Being Polite

I'm asian. So I can say: "Asians are not known for being polite" At least not the ones whom I've encountered so far. When you drive in Chinatown, you'll know what I mean. When you go to chinese supermarkets, you'll know what I mean. Sometimes, it's embarassing to be an asian.

Now why do we have to be polite? Is it just man made conventions to make life difficult?

Depends.

Some politeness are made to show that you're being nice to another human being; that you want to be good to another human being.
Consider in a supermarket, a lane is crowded. In chinese supermarkets, you'll see more often than not that people w0uld try to squeeze through first instead of waiting for the other crowd to move first. What's worse is I'm letting the opposite crowd to move first, then a person behind me would try to squeeze through me AND the opposite crowd! People just won't care what's going on around them. One mind set: I need to get there no matter what! I find this also a lot at costco near my place.

Granted, another politeness is just to look nice. Formal way to use a fork in dinner: cut your meal in bite size only, drop the knife, eat the piece, pick up the knife, rinse and repeat, is really, just to look nice and make life more difficult. Sometimes, people even use politeness to classify other people so they can degrade others.

However, back to the politeness of being kind to other people, what's so hard about them? What's so hard about waiting 5 seconds for other people to pass? Why wouldn't you hold the door for another person?

I think there are times also where politeness is being mistaken for weakness. Some think when you're polite, you're weak, so they'll "overcome" you.

Again, sometimes, it's embarrasing to be an asian around where I live.

Look what Love gave us

A verse from Hero by Nickelback

Someone told me love will ALL save us.
But how can that be, look what love gave us.
A world full of killing, and blood-spilling
That world never came.

Christians claimed God is love. How can love gives a message of hate and self-righteous? How can christians preach that if you do not know Jesus and follow their religion, you will go to hell? Is God limited to Christian religion only? Is heaven too full that God only accepts people from the Christian religion?

Matthew 7:3-5:
Why do you notice the splinter in your brother's eye, but do not perceive the wooden beam in your own eye? How can you say to your brother, 'Let me remove that splinter from your eye, while the wooden beam is in your eye? You hypocrite, remove the wooden beam from your eye first; then you will see clearly to remove the splinter from your brother's eye

Matthew 7:21-23
Not everyone says to me , 'Lord, Lord,' will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father in heaven. Many will say to me on that day, 'Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name? Did we not drive out demons in your name? Did we not do mightly deeds in your name?' Then I will declare to them solemnly, 'I never knew you. Depart from me, you evildoers'

Yup, we're screwed.

God is love. Where we found love, we found God. God is everywhere. And self-love is not God.

Wake up.