Monthly Archives: April, 2010

Writing a Social Commentary

One of the primary objectives of this blog is to encourage people to express what’s on their mind when it comes to socially relevant and often controversial news and current events. But of course before such exchange of ideas can start, a good writer has to open up the topic with a well-written intro on the issue. Hopefully, these series of articles aimed at developing a responsible writer will help everyone come up with their own future posts. So we begin with lesson one. After you’ve decided on a good topic that piques your interest (and hopefully everyone else’s), you have to decide on the tone. Most social commentaries fall in either one or a combination of any of these three...

FF Top Ten: April 25, 2010

Apparently, it's gotten so hot that Manila experienced its two highest temperatures for this year. Last week. Grab a cold drink, and welcome to this week's news updates!

Fundie Paradise

Here is Weird Al's Amish Paradise, a parody of Coolio's Gangsta's Paradise. I changed some words and phrases to turn it into Fundie Paradise while loosely retaining the general flow of the song. I suggest you play the video and sing along with the new 'lyrics' I wrote below.

In the Philippines, Wolves Amidst the Sheep?

A 2004 report by the Catholics for Free Choice and Likhaan finds that no priest accused of sexual abuse in the Philippines seems to have been successfully prosecuted. In fact, most of them seem to be in active ministry today.

Explaining the situation of churches in Germany

The churches in Germany are losing members drastically every year. Look at the following figures showing the number of people signing out of the organization year by year:

Leverage

With out any form of leverage, we are just victims. Power, real power, comes from the ability to compel others against their will. A simple lesson on how to look at problems and find the solution.

FF Top Ten: April 18, 2010

Europe may be in trouble due to Iceland's recent volcanic eruptions, but that hasn't stopped the Pope from making a trip to Malta to meet the sex abuse victims, or Obama from announcing where NASA just might be focusing its next space exploration missions.

First FF Cebu Chapter Meetup

It's short notice, but if you're a Cebuano Freethinker, or any Freethinker currently in Cebu, you're invited to the First FF...

Poisoning the Well

With the recent embarrasment brought about by one of our articles, I sometimes wish that the Filipino Freethinkers had a formal organizational and editorial structure where we could actually sanction erring members and take down their articles. But the FF is not a formal organization, and the fact that most of our readers – and critics – believe otherwise does not change this.

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