born to be conditioned

When i was in primary school, I read about this tribe in africa where people finds women with long necks...beautiful.

It's not just women born with a slight 1-2 centimetres longer necks than average, but long necks of a result of forcing them with metal rings worn to deliberately "pull" them longer by at least 10-20 centimetres.

And then i remember reading about this kid who went missing and somehow got raised by a pack of wolves. i dunno why the wolves did not eat the baby but raised it like one of them. when they found the lost kid, he can only walk on fours, hunts like a wolf and behaves like a wolf.

Well, i was really young then. still in primary school. So i thought, how can anyone human being regard a long necked women as a beauty? how can a kid born to walk, lost it altogether?

And then, I learnt about the term "cognitive learning". dunno if i remembered the term right but basically what it means is if you flash to a guy many many times, video clips of a thirsty man enjoying the quenching of his thirst with Brand X cola, the man will eventually buy a brand X cola whenever he gets thirsty.

and if Brand Y do it even more times, he will buy brand Y.

and if Brand Z do the video clip in such a way that clicks with that guy's personality, he will buy brand Z. so on and so forth.

Of course this is advertising term, a street term would be "brain washed", or another term that covers more would be conditioned.

Social conditioning (some call it social engineering), behaviour conditioning etc etc.

In the movie "Cast Away", Tom Hanks finally mastered the skill of spearing a moving fish from at least 3 metres away. No big deal, humans were once hunters. This is one of the skills we can acquired if we "train" since young.

But you ask a modern man to do it, he would go to the market and buy a fish.

Because since young, whenever he needs to eat a fish, he goes to the market, like what was thought by his parents, conditioned by his growing up process and the society.

He is conditioned to judge that a modern man spearing a fish...is just...not right.

So that means how we all behave today, what we believes in, what makes us laugh, what makes us cry, what kind of gal or guy makes our heart beat faster is all a result of conditioning.

All societies are conditioned in certain ways. Japanese likes to bow, chinese likes to be loud during business dinner, shanghainese likes their food to be sweet, americans likes burgers, french likes wine.

These are all fine. These makes meeting people from different places a very interesting experience.

However, what if one day we are conditioned to think that any war can be justified?

what if one day we are conditioned to think that anything said by those in power is the gospel truth?

What if one day, someone found out that there is something that humans are born to do by instinct, and are conditioned to do otherwise by those in power for unknown reasons?

that is so easy to be done by anyone who has power over the mass media nowadays. As long as what you see since you were born were controlled by those in power, you are but a pawn in their hands.

Helger, once said (not exact words), if you show a guy only the shadows since the day he was born, he will never know how a candle light throws a shadow on the wall.

We should condition ourselves to question and think hard on anything in life. If not, what makes us one up from the other animals?

If not, what makes us different from dead, cold power consuming computers waiting to be programmed?

Why I don't worship god (if there's one in the first place)

Generally speaking, there are two kinds of gods that most people champion.

1) Creator God, and is capable of everything
2) Not a creator god, but a supernatural being that is able to live for thousands of light years and possess supernatural power.

I don't accept both theories.

Creator god is the most simple to rebut. You can't prove it. Period.

People say how can the human body system ever possible to evolve from a singular cell, millions of years ago, to what it is today, they say how is it possible the planets know the distance to be at so they can keep rotating around the sun, how can all these things, universe, planets, tress, mountains, toilet paper, shoes, sand, etc etc appear from nowhere? Someone must have created it.

But when you ask them "who create this Creator God", he is the only being that has the privilege to exist because of no reason. Yes, the universe is not possible to just exist out of nowhere, but their god can.

HAHAHAHA.

The second kind of god is a little tricky. They dun claim they are the creator of the whole universe. In a way, they do accept that their existence probably started the same way as the universe, OR later. Who knows?

And the reason why you have to worship them is because they can do things that you can't. They can change your fate, they can change the weather, they can change your luck, they can change your wealth, they can change your IQ, they can change how ladies perceive you, they can see your past life, they can see ghost, they can do wonders.

Can we classify them as god? Imagine a monkey who has never seen a human being with a gun before. And one day they met. That human is able to eliminate the monkey's enemy, say a gorilla, with a shot of his gun. And being blessed with the service from UPS and Cold Storage, the human can provide the monkey with a supply of bananas that seems endless.

To the monkey, the human is god. But we all know the human is not BECAUSE WE KNOW HOW THE TRICKS THAT HE IMPRESSED THE MONKEYS WITH ARE DONE.

In the first place, it is already hard to prove the existence of these "beings" that can change your luck; wealth, weather and what have you.

And even if they exist, they are just being in this world that can do something that we can’t do.

Just like Michael Jordan and myself. I can NEVER in my life do what Michael Jordan does in the basketball court, but he is not god.

Going by this argument, there are no gods in this world. Only beings that have special abilities that most ordinary people don’t have. And it's just so happens that the scientific technology today still unable to give an explanation. eg. Some people who can foretell future, or tell you what you went thru the last 5 years the first time they met you, or what illness you have without seeing your X-ray films, or able to see ghosts, etc etc

Scientific explanation comes with time and research, the proving of earth is round takes time. In AD200, no one believes the earth is round, no one believes there are things called bacteria that the human eyes cant see, no ones believes in gravity, etc etc

So whomever these beings that are able to do supernatural things, I wont call them "god". Let alone worshipping them. Maybe one day, science can explain how they do "wonders", maybe it never will. But, they are not gods. Like Michael Jordan, they are just beings that can do special stuff.

We should take the word "God" off all dictionaries.