Monthly Archives: March, 2010

Come on guys, let's show our love for science and poetry. Let's keep the creative juices flowing. Here's my start on...

I had often read that Power is the most addictive drug. With “conventional” drugs, you get high for a few hours. With Power, you get high continuously for years. With conventional drugs, you feel like you can do anything. With Power, you actually can do anything.

“We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.” Jonathan Swift.

Natural disasters, calamities, suffering, and death. Just another way of saying "I have a lesson to teach you..."

Shortly after Karlo's article What's So Wrong With Objectivism was published, someone went berserk and got busy writing against the Filipino Freethinkers and even created a Facebook page called EXPOSING THE FILIPINO FREETHINKERS: The Enemy of REASON.

Thunderf00t has a new video for viewing, and one activist's way of turning the Westboro Church's vitriol into gold for outreach programs. This, among this week's odd news items.

After reading works of Ayn Rand and Objectivism (Fountainhead, Atlas Shrugged, Objectivist Ethics, Virtue of Selfishness), I think I now understand why Rand’s philosophy has such a cult following. To begin with, I found out that Objectivism is just pure philosophy, it’s not science. There is no evidence to support its claims and therefore it is not scientifically justifiable. It claims to be committed to reason, but without science and evidence to back up its claims, it’s just another belief system — just like any other cult or religion.

If there's one good thing about living in a predominantly Christian country, it's the four straight holidays from Holy Thursday to Easter Sunday. And the good thing about being a heathen is that one gets to really enjoy these holidays without feeling guilty about indulging on food and drink and not spending precious hours listening to the Seven Last Words and having to get up at Easter dawn with a hangover from Saturday night's binge.

Nearly everything before 1521 is blurry in national textbooks. Thus Butuan, which was predominately a Hindu-Buddhist kingdom founded by Tausugs and which flourished for 500 years, is left out along with the art works it produced such as the Tara of Agusan.