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Change for the better doesn't look pretty and nice. It comes from hard work of the many who are forced to work together when they would rather not. It doesn't come in a nice fancy or idyllic package: it comes from playing dirty and getting leverage.

Hi, Twin-Skies here. We're trying a bi-weekly format for the FF Top Ten news of the week. I'll be handling the Sunday updates, while sinister will be handling the Wednesday updates (at least that's the plan).

I just had a three-mile run and a quick shower, and the endorphins are still kicking in. Runner’s high, they call it. Now I’m sitting in front of my PC trying to update my blog and hoping to get a “writer’s high”. And should I fail to get the creative juices flowing, there’s a bottle of Scotch sure to give me a real kind of high every time.

Since I have come out as a full-fledged atheist, I have experienced being bullied on the Internet. I wonder if it has something to do with men being misogynistic towards me. The two men who bullied me were flaming with anger, using capital letters and words of condemnation such as "YOUR SOUL WILL BURN IN HELL!!!"

Not many people realize this, but many Muslim clerics worldwide actually do support family planning. Back in 1979, a fatwa (religious degree) was issued in Egypt by Sheikh Jadel Haq Ali Jadel Haq which stated that "...A thorough review of the Qur'an reveals no text (nas) prohibiting the prevention of pregnancy or diminution of the number of children, but there are several traditions of the Prophet that indicate its permissibility...."

Of all the areas that the issue of reproductive health has touched I have always considered that population should be removed...

It's sad reading all this debate between the CBCP and Secretary Cabral on this issue of free condom distribution. Personally, I believe that contraceptives should not be given freely. The secretary is better off distributing free medicines rather than focusing on free contraceptives. There are those who are in dire need of medicines these days.

In the FF forum and Facebook page, every once in a while someone oblivious to the standard definition butts in with the assumption that freethinking means setting the mind completely free – unrestrained even by reason, logic, or reality. More commonly, people have assumed that freethought is synonymous to atheism.

-Ano ka ba naman anak, tingnan mo nga yang suot mo. --Si Mama talaga, ako na naman ang nakita. -Hay naku Judith, paano ba namang... ---Hindi ka makikita ni Nanay, eh halos makita na ang kaluluwa mo dyan sa suot mo? Mano po, nay. -Kaawaan ka ng Diyos.