A Pandemic vs A Pandemic

Last month I wrote and article on religion and intelligence. One month later I came across a great example of religious fanatics doing what they do. It’s not hard find a group of religious fanatics acting completely irresponsible, arrogant and causing potential public danger.

In Jakarta, Indonesia the leader of a fanatical religion group in the middle of a pandemic organises a massive gathering. Which religion would allow such a group of irresponsible people to participate in such an event. The religion that causes 95% or more of the worlds religious related atrocities. The leader of a group decides to celebrate their so called prophet’s birthday along with the marriage of his daughter. What can this man do to openly defy Covid 19 restrictions. Invite thousands of followers into a room where it is so packed it’s impossible to socially distance. Yes in the middle of a pandemic let’s invite thousands of people. This is a very powerful action, it’s a clear message. Power!!!

This religious leader is exercising absolute power, he is making his own rules and demonstrating how weak the politicians really are. Any politician with a backbone would have the gathering stopped and the organisers fined or locked up. Unfortunately the prerequisite to be a politicians is to be an invertebrate along with being totally corrupt and greedy.

The actions of this nut-job sets a precedent, it encourages more nut-jobs like him to have gatherings and defy the invertebrate leaders of the country. I can see many more such events across the land over the next few weeks but here is the ironic twist of fate.

These fanatics who defy social restriction policies are not immune to Covid 19 and perhaps in some strange way this pandemic will weaken another pandemic that has endured for over 1000 years. If ignorant arrogant people with fanatical beliefs continue to gather and defy science and common sense then they and their communities will fall victim to Covid 19. It’s simple, they will spread the virus among their fanatical base and their populations will decease. Some people are sadly so arrogant and fanatical that they cannot be reached and it is these people who will be claimed. So ironically this pandemic spawned in China can help reduce a much older pandemic spawned in the desert.

A Pandemic ironically is more successful at combating an older more dangerous pandemic than invertebrate politicians

No wonder why every year thousands of women try to leave their cities villages and overbearing families to escape this culture. It must be awful to have to listen to and adhere to these fanatics who are pretty much against everything that is not fanatical. Where do these women go? They come to places like Bali for a new and better life away from this cultures dogma to party up, drink some alcohol and wear hot pants.

They very soon develop a taste for freedom and off course, pork sausage. Foreign pork sausage, bigger, better and off course not the small skinless variety. Just one of the many new pleasures to experience including fish pie. It gets even better, they can actually get paid and earn money while partying and tasting a few of these pork sausages or pies on any given night. Yeah, must really piss of the nut-jobs. When this pandemic is over and tourism returns to Bali it will be very easy to meet up with on of these girls escaping an awful oppressive culture in search of a better life and to try your pork sausage or fish pie by contacting us.

Religion Intelligence and Sensuality

I have not a fan of religion and have a general belief that religion does much more harm than good in this world. Now I will try to at least be objective, not all religions are the same. Some are far more destructive and dangerous than others. Religions that preach violence and hate have zero place in the world today and have inflicted far too march carnage upon humanity. Some religions are less harmful but still disctructive.

Religion teaches us to have blind faith, to not question, to not be analytical and to remain faithful to the beliefs of the religion which means don’t learn about other religions or beliefs. This can actually be very useful to a ruler, ruling elite or government who wishes to create a culture of blind acceptance and conformity. All these things go against a scientific intelligent mind. A mind that has questions and wanted answers to questions instead of believing in one view or interpretation of the world based on superstition. A very wise man said ‘religion is the opium of the masses’. Meaning it’s like a drug that keeps people content and stupid. I totally agree.

Organised religion is a breeding ground of mass ignorance and stupidity. It creates divides and helps tear communities and apart. The world today and throughout human history is full of countless examples where religion have achieved disharmony and distruction. I am a firm believer that the more religious and nation or community is the lower the quality of life for the majority of people in that given community or nation. Indian, Indonesia, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, even the USA, all highly religious nations. Not the best quality of life. Norway, Sweden, Australia, New Zealand South Korea, much less religious much better quality of life. Sure wealth also plays a part but I believe religion, IQ and quality of life or a nation are all highly related.

Not only does religion have a negative impact on a community or nation but also at an individual level. It can impact on the quality and life experience of a person in a negative way.

My main issue with religion is for the most they try to control or suppress sexuality, this is especially the case in Abrahamic theology. Sex is not for pleasure but for creation of life. Sex is something that occurs between married adults. Screw that!!!

Ideas of sex between people who are not married are usually prohibited, further, sex with more than one partner, sex with multiple partners at the same time, group sex, sex with a person of the same gender. These are all totally forbidden, further to this, female sexuality is extremely scrutinised. Sex is physical pleasure and animalistic. Most religions preach we are not merely part of nature but above nature, we are humans and therefore special and transcend above bodily lusts and desires. My thoughts, yeah screw all that. Live life now and have a threesome or participate in an orgy. So don’t wait till you are dead and rotting to get 72 virgins, experience 72 sexual partners while you are alive, partners who are highly experiences, who wants a boring virgin.. Why stop at 72, enjoy life, move into the 21^st Century and instead of praying to some make believe deity make physical pleasure your knew religion. When this crap pandemic is over you can experience a pleasurable massage with out service in Bali.

How will the complete mismanagement of COVID 19 impact on Bali over the next few months?

So right from the onset of this pandemic the government and in particular the Minister of Health was in some kind of denial about it’s potential impact. Indonesia would in some way be immune to this virus, God will protect Indonesia from this virus. Drinking Jammu a drink made from tumeric would possibly cure COVID 19. Reporting no cases of the virus for many weeks when neighbour countries had hundred if not thousands of infections that is until people who visited Indonesia and returned home found out they caught the virus while on holiday. Yes so much for immunity and amazing boarded testing, more likely a total lack of sufficient reporting. Then when the virus started to spread, they response was pray harder. Like that has ever worked.

These were all preached by the Minister of Health who now is nowhere to be seen on public Television. Wounder why? Combine this with massive under reporting, completely unreliable data, no national response to manage this crisis, no national lock down and in many places no lock down at all. Can it get any worse? Off course, constantly tell people it’s all under control and the situation has been remarkably managed very well. Encourage people to travel, yes travel around Indonesia, off course we will test for COVID 19 prior to testing and off course screw up the testing. Lets embrace the new normal and just wear a mask and pretend the virus does not really exist any more. That is pretty much were Indonesia is at. Oh finally lets add in more scientific facts from the Governor of Bali, he stated arak, a local alcoholic drink could cure the virus. Yes we believe you, we believe you will say absolutely anything to get the economy moving again even it if is a complete fabrication and embarrassing. Amazing commitment.

No, the actions of the government have been purely to get the economy back to normal and make money for the rich and powerful. No real concern has been shown for the millions who could be potentially infected. So this is real situation, how will it impact on Bali?

Well very simply through complete mismanagement of this pandemic it will hurt Bali for many months. Regardless of what course was taken global tourism has been completely smashed along with most of Bali’s revenue but since the government made a decision to encourage people to travel domestically with many people coming to Bali from highly infected regions such as Surabaya and Jakarta they have opened Pandora’s box and we can expect the virus to spread out of control in Bali. Off course none of this will be reported or talked about domestically but the real problem is beyond Indonesia’ borders. Governments and scientists globally will and already have considered Indonesia and red zone, a country where COVID 19 has spread out of control, they wisely don’t believe the claims and figures of the Indonesian Government and suggested over one month ago there were over one million cases when the official figures were around 150000. So when the world slowly opens up countries like Indonesia which will be red zone countries and be excluded from trade tourism for a longer period of time and take longer to recover economically. This is the price you pay for prioritising the economy and the interested of the wealthy elites over the millions of lives who make up the majority of your population. Bali and Indonesia will take a very long time to recover so don’t rush to book a massage with us in the near future. .