Politics

In my previous post about the HIV summit, I wrote about my unanswered question (What should the DOH do about the...

I asked the titular question at this morning's HIV Summit hosted by the Philippine National AIDS Council (PNAC). The event started...

Secularism won’t come as a gift or magically sprout overnight. It is like any human achievement – we MUST work to get it.

Poe's law may have been originally coined for fundamentalism, but it actually works on any crackpot theory (like the whole shebang...

Good news, atheists! A Christian will be praying for you today while you read more news about the Catholic sex scandal here.

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.

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.

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.

A behavior one can observe is how the Anti-RHB groups have actually attempted to dehumanize their opponents. One can easily see it in the headlines as Bishops accuse Pro-RH people of immorality in public online discussions. The readiness of the Anti-RHB to never understand a side that understands them all too well is apparent.