Gatekeeper’s message
Joe is on vacay so I am back to writing for TSOH in the interim.
Joe already said that in a year or two this blog will be archived, it has been a blast and as they say time is fast when you are having fun, time flies.
Not so long ago I wrote something inviting past contributors to contribute once more but all is good and it will be all is well that ends well, your past contribution in the fifteen years of TSOH will be preserved in Internet archive.
We salute you and I hope you still drop by for a visit here. I still see kuya Will, Cha, Mary on facebook and they have their own battles, own lives and life would go on.
It pains me when someone gets banned here, but it is the final arbiter’s decision and all I can say is see you around. And to those not in FB or twitter, see you when I see you.
I will try to come up with other revisits of my past articles that are not time bound, well everything here is because this is an opinion site and not a news site.
Irineo and Gian will be there to man the fort with me and may or may not write an article or two.
The Society of Honor by Joe America 
The floor is still open for discussion of anything within the site’s guidelines.
ahem, suggestion lang po ito: instead of asking, pleading, else requesting again joey nguyen for a brief (good lord! does our beloved joey nguyen ever know what brief means! his posts take time to read! the word count is frightfully, already, essay length!) where am I? ah, yes, why not just re-post one of his comment?
there has many of his comments that were quite lengthy and takes a breathy marathon runner to finish reading, some of his comment need rehashing, so post them again pls. he has already given implied permission to re-post them, having priorly posted it. just let him know that one of his comment got recycled and gotten new life. make his comment great again!
Haha well I need to make use of the English degree I gained from my formal education. Sometimes I have no idea how I ended up in IT and business.
I am not going to say anything anymore, you might get into the writing mood – where I would have to really sit down, have me poor wits about me, and dig in for the long haul!
There is MAGA MIGA then MHCGA
Love it.
Brief is underpants…
I prefer bikini, or thongs, or whatever it is that boracaynos can decently complained about. the skimpiness of it all, feast for the eyes! pity about the garbage they left behind.
Oh yes.
T back.
Not the UP activist type.
“It pains me when someone gets banned here…” – Karl
Yes, it pains me too.
“It pains me when someone gets banned here…” – Karl
Yes, it pains me too.
@Joey
May I interest you to write a geopolitical article that of course concerns the Philippines.
Just a summary or aggregation of your past comments will be platinum.
As for being a contributor… I tend to refrain from spotlighting myself in areas I am not a domain expert. After all, I’m just an opiner, though one relatively well-informed by personal experience.
I’m not sure how helpful my geopolitical pronouncements may be. I may be a history buff who had a bit of understanding on the Philippines, but my entire Philippines journey has been more of an observer (and occasional helper). I would say that while I have engaged in some projects to help people I’ve met, like a solar-powered-pump irrigation system I created, the large part of my time in the Philippines has been spent on conversation. Perhaps at the end of the day when Filipino friends remark that I’m “so Filipino,” what is meant is that I’ve totally embraced the chismis. Life is a series of conversations.
OK.
I will stop begging and pleading.
I am now declaring an OPEN season within Joe’s guidelines.
I am still at the what else can I say that has not been said stage.
Tayo tayo lang naman wink. wink.
yay, yay, yay, christmas comes early, hahha. when the cat is away, the mice will play, play, play!
so play, I will! ito our kapolisan got me precious attention, they having to do push ups, seriously! that is so yesterday, porbida, where have all the smarties gone! losing weight is alleged to be 80 percent food, and 20 percent exercise. no matter how many push ups the hapless and the beleaguered kapolisan do, they wont lost weight, be taut, trim and terrific if they continue to eat those big fat burgers, wolfing down gallons of ice cream, eating a kilo of rice per seating, drinking gallons of sweet fizzy drinks after work when plain water will do, (no alcohol pls, kasi I am off alcohol, and if I am off alcohol, everyone should too and suffer with me!) and all those activities kapolisan have that centered around eating copiously, those parties and get togethers, etc. the way they eat, akala mo there is famine and they have to fill up until they burst, for tomorrow there may not be food!
https://www.abs-cbn.com/news/nation/2025/6/25/40-push-ups-isa-sa-hamon-ni-gen-torre-sa-mga-pulis-para-maging-physically-fit-0150
pls naman, herr master general torre, pnp chief and super fit human, medyo may edad na, but still handsome and have you seen his backside! the man is virile. ahem, okay back to back, no, back to issue which is – ah, I got to gather me thoughts again, okay, uhm, okay, general torre drastically need to see an accredited dietician and see how our kapolisan’s diet be constructed, or reconstructed. we have abundant of nature’s good food at our disposal, markets bursting with fresh produce that are cheap and affordable.
kapolisan dont need to eat greasy fast foods and more of them, or gobble kilos of sweets like chocolates and danish pastries, ensaymadas, etc. the palate can be satisfied with simple foods like fruits and vegies. kapolisan’s wives ought to be taught to cook the healthy way, and kapolisan be taught to go for healthier food alternatives if faced with boodle feast, and choose those foods not cooked or deep fried in oil. to go for grilled of broiled foods (cooked over the hot grill) less carbo and more protien.
p.s. it is horrifying to see mamang polis eat not a slice but the whole pizza in a box! my jaws drop down to my knees. why can we not have healthy pizza with low fat cheese, topped with vegies like bell peppers and fresh tomatoes instead of more cheese and ketchup!
80 percent food, 20 percent exercise is recipe for weight loss. the 80 percent food that goes tru the mouth needs recalibrating. the 20 percent exercise is the very easy part.
Nakaka 100 to 200 push ups daw si chief…
kailan pa yun?
He got backlash for that vlogger fitness guru guy.
sya ba pumili nun?
at 54 years, general torre can still do 100 push ups.
for kapolisan, general torre sabi 40 push ups is okay for them.
general torre did not appoint the vlogger fitness guru. the guru/gym instructor volunteered to be police fitness coach for 93 days, is all.
apparently that fitness guru has done some foul deed in 2023 and live streamed an pnp raid sa makati, much to the alarm of kapolisan.
https://journalnews.com.ph/gen-torre-pnp-has-no-place-for-unphysically-fit-cops/#gsc.tab=0
I see, thanks.
the gym instructor/exercise guru/vlogger na kicked out agad, apparently. he was probly getting more mileage than he should, his vlog getting more followers with him getting more media attention at the expense of those unfit kapolisanan who were mocked, ridiculed and fat shamed by netizens for being overweight.
allegedly, the fitness guru’s exclusive bragging rights to kapolisan’s fitness regimen did not sit well with the upper echelons of the force.
https://mb.com.ph/2025/06/25/na-evict-agad-rendon-labador-out-of-cops-physical-fitness-program-pnp-resumes-pulisteniks
Thanks for the update.
https://www.facebook.com/share/1PQfTSQc85/ from MLQ3:
My column this week suggests when the past consensus and former traditions are ignored, as is happening in the current impeachment, its a good sign members of institutions are behaving badly.
The link contains the archived version of my article which itself contains links to related sources and readings.
https://www.quezon.ph/2025/06/18/the-long-view-legislators-reinventing-the-wheel/
Columnists
The Long View
Legislators reinventing the wheel
By: Manuel L. Quezon III – @inquirerdotnet
Philippine Daily Inquirer / 05:06 AM June 18, 2025
Back in 2009, I outlined an essay I wanted to write about Sen. Francis Escudero as a man beyond the clutches of history, which in its earliest origins, studied the past for lessons on leadership. Over a decade later, he ascended to the Senate presidency after losing a bid for veephood and showing little for it.
Nick Joaquin penned a classic account of how Ferdinand Marcos Sr. saved his Senate presidency by surreptitiously restarting the clock during a sine die session when the clock symbolically paused, thus gaveling the session closed when time started ticking. Similarly, who’d have thought Escudero could save his fellow senators from the burden of leadership by example by simply stopping the impeachment clock, restarting it only when it had to be paused again to await the 20th Congress?
A lot of back-and-forth is going on in lawyerly circles over whether what the Senate has done and is doing, and what the House did and intends to do, are legal. All of it stems from setting aside generations-old shared understanding and practices in favor of experimental ideas and redefining what used to be commonly understood. The Senate is being haughty because it has scarlet robes of office (not only unnecessary but counterproductive, as we shall see), which representatives acting as prosecutors don’t have—forgetting the House is the equal of the Senate not only before and after, but during, an impeachment. The Senate, ignoring the presumption of regularity, demands that the House justify its actions and compounds this by demanding any certification be published in the papers when it receives notifications from the House all the time.
Where could such puffed-up ignorance have come from?
It’s a generational thing. I once complained, in exasperation, to another senator (then a congressman, and now in the Cabinet) how it was a betrayal of deeply held parliamentary practice to allow the police—who are, after all, under the command of the executive—onto the premises of House (they lined the path to the rostrum in the session hall during one State of the Nation Address). It was, I said, what we inherited from the refusal of the British to ever allow the agents of the monarchy to try to arrest their members as Charles I did, in person, helping to ignite their civil war. The then-congressmen shrugged it off as, oh well, ancient history—but it’s not.
The force of custom can and should be as strong as the force of law because it tempers behavior and fosters an institutional and not egotistical approach. When tradition, or custom, is neither learned nor applied, it removes the obstacles to officials behaving like petty tyrants or spoiled children. Returning to those robes, and the accompanying grandeur of the title, “senator-judge,” it was a conscious choice that sadly set aside the far nobler, not only it is infinitely rarer but more democratic, title (if they really needed one) of “senator-juror,” which is what senators really are when conducting an impeachment trial.
But as jurors, they’d need to do two things difficult for the elected to do: exercise common sense (and common decency) and listen. Senator-elect Vicente “Tito” Sotto, who has been engaging in a passive-aggressive running commentary of Escudero’s moves, recently made two wise observations. First, “presiding over a collegial body does not require being a lawyer. Familiarity with parliamentary procedure, experience, fairness, and good faith are enough. I had been in impeachment trials before. Adherence to the Philippine Constitution, our laws and rules are within the understanding of a Filipino citizen. Plain and simple language needs no interpretation from a lawyer.” Second, “Sen. Miriam, who was a former RTC judge taught me … in the 11th Congress sen[ator] judges can only ask questions for clarifications.”
To adopt the more humble demeanor of a juror rather than the lofty surety of a judge, will serve as a reminder that since impeachment is a political and not a judicial exercise, when senators are called to render an emergency judgment on the continuing fitness for office of someone elected, they, as elected officials, are being judged, too. For they sit before the bar of public opinion, which is judging, in real time, whether the public’s expectation of basic fairness is being met or not. Doubt it? Recall 2001, and the fate of the senators who never recovered from their loss of public trust.
Our institutions are heirs of other institutions; their experience is part of ours. To ignore it results in what we have: the kind of passive-aggressive contest taking place between the leadership of the House and that of the Senate warping the institutions to which they belong.
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Some additional readings from articles I’ve written about impeachment in the past:
In 2012 I posted this backgrounder on the institutional origins of impeachment, and the ConCom debates on the topic: https://quezon.ph/2012/01/17/a-method-of-national-inquest-into-the-conduct-of-public-men/
Another 2012 post I wrote looking at what Constitutonal Commission Commissioners and Justices of the Supreme Court said and wrote about impeachment: https://www.quezon.ph/2012/01/22/the-nature-of-the-beast-sui-generis/
In 2017 I pointed out just because impeachment is a political process, it isn’t an excuse to unleash a lynch mob. It’s an emergency process to determine continued fitness for office:
https://quezon.ph/2017/03/20/the-explainer-what-impeachment-is-and-isnt/
Also in 2017 I pointed out impeachment is meant to be an instrument of last resort: yet our Constitution’s authors made it easier than ever:
https://quezon.ph/2017/03/21/spotph-commentary-impeach-your-face/
https://www.facebook.com/share/16xfcoSSsi/ also this:
Quick thoughts to self to update my views on the Rise and Fall of the Fifth Republic (for a preview see: https://www.quezon.ph/2022/02/24/11721/ ) with regards to impeachment:
Impeachment as we know it today, in more ways than one, was the child of a specific event: the 1985 impeachment attempt against Ferdinand Marcos Sr. (see: https://www.quezon.ph/2017/03/21/spotph-commentary-impeach-your-face/ ), in which the legal dueling and the political theater of it all, were born. The law of unintended consequences meant that the lessons of that effort were incorporated into the new Constitution by the victors who’d been the losers two years earlier –forgetting they were tasked with writing a fuctioning and functional system for a government. So the result is a minority-driven effort, which forces the vast expenditure of time and money, not necessarily to achieve the purpose for which impeachment exists in the first place: a means to topple leadership when its continued hold on power is a threat to the body politic itself (see “Past Reflections on Impeachment” section in my most recent newsletter: https://mlq3.substack.com/p/legislators-behaving-badly ).
Impeachment failed in the case of Estrada who represented as compelling a case for depriving an elected leader of their mandate as one could think of, because his lawyers were, after all, masters of the Marcos School of Legal Wizardy, and fought the prosecution to a standstill which could only be resolved extra constitutionally: Edsa Dos, in retrospect, was the bookend to Marcos’s own Martial Law in 1972, in that both ended up justified by the Supreme Court, for acts in obvious defiance of the constitution in operation at the time (very neatly, could it be, 1971-2001, three decades of judicially-blessed autogolpes? 1971, because the litmus test for martial law was the suspension of the Writ).
Impeachment failed again in resolving the legitimacy challenges to Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo who proved the institutional resiliency of the presidency, not least by dividing civil society and through stratagems such as “self-impeachment”; impeachment as a process achieved the ends for which it was instituted but the costs made the victory a pyrrhic one: the bungling of the initial prosecution by the House, the self-interested resistance of the legal profession (which, in the end, exacted its revenge against the impeached and convicted Chief Justice’s successor: through the Marcosian reinvigoration of the quo warranto proceeding), and the other aspects of securing a conviction, meant the process was accepted by the public but the political class had enough of it.
A process, by the way, similar to the almost-simultaneously occurring rejection of People Power by the middle class, in the wake of Edsa Tres. The middle class was spooked by the sight of a nearly-successful urban insurrection and preferred stability under Arroyo than the risks of another People Power. The political and in particular, legal professional class, seeing impeachment unfold, had a simple but brutal takeaway: it risked destroying political careers (as senators voting to suppress the opening of the second envelope for Estrada discovered) and risked bringing an unwelcome ethical and political zealotry into politics (the fear and loathing of Aquino capitalized on so well by the coalition formed to prevent the election of a successor who might attempt to continue Aquino’s reforms).
Hence the unwillingness of the Senate to play ball, not least because the House for the first time in over a century has proven more dynamic, disciplined, and organized than the Senate in terms of the prosecution. The very assumptions of a deterrence to unlimited power, the insistence on “moderating greed” which was so resonant at the turn of the 21st Century, have lost their motivating power. At least to the extent that national politicians felt their legitimacy rested on piously pretending these things mattered as much to them as they did to the electorate.
What remains to be seen: every time I think the Fifth Republic has finally flatlined, it reveals a feeble pulse. There seems to be that, in terms of impeachment –hence senatorial resentment over the revived vigor of the law schools, for example.
mlq the 3rd and me are not in the same page. what fifth republic! is it a blot in our constitution? a sickness that must be cured, a knot of strawberry licorice that is giving him toothache? a puwing in his eye? a sack of rice that cost only twenty pesos? what? and if his fifth repub has flatlined, seems to me, mlq III has flatlined with it. kudos then. may he rise glorious like a souffle.
I supposed the esteem mlq is not hitting us grassroot people, he is talking way far over our heads. he most probly has different audience in mind, more astute, more like him, niche-y types, hopes he finds them.
though I very much like to have a go at him, but. hindi ko katalo si genius. though if he proverbially falls down to earth, I’ll be waiting, scythe ready.
First Republic1899–1901Malolos Constitution, Emilio Aguinaldo
Second Republic1943–1945Japanese-sponsored government, José P. Laurel
Third Republic1946–1972Post-independence from U.S., Manuel Roxas to Ferdinand Marcos (pre-Martial Law)
Fourth Republic1973–1986Marcos’ Martial Law era, Constitution of 1973
Fifth Republic1987–presentPost-Marcos democracy, 1987 Constitution
As to its rise and fall just look at someone using a yoyo hehe.
Mas madali yun kesa manood ng tennis.
joeam classic
Nice find. Nice reflections
Miriam Santiago really is an institution.
I have no idea if she was as good S a statesman as CM Recto forever vilified by fakery and fraud.
Or Komong Sumulong getting the ire of Kruschev.
But the fact remains her lessons including quotable quotes must be preserved by history buffs.
miriam was like do what I say, dont do what I do. I am waiting for her biobook to hit the shelves. so what’s her legacy? she declined a post in international law court that ex pres noy aquino secured for her maybe because she did not want to be indebted to good ol’ pres noy aquino who was badly maligned by the media and hounded by the press for being an aquino, or miriam was already sick but still up and kicking and running as presidentiable with now pres bong marcos as running mate.
miriam could have done so much more, but . . . so how does history judged her? shrug my shoulders na lang ako. she has chosen her path. though I liked her hairstyle a lot and at one time, even copied it. the concave cut looked good on her. classic.
Of legacies and history as judge. I think what’s happening today with Nuclear non proliferation amd super powere dynamics is we live in double standards,ambiguity,hypocrisy and the like. It not history not herstory but a he said she said.
We are entitled to our biases and standards.
Yes, I may agree or disagreewith what most you say but that of course does not mean that I am right or wrong to do so. I can also show despise easily on others like the Dutertes but somehow i have a soft heart for Miriam for some reason.
Sun tzu’ strategic ambiguity.
Deception, guile and what not.
Until now that strategic ambiguity is being used and leaders get away with it.
It must have been confucian because I am confused.
Important questions
Dolly Gozalez… was she Mary Grace?
MRP opines that PIlosopo is the pinoy brand of philosophy.
the man on the pic, smoking pipe, is he still alive? I am presuming he is not AI but authentic person. too much worry lines on the forehead nicotine could not erase. thinking man, smoking man, man overboard.
in our neck of the woods, people are hard at work being backbone of the nation, barely have time to contemplate let alone philosophized about what not.
planting rice is never fun, bent from morn till the set of sun, cannot rest and cannot go, cannot rest for a little while, so goes the song.
so, are there any filipino philosophers? if there are, they are probly stuck in mind blowing research and more mega research, receiving grants and ensuring more grants come their way. aligned maybe with politicians who can offer them wealth and status and in return, proudly promoting politicos and portraying them in vivid colors, their existence and contributions so apparently vital to the survival of the nation!
all in a days work. for a few measly millions!
Greek philosophers either were very rich landowners who didn’t need to work, learned men who worked for politicians as advisers, or unwashed types like Diogenes. The merchants, sailors, and warriors of Greece had no time to think. The men on some vases I won’t get into detail.
In the time I chanced upon this blog, a lot of pensioners here: Edgar Lores, sonny, NHerrera, Andy Ibay aka the tigulang, Will Villanueva. Giancarlo always was the bunso here.
Romans had fewer philosophers, leaving that to the French and the Germans much later.
Agora and the forum or the market place people were aplenty. Mga palenkero at palenkera tayo.
Some of the details
Here are some examples of wealthy or well-off Greek philosophers, either by birth, association, or eventual influence:
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1. Plato (c. 428–348 BCE)
Background: Born into an aristocratic Athenian family.
Wealth: His family had political influence and land, which afforded him a solid education.
Notable Contributions: Founded the Academy, one of the first institutions of higher learning.
Use of Wealth: Used resources to fund his school and philosophical pursuits.
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2. Aristotle (384–322 BCE)
Background: Son of Nicomachus, the royal physician to the king of Macedon.
Wealth: Likely came from a privileged background and later received patronage from Macedonian royalty, especially Philip II (father of Alexander the Great).
Notable Contributions: Founded the Lyceum, tutored Alexander the Great, and wrote extensively on philosophy, science, and ethics.
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3. Epicurus (341–270 BCE)
Background: Born on the island of Samos; his family was not poor, and he eventually acquired property in Athens.
Wealth: Owned a house and a garden (known as “The Garden”) where he taught his philosophy.
Notable Contributions: Founded Epicureanism, emphasizing pleasure (in moderation) as the greatest good.
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4. Pythagoras (c. 570–495 BCE)
Background: Born in Samos, he was believed to have been from a well-off merchant family.
Wealth: Used his resources to travel and study in Egypt and possibly Babylon.
Notable Contributions: Founded a religious-philosophical community in Croton and taught mathematics, ethics, and metaphysics.
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5. Anaxagoras (c. 500–428 BCE)
Background: From Clazomenae in Ionia; he was reputedly wealthy enough to give up his inheritance to pursue philosophy.
Wealth: Abandoned his wealth to live a contemplative life in Athens.
Notable Contributions: Introduced Nous (Mind) as a cosmic principle.
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Honorable Mentions:
Socrates was not wealthy, but he was associated with wealthy students like Plato and Alcibiades.
Xenophon (student of Socrates) was a soldier, historian, and landowner—likely well-off.
Theophrastus, successor to Aristotle, had enough means to maintain the Lyceum after Aristotle.
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Let me know if you’d like a comparison between rich vs. poor philosophers in terms of their teachings.
Some more details
Here are some notable Roman philosophers, many of whom were heavily influenced by Greek thought but contributed uniquely Roman perspectives—especially in areas like ethics, politics, and practical philosophy:
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⚖️ Stoic Philosophers
These were the most prominent Roman thinkers, with Stoicism becoming the dominant philosophical school among Roman elites.
1. Seneca the Younger (c. 4 BCE – 65 CE)
Advisor to Emperor Nero, playwright, and Stoic philosopher.
Key works: Letters to Lucilius, On the Shortness of Life, On Anger.
Emphasized self-control, virtue, and rationality.
2. Epictetus (c. 50 – 135 CE)
Born a slave, later a teacher of Stoicism.
His teachings were recorded by his student Arrian (Discourses, Enchiridion).
Focused on distinguishing what is in our control vs. what is not.
3. Marcus Aurelius (121 – 180 CE)
Roman Emperor and Stoic philosopher.
Author of Meditations, a series of personal reflections on virtue and duty.
Embodied the idea of the philosopher-king.
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⚖️ Academic Skeptics and Eclectics
Roman thinkers also adopted and mixed ideas from other schools.
4. Cicero (106 – 43 BCE)
Politician, lawyer, orator, and philosopher.
Not a philosopher in the technical sense, but he wrote extensively on ethics, politics, and religion.
Key works: On the Republic, On the Laws, On the Nature of the Gods, On Duties.
Helped preserve Greek philosophy by translating and interpreting it in Latin.
5. Lucretius (c. 99 – 55 BCE)
Epicurean poet-philosopher.
His major work De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things) promotes Epicurean physics and ethics.
He argued for atomism and the pursuit of pleasure through a tranquil life.
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⚖️ Other Figures
6. Boethius (c. 480 – 524 CE)
Roman senator and Christian philosopher.
Famous for The Consolation of Philosophy, written while in prison awaiting execution.
Blends Roman Stoicism, Neoplatonism, and early Christian thought.
7. Plotinus (c. 204 – 270 CE)
Though Greek by birth, he taught in Rome and influenced many Roman thinkers.
Founder of Neoplatonism, his Enneads explore the nature of reality, the soul, and “The One”.
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Summary Table
Philosopher Philosophy Notable Work Key Idea
Seneca Stoicism Letters, On Anger Virtue and self-mastery
Epictetus Stoicism Discourses, Enchiridion Control vs. acceptance
Marcus Aurelius Stoicism Meditations Duty and inner peace
Cicero Eclectic/Skeptic On Duties, Republic Moral duty and justice
Lucretius Epicureanism On the Nature of Things Atomism and tranquil living
Boethius Neoplatonist/Christian Consolation of Philosophy Fortune, fate, and philosophical hope
Plotinus Neoplatonism Enneads Mysticism and the One
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Let me know if you’d like a focus on a specific philosophy (e.g., Stoicism) or era (e.g., Late Empire thinkers).
“planting rice is never fun, bent from morn till the set of sun, cannot rest and cannot go, cannot rest for a little while, so goes the song.” – Kasambahay
“Cannot stand and cannot sit, cannot rest for a little bit.” That was my recollection. Learned the song in Grade 2, I believe.
Magtanim ay ‘di biro
Maghapong nakayuko
‘Di man lang makaupo
‘Di man lang makatayo
Braso ko’y namamanhid
Baywang ko’y nangangawit
Binti ko’y namimitig
Sa pagkababad sa tubig
Sa umagang paggising
Ang lahat iisipin
Kung saan may patanim
May masarap na pagkain
Braso ko’y namamanhid
Baywang ko’y nangangawit
Binti ko’y namimitig
Sa pagkababad sa tubig
Halina, halina, mga kaliyag
Tayo’y magsipag-unat-unat
Magpanibago tayo ng landas
Para sa araw ng bukas
Para sa araw ng bukas
thanks guys, in the province we sing when are happy, also when we are sad. but we have each other and there is enough love to go around. sometimes, I dont want to look back, there is nothing there but misery, but then, I cannot deny that in poverty, there was also much support, people helping each other, lending a hand, and sharing what little they had.
Thanks for the link Sir.
I respect his right to take a break, given advanced age, the need to spend more time with family, and the stresses of the current world.
Yes, buti na lang the comment section remained open unlike before the pandemic where he closed the comments and opened it when he was feeling better.
Glad to see more of you M
https://x.com/JPEOutlives/status/1938925528029003995
“Juan Ponce Enrile outlives the Nasdaq not having a Filipino-owned company. Hotel101, a business under DoubleDragon, will begin trading on the US-based stock exchange on July 1, alongside multinationals like Apple and Google. Nasdaq opened in 1971, days before Enrile turned 47.”
juan ponce enrile owned numerous logging companies throughout the country, he is already very rich. apparently, he owes his longevity to having delimondo corned beef in his diet. his daughter owned delimondo food products that also sell halal certified foods. enrile’s company is not in nasdaq as well as that of his daughter.
I dont understand and may never know if there is competition between double dragon’s mang inasal and enrile as to who will make it to nasdaq first.
the challenge may well be who will live the longest: sia or enrile.
I am suspicious of double dragon, why the name double dragon. china is big on anything with dragons in it. august dragon, imperial dragon, dragon dance, moon cake with dragon design, etc.
is hotel 101 trading under double dragon backed up by chinese capital, and having powerful chinese backers with very deep pockets, is that what made hotel 101 finally made it to nasdaq listing?
Thanks for minding the gate, Karl. Add it to your list of responsibilities, Gatekeeper in Chief, lol. Those who were blocked, of which there are only three who made material contributions, Micha, Chempo, and LCX, could not find inspiration in the editorial objectives of the blog, seeking rather to impose their will and thereby diminish our work. If there is a sadness to it, it should be for them not us, as we can remain proud of carrying on with one of the best discussion forums about the Philippines in the history of mankind.
Or put another way, if there is a crocodile in the river, one ought to move carefully past it then run like hell, don’t look back. 🙂
Thanks for that Joe. We had a few visits from Chemrock and he wanted an article published.I told him that it is your house and your rules. I hope you are fully recharged.