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I hate the way I am when I get angry at you.

I wish I could really, truly, to my core blame you for everything you ever did.

But the bottom line is that someone hurt you too.

Gizmodo vs. ZDNet: What's your brand of tech news?

Need your help deciding on the kind of writing I'll do for a new bloggie, guys, please help me determine that by answering the poll. Thanks!

I am NOT the way, the truth, and the life. :p

Before you think that I would be doing a Tom Cruise and telling you that Christians are the Way, the Truth and the life, let me tell you now: I WON'T. Because we are NOT. And WE CHRISTIANS DO NOT HAVE THE SOLUTIONS.

You know who does, though? Jesus.

Before you roll your eyes and say: "Now what is this Jesus Freak up to now?!" Let me tell you something: I was there, I tried to find the solutions on my own. I never found them.

But you know who actually knocked some sense into me?

GOD.

Not my leaders (they all know how totally hard-headed I am), not the cell group/leadership group-mates whom I love. It was GOD who showed me how foolish I really was.

If you look to us, you would think, "These people are so imperfect; is their God real?!"

Erm, we will never be perfect. We will always have something wrong with us, in one way or another. We will always fall short of the glory of God. We will have moments of fallenness; we might even get mean sometimes.

But it's not about US. It's about Jesus. How He picks us up and dusts the sand from our bloody knees whenever we scrape them when our God-substitutes help let Satan push us to the ground. How He wipes our tears dry and cleans our grimy face too. How He gives us the strength to live in this increasingly darkening world.

I was so out of the real-world loop that I never knew the Bubonic Plague was making an appearance until today. I was so out of it that I didn't realize you may have had your hope extinguished.

I don't want to apologize for being joyful when you are miserable; rather, I want to share with you my joy. He, Joy Himself, can only be Jesus. :)

Give Him a chance to dress your wounds and make you whole, and you'll see how cheap the rest of "real life" actually is. :)

Anubaaaaaa

Is Satan laying it on thick in the secular world?

I don't want to be the bearer of bad news, but heck, I didn't realize the secular world could be in such a tizzy right now, it's no longer totally funny.

If you click this, I'm doing a Pontius Pilate: I wash my hands free of the matter. :p

Stupid Scientology Video; Foolish Tom Cruise

It's sooo funny, I just had to repost it.

Frankly, the one thing that came to my mind was that, "Is Tom Cruise the next False Prophet?"

I watched the video, and though it was creepy, the only way I could react was to chuckle in grim humor.

I mean, how could I not, when his train of thought was so disjointed, I thought he was on drugs!

Darker days we have in the secular world, indeed.

I was in so much joy in Christ that I forgot that "outside," life is a crazier story.

Buckle the Belt of Truth, coz as Tom Cruise says, we'll be in for a ride.

Excerpt:

When you're a Scientologist, and you drive by an accident, you know you have to do something about it, because you know you're the only one who can really help. We are the authorities on getting people off drugs. We are the authorities on the mind.... We are the way to happiness. We can bring peace and unite cultures. Now is the time. Being a Scientologist. People are turning to you. If you are a Scientologist, you see things the way they are, in all their glory, in all their complexity... It's rough and tumble. It's wild and woolly. It's a blast. It really is. It is fun. Because damn it, there is nothing better than going out there and fighting the fight, and suddenly you see -- boom! -- things are better. I want to know that I've done everything I can do, every day... I do what I can. And I do it the way I do everything.

"Sympathy"

Paul Laurence Dunbar

Sympathy

I know what the caged bird feels, alas!
When the sun is bright on the upland slopes;
When the wind stirs soft through the springing grass,
And the river flows like a stream of glass;
When the first bird sings and the first bud opes,
And the faint perfume from its chalice steals--
I know what the caged bird feels!

I know why the caged bird beats his wing
Till its blood is red on the cruel bars;
For he must fly back to his perch and cling
When he fain would be on the bough a-swing;
And a pain still throbs in the old, old scars
And they pulse again with a keener sting--
I know why he beats his wing!

I know why the caged bird sings, ah me,
When his wing is bruised and his bosom sore,--
When he beats his bars and he would be free;
It is not a carol of joy or glee,
But a prayer that he sends from his heart's deep core,
But a plea, that upward to Heaven he flings--
I know why the caged bird sings!

-This is where Maya Angelou got the title of her book, "I know why the caged bird sings". :)

The Green Mile: Rife With Christianity

I just finished watching The Green Mile. I noticed that it had so many Christian undertones, plus that it had actually some prophetic leanings, so I looked it up, and I looked up Stephen King's background:

(From Stephen King's Website:)

frequently asked questions

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Stephen was raised as a Methodist and attended church regularly in his youth. He no longer attends church, but he does believe in God and reads the Bible. Tabitha, his wife, was raised as a Catholic.

Whoa.

You'll never know where Christianity will turn up, eh?

And here is an incisive article on how The Green Mile is filled with Christian symbolisms:


The Green Mile: Revisiting the Life and Death of Jesus

Amazing, ain't it?

Can You Relate?

I've come across this before but I decided I want a copy only when I came across this here.

Haha! Soo funny. :)

... if you're OC, press 1 repeatedly.
... if you're co-dependent, pls ask someone to press for you.
... if you have multiple personalities, press 3, 4, 5 and 6
... if you're paranoid, we know who you are and what you want... stay on the line so we can trace your call.
... if you're delusional, press 7 and your call will be transferred to the mothership.
... if you're schizophrenic, listen carefully and a small voice will tell you which number to press.
... if you're manic-depressive, it doesn't matter which number to press, no one will answer.
... if you have BPD, please leave a message after the beep, or after the beep... please wait for the beep.
... if you have STM-loss, press 9... press 9... press 9...

Thank you for calling. Goodbye!

"To All the Bleeding Hearts Out There": My Brand of Nationalism

Link

I so totally agree with the sentiments. GMA All the way till 2010! (Kahit five more years pa. :p)

Dear Tita Cory, Senators, Congressmen, Businessmen, Media people, Leftists, and all Bleeding Hearts Out There:

I am angry. And I know that there are many out there who are angrier than I am for the same reason. And that reason is simple. I am sick and tired of all you guys claiming to speak for me and many Filipinos. I feel like screaming every time you mouth words about fighting for my freedom and my rights, when you obviously are just thinking about yours. You tell me that the essence of democracy is providing every citizen the right to speak his or her mind and make his or her own informed judgments, but you yourselves do not respect my silence and the choices I and many others have made. In other words, your concept of democracy is limited to having your rights and your freedoms respected, at the expense of ours.

I am utterly flabbergasted that you still do not get it: we already responded to your calls, and our response has been very clear - we chose not to heed your calls to go to EDSA or to Fort Bonifacio not because we do not love our country or our freedoms or our rights, but precisely because we love our country even more.

Because quite frankly, we are prepared to lose our freedoms and our rights just to move this country forward. You may counter with your ideological propaganda and give me all the dire warnings about the evils of Martial Law, authoritarian rule, suppression of freedom, etc., but quite frankly all we see is your pathetic efforts to defend your right to continue fulminating, filibustering, and sabotaging this country until you wrestle power for yourselves. You tell me that you are simply protecting my freedoms and my rights, but who told you to do that? I assure you that when I feel that my rights and my freedoms are at a peril, I will stand up and fight for them myself. I have done that in the past, and I will do it again when I SEE THE NEED FOR IT, not when you tell me to do it.

You tell us that GMA is not the right person to lead this country because she has done immoral acts. As someone who sees immorality being committed wantonly in many ways every day and by everyone (yes, including the ones you do), I may have become jaded. I may have lowered my standards about what a leader should be. Guess what, Tita Cory, you lowered it yourself. When I accepted your incompetence and fought for you during the many attempts against your government, I already lowered the standards to ridiculous levels. Guess what, Senators and Congressmen, you lowered it yourselves when you ran for office and won and now make fools of yourselves in the august halls of congress.

But the simple truth that you try to obfuscate is this: you have not been able to offer me any viable alternative! On the other hand, GMA has bent over backwards many times to accommodate you while continuing to work hard despite all the obstacles and the brickbats you have thrown her way. From where I sit, she is the one who has been working really hard to move this country forward while all of you have been so busy with one and only one thing: to make sure she does not succeed. So forgive me if I do not want to join you in your moral pissing contest.

Forgive me if I have chosen to see things from another perspective. You say she is the problem. I say, we are - all of us is the problem; more to the point, I think you are a bigger problem than she is. Taking her out may solve part of the problem, but that leaves us with a bigger problem: you. That is right, YOU!

While I felt outraged that she called a Comelec official during the elections and that she may have rigged the elections, I have since then taken the higher moral ground and forgiven her. Yes my dear bishops, I have done what you have told me to do since I was a child, which you say is the Christian and moral thing to do: forgive. Especially since she has asked for forgiveness and has tried to make amends for it. Erap certainly has not apologized and continues to be defiant, continuing to insult us everyday with his protestations - and he is part of your cause now! Cory has not apologized for her incompetence but we have forgiven her just the same because like GMA, she has worked hard after all.

I know you do not think that GMA's apology was not enough, or that she was insincere, or that that apology should not be the end of it, but please spare me the hypocrisy of telling me that you do so for the sake of protecting the moral fibre of society. The real reason is because you smell blood and wants to go for the kill.

Well, I have news for you. I do not like her too. I did not even vote for her. I voted for Raul Roco. But as much as I do not like her, I do not like you even more. I may not trust her, but you know what, I do not trust you even more.

You know why I do not trust you? Because all you do is whine and sabotage this country. You belittle every little progress we make, conveniently forgetting that it is not just GMA who has been working so hard to achieve them. Every single day, we keep the faith burning in our hearts that this country will finally pull itself out of the mess and we work so hard to do that. Every little progress is the result of our collective effort, we who toil hard everyday in our jobs. Yet, you persist in one and only thing: making GMA look bad in the eyes of the world and making sure that this country continues to suffer to prove your sorry point. In the process, you continue to destroy what we painstakingly try to build.

So please do not be surprised that I do not share your cause. Do not be surprised that we have become contemptuous of your antics. You have moved heaven and earth to destroy her credibility, you have convened all kinds of fora and hearings and all you have done is test our patience to the core. For all your efforts, you have only succeeded in dragging us further down. I say enough.

Don't get me wrong. I am not asking that we take immorality lying down, or that we let the President get away with anything illegal. But you have tried to prove your accusations all these time and you have not succeeded, so it is time to let things be. Besides, you are doing something immoral as well if not utterly unforgivable. The Magdalo soldiers are consorting with the communists - the same people who have been trying to kill democracy for years. Cory has been consorting with Erap and the Marcoses.

So please wake up and take a reality check. In the absence of true and genuine moral leadership, many of us have decided to cast our lot with the President, even if we do not like her. A flawed leader is better than scheming power hungry fools who can not even stand up for their convictions in the face of an impending arrest.

Your coup attempts and the denials that you have consequently made only underscore what we think is true: you are spineless and unreliable people who only want power but not the consequences and the sacrifices that go with the quest.

Your one and only defense is to cry suppression when your ruse does not work. You are nothing but BULLIES who taunt and provoke, but cry oppression when taken to task for your cruelty. You call for the rule of law and respect for authority, but so brazenly display your defiance and disrespect for the same things you claim to be fighting for.

I would have respected you if you took the consequences of your actions like real heroes: calmly and responsibly instead of kicking and screaming and making all kinds of lame excuses. You say you are willing to die for us, that you do all these things for the country and the Filipino, but you are not even willing to go to jail for us.

Come on, you really think we believe that you did not want to bring down the government when THAT IS THE ONE AND ONLY ONE THING THAT YOU HAVE BEEN DESPERATELY TRYING TO DO in the last many months?

We love this country and we want peace and progress. Many among us do not give a f*&k who sits at Malacanang because we will work hard and do our share to make things work. We the people will and can make it work, if only you get out of the way and let us do it. If you only do your jobs, the ones you are supposed to be doing, things would be a lot simpler and easier for all of us.

The events during the weekend only proved one thing. You are more dangerous and a serious threat to this country than GMA is. We have seen what you are capable of doing - you are ready to burn this country and reduce everything to ashes just to prove your point. If there is something that we need protection from, IT IS PROTECTION FROM YOU.

From - S. C. Austero