Thursday, July 26, 2012

Filsafat hari ini - Melayani


melayani

* gambar berasal dari blog orangizenk   


pribadi berpikir kalau pribadi sudah mampu melayani.  padahal kenyataannya dirinya melayani karena pribadi itu yang membuat dirinya melayani. karena kondisi sosial yang menciptakan terminologi melayani sebagai suatu reaksi. karena ke aku an pribadi untuk melayani.

jadi dia melayani atas dasar "aturan baku" atau "niatan si aku" atau "ideal nya pribadi". melayani bagi dirinya adalah suatu tindakan yang di ambil oleh keinginan dirinya sendiri. aksi. bukan reaksi. karena aksi,

hal itu menghasilkan koneskuensi suatu aturan baru bahwa akibat dari tindakan melayani dari pribadi itu, yang dilayani harus tahu bahwa dia terlayani. dan akhirnya jadilah bisnis. melayani menjadi hal yg seharusnya menguntungkan pribadi. yang dilayani seharusnya tahu effort yang sudah dikeluarkan. walau hanya untuk membuat pribadi merasa untung secara psikologi karena sudah melayani.

tapi efek besar nya adalah jika tidak menguntungkan, maka penilaian negatif diberi sebagai kelanjutan kepada yg dilayani. "dasar gak tahu di untung loe... udah capek capek gua gini gitu buat elo.." ;)

berapa banyak dari kita yg sering mengeluarkan kata kata sejenis semirip se sami mawon tersebut? itulah saat dimana kira musti retrospeksi akan pemahaman dan aksi melayani itu.

melayani yg sejati adalah melayani yang timbul dari dalam atas dasar hati dan pengorbanan. makanya ada ungkapan "Melayani dengan sepenuh hati".

jika yg dilayani tidak merasa bahwa apa yang dilakukan belum memuaskan mereka anggaplah itu sebagai tantangan untuk lebih menyatu dengan yang ingin dilayani. karena jika hati adalah dasar dari melayani maka hasilnya seharusnya dingin. tidak akan ada senyuman atau kebanggan saat sudah melayani.

aksi melayani itu akan hilang tak berbekas tak tersimpan dalam memory kita lagi. itu lah melayani sejati. tanpa tedeng aling aling. tanpa tanpa tanpa... yep, benar sekali apa yg ada dipikiran anda. tanpa konsekuensi apapun.

itulah fakta mengerikan tentang "melayani" :O

jadi, sudahkan kita melayani ? sudahkan kita punya hati yang melayani?

;)




Thursday, May 10, 2012

The Professor has no brain


Professor : You are a Christian, aren’t you, son ?

Student : Yes, sir.

Professor: So, you believe in GOD ?

Student : Absolutely, sir.

Professor : Is GOD good ?

Student : Sure.

Professor: Is GOD all powerful ?

Student : Yes.

Professor: My brother died of cancer even though he prayed to GOD to heal him. Most of us would attempt to help others who are ill. But GOD didn’t. How is this GOD good then? Hmm?

(Student was silent.)

Professor: You can’t answer, can you ? Let’s start again, young fella. Is GOD good?

Student : Yes.

Professor: Is satan good ?

Student : No.

Professor: Where does satan come from ?

Student : From … GOD …

Professor: That’s right. Tell me son, is there evil in this world?

Student : Yes.

Professor: Evil is everywhere, isn’t it ? And GOD did make everything. Correct?

Student : Yes.

Professor: So who created evil ?

(Student did not answer.)

Professor: Is there sickness? Immorality? Hatred? Ugliness? All these terrible things exist in the world, don’t they?

Student : Yes, sir.

Professor: So, who created them ?

(Student had no answer.)

Professor: Science says you have 5 Senses you use to identify and observe the world around you. Tell me, son, have you ever seen GOD?

Student : No, sir.

Professor: Tell us if you have ever heard your GOD?

Student : No , sir.

Professor: Have you ever felt your GOD, tasted your GOD, smelt your GOD? Have you ever had any sensory perception of GOD for that matter?

Student : No, sir. I’m afraid I haven’t.

Professor: Yet you still believe in Him?

Student : Yes.

Professor : According to Empirical, Testable, Demonstrable Protocol, Science says your GOD doesn’t exist. What do you say to that, son?

Student : Nothing. I only have my faith.

Professor: Yes, faith. And that is the problem Science has.

Student : Professor, is there such a thing as heat?

Professor: Yes.

Student : And is there such a thing as cold?

Professor: Yes.

Student : No, sir. There isn’t.

(The lecture theater became very quiet with this turn of events.)

Student : Sir, you can have lots of heat, even more heat, superheat, mega heat, white heat, a little heat or no heat. But we don’t have anything called cold. We can hit 458 degrees below zero which is no heat, but we can’t go any further after that. There is no such thing as cold. Cold is only a word we use to describe the absence of heat. We cannot measure cold. Heat is energy. Cold is not the opposite of heat, sir, just the absence of it.

(There was pin-drop silence in the lecture theater.)

Student : What about darkness, Professor? Is there such a thing as darkness?

Professor: Yes. What is night if there isn’t darkness?

Student : You’re wrong again, sir. Darkness is the absence of something. You can have low light, normal light, bright light, flashing light. But if you have no light constantly, you have nothing and its called darkness, isn’t it? In reality, darkness isn’t. If it is, well you would be able to make darkness darker, wouldn’t you?

Professor: So what is the point you are making, young man ?

Student : Sir, my point is your philosophical premise is flawed.

Professor: Flawed ? Can you explain how?

Student : Sir, you are working on the premise of duality. You argue there is life and then there is death, a good GOD and a bad GOD. You are viewing the concept of GOD as something finite, something we can measure. Sir, Science can’t even explain a thought. It uses electricity and magnetism, but has never seen, much less fully understood either one. To view death as the opposite of life is to be ignorant of the fact that death cannot exist as a substantive thing.

Death is not the opposite of life: just the absence of it. Now tell me, Professor, do you teach your students that they evolved from a monkey?

Professor: If you are referring to the natural evolutionary process, yes, of course, I do.

Student : Have you ever observed evolution with your own eyes, sir?

(The Professor shook his head with a smile, beginning to realize where the argument was going.)

Student : Since no one has ever observed the process of evolution at work and cannot even prove that this process is an on-going endeavor. Are you not teaching your opinion, sir? Are you not a scientist but a preacher?

(The class was in uproar.)

Student : Is there anyone in the class who has ever seen the Professor’s brain?

(The class broke out into laughter. )

Student : Is there anyone here who has ever heard the Professor’s brain, felt it, touched or smelt it? No one appears to have done so. So, according to the established Rules of Empirical, Stable, Demonstrable Protocol, Science says that you have no brain, sir. With all due respect, sir, how do we then trust your lectures, sir?

(The room was silent. The Professor stared at the student, his face unfathomable.)

Professor: I guess you’ll have to take them on faith, son.

Student : That is it sir … Exactly ! The link between man & GOD is FAITH. That is all that keeps things alive and moving.

P.S.

I believe you have enjoyed the conversation. And if so, you’ll probably want your friends / colleagues to enjoy the same, won’t you?

Forward this to increase their knowledge … or FAITH.

By the way, that student was NOT Einstein

So many of us read this in every where. But according to this link http://www.snopes.com/religion/einstein.asp , its a false to say that this conversations cames up from Einstein. Well, its sad if this true. Coz a part of me really want it to believe the student was really Albert Einstein :D