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Interesting…

August 24, 2009 at 11:14 am · Filed under INSPIRATIONAL ·Tagged , ,

An Atheist Professor of Philosophy was speaking to his Class on the problem Science has with GOD, the ALMIGHTY. He askdd one of his new Christian students to stand and…

Professor : You are a Christian, aren’t you, son?
Student : Yes, sir.
Professor : So, you believe in GOD?
Student : Absolutely, sir.
Professor : Is GOD good?
Student : Sure.
Professor : Is GOD ALL – POWERFUL?
Student : Yes.
Professor : My Brother died of cancer even though he prayed to GOD to heal him. Most of us would attempt to help others who are ill. But GOD didn’t. How is this GOD good then? Hmm?

(Student was silent)

Professor : You can’t answer, can you? Let’s start again, young fella.

Professor : Is GOD Good?
Student : Yes.
Professor : Is Satan good?
Student : No.
Professor : Where does Satan come from?
Student : From…GOD.. .
Professor : That’s right. Tell me son, is there evil in this World?
Student : Yes.
Professor : Evil is everywhere, isn’t it? And GOD did make everything. Correct?
Student : Yes.
Professor : So who created evil?

(Student did not answer)

Professor : Is there Sickness? Immorality? Hatred? Ugliness?
All these terrible things exist in the World, don’t they?
Student : Yes, sir.
Professor : So, who created them?

(Student had no answer)

Professor : Science says you have 5 Senses you use to Identify and Observe
the World around you. Tell me, son…have you ever seen GOD?
Student : No, sir.
Professor : Tell us if you have ever heard your GOD?
Student : No, sir.
Professor : Have you ever Felt your GOD, Tasted your GOD, Smelt your
GOD? Have you ever had any Sensory Perception of GOD for that matter?
Student : No, sir. I’m afraid I haven’t.
Professor : Yet you still believe in HIM?
Student : Yes.
Professor : According to Empirical, Testable, Demonstrable Protocol, Science says your GOD doesn’t exist. What do you say to that, son?

Student : Nothing. I only have my Faith.
Professor : Yes, Faith. And that is the problem Science has.

Student : Professor, is there such a thing as Heat?
Professor : Yes.
Student : And is there such a thing as Cold?
Professor : Yes.
Student : No, sir. There isn’t…

(The Lecture Theatre became very quiet with this turn of events)

Student : Sir, you can have Lots of Heat, even More Heat, Superheat, Mega Heat, White Heat, a Little Heat or No Heat.
But we don’t have anything called Cold. We can hit 458 Degrees below Zero
which is No Heat, but we can’t go any further after that. There is no such thing as Cold. Cold is only a Word we use to describe the Absence of Heat. We cannot Measure Cold. Heat is Energy. Cold is Not the Opposite of Heat, sir, just the Absence of it.

(There was pin-drop dilence in the Lecture Theatre)

Student : What about Darkness, Professor? Is there such a thing as Darkness?
Professor : Yes. What is Night if there isn’t Darkness?
Student : You’re wrong again, sir. Darkness is the Absence of Something.

You can have Low Light, Normal Light, Bright Light, Flashing Light… But if you have No Light constantly, you have nothing and its called Darkness, isn’t it? In reality, Darkness isn’t. If it is, you would be able to make Darkness Darker, wouldn’t you?

Professor : So what is the point you are making, young man?
Student : Sir, my point is, your Philosophical Premise is flawed.
Professor : Flawed? Can you explain how?

Student : Sir, you are working on the Premise of Duality. You argue there is Life and then there is Death, a Good GOD and a Bad GOD. You are viewing the Concept of GOD as something finite, something we can measure.

Sir, Science can’t even explain a Thought. It uses Electricity and Magnetism, but has never seen, much less fully understood either one. To view Death as the Opposite of Life is to be ignorant of the fact that Death cannot exist as a Substantive Thing. Death is Not the Opposite of Life: just the Absence of it. Now tell me, Professor, do you teach your students that they evolved from a Monkey?

Professor : If you are referring to the Natural Evolutionary Process, yes, of course, I do.
Student : Have you ever observed Evolution with your own eyes, sir?

(The Professor shook his head with a smile, beginning to realize where the argument was going)

Student : Since no one has ever observed the Process of Evolution at work and Cannot even prove that this Process is an On-Going Endeavor.

Are you not teaching your Opinion, sir?

Are you not a Scientist but a Preacher?

(The Class was in uproar)

Student : Is there anyone in the Class who has ever seen the Professor’s brain?

(The Class broke out into laughter)

Student : Is there anyone here who has ever heard the Professor’s brain, felt it, touched or smelt it?…

No one appears to have done so.
So, according to the Established Rules of Empirical, Stable, Demonstrable Protocol, Science says that you have No Brain, sir. With all due respect, sir, how do we then trust your lectures, sir?

(The Room was silent. The Professor stared at the student, his face unfathomable)

Professor : I guess you’ll have to take them on Faith, son.
Student : That is it sir…Exactly!
The Link between Man & GOD is FAITH.
That is all that Keeps Things Alive and Moving.

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By Jaeyoun Kim

November 30, 2008 at 1:28 pm · Filed under INSPIRATIONAL ·Tagged , , ,

Filipinos always complain about the corruption in the Philippines.
Do you really think the corruption is the problem of the Philippines? I
do not think so. I strongly believe that the problem is the lack of
love for the Philippines.

Let me first talk about my country, Korea. It might help you understand my point. After the Korean War, South Korea was one of the poorest countries in the world. Koreans
had to start from scratch because entire country was destroyed after
the Korean War, and we had no natural resources. Koreans used to talk
about the Philippines, for Filipinos were very rich in Asia. We envy
Filipinos. Koreans really wanted to be well off like Filipinos. Many
Koreans died of famine. My father & brother also died because of
famine. Korean government was very corrupt and is still very corrupt
beyond your imagination, but Korea was able to develop dramatically
because Koreans really did their best for the common good with their
heart burning with patriotism.

Koreans did not work just for themselves but also for their neighborhood and country. Education inspired young men with the spirit of patriotism.
40 years ago, President Park took over the government to reform Korea.
He tried to borrow money from other countries, but it was not possible
to get a loan and attract a foreign investment because the economic
situation of South Korea was so bad. Korea had only three factories.
So, President Park sent many mine workers and nurses to Germany so that they could send money to Korea to build a factory. They had to go through horrible experience.

In 1964, President Park visited Germany to borrow money. Hundred of
Koreans in Germany came to the airport to welcome him and cried there
as they saw the President Park. They asked to him, “President, when can
we be well off?” That was the only question everyone asked to him.
President Park cried with them and promised them that Korea would be
well off if everyone works hard for Korea, and the President of Germany
got the strong impression on them and lent money to Korea. So,
President Park was able to build many factories in Korea. He always
asked Koreans to love their country from their heart. Many Korean
scientists and engineers in the USA came back to Korea to help
developing country because they wanted their country to be well off.
Though they received very small salary, they did their best for Korea.
They always hoped that their children would live in well off country.
My parents always brought me to the places where poor and physically
handicapped people live. They wanted me to understand their life and
help them. I also worked for Catholic Church when I was in the army.
The only thing I learned from Catholic Church was that we have to love
our neighborhood. And, I have loved my neighborhood. Have you cried for
the Philippines? I have cried for my country several times. I also
cried for the Philippines because of so many poor people. I have been
to the New Bilibid prison. What made me sad in the prison were the
prisoners who do not have any love for their country. They go to mass
and work for Church. They pray everyday. However, they do not love the
Philippines. I talked to two prisoners at the maximum-security
compound, and both of them said that they would leave the Philippines.

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Faith Against Fate

November 16, 2008 at 4:31 pm · Filed under INSPIRATIONAL, LOVE & SEX ·Tagged , , ,

In the populous city of Manila, everything and anything is possible. You can buy imitated and second-rate versions of signature products. You can be robbed under the scorching heat of the sun. You can be bumped by reckless motorcycle drivers. You can be scouted for a magazine appearance. You can be can be stuck in an elevator with your horrible boss. You can drop your last MRT card into a canal. You can be spit on by strangers. And if lucky, you can find true love.

True love is the soul’s recognition of its counterpoint in another. It happens once in a lifetime or, if lucky, maybe twice. When true love walks along your street, how far can you go to prove that he/she is the one written in the stars for you? Are you willing to sacrifice your miraculous faith for your possible fate? Are you converting into the religion of the person you love, leaving your god behind? Or are you keeping your god and leaving your possible only true love?

Cross-enrolling in the UAAP league’s universities is something. Changing your religion for the one you love is another thing. When you are in a tight situation like this, you wish you never met the one you love or you wish that you never attended church every Sunday. You feel like an idiot glued between choosing a great good and a greater god. You have this hell of a cloud in your mind-no matter how hard you try to eliminate the cloud, you simply can’t because your problem is one hell of a problem endured only by the fittest. It is like life in the Central Business District, you are one small corporation on the way to greatness if you merge with the right corporation. What do you exactly choose if the corporations are the most opulent in the stock market? How would you know which one will increase the value of your stocks? How would you know which one to invest in to?

It’s fate versus faith-your fidelity to your religion against your attachment to your true love, and possibly your one true love. This is not a competition but whichever of the two corporations you choose you will surely and definitely end up losing a big corporation possible to increase the value of your stocks and might increase your market value.

If you are going to choose, make sure that what you choose is going to be worth what you’re going to lose. If both your possible solutions slaps like hell, choose the one that will slap big time. If you considered giving one corporation up thus keeping the other corporation and found out that it will hurt as hell, choose the one which will hurt like there’s no tomorrow. What I’m saying is, you are only going to choose once-don’t use the mind in choosing, use the heart. Your mind is programmed to endure everything but your heart is bound to fluctuate with intolerable plugs and switches.

In the populous city of Manila, everything and anything is possible. You can be religious and loveless. You can be full of love and empty of religion. And if lucky, you might find the relieving solution to my tormenting problem: faith versus fate.

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Moving On and Moving Out

November 13, 2008 at 2:24 pm · Filed under INSPIRATIONAL ·Tagged ,

Going separate ways is the sugar-coated version of breaking up. When a relationship ends, it’s as if the entire weight of the planet Earth is on your shoulders. You feel lost-the only person who makes you feel more beautiful than average, the person who makes you feel safe and secured, the only person who can make your stomach somersault, the only person who can make you cry and laugh at the same is gone. Gone. Away. Away in the arms of somebody. Or just away, with nobody. You feel stupid for ever falling for him/her, for intentionally letting your guard down, for wailing about your lost. You feel like it’s the end of human civilization. You just feel like a bowl full of shit.

In times like this, there are only a couple of options to choose from:

  • Kill. Kill your ex or yourself or the third party, if any.
  • Do nothing. Stay put to where you are and no matter what happens, do not move a muscle.
  • Move. Move on. Move out. Whichever.

Considering the options, you’d opt for the third, move. The first-kill, is unfriendly and quite grave with a touch of brutality and sprinkles of morbidity. It would stain your hands in case you decide to kill the subject using a knife. It would cost you a gun and a silencing device they attach to the gun just to eradicate the sound of the gunshot. The second-could be considered, if you want to ruin your life, become smelly as a skunk and immovable as a sloth. The third-it’s the best yet to be offered. After a relationship ends, what better thing to do than move-move on or move out, whichever.

Before you move, you must, it is a must, a requisite for whatever decision you will implement, you must consider this: are you moving on or moving out?

Most people are blinded by the notion that moving out is identical to moving on. For some generations now, people think that when you move out, literally, you begin to move on. But moving on takes a lot more effort than moving out. Moving out versus moving on.

It’s moving out when:

  • You change your contact information like cellular phone number, landline number, fax machine number, office number, electronic mail address, messenger address, friendster, facebook, multiply, etc. You don’t have to change these information to move on. Once you change these information, nothing changes-you are still single and freshly heart-shattered.
  • You move out of your house, your street. You are literally moving out and emotionally moving out. Do not move to a new place-do it when the wound has been cured, naturally or with someone’s help, not just a rebound, of course but it might help-might.
  • You do not utter his name in a conversation. You try hard to pretend that you forgot the break-up and that you have moved on, but you’re trying just too hard that people from all walks of life notice that you’re not-you’re miserable and counting.
  • You delete or block your ex in your online accounts like friendster, facebook, multiply, etc.
  • You avoid people-people your ex knows, your ex’s friends, classmates, etc. For goodness’ sake, you are like Harrison Ford in The Fugitive being chased by Tommy Lee Jones. Do not run away from people-it’s like running away from the past and burying yourself alive.

It’s moving on when:

  • You embrace reality. You cry. You wail. You sob. You curse. It’s part of the arrogant and pathetic yet effective process of moving on. You let your emotions out. You won’t give a damn to what people say-you listen to yourself, you pamper yourself, you love yourself. Embrace the break-up. Embrace the fact that you and the person you claim to love the most are now standing in separate paths and destined to walk forth alone. Embrace the fact that you two are over. If you have to drink pails of gin and tonic or dry martini or vodka-go, but don’t abuse the privilege. Don’t keep everything inside. It doesn’t matter if the people around you share your sympathy-what matters is that you sympathize with yourself but do not overdo it.
  • You talk about your ex a lot. Talk about him during breakfast, lunch, dinner. Talk about him/her to all of your organizations. Talk about him/her to a stranger in the bus, the library, the streets. Talk. Talk. Talk. You’ll eventually get sick and tired of his/her name that you would even puke to the sound of it then there-no more talks about him/her, lessen talks about him/her. And when you see him/her, he/she would just be another familiar face in the crowd no longer capable of piercing your heart with mere smiles and grins.
  • You reminisce the moments you’ve spent together. The progress begins when you start accepting the fact that what you reminisce are now part of the  bitter yet educational past and are mere memories that can soon be forgotten at the sight of a new approaching relationship.
  • You stay single for a while. Mourn for his/her lost and for your lost. Start retrieving your self-esteem. Give yourself some time to love nobody else, but yourself. After all, when you begin to love yourself, the rest of the world follows.
  • You are not frightened by the thought that your ex might just be anywhere within two meters in diameter from you. If you come across him/her, deal with it, it was destiny that brought you to it. If he says hi, respond-not exactly nicely, but as nice as you can master for that moment.
  • You don’t do the things a person moving out does.

At the end of the day, it doesn’t really matter if you’re heart has been wrecked by some jerk or bastard. Significance can come from a thorn-embedded break-up; the significant thing is how well we rise after falling. We start to love ourselves again, we replenish what we’ve lost with what we’ve still got like friends, family-it was just one person who tore you into pieces, there are still a billion of people out there, and one of them might just be eager to mend you back to pieces-but you have to do it yourself because only you and nobody else can inflict happiness and pain to yourself.

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