Seven months ago, the eminent attourney Abe Margallo published his seminal piece Imagine a world without Filipinos in which he quotes the words of a certain Abdullah Al-Maghlooth which he lauds as “another adulation that certainly should again make us Filipinos proud of ourselves”: We have to remember that we are very much dependent on [...]
And then there was silence
February 2, 2009 By 31 Comments
Isn’t it that one of the key teachings in Christendom is that one needs first to deny one’s self and acknowledge his sinful ways before he could take up the cross and follow Jesus Christ supposedly down the path to salvation? Sometimes you need a re-boot, a clean slate, a return back home to the [...]
Warlike belligerence
January 31, 2009 By 51 Comments
I have to thank someone’s heroic efforts to keep an interesting discussion on track in the face of quite a number of hollowheaded “commentary”. Commendable, indeed, and to be fair, some of the less pompous among us have stepped up with their 2-cents. But then this sticks out like a sore thumb: I actually want [...]
A vast farm for breeding labourers
January 30, 2009 By 75 Comments
Again GabbyD asks the right questions here: the real problem for a society is: given we are different, what brings us together? what makes us a group? whats common among us? and how is this commonality determined? So you see, all roads of Pinoy discussion ultimately lead to these questions. In summary: What does the [...]
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