Agama dan Pemikiran

Segala sesuatu yang ada di dunia ini selalu hidup berdampingan. Ada kana nada kiri, ada siang ada malam, ada laki-laki ada perempuan, ada hidup ada mati, ada surge ada neraka, dan masih banyak lagi yang lainnya. Memang semua hal yang telah disebutkan itu bukanlah hal yang memiliki kesamaan antara yang satu dengan yang lain, melainkan yang memiliki perbedaan antara keduanya. Perbedaan itulah yang membuat mereka bias berjalan berdampingan.

Seperti halnya baris berbaris, apabila ada dua kategori barisan dalam satu upacara dimana barisan yang pertama adalah barisan bagi para guru sedangkan barisan kedua adalah barisan untuk para murid. Sehingga dalam pengaturannya guru dan murid dapat berdiri bersebelahan. Berbeda apabila kita mengambil contoh dimana benda atau hal yang satu adalah sama dengan benda atau hal yang kedua. Apabila diletakkan dalam konteks baris berbaris tadi maka benda yang satu akan membelakangi benda yang lain. Sehingga seolah-olah benda atau hal yang berada di depan adalah yang paling penting sehingga benda atau hal yang satu lagi harus selalu mengikutinya dari belakang.

Demikian pula hubungan antara kebutuhan material dan spiritual. Dimana kebutuhan material dapat dipenuhi dengan dimilikinya atau kecukupan akan barang kebutuhan manusia, sedangkan kebutuhan spiritual adalah kebutuhan yang dapat dipenuhi dari hal-hal yang bersifat lebih ke pada hati dan pikiran seperti agama atau keyakinan serta ilmu pengetahuan. Alas an saya mendampingkan antara agama dengan ilmu pengetahuan karena sebenarnya untuk memaknai sebuah agama itu dibutuhkan ilmu pengetahuan.

Hal ini bisa ada kaitannya dengan jenis-jenis kepercayaan manusia sejak zaman dahulu. Pada mulanya kita percaya bahwa manusia pertama adalah nabi Adam a.s yang mulanya tinggal di surge lalu kemudian diturunkan ke bumi. Walaupun ada juga ilmu pengetahuan yang mengatakan bahwa manusia itu adalah evolusi dari kera, akan tetapi disini saya hanya membahas apa yang saya yakini. Nabi Adam a.s adalah manusia pertama yang diciptakan oleh Allah swt sehingga beliau hanya tunduk kepada stu Tuhan yaitu Allah swt. Akan tetapi setelah beliau diturunkan ke bumi bersama dengan Hawa yang akhirnya bertemu dan hidup bersama sehingga menghasilkan banyak keturunan hingga membuat banyak manusia hidup tersebar di wilayah berbeda di seluruh belahan bumi ini.

Bila Nabi Adam a.s hanya meyakini satu tuhan, maka beliau adalah penganut monoteisme. Akan tetapi seiring berjalannya waktu mulai berkembangpula lah berbagai kepercayaan di tempat lain. Akan tetapi kepercayaan tersebut tidak hanya monoteisme melainkan da yang dinamisme ataupun animism. Para penganut animism dan dinamisme yang percaya bahwa ada roh-roh halus yang akhirnya mereka sembah dan dijadikan tuhan lama kelamaan seiring berkembangnya budaya akhirnya beralih menjadi politeisme karena mereka menemukan bahwa setiap bagian dari bumi ini seperti langit, laut, tanah, dan yang lainnya diatur oleh dewa yang berbeda. Kemudian seiring perkembangan ilmu pengetahuan manusia mulai menyadari bahwa segala sesuatu yang terjadi di alam ini memiliki proses yang dapat dijelaskan secara ilmiah sehingga merekamulai berpikir dan mulai menyadari bahwa sebenarnya hanya ada satu Tuhan di dunia ini yang mengatur segalanya. Sayangnya tidak hanya berhenti di situ, kini di mana era teknologi sangat mendominasi kehidupan manusia dimana segala sesuatunya menjadi mungkin dan lebih mudah maka beberapa dari mereka mulai berpikir bahwa sebenarnya segala sesuatu yang terjadi ini disebabkan oleh teknologi yang semakin berkembang. Hingga pada akhirnya timbullah aliran ateis dimana mereka tidak percaya akan adanya Tuhan.

            Menurut pendapat saya Tuhan itu tidak akan hilang dari pikiran manusia walaupun yang ateis sekalipun. Karena menurut saya penganut ateis itu menjadi ateis setelah mereka memikirkan keberadaan Tuhan itu sendiri di dalam hati dan pikiran mereka. Sehingga mereka tidak sepenuhnya menganggap bahwa Tuhan itu tidak ada. Hanya saja mereka tidak memiliki bukti yang cukup kuat dan kongkrit bagi diri mereka. Karena mereka berpikir bahwa segala sesuatunya itu memiliki proses dan hal itu dapat dijelaskan secara ilmiah, selain itu saat ini juga telah banyak teknologi yang dapat mewujudkan keinginan mereka secara cepat.

            Saya yakin bahwa perkembangan ilmu pengetahuan dan teknologi yang semakin berkembang saat ini sbenarnya semakin membuat kita dekat dengan banyak bukti bahwa Tuhan itu ada dan memiliki kekuasaan dalam mengatur segalanya di alam jagad raya ini. Akan tetapi mereka yang belum mengakui hal tersebut mungkin masih belum menyadarinya. Karena menurut saya sekeras apapun pikiran mereka menolak keberadaan Tuhan, hanya akan membuat kebutuhan jiwa mereka akanadanya Tuhan itu semakin kuat. Seperti halnya otot polos yang bekerja di luar perintah otak, maka jiwa spiritual yang menghubungkan kita dengan Tuhan tidak selamanya berjalan seiring dengan pikiran kita.

               

My Personal Identity

               I was born in the Javanese family. My father is from Tulung Agung, East Java and my mother is from Banyumas, Central Java. Although my parents are Javanese but I still can’t speak Javanese fluently until now. I think it is because I never have conversation with Javanese language in my daily activities. My parents don’t use Javanese language as the main language while we are talking in our house but we only use Indonesian language everyday. Moreover I live in Tangerang, Banten which the people there mostly talk in Sundanese for many activities. My friends in my schools also use sundanese and Indonesian to communicate. So I more fluent speak in sundanese rather than in Javanese. Actually I can speak Javanese but not the polite language of Javanese. So sometimes I still confuse when someone who is older than me talk in Javanese with me. It’s not because I don’t know the meaning but I don’t know what polite words that suitable to answer them. So finally I more often answer them in Indonesian.

            Sometimes I feel confuse when someone ask where I come from. I f I say that I’m from Tangerang then they will judge me as a Sundanese people, then I will explain to his or her that I’m a Javanese. Then when they ask me where my birth place is, I answer them that I was born in Banjarmasin. So then they become more confuse and they make me don’t understand why they have to be confuse. Everyone might be born in somewhere that doesn’t have any related with their ethnic group and also same for their current house.

            Sometimes I feel confuse when I’m thinking about hometown. Actually I don’t know what the true meaning of hometown is. I only know that hometown is a place where many of our families live there. That’s what I know about hometown because I usually go to Banyumas or Tulung Agung when Idul fitri comes and many of my families live there. Although I also have another families whom live in other places and I often visit them too, but It can’t be said as “pulang kampung”. Maybe because the place is not in the village so they don’t call it as “kampung”. So it means that pulang kampung is only for place in village. How about someone who go to Semarang as his/her hometown? Does it called as kampong when we know that Semarang is a city?

            Actually I don’t know where my hometown is because the places which I come to there for many times are my parents’ hometown because they were born there but I also feel that Banjarmasin is not my hometown although I was born there and I also don’t really understand with the area in my parents’ hometown. I feel more comfort in my current house in Tangerang but I don’t really understand with the sundanese language there. So, how to answer what and where is my hometown?

The Secret of My Name

           Name is not only a word to call someone or something, but it must have the meaning behind that word. We can say that the name is equall with our pray, our expectation or to recall something. We choose a name for someone of course because we have some expectations that we want it to become real in someone’s life. That’s why we have to be carefull to choose a name for someone especially for our children.

            I’m one of many child in this world who feel so lucky to have my own name. I was born in Javanese family. My father is from Tulung Agung, East Java and my mother is from Banyumas, Central Java. Eventhough I’m a javanese but I wasn’t born in java island. I was born in borneo island. I tell about my birth place because it’s related to the history of my name.

this picture show that I like drawing

One day in the beautiful morning, I was borm in Ulun Hospital in Banjarmasin city, the capital of South Kalimantan. My father gave me name Nurul Briliani. At first my father wanted to give Berlian Al Banjari to me, but he said that it sounds like a boy name. At the first I curious why my name is Briliani. It’s quite difficult to spell because all of my childhood friends could not spell it correctly and it’s also unique for me when I was childhood because I never found someone with the same name like me. So I feel proud to have this name because my name is the unique one.

            I still felt curious with the meaning of my name, then I asked my father. He said that my name means The Bright Light or Diamond Light. He gave me this name because I was born in Banjarmasin and there is Martapura which is a famous diamond producing place in South Kalimantan. The other reason is he had wish that I wil be a smart woman. After I heard my father’s reasons about why he chose my name like this, I became more proud with myself. I knew that my parents love me so much that’s why they gave this name.

            I think my name which is my parents wish about me more less has already given an effect to myself. The God gave me the bright think and I m so grtaeful for this. Although I have some lacks but I still feel grateful and so thankful with this gift from God to me. I feel that my parents had made the right choice to give me this name and I wish I always can make them proud to me. So I will never change my name forever because it’s already sounds unique, awesome, meaningfull, and no one havs the same name with me but the most important reason is this name is the gift from my beloved parents. Thank you so much for my dad and mom. I’m so proud to be your daughter. 

The Precious Diversity

Humanistic, is always talk about human and everything that have relation with it. Everything itself may be talk about the similarity or difference between each human. There are so many humans being in this world who live in every single place in the world. Nowadays, the total of human population in this world is already more than 3 billions. They are divided in many categories such as religion, country, ethnic, language, skin color, hair colors, etc. So the similarities and difference come from the categories itself. All of people in this world must have differences between one to another. We can see it from the physical, there are humans with big or small body, blonde or black hairs, white or black skin, tall or short, old or young, etc. also we can see that we are different in our quarter which influence our languages, religions, ethnics, and cultures. Although we are born from different quarter we still have similarities. For example a Javanese man who is a muslim also is same with an Arabic man who is a muslim too or a Philippines woman who speak in Spanish also same with Spain woman who speaks in Spanish too. Even we were born from the same great grandparents, Adam and Eve and although many religions does exist in this world we are actually give the respectful greeting to the same one God who had created all of us. I’m sure that everyone has already knows about this, but sometimes we still can find that there are some people who can’t accept those similarities. Some of them think that they are better than the others. For examples since many years ago many strong countries colonize the others weak countries to take a lot of benefits from them. Yes, take the benefits which mean that although they confess that they are better or even the best than the others, they still need the others to fulfill their needed. So why we still try to intimidate others when we still need them to help us. That’s why we need to learn to be a humble person to accept this difference.

            I think I can learn how to understand the beautiful of differences in Humanistic Studies I. This humanistic lesson will be focus on multicultural maybe can give me more information about cultures that exist in this world and the problems that have ever happened that related to multicultural issues. According to me the differences is beautiful because it will be so boring if everything look the same. The differences also can make us realize that we are so special because we have our own identity that different with others. In multicultural also the differences is a prove that we as a human have the greatest thought among the others creatures because we can create so many languages, dances, traditional foods, traditional clothes and many other things that included in culture. So we have to respect the differences among other cultures sincerely.