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By: A Disproportionate Response?

A Disproportionate Response? — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 17:18:04 +0000

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By: Blind_Dog

Blind_Dog — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 04:10:36 +0000

A blind dog cannot see. It can smell, taste, hear and feel. But it cannot see. As such, it cannot understand the full meaning of things, including other blind dogs. Remember the “Blind Men and the Elephant”? But what can it do? Will it deny it’s blindness? No, it will not. Indeed, it cannot. Yet, despite that, it will live… somehow. As will all the other blind dogs.

Will they be able to live together? Ah… Dogs have their territory. Dogs will happily eat the carcass of other dogs. Dogs care only for their own… But, somehow, curiously, sometimes, they are together. Is this what would one call a “pack of dogs”? A “pack of blind dogs”?

By: Bencard

Bencard — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 19:33:40 +0000

amadeo @6:51am, tolerance by catholics in general, i have no doubt. as to tolerance by muslims, i’m not too sure. but what i cannot believe is the proposition that GOD, howsoever viewed by any faith, would prevent by force the peaceful exercise of free will, freedom of belief or unbelief, freedom of choice, until the judgment day.

blind_dog, it seems to me that we are being held together by our constitution, our laws and our general sense of nationhood. they were purchased by the blood of our true heroes and martyrs of whom we are all proud.

By: Bencard

Bencard — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 19:07:47 +0000

jon limjap @ 2:08pm, it sure looks that way, isn’t it? i’m not sure if it’s something in the holy book of islam, or in the way it’s interpreted by its followers. either way, no amount of peace agreement, compromise, treaty, accord, truce, ceasefire, can completely eliminate the problem till the end of days.

i’m interested to hear from scholars, in or out of this blog, who could dissect this enigma and offer some insight as to how best to deal with it.

By: Juwan_D

Juwan_D — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 16:54:23 +0000

Blind_Dog,

Indeed…a Blind dog you are hehehehe

what an argument you have there….siguro filipino ka hahahaha

By: Jon Limjap

Jon Limjap — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 16:51:09 +0000

Blind_Dog,

Which is precisely what I’m trying to point out.

You’re pulling a strawman on me in positing that by me identifying myself as someone who was born somewhere, the concept of “Filipino” is absent, whereas my point is that I identify myself as “Filipino”, and by nothing else.

By: Blind_Dog

Blind_Dog — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 07:36:58 +0000

“There is no such thing as a Filipino.

What there is are Ilocanos, Tagalogs, Cebuanos,(and everyone else in between)… all held, or should be… must be held together by something.

Something to be proud of.

Like Manny Pacquiao.”

The word “American” and “New York” is not there.

My point was not destruction of unity nor of identity. It was, in fact, the opposite.

“… all held, or should be… must be held together by something.”

By: Jon Limjap

Jon Limjap — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 07:03:27 +0000

Blind_Dog,

So if someone states where they grew up, they’re not anything? If a person born and raised in New York says so, he’s not American?

By: Blind_Dog

Blind_Dog — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 06:59:16 +0000

“Which is stating nothing but a demograph and a circumstance,…”

There, you said it again.

By: Jon Limjap

Jon Limjap — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 06:52:01 +0000

Blind_Dog,

Which is stating nothing but a demograph and a circumstance, and not an identity. I don’t label nor think of myself as “Manilenyo”.