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About me: I am a pragmatist whose altruist beliefs are based science and math. I only deal with results, evidence and action. I continuously work toward my Machiavellian-altruistic beliefs and I leave nothing to chance especially the supernatural, mystical or faith. I live in the real world and I am aware of real suffering, and how easy it is to hide behind the little lies I and others tell themselves. I've stopped dreaming.
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Name: justinaquino
Nickname: justinaquino
Member since: 2009-08-19 08:10:10
Website URL: http://gameinthebrain.blogspot.com
About me: I am a pragmatist whose altruist beliefs are based science and math. I only deal with results, evidence and action. I continuously work toward my Machiavellian-altruistic beliefs and I leave nothing to chance especially the supernatural, mystical or faith. I live in the real world and I am aware of real suffering, and how easy it is to hide behind the little lies I and others tell themselves. I've stopped dreaming.
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What is Karma?
September 3rd, 2010 at 8:30 amHey schopenhauer, why don’t you go to the saturday meet up. Your IP says your in manila naman eh. Lets have this discussion face to face. Don’t worry about people ganging up, its in a public place naman eh. Feel free to drop by and Identify yourself.
Regards
Humility: Reason vs. Faith
September 2nd, 2010 at 5:46 pm-they are infallible; they commit no mistakes you might mistake them for gods.- Schopenhauer
Please Cite evidence of this. If you cannot then you are lying. Other than Innerminds and Twinskies being geniuses, I’m inclined to agree given their body of work which are available to anyone who would care to look.
But I implore you sir to please cite examples, links, and evidence to your claims. As for Claiming that they are Infallible I would like you to at least Cut and Paste where that comes from, otherwise I accuse you of spreading False and baseless accusations. If you fail to bring up evidence and reference for you exaggerated claims, consider your credibility forfeit.
If you care to add me to your baseless attacks, I am very honored to be part of it. I am very interested in sharing the juxtaposition of credibility you have so very well illustrated in this discussion, under-estimating the audience doesn’t have the basic skills to follow up on any extraordinary claims.
Humility: Reason vs. Faith
September 2nd, 2010 at 5:35 pmThere is no change in his status, there were no notes or actions taken by any of the admins. I don’t know why its being blocked, I will alert the more tech savy admins.
@schopenhauer Were you banned or blocked. I’m the only active admin lately, and the last time I did admin action was split the Circumcision thread which can be found in forum admin history of actions. If it is being blocked, (not banned) it could be you are using a spammer compromised IP.
Drowning in Baptismal Waters
June 25th, 2010 at 11:49 amWow, as a fellow SJ’er did you ever experience when they would test doors to try to get into your car and splash you? I hate the holiday because its an excuse for some people to be jerks.
the wife and I were lucky that time.
CBCP kills sex ed, DepEd needs our help
June 23rd, 2010 at 4:29 pmWhat about Fr. Bernas? What’s he gotta say about this meddling?
I guess its true, the church really have a really big hard on to screw with children.
The only way the church can be forced is IF all the other Secular Countries gunning for the Pope get leverage and start forcing them to stop meddling with reproductive health and sex education policies.
OR the Philippine or the Church is hit hard at the wallet: NO LOANS or Financial Aid unless the Philippines Honors its UN agreement for sex education.
Doesn’t medling with DEP ED consider Politics? Doesn’t that screw with their Non-taxable status?
Sunday Meetup: June 27 at Shangri-la Starbucks
June 23rd, 2010 at 4:18 pmCool, i’ll try to make it.
Saturday Meetup: June 12 at Shangri-la Starbucks
June 22nd, 2010 at 1:55 pmIs the next session going to be on Saturday June 26?
Calling All Freethinkers in UP Diliman
June 15th, 2010 at 4:16 pmHey Dean,
did you get my email? I used your dnd email to set an appointment of coffee but you didn’t reply. Hope you’re not using a dummy account, if you are just message me nalang instead.
Still up for a face to face meet up and coffee,
it would be nice to humanize the conversation.
regards
Justin
Filipino Freethinkers = Atheist Preachers?
June 9th, 2010 at 9:25 pmGreat Post Jong!
Facts and Reason fighting for Airtime is only natural. How else can people get after the truth, objectivity, and empathize with each other if no one will argue, explain, correct, criticize and debate?
Even the Argument that Atheists or Freethinkers are Freethought Preachers have to be debated, stripped down and analyzed for its details and logical consistency.
To expect no Debate or Argument to any worthwhile claim is an overconfident assumption that One’s logic is Perfect and Omniscient.
Great topic and Great Post! I hope dissenters would pose a well formulated argument. Most importantly, an opening good move it is to make probing Socratic questions to make certain of the premises then see if the logic is sound… not that I expect to see that ever to happen.
My Definition of God
June 7th, 2010 at 11:22 amHey Dean,
Love your Ideas, we should talk face to face. Just message me when you have the time.
Regards
Dissent and Islam
May 20th, 2010 at 2:37 pmAwesome Article Taric!
Homosexuality and Islam
May 19th, 2010 at 5:03 pmGreat post Taric this is very helpful!
New Film Fest Poster
April 29th, 2010 at 10:28 amSomeone’s hits must be dropping. Time already to sow some seeds again? Bilis naman.
My Journey to Paradise: Why I became an Atheist
April 26th, 2010 at 11:48 amA perfect example of a Theist troll: Dead End web page, non-working email address, of course No name attached and failing to understand what Atheism means. Funny it is becoming a Christian Virtue to Lie for Christianity. Lie more please it really Builds your case
In the Philippines, Wolves Amidst the Sheep?
April 21st, 2010 at 12:22 pmThis is Awesome Mike! I want to say something calous about the parents involved, but I think their communities and the media bear more of the responsibilities.
On High and Mighty Bishops and Priests fighting the right to choose and accomplices to these monsters. It makes my blood boil.
Leverage
April 20th, 2010 at 11:13 amI am in the same position as you. My mom listens to geomancers and faithhealers. I am uncomfortable with the relationship and know if I act on it, I have to mount a campaign, win the battle, and rule the city. Meaning, If I do anything to change my parent’s minds, I must be ready to continue the course of action to make them happy.
Its not that your helpless, its more that the cost of occupying and winning exceeds the overall happiness you’ll get out of it. If you make your mom throw off her friends you don’t like, you must be ready to substitute that lost aspect of her life with something she wants. that may mean doing more of what she wants and sacrificing what freedoms you already have.
Using leverage is always some cost. If it didn’t cost anything it wouldn’t be that powerful. Diplomats or Manipulators, are able to find leverage more efficiently with less cost to themselves. As you grow wiser the skill tends to progress, it just depends on how much you allocate or study to improve on it.
As the beginning example with the bullies and slackers, leverage is necessary skill in personal problem solving. Just to live in a fairer world, one has to apply leverage. Sometimes the good or what is fair is against the will of an individual and a group.
Leverage
April 20th, 2010 at 11:01 amIn case of what happened to China and Google, who has the leverage is very hard to determine by just the reports. I know China has their own Internet search and advertisement firms, but they lack the technology and skills of Google. Still if Google is going to sustain its pace, it has to grow and it needs markets like China.
Still, Google can bring in a TON of revenue through ads, trade-opportunities and other services. Trade barriers are self inflicting injuries, if I am to sum up my economics lessons with a lot of oversimplification. The growth China has to gain with Google may be something their economists advisors may be harping at their politicians.
Freetrade, with mindfulness of its peculiarities, is always a benefit on all parties. I would gather to say they need each other enough by the extents they have complied to each other, from what I can see on the surface.
China bending over to Google’s removal of censorship is part of the risks of espionage. They got caught, in return censorship was removed. By the speed Google capitalized on it, makes you think they’ve already anticipated that action.
On Freethinking, Objectivism, and Plagiarism
April 18th, 2010 at 11:03 pmVB’s RIGHT! We HAVE MYSTICS!!!
Poisoning the Well
April 15th, 2010 at 10:26 pmGreat post innerminds, it is interesting how the relationships that result say more about who we are.
The ability to tolerate and understand the views of others has a relation to being mindful of the flaws of one’s own argument or ideas. Familiarity breeding contempt happens to apply to the ideals we understand most intimately.
Civil discussion goes out the window when you meet the likes of VB and his army of stalker puppet accounts. Sorry but when he tried to befriend me more than once with some of them and learning who it really was, trying to gather information to post on his blog is kind of UBER CREEPY! He even got one of his followers to give him a print screen of my profile which is found on his blog post about me. I mean who experiences that without setting off the crazy bells alarm or cause the hair at the back of your neck to stand on end?
FF Top Ten: April 14, 2010
April 15th, 2010 at 10:11 amhalf catholic is still catholic. Even 1% catholic is still catholic! Whats the diff? What’s the other half and where will it go. I’d like it these priests had the BALLS to say: You are all going to HELL for not following Dogma and Canon!
From the elephant's mouth: Interview with Bishop Yniguez
April 15th, 2010 at 9:50 amThe best way to get people to take poison is by putting something sweet and tasty around it.
Yum Yum, father
sweet is the taste of your…
On Freethinking, Objectivism, and Plagiarism
April 14th, 2010 at 1:53 pmI don’t see what all the fuss is about. I think 98% of the FF Facebook account know better than to listen to someone caught several times and Red Handed using fake accounts and trolling ALL OVER the internet.
What should the DOH do about the CBCP?
April 13th, 2010 at 10:16 amHey, I think it was great you brought up the topic despite the bishop. They are THERE on that Meeting, for that Day. But for the rest of the year EVERY STEP and EVERY Effort the DOH makes in reproductive health they will be undermining it. Sure they sent a TOKEN bishop, talking about sacrificing bishops, but they had MORE than one left.
Strategically speaking- what the point of letting them in when the entire organization will still undermine the RH effort wasting money and effort of the government? There is no strategic value IMO. 1 Bishop cannot go against the church without being defrocked and already they have begun the polarization by calling all people who agree with RH to “re-examine” their faith.
Nakikisakay lang sila sa credibilty ng DOH. disgusting.
On Proof and Evidence
April 12th, 2010 at 9:00 pmGreat Post! Hope to see more works from you.
Less Talking, More Hitting: Elevating our Sentiments to Action (or Why Secular Activism?)
April 10th, 2010 at 11:22 pmStrangely it seems we need those three too!