Category: despair

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Before you think about leaving the Catholic Church, think about something

…But before you think about leaving, since they’re all the same anyway, and the whole institution is hopelessly out of touch with the world, please think of this.

Aquino agreed to drop Sabah claim in Bangsamoro Agreement 4

Aquino agreed to drop Sabah claim in Bangsamoro Agreement

Although I have not found other articles to corroborate this, it seems an Asia Times writer was able to talk to a source within the Bangsamoro deal who said, In an apparent non-disclosed component...

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why do we need to put god as the center of our lives?

It has been some months (almost a year, in fact), since I wrote the Blog Article “God is an Embarrassment in Our Lives”.   The main premise is easy enough to understand: we’ve treated God...

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A Silent Call to the EDSA Generation

History books and heroes carried an EDSA that was about setting things right in the Philippines, and maybe some of them had the right idea, but mostly, the context of that demonstration was misunderstood....

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Mr. Lenin’s Democracy (updated 04-14-2016)

They were freedom fighters, and revolution became synonymous with them.   But decades later, they became nightmarish regimes that terrified the imagination and subjugated millions.  Dystopia and totalitarianism became synonymous with them.   What happened?  Why...

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Inertia: Sustaining the EDSA Movement

No, no, no, Arroyo will not listen… but we will howl nevertheless. In the two years she remains in power, we will howl her in the streets, howl her in the courts, and howl...

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Impunity

Throughout the world, the end results have been the same. Dictators who were overthrown either have the sympathy of the new strongman, or have entered ill health as to no longer be held accountable...