Just Joke... Interesting Though

Well first, I might warn you, this is just a joke, not something you have to bother and there ain't no intention to hurt or to disrespect some group of people. And I just want to share my point of view that is totally outside the context of the joke.

This is the email that I received in Bahasa:

Kira-kira satu - dua abad yang lalu, Paus memutuskan bahwa seluruh Yahudi
harus meninggalkan Roma, yang tentu saja kemudian menimbulkan keresahan dan
penolakan dari bangsa Yahudi tersebut.

Kemudian Paus menawarkan untuk mengadakan debat religius dengan seorang anggota komunitas Yahudi, yang mana jika orang Yahudi pilihan tersebut menang, maka bangsa Yahudi boleh tetap tinggal di Roma. Sebaliknya, jika Paus yang menang, maka bangsa Yahudi harus segera meninggalkan Roma. Bangsa Yahudi sadar, bahwa mereka tidak punya pilihan lain. Lalu mereka kemudian memilih seorang pemuda yang bernama Moishe sebagai calon dari pihak Yahudi. Moishe kemudian mengajukan syarat, dimana, agar lebih menarik, debat dilakukan tanpa berkata-kata.

Paus kemudian menyetujui persyaratan tersebut, lalu pertandingan pun dimulai.Pada saat debat dimulai, Moishe dan Paus duduk saling berhadapan.Setelah kira-kira berjalan satu menit, Paus kemudian mengangkat tangannya dan menunjukkan tiga jari.Moishe memandang sebentar kepada Paus lalu kemudian menunjukkan satu jarinya.Paus kemudian membentuk lingkaran dengan jarinya di atas kepalanya. Moishe membalas dengan menunjuk ke tanah. Paus lalu mengeluarkan sebuah wafer dan segelas anggur. Dimana kemudian Moishe membalas dengan mengeluarkan sebutir apel. Paus kemudian berdiri dan berkata ,"Saya menyerah kalah. Orang ini terlalu tangguh. Bangsa Yahudi boleh tinggal."

Satu jam kemudian, Kardinal sibuk menanyai Paus atas
apa yang telah terjadi. Paus menjawab, "Pertama, aku mengangkat tiga jari ku
sebagai lambang trinitas. Dia merespon dengan mengangkat satu jarinya untuk
mengingatkanku bahwa tetap hanya ada satu Tuhan untuk kedua agama kami.Kemudian aku membentuk lingkaran disekelilingku yang menunjukkan bahwa Tuhan ada di sekitar kita. Dia membalasnya dengan menunjuk ke tanah dan menunjukkan bahwa Tuhan juga sekarang ada bersama kita. Aku mengeluarkan sebuah wafer dan segelas anggur menunjukkan bahwa Tuhan akan menebus dosa-dosa kita. Dia kemudian mengeluarkan sebutir apel untuk mengingatkanku akan dosa awal umat manusia. Dia memiliki jawaban atas segalanya. Apa yang dapat aku lakukan ?"

Sementara itu, bangsa Yahudi sibuk mengelilingi moishe. "Apa yang terjadi? " tanya
mereka."Well," kata Moishe. "Pertama dia mengatakan padaku bahwa bangsa Yahudi memiliki 3 hari untuk pergi dari sini. Aku katakan padanya bahwa tidak satu
orang pun dari kita yang akan pergi. Kemudian dia mengatakan padaku bahwa
seluruh kota akan dibersihkan dari bangsa Yahudi. Kemudian aku tegaskan kepada
mereka bahwa kita akan tetap tinggal disini." "Ya, ya,.. lalu ? "tanya mereka.
"Aku tidak tahu," kata Moishe. "Dia mengeluarkan bekalnya dan aku pun
mengeluarkan bekalku."

In English it might sound like this:

About one or two centuries ago, the Pope decided that all the Jews had to leave
Rome, which initiated the restlessness and refutation from the Jews. This is the
story:

The Pope propose to hold a religious debate with one of the
Jews, in condition that if that Jew debater wins, the Jews may stay in Rome. On
the other hand, if the Pope wins, the Jews have to leave Rome.

The Jews realize that they have no other options left. In that case, the pick one
man, called Moishe, as the candidate from the Jews. After that, Moishe offers
one term, to be more interesting, the debate should be conducted with no words
at all.

For that term, the Pope agrees. Then, the battle begins.
Moishe and the Pope sit in opposition. One minutes passed, then the Pope raises
his hand and points three fingers. Moishe looks at it awhile, and then he raises
one finger. Pope then cast a circle above his head. Moishe counters it by
pointing the ground. Then the Pope shows bread and a glass of wine. For that,
Moishe counters by showing an apple. Afterward, the Pope stands up and says, “I
give up. This man is tough. The Jews may stay.”

An hour passed, the Cardinal busily asked the Pope for what happened. The Pope says, “First, I raised my three fingers to show the Trinity. He responded by raising on finger to remind me that only one God for both of our religion. I cast a circle to show that God is around us. He responded by pointing the ground and showed that God is now with us. I showed my bread and the glass of wine to show that God will
redeem our sins. He then showed his apple to remind me the very first sin of
humankind. He got answers for everything. What can I do?”

Meanwhile, the Jews busily surround Moishe. “What happened?”
they asked. “Well”, he said. “First, he said that the Jews must leave in three
days. I said to him that not a single one of us were leaving. Then he said to me
that the entire city will be purified (cleansed) from the Jews. Then I affirmed
to them that we are staying.” “Okay, okay.. then?” they asked. “I don’t know,”
Moishe told. “He showed his lunch and so did I.”

Funny story ain't it? Kinda lame but that's that. However, one interesting view I got from this joke is that, when people talked in different terms, definition, or whatever it is, there must be a distortion. So lessons I got are when we speak, understand each other and speak with language which has the same meaning. One action might be translated differently from man to man.

I hope it's not the problem of ours, our country, our world, people...