Category: Religion

The Great Manila Earthquake is Coming, and Prayer Won’t Stop It

May 20, 2015May 21, 2015 MidwayHaven 74 Comments

Shortly after the Loma Prieta Earthquake hit California in 1989, I remember the Philippine Daily Inquirer running a lower-right column headline about a stronger earthquake that would hit the Philippines in the near future. True enough, the great Luzon Earthquake of 16 July 1990 struck with a magnitude of 7.8 on the Richter Scale. Indeed this was…

Development, Environment, Religion, Science

Can Porn Save Philippine Media?

May 20, 2015 Grimwald 39 Comments

After a considerable amount of thinking, I can’t help but speculate over how Pinoy media is essentially destroying the minds of our countrymen, especially those with no access to other channels asides from local ones. What’s difficult to accept is that while our media tries to keep a veneer of “wholesomeness” to their programming, I…

Crime, Culture, Development, Economy, Education, Government, Lifestyle, Media, Politics, Religion, Society

Alternative Media (Part 7): Dishonored

May 19, 2015 Grimwald 5 Comments

Before I continue with my Deep series, I’d like to recommend another work of fiction that is a decent alternative to some of the more common media we encounter on a regular basis. Before you play your next round of Candy Crush or make another attack on your friends in Clash of Clans, I’d like you to take…

Crime, Culture, Development, Economy, Education, Government, Lifestyle, Media, Politics, Religion, Science, Tech Talk

The Bangsamoro Basic Law is not the solution to the conflict in Mindanao

May 18, 2015October 15, 2022 Ilda 25 Comments

They say the best way to understand something complicated is to approach it the way a child would: ask simple questions. To understand the proposed Bangsamoro Basic Law, Filipinos should do the same – ask simple questions. Once people finally get down to the basics, they will soon realize how unrealistic, unnecessary and wasteful the…

Crime, Development, Government, Politics, Religion, The South

The Nature of Evil: Knowledge and Ignorance

May 16, 2015May 16, 2015 Grimwald 20 Comments

Before I begin, I want to ask our dear readers a simple question: What is evil? Or rather, what is your idea of evil? Of course, I am well aware that the word “evil” itself is subjective. Essentially, each and every one of us has a different idea on how to define “evil”. Considering that…

Crime, Culture, Economy, Education, Environment, Government, Lifestyle, Media, Politics, Religion, Society

Filipinos’ habitual cry: ‘SAVE ME!’

May 13, 2015 benign0 7 Comments

Save Mary Jane Veloso! Save Baguio City! Save the Pasig River! Save Boracay! It’s pathetic. Filipinos are always looking for a higher or wealthier power to “save” their wretched lot. The pattern has been set and the consistency now world-renowned. After abject neglect, wanton partying or sitting on their asses for years, or all of…

Culture, Development, Environment, Lifestyle, Religion, Society

Traditional Pinoy Media and the Platonic Cave

May 13, 2015 Grimwald 11 Comments

I was quite of fond of studying philosophy back during my college days and one of the main topics I will probably never forget is the one about the Platonic Cave. It was an idea postulated by the philosopher Plato and it is by far one of the most widely discussed and debated topics among…

Culture, Development, Education, Lifestyle, Media, Religion, Society

Why did God flatten Nepal with an earthquake?

May 12, 2015 benign0 27 Comments

If we are to believe that his will be done in the supposedly mysterious ways that he works, there is a reason why God unleashed an earthquake in Nepal and, before that, Haiyan upon the Philippines. Unlike Adolf Hitler who, himself, had what he believed to be a perfectly rational reason behind his project to…

Religion, Society, The South

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