answer out by yourself. It seems to be a truth is because more than one person who can able to discover the same fact but ultimately still you have to discover that by your own. What other people discovered is only as a reference for you regardless of who those people are (even if they're your Buddhist teacher!) :)

So clearly with such teaching philosophy, isn't that Buddhism a free thinking philosophy? You're basically free to think whatever that you want. It is not belief too since most religions are about belief. Buddhism does not force you to believe in something. They only share with you what they know. Whenever Buddhism tells you something, it is meant for reference and you're not suppose to believe it without doing any homework. So, it is a religion? That obviously is not a religion right in my opinion.

Hope that makes sense so far, and I summary what Buddhism is about as follow:

Buddhism is a Philosophy to teach you how to Find Your Answer by Your Own

Agree?

Does Any Movie Explain the Concept of Looping?

2012-04-28T21:15:00.000+08:00

Someone asked me this question whether there is any movie out there that explains the concept of looping that I mentioned in my blog. In fact, yes there is one and it is one of the best movie that I have ever watched other than “The Matrix”. The movie is called:

“Triangle”

Not a new movie, this movie was released in 2009. I’m surprise why this movie is not well known enough. I guess you have not heard about it too, right? It is basically undervalued in my opinion. I will say this is the marketing fault. So now you know it, please watch this movie and I’m sure you won’t regret. You may also need to watch it few times to understand what exactly is happening and yet I guarantee you may still confused after that.

This movie was directed and wrote by Christopher Smith with the key main actress, Melissa George. You can check out more information here.

I also found a full movie in YouTube (see below) but I”m not sure the copyright issue. Anyhow, I encourage you to buy the original DVD because it is a good movie for collection too.

What so amazing about this “Triangle” movie?

It explains the “concept of looping” that I mentioned in my blog. The movie doesn’t just show single loop but it shows loop within loop and also outer loop. Most of us experience only single loop because we haven’t never gone out of that loop. Who know if we shorten our loop path and look at that from higher level, we may experience what Jess (the main actress in the movie) experienced in the movie?

It is totally unexpected. You will not know “exactly” what is going on until you watch until the middle of the movie. Even after that, you still do not know what is going on until you watch it until the end. If at the end, you may thought you understand but in fact you may not. Watch it few times then you will know what I mean here.

Every actions, every words and every scenes in the movie mean something. There is a reason for all those actions,scenes or whoever just says something but you may not even realize it until the end of the movie or you watch it again and again. I salute the writer of this movie. He is really awesome!

What do you think of this movie? Let share your comment...

Do Hell and Heaven Exist?

2012-01-08T19:26:00.001+08:00

The answers to these 2 questions subject to the Hell and Heaven's definition. Let's look the definitions of hell and heaven that I get from a dictionary:

Hell's Definition

The world of the dead where you're being punished and suffer.

My take: A place of the dead? Hmm... why must be a place of the dead? To me a hell is simply a suffering condition and not really a place technically. This means it doesn't matter where you're, as long as you're in suffering, you're in hell. If we have to find a place to define hell, earth is the best place because most of us are suffering in some ways or another. Too bad, you are already in hell! :) lol

Heaven's Definition

A place beyond the sky with great happiness, delight, or pleasure

My take: A place beyond the sky? Why must beyond the sky? It is not necessary and it could be anywhere. Just like hell, a heaven is not place but is a condition that make you feel like a place. Great happiness, delight and pleasure, where you can get those? It is all within you. If we have to find a place to define heaven, sorry no one has the answer. Some religions called this place a "Nirvana" but it merely another definition like "Heaven".

So, do hell and heaven exist?

Yes but not necessary the hell or heaven is a place, it could be just a condition.

By the way, when you're Hell doesn't mean you will be forever in Hell. Same to when you're in Heaven, will you be forever in Heaven? No, the suffer and happiness will end and restart. When the suffer restarts, it could be no longer suffer. When the happiness restarts, it could be no longer happiness. Everything is looping, remember?

P/S: After death, we move to another milestone but it is not necessary a hell or heaven. It could be something else and it doesn't really matter because it is merely just another milestones.

What Happens After Death?

2011-09-17T14:17:00.001+08:00

Different religions have different answer to such question or perhaps different free thinkers have different answers for that questions as well. What really confuse you now is "If everyone has a different answers, how could all religions are the right one?" Interesting isn't it? But I will cover that next after I answer this question from my free thinking perspective. Let's see how I answer this question.

In order to answer this question, I need to recap of my previous posts or articles. Let's do a recap here. The first thing you want to know about death is life. What is life? Life by majority of definition is "Anything That Can Breathe". When the life is stop breathing, it is called "Death". Is this your death definition? If yes, you can read on. If no, this article doesn't answer that. You need to let me know what is your definition of death then so that I can give you a better explanation.

In fact strictly speaking, there is no death at all especially if you look beyond human's perspective. This is because life is anything that can move by its own and it is always in progress state. So, there is no death at all. However, if your death here is meant by human death, then that is called milestone in the entire system. So after this milestone, where do you go? This answers what happens after death...

"After Death, You Move On to Another Milestone"

So now this "Another Milestone" is the thing to argue here because that is where the religions out there define their own "Another Milestone". So what is this exactly the "Another Milestone"? What is the truth? Well, if all religions are right, what do you think is the answer? Yes, all milestones are right one too. There is nothing to argue about. The most important that you want to understand is after death, you're basically moving to another milestone. We can discuss more about this "another milestone" in the next topic especially you do not satisfy with this answer. :)

P/S: Disagree with me? I love your disagreement and I appreciate you can also comment here to share your thought. :)

Which Religion is Right?

2011-06-26T13:56:00.001+08:00

Most of the religions always think they are the right one and deny other religions. For instance, from a Christian perspective, if you believe in Christianity, you will have a chance to go to Heaven but if you DON”T, you are basically 100% guarantee going to the hell. So all non-believers of Christianity will eventually go to hell and suffer there.

To make it a little bit complex here, even not all Christians have a chance to Heaven too because there are 2 big gangs of Christianity. The first one is called (1) Catholic and the second one is called (2) Protestant. Basically one denies another and vice-versa. What it means here is according to Catholic, Protestant will be 100% guarantee to go hell afterlife and on the hand according to Protestant it is the other way round. Okay, now you TOTALLY CONFUSED! Which one is the RIGHT ONE?

Can you see the problem here? If you follow either one of them, you have chances to follow the wrong one. Then how do you know you’re following the right one? Unfortunately no one can give you that answer except for yourself. So you make your own choose and decide which one is the right one. Does this sound familiar with you? That is in fact what I call “Free Thinking” philosophy which is you have the freedom to choose! At the end, the decision is all up to you…

Well, you may still do not satisfy because you’re looking the ultimate right religion for you! Okay, let me ask you this. Do you think most of the religions out there now is meant for the good? If your answer is yes, what do you think of the ultimate right religion for you? Yes you got it, every religion is the right religion! All the religions are the right one. The only thing that probably makes them the not so right is they deny the rest.

So now you start wondering is there any religion that do NOT deny the rest? Well, there is ONE and that religion is called “Buddhism” - well strictly speaking, Buddhism is NOT a religion as I mentioned in my previous post. The reason why Buddhism doesn’t reject or deny other religions is because in Buddhism’s perspective, everyone of us is “Buddha” regardless of what religion you are. Whether you’re Christian or Muslim, you’re eventually moving towards the same direction.

If you hear any Buddhist deny other religions or said the teaching in other religions is wrong, he is probably do NOT fully understand the Buddhism or perhaps haven’t reach the 100% understanding of Buddhism. I do not surprise if you hear that because too many Buddhists out there do NOT know know what Buddhism is really about.

Well, back to the original question of this post. Which religion is the right one? Well, what do you think? Buddhism? Perhaps you may not understand what I have said so far, here you go my answer to this question:

All religions are the right one.

Note: Let me give a quick high-level explanation of the terminology being used here just in case you don’t know them:

Judgement Day – This is the day “God” judge you whether you should go to Hell or Heaven.
Hell – A place that you’re being punished for all the sin that you have. Basically you will be suffering here!
Heaven - A very peaceful place. There won’t be any suffering here.

Is Buddhism a Religion?

2011-03-20T14:42:00.000+08:00

This question may be raised especially when you start knowing or researching in Buddhism – Is Buddhism really a religion? Well, let me ask you this. Does that really a matter to you? Isn’t all that based on your definition of “religion”?

Alright it does matter to you and you insist want to you know the answer, then let me ask you this question.

Is freethinking a religion?

If your answer is yes, then Buddhism is a religion. If your answer is no, then Buddhism is NOT a religion. This is only true if you 100% understand what Buddhism is all about.

Human has already defined Buddhism is a religion and freethinking or freethought is NOT a religion. You can just check it out the definition of religion and freethinking by wikipedia. Let’s set this as baseline of our discussion. The confusion happens when you start getting closer to understand the Buddhism, then you soon realize that Buddhism in fact is a free thinking philosophy.

Can you see the contradiction here? Buddhism is a religion but it is also a freethinking philosophy (after you fully understand what Buddhism is about). However, freethinking is NOT a religion. So, what is Buddhism now?

Well, this goes back to the people who define Buddhism as religion because they do NOT think Buddhism is a freethinking philosophy but it is. This is due to lack of understanding about Buddhism concept when this definition is defined.

Thus, technically speaking Buddhism is NOT a religion if you 100% understand what Buddhism is about. So my answer to this question is:

"No, Buddhism is not a religion"

P/S: This is only assuming freethinking or freethought is not a religion which is the common understanding. :D

[Update: June 16, 2012]: What is Buddhism?

Is Buddhist a Free Thinker?

2010-12-27T14:35:00.001+08:00

You come into this question and probably you’re confused with the teaching of Buddhism because one of the very basic fundamental of Buddhism teaching is “Freedom to think freely and to understand the truth”. So does that mean a Buddhist or someone who practice Buddhism is a free thinker? Theoretical yes, but majority of Buddhists out there are not a free thinker because they think they’re Buddhist and not a free thinker. Thus, there are not a Free Thinker.

If you completely understand the concept of Buddhism which is what I mean here – 100% Buddhism, you will realise that 100% pure Buddhist is actually a free thinker. Buddhist has the complete freedom to choose and think freely to understand the truth and this is exactly what I mean by the definition of free thinker. Is Buddhist a free thinker?

Yes ONLY if the Buddhist is 100% Buddhism.

The answer will be “No”, if the Buddhist is <100% Buddhism. Most Buddhists will probably disagree with me but again this is just my opinion or at least my understanding or my interpretation of Buddhism. I welcome you to comment if you disagree with me and I'm happy to hear your opinion.

Here you go probably a sensitive statement that I’m going to made is:

“All free thinkers are actually Buddhist but not all Buddhists are free thinker”

Most Buddhist will probably think that free thinker and Buddhism are 2 separate entities that are similar but not exactly the same – “if you’re a free thinker, Buddhism is probably the best religion for you.” But soon you will realized when you fully understand the Buddhism concept, it leads you back to a free thinker. Loop again…

p/s: If you’re a Buddhist here, let me know your thought on this article. What do you think?

[Update: June 16, 2012]: What is Buddhism?

Is Free Thinker an Atheist?

2010-11-14T16:31:00.000+08:00

While I was chatting with with a Christian friend, she asked me that what religion I”m. I basically told her that I do not have any religion, and I’m free thinker. Here you go the conversation between us:

Friend X: You’re then Atheist.
Me: Not exactly. I”m a free thinker.
Friend X: Do you believe in God?
Me: Yes, I do. I think the answer is no based on your definition of God.
Friend X: Huh?
Me: Hmm… I think you can just say I don’t believe in God then.
Friend X: I see. So you’re an Atheist.
Me: Am I? Not exactly. I think I’m still a free thinker. :)

By definition, Atheist is someone who does NOT believe in God. Okay, this sounds pretty clear. But let’s look at the definition of free thinker which I found in dictionary (source: wordweb) which stated free thinker is:

A person who believes that God created the universe and then abandoned it.
Someone who does not hold many accepted opinions or beliefs.

Huh? I think these definitions of free thinker is “WRONG” or maybe I should say it is NOT completely “RIGHT”. I think a person who believes or NOT believe in God could be a free thinker. A person who does or doest NOT hold any beliefs could be a free thinker too. This is because the definition of the “Free Thinker” is:

A person who has complete freedom to choose whatever they would like to think.

In others words, a free thinker can choose whatever they want to believe and they aware of the choice they made. The “Complete Freedom to Choose” is the key here. So, is free thinker an Atheist? There answer is “No”. Is Atheist a free thinker? The answer is “Perhaps Yes” !!!!

Why I said “Perhaps Yes”?

If you’re an Atheist and you do not have the complete freedom to choose, you’re NOT an free thinker. However, if you fully aware that you choose to be Atheist, then you can consider yourself as free thinker. This may sounds confusing but let me ask you another question. If you’re an Atheist, would you believe in God if I can prove HIS existence to you? If your answer is YES, you’re a free thinker. If your answer is NO, you’re not a free thinker. You’re an Atheist. I hope this clears up everything.

Similarly if you’re Christian or Muslim, you could be a free thinker too if you believe you still have choice to choose whatever you want to believe. I know this is a little bit sensitive here but this is my opinion on free thinker. So now back to this question of: "Is Free Thinker an Atheist?"

“No, Free Thinker is NOT an Atheist but Atheist could be a Free Thinker”.

Does this make sense to you?

What Exactly is Everything?

2010-10-23T16:07:00.000+08:00

If you follow my blog close enough or even if you don’t, you can start reading it now and you will eventually end up with this question: “What is Everything”? You maybe confused but let me try to explain but let’s look at what has been discussed so far.

Summary of My Previous Posts

Everything has life and life is anything that can move by its own. Therefore, our universe is always in progress state which also means there is no beginning and no ending in our entire universe. Due to the fact that the universe has no ending and no beginning, it always in progress to infinite milestones which are defined by the system and the system is everything.

So by now you may realized that I started with “Everything” and it ends up with also “Everything”. So what exactly is EVERYTHING? You should have the best guess by now:

Everything is Looping

Let’s look at every life or any object that move by its own, how they move? They in fact all move in a loop. This is no exception to electron, earth and sun and so on all the way to the higher or lower of the system. Looping is the key no matter what perspective you’re looking at it. This also explains why “Deja Vu” happens and why people can predict the future. The reason is they have been in the loop before and they have gone through the path that they may aware or may not aware of it at all.

One very interesting thing here is, are they going to the same loop again and again? Not exactly! This is because the entire loop is looping too. When you start at point A then B, C, D and back to A (i.e. A->B->C->D->A). You seem to be back to A but not exactly because the entire loop (i.e. A->B->C->D) is just part of another loop system. You back to the point A and this point A may look exactly the same with your previous point A but it is NOT.

Let’s look at the diagram above and see if you can get it (Sorry, I lazy to draw myself and I used this electron diagram to illustrate this and hopefully you can get it). As you can see, while the electron (BLUE) is moving around the nucleus (RED), both of them are also in fact are moving too in one direction. So when the electron back to the point A where it started, it is technically not exactly the same place although it looks exactly the same place within the electron's perspective or worldview.

Therefore it leads to another very interesting conclusion is:

We Think We Are that We Are Not!

What is the definition of GOD?

2010-08-28T19:49:00.003+08:00

In my previous post, I talked about God does exist only when we look at him from a perspective that within a specific system. So now it lead to a question: What is God? What is definition of God? In my opinion, I think GOD is...

A living object within a SYSTEM that has Full Control over another System

He is still a living object because everything has life (of course, God has no exception too). Please keep in mind that God is till within the system which He has no full control over it. He is still within a system that consist of full of milestones that He will still need to go though and these milestones are defined by the upper system.

You may be confused that I mentioned God has "Full Control" over another system which could also mean that God defines the milestones in the system that he has the control. So now the question is, does God or System define the milestones?

If you look at from the perspective of a system that God has full control over it, God is the one defines all the milestones. However, if you look at this from the perspective of the entire universe which consist of all kind very complex nested of systems, all these milestones are defined by the higher-level of system. God is just part of the entire system. Therefore if you look from the higher perspective, it is the system that defines the milestones NOT exactly the God.

Disagree with me?

So now you may argue this is the "Chicken and Egg" problem. What is the different of saying the SYSTEM or the GOD to define everything! In my story, I just replace "God" with a "System" - Did I? I think this is really good question as also brought up by Michael Tsen in our previous discussion that I'm in fact going "NO WHERE" in the discussion. Also another comment: It doesn't matter anymore if all these things are about "Perspective".

First of all, all religion or philosophy topics will eventually lead to the "Chicken and Egg" problem. Don't you think so? To stop that discussion, God is then created and defined as an ultimate source of creator. Since I believe there is no beginning and ending in our universe due to the fact everything is in progress (why I think so), we can't get away from the "Chicken and Egg" problems - I wouldn't say that is the problem. I agree that you may argue that the SYSTEM can also be defined by GOD. However, that doesn't really matter because what I really want to bring out is these 2 important key points:

There is NO ultimate source or ultimate ruler of our entire universe.
Our entire universe is always in the infinite progress stage.

Talking about perspective, it is also a very important concept that everyone needs to understand. Why some religions believe their own God and deny the others? Why some don't believe in God at all? Why some believe in all Gods from different religion? One may say this doesn't matter anymore if all these things are about "Perspective" and what's the point of discussion?

No matter what you do (whether you talk about religion or your daily work or your argument and discussion with someone for any topics), it is all about "Perspective" which we can't run away from. Of course this eventually will lead to a different definition too. However, does that mean there is no meaning of discussion? In my opinion, I think it is still important because we're still looking for a answer that we don't know and this is a progress too....

Discussion: What is your definition of God? Mind to share?

P/S: If God does exist, so how many Gods out there? If He is not an ultimate source, does that mean there are many Gods?

Does God Really Exist?

2010-08-08T12:39:00.002+08:00

I'm a free thinker and I'm always being asked by my friends that "Do I believe in God"? I find it difficult to answer the question especially for those who believe in God.The reason is that I believe God does exist but HE is not the ultimate source. HE is probably the ultimate source for all of us, but HE may not be ultimate source in the entire universe - I explained that in my previous article: What is the System? Therefore, to answer this question:

Yes, God Does Exist

You may argue that by the definition of "God", it is the ultimate source of everything (the entire universe). Then, my answer to that question will be No, God Does Not Exist. To a lot of people who believe in God will think that I do not believe the God because I do not believe in ultimate source. Well, I have different opinion on this. Well, I do believe the existence of God but he is not the ultimate source in the entire system. God is only the ultimate source within someone's world view or perspective. Is God the ultimate source? Yes, it is only within someone's perspective.

To argue whether there is an ultimate source out there, all back to the question whether do you think our universe is always in progress state or static? I prove that (did I?) our entire universe is always in progress, therefore I can conclude that there is no ultimate source in our entire universe. Does that make sense to you?

I'm sure many of you will disagree with me but I"m completely opened to all kinds of comments! God does exist within our world view and I don't deny the existence of God. :) So if you understand correctly what I was trying to say, it is all about perspective....

What exactly is the SYSTEM?

2010-07-17T16:30:00.004+08:00

In my previous post, I talked about system defines the milestones but what exactly is the system? Is that an universe? Is that a country? Is that a family? Is that myself? Yes, all these can be the system.

You maybe confused with what the system is but in reality the system which defines the milestones can be anything. The answer of that question is:

The System is Everything

A system can be anything, therefore everything is the system. Because system consists of list of milestones, therefore everything has their milestones too. So, who define the system that eventually defines the milestones? In reality the system is a extremely complex. Let's look at the following diagram for a simplify version of the system:

System 1 consists of milestones. These milestones are defined by System 1.
System 1 itself is a milestone that defined by System 2. Therefore system 2 defines the milestones in system 1 too.
System 2 defines it's own milestones and it also defines the shared milestones with System 3.
System 4 defines system 1, 2, & 3.

Assuming if you're in System 2, you have the control over the milestones in System 1 but you have no control over the milestone in System 2 because you're still within the system 2. However, you still can defines some of the milestones in System 3. What if you're in System 4? Does that mean you're God? Then, who defines the milestones in System 4?

Remember, everything is in progress and there is no ending and no beginning? Do you really think there is an ultimate source out there? Yes, depends on which system you're in.

Who Define the Milestones?

2010-05-15T21:39:00.003+08:00

As per discussed in my previous post that we are in progress to infinite milestones but one question that we have in mind is that "Who Define the Milestones?"

Two questions that most people have in mind are: Is it God? or Is it ourselves? You may think that a free thinker's answer will usually to be themselves and religion person's answer will usually is God. Unfortunately both are not really the answer. The answer is:

The "SYSTEM" defines the milestones.

Yes, the answer is the system. However, there are 2 very important concept here:

If you're WITHIN the system, the milestones are defined by the system.
If you're OUTSIDE of the system, the milestones within the system are defined by you. However, the milestones outside of the system are defined by another system.

You get it right that we're in fact live in a nested system and this nested system is infinite which also explains why the milestones are infinite too. Again, the basic fundamental is similar to how our universe works which is there is no ending and no beginning. So now the next question is: What is the SYSTEM? Is system here refer to the UNIVERSE?

In Progress to What and Where?

2010-05-03T14:21:00.002+08:00

If there is no beginning and no ending in your universe, where are we in progress to? We're in progress to where? Are we in progress to nowhere? Are we in progress to somewhere? Is there a destiny for every single of us?

I know probably many of you will think I"m talking crap here but if you really understand how the universe works, the ultimate answer for this question is:

"We are In Progress to Infinite Milestones"

The answer is very simple because our universe is always in the non-stop continuous process which also mean there is no beginning and no ending in this universe. It has no boundary and it is an infinite system. However, every single "LIFE" in this universe must has a purpose to somewhere and this somewhere is called the milestone which eventually leads to another milestone and so on.

So now it leads to another interesting question. Who define the milestone?

Is there a beginning in our universe?

2010-04-29T00:08:00.004+08:00

This is probably the most popular question that everyone has it in their mind and the fact is that no one really knows the answers except me. :D I'm just kidding but you can evaluate my answers whether it makes sense to you and I hope you will agree with my answer too whether our universe has the beginning. So, her you go my answer:

No, our universe does NOT have a beginning.

As I mentioned in my previous post that everything is in progress or moving in this world, so in order to prove that our universe has a beginning, we must prove that at least "SOMETHING" is "STATIC". The sad news is we're unable to prove that because every static objects eventually will be be proven wrong (which is in fact moving).

The PERSPECTIVE is a key. It really depends on which perspective you're looking at. We have seen many objects are not moving or in STATIC but if we look from another perspective, those objects are moving in reality. However, have you seen any "Moving" objects are in fact "Static" from a different perspective? The answer is clearly no. Even if the answer is yes, then you're probably looking at the perspective that similar to the "Moving" object (e.g. you're moving as the same direction and same speed with the object). This is not true because the static is only true with relative to you but not somebody else.

No matter how hard we try to prove anything that is static, it will always be proven wrong when we look at it from a higher perspective. Therefore we can conclude that if we ever can prove this universe is "STATIC" and has the beginning, it will be always proven wrong if you look at it from a higher perspective. So based on this argument, I will say ultimately our universe has no beginning and everything is in progress. This also means that our universe has NO ENDING too.

Does this make sense to you?

Can you prove our universe is in progress?

2010-04-24T19:53:00.003+08:00

If you read my previous post on what is life, you may noticed that I mentioned our universe is in progress because all the things in this world are moving. So now the big question is "Can I prove it scientifically?"

The thing is I don't need to because it had already been proven. Let's look at a static object around you (e.g. chair, table, laptop and etc.) Whether you're looking at the micro-perspective (i.e. electron are moving around the atoms inside an object) or macro-perspective (i.e. object on earth is moving along the sun), all the objects around you are in fact moving in reality. So, can I prove the universe is in progress?

Yes I can and you can prove it too, because all the objects in the universe are moving.

If our universe is NOT in progress, we must prove that all the things in this world must be STATIC. However, at this point in time we have no ways to prove (not even a single thing) in this universe is STATIC. Therefore, we can conclude that our universe is in progress.

Now it leads to another more challenging question is whether our universe has the beginning. You may argue that when this universe started, everything is in STATIC. Well, who knows?

History of ChampDog

2010-04-17T17:12:00.012+08:00

ChampDog was a nickname that I invented when I started to use internet many years ago. However, this was not only the nickname that I had. It has it's origin...

Before ChampDog Was Invented

When I was young, people liked to call me "Sor San". The nickname is in Cantonese. "Sor" means crazy or insane and "San" is just part of my name. Most of my friends at that point in time thought that I"m crazy. Therefore, they gave me this nickname.

A very funny thing is everyone of us had our own nickname in school. We didn't call each other our real names (except for teachers) but our nicknames instead. In fact for teachers, we had the nicknames for all them too!

I had been carrying this nicknames since primary school for probably 7 years until when I was in form 3 (secondary school) ...

"Sor San" Evolved to Susan

Unbelievable after 7 years, this "Sor San" nicknames had evolved to become "Susan". It was discovered by one of my friends who did a same school project with me. From that time onwards, not all (probably 70% of the people in School) called me Susan. What a crap? I'm a man but they give me a girl's name...

Although I didn't really like this name but one thing I did like about this name is the name "Susan" is exactly the same real name with another girls that I really liked at that time. She sat in front of me everyday. I felt like I owned part of her (names only) therefore I don't really feel offensive when people called me "Susan".I just let it be...

Susan Didn't Last Long

This "Susan" nickname slowly died off as it didn't really reflect to who I'm really are except the pronunciation is a little bit similar to "Sor San". I don't think I was that "La Pek" - which means "Girlish" at that time. Due to my outstanding performance in school (I was upgraded from the worst class to the best class in school). Therefore, I was given a name "Champion". It was not really pronounced as the way English does but instead in Hakka (Chinese's Dialect) - it was pronounced as "Jump Pen".

"Jump Pen" didn't last long either. It probably last for less than 2 years. All these names (i.e. Sor San, Susan, and Jump Pen) had never come online because the internet was not popular yet at that point in time. So technically speaking, Sor San, Susan, and Jump Pen has never born in this virtual internet world. By the way, these names was given by others not even myself!

ChampDog was Born in mIRC

ChampDog was born when I was trying to figure out a nickname for my mIRC - Internet Relay Chat account. I guess that is very obvious the "Champ" was came from my last nickname. and "Dog" was simply just of my best friend during my young days. Dog was kind of like my soul mate rather than my pets and we talked about a lot of stuff. So, what I did was to combine this two to become "ChampDog".

ChampDog was first appeared on the internet in mIRC. It was fist getting very famous (I think) in mIRC - Internet Relay Chat. It was the founder for 2 quite popular channel in Malaysia that is #JB and #JOHOR. FYI - JB or Johor is one of the state located at the south of peninsular Malaysia. Perhaps you may not aware that being a founder of one of the channel in mIRC is like you're owning a company. I spent like almost 24 hours everyday to make sure the company runs smoothly.

ChampDog is Now Into Blogging

ChampDog in mIRC was eventually died off soon too after my graduation until 4 years ago I started a blog in 2006 to talk about my Journey to Become Financially Independent. Later on in 2007, I started another blog to talk about the Free Useful Software Review that I have used before. I do have quite number of other blogs but these 2 blogs are the most active one (although not really active as compared to those professional bloggers).

ChampDog.Blogspot.Com was founded in 2006 too but I didn't have any ideas to do with it so what did was just simply post any topics that I have mind. However recently, when I looked back of what I posted, it just looked like rubbish to me. Therefore, I decided to reinvent and rewrite this blog. At least the intention is to write of something that I really like to talk about. The blog is named "A Free Thinker's Perspective Blog" to discuss anything that from a free thinker's perspective which may include Philosophy, Religion, Relationship and etc (I don't know yet).

What is Next?

To be honest, I don't know. Perhaps you can tell me...

[Update - 3 March 2014]: Started a new food blog in mid of 2012, it is called Double Food Reviews. I just want to document all the nice food that I like but I can't catch up in the blog. There are just too many and I just managed to post few. :)

Also, I recently had just migrated to Australia. So 2014 is completely a new start for me. I will still continue to blog whenever I feel free.

[Update - 5 Jan 2021]: Time flies, can't believe that I have been in Australia for 6 years! Things have been going well, have moved up to a different industry and my key accomplishment is probably I have reduced my weight to the optimum level. Hopefully, I can maintain this healthy body as long as possible.

I have just started to blog again. ASXMoney is my new blog where I discuss anything related to investing Australian Securities Exchange. Most importantly it is place for me to document my journey and learnings. Wish me luck!

[Update - 18 Sept 2021]: I started a more professional technical blog about Android development.

What is Life?

2010-04-10T18:36:00.005+08:00

This is a very short question but the answers could be very complicated. A very funny thing is there are 2 people in this world:

People to make a simple things to be complicated
People to make a complicated things to be simple.

If you try to find the definition of life in the dictionary you will find similar definitions as follow which I believe is the first people I mentioned above:

The condition that distinguishes organisms from inorganic objects and dead organisms, being manifested by growth through metabolism, reproduction, and the power of adaptation to environment through changes originating internally (source: dictionary.reference.com).

What a crap? I can just summarize this whole thing as "Life is Anything that Can Breathe" - the second people that I mentioned above. For example, human, animal, fish or plant has life. That's it. :)

Okay, this is at least generally how people define "LIFE" and I have slightly different definition than the general. I define life as:

Anything that Can Move by Its Own

Human, animals, fish and bird can move, thus they have life - similar to the general definition.
Plants can grow, thus they have life too - similar to the general definition.
Object such as chair, pencil, mouse, keyboard and etc have life too - Opps!

You may think that objects such as what I mentioned above cannot move by their own, so they can't be called Life. This is only true if you look at from our human eyes perspective, yes they can't move. But what if you look at them from the microscopic perspective, they are in fact consist of millions of atoms and insides these atoms, there are "MOVING" electrons. So, they're are in fact can move by their own! So in other words:

Everything Has Life

A very important concept that we must understand is everything is this universal is moving. That is called "progress". You can also said, when one day everything has no progress, then we have no life in the universe. But will it happens? Yes, it might! However as for this point in time, everything is in progress, therefore everything has life. Everything is in progress because everything can move by their own.

What is the Purpose of Answering Question?

2010-04-04T15:53:00.011+08:00

Of course they're many reasons why one wants to answer the question and of course this is really personal. So, you probably have already known the answer before you get into here. Let's see if your answer is stated here. If no, please share yours. :)

To prove that you're better or powerful or knowledgeable (or whatever you would like to call) than the one who asks the question
To convince the one who asks questions that your answer is the correct one
To share your answers to the who asks the questions so that 2 of you can learn together
To guide the one who asks the question to get the answer by themselves.
To fulfill your own purpose such as being told by your boss to do so and etc.

You probably haven't realize that the ultimate purpose of answering question is NOT to influence the person who ask the question but at the same time to help them to get the answers that they want.

However in reality, as long as we answer a question and no matter what, you will influence the decision or the thinking of the person who ask a question. So in other words, you can't answer the question at all ultimately. So you may ask, what is the purpose of answering question if we can't answer the question?

It is very clear that the purpose of answering question is not really to help others but yourself. This is because no matter how hard you try, you will end up influence the decision of another person. To completely avoid that, you must NOT know the answer and start answering the question for yourself. In short regardless of whether you're answering for yourself and for somebody else, the purpose of answering question is always the same which is:

"To Help Yourself to Get the Answers of the Question that You Don't Know"

In other word - when someone asks you a question, you should only answer a question that you don't know and tell the answers to him by answering to yourself.

p/s: I know this may seem confusing and a lot of you may disagree with this. Let me know if you have any comments.