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Whenever it comes to the socio-political situation back home, I’ve always been extrovert, and indeed many who are around me can attest to that. Whenever I was to condemn the stupidity of someone; it’s always been head on, no holds barred. Today, I find myself constantly gravitating into the shit-hole that holds Malaysia from achieving her true potential.

Discrimination, Apartheid, Non-secular, Incompetent, and Stupid has been just some of the terms thrown out to describe the government. How much of these are rather true? Let’s examine the facts.

The Bar Council of Malaysia, a somewhat docile (In a sense that they never hold rallies beyond the Humans Right Day’s walk [December 10th, I think, they walk 1 day prior to this]) and rarely do ever show out their concerns (They’ve taken it to the streets before, and only when shit _really_ hits the fan) took a momentous march from the Palace of Justice to the Prime Ministers office to submit a memorandum demanding the PM to do his job instead of sleeping, or spending tax dollars on vacation, to set up a Royal Commission to investigate the Judicial System which has been plagued by reports of Judge fixing and corruption (nothing surprising in Malaysia).

The de facto Law Minister Nazi, is an imbecile; and chooses to respond in what the current CJ (then) had to say; Basically denying the whole thing (Homie, If there’s a video circulating around with you in deep shit, it would help to elucidate your case than to merely deny the whole thing). To add insult to injury, he has the balls to say there is no need to reform this corrupt system. The PM’s Son-In-Law follows like a good Lap dog. I do not know how the PM (Who was once called Mr. Clean) can sleep at night knowing of this blatant corruption? He shrugs it off (perhaps ill-advised by his advisers?) and sets up a powerless team of 3 homies who would explore the case. When the 3 homies submit their decision that a Royal Comission needs to be set in, first Nazri denies, then the PM says Ok (A process that could have been Ok-ed earlier).

Fast forward, we have the BERSIH march kicking in (Coalition for Free and Fair Elections). Since Malaysia is a democracy-practicing nation that is good at breaking stupid records and achieving pointless feats, we defy the Constitution that allows us the freedom to march to show our discontent. Instead, chemical-laced water and tear gas are fired at protesters. Regardless, the memorandum is succesfully passed to the King’s representative, but no action has been taken since.

More recently, we’ve had HINDRAF (Hindu’s Rights Action Force) doing a march over the marginalized Indians. Whilst their claims in the memorandum are sometimes exceedingly exaggerated, you cannot blame a cornered dog; whose moves you cannot predict. Having no more viable options, they placed a 4 Trillion US lawsuit towards the British Government for bringing Indians to Malaysia and not setting up a proper system in which they would end up being marginalized. We all know the whole reason for this ridiculous suit is to garner international attention to their pleas. On the day of their march, more chemical-laced water, and tear gas fired. Almost 50 people were detained, some charged.

The next part is the best;

The very next day, the PM announces he’s glad that the public have confidence and are happy with the way he is leading the nation, based on a survey from NST (mainstream media, fully controlled by the government; read: lapdogs). PM, bangun dan tengok, boleh? Who in their right mind still has confidence with your leadership?

Anyways, this is Malaysia and we’ll live another day to achieve another stupid thing, maybe we’ll send a tourist to the moon (Oh wait! We’ve already done that). What I do know is, as long as people in Malaysia are discriminated by their creed and colour, the country is doomed to fail. I don’t disagree with the notion of having NEP, however, I am fully disappointed with how it is carried out. I do not understand why we need draconian laws like ISA, OSA and other assorted rubbish, perhaps to sweep skeletons under the rug? I don’t understand why we have the MAIN STREAM MEDIA, clearly they’re pointless, and only publish what the government allows them to. Journalistic ethics? Kiss my ass. And I must be really really stupid because I do not understand the need to have 3 seperate parties derived from their respective races, joined to form one party? Sure it helps vote fishing from the relevant races, but honestly, how do you expect something like this to succeed?

Asking people to vote in the upcoming GE isn’t going to help much, considering the vote rigging, and phantom votings? Don’t cha know, we’ve got 120 year old folks voting in Malaysia on a regular basis. The latest turn of event, they want to edit the constitution again (40th time, perhaps? in 50 years of nationhood. America amended it’s Constitution maybe 27 times, and Singapore, twice). Apparently, the legal retiring age for the top-honkie in the Election Comission is 65, which he is due to hit this december 31st. Now, BN is pushing to change it into 66, which would allow this head honcho to oversee the next GE which is rumoured to hit early next year. The current chief has alot of allegation against his bias-ness towards the government but mehhh, who gives a shit about that.

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-HypoG

P.S. Please….save…the…country!

About 2 years back, whilst kicking back during winter holidays, I was in a friends room talking about things that carry no weight. While we were exchanging ideas of high academic significance (Read: What’s the latest porn to watch and which model has the best bonkers), we got all stirred up over the theory of evolution. To be honest, it wasn’t completely off-topic either for the winter examinations prior to the holiday had a small scope dealing with this. So anyhow, while my friend and I were relating how the exams went for us, comes a loud groan from the background, with this guy claiming ‘I do not believe in the theory of evolution’.

An intelligent person, would have obviously chuckled quietly and let him drown in his ignorance; alas, I had to tell him that he’s an idiot subtly so much so that it turned into a heated debate. To be fair, the other fellow is quite an intelligent chap, it’s just, well you know how it goes with these fundamentalist. Needless to say he was a former-buddhist converted into Christianity. Don’t get me wrong, I have nothing against Christianity, and they can be good people, but sometimes, they tend to have their heads up their arses.

So back to the debate;

The issue at hand was, Theory of Evolution vs Intelligent Design (Creationism, or Idiocy)

There is no need for me to reiterate the concept of natural selection, for I give my readers (or the lack thereof) the benefit of the doubt that they possess enough intelligence to wiki it in the event of not knowing anything about it. So lets talk about the contradicting topic, Intelligent Design. This topic suggests that we, in fact do not share common ancestors with other species , but in actuality, Birds are designed with beaks and feathers, fishes are born with scales, etc. This design is placed by an intelligent agent (Read: God).

What, the, fuck?

And here I was, trying to reason out with someone who actually thinks the world is 4,000 years old (he even quoted Noah’s ark at some point). that in fact, the world is millions of years old with abundant flora and fauna, that have long gone extinct. Oh no, there was no convincing this guy, I’ll give him as much as sticking to your principles, but it was getting borderline ridiculous. Since when could you argue whatever that are in religious textures in a scientific argument?

In the event that the world was indeed 4,000 years old, how in the name of Fuck, will you explain the extinction of dinosaurs? None of that God made them and destroyed them shit. In the event that he did so, he would have had to done it in 7 days, which according to genesis, would imply God did diddly-squat, about dinosaurs. I suppose they could argue all fossils found are fabricated and made by the Jesus-hating Jews, or something along those lines.

One of his fundamental arguments was; If evolution was real, how come you don’t see it nowadays?

It boggles the mind that someone of this caliber is trying to study medicine; a field strongly based on scientific notions. Hell, even traditional medicine has some science involved, albeit of less exposure to the public. Anyways, does he completely fail to realize that evolution is nothing but simple changes in what is essentially the core of any living organism, -DNA- ? Splits occur when DNA gets altered in any way, read: Mutation, Deletion, Translocation, Inversions, Duplications, etc. The effects may be benign, may be malignant or occasionally helpful. Human DNA is considered stable, and is less susceptible to mutation because of an innate repair mechanism that occurs when chromosome is broken down, and mixed, before sending it down via sperm or the ovum. Furthermore, beyond this mechanism, mutation still occur, where people are born with improper chromosomes. Down’s, Fragile X, Patau, Cat eye, etc. This would be the malignant changes, most benign changes can’t be visual, and have little to no effect on Man’s physiology.

But what about the fruitful changes, HypoG?

Geez, I don’t know, maybe some people being born with sickle cell anemia to counter onset of Malaria (P. falciparum)?

Sure Sickle cell brings about it’s whole set of problems, but, it does indeed counter Malaria, and it is prevalent in zones of frequent Malaria infection. Nobody said evolution was perfect, but it happens, f00.

I do not imply that it is bad to practice religion, in fact it is good with helping us set limits to moral standards and such that we should abide by. It gives a set of principles one ought to follow to be blessed by God. However, to go to the extent of chucking out stupid statements and ideologies in what one thinks might be true is in fact, nothing but an insult to the very God one worships. Instead, stop trying to be a fundie, and take all the good your religion has to offer, absorb it and practice it. If you can refute something, do it scientifically, and empirically. Do not show me a book, in which it says dinosaurs are a myth and expect me to believe it. Prove it.

In the case above, it is rather sad that this brilliant chap is so enshrouded by his new-found religion that he would disagree with the very scientifically proved theory. For crying out loud, you’re trying to be a doctor, and to completely refuse (not refute) a scientific notion like this is rather hypocritical when the field you choose to venture into is something that strongly asserts itself with science.

Darvin 1 : Stupid Creationism Spewing Bastards 0

-HypoG

P.S. The author would like to take this opportunity to state that he is in fact, NOT an Atheist. The author would also like to reassert that the purpose of this article was not to demean God or other Metaphysical Entities that MAY control this universe, but to explain to people that, Indeed, people sometimes take religion too literally to the event of making themselves sound like idiots. Cheerios.