Filipinos colonize Mars (a story in three parts: 2025, 2035 & 2045)

Posted by JoeAm on January 2, 2025 · 145 Comments 

By Lance Corporal X 2025 A blog about Filipinos going all in with Starlink surfaced in late 2024. It went viral. INC, then LDS, two churches, one from the Philippines and the other from USA, started offering free WiFi to the public via Starlink. Another church from Mindanao, KJC, hearing of its success also decided … Continue reading →

Category Culture and Arts, Philippine Government, Philippine Politics, Religion, Technology/Internet

The return of Philippine monasticism, the Catholic Church and Origen’s sacrifice for GOD

Posted by JoeAm on November 21, 2024 · 110 Comments 

Analysis and Opinion By Lance Corporal X The famous Harlow’s infant monkeys experiment was some dude’s sick idea of kidnapping baby monkeys from their mothers to answer the age old question of whether or not moms are important. Or if theres no moms around, if love is important for development. Thanks for confirming the obvious. But … Continue reading →

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

The Philippines is a Catholic nation. Make it official.

Posted by JoeAm on November 14, 2024 · 181 Comments 

Analysis and Opinion By Joe America Many nations these days are trying to figure out who they are. Oddly, the Philippines knows, but won’t say so. The Philippines is a Catholic nation. Through and through. You know it every time you climb into a cab and the driver says his quick prayer before taking off. … Continue reading →

Category Citizenship/Patriotism, Culture and Arts, Family/Parenting/Children, Laws and Ethics, Philippine Government, Religion

The Philippine deep state

Posted by JoeAm on September 30, 2024 · 179 Comments 

Analysis and Opinion By Joe America A long time compatriot on Twitter, an intellectual pragmatist, referred me to a You Tube panel discussion of the American “deep state” featuring a couple of university foreign policy notables, John Mearsheimer and Jeffrey Sachs, from the University of Chicago and Columbia University, respectively. I got about halfway through … Continue reading →

Category Citizenship/Patriotism, Crime/Corruption, Culture and Arts, Foreign Affairs and Defense, Laws and Ethics, Philippine Government, Religion

I wish the Catholic Church would focus on accountability rather than forgiveness

Posted by JoeAm on September 16, 2024 · 168 Comments 

Analysis and Opinion By Joe America The Catholic Church is a great humanitarian institution. It gives the Philippines conscience, and comfort. But it needs to help more, socially, and politically. The Church is forgiving. Great. But forgiveness undermines accountability if it is exercised as the dominant moral foundation. It is the opposite of accountability, which … Continue reading →

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