What is this debate about wearing veils?
I believe it is a crime against humanity that BEAUTIFUL women wear the veil. Even if they want to they should be stopped. As for the ugly ones when they wear the veil they are doing us a favour. So let us make a law: BEAUTIFUL women who wear the veil and butt ugly ones who don't will be punished severely including death for the ugly ones.

Here are some ideas that was originally typed for the viewing pleausre of edmond,
titled quite unimagitively ideas for edmond.....but life is about the exchange of ideas...isn't it?
Ideas for Edmond
In this world we need ideas and they must be written down and also be discussed so that all may learn: those who heard the idea and those who originated it. Discussion either convince the originator the error or convinces him that he is essentially but must be spurred to improve upon the argument so that he may convince more than one. Below are merely seedlings that hopefully be watered and expanded upon.
For many years the government has been trying to get people to recycle but the problem is people don’t do it even millions is spend on education. There is no motivation. In psychology we learn that positive reinforcement is one of the most effective ways of changing human behaviour, followed by negative reinforcement. To devise a successful recycle scheme one look no further than the old newspaper man. Even if it is only one ringgit for one months worth of newspaper people separate the rest of their trash from newspapers. There is money from cans but people deemed the petrol to bring it to the recycling centre is not worth the money. It must be made worth their time but of course that are people already separating cans in the dumpsite so that problem is settled but 70% of the trash is organic and that is what make most of the garbage stink. If we create a market for all these stuff people will collect and pay money like the old newspaper man and residents will separate it because they can make money. How much that will be determined by market forces and sometimes market forces dictate a not good enough price and this is where government come in by using its vast resources it can use the land that could have been wasted as landfill and use it to make compost. At the end of the day all projects must self-sustaining after a short period of say five years or be heading towards that. The compost will sell. At the same time chaff can be bought from farmers who burn it more to get rid of it. This will reduce pollution. We barter it with our produced compost or just use cold hard cash. Market economics to solve a daily problem.
Christians need to idealogues that is people who write down radical ideas and influence people for good. If we don’t do it, some Marx, Lenin, or Stalin will do it. They aren’t the smartest people but they are willing to give all for their ideology. If we believe in Christianity so much why aren’t we as dedicated to it as these are to their ideology.
I am not a prophet but it is possible to use human knowledge to achieve wisdom as though one is an oracle of God like Achitophel. Using human knowledge, I predict that the three gorge dam will fail and there will be floods, the Beijing Olympics will raise the unrest all around the rural areas, great floods on the Yangtze, people will rise up and few Chinese divisions will mutiny and the Communist will rule no more by 2020. An attempt to invade Taiwan might be made but will fail.
Humans seek creature comfort but to be a leader one must be able to rise above basic instincts of man instinct is not to serve but Jesus the greatest shall be the servant of all. Imagine the head of a country that does not a retinue of servant but one servant so he can concentrate on his work and dictate a million policies with out being disturbed.why so many concubines when we have strength for only one. Cost is much lower. Why live in a place when a 7 by 6 would be a bed big in enough. Much has been made a king needs glory but what is his glory except for his people healthy strong and safe and all man reaching his full potential. This is utopia but if we have a leader that cares not for his own enrichment and all that is safe is passed back to the people than truly he will be a servant of all and then a true leader.
1.3 million Arabs in Israel against 4.5 million refugees. Guess who had the higher standard of living?
People want to help all the time but most of the time is not efficient or sustainable. Therefore there should be a new approach to humanitarian aid. One of the examples is the Grameen bank. They required their borrowers to pay back their loans with interest so as to be sustainable and so other people can take loans. We must be aware just because you are poor doesn’t give you a pass for a free lunch. We must be willing to help but they in turn must do their part so that others can be helped. Anyway humanitarian organizations should be audited and compete with one another to provide the best and most efficient services. They should avoid duplication and merge so as to have the force of number. Guderian once said that you hit a man with your fist and not with your fingers spread.
Most Christians treat the call to missions as an opt in thing but it should really be opt out. The ration of people serving should be at least 1 out of twelve just the tribe of Levi was one out of twelve. I think this is the perfect ratio as it is just sustainable by the rest of the tribes. So obviously when the number serving is less than one in twelve there is a large number that is not answering their call.
Independent Sabah Sarawak will be a possibility and it can overtake the Peninsular in a short time. The reason why Singapore won out is the hemorrhage to talents there. Imagine if the Borneo states are independent and implement more free market reforms and less discriminatory policies there will loads of talent flowing there. Anyway in the predicted overthrow of the Communist and the ensuing anarchy, it will be a perfect place for the refugees. How do we do it? 300 good men are all that is needed. Doctors, teachers, engineers all posted in the interior making lives better and there will be voted into power in no time and then after preparations and seeking support for the intelligentsia in the west and also politicians call for UN referendum and then declare independence and we can give all the devil’s excrement to the Peninsular.
Have you heard of von Zizendorff? He was a rich man that gave most if not all his wealth for the extension of the kingdom of course he administered himself so that it will not go into the pockets of greedy individuals or misguided building funds.
Not many know of Zizendorff..While it is most preaching is from the Bible but preaching should be supplemented by study of the WHOLE Bible, church history and also doctrine. Not many know of their doctrine.
When one is said to be called to mission why must one think of sacrifice and suffering. If he goes alone to the middle of nowhere I guess it will be that. But if he goes as a team in a group of maybe 150 people consisting of teachers, engineers and, doctors, preachers of whatever tentmakers and their spouses not only are they more effective and cover more of the needs of the community but they able to fight loneliness and lack companionship while they adjust to the local population and of course their children will then qualify to attend the FDL University so that they will not lose out.
Here re some ideas for Proton. There are many people who can have money for something more than a bike but less than a kancil. Bike is 7K kancil. 24K. There is a gap of 17K why isn’t anyone exploiting this niche. Build a vehicle with which is safer, more powerful and more seating than a bike but less than an ordinary car….I am sure there is a market for people….the whole idea is to provide for that need. I am sure people in a family of 4 will prefer that to a bike if they can’t afford a kancil.

I believe that people should be able to reap,
the work and effort they put into work and therefore i believe in capitalism and pure comtpetition...which is not only good for everyone to excel but for the loser he knows that is not the real place that he belongs....but then again they good and hardworking people who never seem to get a break like the rubber tappers who work really hard but never seem to be able to better the lives of their love ones..so in effect we must temper capitalism with compassion..how much and where we draw the line I leave it to the economists though some might argue that rubber tappers should quit and do something else..what else? Another problewith capitalism is that is that some people with power and influence and monewill use it so that they don't have to compete like the car parts supplier who bribe the car manufacturer's..so if playing filed is not level..and how is the poor guy with superior technology and work going to survive...this is where we need a referee..he will never be perfect but it will be much better than no referee...this is then the use of of governmentent..their duty is to ensure a level playing field..other than that they don't intervene....the referee don't kick the ball into the goal..he just runs around and thires to intervene as little as possible and get out of the way but will do it if it is necessary.....if a referee can do it..why is it so hard for elected government do it?

heh,
controlling the price of sugar? ridiculous..on one hand you are trying to get mamaks to reduce the sugar they put in their products and people to take less sugar so that there will be less cases of diabetes and on the other you are trying to keep the price of sugar artificially low....sure it wins elections but who is going to pay for health care when half the nation is diabetic?...the quickest way to reduce the amount of sugar in products and help people live a healthier lifestyle is to make something more expensive...like with cigarettes and alcohol... if they use this rationale to impose sin taxes why can't they just let market forces determine the price of sugar...why intervene to bring down the price of something that is bad for health? Sugar is definitely killing more people than cigarettes but of course lung cancer is a more glamourous disease...the worse thing is they are killed slowly so the health cost is high..whereas in lung cancer you are dead within the year....when sugar is more expensive people will use less sugar and innovative mooncake makers will won't be making mooncakes that are toos weet and before you know it they will be making mooncake for diabetics so those poor old folks won't miss out on the fun.

Hello I am back,
It has been a while...I am quite lazy to blog but I thought I better keep the thing going.....just a thing about character...in the papers a few days ago a Malaysian-born neurosurgeon was arrested for bribery....man you must be pretty smart to become a neurosurgeon in the US..it is competitive..but no matter how smart you are in the end...you can't excape from greed...and many people do stupid things because of greed...kind of sad to know parents nowadays are pushing excellence instudies and performance instead of the building the of character...give an honest man of average intelligence any day over one thousand corrupt geniuses.

After a long long while I am back,
But as I have predicted it turns out that blogging was just another fad for me. It promised to make my voice heard but the number of silly advertisements that I got far out numbered the comments and most of them are from friends anyway. Not that this detracts from the validity of their comments but I don't think my views are going to get far this way. I will have to go back to trying to get myself published which is the only realistic way of doing it.
Thought scame and go and the penalty for not putting them down is you forget them.
The thing that I have been thinking about on lately is seeking the truth and the fact the "Quod Est Veritas" should be everyone'e warcry. Sure we need to do the things to survive but in our psare time we spend some of it seeking the truth. For many imporant things we just take it for granted. We just assume that it is true without investigating it. We may not have the time to verify everything but at least in the most imporant things such as "is Jesus God?"
Christians that take it for granted but Paul says we must work out our salvation. We must ask ourselves do we truly believe? PEople who brush over this often will have faith crises when they are older when it will be much much worse. PEople who have it younger then to resolve it in a happy way though not always. In the end the illustration is chicken pox. If you get it when you are young you might die but it is not as worse as whne you are old.
Some non-Christian just only look at the points against that is not even thougth up and judge by themselves and take it as as true. They have delegated the most imporant duty of seeking the truth to others but even the smartest makie mistakes and one should not delegate this because in the end if one makes a mistake at least one doesn't have to regret delegating this duty even though we enjoy blaming others.
There are many to barriers to truth. Now I will not confined it to discussion about Jesus but the truth can be seeked everywhere and in its own way it is important. It can serious questions like is the universe expanding or collapsing to the best nasi lemak to be found in Kedah. Though the consequences are different but what is perceive as the truth will guide us in our decision making. Not all questions should be pursued with full effort.
The danger is lies can be seen as truth. Lies can masquerade as truth, truth can be misrepresented, the truth be seen as the lie. Whatever the situation the truth is not found and because of that wrong decisions are made. Is a foetus a human life? The answer will determine how we approach the issue of abortion. Even our own eyes can mislead us and witnesses may not be truth. But what differentiate the truth from lies is there is evidence but even in this respect even lies can have "evidence".
In the end we must weigh up everything and to do this we must not be intellectually lazy but strive to consider BOTH sides of the argument and rebuttals to it and make a judgement for ourselves.
Consider the Iraq war. Was it right to invade? I have study the arguments on both sides carefully and at the end of it I support the war but that is not the point. The point is we can see a lot of people taking either position without first determining the arguments on both sides. They just take a default position such as all wars are wrong. My father whom I greatly resepct is a pacifist and I respect him for that because in his eyes and from his analysis of hisotry except for a few exceptions institutions brought about by wars in genral don't stand the test of time. He will compare Malaysia's independence gained by negotiation to Indonesia's which was gained by violence and how both countries subsequently turn out. I would disagree because though force is not always good but sometimes it is necessary. The Khmer Rouge would have gone on killing had Vietnam not invaded Cambodia. Yet Vietnam was never called an imperialist nation though they occupied Cambodia for over 12 years before there were any elections. SO we are both right force was the lesser of two evil but up till today Cambodia is still in the grips of Hun Sen who was allied to the Vietnamese.
History in the end can be the judge whether the was was right or not and the picture will not be pretty. We like to gloss over it but the truth is nothing is perfect and there will be flaws but if greater good comes out of it then I think it is only fair we judge it as correct. However even then we have a problem. We do not know it will turn out and history have shown us that to invade there is a problem not to invade there is a problem. In the end we realise of man's endeavour is in vian and Death devour us all. In the end all we have is the Truth. What is the Truth? IS the truth is there will be reincarnation and amn will get according to his deeds in the next life or is the truth is God is in control and and if we can hypothetically follow his perfect will then all will be solved. Then it leads to a conumdrum: what is his will? And again again it is a crazy thing to explore and much of the ills stem from sincerely mistaken people deluded into thinking they are doing the Almighty's will.
Back to history;can only be so much of a guide. I think the gist of the matter is please investigate and study both isde of the argument so that if history prove you wrong at least you can have the cold comfort of not saying anything daft like " Iraq was much better under Saddam" for the simple reason reason he is a Sunni. Have you read a Shiite or Kurd talk like this lately?

After a bit of encouragement I am finally,
Putting a bit a of my thoughts into a soft copy. Hve you ever met a person who is better than you in everything and after a period of admiration that person becomes unbearable as your attempts to catch well aren't a match for that person's natural in-built talent. Somehow that person is better than you in things that you are good at. NO amount of hardwork helped you. Well the truth there are things that you ARE good at because God is always fair and love his children but the fallen side wants the visible gifts that can be seen by other men. Girls will crowd roud the pianist who can play any song requested. No guessing how many crowded round the guy who has utmost patience but has nothing else. Yet most will say that the patient person has the greater gift but that is in theory. In reality the the pianist gets the glory. We shouldn't strive for it but we crave it.
I saw this line in No Left Turns which described Beowulf, the hero of the oldest piece of English literature which is translated to modern English: "He made the best of all he had..... putting each imperfection to the service of integrity...was good because he accepted there things of him that were bad."
This is literature seeking to teach us timeless wisdom all the while maintaining the beauty of the language and the naturalness of speech. What it means is he accepts that he is not supremely talented and accepted his lot but instead using his time to compete he used what he had to basically do good.
Not to discourage all the budding guitarist in church but what are your motives? Rather serve integrity. It lacks glory but builts character and at the end of the day it is probably that which matters.

What are you going to do when a bald guy who is taller than you,
Comes in and say we are going to lunch now. Well you stop blogging and go for lunch. Sorry to all my readers for a substanceless post yesterday. Anyway continuing what I said yesterday. I been through all the systems and yet they were all found wanting. In capitalism we assume that the individual is good and will make the right choice that will benefit society. In socialism we assume that the government will make the right choice and make decisions that will benefit society as a whole. But the fact of the matter is individuals and governments are humans and therefore are victims of vices such as greed and selfishness. So in all nations there is corruption at all levels and self-enrichment. Though it can be argued that socialism is worse because if you have one bad nut or a group of bad nuts at the top the whole country is screwed like if a dictator wishes to fill his swiss bank account rather than a hospital with equipment. While in a free-market society though most people are selfish but it can be argued that there will be enough people with a conscience to feed and provide healthcare for the poor to make up for it. This is demonstrated by the number of hospitals around the world that is run by private funds though it must be admitted that there are not enough.
As you can see there are a lot of suffering around the world and we can sometimes act to prematurely before we are ready or prepared to tackle which sometimes can make matters worse. But the urge to do something is that separate humans from animals and one of our instincts that we lose too easily when we get older and cynical. Call me naive but i believe that if we hold on to this trait long enough to acquire the skills and knowledge to do something useful we can actually chnge the world. Unfortunately we most often lose this trait in the midst of getting the knowledge and skills i.e. the years in university and the first few years of our working life.
One of the things we try to do is to change the political system. We are forever trying to search for the perfect one. It can't never be found as all is dependent on the ruled and the ruler. If everything so I can form my opinions in perfect knowledge. in the ideal world i would like to hear the and read the responses of people of all political believes propose and defend their believes adn also read the evidence in history. At the moment i support the American model of capitalism. There are flaws but it really fantastic to see that for a all the bad press the US gets an unlimited amount of Muslims want to go and live in that anti-Muslim and Zionist-dominated nation. You don't hear Malaysian women wanting to go live in Saudi Arabia but plenty want to go to the decadent West.
The basic outline of what interests me at the moment in t he Pentateuch is the combination of the best of what we will call now socialism and capitalism even before these ideas came into existence. Aspects of capitalism are: 1. Low-taxes 2. Welfare in the hands of the individual not the state. A brief look at the Pentateuch will convince that individuals must take care of their parents, then relatives, and if they can still afford it after that their neighbours and so on as they can afford. 3. A small government, in fact no government except for priests who wield no influence outside religious matters and local judges.
Aspects of socialism: 1. The reversion of property to the original owners in the year of Jubilee. 2. No one can take absolute profits. they must in way give chance to the poor.
This is a basic outline that I hope to explore later and debate with people and i hope someone will correct me if get things wrong.

Ahh it is good to be back,
Blogging took a back seat for a while. Not only did I have exams which are actually a pretty lame reason for not blogging...some on some of the most successful bloggers in the Us are a bunch of lawyers who have families and yet still have time to analyse the news of the day ad post it......so not only was it the exams but very much my lack of ideas.
There are a few ideas I ahve been bandying around but they aren't really that developed because for one thing if you don't think through your ideas before you really say them out after a while when you look back that idea will look really stupid.....that is what I am trying to prenvent but it is at the expense that of not blogging for extended periods because hwere can you find the time to read economics and the like and at the same time trying to get on top of your work?
But today I decided to briefly write down the brief outline of some of them.
The first up is the perfect political system. I have been a capitalist, communist, socialist and everything in between. Lunch call will be back.

Was it Menalaus who got Paris in the end?
Paris burns..so says the news..the analysis in the blogosphere is not good...note to all in Europe... visit Paris NOW cause there won't be much left to see...but it could all the overblown....I am skeptical that 900 cars can be torched in one night...sounds like sensationalism...anyway i need someone on the ground to tell whether anything is under control....if this turns out not to be sensationalism then there could very serious trouble...as this could spread..it seems it is already in Denmark next the netherlands then even Germany...the thing is it involves Muslim youths..that make up quite a large minority....and it is not about iraq or poverty because France was against the war and welfare in France..is to put it mildly scandalous...you even get paid for not working.....not much news here in the Malaysian papers..they try to cut the bad news..trying to keep the festive mood....read most of the media...I want to know the ordinary people's perception of things on the ground....that is the most important thing..the people in Paris will the best..but I don't know any Parisians....truth issuch a precious commodity as it will right many wrongs...now if it turns out that the news media got it wrong...our views will be forever coloured by what we read...people will stop visitng Paris..but what is the truth?

Wow it has been a while since I was here,
I like to take the excuse that I have exams approaching and i don't have the the time to blog but the fact of the matter is that I have exams and I am not even studying and I prefer to laze a around and let my thoughts wander instead of engaging in some serious thought processes.
So I have assignments deadlines looming but because I am not interested in them they have been consigned to to be done later box. Sad to say i am more interested in other things like articles about all manner subjects that are available over the internet so in the end I might be a very knowledgable doctor but not necessarily in the art of medicine which actually spells the defeat of my original prupose. Why is it so. difficult for me to be a single-minded person? Ill-discipline on my part really, God help me.
On another unrelated front i realise how terrible my prose have been and definitely I wouldn't be able to take on schoolchild of eleven from 19th century Britain. If British education has deteriorated over the pass one hundred years
-actually the rot only started 40 years ago with liberals taking over education-how much more the Malaysian education system. Well I can complain or I can set about doing something that includes improving myself and correct bad habits which I shall do right now by going off-line and start studying.