Ultimate

nurses become nurses for greener pastures.
accountants become accountants for greener pastures.
engineers become engineers for greener pastures.
(though, it is sad but true)presidents become presidents for greener pastures.

philosophers become philosophers for enlightened pastures

many of us are enslaved by the mighty faces of money. most of the times we no longer use money to buy goods for ourselves but we use money to buy ourselves for goods. (i hope you get what i mean. :) and this is the reason why i want to make this post. though i pretty know that i could not be read by mankind. i only hope that in this simple words of mine i could express myself and my views of the situations around us.

at the start of the school year 2008-2009, i was very excited to enroll the subject philosophy knowing that it is the course taken by priest-wanna-bes. it never occurred in my mind that philosophy would unravel before me the potentiality of my being as a human person. i have never thought of philosophy as the systematic study of all beings in their ultimate causes and principles by the use of human reason alone. i have never pondered about the fact that we are all philosophers because all human persons are thinking beings. and the only resume needed for being a philosopher is human reason. however i was very sad when i found out that only few persons are taking up this course. most of the schools are now closing the philosophy classrooms. it is because a philosopher becomes a tambay after receiving his/her diploma. a philosopher ends up teaching in schools where they get the average salary.

the only consolation for philosophers is that they are thinking. they unravel to themselves the mysteries of life. they glorify their souls by thinking. by the way, the bottom line of all things is thinking, reasoning. nothing else matters.

it is ultimate.

...because philosophy digs the ultimate reason of things. the why? of all things. doctors examine and cure people but they don't know why they do those. they do not know the purpose of life. science for me is very shallow compared to philosophy. but science and philosophy work hand on hand in paving our way to knowing our authentic selves and our purpose here on earth.

:)

going against the flow

"an unexamined life is not worth living."

have you ever thought of a probability of you just being in a deep sleep? that all that happens to you is just a dream? there is no existence really? that you are just in the mind of God? how could you be sure that you are an existing being?

the above quotation is one of the most renowned words of wisdom of Socrates. the master philosopher of the ancient period. he has thought that knowing what is in the world, what consists of the world(like the scientists are doing now) are a waste of time. a lot of people nowadays would just go with the flow of human race. the environment dictates what must one do. if one does not do this and that he/she would be excommunicated from the community. a lot of people nowadays just survive but not live. a lot of people nowadays could not stop for awhile and think of life as a gift from god. most of the people nowadays eat money. money. and still money. they are just concerned in living. eating, working, shitting. what good does that do?

there are words that when you spell them backwards they would give you a new word. one of those words is live.. try to spell it backwards? L-I-V-E when spelled backwards is??? E-V-I-L! another word, L-I-V-E-D.. = DEVIL. when life is not lived it is taken away by the devil. when you live a routinary and a "circle" kind of life. it is better that you live not! but the question is how to live a life?

i have recently watched an animated movie entitled Wall-E. it won the Oscars by the way. it's setting is in a new world created by man in which everything is automated. all you have to do is sit and poof! everything is done by robots.. (someday, this would be our fate!) it is a place where all people are fat. and then they have seen life again in the planet earth! Eureka! they went back to earth and explored new vistas in living a life. a life that is HARD. a life that is DIFFICULT. remember that. life's synonym is suffering! whether you like it or you like it not, life is a struggle. that is what Jesus Christ has shown us when He died on the Cross. We must endure all sufferings so that we would be resurrected with Him in Heaven.

We must swim against the current so that our true potentiality will truly come out and because of the we may radiate our true selves!

Think again! have you lived your life?

save trees - say NO to exams!

NO CLASSES FOR TODAY!

(claps and shouts from the gallery)

i am pretty sure the mall would be jam-packed with a sea of uniformed lackadaisical nincompoop.

Have you ever wondered whether Socrates has gone to school? if Julius Caesar even attended one of his classes (if there were?) NO!, are they?
the first 12 apostles became the first fathers of the church with only one prayer taught to them, i. e., Our Father!

so, why the hell do we need to damn attend this fucking school?! argh.. common, students lets unite!

however, i have already accepted the fact that even we publish a library of books containing our voicing out of "no to school". we would always wake up at 5:30, dress up and go (unfortunately) to school. but what keeps us going back to school? is it our friends? sexy friends? the freedom? the nice teachers? the culture? the cheating? the acceptance? yes. maybe one of those! but what is the thing that keeps us going back to this hell is that (unconsciously) we want to know something.. it is the unrestricted drive of the human person to know all things. it is the mind that has more than zillion of terabytes that could contain thousands of hectares of books; and this has set man apart from all other creatures of the universe. it is that man thinks and he is a rational being. Socrates could not have gone to school but he devised his own ways so that he may be able to know. Gusto nating matuto.. it is our want to open that pandora's box and see the wisdom that is hibernated in it.

because of the above thoughts i am always motivated to study..

for you and me.. going to school is the birthright of all human persons. if you don't go to school, you may join your dog in his cage..

Putang Ina

Bitch, Motherfucker, Son-of-a-Bitch, Putang-Ina, Cunt ... these are but few of the gazillions words used against women.

but the question is still reverbing in my mind: "Are women humans?"

in all of the movies i have watched women are always confronted, abused, and maltreated. do they have right really? yes, they have but often times it is the animal right.. they always appear the weak. parents even despise their daughter because they say, "she will not carry with her the name of our family, so who is she?" actually, i begin to pity women.

for me, they represent the beauty of the world, the creativity of God. (though, i am not a sexist.) i believe that she is from the rib of man, specifically, the side of man. that means that she was not taken from the head that she is greater than men nor she was taken from the foot that she is subordinate to man. she was taken from the side, i.e., she must live side by side with men.

truly, it has been she who was the culprit of men's Marvel

sex is a four-letter-word

everybody loves the three-letter-word, sex.(oh common, don't be naive!)
if not sex-in-action, maybe pornography..
if not porn, the common solitary sin.

yeah, it is an abused language but it is true!
sex has been the lay man's term.
it gives pleasure, satisfaction, ecstasy.. (yeah, everybody loves these words.)

however, sex is for those who wear a wedding ring alone.
in this context, sex would be a foretaste of heaven.
there are priests who require sex to couples because it is where you can
temporary feel heaven. the utmost ecstasy that you will ever feel.
truly an indescribable experience!
there are three stages of sex:

1. carnal sex
2. mutual sex
3. transcendental sex

in the last stage, sex will become a four-letter-word..
i.e., LOVE

why so serious?

the above line was said by the awarded best supporting actor

in the film Dark Knight.. no other than Heth Ledger as joker!

today, we also celebrate Ash Wednesday.. it has been a week since we had our last vacation.

now, we are again here in the formation-house burdened with a ton of workloads(feb-march are the "Lent days" for students like me.)

many workaholics are also burning their candles just to stay in their jobs. america is now suffering a recession.

if people don't give a damn i am pretty sure their asses will surely be red because of so much kicks..

yet, this ash marked on our foreheads marked not only that we attended the ash wednesday mass but it represents humility..

"from dust we came, to dust we shall return.." literaly it is true! cause when we die we become one with the dust again.. reading between the lines, you will realize that it also speaks of humility. humility comes from the latin word "humus" which means sand. humility is the only way to holiness. pride keeps us away from God. proud men think that they have no sins. they are gods themseleves but the person who has an ash-cross marked on his\her forehead will surely be on his\her way to holiness.

we have all the means\reasons\allibies not to attend mass.. this day reminds us to stop and smell the roses.

Jesus Christ stopped being God-like and embraced the human sins. we are burdened by workloads\assignments\damn research papers in English\clearances.. i hate studying really! so, good news for us students! what i am trying to say is.. "why so serious?"

Cafe Du Marc

i dont know what the f*ck*ng meaning of the word above..

yeah.. CAFE! what i know is KAPE!
the above title is a well known luxurious coffee parlor here in Dagupan.
well, i am not an endorser of this place but i am overwhelmed by the the taste of its
irresistible coffee. i sipped some coffee there and felt like i was born with a silver spoon in my mouth(though it was a plastic straw in my mouth instead of a glistering spoon). a "BIG FISH", i was a "BIG FISH" for the moment.

yes! i am bragging..

Yet, at the back of my mind.. i was thinking of life merely as a matter of luck. if you were born with a bank account of P1,000,000.00, good for you! if you were born on a "banig", ohhh.. too bad! it is just a matter of chance. this leads to the most abused interrogative pronoun.. "WHY?"
sa lahat ng taong ginawa ng Diyos bakit AKO pa? bakit sila, mayaman.. ako, mahirap?

LIFE IS UNFAIR!

we can never choose of who can we become! it belongs to Someone. we just need to leave all these unchangeable facts to this Someone, someone greater than us.. GOD!
we are made like this. we cannot change that! however, we were given freewill to be able to change our lives. God started it all, we continue what He has willed.