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1월 30일

General Note for every items I sell on eBay (Version 2.0)

General Note

I am auctioning my personal belongings, collections and other new stuffs on eBay in order to raise fund to incorporate a company which could solve many global problems, such as: world poverty, global warming, energy crisis, serious diseases, etc. You could always check it on: http://myworld.ebay.com/roby_widjaja

Shipping and Handling

Shipping & handling cost will be vary due to Buyer's choice for the courier company and Buyer's address. I would suggest to use UPS for International delivery. Buyer could calculate by themselves the Shipping cost from Seller's origin address (Surabaya-city, East Java-province, INDONESIA-country) to Buyer's address through http://pages.ebay.com/sellercentral/shipping.html. We could ship all items internationally.

I suggest all buyers purchase shipping insurance provided by the courier company for the buyer's safety. I will not responsible for any item loss during shipment caused by Shipping/Courier Company, if buyer do not purchase shipping insurance. If buyer purchase shipping insurance, I will responsible and help buyer to process the insurance claim fund and transfer it to appointed buyer's bank account (after discounted with all insurance claim administration and processing cost).

Shipping will be done after Seller receive the payment on its appointed account 100% from the buyer.

Money Back Guarantee

Returned Items and 100% money back request should be made within 7 (seven) days after the item is received by the buyer (based on the date of item delivery from the courier company's receipt). Request should be sent to us by email to: roby_widjaja@hotmail.com . We will not accept any returned items and 100% money back request which is made more than 7 (seven) days after the item is received by the buyer. Money will be transferred back to buyer after we receive the returned item (on the 100% same condition compare to the time we deliver it to the buyer). We will negotiate discount with buyer for the money back total amount if there are any damage on the returned items.

Authentication System

Every item that I sell will be completed with Certificate of Authenticity. There are 5 (five) kinds of Authenticity Proofs on this certificate: my signature, my right & left thumb fingerprint mark , paper texture of the printed Certificate of Authenticity , DNA check of pieces of my hair , and registration number. Please see example of the certificate on the picture gallery on every item listing page.

Those who will buy these items as a 2nd, 3rd, 4th,...,Nth hand buyers from previous owners, could ask an Authentication Statement from me.

Items Gallery

All of items I sell on eBay have additional pictures gallery at: http://roby-widjaja.spaces.live.com/photos/ . Each item has its own photo album on it, and the serial number of the item is the name of the photo album.

Payment Method

The most preferable payment method is by Paypal.As optional payment methods, I could receive bank wire transfer or Western Union.

Well, buying collectibles is not just hobby and pleasure, but it is also investment ! Collectibles has a "natural anti-inflation blood cells" inside its body.

Thank you.

Sincerely,

Roby Widjaja.

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The Auction is going to be started in few days

Dear Friends,

I am going to start the auction at www.ebay.com in few days from now. If you have not read the terms and conditions of this auction, you could read my previous article on my Blog at eBay Auction section.

There are four articles about it:

1. General Note for every items I sell on eBay, on November 15th 2007.

2. Press Release and Invitation to join my collectibles online auction, on November 15th 2007.

3. Items Transaction Registration List, on November 18th 2007.

4. Resellers are welcome !, on November 19th 2007.

Thank you very much for your attention.

Regards,

Roby Widjaja.

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1월 29일

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Quote of The Day #69

In the long run, Americans can be confident about our economic growth. But in the short run, we can all see that growth is slowing.

[ George W. Bush ]

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1월 28일

Quote of The Day #68

I think, the best thing we could do for somebody who passed away, wether we like or dislike the person, is blessing and praying for the family

[ Roby Widjaja ]

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1월 27일

The worst market crisis in 60 years, by George Soros

Dear Colleague,

I thought you would be interested in my article on the market crisis that appeared in today's Financial Times.

George Soros

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The worst market crisis in 60 years

By George Soros --- Published: January 23 2008

The current financial crisis was precipitated by a bubble in the US housing market. In some ways it resembles other crises that have occurred since the end of the second world war at intervals ranging from four to 10 years.

However, there is a profound difference: the current crisis marks the end of an era of credit expansion based on the dollar as the international reserve currency. The periodic crises were part of a larger boom-bust process. The current crisis is the culmination of a super-boom that has lasted for more than 60 years.

Boom-bust processes usually revolve around credit and always involve a bias or misconception. This is usually a failure to recognise a reflexive, circular connection between the willingness to lend and the value of the collateral. Ease of credit generates demand that pushes up the value of property, which in turn increases the amount of credit available. A bubble starts when people buy houses in the expectation that they can refinance their mortgages at a profit. The recent US housing boom is a case in point. The 60-year super-boom is a more complicated case.

Every time the credit expansion ran into trouble the financial authorities intervened, injecting liquidity and finding other ways to stimulate the economy. That created a system of asymmetric incentives also known as moral hazard, which encouraged ever greater credit expansion. The system was so successful that people came to believe in what former US president Ronald Reagan called the magic of the marketplace and I call market fundamentalism. Fundamentalists believe that markets tend towards equilibrium and the common interest is best served by allowing participants to pursue their self-interest. It is an obvious misconception, because it was the intervention of the authorities that prevented financial markets from breaking down, not the markets themselves. Nevertheless, market fundamentalism emerged as the dominant ideology in the 1980s, when financial markets started to become globalised and the US started to run a current account deficit.

Globalisation allowed the US to suck up the savings of the rest of the world and consume more than it produced. The US current account deficit reached 6.2 per cent of gross national product in 2006. The financial markets encouraged consumers to borrow by introducing ever more sophisticated instruments and more generous terms. The authorities aided and abetted the process by intervening whenever the global financial system was at risk. Since 1980, regulations have been progressively relaxed until they have practically disappeared.

The super-boom got out of hand when the new products became so complicated that the authorities could no longer calculate the risks and started relying on the risk management methods of the banks themselves. Similarly, the rating agencies relied on the information provided by the originators of synthetic products. It was a shocking abdication of responsibility.

Everything that could go wrong did. What started with subprime mortgages spread to all collateralised debt obligations, endangered municipal and mortgage insurance and reinsurance companies and threatened to unravel the multi-trillion-dollar credit default swap market. Investment banks' commitments to leveraged buyouts became liabilities. Market-neutral hedge funds turned out not to be market-neutral and had to be unwound. The asset-backed commercial paper market came to a standstill and the special investment vehicles set up by banks to get mortgages off their balance sheets could no longer get outside financing. The final blow came when interbank lending, which is at the heart of the financial system, was disrupted because banks had to husband their resources and could not trust their counterparties. The central banks had to inject an unprecedented amount of money and extend credit on an unprecedented range of securities to a broader range of institutions than ever befor e. That made the crisis more severe than any since the second world war.

Credit expansion must now be followed by a period of contraction, because some of the new credit instruments and practices are unsound and unsustainable. The ability of the financial authorities to stimulate the economy is constrained by the unwillingness of the rest of the world to accumulate additional dollar reserves. Until recently, investors were hoping that the US Federal Reserve would do whatever it takes to avoid a recession, because that is what it did on previous occasions. Now they will have to realise that the Fed may no longer be in a position to do so. With oil, food and other commodities firm, and the renminbi appreciating somewhat faster, the Fed also has to worry about inflation. If federal funds were lowered beyond a certain point, the dollar would come under renewed pressure and long-term bonds would actually go up in yield. Where that point is, is impossible to determine. When it is reached, the ability of the Fed to stimulate the economy comes to an en d.

Although a recession in the developed world is now more or less inevitable, China, India and some of the oil-producing countries are in a very strong countertrend. So, the current financial crisis is less likely to cause a global recession than a radical realignment of the global economy, with a relative decline of the US and the rise of China and other countries in the developing world.

The danger is that the resulting political tensions, including US protectionism, may disrupt the global economy and plunge the world into recession or worse.

The writer is chairman of Soros Fund Management

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1월 26일

Quote of The Day #67

If you're in the luckiest 1 per cent of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99 per cent.

[ Warren Buffett ]

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Quote of The Day #66

If you show people the problems and you show people the solutions they will be moved to act.

If something's expensive to develop, and somebody's not going to get paid, it won't get developed. So you decide: Do you want software to be written, or not? [ Interview with Dennis Bathory-Kitsz in 80 Microcomputing (1980) Clips from the interview can be found on "No Money (Lullaby for Bill)" by Dennis Báthory-Kitsz. ]

[ Bill Gates ]

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Anti Aging Pills for Global Economy

Dear My Worldwide Friends,

Warren Buffett teachs us that "If you're in the luckiest 1 per cent of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99 per cent". Silver and Gold are not in my hand. All I can give for humanity is my knowledge and wisdom now.

I think Economy of a Country is just like a human's phases of life. It grows from embryo, to baby, to teenager, to mature. Economic Recession is just like somebody entering its end of maturity phase. The difference is, Economy could not die just like human being. Sooner or later it will get reborn phase again. Well, if a corporation has its stock chart on stock market, Economy of a country has its Currency Value chart on the currency market. Although we all know what we see on the screen does not really represent the intrinsic value of the company or country's economy.

But, is it possible to reverse the aging process of an economy of a country ? On the other word, is it possible to create a sustainable economy ?

Tax Rebate is just one of 1001 kind of Anti Aging Pills for Global Economy Recession. Tax Rebate is a kind of medicine which cost Government's wallet for buying medicine for the people's economy health. This is possible for a super power country, such as U.S.A. But how about developing countries which usually have small size Government Wallet? What are the others pills which don't cost Government's Wallet ?

If we can use a "rotating wheel" as a metaphore for an economic circulation in a country, or even global economy, then its diameter is the size (trade volume) of the economy, and the Radius Per Minute (R.P.M) will be the indicator for the upside and downside of the economy. I am borrowing basic mathematic science for solving economy's problem. As we know that Mathematic Science is The Great Grandfather of Economic and Finance Sciences. Recession means the diameter is decreasing and or the RPM is getting slower. If we could not increase the diameter, we could just increase the speed of RPM. "Diameter" is the trade volume of a country. RPM is how many revolving transactions during a period, for instance a year.
Anti Aging Pill #2: Government Project Initiative. Tax Rebate is a very easy to swallow pills. But, the effect is not really long lasting. Why ? Because Tax Rebate increases the people's purchasing power, without increasing their abilty to produce money. So, for example, if a person has 15000 USD/year income, he/she will still get 15000 USD/year income after Tax Rebate, although he/she got more money on his/her wallet after Tax Rebate. His/her purchasing power is increasing for a short moment, just like a Cinderella who look beautiful until 24 o'clock. . Tax Rebate is buying medicine for the people at the cost of Government's wallet. But how about Government Project Initiative ? With the same amount of money which Government use it for Tax Rebate, Government can use it to initiate projects, for instance: build new universities, transportation facilities, Research Centers, museums, etc. It means, those project are not expenses for Government's wallet, but it will be building assets for Government's wallet. At the same time, the people or private sectors who will be the contractors of those projects will gain more money through increasing their ability to produce money.
Anti Aging Pill #3: Government Venture Capital Fund. Almost the same with Anti-Aging number #2, but the difference is, on this pill the same money amount will be used as an equity investments to stimulate the people to open new businesses. The effect will be the same, Government build asset on its wallet, and the people build their ability to produce money.
Anti Aging Pill #4: Government Organized Events or Internal Trade. What happened if the Government do not have too much money in its wallet ? Pills number 1,2, and 3 are suitable for a Country which is entering recession with a big sum money on the Government's wallet. Yes, of course Government could print more money. But, Pill #4 is a solution for a government which is entering recession with a very small sum of money on its wallet, without printing new bank notes. It is a solution by increasing the RPM of the economic wheel without costing Government's wallet. As we know, events such as: exhibitions, Sports Competitions, Beauty Pageants, Tourism etc. are events which could stimulate people to do economic transactions. Those events have a big multiplier effects too. All the government has to do is just to be the Event Organizer. So, the money will circulate faster without adding money from outside the country (by export trade). Or, the Government could create an 'internal export import" inside the country. Just imagine that each province is "a country". So the government just need to be the Organizer to make the "circular internal export import" such as: "province A export to province B. B export C. C export A". (That's an example if the country has 3 provinces). It will apply to if the Government has 50 states too. Just organize an "internal circular export import" among those 50 states. 1st State export to 2nd State. 2nd State export to 3rd state. ...,49th State export to 50th state, 50th state export to 1st State. What Government need to do is just organizing it. It will be an economic stimulus From, To, and By the People's Wallet
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I am giving this pills from the point of view of a neutral economist. I am giving this advice for the sake of Global Economy. I am not on any countries' side.

Well, I just can say to all Central Banks and Economic and Finance Regulators, Happy Stimulating the Economy !

I will develop WINDOWS XP Economic Growth Catalysator on the next version. On this version, I will borrow Chemical Science to solve Economic Slow Growth Rate.

Regards,

Roby Widjaja.

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Bill Gates leads corporate responsibility drive with $306M grants

By Barry Neild

DAVOS, Switzerland (CNN) -- Microsoft billionaire Bill Gates announced a new direction Friday as he pledged $306 million in grants to develop farming in poor countries, leading the charge for corporate responsibility at a major meeting of business chiefs.

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Bill Gates, Bono and Michael Dell from Dell computers.

The announcement by Gates, who is to step down from the computer giant later this year, drew attention from the financial woes that have dominated the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

Gates received a standing ovation for his announcement at the suggestion of U2 frontman Bono.

The move, the first foray into agriculture by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, will help boost efforts by the annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland to shake off its image as a billionaire's talking shop that does little to solve the problems it discusses.Watch Bono, Bill Gates and Michael Dell talk about charity project

"If we are serious about ending extreme hunger and poverty around the world, we must be serious about transforming agriculture for small farmers, most of whom are women," Gates said.

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"The challenge here is to design a system including profit and recognition to do more for the poor," he said, calling for a new form of "creative capitalism."

Bono, returning to add showbiz sparkle to the Forum for a second year, and UN chief Ban Ki-moon pushed the debate towards issues such as malaria eradication, poverty alleviation and climate change.

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In his first appearance at Davos 2008, which gathers more than 2,500 world business figures and government leaders, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown called for the World Bank to take on an environmental role to fight climate change.

Despite the fresh financial shockwaves generated by the $7.2 billion fraud at French bank Societe Generale, there were easing concerns that the global economy was heading towards recession.

A CNN straw poll of business leaders attending the Davos meeting voted in favor of an economic slowdown.See CNN's Recession-o-meter

John Thaine, CEO of Merrill Lynch told CNN that he believed the U.S. Federal Reserve's decision to 0.75 rate cut would help avoid long-term turmoil. See Thain talk about economy »

"I think that the steps that the Fed is taking, the steps that the administration is taking, are the right steps, they will help, but the economy is still going to slow," he told CNN. E-mail to a friend

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1월 25일

Little Tiny Robot

A Robot as small as a Bee

Continuing research and invention which has been done by Kyoto University, this time Scientists from Technion University, Judea University and Samaria University have invented newest kind of robot. Previously, Kyoto University has invented a robot with 1 centimeter diameter, this time a robot with 1 milimeter diameter (and 5 milimeter length) has been invented. This is the first time a robot as small as that has been successfully created.

This robot was created for medical treatment purposes. The size of this robot makes this robot possible to walk inside Human's Blood vessels (vena and artery) without causing any problems. Those scientists has also found how to control this robot from outside human body. isn't that amazing ?

[ The End ]

Note: This article was taken from Rifure Bulletin.

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Quote of The Day #65

It is better to give than to receive.

[ Roby Widjaja, it was inspired by Christian Bible ]

Note: It does not mean that we're not allowed to receive anything from others. But we should translate it into: we should have passion to give, greater than to receive.

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1월 24일

The debate: Closing

Economist Debate Series

Last chance

Dear reader,

The speakers have posted their closing arguments. This is your final opportunity to shape the outcome of the debate on education.

The proposition

“The house believes that social networking technologies will bring large [positive] changes to educational methods, in and out of the classroom.”

Con recap
Michael Bugeja rests his case with a fierce attack on the commercial motives of big technology providers and an equally fierce defence of traditional classroom values. Today's students, he says, have had "simulation foisted on them by their parents and grandparents from interactive toys to internet. In the process, we have eliminated a sense of awe in many of our learners, the notion that there is something greater than themselves."

Pro recap
Ewan McIntosh, in contrast, has little time for traditional classroom values—or for the traditional classroom at all. He argues: "Collaboration and communication help us understand the world around us better than simply sucking up information from one-way sources such as the textbook and chalk-and-talk teachers ... We are certainly beginning to challenge the notion of a classroom that was set up over 100 years ago in the light of an industrial revolution that required vast numbers of people to be filled up with knowledge and then to be thrown into the workplace quickly."

I know which one of those arguments I prefer—but I can also see the merits of the other. I congratulate both of our principal speakers on a well-tempered confrontation which has been an education in itself.

So, the house has continued to support the proposition by a two-to-one majority. Considering the place and form of the debate, this strikes me as a highly creditable position for opponents of the motion. We are a group self-selected in part by our ease with online communication, and yet here we are with a blocking minority, if not a majority, sceptical of the value of that communication in schools.

We are now in the final stage of the debate but our discussion is far from over. More than any previous debate, this contest has hinged upon the balanced and illuminating insights of our guest speakers and commentators. I want to draw attention to JON PINCUS, who pointed out that supporters of the motion underestimated "the risks that the new technologies will in practice reinforce (rather than counter) existing negative biases and trends in the educational system". He also wrote that opponents of the motion were "generalising from very limited experience with social networking technologies—and don't seem to view this as a problem".

Both of these points strike me as useful and true. I would only add that I suspect many supporters of the motion have been generalising from limited experience, too.

I look forward to hearing what you think on the matter.

Debate event schedule

Jan 24th – Guest participant Nancy Willard posts
Jan 25th – Final winner announced

Share your comments with the floor—and don’t forget to cast your votes.

Sincerely,

Robert Cottrell
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Quote of The Day #64

And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.

[ John Fitzgerald Kennedy ]

Note: For those who are living in StarTrek Age with me, you could translate this verse from JFK's gospel into: ask not what others can do for you; ask what you can do for others.

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1월 23일

Quote of The Day #63

In time of Crisis, either personal crisis or Global Crisis, GOD provides Goshen for those who trust and believe in HIM.

[ Roby Widjaja, it was inspired by Christian Bible ]

Note: for those who don't understand what Goshen means, you could just look it up at Christian Bible with Goshen as the keyword.

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Quote of The Day #62

Word Crisis in Chinese Characters consist of two characters which are Wei Ji. Both of them have a philosophical meaning taken from their pictograph as danger and opportunity. In every crisis, including economic crisis, there are always downside and upside on it, it depends on how we look at it. Soros' teaching has taught us that there are always economical benefit and profit opportunity either in downside and upside of the economy. Mr Buffett also says the same thing, he says it with a metaphore of ... oversexed ... whorehouse ( a lot of censor

[ Roby Widjaja, it was inspired by the Gospel of Mr. Buffett and Mr. Soros ]

Rice Highlights Opportunities After Setbacks On Mideast Trip

By Glenn Kessler

Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, January 19, 2007; Page A14

...At one point, Rice said that the difficult circumstances in the Middle East could represent opportunity. "I don't read Chinese but I am told that the Chinese character for crisis is wei-ji, which means both danger and opportunity," she said in Riyadh. "And I think that states it very well. We'll try to maximize the opportunity." ...

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Quote of The Day #61

I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends.

[ Abraham Lincoln, The Great Hero of Humanity Values ]

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1월 22일

Who is GOD ?

Dear My Friends,

Maybe some of us have wandering questions about Who is GOD ? or How to meet GOD while we are still living on earth ?

Although my point of view come from Christian's point of view, I will try to give general understanding which will be acceptable to all other faiths. Please accept this understanding not as a 100% Truth, but I would prefer all of you, Christian and Non-Christians to accept it as a starting point of our personal discernment based on our own Faith. I am forcing other people to receive my point of view, so that others should also not forcing me to accept their point of view.

in Christian Faith, we believe that GOD is a Holy Trinity of Father in Heaven, Jesus Christ - The Son of GOD, and Holly Spirit. But I know, this Trinity concept is not acceptable to all Faiths. But, I have found that if we talk about Characters of GOD, almost all Faiths can agree about it.

in Christian we believe:

GOD is Love ( 1 John 4:8 )
and Love : is kind, love does not envy, love does not parade itself, is not puffed up, does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil, does not rejoice in iniquity but rejoices in the truth, bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. ( 1Chorintians 13: 4 - 7 )
All Human Being (all of us) were designed as Image of GOD since we were born. It is written on (Genesis 1:27): So God created man in His [own] image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.

So the question who is GOD has been answered by point 1 and 2. How about the second question, How to meet GOD while we are all living on Earth ? We, as human being, should be Image of GOD as we were designed since we were born while we are living on earth. It means, other people will see Image of GOD on ourselves, and we will see image of GOD on other people. This is what we call turning corrupted humanity values into Godly Humanity Values. To make it simple, we meet GOD when we see the image of GOD on other people, and other people meet GOD when they see the image of GOD on us.

Becoming back to Image of GOD is extremelly different to a desire to become GOD. Two very different things, it is just like North pole and South pole.

So, how to check whether our heart (the center of will, or can be called as Being) is operating in Godly Spirit or not ? It is very simple. All desires that are in line with Love are Godly Desires. All desires that are not in line with Love, or against Love, are not Godly Desires.

examples:

If we have desire to hurt other people physically or mentally, does that come from Godly Spirit or unGodly Spirit ?
If we have desire to bully other people, does that come from Godly Spirit or unGodly Spirit ?
If we have desire to make other people happy, does that come from Godly Spirit or unGodly Spirit ?
If we have desire to make other people sad, does that come from Godly Spirit or unGodly Spirit ?
If we have desire to make other people fail in their life or works, does that come from Godly Spirit or unGodly Spirit ?
If we have desire to make other people poor systematically, does that come from Godly Spirit or unGodly Spirit ?
If we have desire to make other people's life miserable, does that come from Godly Spirit or unGodly Spirit ?
If we have desire to help other people achieve their dream, is that Godly Spirit or unGodly Spirit ?
If we have desire to help other people who are needy and poor, is that Godly Spirit or unGodly Spirit ?
If we have desire to make other people's life become better, is that Godly Spirit or unGodly Spirit ?
If we have desire to rob other people's human rights and civil rights, does that come from Godly Spirit or unGodly Spirit ?
If we get excitement and amusement by torturing other people physically or mentally, does that come from Godly Spirit or unGodly Spirit ?
etc.

From Christian point of view, it was Jesus Christ who has 100% human and 100% GOD being. Have you ever seen a movie, entitled The Passion of The Christ ? I know it is very difficult for non-christians to understand how come Jesus Christ, a Son of GOD, could not save himself from the Cross, but want to save the world ? weak but strong, strong but weak ? I know it feels like a comedy movie, about The Incredible HULK who could not even tear a piece of paper by his own huge muscular hands . But, let it be an open question first...

From my point of view, during old testament, human being has failed to apply Law of Moses 100%. Human being tried to reach and understand GOD, but they failed. The failure of human being to apply Law of Moses has been paid by Jesus Christ on the Cross. The coming of Jesus Christ on earth was not to cancel Law of Moses, but it was to complete it. So this is the concept, The failure of human being to apply Law of Moses 100% on their life actually should be paid by each human being. But, because The Father so love the world (which we can translate it into: all human being and humanity), HE sent HIS only Son, Jesus Christ, to "purchase" all of human being failure "cashly", so that human being should not go into damnation, but they will enjoy an abundantly life with Jesus Christ. Why the Father did that ? It was all about GRACE. GRACE is something that we receive, not because we deserve it, but it is just because the Giver want to do it. So, have you got the answer for the open question above ?

Look, there is no intention or motive from me to do a Christianization, never ever. For me, Faith should be received volunteerily, not by pointing a gun or bomb to other people.

The main intention of this letter is, I want to find a common understanding across all Faiths, so that we all could live together on Earth in harmony. For these 30 years in my life, I am so sad to read news from mass media, that there are so many terror, conflicts and destructions on human being's civilization just because of Religion differences. Even worse, up to now, I still read from news that there are many persecution have done by one denomination to another denomination in the same Faith.

Maybe, other people could say that my point of view is too naive and sounds to good to be true, but I am not forcing others to receive my point of view . I am just writing it and "serve the a'la carte dinner" on your table. If you like it, eat it. If you don't like it, just don't eat it. No hurt feeling on my side.

anyway, Happy Discernment !

Regards,

Roby Widjaja.

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