Ist Gott tot? (Is God dead?)

Posted by chemrock on April 24, 2019 · 655 Comments 

By Chemrock The madman ran through the marketplace shouting “Gott ist tot. Wir haben ihm getötet. (God is dead. We have killed him.)” German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche wrote in Zarathustra in the 1880s on the rise of the Rational Man. The invisible, all-powerful Divinity is just a figment of man’s imagination. God is killed in … Continue reading →

Category Blogging/Journalism, Culture and Arts, Economy, Education, Laws and Ethics, Philippine Politics, Religion, USA/Americans

Why Filipinos fight Filipinos instead of building a great nation

Posted by The Society of Honor on April 8, 2019 · 155 Comments 

By JoeAm Have you noticed? Filipinos are always making other Filipinos the enemy. This struck me as I was reading DFA Secretary Locsin ripping on prior administrations for the mess in the West Philippine Sea . . . as if China had nothing to do with the mess. A few days later, House Budget Committee … Continue reading →

Category Citizenship/Patriotism, Culture and Arts, Education, Philippine Government

To Spin Manila’s Water Shortage

Posted by The Society of Honor on March 27, 2019 · 71 Comments 

By Popoy Del R. Cartanio A writer of paid rubbish or the truth can put a spin to anything. To spin is to inform, to sell, to ignite the emotions of anger and sympathy; even to make mountains out of molehills and vice versa to demonstrate fawning and fluid sycophancy. Quite often a spin is … Continue reading →

Category Ecology/Global Warming, Education, Philippine Government

Do you see the difference?

Posted by The Society of Honor on March 22, 2019 · 171 Comments 

By JoeAm A lot of Filipinos are space cadets. They are children watching cartoons on TV all day, or scaredy cat scouts sitting around the campfire listening to stories about snipes and dreaming of catching one. They are the subject of Kafka’s novels about absurdity, the people doing nonsense because it is simply what they … Continue reading →

Category Citizenship/Patriotism, Education, Laws and Ethics, Philippine Government

We are “Plac’d on this isthmus of a middle state” . . .

Posted by The Society of Honor on March 20, 2019 · 56 Comments 

By JoeAm One of my sources, those spread across the globe like a spider’s web, each node a listening post, today entrusted me with the wisdom of Alexander Pope, which I shall reproduce in a moment. Do you read poetry? Not many do, I think. Anyone who reads poetry has undoubtedly tried, and maybe succeeded, … Continue reading →

Category Citizenship/Patriotism, Culture and Arts, Education, Laws and Ethics