Blog posts from The Alignment (#the-alignment)
Light as a consequence of following Christ.
Our flesh desires peace through privacy and anonymity, because we often suspect and afraid of people who do evil. But when you decide to follow Christ and bound to His own rules, you have to accept one of the consequences to the desires of your flesh: being the light. [14] “You are the light of the world. A town built on a hill cannot be hidden. [15] Neither do people light a lamp and put it under a bowl. Instead they put it on its stand, and it gives light to everyone in the house. [16] In the same way, let your light shine before others, that they may see your good deeds and glorify your Father in heaven. Matthew 5:14-16 NIV [16] “No one lights a lamp and hides it in a clay jar or puts it under a bed. Instead, they put it on a stand, so that those who come in can see the light. [17] For there is nothing hidden that will not be disclosed, and nothing concealed that will not be known or brought out into the open. Luke 8:16-17 NIV Jesus has explicitly given us these two commandments: be the light, in the public, and don’t ever try to hide yourself as the light of the world. Again, there is no point of putting myself in a place that’s private from others. I may personally grow but not others. Being an unhideable light is an identity and a must for me and others.
Turns out, I am the product.
Some of you came here to advocate for the social justice in the cyberspace. Those of you said that the tech products I and others use each day are unethical and evil, converting their users to become “useds”. *We call them 'useds' rather than 'users' because Facebook is using them, not vice versa. Richard Stallman I used to understand some of your beliefs during my early days with Mozilla, including one of the famous quotes of the Internet that clearly says: If you are not paying for it, you’re not the customer; you’re the product being sold. Various Authors (incl. Andrew Lewis) Turns out, I never paid anything to prepare for my birth, nor I paid for my tuition fees from kindergarten to college except one as an apology. Does that now qualify me as a product even without mentioning anything about GAFAM? Again, I do neither have my personal desire nor my legal consent to be born on Earth—where my spiritual self would definitely prefers to stay in the Kingdom of God in heavens instead of here. The Holy Bible, who describes who I am, also defines myself as nothing more than products and commodities: either as the salt and light of the world, a healthy seed and tree that grows the fruits of the Holy Spirit, a dirty scarlet piece of cloth who was washed away to become as white as the snow, and as a humble plant that would grow into nutritious grains of wheat, instead of the strikingly poisonous tare or darnel. So that really means I already am the Product. Even before the TV, media, and tech industries came all along and influenced me as a whole. And as a Product, I shall embrace my way as how the Product embraces itself. It’s just a big irony for those who conspire about these without realizing that they, too, are already destined to become products since their own birth.