However, when a dead body was found in a place without head, without two hands and feet, everybody was surprised. And all of us felt horrify to imagine a human body laid incompletely, not only without soul, but once again, it was also without hands and even without head. And, the most touching our heart, all was clearly the result of human behavior.
We still can’t believe, how a human being is able, dare and mercilessly do that kind of cruel action to another human being who at least is his friend, his neighbor, or just his acquaintance. We always can’t believe how a human being is able, dare and mercilessly to cut another human body, then bring it anywhere whether it is thrown or for something. That is really a behavior that perhaps has passed many processes, so the common sense, normal thinking, have lost their power for controlling the muscles that have done it.
And the incident that in a few days later becomes news headline in mass media continuously, of course doesn’t stop as news only. We play back again the time and the days half-intentionally or even truly intentionally. We remember, have we ever heard the same thing before?
In fact, it is not difficult to find and play back once again our memory about the same incidents. In fact, we have heard and read, that the incident of killing between human being by using the same way, in which the victim is cut alive or dead, has ever happened. The way that later is known as mutilation, apparently is not a new thing in the middle of our harmonious life between human being. The fact is that mutilation had been there or had happened in the pain of our historic civilization.
In normal life, the murder incident or action by using extreme ways, for example by cutting off the victim’s body into several parts, is a kind of behavior that always causes horrible and sadness with intense physiological pain, even for far people like us, who just read and watch its newsflash from the television. We are horrified and sad, how can a human being that has the same characteristic like us, loose their normal awareness so becomes sadist like that? Is there anything which has greatly entered and ruined our humanity, and then control our brain every time, muscle and our inner heart to leave our sense of humanity? Is it this which all this time we know as devil? If it is true, how come? Haven’t we been so religious in walking on this life? Doing many ritual ceremonies, prayers, etc? Does it become evident that all this time our religiosity only in form of a camouflage by camouflage?
Here, I am suddenly dazed to myself. It is that suddenly, how a large part of our humanity behavior only till the grey line, between sincere and that camouflage. And sadly, our religiosity is till the grey line too. Ironically, we have mutilated our religiosity so long, massively. Imagine how we really like cutting our holy book, taking its verses part by part to be adjusted and used for a moment need. How we really like to cut the holy ceremony, holy dance, holy place, holy land, to holy prayer, just for certain interest that if we want to be honest, it is much for self-interest that too exclusive, just for a little purpose, just for the partner, just for….. ah, in fact a large part of our religiosity has ignored our togetherness, ignored our universalism, and, ignored the humanity itself. Whereas, religion, holy ceremony and prayer, as how the world is, universe and life, based on the simplest understanding, they are ours and for us.
In a smaller space, for example in a nation, we have been so long doing mutilation continuously and massively to our nation. How we mutilate the symbol and the foundation of the state for our group’s interest and belief. Every politic party, in such a way mutilates the foundation and symbol of our state. One party just takes only its divinity, another party just takes its democration, another just takes its justice, another one just takes its unity and so on. We mutilate and cut happily the state’s foundation that had been created, implemented and agreed in one unity and belief for all people’s benefit, just for winning the interest that is pointed to the group’s authority. While, for some people who are not partner, who are not the member of the group or who are not from the same party, just become procession object for defending the eternity of that authority.
In daily life, we also mutilate continuously our mother earth, the place where we stand and live. We take its sand a sack by a sack, take its stone a basket by a basket, take its gold a gram by a gram, its iron, its steel, its medal, its cooper, its coal, its oil, its diamond, its valleys, its forest, its water, etc. How happily we cut part by part of the earth, ignored its suffering, while, we easily forgive ourselves in a moment when we are warned and realized by a disaster. Regretting our bad behavior to the universe and for forgiving ourselves, have always been done only from our side. We just pray and do ceremony together, and ask the God for giving the earth and the universe back. We just stop till a prayer, and then we feel that we do not need to implement it in our real life, how we are willing to heal the earth’s wound, the mother earth’s wound, the humanity’s wound that we have mutilated.
We still can’t believe, how a human being is able, dare and mercilessly do that kind of cruel action to another human being who at least is his friend, his neighbor, or just his acquaintance. We always can’t believe how a human being is able, dare and mercilessly to cut another human body, then bring it anywhere whether it is thrown or for something. That is really a behavior that perhaps has passed many processes, so the common sense, normal thinking, have lost their power for controlling the muscles that have done it.
And the incident that in a few days later becomes news headline in mass media continuously, of course doesn’t stop as news only. We play back again the time and the days half-intentionally or even truly intentionally. We remember, have we ever heard the same thing before?
In fact, it is not difficult to find and play back once again our memory about the same incidents. In fact, we have heard and read, that the incident of killing between human being by using the same way, in which the victim is cut alive or dead, has ever happened. The way that later is known as mutilation, apparently is not a new thing in the middle of our harmonious life between human being. The fact is that mutilation had been there or had happened in the pain of our historic civilization.
In normal life, the murder incident or action by using extreme ways, for example by cutting off the victim’s body into several parts, is a kind of behavior that always causes horrible and sadness with intense physiological pain, even for far people like us, who just read and watch its newsflash from the television. We are horrified and sad, how can a human being that has the same characteristic like us, loose their normal awareness so becomes sadist like that? Is there anything which has greatly entered and ruined our humanity, and then control our brain every time, muscle and our inner heart to leave our sense of humanity? Is it this which all this time we know as devil? If it is true, how come? Haven’t we been so religious in walking on this life? Doing many ritual ceremonies, prayers, etc? Does it become evident that all this time our religiosity only in form of a camouflage by camouflage?
Here, I am suddenly dazed to myself. It is that suddenly, how a large part of our humanity behavior only till the grey line, between sincere and that camouflage. And sadly, our religiosity is till the grey line too. Ironically, we have mutilated our religiosity so long, massively. Imagine how we really like cutting our holy book, taking its verses part by part to be adjusted and used for a moment need. How we really like to cut the holy ceremony, holy dance, holy place, holy land, to holy prayer, just for certain interest that if we want to be honest, it is much for self-interest that too exclusive, just for a little purpose, just for the partner, just for….. ah, in fact a large part of our religiosity has ignored our togetherness, ignored our universalism, and, ignored the humanity itself. Whereas, religion, holy ceremony and prayer, as how the world is, universe and life, based on the simplest understanding, they are ours and for us.
In a smaller space, for example in a nation, we have been so long doing mutilation continuously and massively to our nation. How we mutilate the symbol and the foundation of the state for our group’s interest and belief. Every politic party, in such a way mutilates the foundation and symbol of our state. One party just takes only its divinity, another party just takes its democration, another just takes its justice, another one just takes its unity and so on. We mutilate and cut happily the state’s foundation that had been created, implemented and agreed in one unity and belief for all people’s benefit, just for winning the interest that is pointed to the group’s authority. While, for some people who are not partner, who are not the member of the group or who are not from the same party, just become procession object for defending the eternity of that authority.
In daily life, we also mutilate continuously our mother earth, the place where we stand and live. We take its sand a sack by a sack, take its stone a basket by a basket, take its gold a gram by a gram, its iron, its steel, its medal, its cooper, its coal, its oil, its diamond, its valleys, its forest, its water, etc. How happily we cut part by part of the earth, ignored its suffering, while, we easily forgive ourselves in a moment when we are warned and realized by a disaster. Regretting our bad behavior to the universe and for forgiving ourselves, have always been done only from our side. We just pray and do ceremony together, and ask the God for giving the earth and the universe back. We just stop till a prayer, and then we feel that we do not need to implement it in our real life, how we are willing to heal the earth’s wound, the mother earth’s wound, the humanity’s wound that we have mutilated.
So, when a dead body was found in a place without head and two hands, or when another human body was found anywhere into several pieces, hopefully, we will remember that we all are creature that like to do mutilation and we have to stop that behavior soon!
nanoq da kansas
translated from indonesian first by yudi ariani
