tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-127562722011-04-22T02:34:07.145+07:00This blog is my quest in searching for the ideal society, a heaven on earth. I believe that it is possible... In this blog you will find many of my premature writing, as my struggle in daily life, struggling in this unjust world, trying to make it a better place for all of us...Oni Suryamannoreply@blogger.comBlogger201100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12756272.post-26722055971939766212008-07-07T10:46:00.003+07:002008-07-07T11:16:11.001+07:00

When we heard something about citizen responsibility, our first response is to think that it might be related to paying tax, abiding the law, etc. We are born into this world to live where a national state is a reality. It' s very difficult to imagine a life without state, without government. Actually, state is of course not an absolute reality. We made it, by a contract at the moment of the

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Judgment has been an inseparable part of our lives. Let me be clear first, judgment in this post is not judgment in the meaning of consideration, but judgment in term of assigning certain presupposed value to something, labeling something is good or bad compared with certain presupposed value.We were judged since we were kids, then we were judged when we entered school. Then in family, society,

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Human being is considered as a selfish being, concerned for itself, not for others. Even altruism acts can be traced as also selfish acts; yearning tributes for eternal life, good names and reputations, future careers and politics. Even the most altruistic act, a love from a mother to ber children can be seen as a selfish act, because it makes her feel good.All of these is not necessarily bad. As

Oni Suryamannoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12756272.post-7061513819213328692007-05-24T11:40:00.000+07:002007-05-24T12:18:44.810+07:00

It is the very word that is spoken everyday, by everybody. Consume, consume, consume. We are surrounded by advertisement to tell us to buy more, eat more, drive more, watch more, wear more, more.. more... more... You even have to spend more to gain less, less weight, for example.Why are we so futile against the barrage of advertisement?There is a hole in our soul, whether you realize it or not. A

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This posting is written by Ashok, as a reply in the topic, in Global Justice Movement mailing-list.see http://globaljusticemovement.netBulk of humanity has no mean of acquiring surplus funds and I see thousands of people personally as live admist them, barely able to meet their both ends meet.When richer people save, in most cases, they do not eliminate any poverty but instead they make their own

Oni Suryamannoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12756272.post-72625149016603108442007-03-15T12:51:00.000+07:002007-05-03T08:45:21.614+07:00

Imagine there is no religion, just like what John Lennon said.It's easy if you try... Well, maybe not as easy as John thought.Religion is one of the most success entity that has survived human history for thousand of years and many to come. Communism has died (or at least in a state of comma). Capitalism? Well, it thrives now, but let see... But the religion has survived monarchy, feudalism,

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If I ask you why you go to school. Most of you will say to gain knowledge. I doubt that it is your honest intention. What you really want is the status as the educated class that will gives you a lot of privilege in society. You will gain access to the labor market, gain a personal status in society, and many other things. Knowledge, maybe some, but who really cares?Self achievement for education

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Success in life has been the goal of most human being on earth. There is nothing wrong within success itself, but in the definition of success. Success mostly is define with material possession, fame or power. Most of us take it for granted, without trying to critically think about it.We praise successful person because of his/her self achievement, which are probably benefit only him/herself. Why

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There are only two type of people: privileged, and unprivileged. The privileged are the powerful one, controlling resource, and monopolizing the truth. The unprivileged are powerless, have no resource and the truth is forced upon them.The history of humankind is a tug-of-war between the twos. Most of the time, the privileged win. But sometimes, at a very rare occasion, the unprivileged won. That

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The title-I admit-sounds tendentious. I regret that I cannot find a better word to express my points. The title has relation at all with the religious meaning, such as doing unlawful acts against God. What I meant by the "sins of the commons" are the sins that we commit even without doing anything, the sins that all of us commit and share. Most of them are done because of ignorance or negligence.

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In my previous writing, it looks like that we need something more to create a better society. It's just that the reward and punishment paradigm is rooted too deep within our society. Almost all relationship is determined by reward and punishment. The management "bestow" the worker adequate-another word for money only enough to buy meager daily meal-pay, only when they have done their work well,

Oni Suryamannoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12756272.post-1144371521386689882006-04-07T07:56:00.000+07:002007-05-03T08:56:29.962+07:00

It has become a common mores that in order to achieve something, you have to do certain things in advance. But let me change the story a little bit. In order to be succeed, you have to work hard. At the first glance, nothing is wrong. But when you think that working hard is equal to suffering, then we have an issue. Do we need to suffer in order to achieve something good? What is wrong with that

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We all know what fear is, eventhough not many from us who really understand it. We fear height, sickness, loneliness, poverty, rejection, humiliation, and most of all death. We try literally everything to avoid or eliminate our fear. We work as hard as possible, and spend wisely while saving, to secure our financial, because we fear poverty. We also live healthily, and work out because we fear

Oni Suryamannoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12756272.post-1124193853516360352005-08-16T19:03:00.000+07:002007-05-03T09:01:21.900+07:00

What is loneliness? Being lonely is a fate, because we are born alone and we will die alone. There is nothing that you can do about it. Yet, most of the time we try to convince ourselves that we are not alone.During childhood we cling ourselves to our family, always afraid of being left alone, fear of being abandoned in this unknown world. There is nothing wrong in it, since it springs from

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Do you realized that most of us keep on living because we believe in a common dream. Those dream take shapes in various kind. We dream of a better future, that's what makes us struggle everyday to make our life better. Some of us do good deeds to be redempted in the afterlife in heaven. The other buy stocks, hopefully that when the price is right he can make something out of it. Yes, we are

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Modern lifestyle offers us a lot of convenience. You don't have to travel by caravel in hardship for month such as what Columbus do to reach the New World, but a flight in jumbo jet just for several hours in a cozy seat will do. You can order you dinner by just dialing a number, you don't have to sweat to grind the wheat grain and then bake them. Copying books is much much easier compared to

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It might sound a bit strange, a world of role. I device this sentence as an antithesis of the world of class.You know of course what the world of class means. We are segregated, sometimes when we are born. When you are born poor, then you are doomed for eternity, and this is still true for most part of the world. Eventhough feudalism is formally nowhere around this world, its power is very much

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We don't know what does it mean to be human (at least for most of us). We are born, without being aware of what does it mean to be alive, we take it as it is, we take it for granted.We are born with total oblivion. We know nothing about this world. Luckily we are not aware that we know nothing! By the time we grow up, our society, especially our parents, tells us about this world. Some of them

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Too many people depends on the payback time, on the judgement day. Well it might suit many people, but not for me! It is too long, and I am a kinda person that is not too patient, especially when you see a lot of suffering and injustice in front of your eyes. We certainly must do something!You cannot just say that God will pay you back later. No! It doesn't mean that I don't believe in God. I

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We all know that we share this tiny pale blue dot, namely Earth. But almost none of us realize what this actually means. We still live as if we are separated from one another. By this reason only I create this log, sharing my dream, my thought, my desire as a lonely man in a lonely planet, hoping that we can all share our dream to make this world a better world, not only for us, but for the

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