Flat or layered
I've always believed in empowering people through responsible management, and have always been going against the tide of bureaucratic feudalism so obviously apparent in traditional organizational structures. So if anyone would ask of my personal opinion, it's rather obvious that I'd choose flat over layered structures yah?
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I was also having a chat with dear Bob over the Golden Compass fiasco the other day, and I really quite think it's absolutely ridiculous of Christians to start judging Christians for actually making that choice to go see the movie, especially in these precarious times… come on, surely small talk can be focused on something more relevant to current living in the world (i.e. the talk of town, bla bla… bla bla… OK I can't actually be too specific about that here…)
I don't know, what is your church discussing about recently? In home fellowship meets, do you now talk about how people who have some part to play in the production or consumption of that accursed movie will eventually end up in hell, or about what's happening in the country now? Which topic is being given more airtime?
Or rather, if you guys are (thankfully so) talking about the front page news, How do we discuss these issues, do you talk about 'what you can do?' or how praying can change things? (I'm not a very big believer in praying in tongues, because it makes the whole concept of praying so exclusive… I'm the live in prayer kind of person, prayer through action, you know? Tongues vs action? OMG quite obvious right? Surely there's some way we who call ourselves followers of Christ can actually do rather than hurdling around in weekly meetings sharing testimonies and then hiding into isolated corners prior into bursting out in incoherent babbling right now? I'm sure God gave us the other talents for some other reasons right?)
I know I'm sesat like that lah can? It still annoys me to death that I keep getting spam on 'why you should boycott The Golden Compass' when it ought to really worry us to death that discussions for company financial decisions are beginning to take into factor when the elections are going to happen and some idiots are screaming nonsense like, 'I'm not going to vote because I no longer believe in the system.'
Cis bedebah.
December 14th, 2007 at 6:22 pm
I don’t think watching the movie makes you a deviated Christian. If a person is ever in doubt after watching the movie, I would think his/her faith is not strong enough and hence easily ’sesat jalan’. But why judge people in the first place? Refer Matthew 7:3
December 16th, 2007 at 11:39 pm
Aren’t they telling people not to watch the movie - because it might make people want to read the book? well, lemme just give you some advice…. don’t watch the movie. its a bloody waste of money. go buy the books instead. MUAHAHAHAHA!
December 17th, 2007 at 8:49 am
i came across the following verses sometime last week and thought immediately of your current posts on “the golden compass”:
colossians 2:20-23 (the message)
So, then, if with Christ you’ve put all that pretentious and infantile religion behind you, why do you let yourselves be bullied by it? “Don’t touch this! Don’t taste that! Don’t go near this!” Do you think things that are here today and gone tomorrow are worth that kind of attention? Such things sound impressive if said in a deep enough voice. They even give the illusion of being pious and humble and ascetic. But they’re just another way of showing off, making yourselves look important.
December 23rd, 2007 at 9:41 am
God is God. Human is Human. Taking out the omnipotence of God, whatever one says of the other, is utter disservice to each other, for one do not know the experience of existence of the other one.
Does that make human equals to God? Hmm…no one knows what is God or what is God like. Having said that, now you know what people says, are really a justification of their beliefs, and satisfying their own shortcomings. Nothing of God-nature or close to it.
“All good things, have their good intentions up till the last drop - so it’s not too hard to see what is divinely good”