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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.

"...It is not by accident that we are the only Christian nation in Asia. We are meant to be the bridge between the Christian West and the non-Christian East..."

Sex, hate, and fraud. Priests getting married. Jesus eating super-sized last suppers. It's a slow news day.

Role-playing games have become a critical thinking tool. Who would have thought that pretending to be a dwarf and approaching fantastic challenges and problems would lead to a better world.

Our imagination is within our mind, and it is infinite. Our conscious dwells in our mind and is finite. We are...

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.

We're already used to the kind of logic used by Catholics against condoms. The CBCP has called it worse than corruption....

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).