Kids on Marriage, Dating, Love (from Luville)

If you like kids enough, you'll find this hilarious. This made me freak out in laughter. Okay, hyperbole.

From Luville's blog.

(A few kicks I found in my inbox...)

"HOW DO YOU DECIDE WHO TO MARRY?"

You got to find somebody who likes the same stuff. Like, if you like sports, she should like it that you like sports, and she should keep the chips and dip coming. Alan, age 10

"WHO ARE YOU GOING TO MARRY?"

No person really decides before they grow up who they're going to marry. God decides it all way before, and you get to find out later who you're stuck with. Kirsten, age 10

"WHAT IS THE RIGHT AGE TO GET MARRIED?"

Twenty-three is the best age because you know the person FOREVER by then. Camille, age 10

No age is good to get married at. You got to be a fool to get married. Freddie, age 6

"HOW CAN A STRANGER TELL IF TWO PEOPLE ARE MARRIED?"

You might have to guess, based on whether they seem to be yelling at the same kids. Derrick, age 8

"WHAT DO YOU THINK YOUR MOM AND DAD HAVE IN COMMON?"

Both don't want any more kids. Lori, age 8

"WHAT DO MOST PEOPLE DO ON A DATE?"

Dates are for having fun, and people should use them to get to know each other. Even boys have something to say if you listen long enough. Lynnette, age 8

On the first date, they just tell each other lies, and that usually gets them interested enough to go for a second date. Martin, age 10

"WHAT WOULD YOU DO ON A FIRST DATE THAT WAS TURNING SOUR?"

I'd run home and play dead. The next day I would call all the newspapers and make sure they wrote about me in all the dead columns. Craig, age 9

"WHEN IS IT OKAY TO KISS SOMEONE?"

When they're rich. Pam, age 7

"AT WHAT AGE DO YOU THINK YOULL GET MARRIED?"

The law says you have to be eighteen, so I wouldn't want to mess with that. Curt, age 7

"WHEN IS IT THE RIGH TIME TO MARRY?"

The rule goes like this: If you kiss someone, then you should marry them and have kids with them. It's the right thing to do. Howard, age 8

"IS IT BETTER TO BE SINGLE OR MARRIED?"

It's better for girls to be single but not for boys. Boys need someone to clean up after them. Anita, age 9

"HOW WOULD THE WORLD BE DIFFERENT IF PEOPLE DIDN'T GET MARRIED?"

There sure would be a lot of kids to explain, wouldn't there? Kelvin, age 8

"HOW WOULD YOU MAKE A MARRIAGE WORK?"

Tell your wife that she looks pretty even if she looks like a truck. Ricky, age 10

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My favorite merienda

Coke and Chocovron from Ian Maliksi. That one pack lasts only a day or two. The Coke lasts shorter.


Yeah, I know. My father died of stroke. In his later years, he suffered from high sugar level. Coffee na nga lang. Hehehe.....

Three Men About Their Funeral

Three men were asked what they would want to be said about them at their funerals. The first one said, “I want someone to say I was a wonderful father.”

The second man said, “I want someone to say I was the greatest baseball player ever.”

The last man said, "I want someone to say, ‘He’s moving, he’s moving!’”

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my head's in a jam cant take you off my mind
from the time we met i've been beset by thoughts of you
and the more that i ignore this feeling 
the more i find my self believin'
that i just have to see you again

i can't let you pass me by 
i can't let you go but i know 
that im much too shy to let you know
afraid that i might say the wrong
word and displease you
afraid for love to fade 
before it can come true

like a child again
im out and lost for words
how can one define a crush combine with longing
longing to posses oh so dearly
and im obsess with you completely
ill go mad if i cant have you

i cant let you pass me by
i cant let you go let me say
the things and the words to let you know
i would rather say the awkward words than to loose you 
afraid for love to fade 
before it can come true

afraid for love to fade 
before it can come true... 

Panahon na para dito...

I am always a person who is concerned of sorrows and pains from other people.  Some things happened in my past that made me resolve - almost feverishly - that should there be a chance, I would try to somehow ease the pain of those people who are within my zone of influence.  In those years, when silent tears would fall, and I would question the existence of the One who called out of nothing, I just push myself to sleep.  Counting sheep, squaring those numbers in my head, and then, cubing them.  Until I end up as a mathematics student.

There were no students then, no youth groups, no choir members, no Legionnaires, no co-teachers, no co-employees, no co-administrators.  There was just me.  And it was hard.

I read somewhere that the surest ways to cure your pain are killing yourself, or listening to another pain.  If you try to soothe the sorrows of another, you tend to forget your own.  That was a good plan.  Saintly, I should say.  In the heat of the battle, however, when sorrows would drown me with my tears, and I could not see in the dark, it is very hard to think of those saintly thoughts.  And so, I baptized myself dreamshadow, a sort of escape.  Invisible to pain and fortified in my philosophical cloisters.  Defended by archers and pikemen who would try the doors of its heart.  That way, it protected me of trying hard to be happy.  Whenever sad, I would only convince myself that, hey, you're the dreamshadow, no one cares for you.  You should not complain because you're not supposed to be loved.  Years later, I heard Kurt Cobain - a Piscean also, and a "successful" suicide - singing "I miss the comfort of being sad".  When you're sad, you can't be sad anymore.  That was the comfort.  I once wrote of the "anxiety of being happy". Cobain was my brother.  I missed meeting him though.

But then, one grows up.

And growing up, I believe that, now, passing corridors, seeing those lonely eyes hidden behind those emo-hairstyles, I feel that I have a connection with the youths of today, with their angst, pain, identity-crisis, and role-confusion.  Erikson would've clapped.  

My brother used to call me Peter Pan, the boy who refused to grow up.  But there is a critical difference between us.  He was bubblier and happier, while I was just a melancholic trying to look like a bubbly and happy person.  

Growing up sometimes makes one forget his/her own youth.  Hence, they don't understand the young people when they misbehave in class, or smoke because they weren't allowed to play after "Sugarfree", or find a way inside the gym sans ticket, or slap you in the face with her wand because she is "Princess Andrea" and I am just a "Slave Daddy".  These things make one furious, but it's what happens after that matters.  The young people now don't need to be told that they are right.  They need only to be heard, and understood.  Just like what I told my former student in Dominican College, "I heard, I understand...but I don't agree".  To which, he replied, "Thank you".

It is an unsure world out there.  I fear that the stocks would fall and wipe out my investments.  I fear that an earthquake will devastate our country.  I fear that the terrorists would bomb cities and blow us back to the Middle Ages.  I fear alien invasion, meteor collision, ozone depletion, the end of humanity.  But all these things are part of the march of humanity towards the great sea of Life (or the final shearing, for negative people).  One writer then said, "I am glad to be old at such a finished world".  That was almost 200 years ago.  The world goes on.

And while we worry about our own lives, relationships with our loved ones, financial problems, health problems, security problems, problems of our children, our parents, our teachers (ugh!)...while we worry about them, let me say - cliche, though it is - it is still a beautiful world.

Let us just remind ourselves that all the things that worry us now will be gone tomorrow or the next day.  Fifty miles down the road, we will be nurses, writers, broadcasters, managers, accountants, teachers... we will be parents too.  And as parents, we will take care of the next generations with their peculiar problems.  They will be looking for heroes also, for eagles, for soldiers who came from battles and did not grow weary.  Who stood up in the face of death and calumny with the strength of a lion.  They are the gods.  They are the angels sent to the world to inspire those who may have broken their wings.  They are the ones who carry the torch onwards, and inspire the youth to carry them the same.  Light their torches too.  Light the world.  Light the world.  Light the future of the world.

When Prometheus stole the fire of Olympus, he was bound and imprisoned by the gods.  We will carry the torch forward the light a thousand other torches.  Live on.  Keep on keeping on.  Life goes on and everything is for the best.

There was a story I read back when I was just 14.  It's from one of those Bible Diaries that carry a "thought a day".  Back when I wanted to be a priest.  It's a fitting ending for this meaningless piece that has no unity and coordination (that my students in Writing will fail me for).  

In one of those cold counties in Canada, an old woman named Cely goes to church everyday to hear Mass at six in the morning.  She lived very far and needed to rise up at 4 each morning, because she needed an hour to prepare, and another hour to walk the distance from her house to the church.  Everyday, without exception, she heard Mass, staying at the front row of the church.  She was too deaf to hear.

One day, the worst blizzard in that county happened.  Snow covered the land, and rendered the roads impassable to vehicles.  The priest rose a little late that day.  No one will hear Mass today, he muttered to himself.  When he peeped from the altar curtain, however, he saw old Cely in her usual dress ready to hear Mass.  

The priest then went on with the Mass with his one audience.  

After the Mass, the priest called old Cely and asked her, "How did you ever make it through this terrible blizzard?"

Cely answered, "I just kept saying to myself, One more step for Christ, and I got here".  

She walked away.

Post script.

We all need to go on.  One more step.  For life, for Buddha, for Krishna, for Allah, for God, for Christ, for your future.... for whatever inspires you.  Don't give up, kids.  

"That these tatters in you may find harmony.... (cf. Will Durant, History of Philosophy)"

All the love.

Philosophy of the One

One World - Philosophy of the One

The last breath of man is for the truth, beyond all the legends of his heart.

This is my wordpress account, where I will start to write the draft of my profession of faith. This is my philosophy, which I dubbed "Philosophy of the One". The title will be clear when I get to the theory of innate ideas.

George for Dubya

You Are Most Like George W. Bush

So what if you're not exactly popular? You still rule the free world. And while you may be quite conservative now, you knew how to party back in the day!

What Modern US President Are You Most Like?

Entrepreneur, I am

You Are a Natural Entrepreneur

You're creative, driven, and full of great ideas. You could be the next Richard Branson, Warren Buffet, or Oprah. Keep with your dreams, even if people don't understand or respect them. Someday you'll have too much money to care what they think!

Are You a Natural Entrepreneur?

What the....?

You Are A Romantic Realist

You tend to be grounded when it comes to romance. Sure, you can fall hard... but only for someone you've gotten to know. And once you're in love, you can be a total romantic goofball... But you'd never admit it to your friends!

Are You Romantic or Realistic?

Dr Phil's test

I got this from my friend Drew
From DJ

Below is Dr Phil's test. (Dr. Phil scored 55; he did this test on Oprah - she got a 38.) Some folks pay a lot of money to find this stuff out!

Read on, this is very interesting!

Don't be overly sensitive! The following is pretty accurate and it only takes 2 minutes. Take this test for yourself and send it to your friends.

When you're done, place your score on your blog title. Don't peek, but begin the test as you scroll down and answer.

Answers are for who you are now --- not who you were in the past Have pen or pencil and paper ready

This is a real test given by the Human Relations Dept. at many of the major corporations today. It helps them get better insight concerning their employees and prospective employees. It's only 10 Simple questions, so grab a pencil and paper, keeping track of your letter answers to each question.


Ready?


Begin.


1. When do you feel your best?

a) in the morning
b) during the afternoon and early evening
c) late at night


2. You usually walk...

a) fairly fast, with long steps
b) fairly fast, with little steps
c) less fast head up, looking the world in the face
d) less fast, head down
e) very slowly


3. When talking to people you. .

a) stand with your arms folded
b) have your hands clasped
c) have one or both your hands on your hips
d) touch or push the person to whom you are talking
e) play with your ear, touch your chin, or smooth your hair


4. When relaxing, you sit with. . .

a) your knees bent with your legs neatly side by side
b) your legs crossed
c) you r legs stretched out or straight
d) one leg curled under you


5. When something really amuses you, you react with...

a) big appreciated laugh
b) a laugh, but not a loud one
c) a quiet chuckle
d) a sheepish smile

6 When you go to a party or social gathering you...

a) make a loud entrance so everyone notices you
b) make a quiet entrance, looking around for someone you know
c) make the quietest entrance, trying to stay unnoticed


7. You're working very hard, concentrating hard, and you're interrupted. ..

a) welcome the break
b) feel extremely irritated
c) vary between these two extremes


8. Which of the following colors do you like most?

a) Red or orange
b) black
c) yellow or light blue
d) green
e) dark blue or purple
f) white
g) brown or gray


9. When you are in bed at night, in those last few moments before going to sleep you are...

a) stretched out on your back
b) stretched out face down on your stomach
c) on your side, slightly curled
d) with your head on one arm
e) with your head under the covers


10. You often dream that you are...

a) falling
b) fighting or struggling
c) searching for something or somebody
d) flying or floating
e) you usually have dreamless sleep
f) your dreams are always pleasant



POINTS:

1. (a) 2 (b) 4 (c) 6
2. (a) 6 (b) 4 (c) 7 (d) 2 (e) 1
3. (a) 4 (b) 2 (c) 5 (d) 7 (e) 6
4. (a) 4 (b) 6 (c) 2 (d) 1
5. (a) 6 (b) 4 (c) 3 (d) 5 (e) 2
6. (a) 6 (b) 4 (c) 2
7. (a) 6 (b) 2 (c) 4
8. (a) 6 (b) 7 (c) 5 (d) 4 (e) 3 (f) 2 (g) 1
9. (a) 7 (b) 6 (c) 4 (d) 2 (e) 1
10 (a) 4 (b) 2 (c) 3 (d) 5 (e) 6 (f) 1

Now add up the total number of points.

OVER 60 POINTS : Others see you as someone they should 'handle with care.' You're seen as vain, self-centered, and who is extremely dominant. Others may admire you, wishing they could be more like you, but don't always trust you, hesitating to become too deeply involved with you.

51 TO 60 POINTS : Others see you as an exciting, highly volatile, rather impulsive personality; a natural leader, who's quick to make decisions, though not always the right ones. They see you as bold and adventuresome, someone who will try anything once; someone who takes chances and enjoys an adventure. They enjoy being in your company because of the excitement you radiate.

41 TO 50 POINTS: Others see you as fresh, lively, charming, amusing, practical, and always interesting; someone who's constantly in the center of attention, but sufficiently well balanced not to let it go to their head. They also see you as kind, considerate, and understanding; someone who'll always cheer them up and help them out.

31 TO 40 POINTS : Others see you as sensible, cautious, careful & practical. They see you as clever, gifted, or talented, but modest. Not a person who makes friends too quickly or easily, but and who someone who's extremely loyal to friends you do makeexpect the same loyalty in return. Those who really get to know you realize it takes a lot to shake your trust in your friends, but equally that it takes you a long time to get over if that trust is ever broken.

21 TO 30 POINTS: Your friends see you as painstaking and fussy. They see you as very cautious, extremely careful, a slow and steady plodder. It would really surprise them if you ever did something impulsively or on the spur of the moment, expecting you to examine everything carefully from every angle and then, usually decide against it. They think this reaction is caused partly by your careful nature.

UNDER 21 POINTS: People think you are shy, nervous, and indecisive, someone who needs looking after, who always wants someone else to make the de cisions & who doesn't want to get involved with anyone or anything! They see you as a worrier who always sees problems that don't exist. Some people think you' re boring. Only those who know you well know that you aren't.

All We Have To Do

Voltaire, one of the most prolific writers of the Enlightenment, wrote Candide, a story of a man who went through a lot of pain and trouble. On the backdrop are Pangloss, his tutor who obstinately believes that everything is for the best. A parody of Leibniz, this well-loved classic is really a pessimistic attack against blind optimism, understandable only in an age ravaged by wars carried on in the name of religion and pride.

Augustine would have laughed, reading the Enneads at his deathbed during the Vandalic* siege of Hippo.

He was the optimist.

"You must have a vast and magnificent estate," said Candide to the Turk.

"I have only twenty acres," replied the old man; "I and my children cultivate them; our labour preserves us from three great evils--weariness, vice, and want."

Candide, on his way home, made profound reflections on the old man's conversation.

"This honest Turk," said he to Pangloss and Martin, "seems to be in a situation far preferable to that of the six kings with whom we had the honour of supping."

"Grandeur," said Pangloss, "is extremely dangerous according to the testimony of philosophers. For, in short, Eglon, King of Moab, was assassinated by Ehud; Absalom was hung by his hair, and pierced with three darts; King Nadab, the son of Jeroboam, was killed by Baasa; King Ela by Zimri; Ahaziah by Jehu; Athaliah by Jehoiada; the Kings Jehoiakim, Jeconiah, and Zedekiah, were led into captivity. You know how perished Croesus, Astyages, Darius, Dionysius of Syracuse, Pyrrhus, Perseus, Hannibal, Jugurtha, Ariovistus, Cæsar, Pompey, Nero, Otho, Vitellius, Domitian, Richard II. of England, Edward II., Henry VI., Richard III., Mary Stuart, Charles I., the three Henrys of France, the Emperor Henry IV.! You know----"

"I know also," said Candide, "that we must cultivate our garden."

"You are right," said Pangloss, "for when man was first placed in the Garden of Eden, he was put there _ut operaretur eum_, that he might cultivate it; which shows that man was not born to be idle."

"Let us work," said Martin, "without disputing; it is the only way to render life tolerable."

(Emphasis mine)

My Dark Side

What's Your Dark Side?

My Result: Taking Chances

Quitting your job before you have a new one lined up? Drinking the milk even if it expired yesterday? Chatting up that cute stranger on the bus? Whatever you want, whenever you want, however you want it — nobody takes chances quite like you. You're definitely not the type to play it safe, at work or anywhere else, because that's no way for a go-getter like you to have fun or to get ahead.

Like everybody else you hesitate from time to time, and you definitely have your moments when you toe the line. There's nothing wrong with that at all. Just make sure you don't go too far over into the dark side and you'll come out on top. Way to chance it!

What are you?
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Getting over "love"?

We don't really get over love... either it's just not there to start with - "love's not time's fool....bears it out even to the edge of doom (Shakespeare, Sonnet CXVIII)"

OR

It is there in your life for education:"God is love, and those who live in God lives in love".

We are merely imitating that love that is there in our heart always prodding on to be able to possess what is infinite, eternal and self-fulfilling. But such love cannot be found at the moment. Whether it can be found in eternity in the arms of God WHO IS LOVE is the subject matter of theology.

Suffice it to say that (from our point of view) compared to the infinite, Love is an illusion. Compared to nothingness, it is the most wonderful thing that we have in this world. And when one feels the stigma of being in love, s/he only needs to look beyond the moment of the horizon, and believe that love is just for education of the soul. When love is unfulfilled and unrequited on earth, then it flows back to the person, and makes him/her more noble and capable of loving some more (G. Atento, "On Love and Loving (1995))"

I Met Her In Paris (Jimmy Jimmy)

Jimmy Jimmy

Valentine's for Zarathustra

A student forwarded a message for me today. It goes something like, Everytime I see my mother prepare breakfast, etc. I know there is love. Whenever I see my cousin fetch her son from school, etc. thereby saying that love is not merely for sweethearts. Further, that this kind of love is the one being depicted during Valentine's Day.

Wherefore, I reply - in the manner of Hume -

Love is merely sophistry and illusion. It is an abstraction by commerce in order to sell flowers 500x more than their real value.

Oh no, it is a mere result of man's insistence to be completed, looking at the depths of his existence and yearning for his place in eternity. But let him define eternity and he does not have the words for it. He will perchance reply with St. Thomas, in the negative, as in the absence of before and after. But when we ask him, in eternity, there will be no motion then? He would say - forced by the existence of motion - there is. Our mind still thinks, and since Plato describes that as a sort of motion, then there is. But then, we ask, Plato is your authority? No, he would say. Augustine said something like that too. He has an imprimatur. And motion carries a before and after? Well yes. Hence, there is a before and after? Yes. Okay, so there is time then. Ah, well... let us start again.

Love is nothing but the impulses of the material brain. Wherefore, as a proof, people who were not loved when they were young, behaved more or less like a brigand. So, being good, loving another, though part of human nature, cannot be described apart from the materiality of man. And in the end, when this matter succumb to corruption, and all that is left is a cosmic egg in a big crunch, or a dead universe, then love does not remain.


"When he awakes from his dream, he will be the first to join in the laugh against himself and to confess that all his objections are mere amusement, and can have no other tendency than to show the whimsical condition of mankind, who must act and reason and believe though they are not able, by their most diligent inquiry, to satisfy themselves concerning the foundation of these operations or to remove objections which may be raised against them."

- An Inquiry Concerning Human Understanding (David Hume)