Alive Again

Its been a while since I abandoned this blog. My departure was as quick as my decision to make this blog. Now, I’m not entirely sure if I’d stay here or make a new one. I just feel the itch to start blogging again. Perhaps the reason is to make a good use of my preoccupations. I need a medium to vent my thoughts, otherwise they just float around my head like crazed, Tasmanian-type, eager sperms.

Originally, I started this blog just to dip my finger in the water, so to speak. That’s why, this blog is obviously aimless and kinda lost along the road. I started with a journal type entries which then mutated into a humor blog and finally, metamorphosed into – i didn’t know anymore. Things abruptly got out of hand. There were just too many things to say and write. The sperms are ogling to get out my head as fast as they could possibly impregnate the blog.

Now, I have a plan. Or at least I think I have a plan. I’d like to blog about my religious thoughts from now on. I’d like to put them in a medium where they transcend my own existence with a hope that, someday, someone would take notice.

Why religion? First, it’s what always occupies my mind. The sperms are becoming more religious by the minute. Second, I’d like to spend the rest of my life pursuing the subject as far as my finite mind would allow. A sort of personal challenge to see at what point would I truly nose bleed. Third, religion has never been a boring topic. It never ceases to arouse contentions and debate. And I have this weird urge to want to be in the middle of it all.

So, I guess I just have to use this old blog for a while as a sort of an ac hoc tool until my mind (the sperms actually) finally settles on something else.

The Separation of Church and Swine Flu

The Roman Catholic Church here in the Philippines has reason to be extra cautious about the spread of the swine flu in the halls of its cathedrals: the number of those infected in the Philippines has now reach 861.

To counter this ever increasing trend, the church’s archdioceses have set out advisories to its parishioners to make sure that the swine flu is nowhere near the altar.

As a virus, the swine flu is transmitted from person to person via the involuntary machinery of the esophagus – that is, coughing. In other words, people just cough out the swine flu from one to another. It is quite dreadful to see this activity right in the middle of the mass; it would then be the mass production of the disease.

Youth Power in Iran

“In this seething semi-anarchy, ordinary people grow bitterly cynical not merely about their own “representatives” but – more ominously – about the very possibility of being represented at all”

Alvin Tofler: The Third Wave

The current crisis in Iran surprises many in the outside world. No one had imagine that amidst the hard line Islamic government would come out a people (most are youths) sick and tired of the status quo and are not waiting for change to occur from the top down but from down up.

Iran at this moment is like a reptile shedding its own skin. The Iranians are coming out in the open, proudly heralding and crying out their true sentiment at the present regime – “allahu Akbar”, “death to the dictator”.

Religion and Miss California USA 2009

Religion is a sensitive nerve that runs through the entire vein of the American beauty pageant called Miss California USA 2009.

Carrie Prejean, who was crowned Miss California USA 2009, was recently “fired” from such title for honestly stating her opinion regarding same sex marriages in America during her interview in such beauty pageant.

Quoted below, is the unfortunate interview, out of which, all hell broke lose:

PEREZ: Vermont recently became the fourth state to legalize same-sex marriage. Do you think every state should follow suit? Why or why not?

CARRIE: I think it’s great that Americans are able to choose one or the other. We live in a land that you can choose same-sex marriage or opposite marriage and, you know what, in my country and my family I think that I believe that a marriage should be between a man and a woman. No offense to anyone out there but that’s how I was raised and that’s how I think it should be between a man and a woman.

TO MEET SUCH A MAN

"whateveyou have to the least of my brethren, you have done it unto me"

My pastor friend email me the story below. Hope you’ll be inspired with this:

I sat, with two friends, in the picture window of a quaint restaurant just off the corner of the town-square. The food and the company were both especially good that day. As we talked, my attention was drawn outside, across the street. There, walking into town, was a man who appeared to be carrying all his worldly goods on his back. He was carrying, a well-worn sign that read, “I will work for food.”My heart sank.

Coffe Time With Ironmen

IRONMEN – No, this is not a movie title nor a dry sarcastic caption about these guys in the picture. The idea behind this gathering, over endless cups of coffee at some obscure coffee shop here in Davao, is taken from

john japos, harold, myself, and ptr. bogs

Proverbs 27:17 which says “As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another”. These self-confessed “bible scholars” (except for “bogs”, the oldest guy in the picture, who has a master’s in Divinity to his credit) felt the need to get together at least once a week, to discuss, debate, argue, etc., about doctrinal issues in the Christian faith.

But more than the arguments about Christian doctrines, the central idea behind “ironmen” is to prod one another towards a deeper and objective understanding of our faith in Jesus Christ, and somehow, in the process, be able to clearly grasp a Christian worldview in all aspect of our lives.