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Religious beliefs differ from empirical beliefs, which are based on how the world appears to be and are updated as new evidence accumulates or when new theories with better predictive power emerge. On the other hand, religious beliefs are not usually updated in response to new evidence or scientific explanations, and are therefore strongly associated with conservatism. They are fixed and rigid, which helps promote predictability and coherent to the rules of society among individuals within the group.

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Brainwash from Young (Analogy= White shoe turning black)

Religious fundamentalism refers to an ideology that emphasizes traditional religious texts and rituals and discourages progressive thinking about religion and social issues. Fundamentalist groups generally oppose anything that questions or challenges their beliefs or way of life. For this reason, they are often aggressive towards anyone who does not share their specific set of supernatural beliefs, and towards science, as these things are seen as existential threats to their entire worldview.

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Increased in religious fundamentalism has a inverse relationship cognitive flexibility and openness.

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Which would be a more responsible, accountable and ethical funding?

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Self-fulfilling prophecy, Shiok sendiri syndrome or Self-indulgence-cum-destruction

Fundamentalism begets fundamentalism (How to march towards nation-building and global citizenry?)

Both religious fundamentalism and intense prayer — "which has, as its most fundamental concept, the surrendering of one's self" — reduces, suppresses and diminishes the activity in the prefrontal cortex and the frontal lobes connected with it, as well as the activity in the parietal lobes, hence could hamper the development of these parts of the brain in young sapiens.

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Can they make good decision when they reach the voting age?

The prefrontal cortex is responsible for executive control, willful behavior, and decision-making. A 'deo volente' mental practice that centers on relinquishing control would result in decreased activity in this brain area.

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"I don’t understand how people can be influenced by someone who is facing trial for cheating, for stealing money,” PM

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Try to understand this:

A Tale Of Pak Pandir's and Si Lebai Malang's Lust For Mercedes (Ignorance s bliss)

Siegfried Marcus was born in 1831 in a tiny town that now lies in northern Germany. His parents Rosa and Lippman, leaders of the town’s Jewish community, discovered when their son was still very young that he – unlike other mortals – very rarely thought inside the box. The rest of the time, a constant lightning strike of neurons in his brain sparked primal inventions.

Marcus was a one-man patents office. During his life, he worked on many projects in the fields of mechanics, electronics, lighting, ultra-mechanics, and the development of artillery employing electric ignition. As many as 131 patents were registered in his name. The collection included eclectic inventions: Light bulbs, triggers for underwater mines, a printing instrument, a whale-hunting knife, a distributor and carburetor for an internal combustion engine, and more.

As significant and original as these inventions were, they were nothing compared to Marcus’s opus vitae. In 1870 (some say as early as 1867), the ingenious inventor installed a gas-fueled internal combustion engine in a simple hand wagon. Marcus was able to ride the makeshift vehicle for 15 minutes before seemingly alarmed local police arrested what appeared to be an approaching alien. That feat made him the first man in history to drive a fuel-powered vehicle.

In 1887, Marcus began to collaborate with the Märky, Bromovsky & Schulz motor company. That collaboration gave rise to what would be called the “Marcuswagen.” People were finally knocking on the scatterbrained genius’s door. The automobile was displayed in the Technisches Museum Wien (Vienna’s museum of technology) and ASME (the American Society of Mechanical Engineers) officially recognized him as the vehicle’s inventor. Karl Benz, who upgraded Marcus’s motored carriage to a real motorcar with a cooling system, brakes, a stable frame, and everything necessary to drive longer distances, patented it. That would eventually become the first Mercedes, which was named after a Jewish girl.


Promoting And Immortalizing Jewish Glory: A Luxury Car's Namesake Is Born

September 16, 1889, is the birthdate of “Mercedes” Adrienne Manuela Ramona Jellinek, the third child, and first daughter, of Emil Jellinek (1853-1918) and the former Rachel Goggman Cenrobert (1854-1893). Emil’s father was Rabbi Adolf Aharon Jellinek, was not only probably the best-known rabbinic orator of his day in Vienna, but also a scholar of midrashic and mystical literature.

The nickname Mercedes, meaning “mercies” in Spanish. Emil spent the winters in Nice, on the French Rivera, where he liked to race cars, calling his team by his daughter’s nickname. In April 1900, Jellinek and Daimler agreed that the company would design a new engine, which would be called “Daimler-Mercedes.” By 1903, Emil Jellinek had legally changed his surname to Jellinek-Mercedes.

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PART 1: Ominous Vivious Cycle - Fundamentalism begets fundamentalism (How to march towards nation-building and global citizenry?)


Owing to decades of irresponsible, unaccountable and unethical public school funding? (CAUSE)

END REDULTS (EFFECT):

"I don’t understand how people can be influenced by someone who is facing trial for cheating, for stealing money,” PM

Can't they make good decision when they reach the voting age?

The prefrontal cortex is responsible for executive control, willful behavior, and decision-making. A 'deo volente' mental practice that centers on relinquishing control would result in decreased activity in this brain area.

Both religious fundamentalism and intense prayer — "which has, as its most fundamental concept, the surrendering of one's self" — reduces, suppresses and diminishes the activity in the prefrontal cortex and the frontal lobes connected with it, as well as the activity in the parietal lobes, hence could hamper the development of these parts of the brain in young sapiens.

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PART 2: Self-fulfilling prophecy, Shiok sendiri syndrome or Self-indulgence-cum-destruction


Increased in religious fundamentalism has a inverse relationship cognitive flexibility and openness.

Brainwash from Young (Analogy= White shoe turning black)

Fundamentalism indicates unwavering attachment to a set of irreducible beliefs. Fundamentalism has a markedly stricted literalism as it is applied to certain specific scriptures, dogmas, or ideologies, and a strong sense of the importance of maintaining ingroup and outgroup distinctions, leading to an emphasis on purity and the desire to return to a previous ideal from which advocates believe members have strayed. Rejection of diversity of opinion as applied to these established "fundamentals" and their accepted interpretation within the group often results from this tendency.

Religious beliefs differ from empirical beliefs, which are based on how the world appears to be and are updated as new evidence accumulates or when new theories with better predictive power emerge. On the other hand, religious beliefs are not usually updated in response to new evidence or scientific explanations, and are therefore strongly associated with conservatism. They are fixed and rigid, which helps promote predictability and coherent to the rules of society among individuals within the group.

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PART 3: The Danger and Futility Of Overdriving Reward-processing Brain Circuit While Compromising The Development Of Frontal Lobe (Do At Individual's Own Peril, but why using public fund!)

Religion is like 'sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll'? A recent study that Medical News Today reported on found that religion activates the same reward-processing brain circuits as sex, drugs, and other addictive activities; proving Karl Marx's notion that opium of all sapiens, no?

Coupled with the fact that both religious fundamentalism and intense prayer — "which has, as its most fundamental concept, the surrendering of one's self" — reduces, suppresses and diminishes the activity in the prefrontal cortex and the frontal lobes connected with it, as well as the activity in the parietal lobes, hence could hamper the development of these parts of the brain in young sapiens.

End results? Figure it out yourself!

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PART 4: Garbage In, Garbage Out (G.I.G.O) - The 21st Century Cowboy-Pak Pandir-Si Lebai Malang vs Socrates-Plato-Aristotle-Epicurus Hybrid

With Socratic method of questioning over a long time, only the best ideas, leaders, policies, practices and philosophy survive.

With Plato's 'think-out-of-the-box' Cave, 3M's supposedly super-strong adhesive which turned out to be a "low-tack" adhesive, was put to good use? leading to the invention of the popular 'Post-it' sticky note.

With Aristotle's foundationalism, young Newton, the greatest seventeenth-century thinker, developed the surrounding theory of infinitesimal calculus in response to issues he perceived pertaining to his physics - gravity, planetary motion, etc.

With Epicurus' way of logical deduction and elimination of the 'not workable', Edison succeeded in his historical-cum-noble invention of light bulb.

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Failed Education Reform : So, who are these disappointed, worry and unhappy parents going to vote?

Parent 1:
Amir questioned the version of Islam being taught in the school. He said students were taught to question many traditional Malay-Muslim practices as being bid’ah. “When they go home to their families, they would even accuse family members of committing bid’ah through their religious practices,” he said. “Is this what the school administrators call ‘blessing’?”

Parent 2:
Haiqal was surprised when his niece told him of “illogical rules” at her school, such as a requirement that female students wear long pants under their long skirts, as well as gloves and long-sleeved T-shirts during sports and games. Haiqal said he was told by school authorities that the requirement was to avert male gazes on female students. “We didn’t have rules like these last time when we were in school, but we were still able to take care of ourselves and dress well to school,” he said.

Parent 3:
A concerned mother spoke of her daughter’s bizarre experience of her school’s obsession with the supernatural. Her daughter was told to attend a “ruqyah” session, in which Quranic verses are used to treat a sick person, as well as to cure from the possession of “bad jinns”. Her offence was missing the Talaqqi, or Quranic pronunciation classes, because she had to attend extra classes in Biology.
“My daughter was accused of being too lazy to study (the Quran) and of having disturbances from jinns. So they told her to come for the ruqyah session. It’s simply unbelievable,” said the parent who wanted to remain anonymous. She said the teacher had insisted that her daughter attend the Quranic recitation classes, even after being told that the biology teacher had requested that she be excused. “In the end, my daughter dropped the Biolog

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Will their kids' vote go to moderate or fundamentalists in the future?(No brainer question)

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A Tale Of Pak Pandir's and Si Lebai Malang's Lust For Mercedes (Ignorance s bliss)

Siegfried Marcus was born in 1831 in a tiny town that now lies in northern Germany. His parents Rosa and Lippman, leaders of the town’s Jewish community, discovered when their son was still very young that he – unlike other mortals – very rarely thought inside the box. The rest of the time, a constant lightning strike of neurons in his brain sparked primal inventions.

Marcus was a one-man patents office. During his life, he worked on many projects in the fields of mechanics, electronics, lighting, ultra-mechanics, and the development of artillery employing electric ignition. As many as 131 patents were registered in his name. The collection included eclectic inventions: Light bulbs, triggers for underwater mines, a printing instrument, a whale-hunting knife, a distributor and carburetor for an internal combustion engine, and more.

As significant and original as these inventions were, they were nothing compared to Marcus’s opus vitae. In 1870 (some say as early as 1867), the ingenious inventor installed a gas-fueled internal combustion engine in a simple hand wagon. Marcus was able to ride the makeshift vehicle for 15 minutes before seemingly alarmed local police arrested what appeared to be an approaching alien. That feat made him the first man in history to drive a fuel-powered vehicle.

In 1887, Marcus began to collaborate with the Märky, Bromovsky & Schulz motor company. That collaboration gave rise to what would be called the “Marcuswagen.” People were finally knocking on the scatterbrained genius’s door. The automobile was displayed in the Technisches Museum Wien (Vienna’s museum of technology) and ASME (the American Society of Mechanical Engineers) officially recognized him as the vehicle’s inventor. Karl Benz, who upgraded Marcus’s motored carriage to a real motorcar with a cooling system, brakes, a stable frame, and everything necessary to drive longer distances, patented it. That would eventually become the first Mercedes, which was named after a Jewish girl.


Promoting And Immortalizing Jewish Glory: A Luxury Car's Namesake Is Born

September 16, 1889, is the birthdate of “Mercedes” Adrienne Manuela Ramona Jellinek, the third child, and first daughter, of Emil Jellinek (1853-1918) and the former Rachel Goggman Cenrobert (1854-1893). Emil’s father was Rabbi Adolf Aharon Jellinek, was not only probably the best-known rabbinic orator of his day in Vienna, but also a scholar of midrashic and mystical literature.

The nickname Mercedes, meaning “mercies” in Spanish. Emil spent the winters in Nice, on the French Rivera, where he liked to race cars, calling his team by his daughter’s nickname. In April 1900, Jellinek and Daimler agreed that the company would design a new engine, which would be called “Daimler-Mercedes.” By 1903, Emil Jellinek had legally changed his surname to Jellinek-Mercedes.