Comments on: The “empowerment” of dimwits

By: rocking with da reyna | stuart-santiago

rocking with da reyna | stuart-santiago — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 10:18:28 +0000

[...] and quite quite yummy how fv blogger benignO’s entry that manolo’s apology empowers “dimwits” added fuel to da reyna’s war on yet another fv blogger with homophobic ethics, yes the [...]

By: Ridge

Ridge — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 06:44:49 +0000

I beg to differ, Syl. It is the concept of “balimbing” which is limiting by itself, and is frequently used by our culture to coerce someone to take sides…when there are no sides to be taken at all. The wider your grasp of things, the more you would realize that the whole of reality is a multi-faceted dimension. It is taking one side of it, which would cause you to lose your grasp of it entirely.

The narrow one, of course, since he/she could only achieve one side of it would hold-on to that side, and not only that, would encourage others as well to maintain that side because she, by her own self, is unsure too and insecure of her own position and can only achieve some measure of reassurance if she could convince another to remain in that angle.

This is easily done by namecalling (i.e. balimbing, coward, chicken etc.)

The encompassing one knows too well…there are no sides at all. Life and everything else you hold to be real would cease to exist if there was any “side” at all. We merely invented that as a postulate to a presupposed axiom so we could measure what is fundamentally unmeasurable.

By: sylvia

sylvia — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 03:28:03 +0000

MLQ only manifested another Filipino unique trait…. BALIMBING and SIGURISTA!

By: Bert

Bert — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 07:37:47 +0000

Supernova my eye, a luminous energy of destructive explosion akin to scattered brain, heheh.

By: Bong V.

Bong V. — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 15:56:23 +0000

UP:

Doesn’t matter – alone or not, afraid or not, the supernova is still luminous.

By: UP n grad

UP n grad — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 11:45:23 +0000

A handful of blogpost contributions to FV getting close to 140 words are badly a-twittered :roll: ; and this is as they argue against an extra year :neutral: for Pinas elementary school students.

By: UP n grad

UP n grad — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 11:38:23 +0000

That’s a sentence muttered by those who are afraid to be alone.

By: Conyo

Conyo — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 03:39:29 +0000

I did not find his comment offensive in any way.

So why did MLQ have to apologize?

Didn’t like the negative publicity? Eager to please? Working on acquiring a certain demographic?

Okay. I get it.

Good Move. A donation to an OFW fund would have nailed it!

See you at Starbucks :)

By: benign0

benign0 — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 03:32:38 +0000

Yeah, like any other communications technology, it is good when used for collaborating on productive stuff but a time-waster when used for exchanging meaningless banter. Just like the humble telephone — indispensible in the business world but a menace to a household of teenagers.

By: momblogger

momblogger — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 02:49:33 +0000

The medium does give room for misinterpretation given that one is limited to 140 characters.