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Laid To Rest

If there was a single day I could live... a single breath I could take
I'd trade all the others away.
The blood's on the wall, so you'd might as well just admit it
And bleach out the stains, commit to forgetting it.
You're better off empty and blank, than left with a single pathetic trace of this
Smother another failure, lay this to rest.
Console yourself, you're better alone
Destroy yourself, see who gives a fuck
Absorb yourself, you're better alone
Destroy yourself.
I'll chain you to the truth, for the truth shall set you free
I'll turn the screws of vengeance and bury you with honesty
I'll make all your dreams come to life, then slay them as quickly as they came
Smother another failure, lay this to rest.
Console yourself, you're better alone
Destroy yourself, see who gives a fuck
Absorb yourself, you're better alone
Destroy yourself, see who gives a fuck.
Failure.
If there was a day I could live, if there was a single breath I could take
I'd trade all the others away.

Hourglass

Privileged, a chosen few
Blessed with our time in hell
Witness a divine vision, the day we all fell still.
Rapture of the dying age, a shattered hourglass
Wrath of the warring gods and so this too shall pass.
It's only getting worse, not worth a moment's regret
Each dawn another curse, every breath a twisting blade
What will be left behind in the ashes of the wake?
An ill wind blows this way, the edge of the envelope burns
Forbearance and my vengeance, payment for you intent
Fear and death in the wings, in thrall of those fallen from grace
Petty is as petty does, witness the mass disgrace.
God forbid you read the signs, watch for meanings between the lines
Gehenna has now arrived, no hindsight for the blind.
Your trust has been misplaced, believed the lies told to your face
Became another casualty and now it's too late.
You finally made it home, draped in the flag that you fell for.
And so it goes
The a shes of the wake.
It's only getting worse...

Now You've Got Something To Die For

Now you've got something to die for.
Infidel, Imperial
Lust for blood, a blind crusade
Apocalyptic, we count the days.
Bombs to set the people free, blood to feed the dollar tree
Flags for coffins on the screen, oil for the machine
Army of the liberation, gunpoint indoctrination
The fires of sedition
Fulfill the prophecy.
Now you've got something to die for.
Send the children to the fire, sons and daughters stack the pyre
Stoke the flame of the empire, live to lie another day
Face of hypocrisy, raping democracy
Apocalyptic, we count the days.
We'll never get out of this hole until we've dug our own grave
And drug the rest down with us, the burning home of the brave
Burn.
Now you've got something to die for.

The Faded Line

Witness shame's parade, the pain of blame repaid
It's fucking hopeless
Accusations and denial.
Hopeless... demon of another day
Colorless... stoned, solid grey
Emptiness... of promises I made
So faithless... the tenets long betrayed.
Walk the faded line, cursed crawl of time
Silence, the only promise ever kept.
Familiar touch, a ritual to numb the cut
Salvation in vice
Anguish is realizing what could have been, but never was
It's emptiness that fills the cup
Devotion in the method of my fall.
Pointless... futility continuing
Endless... flowing corrupted vein.
Walk the faded line, cursed crawl of time
Silence, the only promise ever kept.
Hopeless.

Omerta

Whoever appeals to the law against his fellow man is either a fool or a coward.
Whoever cannot take care of themselves without that law is both.
For a wounded man shall say to his assailant,
'If I live, I will kill you. If I die, You are forgiven.'
Such is the rule of honour.

Broken the paradigm an example must be set
Invoke the Siren's song and sign the death warrant.
This id what has been wrought for 30 pieces of silver
The tongues of men and angels bought by a beloved betrayer.
I am the result what's better left unspoken
Violence begins to mend what was broken
You've been talking, I've been all ears.
Words meant to dwell in darkness shall never see the light of day
Words can be broken, so can bones
Execute the mandate
Mouth full of dirt.
Your name is removed from the registry
St. Peter greets with empty eyes then turns and locks the gate.
I am the result what's better left unspoken
Violence begins to mend what was broken
You've been talking, I've been all ears
Omerta.
Cheaply venal, stupidly verbose
A slip of the tongue, a slit of the throat
Six feet under with no marker
Keep my name from your mouth forever.
Free speech for the living, dead men tell no tales
Your laughing finger will never point again.
Omerta.
Sing for me now.

Blood Of The Scribe

All of this comes crashing down.
Cornerstone's gone
Sleepless.
Hopeless.
No end in sight.
Ink well has run dry, fill it with blood of the scribe.
Rest comes easy to the guiltless
The vampire laments as he prays for the sun.
Doom, despair, tragedy are the tools of the trade.
Cut to the bone, rob the grave
Unearth the stone, lay to waste
Defile the tome, rip the page
Strip mine the vein, lay to waste.
Frayed at the edge, flat lined.
The anvil cracks.
The hammer relentlessly comes down.
A new pariah is born.
Chastisement lays you down to sleep, tucks you in with bloody kisses
Gifts of nightmares bitter sweet.
Type A negative shuts me down.
Catch phrase will be the death of me.
This is, not what you came to see?
What, are you not entertained?
Climb the walls 'til nails bleed.
Rip the hair, tear the seams, break the glass.
Head in hands, bell tolls endlessly
No end in sight.

One Gun

The sins of deliverance

The eyes of the patriot fixed through the scope
The unknowing tyrant walks to the rope.

It's where murder is justice that martyrs are made
A one gun salute for the new independence day.
They'll hallow your name
They'll hallow your name for your sacrifice.

The sins of deliverance.
"So let the wicked perish in the presence of God."
(For your sacrifice)

The sins of the father atoned by the son
Confessions of commitments broken
A nail driven for every one (of them).

It's where murder is justice that martyrs are made
A one gun salute for the new independence day.
They'll hallow your name
They'll hallow your name for your sacrifice.

You are the cause, I am the effect
Created in hatred, a noose for your neck.

The eyes of the patriot fixed through the scope
The unknowing tyrant walks to the rope.
They'll hallow your name.
For your sacrifice.
They'll hallow your name.
Sacrifice
Sacrifice
Sacrifice
They'll hallow your name

Break You

Endless mornings cut by the dawn razor
Whipping the nightmares to a froth
Endless questions with no answers
No replacement for what's been lost.
Lost.
Everything suffocates in the dust of the past fortunes squandered
The empire of lies to whom you pandered
Suffer a self-imposed exile, taste the bitter fruits of denial
In the presence of greatness the humble can only bow.
Frost on the breath of life
Empty of warmth or light
Full of nothing but deprivation
Eternal winter.
Tell me a lie with the best of intentions
Mute in the age of mass communication
Dark days lead to darker nights
Frozen, out of time.
It dies for blessed ego, the once mighty laid low.
Frost on the breath of life
Empty of warmth or light
Full of nothing but deprivation
You taught hate, I'll teach you fear
Open the eyes, kill despair
You cannot squeeze the life from me
Son of a bitch, I'm going to rape you.
Son of a bitch, I'm going to break you.

What I've Become

Blank stares from broken men
So withered from the poisons they can't remember when
There were once honest reasons.
It's all a lie, it died 100,000 miles ago.
Pretending I'm still here.
Justify what I've become, sanctify what I've become.
Amazing disgrace... (how) sweet the sound that saved a wretch like me.
Better lost if this is found, best blinded never to see.
The race to save face, nothing now is what we meant it to be.
Pretending I'm still here.
It's a system now, intertwined.
Take your place in the line to be ground by the gears of the masterpiece.
Betrayal.
Suffered consequence
It's been so long since any piece of this made any kind of sense.
You anoint the king, I'll burn everything down to ashes.
You giveth, I taketh away.
It's a system now, intertwined.
Take your place in the line to be ground by the gears of the masterpiece.
Betrayal.

Ashes Of The Wake

"We killed a lot of innocent civilians.
To us every civilian in Baghdad was a terrorist.
These Fedayeen are now in civilian clothes that makes everybody free game,
But if they came in our perimeter, we lit 'em up.
And when we would pull the body out, and when we would search the car, we would find nothing.
This took place time and time again. No harm, no foul, that's OK, don't worry about it,
Because this is a new type of war, this is an eradication."

"I honestly feel we're committing genocide over here,
I don't believe in killing civilians, and I'm not going to kill civilians for the United States Marine Corp."

[Quoted as a Marine in Song]

Remorse Is For The Dead

The dirty lord of the manor surveys his filthy domain
Too many nights raising hell worked a little all too well.
Constructed a monument to denial and excess
Sunk so low, crawled so far back there's nowhere left to regress.
If these walls could talk, they would tell a horror story
Never-ending winter, violence and infidelity
Shadows fall through broken panes
Careless words that are filled with hate
Just enough to keep it together, never enough to make it work.
All the tongues here are forked.
We are a hailstorm of broken glass, follow the path of least expectancy.
A huge stinking pile of sick, pile it higher and higher.
Light the match, start the fire.
Level this place until nothing is left and take us with it.
Surroundings are irate.
Crack of dawn brings naught but pain.
Resentment steadily grows.
Laughing in the gallows.
Full throttle determined to fail, pedal to the metal asleep at the wheel.
We are the lucky ones, welcome home.
Poisoned nerves and a bloody antidote
Violence is not an aberration, it's a rule.
Dying beyond the pale.
Your beatings will continue until my morale improves.
I don't hate you, I'm just removing an enemy.
Remorse is for the dead, my enemy.
Remorse is for the dead.

Another Nail For Your Coffin

[Japanese Bonus Track]

At a loss for something different to say,
I've said everything, we've said it all before.
An extra nail for your coffin.
I'm going to ride that horse we've beaten to death,
And deliver its stinking carcass to your doorstep.
A gift from all the dead children,
That are the progeny of your ballistic union.
Borrowing from Peter to rape Paul,
No news is good news, but I've got some news for you.
Fetch me a rope, lynch mob of one.
An extra nail for your coffin.
Certain blood has been shed for uncertain reasons.
You will never quiet this storm,
A cold wind to chill your bones.
I bring the hammer down.
Borrowing from Peter to rape Paul,
No news is good news, but I've got some news for you.
Fetch me a rope, lynch mob of one.

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Ruin

The knowledge that seeking the favor of another
Means the murder of self.
This is the resolution
The end of all progress
The death of evolution
It bleeds all life away.
Silence speeds the path to the streams of solace that run so few and narrow.
Brooks that babble the sounds of torture.
You will one day rise
To flood the banks of the chosen.
This is the art of ruin.
This is the resolution
The end of all progress
The death of evolution
It bleeds all life away.
I will show you all that I have mastered
Fear. Pain. Hatred. Power.
This is the art of ruin.

As The Palaces Burn

The fiends have gagged a generation of pacified fools
Bound by our greed a nation enslaved as corporate tools.
Arise and raze the legacy of their lies
To realize that this in itself is an ascension
Towards the day we revolt.
As the seeds you've cast away take hold
War will be born.
Rejoice, the age of the fall has begun
We'll dance as the palaces burn.
A shot gun blast into the face of deceit
You'll gain your just reward.
We'll not rest until the purge is complete
You will reap what you've sown.
My redemption lies in your demise.
In such a world as this does one dare to think for himself?
The paradox of power and peace will destroy itself
To know the truth and live in fear of no man.
To realize that this in itself is an ascension
Toward the day we revolt.
As the seeds you've cast away take hold
War will be born.
Rejoice, the age of the fall has begun
We'll dance as the palaces burn.
My redemption lies in your demise.
Rejoice, the age of the fall has begun.
We'll dance as the palaces burn.

Purified

Can the pestilence within you be bled out
May I have the honor of this amputation?
Know that you have made an enemy
To show you the meaning of indignity
I live now solely for the pleasure of your slow decay.
Feel the pain of vengeance burn you,
Soon you shall know silence.
With trembling hands you'll beg for mercy.
I'll show you none.
Purified by my hand
In this my world
It is salvation.
Your futile existence draws to a close
A cloak of lies drops.
The lies drop.

11th Hour

The hour of reckoning draws near
Judgment day is here and gone
Sweetly she draws me into her arms
A liquid embrace to chase the day way.
Sedate Numb Deaf and Dumb
Stumbling into solitude.
A clouded judgment day is fueled.
Take me under your black wings
Mark my words and remember me.
So sweetly she shucks away at my time
So sweetly she draws me nigh
Closer and closer towards never ending sleep
Spin the bottle
Kiss only the bottle.
The dark mistress of many, beholden to none
Slips a ring of needles around your arm in an engagement
Eternal engagement
Never consummated.
Take me under your black wings
Mark my words and remember me.
Destroyer of senses.
So take as needed for the pain
Another gray morning dawns across an ashen sky.
My sweet demoness beckons me
Ever again and again and again and again.
The dark mistress of many, beholden to none
My sweet demoness beckons me
Ever again and again and again and again and again.
Take me under your black wings.
Jacked up on the taste of self-destruction.

For Your Malice

Welcome home to my reality.
So you taste yourself every time?
This must be your pleasure
This your swan song I'll sing for you.
I'll cut the words from your mouth
You'll never speak my name again.
Locked up and sold the fuck out
Don't think you won't see me again.
It'll come back three times
Once in the name of deceit
Twice for your malice
Three times when I take you away.
This is a homicide daydream
I won't waste my hate on you.
All that you've claimed not to be
Has now come to define you.
It'll come back three times
Once in the name of regret
Twice for your envy
Three times when I take you away.
Turn on my heels
And spit apathy on this bridge you have burnt.
Feast on my own blood
I'll drain myself to sleep.
I'll rise from death to knife this beast
These last regrets the ones I keep.
It'll come back three times
Once in the name of deceit
Twice for your malice
Three times when I take you away.

Bootscraper

Watch the broken common man
Drown his sorrows at unhappy hour.
Dirty and sweaty
With just enough to get by.
Calluses on his hands calluses on his soul
Hard-boiled son of a bitch
Scraping away on the down hill grind.
It's a means to an end, a mean end for most.
Death and domestication ends in shattered hopes
Can't see the hand at the other end of the leash.
Turn and bite.
Turn and bite the hand that bleeds you dry.
Throw yourself a bone, no one else will.
Compromise leads to self-loathing
Money the excrement of labor.
And you don't get to keep shit
Except politics and power trips and a bad breath down your neck.
I know
For I have toiled in the halls of the mighty
And not received a teardrop in a bucket.
Motherfuck it.
The world doesn't owe me a thing
But you do (Motherfucker).
So crooked when you die they're gonna have to screw your ass into the ground.
As life slowly unravels
With nothing to show but wasted time and dust
A thousand points of lies falling on the deafened funeral eardrums of the blind masses.
Rise above, extract your life.
Will you look within
Then turn around and bite?
Day by day the mask suffocates your life
Is this any way to live?
No fucking way.

A Devil In God's Country

Down south soldier
Third world soldier
My vengeance will be swift and terrible
Many will die.
I am the distance between two points
Forgotten. A Void.
I dig holes brother.
Well, I've got a bone to pick
And a nerve to pluck
A skin to get under
And a home to wreck.
I've got ends to meet
So I've got a job to do.

[x2]
Acrimonious and sanctified
Call me what you will.

Stick to your guns
The difference is mine are loaded.
Taste the sting of your arrogance
Stuck in this screeching bitch called life
Drop the coins and send you to Charon.
I will have my vengeance
In this life or the next.
Well, I've got a sucker to punch
And a back to stab
A head to kick in
And a throat to slit.

[x2]
I've got a job to do
Harsh and unrepentant.

[x2]
Acrimonious and sanctified
Call me what you will.

Step back before you're the next to get served
With some Southern hospitality.

In Defense Of Our Good Name

Returning to solace
So sweet like honeysuckle on the tongue
The sound of silence blesses my ears
Enveloping like the earth I will one day lie in
Metropolis is bad to wither the soul
Roaring concrete and steel washes you in blood.
So let you point and laugh
Provincial ain't so bad.
Take me back down to where I belong
To rust in rivers.
I do not covet any man's life
I know my place all too well
One man's paradise is another man's living hell.
To each their own
Generation's ago made this place my own
The roots are deep and strong
Carry them wherever I go.

Never wanted your approval
Never wanted your acceptance
Never wanted to be anything but me
Never wanted to be anywhere but here.
Carry me Southeast bound home

To speak in defense of our good name
Lay me to rest with my kin
In the ground of God's country.

Lash out at any who would smear you with hate
Deify no one, never crawl ashamed
The past screams injustice on Southern night wind
Whips manacles chains musket balls
A dark history never forgotten
Only misconception remains.

Speak in defense of our good name
The blood of kin grants absolution
I'll join them soon enough in the ground of God's country.

Never wanted your acceptance
Never wanted your approval
Never wanted to be anything but me
Never wanted to be anywhere but right here.

Blood Junkie

A shallow little jackal of a man posing as a hawk.
Conniving opportunist
Lease the blade the gun the bomb in the name of justice.
A violent panacea for what ails the nation
In advancement for the pig.
You'll not wrest the truth from my hands
Eyes never closed clarity.
Clamped down in a grip so tight on ordinary horror.
Peering through a curtain of blood.
Retribution or vengeance it matters not which
As long as the pig stays on top of the ladder of bone his father has built.
Ashes to ashes to the dust
Eaten spiced with ambivalence.
The nation swallows it all whole
Weakened by their collective neck in the noose.
Commerce brings war
Jihad has come to both sides.
Eye for an eye fire for fire
Raining death as the towers crumble.
This will never end.
Left without a choice
By the fiscal elite
War is set in motion by higher powers.
A pissing contest for the unknown.
Left bankrupt we all die inside.
As a couple jumps hand in hand to their death.
Wrapped in swaddling lies and laid in a dumpster
Spoon fed shit doesn't even turn their stomachs.
Gaping mouths yawn for more abuse
Someone needs to tip the nest.
The pig ascends
As I sink deeper
Seething misanthropic
Waiting for my death.

Vigil

Our father thy will be done.
I have denied this life its worth
I will not be the victim.
Sickness to you my master
Here's to getting worse
Hope it kills you faster.
Show me how it hurts to rot from the inside out.
This vigil burns
Until the day our fires overtake you.
Our father we forsake you.
Blessed be his name
Nothing now the same.
Ask me why I hate
Why I've prayed to see the nation that I loved disintegrate
And gladly give my life
That revolution regenerates.
In honor of the strife of those who've died
In generations before for your blood stained glory
I reject you
I deny you
I defy you to continue.
Smite the shepherd and the sheep will be scattered.

Merasionalkan Klenik

“Aku berpikir maka aku ada, jika aku tidak ada maka siapa yang menjadi saksi dari suatu keberadaan”. Kesempurnaan manusia telah menjadi suatu takdir yang tak terbantahkan ketika manusia pertama turun ke bumi. Dikaruniainya manusia dengan sebuah otak, akal, dan pikiran membuatnya berbeda dengan mahkluk mahkluk ciptaan Tuhan lainnya yang kebanyakan hanya memiliki naluri dan otak. Adanya kelebihan tersebut, pada akhirnya mendorong manusia untuk terus menerus berusaha beradaptasi dengan lingkungan sekitar mereka. Berbeda dengan hewan yang sejak lahir sudah dapat beradaptasi dengan lingkungan, manusia justru memiliki proses yang lama untuk melakukannya. Namun, dengan adanya akal budi yang dimilikinya, manusia pada akhirnya melampaui apa yang dimiliki para hewan dan mahkluk mahkluk ciptaan Tuhan lainnya. dengan dimilikinya akal budi, juga mendorong manusia dalam memahami segala misteri yang ada. Misteri misteri tersebut sebenarnya merupakan suatu hal yang dapat dirasionalkan, akan tetapi ketika perkembangan pemikiran manusia belum maksimal dengan terpaksa manusia harus mengesampingkan rasional mereka. Di sisi lain, kondisi lingkungan dan sosial yang terus menerus berubah berakibat pada semakin bertambahnya tuntutan manusia dalam beradaptasi. Dengan kata lain, manusia selain menggunakan naluri irasionalnya, mereka juga harus menjaga akan eksistensi pemikiran rasional mereka. Oleh karena itu lahirlah suatu hal yang kita sebut sebagai ilmu pengetahuan.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Ilmu pengetahuan dapat diibaratkan seperti lilin yang menerangi kita di kegelapan. Oleh sebab itu, ilmu pengetahuan kemudian sangat berperan aktif dalam merasionalkan apa yang selama ini kita anggap sebagai hal yang diluar rasional. Ilmu pengetahuan yang berkembang pesat telah menjadi ujung tombak dalam meruntuhkan hal hal kita sebut sebagai mistis, klenik, sihir dsb. di sisi lain sejarah telah mencatat bahwa ilmu pengetahuan merupakan locomotive dari sebuah peradaban. Kita dapat melihat bahwa masa masa kejayaan islam spanyol merupakan pembuka dari perkembangan jaman renaissance yang menjauhkan eropa dari kegelapan serupa. di samping itu, kita juga melihat restorasi meiji di jepang menjadi lampu hijau bagi negeri sakura untuk berubah menjadi raksasa ekonomi dunia. Oleh karena itu peradaban suatu bangsa sangat ditentukan oleh bagaimana ilmu pengetahuan berkembang. Lantas, bagaimana dengan keadaan negara kita tercinta, Indonesia. hmmmm, tidak bermaksud untuk membandingkan, akan tetapi penulis akan mencoba membuka wawasan dan merubah cara bepikir kita agar lebih bijak.                                                                                                                                                               Indonesia, siapa yang tak kenal dengan negara kita ini. seperti perawan sunthing, negara ini banyak menjadi incaran negara negara konila di masanya. Sebut saja, inggris, portugis, belanda, spanyol, jepang. Jauh sebelum kita mengenal kata Indonesia, bangsa lain sudah berebut untuk mendapatkan cinta dari negeri kita ini. apa alasannya , karena negara kita banyak menyimpan harta karun yang melimpah ruah. Di sisi lain, bangsa ini juga tidak terlalu minat untuk memanfaatkan harta karun tersebut. Indonesia bukanlah seperti negara negara eropa, timur tengah, atau amerika yang sangat maju pengetahuannya, bangsa ini masih memiliki ‘selaput tebal’ yang belum juga disingkirkan. Ketika bangsa bangsa lain sudah melakukan perjalanan keliling dunia dan melakukan berbagai penemuan penemuan besar, Indonesia masih sibuk dengan urusan mistis, klenik, santet, teluh, keramat dan hal hal yang bersifat irasional. Bahkan saat inipun, hal hal itu masih saja dipikirkan bahkan menjadi perbincangan banyak kalangan, mulai dari anak anak, remaja, kaum akademis, bahkan pejabat pejabat kita. tidak dapat dipungkiri, bahwa negara ini seperti komunitas alam gaib yangmasih bertahan di tengah gerusan ilmu pengetahuan dan teknologi. Sejarah masa lampau telah membuktikan bahwa masyarakat negeri ini belum bisa membuka pikiran mereka terhadap hal hal positif. Sebagai contoh, agama islam yang masuk dan disebarkan oleh walisongo tidak dapat berkembang luas dan mendominasi seperti sekarang ini kalau para wali tersebut tidak melegalkan tahlilan, sesajen, dan ritual ritual jawa lainnya. kebiasaan kebiasaan tersebut pada akhirnya telah menjadi ‘kewajiban’ bagi umat islam khususnya di jawa ketika mereka beribadah. Masyarakat kita masih terlalu takut untuk mengembangkan pola pikir mereka kea rah rasional daripada memberanikan diri mereka untuk mendukung kepercayaan konyol mereka.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Sebagai orang jawa, pemulis sangat paham bagaimana tradisi tradisi yang ada terus menerus dijaga dan dilestarikan dengan sebuah kesadaran palsu. Mengapa demikian, karena di samping memeluk agama islam yang jelas jelas sudah mengharamkan ritual ritual tersebut, masyarakat juga menambahkannya dengan ritual ritual jawa tersebut. suatu hari pernah bertanya pada orang tua mengapa masih mempertahankan ritual ritual seperti member sesajen kepada leluhur ketika hari hari tertentu, dan merayakan kematian dengan melakukan slametan di 7 hari, 40, 100, 1000, hari dan jawabannya adalah karena mengikuti ajaran ajaran orang oaring terdahulu. Lalu saya bertanya kembali jika hal itu tidak dilakukan maka apa dampaknya bagi kita, ya kita menjadi tidak enak dengan tetangga. Pertanyaan sepele tersebut telah menunjukkan bahwa mereka yang masih mempertahankan ritual tersebut tidak sepenuhnya sadar mengapa mereka melakukannya. Ada lagi di desa tempat kelahiran ibu, suasana mistis masih terjaga dengan rapi. Ada beberapa tempat yang dianggap angker atau keramat seperti pohon, batu dsb. kecenderungan masyarakat masih mempertahankan hal tersebut karena mereka hanya yakin pada asumsi asumsi dan opini yang dibentuk oleh generasi sebelum mereka.                                                                                                                                                                                                   Disamping itu, masyarakat juga tidak pernah mempertanyakan kebenaran dari hal tersebut, alias mencernanya secara mentah mentah. Oleh Karen itu, di masyarakat kita muncul ungkapan ungkapan islam ktp, abangan dsb karena mereka tidak sepenuhnya beragama secara benar. Di acara acara hajatan seperti pernikahan, khitanan masih sering di jumpai beberapa orang yang datang ke paranormal untuk meminta petunjuk tentang hari baik penyelenggaraan acara tersebut. ada satu pengalaman, ketika itu saudara saya sedang melangsungkan pernikahan dan ada seorang dukun yang berjaga jaga terus selama beberapa hari agar acaranya lancar. Namun hal yang saya temui justru sebaliknya, acara tersebut terkesan sedkit kacau bahkan ada tamu yang kesurupan waktu itu. dalam hati saya bertanya tanya, lalu apa peran dari dukun tersebut. apakah dukun tersebut sudah kehilangan gelar intelektualnya sebagai ‘orang pintar’ atau lebih tepatnya orang yang dianggap pintar, hehehe. Pengalaman tersebut semakin memperjelas pemahaman saya, bagaimana mistis itu hanyalah kebodohan kita dalam berdogma tanpa logika. Masyarakat juga masih menganggap bahwa hantu, demit, dan teman temannya memiliki pengaruh yang besar dalam kehdupan mereka. Kita dapat melihat bahwa peristiwa kesurupan yang terjadi di pernikahan saudara saya adalah akibat dari sesajen yang kurang. Padahal jika dilihat sesajen yang di berikan pada saat pernikahan tersebut sangat banyak dan beraeka ragam jenisnya.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             Mistis, sebagai identitas tak resmi masyarakat Indonesia sebenarnya merupakan intrik dan strategi politik untuk melindungi beberapa kepentingan. Kita dapat melihat bahwa di Bali beberapa tempat seperti hutan, pohon, sangat dikeramatkan oleh masyarakat setempat. Padahal itu ada sebuah cara ampuh masyarakat untuk tetap melestarikan eksosistem di tempat tersebut. sebagai masyarakat yang tinggal di jawa tentu kita tidak lupa akan ketenaran Nyi Roro Kidul sebagai ikon klenik yang melegenda. Sosok gaib yang konon menjaga laut selatan pulau jawa tersebut sampa saat ini tidak jelas wujud dan asal muasalnya.  Yang ada hanyalah desas desus seputar relasi antara raja raja di Jogyakarta dan Surakarta dengan Ratu Kidul tersebut. di smaping itu ada hotel di pelabuhan ratu yang mengkhusunya sebuah kamar sebagai tempat bernaung Ratu Kidul tersebut. yang menjadi kejanggalan adalah ketika tidak ada satupun orang sampai saat ini yang dapat membuktikan eksistensi dari Nyi Roro Kidul tersebut secara rasional maupun empiris. Laut selatan sebagai habitat Nyi Roro Kidul dan pasukannya di nilai sebagai lautan angker, mistis, dan banyak menelan korban jiwa.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Memang benar, faktanya laut selatan memiliki ombak  ganas yang langsung menuju ke samudra. Akan tetapi jika hal tersebut menjadi alasan mengapa laut selatan sangat angker sungguh tidak relevan. Banyaknya korban jiwa lebih disebabkan oleh adanya kondisi pantai yang berpalung dan memiliki ombak. Oleh karena itu, ketika orang yang berjalan di tepi pantai dan mengarah ke laut lepas, maka bisa bisa langsung masuk ke palung ada tersebut. ada lagi mitos yangmengatakan bahwa ketika berada di pantai dilarang untuk memakai atribut berwarna hijau, karena diyakini akan menyaingi eksistensi dari Ratu Kidul itu sendiri. haha lucu memang, lucunya lagi ketika teman saya yang pernah ke pantai parangtritis mengkalim bahwa uangnya yang hilang karena ulah dari Raru Kidul itu sendiri. jika di nalar dengan akal sehat sebenarnya dapat kita buktikan. Orang orang yang hilang di laut dengan mengenakan warna hijau tentu ketika mereka terseret arus warna tubuh mereka akan erbaur dnegan warna laut dan alga yang dominan hijau gelap, otomatis hal tersebut menimbulkan asumsi bahwa mereka telah menjadi korban persembahan Ratu Kidul.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 Pembodohan pembodohan yangmengatas namakan mitos memang sulit berangus, bahkan sangat di perhatikan kelestariannya. Ini terbutki dari adanya acara acara larung sesaji, yang sesungguhnya sangat tidak bermanfaat bahkan menghambur hamburkan makanan. Ada lagi yang janggal ketika melihat sesajen yang dihindangkan selalu menggunakan minuman yang tanpa ada tambahan gula ataupun pemanis. Mengapa demikian, karena minuman seperti kopi tanpa gula akan lebih cepat menguap dibandingkan dengan kopi yang sudah di beri gula. Lantas, jika tradisi tradisi tersebut tetap di biarkan apa dampaknya bagi masyarakat kita. banyak, apakah negara seperti amerika, jerman, perancis, belanda bahkan rusia masih mempertahankan hal hal klenik seperti yang ada di Indonesia, tidak. Malah sebaliknya, mereka berusaha merasionalkan apa yang menurutnya sebagai mistis, gaib dsb. pernnyataan saya tersebut secara tidak langsung memberikan penjelasan bahwa klenik, mistis sangat menghambat bagi kemajuan bangsa ini. pola pikir bangsa ini tidak dituntun ek arah yang maju dan beradab tapi malah semakin mundur dan hancur.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Masyarakat tidak terbiasa berpikir jernih dan sehat, namun sebaliknya segala sesuatunya selalu dan selalu dihubungkan dengan hal hal berbau klenik. Di negar negara maju seperti amerika dan negara negara eropa menjadikan mistis sebagai lahan bisnis, sebagai contoh kita dapat melihat keberhasilan film Harry Potter dan Narnia yang menyebar dan digemari seluruh kalangan. Yang menjadi permasalahan di negeri ini adalah masyarakat yang tetap mempertahankan tradisi tersebut mengklaim bahwa mereka takut kehilangan eksistensi mereka. Padahal, jika kita melihat perilaku dan kebiasaan tersebut tidak lagi relevan jika diterapkan pada fase modern seperti ini. di samping itu agama Islam telah memberikan kita banyak sekali manfaat dan tentunya menegaskan kepada kita bahwa kekuatan terbesar hanya ada pada Tuhan yaitu Allah SWT, bukan demit, siluman, Nyi R oro Kidul dsb. agama islam telah memberikan kita pencerahan dalam merasionalkan apa yang kita anggap sebagai mistis. Buktinya banyak sekali ilmuwan ilmuwan muslim yang penemuannya masih di pakai saat ini seperti aljabar. Di samping itu, pada saat ini banyak sekali penemuan penemuan yang mencoba memahami agama secara rasional, dan terbukti apa yang di sampaikan oleh Islam dapat dibuktikan secara akal sehat.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   Apa yang menimpa negeri ini sesungguhnya bukan persoalan bagaimana membuat kita menjadi modern dan beradab, tetapi bagaimana kita memiliki niat untuk memulainya dari hal hal kecil yang ada di sekitar kita. budaya memang menjadi identitas tetap bagi Indonesia khusunya masyarakat jawa, akan tetapi akan lebih bijak jika kita melihat secara mendalam masih perlukan kita mempertahankannya dan meyakininya. Masihkah kita mencampur adukkan agama islam dengan tradisi leluhur kita. itu kembali kepada pemahaman kita lagi, yang jelas tulisan ini mencoba memberikan gambaran dan pencerahan kepada anda yang saat ini masih bertanya tanya pada hal hal seputar klenik tersebut.